Delhi

The trial in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, involving suspended Haryana IG R K Sharma and five other accused, inched towards conclusion after a city court today recorded the deposition of the 193rd witness out of the 200, says a Press Trust of India report in outlookindia.com. With the matter being transferred to Fast Track Court on the direction of the Delhi High Court and only a few more...

The Delhi High Court has granted interim bail for four weeks to former inspector general of Haryana Police R.K. Sharma, the key accused in the murder of Indian Express reporter Shivani Bhatnagar, according to an Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) report in the Times of India. Details: Granting bail, judge S.K. Aggarwal Friday directed that Sharma should not move out of his residence at Panchkula in...

A Delhi Fast Track Court has issued production warrants against suspended Haryana cadre IPS officer R K Sharma who, alongwith five others, is facing trial in the high-profile journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, according to a Press Trust of India report in Outlook. Details of the February 6, 2006 report: Additional Sessions Judge Rajendra Kumar, rejecting plea of Sharma’s counsel for...

A Delhi sessions court on Monday transferred the high-profile Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, involving suspended Haryana cadre IPS R K Sharma along with five others as accused, to a fast track court (FTC) for speedy disposal, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. Exactly seven years after the gruesome murder of The Indian Express scribe Bhatnagar in her East Delhi flat, additional sessions...

New Delhi, November 26: Two women correspondents of a news channel, while returning home in a vehicle after work, were chased and cornered by a white Indica car near Nizamuddin bridge here last night. The two women Star News correspondents were returning home from work at night in the company’s car when a white Indica car (HR 38 KT 4373) started chasing them while crossing the Nizamuddin Bridge...

Kumar Badal, a reporter with the news website Tehelka.com, was freed on bail on 13 January after six months in prison, by order of the supreme court in New Delhi. His release was welcomed by Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal, who noted that the site had been victimised for the past two years. Bail was set at 50,000 rupees (about 1,000 euros). At the last minute, police tried to foil the court order...

Journalist Kumar Badal, of the investigative website Tehelka.com, has gone on a hunger strike to protest his continued imprisonment. Badar has been detained for more than one month. On 16 August 2002, RSF joined those in India who are speaking out against the government's policy of intimidating the investigative press. In a letter to Interior Minister Lal Krishna Advani, RSF Secretary-General...

A court in Saharanpur (state of Uttar Pradesh) decided, on 4 July, to imprison Kumar Badal, a reporter with the on-line newspaper Tehelka.com. A hearing is to be held with Badal on 5 July in a poaching case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) accused Badal of asking poachers to kill wild animals in a national park. The site's managers have denounced this imprisonment, which, according to...

RSF protested the search carried out at the head office of the website Tehelka.com. "The fact that this search was conducted on the very same day that the website's editor was due to give evidence of capital importance in an inquiry into a corruption scandal shows that the Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] and the government are stepping up the pressure that has been exerted on the management...

CPJ is deeply disturbed by the murder of Anil Rattan, a free-lance journalist and former correspondent for the Hong Kong-based magazine "AsiaWeek". Rattan's killing marks the third murder of a journalist in the Indian capital in less than two months. Police say that Rattan's body was discovered in the bathroom of his Delhi apartment on 20 March 1999 "in a highly decomposed condition," and estimate...