Balwinder Kaur, the mother of jailed Khalistani separatist and Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat winner, Amritpal Singh, said on Friday urged the government to release Amritpal Singh from jail.
Amritpal Singh won the Khadoor Sahib parliamentary seat in Punjab with a massive margin of 1,97,120 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Kulbir Singh Zira of Congress. He ran for office as an independent candidate.
After the Delhi Court sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody, Delhi Environment Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Gopal Rai on Saturday called it a "conspiracy" of the Bharatiya Janata Party government and said that AAP ministers and CM have been jailed in "fake cases."
Additional district and sessions court Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka reserved its verdict on petitions requesting suspension of sentences handed out to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the 'un-Islamic' iddat case
The Russian Prosecutor General's office said Thursday it had approved the indictment, more than a year after Gershkovich was first detained. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.
The arrested accused identified as Vijay, a resident of Memandpur, SAS Nagar, had facilitated the escape of Gangster Deepak Tinu in 2017. The arrested accused has a criminal background with several heinous crime cases registered against him in Punjab and Haryana.
"In a major breakthrough, Anti Gangster Task Force (#AGTF) has been successful in arresting Vijay, a resident of #Memandpur, SAS Nagar, an operative of jailed Gangster Deepak Tinu, an associate of Lawrence Bishnoi & Foreign-based Terrorist Goldy Brar Gang," the Punjab DGP said.
Newly elected Kalpana Murmu Soren, wife of jailed former Chief Minister Hemant Soren, was sworn in as MLA from Gandey assembly constituency in Ranchi on Monday.
The Patiala House Court of Delhi has fixed June 18, 2024, for hearing on a plea moved by a newly elected MP from Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, seeking interim bail for taking an oath.
Balwinder Kaur, the mother of jailed Khalistani separatist and Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat winner, Amritpal Singh, said on Saturday that the latter was "very happy" after getting elected as an MP.
Urging the Parliament to intervene in the process of jailed candidates becoming Members of Parliament, Senior Advocate Vikas Singh said that the number of legislators with criminal charges is on the rise adding that it is an irony that "people in jails cannot vote, but can contest and win
Rashid has been lodged in the Tihar jail since August 9, 2019, on charges of alleged terror financing, while Singh has been booked under the National Security Act and sent to the Dibrugarh jail in Assam.