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Ajay Chautala told to foot travel bill of CBI witnesses

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A Delhi court today directed INLD MLA Ajay Chautala to bear travel expenses of two prosecution witnesses who could not be cross-examined due to non- appearance of his counsel in a disproportionate assets case, while the jailed lawmaker too was absent due to “dehydration”. Special CBI judge Manu Rai Sethi imposed cost on Chautala after […]

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IPL spot-fixing: Chavan gets interim bail for marriage

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Cricketer Ankeet Chavan, who was arrested by Delhi police recently for his alleged role in spot-fixing during IPL games, was on Thursday granted bail till June 6 by a city court for his wedding. Chavan was granted interim bail to tie nuptial knot on June 2. The court granted bail to Chavan on Rs 1 lakh […]

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If bowler was fixed, what was batsman doing: Court

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“If the bowler was fixed, what was the batsman doing?” the query was posed by a Delhi court to the investigators today. The court said it was posing this query as it wanted to know if the Delhi Police was probing the role of any batsman in the IPL spot-fixing case. “If the bowler was […]

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CBI for Anil & Tina Ambani as witness in 2G trial

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Injecting a new element in the 2G spectrum allocation case trial, CBI Thursday asked a Delhi court to “summon” Reliance ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani as prosecution witnesses to “arrive at the truth” and for a “just decision” in the case. CBI moved an application in the court saying Anil Ambani, […]

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Zaheda was insecure because of Masood: claims witness

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A prosecution witness in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case told the court here today that the main accused, Zaheda Parvez, had become “possessive” about BJP MLA Dhruvnarayan Singh and resented Masood’s friendship with him. Deposing before the special CBI court here, Sanjay Gupta, a Bhopal-based industrialist and the BJP MLA’s friend, said that […]

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HC quashes order summoning MP: 3 kins in rape case

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The Delhi High Court today set aside a trial court order summoning Congress MP Mahabal Mishra and his three family members in a case of kidnapping and rape of a minor girl in 2006. The court said that instead of summoning the persons named in the case directly, the trial court should have made a […]

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Court pulls up police for flip flop in IPL scandal probe

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Delhi Police was on May 29 pulled up by a court here for its flip flop in the handling of the IPL spot-fixing case and hiding the arrest of Abhishek Shukla, a friend of cricketer S Sreesanth, and termed it as a “bad practice”. The court was also anguished that Shukla, who was arrested this […]

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HC issues contempt notice to Army Chief

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from Army Chief Bikram Singh on a contempt plea of Lt. Gen (Retd) Tejinder Singh for not complying with its order to take disciplinary action against five Army officers including ex-Army chief VK Singh. Besides the Army Chief, the court also issued a contempt notice to […]

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IPL fixing scandal: Ankeet Chavan moves sessions court for bail

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Suspended cricketer Ankeet Chavan, an accused in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, on May 29 moved a fresh bail application before a sessions court after he was denied the relief by a magisterial court. Chavan filed his bail plea before Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Khanna, who has kept the matter for hearing on May 30. […]

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Three Amway officials get bail

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Three officials of network marketing firm Amway India, arrested the day before, were granted bail by a Kerala court here in a case relating to alleged financial irregularities, the company said Tuesday. Amway India’s country head William S. Pinckney and two other officials – Anshu Budhraja and Sanjay Malhotra – have been granted bail by […]

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India Post penalised for delaying Speed Post letter

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A Speed Post letter that crawled to its destination and cost an unemployed man the chance of a job has earned the postal department the wrath of India’s top consumer court, which pulled it up for deficiency in service and ordered payment of compensation. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission dismissed the pleas of head […]

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IPL scandal: Court rejects Ankeet Chavan’s bail plea

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Suspended cricketer Ankeet Chavan, an accused in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, was on Tuesday denied bail by a Delhi court which said social stigma cannot be a ground to give him the relief. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma dismissed his plea for bail, which was sought on ground that his marriage is fixed for […]

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