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CPI(M) leader P Jayarajan surrenders before court in Kannur

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CPI(M) Kannur district secretary P Jayarajan, who is listed as an accused in a case relating to the murder of aBJP functionary in 2014, today surrendered before the sessions court here. Jayarajan arrived at the court in an ambulance and surrendered before at 11 AM. He has been remanded in judicial custody for a month. […]

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Goa terror suspect gets bail

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Terror suspect Sameer Sardana was today granted bail by a local court after the prosecution said he could not be linked to any militant group though he was found in possession of “incriminating documents which endangered national security”. The Dehradun-based man, son of a retired Major General, was being investigated by Goa’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) […]

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Court acquits ex-Cong MP, others in rape

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A fast track court today acquitted former Congress MP Mahabal Mishra, his family members and others in a case of alleged kidnapping and rape of a minor girl in 2006, citing lack of evidence. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat absolved Mishra and seven others, including his wife Urmila, daughter Kiran and brother Heera Mishra, of […]

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Coal scam: Accused seeks joint trial

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Businessman Manoj Kumar Jayaswal, an accused in three coal block allocation scam cases, today sought a joint trial in these matters, saying the nature of offences alleged against him were similar. His counsel told Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar that various witnesses and documents were common in the three matters and, except former Minister of […]

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Coal scam: Six accused granted bail

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A special court today granted bail to three directors of Ranchi-based company, M/s Domco Pvt Ltd, and three others in a coal scam case in which they are accused of misrepresenting facts to acquire a coal block in Jharkhand. The court allowed the bail applications of the firm’s three directors, Binay Prakash, Vasant Diwakar Manjrekar […]

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CJ to assign PIL against Mayawati’s bungalow: HC

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The Allahabad High Court has directed that a plea against merger and allotment of bungalows to former Chief Minister Mayawati be placed before Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud so that it can be assigned to an appropriate bench. “The question of merger, as pointed out by the learnedAdditional Advocate General (AAG), is not directly an […]

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IPS sentenced to 2yrs jail in custodial torture case

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An IPS officer in Rajasthan has been sentenced to two years in prison for torturing three men at a police station in Rajsamand district 15 years ago, according to the victims’ counsel. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Bhanu Kumar handed down the sentence to S N Khinchi, who was posted as Additional SP Rajsamand in 2000 […]

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Suspected IS operative remanded to police custody

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Five suspected operatives of Al Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), arrested for allegedly radicalising youths and propagating the terror agenda of the outfit, were today remanded to judicial custody till March 8 by aDelhi court. The five accused — Maulana Mohd Abdul Rehman Kasmi, Abdul Sami, Mohd Asif, Zafar Masood and Syed Anzar Shah — […]

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Diplomat to be charged for leaking info to ISI: Delhi HC

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Former Indian diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accused of leaking classified information to Pakistan’s ISI, will be charged under the stringent provisions of the Official Secrets Act entailing a maximum punishment of upto 14 years, theDelhi High court today said. Justice Pratibha Rani set aside the trial court’s January 2012 order by which charges were framed against […]

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Attack on witness: Narayan Sai sent to 7-days’ judicial custody

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Narayan Sai, son of self-styled ‘godman’ Asaram, was today sent to seven-days’ judicial custody in connection with an attack last year on a key witness in a case of rape registered against him. Sai was sent to Karnal jail until February 16 by the court of Judicial Magistrate Madhur Bajaj here. He was brought to […]

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Ex-armyman sentenced to life for killing daughters

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A retired armyman has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his three daughters and making an attempt on his wife’s life in Nagla Deepa village of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh in 2013. Additional District Judge I D Dubey awarded the punishment to the convict on Friday and imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on him. […]

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2 sentenced to death for brutally killing child

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Two youths were today sentenced to death by a local court for kidnapping and brutally murdering an eight-year-old boy in 2014. Principal District and Sessions Judge Kishore Sonowane awarded the punishment to Rajesh Dhanalal Daware (21) and his friend Arvind Abhilash Singh (25) for killing Yug Chandak. Convicting them under IPC sections 364 (a) (kidnapping for […]

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