Another partner or co-owner of the firm that operated the recreation facility has been nabbed which took the number of persons arrested in the case to five, officials said.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan is at the Mumbai Sessions Court which is set to resume hearing of a case related to a threat complaint made by one of the eyewitnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case allegedly involving the actor.
Apart from the 10 persons arrested so far, those found guilty of negligence in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report should also be arrested and punished, said a man who lost his 10-year-old daughter in the tragedy.
As the fire at a Bhandup mall which claimed the lives of nine COVID-19 patients admitted at the hospital in the same building was finally doused on Saturday, a case has been registered against HDIL promoter Rakesh Wadhawan and five others for 'culpable homicide'.
The Gujarat high court on Monday said it does not have faith in the state machinery which gets into action only after innocent lives are lost, as it pulled up the Rajkot civic body over the purported lapses in functioning of the game zone facility where a massive fire killed 27 persons.
Bollywood star Salman Khan did not possess a driving license when his car met with an accident in 2002, an officer at Regional Transport Office on Monday informed the Sessions court hearing the hit-and-run case.
The JJB said in its order that the accused is in no manner lacking in mental and physical capacity to commit the alleged offence.
South Africa's state prosecutors will appeal the culpable homicide conviction and five-year jail sentence handed down last week on Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Monday.
Two developers involved in construction of an illegal building which collapsed in Thane district on Thursday claiming 72 lives, were arrested on Saturday.
The Delhi police told a court in Delhi that they were probing the "larger conspiracy" behind the "brutal attack" on Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar.
A Delhi court will commence trial from March 28 against 21 accused, including sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, in the shootoutcase involving liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep at a farmhouse in 2012.
The court said special public prosecutor Madhukar Pandey was appearing in the matter for the first time and, as the case file was handed to him recently, he sought an adjournment to prepare his submissions.
The SP said Chopra is the kingpin of drugs in Hamirpur and added that this is the seventh case registered against him under the NDPS Act.
A magistrate's court in Mumbai refused bail to corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, accused of ramming her car into a taxi while driving under the influence of alcohol.
South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison on parole in August after serving 10 months for culpable homicide in the killing of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a family member said.
The Special Investigation Team on Saturday arrested the contractor of the blanket factory that collapsed in Jalandhar on Sunday, even as rescue workers scrambled to extricate people trapped from the site where 21 bodies have been recovered so far. The contractor identified as Sarvan Singh, who had constructed the factory building, has been arrested. He has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, SIT chief Navjot Singh Mahal said.
Oscar Pistorius's elder brother faces trial for killing a woman in a traffic incident five years ago, the family said on Sunday, confirming a report that dominated South African media two days after the "Blade Runner" athlete was bailed for murder.
The Bombay high court on Monday refused accept a plea to grant stay on an appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
In a fresh trouble for Non-Resident Indian beautician Nooriya Haveliwala, the Maharashtra government on Friday moved the Bombay high court seeking enhancement of punishment awarded to her for drunken driving and culpable homicide.
The 900-page chargesheet, submitted on Thursday in a sessions court, has excluded the 17-year-old boy, whose case is being handled separately by the Juvenile Justice Board.
The police had on Monday booked nine persons under Indian Penal Code section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).
Four workers were killed, while three others were admitted to a hospital in a critical state following the leakage of hydrogen sulphide gas at the plant belonging to the company at around 7.30 on Wednesday
Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius needs to go to jail for the killing of his 29-year-old girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day last year, a cousin of the slain model told a South African court on Thursday.
The 2002 hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan was on Tuesday assigned to a sessions judge who will also hear his appeal challenging a Magistrate's order invoking the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder which provides for punishment up to 10 years.
In a relief to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, a Mumbai sessions court on Thursday ordered a fresh trial in the 2002 hit-and-run case against him.
Jailed South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday more than 10 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and will be released on January 5
It is this increasing vulnerability of senior corporate executives towards litigations that has set the ball rolling for directors and officers' liability cover for insurance companies.
Pathak, the son of retired director general of police and former Pune police commissioner K K Pathak, was arrested on Saturday.
Nawajish Shahid, the son of SP MLA and former minister Shahid Manzoor, was picked up from Meerut and arrested subsequently, a police officer said.
A sessions court on Monday deferred till June 24 its order on an appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against a magistrate's ruling invoking charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the 2002 hit-run-case involving him.
A Mumbai sessions court on Friday sentenced a 10 year jail term for former naval officer Emile Jerome Mathew in the May 2008 murder case of television executive Neeraj Grover.
A Mumbai sessions court on Thursday held small-time Kannada actress Maria Susairaj and her boyfriend Emile Jerome Mathew, a Navy lieutenant, guilty in the murder case of television executive Neeraj Grover.
A police outpost in-charge has also been suspended for not heeding to the family's complaint, in which they had alleged that the woman was sexually assaulted.
A timeline of the life and trial of 'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan is all set to appear in person before a sessions court in Mumbai in the 2002 hit-and-run case on March 25.
Actor Salman Khan had knowledge that his act of rash driving would result in death or injuries to people, a magistrate observed while charging him with a more serious offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in a decade-old hit-and-run case.
The death toll due to sunstroke at the 'Maharashtra Bhushan' award event in Navi Mumbai rose to 14 after the death of a 34-year-old woman while seven patients are undergoing treatment, a civic official said on Tuesday.
The ceremony was organised in a sprawling 306-acre ground in Kharghar area on Sunday morning, which was attended by several lakh people, most of them followers of Dharmadhikari who was conferred with Maharashtra's top civilian award by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The owner of the building in an east Delhi locality which collapsed killing 66 people was on Tuesday arrested and booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Aman, 19, had died on March 8, 2009, after being ragged by final-year students -- Ajay Verma, Naveen Verma, Abhinav Verma and Mukul Sharma -- of Rajendra Prasad Medical College and Hospital in Tanda, some 65 from Dharamshala.
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