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4 judges inspect SC corridors, CJI takes stock of facilities in press lounges
Four judges of the Supreme Court today took a round in the apex court corridor inspecting day-to-day activities. Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur, R Banumathi and Deepak Gupta were seen taking stock of the activities in the apex court corridors. Justices Gogoi and Banumathi, who were sitting in court number two, and justices Lokur and Gupta, who were holding the court proceedings in court number three, rose around 11 AM. After the judges took a round of the corridors, both the benches re-assembled around 11.30 AM. Later in the day, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra visited the two press lounges situated inside the Supreme Court premises and discussed with the scribes about the facilities there. The CJI also asked the scribes about the problems and the facilities which could be made available in the press lounges. The CJI, who was accompanied by the secretary general, other registrars and staffs of the apex court, asked the journalists about the facilities in the press lounges and
Man stabbed to death in Delhi brawl, two held
A 35-year-old man was stabbed to death on Friday by two persons during an argument in south Delhi, police said. The accused have been arrested.
81 women inmates of Byculla jail hospitalised
Eighty-one inmates of Byculla women's prison here were hospitalised this morning after they fell ill, with officials suspecting that food poisoning, contaminated water or a medicine reaction could be the reason behind the illness. An anti-viral medicine was administered to all prison inmates and staff yesterday, after which some prisoners had complained of uneasiness, a top prison official said. The prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, Indrani Mukerjea, who is lodged in the same prison, was not among those admitted to the hospital, jail officials said. Earlier in the day, the dean of the state-run J J Hospital, Mukund Tayade, said all those admitted complained of vomiting, nausea and loose motions. "None of the patients are in a serious condition and they are responding well to treatment," Tayade said, adding that they would be kept under observation for 48 hours. The sick prisoners included two 24-week pregnant women, and a four-month-old son of one of the admitted ...
Delhi court refuses bail to suspected al-Qaeda terrorist
A Delhi court has refused bail to suspected al-Qaeda terrorist Zeeshan Ali, noting that there were "grave and serious" allegations against him as he was accused of being a facilitator in the activities of the banned group. Ali, a native of Jharkhand who was deported from Saudi Arabia last August, was accused of recruiting Indian youths with a purpose to establish a base for Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) here. Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora also noted in his order that the accused was earlier declared a proclaimed offender which raises a possibility that he may again abscond if granted bail. "I am not inclined to grant bail to the accused on the grounds of grave and serious allegations against him inasmuch as he has been found by the investigating agency to be a facilitator in the activities of the banned terrorist outfit AQIS," the court noted. It also noted that there were sufficient ground for presuming that the accused/applicant has committed offence ...
Absconding gangster arrested
An alleged member of the Arun Gawli gang, absconding since 1995, was today nabbed by the Mumbai Crime Branch from Kalyan in neighbouring Thane district. Suresh Upadhyay (45), a native of Uttar Pradesh, had three murder cases registered against him -- two in suburban Bhandup and one at Ulhasnagar in Thane district. Upadhyay, who allegedly worked for gangster Arun Gawli, also faced an attempt to murder case, registered at the Bhandup police station in 1995, and was on bail, said a police release here. In 1995 he stopped appearing for court hearings and was absconding ever since. He was in hiding in Kalyan town where he was working in a factory all these years, a police official said. He was nabbed following a tip-off, the official added.
Nagaland women raped in Delhi's Dwarka, 2 held
A 19-year-old woman from Nagaland was allegedly raped by two men in Dwarka's Kakrola area, the police said today. The victim came in contact with one of the accused on a dating app, who asked her to meet him at his residence. Accompanied by her friend, she was picked up by duo in a car from a street near Ramphal Chowk, Sector 2 Dwarka, on Tuesday night. They took her to a flat in Kakrola Housing Complex where she was raped, a senior police officer said. The woman approached the police in the early hours on Wednesday about the incident, he said. In her statement to the police, the victim alleged that the accused raped her in the flat. The woman's friend was not targeted by the accused. A case was registered in the matter and the accused were arrested yesterday, the officer said.
SC Collegium recommends names of chief justices for 7 high courts
The high courts of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Madras, Kerala, Orissa, Jharkhand and Patna are likely to get new chief justices with the Supreme Court Collegium recommending the names for the posts to the government. The collegium has recommended the names of justices Rajendra Menon, Gita Mittal, V K Tahilramani, Hrishikesh Roy, K S Jhaveri, Aniruddha Bose and M R Shah for chief justices of high courts of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Madras, Kerala, Orissa, Jharkhand and Patna respectively. While Menon is currently the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court, Mittal is functioning as Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. Tahilramani is the senior-most judge from the Bombay High Court and Roy, who is from the Gauhati High Court, is currently serving on transfer as Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. Justice Bose, senior puisne judge of the Calcutta High Court and whose name was earlier on January 10 recommended for the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court but was referred .
Govt to bring ordinance if court verdict on SC/ST Act adverse:
The Centre will bring an ordinance if the Supreme Court delivers an adverse verdict on a review petition filed against its order diluting the provisions of the SC/ST Act, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today. The Centre had moved the apex court in April seeking a review of its judgement by which safeguards were put on the provisions for immediate arrest under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The apex court had on March 20 said on several occasions, innocents were termed accused and public servants deterred from performing their duties, which was never the intention of the legislature while enacting the law. While participating in the debate on the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, Paswan said "if Supreme Court delivers adverse judgement, then we will come up with an ordinance (agar court ne koi ulta palta fainsala diya to hum aapke saamne aayenge aur ordinance layenge)." Maintaining that the collegium system for judicial ...
CWE official gets 4 years in jail in graft case
A CBI court here has sentenced an office superintendent of Commander Works Engineers (CWE), posted in Assam's Tezpur city, to four years imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 on him in a graft case. Lakhan Bhuyan, the CWE official, was accused by complainant Supriyo Das of demanding a bribe of Rs two lakh, which was later reduced to Rs one lakh, for processing and despatching his appointment letter for the post of Mate in MES, Tezpur. The court sentenced Bhuyan to four years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 under section 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. In case of default in payment of fine he would serve an additional two months in prison, a release issued by CBI's Anti-Corruption Bureau Head A J Ramalingam said here today. Bhuyan was also given a jail term of three years and fined Rs 10,000 under section 7 (public servant taking gratification) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, it said, adding that failure to pay the fine would entail another ..
CBI files charge sheet against ponzi company for cheating 35 lakh people of Rs 3,484 cr
The CBI has filed a charge sheet against Directors of Pune-based Samruddha Jeevan Multi State Multi Purpose Co-operative Society Ltd, Mahesh Kisan Motewar and Prasad Kishor Paraswar, in over Rs 3,484 crore ponzi scam in Odisha collected from over 35 lakh people, officials said here today. The case was registered by the CBI on directions of Supreme Court on June 4, 2014, which was earlier probed by Malkangiri police station in Odisha. "It was alleged in the complaint that certain officials of private Multi-purpose Co-operative Society Ltd. having branch office at Malkangiri and Head Office at Shivaji Nagar, Pune (Maharashtra) were collecting money from general public through agents in different schemes illegally by promising to provide cattle and goats as well as high rate of returns on their deposits from the public and cheated them," a CBI Spokesperson said here today. The agency said its probe revealed the then chairman and director and others offered higher rate of interests to ...
Chandigarh woman alleges gang-rape in Haryana, 3 held
A young woman from Chandigarh has alleged that she was gang-raped by up to 10 men for four days after being held captive in a private guest in Morni Hills area of adjoining Haryana's Panchkula district, police said on Friday.
CBI arrests DDA officials while accepting Rs 2 lakh as bribe
The CBI has arrested an official of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) in Subhash Nagar area here for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs two lakh from two persons who wanted to construct a boundary wall on a plot in Anand Parvat area. The agency also seized Rs 5.5 lakh from the accused's premises yesterday. Baljeet Rathi had allegedly demanded Rs 6 lakh from Ravi and Sachin Kumar, who wanted to construct the wall on the plot, threatening that the land belonged to DDA and he would not allow any construction on it. The owners showed him the copy of an order from Delhi High Court which was in their favour but that did not deter him from demolishing the under construction wall, the CBI Spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said. Rathi allegedly kept calling Ravi and Sachin Kumar for paying bribe. After persistent harassment, they approached the CBI. "CBI laid a trap and caught the accused for accepting bribe of Rs 2 lakh as part payment from the complainant. Searches were conducted at the ...
PIL in HC against delay in release of accused granted bail
The Delhi High Court today sought response of the police on a PIL alleging delay in the release of accused persons despite grant of bail till verification of sureties or personal bonds were furnished by them. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar sought a status report from the Delhi Police regarding certain instances of delay in the release of accused after grant of bail, that were placed before the court by a law student. The bench listed the matter for further hearing on November 14. The plea, by law student Yashasavi Singh, contended that Section 441 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) deals with the aspect of bail bonds and sureties, and lays down that an accused be released only after verification of the bail bond and surety. The petition, filed by the student himself, claims that on the pretext of verification, the release of accused is delayed "unfairly and unreasonably". It has sought directions to the authorities concerned to ensure there ..
SC Collegium recommends Justice Bose's name for appointment as Jharkhand HC CJ
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the name of Aniruddha Bose, a judge of the Calcutta High Court, for appointment as the chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court, days after the government turned down the top court's proposal that he should head the Delhi High Court. The five-judge Collegium, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, today made public its decision taken on July 16. It said after the file of Justice Bose was returned by the law ministry, his name has been recommended to head the Jharkhand High Court instead. After keeping the file pending for over five months, the government had told the Collegium to reconsider its decision to appoint him as the chief justice of the Delhi High Court. It said that Bose who has been a judge since 2004 did not have any experience as a chief justice to handle such a prominent high court. The government wants the Collegium to recommend another name in place of the 59-year-old Justice Bose for the Delhi High Court, which has been ..
Disfigured body of minor boy recovered three days after he went missing in J-K
Disfigured body of a minor boy was recovered in frontier Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, three days after he went missing, prompting the police to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to investigate the matter, an official said today. Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has termed the act as "savage beyond imagination". Body of Umar Farooq, 10, a resident of Gulgam area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir, was found last evening, a police official said. Umar had gone missing on Monday and his disappearance had triggered protests in the area. The official said police had made efforts to trace him right after he went missing. He said the police have constituted the SIT to investigate the disappearance and the brutal murder of the minor boy. "An SIT, to be headed by the additional superintendent of police (ASP) Kupwara and supervised by the district senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kupwara, has been constituted to investigate it," the official said. He said police
SC judges inspects court premises
Four Supreme Court judges - Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B. Lokur, R. Banumathi and Deepak Gupta - carried out inspection of apex court premises on Friday.
Traffic constable dragged on car's bonnet; driver arrested
An on-duty traffic policeman was dragged for around 500 metres on the bonnet of a car by its driver, who had entered a wrong lane, police said today. The incident took place at around 9 last night in the busy Teen Hath Naka area. The car driver, Jimit Mehta, a resident of Mulund, has been arrested and booked under IPC sections 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), they said. The 30-year-old was arrested after the victim, Appa Tamkhane, lodged a police complaint. According to the complaint, the motorist was driving in a wrong lane when the policeman signalled him to stop. Instead of stopping, Mehta accelerated his car. When the policeman leaped forward to stop the car, Mehta dragged him on the vehicle's bonnet for around 500 metres. The car stopped only when passersby put up barricades on the road, the police said.
Woman burnt alive by father for choosing to marry outside caste
A 19-year-old woman who was leaving her home to marry a man outside her caste was allegedly burnt to death by her father in a Madhya Pradesh village this morning, in what appears to be a suspected case of honour killing, police said. The incident took place in Chainpur Sarkar village in Khandwa district, around 250 km from Bhopal. Laxmi Bai's father, Sundar Lal Yadav (52), has been arrested and his brother, Rajendra Yadav (28), detained, a police official said. Initial inquiry revealed that the family members opposed her decision to marry a man who belonged to another caste. However, she remained adamant and this apparently enraged her family members, Khalwa police station in-charge Kailash Panse said. When the woman was leaving her home at around 7.30 am, her father stopped her and allegedly set her on fire by pouring kerosene over her. The girl died on the spot, Panse said. Neighbours rushed to the spot after hearing screams of the woman and informed the police. The body has been ...
Collegium recommends Justice Joseph, two more judges for SC, 5 HC Chief Justices
The Supreme Court collegium on Friday reiterated its recommendation to elevate Justice K.M.Joseph - the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court - to the Supreme Court.
DMK slams AIADMK govt over crime against women
The DMK today demanded strong measures and punishment for all those involved in the alleged rape of a 11-year-old girl and a Russian woman as it slammed the AIADMK government for 'failure' to ensure women's safety and security. Expressing outrage and shock over the assault, party working president M K Stalin said "Strong (legal) measures are needed to punish the perpetrators." Stalin, also the Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu assembly, in a statement listed out various incidents of crime against women in the state in the recent past. He alleged that such crimes continued since the AIADMK government did not pay attention to women's safety and security. Recalling a 13-point action plan of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in 2013 to ensure women's safety and prevent incidents of sexual harassment, the DMK leader alleged the government neither bothered to implement it nor took proper action against the perpetrators. "People are angry over the present law and ...