criminal law

Delhi HC Grants Bail To 4 Telgi Aides In fake Stamp Paper Case 1/19/2009 The Delhi High Court granted bail to four aides of Abdul Karim Telgi, the prime accused in the Rs 3,000 crore fake stamp paper scam. They had all been booked by the CBI. The investigating agency alleged that they were selling the fake stamps supplied by Telgi in Delhi. Hearing the bail plea, Justice S Muralidharan..

AP HC Dismiised Revision Petition On Satyam Trio Police Custody 1/19/2009 The Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed the revision petition filed by Counsel for Satyam Computers Services Ltd (SATYAM) Ex-Chairman B Ramalinga Raju, his brother and Managing Director B Rama Raju and Ex-CFO Srinivas Vadlamani challenging the local court order granting police custody. Raju’s Counsel Bharath Kumar m..

AARUSHI CASE : CBI Seeks Info 20 Jan 2009, 0416 hrs IST, TNN NEW DELHI: The probe in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case hit a dead end months ago, when all the accused managed to get bail, and it seems things are likely to remain that way for at least some time to come. This was obvious when the CBI on Monday again put out newspaper ads promising a reward of Rs 1 lakh to anyone providing cl..

HC Orders To Check Pollution In Ganga 19 Jan 2009, 2018 hrs IST, RN Pandey, TNN ALLAHABAD: Advocate general Jyotindra Misra on Monday, held a meeting with the senior officers, including the DM and the nagar ayukt concerning Ganga pollution and instructed all the officers present in the meeting to comply with the orders of High Court in letter and spirit passed by a division bench on..

Three Withdraw Anticipatory Bail Application In Nun Rape Case 19 Jan 2009, 2305 hrs IST, PTI CUTTACK: In a new development in the nun 'rape' case in Kandhamal district, three persons named in the police record today withdrew their anticipatory bail application from the Orissa High Court. Fakir Mohan Das, Dhruva Charan Das and Hrushikesh Das decided not to pursue their cases for ant..

The Supreme Court on Monday admitted petitions filed by BSP leaders challenging quashing of charges against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and top party leaders in a case relating to an alleged assault on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in Lucknow in 1995. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan decided to hear in the first week of May the petitions challenging the q..

Conviction of an accused on the basis of unreliable and untrustworthy evidence is "unsafe" as it may lead to miscarriage of justice, the Supreme Court has held. "It will be unsafe to convict a person on the basis of such unreliable and untrustworthy evidence particularly when such statements are full of embellishment and contradictions, without corroboration in material particulars by reliabl..

Two British nationals were on Monday told by the Supreme Court to appear in a police station in Mumbai twice a month till the appeal against their acquittal in a case of paedophilia was decided by it. Duncan Grant and Allan Jhon Waters, whose passports were deposited with the Mumbai police on the direction of the apex court, were ordered by a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, to..

PUNE City Records 70 Juvenile Offences In Two Weeks: 19 Jan 2009, 0151 hrs IST, KALYANI SARDESAI, TNN PUNE: In the first two weeks of the new year, the city registered as many as 70 cases of juveniles in conflict with the law. "We have two more months to go before we compile the statistics for 2008-09," says M N Sonawane, superintendent at the district probation and after-care ass..

Kasab Remanded In Police Custody Till Feb 2 19 Jan 2009, 1156 hrs IST, PTI MUMBAI: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested in the November 26 terror attacks in the city, was on Monday remanded in police custody till February 2 in the CST firing case. Kasab has been in police custody since his arrest on the night of November 26 and has been booked in 12 cases by th..

ALCOHOLISM, DRUG ABUSE ARE CORRELATED 19 Jan 2009, 0202 hrs IST, TNN PUNE: The average alcohol consumption per person per year in India is around 2.5 litres. "And, with the rising alcohol production in the country, the number of alcoholics is also increasing annually," said Leonard Blumenthal, chairman of the Alcoholics Anonymous' (AA) general service board. Blumenthal was disc..

Fresh Case Of Forgery Against Whistle-Blower Deepak In DDA SCAM 19 Jan 2009, 1319 hrs IST, Rahul Tripathi, TNN NEW DELHI: The Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police has registered a fresh case of cheating and forgery against Deepak Kumar in the DDA allotment scam, after the police found incriminating evidence that Deepak was carrying two PAN cards in different names. Deepak is t..

RAJU'S BAIL HEARING DEFERRED TILL JANUARY 22 19 Jan 2009, 1245 hrs IST, TIMESOFINDIA.COM HYDERABAD: A Hyderabad court has deferred till January 22 the bail plea of Satyam’s disgraced former chief B Ramalinga Raju. Raju will remain in police custody. ( Watch ) Market regulator Sebi’s petition to interrogate Raju has also been deferred to January 22. A short while ago, the cou..

Bail Hearing Of Rajus, Srinivas Today 19 Jan 2009, 1150 hrs IST, TNN HYDERABAD: Hyderabad court will hear on Monday the bail petitions of Satyam's disgraced founder B Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju and their former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas. ( Watch ) Sebi's application seeking to question Raju will also come up for hearing on Monday. On Sunday, R..

SCBA OPPOSED TO CrPC AMENDMENT BILL 1/19/2009 The Supreme Court Bar Association is opposed to the amendments made in the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) giving discretionary powers to police not to arrest a person who is involved in an offence having maximum sentence of seven years. The bill, which was passed by Parliament on December 23 without any discussion as on that day eight bills w..