Pakistan court rejects ex-cricketer Ahmed’s bail application again

May 19th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A court in Mohali Tuesday rejected the transit bail plea of Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra's father A.S. Bindra, who was arrested last week for over Rs.90 million (Rs.9 crore) fraud and is under treatment in a Chandigarh hospital after he complained of chest pain.

May 19th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A local court Tuesday granted bail to former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, who has been charged with abetting mobs in the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patia localities of Ahmedabad in the 2002 riots in the state. Mitesh Amin, counsel for the former women's welfare and higher education minister, told IANS that the Ahmedabad city sessions court has granted bail to Kodnani in the Naroda Gam case while in the Naroda Patia case, the bail hearing would continue.

April 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Controversial Congress leader Jagdish Tytler was Saturday given bail by a Delhi court for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the lawyer of the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Tytler, who was recently in the middle of a controversy over a clean chit given to him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, was asked by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Panday to furnish a personal as well as a surety bond of Rs.50,000 each as pre-condition for his release on bail.

March 28th, 2009 PILIBHIT - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi, who on Saturday moved a surrender plea in Pilibhit's local court, has been sent to two-day judicial custody. The application, which was moved by his lawyers before Chief Judicial Magistrate Vipin Kumar, will be taken up on Monday.

March 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi left for Pilibhit early Saturday to court arrest there. On Friday, Varun Gandhi withdrew his anticipatory bail application from the Delhi High Court.

March 27th, 2009 AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI - Gujarat Women Development and Child Welfare Minister Mayaben Kodnani was forced to resign from the State ministry on Friday as the High Court cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to her. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has accepted the resignation.

March 27th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jaideep Patel, whose anticipatory bail plea was rejected along with that of Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani by the Gujarat High Court Friday, is missing. Kodnani and Patel are accused of leading mobs in the Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gaam localities here in 2002 in which 106 people were killed.

March 27th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat High Court Friday rejected state minister Maya Kodnani's anticipatory bail application. Kodnani is accused of leading mobs in the Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gaam localities in 2002 in which 106 people were killed during the Gujarat riots.

March 25th, 2009 LUCKNOW - There was a 'strong case' against Varun Gandhi, the Allahabad High Court said Wednesday while refusing to intervene in the arrest of the budding Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician whose communal speeches have led to a criminal case. A division bench comprising Justices Imtiaz Murtaza and Subhash Chandra Nigam said in the open court: 'Prima facie, there is a strong case against him.' Making it clear that they were not prepared to stay his arrest, the judges also declined to go into Varun Gandhi's request for anticipatory bail on grounds that he had already got that from the Delhi High Court.

March 25th, 2009 KOCHI - The Kerala High Court Tuesday rapped the state government on the law and order situation in the state, and said it would have to 'intervene in a very strong manner' if conditions do not improve. Dismissing the bail application of three men accused of attempting to murder the Spiritual Movement head Rahim Pukersery, Justice V.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court has rejected the plea of Uphaar Cinema owners and real estate tycoons the Ansal brothers for handing over to them the cinema hall, which was sealed after a fire tragedy that killed 59 people in 1997. In their plea, the Ansals stated that they wanted the cinema hall for its productive use.

February 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A local court Thursday evening granted anticipatory bail to Gujarat Education Minister Mayaben Kodnani, who has been accused of inciting mobs in the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya areas during the 2002 riots. Sessions Judge A.K.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday rejected the plea of BMW hit-and-run case convict Sanjeev Nanda for extending his interim bail which expires Saturday. Justice Kailash Gambhir dismissed Nanda's petition, requiring Nanda to surrender Saturday.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday rejected the bail plea of Utsav Bhasin, the teenaged son of a Haryana industrialist who is accused of mowing down a man with his BMW car in south Delhi. Justice Veena Birbal dismissed the bail plea of 19-year-old Bhasin, saying the rejection was based on initial evidence that he ran away from the spot and that his car was damaged.

December 22nd, 2008 KOLKATA - The Calcutta High Court Tuesday rejected the bail plea of industrialist Ashok Todi's brother Pradeep Todi, in jail for his alleged involvement in the mysterious death of his niece's husband Rizwanur Rehman last year. The court said Pradeep Todi had played a key role in abetting Rizwanur's suicide by giving money to the Rizwanur's neighbour S.M.