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Nov 8, 2016 · Abdul Rauf Daud Merchant, an aide of Dawood Ibrahim who is accused of Bollywood musician Gulshan Kumar's murder in 1997, will be handed over to BSF at Indo-Bangla border in a few hours. Merchant had two brothers -- Rashid and Imtiyaz.
- 25 years on, two accused in Gulshan Kumar murder case file ...
T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar was shot outside a temple in...
- Gulshan Kumar murder case: HC upholds Dawood aide's ...
The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the life...
- 25 years on, two accused in Gulshan Kumar murder case file ...
- Introduction
- Factual Discussion
- Issues
- Contentions of The Parties
- Decision of Bombay High Court
- Conclusion
- References
On August 12, 1997, legendary music mogul, T-series founder Gulshan Kumar was assassinated in broad daylight while coming out of a temple in Juhu, Mumbai. In 2002, Abdul Rauf Dawood Merchant was convicted for murder of Gulshan Kumar and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sessions Court. It was 19 years later, in July 2021, that the Bombay High C...
DECEASED:Gulshan Kumar Dua, the Managing Director of Super Cassette Industries, founder of T-Series and a film producer was engaged in the business of purchasing rights of audio cassettes of hindi...THE INCIDENT: On 12th August 1997, Gulshan Kumar went to the temple in the morning as usual and offered his prayers for about 15 minutes. He met Ramachandra there and was returning home. He was pro...F.I.R. FILED: Some persons from Jeet Nagar gave information about the incident to the D.N. Nagar Police station. PSI Rashmi Jadhav (P.W.10) reached Cooper Hospital[with P.W.11 (Inspector Rane), P.W...INVESTIGATION: 45 witnesses were examined by the prosecution and 17 accused persons were identified. Accused no. 6 and accused no. 15 were discharged in April 2002.Whether testimony of the eye-witness P.W.1 and other eye-witnesses can be relied upon?Whether accused no. 19 has been falsely implicated?Whether the acquittal of Respondent no.1 and 2 is correct and justified?Whether Test Identification Parade can be challenged on the ground of delay and is therefore not to be relied upon in the facts and circumstances of the present case?Submissions made on behalf of the accused
Following submissions were made on the behalf of the accused: 1. Appellant/accused no.19 in Criminal Appeal no. 878 of 2001 i.e. Abdul Rauf Dawood Merchant. 2. Respondent no.2/accused no.16 in Criminal Appeal no. 1006 of 2002 i.e Abdul Rashid Dawood Merchant 3. Respondent no.1 in Criminal Appeal no. 1006 of 2002 i.e. Ramesh Taurani 1. The evidence of P.W.1 should not be relied upon as it could not have been possible for P.W.1 to have seen the incident of shooting since he had rescued himself...
Submissions made on behalf of State of Maharashtra
1. It was submitted that the prosecution has established the case against accused no.19 beyond a reasonable doubt. 2. It was contended that the witnesses have seen a ghastly incident and the faces of the culprits have been imprinted in their minds. This was reaffirmed in their cross-examination as well. The evidence of the witnesses are consistent and there are only minor discrepancies that cannot be taken into consideration given that all the witnesses saw the incident at different stages an...
Criminal Appeal no. 1006 of 2002
The question that arose for the determination of the court in this appeal was whether the acquittal of the original accused no. 11 Ramesh Taurani and accused no. 16 Abdul Rashid Dawood Merchant is justified.
The Gulshan Kumar Murder case is an important case not only because of the ghastly murder of a well-known figure but also because it involves an acute analysis and appreciation by the court of the evidence of the eye-witnesses whose sterling testimonies along with the corroborating circumstances constituted direct evidence to uphold the conviction ...
- Smt. Sadhana S. Jadhav and N.R. Borkar, JJ
- July 1, 2021
- High Court of Bombay
A week after the Bombay high court (HC) convicted Mumbra resident Abdul Rashid Dawood Merchant in connection with the murder of T-Series founder and film producer Gulshan Kumar, he surrendered...
- Charul Shah
Underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s aide, Abdul Rauf alias Dawood Merchant, was deported to India late on Wednesday and handed over to a team of Mumbai crime branch officials.
May 17, 2022 · T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar was shot outside a temple in Jeet Nagar in the Juhu area of Mumbai on August 12, 1997. One of the accused, Abdul Rashid Dawood Merchant, has also sought bail in the case.
- Law
Jul 5, 2021 · Bombay HC last week upheld life term of Abdul Rauf Merchant, henchman of Dawood Ibrahim, and also overturned acquittal of Rauf's brother Abdul Rashid in Gulshan Kumar murder case.
Jul 1, 2021 · The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the life imprisonment awarded by the lower court to Abdul Rauf alias Dawood Merchant in the murder case of music baron and T-Series owner Gulshan Kumar. Rauf was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Mumbai sessions court in 2002 in connection with the case.
