A day after recreating the murder scene at slain Madhya Pradesh Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's residence in Koh-E-Fiza locality, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday searched her office premises in MP Nagar area, looking for clues.
The Special CBI court on Friday adjourned the trial in the Shehla Masood murder case till April 10 as the new CBI prosecutor sought time to secure documents on call details in connection with the case from private telecom companies.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday carried out searches at the residence of interior designer Zahida Parvez, who has been arrested by the agency in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.
The Central Bureau of Investigation and the Central Forensic Science Laboratory have recreated the crime scene of RTI activist Shehla Masood's murder in Bhopal.
The trial of RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case started on Friday at the Special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Indore with the examination of first prosecution witness M R Uikey, an assistant sub-inspector of police who was the first to arrive at the murder site. The trial is being presided over by Judge Anupam Srivastav.
One of the five accused in the Right To Information activist Shehla Masood murder case, Saba Farooqui, on Friday refused to record her statement before a special court for the second time in one month.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday arrested three persons, including a woman-architect and the alleged contract killer, in connection with the murder of Madhya Pradesh's RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal and claimed to have cracked the case.
Rediff.com is republishing this column (June 7, 2011) which is relevant even today, by Shehla Masood, the Bhopal-based Right to Information activist who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday.
Names of some influential political personalities have surfaced during the Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal, prompting the agency to hand over investigations to its Special Crime Unit in Delhi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday said that the weapon used in the murder of RTI Activist Shehla Masood has been recovered at the instance of Saqib Ali who is accused of hiring contract killers to murder her.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday registered a case relating to the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood who was shot dead outside her house in Bhopal.
Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Dhruv Narayan Singh is among the 18 persons who will be quizzed in connection with the murder of Right to Information activist Shehla Masood, police sources said on Friday.
A Central Bureau of Investigation team led by DIG Hemant Priyadarshi on Monday visited the residence of slain Madhya Pradesh RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal and recreated the sequence of events that led to her murder.
The Central Bureau of Investigation will file its chargesheet on Friday against the five arrested accused in the murder case of Madhya Pradesh RTI activist Shehla Masood. The chargesheet will be filed in the Special CBI court in Indore against prime accused Zahida Pervez, Saba Farooqui, Shaquib Ali 'Danger', Irfan and Tabish, CBI sources said.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Saturday sent Saba Farooqui, a close friend of architect Zahida Parvez who is alleged to be the mastermind of Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's murder, to the agency's custody till March six. She was produced before the special CBI judge Subhra Singh, who sent her to three-day custody of the central agency, which is probing the case.
Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Tarun Vijay will be questioned in connection with the killing of right to information act activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal on August 16, Madhya Pradesh police said on Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has joined social networking site Facebook in a bid to get help from people in cracking cases. CBI sources said the idea of going online is first being implemented by its Bhopal unit on experimental basis, which will be further followed by all its wings after assessing people's response.
The Bhopal police is assessing threat perception to Right to Information activist Shehla Masood's father Sultan Masood, the chief prosecution witness in her murder case, who has demanded a security cover.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Tuesday remanded three accused, including city-based interior designer Zahida Pervez, to judicial custody till March 26 in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.
In a significant development, the special court in Indore on Friday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation to subject Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, Dhruv Narayan Singh, to a polygraph test in connection with RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation Court on Thursday rejected the bail application of Zahida Parvez, the main accused in the 2011 murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.
Right to Information activist Shehla Masood's father Sultan Masood has refuted claims that she was eliminated because of an alleged 'love triangle' involving her and hinted at a 'larger conspiracy' behind the crime.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Saturday framed charges against all the five accused, including Zahida Parvez, in connection with the Bhopal-based right to information activist Shehla Masood murder case.
As the trial of right to information activist Shehla Masood murder case is underway, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday sought permission from the special court here to examine the main accused Zahida Parvez and co-accused Saba Farooqui in the judicial custody.
The special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Indore on Monday extended the judicial custody of three accused in RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, including interior designer Zahida Pervez, till April 3.
The motive behind the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood continues to be shrouded in mystery, even after investigators arrested three people, including an interior designer.While the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested interior designer Zahida Pervez and Shakib Ali from Bhopal, the Uttar Pradesh police has apprehended one person from Kanpur.
Two revision petitions were filed in the district court in Indore on Wednesday against the magistrate's order rejecting the demand that Shehla Masood murder case be transferred to Bhopal for trial.
Picking holes in the Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet in the Right To Information activist Shehla Masood murder case, prime accused Zahida Pervez on Monday questioned the "clean chit" given to BJP MLA Dhruvnarayan Singh by the agency while seeking call records of the deceased and results of a narco test conducted on Singh.
The judicial remand of all the five accused in Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's murder case has been extended to June 11 by the special Central Bureau of Investigation court.
Murdered RTI activist Shehla Masood's father on Thursday told a special court in Indore that his daughter had friendship with many persons, including BJP leaders.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday conducted a lie-detection test on Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly from Bhopal Dhruv Narayan Singh in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. Singh underwent the test for several hours on Saturday at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Delhi as the previous attempt of the CBI to carry out a polygraph test on him remained inconclusive on March 19, sources in the probe agency said.
The probe in the Shehla Masood murder case intensified on Wednesday with Dhruv Narayan Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party member of Legislative Assembly from Madhya Pradesh, being subjected to a lie-detection test after which he refuted allegations of his involvement in the killing.
Ifran, another accused in the Right to Information activist Shehla Masood murder case, was on Friday produced before the Special Central Bureau of Investigation court which remanded him to agency's custody up to March 16.
The murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood appears to be a "crime of passion" and whether it was part of any larger conspiracy is still a matter of investigation, Central Bureau of Investigation officials said on Tuesday.
A senior Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Madhya Pradesh is being investigated by Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood in which three persons including a woman architect and the alleged contract killer have been arrested.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Tuesday rejected the bail application of Saba Farooqui, one of the five accused in the 2011 murder of right to information activist Shehla Masood at Bhopal.
The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court on Tuesday rejected bail applications of Zahida Pervez and Saba Farooqui who are among the five accused in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case.
The alleged main conspirator in Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's murder case, Zahida Pervez on Monday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh of putting pressure on her husband to divorce her.
In a new turn in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, one of the prime accused and alleged contract killer, Irfan, on Thursday told special CBI court in Indore that he wanted to record his confessional statement.
The main accused in Right to Information activist Shehla Masood murder case architect Zahida Parvez and her close associate Saba Farooqui on Monday refused to undergo a lie-detection test in Bhopal on Monday.