Observing that the trial court conducted proceedings with a "predetermined notion of conviction", a division bench of Justices AS Supehia and Vimal K Vyas quashed the CBI court's order sentencing Solanki and the six others to life imprisonment.
A local Bahujan Samaj Party leader and businessman Deepak Bharadwaj was shot dead on Tuesday morning by two men in his farmhouse in south Delhi, police said.
The BSF shot him dead when he pointed the toy pistol at them in Raghopur. Former Chief Minister Rabri Devi is in the fray.
The officer said UP unit chief of Antarrashtriya Hindu Mahasabha, Ranjeet Bachchan, died on the spot after being hit by a bullet
In a first such operation in West Bengal, Maoists on Tuesday raided a police station, shot dead two police officers and kidnapped the officer-in-charge in West Midnapore district, where they also looted a bank.
A Communist Party of India - Marxist leader was shot dead by suspected Maoists at Barikul in Bankura on Saturday. Rameshwar Murmu, the local committee secretary of CPI-M, was forcibly taken away from his residence at Bhulagara in the wee hours of Saturday by an armed group of 15 men, who pushed aside his wife and son, saying Murmu deserved to be killed for his 'anti-people activities'. Soon, the family heard gunshots and Murmu's body was recovered by security forces.
Former Dera manager Ranjit Singh, who was also a follower of the sect, was shot dead in 2002.
A suicide bomber was on Thursday gunned down close to the Indian Consulate complex in Afghanistan's Kandahar province before he could detonate explosives.
Additional sessions judge A A Jadhav of the special court for cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act is likely to pronounce the judgement on Friday, said special public prosecutor Prakash Suryawanshi.
Azmi (31), a former member of Student Islamic Movement of India, spent six years in Tihar when he was in his teens. He hailed from a very lower middle class background and had often attributed his success in life to SIMI.
According to the police, a suspect vehicle was seen leaving the area, and photos of the same were released by homicide investigators.
Canada's intelligence agency chief David Vigneault paid two under-the-wraps visits to India in February and March to apprise Indian officials of the case relating to the killing of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, people familiar with the matter said.
The ultras fired from their positions on the security forces, who retaliated killing 10 militants on the spot.
Sardar Sooran Singh, the Special Assistant to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was assassinated in Pir Baba area of Buner district.
Two armed gangsters, who were on the run after killing two policemen and injuring 3 others on April 2 in Nalgonda district of Telangana were on Saturday shot dead in an encounter even as a constable lost his life in the gunfight, police said.
A prominent social activist was on Wednesday shot dead by militants in Sopore township of north Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said.
Jasser reportedly hid behind the cash counter but was shot by one of the four robbers while they were leaving the service station after looting cash and goods, the report said.
Lancaster County police Sheriff Barry Faile said the Indian ethnicity of Patel does not appear to be a factor in the crime.
A teenaged girl was on Sunday shot dead outside her home in Jalpaiguri district allegedly by a stalker who was arrested along with his associates within hours of the crime, police said.
Soumya Reddy, a native of Muniyal village in Nirmal mandal of the district, was killed by the unidentified person in Chicago on Sunday, Adilabad district superintendent of police, Anil Kumar told PTI.
The 72-year-old retired police officer, who was the local muezzin, was murdered while he was giving the call for azaan.
A Muttahida Quami Movement legislator and his son were shot dead by gunmen in a drive-by shooting outside a mosque in Karachi on Friday, leading to eruption of violence in many parts of Pakistan's biggest city that claimed four lives.
An independent candidate was on Friday shot dead, while a Pakistan People's Party nominee went missing in the port city of Karachi.
An unidentified attacker in a car shot Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin
The incident took place in Mughal Sarai-Buxar Passenger train 63240.
Three Pakistani smugglers, carrying 24 kg of heroin worth Rs 120 crore in the international market, were shot dead by the Border Security Force on the Indo-Pak border as they were trying to sneak into Indian territory, BSF officials said in Attari on Saturday.
The victim's son said he visited the police station in suburban Mumbai that is handling the case multiple times and met the investigating officer, but did not get any cooperation.
The Delhi Police has arrested two people in connection with the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man inside a ward in the GTB Hospital, officials on Monday said.
Police said three unidentified gunmen asked Kamang Kom, who was the chief of Samu Lamlan village, to guide them to Nenglong Tampak village, about 60 km from Imphal.
Police are hunting in Watertown, 10-km from Boston, for someone they believe is the white-hatted "suspect number two" in the Marathon bombings, after a police officer was shot dead last night on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus.
The police on Sunday shot dead two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in an encounter in Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police officer said.
A team of police and forest officials shot dead a Royal Bengal tiger at Nagabandha village in Morigaon district of Assam after it had strayed out of its natural habitat and killed two persons including a woman on Tuesday.
'Deeply saddened by the unfortunate demise of Mr Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian student in Cleveland, Ohio,' the Consulate General of India in New York said in a post on X.
An 18-year-old rape victim was on Sunday shot dead allegedly by bike-borne youths in Baijapur village in Dakshintola area, two days before she had to appear in a court as witness in the case, police said.
A lancenaik of 13 Sikh Light Infantry battalion got into a verbal duel with sepoy Malkeet Singh of the same unit at an army camp in Bhimber Gali area around 11.50 pm on Sunday night.
Russia has described the killing of Andrey Karlov at an art exhibition in Ankara as a terror attack.
Terrorists struck at two places in Kashmir on Saturday night, killing a former sarpanch in Shopian and injuring a tourist couple from Rajasthan in Anantnag, two days ahead of Lok Sabha elections in Baramulla.
'This government is not in the hands of M K Stalin but in the hands of the bureaucracy -- the IAS and IPS.'
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