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Five-judge Constitution bench to hear Cong MPs plea on CJI's impeachment
A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court is all set to hear tommorow a petition moved by two Congress MPs challenging rejection of the impeachment notice against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra by Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. The bench will be headed by Justice A K Sikri, number six in seniority. The other members are Justices S A Bobde, N V Ramana, Arun Mishra and A K Goel, who are next in the sequence of seniority. The senior-most judges - Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Jospeh -- who had held the controversial January 12 press conference in which they had virtually revolted against the CJI by raising litany of allegations against him, have been kept out of the matter. The setting up of the constitution bench was mentioned in tomorrow's list of business for the Supreme Court. The development came hours after Justice Chelameswar, before whom the petition of the two Congress MPs was mentioned, expressed reservation in hearing the ...
Lady lawyer assault case: HC grants interim protection to woman accused
The Delhi High Court today granted interim protection from arrest till May 23 to a woman accused in connection with a case of police officials allegedly dragging a lady lawyer out of her residence to arrest her despite the court's order against any coercive action. The FIR relates to an incident of December 18 evening, when lady lawyer Deepa Arya was dragged out of her house. The lady lawyer had earlier claimed that the Safdarjung Enclave police broke open the main door of her house in Mayur Vihar-I and then dragged her out of her residence while pulling her hair. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, who was hearing the anticipatory bail of the woman, said she should not be arrested till the next date of hearing on May 23. The counsel for the woman, Purnima Uppal, sought the relief saying she has to take care of her three children and said what was her offence for which her judicial custody was warranted by the Delhi Police six months after the incident. Delhi Police Standing Counsel (criminal) .
Minors married off in Rajouri; Police arrest fathers
A minor boy and girl were illegally married off in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, prompting the police today to arrest their fathers and book several others allegedly involved in the act. The police have registered a case of infant marriage against the family members of the nine-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl, SSP Rajouri Yougal Manhas said. The boy's father, Manzoor, and the girl's father, Khadam, had been arrested, he told PTI. A case under section 4 of the Infant Marriages Prevention Act 1985 had been registered by the Rajouri Police. The police started probing the marriage, conducted yesterday, soon after they heard about it, he said. Once the crime was established, several people were booked, he said. Among them were the boy's parents, residents of Kalal Kass, and the girl's father and mother, residents of Dalhori. Some other Dalhori residents, believed to have been involved in the act, had also been booked, he added.
RS rules prohibit MPs' public statements on judge removal: SC
The Supreme Court on Monday said the Rajya Sabha rules prohibited Members of Parliament from making public statements on the removal of a Judge of the Supreme Court or a high court without any notice of impeachment in Parliament.
Accused in Kathua rape case oppose shifting of trial
The accused in sensational Kathua gangrape case today opposed in the Supreme Court the transfer of trial outside this town of Jammu and Kashmir, saying free and fair trial may be affected. The accused said if the trial at all needed to be shifted outside Kathua, then it should be done within the Jammu district, a prayer which was opposed by the victim's father. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra considered the submissions and shifted the trial outside the state to Pathankot in Punjab, saying "a fair trial is a sacrosanct principle under Article 21 of the Constitution and a fair trial means fair to the accused persons, as well as to the victims of the crime". During the hearing, several places in the state, including Ramban, were discussed where the trial could be shifted, before Pathankot was finally approved. Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, appearing for two of the accused, said Ramban was nearly 200 kilometres away from Kathua and ...
SC shifts Kathua trial out of J-K to Pathankot, says fair trial cannot co-exist with fear
The Supreme Court today ordered that the trial in the sensational gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua be shifted out of Jammu and Kashmir to neighbouring Punjab, holding fair trial was "sacrosant" and cannot be allowed to "co-exist" with fear. Directing day-to-day "in-camera" trial, the apex court asked the district and sessions judge at Pathankot to personally undertake the trial proceedings. The order came on a petition by the victim's father seeking transfer of the case to Chandigarh on the ground that the family was receiving death threats and that they feared for their lives Vacating the stay granted by the top court on the trial in Kathua, a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra refrained from handing over the probe to the CBI and directed that the trial be fast-tracked to ensure there was no delay as the investigation has been conducted and charge sheet filed. The state police's Crime Branch, which probed the case, has filed the main charge sheet against
ED quizzes BJD MLA over business links with Odisha criminals
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday interrogated Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Pranab Balabantaray on his alleged business links with arrested gangster brothers Sushil and Sushant Dhal Samant.
Pak SC rejects review petitions of ex-Army chief, ex-ISI head
Pakistan's Supreme Court today dismissed review petitions moved by former chiefs of the country's army and the ISI against the court's landmark verdict holding them guilty of bribing politicians, including ousted premier Nawaz Sharif, to influence the elections in 1990. The apex court, while hearing the Asghar Khan case in the 2012, had directed the Pakistan government to conduct a probe against former Army Chief General Aslam Baig and former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Asad Durrani for allegedly bribing Rs 140 million to some politicians to defeat slain Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto. The three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar, rejected review petitions filed by two former military officers against the 2012 judgment. Both Baig and Durrani had confessed to their role in bribing Rs 140 million, through a private bank, to different politicians, linked to Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) group, to use it for defeating .
Infant killed after falling out of mother's arms
In a shocking tragedy, a six-month-old died fell from the first floor of a building and died after falling out of his mother's arms when she lost her balance, allegedly due to the high heels she was wearing, police said on Monday.
SC seeks panel's report on compensating dog-bite victims in Kerala
The Supreme Court today sought a status report from a committee appointed by it to look into the treatment of people bitten by stray dogs in Kerala and their claims of compensation. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud directed the three-member committee headed by a former Kerala High Court judge to file the report in four weeks after it was alleged that the dog bite victims, despite being awarded the compensation by the panel, had not yet been paid by the state government. The bench has sought details of the victims of dog-bites who have been awarded the compensation, but not yet received it. The panel, headed by former judge Justice S S Jagan, had earlier told the court that over one lakh people in Kerala have been bitten by dogs in 2015-16, while warning that frequent stray dog attacks on children in the state had created a dangerous situation. "India is a nation with substantial fatal rabies cases, mainly due to stray dog bites. ...
2002 Ghatkopar bus bomb blast accused held after 16 years
Nearly sixteen years after a bomb blast in a city bus killed two persons in Mumbai's Ghatkopar, Irfan Qureshi, a wanted accused in the case, was arrested from the house of his relative in Maharashtra's Aurangabad, around 325 kms from here, police said today. A team of the Gujarat ATS had received a tip-off about Qureshi's presence in his relative's house yesterday, a senior Mumbai police official said. The Gujarat ATS team detained Qureshi who was later handed over to a crime branch team of the Mumbai police at the spot, he said. Another senior officer said, the Gujarat ATS team had gone to Aurangabad to trace the accused wanted in connection with another case when they zeroed in on Qureshi. After detaining him, they realised that it was Qureshi who had been absconding in the Ghatkopar bus bomb blast case, he said. Qureshi was brought to Mumbai last night where he was placed under arrest, the official said, adding that further investigation is underway. Two persons were .
'Sound' probe done in Kathua case, further probe on: J&K to SC
The Jammu and Kashmir Government today told the Supreme Court that a detailed charge sheet was filed after conducting a "sound" probe in the Kathua gangrape and murder case and further investigation was going on at a "rapid pace". The state government urged a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which transferred the trial from Kathua to Pathankot in Punjab, that they should be permitted to appoint a special public prosecutor to conduct the trial, which was accepted. The state said it would continue to provide proper security to the victim's family, their lawyers and the accused as well. Senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, appearing for the state, said the investigation was conducted by the crime branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police in a "record time" and being the state, they know that they have to be responsible and conduct a fair probe and ensure fair trial in the case. Referring to a report given by the District and Sessions Judge of Kathua district court to the Jammu and ...
SC issues notice to Unitech on contempt plea of home buyers
The Supreme Court today sought the response from real estate major Unitech Ltd on a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against it for alleged non-compliance of its order to compensate some hassled home buyers for delayed delivery of their dream homes. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice to the real estate firm on a joint contempt petition moved by 13 home buyers who claimed they were yet to receive a compensation of Rs 80,000 each as per the directions of the apex court on September 20 last year. The bench was hearing the contempt plea, moved through advocate Brajesh Kumar, by the homebuyers including one Satish Kumar Pandey. The plea claimed that the apex court order directing the firm to pay Rs 80,000 each as compensation to 39 home buyers towards litigation cost and causing harassment to them, has not been complied with as yet. However, some of the beneficiaries of the order have been paid this amount, it .
6 arrested for smuggling arms from RFI to Maoists
Six persons, including two Rifle Factory Ishapore (RFI) officials, were arrested by the Kolkata Police from the Babughat area here for their alleged involvement in smuggling arms to Maoists, an official said today. The arrests were made by the police's Special Task Force (STF) and seven revolvers, one carbine and 10 rounds of ammunition were seized from them, police said. Kolkata Police, Deputy Commissioner, STF, Murli Dhar said acting on a tip-off, a team laid a trap at the Babughat area, near the Hoogly river, last evening and caught four men with the arms. The officer said the STF arrested alleged arms smugglers Ajay Kumar Pandey and Jayasankar Pandey from Bihar's Nalanda district and Umesh Roy and Kartik Shaw of Ichchapur in West Bengal's North-24 Parganas district. Dhar said after interrogation of Ajay and Jayasankar, STF sleuths arrested RFI junior works managers Sushanta Basu and Sukhda Murmu from their Nawapara residences in the North 24 Parganas district. They were arrested ..
5-judge consti bench to hear impeachment issue against CJI tomorrow
A five-judge constitution bench was today constituted in the Supreme Court to hear tommorow the petition moved by two Congress MPs challenging the rejection of the impeachment notice against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra by Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. The list of business for the Supreme Court showed that the petition, which was mentioned today, would be heard tomorrow by a bench comprising Justices A K Sikri, S A Bobde, N V Ramana, Arun Mishra and A K Goel. While Justice Sikri, who will head the bench, is number six in the seniority list, others follow him in the sequence of seniority. It is significant that the matter has not been listed before the judges who are number two to five in the seniority. These judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Jospeh -- had held the controversial January 12 press conference in which they had virtually revolted against the CJI by raising a litany of allegations against him. Earlier in the day, senior ...
SC transfers Kathua murder case to Pathankot, says fair trial sacrosant
The Supreme Court today transferred the trial in the sensational Kathua gangrape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl from Jammu and Kashmir to Pathankot in Punjab, but refrained from handing over the probe to CBI saying there was no need as the investigation has been conducted and the charge sheet filed. The apex court, which ordered day-to-day "in-camera" trial in the case, said there was a need to shift the trial outside the state as "fear and fair trial" were contradictory and "cannot be allowed to co-exist." A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also vacated the stay granted by it earlier on the trial in the case and said it should be fast-tracked to ensure that there was no delay in adjudication of the matter. The bench, also comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra, allowed the Jammu and Kashmir government to appoint a special public prosecutor (SPP) to conduct the trial and ordered continuation of security provided to the victim's family members, a ...
Two RS members move SC against rejection of CJI impeachment notice
Two Rajya Sabha members on Monday moved the Supreme Court to challenge house Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu's decision to reject a notice on the impeachment motion against the apex court's Chief Justice, Dipak Misra.
Pak's top court rejects ousted foreign minister's plea for stay order on disqualification
Pakistan's Supreme Court today rejected a plea by ousted foreign minister Khawaja Asif to issue a stay order against his disqualification verdict by a high court. Asif, 68, was disqualified by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) last month for having an employment contract with a UAE-based company while contesting polls in 2013. Hours after the verdict, the election commission formally de-notified Asif as a member of the National Assembly, leading to his ouster as the foreign minister. He challenged the decision in the Supreme Court where a three-member bench headed by Justice Umar Atta Bandial is hearing the appeal. Asif, through his counsel Muneer Malik, asked the court to grant stay order against the verdict until the appeal was decided.
Four held in Gurugram for demanding Rs 50 lakh from shop owner
Four men have been arrested on charges of firing outside a shop in Farukhnagar town and later demanding Rs 50 lakh from its owner, Gurugram Police said on Monday.
Kathua rape-murder trial shifted to Pathankot
The Supreme Court on Monday transferred to Pathankot the trial of the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua because "fear and fair trial can't exist together".