Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of a former woman employee, evaded police for another day on Thursday even as investigators intensified search to arrest him on a day his anticipatory bail plea was rejected.
Police sub-inspector and encounter specialist Daya Nayak, who was under suspension for nearly six-and-a-half years in a disproportionate assets case, was on Saturday reinstated and posted in a local arms wing of the department, police said.
Police sub-inspector and encounter specialist Daya Nayak, who was under suspension for nearly six-and-a-half years in a disproportionate assets case, was on Saturday reinstated and posted in a local arms wing of the department, police said.
Raids on Central Excise Commissioner P K Ajwani revealed assets amounting to about Rs seven crore, including Rs 3.14 crore cash. It is reportedly the biggest seizure ever from a government official.
"In the present case, it cannot be said that the accused had ever intended or acted in such a manner which under normal circumstances would drive the deceased to commit suicide," special judge Geetanjali Goel said in the detailed order that discharged Tharoor.
A Delhi court on Friday extended till December 20 the interim protection from arrest granted to Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra and his son in the case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from Congress MP Naveen Jindal's firm by two editors of the news channel.
Union Minister M K Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court three days after being granted anticipatory bail in connection with the multi-crore granite scam by the Madras high court.
A Goan youth who had allegedly posted comments against Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi on his Facebook account during the Lok Sabha election campaign, is likely to face arrest after a local court rejected his anticipatory bail plea in Panaji on Friday.
P Mithun Reddy was detained by the immigration officers at the Chennai airport after he returned from Bangkok around 1 am.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested Central Excise Commissioner Anup Kumar Srivastava after a court in New Delhi dismissed his anticipatory bail plea in connection with his alleged role in a graft case.
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy was on Friday granted interim protection till January 30 by the Delhi high court against his possible arrest for writing an allegedly "inflammatory" article. Justice M L Mehta granted interim protection to Swamy and asked him to give an undertaking that he would not write such articles in the future. The court also issued a notice to the Delhi police, seeking its response to Swamy's anticipatory bail plea.
The Gurugram Police detained and questioned Harpal Singh, a gardener at the Ryan International School.
Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths took encounter specialist Nayak.
The Minister, facing charges of using a proxy to write his SSLC examination at a Centre in Tamil Nadu in September, has been evading arrest since the Madras high court on Tuesday rejected his anticipatory bail petition.
A Delhi court on Thursday issued non-bailable warrant against former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, an accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case.
The ruling came on a CBI plea that the district court in Ahmedabad did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
In the continuing crackdown by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government on land grabbing, former Tamil Nadu Minister and senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Veerapandi Arumugam and his party MLA J Anbalagan were arrested on Saturday in different cases.
By a standing high court order, the seer cannot be arrested in the case till his bail application is disposed of.
A Delhi court on Monday sent to 14-day judicial custody the former managing director and chief executive officer of National Stock Exchange Chitra Ramkrishna in connection with the co-location scam case.
Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, who remained elusive for past five days and was declared an absconder, surfaced on Friday, a day after a Ahmedabad court granted her anticipatory bail in connection with post-Godhra riots cases.
A court in New Delhi on Tuesday sent to one-day judicial custody suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha who allegedly raped a minor several times and impregnated her.
The Supreme Court Tuesday ordered that suspended encounter specialist Daya Nayak should not be arrested till Friday, the day it will hear his plea seeking anticipatory bail in a case of disproportionate assets registered against him.
Without giving any interim protection, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation for January 18 on disgraced former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore's petitions seeking anticipatory bail in FIRs containing serious criminal charges.
As the Ruchika molestation case fuelled a debate whether there is media hype, the judge who rejected the anticipatory bail of Haryana's former director general of police S P S Rathore said the role and importance of the media "cannot be denied or undermined" though sometimes it "oversteps its limits".
National Commission for Women chief Mamata Sharma on Thursday visited the house of former airhostess of MDLR airline Geetika Sharma who committed suicide.
The decision on anticipatory bail plea of a police inspector accused of raping a minor was put off till Wednesday with a judge transferring the case to another court without assigning any reason.
The Supreme Court directed Kerala-based People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani, an accused in 2008 Bengaluru serial blasts case, to apply for a regular bail, as he has already been arrested, on Tuesday.
A special court today came down heavily on the Mumbai Police for its probe of the Juhu rave party, where 92 people including two IPL players were rounded up after a raid.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa Friday told the state high court that sanction given for a civil contract during his tenure, on which a graft case was filed against him, had been upheld by a division bench earlier.
The SC clarified that it has not asked for non-registration of an FIR for the offences under the SC/ST Act.
R K Pachauri, who is facing sexual harassment allegations, moved a city court seeking permission to travel abroad to attend a global water summit in Greece from April 26 to 29.
Preeti Jain, an aspiring actress, had alleged in a police complaint that the film director sexually exploited for three years by promising her a role in his film and also to marry her.
People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani on Thursday claimed he was a victim of "deep-rooted conspiracy" by his adversaries, including intelligences agencies, to implicate him in the 2008 Bangalore blasts case.
The Supreme Court on Monday quashed JM Financial chairman Nimesh Kampani's petition on Nagarjuna Finance fraud case paving the way for his arrest.
Referring to the arguments advanced by Chidambaram's counsel on Tuesday that ED wanted to humiliate him by arresting him, Mehta had said, "A victim card is sought to be played. They are saying humiliation. It is not. It is prevention, prevention and prevention with capital P. I am serious about this".
The probe agency made the submission in an affidavit filed before Justice A K Pathak, who listed the matter for hearing on August 1 and extended till then the interim protection against arrest granted to Chidambaram on May 31.
The Delhi High Court has refused to stay proceedings against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases.
The special investigation team, looking into two fresh FIRs filed against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, on Friday said it will not arrest the disgraced officer at this stage as it would mean pre-empting a possible Central Bureau of Invesigation probe in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.
The anticipatory bail hearing of SPS Rathore, who molested 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, began at the sessions court in Panchkula on Friday. Rathore's wife Abha, who is also his lawyer, urged the court to grant bail to the former director general of police of Haryana.Ruchika had committed suicide a few years after the incident, following the arrest of her brother on false charges and continuous harassment by the police.Rathore is facing imminent arrest.
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