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Delhi HC stops Mukhtar Ansari from going on parole

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The Delhi High Court today set aside the trial court order granting custody parole to MLA Mukhtar Ansari for canvassing in the UP Assembly polls. Justice Mukta Gupta allowed the Election Commission’s plea seeking cancellation of Ansari’s parole. “The petition (poll panel plea) is allowed,” the court said. Ansari, an MLA who recently joined the […]

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Man acquitted in gangrape case

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A Delhi court has acquitted a man in a gangrape and trafficking case, observing that the complainant’s version was unreliable and untrustworthy. “Prosecution has also failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt that accused Rakesh Kumar had trafficked the prosecutrix for the purpose of exploitation,” Additional Sessions Judge Shail Jain said. “I am of […]

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IS supporter sent to judicial custody till Mar 10

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A suspected supporter of Islamic State (IS), Mohammad Iqbal was today sent to judicial custody till March 10 by a court here. He was brought here on from Chennai for interrogation by the Rajasthan Police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on production warrant on February 13 and sent to police custody. Iqbal was today produced in the […]

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Verdict in Ajmer blast case deferred to March 8

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A special court today deferred till March 8 the judgement in the 2007 Ajmer dargah bomb blast case. Magistrate Dinesh Gupta adjourned the hearing as the court needed more time to study all documents submitted by the prosecution and the defence. The blast on October 11, 2007 in the dargah of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti at […]

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Man gets life term, friend 10-yrs for minor sisters’ rape

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A man was awarded life imprisonment and his accomplice a ten-year jail term for kidnapping two minor tribal sisters in Korba district of Chhattisgarh under the pretext of taking them to Mumbai to meet film stars and raping them. The special court judge Vijay Kumar Ekka yesterday pronounced Rajesh Goswami (24) and his friend Chandraprakash […]

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Police chargesheets four for gangraping US tourist

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Delhi Police has chargesheeted four men for allegedly gangraping and criminally intimidating an American tourist in a 5-star hotel here last year. In a charge sheet filed before a city court, the agency has alleged that the accused — Aniruddha Singh, a Rajasthan- based tourist guide, Vivek Srivastatva, who was working in the hotel when […]

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Gangrape: 9 men acquitted due to botched up probe

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A Noida police officer left “no stone unturned” to botch up investigation in a 2009 case of gangrape of a 24-year-old MBA student that has led to the acquittal of nine persons by a Delhi court on the grounds that the identity of the real culprits could not be proved. The court pulled up the […]

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Sheena Bora murder: Trial begins, adjourned for 2 weeks

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Trial in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case began today only to be adjourned for two weeks when defence lawyers objected to a legal point while a Mumbai police official was deposing as the first witness in a CBI court here. Sub-inspector Ganesh Dalvi had arrested the former driver of Indrani Mukerjea. However, an objection […]

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84 riots: Witness gives conditional consent for polygraph test

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Arms dealer Abhishek Verma today said he was ready for a lie-detector test in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case if Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, given a clean chit by CBI for his alleged role, also agreed to it. Verma, who apprehends threat to his life and to his family, told a city court that he […]

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4-year jail for man for abetting wife’s suicide

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A 25-year-old man, whose wife killed herself due to his extra-marital affair, has been sent to four years in jail, with a court here saying he was mature enough to understand the consequences of his act. Additional Sessions Judge Manoj Jain also said that the man’s relentless involvement with his paramour was enough to drive […]

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Zakir Naik’s aide remanded in JC till March 8

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The special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases here today remanded Aamir Gazdar, a close aide of the controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, in judicial custody till March 8. The Enforcement Directorate, which arrested Gazdar on February 16, recommended his judicial custody today. In the remand application, the ED said during the interrogation […]

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Extra-judicial killings: Life term for 4 UP policemen

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A special court here today awarded life sentence to four Uttar Pradesh Police personnel in a case of extra judicial killing of four youths 20 years ago. Inspector Lal Singh, Sub Inspector Joginder Singh and constables Surya Bhan and Subhash Chand were convicted by the special CBI court for murder, destruction of evidence and producing […]

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