The Bombay high court on Friday granted bail to 10 accused arrested in the April 2020 Palghar lynching case in Maharashtra, holding that video footage and still photographs from the crime spot did not show them being "overtly" violent.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has rubbished allegations in the Supreme Court that Salian was pressurised by the National Investigation Agency to 'go slow' in the case.
The disgrace is compounded by the fact that the 81-year-old self-styled godman is already serving a life sentence in a Jodhpur jail for raping a minor girl at his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013.
The court posted the matter for September 26 after the CBI informed that it was likely to file a supplementary final report in the case by September 22.
Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav allowed the bail application of Tomar after imposing several conditions, including a bar on his travel outside the national capital without prior permission from the court and joining the investigation as and when required.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa was acquitted on Monday by the Karnataka high court in the 19-year-old disproportionate assets case, a verdict that is sure to put her back in the Tamil Nadu chief minister's seat.
The NCB, through a special public prosecutor, had argued that there were "compelling reasons" to seek the extension.
Tehelka Founder Editor Tarun Tejpal who has been chargesheeted for raping a junior woman colleague in Goa last year has sought information under Right to Information relating to the money spent on the entire exercise of investigating and prosecuting him in the case.
A Delhi high court bench headed by Justice Mukta Gupta disposed of Imam's appeal for stay and requested the lower court to conclude on a "short date" the examination of the witnesses on which there is no dispute between the parties.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of them over different counts.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said the state government is yet to decide on filing an appeal in the Supreme Court against acquittal of Jayalalithaa who is set to stage a comeback as Tamil Nadu chief minister after her acquittal in the disproportionate assets case.
A special court on Tuesday set March 9, 2015, as the date for the verdict in the multi-crore accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited.
Till now, the CBI has examined 73 witnesses in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case.
Police said according to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) report, the blood samples recovered from Poonawala's house were of Walkar's.
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.
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday remanded two police officers in the custody of the Maharashtra criminal investigation department in a case of alleged extortion in which former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh is one of the accused.
The police also claimed that the opposition BJP and the political opponents of Thackeray were trying to create an atmosphere to project him as anti-Hindu and not sponsoring the cause of Hinduism, and that in the present regime it was difficult for Hindus to practise their religion freely and thus the feeling of hate would increase against the Muslim religion causing a rift.
Vismaya, 22, was found dead in the house of her husband at Sasthamkotta in Kollam district on June 21, 2021.
A Mumbai trial court on Monday said the date of pronouncement of the verdict in the 2002 hit-and-run-case of Bollywood actor Salman Khan will be announced on Tuesday.
The trial of the case relating to the gang rape of a photojournalist will be held in a fast-track court and the charge-sheet be filed in a "very short time", Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil said on Friday.
Those who were held guilty included Safdar Nagori, Javed Ahmed and Atikur Rehman. Among those acquitted were Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmed.
The agency said that it could not find any 'strong evidence' against Indresh Kumar, Sadhvi Pragya, Rajendra and Ramesh alias Prince.
Special Public Prosecutor Atul Sarpande had opposed their bail saying Rhea and Showik financed and arranged drugs.
The government on Wednesday said that it has not asked states to review terrorism cases against persons from minority communities but admitted that all chief ministers have been directed to expedite trial of detained minority youths.
Citing the testimonies of eye witnesses, Vyas said that people of that area saw Kodnani at Naroda Gam during the morning.
'We know the reason behind it. We also know who is behind the curtain (in prompting Kasab to withdraw his confessional statement), says Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
Thakur, who is one of the seven accused in the case being probed by the NIA, appeared before the court on Monday. On Tuesday, Special Judge P R Sitre granted exemption to Thakur after her lawyer J P Mishra filed a written application, citing the MP's difficulty in travelling in Mumbai regularly due to health and security concerns.
A Delhi court on Monday awarded three-year jail term to former coal secretary H C Gupta in a coal scam case related to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra, a lawyer associated with the case said.
In the wake of the 2G acquittals, here are a few high-profile cases in which question marks were raised by various courts over the CBI's probe.
Union Home minister Rajnath Singh asked Opposition parties if they were prepared to apologise to the nation for their "malicious campaign" against PM Modi over the killing of Ishrat Jehan.
A Delhi court on Wednesday convicted four people for the murder of television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, who was shot dead 15 years ago while she was returning home from work.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and his family members on Wednesday appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation court in Bangalore in connection with a case allegedly involving kickback in illegal mining.
The special court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation if the then coal minister was examined by it in a coal scam case involving Kumar Mangalam Birla and others.
The hectic legal proceedings in the Danish woman gangrape case on Thursday took the prosecution by surprise, as the victim who supported the case in the trial court turned hostile in the Juvenile Justice Board where she failed to identify the three minor offenders.
The ED was probing the allegation that Hussain and his linked persons laundered about Rs 1.10 crore by using purported shell or dummy companies to fuel protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the riots.
Rhea, who was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau on Tuesday after three days of questioning, is currently in judicial custody.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that the statement of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, recorded by the Special Investigation Team, shall not be divulged to anyone except the trial court and the public prosecutor. The apex court was examining the report of the SIT that is probing the role of Modi and other politicians in the 2002 Godhra communal riots.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Saturday acquitted former Jammu and Kashmir minister Raman Mattoo, Congress legislator G A Mir and IAS officer Iqbal Khanday in the 2006 JK sex scandal case. The case, allegedly involving a host of politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen, had triggered a major controversy.
The Enforcement Directorate opposed the bail application before special judge O P Saini in its written submission and sought time to argue the matter.
The Delhi Police on Thursday moved a court seeking permission to conduct the polygraph test of all six people arrested in connection with the Parliament security breach matter.
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