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...
WALVIS BAY, Namibia (Reuters) - A Namibian judge dismissed charges on Monday against a South African photographer arrested for trespassing while trying to snap a shot of pregnant superstar Angelina Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt. John Liebenberg was taken into custody on Friday afternoon after driving into the back of a police barracks in search of a vantage point to take a photograph of a nearby...
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court would henceforth monitor the progress of the CBI probe into the murder of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati and two other matters wherein the chief and the management of Dera Sacha Sauda, Sirsa, were allegedly involved. At the same time, the agency has been asked to submit the progress report on monthly basis, first such report to come in...
The year-long detention without trial of a Hong Kong reporter accused by China of spying for Taiwan is “not human”, activists pushing for his release said on Friday, but there was no clear end in sight. Ching Cheong, who worked for the Singapore Straits Times newspaper, was taken into custody in southern China a year ago on Saturday and formally arrested in August. His was one of a series of...
IMPHAL, Apr 17: Imphal-based newspapers will be suspending publication from Wednesday in protest against the arbitrary detention of six senior journalists last night by a faction of the underground KCP and strictures imposed upon the Imphal Free Press. The IFP however has not received any official ban notice from any underground group as yet. Members of the media fraternity will also be staging a...
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...
Ranchi: Police are yet to find any clue to the killing of a Jharkhand magazine's editor whose body was found in a house here several days after he went missing. The decomposed body of Nalin Mishra, editor of the fortnightly Jharkhand Today, was recovered Monday night but the autopsy report did not mention any injury mark. The report suggests that Mishra was killed March 30. He went missing on...
The family of a British cameraman shot dead by an Israeli soldier claimed yesterday that both the Foreign Office and the Israeli authorities had obstructed their search for justice. James Miller, 34, was killed by a single shot while making a documentary in the Gaza strip about Palestinian children. At an inquest opening yesterday in London, TV producer Daniel Edge told how he was with Mr Miller...
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...
