The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Karnataka high court order quashing the charge sheet against an accused in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh for purported offences under provisions of the Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act.
The Supreme Court on Monday held as nullity the May 13, 2022, judgment of another bench of the apex court, which had directed the Gujarat government to consider the remission applications of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven of her family members, saying it was obtained by "playing fraud on court".
A proclamation and property attachment notice was on Monday pasted at the house of Laddan Mian, a close associate of jailed ex-Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, in connection with the murder of a journalist in Siwan earlier this month.
Journalists all over the world have been disappearing and some have never been heard again, says Narain D Batra.
The government is mulling moving the Supreme Court for cancellation of his bail even as opposition National Democratic Alliance on Wednesday demanded his arrest in the journalist Rajdeo Ranjan murder case.
The CIA found that 15 Saudi agents flew on government planes to Istanbul and carried out the killing at the Saudi consulate, the report said, adding that it could complicate President Donald Trump's efforts to preserve US ties with one of the closest American allies in the region.
Nine Indian reporters were among 110 journalists killed around the world in 2015, a media watchdog group said, dubbing India as "Asia's deadliest country" for mediapersons.
The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court on Thursday rejected the bail application of Paulson Joseph, an alleged Chota Rajan aide, arrested in connection with the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
Prasad lashed out against 'so called liberals of double standards' who remain silent on on the killings of RSS workers in Karnataka and Kerala.
Siwan Superintendent of Police told ANI that the two are being grilled to procure more details regarding the shocking murder.
There are some convicts who are "more privileged", the Supreme Court said on Thursday while hearing pleas challenging the grant of remissions to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case and the murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
A court in Lakhimpur Kheri on Tuesday framed charges against Ashish Mishra and 13 others in connection with the October 2021 violence in Lakhimpur Kheri's Tikunia in which four farmers were killed.
'The court has awarded me the capital punishment by wrongly holding that the case falls in the category of rarest of rare.'
The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday suspended five policemen for their alleged role in the killing of Shahjahanpur-based journalist Jagendra Singh.
In a state where thin margins and minor swings decide electoral outcomes, nothing can be left to chance, even for those relishing the cocooned life, observes Shyam G Memon.
Commencing arguments on the plea challenging the remission granted last year to all the 11 convicts, advocate Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bilkis Bano, submitted she was brutally gang-raped while she was pregnant and her first child was smashed with a rock to death.
The two -- Amit Raghavendra Baddi and Ganesh Miski -- both residents of Hubballi, were arrested on Sunday, special investigating officer M N Anucheth said.
Rajdeo, who was the Siwan bureau chief of the newspaper, was shot dead on May 13 at a busy fruit market near Siwan railway station.
Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story on the alleged links between the country's powerful spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence and Al Qaeda.
The judge said the journalists 'collected and obtained confidential documents'.
"Why are our jails overcrowded? Why is the the policy of remission being applied selectively?"
A disturbing video showing beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff by dreaded terror group ISIS is authentic, US officials said on Wednesday.
The sessions court had discharged Venkitaraman for the offence under Section 304 IPC as there was no medical report indicating he was drunk at the time of the accident.
Lawyer Seema Kushwaha, who is representing the Dalit woman's family, said on Thursday that they will challenge the verdict in the high court.
The report will address what 'we think the overall impact was and who caused it, and who did it', Trump said.
Journalist Nikhil Wagle, who has been receiving threats from the Sanatan Sanstha, has rejected the security cover offered to him by the Maharashtra government.
Police have already arrested three persons in connection with Kothari's murder.
A letter by Atiq Ahmed with instructions to send it to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister and the Chief Justice of India in case of his death is being dispatched to them, the slain gangster-turned-politician's lawyer said on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 riots in the state, saying the orders were "stereotyped" and passed without application of mind.
A senior police officer said on condition of anonymity that "we are probing the incident from all angles. But our line of investigation is going towards checking the possible involvement of people associated with the oil mafia".
The Delhi police on Monday filed a 620- page chargesheet against five youths arrested in connection with the murder of TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan.
Journalists associations in Mumbai began their relay hunger strike on Wednesday to press for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. On Monday, mediapersons had taken out a protest march to demand the immediate arrest of the killers.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said that former Union minister Shashi Tharoor was aware as to who was involved in the murder of his wife Sunanda Pushkar and added that the police should question the Congress leader.
Bihar Director General of Police P K Thakur on Monday said that the ongoing investigation into the killing of a senior journalist in Siwan district had suggested that a 'supari' (contract) had been given to kill him.
'It was a machinery of death. A large number of Hindus were first converted and then persecuted from 1560 all the way to 1812!' says novelist Richard Zimler.
A journalist working with a leading local English daily on Monday alleged that he was beaten up by the personal security personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Minister Ghulam Nabi Lone after an argument.
Mohammad Shahabuddin, in prison for over a decade, still inspires fear, a reminder of the 'jungle raj' when political murders were commonplace in Bihar.
On March 28, the apex court had dismissed Ahmad's plea for protection and observed that the Uttar Pradesh state machinery would take care of his protection in case of a threat to his life.
Speaking to ANI, Asha (mother of the arrested accused Lovelesh) said, "Pata nahi uske naseeb mein kya likha tha (Don't know what was written in his destiny)."
According to the FIR, the tweet posted by the Twitter handle 'The Sajjad Mughal', said, "The breed is not over yet. Atiq's son Ali is still alive. Insha Allah condition - time - power will change. The city will be called Allahabad. The revenge will be taken."
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