A team formed to investigate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the sacking and detention of judges during the 2007 emergency had said in a preliminary report that he cannot be tried under the anti-terrorism act, according to a media report on Wednesday.
At the Press Club event on February 10, a group allegedly shouted slogans hailing Guru, following which the police had registered a case under sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the IPC against Geelani and other unnamed persons.
'Saeed has been freed as the government decided not to detain him in any other case,' a top Pakistan official told PTI.
Eleven Indian citizens, who had either overstayed visas or entered Britain illegally, have been arrested following a check of two overcrowded vehicles in Lincolnshire.
Revanth, the Congress candidate for Kodangal constituency had called a protest rally and a bandh against Rao's scheduled meeting at Kosigi in the assembly segment on Tuesday evening.
"We are confined to health issue. It is in the interest of the state also that the accused gets better treatment," the bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and A S Bopanna observed.
According to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who spent 19 months in prison during the 1975 Emergency imposed by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi, it is not possible for anybody to convert a democratic India into a "dictatorship" in this day and age.
RIL said it had launched 'an internal probe' into its staff's detention.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been re-elected chairman of his group, All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) for a term of three years. Geelani's term was to expire on Sunday and he was elected unopposed, according to a spokesman here.
One of the three men killed along with Ishrat Jahan had told THE Gujarat police prior to the alleged fake encounter that he planned to commit terrorist act in Ahmedabad but the Central Bureau of Investigation found "no evidence" that they had come here "to kill" Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the agency has said in its charge sheet in the 2004 case.
Roy accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of telling a "lie" at his Ramlila Ground rally in New Delhi on Sunday that his government never said anything about the NRC process and that there are no detention camps in the country.
The PM said that a lie is being spread that this govt had brought the law to snatch people's rights. He dared rivals to find anything discriminatory in his work.
The letter claims that the order for Alam's release was sent in February
Geelani's supporters were demonstrating in front of his house in Srinagar to protest his house arrest.
Some residents of Nani Daman area alerted the police about suspicious movements of six persons in military uniform on Wednesday, thinking they could be terrorists.
The judges asked the police to escort the woman to the house of the man she wanted to marry.
US boxing champion was arrested on Friday in Las Vegas on suspicion of grand larceny and domestic battery after an ex-girlfriend accused him of beating her in front of their children, according to police and court documents.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Maldives on March 15 is under shadow because of troubled situation in the island nation after the arrest of former President Mohamed Nasheed earlier this week.
Interpol has detained Rahil Sheikh, an accused in the July 2006 Mumbai train blasts, at London airport, police sources said on Tuesday.
The wife of one of the arrested accused in Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley phone tapping case on Thursday told a Delhi court that she was 'humiliated and abused' by the police while she was being 'illegally detained' by them in the absence of any woman officer.
New York City has settled a case by Ravi Shankar, associate professor of English and poet-in-residence, Central Connecticut State University, for wrongful arrest and detention last year.
Opposition leaders and activists hit out at the Centre after the death of Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy on Monday, saying it should be held accountable for the "ruthless" and "inhuman treatment" meted out to the 84-year-old who was suffering from multiple ailments and awaiting bail on medical grounds.
Family, friends and strangers prayed on Saturday at Dhaliwal's memorial off Willancy Lane in northwest Harris County.
Asked if the mainstream politician would be released any time soon, the BJP leader said some leaders have been released.
Ex-UEFA chief Michel Platini was arrested, on Tuesday, in connection with a probe into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a source close to the investigation said.
Two trade union leaders and the wife of one of them were detained in connection with investigations into Maoist network in the national capital, police sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday.
