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Minor girl raped by 30-year-old man in UP
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 30-year-old man in a village under Gopiganj police station area here, police said today. SP Sachindra Patel said she was taken to a secluded spot last night by the accused and raped. On returning home, the girl informed about the incident to her family, who went out to search for the accused, but he had fled the village by then, the SP said. The victim has been sent for medical examination and teams have been set up to nab the accused, the SP added.
Seven SC judges to retire in 2018
Beginning March 1, seven judges of the Supreme Court will retire this year. The apex court is already short of six judges even as a recommendation for appointing two judges is pending with the government. On March 1, Justice Amitava Roy will demit office, followed by Justice Rajesh Agrawal on May 4, according to the websites of the Supreme Court and the law ministry. Friday was the last working day for Justice Roy as the top court will reopen on March 5 after the Holi break. Justice J Chalmeswar, the senior-most judge of the top court after the chief justice of India, will retire on June 22, followed by Justice Adarsh Goel on July 6, the websites said. CJI Dipak Misra will himself demit office on October 2, followed by Justice Kurian Joseph on November 29 and Justice Madan B Lokur on December 30. The string of retirements and shortage of six judges will put a pressure on the collegium to nominate names and the government to make appointments at a faster pace. The Supreme Court ...
Nedumbassery human trafficking case: Verdict out
A Special CBI Court convicted the seven accused in the case of human trafficking in Nedumbassery, Kochi on Saturday.Out of the accused, four convicts were given 10 years imprisonment and Rs 2 Lakh penalty. The remaining three were given seven years of imprisonment along with Rs 52,000 penalty.One of the seven accused is absconding.According to the reports, the case pertains to the illegal trafficking of women from Kerala to brothels in West Asia. The trial proceedings were completed at the CBI Court.The Crime Branch, in its report, had also said that they suspected the involvement of police officers in aiding the human trafficking racket that had allegedly been operating through the Cochin international airport at Nedumbassery, for several years.
Deadly church shoot-out after 5 S.African police killed
Seven suspects accused of killing five South African policemen were shot dead by officers in a bloody gunfight outside a church, according to investigators. The shoot-out erupted when police hunted down the armed gang that is alleged to have stormed a police station in Eastern Cape province and killed five officers and a retired soldier on Wednesday. "The group which uses a church as a hiding place was cornered inside the church premises," the Hawks police investigative unit said in a statement. "A gun battle between suspects and police ensued which left seven suspects dead and a task force member injured in the legs." It added that 10 other suspects were arrested, while some escaped the scene near Ngcobo, the town where the policemen were killed. Local media said the shoot-out had occurred outside the Mancoba Seven Angel's Ministries church in Nyanga village. The gang had stolen weapons from the police station. Attacks on police are common in South Africa, but the killing of five ...
11 arrested for Kerala tribal youth's murder
The Kerala Police on Saturday said it has arrested nine more persons in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old "mentally unfit" tribal man, who was attacked in the forest near Palakkad by a lynch mob for alleged theft.
'Three more Iranian environmentalists arrested'
Three environmentalists have been detained in Iran, a conservative-linked news website has reported, the latest in a series of arrests of wildlife campaigners in the Islamic republic. "Members of the Association for the Protection of Nature in Lavardin were arrested by a security agency. The allegations against them are unknown," Tabnak reported late yesterday. It said they were arrested in Bandar Lengheh in the southern Hormuzgan province on the Gulf coast. It follows the arrest of eight members of the Persian Heritage Wildlife Association, Iran's most prominent nature NGO, in January on espionage charges. Its founder Kavous Seyed Emami, 63, died in prison around two weeks later. Officials say he committed suicide in his cell, but the family have questioned the verdict and say they were threatened by officials. The deputy head of the government's Environment Protection Organisation, renowned water campaigner Kaveh Madani, was also detained briefly this month.
Verdict in Dakar mayor corruption case due March 30
The judge conducting a trial into controversial Senegalese mayor Khalifa Sall's alleged embezzlement of public funds will issue a verdict on March 30, the court has heard. Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall is accused with seven others of misappropriating 1.83 billion CFA francs ($3.3 million, 2.8 million euros) -- a charge he denies and which backers say is to prevent him from running for president. Judge Malick Lamotte said on Friday a ruling would be issued on March 30 as the two sides argued their case for the final time in a trial that has lasted more than a month. Sall's lawyers have argued he should be released, pointing to the absence of a lawyer during the mayor's arrest and questioning, and argued the money was for political purposes and not a slush fund. "I perceive this affair as a way to prop up a government that wants to stay in power," defence lawyer Abdou Daly Kane told the court, referring to a presidential election in 2019 Sall had hoped to contest. Prosecutors have asked for .
Villarreal announces Ruben Semedo's suspension
Villarreal's defender Ruben Semedo was suspended by the Spanish football club following his imprisonment on several charges.
Bank scams: Three fresh cases of financial fraud reported
Three fresh cases of financial fraud have come to light after the CBI filed cases against a jeweller, a businessman and a public servant on complaints by three different banks earlier this week, an official said on Saturday.
Need to introspect on effectiveness of POCSO Act: Justice Lokur
Justice Madan B Lokur today said time has come to "introspect" on the "effectiveness" of the law to protect children from sexual abuse and what has been achieved in the nearly six years since the enactment of the POCSO Act. He said there is a need to carry out an "assessment of the impact" theProtection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 has had on the criminal justice delivery system. Justice Lokur said despite there being more number of cases of child abuse than murder, "we spend more time discussing murders" and wondered "is murder of an adult more important than child sexual abuse". He was addressing a conference, organised by NGOs Haq Centre for Child Rights and Centre for Child and Law, on protecting children from sexual abuse and implementation of the POCSO Act. The Supreme Court judge stressed on the need for a complete overhaul of the criminal justice delivery system under the POCSO Act so that the courts set up under this law deal only with child sexual abuse .
Man gets life imprisonment for raping teenage daughter
A court here has awarded life imprisonment to a 38-year-old man for raping his teenage daughter which led to her becoming pregnant twice. Additional District Judge N R Pradhan, in his order, convicted the man under section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012. Public Prosecutor Kadambini Khandagle informed the court that around three years back the man raped his daughter aged between 12 and 16 at Kolkata where he lived. Later, he forcibly brought her to Mumbai and raped her. He had left his wife and two other children at Kolkata, the court was told. The victim gave birth to two children, of which one survived and another died within 15 days of birth. Following a complaint, the man was arrested and the DNA of both the children matched with that of him, the court informed. The prosecution examined around 12 witnesses and the judge taking a serious note of the incident convicted the accused. The victim is currently ...
Ex-Trump campaign pleads guilty in Russia investigation
A former top advisor to United States President Donald Trump's presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to charges brought against him in the Russia investigation and has agreed to cooperate with the prosecutors.According to the Hill, Richard Gates pleaded guilty to two charges brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller's team in federal court in Washington, D.C.: one count of conspiracy against the US and one count of making a false statement to the FBI agents investigating the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.Richard Gates, who was deputy to the Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, switched his position in an attempt to reportedly protect his family.As part of the plea deal, Gates has agreed to cooperate "fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly" with the special counsel's office as well as other law enforcement officials, according to court documents.By concurring to "fully cooperate," additional criminal charges will not be brought ...
Man accused of killing engineer arrested
The main accused in the killing of an engineer was arrested, police said today. Circle Officer Rajiv Kumar Singh told reporters that Mohit was arrested yesterday. The body of Himanshu was found in Ladpur village on February 18, bearing strangulation marks, with police suspecting it to be a fallout of a monetary dispute.
Bouchard reaches settlement with USTA in lawsuit over US Open fall
Eugenie Bouchard reached a settlement with the US Tennis Association to end her lawsuit over a locker room fall at the 2015 US Open Tennis Championships, US media reported. The terms of the settlement were confidential. The resolution came a day after a jury in US federal court in Brooklyn found the USTA 75 percent liable for the fall, which left Bouchard with a concussion. The 23-year-old Canadian, once ranked as high as fifth in the world, had sought unspecified damages in the suit, claiming the USTA was at fault for applying a slippery cleaning product to the floor of a physiotherapy room where she fell after playing a late mixed doubles match. The USTA had argued that Bouchard should have known the darkened room was being cleaned at 11 pm. The jury had assessed Bouchard's contributory negligence at 25 percent. As the damages phase of the trial began on Friday, lawyers for both sides had argued before the jury about the appropriate amount. The New York Daily News reported that ...
Mumbai: Toddler kidnapped, rescued within 6 hrs
The Mumbai Police rescued a 2.5-year-old girl within six hours, after she was abducted from outside a shop in Mumbai's Saki Naka area.The incident came to light on Friday, when the child, Shireen Fatima, while playing outside her father's shop, disappeared from the sight.A 28-year-old man was arrested in the matter."Fatima was playing outside, but when we came outside to call her she was not there," said the father of the child.The family immediately filed a complaint with the nearest police station.The police started the investigation immediately and checked the CCTV cameras installed in the area.They identified the kidnapper as 28-year-old Sandeep Parab.The motive behind the kidnapping is still not known.The child was safely brought back her to parents.
UP: HC pulls up authorities over noise pollution at religious, public places
The Lucknow division bench of Allahabad High Court has pulled up Uttar Pradesh Prinicipal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar for the unchecked noise pollution from loudspeakers at religious and public places.On a plea filed by Advocate Motilal Yadav, a bench, comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Abdul Moin, has sought an answer from both the Prinicipal Secretary and the chairman of UP Pollution Control Board, in this connection."The procedure of taking permission from district authorities has worsened the attempts at curbing noise pollution," the court's order said.Next date of hearing in the matter is March 12.
Russia probe: Former Trump campaign aide pleads guilty
Rick Gates, a former official in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, has pleaded guilty to charges of federal conspiracy and false statements in the ongoing Trump-Russia probe led by special counsel Robert Muller.
Florida school officer 'didn't have the courage': Trump
An armed officer who stood outside a Florida school where a gunman killed 17 people last week "certainly did a poor job", US President Donald Trump has said.
France charges man allegedly linked to Barcelona attack
A man has been charged in France over alleged links to a suspect in last year's deadly jihadist attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside resort, a French legal source said. The man, in his early 30s, was detained Tuesday in the southwestern town of Albi on suspicion of links to Moroccan Driss Oukabir, alleged to have rented the van used in the Barcelona rampage. A total of 16 people were killed when a van drove into crowds on the popular Las Ramblas boulevard in the heart of Barcelona and in a knife attack in the nearby resort of Cambrils last August. The source said investigations would determine the nature of links the suspect had with Oukabir, who was arrested shortly after attacks which were claimed by the Islamic State group. Two other two men who were detained in France on Tuesday have been released for lack of evidence, the source said. The arrests were made during a joint operation with French and Spanish police in the south and southwest of France. The identity papers of ...
Shkreli loses bid to toss stock manipulation conviction
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday refused to overturn former drug company executive Martin Shkreli's conviction of scheming to manipulate his company's stock price.