When a trawler blew up in Hong Kong’s Aberdeen harbour, killing three marine police officers and injuring 10 “A Marine officer was killed yesterday when the trawler he was inspecting blew up in Aberdeen,” reported the South China Morning Post on April 7, 1977. “And last night two of the three Marine assistants accompanying him … Read more
The Supreme Court is poised to deliver its verdict on a series of petitions challenging the validity of the electoral bond scheme. This decision follows a five-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, reserving its judgment on the matter last year on November 2. The bench also comprised Justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR … Read more
Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said that the Maharashtra government should not give any relief to the 11 convicts of Bilkis Bano case. “The Maharashtra government should not give any relief. This was a serious and heinous crime. Seven people died. What this woman (Bilkis) suffered, the kind of atrocities she had … Read more
Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said that the Maharashtra government should not give any relief to the 11 convicts of Bilkis Bano case. “The Maharashtra government should not give any relief, this was a serious and heinous crime, 7 people died, what this woman (Bilkis) suffered, the kind of atrocities she had … Read more
New Delhi: Following are the highlights of the Supreme Court judgement pronounced on Monday quashing the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gang-rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 riots in the state, saying the orders were “stereotyped” and passed … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven family members during the 2002 riots in the state.Court’s DecisionA bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan deemed the PIL challenging … Read more
The debate generated so much heat that Xu’s sentence was reduced to seven years with a fine of 300,000 yuan on appeal, and authorities eventually punished officials who were previously untouched in the scandal. The case was one of several in the past decade in which Chinese members of the public used the transparency in … Read more
