With the conviction of Bhoinkar, Abbas and Shahjahan, the total number of accused found guilty has risen to 35.
'Bush can climb over a tower and scream that Syed Salahuddin is a terrorist. But nobody would listen to him,' says the Hizbul Mujahideen leader.
His brothers Essa and Yusuf Memon and their sister-in-law Rubina Memion were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the March 12, 1993 serial blasts, which claimed over 250 lives and injured hundreds of others.
Kamlakar said Qayyum is also wanted for the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and it is up to the CBI, the agency investing the case, to get his custody and interrogate him.
Describing Ottavio Quattrochhi as "no different a fugitive" than underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Leader of the Opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani asked Singh, who was present in the House, why the government was having a "soft corner" for the Italian.
Civic authorities on Sunday continued the demolition of seven unauthorised structures near the controversial Sara-Sahara complex in south Mumbai.
The Supreme Court will hear on October 26 a petition alleging that Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal has links with the underworld. An appeal filed by M Furquan, a Delhi-based journalist, has alleged that funds for Jet Airways was given by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. He has also sought a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Shaikh, one of the main complainants in Sara-Sahara case, had allegedly been asked to vacate her house near Crawford market in south Mumbai for the construction of the Sara-Sahara shopping complex.
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Without the trial of 'Tiger' Memon and Dawood Ibrahim, the most important anti-terror case in independent India will always remain an unfinished chapter.
Intelligence Bureau officers say the problem lies with the government treating narcotics and terrorism as two separate problems, with different law-enforcing agencies for each, and this ends up in defeating the purpose. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
It was decided at a meeting between the CBI and FIA.
The receipt was allegedly issued on August 10 last year on the letterhead of Buildtech by Shukla and has his signature, the officer said.
The CBI assured the SC it would not execute the non-bailable warrant issued against him.
A highly-placed source in the BJP told Rediff.com, "Just as the Sangh dislikes the pseudo-secularism of the Congress, the Sangh also has a distaste for the pseudo Hindutva that the BJP is trying to practise in maddening race for power."
Days after he attacked Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, former Home Secretary R K Singh has been stripped of his personal staff by the government.
That most newsrooms, high on the 'exclusive' interview with a fugitive living overseas, are not able to perceive this distrust is a reflection of the disconnect today's media has with reality
Another accused Riyaz Siddiqui was sentenced for 10 years
Memon, 53, was found guilty of conspiracy in 2007 for the serial blasts that killed over 250 people.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav celebrated his 75th birthday by cutting a 75-foot-long cake at midnight at a grand event in Rampur.
A special court Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against Anees Ibrahim, younger brother of fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, for his alleged complicity in the builder Pradeep Jain murder case.
The mercy plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a death-row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, has been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.
The two countries will also revive after 16 years the Joint Commission under which cooperation in the fields of trade, energy, telecom, security, visa and consular access to detained nationals of the respective countries will be covered.
The US has sought their immediate extradition.
The cases were registered against Zamurrduin Ansari, Rajesh Panchariya, Mohammad Farooq Mansurian and gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anees , the CBI said.
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At a press conference, the Congress posed 11 questions to the PM over the Lalit Modi controversy, asking if the Modi sarkar would also extend such help to Dawood Ibrahim if he too sought such help.
Shankar was Director General, Special Security Bureau.
Uttam Potdar and Salim Mira Shaikh were held guilty of facilitating landing of arms and RDX at Dighi coast in Raigad in February 1993.
Home secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan began in New Delhi on Sunday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation would begin recording Joshi's statement from February 28.
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