The family and the lawyer of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Gujarat, on Thursday raised questions over David Coleman Headley's testimony that she was a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, saying this was for the "political benefit of some big people" whose names have been "besmirched."
The trial in the 30-year-old anti-Sikh riots case, in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and three others are facing prosecution, commenced on Friday in a court in New Delhi which recorded the statement of a senior official of Delhi government.
Here's the full text of address to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on the eve of the Republic Day 2022.
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and two other Aam Aadmi Party leaders were on Wednesday granted bail by a Delhi court in a criminal defamation complaint filed against them by an advocate after they furnished personal bond.
The judge said the CBI's case became weaker or "forceless" in view of the fact that it did not probe and ruled out the Pakistan angle to the demolition to make the criminal conspiracy charge stand the judicial scrutiny.
In another application of Bharti regarding that she should not be given police protection, Justice Sikri directed the Delhi Police to maintain law and order within the Patiala court premises.
In his statement to the Enforcement Directorate, Dhoot conceded that Rs 64 crore had been transferred to Deepak Kochhar's NuPower Renewables through a web of entities to allegedly acquire wind farm properties.
'When Irshad Khan approaches the Supreme Court, he will undoubtedly have the best and most committed of lawyers to represent him.' His case will be reported on the front pages.' Neither the BJP government in Rajasthan nor at the Centre can stop this,' says Jyoti Punwani.
Reyat, a former Duncan electrician, could be imprisoned for an additional 14 years if convicted of perjury.
Bharti Yadav, the elusive key witness in the Nitish Katara murder case, was on Friday directed by a Delhi court to appear before it on November 25 for recording her statement.
Deprecating the hue and cry over acquittals in rape cases, a Delhi court has said that the judiciary cannot be swayed by emotions or media reporting and has to limit itself to the ambit of law, testimonies of witnesses in deciding such cases.
Indrani's words were quick, her hand gestures quicker. She kept pointing to certain paragraphs in their consent terms.
A 27-year-old Indian-origin woman in the US state of Texas has been found guilty of causing arson that killed her husband two years ago.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday suspended the two-year jail term of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti in a case of assault on All India Institute of Medical Sciences security staff.
A Delhi court on Saturday issued fresh summons to Reliance ADA Group Chairman Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani to appear as prosecution witnesses before it next month in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
Kin of the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre victims and eye-witnesses on Saturday contested a special court's conclusion that firing by former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri acted as a catalyst for mob fury.
"As the weapon has not been recovered yet by the investigating agency, the question of reliability on such report does not arise," she added.
Jyoti Punwani reports on the strange case of Prashant Rahi, MTech, journalist, activist, now in solitary confinement in a Maharashtra prison.
Mathew Martoma, a former SAC Capital portfolio manager, faces 20 years in prison for securities fraud and five years for conspiracy
Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"
A Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent told the British Columbia Supreme Court that a prosecution witness alleged immigration fraud and misuse of funds against Ripudaman Singh Malik.
'Those who attacked me, punish them.'
California assembly speaker Marvin M Dimally will depose through a videoconference from the Indian consulate in San Francisco.
Sherin went missing on October 7, 2017, after her father allegedly put her outside their home at 3 am in Richardson, Texas because she would not drink her milk. Her badly decomposed body was found 15 days later in a culvert near the family's home.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to complete its investigation in a week, meaning the confirmation of Kavanaugh, 53, as Supreme Court judge would be delayed by at least a week.
Self-styled 'godman' Asaram's son Narayan Sai, jailed in a rape case, was granted three weeks' temporary bail by the Gujarat high court to attend to his ailing mother, who is schedule to undergo a surgery.
'As Rai spoke, in an unbelievably dead pan, almost off-the-cuff tone, about helping plan the murder of two youngsters, drugging them with vodka and whiskey spiked with dava (medicine), smothering one, dragging a body in rigor mortis out of a car, burning a corpse, destroying evidence, and so on, it felt like he was discussing nothing more surprising than the intricacies of the weather.'
Christian Michel's investigation in New Delhi has revealed nothing substantial, contrary to the expectations of the prime minister and the media hype. A fascinating excerpt from Raju Santhanam's The Untold Story of Christian Michel and Agustawestland.
The case is being tried in the Anti-Terrorism Court since 2009. There has hardly been any case in any ATC in Pakistan that is pending for over nine years.
Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story on the alleged links between the country's powerful spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence and Al Qaeda.
Nearly 40 years after the then railway minister Lalit Narayan Mishra was killed in a bomb blast at a function at Samastipur Railway Station in Bihar, a Delhi court on Monday convicted four persons for the charges of murder and criminal conspiracy.
Special CBI Judge S J Sharma ruled the prosecution has failed to put forth any "documentary and substantive evidence" to suggest or establish the alleged conspiracy.
When the hearings resume January 3, you wonder how many things will change and how many things will remain forever the same, as the Sheena Bora trial moves ahead.
The Canadian government wanted to treat one of its own key witnesses, Inderjit Singh Reyat, as hostile.
'Indrani said she had some things to discuss with Peter, which he digested with minor surprise.' 'He looked mildly dismayed. And refused to sit down next to her, in spite of her welcome.' In spite of months of wariness from Peter's side, the ice was broken.
The court convicted Sengar for rape under the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act for offence by a public servant committing penetrative sexual assault against a child.
'Quite the raconteur, much to the dismay of Courtroom 51's CBI Special Judge Jayendra Chandrasen Jagdale, Christopher 'Doglis' Marquis, a Bandra dog-breeder who was Prosecution Witness No 57 and a panch or witness, seemed to move into the witness box with glee, embellishing every answer that he gave to the lawyers' questions with a variety of additional details.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.
Delay in recording the statement of Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal, who is a Central Bureau of Invesatigation witness in the 2G spectrum allocation case, might prolong the ongoing trial, a Delhi court observed on Monday, and directed the probe agency to expedite the matter.
'With folded hands, on humanitarian grounds, if she can get temporary bail on medical grounds so she can get treatment.' 'If she dies, the whole trial gets derailed.'
