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Two arrested for opening fire in public space in Noida that killed one
Two persons, who had opened fire in a public space in which a man was killed here recently, have been arrested, the police said today. The duo, identified as Dev and Udaiveer, was held by the police near Haraula yesterday. They belong to Mainpuri district but have criminal cases registered against them in the Northern Capital Region, including Noida, Gurgaon and Faridabad, they said. "On August 20, they were roaming around in a market in Sector 9 planning to rob an electronics shop. The public in the market had grown suspicious of their movement and questioned them," Circle Officer, Noida City 1st, Avneesh Kumar told reporters. "Soon they started running away and were chased by some locals. The main accused, Dev, while running through a public space in Sector 4 opened fire to intimidate those chasing him. One local, identified as Bunty, was hit by a bullet," he said. Bunty, who hailed from Bakhtiyarpur in Bihar, died on the spot, Kumar said, adding that a case was registered at the ...
Sufficient knowledge of Marathi must for lower court judges: Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court has ruled as "constitutional" the requirement for prospective subordinate court judges in the state to have sufficient knowledge of Marathi. A division bench of Justices R M Savant and Revati Mohite Dere, on August 24, had upheld the provisions of Rule 5(3)(d) of the Maharashtra Judicial Service Rules of 2008, which mandates that a candidate must have sufficient knowledge of Marathi so as to enable him or her to speak, read and write the language and translate from it to English and vice versa. The bench was hearing a petition filed by one Shobhit Gaur, who was shortlisted by the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) for the post of Civil Judge Junior Division and Judicial Magistrate First Class, but was later rejected as he did not know Marathi. Gaur, in his petition, sought his rejection order, dated April 9, to be quashed and set aside. He also challenged the rule on the ground that it violated Article 14 of the Constitution. Gaur said the rule ...
Madhya Pradesh HC upholds rape sentence despite victim's failure to recognise accused
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld the conviction of a man in a rape case despite the victim failing to recognise him. The district court in Sehore had on August 12, 1997 sentenced Rafiq Khan to 10 years in jail for raping a woman at knife-point on October 28, 1996. Khan filed an appeal against the trial court's order that same year on the ground that the victim had not recognised him during the trial. The victim had told the trial court that she was unable to see the face of the perpetrator as he had worn a mask. Her brothers had also said that they had not seen anyone at the crime spot. However, while filing a police complaint, the victim and her brothers had named the accused as well as identified him, which was corroborated by forensic evidences. On the basis of the medical report, a single bench of Justice J P Gupta observed that the victim had suffered injuries to her private parts. The high court also said the accused and the victims undergarments had blood stains of both
Panel suggests changes in Companies Act
A government-constituted committee on Monday submitted its recommendations on restructuring the existing framework that deals with corporate offences for improved ease-of-doing-business and corporate governance.
Telangana CM meets Gadkari;discusses projects concerning state
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today met Union Minister for Water Resources and Road Transport Nitin Gadkari in Delhi and discussed with him,irrigation projects and other issues concerning the state. He urged Gadkari to refer Telangana's complaint on sharing Krishna river water to a tribunal under the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, an official release said here. The matter was, however, earlier referred to the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal though Telangana had sought it to be referred to a tribunal under the Act, Rao said. Noting that the Tribunal is confined to distributing water between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, he said Telangana wants re-distribution of water in the entire Krishna basin. Hence, the matter should be referred to a tribunal under the Act, he said. Rao urged that the Sitarama project on Godavari river be treated as an old project. The project has been referred to the Godavari River Management Board (for permissions), he said, citing ...
Man booked for rape attempt on minor
A man was booked for allegedly trying to rape a 12-year-old girl today in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said. Sohanbir (40) attempted to rape the girl when she had gone to relieve herself in Gadla village under the Bhopa police station, they said. On the basis of a complaint lodged by the victim's family members, a case was registered against the accused, who has gone absconding, police said. According to the complaint, the girl had gone out to relieve herself when the accused tried to drag her to a sugarcane field to force himself on her. The girl raised an alarm after which the accused fled the scene, police said, adding that efforts are on to nab him.
SC to pass order on setting up of committee on prison reforms
The Supreme Court today reserved its order on the issue of constituting a committee to deal with issues pertaining to jails and suggest reforms for prisons across the country. A bench comprising justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta perused the draft of terms of reference of the committee which was prepared by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A N S Nadkarni and advocate Gaurav Agrawal, who is assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the matter. The bench told the ASG and the amicus that terms of reference prepared by them should be "clear" no grievance could crop up later. "Please sit down together. It will hardly take 30 minutes for you," the bench said, adding, "make it clearer". The bench said that the committee, to be headed by a retired judge of the apex court, should be given all necessary facilities to carry out their work. To this, the ASG said, "We have said that all benefits given to a Supreme Court judge will be given". The bench referred to the issue .
Maha: Eight get life term for 2002 murder of NCP corporator
Eight members of a criminal gang were sentenced to life imprisonment today by the district and sessions court in Aurangabad for murdering an NCP corporator in 2002. Three others were acquitted for want of evidence in murdering Saleem Qureshi. Additional District and Sessions Court Judge V V Pail found main accused Shaikh Imran Shaikh Nazeer alias Imran Mehendi and seven others guilty under section 302 (punishment for murder) r/w 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code for their role in the crime. According to prosecution, Mehendi and his accomplices had abducted Qureshi over old enmity from near Roxy Talkies in the city on March 5, 2012 and subsequently killed him. The gang then abandoned Qureshi's car on a road in Sillekhana area. Qureshi's body was later found buried in Padegaon area. Police later booked the gang members under stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) and filed a chargesheet against them. The .
HC calls for revisiting inter-state arrest procedure to prevent 'lawlessness' by police
Instances of police from other states arresting people from the national capital without informing the local police has led the Delhi High Court to call for revisiting procedure for such actions to ensure life and liberty of citizens is not compromised by the "lawlessness" of the police force. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel said such practice was "contrary to the police manuals" and if allowed to go unchecked, would "amount to condoning the lawlessness by the police force". "In a country governed by the rule of law, this is simply unacceptable," the court said while referring to two incidents -- one of a young married couple being taken into custody from the Jawaharlal Nehru University here by a Uttar Pradesh police officer on a complaint by the woman's father and the other in which police officials from Gujarat arrested and took away a juvenile from here without informing the Delhi Police. The court said the existing procedures to be followed by police officers of ...
SC to hear Sreesanth's plea against life ban imposed by BCCI
The Supreme Court today decided to hear after eight weeks the appeal of controversial cricketer S Sreesanth challenging a Kerala High Court verdict restoring the life ban imposed on him by apex cricket body BCCI in the wake of the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal. "Let the appeal be listed for final hearing after eight weeks," a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said. The cricketer had earlier told the court that the life ban was an extremely harsh penalty and the cricketer has not been playing for the last five years which was more than enough. However, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had said the case against Sreesanth was "open and shut" as telephonic conversations had revealed he had taken money for bowling 'no balls' during a 2013 IPL match. The bench, on February 1, had agreed to hear the plea of Sreesanth. A division bench of the Kerala High Court had restored the ban on a petition filed by the BCCI against a ...
Sheena Bora murder case: Mikhail's cross-examination completed
The defence today completed the cross-examination of Mikhail Bora in the Sheena Bora murder case in which his mother Indrani Mukerjea and former media baron Peter Mukerjea are the prime accused. His deposition in the special Central Bureau of Investigation court of judge J C Jagdale went on for over a month. He is the 15th prosecution witness to testify in the 2012 murder case. He was cross-examined today by Peter's lawyer Shrikant Shivde. Replying to a question, Mikhail said Sheena had told him that her relationship with Rahul Mukerjea, son of Peter Mukerjea, was 'disliked' by Peter and Indrani. Mikhail told the court that he had disclosed this fact to the CBI when his statement was being recorded. He denied that he was instructed by the police to "disclose only selective facts" while giving his statement. The defence had pointed out that various facts related to the case which Mikhail told the court were missing in his statements to the police or the CBI. Sheena (24), daughter of ..
Following are the chain of events after which a Delhi court today acquitted two men ...
Following are the chain of events after which a Delhi court today acquitted two men accused of hijacking a New Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines flight and forcing it to land in Pakistan in 1981: Indian Airlines flight IC-423 (Boeing 737), carrying 111 passengers with 6 crew members, took off from Palam Airport to Srinagar and was hijacked in air. The accused, armed with 'kripans', forced the plane to land at Lahore, Pakistan. *Sept 29, 1981: Five activists of the radical Sikh organisation Dal Khalsa hijacked a New Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines flight to Lahore. *Sept 30: Case transferred to crime branch. *July 10, 1982: One accused Harsimran Jeet Singh arrested and charge-sheeted. *May 30, 1983: Harsimran Jeet Singh acquitted by an Indian court. *Jan 20, 1986: Pakistan court sentences accused to life imprisonment. *1994: Convicts were released from Pakistan jail. *Dec 9, 1999: Satnam Singh appears before a Delhi court seeking discharge as he had served life term in Pakistan. *Feb 11, ..
Tanzanian national arrested with amphetamine worth Rs 3 cr
The Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs department arrested a Tanzanian national and seized amphetamine worth Rs 3 crore allegedly from her possession, an official said today. The AIU, in a statement, said that Cheche Lulu Hubert was intercepted on a tip-off after she arrived at the international airport here from Johannesburg in South Africa last night. A search of the accused's baggage led to the recovery of 3.07 kilograms of amphetamine from a specially-made false layer in her trolley bag, an AIU official said. Amphetamines have been classified as synthetic drugs that stimulate the central nervous system and make the user active and lively. The Tanzanian national has been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, the AIU release said.
Two acquitted in 1981-Indian Airlines flight hijacking case
A Delhi court today acquitted two men of the charges of waging a war against the country in a case relating to the hijacking of a Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines flight and forcing it to land in Pakistan in 1981. Tajinder Pal Singh and Satnam were granted "benefit of doubt" by the court, which said the prosecution has failed to prove beyond "reasonable doubt" the charges levelled against them. According to the prosecution, Indian Airlines flight IC-423, operated by a Boeing 737 and carrying 111 passengers and six crew members, took off from the Palam Airport here to Srinagar on September 29, 1981. It was hijacked mid-air by the accused, who forced the plane to land at Lahore in Pakistan, where they got arrested and underwent imprisonment from September 30, 1981 to October 31, 1994 as part of their life sentence by a court there, the prosecution had said. The hijackers, who reportedly belonged to the Dal Khalsa extremist outfit, had demanded the release of several Khalistani extremists,
2 acquitted in IC 423 hijack case
A Delhi court on Monday acquitted two persons facing trial for their alleged involvement in an Indian Airlines plane hijack in 1981, giving them benefit of doubt. The court said that the prosecution had "miserably failed" to prove its case against the accused "beyond reasonable doubt."The judgement was announced by Additional Sessions Judge, Ajay Pandey, of New Delhi District, Patiala House Courts.Carrying 111 passengers, the Indian Airline flight number IC-423 was heading from New Delhi to Srinagar on 29 September 1981 when it was hijacked midair and was forced to land in Lahore in Pakistan. Following a commando operation, the passengers and the crew were rescued and the two accused, namely Tajender Singh and Satnam Singh, along with their associates were apprehended.After being deported to India, Satnam Singh filed an application in 1999 for his discharge submitting that he was punished by a Pakistan court and had served life sentence there. In February, 2000 he was discharged by ...
Schoolgirl crushed by DJB tanker, driver held
A teenage schoolgirl was crushed to death and her younger sister critically injured on Monday when a speeding Delhi Jal Board tanker hit them here, police said. The accused driver has been arrested.
Ugandan pop star, government critic Bobi Wine free on bail
To chants of "People power! Our power!" Ugandan pop star turned government critic Bobi Wine was freed on bail today, ending days of incarceration during which he and some of his co-accused allege they were tortured by security forces. The 36-year-old lawmaker, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, was on crutches as he left the courthouse in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. He claims he was injured by severe beatings by security forces while he was in detention. Ssentamu had been detained since August 14. A judge freed him alongside others who are similarly charged with treason for their alleged roles in an incident in which President Yoweri Museveni's motorcade was pelted with stones. Scores of his supporters outside the courtroom cheered when he came out of the courthouse. They shouted the people's power slogan which had been popularized by Ssentamu. Ssentamu left the courthouse in an ambulance headed for a private hospital in the capital, Kampala. "We are much stronger and ...
Plea in HC to amend election rules on using same pen to cast vote
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court challenging the election rules under which only an instrument given by the Election Commission is to be used for marking ballots to cast vote. The petition, which contended that these provisions could be misused and should be amended, is likely to come up for hearing tomorrow before a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao. The petition filed by advocate Amit Sahni claimed that the Election Commission (EC) provides a common instrument or article, i.e. pen, to voters for marking ballot paper which could be easily replaced. Weightage is required to be given to the intention of the person casting vote and not on the instrument viz ink of pen, which could be replaced at the behest of any candidate, the plea sad. Citing an instance of "misuse" of such provisions of Conduct of Elections Rule 1961, he alleged that in the 2016 elections to Rajya Sabha in Haryana for two seats, the pen given by the EC was changed leading to ...
No official can use more than one vehicle: Delhi government
The Delhi Government has directed that no officer can use more than one official vehicle irrespective of the number of charges they hold.
NGT summons HP secretaries to explain delay in Manali-Rohtang ropeway project
The National Green Tribunal has summoned secretaries of the Forest Department and the Urban Development of the Himachal Pradesh government to explain "unsatisfactory progress" in the Manali-Rohtang ropeway project. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adradh Kumar Goel noted that despite its direction to expedite the work on "Palchan Rohtang" ropeway, forest clearance has not been granted to it. "We find it difficult to understand why forest clearance has not been granted in spite of directions of this tribunal. "It is further stated that the project will be completed within 48 months after the clearance is granted. In view of emergent situation as set out in the orders of this Tribunal dated February 6, 2014 and further orders mentioned in our last order dated July 17, 2018, such a long timeline seems to be unjustified and to defeat the purpose of the order of this tribunal," the bench said. The tribunal also noted that no strict timeline has been furnished with regard to ...