The judge said the CBI's case became weaker or "forceless" in view of the fact that it did not probe and ruled out the Pakistan angle to the demolition to make the criminal conspiracy charge stand the judicial scrutiny.
Last week, a first information report was registered against Goswami, his wife and his son at N M Joshi Marg police station in central Mumbai for allegedly assaulting a woman police officer when a police team went to his house to arrest him in the suicide case on November 4.
Gowani was booked for the offence under relevant sections of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act and his statement was recorded by the police after the blaze swept through resto-pubs 1 Above and Mojo's Bistro located in the Kamala Mills compound in Central Mumbai, another official said.
After the arrest of Tulli -- who had been evading arrest since last two weeks -- all the owners of the Mojo's Bistro and '1 Above' have been arrested, another official said.
In a video posted after the alleged attack, Goswami said he was told by his security guards that the attackers were allegedly Youth Congress workers. However, there was no confirmation of the same by either police or the youth outfit.
A division bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Riyaz Chagla noted that while Goswami's comments targeted the Congress and its president Sonia Gandhi, he did not make any statement that would cause public disharmony or incite violence between different religious groups.
The comments by a former official of the Comptroller and Auditor General over the report on 2G spectrum allocation on Friday kicked up a row with Congress President Sonia Gandhi suggesting that the Bharatiya Janata Party had been exposed while the government demanded answers from Parliament's PAC chief M M Joshi over his alleged role.
Anshuman Mishra, who has leveled certain allegations against Bharatiya Janata Party leaders after the party backed out of supporting him for Rajya Sabha seat from Jharkhand, on Monday retracted his comments and apologised to them.
The court also observed that late Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal wanted to save the structure because Ram idols were inside.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M M Joshi on Saturday demanded the imposition of President's Rule in Manipur, which has been reeling under an economic blockade. "The central government has remained very insensitive to the plight of the suffering people and left it to the state government to resolve the crisis. The Centre should impose President's Rule, if needed, to ease the crisis in the state," Joshi said.
Here are all the sidelights from the swearing-in ceremony.
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee chairperson M M Joshi on Thursday indicated that overlapping of functions of the panel and the Joint Parliamentary Committee into 2G spectrum scam was not a matter of concern and his powers went beyond the Comptroller and Auditor General report.
Though the 2G scam may be revolving around A Raja, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee chief M M Joshi has rejected demands from some members for calling the former telecom minister who is in jail. Joshi has argued that calling Raja would involve long processes as he in judicial custody and that there are enough records and witness statements to "draw conclusions".
Taking the 2G probe to the doorstep of the Prime Minister's Office, the Public Accounts Committee is likely to ask Principal Secretary to the PM, T K A Nair, and Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar to appear before it this fortnight in connection with the telecom scam.Sources said Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, headed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M M Joshi, has called Nair, Chandrasekhar and Central Bureau of Investigation Director A P Singh to depose.
Following is the chronology of events in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.
A special judge holding trial in the Babri Masjid demolition case, involving Bharatiya Janata Party veterans L K Advani, M M Joshi and others, on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking six more months to conclude the trial in the case.
He further said that time has come to discuss the issue of Ram Temple and should try to find a permanent solution.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not campaign in Bihar during the upcoming assembly elections as the Bharatiya Janata Party has kept him out of the list of its campaigners against the backdrop of reservations expressed by ally Janata Dal-United.
The SC asked special judge to control the proceedings in accordance with law so that inordinate delay that is beyond the time-frame is no longer breached.
On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress clashed over the findings of the Liberhan Commission, which is believed to have indicted senior BJP leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani and M M Joshi, among others, for the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.
A 39-year-old bank executive from Mumbai went missing on September 5 evening.
BJP President Rajnath Singh, senior party leader M M Joshi, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Chidanand Muni of Parmarth Niketan ashram were also present during the swearing-in ceremony.
The UP CM's visit comes a day after senior BJP leaders were charged with conspiracy in the Babri Masjid case.
Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist Party of India-Marxist members on Friday voiced concern in the Lok Sabha over efforts by the US and other industrialised nations to curb enrichment and reprocessing technology to India and demanded a statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to clarify the situation.
The Supreme Court has adjourned by six weeks hearing of the batch of petitions challenging the separation of trials of senior BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders for their alleged involvement in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
Agrawal was arrested on Monday in a joint operation by the ATS units of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra police at BrahMos' Wardha Road facility for allegedly leaking "technical information" to Pakistan.
A bench comprising Justices P C Ghose and R F Nariman asked all the parties in the case to file their written arguments by April 6 and posted the matter for further hearing on April 7.
A gunman working with HDFC bank fled with Rs 19,50,300 cash at Kamlacity Complex N M Joshi Marg in south-central Mumbai. The gunman Shafik Ahmed, 25, and the bank's cashier withdrew cash from the bank in order to deposit it in various ATM centres.
Last week, the RSS informed the party president Rajnath Singh and other leaders that all leaders above 75 should not be given any "pad" (position), meaning just not Cabinet position but even as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance or as Lok Sabha Speaker. That put to rest claims by old and veteran leaders like L K Advani, M M Joshi, Shanta Kumar and Karia Munda, reports Sheela Bhatt.
The Sanghvi brothers were arrested on late Wednesday evening, the third owner of the club Abhijeet Mankar was arrested in wee hours of Thursday.
The police have booked Hratesh Sanghvi, Jigar Sanghvi and Abhijeet Manka, who run '1 Above' pub in Mumbai's Kamala Mills, for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The gutka barons are accused of setting up a factory for Dawood in Karachi.
The defence counsel pleaded that CBI was only an investigating agency and had no right to prosecute.
The HC said that the agency should have first presented him before the court, which issued a warrant against him.
The Central Bureau of Investigation would begin recording Joshi's statement from February 28.
A bench headed by Justice P C Ghose said the appropriate bench comprising him and Justice R F Nariman will be hearing the matter on Thursday. Justice Nariman was not present in the court on Wednesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has widened the probe into the gutka scam by scrutinising exports of some more prominent pan masala companies.
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