Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao on Saturday held consultations with Home and Law Department officials on the mercy petition submitted by 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon.
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The various theories and statements about the culpability/innocence of 1993 blasts accused Yakub Memon present him with a Rashomon act, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the curative petition of the Centre filed against the commutation of death penalty into life imprisonment of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, granting a fresh lease of life to them.
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.
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Gangster Abu Salem, who survived bid on his life in a Navi Mumbai jail last month, will move the European Union seeking execution of the order canceling his extradition to India issued by the Portuguese constitutional court.
The Supreme Court has referred to a larger bench the plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon seeking a stay of his scheduled execution on July 30 in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
The detailed role of the six convicts in the case, whose trial was separated from the main one, which concluded in 2007.
Top LeT bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda was today discharged by a Delhi court in a case lodged against him in 1994 under the stringent TADA.
Gangster Abu Salem has denied in his statement before the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court in Mumbai that he went to the house of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.
The 1993 Mumbai blasts convict will be woken up early on Thursday, given light refreshments and prayers books before his execution.
Faktoo, who is in jail since 1993, is the husband of Asiya Andrabi, also a separatist leader and chairperson of Islamist organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
The Bombay high Court on Thursday asked the Maharashtra government how actor Sanjay Dutt was granted parole and furlough in quick succession and within two months of surrendering to serve his five-year sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who is currently serving his five year jail term after being convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case, on Friday made it clear that he had never filed for pardon with the Maharashtra governor nor had he requested anyone else to do so on his behalf.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday told the Madras high court that fresh probe into Rajiv Gandhi assassination case could be not done based "only on allegations without fresh materials supporting them."
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Close on the heels of the release of actor Sanjay Dutt on parole to take care of his ailing wife, a similar relief has been extended to another 1993 bomb blast accused on the same ground.
A three-judge bench was on Tuesday set up in the Supreme Court to decide the fate of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in 1993 Mumbai blasts case, after a two-judge bench was divided on his plea seeking stay of his execution scheduled on July 30
Memon, 53, was found guilty of conspiracy in 2007 for the serial blasts that killed over 250 people.
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be a free man on Thursday when he walks out of the Yerawada Jail in Pune where he served 42 months, as a part of his five-year sentence after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.
The court allowed Karti to carry spectacles and medicines as per prescription subject to examination and approval by the jail doctor, but denied his request to carry toiletries, books, clothes and home food.
The SC clarified that it has not asked for non-registration of an FIR for the offences under the SC/ST Act.
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Abdul Karim Tunda, alleged Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert, was assaulted by a man said to be Hindu Sena activist in Patiala House court complex while being taken to a court by the police.
'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.'
Yakub Memon, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, is likely to be executed on July 30 if the Supreme Court turns down his mercy plea. It will be the first execution in the serial blasts, which left over 250 dead.
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A city court on Wednesday disapproved of the Delhi police's handling of a case lodged in 1996 relating to recovery of explosives against Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda, saying there was no proper investigation. Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar directed the special cell of the Delhi police to file their written submissions on framing of charges against the accused by June 30, the next date of hearing.
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, serving a five-year sentence at the Yerwada central prison in Pune was released early on Thursday morning.
The process for deportation of underworld don Chhota Rajan has begun even as India and Indonesia are to expedite the work on implementation of an extradition treaty.
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