Read here: Supreme Court declines interim relief on plea by wife of gangster shot dead in UP courtA vacation bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal took note of the submissions of the state government that Jeeva’s funeral was performed on Thursday and that his son attended the last rites while the slain gangster’s wife, Payal Maheshwari, chose to stay away. There is no urgency for a hearing during the vacation,” added the bench. Read here: Jeeva’s wife was on the run in Gangsters Act case lodged in MuzaffarnagarJeeva was shot dead in Lucknow Civil Court on Wednesday. Jeeva, 48, had been accused in several criminal cases, including the murder of two BJP leaders, Brahm Dutt Dwivedi and Krishna Nand Rai. While he was convicted in the 1997 murder case of Dwivedi, he was acquitted in the 2005 murder of Rai.

Source: Hindustan Times June 09, 2023 23:37 UTC