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2002 Gujarat riots: 'Witness accounts exaggerated, even if true'
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA The special trial court that pronounced the verdict in the Saradarpura massacre case on Wednesday considered the testimony of all the key witnesses. However, it also found that several witnesses had
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:13A
2002 Sardarpura massacre: Teesta didn't tutor witnesses, says court
During the course of trial, the prosecution had alleged that the witnesses had been tutored by Setalvad, secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP).Allegations were also made that the witnesses had been made to sign false affidavits and were
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:07A
2002 Sardarpura massacre: 6-year delay kills conspiracy theory
In rejecting the prosecution argument that the massacre was the result of a conspiracy, the special trial court gave great importance to witnesses giving evidence about this after a six-year delay. The court seems to have relied mainly on the first
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:07A
Row over transfer of Karnataka top cop probing graft
Reddy, now in Hyderabad jail in connection with illegal mining case in Andhra Pradesh, was tourism minister at that time, facing a case of alleged demolition of a temple in Bellary, his political stronghold, about 300 km from Bangalore. A trial court
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:07A
2003 Mumbai twin blasts verdict on Dec 12
A division bench of Justice AM Khanvilkar and Justice PD Kode held a special hearing Saturday to complete hearing the arguments. Besides Ansari, there are two other prime accused Md. Hanif Syed and his wife Fahmida. All three were awarded death
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:07A
Boyland Walks
If ever there was an example of the legal difference between “not guilty” and “innocent,” it was in Thursday's federal court jury verdict on Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. The jurors acquitted Boyland of bribe-taking in a case that had
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:06A
6-year delay kills conspiracy theory
In rejecting the prosecution argument that the massacre was the result of a conspiracy, the special trial court gave great importance to witnesses giving evidence about this after a six-year delay. The court seems to have relied mainly on the first
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:01A
Court 'shocked' Pakistani men in jail 46 years
India's Supreme Court has denounced the detention without trial of more than 250 Pakistanis who illegally crossed the border into India, including four prisoners who have spent more than 40 years behind
Updated: 11/12/2011 05:00A
Israeli society is better for Katsav's rape conviction
When Justice Edna Arbel read out her part of the verdict, Katsav spoke to his son, who was sitting next to him, and when Justice Salim Joubran, who criticized both former Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and the media, noted that Katsav had slandered
Updated: 11/12/2011 04:59A
Old enmity claims 4 lives in Rawalpindi district courts
At least four people including two real brothers, their nephew and a passerby were shot dead while one was injured in Rawalpindi District Court on Saturday over old enmity. Accoring to the police, Chaudhry Shaukat, resident of Dhok Elahi Bux along with
Updated: 11/12/2011 04:51A
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