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HC dismisses Zakir Naik's plea challenging lower court summon
The Allahabad High Court today dismissed a petition filed by controversial preacher Zakir Naik challenging a lower court order summoning him and the subsequent non-bailable warrant issued against him in a case of hurting religious sentiments. The lower court's order on April 30, 2010 came on a complaint in 2008 filed by a man alleging that in a television programme telecast on January 21, 2006, Naik had allegedly hurt the religious sentiments of a particular community. Earlier on June 6, 2011, hearing Naik's petition, the high court had directed that till the next date of listing, no coercive action should be taken against the applicant pursuant to the order dated April 30, 2010 passed by the judicial magistrate. On March 28, 2018, Justice Amar Singh Chauhan reserved the judgement in the petition filed by Naik.
Traders gamed financial system to rip off others, London court told
LONDON (Reuters) - Five traders from Deutsche Bank and Barclays gamed the financial system to rip off counterparties in a four- year plot to rig benchmark interest rates, prosecutors alleged on Wednesday.
Delhi HC wants fugitive Nirav Modi to return India
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the company Firestar Diamond to ask fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi to return to the country.
CBI probing another Rs 5,280 crore loan taken by Choksi and his companies
The CBI is probing another loan of Rs 5,280 crore taken by diamond trader Mehul Choksi and his companies from a consortium of 31 banks led by ICICI Bank, informed sources said.
SC to hear plea for CBI probe in UP rape, custodial death
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear next week a petition seeking a CBI probe into the alleged gang rape of a girl by a BJP legislator and others in Uttar Pradesh and the death of her father in police custody.
CJI's prerogative to form benches, allocate cases: SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was the "prerogative" of the Chief Justice of India - a high constitutional functionary - to form the benches and allocate cases and that authority can't be regulated on the mere apprehension of being exercised arbitrarily.
SC order on CJI's power to allocate cases evokes mixed response
The Supreme Court's ruling that Chief Justice of India (CJI) has the "exclusive prerogative" to allocate cases and set up benches today evoked mixed response from the legal fraternity with some terming it as "correct" while other criticising the order. A bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra today dismissed a PIL seeking evolution of a "set procedure" to constitute benches and allot cases to different benches saying the CJI was the "first among equals" and an institution in himself. While senior advocate and former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said the apex court's order was correct since the CJI is the "master of the roster" and it was improper to make allegations against any of the CJIs, advocate Prashant Bhushan said that CJI Dipak Misra should not have heard the matter as his own power was being questioned. Similarly, senior advocate Ajit Kumar Sinha said the roster and setting up of benches to hear cases has always been the CJI's prerogative, while advocate Kamini Jaiswal expressed ..
Retired judges take charge as MCA administrators
Retired judges H L Gokhale and V M Kanade today took charge as the administrators of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) at its office in South Mumbai. The MCA, which is yet to implement the Lodha panel reforms, had recently faced the wrath of the Bombay High Court. On April 4, the high court accepted the names of former Supreme Court judge H L Gokhale and former High Court judge V M Kanade as administrators of the MCA to regulate the functioning of the state cricket body. Sources said that the new administrators had a meeting with the top MCA brass today.
Kidnapped girl rescued, accused held in JK's Rajouri
A minor girl allegedly kidnapped by a youth a week ago was today rescued and the accused arrested during an operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, police said. Police launched a massive hunt after the parents of the girl, hailing from Bhawani village, lodged a complaint that she was abducted by a youth from Langer last week, the police said. The girl was rescued from Nowshera area of the district and handed over to her parents, the police said, adding the accused was arrested.
CJI an institution in himself, has exclusive prerogative to set up benches: SC
Asserting the superior authority of the Chief Justice of India, the Supreme Court today held that the CJI is an "institution in himself" and occupies a "unique position" having the "exclusive prerogative" to allocate cases and set up benches. Rejecting a plea for guidelines on the setting up of benches and allocation of work to judges, the bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also said there cannot be a "presumption of mistrust" against the CJI. The verdict assumes signficance as it comes against the backdrop of an unprecedented press conference on January 12 by the four senior most judges of the apex court where they targeted Justice Misra over what they called improper allocation of cases. Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph had said the Chief Justice was "the master of the roster" but is "only the first amongst the equals - nothing more or nothing less." Significantly, senior advocate and former law minister Shanti Bhushan has also recently ..
Minute examination of crime scene led to vital clues in Kathua rape case: Charge sheet
Faced with a challenge to bring to book the culprits behind the Kathua rape-cum-murder of a minor girl, police reconstructed the scene of the crime to gather vital clues. The body of the eight-year-old nomad Bakherwal community girl was recovered from Rassana forest on January 17, a week after she went missing while grazing horses in the forest area. The Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police filed two separate charge sheets against the eight accused persons including a juvenile held in the case. According to investigators, the girl was held captive inside a 'Devisthan', gangraped, kept without food and administered sedatives. Her cause of death was asphyxia leading to cardio-pulmonary arrest, the investigations revealed. "In the course of investigation the Special Investigation Team (SIT) members along with Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) experts and naib Tehsildar (executive magistrate) again visited the scene of occurrence and tried to reconstruct the scene of crime," according
SRS chairman, others sent to 3-day police remand
SRS Group Director Anil Jindal and four others, who were arrested for duping people to the tune of hundreds of crores, have been sent to a three-day police remand.Acting on a tip-off, a team of Faridabad police had arrested Jindal along with Nanak Chand Tayal, Bishan Bansal, Devendra Adhana and Vinod Mama from a hotel in New Delhi's Mahipalpur area on April 4.According to the police, 22 cases had been registered against the accused on March 4 at the Sector 31 police station in Faridabad, under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 406 (criminal breach of trust), and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and Section 3 of the Haryana Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishment) Act, 2013.Vikram Kapoor, DCP headquarters, had said, "After the cases were registered, the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) cell began gathering evidence against the accused, as part of the probe, while simultaneously also conducting raids to ..
Unnao rape: Actions will be taken only after preliminary report, says DIG
Deputy Inspector General of Police DIG (Law and Order) Pravin Kumar on Wednesday claimed that Special Investigation Team (SIT) has inspected the site, where the custodial death of rape victim's father took place and added that further actions will be initiated only after the preliminary report.The father of rape victim, who leveled rape allegation against BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar died in judicial custody on April 9."SIT has inspected site of the crime. Talks were held with victim's side as well as that of the accused. Information has been collected from local officers as well," Kumar said in a press conference."Further actions will be initiated only after presenting preliminary report before the DGP," Kumar added.Earlier in the day, the SIT of Lucknow Police reached Unnao to investigate on the same.Additional Director General (ADG) of Lucknow zone Rajeev Krishna told reporters that a report will be sent to the administration by evening, "We have come here to investigate, and by ...
Unnao rape case: SC to hear plea for CBI probe; woman alleges confinement
Amid an outcry over the Unnao rape case, the Supreme Court today decided to hear next week a plea for a CBI probe, even as the wife of the accused BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh demanded narco tests of her husband and the 18-year-old woman, who alleged confinement by local authorities. The Congress used the case to hit out at the BJP government with party president Rahul Gandhi wondering if Prime Minister Narendra Modi would observe a fast on the alleged rape and death of the complainant's father in custody, which he said "has shamed humanity". Separately, the Allahabad High Court sought to know the Yogi Adityanath-led state government's stand on the incident, while posting the matter for hearing tomorrow. The complainant, who had tried to immolate herself outside the chief minister's house just a day before her 50-year-old father died on Monday, alleged that she has been confined to a hotel room by the district administration, leaving her "without a phone or water and guards at every ...
UN war crimes judges quash radical Serb's acquittal By Jan Hennop and Jo Biddle
UN judges today found radical Serb Vojislav Seselj guilty on appeal of crimes against humanity, but the firebrand politician will remain a free man because of time already served behind bars. Seselj told AFP after the ruling that he was "proud" of the crimes he was convicted of -- including inciting persecution -- and was willing to do the same again. Presiding judge Theodor Meron sentenced the firebrand politician to 10 years behind bars, at a hearing in The Hague. "The appeals chamber reverses Seselj's acquittals for instigating persecution, deportation and other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity," the judge said. The judges however said that in line with the court's rules, "Seselj's sentence has been served" after he spent about 12 years in jail while facing trial at the former Yugoslav war crimes court. Seselj snubbed the hearing and was not present when the verdict was read by judges at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) in The Hague. He had been ...
Hit and run case: Bailable warrant against Salman stayed
A Mumbai court today stayed a bailable warrant issued against Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case, in which the government's appeal against his acquittal is pending before the Supreme Court. "Salman had to appear before the court here to furnish surety as per the direction of the Supreme Court which has admitted the government's appeal," said special public prosecutor Pradeep Gharat. The court had last week issued a bailable warrant against him after the actor did not complete the procedure of providing surety (a guarantor for good behaviour) on the past two dates, Gharat said. Khan's lawyer today filed an application before the sessions judge M G Deshpande, who stayed the bailable warrant after the lawyer said that the actor would complete the procedure. "We had moved the Supreme Court seeking change in the surety, and the apex court allowed it. We have already started the process to comply with the order," said Khan's lawyer Niranjan Mundergi. In December ...
SC gives bail to RTI activist who complained against 2 Orissa HC judges
The Supreme Court has granted bail to RTI activist Jayanta Kumar Das, who had in 2016 complained to then Chief Justice of India T S Thakur, accusing two sitting judges of the Orissa High Court of wrongdoings, leading to an in-house inquiry against them. Das was in custody since August 8 for allegedly posting defamatory remarks against Lord Jagannath and Gajapati King Dibyasingha Deb on Facebook. A bench of Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta granted bail to Das on April 9 after no lawyer for the Odisha Police appeared before it despite being called twice. "In our opinion, since there is no opposition to this petition by the State of Odisha, it would be appropriate if bail is granted to the petitioner subject to such reasonable conditions as may be imposed by the trial court," the bench said in the order uploaded today. The top court, however, clarified that Das will participate in the investigation and will not cause any hindrance in it. Appearing for Das, senior advocate Jayant ...
3 Indians sentenced to 517-year jail term in fraud case in UAE
Two Indian men and a woman have been sentenced to 517 years each in jail by a Dubai court for swindling thousands of people in a multi-million-dollar fraud case, the UAE media reported. Sydney Lemos, from Mapusa in north Goa, was the chief executive of Exential, a forex trading company in Dubai Media City. Investors lost over USD 200 million when Exential failed to pay out after promising 120 per cent returns on a USD 25,000 (Dirham 91,800) investment. The accused - Lemos, his wife Valany and Ryan D'Souza - were convicted on Sunday by the Dubai Misdemeanours Court in the 515 cases filed against them and were sentenced to one year in jail each in 513 cases and two years in jail for the remaining two cases, Gulf News reported. Dr Mohammad Hanafi, the presiding judge of the special bench, sentenced Valany in absentia. She remains at large. Lemos, said to be in his late 30s, was arrested in January last year while de Souza was arrested while he was trying to leave the UAE. The Exential ...
Forced marriage: SC asks Centre, police to grant protection to woman
The Supreme Court today came to the rescue to a 26-year-old Karnataka woman, who alleged that she has been married off without her consent, asked the Centre and the Delhi Police to grant her protection. The woman, who is currently in Delhi and is being helped by Delhi Commission for Women, has sought striking down of sections 5 and 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) to the extent that they fail "to prescribe free, fair, valid prior consent of the parties to a marriage". A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud made clear that it will treat this petition as "habeas corpus" and not deal with the constitutionality of the provisions of the Act as sought by senior advocate Indira Jaising, representing the aggrieved woman. "We can deal this petition as habeas corpus petition only. We will not get into the constitutionality of the provisions," the bench said, adding that it can grant protection to her to ensure that she is not forced to go to a ...
Sealing: SC takes umbrage to lack of protection for monitoring panel
The Supreme Court today took umbrage to the lack of police protection to the court-appointed monitoring committee for carrying out sealing drive in Delhi and warned it would be compelled to call the Delhi Police Commissioner for explanation. The apex court termed it a "very serious thing" and said it cannot let the members of monitoring committee being assaulted for doing their work as mandated by the court. "Do something about it. The monitoring committee was set up by the Supreme Court," the bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said. "You please call your police commissioner," the bench orally told advocate Wasim A Qadri, who was appearing in the matter. Later, Additional Solicitor General A N S Nadkarni appeared before the court and said he had talked to the police commissioner on the issue and he has assured that all security arrangements would be made. He said police protection was provided to the committee and if intimation was given to the police in advance,