A rebel by nature, he lived the life to the fullest, donning different hats -- lawyer, parliamentarian, minister -- but was not a quintessential politician constrained by party lines.
The former India batsman was accused of getting into a fight with the occupant of the other car and beating him up, leading to his death.
Congress-led UPA govt had 'manipulated' the CBI to enable the accused in the Bofors case to get an acquittal on technical grounds, said George Fernandes.
Of the 24 convicted, 11 have been convicted for murder and 13 for other charges.
A Division Bench of Justice R S Sodhi and Justice P K Bhasin issued notice on his application seeking transfer to some other court to the state and fixed the matter for hearing on Tuesday.
Shah said before the Yogi Adityanath dispensation assumed office, Uttar Pradesh was known for 'goonda raj' and bad law and order. '...Yogi government has established rule of law,' he said.
The Delhi police on Monday submitted in a sealed cover before the Delhi high court a synoptic note of the status report and various details pertaining to the Jessica Lal murder case.
The Supreme Court ruled in favour of a decision by the Calcutta High Court.
"The judgement has come as a closure of something that was going on for the past seven years. The way this case was progressing, we had given up all hope of getting justice," an emotionally choked Sabrina said.
Bob Rae will review the role of the Canadian police after the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 off Ireland's Atlantic Coast in which 329 people were killed.
President A P J Abdul Kalam Monday promised to take all "necessary action" in the wake of public outrage over the acquittal of all the accused in the Jessica Lal murder case.
Jaitley said the verdict held that nobody was guilty in the case and investigation agencies would take an appropriate decision, taking facts and history into account.
'While we celebrate our victories, we need to remember that not every case can go for retrial at the hands of the Supreme Court.'
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa was on Friday unanimously elected its legislature party leader, paving the way for her return as a chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the fourth time.
Police feared they might abscond following the Supreme Court ordering a retrial.
In a disappointment to relatives of the victims of the 1985 Air-India bombing that killed 329 people, Canadian prosecutors have decided not to appeal against the acquittal of two main accused in the case.
A case can be withdrawn only if it is likely to end in acquittal or if a withdrawal is likely to restore harmony among the aggrieved parties.
Goa Children's Court Judge Vandana Tendulkar acquitted Samson D'Souza and Placido Carvalho of all the charges in the eight-year-long high profile death case.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal said the amount of material and the complexity of the case justified the month-long extension.
The candidate is from the DMK's ruling family, and the sky is the limit -- for both expenses and expectations.
Even as politics engaged him more, he never hid his way of life. On one occasion, Morarji Desai pleaded with him to stop drinking publicly. "You stick to your pissky and I'll stick to my whisky'' he is supposed to have told him.
The first additional metropolitan magistrate in Bengaluru has acquitted three persons in connection with the blast case at the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Malleswaram. The court, while ordering the acquittal observed that the police had failed to file a charge sheet against them in the stipulated 180-day period.
'For a working actor in Bollywood, it is nearly impossible to criticise its reigning deities.' 'Besides, due care ought to be taken when speaking of the dead too.'
The tough question before the DMK and its leader MK Stalin now is, what should their response be if sounded out for an alliance by the BJP for or after the next parliamentary polls, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The state government is believed to be upset with the NHRC for moving the SC for a retrial outside Gujarat.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday convened a meeting of her cabinet, the first after she returned to the top post following her acquittal in a wealth case in May this year.
The court entrusted the Advocate General of Gujarat the task of reviewing the decision of the State Law Department not to file appeals in over 200 riot cases.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to give an urgent hearing on a PIL seeking to restrain AIADMK leader V K Sasikala from being sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister till it decides the disproportionate assets case against her.
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