A Delhi court will today decide the quantum of sentence in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court will decide the sentence of five accused who were convicted in the case. The verdict will be closely decided by many who are already enraged by Congress leader ...
Newshour | The phone number of a senior official in Railway Minister PK Bansal's office is under CBI scrutiny. CBI claims multiple calls were made from Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla's phone to this number. Vijay Singla is director in 11 companies. These compani...
Railway Minister Pawan Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla is director in 11 companies. These companies deal with real estate, infrastructure, cement, among others. Singla has amassed huge wealth in a span of five years. Did Bansal play any role in the building up of...
CBI sources say that the bribe money was meant for someone high up in the rail ministry. However, CBI is yet to gather evidence to verify this fact. Testimony of all accused in the bribery case will clarify railway minister's involvement in the scam.
Congress leader blames the BJP for stalling the proceedings in the Parliament and not allowing the historic land bill and food bill to pass. In the meantime, rail minister PK Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla has emerged as a crucial player in the railway racket an...
Nupur and Rajesh Talwar have stalled CBI's attempt to make them give a statement in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. The dentist couple are the key accused in the murder of their teenage daughter and their domestic help. They were asked to record their s...
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar will be recording their statements, in a special CBI court in Ghaziabad, in connection with the double murder case of their daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj. The CBI had earlier told the court that Hemraj and Aarushi wer...
Today will be the judgement day for lots of people awaiting justice in the 1984 riots. Protesters gathered outside the Karkardooma court sought death penalty for Sajjan Kumar and the five accused in the case.
Delhi's Karkardooma Court acquitted Sajjan Kumar in the 1985 anti-Sikh riots which caused an uproar among the Sikh community. The protest spilled over to the second day as well, when the protesters marched to Sonia Gandhi's house demanding justice in the case....
A massive protest broke outside a Delhi court, where irate Sikhs targeted the judge, in connection to the 1984 Sikh riots case, as they were hopeful that Sajjan Kumar would be punished. District and Sessions Judge J R Aryan acquitted Sajjan Kumar while convict...
A massive protest has broken out outside a Delhi court where the hearing of the 1984 Sikhs riots case took place. A shoe was thrown at the judge when Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was acquitted from all charges. District and Sessions Judge JR Aryan acquitted Sa...
The Supreme Court will hear the CBI's plea on the coal allocation scandal probe today. Along with this, the Karkardooma court might pass its judgement on Sajjan Kumar, and five others, accused of killing people and setting a Gurudwara on fire in the Delhi Cant...
It is being seen as a crucial verdict in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, as a Delhi court is likely to pronounce its verdict against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. The Congress leader is accused of inciting a mob during the riots.
The case against Sajjan Kumar has been postponed to May 15 and the Delhi High Court has said that more evidence has to be looked into. Sajjan Kumar has appealed against a court order which has framed charges against him and accused him for killing six people i...
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's appeal will come up for hearing in the Delhi High Court today. The Court will pronounce its verdict on his plea against a court order framing charges against him for killing six people in Sultanpuri during the 1984 anti-Sikh riot...
Centerstage | The law says that children below the age of 18 years should not be allowed to use social networking websites. The Delhi high court has given the government a notice to explain how minors were allowed on websites like Facebook and Google+. Lawyer ...
The Supreme Court has demanded for answers from the Delhi Police Commissioner as well the Uttar Pradesh state government regarding the behaviour of the police towards the public, especially women. This statement comes after a police officer was caught on camer...
Centrestage | The merchants of porn are now armed with microchips loaded with blue films. CDs are fast being replaced by MMS clips for mobile, and chips for notebooks. Hundreds of clips of foreign and Indian porn are in queue to be downloaded. The merchants of...
The Supreme Court rejects 1993 Delhi car bomb blast accused, Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's plea that his death sentence be commuted to a life sentence. Bhullar was convicted of killing nine people in Delhi, with a car bomb in 1993, and appealed for clemency in 2...
In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court will today decide whether a delay in rejecting mercy petitions of death row prisoners can be ground enough to commute their sentence. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, convicted of killing nine people in Delhi, with a car bo...
The BJP has hit out at former union minister Jagdish Tytler who was involved in the 1984 Sikh riots, as the Congress leader questioned the credibility of eyewitnesses. BJP says that the CBI has been repeatedly misused and no cases were filed against Congress l...
BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi reacts to the Delhi court order reopening the case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to kill three people who had taken shelter in a gurudwara during th...
Delhi court has ordered reopening of case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to kill three people who had taken shelter in a gurudwara during the anti-sikh riots in 1984. Watch the...
BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi reacts to the Delhi Court order reopening the case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to kill three people who had taken shelter in a gurudwara during th...
Delhi court orders reopening of case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to kill three people who had taken shelter in a gurudwara during the anti-sikh riots in 1984. CBI had closed...
In a major setback to Jagdish Tytler, Delhi court orders reopening of case against the former union minister in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob to kill three people who had taken shelter in a gurudwara during the anti-sikh ri...
A Delhi court is all set to pronounce its verdict on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The court is set to decide if the case against him, which was closed due to the lack of evidence, be reopened.
The Delhi police question Deepak Bhardwaj's elder son Hitesh Bharadwaj in connection with his father's murder. The police are investigating the murder from three angles : an illicit relationship, business rivalry and internal family property dispute. The polic...
A petition demanding a CBI probe, has been filed in the Deepak Bhardwaj murder case, in the Delhi High Court. The realty tycoon and BSP leader was murdered by unidentified men in his farmhouse last week. The police are questioning the kin to obtain clues regar...
Trial against Wasim Akram Malik, arrested in connection with the 2011 Delhi High Court, blast is set to begin. The trial will take place in a special NIA court in Delhi.
Delhi High Court issues a notification to try the two Italian marines, accused of killing Indian fishermen in August last year, in a special court. The marines returned to India after much diplomatic drama between India and Italy.
The two Italian marines who had refused to return to India, with the backing from the Italian government, for the trial for killing two fishermen, have reached Delhi. Earlier, the Italian government was informed that if the marines comply with the Supreme Cour...
Arvind Kejriwal appears in court in connection to his comments on Sheila Dikshit's government. He had accused the government of being thieves in connection with the electricity and water charges in the capital. He said that he would rather be sent to jail than...
The exact cause of death of the main accused in the Delhi gangrape case, inside Tihar jail in Delhi, could be revealed today after doctors take up the post-mortem. Ram Singh was found hanging yesterday morning in his cell in the high-security prison.
Tihar Jail authorities have sent in a written communication to Saket Court informing them about Ram Singh's suicide. The other four accused were presented in Saket Court today for their trial. The security at the Saket Court has been beefed up. The lawyers of ...
The main accused in the horrific gangrape on December 16 last year hanged himself inside the cell in Tihar jail. His family says Ram Singh was murdered.
Ram Singh, the driver of the bus in which Nirbhaya was gangraped on December 16 last year, hanged himself from railings of his cell in Delhi's Tihar jail. Ram Singh was under depression, and stood to be hanged if the charges against him could be proved in the ...
Ram Singh, the main accused in the horrific Delhi gangrape case on December 16, commits suicide by hanging himself inside Tihar jail. He had 13 cases against him. He was the driver of the bus in which Nirbhaya was raped while five of his henchmen held her frie...
Irom Sharmila, the 40-year-old activist who has been on a decade-long fast seeking repeal of the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act is set to be produced before the Delhi court. Manipur's 'Iron Lady' says that it is not her intention to commit sui...
The Delhi High Court passes judgement in the nursery admission petition and it says that there would be no changes in the admission criteria and procedures. This judgement has come as a major blow for the parents of the tiny tots who were hoping that the judge...
The Delhi High Court is likely to pass a judgement in the nursery school admission petition filed by parents regarding the irregularities in the admission procedures across various nursery schools in the capital. The court asked the government to come up with ...
In the hearing of the Delhi gangrape case, the Supreme court said that the VIPs are eating away into the police force, which means lesser number of police force for the Aam Aadmi. In a recent finding, 761 citizens have only 1 policeman for them, whereas 1 VIP ...
A fresh case of rape has been reported from the capital. This time the victim is from China and she registered a complaint at the Chinese embassy. The Hauz Khas police have arrested the accused and produced him in front of the Saket Court. The court has remand...
The trial of the Delhi gangrape case continues in the Saket fast-track court today, with the defence side examining the witnesses. The gangrape victim's male friend, a software engineer, who was also attacked along with her on the bus, appeared as a witness in...
Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Manish Sisodia and 23 others of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were today released by a Delhi court on an undertaking that they will appear before it to face trial after they refused to seek bail before it. They were summoned to t...
The witnesses in the the Damini gangrape case will start giving their testimony in the case. The most important witness, who was also the only eye witness to the entire gangrape, Damini's friend will testify in the court against the five accused. Along with hi...
Trial into the Delhi gangrape case began in the fast-track court. The Delhi police has filed the supplementary chargesheet along with the autopsy report from the Singapore hospital where the victim had died. The Delhi police, it appears, is making a foolproof ...
The Supreme Court decides to examine the constitutional validity of the provision giving the definition of juvenile in the Juvenile Justice Act. While hearing a PIL filed in the wake of the Delhi gangrape case involving a juvenile, Supreme Court agrees to look...
The Supreme Court has decided to examine the definition of the term 'juvenile' in the Juvenile Justice Act. This move by the apex court is in the wake of several petitions, flooded following the Delhi gangrape, challenging the Juvenile Act. The Supreme Court h...
The sacked CWG organising committee chairman, Suresh Kalmadi, has pleaded not guilty after a Delhi Court framed charges against him of cheating, criminal conspiracy and causing a loss of almost Rs 90 crore to the exchequer.
Officially marking the beginning of the trial of Suresh Kalmadi and other accused in the Commonwealth Games scam, a Delhi Court has framed charges against them. The sacked CWG organising committee chief has been accused of cheating, criminal conspiracy and des...
While on one hand a special fast-track court in New Delhi will frame charges against the five accused in the Delhi gangrape case today, on the other hand, President Pranab Mukherjee will make the anti-rape ordinance official by signing it. The police had file...
Today is a special day for the country as a special fast-track court in New Delhi will frame charges against the five accused in the Delhi gangrape case and President Pranab Mukherjee will make the anti-rape ordinance official by signing it. The police had fil...
A comprehensive but super-fast look at what is making news across the country. Among top stories are the new ordinance against rape, Anna Hazare's call on Lokpal, weather wreaking havoc in northern India and Kejriwal's revelations against Sheila Dikshit.
The Supreme Court has rejected Advocate ML Sharma's petition to shift the hearing of the Delhi gangrape case out of Delhi. The Supreme Court said that the case would be heard in Delhi's Saket fast-track court.
The Juvenile Justice Board has ruled that the sixth accused in the Delhi gangrape case is a minor, declining the request of Delhi Police for age verification test. The Juvenile Court has said that the documents presented by the School Principal, where the acc...
A debate has begun across the country on juvenile laws, as the Juvenile Justice Board declares the sixth accused in the Delhi gangrape case a minor. As per the juvenile law, irrespective of the severity of the crime, maximum sentence that can be imposed for a ...
The Juvenile Justice Board is expected to take a decision today on the age test of the accused in the Delhi gangrape case who claims to be a minor. The court may decide on whether the juvenile accused will go through a bone test for verification of his age or ...
The juvenile board has dismissed the petition filed by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy, requesting that the juvenile accused in the Delhi gangrape case be treated as an adult. Swamy had earlier approched the Delhi High Court, which directed him to approac...
The trial of five men accused of the rape and murder of a student aboard a bus in New Delhi will begin on Thursday. The trial of the five accused - bus driver Ram Singh, Mukesh, Pavan Kumar, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur, will begin in the fast-track court in...
The trial of the five accused in the Delhi Gangrape case will begin today in a fast-track court in Delhi. One of the accused, Dinesh Varma, has given a petition claiming that he is a juvenile. The court has ordered in-camera proceedings and the media is banned...
The bone test result of the juvenile accused in the Delhi gangrape and murder case is set to be tabled in the court following which the juvenile justice board will give its verdict on the age of the accused who was reportedly the most vicious and sadistic amon...
The Supreme Court will hear a petition by Mukesh, one of the suspects in the Delhi gangrape case, asking for the trial to be shifted out of Delhi. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir will hear the petition, which seeks the transfer of the case to Mat...
Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's supporters created a hungama outside the Delhi court where Chautala, his son Ajay and 53 others were sentenced to ten-year imprisonment over corruption charges. Last week the 78-year-old leader, with his son...
A Delhi court will today pronounce its order on the quantum of jail sentence for former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay Chautala. The court had found both of them guilty in the illegal recruitment of junior basic trained teachers in...
The Supreme Court will hear a petition by Mukesh, one of the suspects in the Delhi gangrape case, asking for the trial to be shifted out of Delhi. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir will hear the petition which seeks the transfer of the case to Math...
36 days after the horrific gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi, the trial has begun in a fast-track Court, which has invoked an in-camera proceeding. The Court also fixed January 24 for arguments on framing of charges against the accused in the ...
The Delhi Gangrape case will be heard at the fast track court from today onwards on a daily basis. If the accused are proved guilty then they can face a death penalty. The accused have been charged with rape and murder.
The hearing of Delhi gangrape case begins today in a fast-track court in Saket. The prosecution may submit detailed forensic report and post-mortem report of the 23-year-old victim in the court. The Delhi High Court had earlier transferred the case to fast-tra...
One month later, justice for the Delhi gangrape victim is yet to be delivered. On the 3rd of January 2013, the Delhi police filed the chargesheet in the case, naming the accused along with statements of as many as 80 eyewitnesses. The case is at the Saket Cour...
Juvenile Justice Board will decide on the age of the juvenile accused in the Delhi gangrape case on January 28. The principal of the school, where the accused studied, has submitted a detailed report before the Juvenile Court on Tuesday. If the Juvenile court ...
Delhi Police will today submit a detailed report of the crime committed by the reportedly juvenile accused in the Delhi gang rape case, before the Juvenile Justice Board. The board will decide on the age test of the accused today. The board had earlier request...
After the Delhi Court criticized the police and the government yesterday, the Supreme Court also followed suit. In a hearing of a PIL the Supreme Court said that Delhi is not safe for women. They also added that better infrastructure was needed to improve the ...
The Supreme Court has expressed concern over the security of women in Delhi. The Court has pointed put that Delhi is not at all safe for its women and has also asked both the police and the government to step up and take charge. It asked both these bodies to m...
It finally took the High Court's dressing down to get the police on Delhi streets. The police have promised that they would continue to patrol the streets after dark. Numerous citizens were caught breaking the laws. The cars with dark screens were made to remo...
A day after the Delhi High Court came down heavily on the Delhi Police for their status report in the gangrape of a 23-year-old girl, the police force has tendered an unconditional apology for failing to come up with a satisfactory probe report, admitting that...
The Delhi police apologizes to the Delhi High Court after they were pulled up for the shortcomings and missing information in the report submitted in the Delhi gangrape case. The report was missing certain names of police officials who were present at the scen...
A day after the Delhi High Court came down hard on the Delhi Police for their status report in the gangrape of a 23-year-old girl, the police force has submitted a fresh report. According to sources, the Delhi police have furbished the names and details of the...
Saket Metropolitan Magistrate Court will consider Delhi gangrape case today. The court will decide on the transfer of case to a fast-track court. The court has restrained the media from reporting and publishing the proceedings of the case in the court.
The accused in the brutal gangrape of the Delhi braveheart will be presented in the Saket Court today. It is expected that the case would be transferred to a fast-track Court. All the accused would be pleading not guilty and according to the lawyer they are re...
The Delhi High Court pulls up the Delhi police over the December 16, 2012, gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student inside a chartered bus in the national capital. The High Court bench observed that the police report has the name of just one police office...
After sparking a massive controversy with his comments, self-proclaimed godman Asaram evades the cameras and refuses to answer any questions on the issue. Followers of the spiritual guru have also defended his remarks on the recent Delhi gang-rape. The 'Bapu' ...
Five men who raped a 23-year-old medical student in New Delhi and threw her off a moving bus in an attempt to kill her, have been brought before a court. The judge was forced to drag the media out of the court room after shouting and angry scenes delayed the p...
The five accused in the gangrape of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student were brought to the district courts at Saket in Delhi under tight police security for the start of the trial. Even as they were being produced in the court, an argument broke out between...
The five accused in the Delhi gangrape case have been brought to the Saket court for the hearing. The hearing was delayed as the Court room as overcrowded and the Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Agarwal requested for some people to leave the premises. She also...
Five accused of the gangrape were presented in Saket court in Delhi today under tight security. Of them two have agreed to turn approvers. The fast-track court is taking up the case in day-to-day hearings. The sixth accused claims to be a minor and would be tr...
The minor, accused in the Delhi gangrape case, is set to be produced in the juvenile court for hearing. The minor's principal has been asked to come to court with documents supporting the accused's age. If the court isn't satisfied, then it will order for a bo...
Amid tight security, five of the accused in the Delhi gangrape and murder case have been produced before the Saket district court. While two of the accused sought legal counsel, two others have expressed their desire to turn approvers in the case.
Two of the five accused in the Delhi gangrape case have refused any legal aid but have made known they want to turn approvers - prosecution's witness. These are the who had earlier given full confession to the police and admitted to have committed a heinous cr...
The five accused in the Delhi gangrape case will be presented at the Saket court today. The sixth accused, who is still a minor, will be tried for the offence in a juvenile court. Another interesting development in the case is that two of the accused have requ...
In the Delhi gangrape case, the five accused will be presented in the Saket Court for hearing. Out of the witnesses, two of them have volunteered to become government witnesses. Two accused, Ram Singh and Thakur have asked for a lawyer to represent them. Along...
The five accused in the Delhi ganrape case will be produced before the Saket Metropolitan Magistrate's Court today. The Juvenile Court will take up the matter of sixth accused in the case who is a minor. The judicial custody of the accused was extended by 14...
The five accused in the Delhi gangrape will be presented before the Saket Court today. The juvenile Court will also verify the age of the sixth accused who claims to be 17. The charges against the accused are rape, murder, destruction of evidence, criminal con...
The hearing in the Delhi gangrape case begins today. According to sources, the Saket court will take cognizance of the chargesheet filed in the Delhi gangrape case and then send the case to the fast-track court. The gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in a moving ...
The Delhi gangrape case will be heard in a fast-track court today. Yogesh Khanna, who is an additional sessions court judge, will be presiding over the rape case. The Delhi Police had earlier filed a 1000-page chargesheet in a Metropolitan Magistrate's Court i...