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Japanese man convicted of spying by Chinese court
Japan's government has confirmed that a Japanese citizen was convicted of spying in China by a Chinese court. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, responding to a question, confirmed today that Japanese citizen Takahiro Iwase was sentenced to 12 years in prison with forced labour by the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang earlier today. The court also ordered confiscation of all his personal assets. Suga said the two countries should make efforts not to let the ruling affect their relations, which have recently started improving. Suga said Iwase was arrested by the Chinese authorities in May 2015 near a military facility on suspicion of spying. Several other Japanese citizens have also been arrested or charged with spying in China in recent years.
Court rejects bail plea of 3 arrested in CGST fraud case
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Bankshall Court today rejected the bail plea by three persons, including two directors of a company in the Hooghly area, who were arrested in connection with a Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) fraud to the tune of around Rs 43 crore. The arrested trio were produced before the court today for hearing, but the court rejected their bail plea, an official of the Howrah CGST Commissionerate told PTI here. The fraud was unearthed on July 6 by the commissionerate, which covers the Howrah and Hooghly areas. The company is accused of issuing a huge number of fake GST invoices without supply of any goods or services, to facilitate the recipients avail irregular Input Tax Credit. The recipients availed inadmissible Input Tax Credit, the official said, adding that some of them were also found to be non-existent. The investigation into the incident is still underway.
Mandsaur gangrape case: Charge sheet filed against two accused
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Madhya Pradesh police today filed a charge sheet against the two accused in the alleged gangrape of an eight-year-old girl in the city on June 26. The SIT filed the charge sheet, running into over 350 pages, in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Nisha Gupta. The charge sheet contains 100 documents and statements of 92 witnesses, including doctors, police said. Besides, 50 different objects, including the knife used by Irfan alias Bhaiyu (20) and Asif (24) allegedly to slit the throat of the victim in an attempt to kill her after abducting and raping her, were submitted to the court. Talking to PTI, Deputy Director of Prosecution B S Thakur said they would make every effort so that the trial of the case ends within a month. The duo, who are lodged in the district jail, were not brought to the court for security reasons. However, they were informed about the charge sheet through video-conferencing. The accused have been ...
CBI court sends Shweta Mangal to judicial custody
A CBI court today sent Shweta Mangal, CEO of Ziqitza Health Care Ltd (ZHCL) to 14 days judicial custody in the '108 ambulance scam' case. The court had last Saturday issued bailable warrants against four accused including Ravi Krishan, son of former Union minister Vayalar Ravi,in the 108 ambulance contract fraud case. Krishna is a former director of Ziqitza, which is based in Mumbai. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against three persons in the case of alleged fraud in a tender for ambulance services in Rajasthan on June 4. Amit Antony Alex, a former employee, and Shweta Mangal, a former director, were the others charged.Mangal had surrendered before the court today pursuant to the bailable warrants issued for securing her presence. The CBI has, however, not filed any charge sheet against other accused including former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sachin Pilot, who associated with ZHCL then, former state
Taiwan's ex-president charged with breach of trust, economic offences
Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou was on Tuesday officially charged with breach of trust and economic irregularities while approving sales of assets owned by his party Kuomintang, the Taipei prosecutor's office said.
Benazir assassination case accused disappears from Pak jail: report
A man acquitted in the assassination case of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto was reported as missing from the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail here, a media report said today. Benazir, the first woman prime minister of Pakistan, was killed in a gun and suicide attack at an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. The accused, Rafaqat Hussain's father filed a plea to the Rawalpindi bench in the Lahore High Court (LHC) and claimed his son had gone missing from the the prison, Express News reported. He maintained that Hussain was acquitted in the case but was still being detained in jail. Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan accepted the application for hearing and issued a notice to the local senior police official and directed for a reply to be submitted on July 16, the report said. An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had acquitted Hussain in August 2017, however, he was kept in detention, it said. Earlier, an anti-terrorism court acquitted five accused for lack of evidence and ...
Mithun Chakraborty's son Mimoh, out on bail, gets married
Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty's son Mahaakshay aka Mimoh has tied the knot with fiance Madalsa Sharma in a private ceremony here. Mahaakshay, who along with mother Yogita Bali is currently out on bail, shared the news on his Instagram page. "Ladies and Gentleman ... Mr. and Mrs. Chakraborty," Mahaakshay wrote while sharing a photo with his wife. The ceremony was held at the actor's posh hotel in Udhagamandalam (Ooty) in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. Mahaakshay's marriage to Madalsa was earlier scheduled for July 7 but it was cancelled after a police team arrived at the venue to investigate a complaint of rape and cheating filed by a woman against the groom. A Delhi court had recently granted anticipatory bail to Bali and Mahaakshay in the case. After the arrival of the investigating team, the ceremony was cancelled and the bride's family left the place, police had said. On July 5, the Bombay High Court had refused to grant any interim relief from arrest to Bali and ...
Pakistan puts Nawaz Sharif and daughter on exit control list
The Pakistan government today placed ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz on the exit control list (ECL) to prevent them from flying abroad after they return to the country from London on Friday. The move came days after the accountability court in Islamabad convicted Sharif and Maraym in the Avenfield properties corruption case and sentenced them to 10 and seven years jail respectively. Persons put on the ECL are prohibited from leaving Pakistan. The father-daughter duo are currently in London to look after Sharif's wife, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, who is suffering from throat cancer and has been on ventilator since June 14 after a cardiac arrest. "The interior ministry on the request of the country's anti-graft body National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has placed the names of Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz on ECL," an official of the Interior Ministry confirmed. He said after the conviction of Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, in a corruption case, the ministry ...
Munna Bajrangi cremated at Varanasi's Manikarnika Ghat amid tight security
Dreaded criminal Munna Bajrangi was cremated at Varanasi's Manikarnika Ghat amid tight security in the presence of a large number of his sympathisers. His teenage son Samir Singh lit the pyres as the state police, Provincial Armed Constabulary and Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) jawans ensured there was no law and order situation. Meanwhile, Bajrangi's family members alleged that he was killed under a "conspiracy" and demanded a CBI probe into his death. His younger brother Rajesh Singh alleged a "conspiracy" was hatched and the killing was planned in advance. The mafia don was shot dead hours before he was to be produced in a court in a case of extorting money from a former BSP legislator, police had said yesterday. The Uttar Pradesh police chief today said a judicial probe was underway and the guilty would not be spared. Bajrangi was reportedly killed by Sunil Rathi, who is lodged in Baghpat jail since July 31 last year, officials said. His body was brought to his native village in ...
Sohrabuddin case: Won't oppose Pandian's discharge, says CBI
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today told the Bombay High Court that it would not oppose the discharge granted to IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian, a former accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh "fake" encounter case, by the trial court. Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Anil Singh, representing the central probe agency, said this while responding to the court's question as to whether the CBI wanted to present its arguments regarding Pandian's discharge. Rubabuddin Shaikh, Sohrabuddin's brother, has challenged before the court the discharge granted to Pandian, a Rajasthan police officer, and fellow IPS officers D G Vanzara and Dinesh M N of the Gujarat police. The CBI chargesheet had named these three, along with 35 others, as accused in the case related to the alleged fake police encounters of Sohrabuddin, his wife Kausar Bi and aide Tulsiram Prajapati. Between August 2016 and September 2017, the trial court in Mumbai discharged 15 of the 38 accused. Those discharged included ...
BJP accuses SP of giving political patronage to mafia elements
Hitting back at the Samajwadi Party (SP) for criticising the law-and-order situation in Uttar Pradesh under the BJP rule, the saffron party today accused it of giving political patronage to mafia elements, referring to criminal-turned-politicians Mukhtar Ansari and Atiq Ahmad. UP BJP spokesperson Shalabh Mani Tripathi said the nexus between the SP and criminal elements became clear, when the SP and the BSP opposed the Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Act (UPCOCA) legislation during its passage. "SP's real face has been unmasked as today it is raising questions on law and order, but it was the SP, which had given political patronage to Mukhtar Ansari and Atiq Ahmad. It was in the SP reign that MLA Krishnanand Rai was brutally murdered. Instead of standing with the bereaved family of Rai, the SP sided with Mukhtar Ansari. Similar was the scene when Raju Pal (an MLA from Allahabad) was murdered, and SP gave patronage to Atiq Ahmad," Tripathi said in a statement issued ...
SC orders Rajinikath's wife to face trial for not repaying loan
Latha Rajinikanth, the wife of Tamil superstar-turned politician Rajinikanth, will face trial in a case relating to non-payment of outstanding amount of Rs 6.2 crore to an advertising agency, as the Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the Karnataka High Court order that had quashed the criminal proceedings against her.
Brother of IAS officer arrested in illegal arms & fake licence case
The elder brother of a Jammu and Kashmir cadre IAS official was arrested from Gurgaon in connection with an illegal arms and fake licence racket, a senior ATS and SOG official said today. It is the 52nd arrested in the case. Sixty-seven illegal arms and 1,188 fake licences had been recovered. Kumar Jyoti Ranjan (46), the owner of a Haryana-based construction company, was arrested from Gurgaon late last night for his involvement illegal arms and fake licence racket that the ATS and SOG had busted 10 months ago, Additional Director General (ATS and SOG) Umesh Mishra told PTI. Mishra said the accused had got several licences issued to beneficiaries allegedly through his younger brother Kumar Rajeev Ranjan, a senior IAS official of Jammu and Kashmir cadre. The involvement of the IAS official was yet to be investigated, Mishra added. In September last year, the ATS and SOG had busted an interstate illegal arms and license syndicate operational in at least four states with the arrest of the
Gay sex unnatural, should not be celebrated: Subramanian Swamy
BJP Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy today termed gay sex as "unnatural", and said it was a "genetic flaw" in the person and should not be allowed to be celebrated. He said allowing it would lead to setting up of gay bars which some American investors wanted to do in India. Swamy made these remarks on a day the Supreme Court commenced a crucial hearing on a clutch of petitions seeking decriminalisation of consensual sex between two adults of the same gender. "Sex with person of the same sex is unnatural. In Hindu tradition we have been sympathetic to there plight. But we have never allowed them to celebrate it and to say that it is a matter of choice," he said. Swamy, however, said that people should not be discriminated in their normal social interactions and economic matters based on their sexual orientation. "There is no other flaw in them other than this. And also I am against police going into somebody's bedroom to check whether a person is male or female," he said. A newly ..
Rahul supports petition against Union minister Jayant Sinha
Congress President Rahul Gandhi today supported a petition against Union minister Jayant Sinha that sought withdrawal of his Harvard alumni status after he felicitated criminals convicted of lynching. The petition has been launched by a student of Master of Public Policy at Harvard University, Boston in the US from where Sinha has also graduated, and sought that his alumni status be withdrawn for "honouring criminals". The petition to the President of Harvard University, Boston, has condemned the minister's action, saying it "has shocked the nation and brought disrepute to the institution". "If the sight of a highly educated MP and central minister, Jayant Sinha, garlanding and honouring criminals convicted of lynching an innocent man, fills you with disgust, click on the link and support this petition," Gandhi said on Twitter, urging people to sign the petition against Sinha. Sinha has been at the centre of a row after he garlanded the lynching convicts at his residence in ...
Sharif, Maryam face arrest on arrival
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz, who were sentenced to prison in the Avenfield properties case last week, have been placed on the Exit Control List (ECL), the media reported on Tuesday.
Three arrested for involvement in 'sex racket'
The city police today claimed to have busted an alleged sex racket running from an upscale area with the arrest of three persons. Acting on a tip-off, police found two men and a woman inside a car parked in a deserted area near a restaurant last night and arrested them for indulging in alleged "immoral acts", said a press release. The woman (name not disclosed) hailed from Maharashtra while the two men, identified as Dilip Kumar Goyal (32) and Arjun Pal (28), were city residents, police said. Goyal allegedly admitted that he ran a sex racket from his house and he had called the woman to the city. Police also seized Rs 5,000 in cash, three mobile phones and some "objectionable material" from their possession, the release added. A case under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act was registered against them, it said.
HC slaps Rs 10000 cost on NDMC for unjust action of sealing CP restaurant
The Delhi High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) for sealing a restaurant in Connaught Place without issuing a notice, saying there was flagrant violation of principles of natural justice and that its action cannot be justified. The court trashed the submission of NDMC that the action was taken on the direction of the Supreme Court-mandated monitoring committee, and said the civic body's stand suggest non-application of mind. "The above conclusion must normally result in the de-sealing of the property in question," Justice V Kameswar Rao said. The court asked NDMC to issue a show-cause notice to Destination Cafe Pvt. Ltd., which runs Zabardast Indian Kitchen, within three days detailing the reasons for which it intends to take action of sealing against the premises, along with the communication received from the monitoring committee. NDMC shall seek a reply on it from the restaurant owner within four days thereafter and pass a reasoned and ...
6 engineers blamed for 3 deaths in Ghaziabad
Six engineers of Jal Nigam have been held responsible for the death of three men who were suffocated inside a sewage treatment plant in Ghaziabad's Loni town.
Girl murdered in train in Assam
A girl student of Assam Agriculture University was found murdered aboard a train at Simaluguri railway station in Assam's Sivasagar district on Tuesday, police said.