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Congress doing propaganda on crime n Rajasthan: Minister
Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria today accused the Congress of doing propaganda on crime in the state. Addressing a press conference here, Kataria said his government had taken strict action against those who take law in their hands, without any bias. Claiming that crime has significantly reduced in the state in the last four years, the BJP leader said Congress was doing propaganda without having any facts. Be it crime against women, crime against children or SC/ST, the crimes have reduced in the state, he added.
HC notice to Centre, TN on PIL seeking crop insurance amount
The Madras High Court today issued notice to the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government on a PIL seeking to settle the balance insurance claim for the samba season of crop year 2016-17 for affected farmers in 33 revenue villages in the state. A division bench comprising Justice S Manikumar and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued the notice on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the Farmers Legal Movement. It posted the matter for further hearing to September 27. According to the petition, farmers in the state ended up with nil yield during the samba season due to various reasons, including non-availability of Cauvery water for irrigation. They were entitled to get Rs 62,500 per hectare under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yojana (PMFBY) scheme. The New India Insurance company, the implementing agency in the state, ought to have paid the full amount by June, 2017 as all the claimants had paid the premium, it submitted. However, after several representations, only 25 per cent of
Maha: Pregnant woman found dead in Thane, accused at large
A 29-year-old pregnant woman was found dead at an apartment in a housing complex here in Dombivali in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said today. Harshada Somawanshi, who ran a catering business along with her husband Dileep, had been missing since Tuesday after she went out to deliver an order, an official at the Manpada police station in Dombivali said. During a search, the body was found late last night at a flat in the same complex, police said. The victim's husband, in his complaint, has said that Niteen Patrave, the owner of the flat in which Harshada's body was found, had given his brother a business loan of Rs 1 lakh. "Dileep's brother had returned just part of the loan and had disappeared. This was a cause of friction between Patrave and the Somawanshi family," the official said quoting the complaint. A note, purportedly written by Patrave, has been found near the victim's body in which he has claimed responsibility for the killing, the official said. CCTV .
4 OGWs of Hizbul Mujahideen held in J-K's Rajouri
Four Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit, who were involved in a Hawala racket in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, have been booked and detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) today, a senior police officer said. All these were associated with Hizbul Mujahideen outfit and have been lidged in Central Jail Kot Bhalwal in Jammu, SSP Rajouri Yougal Manhas said. The accused were identified as Sajjad Ahmed Malla, Mohd Arif, Khurshid Ahmed Thokar and Ajaz Ahmed Sofi, SSP said. A dossier in this regard was submitted before District Magistrate Rajouri by the SSP Rajouri and the district magistrate issued order for booking them under PSA. These OGWs were arrested by Rajouri Police along with Rs one lakh Hawala money meant for the supply to the militant outfit in Shopian district, for which a case stands registered, he said. During investigation of the case, it has come to fore that these OGWs were in constant touch with Saddam Paddar and Zeenat-Ul-Islam, ...
Lawyers abstain from court work in Odisha
Lawyers today abstained from court work across the state in response to a call given by the Odisha State Bar Council. The Bar council had yesterday asked the lawyers to abstain from court work demanding arrest of policemen who had allegedly assaulted an advocate in Cuttack on Tuesday. Demanding arrest of the policemen, the agitating lawyers today decided to continue boycott of courts in Cuttack district indefinitely. "The situation will be reviewed on Monday," said a member of the Orissa High Court Bar Association. Earlier in the morning, the Cuttack city DCP announced the suspension of three policemen and added that a Home Guard has also been put on notice period. "On the basis of a preliminary enquiry report submitted by an additional DCP, three policemen, including a havildar, have been placed under suspension for misconduct," said DCP Akhileswar Singh. Singh said at least four cases have been registered so far in this connection at different police stations of the ...
SC asks Centre to give details of MLAs, MPs with criminal records
The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Central Government for not furnishing details of Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and Members of Parliament (MPs) with criminal records.A division bench of the apex court, which was headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi and comprising Justices Naveen Sinha and K M Joseph asked the Centre to file a detailed response in the matter by September 5.The apex court was hearing a petition filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay seeking court's direction to establish special courts to expeditiously try criminal cases registered against MPs, MLAs.On August 21, the top court had sought an affidavit from the Central Government to track down the number of special courts that have been set up to deal with criminal cases that involve MLAs and MPs. A five-judge constitution bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, noted a batch of petitions seeking a direction to the Central Government to set up special ...
UP: Man lynched over buffalo theft suspicion
In another heart-wrenching mob lynching incident, a man was allegedly beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly city by the villagers on the suspicions of cattle theft.Shahrukh, who had just returned from Dubai, was lynched to death last night in Bareilly's Bholapur Hadoliya village.The 20-year-old along with three others had gone out when a group of villagers caught hold of them, suspecting that they had stolen a buffalo.The police said that he was thrashed by the group while his friends managed to escape.Shahrukh was admitted to a district hospital in a serious condition, where he later succumbed to injuries.Superintendent of Police (City) Abhinandan Singh informed that both the sides have lodged FIRs.He said that Shahrukh's brother has filed a complaint against 20-25 unnamed persons and three of his friends while the other side which alleged buffalo theft have also lodged a case.
PWD engineer suspended for financial mismanagement
A senior engineer of the public works department (PWD) was suspended today for alleged financial mismanagement in the construction of a hostel in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, an official said. Acting on a complaint by the Mahore sub-divisional manager, an inquiry was conducted into the construction of a 50-bed Gujjar-Bakerwal hostel in Mahore, which was found to be sub-standard. Instead of penalising the contractor, the engineer, M K Verma, allegedly paid Rs 20 lakh, reportedly much more than what was due, the official said. District Development Commissioner Prasanna Ramaswamy G acted against M K Vikram and ordered a departmental inquiry by the PWD superintendent engineer of Udhampur-Reasi circle, the official added.
One killed in explosion in a house in Fategarh Sahib
A man was killed and another injured in an explosion that occurred today in a house in a village near here while breaking some bricks to renovate the house. The incident occurred at the house of one Vinod Chand, the police said. A blast took place when someone tried to break a brick. It was suspected that there was some explosive material hidden in the pile of bricks. After the incident, two persons were rushed to Rajindra Hospital, Patiala where Chand's servant Sukha Singh was declared brought dead. Vinod Chand's son Ashok was injured in the incident. After receiving the information, Fatehgarh Sahib SP Harpal Singh, DSP Navneet Kaur and other police officers also reached the spot to conduct a preliminary probe. The police said they were investigating the matter.
Extradite ex-envoy Hussain Haqqani from US: Pak SC to authorities
Pakistan's Supreme Court today ordered the anti-corruption agency to take steps to extradite Hussain Haqqani, the country's ex-ambassador to the US, the central character in the 2011 Memogate scandal. Haqqani was behind a memo indirectly sent to former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen in 2011, a Pakistani judicial commission concluded in 2012. In the memo, Haqqani sought Washington's help in averting a military coup in Pakistan following the May 2, 2011 US raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad. Supreme Court Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, heading a three-judge bench, expressed displeasure with the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) attempts to extradite Haqqani, who was Pakistan's Ambassador to the US from 2008 to 2011, and directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to make efforts for his extradition. Haqqani, 62, is currently Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute, think-tank in ...
SC reserves verdict on pleas challenging new Maha law regulating Dance Bars
The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on pleas of hotel and restaurant owners challenging a Maharashtra law imposing restrictions on licensing and functioning of dance bars in the state. A bench of justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said it will pass order on a batch of plea challenging the provisions in a new law enacted in 2016. Earlier, the petitioners had told the bench that the state government has tried to circumvent a previous order of the apex court by bringing in the new law on conditions for operation of dance bars. Hotel and restaurant owners have argued that the state government has adopted an attitude that it will not permit operations of dance bars irrespective of orders passed by the apex court. Senior advocate Jayant Bhushan appearing for petitioners had contended that for years the state government has been putting some condition or other to prevent operation of dance bars in the state. He added that the new law -- the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance
UP Assembly nod to key bill on restoring anticipatory bail provisions
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly today approved a key bill that will pave the way for the re-introduction of the provision of anticipatory bail, which was revoked in the state during the Emergency in 1976. The Code of Criminal Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Bill, 2018, aims at restoring the provision of anticipatory bail in the state. There has been no provision of applying for anticipatory bail in UP for over four decades. The bill passed today will be sent to the Union government for final approval as it proposes amendments for Uttar Pradesh in section 438 (anticipatory bail) of CrPC. One of the proposed amendments is that it will not be necessary for the accused to be present during the hearing for the anticipatory bail. It also proposes certain mandatory conditions or riders to be imposed by the court before considering granting anticipatory bail, including not allowing the provision in case of serious crimes where death sentence is likely. Apart from Uttar Pradesh and ...
Lankesh killing: SIT hunting for five more men, says 'Sanatan
The Karnataka police's SIT probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case is hunting for at least five more people, and insists the leadership of Hindu right outfit 'Sanatan Sanstha' was aware of the activities of its "footsoldiers" in the killing of some rationalists. The five men are based out of Goa and Maharashtra adjoining the Karnataka border, an SIT official said, adding they had taken part in the crimes. As the SIT started cracking the murder of Lankesh, a journalist-activist with strong anti-Hindutva views, leading to the arrest of key players in the killing of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and M M Kalburgi, it discovered the wide network of operatives of the gang involved in these incidents. "The leadership of Goa-headquartered Sanatan Sanstha was aware of the activities of its footsoldiers and lower rung cadre. We cannot subscribe to this statement that the leadership was not aware of it. They definitely knew about these plots," the official claimed. He, however, ...
Activists' arrest: Letter purportedly seized talks about links
A letter, which the Maharashtra police claim to have recovered during its multi-city raids two days back, alleges that one of the five arrested activists Gautam Navlakha was in contact with Kashmiri separatists. The undated letter in Hindi, written by some 'Comrade Sudha' to some 'Comrade Prakash, also talks about giving financial help to the "comrades" working in the "interiors", as is supposedly done by backers of militants and stone pelters in Kashmir. Navlakha was one of the five Left-wing activists arrested for alleged Maoist links during raids by the Pune police at nine places across various states on Tuesday. Others arrested were Left-leaning poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai and trade unionist and lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj in Haryana's Faridabad. The raids were carried out as part of a probe into a conclave -- Elgar Parishad -- held in Pune on December 31 last year, which had allegedly triggered violence at Bhima ..
Tribal woman arrested with 5 country-made pistols in MP
A 40-year-old woman was arrested allegedly carrying a consignment of five country-made pistols to deliver to an unidentified person in Sendhwa area in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district, police said today. A man who was accompanying the woman, however, managed to escape, an official said. "Acting on a tip-off, we intercepted Leela Bai, a tribal from Palsud area, accompanied by one Depal Singh, while they were walking down to Sendhwa area to deliver the arms. We found five country-made pistols in her bag," Inspector J N Kanas of Palsud police station said. He added that Singh fled on spotting the police and efforts were on to nab him. "Both were walking to deliver the pistols to somebody in Sendhwa, about 30 kilometres from Palsud," Kanas added. He said that investigations were underway to find out more details of the arms racket.
HC allows Bharti's wife to withdraw plea to cancel his bail in domestic violence case
The Delhi High Court today allowed AAP MLA Somnath Bharti's wife to withdraw her petition seeking cancellation of the bail granted to him in a domestic violence case in view of the settlement of their marital dispute. An application was moved by Bharti's wife Lipika Mitra before Justice R K Gauba informing about their settlement and seeking withdrawal of her petition to cancel the bail granted to him. The court allowed the plea. It had on August 9 stayed the proceedings in a trial court which was hearing a case lodged by his wife accusing him of the alleged offences of attempt to murder, harassment cheating, criminal intimidation, causing miscarriage without the woman's consent, causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means and criminal breach of trust under the IPC. It had not quashed the FIR in the matter, as sought by Bharti, by asking him to wait for some time so that his spouse and two minor children were comfortably settled in the house with him. The investigators had on April 5, ..
Charges framed against Maran brothers in 'illegal' telephone exchange case
A CBI court today framed charges and ordered trial of former Communication Minister Dayanidhi Maran and others in a case of alleged setting up of "illegal" telephone exchanges to benefit the Sun TV Network of his brother Kalanithi Maran during 2004-06. Special Judge R Vasanthi framed charges over a month after the Madras High Court quashed the CBI court's earlier order discharging all the accused. All the seven accused, including the Maran brothers, were present in the court at the time of farming of charges, after which the case was slated for commencement of formal trial from September 14. A high court bench of Justice G Jayachandran had on July 25 held that there were 'heaps' of material evidence against the accused, and had directed the special court to frame charges and conclude the trial within a year after receiving the copy of its order. The bench had given its order on a CBI plea challenging the discharge of the accused by Special Judge S Natarajan on March 14 this year. The .
Absconding former govt official arrested after 12 years
A retired Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) has been arrested on the charges of cheating and forgery in a 20-year-old case, police in Sheopur district today said. SDM is a post in the administrative wing of state government. Kotwali Police Station in-charge Sunil Khemariya said that then district collector Radheshyam Julania had filed a complaint of cheating and forgery against then Vijaypur tehsil SDM, L N Tyagi in 1998. After police filed a charge sheet, a local court issued a warrant against Tyagi in 2006, but he became untraceable, the police officer said. Tyagi was nabbed in Gwalior two days ago and produced before a court yesterday, which sent him in judicial custody. The police officer said that Tyagi has been booked under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery) and 468 (forgery for cheating) and further probe is on. He, however, could not give more details about the case.
Boy dies after falling in Manikaran Gurudwara kund
A six-year-old boy from Haryana died after falling into a kund at the famous Manikaran Sahib Gurudwara in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district this evening, an official said. Gopal fell in the kund after he is said to have slipped from his mother's hands while taking a bath there. He died on the spot, the official said. The boy hails of Rajaund village in Kaithal district of Haryana. An inquest proceeding have been initiated under Section 174 of the Code Of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the official added.
Three get 10 yrs jail for possessing fake five rupee coins
Three men have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and awarded a fine of Rs 25,000 each for possessing fake five rupee coins with a face value of Rs 6.87 lakh. Additional District and Sessions Judge Amit Kumar today convicted Ravinder alias Monu, Sachin and Sonu Luthra in the case. They were held guilty on August 24 but the quantum of punishment was pronounced today. Besides imprisonment, the accused were ordered to pay a fine of Rs 25,000 each and in case of default, they would have to further undergo an imprisonment of six months. According to the prosecution, Sub-Inspector Prashant Kumar and his team were patrolling on Tosham Road on January 27, 2016 when on a tip-off, the police found a vehicle carrying coins of Rs five with a face value of Rs 6.87 lakh. During interrogation, both Ravinder alias Monu and Sachin confessed that the coins were fake and were brought from Sonu Luthara, a resident of Delhi. They were going to supply the fake coins in Hisar and its adjoining areas. ..