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Sadaf Modak
A legal correspondent based out of Mumbai, Sadaf mainly covers trial courts of the city. Apart from writing on major criminal cases, she also keeps a keen eye on the ordinary and not so ordinary events in courtrooms. She also writes on prisons, juvenile justice and human rights. She tweets @sadafmodak
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Sold luxury shoes as side hustle during studies in UK: Indrani’s daughter to court in Sheena Bora murder case
September 05, 2025 00:57 IST
Says she does not stand by contents of her memoir
Fri, Sep 05, 2025
Sheena Bora trial: Indrani’s daughter Vidhie counters CBI’s claim that her parents were in Mumbai in April 2012 for murder
September 03, 2025 22:09 IST
The CBI had claimed that Khanna, Indrani and her then driver Shyamvar Rai--who is now an approver in the case--had killed Sheena on April 24, 2012, after she was dropped in Bandra by Rahul.
Wed, Sep 03, 2025
Delayed trials, one conviction: The story of 10 major building collapses in and around Mumbai that killed 326 in 30 yrs
August 31, 2025 19:44 IST
In many cases over the past decades, where building collapses have taken place due to unauthorised constructions or structural changes or lack of needed repairs, developers and civic authorities have been booked.
Mon, Sep 01, 2025
Trump targets cashless bail: How the practice works, situation in India
August 29, 2025 17:23 IST
Trump says that cashless bail leads to an uptick in crime. Researchers say that there is no evidence to support this claim
Fri, Aug 29, 2025
As Manoj Jarange Patil begins hunger strike, here’s why Mumbai’s Azad Maidan was designated as protest spot
August 29, 2025 14:46 IST
How a petition filed by South Mumbai resident groups in 1997 led to protests being restricted to Azad Maidan.
Fri, Aug 29, 2025
‘Mumbai Police or judicial magic?,’ asks HC after hit-and-run case pending since 2022 solved within days after court rap
August 26, 2025 16:00 IST
Aman Jha, 29, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Malad on August 17, 2022, when he was on his way to a temple. His mother filed a petition before the Bombay High Court last year after the police failed to make any arrest.
Wed, Aug 27, 2025
Text message on instructions to make idli helps domestic worker gets bail in theft case
August 24, 2025 22:04 IST
The lawyer representing the accused had submitted that she was absent from work on July 16 and 17, when the alleged theft took place. The police had opposed the bail stating that the cash and jewellery are yet to be recovered.
Sun, Aug 24, 2025
Nowhere to go in the rain: Homeless in Mumbai left without shelter
August 23, 2025 21:25 IST
The BMC claims it has 23 shelters across the city for the homeless; most of these, however, are homes catering to specific populations like aftercare youth, abandoned women and others
Sun, Aug 24, 2025
Solving Crime: How DRI caught 4,365 kg of hashish stashed in 194 drums of ‘mango chutney’ consignment from Vikhroli to London
August 21, 2025 13:42 IST
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence raided a warehouse in Mumbai's Vikhroli to seize hashish hidden in drums along with chutney.
Fri, Aug 22, 2025
Former VVMC Commissioner approved 55 mn sq ft plans equivalent to 55000 flats of 1000 sq ft each: ED
August 20, 2025 22:15 IST
The ED had on August 13 arrested former commissioner, Anil Pawar, Y S Reddy, the suspended official who was the deputy director, town planning, Sitaram Gupta, a former corporator of the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi party and construction businessman and his nephew Arun Gupta.
Thu, Aug 21, 2025
18 years later, 8 men booked for ‘links with SIMI’ acquitted
August 15, 2025 20:12 IST
The police had also claimed that incriminating material was found at their residence but no recovery was proved before the court.
Fri, Aug 15, 2025
Vasai-Virar illegal construction: ED says ‘intricate cartel’ involved, used codewords to signal bribes
August 15, 2025 02:11 IST
The ED arrested the four on Wednesday in connection with its probe into the illegal construction of 41 residential and commercial buildings in the Vasai-Virar region, with connivance between VVCMC officials and builders.
Fri, Aug 15, 2025
Ex-minister Bacchu Kadu sentenced to 3 months in jail for asaulting IAS officer
August 12, 2025 22:33 IST
The court said that merely because he was a sitting MLA at that time, he did not have the licence to deter a public servant by criminally intimidating him.
Tue, Aug 12, 2025
‘Investigation in the train blast case is a sad comment on how little policing has changed since 1872’
August 10, 2025 20:46 IST
Sadaf Modak speaks with advocates Yug Chaudhry and Payoshi Roy, who represented the accused in the train blasts case, about procedures and safeguards in terror probes.
Mon, Aug 18, 2025
Gangster Abu Salem seeks early release: The maths behind his 25-year prison termSubscriber Only
August 07, 2025 19:12 IST
India promised Portugal at the time of the gangster’s extradition in 2005 that he would not be sentenced for longer than 25 years. But when do these 25 years begin? Salem has been writing to the government and moving courts asking for premature release.
Fri, Aug 08, 2025
The Malegaon blast trial that stalled: Shared suspects, multiple probes, but no progress in 2006 caseSubscriber Only
August 03, 2025 14:47 IST
While the Maharashtra ATS and CBI zeroed in on nine Muslim men, who were subsequently discharged, the NIA accused seven Hindu Right activists of being behind the conspiracy. They have challenged the NIA’s findings, pointing to the difference with what the other two agencies unearthed.
Sun, Aug 03, 2025
Malegaon blast case detailed judgment: Court raises doubts over Purohit’s defence that he had joined Abhinav Bharat to collect intelligenceSubscriber Only
August 02, 2025 21:44 IST
The court noted that after Lt Col Prasad Purohit's arrest, no steps were taken by the Army to 'protect their officer' and said that if 'he would have really discharged the duty under the colour of his office, there would have been protection to him'.
Sat, Aug 02, 2025
2008 Malegaon blast case: The unsolved mystery of the missing documentsSubscriber Only
August 02, 2025 15:58 IST
The special NIA court said no proof was brought to show that photocopies of missing documents can be used after 13 crucial statements went untraceable in 2016.
Sun, Aug 03, 2025
Malegaon Blast | Claim of order to arrest Bhagwat: Court says can’t take as evidenceSubscriber Only
August 02, 2025 03:07 IST
According to the statement, Mujawar denied Bhagwat's role and declined to arrest him. A false case was then allegedly filed by the ATS against Mujawar, who was later acquitted.
Sat, Aug 02, 2025
No evidence on Pragya Singh Thakur’s claims of torture by ATS officials: CourtSubscriber Only
August 02, 2025 00:25 IST
The court also took into consideration testimonies of witnesses, some of whom claimed that they had been threatened and tortured
Sat, Aug 02, 2025
Court acquits 2008 Malegaon blast accused: Forensic expert’s ‘guesswork’ on bomb kept inside motorcycle’s boot cannot be relied: CourtSubscriber Only
August 01, 2025 22:15 IST
The witness was the Assistant Chemical analyser in the Directorate Forensic Science Laboratory (DFSL), Nashik, in 2008 and had reached the spot with his analysis kit for forensic analysis.
Fri, Aug 01, 2025
Court on key evidence in 2008 Malegaon blast acquittal: Hostile witnesses, unauthorised interception of phone callsSubscriber Only
August 01, 2025 00:19 IST
The case, which was initially probed by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2011, which was the prosecuting agency in the trial.
Fri, Aug 01, 2025
ATS vs NIA probe in Malegaon 2008 blast case: Unreliable evidence, contradicting statementsSubscriber Only
August 01, 2025 00:10 IST
The court said that the prosecution evidence was unreliable and although there was strong suspicion there was not enough evidence to convict the accused.
Fri, Aug 01, 2025
2008 Malegaon blast case: From confessions to intercepted calls, here’s what was presented as evidenceSubscriber Only
July 31, 2025 14:00 IST
The confessions of some accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, recorded under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, were rendered inadmissible after the Act was dropped from the case in 2016.
Thu, Jul 31, 2025
From evidence to conspiracy and witnesses: What special court said while acquitting accused in Malegaon blast caseSubscriber Only
July 31, 2025 13:12 IST
Special NIA Judge A K Lahoti released a 1000-page judgement, and observed there might be strong suspicion against the accused, but it is not enough to punish them.
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