February 16, 2026 6:09 pm
While hearing Abu Salem’s plea, the Bombay High Court made a prima facie observation in July 2025 that he had not completed 25 years of incarceration to qualify for remission of his sentence.
August 23, 2025 9:53 pm
Silence of the state government for ‘quite a long time’ appears that the State was ‘complicit’, observes court.
July 16, 2022 3:41 am
Rubaiya, daughter of former J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, was abducted from a minibus in Srinagar on December 8, 1989, when she was returning home to Nowgam from the Lal Ded Memorial Women Hospital in Srinagar. She was released in exchange for five jailed militants.
October 23, 2018 12:13 am
Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) is susceptible to heavy police misuse. It must be repealed.
December 22, 2017 7:55 am
Now 60, Sufi will walk out of the Jaipur Central Jail this Saturday for a seven-day parole to attend his son’s wedding.
August 19, 2017 11:44 pm
"After the 1993 blasts, when the law was needed the most, it was repealed. This was just around 25 years back... When Vajpayeeji was the PM, we brought the law back in the form of POTA," said Arun Jaitley.
March 22, 2016 11:39 am
The Bollywood star was arrested on April 19, 1993, for possession and destruction of an AK-56 rifle which was a part of cache of arms and explosives that landed in India prior to the serial blasts in Mumbai in March 1993.
February 26, 2016 9:06 am
Bhullar’s death sentence had been converted into life imprisonment by Supreme Court in 2014 and he had been transferred from Tihar jail to the Amritsar jail in 2015.
November 05, 2015 2:18 am
"We had filed our objections to some of the charges on the previous date” said Ansari’s lawyer, Advocate Ishrat Khan. On Friday, Ansari will face trial through video-conference.
September 28, 2015 12:12 am
Without police reforms, Gujarat’s proposed counter-terror law will, once more, institutionalise persistent abuses.


