In-laws of a 20-year-old pregnant woman in Nashik have been charged with murdering an unborn girl child after they allegedly stomped on her stomach and beat her, killing the two-month-old foetus, police said today.
Even as a court on Monday held Mirza Himayat Baig, 31, guilty of conspiring to launch a terror attack, murder and possession of explosive substances in the 2010 German Bakery blast case, the prime suspect Yasin Bhatkal continues to elude the police, Yogesh Joshi reports.
Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig, the lone arrested conspirator in the February 13, 2010 German Bakery blast case, was convicted by a sessions court on Monday.
The most talked about bakery of Pune for the last three years has sadly seen any baking during this time. The site of a terror attack on the Valentine’s Day eve, German Bakery saw 17 people dead and 64 wounded, reports Satyajit Joshi.
Even as Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig, 31, was convicted of the 2010 German bakery blast, mastermind Yasin Bhatkal, who planted the bomb, continues to elude security agencies, reports Yogesh Joshi.
A speeding passenger train killed a tiger cub while another cub was seriously injured near Kelzhar railway station, a buffer zone of Tadoba tiger reserves in eastern Maharashtra district of Chandrapur, some 180 kilomsetre from Nagpur today morning, Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
Bombay high court chief justice Mohit Shah has expressed concern over lack of suitable candidates for post of judges for various courts in the state.
Mirza Himayat Baig, the 33-year-old convicted for under conspiracy charges for the Pune German Bakery blast, hails from the Beed in Maharashtra. He was a ordinary Maharashtrian young man mostly just interested in his studies. All that changed with the 2002 riots in Godhra in Gujarat.
More than three years after a blast at Pune’s famous eatery German bakery killed 17 persons and injured 57, a local court in Pune is likely to deliver its verdict in the case today.
In a surprise move, Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar, accompanied by a few selected supporters reached at 'samadhi' of former Maharashtra chief minister Yeshvantrao Chavan at Karad where he will also undertake one-day fast. Satyajit Joshi reports. Poll: Ajit Pawar repents with fast: do you forgive him?
Noted prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who worked as a special public prosecutor in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, today turned philosophical to take a dig at Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt whose conviction was recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
The ruling United Progressive Alliance is “vulnerable” after the exit of the DMK and elections are around the corner, one of its key remaining allies, NCP head Sharad Pawar said on Saturday.
HT reports.
Pawar play
Amid the unrelenting Opposition clamour for Ajit Pawar's resignation over his controversial remark on drought, NCP chief Sharad Pawar today said the matter should have ended with an apology by the Maharashtra deputy chief minister.
The Maharashtra Information Commission in a landmark order has asked all jails in the state to put information regarding inmates in jails for more than 50% of the maximum imprisonment specified for the charge they were booked in public domain.