Indian American student Amogh Upadhya, who was accused of arson at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose State University has been released from jail. However, the university police are adamant he did it and acted alone. Upadhya was charged with four counts of arson by the Santa Clara Superior Court on April 12 for allegedly setting fires in the college restrooms. He was arrested on April 10 and was held on $400,000 bail.
Justice Markandey Katju writes: Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, was arrested on March 21 by India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED), in connection with an alleged liquor scam, and since then he is in custody. The question is whether he can continue as the Chief Minister, and run the government from jail? Theoretically, there is no bar.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan on Thursday (Pakistan time) cast his vote for the general elections by a postal ballot from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, local media reported. Other incarcerated leaders who could vote included former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, former Punjab province chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid, and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry.
An Indian American executive from San Ramon, California was sentenced to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in fine for misappropriating information about impending corporate transactions. Amit Bhardwaj, 49, former Chief Information Security Officer at Lumentum Holdings, was sentenced last week by US District Judge Gregory H. Woods for committing insider trading based on material, non-public information (MNPI) that he misappropriated from his employer.
A special court in Pakistan said that the trial of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi in the Cipher case, which has resumed, will be an ‘open trial’ in Adiala jail, in which the public and media will be permitted to attend. This was despite the order of the Islamabad High Court that the trial will not be in jail.
