Haider, a journalist in the electronic media, has claimed that he was attacked as he had reported stories which had not gone down well with the accused.
The jailed gangster had on Thursday moved the court against the web series, saying that the 'use or misuse of the attributes of his personality' without his prior consent amounted to infringement of his 'personality rights' as well as defamation.
"Public outcry will not affect our judicial decisions," the Supreme Court asserted on Tuesday, as it began weighing the legality of the remission granted to all the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has started questioning gangster Chhota Rajan in Tihar prison in connection with journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case.
A foreign sea explorer agency recovered the firearm from a creek in neighbouring Thane district of Maharashtra.
The White House has no role in naming streets in Washington, DC, but the decision to name the street in front of Saudi Arabia's embassy in the US capital the Jamal Khashoggi Way will no doubt anger MbS and his cabal.
The post-mortem report and initial investigation of the murder of Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak indicates murder, said Jharkhand Director General of Police Neyaz Ahmed on Thursday."The post-mortem report indicates murder and we are investigating on the same lines. We won't work under anyone's influence. We have kept all our options open and we will probe whatever point comes forward. We will handle the case justly," said Ahmed.
The action has been taken in view of the report submitted by Circle Officer (Ghaziabad Zone 1) Rakesh Mishra, who was probing the matter, the SSP said.
The murder of Atiq and his brother and the police encounter with his son have raised many questions about the propriety of how crime is tackled by the Yogi government. But Yogi knows he has the support of the people who are fed up with crime holding the state to ransom for decades, asserts Ramesh Menon.
The need of the hour is not a divisive, slanging match of accusations and counter-accusations, but a call for sanity,' says Vivek Gumaste.
The assailants -- Mohit alias Sunny (23) of Hamirpur, Lavlesh Tiwari (22) of Banda and Arun Maurya (18) of Kasganj -- were arrested soon after the dramatic shootout outside the Prayagraj hospital where policemen were escorting the brothers for a medical check-up Saturday night.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta relaxed the interim bail conditions imposed on Mishra by the court on January 25.
Amid growing outrage over the killing of a journalist in Uttar Pradesh at the behest of minister of state for backward welfare Ram Murti Singh Verma, yet another controversy has emerged with UP Horticulture Minister Parasnath Yadav, saying about the killing, "There are some incidents that happen in the course of nature and destiny...you can't fight nature."
Prime suspect Mohammed Kaif is in judicial custody after he surrendered in a Siwan court on September 21.
The searches were carried out on June 14-15 at 10 premises in Prayagraj, Lucknow and Delhi, the agency said in a statement.
"Law is supposed to be a noble profession," the Supreme Court observed on Thursday, and voiced surprise over how can one of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots practise law after his conviction, the remission of his sentence notwithstanding.
Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh walked out of the Sunaria jail in Haryana's Rohtak district on Thursday after he was granted a 30-day parole.
The journalist was covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.
The Supreme Court on Monday fixed August 7 for the start of the final hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the remission granted last year to all the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred till July 11 the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the remission granted last year to all the 11 convicts in the case of gang rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of her family members during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
On the road rage incident in Gaya, Kumar said, "... when I saw in the media the (journalist's) family's demand for a CBI probe, I personally asked the DGP (director general of police) to send a police team to acquaint the family with probe (being conducted by the state police).
Senior analyst B Raman scrutinises Mumbai crime reporter J Dey's murder in broad daylight on Saturday and tries to find out what could have been the motive behind the criminal act.
President Barack Obama has condemned the murder of a Japanese hostage by the IS
A senior police official said the recovery of weapons used in the murder of call centre employee Jigisha Ghosh (28) led to the cracking of the killing of Viswanathan (27), a producer with a news channel.
The trio -- Sachin Andure, Amit Baddi and Ganesh Miskin -- was lodged in jails in Mumbai and Pune under judicial custody in different cases, the police said.
The Bombay high court on Thursday granted bail to Vikram Bhave, an accused in the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2013.
Eleven persons from Muslim community killed in violence in Naroda Gam area of Ahmedabad during the bandh call given by right-wing organisations a day after the Godhra train burning incident.
The apex court directed the CBI to file a status report of its investigation before it on October 17, the next date of hearing.
Shah also said that such murders have taken place in Pakistan too, mentioning the violent deaths of politician Salman Taseer and rights activist Sabeen Mehmood.
A local court on Thursday extended the police custody of bookie Vinod Asrani arrested in connection ith the murder of journalist J Dey till July 13.
The Bombay high court on Thursday intervened in the murder case of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, directing the Maharashtra government and police to file a status report on the probe which has not yielded any breakthrough yet. The court order comes five days after the sensational killing of the 56-year-old investigative journalist in suburban Powai. Three persons believed to be associated with gangster Chhota Shakeel were let off after they were detained for questioning.
In a televised screening for Indian journalists on Wednesday, the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi held a screening that revealed horrific and chilling videos of October 7, the day when over 2,000 terrorists entered Israel from the Gaza Strip and carried out what is being considered the biggest terror attack against the Jewish nation.
An initial probe into the murder of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad has concluded that allegations against the Inter-Services Intelligence on his abduction and killing are of a 'general nature' and based on a 'perceived sequence of events' that allegedly culminated in his death.
The furore over the release of the RJD strongman from Siwan has now reached the apex court through various petitions.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Wednesday its order on the bail plea of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra's son Ashish Mishra, an accused in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.
Here are the latest updates in the case in which cops have said that they have a 'fair idea for the motive'
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The move comes just ahead of the Adampur bypoll, which is scheduled to be held on November 3.
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