MUMBAI: Bombay HC on Tuesday rejected a petition by Mirza Himayat Baig, who was convicted in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case, to shift him to a general barrack from solitary confinement.“At this stage, there is no concern about any psychological trauma on account of any indefinite solitary confinement,” said Justices Revati Mohite Dere…
NEW DELHI: Former Delhi minister and senior AAP leader leader Satyendar Jain, after being granted bail by the Rouse Avenue Court, has spoken out against the central government on Saturday, accusing it of using legal cases to suppress AAP leaders and hinder their efforts to bring about political change.Jain was arrested in May 2022 in…
Iwao Hakamada, left, is helped by a supporter as he goes for a walk in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan. (Picture credit: AP) Iwao Hakamata, world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, was acquitted on Thursday, five decades after being wrongfully convicted of murdering four of a family in 1968, reported CNN.The 88-year-old spent 46 years behind…
KOLKATA: CBI’s remand note to a trial court Friday seeking judicial custody of police volunteer Sanjay Roy, the lone suspect to be arrested in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, makes no mention of “gang rape” or the possible involvement of more than one person in the Aug 9 crime.The parents of the victim, a…
NEW DELHI: Recalling his solitary confinement and the plight he suffered, Captain Saurab Vasisht and his father have written to PM Modi thanking him for his release along with other Navy personnel from Qatar earlier this year, where they were detained in an alleged case of espionage.“In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, you emerged…
