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Judiciary must have consistent policy to tackle case pendency: SC judge
Supreme Court judge Ranjan Gogoi today said that Indian judiciary must have a consistent policy in matters relating to pendency of cases and batted for appointment of ad hoc judges given the shortage in lower courts. As on date, there are 5984 judicial vacancies in district courts across the country, Justice Gogoi, the puisne judge of the apex court, said. "The problem does not lie in the short tenure (of judges). It lies in the change of priorities with change of chief justices. The Indian judiciary must have a consistent policy," he said. "Then if you have a policy and if you implement it, then the tenure will not be a matter," Justice Gogoi said. He was speaking on the concluding day of the two-day conference on 'National Initiative to Reduce Pendency and Delay in Judicial System', organised by the Supreme Court of India in collaboration with the Indian Law Institute. After day-long sessions on various topics related to pendency of cases and alternative dispute redressal (ADR) ...
Minor's body found in field in Kota, police suspect rape
The body of a minor girl was found lying in a field here today with injury marks on her neck suggesting that she was strangulated after being raped, the police said. The seven-year-old girl went missing last evening while playing outside her home in Jhalawar district's Mogiyabhiya village, SHO of Kamkheda police station Dharmaram said. The minor's father lodged a police complaint today morning and a case was lodged under section 363 (kidnapping) of the IPC, he added. Her body was found around 4:30 pm in a maize field, about 250 to 300 metres from her home, following a search operation by police teams, the SHO said. The police suspect the minor was strangulated to death after being raped sometime last night as her body bore injury marks on the neck. No injury marks were found anywhere else on her body, Dharmaram said. The exact cause of her death and rape, however, will only be confirmed after the post-mortem report comes, he added. No suspects have been identified so far and the ...
SC to hear on Tuesday plea for recall of Judge Loya case judgment
The Supreme Court will hear, on July 31, a plea of Bombay Lawyers Association seeking a review and recall of its judgment that held that Special CBI Court Judge B.H. Loya had met with natural death and that a PIL was misused for advancing political agenda and to scandalise the judiciary.
Justice Gogoi rejects fixed tenure for CJIs, seeks consistent judicial policy
Justice Ranjan Gogoi - the seniormost judge of the top court after Chief Justice Dipak Misra - on Saturday dismissed the suggestion for fixed tenure of the Chief Justice of India so as to give them enough time to push the reforms in the judicial system.
Drugs worth over Rs 5 lakh seized, nine arrested
Nine African-origin men were arrested in the city after cocaine was seized from their possession in the wee hours today, police said. A police patrolling team intercepted a vehicle on the Eastern Freeway in south Mumbai around 1 AM, said a senior official of the Anti-Narcotics Cell. There were nine men, all of African origin, inside. The police found that one of them had a polythene bag which contained 104 gm of cocaine and 9 gm of mephedrone. Two of the men were also carrying knives, the official said. The accused assaulted the police in an attempt to flee but were overpowered, he said, adding that some of the policemen sustained minor injuries. None of the accused were carrying passports, he said. The drugs in their possession were worth Rs 5.38 lakh in illicit markets, the official said. The accused, suspected to be drug peddlers, were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Indian Passport Act. Nationality of the accused was yet to be ...
Remove A.K. Goel as NGT chief: Athawale
The Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said former Supreme Court judge Justice A.K. Goel had given a wrong judgment on the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and hence, his appointment as NGT chairman is not appropriate."Justice Goyal had given wrong judgment on SC/ST Atrocities Act. I don't think it is appropriate to appoint him as NGT chairman. I am a part of NDA, but I demand that he should be removed from that post. He has hurt feelings of Dalits," Athawale told ANI.The retired apex court judge was on July 6 appointed as the chairperson of the NGT for five years.On March 20, the Supreme Court bench led by Justice Goyal and UU Lalit introduced the provision of anticipatory bail in the SC/ST Atrocities Act and also directed that there will be no automatic arrest on any complaint filed under the Act.Many political parties and people belonging to Dalit community opposed the judgement, perceiving it as the ...
Naqeebullah murder: 2 Pak cops granted bail
Two accused police officers - sub-inspector Muhammad Yaseen and ASI (assistant sub-inspector of police) Sapurd Hussain were granted bail by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday in connection to the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud.The court directed both policemen to pay (Pakistani) Rs. 0.2 million in bail bonds. The ATC further said that it would decide the bail plea of former Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Qamar Ahmed of Malir district on August 18, Geo News reported.As of now, four police personnel accused in the murder case, including former senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Malir district, Rao Anwar, have secured bails from the ATC.Earlier on July 10, Anwar, the main accused in the case, was granted bail. Anwar and other police officers are in the dock for killing at least four men, during what they claimed was a raid on a suspected Taliban hideout in Karachi, as per the Geo News report.Relatives of Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old shopkeeper from South Waziristan tribal
Woman moves court after doctors misdiagnose tumour as pregnancy
A woman has approached the Madras High Court seeking a compensation of Rs five lakh and action against doctors of a government hospital here who allegedly misdiagnosed a tumour in her abdomen as pregnancy. Justice T Raja, before whom the petition came up yesterday, sought some clarifications from the government pleader with regard to the woman's medical reports and posted the matter for further hearing after two weeks. In her plea, the petitioner, who got married in 2009, said she went to the hospital in March 2016 as she was experiencing menstrual irregularities. Post examination, the doctors told her she was pregnant and that she was due for delivery in November, the petitioner said. As months went by, she did not experience labour pain. So the woman went back to the hospital where the doctors conducted a scan and told her that the baby was fine. She was asked to wait a few more days. The petitioner said she developed an abnormal abdominal pain on November 21 and was rushed to the ..
2 cops arrested for demanding Rs 1 lakh from theft accused
Two policemen posted at New Usmanpur police station in northeast Delhi have been arrested for allegedly demanding Rs 1 lakh from a man accused in several criminal cases, police said today. Head constable Jitender and constable Mohit were arrested and dismissed from service yesterday, they said. They are currently in judicial custody, Atul Kumar Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) said. The matter came to the fore after the man's wife registered a complaint on July 26. The complainant alleged that the policemen demanded Rs one lakh from her husband. The reason for the extortion bid is yet to be ascertained, police said. Police added that the man, a resident of Harsh Vihar, has over seven criminal cases of snatching and theft registered against him.
Ex-IAS couple sent to prison in money laundering case
Former IAS couple Arvind Joshi and Tinoo Joshi have been sent to prison in connection with a money laundering case after they surrendered before a court here. Judge Alok Awasthi of the special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) sent the Joshis in judicial custody last evening. The court granted bail to Arvind Joshi's parents--Nirmala Joshi (88) and H M Joshi (92)--against a surety of Rs 50,000 each in view of their old age, said an Enforcement Directorate (ED) official. Joshi's parents are co-accused in the case. The court had issued a warrant against the accused on July 19 in connection with a case filed by the ED under the PMLA. Arvind and Tinoo, both IAS officers, were dismissed from service in 2014 for allegedly amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income. During a raid at their house in Bhopal in 2010, the Income Tax officials allegedly found Rs 3.03 crore in cash. The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Police also filed a separate case against the .
Pope accepts resignation of US cardinal caught in abuse scandal
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal who is accused of sexually abusing a teenager nearly five decades ago, the Vatican said today. Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, was removed from the ministry in June after a review board found there was "credible" evidence that he had assaulted the teen while working as a priest in New York in the early 1970s. "Yesterday evening the Holy Father received the letter in which Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (USA), presented his resignation as a member of the College of Cardinals," the Vatican said in a statement today. "Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate and has ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to remain in a house yet to be indicated to him, for a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial." McCarrick, 88, is one of ..
HC rejects Hyundai Motor's plea on 'anti-competitive' practices
The Madras High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Hyundai Motor India Ltd, assailing the decision of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to investigate the company for alleged anti-competitive practices related to spare parts sale and after-sale service. A division bench of justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and RMT Teekaa Raman recently dismissed the appeal filed by the company, challenging the February 4, 2015 order of a single-judge bench of the court. The judge had held that a permission to expand the scope of inquiry into the allegations could not be construed as a suo motu (on its own motion) initiation of investigation by the Director General of the CCI. The matter relates to a complaint lodged with the CCI in 2011 by one Shamsher Kataria of New Delhi, alleging anti-competitive practices by three car-makers in the country. Following a direction, the additional director general of the CCI had in 2011 conducted a probe, which had revealed that similar practices were adopted by
Local BJP leader hacked to death in West Bengal
A local BJP leader was allegedly hacked to death by unidentified miscreants in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, police said today. Two persons have been detained in connection with the incident, they said. The incident took place at Mandir Bazar area last night when 45-year-old Shaktipada Sardar, the secretary of BJP Mandal committee of Mandir Bazar-Dhanurhat area, was returning home. The miscreants attacked him with sharp weapons and left him bleeding on the road, police said. Locals spotted Sardar lying on the road and took him to Diamond Harbour Hospital. As his condition deteriorated, the hospital referred him to a hospital in Kolkata. The BJP leader died while being taken to a hospital in Kolkata, a police officer said, adding an investigation has been initiated into the incident. Alleging that Sardar was killed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) 'goons', the BJP supporters staged a three-hour road blockade near the Mandir Bazar police station, demanding immediate arrest of .
No disclosure of data, if harm to individual outweighs public interest: Panel
The draft personal data protection law recommended by the Justice Srikrishna Committee proposes exemption of those personal information from disclosure under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, which can cause harm to the person concerned.
Three hacked to death in Jharkhand, villagers lynch killer
A mentally challenged person on Saturday hacked three persons to death in Jharkhand's Gumla district, after which angry villagers lynched the killer, police said.
Kerala CM should face graft case trial, CBI tells SC
The CBI has told the Supreme Court that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who was discharged from all criminal and corruption charges in the SNC Lavalin case, "should face trial".
Egypt court sentences 75 to death in 2013 sit-in case
Egypt's state-run media says a court has sentenced 75 people to death, including top figures of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in. Today's decision in Cairo Criminal Court will now be referred to the Grand Mufti the country's top theological authority for his non-binding opinion on the sentences. He usually approves the court's decision. Sentencing for more than 660 others was set for Sept. 8, according to state-run Al-Ahram news website. The case involves 739 defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid. Charges range from murder to damaging public property. The 2013 sit-in supported former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi who was militarily ousted following mass protests against his divisive one-year rule. Morsi hailed from the Brotherhood. The sit-in was violently dispersed.
Muzaffarpur rape: Ravana ruling Bihar, says Tejashwi
The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar once again came under fierce attack from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav following alleged incidents of rape and torture in a shelter home in Muzaffarpur.Alluding to the characters of the epic Mahabharata, Tejashwi said, "We are staring at statelessness in Bihar. Women are getting abducted akin to what Ravana did to Sita. Girls are getting raped, abducted. The state is now being ruled by Ravana," he said.Pointing out at the illegal activities carried out at a shelter home, he said, "Several drugs and things related to abortion were being used at the shelter home. Still, the main suspect Brajesh Thakur is being protected by the government. When will he be arrested? Till when minor girls will be raped in the state?".As many as 34 girls were allegedly tortured, raped and starved by administrators of the shelter home as well as visitors.
Egypt sentences 75 Brotherhood members to death
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 75 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death over charges of violence and murder, official news agency MENA reported.
Drug peddler arrested in Phagwara
A drug peddler was arrested here and five gram of heroin was seized from him, police said today. Satnampura Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Narinder Singh Aujla identified the peddler as Narinder of Panchwati, Palwal, Haryana. He was arrested near Maheru colony near Lawgate of the Lovely Professional University, Chaheru yesterday, the SHO said. On seeing police, the accused tried to run after throwing a packet, but he was caught, he said. During search, a packet containing five gram of heroin was seized. A case under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act was registered against him, he said.