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5 arrested during drive against drug peddlers
In a drive against drug peddlers, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police has claimed to have busted three gangs with significant quantity of narcotics in different parts of the city. Under the ongoing drive, a team of the Narcotics cell of Crime Branch arrested two men -- Harender Mandal and Praveen Yadav -- from Shatri Park on May 10. Fifty kg of marijuana was recovered from the car driven by them, Joint Commissioner (Crime Branch) Alok Kumar said. The arreted accused allegedly procured marijuana from Odisha and smuggled it to Delhi, he said. Based on specific input, a team of the Narcotics cell arrested Dinesh and recovered three Kg of fine quality opium concealed in the dashboard of his car, near Mukundpur flyover on the same day, the officer said. During interrogation, the accused revealed that he used to supply opium in Delhi and UP after purchasing it from a man in Jharkhand. In the third success, two drug peddlers were caught by the team, near Ashram Chowk on May 10. The accused .
Man killed by Maoists in Odisha's Malkangiri district
Suspected Maoists have killed a tribal man in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said today. The deceased has been identified as 30-year-old Jogesh Samrath at Tumudupalli village under Mathili police station. His mutilated body was found in a pool of blood at the forested area near Patpuli gram panchayat office this morning. The victim's family members said that a group of people had taken Jogesh to attend a meeting held by Maoists in the nearby jungle last night. Malkangiri district SP Jagmohan Meena said that the police has received information regarding killing of a tribal man. "We have rushed police to the village," he said.
Sidhu's lawyer hails SC verdict in 1988 road rage case
The advocate who represented cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in the 1988 road rage case today expressed satisfaction over the Supreme Court verdict quashing the jail term of the Punjab minister and letting him off with a fine of Rs 1,000. Nidhesh Gupta said it was a "great judgement" by the apex court which has rightly acquitted the Congress leader of the offences of murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the IPC. "The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of the State. It has also acquitted him (Sidhu) under 304 (II) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC," he said. The Supreme Court set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order convicting Sidhu of culpable homicide and awarding him three-years jail term in the 30-year old road rage case, but held him guilty of causing hurt to a senior citizen. It, however, exonerated Sidhu's aide Rupinder Singh Sandhu, who was also awarded a three-year jail term by the high court in the ...
AIADMK two-leaves symbol case: Patiala House Court dismisses Dhinakaran's bail plea
The Patiala House Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail to a suspected middleman in the Election Commission (EC) bribery case, allegedly involving former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) - Amma faction leader T T V Dhinakaran.Accused middleman Sukesh Chandrasekhar is currently in judicial custody.Chandrashekhar, who was arrested on April 16 last year, had sought bail claiming that the probe was complete in the case and no purpose would be served by keeping him in further custody.Earlier on Decemeber 14, sidelined AIADMK leader T T V Dhinakaran was also named in the chargesheet along with others in the 'two leaves' symbol bribery case.During a hearing in the case, it was revealed that the Delhi Police recently filed the supplementary chargesheet before Tis Hazari court and named Dhinakaran, Sukesh Chandrashekhar, Mallikarjuna, Nathu Singh, Pulkit Kundra, B Kumar, Lalit Kumar, Jai Vikram Haran and Narendra Jain.Dhinakaran has been charged under section 120 B (Criminal ...
Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to month for protests
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was today sentenced to 30 days behind bars for organising protests ahead of President Vladimir Putin's fourth inauguration. Judge Dmitry Gordeyev of Moscow's Tverskoi district court found Navalny guilty of arranging the "unauthorised protests". The court heard testimony from one of the police officers who detained Navalny who said the group of 15 police had been authorised to use physical force. The police officer said Navalny ignored megaphone warnings that the protest was illegal. "I consider the detention was illegal, my rights were violated," Navalny said in court, arguing he had a constitutional right to hold a protest. Navalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev said the trial had "clearly political motives" as Putin begins a fourth Kremlin term. "The authorities have started forming a government and now are striving by any means to deprive Navalny of freedom, to prevent him reacting to this process." Navalny also faces a separate charge of disobeying
HC wants CBI probe in Tihar prisoners assault case
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct an investigation into the alleged assault on several prisoners lodged in the high risk ward of Tihar Jail here.
PNB fraud: Nirav Modi's ex-director moves HC for quashing LOC
A former director of diamantaire Nirav Modi's company today moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of a Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against him after lodging of an FIR by the CBI in the PNB fraud case. The high court sought response of the CBI on the plea by Sanjay Rishi, an Overseas Citizen of India residing in the United States, seeking direction to the authorities to withdraw the LOC. Justice Rajiv Shakdher issued notice to the CBI and SFIO, which is also conducting an investigation into the matter, and listed the matter for further hearing on July 25. Rishi, president of American Express for South Asia, was appointed as a non-executive independent director of Nirav Modi's Firestar International Ltd on December 6, 2016 and he resigned from the post on February 7, this year. He said he did not take part in the day to day affairs of the company. Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Rishi, submitted that an FIR was lodged on March 4 for the alleged offences of ...
Three get life sentence for gang-rape of woman
A special court here sentenced three men to life imprisonment today for raping a woman inside a moving bus here in 2015. Special court judge R K Soni sentenced Salman (22), the driver of the mini bus, and two of his accomplices -- Vivek Shrivastava (40) and Dipak Sharma (32) -- to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on them. The trio had sexually assaulted the woman (aged around 35) when she was travelling alone in the mini bus in the M P Nagar area on the night of September 16, 2015, special public prosecutor Punit Tiwari said. Based on a complaint lodged by the victim, the police had registered a case and filed a chargesheet against the three accused under section 376D (gangrape) and other relevant sections of the IPC, he added. The judge, after relying on the circumstantial evidence and going through the material on record, convicted the trio for gangrape and sentenced them to life imprisonment, Tiwari said.
Sidhu guilty of causing hurt in road rage case, but no jail term: SC
In a major relief to cricketer-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Supreme Court today set aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court order convicting him of culpable homicide and awarding him three-years jail term in a 30-year old road rage case, but held him guilty of causing hurt to a senior citizen. The top court, however, held Sidhu, the Punjab Tourism Minister, guilty of minor offence of "voluntarily causing hurt" to a 65-year-old man but spared him of a jail term and imposed a fine of Rs 1000. It also acquitted Sidhu's aide Rupinder Singh Sandhu of all charges saying there was no trustworthy evidence regarding his presence along with Sidhu at the time of the offence. Despite conviction, Sidhu will not be barred from electoral politics under the Representation of the People Act as the offence under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC does not fall under the scheduled offence entailing disqualification. Section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of IPC entails .
Sohrabuddin case: Number of hostile witnesses rises to 58
Another prosecution witness in the cases of encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati today turned hostile before a special CBI court here, taking the number of such witnesses to 58. The Mumbai court has examined over 83 prosecution witnesses so far, of which 58 have turned hostile. The witness, Nizamuddin, a constable with Rajasthan police, deposed before the special judge S J Sharma. Earlier, Nizamuddin had told the CBI that police inspector Himmat Singh had informed him, as per the order of Assistant Superintendent of Police(ASP) Dinesh MN, that they needed to escort Tulsiram to Ahmedabad for production in a court there. Tulsiram could escape from police custody, hence, police escort was necessary, he had said. Accordingly, they took Tulsiram to Ahmedabad on November 11, 2006 and returned to Udaipur on November 13, he had told CBI. However, in the court today, Nizamuddin denied giving any statement to the CBI, following which he was declared hostile. Two prosecution ..
Heroin worth Rs 2 lakh seized in Mizoram, 1 held
Officials of the Mizoram Excise and Narcotics department today seized over 40 gram of heroin from a man in Champai district and arrested him, a department spokesman said. The man, a resident of North Khawbung village, was arrested from Champhai Zotlang village, the spokespersaon said. The contraband is worth around Rs 2 lakh in the local market, he said. The seized drug was reportedly smuggled from Myanmar across Zokhawthar border trade centre, the spokesperson said. The accused was booked under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, he added.
HC grants 45-day interim bail to ailing Odisha BJP leader
The Orissa High Court today granted interim bail for 45 days to senior BJP leader Jaya Narayan Mishra, who is now undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Justice C R Dash granted bail to the leader from Sambalpur on health ground till June 29 on furnishing two bail bonds of Rs 50,000 each. He has been asked to cooperate with the prosecution. Mishra, a former minister, was arrested on March 15 in connection with the February 23 Banabira firing incident in which a brother of state minister Sushant Singh was injured and his driver killed. Mishra was taken ill after he was arrested and was shifted to local VSS Medical College and Hospital. He was, however, shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital here but subsequently rushed to AIIMS on May 5.
All sides to Ayodhya dispute must observe restraint: SC told
All sides must observe restraint in expressing their views in the sub-judice Babri Masjid-Ram Temple land dispute and the Hindu side was not observing this, the Supreme Court was told today. A special bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra, which is seized of a total of 14 appeals filed against the high court judgement delivered in four civil suits pertaining to Ayodhya title dispute, was told by senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan that Hindu side has not been observing restraint and also not refraining from inciting the public on the sensitive issue. "It is extremely important that people should restrain themselves, especially the Hindu side. So far as the Hindu side is concerned, it has not observed restraint," Dhavan, appearing for M Siddiq who has died but is being represented through his legal heir, said. Some leaders said they would go to Parliament to ensure construction of a Ram Temple, which was "contemptous and amounted to pre-judging and pressurising the court", Dhavan told the ...
Jailed Maoists make abortive escape bid in Patna
An abortive escape bid was made today by two Maoists lodged in a jail near here who tried to flee by exploding a crude bomb inside the prison van while on their way back from a court, a senior official said. Sikandar and Sonu - both associated with the naxal outfit PLFI - were among a group of inmates of the Beur Central Jail, who were produced before a city court. During return, a crude bomb was exploded inside the prison van while it was crossing the Dasaratha bypass, a few kilometres from the jail, Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna, Manu Maharaj told reporters. He said "the explosives were provided to these naxals at the court premises. Another crude bomb and a country made pistol was recovered from the vehicle after it was parked inside the jail premises". "It was a low-intensity explosive device and nobody was injured in the blast. While a detailed investigation into the incident is on, it appears that the explosives and firearm had been provided to the Maoists
DDA action plan to fix responsibility on unauthorised constructions
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) today proposed to fix responsibility on officials in cases of illegal construction activities in the national capital and violation of the master plan and building bye-laws. The DDA placed an action plan before the Supreme Court, listing out steps including launching of an interactive website and a smart phone application to enable the public register their grievances regarding illegal constructions and upload photos. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Navin Sinha asked Attorney General K K Venugopal, who appeared for the DDA, to make the smart phone application operational within 15 days. During the hearing, Venugopal told the bench that it is considered that the police is supposed to be the "most corrupt", however there is rampant corruption in the DDA too and stringent measures are required to curb it. In a five-page action plan, the DDA has said that it intends to check all ongoing and future unauthorised constructions in the city under ...
Minor's circumcision ruled out
A government-run hospital in Assam has ruled out circumcision of a standard two boy, who was allegedly forced to undergo the procedure inside a toilet of his school in Hailakandi district, said a government release today. Silchar Medical College and Hospital has ruled out circumcision of the minor school boy, said a government release today. Registrar of surgery of Silchar Medical College and Hospital, where he is under treatment, in a medical report said that "No external cut wounds present in the penis and it is not a matter of circumcision," the release quoted. The boy is a student of Sishu Mangal Vidyapith under Katlicherra education block, it said. Superintendent of S K Roy Civil Hospital in Hailakandi, where the boy was admitted before being referred to Silchar Medical College and Hospital, had also stated that there was no evidence of cut by any sharp weapon in the private part of the boy as alleged by some quarters. A section of the media had said that the boy ...
Lalu to spend another night in jail, may be released Wednesday
Convicted RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav will spend one more night in Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi and may be released on provisional bail on Wednesday, his lawyer said.
No need for violence against prisoners to manage jails: HC
Prison officials do not need to resort to violent methods to manage their jails, and just because a person in uniform is inflicting the violence the act does not get decriminalised, the Delhi High Court today said while ordering a CBI probe into an alleged attack on inmates of a high risk ward in Tihar Jail last year. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar directed the officials of Tihar Jail to forward to the CBI all the records as well as the reports of two fact finding committees set up to look into the incident of November 21 last when 18 prisoners were allegedly beaten up by the prison staff. The court asked the agency to examine the records and "conduct such other and further inquiry, as necessary, to ascertain culpability of the persons implicated in the committee reports or otherwise found culpable in its investigation". It said that more details regarding the incident may be brought forth if an expert investigating agency like the CBI is ...
Tata Steel's bid for Bhushan Steel get's NCLT approval
National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) today approved Tata Steel's bid of Rs 32,500 crore, along with 12.27 per cent equity to creditors, for the debt ridden Bhushan Steel Ltd (BSL). The tribunal accepted the plan filed by BSL's resolution professional (RP), which was approved by the Committee of Creditors (CoC) lead by SBI, after finding Tata Steel as the highest bidder. "The application filed by the RP for accepting the resolution plan approved by the CoC submitted by resolution applicant Tata Steel Ltd is accepted," said a two member bench comprising NCLT President Justice M M Kumar and S K Mohapatra. The tribunal also gave approval for the appointment of a monitoring agency for the deal. NCLT, in its 85-page order, has also directed BSL's ex-management to cooperate with the monitoring agency during the implementation of the resolution plan and granted it liberty to approach it during the process. "Liberty is grated to the monitoring agency to apply for any further direction against .
Sexual harassment incidents even in Rashtrapati Bhavan: RTI
In response to an RTI query, the President's secretariat has revealed that two cases of sexual harassment were filed in the Rashtrapati Bhavan since the promulgation of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.