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HC asks govt to act tough against employees going illegally on strike
The Uttarakhand High Court today gave various directions to curb the tendency among state government employees to go on strikes. Taking cognizance of a letter highlighting the tendency among employees of the State of Uttarakhand to resort to strikes without any genuine cause, the court asked the government to take stern action against employees going illegally on strike and inconveniencing people. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Manoj Tiwari held that "strike causes inconvenience to the general public at large. The indiscriminate strikes impede the growth of the state. Thousands and thousands of persons are put to inconvenience during the period of strikes." The high court also took notice of the fact that teachers are also resorting to strikes. Doctors and the paramedical staff also go on strikes, putting the life of thousands of citizens at peril. The electricity department and public undertakings, owned and controlled by the state government, are
Maliwal writes to WB police, seeks info on case filed against brothels at GB road
DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal has written to West Bengal police, seeking information about a case registered by them against brothels at GB Road in Delhi. Last year, West Bengal police raided the brothels after receiving a complaint that a minor girl was trafficked and brought there. The police arrested two persons after the raid. In her statement, the girl revealed that the local police used to inform brothel owners before a raid was to be conducted, a Delhi Commission for Women official has said. West Bengal police had written to the concerned police and district authorities for closure of the brothels. "When DCW contacted the district magistrate over the closure, it was informed that they don't have sufficient information from West Bengal police. Hence, we have written to the West Bengal police to give a certified copy of the FIR, present status report of the concerned case by September 3," the official said. "Brothels at GB road have become hub of child trafficking. Minor girls ...
Dabholkar probe: CBI to take custody of accused held in Lankesh murder case
The CBI, which is probing rationalist Narendra Dabholkar's murder case, today told a court here that it would be taking custody of three men arrested by Karnataka police in the Gauri Lankesh murder case. The CBI had earlier said there was a link between the accused in the two cases. The Pune court today extended till September 1 the police custody of Sachin Andure, one of the alleged shooters who killed Dabholkar. The Central Bureau of Investigation told the court that it wants to interrogate Andure and Sharad Kalaskar, the alleged second shooter, together. Kalaskar was arrested by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) earlier this month in an explosives seizure case. As Kalaskar is in ATS's custody till September 3, the CBI wants to take Andure to ATS's office where both can be questioned together, said CBI lawyer Vijay Kumar Dhakne, seeking extension of custody. Further, three accused in journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case -- Amol Kale, Amit Digvekar and Rajesh Bangera -- will be .
Two stabbed to death in Delhi
Two persons were stabbed to death and four injured, three of them critically, by a group of armed assailants in west Delhi, police said on Thursday.
Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma sworn in as permanent judge of U'khand HC
Additional Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma was today sworn in as a permanent judgeof the Uttarakhand High Court. Acting Chief Justice of the court Rajiv Sharma administered the oath to him. Newly appointed Registrar General Pradeep Pant read out the notification issued by the Law and Justice Ministry to administer the oath. Justices V K Bisht, Sudhanshu Dhulia, Alok Singh, Manoj Tiwari and several others justices of the high court attended the oath-taking ceremony.
Court grants interim protection from arrest to accused in Rs 2,240 crore money laundering case
A Delhi court today granted interim protection from arrest for a week to around 10 people who are accused of money laundering in a case involving Surya Vinayak Industries Limited where a consortium of banks was allegedly cheated to the tune of Rs 2,240 crore. Additional Session Judge Satish Arora granted the relief on a personal bond of Rs one lakh to the accused after they appeared before the court in pursuance to summonsed issued earlier and moved applications seeking regular bail. The applications were, however, opposed by Enforcement Directorate (ED) which sought time to file a detailed reply to their pleas. Special public prosecutor Nitesh Rana, appearing for the ED, opposed the bail applications and said the agency sought time to argue on the matter. Those granted the interim relief included Kapildev Aggarwal, Puneet Gupta, C V S Gopal, Ramesh Kumar Sareen, Atul Kumar Aggarwal, Abishek Aggarwal, Vinod Mittal, N K Aggarwal, Peeyush Aggarwal, Sanjeev Aggarwal and Ashwini ...
Wanted criminal arrested from Karnal
In a major break-through, the Haryana Police today arrested a wanted criminal carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head, police said. Rishipal alias Pradeep was arrested from Meerut road in Karnal, a police spokesman said, adding eight loaded illegal weapons were recovered from him. He said the arrested criminal, a resident of Chulkana village in Panipat, was accused in several crimes involving murder, attempt to murder, theft, robbery, criminal intimidation and conspiracy. He said 20 cases were registered against him in different police stations of Panipat, Sonipat and Karnal districts. The police team recovered a 9 mm pistol, five pistols of 315 bore, two pistols of 12 bore and 11 live cartridges. A case was registered against him at Sadar Police Station, he said. During interrogation, it was revealed the accused had killed a man of his village over an old rivalry last month. A case was registered in Samalkha Police Station in this connection. The accused also confessed that he ...
Desecration cases can be withdrawn from CBI and given to SIT, opines Punjab AG
Days after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe incidents of sacrilege in the state, Punjab Advocate General Atul Nanda today said the ongoing CBI investigations into these could be withdrawn with the Centre's consent. "There is no bar in withdrawing cases from CBI," Nanda said. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday had in the state Assembly announced an SIT of the Punjab Police for time-bound investigation into Bargari and other desecration cases as well as firing incidents in Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura. The announcement came after the House passed a resolution to withdraw CBI investigations into the cases and get the incidents probed by an SIT. "Where the (CBI) investigation is already going on, the withdrawal of the case will depend upon the Government of India, CBI and the concerned court. With their consent, the case can be withdrawn," Nanda told PTI today. It is a sentiment of all the representatives of people that this .
Second son of Hizb chief arrested by NIA in 2011 terror funding case
Second son of globally wanted terrorist Syed Salahuddin was today arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a 2011 terror funding case for allegedly receiving money from his father, the probe agency said. Armed with a non-bailable warrant from a Delhi court, the NIA officials, accompanied by the state police and CRPF, placed 48-year-old Syed Ahmed Shakeel under arrest at Rambagh locality in the city when he was on his way to Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science where works as a senior laboratory assistant, the NIA spokesman said. During investigation, involvement of Shakeel had also surfaced in raising, receiving, collecting funds from terrorist organisation through its active cadres from Saudi Arabia, the spokesman claimed. The spokesman said he had received money through Western Union several times which were sent by absconding chargesheeted accused Aijaz Ahmad Bhat alias Aijaz Maqbool Bhat. The probe showed that Shakeel, eldest son of Syed ...
Lalu surrenders in Ranchi court, shifted to RIMS
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday surrendered in a special CBI court here as the Jharkhand High Court had directed.
SC reserves order on Neeraj Singal's interim bail
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on a plea challenging the grant of interim bail to Bhushan Steel's erstwhile promoter Neeraj Singal by the Delhi High Court.
Can SFIO take signed statement from accused in custody to use against him; SC to decide
The Supreme Court today said it will pass order on a plea of the SFIO seeking stay on a Delhi High Court order restraining the corporate fraud investigating agency from taking a signed statement of an accused in custody which may be used against him in a case. While releasing Bhushan Steel's erstwhile promoter Neeraj Singal on bail yesterday, the high court had restrained the SFIO from taking a signed statement from him. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said it was reserving verdict on the appeal of the Serious Fraud Investigating Office (SFIO) against the high court order. During the hearing, Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, representing SFIO, said though the apex court had yesterday not issued any stay on the release of Singal from the custody, the expectation was that he will not be released till the top court decided the appeal. He said that after the apex court's hearing yesterday, Singal was released from jail pursuant to the high court ...
Ludhiana city centre scam: Plea of ex-VB SSP dismissed by court
A Punjab court dismissed today a plea of a former SSP to hear him before accepting a closure report of the vigilance bureau in the alleged Rs 1,100-crore Ludhiana City Centre scam that gave a clean chit to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, his son and other accused. The case, alleging that a private builder was favoured during Singh's previous term as CM, was filed in 2007 when the SAD-BJP was in power. But last year, the state Vigilance Bureau had filed a closure report, saying its reinvestigation of the alleged Rs 1,144-crore scam found nothing to substantiate the charges against Singh, his son Raninder Singh, son-in-law Raminder Singh and 33 others. District Session judge Gurbir Singh, while dismissing the plea of former SSP of Vigilance Bureau Kanwarjit Singh Sandhu, said, "He is neither the complainant, aggrieved nor informer" . In his plea filed on July 17 this year, the former SSP had pleaded the court to hear him also before accepting the Vigilance Bureau's closure report filed .
HC not to proceed with hearing plea against arrest of activist Gautam Navlakha for now
The Delhi High Court today said it will not proceed with hearing of the plea against the arrest of rights activist Gautam Navlakha till further orders from the Supreme Court, which had yesterday directed that all the five activists, arrested on August 28, be kept under house arrest till September 6. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel said it would not be appropriate to proceed further in the matter in view of the apex court's order, which was placed before it today, and listed the plea against Navlakha's arrest on September 14. It also said that all the documents, after translating them from Marathi, be provided to the petitioner's lawyers by then. Advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, appearing for the activist, said the top court has not gone into the issue of transit remand, nor interdicted the proceedings in the high court and hence, the bench can proceed with examining the legality of the transit order issued by the magisterial court on August 28 for taking Navlakha to ...
Sedition case: Court asks Hardik to be present on Sep 14
A court here asked today Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel -- who has launched an indefinite fast from his house -- to appear before it on September 14 in connection with a sedition case. The sessions court will start framing of charges in the case against Patel and two of his former aides from September 14. Framing of charges is a process after which the trial starts. Hardik Patel's lawyers informed the court that he could not remain present today as he was on hunger strike at his house near Ahmedabad over the quota demand. As co-accused Chirag Patel and Dinesh Bambhania were present, public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt requested the court to start with framing of charges in Hardik's absence. However, as the lawyers of both the accused were also not present, sessions judge D P Mahida adjourned the hearing to September 14. The Ahmedabad Police's crime branch had registered a case of sedition against Hardik Patel and others for allegedly instigating violence "with the ...
HC orders Chennai civic body to transfer all Vigilance Cell officials over corruption
The Madras High Court directed the Chennai Corporation today to transfer all officials serving in its Vigilance Cell within four weeks and appoint new officials, after pulling up the civic body for "rampant corruption". Justice SM Subramaniam gave the direction after perusing the report filed by the Corporation Commissioner on the action taken against building violations in the city and to curb corruption. He posted the matter for compliance after 12 weeks. The report was submitted in compliance with the August 14 interim order of the High Court on a petition by H Lakshmi seeking removal of an encroachment on her property here. The court had made strong observations over "rampant" corruption in the city corporation and said public were unable to get any document without bribing officials. The judge said, "With pain, this court would like to place on record that none of the procedures or the actions are unable to control and minimise the corrupt activities in the Corporation." Finding .
Bank employee's chopped body found in Bengal
A headless body of a bank employee with chopped body parts has been recovered from Domjur of West Bengal's Howrah district, police said on Thursday.
Special court to try cases of politicians: Centre is "unprepared", says SC
The Supreme Court today expressed displeasure over the Centre not furnishing details sought by it on setting up of special courts to exclusively deal with cases involving politicians, saying the government is "unprepared". "The government is compelling us to pass certain orders which we do not want to at this stage," a bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, adding "the Union of India is unprepared". "The Union of India doesn't appear to be ready and prepared," it said. The bench perused the additional affidavit filed by the government in which it has said that as per the apex court's direction, they had released funds to 11 states to set up 12 such special courts. Regarding the apex court's query including on the number of cases pending before each of these special courts, the Centre has said the Ministry of Law and Justice was "regularly taking up the matter with the concerned authorities for furnishing the information regarding the cases transferred/disposed/pending in the said .
DGP orders probe into death of theft accused in police custody
The Director General of Police, Odisha has ordered a CID, Crime Branch inquiry into the death of a theft accused in the police custody in Kendrapara district, an official said today. DGP R P Sharma in his order said that one DSP rank Officer of CID CB has been entrusted with the investigation/ inquiry into the matter. "Considering the gravity of the case and for a fair and impartial investigation, DGP Sharma has ordered Crime Branch investigation/inquiry into the case," the official said. A 25-year-old youth identified as Abinash Paital, son of Sarat Chandra Paital of village Balana in Kendrapara district, was arrested by Mahakalapada Police in a mobile theft case. However, there was was serious law and order situation in the area after the suspicious death of Abinash Paital on August 26, 2018. He was picked up by the police a day before and his body was found hanging in an abandoned house in close vicinity of Mahakalpada police station. DGP had earlier suspended ...
Prof Satyanarayana to move SC against search by Maha cops
Prof K Satyanarayana, son-in-law of Telugu poet Varavara Rao who is under house arrest in the Koregaon-Bhima violence case, today said he would approach the Supreme Court against the methods used by police to search his house on August 28. Satyanarayana, who is the Head of Department of Cultural Studies and Dean of inter-disciplinary studies at the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) here, also expressed his apprehension that the police might implicate him in the same case as his father-in-law was. "They (police) treated me like I am a terrorist. They did not leave me even while I was answering nature's call. They even took out and started reading personal and intimate letters between me and my wife written before our marriage. My wife objected to that. I told them that they were hurting human sentiments also," he said. On August 28, Maharashtra Police conducted searches in various cities and arrested five persons, including Rao, for their alleged links with Maoists. The .