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Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam NEW DEHI: During a Supreme Court hearing on bail plea in the 2020 Delhi riots case, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, “There was an attempt to divide society on communal lines, it was not merely an agitation against CAA,”Tushar Mehta told the top courtStrenuously“First of all, that myth to be busted….
NEW DELHI: Monday’s tragic incident of a blast outside Red Fort, in which nine people lost their lives, also had a bearing on bail hearing of an accused facing prosecution under anti-terror law UAPA for alleged links with terror organisation Islamic State, with SC dismissing his plea and terming the order as a message. Representing…
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court has granted bail to surrendered Naxalite Laxmi Poojarthi, also known as Thombattu Laxmi or Prema, in three cases registered in Udupi district between 2007 and 2008. The cases, investigated under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Indian Penal Code, and Arms Act, were charge-sheeted earlier this year.Laxmi, a native of Anantapur in…
PATNA: A 35-year-old man out on bail in a rape case allegedly broke into the house of another girl, aged 13, and raped her in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Saturday night, leading to his re-arrest Sunday. The accused, Divya Prakash alias Abhinav, was LJP-RV’s labour cell district president. He was expelled from the party, LJP-RV’s…
CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Harmit Singh Pathanmajra, wanted in connection with a rape case, is believed to have fled to Australia after appearing in a video interview with an overseas Punjabi web channel, news agency PTI reported.The first-time MLA from Sanour had been absconding since 2 September. His appearance in the video has…
NEW DELHI: The Gujarat high court on Thursday granted six months’ bail to self-styled godman Asaram in a 2013 rape case in which he is serving a life sentence — nearly a week after the Rajasthan high court granted him bail in a separate, similar case.A division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and RT Vachhani…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday had a first-hand experience of the misuse of its ruling that an accused is entitled to bail if he as undertrial has served half of the maximum sentence prescribed for the offence he is accused of.One Mohd Tapseer, executive council member of Karnataka unit of proscribed organisation People’s Front…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Thursday opposed the bail pleas of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in the Supreme Court in the UAPA case linked to the alleged conspiracy behind the February 2020 Delhi riots, claiming they conspired to strike at the country’s sovereignty and integrity through a “regime change operation” disguised…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of insulting Chhathi Maiyya and using the issue for votes in the Bihar assembly elections.Speaking at a poll rally in…
Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut was granted bail on Monday by a Bathinda court in Punjab in the defamation case filed by farmer protestor Mahinder Kaur. For those not in the know, the case stems from a 2021 incident when Kaur accused Ranaut of tarnishing her reputation through a social media post made during the farmers’ protest.The…
