Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 12 (ANI): The Hyderabad police on Saturday recovered 53 two-wheelers and arrested 3 persons for running an organised theft racket, police said.

Kochi Jan 27 PTI In a setback to the National Investigation Agency NIA the Kerala High Court on Thursday acquitted alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba LeT operative Thadiyantevida Nazeer and Shafas convicted by the NIA court here in 2011 in connection with the 2006 Kozhikode twin blasts case The court allowed the appeal filed by first accused Nazeer and fourth accused Shafas against the life imprisonment sentence awarded by the NIA special court A Division Bench comprising Justices K Vinod Chandran and Ziyad Rahman also declined the appeal filed by the NIA challenging the NIA courts order acquitting two other accused in the case--Abdul Halim and Abubacker Yusuf Nazeer and the other accused were charged with conspiring planning and executing the bomb blasts in Kozhikode KSRTC and mofussil bus stands on March 3 2006 The Special Court for NIA Cases had found both Nazeer and Shafas guilty of the offences under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967 UAPA and they were sentenced to imprisonment for life In its order the high court said there is no reliable evidence on the preparation or commission of the crime that would incriminate the accused beyond reasonable doubt We do understand the inherent difficulty of an investigation in a case taken over by the NIA almost four years after the incident The Investigating Officers were groping in the dark for almost four years till the arrest of third accused A3 in another blast case the Court observed The court said it has dealt with each of the evidence tendered including the approvers deposition as also the disclosure statements and the evidence of other witnesses to find that the case against A1 to A4 was not proved beyond reasonable doubt The Investigators we cannot but say did not make a concerted effort to go out in the sun to collect independent evidence of whatever version the accused told them In their anxiety to wrap up the case we say anxiety since we do not think the Officers of the NIA would be ignorant of the law on the subject they even recorded the confessions made by the accused clearly inadmissible under Section 25 26 of the Evidence Act the court ruled According to the prosecution nine accused including Nazeer and Shafas were alleged to have conspired planned and executed the twin blasts for reason of bail having been denied to the accused in the second Marad incident communal riot case in which 136 of the 142 accused remained imprisoned as undertrials for about four and a half years On March 3 2006 there were two bomb blasts in Kozhikode Town in quick succession between 1230 pm and 100 pm at two locations inside the KSRTC and the Mofussil Bus Stands The cases were registered respectively at the Kasba and Nadakkavu Police Stations which were then taken over by the CBCID and later by the National Investigation Agency Nazeer suspected kingpin of Islamic terrorist activities in south India was arrested in 2009 and he is currently in jail in connection with various terror-related cases PTI COR TGB BN BN

Washington [US], December 20 (ANI): Actor Chris Noth's wife- Tara Wilson is 'very upset' due to the recent string of sexual assault allegations against her husband.

Washington [US], December 18 (ANI): 'Sex and the City' actor Chris Noth has been dropped as a client by talent agency A3 Artists Agency, a day after sexual assault allegations surfaced against him.