The course of the weekend. And why 500 trees in one the most famous gardens in britain could be under threat by major road widening plans. Good morning. Its friday 25th august. Im annita mcveigh, welcome to bbc newsroom live. A police force has been severely criticised for its failure over a four year period to investigate allegations about ian watkins, the former lead singer of the band lost prophets, who was convicted in 2013 of 13 child sex offences. An investigation by the independent Police Complaints commission has found that South Wales Police failed to act on eight reports and three intelligence logs from six different people about watkins. The ipcc said the force had dismissed allegations made by watkins ex girlfriend and had failed to look at incriminating texts from watkins on her phone, because officers believed she lacked credibility. The Commission Says the investigation raised the most disturbing concerns about the way the case was handled. Our reporter Mark Hutchings ha
In December 2023, Budhiraja had been declared as a proclaimed offender by the Chief Judicial Magistrate after warrants against him were returned unexecuted.
A Panchkula Court has granted bail to Youth Congress leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, who is contesting from Haryana s Karnal Lok Sabha seat against former Chief Minister ML Khattar, in 2018 FIR pertaining.
Divyanshu Budhiraja is the Haryana Youth Congress President and the party's candidate against former chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manohar Lal Khattar in the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
A special CBI court in Panchkula on Wednesday convicted four gang members in the infamous double murder and gang rape incident in Haryana's Nuh district in the Mewat region in 2016, officials said.