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Body of 26-yr-old missing man found in HP
The body of a 26-year-old man, who was missing for nearly a fortnight, was found on the Dhalku-Rachan Road, with the police suspecting that he was hit with stones. Vinod Kumar's body, which was found yesterday, had injury marks and multiple abrasions, Shimla Superintendent of Police Omapati Jamwal told PTI. Prima facie it appeared that he was hit with stones, he said today. A forensic team from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Junga also inspected the crime spot. The deceased was a resident of Sampal village in Anni tehsil of Kullu district. A case was registered under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against unknown person(s), Jamwal added.
Former Bombay HC chief justice Manjula Chellur appointed APTEL head
Former chief justice of the Bombay High Court Manjula Chellur was today appointed as chairperson, Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL), according to an official order. She has been appointed to the post for a period of three years, it said. Chellur took charge as the chief justice of the Bombay High Court on August 22, 2016. She retired in December last year. She was the second woman judge to be appointed as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, the first being Justice Sujata Manohar.
Justice Loya case: SC dismisses review plea
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday dismissed a review petition filed by the Bombay Lawyers Association seeking inquiry into Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Justice Loya's death case.The apex court said that the petition was a completely frivolous and has been filed in a motivated manner to denigrate the judiciary.The top court further said that courts were not the place to settle business or political rivalry and added that matters should be fought in markets or in elections.The apex court had on April 19 dismissed five pleas seeking inquiry into the death of Justice Loya, citing that there was no merit in the petitions.Justice Loya, who allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur in 2014, was at that time hearing the alleged Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and party president, Amit Shah, was named as an accused.Since then, many petitions have been filed seeking a fair probe into Justice Loya's death alleging that ..
Can't direct doctors to perform genital mutilation on small girls: SC
The Supreme Court today made it clear that it cannot direct doctors to perform genital mutilation of minor girls of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and questioned the "scientific justification", if any, behind the procedure. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which was hearing a PIL challenging the practice, questioned the process saying that there was hardly any rationale behind it as a girl child is forced to undergo it due to non-medical reasons. "Do you (A M Singhvi) wish us to pass an order under Article 142 (which provides extraordinary powers to the Supreme Court to pass any order in the interest of justice) of the Constitution asking doctors to perform this procedure in a hospital? How it can be done? "What is the scientific justification to direct doctors to perform this procedure," the bench, also comprising justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, asked senior lawyer Singhvi, representing a Muslim group which supported the practice. It said asking doctors ..
Kolkata man held for online cheating of Puducherry bizman
A 44-year old man from Kolkata has been arrested for allegedly cheating an industrialist here of Rs 58.32 lakh through online by posing as an official of the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL),police said today. Shyam Maitra was arrested yesterday in Kolkata by a special team of Puducherry CB-CID police with the help of the local Cyber Crime Cell of CID, a police release said. Maitra had duped Prashanth Bansal, proprietor of a steel factory here, by making an offer through a website to supply pig iron raw material at lower than the market price, claiming himself as the assistant general manager of the public sector undertaking, a police release said here. Also, Maitra used a fake letterpad and letterhead of SAIL and made Bansal to part with the money through the electronic system of payment in return for 200 tonnes of pig iron raw material, which he never supplied, the release said. Based on a complaint from Bansal, senior Superintendent of Police Mahesh Kumar ...
Congress worker arrested for sexual harassment, released on bail
A Congress IT cell worker, accused in a sexual harassment case, was arrested and later released on bail, police said on Tuesday.
Court imposes fine shopkeeper in MP for refusing to accept Rs 10 coins
A shopkeeper will have to pay a fine of Rs 200 for refusing to accept two Rs 10 coins from a customer in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district. A magistrate's court also sentenced the shopkeeper, Arun Jain, to stay put in the court till it rises for the day. The court at Jaura town yesterday found Jain guilty of defying an order issued by the district collector in this regard. Collectors of several districts had such issued last year following rumours that these coins had been scrapped. Besides imposing the fine, Judicial Magistrate J P Chidar also sentenced Jain to confinement "till the court rises", Assistant Public Prosecutor Bhupendra Singh said. Akash, the complainant, visited Paras Emporium run by Jain on October 17, 2017 to purchase two handkerchiefs. When he gave two coins of Rs 10, Jain refused to accept them, claiming that the coins were no longer valid. Akash cited the collector's order which made it clear that these coins were legal tender, but Jain refused to budge. The ...
Illegal arms racket busted in Bengal, nine arrested (Lead, Correcting Para 4)
The Special Task Force of the Kolkata Police seized 60 semi-finished improvised firearms, ammunition and arms making equipment and arrested nine persons during two separate raids, an official said on Tuesday.
Teacher arrested for molesting girl student in Odisha
A high-school teacher was arrested today for allegedly molesting a girl in Odisha's Ganjam district, a police officer said. In a complaint, the Class VII girl said yesterday that the teacher molested her on July 28 on the premises of her school, in Jagannath Prasad police station area of the district, he said. The 12-year-old girl also claimed that the teacher, in his mid-40s, threatened her of "dire consequences" if she disclosed the matter, Anirudh Muduli, the inspector in-charge of Jagananth Prasad Police Station, told reporters. "The minor girl's mother told police that she learnt know about the incident the following day (June 29) when her daughter narrated the ordeal to her and refused to go to school," Muduli said. The mother and the daughter approached the police yesterday, he said. Based on the girl's complaint, the police arrested the teacher today under different sections of the IPC and Protection of Child from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act, the IIC added.
Didn't file clemency plea in Karnataka HC, ready to settle dues: Mallya
Fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is facing money laundering charges in multi-crore fraud case, on Tuesday said he has not applied for any clemency plea in India's Karnataka High Court and is ready to settle dues.
Espionage case: NIA court awards 5-yr jail to Md Saleem
A special court in Chennai has awarded five years jail to Mohammed Saleem in a case pertaining to counterfeiting currency notes and planning terrorist acts in south India in which the NIA has initiated a process for Interpol Red Corner notice against Pakistani diplomat Amir Zubair Siddiqui. Saleem had pleaded guilty after which he was sentenced to a simple imprisonment of five years with a fine of Rs 2,000, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesman said today. The case, being heard by the special NIA court, pertains to a criminal conspiracy hatched by Saleem and others along with the then officials of the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during early 2014, with the intention of causing an explosion at the US Consulate and other places of public congregation in Chennai, and other installations in south India. The accused had also procured high-quality counterfeit Indian currency notes for meeting the expenses towards such terrorist activities, the spokesman ...
34 cases of sedition under trial: Govt tells LS
As many as 34 cases of sedition were under trial in different parts of the country, while the accused in one such case were convicted in 2016, Union minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said today. He said on the request of the Home Affairs Ministry, the Law and Justice Ministry had requested the Law Commission in 2013 to undertake a review of the criminal justice system and give a comprehensive report in the matter so that amendments could be carried out in the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act. "A total of 18 cases of sedition (124A IPC) were pending for trial till 2015 and 16 cases were sent for trial during 2016. Trials were completed in 3 cases during 2016 of which one case resulted in conviction, while two cases were acquitted," he said, replying to a written question.
SC dismisses review petition in Judge Loya death case
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea seeking review of its April 19 verdict that had held that Special CBI judge B H Loya had died of "natural causes" on December 1, 2014 and had rejected PILs seeking an SIT probe into the death, questioning their motive. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud did not find any merit in the review petition filed by Bombay Lawyers Association, one of the petitioners in the case. "We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers, but we see no reason to interfere with the order impugned. The review petition is, accordingly, dismissed," the bench said. The apex court had rejected the PILs seeking probe into the death of Loya, ruling that he had died of "natural causes", and held that the petitions were moved by political rivals to settle scores which was a serious attempt to scandalise the judiciary and obstruct the course of justice through a "frontal attack" on its ...
HRW urges probes into 'rampant' use of torture in Iraq
Human Rights Watch called today for investigations into the "rampant" use of torture against people arrested on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State group. "Torture is rampant in Iraq's justice system, yet judges lack instructions for responding to torture allegations," the watchdog's deputy Middle East director, Lama Fakih, said. "Defendants, including ISIS suspects, won't be able to get a fair trial so long as the security forces can freely torture people into confessing," she added. Around 20,000 people were arrested in the three-year battle by Iraqi forces to drive out IS, which had seized swathes of western and northern Iraq in 2014. HRW found that in 22 of the 30 cases it reviewed in Baghdad, judges had refused to consider allegations of torture. In several cases, judges ordered forensic medical examinations and found signs of torture, "but did not necessarily order a retrial or investigation and prosecution of the abusive officers", the group said. Iraq's constitution ...
Ex-MLA Sharma gets bail in BJP leader's murder case
Former Sahibabad MLA and Congress leader Amar Pal Sharma, booked under the National Security Act (NSA) in connection with the murder of BJP leader Gajendra Bhati, was given bail by the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday.
Madras HC upholds acquittal of ex-minister in colour TV scam
The Madras High Court today upheld the acquittal of former minister TM Selvaganapathy by a CBI court in an over two-decades-old corruption case related to the purchase of colour TVs for a Tamil Nadu government scheme. Dismissing the appeal filed by the CBI against the 2009 order by the lower court, Justice G Jayachandran said the prosecution had failed to conduct the investigation properly and collect adequate material to substantiate the charges. "After perusal of the entire records and the submissions made by the counsels, this court finds plausible the reasons given by the trial court for acquitting the accused," he said. The matter relates to purchase of colour TV sets between 1994-1996, during the first government of late chief minister Jayalalithaa, for being supplied to panchayats free of cost. The prosecution had alleged that Selvaganapathy, as the then rural development minister, received a bribe of Rs 40.60 lakh from two senior officials of the Electronics Corporation of ...
Ready to settle dues: Mallya
Soon after London's Westminster Court extended bail of Vijay Mallya on Tuesday, the embattled liquor baron said that he is ready to settle his dues."I have not applied for any clemency. But, I am ready to settle my dues," Mallya, who is wanted in India on the charges of bank fraud and money laundering, told reporters after his extradition trial hearing.Mallya, however, appeared confident when he said that banks cannot file his assets for complaints. "My assets can't be attached for the complaints filed by the banks. They can't be sold. Let the judiciary decide what's right," he said.The court today extended Mallya's bail till September 12, which is also the next date of hearing. The 62-year-old is facing the trial in the London court to be extradited to India to face charges for the financial irregularities involving a total amount of Rs 9,000 crore, as well as money laundering case.Earlier on June 30, Mallya was summoned by a designated court under Fugitive Economic Offenders to ...
Man arrested for killing woman, raping her daughter
A man, who had allegedly killed a woman and raped her daughter in Odisha's Bhadrak district, was arrested and today confessed to murdering the girl's father as well, police said. The man was netted in Bhubaneswar yesterday by tracking his mobile phone when he was planning flee the state, Bhadrak superintendent B Gangadhar said. The case was cracked within two days of the crime that took place on Sunday night at Talasitha village under Dhamnagar police station, police said. During interrogation, the accused confessed that he had murdered the man and his wife for Rs two lakh which they had got recently. The murder was "pre-planned" and the accused wanted to eliminate all family members, the SP said. The murdered man's body was recovered from a canal near Kalitra in the same area to where the accused led the police. Gangadhar said the accused allegedly shared drinks with the man on Sunday night. When the man was inebriated, the accused pushed him into the water-filled canal
Aircel-Maxis case: Court gives 2 months to CBI for obtaining sanction to prosecute
A Delhi court today granted two months' time to the CBI to obtain sanction to prosecute former Union minister P Chidambaram and other serving or former public servants in the Aircel-Maxis deal case The agency had on July 19 filed a charge sheet against the Congress leader, his son Karti, 10 individuals including public servants and six companies as accused in the case. Special CBI Judge O P Saini today allowed the CBI's request for grant of some time after senior advocate Sonia Mathur, representing the agency, informed the judge that sanctions are awaited. "Adjourn the matter for October 1," the court said. According to CBI sources, Chidambaram's name is among the persons against whom sanction for prosecution from authorities concerned was awaited. The court also adjourned a money laundering case, which is an off-shoot of the Aircel-Maxis deal case, against Karti and others, after Mathur and advocates N K Matta and Nitesh Rana requested an adjournemt on behalf of the Enforcement ...
Police rescue abducted seven-year-old boy
A seven-year-old boy, who was allegedly kidnapped, was today rescued by police with the arrest of the abductor, police said. The boy was allegedly kidnapped by Naziruddin, a labourer, while he was playing outside a hospital in Kamareddy town at around 2.30 pm yesterday. Police zeroed in on the accused with the help of CCTV footage, Kamareddy SHO Sridhar Kumar said. The boy had accompanied his mother to hospital and was playing outside when she went inside. Police verified the CCTV footage and found the accused taking the boy away with him, the SHO said. The boy has been been reunited with his mother, he added.