More than 1,100 witnesses were examined and the charge-sheet itself was more than 2000-pages and 77 accused were tried in the case. After a protracted trial of more than 13 years, 49 of the 77 have been found to be guilty and 28 have been acquitted.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde met on Thursday but discussed no names for appointment as judges of the SC or high courts. The collegium, also comprising CJI-designate N V Ramana and Justices R F Nariman, U U Lalit and A M Khanwilkar, met in the afternoon but discussed no names.
TOI had reported on Thursday that as per convention, no CJI schedules a collegium meeting after the President appoints his successor. President Ram Nath Kovind had appointed Justice Ramana as the next CJI with effect from April 24.
CJI Bobde retires on April 23. CJI Bobde, in his tenure of one year and five months, could not recommend a single name to the government for appointment as SC judge.
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Six A4 size notebooks bear witness to the 17 months Kiran Gawli spent in Nagpur Central prison. Each day, Kiran would unfailingly steal a few moments to note down the day’s events – of newly forged friendships, anguish, loneliness and sometimes heartbreak. Some days the words would flow like a poetry; on other days, just a few raw, angry lines. The diary – titled
Kiran-e-dastan (loosely translates to the memoirs of Kiran) – has words etched on each line and page.
Some pages of the deftly written book, however, are missing – as though someone has angrily ripped them out. The prison