The narco-analysis test to be conducted on the accused in Soharabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, including suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara, has been postponed due to some problem in the interpretation of legalities regarding the test.
The then assistant commissioner of police S S Rathi and nine other policemen were given life terms on Wednesday for killing two businessmen in a fake encounter at Connaught Place, Delhi, in 1997.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail applications of two senior IPS officers -- M N Dinesh and N K Amin -- allegedly involved in the fake encounter killing of Soharabuddin Sheikh. Dinesh, a Rajasthan cadre officer and Amin, a deputy superintendent of police rank officer in the Gujarat police had challenged the cancellation of their bail by the Gujarat High Court.Dinesh had allegedly assisted the Gujarat police in the encounter.
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Seething with anger the banned United Liberation Front of Asom has called for a 12-hour dawn to dusk Assam bandh on Tuesday for demanding the release of human rights activist and chief convenor of the ULFA-constituted People's Consultative Group Lachit Bardoloi.
The poll watchdog had on Sunday held that Modi and Sonia Gandhi violated the model code of conduct by their remarks but was carping in its comments on the chief minister whose speech it said aggravated differences between communities.
Strongly condemning the "attempt to create communal tensions," she said the Congress will continue to demand that justice be meted out to those found guilty of any such activities.
The warrants were issued by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate K J Upadhyay after the Gujarat CID filed an application that neither of them had replied to their summons regading the case.
The bench said that at this stage, the contemnor need not be present in person.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has sought more time from the Election Commission for a reply regarding his comments on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.
According to sources in the BJP, raking up the Soharbuddin case is just a "trailer" in the election-eve madness
While the Centre and Sohrabuddin's brother Rubbabuddin Sheikh had sought a CBI probe, the Gujarat government has strongly opposed the same.
Referring to next month's elections in Goa, she said there too Congress was confronting the BJP whose single point programme was communal polarisation.
His suspension would be effective from April 24, the date he was arrested by the Gujarat police.
He said he considers this duration as enough and would like to return to his practice.
Johri met Balwinder Singh for about 15 minutes. She also met Trivedi for over two hours. When mediapersons waiting at Trivedi's office literally mobbed her, she left the venue without answering their queries.
The officials, however, believe these tests will help them speed up their investigation
Official sources in Imphal said the verdict was pronounced on Monday after the final hearing of the case by a division bench of the high court comprising Justices T Nandakumar Singh and B D Agarwal. According to the charges, the AR personnel killed one Thangjam Binoy Singh of Lamding Khumanthem Leikai in Thoubal district late at night on March 7, 2004.
Eleven persons, including five army personnel, five policemen and a civilian were accused of conspiring to kill and murdering Showkat Ahmad Kataria, a priest in a mosque at Zadibal in Srinagar, in a fake encounter on October 4, 2006. The accused include Colonel Vikram Singh of 13 Rashtriya Rifles, his second in command V K Sharma, Major Rishi, Junior Commissioned Officer Puran Singh and Naik Satya Lal.
Police found that Zakir was a fake militant who along with his accomplished adopted names of some militants currently in PoK.
The two were arrested in January in connection with the north Kashmir fake encounters where five civilians had been framed as foreign militants and killed in stage-managed shootouts.
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Speaking in the Assembly in the backdrop of last week's unearthing of fake encounter killings, Azad said that with his takeover, human rights violations began to decrease.
With the surrender of Gujarat police officer Dr N K Amin, state CID hopes that it could know exactly how Kauser Bi, wife of fake encounter victim Sohrabuddin, was killed in Ahmedabad in 2005.
She also alleged that police has been forcing some people to name them in someway since May.
The Gujarat CID on Monday filed a chargesheet against 13 police officials, including DIG D G Vanzara, before the metropolitan court in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
A division bench of Justice B N Chaturvedi and Justice G S Sistani dismissed their applications for suspension of sentence and granting them bail stating that the court would dispose of their appeals at the earliest and there was no need to hear their bail applications.
Twenty-one serving and retired Indian Police Service officers have been booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the last three years in 16 different cases ranging from disproportionate assets to destruction of evidence, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Another Gujarat police official, M L Parmar, accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case surrendered before the CID on Friday.
The two organisation passed a resolution condemning the arrest and slammed the government of India and state governments for organizing fake encounters to liquidate activists and later dubbing them as terrorists.
The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday an application seeking to make Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a co-accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case on the basis of his alleged statement justifying the act.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said Modi had been quoted out of context from his speech allegedly justifying the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin.
The agency also brushed aside his statement, given to court the day he surrendered, that a statement was extracted from him under duress by the previous supervisor of the case Rajnish Rai.
He also asked the Election Commission to take action against Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her 'merchant of death' remarks against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
A Bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and P K Balasubramanyan said it would pass appropriate orders on Thursday, but asked the Centre whether it was advisable to order a CBI probe at this juncture.
The poet and professor's 'life breath is now in the hands of those sworn to uphold his Constitutional right to life.' 'Will they be true to their oath?', asks Jyoti Punwani.
It may be recalled that Sohrabuddin, his wife Kausar Bi and another person had boarded a private bus from Hyderabad in November 2005 when they were forcibly off-loaded from the bus by a team of the Gujarat police.
The senior army official stated that might be lapses in the incident and promised that exemplary punishment would be given to any one found guilty after the probe was over.
Earlier, Left, SP and RJD members sought to raise the issue when the House met for the day but were disallowed by the Speaker.
After two adjournments on Tuesday, Shekawat tried to break the impasse by counselling members that they should uphold the tradition of allowing the Leader of the Opposition to make his submission.
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