Fadnavis said, "Nawab Malik and his family members were part of a company which purchased land in Kurla (area of Mumbai) at a very low rate by making some fictitious documents. There are four such land purchase deals where I can firmly say that Malik has entered into land deals with the underworld."
But the court rejected the demand of stay stating that the convicts can approach the Supreme Court after the sentencing was over, and their rights would not be prejudiced if stay was not granted.
'All the things that went into bringing Yakub Memon back to India between 1993 and 1994 must be recorded in that file. Raman would have submitted his findings to the prime minister on file; in writing.'
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in 1993 bomb blasts case, on Tuesday urged a designated Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court in Mumbai to allow him to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, serving a five-year sentence at the Yerwada central prison in Pune was released early on Thursday morning.
Aziz alleged that judge P D Kode discriminated by not convicting Sanjay Dutt under the TADA despite recovery of arms and ammunition from the actor's residence.
Two other accused in the case, Mohammed Naeem Abdul Rahim Khan and Riyaz Siddique, have turned approvers.
There are still a couple of more applications, moved by different groups of the convicts, seeking retrial and quashing of TADA charges.
Police and custom officials were among the convicts whose life imprisonment by the TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act) court for their varying roles in the 1993 Mumbai blasts was upheld by the Supreme Court on Thursday.
A former senior Central Bureau of Investigation official was on Monday sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Delhi court for demanding and accepting bribe for not invoking TADA against the Jain brothers in the controversial 1991 Jain hawala case.
The 1993 serial bomb blast case, in which final verdict was delivered by the Supreme Court on Thursday, was historic in many ways.
'The Babri Masjid wasn't just a mosque, it was a test of our secularism,' says Jyoti Punwani.
Salman Khan in defence of Yakub Memon said the wrong man is being punished for the crimes.
But the Congress said its leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will attend the event.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains how two cases separated by ideological motives were curiously similar on one account.
You aren't dealing with a normal, civilised, law. The NDPS Act, in its preconditions for bail, and insistence on evidence of innocence rather than guilt, is worse than UAPA. Imagine yourself or your child at the other end of this, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking its permission to drop certain charges against gangster Abu Salem under TADA and Explosive Substances Act in view of its commitment to Portuguese government at the time of his extradition that he shall not be awarded death penalty or detained in custody for more than 25 years if found guilty.
Editor of a local Urdu daily has been arrested in Srinagar in a nearly three-decade-old terror-related case.
Mohammed Iqbal Yusuf Shaikh, who planted a scooter bomb, was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution of 1993 Delhi blast terror convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar.
Special TADA judge Pramod Kode has given no hint as to how he would go about pronouncing sentences of 100 convicts.
A designated TADA court, hearing the 1993 bomb blast case, announced on Thursday that it would deliver verdict on August 10.
In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday said that underworld don Abu Salem can be tried for offences inviting death penalty even though the Portugal government had laid a pre-condition that he will not be extradited if he was to be awarded capital punishment.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken over the probe into the murder of Hanif Kadawala, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case who gave an AK-56 rifle to actor Sanjay Dutt, and registered a case against gangster Chhota Rajan and his accomplices in this regard.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has moved the Supreme Court, seeking suspension of his conviction in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
'If the political executive doesn't want an independent judiciary, it will be impossible for the judiciary to maintain its independence.'
A bench, comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran, however, issued notices to state of Maharashtra, returnable by three weeks, on a petition filed by Ibrahim Musa Chauhan.
With the conviction of Bhoinkar, Abbas and Shahjahan, the total number of accused found guilty has risen to 35.
Those sentenced had been convicted of throwing hand grenades at the Mahim Fishermen Colony.
His aide Mohammad Dawood Khan has also been held guilty for complicity.
Niyaz Ahmed Shaikh has been found guilty of conspiracy.
Ever since the Chinese-owned Apache SEZ went into full-scale production exactly a year ago, a lot has improved for Tada and its 100,000-plus inhabitants.
CBI lawyer N Natrajan, while winding up his argument on the quantum of punishment on Thursday, urged the court to give the maximum punishment of death penalty to all these conspirators, barring three of them.
First look on Sanjay Dutt's appearances at the TADA court
Special judge Alokesh Bhattacharya allowed Chetia, alias Golap Baruah, to go on bail by submitting a bail bond of Rs 5 lakh and security of the same amount.
Says the slain lawyer's brother Khalid, 'He lost his life fighting for those accused of terror charges. At least he should be remembered now when guilty have been booked and the innocent have been acquitted.'
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who surrendered on Thursday before a special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court in Mumbai, is planning to file a curative petition before the Supreme Court, his lawyer said Thursday.
Pathan played an active role in helping Dawood Ibrahim with the supply of RDX and arms and ammunition used in the 1993 bomb blasts.
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