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Two held in Mumbai for raping, killing woman in West Bengal
Two people allegedly involved in the rape and killing of a 64-year-old woman in West Bengal have been arrested from the city's Colaba area, police said. ' Subhankar Sikdar (35) and Govind Sarkar (28) were arrested near Regal Cinema in Colaba on Friday, police said. Police said that, on May 7, the two had entered into an argument with the victim in Cooper's Camp area of Ranaghat subdivision in West Bengal's Nadia district. The two assaulted the 64-year-old woman and rendered her unconscious following which the two accused allegedly raped her, police said. When the victim regained consciousness and cried out for help, Sikdar and Sarkar strangled her to death, police said. "After killing her, the two fled to Mumbai on May 10," said Sukhlal Varpe, Senior Inspector of Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Marg police station. He added that the two were produced before a court which remanded them in police custody, Varpe said.
Guj bitcoin case: CID moves court for warrant against ex-MLA
The Gujarat CID today moved a local court for issuance of an arrest warrant against former BJP MLA Nalin Kotadiya, claiming that he was not honouring summons and was evading arrest in a kidnapping and extortion case. The CID told the local court that the former BJP MLA played a significant role in the crime and, hence, needed to be arrested. Kotadiya, a former MLA from Dhari in Amreli district, is an accused in a bitcoin (a virtual currency) extortion case in which several police officials, including a superintendent of police and an inspector of the local crime branch, have been arrested. Sessions judge P J Tamakuwala concluded the hearing on the application and reserved the order for Thursday. The CID told the court that it had issued summonses to Kotadiya under section 160 of CrPC to appear before it on two occasions but he had failed to do so. It told the court that police teams had not been able to find him despite going to his residence as well as a place where he was believed ..
Mukul Rohatgi appointed in Lokpal selection panel: Govt to SC
The Centre today told the Supreme Court that senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi has been appointed as an eminent jurist in the selection committee for appointment of anti-graft ombudsman Lokpal. Attorney General K K Venugopal told a bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumathi that the decision to appoint Rohatgi as an eminent jurist in the selection committee, headed by the Prime Minister, was taken on May 11. Rohatgi was appointed the Attorney General of India on June 19, 2014, soon after the Narendra Modi government assumed power in May. He quit the post in June last year. The post of eminent jurist in the Lokpal selection panel was lying vacant since the death of senior advocate P P Rao on September 11, 2017. The committee comprises the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India, Lok Sabha Speaker, the leader of the largest opposition party and an eminent jurist. The bench noted in its order that the next step required to be taken by the selection committee would be to ...
BCCI opposes Sreesanth's plea for relaxing ban to play in English county cricket
The BCCI on Tuesday opposed the plea by former cricketer S. Sreesanth seeking relaxation of the life time ban on him by the country's apex cricketing body so that he could play in county cricket in England.
Celebrations break out at Sidhu's house in Amritsar
Celebrations broke out at the house of Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu here after the Supreme Court spared him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case. Sweets were distributed at his residence located on the outskirts of the city at Holy City colony. Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu, daughter Rabia Sidhu, friends and relatives offered sweets to each other and danced to the beating of drums. "The justice has been done. My father is an honest and innocent man. He could never hurt anybody as he is very kind hearted and humble," Sidhu's daughter Rabia said. The Supreme Court today convicted Sidhu for voluntarily hurting a 65-year-old man but spared him a jail term. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul reversed the findings of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which had convicted the cricketer-turned-politician for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and had sentenced him to three years in jail. The Supreme Court bench imposed a Rs 1,000-fine on the ...
Four labourers killed in wall collapse incident
Four labourers were killed and two others sustained serious injuries when a wall of a residential complex, where renovation work was going on, collapsed on them at Voharwad in Dhanera town in Banaskantha district, police said. "Renovation work was going on in the residential building located in Voharwad locality in Dhanera. Six labourers were re-constructing a wall when a neighbouring wall collapsed on them, killing four of them on the spot," a Dhanera police station official said. The deceased were identified as Amrutbhai Thakor, Davabhai Majirana, Khemabhai Thakor and Hansabhai Harijan. The injured duo was rushed to a Dhanera-based hospital, where they are currently undergoing treatment. Based on a complaint lodged by a relative of one of the deceased, the police have booked building contractor Pravinbhai Suthar and engineer Sanket Mehta under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder). Further investigation is on, police said.
Delhi HC directs CBI to investigate assault on Tihar jail prisoners
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate alleged assault and physical torture on several prisoners lodged in the high-risk ward of Tihar jail.The court had earlier indicated that it might direct lodging of FIR against the prison officials, who had allegedly subjected several prisoners to severe physical torture at the Tihar Jail.The court today clearly said that an act does not decriminalize if it is done by a person in uniform.The court was hearing a PIL which alleged that prisoner Shahid Husuf, currently being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and undergoing trial, was beaten up without any reason by the Tihar Jail staff.So, the court directed the authorities to ensure safety and security of the jail inmates.
Notice issued to CBI on journalist Upendra Rai bail plea
A Delhi Court on Tuesday issued notice to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the bail plea of journalist Upendra Rai, who is under arrest for his alleged involvement in dubious financial transactions.The Patiala House Court has sought reply from CBI by May 18 on Upendra's bail application.The CBI on May 3 had arrested Upendra, former CEO and editor-in-chief of Tehelka and Sahara Media, on allegations of giving false information to gain access to sensitive areas of national importance such as airports.Upendra was sent to three-day CBI custody on May 4 and was later extended by two days on May 7.The probe agency also registered a case against Prasun Roy, CSO of Air One Aviation Private Limited, the company and unknown public servants for helping Rai in getting Aerodrome Entry Pass (AEP) for all airports across the country.The CBI had filed a fresh case against Rai for allegedly blackmailing a real estate developer. The case was also registered against his aide Rahul Sharma and ...
HC seeks DU, BCI stand on allowing detained law students take sem exam
The Delhi High Court today sought response of the Delhi University and Bar Council of India (BCI) on a PIL for allowing students detained by the varsity due to lack of attendance, to sit for their ongoing semester examinations. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla issued notice to DU and the apex lawyers' body BCI, and sought their stand on the allegation made in the petition that classes in three centres of the Law Faculty were not held according to the legal education rules framed by the Bar Council. In the plea filed on behalf of the detained law students, advocate Tarun Narang claimed that DU Law Faculty's three centres -- Campus Law Centre (CLC), Law Centre 1 (LC1) and Law Centre 2 (LC2) -- have arbitrarily, illegally and without issuing any show-cause notice detained hundreds of law students. The petition also contended that the law faculty never conducted any classes in any of its law centres for five hours continuously as was required under the BCI rules of legal
DCW seeks status report from police over killing of woman
The Delhi Commission for Women has sought a status report, including details of arrests made, from the police in connection with the killing of a woman whose body was found near Shanti Van area here. The body of the woman, in her 20s, was found in central Delhi yesterday and the police were also suspecting sexual assault, though an autopsy was yet to be carried out. The DCW, in its notice, issued to Daryaganj police has sought to know if guards were manning the park where her body was found, and how the deceased and her killer obtained entry into the park at night. The women's panel also asked if CCTV cameras were installed in and around the park and if the the family of the girl has been identified. "If yes, the commission would request a meeting with them in order to support them," the notice said. The DCW has asked the police to submit the details to it by May 19. The police were informed that a woman, with head injuries, was lying unconscious. She was rushed to a hospital where ...
Nigerian held for matrimonial fraud
A 35-year-old Nigerian, who allegedly cheated a city resident of Rs 2.22 lakh in a matrimonial fraud, was arrested, a police official said today. A police team arrested Osazee Russ Ediagbonya in New Delhi and brought him here two days ago, the official said. Ediagbonya duped the victim, who had posted his profile on a matrimonial website, by sending him a proposal by posing himself as a woman named Biya Babar, a medical practitioner, working in the US, he said. Through whatsapp, the accused informed the victim that she would come to India on March 14 to meet him, the official said. On March 14, the victim received a call from a person claiming to be a customs officer working in the New Delhi airport and told him that Dr Biya has been caught carrying half a million USD, he said. Then, another person, impersonating as an accounts officer asked the victim to deposit the money towards customs clearance for which he transferred Rs 2.22 lakh to the bank account numbers ...
Five robbers arrested
Five men, who used to rob people attending marriage functions, were arrested here, police said today. The five accused were identified as Rahul (22), Shadab alias Guddu (22), Deepak (22), Ubesh (23) and Murtaza (19), they added. Police said that the accused would join marriage processions posing as guests and mingle with the guests and identify the person carrying the cash. On the intervening night of May 15 and 16, a man had boarded a bus and was busy calling his guests on the phone inviting them for his son's marriage when he was allegedly robbed in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura. Someone snatched his bag containing cash and other jewellery items and ran away, he told police. In another incident, a man said that on May 8, he was robbed of his bag containing cash and jewellery during a marriage function of his brother-in-law on the Mandoli Jail, police said. The bag containing cash and jewellery was kept with him. When the wedding procession reached near the venue, there was a power
New web tool to predict eye, hair and skin colour from DNA sample
Researchers have developed a novel web tool that can accurately predict eye, hair and skin colour from even a small DNA sample, an advance that can be used when standard forensic profiling is not helpful.
Safdar Nagori, 17 SIMI cadres sentenced to 7-yr RI in Kerala
A special NIA court here sentenced 18 SIMI members, including its leader Safdar Nagori, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) today, after they were found guilty of organising an arms training camp for the members of the banned outfit in Kerala in 2007. Special NIA court Judge Kauser Edappagath also sentenced the convicts to varying terms of imprisonment under different sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the Explosive Substances Act (ESA) and section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). They were sentenced to one-year RI under section 10 and five-year RI under section 38 of the UAPA, seven-year RI under section 4 of the ESA and seven-year RI under section 120-B, IPC. Of the convicts, 13 were also found guilty under section 20 of the UAPA (punishment for being a member of a terrorist organisation/gang) and sentenced to seven years of RI. The court imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on the 13 convicts found guilty under various ...
SC to Delhi HC: Decide plea against Sreesanth's discharge in spot-fixing
The Supreme Court today denied cricketer S Sreesanth's plea for being allowed to play the English County this season but asked Delhi High Court to decide by July an appeal challenging a trial court order discharging several cricketers, including him, in the sensational IPL spot-fixing case. The top court denied interim relief to the controversial cricketer, who has been banned for life by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), that he be allowed to play English County on the ground that he has suffered the ban for four years and has been acquitted by a Delhi court in the case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar said though it understood Sreesanth's "anxiety" to play, but would like to wait for the high court's decision on the appeal of the Delhi Police challenging the trial court order discharging the cricketers and others in the spot-fixing case. The Delhi Police had arrested Sreesanth, along with cricketers Ajit Chandila and Ankeet ...
Gang of thieves busted in Haryana
The Haryana Police has busted a gang of thieves with the arrest of three of its members today, an official said. The three accused were produced in the court and taken on one day police remand, he said. The police recovered a 315 bore country made pistol, 69 live cartridges and an iron rod from them. "At least 10 cases of robbery have been unearthed with their arrest. The arrested accused are Monu, Betaab and Ankit, all are residents of Panipat," a spokesman of the Haryana Police Department said. The arrests were made after a police team in Panipat got information that three suspicious persons having illegal arms and were roaming near Bhadar mor on Jatal-Sultana road in Panipat town with an intention to carry out a criminal offence. "Acting swiftly, the police team arrested all the three accused with illegal arms. On interrogation, they confessed to having committed 10 thefts in the area in the recent past, including stealing 42 mobile phones from a shop located on Jatal road, two ...
ITAT says Google India should pay tax on advt revenue sent to parent
In a setback to Google India, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has upheld a tax demand on the search engine's remittances of advertisement revenue to Google Ireland Ltd. The Bangalore bench of ITAT, in a 331-page order, upheld the tax department's contention that such payments are royalty and therefore subject to withholding tax. Google India said it will challenge the ruling in the High Court. The company had filed an appeal in the ITAT against "characterization of the payment made by it to Google Ireland Ltd in respect of the purchase of advertisement space for resale to the advertisers in India under the Google AdWords programme distribution agreements". For the assessment year 2012-13, the tax department had found Rs 1,114.91 crore to have been credited to Google Ireland Ltd (GIL) without deduction of tax at source. And so, it issued a tax demand of Rs 258.84 crore. In its submissions, Google India Ltd said it was a mere non-exclusive distributor/reseller of AdWords programme to .
PNB reports Rs. 13,416.91 Cr. loss in Q4
The Punjab National Bank (PNB) has reported a net loss of Rs 13,416.91 crore for the fourth quarter ending March 2018.In the same quarter a year ago, the bank had turned around due to write-back in pension provisions to report a profit of Rs 261.9 crore as against a massive loss of Rs 5,367.1 crore in March-end quarter 2016, moneycontrol reported.On a related note, the PNB in February detected the multi-crore scam, wherein Diamantaire Nirav Modi and his uncle cum business partner Mehul Choksi had allegedly cheated the bank to the tune of Rs. 114 billion, with the purported involvement of a few employees of the bank.Earlier on May 3, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) told the Delhi High Court that the affidavits filed by Modi's uncle and business partner Mehul Choksi's firm Gitanjali Gems in the court were 'false and misleading.'In connection with the pleas filed on the Gitanjali Gems in the court, the ED said, "The Company cleverly veils any reference to Mehul Choksi, who left India in
1 killed, 1 injured after constable opens fire at police lines
One person was killed and a policeman injured after a constable opened fire inside the premises of the police lines here today, police said. The incident happened this morning under the jurisdiction of Buddha Colony police station, the police said. The constable shot dead his brother-in-law and one policeman received a bullet injury when he was trying to catch the constable for opening fire, a police officer said. A trainee constable, in a fit of rage, opened fire from his service weapon during an argument with his brother-in-law, the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Patna Central, D Amarkesh, said. When other policemen tried to stop him, he opened fire at them also, the ASP said. He said, the constable's brother-in-law was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries. The constable was overpowered by other policemen on the spot, he added. The trainee constable has been arrested and an investigation has been initiated, the ASP said.
Seven, including two kidnappers, held in Ghaziabad
Seven men involved in crime were arrested in Ghaziabad district on Tuesday, including two kidnappers of a minor girl who was rescued, police said.