The 61-year-old former top cop from Mumbai changed professions after listening to his 'inner voice'.
The 1993 Mumbai blasts convict will be woken up early on Thursday, given light refreshments and prayers books before his execution.
The minor accused in the gang-rape case was identified on Wednesday by the photojournalist and her male colleague during an identification parade held at juvenile remand home in south Mumbai, police said.
A special court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Ishrat Jahan encounter case accused IPS officer Prithvi Pal Pandey who then moved the Gujarat high court, which refused to give him protection from arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation till hearing of his plea on Wednesday.
Mansukh Hiren, who was in possession of the car that was found with explosives outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence, in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister and Home Minister had alleged that he was being harassed by police and media. He had also claimed that in spite of being a victim, he was treated as an accused.
A close aide of gangster Ravi Pujari was on Saturday killed in an encounter with the police at suburban Santacruz, police said.
Kolkata Knight Riders' first home match in the seventh edition of the IPL, versus defending champions Mumbai Indians, on May 14 has been shifted to Cuttack due to the inability of the police authorities to deploy adequate personnel.
Incessant rains apparently caused cracks in the bridge, resulting in its collapse, an official said.
The 39-year-old Vikas Sachdev kept nudging Zaira Wasim's shoulder and continued to move his foot up and down her back and neck during the two hour flight.
In another major crackdown on the Popular Front of India, police along with other investigative agencies conducted raids across several states on Tuesday.
'I am not the Manas Deka who attacked Kanhaiya,' says the BJP activist who shares the same name with the man who allegedly tried to 'strangle' the JNUSU leader.
The Supreme Court-instituted three-member committee probing the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal will speak with banned pacer Shantakumaran Sreesanth, Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra and others, including commentator Harsha Bhogle, when it meets for three days in Mumbai, from November 16.
Those who were held guilty included Safdar Nagori, Javed Ahmed and Atikur Rehman. Among those acquitted were Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmed.
India has not only been decked in tricolour hues in the lead up to the 76th Independence Day celebrations, but also put under a heavy security blanket, right from Delhi, the epicentre of the mega celebrations, to Jammu and Kashmir.
Two producers from the industry -- Ramesh Taurani and Ashoke Pandit -- have come forward to offer financial aid to the ailing actress.
Family members of the martyred personnel and survivors of the daring strike recalled the harrowing moments and pledged support to efforts to root out terrorism.
Pawar thanked the Shiv Sena and the Congress for backing him on the ED action issue.
Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani, arrested in Sheena Bora murder case, had approached a senior Mumbai Police officer in 2012 seeking help to trace the call location of Sheena.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra which completes two years in power on November 27 has survived against all odds amid the coronavirus pandemic.
On legal front, Wankhede, who the NCB asserted has an impeccable service record, failed to get any relief related to an affidavit on the sensational extortion claims made by the independent witness, Prabhakar Sail, with a special court saying it cannot pass a blanket order barring courts from taking cognisance of the document.
A day after gory details of Sheena Bora murder case were revealed by police in court, her biological father on Tuesday came out in the open for the first time while skeletal remains purportedly of the 24-year-old unearthed in Raigad were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory in Mumbai.
The present tax revenue of the state is Rs 120,000 crore.
"All allegations levelled against me are baseless. I have received or made no international call from my mobile in the past one year, which my service provider 'Idea' has given me in writing," the minister told ANI.
'It is possible that these terrorists took advantage of the chaos and escaped in the melee.'
Anil Pehelwan alias Leela, who was one of the three most wanted criminals of Delhi and had a cash reward of Rs 2 lakh on his arrest, has been arrested by the Crime Branch following a brief encounter.
The hearing relates to a 1993 raid on a Mumbai bakery, which left 8 unarmed Muslims dead, none of whom had a criminal record. Justice Srikrishna had described the incident as 'not becoming of the police force of any civilised, democratic State.'
The raids were carried out as part of a probe into the violence between Dalits and the upper caste Peshwas at Koregaon-Bhima village near Pune after an event called Elgar Parishad, or conclave, on December 31 last year.
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Marathas, a politically influential community that constitutes around 30 per cent of the state's population, have been demanding 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and education.
Life in Mumbai was on Wednesday slowly coming back on tracks as rains subsided and hundreds of stranded commuters headed home with the partial resumption of suburban train services.
A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation in Ahmedabad on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Additional Director General of Gujarat Police Prithvi Pal Pandey, paving the way for his arrest in the 2004 fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
The Maharashtra Assembly will today initiate a debate on the Pradhan Committee Report into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Flag hoisting is held at the district headquarters in the presence of the guardian ministers early in the morning as they pay tribute to martyrs on the day.
The Gujarat high court on Tuesday directed a Special CBI Court in Ahmedabad to hear afresh the anticipatory bail application of senior IPS officer Prithvi Pal Pandey, an accused in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, and granted him relief from arrest till August 6.
Dominic Xavier wonders what the end game in the NCB's starstruck probe will be.
Over a year after the National Investigation Agency got access to 26/11 conspirator David Headley, a metropolitan court has issued letters rogatory to a US court requesting it to enable the Mumbai police to question him and his alleged accomplice Tahawwur Rana in the Mumbai attack case.
Shivaji Park ground in central Mumbai where Republic Day celebrations will be held on Saturday, have been declared a 'no flying zone' due to intelligence inputs which suggested that terrorists might attempt air strikes, the police said.
During investigation, 'sufficient evidences have not been found against' Pragya Singh Thakur and five others, the NIA said, adding it has submitted in the chargesheet 'that the prosecution against them is not maintainable'.
"We have invoked MCOCA against all the accused in the case," said Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy. According to police, MCOCA provisions can be applied if at least two members of an organised crime gang have at least two charge-sheets registered against them
A part of the land, measuring 532 square metres, was rented out to a transport company and he used the rest of it as an approach road to enter a transport godown, Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.
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