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New Delhi, January 7: TEN months back, a Sessions Court acquitted the five accused in the murder of Outlook journalist Irfan for lack of evidence, pointing out that there had been lapses in the investigation. Till now, even as a fresh appeal in the case awaits admission in the High Court, no steps have been recommended against the three police stations connected to the case. The case dates back to...

A photojournalist was roughed up by a Delhi Police official Thursday and his camera smashed while he was taking pictures of the general strike called by Airports Authority of India (AAI) staff. B.B. Chaudhary, assistant commissioner of police posted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, manhandled Kamal Singh of the Press Trust of India (PTI). He snatched Singh's camera and smashed it on the...

Hours after receiving a jolt from the Supreme Court, RK Sharma, a suspended Haryana cadre IPS officer and key accused in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, on Tuesday downplayed his alleged intimate relationship with the deceased scribe but claimed she knew several top BJP leaders, the Daily News & Analysis (DNA) has reported. Some details: “She (Shivani) knew many officers in various...

New Delhi, September 3: A woman journalist was allegedly assualted by the Chief Medical Officer of Sushrusta Truama Centre in N Delhi on Saturday evening. According to the journalist, the incident took place while she had gone to the trauma centre in the line of her work. “Alongwith a newspaper reporter, I had gone to the centre to find out about a child — Shahid, from Balli Maran — who was...

An expert witness today told a city court, trying the journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, that a polygraph test of the main accused suspended IPS officer R K Sharma was never conducted, saya a Zee News report. Deposing before the Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar, Vibha Rani Ray stated that she had conducted the polygraph tests of Shivani’s husband, Rakesh Bhatnagar, her sister...

The family of murdered Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussain will challenge the acquittal of all five accused in the Delhi High Court. Hussain was abducted and later murdered by a gang of auto-snatchers on National Highway 24 in east Delhi on March 8, 1999. Hussain's father Mansoor Bhai has given his consent to challenge the acquittals and seek a re-investigation into the 1999 murder, Outlook editor...

New Delhi: A CNN-IBN Special Investigation on how the Delhi Police handled Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussain murder's seven years ago has found that the probe was shoddy, the trial court misled and crucial evidence missing. March 8, 1999: Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussain murdered 31 March 2006: Trial court in Delhi declares the five accused not guilty The court said the prosecution had failed to...

As a controversy rages over the acquittal of all five accused in the murder case of cartoonist Irfan Hussain, the prosecuting agency has concluded that it would be 'futile' to appeal against the trial court verdict. Highlighting the 'missing links' and the incidents of key witnesses turning hostile in the case, Y P S Ahaluwalia, the chief public prosecutor in the Karkardooma Court, in his report...

New Delhi, March 31: ALL the five people accused of killing Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussein to steal his car seven years ago were acquitted by a trial court here today. Additional Sessions Judge Talwant Singh acquitted the accused saying the prosecution had "not been able to link the accused with the commission of crime beyond reasonable doubt". The case unravelled when key witness Banwari Lal...

The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed operation of an order passed by the trial court directing the prosecution to furnish to prime accused and suspended IPS officer R. K. Sharma copies of certain observations by Rakesh Bhatnagar recorded by the investigating officer in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, says a United News of India (UNI) report in the Hindu. Details: While staying the trial courtâ...