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Minor sexually assaulted, burnt alive in MP
A minor girl was gang-raped and burnt alive in Khurai in Madhya Pradesh by her relative and his friend, following which one person was arrested, police said on Friday.
Judges who served in fast track courts entitled for retiral benefits: SC
The Supreme Court today ruled that judicial officers, who have rendered their services as fast track court judges, were entitled to pensionery and retiral benefits. The top court, said the Fast Track Court Scheme was brought in to deal with the exigency of huge pendency of cases and the judicial officers in Jharkhand were appointed to the such courts who continued to work for almost a decade. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said "the need to set up Fast Track courts arose on account of delays in the judicial process, targeting certain priority areas for quicker adjudication". Had there been adequate cadre strength of judicial officers, there would have been no need to set up these Fast Track courts, it said. "We are, thus, unhesitatingly and unequivocally of the view that all the appellants and Judicial Officers identically situated are entitled to the benefit of the period of service rendered as Fast Track court Judges, to be counted for their length of ...
Guj HC upholds conviction of 19 persons in 2002 Ode riot case, acquits three accused
The Gujarat High Court today upheld the conviction of 19 persons, 14 of whom were sentenced to life term, in the 2002 Ode riot case in which 23 Muslims were killed during the post-Godhra communal violence in Gujarat in 2002. "Communal frenzy turns perfectly normal human beings momentarily into murderous monsters leaving nothing but trail of death and destruction for the victims and their own family alike," a division bench of justices Akil Kureshi and B N Karia , which also upheld the seven-year prison term to five of the convicts, observed. It acquitted three accused convicted by the trial court on April 12, 2012. It also upheld the acquittal of 23 others. One of the convicts, sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court, died during the hearing of appeals. Twenty-three Muslims, including nine women and as many children, were burnt alive during a post-Godhra communal riot at Ode town in Anand district of Gujarat on March 1, 2002. Dilip Patel, Lalji Patel and Natubhai Patel, ...
Minor girl sexually assaulted on Goa beach, accused arrested
A minor girl was sexually assaulted at the Candolim beach in North Goa district, following which a 24-year-old native of West Bengal was arrested on Friday, police said.
SC tells HCs to set up panels in courts under Vishaka norms
The Supreme Court on Friday directed high courts across the country to set up within two months Internal Complaints Committees and to ensure formation of such panels in all district courts as per the Vishaka guidelines on sexual harassment at the workplace,.
Set up anti-sexual harassment panels in all courts: SC to HCs
In a significant direction, the Supreme Court today directed the heads of all high courts to set up anti-sexual harassment committees in all courts across the country within two months in accordance with a 2013 law. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also asked the Registrars General of the High Courts to file a compliance report regarding setting up of these committees in courts, where it has not been constituted so far, by July 15. "As far as the question of constitution of such committee(s) in other High Courts/ District Courts throughout the country is concerned, the Chief Justices of each of the High Courts are requested to constitute the Committees in High Courts as well as the District Courts, if not already constituted, within a span of two months," the bench, also comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, said. The directions came on a petition filed by a woman advocate who had alleged that she was assaulted by some lawyers observing a strike at the Tis
We've lost a capable officer: Fadnavis on Himanshu Roy's demise
Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, on Friday, stated that with the demise of former Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad Chief, Himanshu Roy's the state has lost a very capable Police Officer."He was known as a daring officer and had held many important positions. With his demise we have lost a capable officer," said Fadnavis.In a statement released earlier today, the Mumbai Police declared that a suicide note found in Roy's residence stated that he shot himself as he was suffering from depression."Today, 11th May 2018, in the afternoon, around 12:40 pm; Himanshu Roy, ADG, Maharashtra State at his residence from his private license weapon shot one round of fire at himself and ended his life. Late Himanshu Roy was suffering from cancer from past 2 years. He was on medical leave for the same and was undergoing necessary treatment for it. Because of the ailment, he was into depression and because of the same, he decided to give up his life which has written in the suicide note ...
NHRC issues notice to UP Govt. over 2 minor girls sent to jail
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government, after media reports stated that two minor girls in Muzaffarnagar were sent to the jail in Khatauli instead of a juvenile home, in connection with a case of alleged cow slaughter.The NHRC, in its notice, sought a detailed report in the matter within four weeks, from the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police (DGP) of Government of Uttar Pradesh.The police officers preferred to go by the physical appearance of the girls, instead of believing their Aadhar cards which showed their age to be 12 and 16, the NHRC quoted the report in an official statement, and added, "The girls could come out of the jail on bail only after spending three and half months there and feel traumatized.""The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report about the incident, if true, amount to gross violation of human rights of the two minor girls. Not sending the minor girls to juvenile home, if they .
Two accused of waging war against India move HC against the charge
The Delhi High Court today sought the Delhi government's stand on a plea by two persons, accused of hijacking an Air India plane from New Delhi to Srinagar and forcing it to land in Pakistan in 1981, seeking quashing of the charge of waging war against India framed against them by a trial court. Satnam Singh and Tejinder Pal Singh, who were convicted and sentenced by a court in Pakistan for the offences of kidnapping and hijacking, have challenged before Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva the charge of waging war against India, which entails a maximum punishment of life imprisonment. The two accused were deported in 2000 from Pakistan after serving life-term for hijacking an Air India plane to the neighbouring country in 1981. The accused had hijacked an Air India plane from New Delhi to Srinagar en route to Amritsar and forced it to land in Lahore, where they were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. The plane carrying 111 passengers and a crew of six was hijacked on September 29, 1981
Woman dies in clash over land dispute; family refuses to cremate body
A 24-year-old woman was killed during a clash between two groups over a property dispute in a village here on Tuesday, prompting a protest by her family, who have refused to cremate the body till all the accused are arrested. Lachhmi was killed in Fatehgarh Gehri in the Gurharsahai sub-division on May 8 when two groups clashed over the possession of a two-acre plot. A large number of people, including her family members, have been protesting the death near the Guruharsahai police station for the last three days. The family has refused to cremate the body till all the accused are arrested. The police have already nabbed three persons, including the main accused, Harpreet Singh, in connection with the incident. The police said Surjit Singh and Gurpreet Singh of the village were embroiled in a land dispute. Surjit had built a house on the land even though Gurpreet had reportedly won the case in a lower court. Gurpreet and others allegedly attacked Surjit and his family members on Tuesday
Jury awards USD 10M to Philadelphia man over wrongful arrest
A Philadelphia man locked up for more than three years based on a police officer's false testimony has been awarded USD 10 million. The jury's verdict yesterday was handed down in the case of Khanefah Boozer, a 33-year-old man who languished in jail while he awaited trial for allegedly firing a gun at Officer Ryan Waltman in 2011. He was unable to post the USD 500,000 bail. When he finally went to trial in 2014, Waltman testified that Boozer shot at police, and another officer backed up the testimony. Another man testified that he, not Boozer, fired the gun in the air, not at the officer. A jury acquitted Boozer of all the charges. Boozer then filed a civil suit, in which he says he told police that his friend, not him, fired the gun on the very night of his arrest, but it was never investigated. The civil claims against the police officers included malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and civil conspiracy. "The officers were intent on arresting and charging someone for the ...
Four of family killed in car accident in MP's Sheopur district
Four members of a family were today killed after the car they were travelling in overturned near Gauras village under Karahal police station limits here, police said. Karahal Police Station in-charge S N Solanki said that Harishankar Dubey, a resident of Kailaras in Shivpuri district, and his family were travelling to Sheopur to attend a marriage when the accident occurred. He identified the dead as Harishankar Dubey (70), his wife Mishri Bai (65), their son Raj (37) and son-in-law Satendra Tiwari (30). Dinesh, another son of Dubey, was critically injured and is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Rajasthan's Kota district, which is nearby, he said.
Accused in case Roy supervised get lifer the day he ends life
It was a quirk of fate that the two accused in a case supervised by Himanshu Roy as joint commissioner of police (crime) in Mumbai, were sentended to life imprisonment the day he ended his life. A sessions court here today awarded life imprisonment to two persons in the 2012 murder case of actor Meenakshi Thapa. It awarded the sentence to Amit Jaiswal (36) and his girlfriend Preeti Surin (26). "Roy was the joint commissioner of police (crime) when Thapa was murdered. As it was a sensitive case, he played a key role in getting it transferred to the Crime Branch and was instrumental in solving it," a crime branch official said. Roy committed suicide by shooting himself at his south Mumbai residence, police said. Mumbai police, citing his suicide note, said the 1988-batch Indian Police Service officer took the extreme step "out of frustration" due to his prolonged battle with cancer. "Roy was on medical leave for the last two years as he had cancer and the suicide note, in ..
Collegium agrees to reiterate Justice Joseph's name for elevation to SC
The Supreme Court Collegium today agreed in principle to reiterate its recommendation for elevating Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K M Joseph as a judge of the apex court, almost three weeks after it was returned by the Centre. Justice Joseph had headed the bench in the Uttarakhand High Court that had quashed the Narendra Modi government's decision to impose President's rule in the Congress-ruled hill state in 2016. In 2017, the Congress lost the assembly election there. Justice Joseph, who turns 60 this June, has been the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court since July 2014. He was appointed a permanent judge of the Kerala High Court on October 14, 2004 and assumed charge of the Uttarakhand High Court on July 31, 2014. Legal experts had earlier opined that the government is bound to appoint Justice Joseph as a Supreme Court judge in case the Collegium reiterates its recommendation to elevate him. However, the experts had said there is no time-frame for implementing the ..
Protesters of INLD, BSP court arrest in Sirsa over SYL issue
A large number of protesters of the Indian National Lok Dal and their ally Bahujan Samaj Party courted arrest in Sirsa today as part of the ongoing Jail Bharo agitation launched by the two parties over the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal and other issues. Led by the Leader of the Opposition and senior INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala, state president of INLD Ashok Arora, state president of BSP Prakash Bharati and Indian National Students Organisation leader Digvijay Singh Chautala, the protesters demanded early completion of the SYL canal. Before courting arrest in Sirsa, Abhay Singh Chautala came down heavily on the BJP government at the centre and State. "The Centre has shown scant respect for the Supreme Court by not only failing to follow its directions regarding the completion of the SYL canal but for also trying to divert the issue by injecting extraneous issues about the flow of the waters of the Ravi," he was quoted as saying in a party release. Abhay Singh Chautala said the ...
JAL seeks in SC consideration of plan to revive one of its firms
Realty firm Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) today told the Supreme Court that it has deposited Rs 750 crore with the apex court Registry for refunding money to home buyers and sought consideration of its resolution plan for revival of one of its bankruptcy-hit firms. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said that it would hear all the interim pleas, including the one filed by JAL, on May 16 and pass an order. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi and lawyer Anupam Lal Das, representing real estate firm JAL, said that it was asked to deposit Rs 750 crore and now the pleas of the company be heard. JAL, the parent firm of Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL), recently filed a plea in the apex court seeking directions and approval of its resolution plan of May 5 which proposed to offer 2,000 equity shares of JIL, the company facing the insolvency proceedings, to each home buyer as part of its Rs 10,000-crore proposal to revive it. It has also ...
131 Indian-origin Brits on UK crime gangs list: Report
As many as 131 India-born people, who have changed their nationality to British, have been mapped as having links to organised crime gangs of the UK, according to an official data. According to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) data obtained through the Organised Crime Group Mapping project, Albanians were the UK's largest foreign-born criminal group, followed by Pakistanis, who are largely thought to be involved in the wholesale supply of heroin brought in from Afghanistan via British ports. "The vast majority of members of organised crime groups in the UK are British. The data is an important tool to help measure risk, avoid duplication of work between law enforcement partners and helps inform government," an NCA spokesperson said. It also showed that 131 Indians, 141 Somalis, 78 Poles, 47 Sri Lankans and 44 Nigerians were among the active gang members who had changed their nationality. As per the detailed figures obtained by 'The Times', under the "current nationality" category,
IT dept files charge sheets against Chidambaram's family members under black money law
The Income Tax department today filed four charge sheets against former Union finance ministerP Chidambaram's wife Nalini, son Karti, daughter-in-law Srinidhi and a firm under the Black Money Act for allegedly not disclosing their foreign assets. The charge sheets or prosecution complaints have been filed by the department before a special court in Chennai under Section 50 of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, officials said. Nalini Chidambaram, Karti and Srinidhi and a firm linked to Karti have been charged for allegedly not disclosing, either partly or fully, immovable assets like the one at Barton, Cambridge in the UK worthRs 5.37 crore, property worth Rs 80 lakh in the same country and assets worth Rs 3.28 crore in the US, they said. The charge sheets claimed that the Chidambarams as also the firm in which Karti is one of the Directors-- Chess Global Advisory-- "did not disclose" these investments to the tax authority in ...
Youth honey trapped, killed; 4 men held, two minor girls apprehended
Four men were arrested and two minor girls apprehended for allegedly being involved in honey trapping and killing a youth, whose partially burnt body was recovered from a forested area near Tughlaqabad Fort in south east Delhi, the police said today. The body of 22-year-old Neeraj, with multiple stab injuries and a cut mark on the neck, was found on May 6. He was a resident of Faridabad in Haryana, DCP (South East) Chinmoy Biswal said. The arrested accused included Shiv Kumar and his minor sister who was allegedly used to honey trap Neeraj, the officer said. The other minor girl who was apprehended in the case told police that she had accompanied Kumar's sister to the Tughlaqabad Fort on the day of the incident. Neeraj and his friend Manoj had also reached there, he said. During interrogation, Kumar told police that he wanted to marry an aunt of Manoj. But her marriage was fixed with an uncle of Neeraj, Biswal said. Kumar had gone along with his mother to Faridabad to convince the ...
NHRC sends notice to UP govt over sending minor girls to jail in cow slaughter case
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report claiming that two minor girls were sent to jail in a cow slaughter case in Khatauli area of Uttar Pradesh. The rights body has sought a report from the DGP and chief secretary of the state in the matter. According to the reports dated April 10, two sisters -aged about 12 and 16 years - were arrested on December 29, 2017 along with seven others, including their mother, while their father was on the run. The minor sisters were sent to jail instead of a juvenile home. The police officers preferred to go with the girls' physical appearance instead of taking into account the Aadhaar cards shown to them as proof of age, they said. The girls had to spend three-and-a-half months in jail before coming out on bail, and were left traumatised, the reports said. The rights body said in a statement that the contents of the news report about the incident, if true, amounted to "gross violation of human ...