Regular or Fast Track Courts have to decide whether a rape case is false, Parliament was told by Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily today.The statement came in a written reply to whether the government has decided that money awarded to rape victims be decided by special fast track courts set up for the purpose.Nationalist Congress Party Member Supriya Sule from Maharashtra asked if the government...
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Madhur Bhandarkar to stand trial in Priti Jain rape case < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateA city court on Wednesday ruled that film maker Madhur Bhandarkar will stand trial for allegedly raping model-turned-actress Priti Jain, five years after her complaint to the police.The court's ruling came after it held that the first information report (FIR) Priti Jain filed against Bhandarkar was not false, as...
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Bijender Singh, third mainaccused in the Nari Niketan rape case, was produced on Saturday before the dutymagistrate in the district courts, which sent him to judicial custody in BurailJail.The accused was produced by the special investigation team(SIT) after two days of custodial interrogation. Bijender was arrested onWednesday by SIT for his involvement in the case of a mentally-challenged inmatewas...
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Chandigarh police producedBijender Singh, who was arrested in the Nari Niketan rape case on Wednesday,before additional chief judicial magistrate Anshul Beri, who sent him in two-daypolice custody.Bijender is accused of having sexually violated amentally challenged 19-year-old inmate of Nari Niketan.On Thursday, police had sought four-day custody of the accused forthorough interrogation.Sources said...
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Chambal dacoit, Shiv Dutt, and three of his accomplices have been arrested for allegedly making extortion calls to a resident of Sangam Vihar here.According to the police, Shiv Dutt had been making threatening phone calls to the Sangam Vihar resident asking him to cough up Rs.10 lakh. When the latter refused, Shiv Dutt allegedly burnt down his ancestral property at Dholpur in Rajasthan.Over a dozen...
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crime branch on Monday said it had solved a sensational kidnapping and gangrape case. The police said that during investigations, they also stumbled on aprostitution racket operating as an `escort service' in Mumbai andPune.While the Pune police have registered a prostitution case, theMalvani police have registered a kidnapping and rape case. The Mumbai crimebranch has arrested Pradeep Gawli, Babloo...
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Cyrus Colabawala, an accused in the TISS gang rape case, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking bail.Colabawala approached the court after his bail application was rejected by the trial court on September 19.“FIR indicates a speculation by the complainant that she might have been subjected to rape,” states his bail application.Colabawala’s application states that his mere presence in the vicinity...
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MLA and BJP candidate Prashant Mandal was arrested after filing his nomination for Poraiyahat Assembly seat going to the first phase of polling on November 25.Mandal was charged with blocking road under Poraiyahat police station as he led a group of protestors in September last who demanded immediate arrest of the accused in a rape case.The BJP nominee was also charged with dirupting office function...
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rape case filed in 2004 by aspiring actress Preeti Jain has come back to haunt filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar. Rejecting the police's two B-summary reports giving a clean chit to Bhandarkar, an Andheri railway mobile court on Wednesday initiated an inquiry into Jain's allegations that the filmmaker repeatedly raped her between 1999 and 2004 after promising to marry her and cast her in his film.Metropolitan...
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film maker Madhur Bhandarkar will stand trial for allegedly raping model-turned-actress Priti Jain, five years after her complaint to the police.The court's ruling came after it held that the first information report (FIR) Priti Jain filed against Bhandarkar was not false, as he had contended, Priti's counsel Sushan Kunjuraman said."The proposal of B-Summary case was filed by the Varsova police station...
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