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Agnivesh assaulted in Jharkhand, blames BJYM, ABVP activists
Swami Agnivesh, a nationally prominent 79-year-old social activist, was slapped, kicked around and verbally abused in Jharkhand's Pakur town today by a mob, which he said belonged to BJP-affiliated youth groups who accused him of speaking against Hindus. In Ranchi, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das ordered a probe into the incident. Agnivesh was attacked in Pakur as he came out after addressing a press conference. He was going to Littipara to attend a function of the Pahariya tribe. He was in Pakur, about 350 km from the state capital Ranchi, to attend an event of the Akhil Bharatiya Adim Janjatiya Vikas Samiti, a body of tribals.. "As soon as I came out of the venue, BJYM and ABVP activists attacked me without any provocation. They alleged that I was speaking against Hindus," Agnivesh told PTI. He was admitted to a hospital in Pakur after the assault and could be seen nursing his injuries. A video of the alleged attack with a large crowd thrashing the social activist and his ...
CID to probe theft of newborn from Aurangabad hosp: Maha CM
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the state CID would probe the theft of a newborn from a government hospital in Aurangabad in January this year. Fadnavis was responding to Congress MLA Abdul Sattar who raised the issue in the Legislative Assembly. Fadnavis replied in the affirmative when Sattar asked him if a probe by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) would be initiated in the matter in case the police failed to trace the newborn. According to Sattar, the infant was stolen from the Sillod sub-district hospital in Aurangabad on January 31 and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed in the hospital were not functioning at that time. "The baby girl was stolen by a woman. The infant's mother goes to the police station everyday seeking to know when she will be reunited with her child. But the police have been giving evasive answers," Sattar said. In his reply, Fadnavis, admitting that CCTV cameras were not functioning at the time of the ...
Weapons with Pakistani markings recovered in Pulwama, 2 held
Two persons were arrested and a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including some items with Pakistani markings, recovered from their possession during two separate raids in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said today. Police launched searches in Dangerpora Arihal village of the district and recovered explosive materials from the house of Bilal Ahmad Ganai, a police spokesman said. The recoveries include detonator, detonating material, connecting wires, electric chargers, batteries, mobile phones and remote control activating devices, he said. Some of the seized items are marked with symbols of Pakistan, the spokesman said. Separately, he said, searches were also carried in Naina Batapora village and a Chinese pistol, seven live nine mm rounds, one magazine and one 7.62 mm round was recovered from the possession of Sabzar Ahmad Mir, a resident of Khellan. Subsequently, cases were registered in both the seizures and the accused persons were taken into custody for further ...
SC reserves verdict on pleas challenging constitutional validity of section 377 of IPC
The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on a clutch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of section 377 of Indian Penal Code (rpt Code) which criminalises consensual gay sex. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra concluded hearing the arguments on the contentious issue after detailed hearing of four days, which had commenced on July 10. The bench, also comprising Justices R F Nariman, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra, asked the parties to file written submissions in support of their claims by July 20. The verdict is likely to be pronounced before October 2 this year as Justice Misra would be retiring as CJI on that day. Section 377 refers to 'unnatural offences' and says whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be ...
SC reserves order on scrapping of section 377
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved the order on scrapping Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which criminalises homosexuality.A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra and also comprising of Justices D. Y. Chandrachud, Rohinton Fali Nariman, A. M. Khanwilkar and Indu Malhotra issued the verdict.On July 12, the Centre had told the apex court that it would leave it to the wisdom of its judges to decide the constitutional validity of Section 377.The notion was put forth by Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is representing the Centre before the five-judge constitution bench of the top court.Earlier in 2009, the Delhi High Court had decriminalised Section 377, but the order was later set aside by a Supreme Court bench.Section 377 deals with "unnatural offences," and holds "whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or ...
Saudi Arabia executes 5 convicted of killing Pakistani man
Saudia Arabia says it has executed five men, including two Saudis, convicted for the robbery and murder of a Pakistani warehouse guard in the western city of Jeddah. The Interior Ministry said the five men, two Saudis and three Chad nationals, stabbed and beat the guard and stole his mobile phone as part of a robbery of the warehouse. It is not clear when they committed the crime and how they were executed today, but Saudi Arabia usually carries out death sentences with public beheadings by sword or firing squad. The country has executed 64 people so far in 2018. In 2017, 122 people were executed and 144 people were executed in 2016.
Minor widow killed by brother-in-law
A minor widow has been done to death in the national capital allegedly by her brother-in-law and two others, two months after her husband committed suicide, police said on Tuesday.
14 arrested for holding policemen captive & beating them up
Fourteen persons, including two women, were arrested today for allegedly holding three policemen captive for hours and thrashing them, Thane district rural police said. The incident took place in a residential colony in Mira Road in the district in the wee hours today, police said. "Thane police control room got a complaint that a party was going on in the residential locality, where loud music was being played. After this, a team of three policemen rushed to the house," police said. When they reached the house, the accused started arguing with the policemen and pulled them inside. They held the policemen captive for hours and also thrashed them. The accused, including the two women, were drunk at that time, they said. One of the victims called up a senior officer on his mobile and narrated the incident, after which additional force was rushed to the scene and the accused were arrested. The accused have been identified as Ujjwal Trivedi (26), Chirag Trivedi (31), ...
Rs 163cr cash, 100 kg gold biscuits seized in TN
The Income Tax (IT) department on Monday stated to have seized Rs. 163-crore in cash and about 100-kg gold bars following raids at multiple premises of a road construction firm in Tamil Nadu.The IT department believed to have searched the offices and properties of the firm in Chennai, Madurai and Aruppukottai today.Officials from the department said, "The seizure was probably the biggest so far in raid operations anywhere in the country".Further details are awaited.
Judge, who convicted Sharif, recuses from hearing 2 other graft cases against ex-PM
In a surprise move, an anti-corruption court judge, who had sentenced Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in a graft case, has recused himself from hearing two other corruption cases against the jailed former prime minister of Pakistan. Justice Muhammad Bashir of the Islamabad Accountability Court, in a letter addressed to Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Anwar Khan Kasi, said that the Al-Azizia steel mills and the Flagship corruption cases should be transferred to some other judge, according to the IHC sources. In the letter, the judge said that he had no objection if the cases were transferred as he could not hear these cases, they said. The move came on the heels of filing of separate appeals by Sharif, 68, his daughter Maryam, 44, and son-in-law Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar, challenging the accountability court verdict. Earlier, Sharif's lawyer Khawaja Haris had objected to Justice Bashir hearing the two other corruption cases against the PML-N supremo. Harris said how Judge
Islamabad HC rejects Sharif family's bail plea
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday cancelled the bail requests of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar in connection to the Avenfield properties case.A two-judge division bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kyani issued a notice to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to submit a response on appeals filed by the Sharif family.The bench rejected the appeal to grant bail to Sharif, Maryam and Safdar, and directed the NAB to submit its reply to the application seeking to suspend their conviction, ARY News reported.Furthermore, it requested the authorities to present a complete record of the Avenfield judgment in the next hearing.The judges rejected a plea of Sharif's legal counsel Khawaja Haris to grant a stay order, which appealed to the Accountability Judge-I Muhammad Bashir not to start the proceeding of the remaining two cases (Al-Azizia and Flagship Investment ...
Pakistan frees Norwegian journalist detained last week
Pakistani police say a Norwegian journalist who was arrested last week during clashes between police and supporters of ex-premier Nawaz Sharif has been freed on bail. Gujrat Officer Mohammad Ashraf said today that Kadafi Zaman, who is of Pakistani origin, was arrested Friday after officers assumed he was one of the protesters from Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League Party. He said Zaman was freed yesterday. Zaman's release came after the International Press Institute, a Vienna, Austria, based global network of editors, media executives and journalists for media freedom, asked Pakistan to drop charges against him. Zaman, who works for the Norwegian broadcasting company TV 2, was arrested while covering a rally organized to welcome Sharif on his return from London to face a 10-year prison sentence for corruption.
17 arrested over sexual assault of minor girl in apartment complex
As many as 17 people, most of them security guards and maintenance workers of an apartment complex here, were arrested today in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a minor girl over a period of time, police said. The arrests were made following a complaint by the victim's father that his 11-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by several men in the apartment complex. The victim identified all the accused, police said. The arrested include security guards, plumbers, electricians and others engaged in menial jobs, they said. All the 17 were produced before a court here which remanded them to judicial custody till July 31. The shocking repeated sexual assault came to light after the victim, a class seven student, narrated her ordeal to her elder sister. The sister informed their parents who lodged a police complaint on July 15. "The girl has said that she was molested by 11 people and has identified 17 persons (including accomplices of the alleged perpetrators of the ...
11-year-old boy's body, with throat slit, found in Maha's
The body of a 11-year-old boy, whose throat had been slit, was found in a house in Ulhasnagar township in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said today. The body of Harsh Alhat, student of a local school, was found at 10pm yesterday in a house some distance away from the victim's residence, a police official said. "The boy was with his parents till late evening yesterday. We suspect he was abducted and then killed with a kitchen knife. His throat was slit," the official said. Ulhasnagar Zone IV Deputy Commissioner of Police Ankit Goyal told PTI that an offence had been registered against unidentified persons under sections 302 (murder), 364 (kidnapping) and 342 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code. Some people have been detained in connection with the crime and are being questioned currently, Goyal informed. He said that police teams had been formed to track down the killers and investigations were underway to find out the motive behind the crime.
Kyrgyz student's killing fires critics of bride kidnapping
Inside a nomadic yurt pitched next to her family home in northern Kyrgyzstan a young woman's female relatives sob loudly in a traditional ceremony marking 40 days since her death. "She was my youngest daughter. Humble and well-behaved," the victim's mother, Gulnara Kozhanaliyeva, told AFP through tears. "She had such big plans for the future," she said, inside the yurt where an Islamic cleric chanted prayers. Burulai Turdaaly Kyzy, a 20-year-old medical student, wanted to become a paediatrician and marry her long-term boyfriend. Instead, she was allegedly killed by a jealous kidnapper inside the confines of a provincial police station in Jayil district, in the northern Chui region, in May. According to family members who saw her body, the 30-year-old suspect carved the young woman's initial and that of her sweetheart into her chest, although police refute this. The attack has horrified the ex-Soviet nation of six million people, prompting several thousand to take to the streets and ...
Bihar Cabinet okays proposal for steep hike in compensation for rape, acid attack victims
The Bihar Cabinet today approved a proposal to increase the compensation amount for rape and acid attack victims in the state to Rs 7 lakh from the existing Rs 3 lakh, a top official said. Cabinet Secretariat Department's Special Secretary Upendra Nath Pandey said the decision to give nod to the 'Bihar Victim Compensation (Amendment) Scheme 2018', proposed by the law department, was taken in view of directions issued by the Union Home Ministry following the Supreme Court's judgement delivered in February 2016 in this regard. Last month, the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) and the Centre jointly drew up a relief policy for rape and acid attack women victims offering minimum compensation amount of Rs 5 lakh and Rs 7 lakh, respectively. The Centre had asked all states to devise the compensation amount accordingly. "The amendment to the Bihar Victim Compensation Scheme, 2014, had become imperative on account of amendment to the Centre's compensation scheme after the apex court ..
Man attacked for 'stealing' rooster dies in Ker; 2 arrested
A migrant worker from West Bengal has died of internal head and neck injuries suffered by him weeks ago when two people allegedly attacked him over suspicion that he stole a rooster near here, police said. In view of the death of the man, police registered a case of murder and today arrested two, who were earlier let off after being booked for assault on the day of the incident June 24. 34-year old Manik Roy, recently advised a CT scan after he complained of pain, died on Sunday while he was on way to a hospital, police said. According to police, Roy was working as a helper of a mason at nearby Anchal for the past three years. On June 24, he was walking home after purchasing a rooster when two men stopped him and asked if it had been stolen as cases of such theft had been reported in the area. A scuffle ensued and roy suffered injuries on his nose, police said adding a case of simple hurt was registered against the two people and they were later let off. Roy was admitted .
Air hostess suicide: Deceased's husband sent to judicial custody
Mayank Singhvi, the husband of the air hostess, who committed suicide here, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody.Expressing angst, the brother of the deceased, Karan requested the police to arrest his sister's in-laws."Police arrested him (husband) after 72 hrs, but still, his parents have not been arrested yet, who are part of FIR, I request police to arrest his parents soon so the investigation can move forward," the brother said.Singhvi was arrested yesterday, under Section 304 B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), dealing with dowry-related deaths.As per the police, the deceased air hostess, Anissia Batra, had a fight with her husband around 4:30 pm on Friday, after which she went to the terrace and jumped off.Deputy Commissioner of Police, Romil Baniya, said a full-fledged investigation has been launched in connection with the case under Hauz Khas Police Station limits."In the investigation, so far it has been found on June 27 the couple had a fight. They gave a complaint to the .
Cow vigilantism: No mobocracy can be allowed, says petitioner
Hours after Supreme Court gave its verdict on pleas seeking directions to formulate guidelines to curb cow vigilantism, the petitioner in violence by vigilante groups case Tehseen Poonawalla on Tuesday said that no mobocracy can be allowed."The Supreme Court has said that it is the duty of the states to ensure inclusive social order, no mobocracy can be allowed," Poonawalla told reporters here.The court earlier in the day asked Parliament to see whether a new law can be framed to combat the menace of cow vigilantism. It also underscored that violence can't be allowed in the name of cow vigilantism."No citizen can take law into their own hands. In case of fear and anarchy, the state has to act positively. Violence can't be allowed," said apex court during the hearing.The court will hear the matter next on August 28.Meanwhile, Salim, brother of a 45-year-old man who was lynched in Hapur a month back, said: "We were confident that the Supreme Court would give us justice. No one should be
Judge who convicted Sharif recuses from hearing two other NAB cases
An anti-corruption court judge who sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in jail in the Avenfield corruption case, has recused himself from hearing two more graft cases against the PML-N leader.