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Delhi SI's son held for minor's rape

A teenage son of a Delhi Police Sub-inspector was arrested on charge of repeatedly raping and blackmailing a minor girl who is a daughter of another SI, police said on Wednesday.

Will cooperate, but won't be pressurised in arresting Choksi: Antigua

The Antigua and Barbuda government reaffirmed its commitment that it would fully cooperate regarding the arrest of fugitive diamantaire and Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam accused Mehul Choksi, but added that it would not succumb to pressure from the Indian government in the matter.Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne said on OBSERVER Radio that the authorities would arrest Choksi only in conformity with the laws and regulations of the country, Antigua News Room reported.He said, "This idea that they (India) can force us to take any decision and go against the laws and constitution of our country and one in which they are trying to force the executive to meddle in the domain of the judiciary that is something that will not be tolerated."Browne asserted that the Antigua and Barbuda government has already "signalled its full cooperation" in the matter and that "the authorities remain fully committed to assisting wherever possible".He continued, "(This issue) is a matter for .

SBI seeks quashing of ED proceedings attaching firm's property

The SBI has approached the Madras High Court in the Rs 820 crore debt recovery proceedings against Kanishk Gold Private Limited seeking quashing of proceedings by the Enforcement Directorate attaching the firm's property. Justice R Mahadevan, before whom the petition came up today issued notice to ED counsel and posted the matter for further hearing on September 3. According to the assistant general manager of SBI's Stressed Assets Management branch, Kanishk Gold Private Limited is liable to pay an amount of Rs 8,19,56,38,017 as on March 15 to a consortium of banks led by the State Bank of India. An application has already been filed by the SBI along with other banks before the Debt Recovery Tribunal-II to recover the outstanding loan amount, the counsel submitted. The DRT-II has already passed an interim order directing the promoter-directors of the company not to leave the country pending disposal of the above application. The company had deposited the original title deeds ...

Delhi HC grants bail to Bhushan Steel ex-promoter before SC hears plea

He was arrested by the SFIO for allegedly siphoning off Rs 25 billion funds

Telugu poet, two others put under house arrest

A Pune court on Wednesday put under house arrest three of the five rights activists arrested a day earlier, hours after the Supreme Court orders in this regard.

Iraqi court clears German-Turkish woman of IS links

An Iraqi judge today cleared a German-Turkish woman of having ties to the Islamic State group, a judicial source said, more than a year after she was detained. Hadya Abdel Qader had been held without charge since her arrest by Iraqi security forces in Mosul, in a part of the northern city held by IS. The jihadist group was ousted from Mosul in July last year after a months-long battle, during which suspected members of the jihadist group were rounded up. But a judge at Baghdad's central criminal court found no evidence to link Qader to IS, a judicial source said today. The 40-year-old will remain in prison while prosecutors are given a month to decide whether to confirm or overturn the judge's ruling. The office of Germany's anti-terrorism prosecutor did not confirm the details of the case, telling AFP only that her name "was not unknown" to authorities. Iraq has sentenced more than 300 people to death for belonging to IS, including around 100 foreigners. At least the same number have

Lawyers abstain from court work in Cuttack

Lawyers today abstained from work in all courts here including the Orissa High Court demanding the arrest of the policemen who have allegedly beaten an advocate on Tuesday. The Orissa High Court Bar Association today gave a call to the lawyers to abstain from court activities and demanded the immediate arrest of the policemen who have allegedly beaten an advocate. The Odisha Bar Council also gave a call to all advocates of the state to abstain from their respective court activities tomorrow and demanded the arrest of the policemen. The lawyers picketed in front of courts here. A police vehicle was torched near one of the gates of the high court while the lawyers were picketing today, the police said. On Tuesday an advocate while driving his car had hit a little girl on the road in Cuttack town. Reaching the spot, police tried to calm the situation but a scuffle ensued between the advocate and the policemen and he was taken to Chauliaganj police station. But as words soon

Allahabad HC briefly arrests advocate for misusing another lawyer's roll number for appearance

The Allahabad High Court today briefly took a lawyer in its custody after he was found appearing before it, allegedly misusing the court-allocated roll number of another advocate with the same name. A bench of Justice Vipin Sinha ordered the police to arrest advocate Jitendra Kumar Singh and take him to the court's registrar general for a preliminary probe into the matter after he admitted wrongly citing the wrong roll number to appear before the court. The bench also asked the registrar general to conduct an enquiry into the incident and submit his report to the bench in a sealed cover within 15 days. Justice Sinha, meanwhile, barred the erring lawyer from donning the advocates' uniform and appear before any of its benches, pending enquiry into the matter, and slated the matter for further hearing on September 14. The court's registrar general released the advocate after conducting a preliminary enquiry and asked him to appear before the bench on the next date. The matter came to ...

Buddhist monk detained for sexually abusing minors

A Buddhist monk was detained on Wednesday after minor children in Bodh Gaya in Bihar alleged he had sexually abused them, officials said.

SC to hear SFIO plea against interim bail to industrialist

The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday a plea by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) against grant of interim bail to Bhushan Steel's erstwhile promoter Neeraj Singal in the alleged siphoning of around Rs 2,500 crore in loans raised by the company.

Framing of charges against Purohit in Malegaon case on Sept 5

The trial court here today rejected the plea of Lt Col Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, seeking deferring of framing of charges against him until the Bombay High Court decides his application. Special judge for National Investigation Agency (NIA) cases Vinod Padalkar scheduled the framing of charges, a process after which the trial starts, for September 5. The framing of charges should be deferred because the high court was yet to decide his challenge to the sanction by the Maharashtra government to prosecute him under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Purohit had said. However, the court rejected his plea, said special public prosecutor Avinash Rasal. The judge observed that there is no stay from the high court to the framing of charges, the prosecutor said. On December 18, 2017, the Bombay High Court had refused to quash the sanction for Purohit's prosecution. Purohit then moved the Supreme Court, which asked him to move the high court ...

Guj cadre IPS officer Rajnish Rai seeks voluntary retirement

Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rajnish Rai, who had arrested D G Vanzara and two other IPS officers in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case in 2007, has sought voluntary retirement from service, sources said today. Rai, 52, who is currently on the Central deputation with the CRPF and posted at Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, has forwarded his application seeking early retirement to both the Centre and the Gujarat governments, they said. A senior official of Gujarat Home department said they are yet to receive Rai's application. Rai, who is on the Central deputation since 2014, is a 1992-batch IPS officer from Gujarat with Inspector General (IG) rank. He is currently heading the Counter Insurgency and Anti-Terrorism (CIAT) School of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Chittoor in the southern state. Prior to his current posting with CIAT, Rai had served as the IG, CRPF, in the North East sector. Rai had claimed to have submitted a report about a "fake ...

Man beaten on supicion of being child-lifter

A man was today thrashed by the public on suspicion of being a child-lifter at the government hospital here, police said. The man in his late 20s was found moving around the maternity ward in the hospital, where a strict vigil is being maintained following recent incidents of child-lifting, police added. Growing suspicious, a woman constable attempted to catch him even as he tried to escape after pushing her. Hearing the commotion, people in the hospital rushed there and started assaulting him. However, senior police officials rushed to the spot and rescued the man. Preliminary enquiry revealed that the man, Karthi hailed from Madurai and is said to be mentally ill, police said. There have been incidents of people being attacked in some parts of the state on suspicion of being child-lifters.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal bats for Kejriwal govt in SC

Congress leader and senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was once at loggerheads with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, today represented the AAP government in the Supreme Court to argue matters related to control of services and other powers in the national capital. Kapil Sibal, whose son and senior advocate Amit Sibal had filed a defamation complaint against Kejriwal and other AAP leaders, recently buried the hatchet by taking back the case after they apologised. Kapil Sibal led the argument for the Delhi government before a bench of justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan in cases that signify the tug of war between the AAP government and the Centre over powers of the lieutenant governor (LG) in the legislative affairs of the Delhi assembly. Sibal senior had not appeared for the Delhi government during the hearing before the five-judge Constitution bench that had the matter on the Delhi-Centre power row. In case lodged by Amit Sibal in 2013, it was alleged that Kejriwal, Deputy Chief .

Heavy security outside Navlakha's home in Delhi

Heavy security was deployed at the residence of Gautam Navlakha at Nehru Enclave in Delhi after the Supreme Court directed that the human rights activist along with four other activists would be kept under house arrest till September 6. The entrance gate is being guarded by personnel from Kalkaji police station while two special cell sleuths are inside Navlakha's house accompanied by a woman constable. The Nehru Enclave residence of the activist has been heavily barricaded with no outsider being allowed inside the premises. Sources said Pune Police personnel in plainclothes have also been stationed outside his residence while the Delhi Police is involved in providing security to him. All through the day, passersby were curious to know what was happening inside the residence as they saw media vans parked in the area. Security personnel were posed all through the day as the drama unfolded even as a heavy media presence was seen outside Navlakha's residence. Six police personnel, ...

Shelter home scandal: Bihar min files defamation suit against Tejashwi

A court here today admitted a defamation suit filed by Bihar Urban Development minister and senior BJP leader Suresh Sharma against RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav for dragging his name into the shelter home sex scandal. The Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has been attacking Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over continuance of Sharma in the state cabinet. Chief Judicial Magistrate Hari Prasad admitted the suit, lodged under Indian Penal Code sections 500 (defamation) and 504 (insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and fixed September 20 as the next date of hearing. The petition was filed on August 24 by Sharma, who represents Muzaffarpur, where the shelter home scandal took place. The minister has accused Tejashwi, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, with having tried to tarnish his reputation by alleging that he had close links with Brajesh Thakur, the prime accused in the scandal. Recently, Sharma had also sent a legal notice to Tejashwi, also the RJD heir apparent, for ...

5 officials arrested for taking bribe

The Rajasthan anti-corruption bureau arrested five officials of a 'mandi' in Kota district this evening for allegedly taking a bribe from a contractor. The accused had demanded a bribe of nearly Rs 4 lakh from the Jaipur contractor for clearing a Rs 2-crore bill for a road he had constructed in the mandi premises, said Narottam Lal Verma, additional superintendent of police (ASP), Jaipur-Rural. The contractor had lodged a complaint with the ACB in July, following which, after verification, a trap was laid today. The five were arrested from their office and the renegotiated bribe of Rs 1.40 lakh was also recovered from their possession, Verma said. The officials have been identified as secretary Rampal Kumawat, executive engineer Pyarelal Meena, assistant engineer Amar Singh, junior engineer Somesh Agrawal and cashier Sazeed Husain, the ASP said. A search operation is underway at the officials' residences in Kota and Jaipur. They will be produced before a court tomorrow, the officer ...

SC orders house arrest in interim relief for 5 activists, no police custody

The Pune police's bid for immediate custody of the five noted rights activists arrested yesterday for suspected Maoist links was today halted by the Supreme Court which ordered they be kept under house arrest till September 6. The interim relief for the five people that spared them the prospect of being sent to jail or police custody for now came on a day of multiple court battles after the pan India crackdown on Left-wing activists even as the apex court observed that "dissent is the safety valve of democracy". Pune police yesterday raided the homes of prominent Left-wing activists in several states and arrested five of them -- poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, trade unionist and lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj in Faridabad and Chhattisgarh and civil liberties activist Gautam Navalakha in Delhi. The raids were carried out as part of a probe into a conclave -- Elgar Parishad -- held in Koregaon-Bhima near Pune on December 31 last year, ...

Forensic evidences, call records help solve woman's killing case in Delhi

Forensic evidence gathered from an old car and analysis of call detail records helped police solve a two-month-old case of killing of a woman and led to arrest of an advocate, police said today. On the morning of July 1, the body of a woman, in her 30s, was found with cut and strangulation marks in northeast Delhi's New Usmanpur, a senior police officer said. Initially, the woman could not be identified as no belongings were found that could give police clues. After scrutinising missing people's reports filed in this district and neighbouring districts, a complaint about a missing woman lodged in Karawal Nagar in northeast Delhi matched with the victim, he said. Subsequently, the family members of the deceased were called who identified the woman, the police officer said. The police then scanned the call detail records of the woman and found that she was in constant touch with an advocate. The woman had spoken to the advocate several times, which led police to suspect his involvement .

Jat agitation: HC restrains Haryana govt from withdrawing cases

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has restrained the Haryana government from withdrawing the cases registered in connection with the Jat agitation in 2016. The Haryana government had earlier submitted a list of 407 cases for which it had given permission for withdrawal. The court of Chief Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Arun Pali here today further directed all the judicial magistrates in Haryana not to pass any order on any application for withdrawal or any cancellation report pertaining to the cases till the next date of hearing. "All concerned magistrates are restrained from passing any order on any such applications for withdrawal or in respect of cancellation report," the court has directed. "We hereby direct that until further orders the state of Haryana shall not proceed with its applications for withdrawal of the cases," it said. The cases pertain to arson and violence during the Jat stir in February 2016. "Out of over 2,000 cases, the government had moved process of ...