Former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja was on Tuesday granted bail by a special court in the 2G case, television reports said. Raja has spent the last 15 months in prison. The scandal was over the alleged below-market-price sale of lucrative telecoms permits bundled with airwaves, which the Comptroller and Auditor General of India estimated to have cost the government as much as $34 billion in lost revenue.

– TRENTON, N.J. Amid chants of “Free Dharun Ravi” and “We Want Justice,” more than 200 people gathered outside the statehouse here May 14 to show their support for Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student convicted of bias intimidation for spying on his gay roommate Tyler Clementi. Ravi is scheduled to be sentenced May 21 and faces 10 years in prison and possible deportation to India.

Prosecutors on Thursday recommended former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi be sentenced to prison, but not the maximum term of 10 years, for his hate crimes conviction because he "shows no remorse" for spying on his roommate's gay encounter.

From the beginning of the criminal prosecution of Rajat Gupta, it was clear that the government didn't have the sort of evidence usually at the heart of insider trading cases. Gupta didn't profit directly from the tips he allegedly passed to Raj Rajaratnam, who has since been convicted of inside trading.

An Indian-American couple who own several construction companies, agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a labor dispute with New York state. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced May 2 that the New York-based construction companies owned by husband and wife Jitendra and Sarita Hirani, agreed to settle the investigation into their labor practices. The Hiranis own Hirani Construction Management, located in Jericho, N.Y.

– NEW YORK A 23-year-old student was killed May 5 when his minivan was hit by a BMW on a Brooklyn Highway. Jamal Iqbal, who was born in Pakistan, was pronounced dead at the Coney Island Hospital, news reports said. He loved with his parents in Sheepshead Bay. “His mom is in shock. She keeps saying, ‘My son! My son!’ “ Azeem Ullah, a longtime friend of Iqbal’s, told the Daily News. “I’m shocked,” he said. “He was always there for everybody.

Shane Jaggarnauth, 24, was arrested in April in connection with the murder of his parents last year. Sugrim and Rosie Jaggarnauth were found dead in their beds in their home in Springfield Gardens, Queens on Sept. 2. Shane Jaggarnauth, 24, was arraigned April 21 in Queens Criminal Court, according to the Queens County District Attorney’s Office.