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...
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today reserved judgement on the bail plea of Inder Sain and Avtar Singh, the two accused in the murder of a journalist in Sirsa. The two accused, the disciples of Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa town, were allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati and another person, Ranjit Singh of Kurukshetra. They were earlier granted interim anticipatory...
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...
Press freedom organisations have welcomed the conviction in the murder of Carlos Cardoso, but called on authorities to pursue those who had masterminded the killing of Mozambique's leading investigative journalist. A court in the capital, Maputo, convicted Anibal dos Santos Jr for the second time of recruiting Cardoso's killers. Dos Santos, better known as Anibalzinho, was sentenced to almost 30...
Reports of international condemnation of the killing of a young journalist by a forest ranger in Assam are trickling in but the Indian government is yet to make even the ritual noises about the gruesome murder that has shaken conservationists and journalists alike in the Northeast state. CONCERNED: UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura speaks at a news conference in Bridgetown, Barbados...
GUWAHATI, JANUARY 10: The ranger of the Nambor reserved forest, K Z Zaman Jinnah, was arrested for allegedly murdering journalist Prahlad Goala of Assamese daily Asomiya Khabar in Golaghat on Friday last. Goala had reported on illegal felling of trees in the forest range. Goala, the Golaghat district correspondent of the daily, was reportedly killed by unidentified assailants who waylaid him at...
Twenty-five years after the alleged rape and murder of a woman journalist in Orissa, a statue of hers has been put up in a village as a mark of respect. Chabirani Das was gangraped and murdered near the Beluakhai beach in the coastal district of Jagatsinghpur on Oct 3, 1980. She was staying along with her husband Naba and a child at Dihasaibiri village in the same district. Chabirani was a...
Both factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) have denied involvement in the attack on a journalist in Kohima Thursday last. An NSCN(Khaplang) leader said in Kohima, "The NSCN(K) gives due respect to the Fourth Estate'' and contended that it had never "committed terrorist acts on innocent people". ASSURANCE: Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio said the attack on Rutsa was '...
London, 24 Nov. (AKI) - The widow of Tariq Ayyoub, the journalist from satellite TV network Al Jazeera, who was killed when the station’s Baghdad offices were bombed in 2003, says she is considering sueing the US government over his death. The revelation follows reports in British newspaper The Daily Mirror, that US president George W. Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar but...
