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.
The Delhi high court called the anti-Sikh riots case "communal frenzy" after the then prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards.
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.
'While we celebrate our victories, we need to remember that not every case can go for retrial at the hands of the Supreme Court.'
Fifty-nine 'karsevaks' were killed in the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002, triggering the worst communal riots in the history of Gujarat.
Of the 24 convicted, 11 have been convicted for murder and 13 for other charges.
Police feared they might abscond following the Supreme Court ordering a retrial.
Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours.
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A case can be withdrawn only if it is likely to end in acquittal or if a withdrawal is likely to restore harmony among the aggrieved parties.
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.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal said the amount of material and the complexity of the case justified the month-long extension.
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 fact that so many victims turn hostile should be a matter of concern. If so many accused persons continue to roam freely in society, this becomes an additional liability to women's safety, points out Rashme Sehgal.
The judge said the journalists 'collected and obtained confidential documents'.
The state government is believed to be upset with the NHRC for moving the SC for a retrial outside Gujarat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As soon as he entered his barrack, Rahul noticed a group of seven inmates seated on their mattresses under the television set. They must be the terrorists, Rahul thought to himself. He knew that such accused are usually housed in murder barracks, far from jingoistic gangsters, who tend to abuse and attack them. A fascinating excerpt from Gangster On The Run: The True Story Of A Reformed Criminal.
To avoid mediapersons, he left by a side exit and straightaway went to meet eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani.
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.
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.
'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 commission will send a team to Vadodara to inspect the records of the case and submit a report.
