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Israeli PM's wife suspected of taking bribes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife is suspected of accepting bribes in a corruption case involving her husband and Israel's largest telecom company, the police said told on Thursday.
Trump calls Mueller investigation 'illegal'
President Donald Trump has said the Russia collusion investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is "illegal" as the probe continues to hone in on his inner circle. Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview yesterday that Mueller's appointment last year to investigate his 2016 election campaign for possible collusion with Russia was wrong. "I view it differently. I view it as an illegal investigation," he told Bloomberg. He cited unnamed "great scholars" who say that "there never should have been a special counsel," according to the news agency. Some legal experts have questioned the Justice Department's naming of Mueller, a former FBI director, to handle the probe in the absence of a specific law governing special prosecutors. But Trump's own Justice Department says it is legal. Earlier this month Andrew Miller, a one-time aide to former Trump political consultant Roger Stone, challenged the legality of Mueller's appointment in appeals court. Miller is battling a subpoena .
In coming days, Naxalism will end: Ram Madhav
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Ram Madhav on Thursday said that activists, who support Naxals, are now scared of going to jail. He added that Naxalism will soon end in India."Few activists are now scared to go to jail and they are requesting to keep them in house arrest. In the coming days, Naxalism will end. Already Naxalism has come down in districts by the efforts of police and government, but there are some activists who are staying in cities and supporting naxalism. It should also be ended," Madhav said at an event here."Naxalites are enemies and some of their supporters are professors and human rights members," he added.Madhav's statement comes after the Supreme Court - in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence - directed the Pune police on Wednesday to keep the five accused activists - Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves and Sudha Bhardwaj - under house arrest till September 5.These activists are under police scanner for .
Woman sustains burn injury due to negligence by hospital, claims family
A woman sustained burn injuries on her breasts due to alleged negligence of doctors of a private hospital in Indirapuram here, police said today. Around 13 days after his wife was discharged from the hospital, her husband lodged a complaint, they said. The woman was admitted to the hospital for delivery on August 15 and she gave birth to a child on August 17, Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna said. After delivery, a hot water bottle was kept on her breasts to keep her warm, he said, adding as she was under anaesthesia she could not sense the burning sensation initially and only after two hours she felt it. The woman had suffered burn injury due to the hot water bottle, he said. Her family alleged that due to burn wounds she could not breast feed her child, the SSP said. Probes into the matter have been initiated by police and chief medical officer, he said.
Two dead, 6 injured as 2 masked men go on stabbing spree
Two men were killed and six others injured after two masked men went on a rampage, attacking and stabbing people randomly in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri, the police said today. The incident happened on Wednesday. It is suspected that the killings were the fallout of a rivalry between two groups trying to assert their dominance in the area, police said. Karan Veer (47) and Dinesh (32) were talking a walk outside their house when they were stabbed to death by the two men. The accused then went on to stab Vinay, Irshad and two other men while fleeing from the area, police said. They also stabbed Suresh, a Delhi Jal Board worker, who was sitting outside his house after dinner, the police said. The victims do not have criminal records, the police said. Police also said that around 10 days back, there was a fight between two groups over dominance in the locality. A man who was injured during the scuffle died yesterday, they said. It is suspected that his accomplices had come to find the men ...
Jewellery showroom robbed at gunpoint in east Delhi
Four men today allegedly robbed a jewellery showroom of valuables worth lakhs of rupees at gunpoint in east Delhi's Pandav Nagar, police said. Pankaj Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (east) said the accused looted the shop at gunpoint this afternoon. The shop owner Vijay and his wife were present at that time. The robbers noticed CCTV cameras installed inside and outside the showroom, he said, adding they damaged the cameras and robbed the Digital Video Recorder along with jewellery worth lakhs of rupees, the officer said. It is suspected that jewellery worth Rs 50 lakh was looted. Police said the four accused came in a car. They parked the car in front of the showroom and one among them stood outside the showroom keeping an eye on the activities, while the other three barged into the showroom with pistols. They allegedly held the couple on gunpoint, threatened to shoot them if they shouted. Subsequently, the accused looted diamonds, silver and gold jewellery that were on display .
GDA brings down 104 illegal buildings, structures
The Ghaziabad development Authority (GDA) has demolished 104 illegal buildings within its limits, with official saying the drive will continue till all such constructions are removed. GDA vice chairperson and District Magistrate Ritu Maheshwari said that 104 illegal structures were razed till Wednesday. On August 13, Maheshwari had said 650 buildings have been identified and they would be sealed by the authority and Nagar Nigam by the end of this month. A drive to seal and demolish illegally constructed and dilapidated structures had begun the next day. Illegal dairies, structures and boundary walls in Rajnagar extension, Modinagar, and Chiranjiv Vihar have been flattened, the officer said today. The houses and boundaries in unlawfully colonized locality in 25 Bigah plot near Golden city of Meer Hindu village of Loni were also razed, Maheshwari said.
Man beaten to death after cattle theft
In another case of lynching, a young Indian man working as a tailor in Dubai was beaten to death here early on Thursday by a 50-strong mob on suspicion that he was involed in stealing cattle.
3 members of Neeraj Bawania gang arrested
Three suspected members of gangster Neeraj Bawania's gang were arrested by the Delhi Police's Crime Branch, the police said tody. Vaashu Sharma alias Bunti (30), Sarjeev alias Sanju (24) and Yogesh (27) were arrested from near Sector 14, Dwarka Metro Station, on August 26, they said. Two automatic pistols along with four live cartridges and a countrymade pistol along with two live cartridges were recovered from their possession, they said. In 2015, Bunti along with his associates had killed rival gangster of Rajesh Bawania gang Anil Gujjar and Ishwar alias CP, police said. On June 7, he came out on parole in the above case for 10 days from the Tihar jail, but he absconded and was planning a "big loot" to arrange money for marriage of his sister, they added.
Two arrested for stealing laptop
Two persons were arrested today for allegedly breaking into a biryani shop and stealing a laptop, police said. The complainant, who runs Deez Biryani Kabab food oulet in Sarita Vihar, reported that someone has broken the upper grill of rear gate of his shop and stolen his laptop. A case was registered and an investigation was launched. "It was a blind case and there was no clue about the burglars. Upon receiving a complaint, a team was formed and a trap was laid," the police said. They said that two persons -- Raju Singh, 19 and Boby Raju, 22 -- were later apprehended at District Parkwho and a laptop was recovered from them.
Top babu's ignorance of his department's affairs upsets HC
The Allahabad High Court today rebuked a principal secretary of the Uttar Pradesh government and its counsel for their failure to explain the reason behind lowering the minimum qualifying marks in the ongoing recruitment of assistant teachers in the state. Exasperated with the officials' failure in satisfying its queries, a Lucknow bench of the high court ordered that the ongoing recruitment of 68,500 assistant teachers as per the original, higher qualifying marks set for the selection would be subject to the outcome of the appeals before it. The bench of justices Shabihul Hasnain and Rajan Roy was hearing a bunch of appeals against a single-judge bench order which had on July 24 this year quashed the government's decision to lower the minimum qualifying marks for the appointment of teachers. After originally fixing higher qualifying marks for the recruitment, the state government had lowered them on May 21, while the single-judge bench had stayed this decision. It was during the ...
Law panel suggests monetary, non-monetary relief to wrongful prosecution victims
The Law Commission on Thursday submitted its report to the government over the issue of "wrongful prosecution" of innocents, recommending enactment of a specific legal provision for redressing cases in terms of monetary and non-monetary compensation.
Sebi fines Samruddha Jeevan Foods, 2 directors Rs 1 crore for non compliance
Sebi today slapped a fine of Rs 1 crore on Samruddha Jeevan Foods, its directors Mahesh Motewar and Vaishali Motewar for contravening regulator's earlier directions by continuing to collect the money from investors. The regulator had imposed complete ban upon the entities from collecting any more money from investors under the existing schemes of the company in October 2015. The case involves collection of funds by the entities from the various investors under the scheme in violation of the provisions of CIS (Collective Investment Scheme) Regulations. In today's order, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said that the entities were collecting money and the company has also admitted that it was collecting money from investors to honour its pre-existing contracts despite a complete ban imposed by October 2015 order. The entities have not only committed breach of the applicable provisions of law but have brazenly contravened the directions issued through order as they have ...
Minority community members termed terrorists for questioning Modi govt: Activist's wife
The wife of human rights activist Vernon Gonsalves, arrested by the Pune police for suspected Maoist links, today claimed that the BJP-led government is labelling persons from minority community as "terrorists", if they call the Modi government "communal". "If any person from the minority community merely says that the Modi government is communal, he is labelled a terrorist," Susan Abraham, who is a lawyer, told PTI. The Pune police had on Tuesday raided the homes of prominent Left-wing activists in several states and arrested five, including Gonsalves, as part of a probe into the violence at Koregaon-Bhima village near Pune after an event called Elgar Parishad, or conclave, on December 31 last year. They police brought Gonsalves to his house in suburban Andheri today, a day after the Supreme Court ordered that the activists be kept under house arrest at their homes till September 6. Susan alleged that the government was indulging in "double standards". "There is a growing demand for .
Gunrunning racket busted, man arrested with three AK 47 rifle
Police here today claimed to have busted a gunrunning racket with the arrest of one person from whose possession three automatic rifles, hundreds of ammunition and spare parts used in the assault weapon were recovered. According to Superintendent of Police (Munger), Babu Ram, acting on a tip-off a police party conducted a raid in Jubilee Well locality of Jamalpur town in the district where they arrested one Mohd Imran Alam who was carrying a bag and a blanket inside which the items were concealed. The recovered items include three AK 47 rifle, 30 magazines, seven pistons and other parts used in assembling the weapon, the SP said adding that during interrogation, Alam said that he had brought the weapons from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and was intending to sell these locally. A case has been lodged against the arrested accused under the Arms Act and steps would be taken to ensure speedy trial, the SP said.
30 arrested in raid on gambling den in Thane
Thirty persons were arrested after a raid on a gambling den in a rented hotel room here, police said today. The raid was carried out by the Anti-Extortion Cell in the intervening night of August 28-29, assistant commissioner of police (Crime) N T Kadam said. He said that Rs 2.78 lakh had been seized from the arrested persons and efforts were on to nab Mangesh Bhosle who was allegedly running the gambling den. A case had been registered under the Maharashtra Prevention of Gambling Act at Rabodi police station and further probe was underway, he added.
16-yr-old girl raped by 2 men
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by two men in Gautam Buddh Nagar, police said today. The incident took place when the girl, a resident of Dastampur village which comes under the jurisdiction of Jewar police station, was returning home on August 24, the police said. "She had gone for sewing classes near her home and the two accused came on a motorcycle and kidnapped her. They also forced her to have alcohol and beat her up when she resisted," said S S Bhati, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Jewar police station. "The duo raped her and the next morning dumped her outside her house in Dastampur village," he said citing the complaint made by her father. Based on the complaint, which was lodged yesterday, an FIR was registered against unknown persons under Section 376 (rape) of the IPC, Bhati said. On allegations that the police have delayed filing the FIR in the case, the SHO said the complaint was lodged yesterday and not earlier. According to the Circle Officer, ..
Illegal firearms seized from RJD MLA's house in Gaya
Police today recovered unlicensed firearms and arrested one person from an RJD MLA's residence here. Superintendent of Police (City), Gaya, Anil Kumar said a raid was conducted at the house of Kunti Devi, the sitting MLA from Atari, from where two country-made .303 rifles and a country-made pistol were recovered. He said one person, Jackie Kumar, was arrested from the house, while two other occupants managed to flee. The raid was conducted jointly by the STF and the Rampur police station, he added. Kunti Devi is the wife of former RJD legislator Rajendra Yadav, who is serving life sentence in a murder case. The MLA was not at the house when the raid was conducted, police said adding that the arrested person was being interrogated.
Man held for peddling drugs in Telangana
A 24-year-old man, allegedly involved in drug peddling was arrested in Secunderabad today and narcotics were seized from him, prohibition and excise officials said. Acting on a tip off, a team nabbed N Navyanth while he was travelling on a scooter with 15 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) blots, 2 gms of MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) and 20 gm of ganja, the officials said. He had procured the drugs from Netherlands by offering bitcoin to the dealer in that country, a press release said. The accused had earlier been booked in two cases by the police and another by the Prohibition and Excise Department, the release added.
Law Commission for legal framework to compensate victims of wrongful confinement
The Law Commission today recommended setting up a legal framework to compensate victims of wrongful prosecution, saying injustice caused to innocents needs to be redressed within the framework of rights and not through ex-gratia by the State. Ex-gratia depends on the State's discretion. The commission called for an established legislative process, "according a transparent, uniform, efficacious, affordable and timely remedy for the loss and harms inflicted on victims on the account of wrongful prosecution". It also recommended special courts so that claims made by those accusing the state of wrongful prosecution can be addressed as swiftly as possible. The commission in its report called for a special court in every district. It said the ambit of wrongful prosecution would include malicious prosecutions and prosecutions instituted without good faith. The commission said it does not seem feasible in law to fix amount of compensation to be paid to victims and said it should include ...