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3 nabbed for planning to eliminate witness in murder case
Three people were arrested for allegedly planning to kill a prime witness in a murder case at the behest of a man lodged in Rohini jail, the police said today. In November 2016, one Praveen, brother of a Rajesh Chahal, was kidnapped and beaten up mercilessly by two people named Ajay and Anil. Praveen passed away two months later, they said. On October 31, 2017, in retaliation, Chahal, along with two of his associates, allegedly killed Ajay in front of his house. His brother, Vijay was the complainant and the prime witness in that case, police said. Chahal, along with one Surender, was arrested in the case. While Surender was granted bail, Chahal is still lodged in Rohini Jail, they said. From inside the jail, he hatched a conspiracy along with his associates to eliminate Vijay, the police said. He helped them in arranging weapons also. On April 19, the police got a tip off that some people from Chahal's village are planning to eliminate Vijay. For executing the plan, they would first .
Unnao rape case: BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar's CBI remand extended
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district has extended the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) remand of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for seven more days (April 27), in connection with the alleged rape of 18-year-old-girl.Sengar is the main accused in the concerned case.According to the media reports, the CBI produced Sengar before the special POCSO court judge, Ashutosh Kumar who extended his remand.Earlier in the day, the Uttar Pradesh government had withdrawn the 'Y' category security cover of Sengar. The Bangarmau MLA from Unnao district enjoyed 'Y' category security, which has a security cover of 11 personnel, including one or two commando and police personnel.The MLA, who was arrested by the CBI this week, is currently in the custody of the agency.The CBI, which is probing the case, has registered three cases against Sengar in regard to the crime he allegedly committed last year.Earlier, Uttar ..
Maharashtra: Shiv Sena worker found dead in Thane
A Shiv Sena worker was killed and his body was set ablaze on Friday in Maharashtra's Thane city.The deceased has been identified as Shailesh Nimse.Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Prashant Kadam said, "Shailesh Nimse (36) was found dead with his body half-burnt near Ganeshpuri."Nimse was a local Sena leader from Shahpur tehsil.A case has been registered against unidentified persons and investigations are underway.
Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi Police submits affidavit to SC
The Delhi Police on Friday submitted "an affidavit" before Supreme Court to explain the current status of the investigation in connection to Sunanda Pushkar's death.Speaking to ANI, Delhi Police Spokesperson, Deependra Pathak said that the case is currently being probed by Delhi Police's prosecution branch."Investigation is underway. Delhi police have submitted an affidavit before Supreme Court explaining the status of the case. When the investigation reaches the final stage we will share further details," Pathak said.Sunanda Pushkar, wife of senior Congress leader, Shashi Tharoor was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite of a five-star hotel in Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014.On February 23, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said he was looking for a conclusion in his wife's death case.Incidentally, on that day, Tharoor's statement came hours after the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Delhi Police on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy's ...
Teachers' recruitment scam: Delhi HC reserves order on plea filed by Ajay Chautala
The Delhi High Court on Friday reserved its order regarding the plea filed by Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Ajay Chautala, who had sought a two months' parole in connection with a teachers' recruitment scam case.The order has been reserved till May 2 in regards to the same case.Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, his MLA son Ajay, and three other officials were sentenced to ten years in prison in 2013 by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on charges of illegally recruiting teachers in the state by using forged documents.In August last year, the Supreme Court had dismissed the appeals of Chautala and his father O P Chautala challenging the high court verdict upholding their conviction.The scam was widely known as the JBT scam since it involved the recruitment of junior basic teachers.Chautala is pursuing a diploma in counselling and behaviour modification under distance education from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, ...
Two more CBI witnesses turn hostile in Sohrabuddin case
Two more prosecution witnesses today turned hostile in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati alleged fake encounter cases, taking the number of witnesses who didn't support the CBI's case to 52. The court here has examined 76 witnesses so far. Rafique Hafiz and Firoze Khan, deposing before Special Judge S J Sharma here, said they had not given any statement to the CBI, contrary to the agency's claim. They said they had visited the agency's office only once and the CBI had taken down their names and addresses. Special public prosecutor B P Raju then declared them hostile. According to the CBI, Hafiz and Khan had said that they were arrested in a murder case (both were acquitted later), and Prajapati, who met them in a Rajasthan jail, told them that he and Shaikh were going to extort Rs 20 crore each from R K Marbles and Sangam Textiles. However, Gujarat Police officer Abhay Chudasama picked up Prajapati, Shaikh and Shaikh's wife Kausar Bi. All three were brought to Ahmedabad on
Kejriwal meets Maliwal, appeals her to break fast
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today appealed to DCW Chief Swati Maliwal to end her fast, after the central government informed the Supreme Court that the law ministry is considering to change the law to award death penalty to those convicted of sexually assaulting children. However, Maliwal said she will continue her fast until all of her demands were met. Kejriwal visited the DCW chief and appealed her to break her fast which entered the 8th day today. The chief minister gave her credit for the Centre's move. The apex court was informed that the law ministry is considering to amend the penal law to introduce death penalty in case of sexually abuse of children up to 12 years of age. The DCW chief has been on hunger strike demanding death penalty for rape of minors and setting up fast-track courts to complete the trial in such cases in six months, besides recruitment of 66,000 police personnel in Delhi police. "Congratulations @SwatiJaiHind U shud now end the fast. We all shud now ...
ISIS suspects planned attacks on Jews in Mumbai: Gujarat ATS
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad today filed a charge sheet in a court in Ankleshwar town of Bharuch district against two suspected ISIS operatives who were arrested last year. While the accused, Mohammad Kasim Stimberwala and Ubed Ahmed Mirza, were held on charges of planning a 'lone wolf' attack on a Jewish synagogue in Khadia area here, the charge sheet claimed that they had also planned attacks on the Jewish community in Mumbai. They wanted to carry out the attack in Mumbai as more Jews lived there compared to Ahmedabad, claimed the over 1,500 pages' charge sheet, filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate R D Mehta. The charge sheet was filed in Ankleshwar as one of the suspects was held from there in October last year. While Stimberwala worked as a laboratory technician at a hospital in Ankleshwar, Mirza was a lawyer practising in the Surat district court. Both were "highly radicalised by the Jehadi ideology of the Islamic State and actively planning lone wolf ...
Gang of auto-lifters busted, 20 stolen cars recovered
With the arrest of five people, including a BA 2nd year dropout, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police busted a gang of auto-lifters operating in the national capital and the neighbouring states of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, an official said today. The police also recovered 20 stolen cars, including Honda Civic, Toyota Innova, Toyota Fortuner, from their possession, he said. The five accused were identified as Vijay Gulati, a native of Karnal in Haryana, Satbir (30), Imran (35), Laxman (50) and Abhilash (29). During interrogation, the accused admitted that they used to steal vehicles and sell them after changing chassis and engine number, the official said. He said the gang members through their links in UP and Haryana used to procure the documents of accidental/total loss vehicles from insurance companies and conveyed the details of the cars to their associates. They stole cars of the same details and to avoid detection, pasted a new registration number on them, the official ...
MCOCA accused, absconding since last year, arrested
A man against whom police were pursuing a case under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), and who was at large since September last year, has been arrested, police said today. Ashraf alias Tatya Gulam Rasul Patel was arrested yesterday, following a tip-off, from Mumbai's Versova area, Thane (Rural) Superintendent of Police Mahesh Patil said. He informed that Patel, untraceable since September last year, was an accused in a case registered at Kashimira police station here. In that case, Patel was accused of trying to kill a woman by setting her ablaze, an official said. "The woman, a resident of Mira Road, had given Patel Rs 7 lakh as she wanted to buy a house. When he did not help her with the purchase, the woman wanted her money back," an official said. It is alleged that Patel, along with his son Haris and another accomplice, Aman Anjum Patel, tried to set her ablaze when the woman visited Patel's house on May 26 last year, police said. "A .
UK teen who hacked CIA chief gets two-year prison term
A British teenager who accessed the email accounts of top US intelligence and security officials including the head of the CIA was sentenced to two years in prison today. Kane Gamble, 18, founder of Crackas With Attitude, will serve his sentence in a youth detention facility. "This was an extremely nasty campaign of politically motivated cyber terrorism," judge Charles Haddon-Cave said at the sentencing at London's Old Bailey criminal court. "The victims would have felt seriously violated," Haddon-Cave said, adding that Gamble had "revelled" in the attacks. Gamble was accompanied by his mother in court. He was 15 and 16 when, from his bedroom in Coalville, central England, he managed to impersonate his targets to get passwords and gain highly sensitive information. He impersonated then Central Intelligence Agency chief John Brennan in calls to the telecom companies Verizon and AOL. Several sensitive documents were reportedly obtained from Brennan's private email inbox and Gamble ...
Constitution provides rigorous procedure for removal of SC, HC judges
The Constitution lays down a rigorous procedure for removal of a judge of a Supreme Court or high court which can be initiated only on grounds of proved misbehaviour or incapacity. Articles 124 (4) of the Constitution and the provisions of the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968 and corresponding rules deal exhaustively with the whole procedure. The process to remove a Supreme Court judge is mentioned in Article 124(4) of the Constitution. This process is termed as impeachment. Article 124(4) of the Constitution says, "A Judge of the Supreme Court shall not be removed from his office except by an order of the President passed after an address by each House of Parliament supported by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of that House present and voting has been presented to the President in the same session for such removal on the ground of proved misbehaviour incapacity." For initiating the impeachment process, a motion ..
6-month-old girl found dead in MP
The blood-soaked body of a six-month-old infant was recovered from the basement of a building here, a police official said today. Police identified the accused as Sunil Bheel (21), claiming that he was seen in CCTV footage, at around 4.45 am today, carrying the infant on his shoulder. The post-mortem of the infant, which was carried out at the state-run MY Hospital here, suggested that she might have been raped before being killed as her private parts bore an injury mark, a source said. "The body of the infant was recovered from the basement of a commercial building in Rajwada area. The accused, Sunil Bheel, had kidnapped her early today morning when she was asleep with her parents outside the Rajwada Fort. The accused was sleeping close to the family," said HC Mishra, deputy inspector-general of police, Indore. The accused and the infant's parents knew each other and were in the business of selling balloons, Mishra said. "The accused is seen carrying the infant in CCTV images of ...
Bail for man accused of posting false info about Parrikar's
A court in Goa today granted bail to a man, arrested two days ago for allegedly posting false information about the health of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. Kenneth Silveira (35), a businessman from Panaji who had contested an Assembly by-election against Parrikar as an independent candidate last year, was arrested by the Crime Branch after he allegedly posted false information about the chief minister's health on social media. Parrikar is currently undergoing treatment in the US for a pancreatic ailment. A judicial magistrate granted bail to Silveira today. He has been booked under Section 505 of the Indian Penal Code for "circulating fake messages to create public alarm".
HC orders Tihar to move gangster out of solitary confinement
A Delhi court today directed the Tihar jail authorities to immediately move gangster Neeraj Bawana out of solitary confinement. Special judge Tarun Sahrawat noted that confinement in regular prison setting for more than ten days has demonstrated negative health effects, and that even apologists of the practice agree that prolonged punitive solitary confinement presents considerable risk to inmates. "I fail to understand as to why this applicant (Bawana) has been kept in separate confinement despite the lapse of an order issued by the competent authority," the court said. In his application moved through advocate M S Khan, the gangster told the court that he had been kept in solitary confinement since October, 2017 which had caused him depression. The court directed the jail administration to shift him "immediately from his separate confinement to some other secured ward, so that he could move, talk and share company with co-prisoners". The law officer, appearing on behalf of the jail .
Annoyed SC asks lawyer if his relative was raped
The Supreme Court on Friday asked an advocate, who alleged that FIRs were not registered by police in rape cases which involve powerful politicians, if he had "any relative who was raped".
Nigerian, wife held on charge of duping woman in Delhi
A Nigerian and his wife have been arrested on the charge of duping a woman of nearly Rs 15.5 lakh through a matrimonial website, police said on Friday.
SC to hear on Apr 23 pleas on dilution of anti-dowry law
The Supreme Court today said it would hear on Monday the petitions seeking revisiting a judgement that had reduced the severity of the anti-dowry penal law on the offence of subjecting a married woman to cruelty by her spouse and in-laws. The decision came after a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said the orders on the matter cannot be found as the apex court website got "hacked yesterday". "Somebody tried to hack the website. All the people worked whole night to fix the problem," the bench said and assured senior advocate Indira Jaising, counsel for NGO 'Social Action Forum', that her plea on the issue would be listed for hearing on April 23 along with other petitions. A two judge bench of the apex court in July last year had voiced concern over "abuse" of section 498 A (subjecting a married woman to cruelty) of the IPC and passed a slew of directions including that no arrest should "normally be effected" without verifying ...
Court grants time to CBI to procure sanction to prosecute Lalu in IRCTC case
A Delhi court today pulled up the CBI for not procuring sanctions from concerned authorities to prosecute former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav, before filing its charge sheet in a graft case related to allotment of IRCTC hotels. Special Judge Arvind Kumar said the court was to conclude the trial in the case in one year and a lot of matters were pending before it. The three, along with others, are accused in a case of alleged irregularities in grant of an operational contract of two IRCTC hotels to a private firm. "You (investigating officer) should have filed a foolproof charge sheet," the court said when the IO informed that the agency was trying the procure the sanctions to prosecute some present and former public servants. The agency informed the court that it has already applied for the sanctions to prosecute some accused persons and would soon move applications against some other accused. "Give me a date. If sanctions are not ...
Probe allegation against Haryana police officer: Court
A district court has directed police to probe allegations against Haryana's senior IPS officer Bharti Arora, now the Inspector General of Police (Vigilance), and a Road Safety Officer (RSO), a lawyer said on Friday.