Jessica Lall

Left Manu Sharma, walks to a jail van, at the Delhi High Court after being sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1999 murder of former model Jessica Lall in New Delhi. The Supreme...

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BJP Mahila Morcha activists push a barricade while being stopped by the police during a protest march against the parole of Manu Sharma, convicted in the Jessica Lall murder case, ...

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2006: Protests, Outrages, Shame

Feb-Dec: Rang De ... Or Gandhigiri? Call it the blockbuster effect. Middle-class activism took on a whole new meaning, as the urban citizenry channelled technology to express its ...
*#$@! Bashi-Bazouks! Brutes! Ectoplasms!

Ram Jethmalani Hocus-pocus, gilly-gilly-gilly. I have before me an overfed young man in a teeshirt, with a rich and powerful papaji just behind the curtain. Before your eyes, ...

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Thursday 1 February Actor Shayan Munshi comes out of the High Court with his wife in New Delhi. After tough words and the issuance of non-bailable warrants, 29 hostile witnesses...
Day In Pictures

Actor Shayan Munshi comes out of the High Court with his wife in New Delhi. After tough words and the issuance of non-bailable warrants, 29 hostile witnesses in the Jessica Lall mu...
Day In Pictures

Manu Sharma and Amardeep Singh Gill walk towards a jail van at the Delhi High Court in New Delhi. Sharma, the killer of model Jessica Lall who had escaped the clutches of law with...

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Friday 3 November In a new twist to the proceedings in the Jessica Lall murder case appeal, noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani, the counsel for prime accused Manu Sharma, has moved the...

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Thursday 7 September Socialite Bina Ramani, a key witness in the Jessica Lall murder case, is escorted to court by police officers in New Delhi. Ramani, who was arrested in Goa ...

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Socialite Bina Ramani, a key witness in the Jessica Lall murder case, is escorted to court by police officers in New Delhi. Ramani, who was arrested in Goa yesterday in a cheating ...

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Friday 28 July Will the law ever catch up with the guilty? Will the victims get justice? Will middle-class Delhi's activism and outrage over the Jessica Lall case help victims in ...
Saturday 4 March Sabrina Lall and Valsa, sisters of Jessica Lall, look on during a candlelight vigil in New Delhi. Dozens of Delhi citizens rallied around India Gate to push the go...

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Tuesday 21 February'All the accused are acquitted' is what the judgement said and the sum total of it all was that the accused had been allowed to get away with murder literally in...

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Jessica Lal Murder Case Convict Manu Sharma Released From Tihar Jail

Manu Sharma, son of former Union minister Venod Sharma, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2006 for killing Jessica Lal in 1999.

Jun 02, 2020

| PTI
Decision To Release Jessica Lal's Murder Convict Postponed By Delhi's Sentence Review Board

The applications of release were deferred as the opinion of the board members were divided on it, a member of the board said.

Jul 28, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Jessica Lall's Killer Manu Sharma's Release From Jail On Hold As Board Postpones Review Meeting

A Delhi government spokesperson claimed that there was no such meeting scheduled for today as the minister had not given his consent in the first place.

Apr 25, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Jessica Lall's Sister Sabrina Lall Forgives Murderer Manu Sharma

Sabrina said she held no grudges against Sharma now as the only thing she had ever wanted was him to be convicted.

Apr 23, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Girl About Town

Has feminism really taken a big leap this week? I was inclined to say yes earlier, when I read that the Supreme Court has thrown out an archaic law and allowed women to be bartenders in Delhi...

Dec 12, 2007

| Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
Whither Democracy?

India has faced and bettered many challenges. The immediate challenge to restore a beleaguered rule of law—gasping to survive in the dust and din of Indian 'populocracy'— to its rightful place is much simpler.

Jan 17, 2007

| Harish Salve
Seven Long Years

30 April 1999 to December 18, 2006 — it is seven years and some eight months when Jessica Lall was sensationally shot dead in the presence of Delhi's rich and the powerful. An overview.

Dec 18, 2006

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A Father, A Sister, A Mother

Almost two months back, on October 17, it was an old father whose plea for justice for his murdered daughter was answered. It was the turn of a sister to feel vindicated today by the same Delhi Hight Court Bench. A mother awaits her turn.

Dec 18, 2006

| Outlook Web Bureau
The End Of Manuvaad?

The long arm of the law stretches out once more to nab the powerful, as the Delhi High Court convicts Manu Sharma—son of a former union minister and Haryana Congressman—earlier acquitted by a trial court in the shocking public killing of model Jessic

Dec 18, 2006

| Outlook Web Bureau
Judiciary Rules, OK

There is a sense of vindication, of faith restored in the justice-system, that there might be delays, but that justice is worth fighting for— now on to two other high-profile cases, Jessica Lall and Nitish Katara...

Oct 17, 2006

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Magazine

Cacophony Colonnade

Our democracy is creaking, but it works—nominally at least. What it needs is not dilution, but deepening.

Dec 19, 2011

| Saba Naqvi
Once Upon A Midnight

Will B’wood’s version of the Jessica Lall case spur further debates on our society?

Jan 17, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
No One Killed Jessica

There are some fine, stand-out moments. What detracts are some obvious filmi touches

Jan 17, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
What The Hack!

The media would do well to heed political and world events than affaires d’amour

Nov 01, 2010

| Shashi Tharoor
And Justice For...

Anonymous pamphlet stirs it up in Bangalore

Oct 04, 2010

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
Anonymous Sources

An interim order from the SC on reporting sparks off important questions

Aug 30, 2010

| Anuradha Raman
The Revolution, Podcast

The Net helps mobilise opinion fast. But is it just your type, just the already converted?

Mar 16, 2009

| Vineetha Mokkil
Page 3, Page 368

A meditation on the pains of love and a city's impress on it also glimpses into the leprous core of Indian polity

Mar 16, 2009

| Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Who Killed Vicky Rai?

The story is definitely Jessica Lall. But the shooter acquitted, it takes a life all its own, via six narratives.

Jul 21, 2008

| Kalpish Ratna
Halla Bol

So breathless with righteousness that it ends up not speaking to the audience at all.

Jan 21, 2008

| Raghu Karnad