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Restaurant owner fires after customers dispute bill
One man was in critical condition on Wednesday after a restaurant owner opened fire at four customers who objected to an inflated dinner bill, police said.
J-K: SPO goes missing with 'stolen' rifle
A special police officer (SPO) has allegedly gone missing with a service rifle of another cop in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore township, a police spokesperson said today. According to the spokesperson, the SPO stole the weapon from the personal trunk of a personal security officer (PSO). SPO namely Waseem Ahmed, a resident of Shatloo Panzala, has stolen a weapon from the personal security officer (PSO) of a protected person in Sopore, the spokesman said. Ahmed, who was also posted at the residence of the protected person in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, was stationed there without a weapon, he said. A case has been registered and the police is investigating the matter for further details, he added.
First conviction in massive German tax fraud case
A German court has ordered French bank Societe Generale to pay lender Helaba millions in compensation, the first conviction in a massive tax fraud investigation, AFP learned today. Societe Generale must pay 23 million euros ($27 million) in compensation and interest to Helaba over complex tax trickery known as dividend stripping or "cum-ex" deals, a court in Frankfurt ruled on April 25. Such transactions, widely used in Germany late in the last decade, allowed owners of shares to claim several times over refunds for tax paid on dividend payouts. A committee of the German parliament estimated the cost to the public purse mounted as high as one billion euros before the practice was outlawed in 2012. In Societe Generale's case, Helaba sued the French bank in June 2016, claiming back taxes it had been forced to pay on 3.2 billion euros of transactions between January and June 2007. Societe Generale has one month from the ruling to appeal the case, although it had not yet done so by ...
SC dismisses plea of former UP minister Angad Yadav
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea filed by former Uttar Pradesh minister Angad Yadav challenging an Allahabad High Court order cancelling the bail granted to him and also vacating the stay on his conviction in a 1995 murder case. A bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha refused to interfere with the high court's April 17 this year order and granted him liberty to request the high court to dispose of his pending criminal appeal within six months. "We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgement (of high court) cancelling the bail and recalling the order of suspension of conviction and sentence. The only relief that can be given to the petitioner (Yadav) is that he can request the high court to dispose of the pending criminal appeal within six months," the bench said. Yadav had moved the top court challenging the high court's April 17 order. The high court had passed the order on an application filed by the state seeking cancellation of bail granted
Chargesheet filed in case of lynching tribal
A chargesheet has been filed in the case relating to lynching of a tribal at Attapady in the district in February this year, police said today. All the 16 persons arrested in connection with the case have been charged with various offences, including murder, they said. The 440-page chargesheet was filed yesterday before the special court for crime against Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes at Mannarkad in the district. Twenty seven-year-old Madhu was lynched on February 23 after a mob accused him of stealing food items from a shop. The incident had triggered widespread condemnation and protest from different quarters. The post-mortem report had revealed that Madhu was beaten up and two of his ribs were broken in the attack.
Mother convicted in UK of tricking daughter into forced marriage in Pak
A 45-year-old woman has been convicted in a British court of taking her teenage daughter to Pakistan and forcing her to marry a man 16 years her senior, in the first successful prosecution of its kind in the UK. The woman, who is from Birmingham but cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of one count of forced marriage, one count of practicing deception with the intention of causing another person to leave the country for the purpose of a forced marriage, and one count of perjury at a trial in Birmingham Crown Court yesterday. "Forcing someone into marriage against their wishes is a criminal offence, and a breach of their human rights," said Elaine Radway, District Crown Prosecutor with the West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). "As this prosecution demonstrates, the CPS will work with partner agencies to identify and prosecute those who coerce, control, dominate or exploit a victim to force them into marriage. It is thanks to the brave testimony of the victim ...
16-yr-old Noida girl's death: Allahabad HC summons IO
The Allahabad High Court has summoned the investigating officer in the ongoing probe into the death of a class IX student who allegedly committed suicide at her Noida residence on March 19. Her father had alleged that she took the extreme step as she was "sexually exploited, oppressed and harassed" by certain teachers and officials of her school. A division bench of Justices Vipin Sinha and Mahboob Ali has asked the IO to personally appear before it on July 2 on the petition filed by the father of the 16-year-old girl, who was a student of a private school in Mayur Vihar in East Delhi, alleging that he was not being informed about the probe by police. "We have gone through the records and contents raised in the writ petition. The contents of the writ petition display a very disturbing situation, the bench said in its May 16 order. It directed the IO to appear with the entire case diary before it and also file an affidavit with regard to the allegations raised against him in the writ ..
Manish Sisodia to be questioned in Delhi Chief Secretary assault case
The police on Wednesday sent a notice to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia for questioning in connection with the chief secretary Anshu Prakash assault case.Sisodia will be questioned at his residence on May 25 at 11 am.On May 18, the police had questioned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the same case.Earlier this year, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal were also questioned in the regard.Both Khan and Jarwal were arrested on February 21 for allegedly mishandling Anshu Prakash during a party meeting conducted at the residence of Kejriwal.The MLAs were later sent to 14-day judicial custody, which was further extended by 14 days.Later both the leaders were granted bail by the Delhi High Court.
British mother convicted of forcing daughter to marry
A British court has convicted a mother of forcing her daughter to marry a relative almost twice her age in Pakistan, in a first successful prosecution of its type in England.
21-year-old alleges man raped her on pretext of marriage
A 21-year-old woman has alleged that she was repeatedly raped by a man on the pretext of marriage in a village under the Rasra Kotwali police station area here, police said. In an FIR lodged yesterday, the woman has alleged that she was being raped for the last six months by a man she identified as Arjun Singh, who had promised to marry her, they added. The woman has also alleged in her complaint that the man forced her to abort a child after she got pregnant sometime ago. Investigation has begun and efforts are underway to nab the culprit who is absconding, the police said.
Police to question Sisodia in CS assault case
Delhi Police on Wednesday asked Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to join the investigation into an alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by two AAP MLAs in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Ex-S.Korean President denies charges in corruption trial
Former President Lee Myung-bak insisted on his innocence at the first hearing in his corruption trial on Wednesday, claiming that he has been wrongly accused for political reasons.
Telugu film director booked for rash driving
: A case of rash driving was registered against Telugu film director K S Ravindra after he allegedly rammed his car into another vehicle at Jubilee Hills area here, police said today. The incident occurred on Monday night. A private company employee in his complaint stated that Ravindra had hit his car and sped away, they said. Based on the complaint, acase was registered under IPC Section 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way) against the film director, police said. Also, the complainant alleged that Ravindra was drunk at the time of the collision, police said, adding: "It needs to be verified and we will do that after tracing him." "As of now, it is a hit-and-run case, and we'll serve the accused a notice," the police said.
SC to tomorrow hear pleas challenging CLAT 2018 examination
The Supreme Court would tomorrow hear the petitions challenging the Common Law Admission Test 2018 (CLAT) held on May 13 and asked the petitioners to place before it the orders, if any, passed by six high courts on similar pleas. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha asked the lawyers appearing for the petitioners to serve the copy of their pleas to the standing counsel appearing for the respondents, including the Centre. The petitioners told the bench that the high courts of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Bombay, Punjab and Haryana and Rajasthan, both the Jaipur and Jodhpur bench, were hearing separate pleas challenging the CLAT 2018 examination and notices have been issued in some of these matters. CLAT is conducted for the purpose of admission to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law offered at premier national law schools of the country. The examination was organised by CLAT working committee and implementation committee and the National University of Advanced ...
Kerala HC trashes plea seeking CBI probe into killing of RSS men
The Kerala High Court today dismissed a plea seeking a CBI probe into seven cases of alleged political killings of RSS-BJP activists that took place after the CPI(M)-led dispensation came to power in the state last year. Dismissing the petition filed by the Thalassery-based Gopalan Adiyodi Vakkeel Smaraka Trust, a bench comprising Chief Justice Antony Dominic and Dama Seshadri Naidu found there was no public interest in the plea and the petitioner approached the high court with political motive. Even the relatives of the deceased persons have no complaints that there were lapses in the investigation, the court said. Opposing the plea, the Kerala government had told the high court that there was no need for a CBI probe into the cases and argued that the plea was politically motivated. It had handed over a progress report of the investigation to the court. In the judgement, the high court said the petitioner had no sufficient material to substantiate their allegations. The high court ...
SC refuses to allow pregnant student to appear in DU LLB exams
The Supreme Court today refused to allow a second-year law student of Delhi University (DU) to take her examination today on grounds of lack of attendance owing to her pregnancy. The student, who could not regularly attend classes due to an advanced stage of pregnancy, had sought its permission to appear in the exams scheduled this afternoon. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha observed that the court was "very uncomfortable" in passing an order at 1 PM on a candidate seeking to sit in the examination scheduled an hour later. "There is no point passing an order which cannot be complied with. The time is very limited," the bench said and dismissed the plea filed by Ankita Meena, after the counsel for DU said she cannot be allowed to appear in the examination today as it was difficult to make arrangements for her in such a short span of time. "Discipline of academics has been lost completely. What is the point in having a cut-off date? All this will be lost if we ...
CS assault case: Delhi Police asks Sisodia to join probe
The Delhi Police today sent a notice to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, asking him to join the investigation in the case of alleged assault of Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash in February, police said today. Sisodia will be questioned on Friday at 11 am. The deputy chief minister was sent the notice today to join the probe, days after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was questioned for over three hours in connection with the matter, police said. Prakash was allegedly attacked during a meeting at Kejriwal's official residence on February 19. Police said the chief minister was present when the alleged assault took place. The police have already questioned 11 AAP MLAs present at the chief minister's residence for the meeting. Two of the party MLAs -- Amantullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal -- were arrested in the case. Last month, Kejriwal's private secretary Bibhav Kumar and party volunteer Vivek Kumar were also questioned in connection with the case. Kejriwal, his former advisor V K Jain ..
Berger Paints' independent director settles case with Sebi
Berger Paints' Independent Director Kamal Ranjan Das has settled a case related to disclosure lapses with markets regulator Sebi after paying Rs 2 lakh towards settlement. The ruling comes after Das had filed an application with the regulator in June 2017, proposing to settle the matter pertaining to the delayed compliance of PIT (Prohibition of Insider Trading) regulations, without admitting or denying the findings of fact and conclusions of law, through a settlement order. Under PIT regulations, promoters, employees and directors of the company are required to disclose about their share transaction to the firm within two working days. In a settlement order dated May 18, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has settled the "proceedings that could have been initiated" against Das for the alleged default. The regulator further said it would not initiate any enforcement action against him for the default. In March this year, Das had proposed the settlement terms to settle ..
Act against those who ordered police firing: CPI-M
The CPI-M on Wednesday demanded "immediate legal proceedings" against those who ordered firing on protesters in Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu.
HC summons municipal commissioner over non-compliance of order
Irked by non-compliance of court orders by municipal authorities, the Bombay High Court has directed Mumbai civic chief Ajoy Mehta to appear before it tomorrow. The order was passed by vacation judge Justice S J Kathawala yesterday while hearing a petition filed by tenants of Bhatia Building, a century-old structure in south Mumbai, against four landlords. The tenants alleged that the landlords were carrying out unauthorised construction on the ground floor which had damaged the building's foundation beams. After the building developed cracks in March, the tenants moved the court. Last month, the landlords assured the court that they would not carry out any further work, and would repair the damage caused to the foundation. The petition had also claimed that excavation work on a plot behind the building was also causing cracks. The high court then directed that a committee of experts from the municipal corporation and the state housing agency MHADA should visit the building and ...