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Chief Secretary assault: AAP moves court to restrain police from disclosing details of chargesheet
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs on Tuesday moved to the Patiala House Court seeking to restrain the Delhi Police from sharing contents or details of the chargesheet filed in the alleged assault case of Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash with the media.Taking cognizance of the matter, the court issued a notice to the Delhi Police and fixed August 25 as the next date of hearing.On August 13, the Delhi Police named Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and 11 MLAs of the AAP in the chargesheet filed in the matter.The 1300-page chargesheet was filed under Sections 186, 323, 332, 342, 353, 504, 506(ii), 120B, 109, 114, 149, 34 and 36 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Samar Vishal.On February 20, Anshu Prakash had lodged a police complaint and alleged that he was manhandled at the Delhi Chief Minister's residence by two AAP MLAs - Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal.Both Khan and Jarwal were arrested on ...
Subramanian Swamy opposes Upender Rai's plea in SC against ED officer
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today strongly opposed a petition filed by journalist Upendra Rai, arrested in a graft case, seeking to restrain an Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer from conducting probe against him. The top court said it would hear the petition filed by Rai on August 16 as the special public prosecutor, Tushar Mehta, was not available. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said it would hear all aspects, including the maintainability of Rai's petition which has been questioned by Swamy and others. At the outset, Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandaran, appearing for Rai, said this is altogether a different petition and no particular allegations have been made against anyone. Swamy opposed Rai's petition and questioned its maintainability, saying that the jurisdiction of the court is used for some other purposes. He said that the Aircel-Maxis case was brought before the court through his petition and Rai in his plea had made some "scurrilous remarks" against ED ..
Three dead bodies found near railway tracks in UP's Khalilabad area
The bodies of three people, including two minors, were found near a railway track in Khalilabad area, police said today. The bodies of Obaidullah (22), Shanoo (17) and Barkat (17) were found yesterday, Superintendent of Police Shailendra Pandey said. All three victims were residents of Khalilabad town and they had left their houses for some work on yesterday, he said. A FIR was registered in this connection and an investigation was underway, Pandey said. The bodies have been sent for postmortem to ascertain the cause of death, he added.
Ktka to get 13.4TMC water from Mahadayi; Goa & Maha to get 24 TMC & 1.33 TMC each
Ending a long pending water dispute, the Mahadayi River Water Tribunal today ruled that Karnataka will get 13.4 TMC of water from the river, while Goa and Maharashtra will be allowed to use 24 TMC and 1.33 TMC of water respectively. In a 12-volume judgement, the Tribunal said the equitable distribution of Mahadayi waters among three states is "neither necessary nor feasible" at this stage. "In the absence of any apportionment of water amongst the party states, the activities related to water resources development for the benefit of the society must not stop and people of the party state must not suffer," the tribunal observed while passing the order. For Karnataka, the Tribunal said against its demand of 36.558 thousand million cubic feet (TMC) of water from Mahadayi, the state will be allowed to utilise 13.4 TMC of water. Out of this, the state has been permitted to divert 2.18 TMC of Mahadayi water at proposed Bhandura dam and 1.72 TMC of water at proposed Kalasa dam subject to ...
Ben Stokes acquitted of affray charges
England fast bowler Ben Stokes, who was arrested following a brawl accusation with two men outside a nightclub in Bristol, has been acquitted of the affray charges by the court.The 27-year-old, who was calm during the proceeding, shut his eyes for a moment after the pronouncement of the verdict and his wife, on the other hand, broke down in tears, ESPNcricinfo.com reported.Stokes was accused to have bullied two homosexual men and punching Ryan Ali and Ryan Hale outside a nightclub.Ali, who was also accused of same charges as Stokes, was also declared non-guilty by the court.During the hearing, Stokes admitted to have punched Ali and Hale but insisted that all his actions were in self-defence. The argument was accepted by the court which ultimately led to his acquittal.The verdict in Stokes' favour means that the bowler would now be available for the third Test of the ongoing five-match series against India at Trent Bridge.Stokes had to miss five Test matches, seven ODIs and four T20Is
Coalscam: Naveen Jindal, others summoned as accused in money laundering case
Industrialist and Congress leader Naveen Jindal along with 14 others was today summoned as accused by a Delhi court for alleged money laundering in a case pertaining to irregularities in allocation of a Jharkhand coal block. Special Judge Bharat Parashar directed them to appear in the court on October 15, saying that prima facie there were enough evidence to summon them as accused. "In view of the averments made in the complaint (ED's charge sheet), I take cognisance of the offence under section 3 (money laundering) punishable under section 4 (punishment for money laundering) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against all the fifteen accused persons," the judge said. Besides Jindal, those summoned as accused include Jindal Steel and Power Ltd's then adviser Anand Goel, Mumbai's Essar Power Ltd's Executive Vice-Chairman Sushil Kumar Maroo, Nihar Stocks Ltd's Director BSN Suryanarayan, Mumbai-based KE International's Chief Financial Officer Rajeev Aggarwal and Gurgaon-based Green
SC to hear TN plea against NGT order on Tuticorin plant
The Supreme Court will hear on August 17 the Tamil Nadu government's plea against an NGT order to permit mining major Vedanta to access the company's administrative office inside its Sterlite copper smelting plant at Tuticorin.
HC seeks Centre's reply on Tytler's plea against impounding of passport
The Delhi High Court today sought response of the Centre on a plea by Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging an order of the passport authority impounding his passport for allegedly furnishing false details to them. Justice Vibhu Bakhru took on record the submission of Additional Solicitor General Maninder Acharya that Tytler is at liberty to apply afresh for passport and his application will be considered uninfluenced from previous proceedings. The law officer said the fresh passport application will be considered in accordance with the law and previous proceedings will not come in the way of deciding it. The court listed the matter for further hearing on March 6 next year. Tytler, in his plea, claimed that the passport officer has passed the impounding order, for allegedly furnishing false details for renewal of his travel document, in a "most highhanded and arbitrary manner". The impounding order was passed by the regional passport officer on March 28, which was challenged ...
HC fumes over corruption in city corporation; seeks report
The Madras High Court made strong observations today over 'rampant' corruption in the city corporation and said people were unable to get any document without bribing officials. Making the observations in an interim order on a petition seeking removal of an encroachment, Justice S M Subramaniam also slammed officials for their inaction to stop violations and sought a report on action taken so far in such cases. "In every transaction in the corporation, people are absolutely frustrated and the corrupt activities of the officials are rampant. People are unable to get necessary approvals, certificates and documents from the corporation without paying bribe," the judge said. He made the remarks during the hearing when Corporation Commissioner D Karthikeyan was present in the court, complying with an earlier order. The judge refused to accept the submission of Additional Advocate General Manishankar, who appeared on behalf of the commissioner, that the civic body was initiating all steps ..
35-yr-old gets life in jail for raping minor
A special POCSO court in Kota has convicted a 35-year-old man to life in imprisonment and imposed penalty of Rs 50,000 for raping a nine-year old girl, officials said today. Special judge of POCSO court Girish Aggrawal on Monday convicted Vijay Mehara (35), a resident of Rojdi village under R K Puram police station, to life in jail till natural death after the court found him guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl, special public prosecutor (SPP), POCSO court, Kota,Kamal Kant Sharma said. The mother of the minor victim, on July 6, 2015 lodged a complaint with R K Puram police station, alleging Mehara, a resident of nearby Rojdi village who was also familiar to the victim's kin, took her daughter to the room of one of his acquaintances and raped the girl. Based on the report, R K Puram station police lodged a case under section 376 of IPC and sections under POCSO Act and began investigation, the SPP said. A total of 13 witnesses were produced before the court for the statements during .
Official held for alleged sexual harassment of women inmates at another Bihar short-stay home
Close on the heels of the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape scandal rocking the state, another case of alleged sexual harassment of women at a short stay home here has come to light with the police today saying it has arrested the main accused, a Vaishali district administration official. District project manager Manmohan Kumar Singh, who was entrusted with the supervision of the short stay home, was arrested late last night, town police station inspector Om Prakash said. The police is searching for four co-accused in the case, which include two women -- Priyanka and Karuna Kumar, in-charge and assistant, respectively, of a women's help line -- who have been accused of abetting the crime, the inspector said. Singh was arrested after an FIR was lodged as per directions of district magistrate Rajiv Raushan. The district magistrate said a complaint was received from inmates of the short stay home on July 19 in which they had accused Singh of harassment and the others of abetment. The ...
HC notice to Speaker on contempt plea by 2 Congress MLAs
The Hyderabad High Court today issued notice to the Telangana Assembly Speaker on a contempt plea filed by two Congress MLAs over non-restoration of their membership despite the court's order. Justice B Siva Sankara Rao, while dealing with a contempt petition filed by expelled Congress lawmakers Komatireddy Venkata Reddy and S A Sampath Kumar against the Telangana Legislative Assembly Secretary and Law Secretary, also issued notices to the two officials. On March 13, the two MLAs were expelled from the assembly, a day after "unruly" incidents during the Governor's address to the joint sitting of legislature. Subsequently, the two had jointly filed a petition in the High Court, challenging their expulsion from the Assembly. On April 17, the High Court quashed the notification issued by the Legislature Secretary expelling the two MLAs. Again in June this year the two MLAs had filed a contempt petition against Legislature Secretary and Law Secretary for not restoring their ...
HC declines to put any restriction on reporting of Rahul Gandhi's tax matter
The Delhi High Court today declined a plea made on behalf of Congress president Rahul Gandhi to put certain restrictions on the media reporting of his petition against reopening of his 2011-12 tax assessment in connection with the Young Indian-National Herald transaction case. Gandhi's lawyers had urged a bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla to order that confidentiality be maintained regarding the contents of the petition and the reporting of the matter should only be confined to the arguments in the court. Declining to pass an order on the issue, the bench said "we cannot go into all this" as it would be akin to going on a "wild-goose chase" as it was not known who reports the contents of the matter and who was the source of the information. This is not the first attempt by the Congress president's lawyers to put restrictions on the reporting of the case, as on the last date of hearing they had orally urged the bench to prohibit the media from publishing the court ...
England star Stokes acquitted of affray
England cricketer Ben Stokes was found not guilty of affray by a jury in less than three hours of deliberations today following a trial at Bristol Crown Court. The 27-year-old -- whose co-defendant Ryan Ali was also found not guilty -- had been charged following a brawl hours after England played the West Indies in a one-day international in Bristol, southwest England, in September last year. At the start of the trial the prosecution tried to amend the indictment and charge Stokes with two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm but this was rejected by the judge. And half way through the trial Stokes's legal team attempted to have the case against him dropped but this was also refused by the judge. New Zealand-born Stokes said in his testimony last Friday he had a "significant memory blackout" but he was "absolutely not" an angry man who had lost all control. Stokes said he intervened because 28-year-old Ali and his friend Ryan Hale -- who had been acquitted earlier in the ..
HC defers 2G money laundering case hearing to October 25
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday deferred hearing in the 2G spectrum money laundering case against former Telecom Minister A. Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others to October 25.
Hapur lynching: Where is the cow, ask villagers
Another four days and it will be two months since a man was lynched and another seriously injured, allegedly by cow vigilantes. While 45-year-old Qasim from Pilkhuwa succumbed to injuries, 65-year-old Samiuddin of Madapur village, is still battling for life at a hospital in Ghaziabad. The Supreme Court yesterday took note of a petition by Samiuddin that he and his family were living in a state of fear with the local police forcing them to lodge a complaint of road rage, rather than lynching over alleged cow slaughter. The apex court directed a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer to probe the Hapur lynching, terming the survivor's allegations "serious". Madapur residents dismissed the rumours that the victim was involved in anything to do with cow slaughter. Where is the cow, the asked. The uproar was over a cow, but there was no cow at the spot. There was no cow, or a knife or an axe. Samiuddin had a sickle to cut fodder on his one-and-a-half bigha piece of land, he said. The police .
2 on trial in killing of Chicago teen days after Obama event
Two men are standing trial in the 2013 shooting death of a 15-year-old Chicago student just days after she performed with her high school band at then-President Barack Obama's inaugural festivities. Separate juries have been selected to hear the cases against Micheail Ward and Kenneth Williams in the death of Hadiya Pendleton. Opening statements begin today. Pendleton was with friends at a park 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from Obama's Chicago home when she was shot in what prosecutors say was a botched attempt at gang retaliation. Prosecutors say the then 18-year-old Ward was the gunman and that Williams, who was 20, was the getaway driver. Lawyers for the suspects have called the state's evidence deeply flawed and note that no physical evidence ties either defendant to the shooting.
Sebi panel suggests confidentiality clause in settlement mechanism
A high-level Sebi panel has prosed a confidentiality clause in the settlement mechanism, wherein identity of the applicant will not be disclosed, in order to garner information of defaults as well as possible violations from defaulters in the securities. Currently, the settlement regulation does not have a provision for settlement with confidentiality and all settlement orders contain details of the applicant and are published on Sebi website. "There is no explicit provisions for an applicant to voluntarily provide information to the (Sebi) board relating to the fraudulent and unfair trade practices and other serious defaults that would assist the board in dealing with any inquiry, investigation, inspection, and audit," the panel said in its report submitted to the regulator. The panel headed by retired judge A R Dave has suggested for a provision for settlement with confidentiality under the settlement norm. It has recommended that even the settlement order in cases of settlement ...
Three contract killers arrested in Bengal, arms seized
West Bengal's Criminal Investigation Department arrested three contract killers from the state's Durgapur town, who had gathered to kidnap and murder a local businessman, and seized arms and ammunition from them, said police on Tuesday.
Actress assault: HC rejects actor Dileep's plea for digital evidence
The Kerala High Court today dismissed a petition filed by Malayalam actor Dileep seeking a copy of the digital evidence of the alleged assault of a noted south Indian actress, in which he was a key accused. When the matter came up before Justice Sunil Thomas, the Kerala government stoutly opposed it saying providing a copy of the alleged visuals to the accused would affect the privacy of the victim, who was abducted and sexually assaulted by a gang of men in a moving car here in February last year. Rejecting the plea, the judge appreciated the contention made by the government. In his petition filed in the high court in March, Dileep said he was denied the rights of a defendant by a trial court in Angamaly. He moved the high court when the lower court was set to commence trial proceedings. In February, the Angamaly Judicial Magistrate Court had dismissed a plea by Dileep seeking copies of visuals of the alleged assault committed on the actress by the gang. The magistrate court had ...