Names of Rajya Sabha MPs Harbhajan Singh and Swati Maliwal are missing from the list.
Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore and Sanjay Sawant report from outside Delhi's Tihar Jail, which has turned into the epicentre of anti-corruption protests ever since Anna Hazare has been lodged there.
Sahara chief Subrata Roy, who was sent in judicial custody for a week in Delhi by the Supreme Court today, will be kept in high-security Tihar prison where he will sleep on the floor and eat jail food like an ordinary prisoner.
Delhi Water Minister Atishi on Friday began her indefinite hunger strike in south Delhi's Bhogal to press on her demand for more water from Haryana.
Ali Mohammad Mir, who is the prime accused in the kidnapping case after Malik, had taken Rubaiya Sayeed in his vehicle to Sopore from Srinagar and kept her at a guesthouse.
Raja, in his plea which was filed on Monday, said "remanding of an accused to JC does not require his physical presence as discretion has been vested with the court for extending the same through video-conferencing." He had prayed that considering his security, the proceedings be conducted through video-conferencing.
The Aam Aadmi Party led by its chief minister designate Atishi staked claim to form a new government in Delhi on Tuesday shortly after Arvind Kejriwal resigned from the post, an effort seen as a bold gambit to seize the initiative ahead of assembly elections due in five months.
The bail plea hearing of former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, in connection with the 2008 cash-for-votes scam, was on Friday deferred till September 12 by a Delhi court. The court also ordered Tihar Jail medical staff to conduct another round of tests on an ailing Singh, who had earlier requested for bail on health grounds, as he is suffering from kidney-related problems. Singh, who was arrested on Tuesday, is presently lodged at Delhi's Tihar Jail.
Nina Pillai, in her petition, had alleged that the mandatory medical examination of her husband was not conducted at Tihar for even two days after his arrest.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party remained tight-lipped about whether the chief minister will appear before the Enforcement Directorate or not.
While tackling the differences over the Lokpal Bill with social activist Anna Hazare and his team, the Manmohan Singh government has landed in a bigger mess by sending Hazare to Tihar jail. Sheela Bhatt explains why.
The house has been attached under the provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Former Union minister Sukhram has been again moved to the Intensive Care Unit of a city hospital as doctors said his condition deteriorated soon after he moved to Tihar jail on Saturday to serve a three-year sentence in the 1993 telecom scam case. The Supreme Court is likely to hear his bail plea on Monday.
The mobile internet services were suspended early in the morning as the authorities apprehended violence in the valley in view of the bandh call given by separatist outfits, the officials said.
Special judge Sangeeta Dhigra Sehgal on Tuesday deferred a decision on former Samajwadi Party leader and member of Rajya Sabha Amar Singh's bail hearing in the cash-for-votes scam to Thursday.
Afzal, who was imprisoned in Jail Number 3 after the court issued the warrant, was shifted to Jail No 4 on Friday owing to security concerns.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan, however, said there can be no straitjacket formula which enumerates that every case concerning the consideration of bail should depend upon the filing of a charge sheet.
The agency had alleged in its earlier charge sheets that at least 36 accused, including former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Kumar, "destroyed, used or changed" 170 phones to conceal evidence of "kickbacks" worth thousands of crores of rupees in the alleged scam.
As AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal returned home late on Tuesday evening, it was left to senior advocate Shanti Bhushan to go to Tihar jail and convince the jailed leader to sign the personal bail bond to walk out of prison.
A Delhi court refused to allow a plea of top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy to be referred to the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences following his allegation that he was not being provided with proper medical care at Tihar jail.
One of the lawyers of the chief minister said that they will be seeking urgent listing of the petition on Monday.
The veteran Congress leader said people asked him why only he had been arrested, but he had no answer.
The local police, a bomb disposal squad, a bomb detection team arrived at the LSR College along with a dog squad and conducted searches but nothing suspicious was found, the official said.
Entry of journalists, non-government activists and filmmakers into jails for writing articles or taking interviews of inmates has been banned by the government, except under special requests.
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The tycoon had been allowed to use an office, phone, internet connection and three secretaries.
Today in 2024, the BJP jails its opponents during an election and still believes, or at least wants us to believe, that it is only following the rules of democracy, asserts Aakar Patel.
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A Delhi court on Friday sent Bharat Rasthra Samithi leader K Kavitha to Central Bureau of Investigation custody till April 15 in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
Afzal's mercy petition is pending with President A P J Abdul Kalam.
Granting interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would not amount to grant of privilege or special status to politicians, the Supreme Court on Friday said, while observing that the Aam Aadmi Party leader has no criminal antecedents and is not a threat to the society.
Vinay attempted to hurt himself by banging his head against a wall in his cell, on February 16. He had received minor injuries.
Security agencies searched over 100 hospitals and malls in the national capital after they received bomb threat emails on Tuesday. However, it turned out to be a hoax as nothing suspicious was found, officials said.
Nirbhaya's parents and the Delhi government had moved the court on Tuesday seeking fresh death warrants for the four convicts after the Supreme Court granted liberty to the authorities to approach the trial court for issuance of fresh date for the execution of these convicts.
The four death row convicts are Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta.
The Aam Aadmi Party has decided to challenge the order of the metropolitan magistrate, who sent its leader Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody for not furnishing a bond in a defamation case, in a higher court.
The police also moved an application seeking court's permission to produce Sisodia only via video conference, after he levelled the allegation.
Bhullar was convicted in connection with the killing of nine people and injuring of 31 in a bomb blast in 1993. Among those who survived the attack are former Youth Congress chief M S Bitta.
The Tihar jail authorities on Thursday told a special court in New Delhi that one of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case is being given proper medical care in the hospital where he is admitted and the doctors there are not on strike.
According to a recent RTI query, UP tops the list for most jailbreaks.
