While convicted Kannada starlet Maria Susa-iraj held a press conference to proclaim her innocence in the Neeraj Grover murder case, a chorus of voices fro-m the slain Grover’s friends greeted everyone. “Let the killer speak,” they cried.

The Centre has set an ambitious target of reducing the cases pending in different courts of the country by 40 per cent within six months.

Picnickers visiting Juhu beach this weekend to catch a glimpse of the MV Wisdom will be a disappointed lot, as the cargo vessel was successfully towed away from the beach on Saturday afternoon.

Speaking for convicted Kannada starlet Maria Susairaj, her lawyer Sharif Shaikh said they would even move the Bombay high court as she felt she was completely innocent in the matter and wanted to prove it.

Kannada starlet Maria Susairaj will walk free on Saturday despite being convicted on charges of destroying evidence, a cognisable offence under the Indian Penal Code. Her fiancé Emile Jerome Mathew, convicted Thursday of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, was handed a 10-year jail sentence instead of a life term. Mathew would have got a life sentence if the court had accepted the prosecution’s case.

Sites of construction of the infrastructure projects of the city seem to be pretty dangerous sites, if the recent spate of accidents on these sites is anything to go by. On Friday evening, two people died and three injured when a guideway beam fell from one of the supports of the under-construction monorail at Chembur.

A sessions court on Friday rejected the bail application of Pune-based racehorse owner and alleged tax defaulter Hasan Ali Khan and his aide Kashinath Tapuriah.

Kannada actress Mariah Monica Susairaj was released from jail here on Saturday after being acquitted in the May 2008 killing of television executive Neeraj Grover.

Former Navy officer Emile Jerome and his girlfriend Maria Susairaj, who is a Kannada actress, were on Friday awarded rigorous imprisonment of 10 years and three years respectively by a Mumbai court in the sensational murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover.

Anti-extortion cell investigators of the Mumbai police (crime branch) on Wednesday night arrested two members of the Ravi Pujari gang from outside the house of a person whom they referred to as a “prominent film personality”. The police said the two were to open fire at the house to scare the celebrity, and had also carried a chit on which abuses and an international number was written.