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Pak SC orders formation of JIT to probe Zardari's involvement in fake accounts case
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the alleged involvement of former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister in a Rs 3,500 crore money laundering and fake bank accounts case, according to a media report. In July, the Supreme Court listed Zardari, 63, and his sister Faryal Talpur as beneficiaries in the alleged scam "running into billions of rupees" that led to the arrest of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman's close aide and famous banker Hussain Lawai. While hearing the case regarding a delay in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probe into the case, the apex court had earlier deliberated over the formation of an investigation team, but said that it would only be constituted once the defence and prosecution lawyers concluded their arguments, Dawn newspaper reported. The three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar, however, has not decided who will be a part of the JIT. The apex court .
Builders must have gone after states following stay order on construction: SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the plea of Uttarakhand government seeking vacation of its order staying further construction activities there and observed that the states have rushed to the court as the builders may have "gone after them". A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta also allowed the prayer of Maharashtra government seeking a clarification that there was no stay on construction activity in that state. The apex court had on August 31 castigated some states and union territories for their "pathetic" attitude in not framing a solid waste management policy as per the 2016 Rules on the issue and stayed construction activities till they brought it out. It had slapped a cost of Rs three lakh each on Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and the union territory of Chandigarh. It had also imposed a cost of Rs five lakh on Andhra Pradesh for not filing an affidavit as per the court's July 10 direction and observed that even the Centre was not ...
5 injured in clash over posting objectionable photo of girl on social media in UP
Five people were injured in a stone pelting incident when two groups clashed over uploading objectionable photo of a 17-year-old girl on social media in Shamli district following which 12 people were arrested, police said Wednesday. A man had uploaded an objectionable photo of the girl on social media, they said, adding the girl's family raised Tuesday evening the issue with the man, who is from the same village, and a clash broke out between the families of the accused and the girl. In the violent clash, both sides pelted stones on each other, the police said. Five people were injured in the clash, they said. As many as twelve people from both the sides were arrested in connection with the clash, police said, adding the matter was being investigated.
SC verdict on validity of criminalising consensual gay sex likely tomorrow
The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Thursday its much-awaited verdict on a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of section 377 of the IPC which criminalises consensual gay sex. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had reserved its verdict on July 17 after hearing various stakeholders, including gay rights activists. The Centre, which had initially sought adjournment for filing its response to the petitions, had later left to the wisdom of the court the issue of legality of the penal provision with regard to the aspects of criminalising consensual unnatural sex between two consenting adults. The Centre had said that the other aspects of the penal provision dealing with minors and animals should be allowed to be remain in the statute book. Section 377 refers to 'unnatural offences' and says whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment
SC allows Uttarakhand's plea seeking vacation of order on construction activity
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Uttarakhand government's plea seeking vacation of its August 31 order staying construction activities in the state. A bench of Justices M B Lokur, S A Nazeer and Deepak Gupta also allowed Maharashtra government's plea seeking clarification that there was no stay on construction activity in that state. The Uttarakhand government had yesterday moved the top court seeking vacation of its order staying construction activities in some states and union territories saying it was facing a "crisis situation" due to artificial lake formation in Tehri Garhwal area after huge landslides. The apex court had slapped a cost of Rs 3 lakh on the Uttarakhand government on August 31 for not framing the state policy under the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016. On August 31, the top court had also castigated some states and union territories for their "pathetic" attitude in not framing the policy on solid waste management and had stayed further constructions ...
SC directs IGP of Meerut range to supervise probe in Hapur lynching case
The Supreme Court Wednesday directed the Inspector General of Police of Meerut range to supervise the investigation in the Hapur lynching case. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud was informed by the Uttar Pradesh government that it has transferred the SHO concerned and filed appeals seeking cancellation of bails granted to the accused in the case. "It is directed that the investigation shall be carried out under the supervision of IGP of Meerut range," the bench said while posting the matter for hearing after two weeks. Advocate Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Uttar Pradesh government, told the top court that the police had taken swift and instant action at the time of the incident and the investigation in the case will be completed in 60 days. On August 13, the apex court had directed a senior Uttar Pradesh Police officer to probe the Hapur lynching case in which one person was killed and another brutally assaulted in the name of ..
Tamil Nadu's top cop, others raided by CBI in Gutka scam
In a possible first, premises of a police chief in Tamil Nadu were among 40 locations searched by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday in connection with Gutka scam, officials said. After registering a case in May, the CBI carried out searches at 35 places in Tamil Nadu and five places in Karnataka, Mumbai and Puducherry which included residential premises of Health Minister C Vijayabaskar, Tamil Nadu DGP T K Rajendran and former police commissioner S George in Chennai. An Indian Revenue Services officer has also been raided by the CBI in connection with the case, the officials said. This is possibly a rare incident when a serving Director General of Police of any state has been raided by the CBI. A 1984-batch IPS officer, Rajendran was made Director General of Police in 2016 after Ashok Kumar opted out for a voluntary retirement scheme. Officials said that Kumar, a 1982 batch IPS officer, was forced to seek VRS as he had recommended for a CBI probe in the Gutka ...
Cop killed in road accident in Navi Mumbai
A 30-year-old traffic police constable died Wednesday after he was run over by a vehicle in Taloja area in Navi Mumbai, around 50 kms from here, the police said. The incident occurred at Nitalsar Phata (diversion) when the constable Atul Gagare was returning to the beat outpost after clearing a traffic congestion at around 5 AM, a police official said. The incident was reported by some rickshaw drivers to the Taloja traffic police. Gagare was rushed to a government-run hospital in rural Panvel where he was declared dead before admission, he said. Police are yet to identify the vehicle that mowed down the constable. A case has been registered against an unidentified driver.
4 women allege molestation after scuffle between Delhi families
Four women from two families have alleged molestation following a scuffle that left five others injured as well, police said here on Wednesday.
Three get death sentence for killing four-year-old boy in Shimla
A Himachal Pradesh court Wednesday gave the death penalty to three people in the sensational murder case of a four-year-old boy in 2014, whose skeletal remains were found in a water tank more than two years after his death. Shimla Sessions Judge Virender Singh pronounced the death sentence for Chander Sharma, Tajender Singh and Vikrant Bakshi for killing the boy, named Yug. Yug's father Vinod Kumar Gupta welcomed the judgment stating that the killing was rarest of the rare case. The boy was abducted from the busy Ram Bazar area of the Himachal Pradesh capital on June 14, 2014, and killed after seven days even before a ransom call was made. His skeletal remains were recovered from a water tank of the Shimla Municipal Corporation in Kelston area on August 21, 2016, after the probe was handed over to the CID. Yug's killing had sent shocked-waves across Shimla and enraged residents took out processions and candle marches to express their rage. Angry protests had broken out in the city ...
Britain charges 2 Russians over Novichok poisoning
British prosecutors have charged two Russian men with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury. The Crown Prosecution Service says Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok. Prosecutor Sue Hemming said Wednesday that the UK is not asking Moscow to extradite the men because Russian law forbids extradition of the country's citizens. Police say the men, both about 40, flew from Moscow to London on Russian passports two days before the Skripals were poisoned on March 4.
Danish police fine Turkish tourist for wearing face veil
Police in Denmark say they fined a Turkish tourist 1,000 kroner (USD 155) after she entered a police station to renew her visa wearing a full-face covering. Police in Aarhus, western Denmark, say the 48-year-old woman wasn't aware of Denmark's recent law that makes it unlawful to wear such garments in public. The much-debated "burqa ban" prohibits garments covering the face, including burqas and niqabs. Both are rarely seen in Denmark. Police said on Tuesday that the woman paid the fine, removed her full-face cover and walked away. No other details were available.
Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz 'shocked' at gang-rape, murder of 9-yr-old by kin
Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday said the details of the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Uri were "shocking and unbelievable". "(I am) extremely shocked at the details of the horrific rape and murder of a minor girl child by her family members in Uri," Mirwaiz said in a tweet. He said the "heartlessness and moral turpitude" shown by the perpetrators of this crime is "unbelievable" and deeply saddening. "It calls for severe punishment to the accused," he added. Five persons including the step-mother and step-brother of the victim have been arrested for the gang-rape and murder that has shaken the valley.
3-yr-old 'raped' by teenager: Cops
A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her teenager neighbour in a village in Sindhauli area here, the police said Wednesday. The incident took place Tuesday when the 15-year-old boy spotted the girl alone in the street and allured her to a desolate place where he raped her, they said. An FIR has been registered in the matter and the police are trying to trace the whereabouts of the juvenile accused. The girl has been admitted to a hospital where her condition was stated to be stable.
Year after Gauri Lankesh killing, SIT says case in final stage of inquiry
Activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder case is in the final stage of investigation and a chargesheet will be filed in two months, a senior SIT official probing the killing said Wednesday. The Special Investigation Team, under the leadership of Additional Commissioner of Police (West) B K Singh, has arrested 12 people in connection with the killing of Lankesh, known for her strong anti-Hindutva stand, on September 5 last year. Some of the people arrested in the case are allegedly linked to Sanatan Sanstha and its allied outfit Hindu Janajagruti Samiti. "The case is in final stage of investigation. We will file a chargesheet in the case in two months," Investigating Officer M N Anucheth said. Lankesh was shot dead on the night of September 5, 2017, from a close range in front of her Rajarajeshwari Nagar house around 8 p.m. The SIT got a breakthrough in its probe when a Gujarat-based forensic lab confirmed that Parashuram Waghmare shot and killed her. The SIT, formed by then chief ...
21 people duped of Rs 1 crore on false promises of providing Railway jobs
A case has been registered against six people for allegedly duping 21 job aspirants of Rs 1 crore on the pretext of providing employment in the Railways, police said on Wednesday. The victims lodged a complaint of cheating against the accused in this connection Tuesday, SHO Anil Kapervan said. According to the complaint, the accused duped the victims of Rs 1 crore and provided them fake appointment letters, he said. The victims realised that they had been cheated when they approached the department concerned with the fake letters, the SHO said, adding that a search was underway to nab the accused.
Ex-IPS Sanjiv Bhatt arrested in 22-yr-old drug 'planting' case
Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was arrested Wednesday by the Gujarat CID in connection with a 22-year-old case of alleged planting of drugs to arrest a man, police said. Bhatt and seven others, including some former policemen attached with the Banaskantha Police, were initially detained for questioning in the case. Shortly after being questioned, Bhatt was arrested by the Crime Investigation Department while others are still kept under detention, Director General of Police, CID, Ashish Bhatia said. Bhatt was the Banaskantha district superintendent of police in 1996. He was dismissed from the service in 2015. As per the case details, the Banaskantha Police under Bhatt had arrested one Sumersingh Rajpurohit, an advocate, in 1996 on charges of possessing around one kg of drugs. At that time, the Banaskantha Police had claimed that drugs were found in a hotel room occupied by Rajpurohit in the district's Palanpur town. However, a probe by the Rajasthan Police had revealed that Rajpurohit
J-K: Minor girl raped, eyes gouged out
The police on Wednesday confirmed a gruesome rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl from Uri town and arrested the victim's stepmother, stepbrother and three others in connection with the case.The girl, who was missing since September 2, was found dead with her eyes gouged out and acid thrown on her private parts, in the forest area situated a kilometre away from her house.Speaking to ANI, Senior Superintendent of Police, Baramullah, Imtiyaz Hussain said, "During the investigation, police understood that someone from the family is involved and questioned few people at the police station. The girl's stepmother, stepbrother and three others are involved in the crime."Hussain, while divulging details of the incident, said the minor girl's eyes were gouged out and acid was thrown on her private parts and chest."The probe team has seized all the murder weapons and a plastic can containing acid from the spot," he added.The police claimed that the girl's stepmother along with other accused ...
Man acquitted in case of sexually harassing teenaged sister
A court here in Maharashtra has acquitted a 20-year-old man accused of sexually harassing and torturing his minor sister. Additional Sessions Judge Kavita D Shirbhate acquitted the man last week for want of evidence against him, observing that the victim, who is the complainant in the case, and her mother did not support the prosecution theory in the court. According to the prosecution, the accused had sought sexual favours from his sister, then aged 16, when their parents and elders were not at their home in Kashimira area here in 2016. Out of fear, the victim did not disclose it to anyone. The accused used to beat his sister and on May 16, 2016, he put his sister's hand on a hot gas burner, causing burn injuries to her, the prosecution said. The girl called up a child helpline number on May 19, 2016 and subsequently went to police along with a social worker and lodged a complaint against her brother. The accused was booked under IPC sections 354A(1)(ii) (sexual harassment) and 323 ..
SC to hear plea seeking stay on Rafale deal next week
The Supreme Court Wednesday agreed to hear next week a plea seeking a stay on the Rafale fighter jet deal between India and France. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submissions of advocate M L Sharma that his plea be listed for urgent hearing. In his petition, Sharma has alleged discrepancies in the fighter jet deal with France and sought a stay on it. Sharma has claimed in his plea that the inter-government agreement to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets must be quashed as it was an "outcome of corruption" and not ratified by Parliament under Article 253 (Parliament has power to make any law for implementing any inter-government agreement) of the Constitution. The petition has also sought FIR and prosecution of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former defence Minister and present Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, business tycoon Anil Ambani and French armament firm Dassault with recovery of amount. A similar plea was filed in .