After the complainant said it could be a pre-planned murder.
A South African court on Friday struck down athlete Oscar Pistorius' bid to block prosecutors from appealing the culpable homicide verdict handed down against him, in favour of a murder conviction, for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Raag Desh is one of the best films of the year, Sreehari Nair raves.
With election fever rising in Tamil Nadu, Karunanidhi in court promised to be more than just a regular court hearing.
Aishwarya looks as good as she always did, but those eyes look so brimming with hysteria that it seems like melodrama's just been building inside her, says Raja Sen.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death penalty for an influential opposition BNP leader Khaleda Zia for committing crimes against humanity.
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In a major embarrassment for BCCI, former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi is set to reclaim the post of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) President when he takes on Rampal Sharma in the state body polls on Thursday under the watchful eyes of Supreme Court-appointed observer Justice N M Kasliwal.
Sisodia also sought to know why BJP leaders are coming out in 'support' of hotel owner Ramesh Kakkar who is a prime accused in the murder case. Giri, however, rubbished Sisodia's allegation that he is an 'accused' in the case, terming it as totally 'baseless'.
Oscar Pistorius shuffled without his prosthetic legs through a Pretoria court on Wednesday to demonstrate how vulnerable he is without his artificial limbs, an attempt by the athlete's defence team to avoid a long jail sentence for murder.
National award winner Chaitanya Tamhane tells us the story behind his film, Court.
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court against Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament Prakash Javdekar and Bhupendra Singh Yadav alleging that they tried to impede investigation in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case in which former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah is the main accused.
A day after Arvind Kejriwal put his name on a list of corrupt politicians, Union minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday shot back, saying that the Delhi chief minister should prove his allegations within two days or resign.
Joshi, once a close aide of the Sadhvi before they fell out over some dispute, was shot dead in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas on December 29, 2007 in Audyogik Police station area.
Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, representing the Muslim parties in the case, tore up a pictorial map.
Vora and Paulson Joseph were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
'All judges are conscious of the historical legacy they leave behind. Chief Justice Thakur understands the important question of Constitutional law involved and the change in public mood,' lawyer Anand Grover tells Sunil Sethi.
Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's 'Blade Runner', was released on parole on Monday, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Back to Sheena Bora's grave, via e-time travel
A 17-hour-long hostage drama in which a lone heavily-armed man of Iranian-origin held 17 people hostage at a cafe in central Sydney ended late Monday night (Indian Standard Time) with the police storming it, resulting in three deaths.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The guard, in the sting video, could also be seen saying that around 10-15 outsiders were present in the event.
The extradition hearing of Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani, accused of plotting the murder of his Indo-Swedish wife during their honeymoon in South Africa, opened at court in London on Monday.
"Prima facie there is no case made out against Sadhvi Pragya," said Justice More while granting bail to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, accused of plotting the 2008 Malegaon blast on Tuesday. Sadhvi's lawyer Shyam Dewani speaks to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on what were the circumstances under which she got bail.
The MP claimed she threatened to file a rape case against him if he did not pay her Rs 5 crore.
The Mukerjeas' former driver could remember every detail of Sheena Bora's alleged murder five years ago, including on what day he took Indrani to the beauty parlour, and the brands of liquor he bought, but was unable to recall anything subsequently or more recently...
The question being silently telegraphed around the court room was: When did this happen? Wasn't this trial about Indrani murdering her daughter to prevent her from marrying Rahul Mukerjea, her husband Peter Mukerjea's son from his first marriage?
...A hate letter to our system, feels Sreehari Nair.
'Under Justice Gogoi's tenure, the Supreme Court has gone from an institution that was at least formally committed to the protection of individual rights as its primary task, to an institution that speaks the language of the executive, and has become indistinguishable from the executive,' warns Gautam Bhatia.
'Under the guise of Maoism, the State is presently determined to clear out the whole Bastar area of its tribal population.'
In a major embarrassment for Mumbai police chief Rakesh Maria, Maharashtra's transparency watchdog has recommended a judicial inquiry against him for "withholding and giving misleading" information to the wife of an IPS officer killed during the 26/11 terror attacks.
'If I have to write a letter I will give it to the media. They will put it out.'
In his letter, Hrithik revealed that a young girl (apparently implied to Kangana) has sent a lot of personal stuff on the email address hroshan@email.com.
A special Bangladeshi tribunal on Wednesday sentenced opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party's 83-year-old leader Abdul Alim to jail until death for committing large-scale killings and other war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan.
The speaker said he would take a decision on the remaining 14 cases in a "couple of days."
More than 70 years after World War II, Reinhold Hanning, 94, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment over his role at the Nazi-run camp in occupied Poland.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
A Delhi high court judge on Wednesday recused from hearing the parole plea of tandoor case convict Sushil Kumar Sharma, awarded life imprisonment for the murder and burning of the body of his wife Naina Sahni in 1995, and referred it to be listed before another bench.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday granted bail to Paulson Joseph, an alleged member of the Chhota Rajan gang and accused in the murder of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey.
'What is the fun of making a film without any message?'
