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Extortion threat case against ex-MLA
A case has been registered against former Sahibabad MLA Amar Pal Sharma after a man accused him of issuing him death threat and demanding Rs 10 lakh, police said on Wednesday.
Court orders FIR against portals for selling woman-shaped ashtray
A Delhi court has ordered that an FIR be registered against online shopping portals Amazon India, eBay and Shopclues and their managing directors for allegedly selling an ashtray shaped like a nude woman, saying it was "outrageous" and "indecent" and could have a serious psychological impact on the young. Metropolitan Magistrate Babru Bhan gave the direction while also observing that by allowing the sale of such a product, the portals were conveying to society that women should be treated in the manner depicted in the object. A complaint was lodged against the portals by advocate Gaurav Gulati, who alleged that according to media reports published on the Net on June 6, 2017, the sites were "selling a nude woman figurine ash-tray which was indecent". "The pictures annexed with the complaint would show that the ashtrays which were sold are shaped as a nude woman. (What) Effrontery, the figurine shows the woman lying with her legs spread, indicating her vagina to be the spot where the ...
Court issues summons to The Wire in defamation case filed by Adani Group
A court here has issued summons to The Wire news portal on a criminal defamation petition filed by the Adani Group for an article published by it last December. Summonses were issued yesterday to seven respondents in the case, including the author of the article as well as five editors and the not-for-profit organisation that publishes The Wire. They have been asked by metropolitan magistrate S K Gadhavi to respond to the summonses on April 27, when the court will next hear the case. In its petition, filed under sections 499 and 500 of the IPC, alleging criminal defamation, the Adani Group said that the article in question was published on December 11, 2017 "with the sole intention of harming the reputation of the complainant (Adani Power Maharashtra Limited)". The article is intended to create "cheap publicity", smacks of "distaste, prejudice and malice against the complainant", and is a result of a "well-thought-out conspiracy" to tarnish the image.
CJI first among equals, has power to allocate cases: SC
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the "first among equals" and occupies a unique position having the "exclusive prerogative" to allocate cases and set up benches to hear cases, the Supreme Court ruled today. The verdict assumed significance as it came in the backdrop of the January 12 unprecedented press conference of senior-most judges including Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph raising the issue of improper allocation of cases. Significantly, senior advocate and former law minister Shanti Bhushan has also recently filed a PIL seeking clarification on the administrative authority of the CJI as the 'master of roster' and laying down of principles in preparing the roster for allocation of cases to different benches. "In his capacity as a Judge, the CJI is primus inter pares: the first among equals. In the discharge of his other functions, the Chief Justice of India occupies a position which is sui generis (unique)...Article 146 reaffirms the ...
HC gives relief to builder Niranjan Hiranandani in PF case
The Bombay High Court today quashed a CBI charge-sheet against prominent city-based builder Niranjan Hiranandani in a case related to alleged non-depositing of provident fund (PF) dues of his employees. Hiranandani, 61, approached the HC earlier this year and sought quashing of the charge-sheet filed in September 2010 by the CBI's Anti-Corruption Bureau for allegedly not depositing PF dues of over Rs 9 crore of the employees of his group. A division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice V K Tahilramani today set aside the charge-sheet. The court said that a prior enquiry contemplated under section 7A of the Provident Fund Act was not conducted, hence further prosecution was illegal. The CBI had charged Hiranandani with criminal conspiracy and cheating under the provisions of IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act. According to the CBI, the Hiranandani Group didn't deposit provident fund of its employees with the PF authority between 2003 and 2006. The non-payment, as per a report ...
Unnao gangrape: HC seeks UP govt's stand
The Allahabad High Court today sought the Uttar Pradesh government's stand on the Unnao gangrape case allegedly involving a BJP MLA and details of action taken. A bench of Chief Justice D B Bhosale and Justice Suneet Kumar, taking cognisance of the gangrape case in Uttar Pradesh on a letter to the court by senior lawyer Gopal Swaroop Chaturvedi detailing the incident, slated the matter for next hearing on April 12. It sought the state government's stand on the case and also asked the advocate general or one of the additional advocates general to remain present during the course of hearing to apprise the court about the case and action being taken. The court also ordered that the body of the victim's father should not be cremated, if not done so. The body was, however, cremated yesterday. The man had died on Monday in custody after his 18-year-old daughter had accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, his brother Atul Singh and his aides of raping her. Chaturvedi demanded fair ...
3-month jail to KLF chief who escaped Nabha Jail
Khalistani Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh Mintoo, who escaped the Nabha jail in Punjab in 2016, has been awarded three-month imprisonment by a Delhi court for assaulting public servants and attempting to fire at police officials to prevent his re-arrest. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma sent him to jail for three months, a term he has already undergone, after Mintoo pleaded guilty and sought leniency from the court. He has been behind bars since November 2016. The 51-year-old Mintoo had fled the Punjab jail with five other inmates on November 28, 2016 but was nabbed from the Nizammuddin Railway Station here a day later. The prosecution said when Mintoo found himself surrounded by the police, he took out a pistol and tried to fire at them but was apprehended. After completion of investigation, a charge sheet was filed against under sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant
Sikar: 5 arrested for running IPL betting racket
The city police on Wednesday arrested five people for running a gambling racket taking bets on the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL).The police have seized 17 mobile phones, laptops, Televisions and other possessions from the arrested.Fatehpur Thana Kotwali police station in-charge Uday Singh, said, "We had received information about bets on IPL matches following which we carried out the investigation and arrested five people in connection.""We also recovered the calculations of their bets. The bets carried out today amounted to over Rs 18 lakhs while the older ones were near to Rs 80 lakhs," he added.Further details awaited.
Will launch operation against mafia elements: Maha minister
Facing flak over "deteriorating" law and order situation in Maharashtra in the wake of killing of two Shiv Sena leaders in Ahmednagar last week, the state government is mulling to launch an operation against "mafia elements". Minister of state for Home (Rural) Deepak Kesarkar today said the government has taken ransacking of the office of Ahmednagar superintendent of police last week seriously. The office was vandalised after detention of NCP MLA Sangram Jagtap, an accused in the double murder case. Police on Monday arrested BJP MLA from Rahuri constituency, Shivaji Kardile, father-in-law of Jagtap, in connection with the vandalism incident which occurred last Saturday. Kesarkar, however, said the law and order situation in Maharashtra is comparatively better than other states. "In Ahmednagar, two political activists were gunned down in broad daylight. The office of the superintendent of police was vandalised. This is a serious matter. Whether the murders were due to a ..
Woman abducted 6 years ago traced, accused arrested
A woman, abducted from Dwarka area of the city six years ago when she was a minor, has been traced and the man who married her and fathered two children has been arrested, police said today. A case was filed at Dwarka North police station in December 2012 regarding the abduction of a 16-year-old girl, on the complaint of her father. The name of the accused, Faujdar, cropped up during investigation but all the attempts to arrest him were fruitless, said Shibesh Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka). The accused was declared a proclaimed offender in the case by a court on November 30, 2013. In a drive to trace kidnapped and missing persons, launched in Dwarka police district, a team traced the accused to Uttar Pradesh. Faujdar was arrested from Uttar Pradesh and the kidnapped person was recovered. During investigation, it was revealed that accused had married the minor girl and has two children from the marriage, the officer said.
Kathua rape case: MLA switches off phone when asked for comments
Kathua MLA Rajiv Jasrotia on Wednesday evaded questions about the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in his constituency.When ANI tried to contact Jasrotia for his reaction on the rape case, he sent a text message: "Sir, I am going to hospital as my mother-in-law is not well."Later, repeated efforts to contact the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA turned futile as his mobile phone was switched off.The girl was allegedly abducted, drugged, raped, tortured and killed in January.The victim belonged to a nomadic Muslim tribe in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. After being missing for a week, her body was found on January 17.Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Police filed an FIR against lawyers of Jammu who tried to prevent Crime Branch officers from filing a charge sheet in a court on Monday in connection with the Kathua rape and murder case.A special team of the crime branch has made a case of conspiracy, kidnapping, wrongful confinement, gang rape, murder and destruction of ...
Young man, lover found shot dead in Jharkhand
A young man and his lover, a minor girl, were on Wednesday found dead on the rooftop of the latter's grandparents' house in Jharkhand, police said.
Woman stripped, beaten up in another moral policing incident in Assam
In second such case of 'moral policing' in Assam, a married woman was stripped and beaten up at Baksa district here over her alleged affair with another man. Five persons, including four women, were arrested in this connection, Superintendent of Police Binoy Kalita said. Some people made a video of the woman being stripped which has gone viral on social media, he said. The incident took place on April 6 in the remote Barnadi Par village under Goreswar police station area. "The woman reported the case yesterday and we registered an FIR. It is a case of moral policing by villagers. After getting her medical tests done, we rushed a police team to the spot to probe the matter. We have arrested five persons, including four women, in the case," Kalita told PTI. As per the FIR, a guest visited the victim's house on April 6 when her husband was not present, and the woman introduced him as her brother, the officer said. "It appears that someone saw them in a compromising position and informed
Muslim man claims harassment on bus, says he was asked to utter religious slogan
A 29-year-old Muslim man has claimed that he was harassed on a bus here by two men who asked him to utter a religious slogan and roughed him up. In his complaint to the police, Maulana Aftab Alam, who teaches at a mosque here, said he was also asked about his nationality by the two men. A case has been registered on the complaint of the victim and efforts are on to nab the accused persons, a senior police officer said. Alam, who is a resident of JJ Colony in Bawana, said in his complaint that he was heading home from Shahbad Dairy, outer Delhi, when the incident took place on the night of April 8. "The two men of Prahladpur village, aged around 35-40, asked me whether I was an Indian. When I said yes I am an Indian, they asked me to say 'jai mata di', which I did, but they started roughing me up," Alam said in the complaint. Later, the two men got down at the Prahaladpur bus stand. Alam did not know the duo, the police officer said. After the incident, Alam called the police. He got ..
Court asks DCP to monitor murder case of 23-yr-old man's death
A Delhi court has directed the deputy commissioner of police concerned to monitor the probe into the mysterious death of a 23-year-old man after his mother alleged that he was killed by his close female friend at her residence in south west Delhi's Dwarka last year. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumedh Kumar Sethi gave the direction on the plea of victim Arnav Duggal's mother Anu Duggal, who alleged that a "biased" investigation was being conducted. The court, which refrained from expressing any opinion on the conduct of the investigating officer, said, Given the seriousness of the allegations and the peculiar facts of the case, let a copy of the order be sent to the DCP concerned through the office of Commissioner of Police, Delhi with directions to monitor the probe in the present case. The court has also accepted the mother's plea to obtain a certified copy of the investigation record to be kept in the court in a sealed cover. The complainant submits that as she has lost her son, ..
Notorious chain snatcher from Bavaria gang nabbed
A notorious member of the infamous Bavaria gang from Shamli in Uttar Pradesh, which indulges in robberies, was nabbed by police after they shot at and injured him in an alleged 'encounter' here. Ram Singh, part of the Bavaria gang whose members flyto Bengaluru and other south Indian cities to rob women and burglehouses, was arrested late last night, police said today. Singh along with his accomplice was insearch of a prey on a motorbike with a Punjab registration number last afternoon when police spotted them. As the police tried to intercept them, the duo tried to speed away. On being chased, they fell from the bike andallegedly attacked the police personnel before fleeing and hiding themselves in a plantation at Bagalur. Police said when they later traced and asked him to surrender, Singh took out a knife and allegedly attacked them, following which they fired at him in self defence. Singh was injured in the right leg and right hand, police said adding he had ...
UN appeal judges quash radical Serb Seselj's acquittal
UN judges today overturned the controversial acquittal of radical Serb politician Vojislav Seselj, sentencing him to 10 years for crimes against humanity in the 1990s Balkans conflict. The court "finds Seselj guilty... of instigating persecution, deportation and other inhumane acts," presiding judge Theodor Meron said, before adding the Serbian MP's jail time "has been served" as he had already spent 12 years in custody in a UN prison.
Thousands gather for memorial for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Several thousand mourners gathered at Soweto's Orlando Stadium on Wednesday for the official memorial service for anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who died on April 2 at the age of 81. The death of Madikizela-Mandela, often called the "Mother of the Nation," has triggered widespread soul-searching in South Africa over the legacy of one of the nation's most important fighters against racial discrimination, yet who was dogged by scandal. During the decades of imprisonment of her husband, Nelson Mandela, Madikizela-Mandela helped keep the plight of the political leader and the gross injustices of the apartheid system in the global spotlight, her own face and voice becoming synonymous with the anti-apartheid struggle. In the week since her death in a Johannesburg hospital, there has been an outpouring of support for a woman whose fearlessness and defiance helped bring end to the apartheid system, but whose public image was also tarnished by controversy. In a social media
UP rape case: Congress slams Adityanath for 'protecting' MLA
The Congress on Wednesday slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for "protecting" BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar who is accused of raping a teenage girl in Unnao.
Gurugram Crime Branch arrests wanted criminal
A 19-year-old criminal, who broke a Rajasthan jail thrice, was arrested by Gurugram Crime Branch, police said on Wednesday.