Fake Encounter Death

He also says no other period in the annals of India's criminal justice system than this could be more appropriate to discuss the extra-judicial killings or the false encounters resulting in the deaths of alleged criminals.

Over three decades after the death of a 21-year-old man in a fake encounter in Bareilly, a local court on Friday sentenced a retired sub inspector to life imprisonment.

Two policemen, charged with the death of a tribal girl in an alleged fake encounter in 2011, were acquitted by a court in Chhattisgarh despite "ample suspicion" as the prosecution failed to submit strong evidence against the accused.

Two years after his death, the remains of 22-year-old Badru Madavi lie preserved in a village in Chhattisgarh in a large pit using herbs, salt and medicinal oil wrapped in white shroud and plastic.

The death of Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey while he was in the custody of the state police was not a "fake encounter", the UP Police have told the Supreme Court. The UP Police in an affidavit said "the state authorities acted as per law and Supreme Court guidelines".

A lawyer has petitioned the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court seeking police probe into the "suspicious and untimely" death of CBI judge BH Loya.

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict rejecting the demand for an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge BH Loya, who dealt with the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The website of the Supreme Court crashed today minutes after the top court ruled that there will not be any independent probe into Judge BH Loya death, who died while hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, in which Amit Shah was an accused.

The death of judge BH Loya in 2014 while deciding on murder charges against BJP president Amit Shah will not be investigated, the Supreme Court said today, calling petitions for an independent probe "scandalous" and a "frontal attack on the judiciary". A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said the petitions were in criminal contempt...

Justice Abhay Thipsay, a retired High Court judge, has raised questions about a special CBI court giving clean chits to high-profile accused probed for the extra-judicial killing of a petty criminal from Gujarat, Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Justice Thipsay, who had rejected bail petitions of some accused in this case when he was a judge at the high court, ...

The Supreme Court today sternly said that it was concerned only with the death of special CBI judge BH Loya, and would not go into other aspects including BJP chief Amit Shah's discharge in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The Supreme Court will resume today hearing on the pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged mysterious death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the sensitive Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

Calling it a "serious matter", the Supreme Court today asked for all documents related to the Judge BH Loya case and said it would look into it "in a fair way". The court also took over two related cases from the Bombay High Court. In an hour-long hearing packed with drama, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra lost his temper, a lawyer had to apologi...

The case about judge BH Loya's death, one of the main triggers for an unprecedented crisis in India's judiciary, could be reassigned. The two judges hearing the case on Tuesday said in an order that the case be "put up before the appropriate bench". That means the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, has to decide whether to transfer the case to a ...

Documents related to the death of Judge BH Loya, including postmortem details and a 50-page intelligence report, were submitted today to the Supreme Court, which is hearing petitions asking for an independent investigation into the judge's death after his family raised questions in November.

He also says no other period in the annals of India's criminal justice system than this could be more appropriate to discuss the extra-judicial killings or the false encounters resulting in the deaths of alleged criminals.

Over three decades after the death of a 21-year-old man in a fake encounter in Bareilly, a local court on Friday sentenced a retired sub inspector to life imprisonment.

Two policemen, charged with the death of a tribal girl in an alleged fake encounter in 2011, were acquitted by a court in Chhattisgarh despite "ample suspicion" as the prosecution failed to submit strong evidence against the accused.

Two years after his death, the remains of 22-year-old Badru Madavi lie preserved in a village in Chhattisgarh in a large pit using herbs, salt and medicinal oil wrapped in white shroud and plastic.

The death of Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey while he was in the custody of the state police was not a "fake encounter", the UP Police have told the Supreme Court. The UP Police in an affidavit said "the state authorities acted as per law and Supreme Court guidelines".

A lawyer has petitioned the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court seeking police probe into the "suspicious and untimely" death of CBI judge BH Loya.

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict rejecting the demand for an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge BH Loya, who dealt with the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The website of the Supreme Court crashed today minutes after the top court ruled that there will not be any independent probe into Judge BH Loya death, who died while hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, in which Amit Shah was an accused.

The death of judge BH Loya in 2014 while deciding on murder charges against BJP president Amit Shah will not be investigated, the Supreme Court said today, calling petitions for an independent probe "scandalous" and a "frontal attack on the judiciary". A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said the petitions were in criminal contempt...

Justice Abhay Thipsay, a retired High Court judge, has raised questions about a special CBI court giving clean chits to high-profile accused probed for the extra-judicial killing of a petty criminal from Gujarat, Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Justice Thipsay, who had rejected bail petitions of some accused in this case when he was a judge at the high court, ...

The Supreme Court today sternly said that it was concerned only with the death of special CBI judge BH Loya, and would not go into other aspects including BJP chief Amit Shah's discharge in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The Supreme Court will resume today hearing on the pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged mysterious death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the sensitive Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

Calling it a "serious matter", the Supreme Court today asked for all documents related to the Judge BH Loya case and said it would look into it "in a fair way". The court also took over two related cases from the Bombay High Court. In an hour-long hearing packed with drama, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra lost his temper, a lawyer had to apologi...

The case about judge BH Loya's death, one of the main triggers for an unprecedented crisis in India's judiciary, could be reassigned. The two judges hearing the case on Tuesday said in an order that the case be "put up before the appropriate bench". That means the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, has to decide whether to transfer the case to a ...

Documents related to the death of Judge BH Loya, including postmortem details and a 50-page intelligence report, were submitted today to the Supreme Court, which is hearing petitions asking for an independent investigation into the judge's death after his family raised questions in November.