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Waffle House suspect still being sought; residents on alert
As an intensive manhunt continues for the suspect in a Waffle House restaurant shooting that killed four people, police are warning residents of a Nashville neighborhood to beware of the alleged killer. More than 80 Nashville police officers continued to search for Travis Reinking early Monday, authorities said. Agents with the FBI, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and troopers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol were also assisting in the manhunt as disturbing reports about the wanted man's past behaviour came to light. He was also added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Top 10 Most Wanted list. Reinking was nearly naked, wearing only a green jacket and brandishing an assault-style rifle when he opened fire in the parking lot and then stormed the restaurant, police say. In addition to the four people killed, four others were injured. Police credit a quick-thinking customer who wrestled the gun away from the suspect for preventing more loss of ...
Jessica Lall murder case: Sister pardons murderer Manu Sharma
Jessica Lall's sister Sabrina Lall on Monday said she has no objection to the release of Manu Sharma from Tihar Jail where he is serving a life term after being convicted for murder.Sabrina said she held no grudges against Sharma now as the only thing she had ever wanted was him to be convicted.Talking to ANI, Sabrina said, "I have been fighting for this since 1999. He has spent 15 years in jail. You need to let go off anger. I thought it is okay if Manu Sharma walks free. There is no specific reason. You need to rest your mind and move on with your life. I have no objection if the court releases him."Sabrina has reportedly written a letter to the welfare officer at Tihar Jail, where Sharma has already spent 12 years.Sharma's release by a trial court sparked outrage across the nation until the case was reconsidered in 2006 in the Delhi High Court. After examining the evidence again by the court, he was held guilty of murder. Later, the Supreme Court upheld the high court's ...
Rs 33 lakh worth foreign currencies seized at Tiruchi airport
Currency notes of various foreign countries worth Rs 33 lakh were seized from a Malaysia-bound passenger at the airport here, airport officials said today. The passenger was found carrying currencies including, Dollar and Euro by concealing them in his baggage, last night, they said. He has been detained for interrogation to ascertain the source of the notes, they added.
SC declines early hearing of Swamy's plea on Ayodhya worship
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hold an early hearing of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea on his right to offer prayers at the makeshift temple at the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.
Man kills wife in Delhi
A man killed his wife here after repeatedly attacking her with a hammer over a suspected affair, police said on Monday.
Opposition impeachment motion against CJI rejected
In a setback to the opposition, the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Dipak Misra was on Monday rejected by Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on the ground that there was lack of "credible and verifiable" information on charges of "misbehaviour" which undermined judiciary's independence.
Oppn demands CM's statement over recent cases of minors' rape
The Odisha Assembly today witnessed repeated adjournments amid a ruckus by the Congress and BJP members over the rising incidents of minors' rape across the state. As soon as the members assembled for the Question Hour, the opposition MLAs rushed to the well of the House, demanding a statement on the issue from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who also holds the Home department folio. The members raised slogans against the government and refused to get back to their seats despite repeated pleas by Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat. Unable to run the House, Amat adjourned the proceedings till 11.30 am. When the House met again for the Zero Hour, Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra strongly criticised the state government over the recent incidents of sexual assault on minors. "When women, particularly minor girls, are being raped almost every day, the state government appears to be sleeping. The chief minister is not concerned over the heinous crimes and therefore did not issue .
Six persons get 12-years imprisonment for carrying ganja
A Gaya court today sentenced six persons to 12-years in jail for carrying contraband ganja. The six persons, including a woman, were found guilty by Additional and District Sessions Judge (ADJ)(II) Priti Verma under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for carrying ganja. The judge sentenced them to 12-years in jail and also fined them Rs 2 lakh each. According to prosecution lawyer Sadulla Faruqui, the police had seized three quintals of ganja from two vehicles on September 4, 2016 near Suryamandal revenue post on national highway 2 (GT road). On the basis of the then Barachatti station house officer's statement, six persons - Anita Singh, Upendra Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Rajendra Kumar Arya, Yatindra Chauhan and Mohammad Shabbir were named in the FIR as accused persons under the NDPS Act.
Man bludgeons wife to death in front of kids
A 38-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death allegedly by her husband in the presence of their three children this morning in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri, police said. The victim, Savita, was married to Vinod (42) and their children are 15, 14 and 13 years of age, they said. The couple had frequent fights and this morning during one such fight Vinod picked up a hammer and hit her on the head multiple times, the police said. He fled from the spot as the children raised an alarm and informed their neighbours. The woman was rushed to a hospital where she was declared brought dead. Police have registered a case and are on the lookout for the accused, they added.
Paris suspect Abdeslam sentenced to 20 years over Brussels shootout
A Belgian court today found Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, guilty of terrorism-related attempted murder over a shootout with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016, and sentenced him to 20 years in jail. In its judgment, the court in the Belgian capital said "there can be no doubt" about jihadist Salah Abdeslam and his co-defendant Sofiane Ayari's involvement in extremism. Prosecutors had asked for 20-year jail terms for both. Neither 28-year-old Abdeslam -- who is being held in jail in France pending a separate trial over the 2015 Paris attacks in which 130 people died -- nor Ayari, 24, were in court for the verdict. Four police officers were wounded in the gun battle after police acting on a tip-off over the Paris attacks raided a flat in the Forest area of Brussels on March 15, 2016. Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national, was arrested three days later in the largely immigrant Molenbeek area of the Belgian capital, near his family ...
BJP MP's son arrested on alcohol charges
Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) MP Hari Manjhi's son, Rahul Manjhi was arrested by the police on the charges of alcohol consumption.According to sources, the accused was caught with a group of friends in Bodh Gaya village.He was made to undergo a medical test, in which traces of alcohol were found in his blood.Rahul's father, Hari Manjhi also represents Lok Sabha in the Parliament.More details awaited.
Minor girl raped in Odisha, 1 arrested: Police
A minor girl was allegedly raped by a 35-year-old man at a village in Odisha's Jajpur district, in another incident of sexual assault of minors in the state. The 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped at Malaanandapur on Friday evening and the accused was arrested and sent to jail yesterday on the basis of a complaint filed by the girl's father, said Prasanta Kumar Mallha, Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Jajpur. The accused, identified as Gatikrushna Dalei of the same village, was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days after his bail plea was rejected by a court, police said. According to the complaint filed by the girl's father, Dalei came to his house on Friday evening and took his daughter to a shop on the pretext of buying her cold drinks. "As Dalei is a fellow villager, we allowed our daughter to go with him," he said in the complaint. When the girl did not return home after one hour, the family members started a frantic search. A missing report was filed ...
Paris suspect Abdeslam guilty over Brussels shootout: court
A Belgian court today found Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, guilty of terrorism-related attempted murder over a shootout with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016. In its judgment, the court in the Belgian capital said "there can be no doubt" about jihadist Salah Abdeslam and his co-defendant Sofiane Ayari's involvement in extremism. The court will pass sentence on the pair later, with prosecutors asking for 20-year jail terms for both.
SC notice to Centre on plea against criminalisation of homosexuality
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre on a plea filed by hotelier Kesav Suri challenging the criminalisation of gay sex between two consenting adults. The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked the Centre to file the response within a week on the plea. The bench, also comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, said the petition will be heard along with other pleas on the same matter which is being heard by the Constitution bench. Owing to Section 377 of the IPC continuing on the statute book, various adult and consenting members of the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and Queer) community continue to face the threat of a false prosecution and some are actually facing it, Suri's plea said.
Arrested for filing RTI on Parrikar's health: Businessman
Arrested and released on bail for uploading a false Facebook post announcing the death of ailing Manohar Parrikar, businessman Kenneth Silveira has said he was arrested two days after he filed an RTI plea with the Goa Chief Minister's Office seeking his health status.
Dead man gets justice from HC in 1993 rape cum murder case
A dead man got justice in a 25-year-old rape and murder case of a relative after his son approached the Delhi High Court to decide the matter posthumously. The high court acquitted a man of the charges of raping and murdering his sister-in-law in 1993 and reversed the judgement of a trial court which had awarded him life imprisonment for the offences. The court granted benefit of doubt to the man, who had died in April 2016, saying it was not safe to base his conviction on the dying declaration of the deceased woman who had suffered 100 per cent burn injuries. The acquittal judgement came as a breather for the family, with the high court also saying that his kin could now persuade the man's employer, Engineers India Ltd, a public-sector undertaking under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, to reverse its decision to dismiss him from service and release his emoluments and other dues to them. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta pulled up the police for lapse in the ...
Legal experts divided on CJI impeachment
Justice (Retd) R.S. Sodhi on Monday welcomed Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu's rejection of an opposition-introduced impeachment motion against Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra, saying that the move "can't be considered as a wise act.""One knows that they don't have any ground, they know that they can't impeach him. In spite of knowing all that, still they went on and plunged into this ill-advised move. This can't be considered as a wise act," Justice Sodhi told ANI.Senior Supreme Court advocate K.T.S Tulsi, however, disagreed, saying that the charges against Chief Justice Misra needed to be examined as per procedure, which was not done."I think the Chairman (Naidu) prejudged the issue and has misread the provision of the Constitution. This is a very serious matter and we can't allow the cancer of corruption to grow. If there is evidence, then there is a committee which has to take a decision on the same," Tulsi said.On April 20, the opposition led by
Padmaavat row: SC dismisses plea alleging glorification of 'Sati'
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea to ban the last scene of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Padmaavat'.Social activist, Swami Agnivesh who filed the petition, alleged that the last scene glorified the practice of 'Sati'.Earlier on February 22, the Delhi High Court had given the same verdict in accordance with this matter.Sati is a funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husband's pyre or takes her own life in another manner shortly after her husband's death.Bhansali's magnum opus, which stars Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, and Shahid Kapoor, has been mired in controversy since the shooting started. It hit the theatres on January 25.
SC stays proceeding against Salman for alleged remarks against a community
The Supreme Court today stayed criminal proceedings and the enquiry initiated against Bollywood superstar Salman Khan for allegedly making derogatory comments against 'Valmiki' community members during the promotion of film 'Tiger Zinda Hai'. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered the submission of senior advocate N K Kaul, representing Khan, that the proceedings be stayed. The senior advocate said that some criminal cases were lodged against the actor at Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Mumbai. The bench asked Kaul to provide the details of the cases pending against Khan and ordered that proceedings in those matters shall remain stayed. Khan had allegedly made some objectionable remarks against the community during the promotion of Bollywood flick 'Tiger Zinda Hai' and subsequently several proceedings were lodged against him under penal provisions under the SC/ST(Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Naidu rejects impeachment notice, says no substantial merit in it
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu today rejected the unprecedented impeachment notice given by opposition parties led by the Congress against CJI Dipak Misra, saying it lacked substantial merit and that the allegations were neither "tenable nor admissible". The vice president in his order today held that that the allegations emerging from the present case have a serious tendency of "undermining" the independence of the judiciary. Naidu based his decision on the opinion of top legal and constitutional experts, including former secretary generals of Lok Sabha and other legal luminaries with whom he held extensive consultations. He also held the views of top legal and constitutional experts, including former chief justices and judges, before taking the decision, sources said. Seven opposition parties led by the Congress had last week moved a notice before him for impeachment of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) on five grounds of "misbehaviour". Leaders of the opposition parties had .