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HC relief to woman booked under 498-A after lover's wife killed self
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed a case against a woman who was booked under IPC section 498-A, which is generally invoked in dowry death cases, after her lover's wife had allegedly killed herself. In the ruling two days ago, Justice Anjuli Palo held that a charge under IPC section 498-A (that deals with cases where husband or his relatives subject woman to cruelty and drive her to commit suicide) cannot be framed against the husband's lover in the case. The petitioner before the HC had challenged the lower court's order to frame charges against her in connection with alleged suicide of Pratima Singh. According to the police, the petitioner had an affair with the deceased woman's husband, Avinash Singh. Pratima allegedly committed suicide by setting herself on fire on December 15, 2015. In her dying declaration, she had stated that her husband harassed her because he had an affair with the petitioner. After her death, the police booked the petitioner along with the woman's ...
Court orders FIR against Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia, Joint DGCA
A court here has directed the Delhi police to lodge an FIR against an Air India pilot for alleged violation of Aircraft Rules, tampering with evidence and intimidating a doctor working with the airlines in January, 2017. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur also directed that Lalit Gupta, Joint Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), be named as an accused in the FIR for allegedly covering up the actions of the pilot, Captain Arvind Kathpalia. The court took on record an action taken report (ATR) filed by Delhi police and said 'prima facie' cognizable offences were made out which required detailed examination and collection of evidence. "... prima facie cognisable offences are made out which required detailed examination and collection of evidence. Hence, SHO, PS, IGI Airport is directed to register an FIR and investigate the present case," the court said. According to the complaint filed by Indian Pilots Association, on January 19, 2017, Kathpalia was ...
To earn easy money, man steals smart phones from Amazon warehouse; arrested
A 22-year-old employee of Amazon was arrested for allegedly stealing mobile phones from the company's warehouse at southeast Delhi's Okhla area, police said. The accused, identified as Rahul Kumar Choubey, joined Amazon in June through a manpower supply company and worked as Station Support Associate for the firm, they said. A case was registered based on a complaint received by the police yesterday. The complainant alleged that on August 24 and 29, three smart phones returned by the customers were stolen from the company's warehouse, said a senior officer. Amazon has a warehouse in Okhla from where goods are delivered to its customers. During investigation, police team scanned through the CCTV footage of the warehouse in which Choubey was seen stealing mobile phones. Subsequently, a raid was conducted at the residence of the accused in Badarpur, following which he was arrested, police said. A stolen phone was recovered from his possession, said Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of .
Tribunal awards over Rs 50 lakh to the kin of men killed in road accident
A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded over Rs 50 lakh to the families of three men who were mowed down by a car in New Delhi in 2016. MACT presiding officer M K Nagpal asked Reliance General Insurance Co. Ltd, insurer of the offending vehicle to pay a total of Rs 53,14,000 as compensation to the families of the deceased. "The Insurance Company being insurer of the offending car is directed to deposit the award amount with UCO Bank, Patiala House Court Branch, in name of the petitioners within 30 days from today," the tribunal said. The compensation was awarded to the families of Kallu, Noor Alam and Wajid, who were killed in an accident on April 15, 2016 on Delhi Cantonment flyover in New Delhi. According to the complaint filed by the families of the deceased, all the three killed were working on a sugarcane juice cart which was hit from behind by a rash and negligently driven car. All three were taken to a nearby hospital where Kallu and Noor Alam were declared brought .
SC notices to Centre, 6 states & BJP on plea alleging violation of guidelines on advertisements
The Supreme Court today sought responses from the Centre, six states and the BJP on a plea filed by a lawmaker who has alleged that they have violated the court's directions on issuance of public advertisements. A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi issued notices to the Centre, the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattishgarh and Telangana and the BJP, asking them to file their responses on the plea within four weeks. Except Telangana, the other five states are ruled by the BJP. Sanjeev Jha, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Burari Assembly constituency here, has filed the plea alleging that the Centre, these states and the BJP had issued advertisements, which were "ex-facie" (on the face of it) in violation of the directives of the apex court passed in a matter related to purported misuse of public funds in government advertisements. The plea gave details of the advertisements issued by them and alleged that there was "circumvention" of the orders ...
2 drug peddlers arrested with 11.5 grams heroin in J-K
Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district today and 11.5 grams of heroin was seized from them, police said today. During routine patrolling in Birpur, a team of policemen from Bari Brahmana police station intercepted two people who were riding a Super Splendor motorcycle, an officer said. The accused were identified as Vipan Kumar Gupta alias Jony and Yakoob Ali and 11.5 grams of heroin was recovered from their possession during frisking, he said. They were arrested on the spot and the contraband seized, the police officer added. A case has been registered and an investigation is underway, he said.
8-yr-old dies after school gate falls on her
An eight year-old girl died after the gate of her school fell on her in Baitalpur area of Deoria district today, police said. Harshita, a student of upper KG in Career Academy school was entering the building when the accident occurred in the morning. The victim's father, Santosh Mishra, who works as an auto driver in the school took her to a hospital where doctors declared the girl brought dead. Santosh informed police that the school manager, Anup Kumar Yadav had got the gate constructed six months back using cheap material. Despite his complaints, no action was taken to fix the gate, Mishra said as he blamed Yadav's "negligence" for his daughter's death. A case was registered against Yadav who has gone missing after the incident. The police have launched an operation to nab him. "The body of the girl was sent for post-mortem and a case under Section 288 (negligent conduct with respect to pulling down or repairing buildings) and 304 A (punishment for causing death by negligence) of .
Activist's letter reveals plot to end "Modi Raj": Maha Police
The Additional Directorate General of Maharashtra Police on Friday defended the arrests of Left-wing activists, saying that those arrested had links with the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the police had confiscated documents in April and June establishing links with the Naxal group.ADG Parambir Singh said that a letter was recovered from Rona Wilson, which was written to one Comrade Prakash, proposing a "Rajiv Gandhi-like incident" to end the "Modi Raj".The ADG claimed that the letter read, "I hope you have received details of a requirement of Rs. 8 crores for the annual supply of grenade launchers. Comrade Kishan and others have proposed steps to end Modi raj, like Rajiv Gandhi incident."Singh said that the arrests, on August 28, were made after a thorough investigation into the case."Their intention is clear, the CPI Maoist was working to topple down the government. They all use to coordinate with each other in code language, through written messages, letters, which
NCP leader, rationalists on Hindu right-wing 'hit-list': ATS
In shocking revelations, an NCP leader and other leading rationalists were on the hit-list of the recently arrested Hindu right-wing activists in connection with the Palghar arms seizure case, the Maharashtra ATS told a Mumbai court on Friday.
Afghan man caught at Delhi airport for gold smuggling
An Afghan man has been arrested by the customs officials for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold valuing about Rs 45 lakh at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here, according to an official statement issued today. The accused was intercepted after his arrival from Kabul yesterday. A detailed examination of his hand baggage resulted in recovery of multiple rings of gold coated with dark grey colour and concealed ingeniously in decorative household items made of alloy metal, it said. The gold, total weighing 1.5 kg and valued at Rs 45.33 lakh, has been seized, the statement issued by the customs said. The accused passenger has been arrested, it added.
Ultrasound clinic sealed in J-K
The Jammu and Kashmir government today sealed the ultrasound clinic of a leading private hospital here for violating the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act. "The District Appropriate Authority Srinagar under the PC&PNDT Act, 2002 along with the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee (NIMC) sealed the ultrasound clinic of Kidney Hospital at Sonawar for violation of the act. The seizure memo was issued on spot," an official spokesman said. He said during the inspection of Kidney Hospital in Sonawar, out of three ultrasound machines installed, only two were duly registered which is in contravention to the act. "It was also found that the hospital is not maintaining the records as per PC&PNDT Act, 2002," he added. Under the PC&PNDT Act, 2002, the sex selection and determination is prohibited. Under section 18 (i) of the act, no clinic having ultrasound machine capable of undertaking determination of sex of fetus can carry its operation ..
Australian filmmaker jailed for six years for Cambodia 'espionage'
An Australian filmmaker was sentenced to six years in prison today after being convicted of espionage in Cambodia in a case that Human Rights Watch slammed as a "ludicrous charade". James Ricketson has been held in jail since his arrest in June last year after he flew a drone over a rally held by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), which was effectively banned months later. The CNRP's dissolution paved the way for strongman premier Hun Sen to win a clean sweep of all parliamentary seats in July's national election, which Western democracies have said was flawed in the absence of any viable opposition. After a six-day trial, Judge Seng Leang found the 69-year-old Ricketson guilty on two charges of espionage. "We have decided to convict (him) to six years in prison for espionage and collecting harmful information that could affect national defence," he said, without giving any details of which country he was allegedly spying for. The prosecution had accused Ricketson ..
Man gets life term in jeweller's murder case
A court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a jeweller. District and Sessions judge, Ambala, Vikram Aggawal yesterday awarded life sentence to Bahadur Singh, a resident of Lalru in Punjab, in connection with the murder of Rajneesh Verma. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 60,000 on the convict. Two other convicts in the case have already been awarded life term by the Ambala Court. Singh was absconding since April 2015 and was nabbed by the police in 2016. Later, he underwent the trial before the Ambala court. Verma (34) was running a wholesale jewellery shop in Baldevnagar at Ambala City. He had gone to Lalru on a two-wheeler to deliver a consignment. As Verma did not turn up till late in the evening that day, his relatives lodged a missing person complaint at Baldevnagar police station in Ambala. The three accused had served Verma drinks laced with sedatives in a shop at Lalru and later strangulated him to death, according to the FIR. They took away his ..
New York attorney general: No backing down on Trump lawsuit
Lawyers for President Donald Trump have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against his charitable foundation by New York's attorney general, arguing that it was politically motivated. In the motion yesterday, Trump attorney Alan S Futerfas argued that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman "made it his stated mission to 'lead the resistance' and attack Mr Trump whenever possible" and "used his public antipathy for Mr Trump to solicit donations for his own re-election campaign and advance his career interests and aspirations." Trump very publicly announced his intention to dissolve the foundation and donate all of its remaining funds to charity, but the AG "actively stonewalled dissolution," Futerfas wrote. "At the same time, the NYAG turned a blind eye to serious and significant allegations of misconduct involving the Clinton Foundation, including claims that it, and its subsidiaries, violated New York law by failing to disclose USD 225 million in donations from ...
Suspect shot after stabbing at Netherlands railway station
A suspect was shot by the police at the central railway station here after a stabbing incident on Friday which left two people injured.
Maha explosives haul: ATS gets custody of accused till Sep 4
The Maharashtra ATS today told a sessions court here that suspected right-wing activist Avinash Pawar had carried out reconnaissance of several persons who were on the target list of a radical Hindu group for speaking against the religion. Pawar, linked to the extremist group, was arrested by the state's Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on August 24 in a case pertaining to seizure of explosives and arms from several parts of Maharashtra early this month. He was the fifth person to be arrested in the case. He was produced before the sessions court today where ATS sought additional 14 days custody stating that the agency had to interrogate him to ascertain the role of each accused and to find out if more persons were involved. Additional sessions judge Vinod Padalkar remanded Pawar to ATS custody till September 4. The ATS told the court that Pawar had carried out reconnaissance of several people including Mukta Dabholkar, daughter of slain rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, social activist Shyam
Gang rape accused arrested
Police have arrested three rapists who gang-raped a minor in Ghaziabad city's Murad Nagar area.
Criminal wanted for murder arrested in Delhi
A criminal wanted for murder and carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head has been arrested in Delhi, police announced here on Friday.
Child sexual abuse cases surge in 2018: report
A total of 2,322 child abuse cases were reported across Pakistan in the first six months of 2018, a 32 per cent jump as compared to the first half of 2017, according to a report by NGO working on protection of children against violence. The 'Cruel Numbers Report' having data from January to June 2018 has been compiled the NGO Sahil based on the news stories in the main newspapers all over Pakistan. The report shows that a total of 2,322 child abuse cases were reported by newspapers in all four provinces, as well as Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. In comparison, 1,764 such incidents were reported from January to June 2017. It means more than 12 children were abused every day during the January to June period of this year. The six-month data shows that 1,298 (56 per cent) of the victims were girls and 1,024 (44 per cent) were boys. The NGO report shows that the major crime categories of the reported cases are abduction (542), sodomy (381), rape (360), missing children (236), ..
Woman who alleged gangrape succumbs to burns
A woman who set herself and her minor son afire alleging Uttar Pradesh police's failure to act against her rapists succumbed to her injuries on Friday, police said.