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Bombay HC rejects Abu Salem's plea for parole to marry
The Bombay High Court today refused to grant parole to gangster Abu Salem to marry, observing that he has been convicted on a serious charge of terrorism. Salem, 46, sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, had moved the high court seeking release from prison on parole for a month as he wants to marry Kausar Bahar, a resident of Mumbra area in Thane district. The gangster, who is lodged at Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai, approached the high court after prison authorities rejected his plea for parole. Rejecting the petition, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice V K Tahilramani and Justice M S Sonak observed Salem has been convicted on the serious charge of terrorism and hence cannot be released on parole. In his petition, Salem said he is lodged in jail since November 2005. The applicant had said the parole request should be considered on "humanitarian grounds" as he cannot shun his duty towards the woman since he has promised to marry her, and that she ...
DRI seizes over 31 kgs gold in West Bengal, Mizoram
Over 31 kgs of gold worth more than Rs nine crore has been seized by officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in separate cases in West Bengal and Mizoram, according to an official statement. Acting on intelligence, the DRI officers intercepted a passenger accompanying his minor son from Siliguri to Kolkata in a bus who admitted to carrying foreign origin gold concealed in handles of his two trolley bags, it said. A total of 36 pieces of gold in biscuit form, weighing 5.99 kgs, were seized from the passenger, the statement issued by the DRI said. "As a strategy to fool the law enforcement authorities, the smugglers had cleverly used the technique of involving a minor in carrying this gold all the way from Indo-Burma border," it said. The officers further identified a woman and a man who were travelling together in the same bus. They were also found carrying gold in biscuit and sheet forms, very cleverly concealed in two old and used laptops, the DRI said. A total of .
'Previous govts to blame for shelter home irregularities'
Uttar Pradesh Women and Child Welfare Minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Tuesday blamed the former governments in the state for all the irregularities that took place in the shelter homes.Addressing the media here, Joshi said, "Those parties are turning this matter into a political one, under whose regime these shelter homes grew."She further assured that state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is monitoring the situation and said that culprits will not be spared."It was either negligence or connivance, it will be decided when the reports come in. CM is monitoring this. He is very firm that those responsible will not be spared," she added.On Sunday, the police had rescued 24 girls from a shelter home in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Deoria and arrested a couple, who were running the facility. The incident came to light after a girl escaped from the shelter house and informed police about the ill-treatment given to the inmates.The chief minister ordered the removal of Deoria's District Magistrate .
Bombay HC rejects Abu Salem's plea for parole to marry
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday rejected jailed gangster Abu Salem's plea for a 45-day parole to get married to his Thane-based girlfriend.
Pyongyang repatriates S.Korean citizen
North Korea repatriated a South Korean citizen on Tuesday through the border village of Panmunjom in a "positive humanitarian" move, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
Court extends Chidambaram interim protection from arrest
A special court here on Tuesday extended interim protection from arrest to former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and his son Karti till October 8 in the Aircel-Maxis deal case.
Ishrat case: Court rejects discharge pleas of Vanzara, Amin
A special CBI court here in Gujarat today rejected the discharge applications of former police officers D G Vanzara and N K Amin in the case of alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others. Special judge J K Pandya rejected the applications of Vanzara and Amin. The court last month concluded the hearing of arguments of the two accused retired police officers, the CBI and Ishrat Jahan's mother Shamima Kauser, who had challenged Vanzara's discharge plea. Vanzara, a former deputy inspector general of police in Gujarat, had sought discharge on the ground of parity with the state's former in-charge Director General of Police P P Pandey, who was discharged in the case in February this year for want of evidence against him. Amin, who retired as the superintendent of police, sought his discharge on the ground that the encounter was genuine and that testimonies of witnesses produced by the Central Bureau of Investigation were not reliable. Ishrat Jahan's mother sought to oppose the .
In a first, three women judges in Supreme Court
With the swearing-in of Justice Indira Banerjee, the Supreme Court will for the first time in its history have three sitting women judges. Justice Banerjee is the eighth woman judge in the Supreme Court since Independence. She became a high court judge on February 5, 2002 and was made a chief justice of the Calcutta High Court on April 5, 2017. She will retire on September 23, 2022. Before her, senior advocate Indu Malhotra was appointed as the seventh woman judge in the apex court. Malhotra was the first senior woman advocate to be directly appointed as the judge of the Supreme Court. Among the three sitting women judges, Justice R Banumathi is the senior most and was elevated to the apex court on August 13, 2014. The first woman judge of the apex court was Justice Fathima Beevi who was appointed in 1989, 39 years after the Supreme Court was set up in 1950. She was elevated to the apex court after her retirement as a judge of the Kerala High Court. The second was Justice Sujata V ...
Man who shot 2 Indian men in Kansas bar to be sentenced
A Kansas man who fatally shot an Indian immigrant and wounded another in a suburban Kansas City bar is scheduled to be sentenced today on federal hate crime charges. Adam Purinton of Olathe agreed to a plea deal in May that recommended he be sentenced to life in prison on each of three hate crime charges, with the sentences to run consecutively. Purinton reportedly yelled "Get out of my country" before killing 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounding Kuchibhotla's friend, Alok Madasani, in February 2017. A third man who tried to intervene was wounded. The attack raised fears that immigrants faced more violence after President Donald Trump's election and caused concern in India over safety in the US. The 53-year-old Purinton is already serving a life sentence in Kansas for premeditated first-degree murder.
Jodhpur: Man burnt alive in Jodhpur
A man was found half ablaze in Anganwa village in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city.After getting information from the villagers on Monday morning, Jodhpur police reached the spot, doused the flames and sent the injured to Mahatma Gandhi hospital.However, after reaching the hospital, the victim succumbed to his injuries. The body has been sent for autopsy.A preliminary investigation has revealed that the deceased, identified as Tarun, was attacked brutally before setting ablaze.According to Mandor Police Officer Pradeep Kumar, "A motorcycle has been recovered from the crime scene. Police are investigating the matter."No arrest has been made so far.More details are awaited.
N Korea frees S Korean detainee arrested in July: Seoul
Pyongyang today released a South Korean detainee "arrested for entering the North illegally" last month, Seoul's unification ministry said, as ties improve between the two countries following a summit between their leaders in April. "Our side received a South Korean national surnamed Seo, born in 1984, through Panmunjom from the North at 11:00 am (0200 GMT)" on Tuesday, the ministry said in a statement, referring to the truce village in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two countries. The release followed a message from Pyongyang on Monday informing Seoul that the North Korean authorities had arrested the South Korean for "entering the North illegally on July 22", the statement added.
Bombay HC rejects Abu Salem's plea seeking parole to get married
Bombay High Court on Tuesday rejected 1993 serial blasts convict Abu Salem's plea, where he sought a 45-day parole to get married.On April 21, Navi Mumbai Commissioner rejected Salem's parole application, which he applied for his marriage.Salem had sought parole for 45 days to get married for the second time.The gangster is serving a life sentence in jail after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts that had killed 257 and injured 713 people. He has also been sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment in 2002 extortion case by Delhi Court.
Justice K M Joseph takes oath as SC judge
Justice K M Joseph, who as Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court had set aside the NDA government's decision to impose President's Rule in the state in 2016, was today sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court. Justice Joseph, 60, took oath amid a row with the Centre over his seniority being lowered on his elevation. He was sworn in as the apex court judge in the order of seniority as notified by the Centre, in which his name was placed at number three after justices Indira Banerjee and Vineet Saran. The issue of elevation of Justice Joseph to the top court had been a bone of contention between the Centre and the Supreme court collegium, which had recommended his name for elevation way back on January 10 along with senior woman advocate Indu Malhotra. The Centre had returned the recommendation back to the apex court collegium for reconsideration on various grounds, including that he ranked 45th in the overall seniority list of high court judges and there will be over representation ..
SC to hear plea alleging torture of Kathua case witness tomorrow
The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear a plea alleging that Talib Hussain, a key witness in the sensational Kathua gang rape and murder case, is being tortured by the Jammu and Kashmir police in a fake rape case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee considered the submission of a close relative of Hussain, seeking urgent hearing on the plea. A habeas corpus (produce the body) writ petition has been filed by the cousin of the witness. It alleges that Hussain has been kept in illegal detention and being subjected to custodial torture. Hussain's family alleged that he is being tortured in police custody in a fake rape case. Senior advocate Indira Jaising, counsel for the petitioner, later said Hussain has been subjected to torture in Sambha in the state and they are seeking "judicial intervention" in the matter. The apex court has transferred the trial in the Kathua gang rape and murder case to Pathankot after taking note of the plea
Manafort's right-hand man testifies against him in tax fraud case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Rick Gates, a longtime business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, on Monday testified that he helped Manafort file false tax returns and hide his foreign bank accounts.
Florida school shooter heard voices telling him to kill
The man alleged to have shot dead 17 people in the Parkland Florida school massacre had heard demons ordering him to "burn, kill, destroy," police transcripts released Monday showed. Nikolas Cruz, 19, was detained without resistance shortly after the February 14 attack in Parkland, north of Miami, and was questioned in the Broward County Sheriff's Office. According to the transcript of the interrogation, detective John Curcio offered him a glass of water. "I do not deserve it," Cruz remarked. When the officer briefly left the room to look for water anyway, Cruz said to himself: "Kill me, just kill me." Then he told the detective that demons in his head -- which had started tormenting him years earlier -- told him to "buy weapons, kill animals and destroy everything." "What are the demons?" the detective asked. "The voices," Cruz said. "The evil side". "What does your voice say to you?" Curcio asked. "Burn. Kill. Destroy," he replied. Cruz said he had attempted suicide two months ...
Justices Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, K M Joseph sworn in as SC judges
Justices Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran and K M Joseph were today sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court in the order of seniority notified by the Centre. The swearing-in ceremony started at 10.30 am in the chief justice of India's courtroom with Justice Banerjee the first to take oath followed by Justice Saran and then Justice Joseph. The oath of office and secrecy was administered to the three judges by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra in a packed courtroom in the presence of all judges, law officers and advocates. With the appointment of the three judges, the total strength of the judges in the apex court has gone up to 25 against the sanctioned strength of 31. While Justice Banerjee was the chief justice of Madras High Court, Justice Saran and Joseph were chief justices of the high courts in Odisha and Uttarakhand respectively. Justice Joseph took oath as an apex court judge amid a row with the Centre over his seniority being lowered on his elevation. The Centre yesterday said .
Islamabad HC to resume hearing on transfer of Sharif's graft cases today
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will resume the hearing on the transfer of former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif's remaining corruption cases - Al-Azizia and Flagship Investment to another court.Sharif's legal counsel had filed a plea requesting the court to transfer the two cases from one Accountability Court to another Accountability Court, Geo News reported.Accountability Judge-I Mohammad Bashir has been hearing the Al-Azizia and Flagship reference cases for the last 10 months. Also, the Sharif family had filed an appeal against their convictions in connection to the Avenfield reference case.A two-member bench, comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, would hear the above cases.Yesterday, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi asserted that the transfer of the corruption references against the Sharif was not possible post-indictment, as per the Geo News report.During the proceedings, Justice Aurangzeb noted that the .
Indian-origin man pleads gulity to taking USD 2.5 million in bribes in US
An Indian-origin man has pleaded guilty to taking USD 2.5 million in bribes and kickbacks from companies seeking contracts to work on energy saving projects in the US government buildings, according to a media report. Bhaskar Patel, 67, of Windermere, Florida, received the bribes and kickbacks when he served as a senior project manager for Schneider Electric Building Americas, based in Andover in Massachusetts, VT Digger, a Vermont news portal, reported. He was responsible for obtaining bids from subcontractors and recommending for selection the subcontractors that would be awarded a contract under an energy saving project. The payments were associated with federal energy savings performance contracts issued to Schneider Electric by various federal agencies from June 6, 2011, to April 19, 2016. He pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Rutland to two felony charges, each carrying maximum penalties of 10 years in prison. He remains free on his personal recognizance pending a ...
Bombay HC to hear Abu Salem's parole application
Bombay High Court will on Tuesday hear matter filed by 1993 serial blasts convict Abu Salem, where he has sought a 45-day parole to get married.On April 21, Navi Mumbai Commissioner rejected Salem's parole application, which he applied for his marriage.Salem had sought parole for 45 days to get married for the second time.The gangster is serving a life sentence in jail after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts that had killed 257 and injured 713 people. He has also been sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment in 2002 extortion case by Delhi Court.