Two ethnic Indians were Wednesday charged in connection with the theft and disposal of two jet engines belonging to Royal Malaysia Air Force (RMAF).
The two F5 jet engines went missing in 2007.
Sergeant N. Tharmendran of the RMAF was charged with theft and company director K. Rajandran Prasad with their disposal at the Sessions Court here, [...]
Chandigarh, Jan 1 (IANS) A Haryana court Friday issued notice to the state government in connection with the anticipatory bail plea of former police chief S.P.S. Rathore and fixed Rs.100,000 as bail bond for each of his two offences in case he is arrested.
The order was passed by the district and sessions court in Panchkula.
Ruchika, [...]
Panchkula (Haryana), Dec 31 (IANS) The district and sessions court here Thursday rejected a plea of Abha Rathore, wife and counsel of disgraced former Haryana top cop S.P.S. Rathore convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, for early hearing of his anticipatory bail application.
She wanted the hearing to take place Thursday itself instead of Friday.
Sessions [...]
New Delhi, Dec 30 (ANI) : Ruchika Girhotra’s father, Subhash, and the family’s advocate Pankaj Bhardwaj met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday to discuss the molestation case.
Emerging from the meeting, Advocate Pankaj Bhardwaj, said: “We are very satisfied with the meeting. He knew the entire case [...]
Panchkula (Haryana), Dec 30 (IANS) The district and sessions court here Wednesday refused to grant interim bail to former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore, who has been convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago.
District and Sessions judge S.P. Singh said that the anticipatory bail application moved by Rathore will be [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday rescued Princess Fatima Fouzia, the 65-year-old grand-daughter of Hyderabad’s seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, from a two-year jail term in a case of bouncing of a Rs.10.115 million cheque she issued in July 2007.
A bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice A.K. Patnaik condoned the [...]
Panaji, Dec 9 (ANI): Goa politician John Fernandes, an accused in the alleged rape of a Russian woman, was arrested by the Goa Crime Branch here today.
On Tuesday (December 8), the South Goa District and Sessions Court had granted bail to him, as his lawyer argued that there was a discrepancy in the statements of [...]
Peshawar, Dec. 7 (ANI): At least 10 people were killed, 49 other injured in a suicide bomber struck outside a court in Pakistan’s Peshawar on Monday, Dawn reported.
Bashir Bilor, a senior minister in the northwest [...]
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court has acquitted a man, serving a life term for murder, by reversing the concurrent rulings of an Andhra Pradesh trial court and the state high court and terming his conviction a ‘miscarriage of justice’.
A bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice J.M. Panchal set aside the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) More than a year after serial blasts rocked the national capital in September 2008, a city court is likely to begin the trial of 11 members of the Indian Mujahideen accused of involvement in the terror attack.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja Thursday transferred the files on the cases to the [...]
Bhopal, Nov 23 (IANS) Congress legislator Brijendra Singh Rathore, who is wanted in connection with the killing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sunil Nayak, took oath in the Madhya Pradesh assembly Monday.
Rathore was elected from Prithvipur assembly constituency in Tikamgarh district during state assembly polls held in November last year but could not take [...]
Raipur, Nov 17 (IANS) After evading arrest for more than a month, Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) vice president Viral Mehta and two others have been nabbed in connection with the Sep 23 tragedy in which at least 41 workers were killed when an under-construction chimney caved in.
As many as 41 disfigured bodies of contracted [...]
Lahore, Oct.22 (ANI): Former Pakistan legendry leg-spinner Abdul Qadir along with his two sons Rehman Qadir and Salman Qadir have been booked for threatening a lawyer.
Hearing a petition filed by an advocate Mehmood-ul-Hassan Gilani, a Lahore sessions court directed the concerned authorities to register a case against Qadir, his two sons and six other unnamed [...]
Raipur, Oct 14 (IANS) The Chhattisgarh government has appointed a district and sessions court judge to investigate the Sep 23 chimney collapse that killed 45 workers at an under-construction thermal power plant of Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) at Korba town.
‘The single-member bench of Sandeep Bakhshi will make a comprehensive investigation based on six points and [...]
Lahore, Oct.14 (ANI): Following the Balochistan High Court’s order, the Dera Bugti police has registered a case against former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf in connection with Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti’s assassination.
Former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed [...]
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Tara Singh, an Afghan national, had to wait eight years for the Delhi High Court to hear his appeal against a 35-day imprisonment for illegal entry into the country.
Justice Indermeet Kaur upheld the conviction of 35 days’ jail for Singh and found him guilty under Section 14 of the Foreign [...]
Quetta, Oct.7 (ANI): The Balochistan High Court (BHC) has ordered the concerned authorities to book former President General Pervez Musharraf along with former Prime Minister Sahukat Aziz and former Balochistan Chief Minister Jaam Yousuf for the murder of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.
Sources said BHC Chief Justice has directed the Station Head Officer (SHO) [...]
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, who was Thursday granted bail by the Bombay High Court in a rape case, was released Saturday from the Arthur Road Jail where he spent 110 days.
Shiney’s lawyer Shirish Gupte told IANS Saturday evening that he was not aware when Shiney would be leaving for Delhi as [...]
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, behind the bars for more than three months after his maid accused him of rape, got bail Thursday. He reiterated his claim that he had consensual sex with the domestic help.
‘I am not a saint, but also not a rapist,’ Shiney’s lawyer Shirish Gupte argued on his [...]
Thane (Maharashtra), Oct 1 (IANS) Unemployed Francis Gomes, who allegedly held his wife and three daughters captive for seven years, was granted bail by a court after being remanded in 14 days judicial custody Thursday. But he was sent back to police custody for failing to pay the bail amount.
Arrested Wednesday, Gomes has been charged [...]
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Anupam Ahuja was ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘extremely relieved’ after her actor-husband Shiney Ahuja was granted bail Thursday after three months of judicial custody on charges of raping his domestic help.
‘This decision by the court has been overwhelming. I am so happy that our daughter has got her father back, Shiney’s parents have [...]
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, behind the bars for more than three months after his maid accused him of rape, finally got bail Thursday.
The Bombay High Court granted bail to Shiney on a surety of Rs.50,000, his lawyer Shirish Gupte said.
‘There is no clear evidence that Shiney had raped his maid,’ he [...]
Islamabad, September 26 (ANI): Lollywood actress Meera and her purported husband Attiqur Rehman both may have a legal case filed against each of them for spreading immorality in the society.
One Hassan Sheraz, a resident of Gujranwala, is reported to have lodged a petition in the District and Sessions Court to register a case against [...]
Shah Alam (Malaysia), Sep. 9 (ANI): A Sessions Court in Malaysia has charged six persons with sedition in connection with last month’s cow head protest.
On August 28, nearly 50 protesters gathered at State Secretariat building’s gate carrying a cow’s decapitated head. They were protesting against a temple relocation proposal in Shah Alam city.
The accused [...]
Mumbai, Aug.28 (ANI): A key witness of the November 26, 2008 terror attack on Mumbai, in which more than 160 people lost their lives and more than 300 were injured, is being reported as missing.
According to a television channel report, Nuruddin Mehboob Shaikh was [...]
Mumbai, Aug. 12 (ANI): A Patna Sessions Court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to former LJP MP Surajbhan Singh in connection with the nine-year-old Brij Bihari murder case. ight other accused in the case, who were held guilty in the [...]
Islamabad, Aug.11 (ANI): Trouble for former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf is far from over as Islamabad police has now registered a FIR charging him of illegal confinement of judges in 2007.
Petitioner Aslam Ghuman said Secretariat Police station SHO, Hakim Khan had informed him that a case against Musharraf has been registered, The News reports.
On [...]
Islamabad, Aug.11 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf may be arrested if he returns to the country following the registration of a case against him by the Islamabad Police for illegally confining judges during the emergency in 2007.
“He could [...]
Islamabad, Aug. 10 (ANI): Acting on a petition regarding the house arrest of Supreme Court judges, a sessions court in Islamabad has directed police to lodge a case against former President Pervez Musharraf.
The ruling came during the hearing of a petition filed by advocate Aslam Ghuman, who had stated that Musharraf put judges under [...]
