Two accused, arrested in connection with the murder of senior journalist J Dey, had made confession describing their roles in the crime, police said in Mumbai on Friday.
The sessions court on Monday let off the four -- Sujit Nair, Ayush Bhat, Rajeev Dharaiya and Amit Kaushal -- aged between 25 and 31, on grounds of lack of evidence and prosecution's failure to prove the charges against them. The fifth accused, a juvenile, is being tried by the Juvenile Justice Board.
According to a notification issued by the ministry, the JKGF has been involved in infiltration bids, narcotics and weapon smuggling, terror attacks in the Union territory, and threats to security forces.
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After being under fire for the slow pace of investigations in the case pertaining to the murder of Mid-Day crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, the Mumbai crime branch claims to have made significant progress in the last few days.
A local court in Mumbai on Monday convicted security guard Sajjad Ahmed Mughal in connection with the murder of 25-year-old city-based lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha in her flat at suburban Wadala in 2012.
Police on Wednesday brought former Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea face to face with his wife Indrani and the two other accused in the Sheena Bora murder case and questioned them extensively.
United States prosecutors have taken strong objection to Pakistani-American Mumbai terror attack suspect Tahawwur Rana's assertion that he believed in the principles of non-violence advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, claiming that he 'admired and supported mass murderers'. While seeking a bond, defendant Rana had argued that he believes in non-violence.
There are four accused in this case. Two of them under detention are Pawan Kumar Goenka and Pradeep Parab.
Rajkumar Singh, a native of Punjab, was nabbed late Saturday night with help from the police of Karnataka capital and was being brought to Goa, a top official said.
According to police officials, 28-year-old Aftab Poonawala of Mumbai has been arrested in the case, and some severed body parts of the woman, Shraddha Walkar, have been recovered.
Swapna Patkar had approached the police recently claiming she was given rape and murder threat in a typed paper, which was inserted in a newspaper delivered to her on July 15, he said.
Sanjeev Khanna, the step father of Sheena Bora and a key accused in the sensational murder case, was on Tuesday remanded in judicial custody till September 21.
Dilip Tiwari and his associates Sunil Yadav and Manoj Paswan were given capital punishment after they were found guilty of committing the multiple murders two years ago.
While posting the matter for hearing on April 18, a bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V Nagarathna said there is a gamut of issues involved and it needs to hear the matter in detail.
The 73-year-old leader was greeted by senior leaders of his party as he walked out of Mumbai's Arthur Road prison around 4.45 pm.
The victim, who belonged to the Maratha community, was found murdered after being raped on July 13, 2016 at Kopardi village in Ahmednagar district.
Bilkis Bano, a survivor of the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, on Wednesday said the premature release of all the 11 convicts serving a life sentence in a case related to her and seven family members, has shaken faith in justice and left her numb.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, on Saturday told a special court in Mumbai that prime accused Indrani Mukerjea had informed her husband and former media magnate Peter Mukerjea about killing her daughter on April 24, 2012.
A Chhattisgarh legislator from the Bharatiya Janata Party has suggested that use of bhang and cannabis be encouraged as alternatives to liquor, claiming that people addicted to these substances hardly commit crimes like rape, murder and dacoity.
Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist in the Mumbai terror attack, has been charged with murder and several provisions of the Arms and Explosives Act. The major charge against Kasab is under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, under which if any person is found guilty can be awarded a death penalty or imprisoned for life.
Among the potential eyewitnesses in the case include Pramod's wife Rekha and domestic help at the Mahajan's residence on the day of the incident.
However, another senior cop and accused Pradeep Suryawanshi who was leading the encounter team was convicted for murder of Ram Narayan Gupta, a suspected aide of gangster Chhota Rajan. Twenty others, including 13 policemen, were also convicted for various charges
Police custody of the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case -- Indrani Mukerjea, Sanjeev Khanna and Shyamvar Rai -- was on Saturday extended till September seven by a local court.
Jagdish Prasad, father of Pawan Kumar, who was allegedly killed by MNS activists in Mumbai, filed a murder case against Raj Thackeray in the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Biharsharief, Nalanda. A court official told rediff.com that Jagdish Prasad has filed a case against Raj Thackeray under 302 of IPC.
Karti and Mukerjea were brought face-to-face and questioned by the CBI team for about four hours.
The police has listed 30 witnesses in the case including absconding accused Vidyadhar's mother who has allegedly named Chintan in her statement.
The doctor who treated the Mumbai girl, Shraddha Walkar, for acute shoulder and back pain in the year 2020, on Friday said that the accused Aaftab Poonawala accompanied her when she was brought to hospital.
Doctor who conducted the post-mortem says the child died of excessive bleeding.
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Six months after the murder of senior crime journalist J Dey, the Mumbai police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against 12 accused, including fugitive gangster Chhota Rajan, in the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court in Mumbai.
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