Fake Encounter Cases
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Ishrat Jahan case: CBI not to challenge discharge of ex-Gujarat police officers DG Vanzara, NK Amin
Central Bureau of Investigation lawyer RC Kodekar conveyed the decision in a written submission to special CBI judge RK Chudawala on Thursday.
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Former Gujarat police officers DG Vanzara, NK Amin discharged in Ishrat Jahan encounter case
A special court dropped the proceedings as the CBI did not get the Gujarat government’s sanction to prosecute them.
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Ishrat Jahan case: CBI says Gujarat government refused sanction to prosecute former police officers
The defence lawyer asked the court permission to file an application to drop proceedings against DG Vanzara and NK Amin.
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Uttar Pradesh encounters: UN human rights experts concerned about killings, call for investigation
The experts have sent detailed information to the Indian government about 15 such cases, but are reportedly yet to receive a response.
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Gujarat ‘fake encounters’: Final report of monitoring panel should be given to petitioners, says SC
A panel led by former judge HS Bedi investigated 22 encounter cases and submitted its report in a sealed cover last year.
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‘Who killed Sohrabuddin Sheikh inquiry?’ Arun Jaitley responds to Rahul Gandhi’s remark on verdict
The Union minister said he had written to former PM Manmohan Singh on the politicisation of the investigation in 2013, which has turned true over the years.
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Video
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‘Can you feel it?’ Watch Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Fallon guess what’s inside mystery box
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Caught on camera: The moment when a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Bangladesh
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‘A reporter is arrested under a law meant for terrorists...’: A newspaper editor on press freedom
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh case: CBI inquiry was ‘preconceived and premeditated’, says trial court judge
Special CBI court judge SJ Sharma accused the agency of ‘creating evidence’ and ‘placin witnesses’ in the chargesheet.
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Gujarat ‘fake encounters’: SC asks head of inquiry panel if he shared report with other members
Former judge HS Bedi had submitted a report of the monitoring committee in a sealed cover in February.
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter: Special CBI court to deliver judgement on December 21
The CBI had told the court that hostile witnesses obstructed the probe into the deaths of Sheikh, his wife Kauserbi and his aide Tulsiram Prajapati.
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‘Gumraah’ trailer: Crime thriller stars Aditya Roy Kapur in a double role, Mrunal Thakur as a cop
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How OP Nayyar was one of the original disruptors of Hindi film music
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Sohrabuddin case: Final arguments end, CBI accuses hostile witnesses of hindering investigation
Out of the 210 witnesses examined by the prosecution, 92 were declared hostile.
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh ‘fake encounter’ case: CBI court begins hearing final arguments
The Mumbai court is also hearing arguments in the case related to the encounter death of Sheikh’s aide Tulsiram Prajapati in 2006.
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Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case: Amit Shah among main conspirators, says investigating officer
Sandeep Tamgadge, in his testimony before the Central Bureau of Investigation court in Mumbai, said there was a ‘politician-criminal-police nexus’.
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The Field
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Women’s Boxing World C’ships: Nitu Ghanghas, Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain into finals
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IND v AUS: Rohit Sharma on workload management for World Cup – ‘Up to IPL franchises and players’
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