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Delhi Police constable goes missing, probe underway
A 50-year-old constable of the Delhi Police has been missing for the past three days, an official said Friday. On Tuesday, Dharamvir Sharma, a resident of New Ashok Nagar, had an argument with his wife during a function following which he left his home at around 11.30 pm, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Jasmeet Singh said. When Sharma, a constable of the 2nd battalion, did not return home till next morning, his family members lodged a complaint. A case has been registered in the matter, Singh said, adding that police are analysing the CCTV footage of nearby areas. Sharma's car was found abounded near a drain in New Ashok Nagar, he said.
Man attempting to rob cash van killed as guard's gun goes off
One person was shot dead allegedly by a security guard while attempting to loot a cash van in Pul Prahaladpur here on Friday, police said.According to Delhi Police, the robbery was averted due to instant action by a security guard travelling in the van but the robber lost his life in a scuffle.Blood and chilli powder were seen at the spot of the incident, a senior officer said.A security guard identified as Rao Saheb Ramesh, who claimed to be employed as a cashier at MEP Infra Developers said the deceased had attempted to rob the cash van in which he was travelling in with approximately Rs 14 lakh cash.The man, between 22 to 25 years, attempted to rob the cash van by entering though its back door. When the guard travelling with the cashier attempted to prevent the robbery, the man retaliated and in the ensuing scuffle the guard's rifle went off and the bullet hit the man, police said.The bullet hit the robber who was immediately taken to the Trauma Centre where he was brought dead.
50-yr-old woman attempts suicide at metro station, rescued
A 50-year-old woman Friday allegedly tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train at Seelampur metro station, police said. The woman has been identified as Kamlesh Jain, a resident of Shanti Mohalla Seelampur, they said. According to police, the woman jumped on the tracks as the train was approaching the platform. However, she laid between the tracks as the train passed over her. She was later rescued and sent to the Guru Teg Bahadur hospital. The woman laid at 9.46 am on platform number 2 at Seelampur metro station. She received no injury. "The train was going towards Shahid Stahl in Ghaziabad when the incident happened. There was a minor delay in the service which was later restored," a senior DMRC official said. The incident took place on Friday morning at Seelampur metro station.
Wrote to judges for inquiry panel of ex-SC judges on allegations against CJI: AG
Attorney General K K Venugopal Friday said he had written to all the Supreme Court judges for setting up of a committee of three former apex court judges to look into sexual harassment allegations against CJI Ranjan Gogoi, before the in-house panel was constituted. Clarifying his position on reported differences with the government on the issue and that he was contemplating resigning, Venugopal told PTI: "The report in the 'Wire' is wholly incorrect except for the fact that I wrote a letter and clarified it." The top law officer said he had written the letter on April 22, before a three member in-house committee headed by Justice S A Bobde was set up to hold an inquiry into the allegations of a former apex court woman employee against CJI Gogoi. "I admit that I had written a letter before the appointment of an in-house inquiry committee seeking appointment of three retired judges of the Supreme Court," Venugopal said. The law officer also said that he wrote the second letter ...
1984 riots: HC dismisses convict's sentence suspension plea on medical ground
The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the plea of a convict, who was awarded life term in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, seeking interim suspension of his sentence on medical grounds. A division bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul took note of the medical report provided by the jail authorities regarding the health condition of convict Naresh Sehrawat and refused to grant him the relief. It noted that as per the medical report, the condition of the convict was stable and he was being treated by authorities in jail hospital. The convict had claimed that his liver was 90 per cent damaged and sought interim suspension of the sentence. The court had earlier asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the state, represented through advocate Kamna Vohra, to respond to the plea. The SIT was also asked to verify the documents given by Sehrawat in support of his medical condition. A trial court had awarded life term to Sherawat in a case related to the killing of two men in New Delhi .
Nitish Katara murder: SC seeks Delhi govt reply on Vikas Yadav's plea seeking parole
The Supreme Court Friday sought reply from the Delhi government on a petition filed by Vikas Yadav, who is undergoing 25-year jail term for killing business executive Nitish Katara in 2002, seeking parole for four weeks. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice on the plea after Vikas Yadav's counsel said that his client is in jail for the last 17 years. On October 3, 2016, the apex court had awarded 25-year jail term without any benefit of remission to Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav for their role in the sensational kidnapping and killing of Katara. Another co-convict Sukhdev Pehalwan was also handed down 20-year jail term in the case. The Delhi High Court, while upholding the life imprisonment awarded to Vikas and Vishal Yadav by the trial court, had earlier specified the jail term and had awarded 30-year sentence, without any remission, to both of them. It had awarded 25-year jail term to third convict Pehalwan. The apex court, .
PA, his relative held in Jaipur for accepting bribe
A personal assistant posted at a special court here and his relative, who is the alleged middleman in the case, were arrested here Friday for taking a bribe of Rs 80,000, a Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) official said. Search was conducted at the residence of the accused personal assistant, Arjun Lal Jat, from where documents related to a commercial land valuing Rs 1.5 crore-2 crore, 10 residential plots, 8 bigha agricultural land, two domestic gas agency and a construction company were recovered, ACB Additional SP Alok Chandra Sharma said. He said the ACB had received a tip-off that Jat was involved in corrupt practices through a middleman, identified as advocate Vijay Kumar Sharma, who is on the run. Mobile phones of Jat and Sharma were put on surveillance and it surfaced that they fixed a deal of Rs 1 lakh for settling a court case. Jat had roped in his relative Pradeep Kumar Sharma to take the initial amount of Rs 80,000 in VKIA area here from where he was arrested, the ...
4 held for trafficking drugs: Police
Four persons were arrested on Friday from different places in the country for allegedly trafficking drugs, police said. Bijaya Mahato, 25, was arrested with 4 kg of hemp from Parsa village council of Sarlahi district. Police have recovered hemp hidden in his bag when he riding a bicycle near Nepal-India border in Sarlahi district, they said. In the second incident, a 32-year-old man, Salikram was arrested from Birgunj Municipality of Parsa district with 20 ampules of diazepam, 20 ampules of Phenargan, and 20 ampules of Nurphin, police said. He was nabbed while travelling on foot towards Nepal from India carrying the narcotic drugs. In the third incident, Sanokanchha Yonjan, 33 and Paran Sahani, 34, along with 100 kg of hemp and a compressor machine used in hemp processing, were arrested, a p[olice official said. The police have initiated probe into the cases, he added.
Pragya Thakur calls Digvijaya Singh cunning, inferior
Pragya Singh Thakur on Friday tore into Congress leader Digvijaya Singh calling him a "cunning" and "inferior" person who had no respect for "another's wife" and somebody "who is half his age".She attacked Singh for marrying journalist Amrita Rai who she said was of "his daughter's age"."I was told that he referred to me as his daughter, I consider it the most dangerous joke in the world. There could be no bigger joke than that. A person who does not respect another's wife, and somebody who is half his age...I don't want to take names. The smart ones can understand themselves. Those who can't are fools. So when he is involved with a woman who is of his daughter's age...how can I be a daughter? " said Pragya, who is contesting on a BJP ticket from Bhopal against the Congress veteran."Such a cunning and inferior man cannot be like my father. He cannot be my father," she added.Pragya, who is known for making volatile statements, was banned by the Election Commission for campaigning for ..
Chinmayi denied permission to protest against clean chit to CJI
The police on Friday rejected singer Chinmayi Sripaada's request to hold a protest demonstration on May 12 against the clean chit given to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi in an alleged sexual harassment case.
Noida cop suspended over rave party; another transferred for 'lax' approach
The in-charge of a police station in Noida was suspended Friday for his "lax" approach in the rave party case in which 192 people were arrested from a farm house earlier this month, officials said. Noida police chief Vaibhav Krishna also ordered transfer of another police station in-charge who had shown "lack of interest" in working out a sensational robbery case at a corporate office last month. "Hans Raj Bhadoria, the station house officer of the Expressway police station, has been suspended with immediate effect due to suspicious activities going on in his area of jurisdiction. It was great laxity on his part to not be aware that such parties were being conducted illegally in his area," he told PTI. With Lok Sabha elections underway across the country, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Krishna had a couple of days ago written to the Election Commission asking for permission to initiate action against the SHO. The suspension has been done following the EC's permission. Akhilesh .
SC asks Delhi govt why its decision to install CCTV in class room should not be stayed
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a plea filed by a 20-year-old law student challenging the Delhi government's decision to install CCTV cameras in classrooms and live stream the feed to parents on the grounds that it violates right to privacy. The top court asked the Delhi government to reply as to why its 2017 decision should not be stayed. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to Delhi government and sought its response. "Issue notice on the writ petition, as also on the prayer for interim relief, returnable within six weeks," the bench said. Advocate Jai Dehadrai, appearing for the petitioner, said that live-streaming of CCTV feeds will be done to random people which will be a breach of privacy. Dehadrai assisted by advocate Srishti Kumar said that there were adolescent children in schools and it will be breach of their privacy if the CCTV feed was live streamed. The plea filed by Amber Tickoo, a third year law student at National Law ...
Legal feud over Hamdard's control hits Rooh Afza
Recent shortage of the summer refreshment syrup Rooh Afza in the market may have its roots in a legal dispute over who would head its parent company Hamdard Laboratories (India).
Baby-selling racket: CB-CID Probe reveals sale of 30 newborns
The CB-CID wing of Tamil Nadu police probing a baby-selling racket in Namakkal said Friday buyers as well as middlemen would be brought under the probe ambit, even as the investigation revealed sale of 30 newborns. "Following the probe done so far, it has emerged that a total of 30 newborns including 24 girls have been sold," a CB-CID release here said. The release, however, did not mention the period over which the babies were allegedly sold. A retired nurse and an ambulance driver are among those arrested in connection with the matter. Widening its probe, the special investigation wing will now bring the parents of the children as well as the 'buyers,' besides middlemen, under the probe ambit, the release said. Steps have been taken to hold enquiries with parents of the children, the middlemen, as well as those who allegedly "bought" the newborns, it added. The issue came to light after the police took up the probe into the authenticity of an audio clip where the former
Notion that any institution should be above criticism corrosive to democratic values: N Ravi
The notion that any institution should be above criticism and the dignity and authority of judges need to be upheld by shielding them from normal scrutiny and critical remarks is "corrosive" to democratic values, veteran journalist N Ravi said on Friday. Ravi, who is publisher and former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, said the rationale that public trust in the judiciary would somehow be shaken by public criticism reflects poorly on the strength and confidence of the judiciary whose authority has to rest on its obvious fairness and the quality of its judgements. "Contempt charges have been brought for criticism of the judicial system, and the courts themselves have started contempt action over reports on the personal conduct of judges and criticism of their administrative actions. "The larger issue is whether the offence of scandalising the court should remain in the statute book. The notion that any institution should be above criticism and that the dignity and authority of judges ...
BJP candidate in West Bengal booked under POCSO
BJP candidate for Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency, Nilanjan Roy has been booked under the POCSO Act for allegedly sexually molesting one minor girl inside a house at Falta in West Bengal, police said Friday. The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) sources said the body received a complaint from the alleged victim against the inactiveness of the state police in arresting the accused. It asked the state chief electoral officer Friday to take necessary action against Roy within 24 hours and the police to arrest him under the POCSO Act. The alleged incident took place on April 26 when the girl had reportedly gone to meet the BJP candidate at a house in Falta in South 24 Parganas district to complain to him about the misbehaviour of some of his party workers, a member of her family said. "The next day a complaint was lodged at the Falta police station. Medical examination of the girl has been completed and her statement recorded but the ...
BAI condoles demise of noted jurist N R Madhava Menon
The Bar Association of India (BAI) has condoled the demise of noted jurist and law professor N R Madhava Menon. Menon, 84, died at a hospital in Kerala on May 7. "Professor Menon was a living legend during his lifetime and has now become a permanent shining and guiding star for all of us who are engaged in promoting and strengthening Indian legal education," BAI President Lalit Bhasin said in a statement. Menon, the father of modern legal education, completed 60 years as a law teacher in 2019 and was a moving factor in setting up centres in the field of legal education, including National Law School of India University in Bengaluru. Bhasin said Menon was invited to become a member of the Board of Advisors at BAI. "One can say with daring certainty that no one equal the contribution made by Professor Menon single handedly to promote legal education in India. A fitting tribute was given to the contribution made by him when Fali Nariman, way back in 1996 observed that jurists like him ...
Rajasthan: Four decomposed bodies found in canal
Four decomposed bodies were found in a canal in a village in Rajasthan's Bikaner district on Friday, police said. The police were informed about the incident by the villagers after which the bodies were fished out from the Indira Gandhi Canal Project here, Bikaner SP Pradeep Mohan Sharma said. The post-mortem will be conducted on the spot since the bodies are not in a condition to be taken to any hospital, he said. Prime Facie, it seems the bodies drifted from Punjab and entered Rajasthan, the SP said. Police are yet to ascertain the identity of the deceased, he said, adding that the matter is being probed.
Maha: Journalist, aide held for extortion in Palghar
The editor of a newspaper in Maharashtra's Palghar district and an associate were arrested on Friday for allegedly trying to extort money from a local factory owner. Palghar police spokesperson identified the accused as 'Choupher Sangharsh' editor Kailas Rangnekar (38) and his associate Maruti Zunzuke (57), both from Vasai. "Rangnekar and Zunzuke had approached the owner of a factory where 19 employees had quit. They are charged with demanding extortion money to the tune of ten per cent of the gratuity money of these employees. They also assaulted one employee," he said. Katkar said a case had been registered against them at Valiv police station for extortion and criminal intimidation under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
PepsiCo withdraws remaining two lawsuits against Guj farmers
Food and beverages giant PepsiCo India on Friday withdrew the two lawsuits it had filed against nine Gujarat farmers for allegedly growing a variety of potato on which it claimed exclusive rights. Anand Yagnik, the lawyer for the farmers, said there was no pending litigation after these withdrawals. A week earlier, PepsiCo had withdrawn its case at Deesa Commercial Court against two farmers hailing from Banaskantha district in the state. Now, the two remaining cases against nine farmers, comprising four of Sabarkantha and five from Arvalli, have been withdrawn by the MNC, Yagnik said at a press conference here. In all, 11 farmers of Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Arvalli districts were sued by PepsiCo in three different courts in Gujarat for alleged infringement of rights over the particular variety of potato. The multinational giant had sought damages ranging from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 1 crore from these farmers. While four farmers of Sabarkantha were sued in a Commercial Court in ...