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Gang of robbers arrested in Odisha
Seven members of a gang of highway robbers were arrested near the Dharmasala police station limits in the district, police said today. "Acting on a tip-off, our joint police team reached the spot and managed to nab seven persons, while three others of the gang are on the run," Jajpur Superintendent of Police Charan Singh Meena said. Police seized four bikes, 13 mobile phones, two country-made revolvers, live cartridges, cash and jewellery from their possession, he said. The SP said the modus operandi of the gang was to target bikers on National Highway 16 and 200 and snatch valuables at gun point. The other members of the gang would be held soon, the police officer said. So far, they have admitted to have been involved in 28 robbery cases along highways in Jajpur and Dhenkanal districts, he said. All the accused have been remanded to judicial custody after their bail pleas were rejected.
BMC contemplating special parking authority for Mumbai
Civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation today told the Bombay High Court that the proposed development control regulations provide for a "special parking authority" for Mumbai. A division bench of justices N H Patil and G S Kulkarni was hearing a public interest litigation on traffic issues of the city. There must be a law to regulate parking, just as there are laws to regulate street vending, the judges said. "We need a special body, an authority under the law," said Justice Kulkarni. BMC counsel Anil Sakhare said the Development Control Regulations for 2034, currently in the planning stage, make a provision for a special parking authority. "It will have a statutory status. An IAS officer will head it," Sakhare said. The court also said that electronic surveillance, which is proving effective to detect traffic rule violations, can also work for cracking down on illegal parking. The hearing was adjourned to April 23.
Illegal mining case: Karnataka MLA appears before Goa SIT
Karnataka MLA Santeesh Sail today appeared before the Special Investigation Team of the Goa Police's Crime Branch probing the illegal export of iron ore from Goa between 2007-12, police officials said. ' Sail, an Independent MLA from Karwar, has been booked for the alleged involvement of his company, Mallikarjun Shipping Private Limited, in the illegal export of iron ore from Goa between 2007-2012. He was granted anticipatory bail earlier today by the District and Sessions Court in Panaji, officials said. A senior Crime Branch official said that Sail was questioned for two hours. Sail was summoned on April 9 to appear before the Crime Branch but he had skipped it claiming that his mother-in-law was unwell. The Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court had found that Sails company, along with ILC Industries Private Ltd, Dream Logistics, and SB Logistics, had exported 80 lakh tonnes of illicit ore from Belekeri port in Uttar Kannada district in Karnataka.
Odisha to soon convey Assembly consensus on Mahanadi issue to
Odisha Assembly Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat today said he would soon convey the consensus and concern of the House to the Centre on the Mahanadi water issue. The members of ruling BJD and Opposition Congress expressed concern over delay in issuance of the Term of Reference (ToR) for the Mahanadi Water Dispute Tribunal by the Centre. Amat announced this after a four-hour-long discussion on the Mahanadi water dispute with neighbouring Chhattisgarh in the Assembly. Earlier, government chief whip Amar Prasad Satpathy moved a motion, saying, "In view of the consensus opinion and concern, the House urge upon the Central government to issue immediately a necessary reference... referring to complaint filed by the state of Odisha on Mahanadi water dispute in order to make the Mahanadi Water Dispute Tribunal functional in compliance of the order of the Supreme Court." During the debate, state Water Resources Minister Niranjan Pujari expressed concern over the Central government's .
Madras HC grants anticipatory bail to ex-VC
The Madras High Court today granted anticipatory bail to a former vice-chancellor of Tamil Nadu's Dr Ambedkar Law University and four others in a case of alleged irregularities in admission to NRI seats. Justice A D Jagadish Chandra directed P Vanangamudi and others to appear before the investigating officer twice daily in the morning and evening for a week and thereafter as and when required by the official. They moved the advance bail plea apprehending arrest. The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) had registered the case against them for alleged amassment of huge wealth by corrupt and fraudulent manner, disproportionate to their known sources of income. Denying the allegations, Vanagamudi submitted that the entire complaint was concocted and lodged only to harass him.
Cases against Mithu, Mann, Khaira false: Panel
The Justice (retd) Mehtab Gill Commission has found the cases registered during the SAD-BJP regime against AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, SAD (A) leader Simranjit Singh Mann and Jagraon resident Sukhwinder Mithu to be false. In the sixth interim report, submitted to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today, the panel has recommended cancellation of FIRs as relevant and action against officials responsible for registering them. According to an official spokesperson, in the report, action has been recommended in 47 of the 240 cases that were decided, with the remaining 193 dismissed for various reasons. The panel was set up to look into "false cases" registered during the decade-long SAD-BJP rule in Punjab. "The report said false cases were registered on political considerations against Sukhwinder Singh Mithu, Sukhpal Singh Khaira and Simranjit Singh Mann," the spokesperson said. Besides recommending action against the guilty police officials, the panel has recommended cancellation of a ..
Unnao rape case: CBI arrests BJP MLA; PM says no criminal will be spared
As public anger escalated, the CBI today arrested BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, accused of raping a minor girl in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, hours after the Allahabad High Court ordered his immediate arrest saying he was influencing the "law and order machinery". As the Opposition upped the ante accusing the ruling BJP of shielding perpetrators of heinous crimes against women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that no criminal will be spared and justice will be done to daughters of the nation. Facing flak over the delay in taking action against his MLA in the nearly year-old rape case, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said his government will not deviate from its zero-tolerance policy on crime and that it would firmly deal with criminals, no matter how influential they might be. Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who led a midnight march yesterday in the national capital to protest the rape cases, hit out at the prime minister over his silence on violence against women and children, ...
NRI brothers held on return from Italy for duping villager
Two NRI brothers were arrested separately today at airports in Delhi and Chandigarh after their return from Italy, for allegedly duping a resident of their village in Punjab of Rs 8 lakh promising him to land a job abroad, a police official said. Jaswinder Lal and Lakhwinder Lal, from Begampura village, had a look out circular issued against them in connection with the case. They had fled to Italy after duping Chanan Lal, Sikander Singh, station house officer of Rawalpindi police station, said. Jaswinder Lal was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi and Lakhwinder Lal was arrested at Chandigarh international airport after they returned from Italy, Singh said. He said their mother was also arrested in connection with the case. Singh said the accused were charged with cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property on July 27 last year.
Unnao rape: Accused BJP MLA arrested by CBI
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in connection with the alleged rape of 18-year-old-girl in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district.The BJP MLA was being interrogated at the CBI Zonal office here since morning.Meanwhile, a Medical Superintendent and a Casualty officer at Uttar Pradesh's Unnao District Hospital were also suspended today in connection with the said case.A departmental inquiry has also been initiated against three other doctors in the regard.Earlier in the day, the CBI registered three cases against Sengar in the case.An FIR was lodged against the BJP MLA on Thursday under sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (abduction of woman), 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and the case was handed over to the CBI.The teen had accused the MLA of raping her in June last year.The victim's family had also alleged that the .
Unnao rape: CBI arrests BJP MLA
The CBI on Friday arrested Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an accused in the rape of a 17-year-old girl in the state's Unnao.
IRB Sikkim Police constable guns down 5 colleagues: HC reduces sentence to 10 yrs jail
The Delhi High Court has reduced to 10 years jail term the life imprisonment awarded to a constable in the Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) of Sikkim Police for gunning down five of his colleagues, saying the act was unintentional and he had taken the extreme step after they tried to sodomise him. A bench of justices Sunil Gaur and A K Chawla said the instant case was one where in a fit of anger the man had "exceeded his right of self defence" as he knew that his action would lead to death of his colleagues. The court was of the view that when the colleagues of the constable tried to sodomise him, "he could have reacted in a milder way". "Instead thereof, appellant (constable) had, in a fit of anger, reacted violently by indiscriminately firing at his five colleagues, who had attempted to sodomise appellant," the bench said. The decision and observations by the court came on the constable's appeal against his conviction and life imprisonment awarded to him for the murder of his ...
Unnao rape case: CBI arrests BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar
The CBI tonight arrested BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in connection with the alleged rape of a minor girl in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said. Sengar was taken into custody after intense questioning for 16 hours by a Central Bureau of Investigation team at its office on Naval Kishore Road in Lucknow. He was brought to the office at around 5 AM today, the officials said in New Delhi. Earlier in the day, the Allahabad High Court ordered his immediate arrest, saying he was "influencing" the law and order machinery. As the opposition upped the ante accusing the ruling BJP of shielding perpetrators of heinous crimes against women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that no criminal will be spared and justice will be done to daughters of the nation. Facing flak over the delay in taking action against the MLA in the nearly year-old rape case, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said his government will not deviate from its zero-tolerance policy on crime and that it
Two arrested for allegedly abducting, robbing a woman
The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police today arrested two men who allegedly abducted a woman by posing as policemen and robbed her. Rajesh Yadav and Neeraj Choudhary were arrested by Unit 12 of the Crime Branch from Dahisar area, and the car which they allegedly used for the crime was also seized, said a police official. The duo allegedly abducted the woman near Dahisar Check Post on the Western Express Highway in the early hours yesterday after pretending to be police officers. They allegedly thrashed her and took away the cash and two cell phones she was carrying before letting her go. As the offence took place in the jurisdiction of Thane Rural Police, a case was registered at Kashi Mira Police Station while the Crime Branch conducted a parallel probe, the official said.
Ensure Kathua girl's family has access to justice: SC to lawyers
The Supreme Court on Friday took suo motu notice of an incident of lawyers of Jammu and Kathua bar associations preventing a woman lawyer from appearing for the family of a rape victim.
3 held for south Delhi auto-driver's murder
Delhi Police arrested three persons for killing an auto driver over an altercation after they called him a thief in south Delhi, police said on Friday.
9 get death penalty for burying alive 3 members of family
A court here today awarded capital punishment to nine persons for burying alive three members of a family after assaulting them on the suspicion of practising sorcery in 2016. Additional district judge Subendhu Kumar Pati held the nine guilty of killing Asina Sabar (48), his wife Ambei (40) and their elder daughter Asmani (26). "The court examined as many as 11 witnesses and took circumstantial evidences into account before pronouncing the judgement," said additional public prosecutor Krushna Chandra Senapati. Based on the complaint of the younger daughter of the deceased couple identified as Malati (22), the only eyewitness to the crime, police had registered a case under section various sections of the IPC and the Odisha Prevention of Witch Hunting Act. On September 9, 2016, a group of people of Kitum village barged into the house of Sabar and forcibly took the three to a cowshed at the village end and beat them up, said Senapati. As the three felt unconscious, the villagers dragged
Modi denounces rape in Kathua and Unnao, two J&K Ministers quit (Roundup)
Breaking his silence on the rape-murder of a minor in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of another in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday promised justice and said the incidents that have caused outrage have shamed the country.
Domestic help arrested for murder in Delhi
A domestic help, along with an accomplice, has been arrested for killing his employer and stealing a car, police said on Friday.
Four arrested for gold smuggling in Bengal
About 7 kg of gold including 2 kg of foreign-origin yellow metal was seized and four persons arrested from West Bengal in two different operations conducted by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, an official said on Friday.
SC sets aside MP Congress leader's conviction in defamation case
The Supreme Court today set aside a trial court order awarding a two-year jail to a Congress leader in a defamation case for alleging that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had purportedly played a role in illegal recruitment of constables in the state's transport department. The state government had filed a defamation case against K K Mishra, the Congress spokesperson in Madhya Pradesh, in June 2014 for allegedly "making defamatory and false statements against the chief minister with an intent to tarnish his image" under sections 499 (defamation) and 500 (punishment for defamation) of the IPC. A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it was clear that the public prosecutor, who had filed the defamation complaint, had not done any scrutiny of materials on the basis of which the sanction to prosecute Mishra was obtained from the competent authority. A defamation case was filed after Mishra had alleged during a press conference on June 21, 2014 in Bhopal that 19 ...