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...
AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi, File
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, ...
Sandeep Adhwaryu
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...
AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi
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...
AP File
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 ...
AP Photo
Day In Pictures
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 ...
AP Photo
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...
AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh
Week In Pictures
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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...