The Delhi high court on Friday reserved its order on a plea of senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar against a trial court order framing charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case related to the killings of six persons.
The Union home minister said, 'It is the entire system of criminal justice which needs to be corrected, not in just one case.'
A Delhi court on Thursday refused to grant bail to a co-accused of former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, terming the charges relating to murder and arson against him as "direct and serious" in nature.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday deferred till Thursday the hearing on the anticipatory bail plea of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Delhi faces a severe financial crunch and the deficit is largely due to numerous welfare schemes without adequate revenue flowing in. The success of welfare schemes and electoral promises will need careful financial planning and out of the box thinking to whip up additional revenue, notes Ramesh Menon.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a order entitling slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri's wife Zakia Jafri to obtain the entire probe report submitted by Special Investigation Team in the 2002 Gulberg Society riots case.
The poll panel received the complaint from a native of Thiruvananthapuram, they said.
The special investigation team had not conducted any probe on the alleged larger conspiracy in the 2002 Gujarat riots and there was an effort to 'protect' and ensure that people from the Bajrang Dal, police, bureaucracy and others are not prosecuted, Zakia Jafri told the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Thirty-one persons convicted in the 2002 Sardarpura riot case of Mehsana district on Monday withdrew their regular bail plea from the Gujarat high court.
Nearly 16 years after the 1992-93 Hindu-Muslim riots in Mumbai,a sessions court on Wednesday acquitted Farooq Mapkar, accused in the Hari Masjid firing case.
Justices M R Shah and K S Jhaveri ordered, "Not before me", withdrawing themselves from hearing appeals of around 29 convicts.
The Lokpal was functioning without its regular chief since Pinaki Chandra Ghose completed his term on May 27, 2022.
So far, 124 accused have been arrested in the D J Halli police station case and 169 in the KG Halli police station case.
During a Congress protest in Indore on Tuesday, Verma said TV news channels are reporting that the people of Bangladesh entered the Prime Minister's official residence during the civil unrest in the neighbouring country because of the wrong policies of deposed PM Sheikh Hasina and her government.
Bangladesh's interim government on Wednesday said it is 'consulting all stakeholders' to decide the fate of President Mohammed Shahabuddin, as authorities beefed up security around his residence in the wake of protests demanding his removal over comments that raised questions on prime minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation.
Senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar on Tuesday moved the Delhi high court challenging the trial court's order dismissing his plea to use the statement of a victim given before a judicial commission to defend himself in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
A Delhi court acquitted the Congress leader for lack of evidence.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing 2002 Gujarat riot cases, not to associate two senior Indian Police Service officers --Geeta Johri and Shivanand Jha -- in the investigations till further orders.
He was arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police after 11 hours of interrogation. He will be produced before a Delhi court on Monday, they said.
Narsinghanand has several cases against him, including for allegedly making a hate speech at a conclave in Haridwar in December 2021, and was out on bail.
The government has decided to give Rs five lakh each to the next of kin of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots triggered after assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
According to the latest data, the CBI has so far registered 27 cases handed over to it by the state police -- 19 cases of crime against women, three related to an armoury loot by a mob, two of murder and one each of rioting and murder, kidnapping and general criminal conspiracy, sources aware of the developments said.
In a video clip that had gone viral on social media, Faizan, along with four other Muslim men, was seen being beaten up by policemen while being forced to sing the national anthem and 'Vande Mataram'.
Over 3,000 persons have been booked in connection with violent clashes during an ongoing protest against the Adani port project in Kerala's Vizhinjam area on Sunday night.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said the Supreme Court- appointed Special Investigation Team reportedly giving a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots cases vindicates the party's stand on the issue.
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'In spite of all these days behind the bars, none of those who have been arrested is repenting their decision to stand against the injustice of this government.'
The trial of the last Indian national, out of the 25 accused from the country in the December 2013 riot case in Singapore, witnessed heated exchange of words, with the defence counsel accusing a police officer of lying on the stand.
A trial court has acquitted twenty-one accused in the Bakery case earlier.
An anguished Supreme Court on Tuesday took umbrage at social activists attempting to blame it for the delay in hearing Gujarat riots cases saying it was 'shameful' and 'not in good taste.'
At the same time, the bench also admitted an appeal, which challenged the trial court judgment acquitting all the accused in December 2002.
A Delhi court on Tuesday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that broke out in the capital after the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices S Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia, which was to take up the plea for hearing at 3.45 pm, adjourned the matter to September 1 due to paucity of time.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Friday said it has arrested a "functionary" of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from Kerala on charges of conspiracy to trigger riots in the wake of the alleged gangrape and death of a Dalit girl in Hathras in 2020.
The trial of the last Indian national out of the 25 accused from the country in the December 2013 riot case in Singapore, has begun with his defence lawyer claiming "wrongful arrest" and "racial profiling" of his client.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi along with the five other Congress MPs from Uttar Pradesh will visit violence-hit Sambhal on Wednesday, party's state unit chief Ajay Rai said.
A special investigation team is re-examining the scene of a crime decades after two men were allegedly murdered and their bodies set on fire in their house here during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Much drama is likely to continue in the coming year, within the Sangh Parivar as well as involving the Opposition parties and, of course the BJP's allies, predicts Modi biographer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the Nanavati Commission, which is inquiring into the 2002 Gujarat riot cases, to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the carnage. A bench comprising justices D K Jain and A K Dave allowed an NGO, Jan Sangarsh Manch, to withdraw its petition challenging a Gujarat high courts order.
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