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Sachin Vaze being taken to court on March 14 by officers of the NIA for a hearing in connection with the agency’s investigation into the recovery of explosives from a car parked on Carmichael Road in south Mumbai, near Mukesh Ambani’s house, Antilia, on February 25.

The plot thickens in the case involving Sachin Vaze and the discovery of explosives near Mukesh Ambani’s home in Mumbai

Details emerging from the investigations into the bomb scare incident near Mukesh Ambani’s residence in Mumbai and Sachin Vaze’s involvement in it see

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Sachin Vaze being taken to court by National Investigation Agency officers for a hearing in the abandoned vehicle case, in Mumbai on March 25.

Sachin Vaze, Mumbai police officer arrested in abandoned vehicle case, to remain in NIA custody until April 3

Sachin Vaze, suspended Assistant Police Inspector who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the case involving th

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Four of the accused in the 2006 Malegaon blast case, (from left) Salman Farsi, Farogh Magdumi, Noorulhuda and Raees Mansuri, after their acquittal in 2016.

In Maharashtra, long battles ongoing for accused in terror cases

Several individuals, especially Muslims, have been fighting tedious legal battles in terrorism-related cases in Maharashtra.

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Param Bir Singh, a file photograph.

Param Bir Singh, former Mumbai Police Commissioner, moves Supreme Court for CBI inquiry against State Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for corruption

The case against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, who has been charged by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh with alleged “mone

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Praveen Togadia at a function in Ahmedabad on November 17, 2002, when he was general secretary of the VHP. Arun Mehta, former State secretary of the CPI(M), said of the political climate in Gujarat at the time: “The atmosphere was not good at that time. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Praveen Togadia was all over the place spreading hate and in particular spoke about the dangers of SIMI.”

On March 6, a Surat court acquits 127 people who were arrested in December 2001 under the sections of the UAPA on a charge of participating in a meeting as members of the banned SIMI

Some 19 years after the Surat Police arrested 127 people under sections of the draconian UAPA, a court in the city acquits all the accused, saying tha

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Migrant workers and their families leaving Mumbai on March 28, 2020, four days after the government imposed a lockdown.

NITI Aayog's draft national policy on migrant workers: A narrow vision document

The NITI Aayog draft national policy on migrant workers opts for a rights-based framework instead of a handout approach in addressing the concerns of

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Sachin Vaze after (second from left) being taken to a court by the NIA on March 14.

Sachin Vaze, ‘encounter specialist’ with Mumbai Police, arrested by the NIA for his alleged role in the bomb scare near Mukesh Ambani’s residence

Sachin Vaze, Assistant Police Inspector of the Maharashtra Police, has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly being pa

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Congress MLAs who joined the BJP with the party’s working president J.P. Nadda (third from right) and Chief Minister Pramod Sawant (to his right), in New Delhi on July 11, 2019.

Political flip-flops, Goan style

In stark contrast to its laid-back culture, Goa has been a hotbed of political opportunism which the BJP has used to the hilt.

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Students at a college in Srinagar when it reopened on February 15 after prolonged closure because of COVID-19.

An international online symposium of university teachers resolves to form a forum to address the major disruption in academics caused by COVID-19 pandemic

In an international online symposium titled “Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education in South Asia”, organised by the Bombay University and College Tea

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Parambir Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, at a press conference in Mumbai in August 2018 with a printout showing a catalogue, allegedly found on Rona Wilson’s computer, of arms and ammunition.

Bhima Koregaon case: planted evidence?

Investigations by Arsenal Consulting, a global digital forensics consulting company, have revealed that evidence had been planted in the activist Rona

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Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani being felicitated on the BJP’s win in Gujarat municipal corporation elections, in Ahmedabad on February 23.

BJP wins big in Gujarat local body elections, but debutant AAP makes surprising inroads

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has, predictably, swept the municipal elections that were held recently in Gujarat. It has retained power in all six

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Varavara Rao being produced at a court in Pune in August 2018.

Bombay High Court grants Varavara Rao six months’ bail on medical grounds, but with stringent conditions attached

Telugu litterateur and activist P. Varavara Rao has been granted bail on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court. Following two hearings in his case,

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