NEW DELHI: Engineer Rashid, who recently stepped out of jail after interim bail in a terror-funding case, said on Thursday he would support the opposition INDIA bloc candidates in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir elections if it promises to restore Article 370, which granted the Valley a special status.“If INDIA alliance assures us that it…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has issued a notice to the Delhi Police regarding Umar Khalid’s bail plea in the UAPA case on Wednesday.A division bench of justice Suresh Kumar Kait and justice Girish Kathpalia has requested a response from the Delhi Police and scheduled the hearing for August 29. The Delhi Police’s special…
NEW DELHI: Noting that terrorism must be dealt with sternly, Delhi HC has rejected the plea of a terror convict seeking merging of two sentences in two different cases.The petitioner pleaded that since he had voluntarily pleaded guilty in both cases, HC should allow his seven-year sentence in a UAPA case for conspiring to establish…
JALANDHAR: One of former Punjab CM Beant Singh’s convicted assassins, Jagtar Singh Tara, was acquitted Thursday of waging war against the state in a 12-year-old case filed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Arms Act.Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee member Kulbir Singh Barapind and two others had been acquitted in that case in 2014.The court…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief, Prabir Purkayastha, on bail in connection with a case under UAPA. Purkayastha was accused of promoting Chinese propaganda. The court deemed his custody illegal as the Delhi Police had failed to provide him with a copy of the remand application….
