Sangeetha, who was nabbed in connection with the case, reportedly confessed to having killed Selva, an upcoming film director.
According to Meena, Valmiki told the police during interrogation that he and his friends were drunk at the time and they had no political affiliations.
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A disgruntled ex-convict, arrested for the recent serial bomb blasts targeting China's ruling Communist Party's provincial headquarters in Taiyuan, carried out the attack to "take revenge on society", police said on Friday.
This is one of the major corporate frauds in the country.
Odisha Police, however, ruled out involvement of Naxals in the Hirakhand mishap.
Eight have been arrested in the gang rape and murder of a 28-year-old mentally challenged woman.
Rathi, who hailed from Delhi, had died of multiple organ failure after Panwar allegedly threw acid on her in May 2013.
The duo have been interrogated by the Mumbai police.
'The skin of any celebrity will show its age more than a normal person because we are always exposed to lights. So, we need to take extra care.'
Jagjit Singh said on Thursday that his son, who confessed the crime, was under 'tremendous pressure'.
Sunny Rawat, identified by the driver of the Bhargava family, had earlier confessed before the media that he had shot at Meher on February 28 but later retracted his statement in court.
He was presented at a news conference in Lucknow by the police.
Ganesh Dhene said there had only been two or three mango trees in the grove, from where he found the skeleton, which he specified had no flesh on it.
The prosecution had told the Madras high court on Monday that the pontiff had extensive telephonic conversations with Usha at Srirangam.
Two death row prisoners have been indicted in Pakistan for the murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh at a jail in Lahore. An additional district and sessions judge held trial at the Central Jail in Kot Lakhpat on Friday and formally charged the two inmates -- Amer Sarfraz alias Tamba and Muddassar Bashir.
More noticeable than the hue of his shirt was his mast style in the witness box. He seemed to be reinventing the truth every few minutes. He yarned on and on, navigating his testimony further and further away from the facts, but he never lost his aplomb.
In a plot straight out of Bollywood, a film producer was arrested for allegedly trying to implicate Salman Khan in a fake attack on himself in order to coerce the film star to work in his next project.
All the three accused in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case -- Indrani Mukerjea, Sanjeev Khanna and Shyamvar Rai -- will be produced in a court in Mumbai as their police custody ends on Monday.
He was also the first to be booked under the stringent Anti-Hijacking Act which had replaced the vintage law of 1982.
A member of the banned militant group Laskar-e-Jhangvi was awarded death penalty on 3 separate counts and slapped with a hefty fine of Rs 5 million by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in Lahore for abducting an American doctor in 2011.
A four-year-old girl was sacrificed by neighbours to propitiate the goddess.
One of the two terror accused arrested in connection with the serial blasts in Patna, in which six people were killed and nearly 100 others injured, is battling for his life at a government hospital in Patna and another was sent to remand by the police, officials said on Tuesday.
'Those who were first at the site of Gauri Lankesh's murder scene noticed that the place was still open for people to casually walk in and out.' 'No forensic evidence of value can remain in such places,' points out Aakar Patel.
Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexual assaulting a woman journalist, is sticking to his version that whatever happened between the two was a "consensual act", a police officer said on Thursday.
The arrests have been made in cases related to blasts outside court premises in South India since April this year.
The 21-year-old woman, who has been doing her chartered accountancy articleship at Manoj Daga & Company in Hyderabad, was booked under relevant sections of Information Technology Act on September 7, after a preliminary investigation and faces arrest in the case.
Loopholes, lack of crucial evidence and lighter charges filed against those arrested in connection with the assassination of right-wing leaders are indicators of the NIA not being confident about its investigation. Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com reports.
"Considering the facts and circumstances, I am of the view that police custody is justified," the judge said.
Ji Zhongxing, 33, who lost one of his hands while setting home made explosives the Beijing Capital International Airport in July, was sentenced to six years in jail, according to a court ruling by the Beijing Chaoyang District Court.
Joseph alias Meenukar Joseph and Savariyappa alias Kone Savariappa have confessed that they were involved in the crime, police said.
The 'Raj Bhavan/Nakkeeran Gopal case', in which editor S Gopal was arrested in the morning and set free by the court in the afternoon, is not the first one where the Tamil Nadu's once-reputed police force is seen as faltering in the eye of the law, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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