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Terror funding: Salahuddin’s son sent to 7-day NIA custody

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A Delhi court today sent Syed Shahid Yousuf, son of globally wanted terrorist Syed Salahuddin, to seven days NIA custody in connection with a 2011 terror funding case for allegedly receiving money from his father. Yousuf, who was arrested yesterday by National Investigation Agency (NIA), was produced before District and Sessions Judge Poonam A Bamba, […]

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Delhi HC denies bail to Afghan national in US woman’s rape case

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A 34-year-old Afghan national, accused of raping a US citizen here and threatening to upload indecent pictures and videos on the internet, was today denied bail by the Delhi High Court. The court said prima facie it appeared that accused Hameedullah Mohd Akbar, currently lodged in Tihar Jail, has been actively involved in various alleged […]

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Plumber sentenced to life imprisonment for killing woman

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A court in neighbouring Palghar district has awarded life imprisonment to a 30-year-old man for killing a housewife after robbing her of her valuables in 2013. Additional Sessions Judge M P Divate of the Vasai court yesterday awarded the punishment to Devendra Ramchandar Mishra, a plumber, after pronouncing him guilty under IPC sections 302 (murder), […]

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Stalking case: Vikas Barala’s bail plea rejected

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A Chandigarh court today rejected the bail plea of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala’s son Vikas Barala, who had been booked on the charges of stalking and attempting to abduct a 29-year-old woman. The court of judicial magistrate first class (JMIC) Barjinder Pal Singh dismissed Vikas Barala’s bail application. “The court rejected the bail plea […]

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Delhi HC orders framing of murder charges against rape accused

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A man, who allegedly raped a woman and inserted wooden sticks into her private parts leading to her death, will also be tried for murder, the Delhi High Court has said, setting aside a trial court order. The high court expressed its displeasure with the sessions court’s “whimsical, illegal and perverse” decision to not frame […]

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Court raps Delhi Police for ‘tawdry’ probe in murder case

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A city court has rapped the Delhi Police for shoddy probe in a murder case saying it was “sad” that those responsible for the gruesome killing of a young boy were going unpunished. The court made the sharp observation while acquitting two persons accused of slitting the throat of a 20-year-old boy, noting that the […]

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Judicial remand of IGP,7 cops in custodial death case extended

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A special CBI court today extended up to October 23 the judicial remand of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Z H Zaidi, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Manoj Joshi and six other policemen in the case of custodial death of an accused in the rape-and-murder of a teenage girl in Kotkhai in Himachal Pradesh. The […]

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Bombay HC discharges cable businessman from Sunil Lahoria murder case

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The Bombay High Court has discharged a Navi Mumbai-based businessman from the murder case of builder Sunil Kumar Lahoria, observing that there were no sufficient grounds for the case to proceed against him. Justice A M Badar last week discharged Bhupesh Gupta, who runs a cable business, after holding that the chargesheet filed by the […]

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Aarushi case: HC castigates CBI on theory on Hemraj’s murder

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The Allahabad High Court has castigated the CBI for its theory on the murder of domestic help Hemraj in the Aarushi murder case, saying it is an “impossible hypothesis” and “patently absurd”. In its 273-page verdict acquitting dentists Nupur and Rajesh Talwar in the murder of their daughter Aarushi and Hemraj, it also said the […]

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7 days police custody for Hindu Munnani functionary murder accused

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A court here today sent Subair, a key accused in the murder of Hindu Munnani functionary C Sasikumar, to seven days police custody. Subair, who was arrested by the CB-CID on Wednesday from the Mullapadi Railway Gate near Pollachiand, is lodged in the Central Jail. Sasikumar (36), district spokesperson of the Munnani, was murdered with […]

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Presence of outsider in Talwars’ flat cannot be ruled out: HC on Aarushi case

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The Allahabad High Court has said that the possibility of presence of outsiders and persons other than domestic help Hemraj in the Noida residence of the Talwars could not be ruled on the fateful night in the Aarushi murder case. On the basis of the record and statements of witnesses, justices B K Narayana and […]

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Two sent to custody for helping Pak-based terrorists

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Two persons arrested for allegedly providing logistical and material support to terrorists infiltrating from Pakistan into Kashmir for carrying out subversive activities were today sent to judicial custody by a Delhi court for a month. District Judge Poonam A Bamba sent Zahoor Ahmed Peer and Nazir Ahmed Peer to jail after they were produced in […]

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