The Supreme Court (File photo) NEW DELHI: Warning the director general of UP Police to rein in his forces from routinely converting civil disputes into criminal cases to harass civilians, Supreme Court on Thursday said if the practice did not cease, it would pass orders that the DGP would “remember his whole life”.A bench of…
MUMBAI: Police probing the murder of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique said the wanted accused Mohammed Zeeshan Akhtar is emerging as the key link between the shooters and the main conspirators. He is the one who had reportedly been operating around 10 different bank accounts, and sent money to the suspects’ bank accounts.“Akhtar (29) and…
CHENNAI: History-sheeter ‘Kakkathope’ Balaji was killed in police encounter near Vyasarpadi Jeeva railway station, in North Chennai.The notorious gangster, Balaji alias ‘Kakkathope’ 40, was wanted in over 40 criminal cases, including extortion and murder.A police team, led by Inspector Buhari, tracked Balaji down to the B&C quarters on early Wednesday. When officers attempted to apprehend…
NEW DELHI: 28 of 71 (39%) ministers that are a part of the newly sworn-in PM Narendra Modi‘s cabinet have declared criminal cases against them, according to a report by Association of Democratic Reforms. Of these 19 (27%) of them have charges of serious crimes against them including murders and crimes against women.BJP’s West Bengal…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday rejected a PIL seeking direction to grant ‘extraordinary interim bail‘ to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in all the criminal cases.A division bench of acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, upon dismissal of the PIL fined the petitioner with Rs 75,000.The bench headed…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC has asked its judges to prioritise hearing of all criminal cases, appeals and revisions concerning MPs and MLAs so that the cases can be decided expeditiously and effectively.A division bench of acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora passed the order while dealing with a suo motu PIL…
VARANASI: Although his crime empire had started crumbling under crackdown by the Yogi Adityanath govt since 2017, the death of jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari drew curtains on his over four-decade reign of terror in eastern UP.He faced over 60 criminal cases, 16 of them for murder. The first case lodged against him was in…
