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ED opposes Robert Vadra's plea to go abroad
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday opposed a plea by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law Robert Vadra, who is facing a money laundering case, seeking to go abroad for a medical check-up as a tumour in his large intestine has been detected.
Three arrested for allegedly duping people on the pretext of providing work visas for UAE: Police
Three cousins who allegedly duped people by promising them work visas for UAE were arrested by the police, officials said Wednesday. All three were arrested from Chandigarh last week. The trio used to put out advertisement in local newspapers in Rajasthan promising people of arranging work visas for UAE. The accused have been identified as Prem Kumar (35), Rakesh Kumar (38) and Gagandeep Singh (31) - all residents of Punjab. They had duped ten people of several lakhs. "The three cousins concealed their real identity and took hefty amounts from the victims. However, the accused have refunded the entire cheated amount to each victim after court's intervention," Sanjay Bhatia, Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport) said. The complaint filed by Immigration officials on May 27, 2017 alleged that 10 passengers, intending to go Dubai in UAE on work visa were found roaming at T-3 IGI Airport and eventually their travel documents were scrutinized. It was further alleged that Protector of .
Man held for carrying weapon also wanted for hacking bank a/cs
A man arrested from Diva in Thane district for illegally possessing a country-made revolver, was also wanted for allegedly siphoning off Rs 23 lakh by hacking bank accounts in Mumbai and Hyderabad, police said Wednesday. The accused, Ramesh Kavaria (32), a resident of Chembur in Mumbai, was arrested by the Central Crime Unit of Thane city police late Tuesday evening, police said. "Acting on a tip-off, the crime branch laid a trap and arrested Kavaria from near Sri Krishna Park in Diva. He was found carrying a country-made revolver worth Rs 10,000," assistant commissioner of police (crime) N T Kadam said. An offence under the Arms Act and the Bombay Police Act was registered against him at the Mumbra police station, the official added. Anil Honrao, senior inspector of the crime unit, said, "During his interrogation, the accused revealed that he was also involved in hacking bank accounts of customers and two offences- one at Vanrai police station in Mumbai and another at ..
Bangladesh police seeks death penalty for accused in the murder of girl
The Bangladesh police on Wednesday sought the death penalty for the 16 people accused of killing a teenaged school girl who was burnt to death by her madrasa principal for reporting a sexual harassment case against him, according to a media report. Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 18, was set on fire at her school (madrasa) on April 6 by four burqa-clad assailants few days after she complained against principal Siraj-ud-Daula for inappropriately touching her after calling her in his office. The incident triggered nationwide protests. The Police Bureau of Investigation submitted the charge sheet in the court of senior judicial magistrate seeking death sentence for Siraj-ud-Daula, the now-suspended principal of Sonagazi Islamia Fazil (Degree) Madrasa, and 15 others accused of murdering the girl. "The court has set tomorrow (Thursday) for the hearing of the case. Soon after, it will be transferred to be processed under the Women and Children Prevention Repression Act," Senior Judicial Magistrate Zakir
Kevin murder case: Family protests 'govt decision' to reinstate cop
The family of an alleged honour killing victim on Wednesday protested against the government's reported decision to reinstate a police officer, who was suspended for "lapses" after the Dalit Christian man's death. The victim's father, Joseph, said the family would petition Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ramesh Chennithala and the State Human Rights Commission against the decision to reinstate M S Shibu, the former station house officer at Gandhi Nagar Police station in Kottayam. " Kevin P Joseph lost his life because of laxity on part of this particular officer. Now, a decision has been taken to reinstate him. That too on the day we observed Kevin's first death anniversary," Joseph told reporters here. The family had alleged that they filed a complaint after Kevin was abducted but the police did not take any action on it, leading to his death. Meanwhile, Chennithala told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram that the decision to reinstate the "erring" .
Corporator held for illegal building construction in Maha
A corporator was arrested for allegedly indulging in illegal construction of residential buildings in Palghar district of Maharashtra by forging documents, police said. Businessman Kumar Kakde, 37, complained to the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) about an illegally constructed ground plus three-storey building on his family land in 2016, police spokesman Hemant Katkar said. Kakde claimed that the building, having 156 flats, was constructed by VVMC corporator Arun Jadhav of the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, he said. The complainant claimed he was not aware of how much land his father and elder brother owned and it was only after the death of them that he got to know about the alleged illegal construction on their land, he said. Kakde alleged that Jadhav also constructed another building illegally on a piece of land close to theirs, he said. Based on the complaint filed by a civic official, the Tulinj police here registered a case under various sections for cheating and
Doctor suicide: 2 more held; all 3 accused in police custody
Two more doctors at a state-run hospital here were arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a junior colleague by passing casteist slurs at her, police said Wednesday. An accused doctor was arrested Tuesday in connection with the suicide. All the three accused were produced in a court here which remanded them in police custody till May 31. The court accepted the argument by police that the custody of the three accused - Bhakti Mehere, Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal - was required to ascertain if the victim left a suicide note and if the accused destroyed or misplaced it. The police told the court that while the mobile phones of the accused were seized, more time was required to recover their WhatsApp chats with the victim. The police claimed that the victim's body had a few injury marks which needed to be probed further. The postmortem report was awaited, they said. While Mehere was arrested after initial interrogation, Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal were ...
2008 hotel attack case: Court acquits Raj Thackeray
A court in Nashik district on Wednesday acquitted Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray in connection with a 2008 case of attack on a hotel by his party workers. According to the prosecution, Thackeray was accused of instigating his party workers to form an unlawful assembly and attack the hotel owned by a north Indian in Igatpuri town of Nashik district in 2008, thus endangering lives and causing hurt to others. A magistrate court at Igatpuri while acquitting Thackeray on Wednesday said the prosecution failed to prove its case that the MNS chief instigated the incident. Apart from Thackeray, six others were accused in the case. Thackeray's trial was separated and five prosecution witnesses were examined against him. "The complainant (owner of the hotel) in his testimony said Thackeray was not present at the place of the alleged incident. The prosecution could also not bring forward any evidence to show that Thackeray instigated the attack," the lawyer for MNS, Sayaji ..
Bangladesh police to chargesheet 16 people for murder of girl
The Bangladesh police has finalised chargesheet against 16 people in connection with the death of a teenaged school girl who was burnt to death by her madrasa principal for reporting a sexual harassment case against him, triggering nationwide protests in the country, according to a media report on Tuesday. Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 18, was set on fire at her school (madrasa) on April 6 by four burqa-clad assailants few days after she complained against principal Siraj-ud-Daula for inappropriately touching her after calling her in his office. Siraj is one of the 17 people arrested in connection with the case. Siraj-ud-Daula ordered the killing. Five people have been directly involved in setting Nusrat on fire, Banaj Kumar Majumder, Deputy Inspector General of the Police Bureau of Investigation, said. The chargesheet will be filed to the court on Wednesday accusing the 16 people, including those five and Feni madrasa principal Siraj-ud-Daula," he was quoted as saying by bdnews24.com. According
AJL's plot in Panchkula attached
The Adjudicating Authority under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act has confirmed provisional attachment of the plot in Panchkula which was allotted to Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) by then Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, an official statement said on Wednesday.
Nirav Modi to be produced before UK court in extradition case
Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi is set to be produced before a court in London on Thursday as he fights his extradition to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case. The 48-year-old has been lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west London since his third attempt at seeking bail was rejected by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at the last hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier this month. He is set to be produced from custody before Judge Arbuthnot for the first case management hearing in the case, during which a broad timeline is expected for his extradition trial. "This is a large fraud and the doubling of security to 2 million pounds is not sufficient to cover a combination of concerns that he would fail to surrender," Arbuthnot had ruled at the last hearing on May 8. "A combination of interference with witnesses, destruction of servers and mobile phones and the lack of community ties means I still have doubts that ..
Iraq hands over 188 Turkish children of suspected IS members
A judiciary spokesman says Iraq has handed over 188 Turkish children of suspected Islamic State militants to Turkey. Judge Abdul Sattar Bayraqdar says Wednesday's handover took place at the Baghdad airport, in the presence of representatives from the Turkish and Iraqi governments and international organisations. A statement from the spokesman says there were also a few adults in the group handed over. They were been convicted of illegally crossing the border and have served out their sentences. Thousands of foreigners including hundreds of children born from parents who lived under or fought with the Islamic State group have been caught in Iraq's justice system. Iraqi President Barham Salih made a brief visit to Turkey on Tuesday and held talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Payal Tadvi case: Three accused sent to custody, family alleges murder
A Mumbai court on Wednesday sent all the three accused in Dr Payal Salman Tadavi death case to two-day police custody as her family sought directions for the crime to be treated as a murder.The lawyer representing Tadvi's family told the court that said that circumstances of the medical post-graduate student's death suggested it was a murder case."From the circumstances of her death and bruise mark on her body, we can say that it must be a case of murder and not of suicide. Police must investigate this case in the lines of a murder investigation. Police should be given 14 days time for that," Nitin Satpute, counsel representing the deceased's family, said."The accused had taken her body to some other place and later it was brought to hospital so there is a suspicion of tampering with the evidence," Satpute alleged in court.The matter was being heard before magistrate RM Sadrani of a Mumbai sessions court.Seeking the maximum custody of 14 days, prosecutor Jay Singh Desai told the ...
Steno held for taking bribe in Jaipur
A stenographer at the office of the principal magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, was arrested for allegedly taking bribe here Wednesday, an official said. The accused, Vinay Singhal, had allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 8,000 from complainant Sitaram Meena for securing a bail for his minor nephew in a case registered under the POCSO Act, an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) official said. For the verification of the complaint, the ACB asked Meena to offer Rs 1,500 to the accused. Singhal allegedly accepted the bribe and asked for the remaining Rs 6,500 on a later date. A trap was laid and Singhal was caught accepting Rs 6,500 on Wednesday, Additional Director General (ACB) Saurabh Srivastava said. A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act had been registered against the accused, Srivastava added.
ED to take possession of AJL land in Panchkula after PMLA authority approval
The ED will soon take possession of a land worth Rs 64.93 crore in Panchkula, allotted to the Congress party promoted Associated Journals Limited (AJL) by the Haryana government in 2005, after a quasi-judicial authority under the anti-money laundering law recently approved its order, the agency said Wednesday. It alleged that the plot was illegally reallotted by former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda to AJL by "blatantly misusing his official position". The central probe agency has issued a provisional attachment order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on December 1 last year for attaching the plot located at C-17, Sector-6 in Panchkula. On the same day, the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet against Hooda and others for allegedly using fraudulent means to allot land to the AJL. The AJL is controlled by senior Congress leaders, including members of the Gandhi family. The group runs the National Herald ...
Boris Johnson faces court hearing for Brexit 'lies'
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become Britain's next prime minister, must attend court over allegations that he knowingly lied during campaigning for the Brexit referendum, a judge announced Wednesday. Johnson, the former foreign secretary, will be summoned to appear before a London court to face allegations of misconduct in public office, judge Margot Coleman said in a written decision without specifying the date. The private prosecution is being brought over the 2016 claim that Britain sends ?350 million ($440 million, 400 million euros) a week to the European Union. The decision follows a hearing last week at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, during which lawyers for businessman Marcus Ball, who crowd-funded the bid, lodged an application to summon Johnson. "The allegations which have been made are unproven accusations and I do not make any findings of fact," Coleman said. "Having considered all the relevant factors I am satisfied that this is a proper case to issue the .
Boris Johnson faces court hearing for Brexit 'lies': judge
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become Britain's next prime minister, must attend court over allegations that he knowingly lied during campaigning for the Brexit referendum, a judge announced Wednesday. Johnson, the former foreign secretary, will be summoned to appear before a London court to face allegations of misconduct in public office, judge Margot Coleman said in a written decision. The private prosecution is being brought over the 2016 claim that Britain sends 350 million pounds (USD 440 million) a week to the European Union.
Saradha scam: IPS officer visits CBI office for interrogation
IPS officer Arnab Ghosh reached the CBI office in Salt Lake on Wednesday after he was summoned by the agency in connection with the Saradha ponzi scam. Ghosh was one of the members of the special investigation team (SIT) that was formed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to probe the Saradha scam before the CBI began investigation at the orders of the Supreme Court in 2014. The probe agency had issued a similar notice to former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, who headed the SIT, to appear before it in connection with the chit-fund scam. Kumar is yet to respond to the summons. The CBI had on Tuesday also grilled another officer of the SIT, Prabhakar Nath, who was the then subordinate of Ghosh.
Eight booked for attempting to rape differently-abled woman, killing her son in R'than
Eight persons have been booked for allegedly attempting to rape a 28-year-old differently-abled woman and killing her son in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, police said Wednesday. The woman, who worked in a brick kiln owned by four of the accused, lodged an FIR on Monday at the Nadbai police station, they said. She alleged that the accused barged into her temporary residence at night on May 12 while she and her son were asleep and tried to rape her, the police said. They strangulated her eight-year-old son when he tried to intervene, they said. The complainant further alleged that the accused threatened her with dire consequences so she could not report the crime before the last rites of her son, they added. "Based on the woman's complaint, we have registered a case of attempt to rape and murder and under relevant sections of the SC/ST Act," deputy superintendent of police, Bharatpur (rural), Parmal Singh Gurjar, said. No arrests have been made so far and an investigation is underway,
National Herald Case: ED attacehes AJL's property worth Rs 64 crore
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a provisional attachment order for a Panchkula plot, which former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, illegally allotted to Associated Journals Limited (AJL).The ED, in a statement, said that Hooda misused his official position and allotted the plot in the guise of re-allotment at an under-valued price to the AJL, a group that runs the National Herald newspaper.The property has been attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).The ED stated that the value of the plot was rupees 64 crores 93 lakh rupees but Hooda gave it away for rupees 59 lakh 39 thousand rupees.The central probe agency said that its re-allotment in Panchkula's Sector -6 in 2005 benefited AJL.The CBI had taken over the investigations in the case and registered an FIR, on the basis of which the ED filed a PMLA complaint in the case in 2016. Criminal FIRs were also filed by the state vigilance bureau.