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AIADMK 'two leaves' symbol case: Court denies bail to middleman
A Delhi court has denied bail to a suspected middleman in the Election Commission bribery case allegedly involving ex-AIADMK (Amma) faction leader T T V Dhinakaran. Special judge Arvind Kumar denied the relief to Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who is currently in judicial custody, saying it was not fit to grant him bail at this stage. "The bail application of the accused Sukesh Chandrashekar is dismissed," the court said. 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. The police had accused Chandrashekhar, Dhinakaran and others of hatching a criminal conspiracy to bribe some Election Commission officials. The Delhi Police had on December 14 last year filed a supplementary charge sheet against Dhinakaran, Chandrashekhar and seven others in the matter. In its 701-page charge sheet filed on July 14 last year, the police had claimed that money recovered from .
Lalu to wait for another day for release on provisional bail
The provisional bail of RJD president Lalu Prasad, who returned to Ranchi jail yesterday after his three-day parole ended, could not be processed today by the special CBI court as the order did not reach the court. The Jharkhand High Court last week granted six-week provisional bail to Prasad on medical grounds in the fodder scam cases he has been convicted in. Authorities at the Birsa Mundal jail in Ranchi had separately given him a three-day parole on May 10 to attend his elder son Tej Pratap Yadav's wedding on May 12 in Patna. Travel time was not included in the parole duration and Prasad returned to the prison yesterday, a day after his parole ended. The HC order has not reached the trial court, which would issue the release order after completing formalities, Prasad's lawyer Prabhat Kumar said. The special CBI court is a morning court which ends at 12.30pm, while the HC is a day court, he said. "We hope the HC order reaches the special CBI court later during the day so that we ...
Bahrain strips 115 of nationality over 'terrorism': public prosecutor
A Bahrain court today sentenced 115 Bahrainis to jail terms ranging from three years to life and stripped them of their nationality for forming an Iran-linked "terrorist" group, the public prosecutor said. The defendants were found guilty of forming the "Zulfiqar Battalions", which the court said had received training in Iran and Iraq from Iran's Revolutionary Guard with "the intent to commit hostile acts" against Bahrain.
Navjot thanks people for their prayers post-acquittal
Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday said it is the prayers of the people that got him acquitted in the 1988 road rage case."I want to thank the people of Punjab, because of their prayers I have come out ten feet tall," Sidhu told the media here.Today, Navjot Singh Sidhu who was convicted under section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) was acquitted under section 304 (II) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).Talking about the upcoming 2019 general elections and acknowledging Congress President Rahul Gandhi's rise, he said it will be a different ball game altogether."Rahul Gandhi is a leader in the ascent. 2019 will be a different ball game. The alliances are coming with him," he said."I will stand with him (Rahul Gandhi) till there is blood in my body," added Sidhu.In April, the Punjab government had sought the conviction of Sidhu and also pleaded before it to uphold the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the road rage case.Soon after, the ...
Court seeks CBI's response on journalist's bail plea
A Delhi court has asked the CBI to respond to the bail plea of journalist Upendra Rai, who is under arrest for his alleged involvement in dubious financial transactions. Special CBI Judge Santosh Snehi Mann directed the central probe agency to respond by May 18 on Rai's application which has claimed that no purpose will be served by keeping him in further custody. Rai, arrested by the CBI on May 3, is currently in the judicial custody. The Delhi-based scribe was arrested for allegedly indulging in dubious financial transactions and getting an airport access pass made by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) by furnishing false information. In his bail application, Rai has said he was not required for further custodial interrogation since the CBI's plea for this was rejected by the court on May 9. The Supreme Court had on May 4 refused to interfere with his arrest. In his application seeking protection from arrest, Rai had claimed he was framed in the case because of his ...
SC partially modifies March 6 order on sealing in Delhi
The Supreme Court today partially modified its March 6 order by which it had stayed further progress in amending the Master Plan of Delhi-2021 and directed the Centre to give a 15-day window for inviting objections to the proposed amendment. A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Navin Sinha asked Attorney General K K Venugopal, who was appearing for the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), whether the concerned official of the department would be immediately suspended if unauthorised constructions come up in the areas under their jurisdiction. Venugopal sought modification of the March 6 order and referred to the concept of separation of powers. He said statutory authorities cannot be prohibited from framing a law. The apex court asked the Centre to give 15 days time for inviting objections for the proposed amendments and said the government should take a final call after considering all aspects. The bench posted the matter for further hearing on May 17.
Solar scam: HC partly allows Chandy's plea, challenging legality of commission report
In a relief to senior Congress leader and former chief minister Oommen Chandy, the Kerala High Court today partly allowed his writ plea, challenging the legality of a judicial commission's report on the solar panel scam. Disposing of the petition, Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar ruled that the letter written by Saritha S Nair, one of the accused in the scam, will not be a part of the commission report. Consequently, the observations and findings of the commission on the basis of the letter were also expunged. However, the court refused to touch the other findings of the commission. "The government shall treat the report of the Commission of Inquiry as comprising only those parts as have not been expunged through this judgment," the court said. In his petition, seeking quashing of the commission report filed in December 2017, Chandy had submitted that its findings were based on Saritha's letter. The Congress leader had said he was one among others whose name was "illegally" included ..
Four NSCN(K) cadres arrested in Meghalaya
Four cadres of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland Khaplang (NSCN-K) were arrested from Meghalayas West Jaintia Hills district, police said today. Forty-year-old Gaising Maringmei, a self-styled 'revenue' secretary of the NSCN-K was picked up on Sunday evening from Khliehtyrshi village in the district and later arrested, Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem told PTI. Gaising's arrest led to the arrest of two other members of the militant group from their hideout in the village, the Syiem said. The fourth NSCN member who has been acting as a courier for the outfit was arrested later in the night from a hotel in the state capital here, the SP said. Cash Rs 2 lakh, multiple SIM cards, mobile phones and other documents and extortion notes of NSCN-K were seized from their respective places of hiding, the Syiem said. According to the SP, the NSCN-K was carrying out extortion activities in the coal rich Jaintia hills region to procure arms and ammunition. After his ...
SIMI camp case: NIA court sentences 18 convicts to 7 years imprisonment
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday pronounced seven years imprisonment to 18 convicts in connection with 2007 Wagamon SIMI camp case.The court also pronounced a penalty of Rs 25,000.Earlier on Monday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi convicted 18 of the 35 people accused of organising a secret camp of the banned Islamic Students Federation of India (SIMI) in Kerala's Wagamon.The rest of the accused facing trial were acquitted.A case was registered on the basis of a complaint that a secret training camp was organised allegedly by the SIMI at Thangalpara, Wagamon in the state during December 2007.The agency later alleged that the SIMI cadres were involved in physical and arms training, firing practices, motorbike racing and rope climbing practices in the camp.
Shahdara kidnapping case: Delhi Police file charge sheet
The Delhi Police has filed a charge sheet in a kidnapping case in which a five-year-old boy was brazenly abducted from a school bus on the eve of Republic Day from Shahdara. The boy was rescued after an encounter between the police and the kidnappers on February 6 at Shalimar City in Ghaziabad's Sahibabad area. Of the four accused, Ravi (25) was killed in the encounter, while Pankaj was arrested. Nitin Sharma, another accused, was arrested on February 6, and Anshul Malhotra, his accomplice, after the boy was rescued. They had demanded a ransom of Rs 60 lakh for the child's release, according to the charge sheet. Nitin used to make the ransom calls in the voice of a woman to mislead investigators, police said. The charge sheet was filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Garg in the Karkardooma Court earlier this month and the accused were booked for kidnapping, attempt to murder, theft, wrongful restraint and under provisions of the Arms Act. The charge sheet mentions that ...
Woman, 2 daughters found dead, suicide suspected
A woman and her two daughters, aged two years and five months, were found dead in a pond in Rajasthan's Jalore district, a police official said, suspecting it to be a case of suicide. The deceased were identified as Pankhu Devi (21) and her two daughters Joshna (2) and five-month-old Neema, DSP Dheema Ram said. The bodies were handed over to their family members after post-mortem. Prima facie, it appears to be a case of suicide, the DSP said. The officer, however, said that exact reason behind their death will get clear after post-mortem reports. The matter has been registered.
Sameer Bhujbal seeks interim bail, cites HC order in uncle's case
Sameer Bhujbal, the nephew of senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal, today urged the Bombay High Court to grant him interim bail in a money laundering case on the grounds of parity with his uncle, who was given relief on May 4. Chhagan Bhujbal and Sameer Bhujbal were arrested in 2016 after ED claimed that the former and his associates allegedly misused their office and caused financial loss to the government Sameer Bhujbal's lawyer Vikram Chaudhary told a vacation bench of the high court that since the "main accused" in the case, Chhagan Bhujbal, had recently been granted bail by the court, he too must at least be granted an interim bail. Chaudhary told the bench led by Justice V L Achilya that the maximum punishment under the Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) Act was seven years and he had already been in custody for over two years. "The probe in the case is complete, and I deserve to be granted bail on the primary ground that the main accused (Chhagan Bhujbal) has already been ...
Kerala man who threw acid on nurse arrested
A 32-year-old man from Kerala has been arrested for allegedly throwing acid on a nurse here after she spurned his marriage proposal, a top police official said today. The incident occurred on May 10 and the accused was arrested from his native Palakkad district in Kerala by a team of city police, they said. A Pramod had stalked the nurse, who also hails from Palakkad and works at a corporate hospital at Jubilee Hills here, and allegedly threw acid on her before fleeing. The nurse had suffered around 10 per cent burn injuries in the incident and was undergoing treatment at the hospital. "To detect the acid attack case, eight police teams were formed which visited Bengaluru and different parts of Kerala to nab the accused. Finally, Pramod was nabbed in a forest area ofAttappadi, 80 km from Palakkad district," Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar told reporters. Pramod had earlier proposed to the nurse for marriage, but she had rejected the same. Keeping this in mind ..
Amarinder welcomes SC verdict in road rage case
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today hailed the Supreme Court's verdict which spared state Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu a jail term in a 1988 road rage case. "I welcome SC judgement in the road rage case against @sherryontopp. His acquittal on culpable homicide charges shows justice has prevailed. I'd always maintained that there was nothing willful in his act, and the judges have also upheld the same. Law has duly taken its course," Singh tweeted. The Supreme Court today convicted Sidhu for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man but spared him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case and imposed a Rs 1,000 fine on him. 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. Ironically, on April 12, the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government had favoured in the ..
Safdar Nagori, 17 SIMI cadres sentenced to 7 yrs RI in Kerala
A special NIA court here today sentenced 18 SIMI members, including its leader Safdar Nagori, to seven years rigorous imprisonment (RI) after they were found guilty of organising an arms training camp for the banned outfit in Kerala in 2007. Special NIA court Judge Kauser Edappagath also sentenced them to varying terms of imprisonment under different sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the Explosives 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 years under Section 38 of the UAPA, seven years RI under Section 4 of the ESA and seven years under the IPC's Section 120(B). The sentences would run concurrently. Fourteen convicts, who have been in judicial custody for more than seven years will get the benefit of set off allowed by the court, a defence lawyer said. The court had yesterday acquitted 17 others in the case. The case was registered by the Kerala ...
SC verdict: Almighty has always helped him tide over difficult circumstances, says Sidhu
Hours after Supreme Court spared him a jail term in a 1988 road rage case, Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu today said that the Almighty has always helped him tide over difficult circumstances. Sidhu will not have to go to jail as the Supreme Court held him guilty only of causing hurt and let him off with a fine of Rs 1,000. Speaking to media here after the apex court spared him the jail term in the 30-year-old road rage case, Sidhu said, "the Almighty has always helped him tide over difficult circumstances. It is the grace of God which has helped me through trying times." The Supreme Court today convicted Sidhu for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man but spared him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said Sidhu was guilty of Section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and was fined Rs 1,000 for the offence. After the verdict, Sidhu's supporters and party workers were in a ...
Decide appeal agnst Sreesanth's discharge in IPL spot-fixing, SC to HC
The Supreme Court today asked the Delhi High Court to decide by July end the appeal challenging a trial court order discharging several cricketers, including S Sreesanth, in the sensational IPL spot-fixing case. Sreesanth, who has been awarded life ban by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has filed an appeal in the apex court challenging the Kerala High Court decision upholding the ban on him. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said it understood the "anxiety" of the cricketer to play cricket but would like to wait for the high court's decision on the appeal of Delhi Police challenging the trial court order discharging the cricketers and others in the IPL spot-fixing case. Sreesanth has sought an interim direction that he should be allowed to play the English County cricket in the view of the fact that he has already been discharged in the IPL spot-fixing case and has been suffering the ban for the past four years. The Delhi Police had arrested Indian paceman .
NCLAT directs RP to give comments only on revised bids of Binani Cement
The NCLAT today directed the resolution professional (RP) of Binani Cement not to decide over the eligibility of the revised bids but only submit its comments to the lenders. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) made the remarks while hearing an application filed by UltraTech in the Binani Cement insolvency matter. An NCLAT bench headed by Justice S.J Mukhopadhyaya directed that RP would only hand over its comments over questions pertaining to conformity with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) on the revised bids to Committee of Creditors (CoC). "RP will examine each plan and give comments but can not give any opinion on the resolution plan," the bench said. The bench further said his comments would be handed over to CoC in a sealed cover. "CoC is required to approve one or another plan... They should record their reasons," the bench said. It also added that any decision of CoC "would be subject to outcome of this appeal." The appellate tribunal was hearing an ...
SC holds Sidhu guilty in 1988 road rage case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday convicted Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in the 1988 road rage case.Sidhu has been booked under Section 304 (II), amounting to culpable homicide but not amounting to murder, and Section 323, which entails punishment for voluntarily causing harm, and will be required to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000.In April, the Punjab government had sought the conviction of Sidhu and also pleaded before it to uphold the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the road rage case.Soon after, the Supreme Court on April 18 reserved its judgement on the appeal filed by the former Indian cricketer.As per the prosecution, the road rage case dates back to December 27, 1988, when Sidhu, in a road rage case, had punched one 65-year-old Gurnam Singh in Patiala, Punjab, subsequently resulting in the latter's death.Giving Sidhu the benefit of doubt, the Sessions Court Judge of Patiala had on September 22, 1999, acquitted him and his associate, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, ...
SC holds Sidhu guilty in road rage case, spares him jail term
The Supreme Court today convicted Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man but spared him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said Sidhu is guilty of Section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and is fined Rs 1,000 for the offence. "A1 (Sidhu) is guilty of Section 323 of IPC. Awarded no sentence but fine of Rs 1,000 for the offence. A2 (Rupinder Singh Sandhu) is acquitted," the bench said. On April 18, the apex court had reserved its judgement in the case in which Sidhu had claimed that evidence about the cause of death of the victim Gurnam Singh was contradictory and medical opinion on the issue was "vague". Besides Sidhu, who quit the BJP and joined the Congress days before the Punjab assembly election last year, an appeal was also filed by Rupinder Singh Sandhu, also convicted and sentenced to three years in jail by the Punjab and Haryana High .