Bengaluru, April 16 (IANS) Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S.V. Raju, appearing for the CBI, urged the Special Court for MLAs/MPs in Bengaluru on Thursday to award the harshest punishment to accused MLA Vinay Kulkarni and the other accused in the murder case of BJP leader and Zilla Panchayat member Yogesh Gowda.The Special Court for MLAs/MPs in Bengaluru on Wednesday held senior Congress MLA and former minister Vinay Kulkarni guilty in the murder case of the BJP leader. The court delive…
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New Delhi/Bhopal, April 1 (IANS) An MP-MLA court in New Delhi on Wednesday convicted sitting Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti in connection with a case dating back over 28 years, related to a Cooperative Rural Development Bank in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh.After convicting Bharti, who is the MLA from the Datia Assembly seat in the Gwalior division of Madhya Pradesh, the court sent him to jail, senior advocate Anil Kumar Shukla, who argued on behalf of the bank, told IANS on Wednesday.However, …
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) Ahead of the Assembly elections, a firearm with an expired licence and live cartridges were recovered from the vehicle of a former Congress MLA in West Bengal’s Malda district. Police arrested six individuals in connection with the incident.The arrested persons were produced before the Malda District Court on Sunday, where they were remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.With the Assembly election schedule announced and the Model Code of Conduct in force, surveillance …
Bhopal, Feb 27 (IANS) During the ongoing budget session of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Bhopal, political temperatures rose sharply when Congress MLA from Sheopur, Babu Jandel, staged a dramatic and unconventional protest outside the Assembly premises. In front of the Gandhi statue, the legislator performed a “Sheershasana” (prolonged headstand), which he described as Gandhian penance and Satyagraha against perceived injustice.Jandel claimed that the ruling government was subje…
Thiruvananthapuram Feb 23 (IANS) Kerala Police on Monday approached a Thiruvananthapuram court seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in connection with the second rape case, alleging that he violated key bail conditions by attempting to contact the survivor.The petition was filed before the court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class after investigators found that Mamkootathil had tried to reach the 23-year-old complainant, a native of…
Patna, Feb 9 (IANS) The Bihar Assembly witnessed protests on Monday, the fifth day of the Budget Session, as opposition parties raised strong objections over the rape and murder of a minor girl in Darbhanga, the suspicious death of a NEET aspirant, and the arrest of Purnea MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav.Congress MLA Abhishek Ranjan arrived at the Assembly portico wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan, “Today there will be jail, tomorrow there will be bail, and the day after tomorrow the sam…
Bengaluru, Feb 4 (IANS) The Karnataka Assembly proceedings continued on Wednesday amid protests by members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal(Secular). Soon after the session commenced, opposition members moved into the well of the House and began demanding the resignation of Excise Minister R.B. Thimmapur. They raised slogans and stated that they would allow the proceedings to continue only after the Minister tendered his resignation.Speaker U.T. Khader requested the members of …
Ballari (Karnataka), Jan 17 (IANS) Karnataka BJP will stage a large-scale protest demanding the arrest of Congress MLA Nara Bharath Reddy in connection with the death of a Congress worker and handing over of the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).The protest rally will be held in Ballari city and the police department has made eloborate security arrangements considering the seriousness of the case.BJP MLA and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy stated that the party is organising a…
Gwalior, Jan 14 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday condemned Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya’s controversial remarks on elected public representatives belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) communities, terming them “highly objectionable”.Baraiya, a senior Congress leader, while addressing a party meeting in Bhopal on Tuesday, compared MLAs and MPs belonging to the SC/ST communities with dogs, claiming the…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 11 (IANS) The members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), which is the youth wing of CPI(M), and the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Sunday held separate demonstrations against Rahul Mamkootathil, the expelled Congress MLA, who has been arrested in connection with a rape case. The protest erupted when the police brought the arrested MLA, who was earlier the Youth Congress Kerala president, to the Pathanamthitta district general hospital for a mandat…