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ED to take over Rs 65-crore AJL land in Panchkula after PMLA's nod

The AJL is reportedly controlled by senior Congress leaders, including members of the Gandhi family

SC dismisses Karti Chidambaram's plea seeking return of Rs 10 cr deposited for travelling abroad

The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed a plea of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram seeking return of Rs 10 crore which he had deposited with the court's registry for travelling abroad. Karti Chidambaram is facing criminal cases being probed by the CBI and ED. A vacation bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose rejected Karti's plea and said, "Pay attention to your constituency." The bench was hearing Karti's plea in which he had sought return of Rs 10 crore deposited earlier by him in the apex court's registry, claiming he had taken the money on loan and was paying interest on it. On May 7, a bench headed by the CJI had allowed Karti, son of former Union minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, to travel to the United Kingdom, US, France, Germany and Spain in May and June this year. "The applicant (Karti) shall make a deposit of Rs 10 crore only before the Secretary General of this Court, which will be returned to him after he comes back to the ...

Main accused in hooch tragedy arrested

The main accused in the spurious liquor case in the district was arrested from near Bhind Amraee village on Wednesday morning, police said. On Tuesday, 14 persons died and around 40 others were taken ill after consuming spurious liquor here. SP Ajay Sahini said the main accused, Pappu Jaiswal, was held following an encounter early morning while efforts are on to arrest the other accused, Danvir Singh. Three others working in the shop that sold the liquor were arrested on Tuesday night, the SP said, adding raids were carried out at the godown and illicit liquor was seized. The SP said while the shop was allotted to Singh, Jaiswal was running it for him. Jaiswal received injuries in his leg during the encounter and has been referred to the Lucknow Trauma Centre, the SP said. The incident prompted the Adityanath government to order a high-level probe to look into all angles, including the possibility of a "political conspiracy". Heads rolled after the incident with authorities ...

Barabanki hooch tragedy: Main accused arrested after an encounter

The Uttar Pradesh police on Wednesday arrested Pappu Jaiswal, main accused in the Barabanki spurious liquor deaths case, after an encounter here.R.S Gautam, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Barabanki, said, "Based on the information received from the victims, the police arrested the main accused after an encounter. Pappu, who had a reward of Rs 20,000 on him, was injured and taken to the hospital afterwards."He further said, "Police also conducted raids at several places and seized the stock of liquor brands which were allegedly consumed by the victims."Two FIRs have also been registered in this matter and the investigation is still on, he added.Three people were arrested by the police after the death toll in the Barabanki hooch tragedy rose to 16.Moreover, the state government has announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the deceased.

Court acquits man in live-in relationship of rape charge

A Maharashtra court has acquitted a 36-year-old man of charges of raping and cheating his live-in partner on the pretext of marriage, observing that their relationship does not come under the definition of rape. District judge S A Sinha in her order last Thursday said the prosecution miserably failed to prove the charges against the accused, Shwet Vijay Kamal Sinha, a resident of neighbouring Mumbai, and he needs to be freed. According to the prosecution, the 39-year-old woman, who resided at Mira Road here and ran a salon, came in contact with the accused in 2001 and they got into a relationship. The man insisted they continue their relation and even promised to marry her. He was jobless and the woman used to help him financially, the prosecution said. When the woman asked him for marriage, he cited excuses like their different castes and she being elder to him, it said. In 2007, the woman married another person but separated from him within a year. The accused then again came in ..

SC agrees to examine power of tax authorities to arrest individual for GST evasion

The Supreme Court Wednesday agreed to examine the powers of tax authorities to arrest an individual for Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion. A vacation bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose issued notice to the Centre and sought its reply on a batch of pleas challenging the provision of arrest under the CGST Act. The bench said that different high courts had taken different views in granting anticipatory bail to individuals accused of GST evasion and therefore, it needs to decide the question of law on the power of arrest. The bench also asked all the high courts to keep in mind, while dealing with grant of anticipatory bail in GST evasion cases, its earlier order by which it had upheld the Telangana High Court verdict which had said that individuals can't be given protection from arrest in such cases. The bench listed the batch of petitions before a three-judge bench to decide the question of law on the power of arrest.

Vadra to appear before ED in land grab case

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra is expected to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Thursday in a case related to land grand in Delhi-NCR, Bikaner in Rajasthan and purchase of properties in foreign countries.The ED had last week issued a summon to Vadra, the son-in-law of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, to appear before it for questioning on Thursday.On May 24, the agency had requested the Delhi High Court for custodial interrogation of Vadra for questioning him about the source of funds used for the purchase of a London-based property worth 1.9 million pounds and ascertain the role of certain other people, who allegedly helped him launder money.On Monday, the high court issued a notice to Vadra and his close aide Manoj Arora on a plea filed by the ED seeking cancellation of the trial court order granting them anticipatory bail in a money laundering case. The court has sought the reply of Vadra and Arora on the plea and posted the matter for ...

Muzaffarnagar riots case: Court acquits 12 people

A local court here has acquitted 12 people due to lack of evidence in connection with the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. Additional District Sessions Judge Sanjive Kumar Tiwari acquitted them under sections 395 (dacoity) and 436 (arson) of the IPC on Tuesday in the riots case. According to prosecution, an SIT had filed charge sheet against 13 people under sections 495 and 436 of the IPC. One person died during the pendency of the case. During hearing, three witnesses, including complainant Mohammed Suleman, turned hostile and did not support the prosecution. It was alleged that a mob set houses on fire and looted property during riots at Iisadh village in the district on September 7, 2013.

Overseas assets case: Vadra to appear before ED on Thursday

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday summoned Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in connection with a money laundering case involving overseas properties owned by him.

Australian jailed to 10 years over British backpacker rape

An Australian man who kidnapped and repeatedly raped a British backpacker during a month-long ordeal in the country's Outback has been jailed for 10 years. Marcus Allyn Keith Martin, 25, had pleaded guilty in the District Court of Cairns, in the far north of Queensland state, to charges of rape and deprivation of liberty against the 22-year-old woman from Liverpool, England. Prosecutors told the court the pair met in Cairns in January 2017 and had begun a relationship. When the relationship soured, Martin subjected the woman to weeks of physical abuse while forcing her to drive him hundreds of miles (kilometers) south and then into the west of the state. Police intercepted the pair after the woman drove off from a gas station in the town of Mitchell, 380 miles (600 kilometers) west of Brisbane, without paying for fuel. They found Martin hiding in the back of their 4x4 vehicle. The gas station's manager, Beverley Page, told reporters at the time that the woman was bruised and battered,

Three Indians charged in million-dollar fraud scheme in US

Three Indians have been charged in a million-dollar fraud scheme in the US in which they remotely accessed computers belonging to senior citizens without authorisation, caused the machines to malfunction and lured the victims' into purchasing phony computer repair services. Gunjit Malhotra, 30, Gurjeet Singh 22 and Jas Pal 54, have each been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and one count of conspiracy to access a protected computer in furtherance of fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman said. Berman said that for several years the three exploited elderly victims by remotely accessing their computers and convincing them to pay for computer support services they did not need, and which were never actually provided. The conspiracy netted at least USD 1.3 million for the three men, who were arrested ...

Woman inspector murdered in police transit hostel

A woman inspector has been brutally murdered in a police transit hostel in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly.

UP hooch tragedy accused held after encounter

Pappu Jaiswal, the main accused in the Barabanki hooch tragedy that has claimed 16 lives, was arrested early on Wednesday after an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Police.

BSP leader, nephew shot dead in Uttar Pradesh

A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and his nephew were shot dead in Bijnor district on Tuesday.

UP: 16-yr-old mentally-challenged punished by hanging brick from private part

In a shocking incident from Shahjahanpur a 16-year-old mentally challenged boy was punished by hanging a brick from his private part as a punishment by his own relatives.The boy's sister and other family members were also attacked when they tried to complain about the incident which took place on May 26."My son Sandeep (name changed) who is specially-abled and also mentally challenged was playing with some boys from the village when an altercation broke out. They beat him and also tied a brick to his private part, they made a video of it and shared it freely. When we got to know of the incident and went to complain they beat us too," Hari Ram told ANI here.Dhwani, the sister of the victim said that the spiteful relatives showed no remorse when her mother went to complain about the incident to them. She also accused her relatives of attacking her and her mother with sticks."My mother went to complain about the treatment meted out to my mentally challenged brother. I accompanied her to .

UP: Police inspector found dead at his residence in Siddharthnagar

A police inspector was found dead in his room on Tuesday.The dead body identified as Police Inspector Pankaj Shahi was posted as in-charge of cyber cell in the police department.The police got the information after neighbours complained of foul smell from the house.Circle Officer (CO) Sunil Singh said, "Our department was trying to contact him but he was unavailable. Prima facie, it looks like a suicide. The dead body has been sent for the postmortem."According to Shahi's relatives, they don't know about his whereabouts as he was not picking up their calls for more than a week."I got the information about my brother at 8 pm on Tuesday. His wife is saying that he was not picking her call since last 8 days," said the brother of deceased Shahi.The police have started investigation in the case.

Two more doctors arrested in Payal suicide case

Two more doctors have been arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a junior colleague by tormenting her with casteist slurs at a state-run hospital here, taking the total number of those arrested in the case to three, police said Wednesday. While one doctor, Bhakti Mehere, was arrested on Tuesday after initial interrogation, the two other accused - Hema Ahuja and Ankita Khandelwal - were absconding. "Ahuja and Khandelwal were arrested in the early hours of Wednesday by the Agripada police in central Mumbai," a senior police official told PTI. They will be produced in a court on Wednesday, he added. The three were booked after their junior colleague Payal Tadvi at B Y L Nair Hospital here committed suicide at her hostel last week, a senior police official said. Tadvi, 26, hanged herself at her room last Wednesday following which her family alleged that the doctors taunted her by ragging and hurling casteist abuses as she belonged to a Scheduled Tribe. Protesters from the ...

Mumbai doctor suicide: All 3 accused arrested, likely to be produced in court today

The third doctor accused of harassing medical student Payal Tadvi was arrested by police on Wednesday.All the three accused doctors in the case- Ankita Khandelwal, Bhakti Mehre and Hema Ahuja have been arrested and are likely to be produced before the court today. Mehre and Ahuja were arrested on Tuesday.The three doctors were arrested for allegedly abetting the post-graduate medical student Tadvi, who belonged to the Scheduled Tribe community, to end her life on May 22.Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken a suo moto cognisance of the matter and written to the hospital administration, requesting to appraise with the action taken in the case."The NCW is deeply disturbed...It is a matter of serious concern," NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma wrote in the letter addressed to hospital director Dr Avinas Supe.On Monday, the Maharashtra State Commission for Women had issued a notice to Dean of the BYL Nair Hospital seeking a report on the action taken in the case.Earlier,

Mumbai medico suicide: 2 absconding women doctors nabbed

Mumbai Police arrested two more absconder accused lady doctors in connection with the abetment of suicide of a medico Payal Tadvi, police said here on Wednesday.

Punjab: 2 arrested with Rs 5 cr worth heroin

Two persons were arrested here for allegedly possessing one kilogram of heroin with a market value of Rs 5 crore, police said.The arrests were conducted by the Anti Narcotics Cell, Firozpur on Tuesday. The heroin was apparently brought from Pakistan to India via the Sutlej river.One pistol, two magazines and 14 cartridges were also seized from the two arrested.The arrests come days after the Punjab police arrested two persons in Firozpur and confiscated over 3.5 kilograms of heroin from their possession.According to police, a team from the Special Task Force (STF), Ludhiana, arrested the duo near Border Security Force (BSF) post, Ghatti Hayat in Firozpur and seized 3.560 kg of heroin and a motorbike from them.