Chhattisgarh police Monday arrested three Chinese engineers in the case of the under-construction chimney crash at Vedanta Resources Plc-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (Balco) that killed 41 workers Sep 23 last year.
The engineers were employed with the Chinese construction major, Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO) that was building Balco’s 1200-MW thermal power plant in [...]
An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, arrested Wednesday for the post-earthquake Kutch land scam, was remanded in four days’ police custody in Gujarat’s Bhuj town, police said. Three others also were arrested Thursday, police added.
The former Kutch district collector and present Bhavnagar Municipal Commissioner, Pradeep Sharma was presented in court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B.J. [...]
A local court Tuesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct narco tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of teenager Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in their house in 2008, after it found ‘no reason for not granting the permission’.
‘After looking at CBI’s plea, we do not see any reason for [...]
A local court Tuesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct narco tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of teenager Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in her house in 2008, after it found ‘no reason for not granting the permission’.
‘After looking at CBI’s plea, we do not see any reason for [...]
A local court Tuesday gave its nod to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea for conducting narco tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in her Noida house May 16, 2008.
‘The court has mentioned in the order that a medical examination be conducted on the Talwars [...]
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here Monday reserved its order on the agency’s plea for a narco test on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, the parents of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in their Noida flat on May 16, 2008.
The court reserved its order after hearing the CBI’s arguments for permission to [...]
Ghaziabad, Jan 4 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday sought permission of a local court to conduct narco-tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in her Noida house on May 16, 2008.
CBI counsel Suresh Batra submitted an application before Judicial Magistrate (CBI) Priti Singh requesting [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 29 (IANS) A Godhra court Tuesday ordered an enquiry following complaints of police atrocities on women and children in a predominantly Muslim locality.
Teesta Setalvad, of the Citizens for Peace and Justice, who produced the victims of the police ‘assault’ before mediapersons in Ahmedabad Tuesday said the Godhra Judicial Magistrate first class M. Nalawala [...]
Guwahati, Dec 27 (IANS) Six arrested top leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), including its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, spent Saturday night in a huddle in the Guwahati Central Jail probably discussing strategies, officials revealed.
After a Guwahati court Saturday remanded Rajkhowa and ULFA deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah to judicial custody, the two [...]
Aizawl, Dec 23 (IANS) A former director general of Mizoram police and his colleague were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on charges of misappropriation of funds meant for modernisation of the state police, officials said here Wednesday. The duo were later released on bail.
‘The erstwhile Mizoram police chief M. Tumsanga and former additional superintendent [...]
Aluva (Kerala), Dec 18 (IANS) A Kerala court Friday sent Sufiya Maudany, wife of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nazir Maudany, to 14 days in judicial custody in a bus burning case of 2005.
Dismissing Sufiya’s bail plea, Aluva first class judicial magistrate agreed to her demand that she be sent to a jail in [...]
Guwahati, Dec 17 (IANS) Outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and the group’s deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah will be produced in a Guwahati court Thursday afternoon.
Sources said the two ULFA leaders would be produced at a camp court inside the Guwahati Central Jail premises instead of the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s (CJM) [...]
Srinagar, Dec 14 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday said the deaths of two women in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, which triggered a massive furore in the Kashmir Valley this year, were due to drowning and neither of them was raped or murdered.
‘The two women died due to drowning and were not raped [...]
Guwahati, Dec 9 (IANS) The Guwahati central jail has become the meeting point for four top separatist leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to set the wheels of the deadlocked peace process moving, a step facilitated by the government.
ULFA vice president Pradeep Gogoi, self-styled foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury, finance secretary Chitraban [...]
Guwahati, Dec 5 (IANS) Arrested United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa Saturday said his outfit would not hold peace talks with the Indian government and claimed he had not ’surrendered and would never surrender’. He and his two aides were brought before a court here and remanded in 12 days police custody.
‘There [...]
Patna, Dec 5 (IANS) A lawsuit has been filed in a court here charging Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan with violating the disabilities act through his latest film ‘Paa’ in which he plays a 13-year-old boy suffering from progeria, which accelerates the ageing process.
Big B has been accused of poking fun at people with disabilities.
The [...]
Patna, Dec 2 (IANS) A Bihar court Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray in connection with a writ petition filed against him for allegedly making ‘hate speeches’ against Biharis.
Muzaffarpur Judicial Magistrate Saheb Kausher asked the Mumbai Police commissioner to present Thackeray before his court Jan 4, 2010.
The court [...]
Ghaziabad, Dec 2 (IANS) A local court here Wednesday sentenced six people to death for murdering four women over a property dispute in 2005.
The court of Additional Judicial Magistrate A.K. Srivastava held six people guilty of murdering four women in Noorpur locality of Masuri area of Ghaziabad Nov 24, 2005, and acquitted three others in [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 21 (IANS) Orissa’s vigilance department has filed five criminal cases against firms and people allegedly involved in illegal mining in the state, an official said Saturday.
‘The cases were filed against over a dozen of people including operators and owners of mining companies for mining illegally iron or manganese ore and some government officials [...]
Lucknow, Nov 21 (IANS) Accusing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray and four legislators of his party of degrading the national language Hindi and the Indian Constitution, an application seeking action against them was moved Saturday at a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur district, officials said.
Initiating the proceedings over the application filed by Farooq [...]
Raipur, Nov 17 (IANS) Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) vice-president Viral Mehta and two others, arrested for the Sep 23 collapse of an under-construction power plant chimney at Korba town which killed at least 41 workers, were Tuesday sent to judicial custody for 14 days.
As many as 41 disfigured bodies of contracted workers were retrieved [...]
Bhopal, Nov 12 (IANS) A court in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district has asked Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray and four of his party legislators to appear before it in a case slapped against them for the attack on Samajwadi Party member Abu Azmi in the Maharashtra assembly for taking his oath in [...]
Patna, Nov 10 (IANS) A court in Bihar’s Bettiah district has ordered police to file a case against Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for his ‘anti-Bihar remarks’, an official said here Tuesday.
Local lawyer Murad Ali filed a plea in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Bettiah against Chouhan. The court has ordered [...]
Guwahati, Nov 7 (IANS) Two senior leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) – Sasha Choudhury and Chitraban Hazarika – were Saturday remanded to police custody for 10 days even as both claimed they had not surrendered and would not sit for peace talks with the government.
The two leaders were produced before [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 6 (IANS) A man was Friday stabbed by a youth in the premises of a local court in Orissa’s Cuttack city, police said.
Satyajit Nayak 26, a resident of Nuagaon village in costal Jagatsinghpur district, had come to depose in the court of sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM) as a witness in a case relating [...]
Ranchi, Nov 5 (IANS) Hemlal Murmu, a former Lok Sabha MP of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) was arrested Thursday in connection with a 15-year-old case when he went to file his nomination for the coming state assembly polls.
Murmu, who was Lok Sabha MP from Rajmahal seat, was later sent to 14 days judicial custody.
He [...]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (ANI): The Patiala House court on Saturday allowed the Special Cell of Delhi Police to conduct a narco analysis test on Kobad Ghandy, a Polit Bureau Member of the banned CPI (Maoist).
The court’s decision [...]
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Munna Bajrangi, a dreaded gangster carrying a reward of Rs.100,000 for his arrest and suspected to be behind the sensational murder of Delhi Police ‘encounter specialist’ Assistant Commissioner of Police Rajbir Singh last year, was Thursday nabbed in Mumbai, an official said here.
Bajrangi, who is also accused of gunning down [...]
Panaji, Oct 28 (IANS) Ajay Kaushal, 50, the Britain-based NRI who was arrested in Goa, lashed out at media photographers twice within 24 days, once even yanking at a lensman’s shirt, while he was being taken to a court under police escort.
Kaushal, who was on the run evading a 15-year sentence in Britain for assaulting [...]
Dehradun, Oct. 24 (ANI): The CBI on Saturday arrested four policemen in Dehradun, who were allegedly involved in killing an MBA student in a fake encounter three months ago.
The arrested cops were produced before the special judicial magistrate and have been remanded to 14-day judicial custody.
State police has alleged that the CBO is deliberately harassing [...]
