saleem Noted criminal advocate Ram Jeth Malani on Thursday stated that he would not support the candidature of UPA candidate Pranab mukherjee for the Presidential elections.
Talking to media persons at a private hotel, Ram Jethmalani accused Mukherjee of supporting the emergency during Indira Gandhi’s regime and responsible for the excesses and atrocities. When his nomination was announced, it reminded me of black days during the emergency period, he said.
Petrol price was cut today by Rs 2.46 per litre, the second reduction this month.
Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 67.78 a litre with effect from midnight tonight as against Rs 70.24 a litre, three oil marketing companies announced today.
State-owned oil firms, which had last month hiked petrol price by a massive Rs 7.54 a litre, had on June 3 cut rates by Rs 2.02 per litre.
The Supreme of India today issued notices to state Government in connection with the bail petitions of Mohammed Bin Omer Yafai @ Mohammed Pahelwan in MIM Chandrayangutta MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi attack case.
The Apex court has asked the Government to file the reply within three weeks. Hearing upon the matter in Special Leave petition filed by the accused,the double bench of Supreme court comprising Justice H.L. Gokhale and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai heard the arguements of senior defence counsel KTS Tulsi and issued the notice.
Police have sought the custody of suspected terrorist Syed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal, arrested on June 21 at IGI airport in Delhi, as he is wanted in two cases being probed by the state Anti-terrorism Squad.
“We were the first one to disclose his name. Our ATS is in touch with Delhi police to bring Jundal here, we have formally put in our request,” Director General of Police Chitranjan Singh said here.
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YSR Congress on Wednesday came down heavily on CBI Joint Director VV Lakshminaryana for taking the case too personal and joining hands with the adversaries of Sakshi media house and Party President YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
“We don’t mind if he wants to join a political party or a media house opposing us, but being in government, he should do justice to his duty without any prejudice but his behaviour is otherwise ever since the investigation began,” party spokesperson Bajireddy Goverdhan told reporters here.
In a setback to suspended IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, who was arrested in the Obulapuram Mining Corporation’s illegal mining scam, the High Court on Wednesday refused to grant her bail.
After hearing the arguments and counter arguments, the court rejected the bail petition of Srilakshmi. The CBI counsel argued that she might tamper with evidence and influence the witnesses if she was granted bail. Stating that her presence was still necessary for the investigation agency, the counsel appealed to court not to grant bail to Srilakshmi.
Former Congress minister J C Diwakar Reddy on Wednesday claimed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi has assured him that she would resolve the controversial Telangana statehood issue soon.
Communist Party of India state secretary K Narayana on Wednesday said that the CPI would not extend support to anybody in the Presidential elections scheduled to be held in July.
Talking to media persons, Narayana stated that the party would not take part in the elections in protest against the delay in the formation of Telangana State. He accused the UPA’s Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee of being responsible for delaying the statehood to the region.
Former minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Wednesday slammed the State Government for not implementing the Central Administrative Tribunal orders in the appointment of Director General of Police.
UPA Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee will have a meeting with the Congress members of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly here on July one, party sources said.
He will meet with the Congress MLAs, MLCs and MPs at Jubilee Hall here. The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has sent a communication to all its legislators to attend the meeting without fail, the sources said.
Congress has a strength of 155 in the 294-member House. The city-based Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), which has a strength of seven MLAs, has announced support for Mukherjee’s candidature.
Lamenting that cops who played a partisan role in sensitive situations had gone unpunished, National Commission for Minorities Chairperson Wajahat Habibullah today stressed on the need for police reform which would ensure that the guilty are brought to book.
Habibullah, who was speaking at an interaction organised by the European Union in support of torture victims, said policemen accused of murder in Hashimpura killings even managed to get promotions under the present system.
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BJP state president G Kishen Reddy on Tuesday demanded the all parties to make their stand clear on Telangana statehood issue to put an end to uncertainty in the State.
Addressing the district president and office-bearers meeting at party office, Nampally, Kishen Reddy appealed to the Centre to take steps for bifurcating the state by moving a bill on Telangana in the parliament and restore the peace and harmony in the State.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday convened a review meeting with Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana and six other in-charge ministers, who were appointed to look into by-elections in constituencies at his Camp Office over the party drubbing in the recent by-elections.
Following complaint lodged by Vasireddy Chandrabala, the IBM employee and classmate of CBI Joint Director, the Cyberabad Crime Station police on Tuesday registered cases against K Yadagiri Reddy, senior correspondent of Sakshi and M Srinivasa Rao, Inspector of Nacharam Police station.
In her complaint, Vasireddy Chandrabala stated that the programmes telecast in Sakshi channel aimed to damage her dignity and reputation by making public the confidential information of call details of her mobile phone.
CBI today carried out searches at the residential premises of a former branch Manager of Bank of Maharashtra after registering a case of alleged corruption against him in disbursement of loans worth Rs 1.76 crore.
The agency registered a case under IPC section related to cheating, forgery among other charges on former Branch Manager, Bank of Maharashtra Leader Road branch Allahabad and five others, CBI spokesperson said here.
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Five persons, including three women, were arrested for allegedly duping people on the pretext of providing maid servants who would disappear within hours of joining.
Lakhan Singh, Bablu, Anita, Sapna and Poonam were arrested on a complaint filed by one Dinesh Shabharwal of Shalimar Bagh that he was cheated of Rs 16,000 by the gang for arranging a maid.
He said the maid who joined duty disappeared within an hour and never returned.
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PCC spokesperson B Kamalakar Rao on Monday appealed to all regional parties to support the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee for the President’s Post, for which the elections would be held in July.
Former Minister and Congress Coordination Committee member Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Monday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh appealing him to ensure 4.5 percent quota for socially and educationally backward minority communities in the Central Government’s educational institutions and in employment.
The State Police on Monday claimed that it has so far identified 65 accused involved in the carnage of Dalits of Laxmipet village of Vangara mandal in Srikakulam district on June 12.
According to Additional Director General of Police (Law & Order) and spokesperson SA Huda, the Crime Investigation Department has been going into the entire gamut of this episode. “They have fairly gathered good information so far of the actual accused who participated in the carnage and those who are behind the scene as part of criminal conspiracy,” he said.
The rumblings over Congress’s poor performance in the recent bye-elections in Andhra Pradesh continued on Sunday, with some leaders calling for corrective measures after the coming Presidential election.
“The party’s position in the state is not good. Efforts are on to improve the things. I am confident that Congress would retain power in 2014 Assembly elections. There may be a revamp in the organisation and the government after the Presidential election and the best thing would be done,” Congress MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao said in Vijayavada today.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Sunday recorded the statements of three accused, including suspended IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, in connection with Obulapuram Mining Company(OMC) case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Armed with permission from a CBI court, a four-member ED team went to Chanchalguda jail here and questioned them before recording their statements under the PMLA, jail sources said.
As G20 countries worked on steps to tackle black money, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said it is a problem but no “magic solutions” were available to deal with menace.
“The problem is there but there are no magic solutions available. I think it is going to be a slow process,” Singh told reporters accompanying him on his return home after his eight-day foreign tour.
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The body of a teenaged girl was today fished out of a canal in Outer Delhi this morning, police said.
The incident was reported from Bawana and the victim is aged around 15.
Investigators suspected that the girl was raped before she was murdered and dumped in the canal.
The body has been sent for postmotem.
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An engineer turned politician, Mohammed Mursi has come a long way to become the first freely elected President of Egypt that saw its strongman Hosni Mubarak being ousted in what is now famously called Arab Spring.
Although, not their first choice as a presidential candidate, the powerful Muslim Brotherhood threw its weight behind Mursi, 60, the chairman of its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).
Telangana Political Joint Action Committee chairman Prof M Kondandaram on Sunday advocated reservation for Muslims in employment and jobs.