Pakistan's tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir will miss the team's practice game against Somerset on Thursday as they face another round of interrogation from Scotland Yard amid growing calls for their ouster from the ODI series against England.
The Pakistan government had to give an undertaking that the suspended trio of Test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Muhammad Amir and Mohammad Asif would be available for further investigations by the Scotland Yard to ensure their return home from London.
A British legal expert has said that if the Scotland Yard police decides to lodge a case against Pakistan's alleged 'spot-fixers', it would possibly falter amid the vagaries of the courts.
Pakistan's tainted trio of Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir will be quizzed by Scotland Yard for the second time on Wednesday but they are not in danger of being arrested, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said.
The bookie arrested by Scotland Yard for alleged 'pot-fixing' in the ongoing England-Pakistan Lord's Test claims to have links with bookmakers in India as well.
"Pakistan's investigation into Bhutto's murder lacks independence, transparency and credibility," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Scotland Yard should never have agreed to only investigate the cause of death, instead of who was responsible. It should not tarnish its reputation by lending its imprimatur to this dubious inquiry."
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Police are probing claims that a woman was allegedly raped in the overnight queue to watch Andy Murray in the Wimbledon final on Sunday, it has been reported.
The total number of arrests in the case has increased to six.
Two incidents of bomb scares led to evacuations across different parts of London on Tuesday though they later turned out to be hoaxes.
Scotland Yard has arrested a man on suspicion of 'violent disorder' in connection with an attack on the Indian High Commission in London in March this year.
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Iqbal Mirchi, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, died of a heart attack in London on Wednesday night.
"I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation," May said.
In a dramatic last-minute rescue, a 15-year-old British schoolgirl was taken off her flight and detained at the Heathrow airport here while she was on her way to Syria to join the dreaded Islamic State terror group.
Security was beefed up around the Indian high commission in London on Monday and Scotland Yard detained one person in connection with vandalism at the mission by Khalistan supporters a day earlier as India asked the UK to quickly arrest and prosecute those involved in the attack.
In a massive embarrassment for India, two senior officials of the India commonwealth Games contingent were arrested by the police in Glasgow on Saturday, it has been reported.
Ahmed Hassan, believed to be of Middle Eastern origin, was named by Scotland Yard as officers produced him before Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Amiya Bose, freedom icon Subhas Bose's nephew, was tasked by his uncle to carry a secret letter seeking Soviet help in India's liberation, which was to be delivered to agents in Britain in October 1939, barely a month into the Second World War.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the hearing for his bail petition will take place on June 11.
A machete-wielding man who stabbed three men at London Underground train station on Saturday has been charged with attempted murder.
Officials from the mission said the "attempted but failed" attack had been foiled and that the tricolour was now flying "grander".
Chennai Police coordinated with Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), London, and Serious Organised Crime Agency, United Kingdom, state and central intelligence agencies and rescued the couple from an SUV bound for a house at Mandarakuppam in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu on Sunday night.
The arrests were made under 'Operation Elveden', which is investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials by news organisations.
In another development, the CBI submitted in a sealed cover a forensic report from Ahmedabad Forensic Laboratory on ballistic evidence related to the killing of the three rationalists --- Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi.
Six more former journalist of the now-defunct British newspaper, News of the World, have been arrested as part of a new police investigation into the phone hacking scandal.
"The incident is not being treated as terror-related," the Met Police said.
Earlier, it was reported that the senior officer at the centre of the operation that led to the death of de Menezes had ordered him to be taken alive.
The three runaway UK schoolgirls have now crossed the border to Syria according to the Scotland Yard.
A serving member of the armed forces was arrested along with his wife on Thursday by the British police in connection with an investigation related to phone-hacking at media baron Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid. The man, 42, and the woman, 32, were arrested by the Scotland Yard as part of Operation Elvedev -- which is investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials by news organisations.
Pakistan's suspended Test captain Salman Butt will attend a hearing into spot-fixing charges in Doha in January after the International Cricket Council rejected his application to adjourn proceedings.
An ongoing investigation by Scotland Yard into the phone-hacking at the now defunct News of the World tabloid has said that there were at least 5,795 victims, including many celebrities, whose phones were illegally accessed for information.
An ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) officer has rubbished alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed's claim that Australian cricketers were involved in match-fixing, saying the world body had "no evidence" of any wrongdoings carried out by the Aussies.
London police lost a set of keys at an Olympic venue last week -- but security was not compromised by the incident, officials said on Sunday.
The Scotland Yard named the three who travelled to Pakistan for training in terrorism between July 25, 2010 and July 6, 2012 as Richard Dart, 29; Imran Mahmood, 21; and Jahangir Alom, 26.
Six people from London have been charged in connection with trafficking a woman from Hyderabad, the police said on Friday. The woman has not been named.
A 50-year-old man who failed to obtain a driving license thrice, on Friday threatened to blow himself up, after holding four hostages in an office in Central London, prompting Scotland Yard to deploy sharp-shooters around the area.
Appearing before the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press, Sue Akers, deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, said there was 'a culture at The Sun of illegal payments'.
Stepping up its investigation into the "appalling" attack on Lt Gen (Retd) K S Brar in London, the Scotland Yard on Friday arrested eight more people, taking to 15 the number of those held after the assault on the 'Operation Blue Star' hero.
Four persons, including a woman, have been arrested in London in connection with the stabbing of retired Lt Gen K S Brar, who had led 'Operation Blue Star' 28 years ago to flush out pro-Khalistani militants from the Golden Temple.
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