-SC stays alleged rape case against filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar (Supreme Court justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad)

-SC grants bail to Chishty in murder case

(Eighty-year-old ailing Pakistani microbiologist Mohammed Khaleel Chishty, serving life term in an Ajmer jail in Rajasthan in a murder case of 1992, was on Monday (April 9) granted bail by the Supreme Court. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and J Chelameswar granted him the reprieve, considering his old age and the fact that he has been held up in India for the last 20 years after a murder case was lodged against him when he came on a visit to Ajmer)

=Odisha police opposes release of Maoists for hostages release= (30 prisoners for Hikaka's release, a body of policemen objected to release of "hardcore" Maoists.

Sabarmal Sharma, president of Odisha Police Association told reporters: "We will strongly oppose if the government released hardcore Maoists. If necessary we will stop working in Maoist affected areas."

On Sunday, Sabyasachi Panda, secretary, Odisha State Organising Committee (OSOC) of the CPI (Maoist) issued an audiotape, seeking clarification from the Odisha government on whether it was releasing those that the rebels wanted.

We had demanded the release of seven persons while the government had announced releasing six. But finally it announced the release of five," Panda said, adding that the government had also not cleared its position on the rebels' other demands)