Sadaf Modak

1 week ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

Nine years after Maharashtra Assistant Police Inspector Ashwini Bidre-Gore vanished, her killer has finally been convicted. Yet, to the state, she is still not dead. With no body being found, and despite a court declaring that she was murdered, her family continues to be denied a death certificate, a document that would unlock long-pending dues and crucial financial support for her daughter’s future.

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

CITING expenses and increasing finances in Mumbai, activist-journalist Gautam Navlakha, who was granted bail in the Elgar Parishad case in May 2024, has sought permission to reside in Delhi. In an application filed before the special court in Mumbai, 72-year-old Navlakha has sought relaxation in one of his bail conditions, which directed him to not leave the jurisdiction of the Mumbai court without the court’s permission.

2 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

The Bombay High Court on April 25 rapped the state government for failing to transfer probe papers related to the custodial death of the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and not registering an FIR, despite its orders. A 23-year-old janitor arrested for the alleged sexual assault of two minor girls in August 2024, was shot dead by a police team when being transported in a police vehicle for a probe on September 23, 2024.

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

On Monday (April 21), a local court in Maharashtra’s Raigad district sentenced a former police inspector to life imprisonment for the murder of assistant inspector Ashwini Bidre-Gore on April 11, 2016. The court relied on technical and circumstantial evidence to arrive at its ruling to retrace a chain of events. The court established that she had visited his house that evening, where she was killed, and that he had enlisted two associates to help him dispose of the body.

3 weeks ago | indianexpress.com | Sadaf Modak

ACQUITTING ONE accused of all charges in the murder case of assistant police inspector Ashwini Bidre-Gore, the additional sessions court on Monday pulled up Navi Mumbai police officers for not conducting a proper probe against him, observing that it may be because he is the nephew of an ex-minister that this “concession in investigation” could have been given to him.