NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Friday acquitted former coal ministry officials H C Gupta (secretary), K S Kropha (joint secretary), and K C Samaria (coal allocation director) in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of Jharkhand’s Mahuagarhi coal block to JAS Infrastructure Capital Pvt Ltd, a private company.The court of special judge…
The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted Jamaat-e-Islami leader, ATM Azharul Islam, who was handed the death sentence in a case related to 1971 war crimes. He was accused of killing 1,256 people and raping 13 women during Bangladesh’s Liberation War. In a separate case, a Dhaka court on Tuesday acquitted senior journalist Shafik Rehman…
CHANDIGARH: A special CBI court here on Saturday acquitted former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Justice (Retd) Nirmal Yadav and four others in the 2008 cash-at-judge’s door case. In the sensational case, a packet containing Rs 15 lakh was allegedly wrongly delivered at the residence of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur, another sitting high court judge,…
A contract killer accused of killing a Sikh businessman acquitted in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight has been handed life imprisonment in Canada, the BBC reported. Tanner Fox, 24, was found guilty of second degree murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022. His co-accused, Jose Lopez, will be sentenced later this week….