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Najeeb Ahmed missing case: CBI wants to file closure report
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that it decided to file a closure report in the case of missing Jawaharlal Nehru University student Najeeb Ahmed.The agency, in its report to the Court, stated that they have probed the matter from each and every angle, and its investigation of the case was complete.The CBI's counsel, who appeared before the bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel moreover said that it wanted to intimate the court about its decision before filing closure in the case.JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, 27, went missing under suspicious circumstances on October 15, 2016, a day after he was involved in an alleged scuffle with some students from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Although Najeeb's family members have alleged the role of ABVP activists behind his disappearance, the organisation has, so far, denied any role in the matter.
BSP member murder case: Delhi Police apprehends two people
The Delhi Police on Tuesday apprehended two people, named Fahad Khan and Farhan Ansari, in the national capital in connection with the murder case of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member Dilshad in Batla House.Dilshad, along with three others, was an accused in an 'attempt to murder' case in Delhi's Jamia Nagar area and was out on a bail since August 24, the police said.The police added that accused in Dilshad's murder case are relative and friend of the victim in that case filed against him. The two parties were apparently involved in a land dispute and the murder was not political.Dilshad was killed on Monday.
Auto-rickshaw driver from Bihar found dead in Noida
A man hailing from Bihar was found dead with his throat slit near a drainage in Noida Sector 168, police said Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Ishrafil, who belonged to Katihar district in Bihar, and was an auto-rickshaw driver here, the police said. Officials at the Expressway police station were alerted about an unidentified body being found near a drainage in Sector 168 Monday night, a senior official said. "When the body was checked a wallet was found which had some documents, voter identity card, and phone numbers written on papers," Circle Officer, City 1st, Avneesh Kumar said. "We have managed to contact his brother. The family, which hails from Bihar, lives here in Baraula village in Sector 49," he said. Kumar said post-mortem has been conducted on the body which confirmed that the victim's throat was slit. "A case has been registered under Indian Penal Code sections 301 (culpable homicide) and 302 (murder)," the CO said. The case is being probed further, he added.
Salem expressway: HC gives thumbs up for Land Act, says
The Madras High Court Tuesday upheld the constitutional validity of the key provisions of a law under which land acquisition for the Tamil Nadu government's Salem-Chennai expressway was taken up, saying determination of compensation is more advantageous to the land owner. Dismissing a public interest litigation (PIL) by a green non-governmental organisation (NGO), a division bench comprising Justices T S Sivagnanam and V Bhavani Subbaroyan upheld the constitutional validity of Section 105 and Fourth Schedule of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency (RFCT) in the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. G Sundarrajan, one of the trustees of 'Poovulagin Nanbargal' sought declaration of RFCT Act, its Fourth Schedule as well as the entire land acquisition proceedings under the National Highways Act, 1956 in respect of the proposed Green Field Chennai Salem Highway in Tamil Nadu as unconstitutional, and null and void. The bench in its order said, "If the ...
Shiv Sena corporator takes pig inside PCMC in protest
A Shiv Sena corporator took a pig inside neighbouring Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation and placed it on the table of a medical officer Monday (September 3) in protest against the pig menace in his locality. Thergaon corporator Sachin Bhosale claimed that he had written many letters to the civic body requesting them to take action, but to no avail. "Entire PCMC (Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation) area is facing pig menace. In Thergaon, this problem has become a big issue. I have been writing to PCMC commissioner since the last one year, but no action was taken," he claimed. Bhosale said he placed a pig inside a sack and placed it on the table of medical officer Dr Anil Roy. When contacted, Dr Roy said the PCMC is taking adequate measures in this regard. "A contract was given to one agency to catch 1000 pigs in three months, but they did not catch even 500 pigs so PCMC refused the payment to the contractor," he explained. Dr Roy termed Monday's incident as a major
Joint probe by Odisha, Chhattisgarh police into threat letter to Patnaik
Odisha and Chhatisgarh police will conduct a joint probe into a threat letter sent to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, a top police official said here Tuesday, adding a Bilaspur jail inmate was interrogated in this connection. The sender of the letter has been traced to the central jail in Bilaspur in Chhatisgarh, DGP in-charge and ADG, crime branch, Santosh Upadhayay told newsmen here. Pushpendra Nath Chouhan, who is serving a jail term since 2009 in connection with dacoity and murder cases, had sent the threat letter to Patnaik by post demanding Rs 50 crore ransom, Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Arif Sheikh had said yesterday. Upadhayay said Odisha Police has taken the matter seriously and a preliminary investigation revealed that the sender was mentally unsound. "We verified the matter with the authorities of the central jail who confirmed that murder convict Pushpendra Nath Chouhan had sent the letter to the chief minister and he is mentally unsound and has more than 40 .
Lawyers strike enters seventh day; PIL hearing adjourned
The strike by lawyers of Cuttack city entered the seventh day Tuesday, while the Orissa High Court adjourned to Monday next hearing of a PIL seeking judicial enquiry into police assault on a lawyer. The lawyers' indefinite strike until the erring policemen are arrested has affected functioning of all city courts, tribunals and the high court. The Orissa High Court adjourned to Monday next hearing of the PIL filed by lawyers. Earlier, Cuttack DCP Akhileswar Singh, as a respondent to the PIL filed a counter affidavit stating that the petition is devoid of merit, both in the facts and in the law and is liable to be dismissed. He submitted that the lawyer, who was allegedly assaulted by the police, was first beaten up by people near a fish market of Nuabazar following accidents involving his car in which three persons including school children were injured. The police tried to rescue him from the attackers but he misbehaved with them and there was scuffle, the DCP said. He ...
2 nabbed in connection with youth Cong leader's murder
In a major breakthrough, the Haryana Police special task force on Tuesday arrested two men who are suspected to be involved in the murder of a youth Congress leader last year. Acting on a tip-off that the gangsters were plotting a big crime, Sunil, alias Lala, and Rakesh, alias Pradhan, were arrested in Jhajjar district. Sunil and Rakesh were carrying a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 50,000 respectively, a police officer said. The two, wanted in Haryana and Delhi, had allegedly killed a youth Congress leader, Monu Joon, for not paying ransom of Rs 36 lakh. After the murder, Sunil had also threatened to kill the brother of deceased, the officer said. At least eight cases of kidnapping, attempt to murder, ransom and arms act were registered against them, he added.
Charges framed against 7 ISIS accused
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Tuesday framed charges against seven out of eight accused in ISIS Omar Al-Hindi module case. The NIA had registered the case suo motu on October 1, 2016.The case is based on information about a group of youth involved in allegedly spreading objectives of the proscribed organisation ISIS in southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They formed an ISIS module, Ansarul Khilafa-KL, over social media platforms and had allegedly made preparations to carry out attacks on important people including judges, police officers, politicians, foreign nationals and rationalists residing in India.The NIA had arrested six members of the terror module on October 2, 2016. The members had allegedly organised a conspiracy meeting at Kanakamala in Kannur district of Kerala. Subsequently, another member of the module was arrested following deportation from the United Arab Emirates.In the same case, on October 5, 2016, NIA arrested an ISIS ...
2 held for killing BSP panchayat member
Two youths were arrested for killing a Bahujan Samaj Party panchayat member from Uttar Pradesh on Monday over personal enmity, police said on Tuesday.
Gang busted, medicines worth Rs 2 crore seized (Lead, correcting name in last para)
Seven robbers, including a doctor based in Delhi, have been arrested and medicines worth over Rs 2 crore looted by them have been seized, police said here on Tuesday.
5 held for robbing businessman of Ruthenium
Five people were arrested for allegedly robbing a man of Ruthenium, a precious metal, in Karol Bagh here, police said on Tuesday. The plan to rob the businessman was hatched by 48-year-old Kulwant Singh, along with his accomplices, to cause losses to former in business, they said. Inderjeet Singh, a resident of Amritsar, Punjab, received a call from one Nishant Verma from Dehradun, who claimed to be a jeweller. Verma showed interest in purchasing five kilogram of Ruthenium metal powder from Inderjeet Singh. Negotiations took place and subsequently Verma placed an order for three kilogram of Ruthenium metal power and it was decided that the material would be handed over in Delhi, police said. On June 15, the complainant reached a house in Karol Bagh where four men were present. Inderjeet Singh gave them some powder as sample, and they left the place to get it tested, they added. After some time, all of them came back and one of the accused allegedly took out a knife and robbed ...
2 arrested for killing BSP panchayat member
Two people were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing a 34-year-old BSP panchayat member from Uttar Pradesh in southeast Delhi's Batla House, the police said. The accused, identified as Fahad Khan (18) and Farhan Ansari (19), were arrested from near Malviya Nagar metro station, they said. Acting on a tip-off and scanning through CCTV footage obtained from near the spot, it was learnt that two men wearing helmet fired upon Dilshad on Monday and immediately fled from the spot. The police said the killing was the result of a rivalry over operating a parking slot in Jamia Nagar. Dilshad and his nephews were arrested earlier for firing at some people related to Khan. Dilshad was released on bail on August 24, a police officer added. Efforts are on to recover the weapons used for the commission of crime, the police officer added.
Custodial death: SC says with great power comes greater responsibility, raises prison term of cops
"With great power comes greater responsibility," the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while enhancing the sentence given to some Maharashtra police personnel in a custodial death case from three to seven years. The apex court said that such incidents, involving police, tend to erode people's confidence in the criminal justice system more than in cases involving private individuals. A bench of Justices N V Ramana and M M Shantanagoudar said it was important that police need to recognise the concept of 'democratic policing', where crime control was not only the end but the means to achieve this order was also equally important. "It may not be out of context to remind that the motto of Maharashtra State Police is 'Sadrakshnaya Khalanighrahanaya' (Sanskrit: "To protect good and to Punish evil"), which needs to be respected. Those who are called upon to administer the criminal law must bear, in mind, that they have a duty not merely to the individual accused before them, but also to the State
Rs 1.22 worth foreign currencies seized from passenger
Foreign currencies valued at Rs 1.22 crores have been seized from a passenger at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, a senior Customs official said here Tuesday. The currency, including U.S Dollars, UAE Dirhams and Saudi Riyals, totally valued at Rs 1.22 crore, was seized from the passenger, who was about to depart for Sharjah yesterday by an Air Arabia flight, Customs Commissioner Sumit Kumar said. The currency was concealed inside the clothes kept in the hand baggage, he said. The passenger has been arrested, Kumar added.
Justice Goswami is acting CJ of Gauhati High Court
Justice Arup Kumar Goswami was on Tuesday appointed as the acting chief justice of the Gauhati High Court. His appointment will come into effect from September 6, following the retirement of high court Chief Justice Ajit Singh, a Law Ministry notification said. The Gauhati High Court has an approved strength of 24 judges, but is functioning with 17 -- a shortage of seven judges.
Sexual harassment case: HC asks Air India panel to ensure witness confidentiality
The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed Air India to ensure its panel, looking into the sexual harassment allegations by an air hostess against one of its senior officials, ensures confidentiality of the names of the witnesses who would depose in support of the complainant. Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) constituted by the airline to ensure the witnesses are provided a secure environment to depose in and that they are cross-examined through interrogatories -- questions and answers -- instead of face-to-face. The direction was issued after the air hostess moved a plea challenging the ICC's July 20 decision rejecting her request that a local commissioner be appointed to examine the witnesses. In her plea, filed through advocate Sanjoy Ghose, she has said most of the witnesses, who are women, are apprehensive about disclosure of their names as they work in the same organisation and are married. The court directed the air hostess to file her list of ...
Complainant in Bhima-Koregaon case moves SC
A Pune-based man, who had lodged an FIR in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence that led to the arrest of five human rights activists, moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking that he be made a party in the plea filed by historian Romila Thapar and four others. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said it would hear the plea on September 6 when the petition filed by Thapar and four others will come up for hearing. The plea filed by Tushar Damgude sought that he be made a party in the pending case as it was he who had lodged the FIR in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence last year. The top court had earlier ordered that the five human rights activists would be kept under house arrest till September 6 observing that dissent was the "safety valve" of democracy. While granting relief to activists Varavara Rao, Arun Farreira, Vernon Gonzalves, Sudha Bhardwaj and Gautam Navalakha, the top court did not consider the ...
Malegaon blast: SC turns down Purohit's plea for SIT probe into his abduction, torture
The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit's plea seeking a court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into his claims that he was abducted, detained and tortured in custody in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast case. A bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi, Naveen Sinha and K M Joseph said entertaining the petition at this stage might impact the ongoing trial in the case. The bench, however, granted Purohit the liberty to raise his contentions before the trial court and said it was not expressing any opinion on his petition. "Why should we interfere at this stage? It may impact the trial," the bench said. Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Purohit, told the bench that the issue raised by Purohit in his plea has to be looked into. Since the NIA is seized of the matter, the agency can look into it, Salve said. The bench, however, asked him to raise the issue before the trial court. Purohit is currently out on bail. It was ...
Married woman attempts suicide in front of police station
:A 25-year-old married woman allegedly attempted suicide by immolating herself in front of Bowenpally Police Station here Tuesday, police said. The woman, who has two children, resorted to the act at around 12.30 pm due to some family problems, Inspector P Vijay Kumar said He said her husband had sent her back to her parents' house about two months back after learning that she was allegedly in a relationship with another man. The woman is suspected to have doused herself with a bottle of petrol and lit herself even as police and locals rushed to her rescue and shifted her to a local hospital, the Inspector said. She suffered 45 per cent burns in the incident. During preliminary investigation it also came to light that she resorted to the act as she wanted to "punish" the man with whom she was allegedly having an affair for trapping her, the Inspector added. A case under IPC Section 309 (attempt to commit suicide) was registered.