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SC seeks reply from states failing to appoint Lokayuktas
Supreme Court on Friday sought a detailed reply from 12 states and Union territories for not appointing Lokayukta.A bench of top court headed by justices Ranjan Gogoi directed chief secretaries of states concerned to file an affidavit in the issue within two weeks and apprise the court about it.The reply has been sought from Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi and West Bengal.Though the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act was passed in 2013 and came into effect the following year, the aforementioned states have failed to appoint the anti-corruption ombudsman.
Youth arrested for objectionable message on WhatsApp
The admin of a WhatsApp group was arrested after a BJP leader filed a complaint alleging objectionable post on the messaging application, the police said today. BJP divisional president Vineet Thakur had filed the complaint against the admin and another group member, after which the former was arrested yesterday in Khatauli town, a police official said. Thakur had alleged that a message, which was posted on the group, had "hurt sentiments" of a particular religion. BJP activists, led by Thakur, had staged protests demanding action, the official said.
Police foil attempt to loot ATM; constable injured in attack
A constable was injured after a police team was attacked when they challenged four robbers who were trying to loot a State Bank of India (SBI) ATM at Kolaras town of the district, an official said today. The robbers reached the ATM in a car registered in Delhi late last night and were trying to break into the cash dispensing machine when they were spotted by a patrolling police team, Kolaras Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Sujit Bhadoria said. The police team challenged the robbers who attacked one of its members, constable Sunil Bansal, with an iron rod, leaving him injured, he said. They escaped from the spot, about 30km from here, after snatching his rifle, he said. On getting information about the incident, district Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar Pandey reached the spot and a manhunt was launched for the miscreants who escaped towards Rajasthan in their car, the SDOP said. Police later recovered the rifle from the Gudha Road area, he said. The injured ..
HC notices to Centre, state on plea against Gujarat GST law
The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to the Centre as well as the state government on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Gujarat GST Act with regard to some restrictions on firms in claiming input tax credit under the new regime. A division bench of justices Akil Kureshi and B N Karia issued notices last Tuesday, seeking replies from the GST Council, the Centre and the Gujarat government on the petition filed by city company Willowood Chemicals Pvt Ltd. The GST Council, the apex decision-making body for the Goods and Services Tax, is headed by the Union finance minister and comprises state finance ministers as members. The bench will next hear the matter on April 19. Challenging the constitutional validity of section 140(3) of the Gujarat GST Act, the petitioner submitted the Act has imposed certain restrictions on firms "for taking input tax credit on taxes already paid under the (previous) Value-Added Tax (VAT) Act" in case of non-submission of forms in ..
Ganja racket kingpin held
The police have arrested one person, allegedly the kingpin of a ganja smuggling racket spread across nine states, from Odisha's Koraput district. After eight months of search, the 48-year-old man was arrested from a relative's house at Jeypore following a tip-off, district SP Kanwar Vishal Singh said today. "He was in our wanted list since long as he was the kingpin in smuggling ganja from the area to other states. He operates a well-organised inter-state gang of ganja smugglers and is in this trade for past 25 years," Singh said. The arrested person's network is spread across Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. Police seized a car, three mobile phones and Rs 7.20 lakh from the person during his arrest on Wednesday, police said.
Kamala Mills owner in SC against arrest, says it's illegal detention
The owner of Mumbai's Kamala Mills today moved the Supreme Court challenging his arrest in connection with a fire that claimed 14 lives in December last year. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan asked Ravi Bhandari to serve a copy of his petition to the Maharashtra government. The top court listed the matter for further hearing on March 27. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Bhandari, said his arrest is illegal detention and he can't be booked for the offence of culpable homicide. He said the apex court has already held in the Bhopal gas tragedy and Uphaar cinema hall fire case that they are cases of negligence, which is a bailable offence. The Bombay High Court had recently dismissed Bhandari's bail application. Bhandari was arrested in January along with fire officer Rajendra Patil and Utkarsh Pandey, who supplied hookahs to the pubs Mojo's Bistro and 1 Above where the fire started. All three are in judicial custody. Fourteen persons were killed and several ...
Bihar: Explosion in illegal firecracker unit kills 5
Five people, including three children and a woman, were killed and 18 injured after an explosion in an illegal firecracker unit in Bihar's Nalanda district, a senior official said today. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed grief over the incident and issued instructions for providing adequate medical assistance to the injured, an official release said. The explosion occurred last night at a house in a crowded residential locality here, from where a man allegedly ran the illegal firecracker unit. He used to live in the house as a tenant, said the district magistrate (DM) of Nalanda, Thyagarajan. The blast claimed the lives of the tenant's two daughters -- one, a month old, and another aged three -- and his four-year-old son. The man's sister and a neighbour were also killed in the explosion. Eighteen people, including the accused, suffered injuries, four of whom were in serious condition, the DM said, adding that the seriously injured were taken to the Patna Medical College and ...
Explosion in illegal firecracker unit kills 5
Five people, including three children and a woman, were killed and 18 injured after an explosion in an illegal firecracker unit in Bihar's Nalanda district, a senior official said today. The explosion occurred last night at a crowded residential locality here, from where a man used to run an illegal firecracker unit. He used to live in the house as a tenant, said the district magistrate (DM) of Nalanda, Thyagarajan. The blast claimed the lives of the man's two daughters -- one, a month old, and another aged three -- and his four-year-old son. The man's sister and a neighbour were also killed in the explosion. Eighteen people suffered injuries, four of whom were in serious condition, the DM said, adding that the seriously injured were taken to the Patna Medical College and Hospital. A major fire broke out at the house after the explosion since a huge quantity of inflammable material was stored there. The fire could be doused in a few hours, the district magistrate said. The station ...
Brazil's top court suspends Lula's jail sentence
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court granted former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva temporary jail relief until April.
House set on fire after couple elope
The house of a youth, who allegedly eloped with a girl belonging to a different community, was set on fire by a mob in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, the police said today. The incident happened last evening in Mehalki village near Jansath town, about 26km away from here. According to a complaint, the youth and the 20-year-old girl, who belonged to different communities, had eloped last week. The family of the youth had vacated the house following the incident fearing attack, a police official said. The irate people of the girl's family is suspected to have damaged the house and set a part of it ablaze, the official said, adding that the fire brigade put out the flames. The situation is normal now after extra police was deployed to ease the tension, he said. Police are searching for the couple, he added.
3 Rohingyas held in Manipur
Security forces arrested three Rohingyas in Manipur on the charge of illegally entering India from Myanmar, police said today. A joint team comprising police and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers arrested the Rohingyas from the town of Moreh, near the Indo-Myanmar border in Tengnoupal district, yesterday night, Superintendent of Police S Ibomcha Singh said. The three are residents of Baguna in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, where Myanmarese security forces have been engaged in crackdown on militants and allegedly driving out Rohingya Muslims. The three arrested men were staying at Moreh for the last 10 days and had plans to go to Malaysia, the SP added. A case has been registered against them at Moreh police station.
Japan to press charges against four firms over maglev train bid-rigging case
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese regulators said on Friday that they would press criminal charges against four construction firms for suspected collusion over contracts for an $80 billion high-speed magnetic levitation (maglev) train line.
Woman assaulted in moving bus, 4 arrested
At least four persons were arrested in Mau region of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly harassing a woman inside a moving bus, police said.According to the victim, she took a bus for her home in Ghaziapur from Varanasi when two men, the conductor and the driver, teased her and then raped her in the moving vehicle near Madhuvan area.They harassed and molested her in the name of dropping her home, the police said.The police have filed an FIR into the matter and are waiting for a medical report.According to the victim's mother, she was molested by the bus driver, conductor and their friends.Madhuvan area Circle Officer, Shweta Ashutosh has, however, said the woman was raped but it was not a gang rape.Further investigation is on into the matter, the official said.
Allahabad HC bars Mukhtar Ansari from voting in RS polls
The Allahabad High Court on Friday barred jailed Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mukhtar Ansari from voting in the Rajya Sabha (RS) elections.BSP national general secretary and Rajya Sabha member, S. Sansitpat, an eminent Supreme Court lawyer, Satish Chand Mishra had filed a petition in the Allahabad High Court for the release of two MLAs Mukhtar Ansari of the BSP and Hariom Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), so that they could participate in the voting on March 23.Ansari is the prime accused in the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Krishnanand Rai, among other crimes, and has pleaded not guilty.In September 2017, Ansari was acquitted in connection with contractor Manna Singh's murder case.In 2010, he was also booked for the murder of Ram Singh Maurya, who was a witness to the murder of Manna Singh.The Rajya Sabha polls are scheduled to take place today.
Brazil Supreme Court delays decision on Lula imprisonment
Brazil's top court today delayed until April 4 a decision on whether ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should go to jail if he loses an appeal next week. The Federal Supreme Court decision is a shot in the arm for the 72-year-old leftist leader, the front-runner for October's presidential election, and means he cannot be jailed for at least two weeks. The court, sitting in the capital Brasilia, was expected to decide whether losing an appeal next Monday at a lower court would automatically mean Lula's immediate arrest and incarceration, or if he would be given recourse to seek further legal remedies. A court in Porto Alegre is to give its verdict on Monday on Lula's appeal against a 12-year jail sentence for money laundering and corruption. The eventual ruling by the 11 judges, when they reconvene on April 4, will weigh heavily on Brazilian politics, seven months before the presidential elections, which Lula, despite his legal travails, is favoured to win. The court convened at ..
8 killed in attack by gunmen in Mexico
Eight people were killed and 11 wounded after gunmen burst into a social event in central Mexico. The Guanajuato state prosecutors' office said today the mass shooting took place a day prior in the town of Purisima del Rincon. Prosecutors said gunmen pulled up in several vehicles, opened fire on those attending the event, and then fled toward the state of Jalisco. There were no immediate details on the possible motive, but the region has recently seen violence. Earlier this week, three film students disappeared on the outskirts of Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco. Today, hundreds of students marched to demand they be found.
4 men, girl held for throwing acid on woman
Sahibabad police have arrested four youths, including a girl, for their involvement in a conspiracy and allegedly throwing acid on a 24-year-old woman at Mohan nagar trisection on Tuesday. The accused girl was also the victim's roommate and her office colleague. The girl allegedly hatched the conspiracy with the others as she was envious of the woman's affairs with a boy. Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna told reporters that the victim woman is a bank employee and on the morning of March 20, two persons threw acid on her, due which she, along with five others, suffered burn injuries. All of them were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. The incident took place when the victims were waiting for buses and auto rickshaws to reach their work places. Based of a tip off, police arrested four men and a girl from Bhopura trisection at Loni road today. During interrogation, the girl confessed that she and the victim woman were employed in Noida and were also sharing a ...
Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case: SC to continue 'final hearing'
The Supreme Court will on Friday continue to hear the final arguments in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case.The court will hear 13 appeals filed against the 2010 judgment of the Allahabad High Court in four civil suits. The petitions challenge the high court verdict that mandated a three-way division of the disputed 2.77-acre site in Ayodhya.The court earlier dismissed all 32 intervention petitions, including applications of Shyam Benegal, Aparna Sen and Teesta Setalvad, in the dispute case.A Bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and Abdul Nazeer had also directed the registry not to entertain any intervention application in the Ayodhya case.The Supreme Court also rejected the intervention plea of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy in the dispute, a century-old point of the tussle between Hindus and Muslims.The Babri Masjid, built by Mughal emperor Babur in Ayodhya in 1528, was on December 6, 1992, demolished by Hindu Karsevaks in .
I was sure of being proven innocent: Shami
Indian pacer Mohammed Shami on Thursday said that he was sure about being proven innocent, after he received a clean chit from Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in connection to match fixing charges levelled against him."I was sure I would be proved innocent. I have always tried to give my 100 percent in the game and I will continue to do so," said Shami, while speaking to ANI.Last week, the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) had written to the BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) head Neeraj Kumar to investigate the charges levelled against Shami by his wife.The CoA, led by Vinod Rai, gave a seven-day deadline to Kumar to submit the report on the issue.This direction came after cricketer's wife levelled various allegations, including of match-fixing, against the fast bowler.Earlier in the day, BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit gave him a clean chit over the allegations levelled by his wife Hasin Jahan.As his wife claimed in a complaint registered against ...
Chipotle wins dismissal of investor lawsuit over foodborne illness
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc on Thursday won the dismissal of an investor lawsuit claiming it concealed food safety risks, causing its stock to drop after widely publicized outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in 2014 and 2015.