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Ajmal Amir Kasab Trial: Witness was first to see Kasab land

   29 May 2009 at 18:33

The man, who had on the evening of November 26 seen the 10-member terrorist gang landing on the Indian soil at Colaba, south Mumbai, identified lone captured Pakistani accused Ajmal Amir Kasab in the special court.Bharat Tamore, a 50-year-old employe ..

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Adnan Sami gets anticipatory bail

   27 May 2009 at 11:23

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to Pakistani singer Adnan Sami in connection with the harassment case filed by his wife.Sami will have to produce two sureties of Rs 15,000 to get bail if arrested. He will also have to surr ..

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Ajmal Amir Kasab Trial: Abu Ismail's clothes displayed in co

   27 May 2009 at 10:37

The clothes of 26/11 attack accused Abu Ismail, who died in police encounter during the attack on November 26 last year, were displayed in court today.Seeing Ismail’s undergarment, which had holes at various places, designated Judge M L Tahilya ..

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SC: Binayak Sen freed, fears danger to his life

   27 May 2009 at 10:35

A day after the Supreme Court granted him bail, controversial civil rights activist and national vice-president of the People’s Union for Civil Liberty (PUCL), Dr Binayak Sen, was released from the Raipur Central Jail this evening.Dr Sen, who w ..

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SC to ED: Why no action taken in Rajiv Gandhi's murder case

   27 May 2009 at 10:32

The Supreme Court asked Enforcement Direct(ed) ‘why no action has been taken against controversial godman Chandra Swami when the government suspected that he had financed LTTE’s involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Ra ..

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SC orders release of Binayak Sen

   25 May 2009 at 20:04

On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered the release of prominent civil rights activist Binayak Sen, who is lodged in a Chhattisgarh jail for the past two years. A vacation bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Deepak Verma ordered Sen's release on his s ..

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SC holds courts cannot interfere in investigation

   25 May 2009 at 10:38

The Supreme Court has held that a court cannot interfere with the course of investigation of a crime by directing any investigating agency to focus on any particular office and do the investigation accordingly.A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasay ..

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SC: GIRLFRIEND IS NOT RELATIVE, CAN'T BE PROSECUTED

   24 May 2009 at 11:12

The Supreme Court has ruled that a girlfriend or a concubine is not a relative and therefore cannot be prosecuted for an offence under section 498 (A) of the IPC (cruelty for dowry). A bench comprising Justices S P Sinha and R M Lodha, while allowing ..

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Bombay HC grants bail to Ramabai convict

   24 May 2009 at 10:33

The Bombay High Court granted bail to police officer Manohar Kadam, sentenced to life imprisonment by a Sessions Court in the infamous Ramabai firing case of 1997.A vacation bench of Justices A V Nirgude and Rajesh Ketkar while granting bail to Kadam ..

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SC: Courts cannot order re-investigation in a criminal case

   20 May 2009 at 16:27

The Supreme Court has ruled that the court can order further investigations, but cannot order reinvestigation in a criminal case.A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Mukundakam Sharma, while allowing the appeal of the six accused in a 2002 Gujar ..

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