-The Indian Express Rattanpura, Rajasthan: On May 22, 2006, orders were passed to release Jagdish, a murder convict lodged in Hisar jail. But it took almost seven years for the orders to be implemented. Jagdish, a resident of Rattanpura in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan, was finally freed on April 6 this year. While nobody from his family was willing to stand surety for him, the Haryana and Rajasthan authorities engaged in a...
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The trial against other accused in 1984 riots case nearing completion-Jiby Kattakayam
-The Hindu Court order will not impact the trial against Panewala: CBI Even as the Sessions court order, rejecting the CBI clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler ensures that the investigation into the 1984 riots case will continue, the trial against the other accused person in the case, Suresh Kumar alias Panewala, who is charged with murder and rioting, is nearing completion. A CBI source said the agency has completed the examination...
More »Mumbai businessman wins battle with police over 'indecent' kiss
-AFP A man arrested for indecency after he kissed a female friend on the cheek says he has finally been Acquitted after a battle lasting more than a year against Mumbai police. Kuber Sarup, 26, was hauled to a city police station in February last year after an officer witnessed the alleged obscenity - a goodbye hug and a "peck on the cheek" - in the fashionable Bandra suburb. "He gave me a...
More »Fast track courts likely for cases involving “innocent Muslims”-Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Shinde assures MPs that such courts will be set up to expedite trial Amid charges of "innocent" Muslims being falsely implicated in terror cases, the Union government is likely to set up fast track courts to expedite their trial. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde gave the assurance to a group of MPs and civil rights activists who met him to demand a "clear-cut time frame" for setting up such courts and freeing...
More »Return my dignity, man absolved of rape asks SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India In a heart rending plea, a person Acquitted of rape charges has moved the Supreme Court seeking restoration of his lost dignity and honour. If the Nirbhaya case sensitized politicians, police, judiciary and media on security of women as well as not revealing the identity of a rape victim, the man who was Acquitted in the similarly sensational Mayapuri rape presented to the court how a person framed...
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