
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought dismissed IPS officer RK Sharma's response on a Delhi police plea challenging his acquittal in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai issued notices also to Sri Bhagwan and Satya Prakash, who too were acquitted by the Delhi High Court in the sensational 1999 murder of the Indian Express scribe in her East Delhi...

03:34 PM, Feb 13, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of suspended IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma and others in journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case. The police has filed the appeal against the October 12, 2011 verdict of the Delhi High Court acquitting RK Sharma and two others by giving them benefit of doubt. The high court had only upheld the conviction of...

03:30 PM, Jan 11, 2012

New Delhi: After nearly 10 years in jail, dismissed IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma was on Wednesday acquitted in the murder case of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar. The Delhi High Court observed that there was benefit of doubt. However, the court upheld the conviction of Pradeep Sharma, one of the four persons found guilty by the lower court. On January 23, 1999, journalist Shivani Bhatnagar was found dead in her residence...

08:27 PM, Oct 12, 2011

Satyaprakash's lawyer Sarfaraz said that the three were acquitted in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case on benefit of doubt. ...

03:41 PM, Oct 12, 2011

New Delhi: Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer RK Sharma and two others have been acquitted by the Delhi High Court on Wednesday in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case giving the trio the benefit of doubt. While Sharma, Sri Bhagwan, Satya Prakash have been acquitted, the court upheld the life sentence for Pradeep Sharma, who actually killed Shivani. The two-judge division bench of justices BD Ahmed and Manmohan Singh, which...

02:34 PM, Oct 12, 2011

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict on the plea of the convicts in the Indian Express reporter Shivani Bhatnagar murder case on Wednesday. Former IPS officer and Haryana top cop RK Sharma and three others have appealed against their conviction and life sentence in the case. Shivani was murdered on January 23, 1999, in her Nav Kunj Apartment of east Delhi. The court had also slapped...

08:46 AM, Oct 12, 2011

Melbourne: Describing Sachin Tendulkar as a "pocket rocket", Australia's new pace sensation Pat Cummins is excited at the prospect of "versing" the "rockstar". The 18-year-old, who made a sensational Test debut by taking seven wickets to set up a thrilling series-levelling win for Australia against South Africa earlier this month, is looking forward to bowl against Tendulkar in the Test series next month. "He's one of the greats of all...

10:26 PM, Mar 24, 2008

Sydney: Paceman Pat Cummins has revealed he injured his heel during his Man-of-the-Match performance in the second Test win over South Africa, but he expects to be fit for the series-opening test against New Zealand in Brisbane next week. The 18-year-old fast bowler took 6-79 in South Africa's second innings and scored the winning runs in a dramatic chase on Monday to help Australia to a series-leveling, two-wicket victory at...

02:45 PM, Mar 24, 2008

Mumbai With a boundary through the covers off Darren Sammy, Rahul Dravid became the second player – after Sachin Tendulkar – to reach the extraordinary milestone of 13,000 runs in Test cricket on the third day's play between India and West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. He reached the landmark in his 160th Test and 277th innings, and although Tendulkar (163) required a lesser number of innings, Dravid...

02:28 PM, Mar 24, 2008

New Delhi: Veteran batsman Rahul Dravid will be bestowed the 'Polly Umrigar Award for India's best cricketer of 2010-11' season during the BCCI's annual awards ceremony to be held on December 10 in Chennai. The 38-year-old, who scored 1258 runs in 15 Tests at an average of 53 this season, notched up six hundreds during the year. Dravid was the only Indian batsman who performed well during India's disastrous tour...

08:30 AM, Mar 24, 2008

Kolkata: West Indies opener Adrian Barath, who scored a fighting half-century in the second innings, said the experienced Shivnarine Chanderpaul will be the key batsman for the visitors if they wish to save the second Test and the three-match series against India. Replying to India's mammoth 631-7 declared, West Indies were bowled out for mere 153 in their first innings with as many as eight wickets falling in the morning...

11:36 AM, Mar 20, 2008

Kolkata: A fine display by India's bowlers, led by Pragyan Ojha's four-wicket haul, triggered a West Indian collapse on day three of the second Test, giving MS Dhoni the opportunity to enforce the follow-on. However, the visitors displayed stiff resistance in their second innings to reach 195 for 3 at stumps here on Wednesday.. Umesh Yadav (3/23) and R Ashwin (2/49) assisted Ojha (4/64) on the third morning - which...

08:37 AM, Mar 20, 2008

Haryana cadre cop accused of ordering murder of journo Shivani Bhatnagar. ...

02:19 AM, Mar 19, 2008

New Delhi: Abhinav Mukund hammered a century for Tamil Nadu, Rohit Sharma continued his great form with an unbeaten 55 off 59 balls and Gujarat's Niraj Patel hit an unbeaten double century against Delhi, in the second round of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division matches on Friday. Patel was unbeaten on 228 after batting for close to nine hours, and hit 32 fours and two sixes as Gujarat amassed 520...

03:58 PM, Mar 18, 2008

Lahore: Former captain Rameez Raja has emerged as the front-runner for the position of chief operating officer (COO) in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Official sources in the board confirmed that new chairman, Zaka Ashraf has already made an offer to Rameez to take over as COO. Rameez is Zaka Ashraf's first choice and he has already discussed terms and conditions of the COO position with the former test captain,...

02:09 PM, Mar 18, 2008