Charul Shah

Enforcement Directorate files plea for extradition of Lalit Modi

The central agency requested a letter of request be issued, under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, to a competent court in the United Kingdom to bring back Modi to India.

J Dey murder trial: Wife deposes in MCOCA court

Senior crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey was tense a week before he was murdered and his behaviour had changed, said his wife Shubha Sharma on Monday in her deposition before the special MCOCA court. 

13 years after Canadian doctor’s murder in Mumbai, trial to start

Thirteen years after the gruesome murder of a Canadian national, Dr Asha Goel, the case has finally been committed to the sessions court for a trial against her relatives.

Witnesses back out in gangster’s murder trial

With witnesses turning hostile, the prosecution now faces an uphill task to prove that Farid Tanasha, a close associate of gangster Chhota Rajan, was killed in a dispute with a developer over a redevelopment project of a society in Chembur .

ED moves court to declare Mallya proclaimed offender

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has approached the special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to declare businessman Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender and attach his properties. The court is scheduled to hear the

2008 Malegaon blast: Accused asks court to keep records sealed

Colonel Prasad Purohit said the Army submitted the documents only after confirming that they would remain sealed and would not be shared with anyone else

Mumbai court rejects defence application to question Headley

A sessions court on Tuesday rejected the application of a defence lawyer seeking to question Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley again in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case.

‘Rahul’s Twitter account’ claims Peter did not know about Sheena murder

A person close to Rahul, who is Peter’s younger son from his first marriage, confirmed that the Twitter account, @rahulmukerjea, is being run by him and the tweets are independent

70 people from Mumbai, Maharashtra on ISIS hit list: ATS charge sheet

At least 70 people from Mumbai and Maharashtra are on the ‘very important kill list’ of the ISIS, reveals the anti-terrorism squad’s (ATS) charge sheet on the Parbhani module.

Parbhani ISIS module: Suspects used 12 email IDs, apps to chat with handlers

Parbhani ISIS suspects ‘planned recces with bombs’

The charge sheet, of which HT has a copy, states that the suspects made bombs using information from websites sent to them by foreign ISIS handlers

Sheena Bora murder: Indrani’s driver got Rs 5 lakh after murder, says witness

Shyamvar Rai, an accused-turned-approver in the Sheena Bora murder case, received Rs5 lakh from Indrani’s firm after the murder of Sheena and used the money to buy a plot of land in his native place

Peter tried to dissuade Rahul from looking for Sheena

The supplementary charge sheet filed by CBI on Friday included 61 pages containing several e-mails exchanged before and after the death of Sheena Bora between the father and son showing how Peter convinced Rahul to move on with life and stop looking for Sheena.

Indrani tried to kill me twice: Mekhail Bora

HT had earlier reported that Mekhail said Indrani had made an identical attempt on his life on April 24, 2012, the day she allegedly murdered Sheena

Peter to Rahul: Who knows what people can do to save their girl

The charge sheet states that Indrani had told Peter over the phone about choosing the place where she planned to dispose of Sheena’s body

Sheena Bora murder case: Peter knew about the conspiracy, says CBI

Shyamvar Rai, who was the Mukerjeas’ driver, stated that when he had taken Indrani to Raigad to search for a place to dispose of Sheena and Mikhail’s body, Indrani had called Peter and said ‘it is a good place’

Accused in child abuse cases wait years for their trial to start

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 makes it mandatory for the courts to complete the trial of a case related to sexual abuse of minor children within a year. In many cases, however, the special courts have not even begun the trials within a year from the date of taking cognizance of the offence.

Desilting scam: The muck didn’t stop there

BMC road scam: How contractors beat the system

BMC official imposed fine to help contractor: Police

Kishor Yerme, former executive engineer (road works), who had imposed a penalty on a defaulting contractor after the investigation into road scam, did so only to help the contractor get a clean chit in the case, according to the charge sheet filed by the Mumbai police

Desilting scam: The muck didn’t stop there

Former chief engineer arrested in road repairs scam had been suspended after a civic body inquiry into the desilting scam last year, says retired BMC official

BMC road scam: How contractors, officials beat the system

How did several contractors, auditors, engineers and civic body officials get away with the Rs352-crore road repairs scam? They simply found a way around a system meant to keep them honest

Mumbai road scam: charge sheet says contractors pocketed Rs8.52 cr in western suburbs alone

The charge sheet against three Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials on the Rs352.16 crore scam shows that while Rs18.74 crore was allotted to build or repair 11 roads in the western suburbs, the six appointed used just Rs10.22 crore, duping the civic body of Rs8.52 crore

In Mumbai: Sanatan Sanstha seeks probe into finances of Dabholkar’s family, finances of the Samiti

The Sanstha has recently obtained a report on the investigation carried out by the superintendent of the Registrar of Public Trust office, Satara on the MANS through an RTI.

Creative producer Barun Kashyap gets bail in cowhide bag case

On Saturday the court ordered to release Kashyap on cash bond of Rs15,000 and also imposed several conditions on him.

Cowhide bag case: Court likely to decide on Barun Kashyap’s bail plea today

Kashyap’s lawyer, Vijay Hiremath, had moved the bail application, saying that Kashyap had been falsely implicated

Cowhide bag: Court reserves order on Barun Kashyap’s bail plea

The metropolitan magistrate’s court in Andheri on Saturday remanded creative producer Barun

ATS files charge sheet in Parbhani ISIS module case

The Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad (ATS) on Friday filed a 3,632-page charge sheet against five accused in the Parbhani ISIS module case.

Gadoli fake encounter: 3 suspects, including police constable, still absconding

Charge sheet includes the statements of 87 witnesses, several documents and CCTV camera footage of the hotel where Gadoli was killed. It includes telephonic conversations between Gadoli’s girlfriend, her mother and others connected to the case

Gadoli’s family not satisfied with investigation

Gadoli’s elder brother Bramhaprakash said the agency was protecting several people and the key accused have still not been arrested