-IANS Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Wednesday said she was wrong in terming the Park Street rape case as a "sex deal gone wrong" and apologised to the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, which had summoned her. "Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Wednesday appeared before the commission and admitted that her remarks about the Park Street rape case were wrong and insensitive and duly apologised for it," commission joint secretary Sujay Haldar said. The...

-The Hindu Ahmedabad: The BJP government in Gujarat has decided to put on hold its decision to seek the death sentence for the former Gujarat Minister, Mayaben Kodnani, and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in the Naroda-Patiya massacre case, following stiff resistance from the Sangh Parivar. The Narendra Modi-led government has asked the special prosecutor probing the case of massacre of 91 people during the 2002 riots to put on hold its...

-Live Mint The GoM findings, draft will be submitted to the Supreme Court before 10 July Taking a cue from last week's adverse comments by the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to draft a law that will eventually seek to insulate the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from political influence. Finance minister P. Chidambaram, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, law minister Kapil Sibal and minister of...

-The Hindu Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named Gulab Chand Kataria, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Rajasthan, in the supplementary charge sheet it filed on Tuesday in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The former Rajasthan Home Minister is the second prominent BJP leader to be named in the case after the former Gujarat Home Minister, Amit Shah. Sessions court in Mumbai has issued...

-Deccan Herald The Supreme Court has sought a response from the State government on a petition filed by the mother of RTI activist and Congress worker Vasudev Adiga, challenging the Karnataka High Court's order granting bail to the alleged mastermind of her son's murder in January. A bench of Justices T S Thakur and S J Mukhopadhaya issued notice to the State government and one of the accused, Subramanya Udupa, on the...