New Delhi: The government is mulling to introduce a witness protection programme based on best international models for guaranteeing anonymity to those who depose in courts against powerful accused in criminal cases.
The Home Ministry has sought opinion of the state governments on the move to protect a threatened witness or any person involved in the justice system, including defendants and other clients, before, during and after a trial.
Interestingly, the Delhi High Court last week directed the city government to come up with a witness protection policy within ten weeks to ensure that they are not harassed or intimidated by influential accused in criminal cases.
While the high court order came in the wake of 32 of 101 witnesses in the Jessica Lal murder case turning hostile, the Home Ministry initiated the move following a recommendation of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission....
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10:10 AM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: More than two years after reserving its verdict, the Delhi High Court will on Wednesday decide whether to prosecute 19 witnesses including Bollywood actor Shyan Munshi on the charge of perjury for turning hostile during the trial of Jessica Lal murder case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and GP Mittal would pronounce its decision in the afternoon in the case in which the high court had...
03:07 AM, May 22, 2013
A blast near the BJP's office in Bangalore injured 16 people on Wednesday morning. An eyewitness describes the events that followed after the explosion. ...
08:15 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: Investigators on Tuesday searched for the person or group responsible for planting two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three people and wounded more than 100 in the worst bomb attack on US soil since September 11, 2001. Here are some Twitter reactions from Indian politicians and celebrities: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: The people of India join me in condemning the attack in strongest terms....
12:59 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Ashok Devata, a marketing executive from Hyderabad, who lives and works in Boston was running the marathon and was three miles away from the finish line when the blasts occurred. ...
10:38 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Islamabad: A witness on Saturday identified one of the seven Pakistani men charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks as the person who had bought inflatable boats used by the terrorists involved in the assault on India's financial hub. Prosecutors said the witness, whom they did not name for security reasons, had identified accused Shahid Jamil Riaz during proceedings conducted behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi by...
05:26 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Friday refrained from commenting on the controversy surrounding party leader Jagdish Tytler against whom a court has ordered reopening of a case of alleged involvement in 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Praising the CBI party spokesperson Rashid Alvi said that it "investigates any issue with honesty". "Investigation is the responsibility of CBI. It investigates any issue honestly whether it relates to LK Advani or somebody else....We respect the...
03:28 AM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: For years agencies investigating the role of Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case said they had no eye-witnesses. That changed in December 2007, when CNN-IBN located two key eye-witnesses. One of the witnesses Jasbir Singh said, "On November 3 I saw Jagdish Tytler inciting the mob outside the hospital at Kingsway Camp. He was saying I have promised that the maximum numbers of Sikhs...
08:53 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: One of the eyewitnesses in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, Jasbeer Singh has alleged a major cover up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Singh said that he is ready to testify. "I am ready to come to India and give statement before the court," Singh told CNN-IBN. Singh, who lives in California (USA), added that the CBI had made all efforts to save the accused in...
05:57 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Lucknow: Another case was filed against former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, the accused in killing of a village headman and a police officer, on Saturday when a prime eyewitness accused him of intimidation and threatening his life. The case was registered at the Sangramgarh police station in Pratapgrah district after Diwakar Tripathi, a witness, said he had been intercepted by bikeborne men who asked him...
04:28 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Defence counsel in the December 16, 2012 gangrape case on Wednesday cross-examined an Air India (AI) official posted at the IGI cargo terminal who received the coffin carrying the victim's body. Cross-examined by counsel of accused Mukesh, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta, the official denied their claim that the death certificate and other documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. The AI...
03:33 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A witness in the December 16 gangrape case on Wednesday denied before a special court the claim of an accused that the death certificate and other relevant documents accompanying the victim's body, which was flown in from Singapore, were manipulated. "I (prosecution witness) had seen the original passport of the victim. I had not seen the dates on the passport. I can not comment on the contents of the document,"...
06:30 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A student leader was allgedly shot dead on Saturday by two motor-cycle borne unidentified assailants over an old rivalry near the Badanpur village in Jind, police said. Dohanakheda resident Pradeep along with his father Chandra Singh and friend Kudlip was returning to his village in a car when two masked men, who were on a motor-cycle, opened fire at them, they said. ...
01:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Three police officials, who arrested one of the accused in the December 16, 2012, gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, testified as prosecution witness before the fast-track court on Monday. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The family of the Delhi braveheart on Monday slammed the move by two of the six accused in the case to become state witnesses, saying this was being done to escape death sentence and wanted the plea to be rejected. "It is not right to allow two of the accused persons as state witnesses as it is nothing but an attempt by them to escape death sentence," the brother of...
05:54 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Denying allegations made by the male friend of the Delhi braveheart in a television interview, Delhi Police on Saturday said there was no jurisdiction squabble as the sole witness of the case had claimed. ...
03:41 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has said that there is a drought of humanity in the society, while reacting to the horrifying tale of the Delhi braveheart's male friend's story. She said that the police and the judiciary need to have a sensitive approach to deal with cases like the Delhi gangrape. ...
01:51 PM, Jan 05, 2013
The Singapore doctor who carried out the postmortem of the 23-year-old gangrape victim will be included as a witness by the Delhi Police in the 50-page charge sheet in the case to be filed before a fast-track court in New Delhi on Thursday. The male friend of the victim will be the main witness in the case while the Singapore doctor, who carried out the postmortem and the Indian mission...
04:28 AM, Jan 02, 2013
The eyewitness and male friend of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gangraped in a moving bus here on Sunday night, on Thursday recorded his statement before a Delhi court. The 28-year-old software engineer, who along with the girl was allegedly brutally assaulted by the six offenders with an iron rod and was later thrown out of the moving bus, appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Prashant Sharma to give his eyewitness...
08:21 PM, Dec 19, 2012
A former top Department of Telecom official on Tuesday told a Delhi court trying the 2G case that four counters were set up for distribution of letters of intent to eligible telecom firms on January 10, 2008 as only four directors were available in the Access Service Cell of the department. Deposing as a prosecution witness in the case, DoT's erstwhile Member (Technology) K Sridhara said the large number of...
08:03 PM, Dec 11, 2012
