Rahul hugged and consoled his sister Poonam as Mahajan's mortal remains went up in flames.
Among the potential eyewitnesses in the case include Pramod's wife Rekha and domestic help at the Mahajan's residence on the day of the incident.
BJP leader Pramod Mahajan passed away on May 3.
Appearing in the dock for the first time in the Pramod Mahajan murder case, prime accused Pravin Mahajan, who surrendered to the police with his pistol after the Bharatiya Janata Party leader was gunned down, on Monday claimed he did not kill his elder brother. Pravin, 46, told a sessions court recording his evidence that he came to know about his brother's hospitalisation and death only from the newspapers.
While pointing towards Pravin Mahajan, who was sitting in the dock, Poonam told the court that he had killed her father and she wanted justice to prevail. It is for this reason that she had come to depose before the court, she said.
Pravin Mahajan, the brother of former Bharatiya Janata party Member of Parliament Pramod Mahajan, who was suffering from brain haemorrhage, passed away on Wednesday afternoon. Pravin had slipped into coma after the brain haemorrhage.
She parried a question on why she had been inducted in the BJP ahead of Rahul, saying, "My entry into politics was not accidental."
Sarangi, wife of Pravin Mahajan, on Thursday told the Mumbai sessions court that she had sent the "controversial" SMS to Pramod Mahajan on April 15 last year.
A road in Delhi was on Tuesday named after slain Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan on his 59th birth anniversary.
The assailant has surrendered before the police.
Police have registered a case of forgery and corruption against Anand Rao, builder and son-in-law of late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, and two former Chief Executive Officers of Maharashtra's Slum Rehabilitation Authority.
The assailant has surrendered before the police.
Former Home Secretary R K Singh and two Rashtriya Janata Dal leaders, who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, figure in the third list of 97 Lok Sabha poll candidates released by the party on Thursday.
Pravin Mahajan, who has been charged with the murder of his brother, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, dropped a bombshell in the trial court when he leveled sensational allegations against Pramod. The judge ordered that Mahajan's testimony, both as a witness and as an accused, be recorded in-camera.
"I saw Pravin Mahajan fire at Pramod with a pistol that he had," she told the court, which started the trial in the case on Wednesday.
A Mumbai sessions court on Monday convicted Pravin Mahajan of the murder of his elder brother and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan. The judge relied on the statements of Pramod's wife Rekha, servant Mahesh and Pramod's own statement made to the BJP leader and brother-in-law Gopinath Munde while on his way to the hospital.
National Association of Software and Service Companies on Thursday condoled the death of former IT and Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan
Mahajan continues to be on enhanced ventilator support after his Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) worsened on Tuesday.
Prakash Mahajan, brother of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, has been appointed Shiv Sena spokesperson and a deputy leader.
The charge-sheet was filed by police in the court of a magistrate at Bhoiwada near Dadar in Mumbai.
In the post on X, Mahajan said, "I will be indebted to the family-like people from Mumbai North Central who treated me not just as an MP but gave me affection like a daughter."
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday called on the bereaved family of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan to offer his condolences.
The condition of Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Pramod Mahajan continued to be "critical but stable" on Thursday and there was a "very gradual" reduction in medicines to maintain his blood pressure.
"Mahajan is tolerating the reduction in medication for maintaining blood pressure," Anupam Verma, director (administration), Hinduja hospital, told reporters in the health bulletin at 7:30 pm.
Money was the motive behind Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan's murder as the accused, his brother Pravin, wanted to start a transport business, the prosecution told the court on Monday. "The demands were being made by Pravin Mahajan from 2004 and the threat SMS was the last blow," Special Public Prosecutor Niteen Pradhan argued.
According to Munde, Pramod received the message a few days after Pravin had gone to his residence, demanded Rs one crore and said that he would face the consequences for not paying him the amount.
Vajpayee was visibly emotional at the Hinduja Hospital.
The defence in Pramod Mahajan murder trial on Friday successfully demonstrated that an SMS in mobile phone memory can be tampered with -- after failing in the first attempt.
The telecom industry has condoled the death of former Communication and IT Minister and BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, while describing him as one of the dynamic and charismatic leaders.
Pravin Mahajan, arrested for shooting his elder brother and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, has been booked in another case for cheating a city businessman of Rs 8.5 lakh in a bus purchase deal.
A Rajya Sabha panel was contemplating packing off Rahul after he was arrested for drug use.
Raashii Khanna and Vikrant Massey celebrated the beginning of Navratri with Falguni Pathak.
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