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Antilia bomb scare case: SC grants bail to ex-Mumbai Police officer Pradeep Sharma

New Delhi, Aug 23 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to former Mumbai Police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran. On February 25, 2021, an explosives-laden SUV was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence ‘Antilia’ in south Mumbai. Businessman Hiran, who was in possession of the SUV, was found dead in a creek in neighbouring Thane on March 5, 2021. Sharma along with police officers Daya Nayak, Vijay Salaskar and Ravindranath Angre was a member of the Mumbai Police’s encounter squad that killed

Resignation not equivalent to retirement for Leave Encashment unless enabled by statute: Kerala High Court

Kochi, August 22 The Kerala High Court recently held that an employee who leaves his service either on retirement, voluntary or otherwise, or on resignation, would have no vested or inherent right to claim leave encashment, unless it is otherwise enabled by the statute, rules, or norms regulating the conditions of service. The Division Bench comprising Justice Alexander Thomas and Justice C. Jayachandran, made the above observation while considering an appeal preferred by the National Insurance Company seeking to set aside the Single Judge’s order directing the Company to disburse leave encashment to the employee on the ground that the

President Biden to visit India from Sept 7-10 to attend G-20 Summit; VP Harris goes to ASEAN

Aug 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will visit India from Sept. 7-10 for a summit of the Group of 20 nations while Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Jakarta Sept. 4-7 to attend summits of Southeast Asian leaders, the White House said on Tuesday. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced the trips as the BRICS group of major emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — held a summit in Johannesburg. That bloc was founded in 2009 to provide a platform for its members to challenge a world order dominated by the

First Trump allies in Georgia election subversion case surrender

Attorney John Eastman speaks next to U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, as Trump supporters gather ahead of the president’s speech to contest the certification by the U.S. Congress of the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election on the Ellipse in Washington,Georgia U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

ATLANTA, Aug 22 (Reuters): The first of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia’s criminal case accusing the former U.S. president and his associates of subverting his 2020 election loss surrendered at an Atlanta jail on Tuesday, according to county records and a statement. Trump’s former lawyer John Eastman and Republican poll watcher Scott Hall both surrendered to the county sheriff’s office, two days before Trump himself was set to turn himself in to face his fourth criminal indictment this year. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican 2024 White House nomination, has lambasted all the prosecutions as politically motivated and continues to

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