The former finance minister said that Pakistan "lost conclusively" before the world court and termed the sentencing by the military court to Jadhav as a "farcical processes".
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, ordered by the Supreme Court to complete his five years sentence for complicity in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, is mulling filing a review petition against the judgement, sources close to him said on Wednesday.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of three convicts, including Vikas Yadav, son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, for the abduction and murder of Nitish Katara in 2002, saying it was a case of "honour killing".
The life imprisonment given to 17 of the 19 convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case was on Thursday upheld by the Supreme Court, but the apex court freed one of them by reducing his sentence saying being an HIV positive patient, his was a "special circumstance".
Two decades after serial blasts rocked Mumbai killing 257 people and injuring over 700, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of one and conviction of several others including Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt. Following is the chronology of events in the case.
Actor Sanjay Dutt will have to undergo a jail term of more than three years, after the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, which, it said, was organised by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and others with the involvement of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.
An Egyptian court, on Saturday, upheld death sentences against 21 convicts of last year's deadly soccer riot that killed 74 people, and acquitted 28 others, sparking off widespread violence in the deeply polarised country.
Questioning the delay in the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said it should have happened much earlier, after the Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence in 2005.
Earlier, Justice Lalit had recused himself from hearing the plea of Indian National Lok Dal Chautala's son Ajay on similar grounds.
'The cases on hand have no genesis in the act of terrorism or waging war against the state,' the court said.
The Maharashtra authorities would go ahead with hanging of Yakub Memon, the sole death row convict of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on July 30 as scheduled, highly placed sources in Mumbai said on Thursday.
Memon, the only convict on death row in the case, handed over his mercy petition to the authorities of the Central Prison in Nagpur.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the plea of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and others, challenging their conviction and award of 10-year jail term in the teachers' recruitment scam case.
The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to four persons for burning two men to death during 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Actor Sanjay Dutt was very tense since Wednesday as he waited for the Supreme Court judgement on the 1993 Mumbai blasts case the next day.
The bench also vacated the stay granted against the execution of both the convicts during the pendency of their appeals.
A division bench of justices R M Sawant and Sadhana Jadhav was on Monday hearing a public interest litigation by Pune resident Pradeep Bhalekar challenging the regular paroles and furloughs granted to Dutt when he was serving his sentence.
In his petition to the Supreme Court, Yakub had stated that he had been in jail for more than 20 years, which is more than the jail term awarded for life imprisonment, which is 14 years.
Two days after the Supreme Court verdict in the 2006 hit-and-run case, Alistair Pereira, whose bail was cancelled, is yet to surrender before the authorities in Mumbai.
Several cases related to scams and terror incidents of yesteryears reached their logical conclusion in 2011 which saw the conviction of veteran politician Sukh Ram besides confirmation of death sentence of Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Mohd Arif in the 2000 Red Fort attack case.
Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab has moved a mercy petition before the President, over a fortnight after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in the 26/11 case.
Over a dozen inmates of a jail in Bihar are eagerly waiting for the much sought demand to prepare a hangman's noose, made of the famous 'manila' rope, to hang Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab after the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict.
The superstar has been sentenced to a five years imprisonment which may lead to quite a big loss to the industry.
An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison after finding the 86-year-old leader guilty of embezzling public funds, three years after he was toppled following a popular uprising.
On January 12, the Supreme Court upheld the three year jail term awarded to the Mumbai-based businessman for running over seven persons sleeping on the pavement. However, the court said the punishment for the "despicable aggravated offence" was "too meagre".
The Delhi Police on Wednesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of suspended IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma and others in journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case.
Khadim Hussain, 36, was hanged on Wednesday at a prison in Bahawalpur, about 500 kilometres southwest of capital, Islamabad, said Khadim Hussain, an area police official.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's last legal option against his conviction and sentence of five year jail term in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case ended on Tuesday with the Supreme Court dismissing his curative petition.
A day before he is to surrender to undergo a three-year jail term in a 1993 telecom scam, former Union minister Sukhram on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking stay on the Delhi high court order which had upheld his conviction in the case.
Justice Misra, 63, has been a part of several key verdicts.
The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded one year rigorous imprisonment to former Kerala power minister and Congress leader R Balakrishnan Pillai and two others in the Idamalayar dam corruption case. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan convicted the former minister while reversing the acquittal order passed by the Kerala high court. The apex court upheld the prosecution's plea that the former minister has entered into a criminal conspiracy.
The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi police to place before it the dying declaration of the December 16 gang rape victim along with other trial court records of the case in which four convicts were awarded death sentence.
The jailed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader had applied for 15-day parole on Monday, seeking temporary release to attend to her ailing husband, M Natarajan, 74, who is in the liver intensive care unit of a corporate hospital.
The Delhi high court called the anti-Sikh riots case "communal frenzy" after the then prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards.
The Heilongjiang Provincial Higher People's Court said that it rejected the appeal of Wang Wenxiang, founder and chairman of Xinheng Group.
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction and life sentence of 10 Delhi Police officials including an Assistant Police Commissioner for killing two businessmen in a fake encounter in 1997, terming the incident as part of a "common intention" to kill the victims.
The army has been left to do justice to itself for crimes it is accused of committing against civilians. As a force inside the government, obviously it will want that there be no intrusion into what they do, points out Aakar Patel.
The Friday morning encounter of all the four accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian last month in Hyderabad triggered a nationwide debate on justice delivery, with one side supporting it as speedy justice and the other raising concerns over 'extra-judicial' measures. Here is a look at the legal status of some rape cases which shook the country.
A bench rejected the review plea saying there was no reason to interfere with the court's verdict of October 3 last year.
