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Maharashtra woman killed in freak rice mill tragedy
In a freak incident, a 50-year-old woman was killed after her sari got stuck in a rice mill in Asaralli village in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, a police official said here on Friday.
CBEC decides not to file review appeals in 63 cases
In order to reduce litigation, the CBEC today decided not to file any review appeals in 63 cases where Supreme Court, High Courts and CESTAT have ruled against the department. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has compiled a list of 63 orders so that cases pending in the field can be expeditiously decided, if the questions of law or facts involved are identical, an official statement said. In 14 of these orders, High Courts have decided various questions of law. In the rest 49 cases, the High Courts have delivered judgments on the basis of some settled case law or have decided points of facts or have dismissed the appeal on monetary grounds. All the orders have been accepted by the department and against them no Special Leave Petitions in India (SLP) etc has been preferred in the Supreme Court, it added. "Orders of the Supreme Court, High Courts and CESTAT accepted by the CBEC; Department decides not to file any review petitions and SLPs against such Orders," a finance ...
Bofors case: Trial court to hear the case tomorrow
A BJP leader, who has been pursuing the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case for over a decade, today filed an application before a Delhi court asking it to grant permission to the CBI to reinvestigate the case. Advocate Ajay Agrawal, who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Rae Bareli against the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi, moved the plea before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg, claiming that serious miscarriage of justice will occur if permission is not granted to the agency in view of new evidence emerging in the case. The court said it will take up the application tomorrow when it is scheduled to hear a CBI plea seeking a direction to allow it to go for further probe in case on the ground that the agency has come across fresh material and evidence. In his plea, he said the entire record of the case was sent to the Supreme Court where his appeal against the May 31, 2005 judgment of the Delhi High Court quashing all charges against accused ...
Suspected Maoists guns contractor down
Suspected Maoists today shot dead a contractor in Bijepur police station area in Kalahandi district, the police said. A group of armed men stormed into the workers' camp located near Pajibahali village and fired at contractor Siba Shankar Das (53) who had gone there to pay the staff members. When he fell down, they slit his throat leaving him dead on the spot. Maoists had earlier demanded ransom from Das, who was executing a road construction project from Bijepur to Pajibahali, the police said. The contractor had been threatened and asked to stop work a few years ago when he was undertaking another project. Several earthmoving equipment were also torched at that time, the police said.
Sohrabuddin case: HC poser to CBI over Prajapati's escort team
The Bombay High Court today asked the CBI to confirm whether the four police officials, who had accompanied Tulsiram Prajapati, an aide of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, to Ahmedabad just days before his death in an alleged encounter, had gone with him as his escort team on previous occasions as well. The court's question came after Rajasthan IPS officer Dinesh M N, one of the discharged accused in the encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, a gangster, his wife Kausar Bi, and their aide Prajapati, denied all charges against him. Dinesh claimed he had no role in choosing the escort team officials who had accompanied Prajapati to Ahmedabad for a court hearing. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), soon after the court hearing in December 2006, Prajapati was killed in a fake encounter by a team of Gujarat and Rajasthan police officers. However, the four officials, who were part of his escort team, made up a false story about Prajapati having escaped from custody while they were ...
SC verdict to resolve disputes between Ktk and TN on Cauvery
The Supreme Court today delivered a crucial verdict to resolve the decades-old dispute between southern riparian states over Cauvery river water sharing by hiking Karnataka's share by 14.75 tmcft and reducing Tamil Nadu's quantum while compensating it by allowing extraction of 10 tmcft groundwater from the river basin. Maintaining that the issue of drinking water has to be placed on a "higher pedestal", the top court enhanced Karnataka's share from 270 tmcft to 284.75 tmcft on account of water for drinking and domestic requirements, while lowering Tamil Nadu's share of water from 419 tmcft to 404.25 tmcft but allowing it to extract 10 tmcft of groundwater from the river basin. The apex court, which modified the 2007 award of Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT) with respect to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, retained the share of Kerala at 30 tmcft and Puducherry at 7 tmcft, out of a total of 740 tmcft. Besides this, 10 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) of water would be used for ...
No bail for 11 accused in Kamala Mills fire case
A sessions court today rejected the bail applications of eleven accused in the Kamala Mills fire tragedy case. On December 29, 2017, a massive fire swept through two roof-top pubs - Mojo's Bistro and 1Above - in Kamala Mills compound in central Mumbai, killing 14 people. Sessions judge A L Yawalkar today rejected the bail pleas of Kevin Baba and Lisbon Lopes, both employed with 1Above; Kamala Mills Compound owner Ramesh Govani; Ravi Bhandari, director of Kamala mill limited; Utkarsh Pandey, the owner of hookah supply firm Nirvana; Yug Pathak and Yug Tulli, owners of Mojos Bistro; Jigar Sanghvi, Kripesh Sanghvi and Abhijit Mankar, owners of 1Above; and fire brigade officer Rajendra Patil. Police have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 II of the IPC against the accused. According to a report by the Mumbai municipal commissioner, flying embers from hookah, served illegally at Mojo's Bistro, started the fire, and illegal alterations at both ...
3 yrs in jail for constables who looted passengers on train
A Railway court today sentenced three constables to three years in jail for looting passengers on board the Jan Nayak Express five years ago. Bettiah Railway Judicial Magistrate Sriram Jha held Navin Kumar, Uday Narayan Singh and Uday Prasad Choudhary guilty of looting passengers. On August 27, 2012, the three constables, who were part of an escort party on the train, had forcibly taken money from a traveller after beating him up for failing to provide identity card, Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Balkrishna Dubey said. The escort party forcibly took money and misbehaved with another passenger, he added. An FIR was filed at the Narkatiyaganj rail police station in this regard. The three constables were sacked by the Rail SP after an inquiry found them guilty.
'Taliban model' attack by CPI-M:says Cong
Congress today sharpened the attack on ruling CPI(M) over the murder of a Youth Congress functionary in Kannur and alleged that Taliban model violence was carried out on their party worker. As part of intensifying the agitation against the 'delay' in arresting those behind the murder of Youth Congress functionary Shuhaib, senior party leader K Sudhakaran will observe a 48-hour fast from Monday. The Congress also said that there was a mystery behind the alleged grant of parole to 19 murder case accused before Shuhaib was hacked to death at Mattanur in February 13. "It was a Taliban model attack and also can be assumed that it was carried out with the knowledge of the CPI(M) leadership', Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told reporters here today. He said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's silence on the murder was not only surprising, but also creates fear. Vijayan should relinquesh the home portfolio as he had not allowed the police to function
Rape accused Catholic priest surrenders before court
A Catholic priest, accused of raping a Bangladeshi woman, today surrendered before a court in Vaikom in the district. Thomas Thanninilkkumthadathil (36) had gone into hiding after the woman filed a police complaint on Wednesday. As police intensified the search, the priest surfaced in the magistrate court in Vaikom with his lawyer and surrendered. The court remanded him in 14-day judicial custody. In her complaint, the 42-year-old UK-based Bangladeshi woman alleged that the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church priest raped her after befriending her on Facebook, police said. Thomas allegedly committed the offence after promising that he would marry her. The incident occurred last month when Thomas was serving as vicar of the church at Perumthururth near Kaduthuruthy. Pala diocese of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church dismissed Thomas from pastoral service and "all stages of priesthood" following the incident. An explanation was sought from him after summoning him to the diocese on February 13 ...
Window glass of a church found broken
The window glass of a church here was found broken by unidentified miscreants today, police said. A worker in the CSI church noticed the broken glasses of the window and an iron pipe piece lying on the ground when he came for duty around 7.30 AM, police said. The church authorities lodged a complaint following a complain from the church authorities, police said.
Jagannath Mishra granted 4-week bail for treatment
The Jharkhand High Court today granted four-week provisional bail for treatment to former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, who is in jail after being convicted in a fodder scam case last month. Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh granted provisional bail to Mishra till March 15 after a medical report said he is suffering from cancer and required a treatment which is not available here. The 80-year-old former chief minister, who surrendered on February 5 to serve the jail term, was directed by the high court to surrender on or before March 16 this year. The Superintendent of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi, has written to the court that Mishra needs super specialist chemotherapy, which is not available in the RIMS. He has been under treatment of a doctor at a private hospital of Gurgaon in Haryana. On January 24, Special CBI judge S S Prasad awarded Mishra five years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a fodder scam case involving fraudulent withdrawal of Rs ...
Germany arrests suspected member of al-Shabab militia
German authorities have arrested a 20-year-old Somali man on suspicion of being a member of the extremist militia al-Shabab. Federal prosecutors say the man was detained on Thursday in the central state of Hesse. Prosecutors said in a statement that the suspect, identified only as Abduqaadir A. in line with German privacy laws, is suspected of attempted murder and accessory to murder. He is alleged to have joined al-Shabab in Somalia in 2012, undergone weapons training and then taken part in the killing of a person at a mosque. The suspect is alleged to have later attempted to kill a member of the Somali government, who survived the attack. After being detained by al-Shabab for failing to carry out the killing, the suspect fled Somalia and reached Germany in 2014.
SC verdict on Cauvery: We have got some relief, Siddaramaiah
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said that though the Supreme Court verdict on the Cauvery issue was not as per the state's appeal, he was happy with it as "we have got some relief". Siddaramaiah also said he did not want to say that the verdict was a defeat for any state and noted that the apex court had only responded to "our difficulties." In his reaction, Siddaramaiah told reporters that Karnataka's appeal had been partly allowed by the Supreme Court which has allotted 14.75 TMC ft more to the state while Tamil Nadu was allowed to extract 10 tmcft, out of 20 tmcft groundwater. "Since this is an inter-state dispute,I don't want to say it is a defeat for any state. The Supreme Court has responded to our difficulties," he said, when asked if he was satisfied with the judgment. Asked if Karnataka was in a position to release water, he said, "We always have to obey court orders.We cannot depend on rainfall. Normal years we have to leave. If there is no normal .
ED raids Jaipur premises of Nirav Modi
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted raids at one of the premises of businessman Nirav Modi in connection with the Rs. 11,400 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case.The Enforcement Directorate yesterday also conducted searches at several places linked to Nirav Modi in Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat, and seized diamond, jewellery and gold worth 5,100 crore rupees.The raids came after the agency filed a money laundering case against Nirav Modi, his wife Ami, brother Nishal and relative Mehul Choksi on February 14, following a complaint by the PNB.The agency has filed the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on the basis of an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) early this month.The PNB detected scam in which jeweller Nirav Modi acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking from one of its branches for overseas credit from other Indian lenders.The scam was started in 2011 and was detected in the third week of January this year, ...
Man booked for molesting sister-in-law in UP
A man was booked for sexually molesting his sister-in-law on Friday at Banda's Jaspura in Uttar Pradesh.Reportedly, the accused had been repeatedly molesting the woman for three years.He had earlier lured the victim to leave her in-laws' house and come to his village, on the pretext of providing education and a permanent job.Following that, he denied any support to the victim and started molesting her on various occasions.A complaint has been registered in the Jaspura police station.More details are awaited.
Working to punish misuse of blasphemy law: Pak govt to court
The Pakistan government today informed the high court here that it is working on a legislation to introduce strict punishment for false accusations of blasphemy. According to the blasphemy law, which is part of the Pakistan Penal Code, the punishment for blasphemy ranges from several years in prison to death. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) last year in a verdict related to online blasphemous content had tasked the government with enhancing punishment for those falsely accusing others of blasphemy. The interior ministry submitted a draft of the proposed amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 to the court which makes the punishment for a false accusation of blasphemy equal to the punishment for committing actual blasphemy. But maximum punishment for a false accusation is only six months in jail or a minor Rs 1,000 fine, which makes the misuse of blasphemy laws easier. The new law is being incorporated as follow up on the earlier orders of Justice Shaukat ...
Indore court acquits 4 persons accused of illegal conversion
A district court has acquitted four persons including two women of the charge of trying to convert people by offering inducements. Magistrate Dharmendra Tada acquitted Ramesh Kothe (59), Chandramohan (47), Janki Verma (41) and Maya (36) yesterday. "The case had been registered against these four on the complaint of Shivraj Singh under the Madhya Pradesh Religious Freedom Act on November 7, 2014," defence lawyer Shailendra Dwivedi told reporters. Singh had alleged that the accused were trying to lure people to convert to Christianity by offering government jobs and interest-free loans of Rs 5 lakh. However, most of the prosecution witnesses didn't support the charges, the defence lawyer said.
UN condemns surge of juvenile offender executions in Iran
The rate of juvenile offenders executed in Iran has surged this year, the United Nations said today, demanding an "immediate halt" in death sentences for crimes committed by those under 18. According the UN human rights office, Iran has already put three juvenile offenders to death in 2018, compared to a total of five such executions in all of 2017. There are currently 80 people on death row for crimes allegedly carried out when they were minors, the rights office said in a statement. Iran should "abide by international law and immediately halt all executions of people sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under eighteen", UN rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein said, noting the "surge" in capital punishments. "No other State comes even remotely close to the total number of juveniles who have been executed in Iran over the past couple of decades", Zeid said. Those put to death this year include Mahboubeh Mofidi, who was 16 when she allegedly killed her husband, whom she .
2G: Contempt plea filed in SC challenging ASGs appointment
An NGO, which had challenged the allocation of 2G spectrum during the erstwhile UPA regime, today moved the Supreme Court against the appointment of Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta as the special public prosecutor in the case, claiming it amounted to contempt of the court. The NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation said Mehta's appointment as CBI prosecutor was in violation of the apex court orders passed in 2011 and 2014 which made senior advocate Anand Grover as the special public prosecutor in the case relating to 2G scam. The apex court had in 2011 appointed then senior advocate U U Lalit as the special public prosecutor for the 2G cases. However, due to his elevation to the top court, it appointed Grover on September 2, 2014 on the suggestion of then senior lawyer K K Venugopal, who is now the Attorney General. A special CBI court on December 21, 2017 had acquitted former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and all other accused in the 2G scam case holding that