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Man killed over affair with girl in Satara village; two held
A 21-year-old man, who was in relationship with a girl from his village, was today found strangulated to death in Satara district of Maharashtra, police said. Two relatives of the girl were arrested today. The body of Akshay Jadhav, a resident of Patan taluka, was found at Khanducha Wada in Yerad village this afternoon, a senior police official said. Jadhav was last seen by his parents yesterday morning when he left his house saying that he was going out to finish some important work, he said, adding that Jadhav's body was spotted by some locals. During postmortem, it was revealed that the man died due to strangulation. Following the complaint, Patan Police have registered a case against the relatives of the girl with whom Jadhav was in relationship. "Relatives of the girl have been booked under sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC," said Satara SP Sandeep Patil. The arrested accused, ...
Man killed over affair with girl in Satara village
A 21-year-old man, who was in relationship with a girl from his village, was today found strangulated to death in Satara district of Maharashtra, police said. The body of Akshay Jadhav, a resident of Patan taluka, was found at Khanducha Wada in Yerad village this afternoon, a senior police official said. Jadhav was last seen by his parents yesterday morning when he left his house saying that he was going out to finish some important work, he said, adding that Jadhav's body was spotted by some locals. During postmortem, it was revealed that the man died due to strangulation. Following the complaint, Patan Police have registered a case against the relatives of the girl with whom Jadhav was in relationship. "Relatives of the girl have been booked under sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC," said Satara SP Sandeep Patil. Another official said that police have booked Krishnat Desai and ...
UK court jails man for life for rape-murder of Indian-origin niece
A 33-year-old British-Pakistani man was today sentenced to life imprisonment by a UK court which found him guilty of kidnapping, raping and murdering his 20-year-old Indian-origin niece. Mujahid Arshid killed Celine Dookhran in a jealous rage by slitting her throat and then dumped her body into a freezer, the Old Bailey court here was told during the trial. Judge Justice Anthony Edis ordered him to serve at least 40 years behind bars before being considered for parole. The builder from London was also found guilty of the attempted murder of a second 21-year-old Indian-origin woman, who was a friend of the victim and managed to escape with serious injuries during the attack last year. Arshid was also convicted of sexual assault charges against the unnamed second woman between 2008 and 2010. "He molested Celine's body while she was dead and then he molested me thinking I was dead. He's such a psycho," the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said in her testimony from behind a .
SAT to hear Price Waterhouse matter tomorrow
The Securities Appellate Tribunal will tomorrow hear Price Waterhouse's pleas challenging Sebi ruling that had barred the firm and its network entities from taking up new audit work for listed companies. The markets regulator, on January 10, had passed an order against the audit major for its alleged complicity in the multi-crore Satyam Computer Services scam. After taking up the matter on February 13, the tribunal had scheduled further hearing on February 16. The matter was to be heard by a bench of two -- judicial member Jog Singh and technical member CKG Nair -- as the presiding officer had recused himself in the case. However, on February 13, Nair was not present as he was on leave. Then it was argued that a single bench member is not entitled to hear the prayer of the appellant (PW) for grant of interim relief. Citing provisions of Sebi Act and SAT rules, Singh, in an order dated February 13, said that a single member in the absence of any other member and presiding officer is ...
Tel social welfare official held for accepting Rs 1 lakh bribe
A Deputy Director of Social Welfare department was today caught while accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh here, an ACB officer said. Perika Yadaiah (55) had allegedly sought Rs 1.50 lakh from a contractor to grant him the permission to supply vegetables to government-run hostels, ACB Dy SP T.Sudershan Goud said. On the basis of the complaint, the ACB officials laid a trap and caught Yadaiah when he was taking Rs 1 lakh, at the residence of warden Shyamsunder in Ramnagar area. Shyam Sunder (40) was also taken into custody for allegedly mediating the deal.
Suspected custodial death: Odisha Cong for action against cops
The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) today demanded registration of case against the police officials responsible for the alleged custodial death of a tribal youth of Bhalupali, at Ainthapali police station. A four-member team of the OPCC, which visited Bhalupali and called on the family members of the deceased, Abinash Munda, also demanded judicial probe into the incident conducted by a sitting judge of high court besides Rs 30 lakh compensation for the family members of the deceased. The Congress team included former PCC president Jayadev Jena, party's Chairman of ST Cell, former MP Pradeep Majhi, Koraput MLA Krishna Chandra Sagaria and Jharsuguda MLA, Naba Kishore Das. Addressing a press conference, Jayadev Jena said, "It is a shocking incident. The police department is no more under the control of Odisha chief minister. We visited the house of Abinash Munda and met his family members. Case under section 302 should be registered against the police officials .
Punjab farmer booked for stripping five children
The Punjab Police on Wednesday registered a case against a farmer in Amritsar district for allegedly stripping five children after they plucked some radishes from his fields.
Key suspect cleared in first trial linked to Paris attacks
A man who rented his flat to Islamic State jihadists was found not guilty today in the first trial stemming from the 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead. Prosecutors had been seeking a four-year jail term for Jawad Bendaoud, though more serious terrorism charges had been dropped after they said there was insufficient evidence that he knew the men were terrorists. Bendaoud, a 31-year-old convicted drug dealer from the Paris suburbs, raised his arms in triumph and patted the police officers guarding him on the shoulder as judge Isabelle Prevost-Desprez handed down the verdict. The court has been packed for the trial, which started days before a separate case in Belgium involving Salah Abdeslam, believed to be the only surviving attacker from the Paris atrocities. French media nicknamed Bendaoud the "Daesh landlord", using another name for IS, after it emerged the attackers ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud had holed up for days afterwards in the apartment in the Paris suburb of ...
Uncle convicted of rape, murder of Indian-origin niece in UK
A 33-year-old British-Pakistani man was today found guilty of kidnapping, raping and killing his 20-year-old Indian-origin niece by a UK court. Mujahid Arshid killed Celine Dookhran in a jealous rage by slitting her throat and then dumped her body into a freezer, the Old Bailey court here was told during the trial. The builder from London was also found guilty of the attempted murder of a second 21-year-old Indian-origin woman, who was a friend of the victim and managed to escape with serious injuries during the attack last year. Arshid was also convicted of sexual assault charges against the unnamed second woman between 2008 and 2010. "He molested Celine's body while she was dead and then he molested me thinking I was dead. He's such a psycho," the woman said in her testimony from behind a curtain. "I started saying things he wanted to hear 'I love you, we can run away together, we can be happy together, we can have a family'," she told the jury to explain how she was able to get ...
Discharge orders in Sohrabuddin case alarming: ex- judge
Former Bombay High Court judge Justice Abhay M. Thipsay on Wednesday said the high number of discharge orders in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case is alarming.Justice (retd.) Thipsay, who ruled on four bail pleas in case, told ANI in an interview that discharge means that there is prima facie no case against the accused.Till now, 16 accused have been discharged in the case, which includes DG Vanzara, former DIG, Gujarat ATS; BJP President Amit Shah, who was then Home Minister of Gujarat; and Gulab Chand Kataria, then Home Minister of Rajasthan.Justice Thipsay said it was very surprising that those accused were discharged in the case who had got bail with lots of difficulties."Discharge means that there is prima facie no case against the accused. It is very difficult for an accused to be discharged who had got bail with lots of difficulties. If there is no prima facie case against anyone then the bail is granted very easily," the judge said.Replying a question, justice
28 cartons of smuggled liquor seized in Noida
Over 20 cartons of smuggled liquor were seized here and one person was arrested in the connection, police said today. The accused was identified as Sonu, a resident of Haryana's Rohtak, they said, adding he was booked under Excise Act.
Cong leader Kripashankar Singh discharged in assets case
A special court here today discharged Congress leader Kripashankar Singh in a case of disproportionate assets for want of sanction for his prosecution. In April 2015,the Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai police had filed a charge sheet against Singh, a former chief of Mumbai Congress as well as a former state minister, and his relatives. A social activist had filed a complaint against him with the Anti Corruption Bureau and also a PIL in the Bombay High Court in 2014, alleging that Singh had amassed wealth which was disproportionate to his known sources of income. Following the high court's directions, the ACB and EOW conducted inquiry and concluded that the assets held by Singh were disproportionate to his income. In November 2016, Singh filed an application seeking discharge from the case in the special court, claiming that his prosecution was without the necessary sanction. While he was an MLA in 2014, the probe authorities had sought government sanction to prosecute him but the ...
Gold worth Rs 74 lakh seized at city airport; 2 held
: Gold worth Rs 74 lakh was seized in two different cases by Customs officials at the airport here today and two persons were arrested in this connection. In the first incident, officials acting on a tip-off, intercepted one Shaik Chandanam Basha hailing from Andhra Pradesh who arrived here from Riyadh. Examination of the 54 year-old passenger's checked-in baggage revealed that 16 units of gold bars and cut bits were concealed in the motors of shake blenders in his possession, an official release said. In the second incident, the officials intercepted 35-year-old Fayaz Ahmed Shaik Nayab from Andhra Pradesh, who arrived from Bahrain. Initial investigations of his checked-in baggage revealed that Nayab also adopted a similar method, and concealed 16 units of gold bars and cut bits in the motors of shake blenders he carried. The gold seized in the both the incidents weighed about 2.4 kilograms and was valued at Rs 74 lakh.
IIT-KGP law school launches legal aid and IP facilitation cell
The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law (RGSOIPL) here, has started an intellectual property (IP) facilitation cell recently, to provide legal service to the needy and enable legal literacy. The faculty and students of the school will run legal aid and IP facilitation camps on Saturdays in order to provide assistance to whoever may require it, institute officials said. "Access to legal aid is still a problem in Indian society, especially in rural areas. In many cases, a legal step is simple but people hesitate to take it," Professor Padmavati M, Dean of the IIT-Kharagpur Law School said. In many cases, good legal advice can lead to expedite solutions, she said. "Sometimes it is even necessary to avoid long legal wrangles and take immediate action," she said. In marital cases, too, timely legal advice may lead to early resolution, she said. "When we enable the mechanism of legal aid to the village sarpanch or panchayat leader - peoples' first level of contact
Man, held for murder, also involved in rape-killing of child:
A man, arrested four days ago for killing a 70-year-old woman, had raped and killed a three-year-old girl only two days after the first crime, police said today. Ramesh Vaidhukiya (26), an auto-rickshaw driver, was arrested on February 10 for killing Ashmaben Sadikot in Navagam area on the outskirts of the city on February 7. According to police, he stabbed the woman, who had hailed his rickshaw, after taking her to an isolated spot and looting her. Two days later, he abducted a three-year-old girl from Chunaravad area, raped her twice and then killed her by smashing her head on a wall, police said. The girl's body was found on the premises of an abandoned college building on February 11. "We had arrested Vaidhukiya on February 10 for robbing and killing Ashmaben Sadikot," ACP (Crime) J H Sarvaiya told reporters today. "While probing the murder of the three-year-old girl, we checked CCTV footage and found that it was the same person who had killed Sadikot and who was ...
Senior police officials conspired to kill Sohrabuddin: Lawyer
The killings of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi and associate Tulsiram Prajapati were the result of a conspiracy hatched by senior officers of Gujarat and Rajasthan police, Rubabuddin Shaikh, the brother of Sohrabuddin, who was killed in an alleged staged encounter, told the Bombay High Court today. Rubabuddin's lawyer Gautam Tiwari alleged that the prime accused, senior Gujarat ATS officials D G Vanzara and Rajkumar Pandian, and Rajasthan IPS officer Dinesh MN, who were all discharged in the case, conspired to execute the fake encounters. Tiwari, arguing against the discharge of Dinesh MN, claimed the officer, who was the Superintendent of Police, Udaipur, in November 2005, went to Ahmedabad to meet other police officers who were "part of the conspiracy" to arrest and kill Sohrabuddin and his wife. While the officer claims to have visited Ahmedabad for official training, none of his superiors, including the inspector general of Rajasthan police, know of any such training ...
NCLT approves amalgamation of Naresh Trehan & Associates, Global Health
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved the scheme of amalgamation of Dr Naresh Trehan & Associates Health Services Pvt Ltd into Global Health Pvt Ltd. The order came in response to a joint application filed by Dr Naresh Trehan & Associates Health Services, which is the transferor company, and Global Health, the transferee firm. The tribunal observed that both the companies have already completed formalities such as meeting of equity shareholders, creditors, besides others. A two-member bench comprising President M M Kumar and Member S K Mohapatra observed, "There appears to be no impediment in sanctioning the present scheme. Consequently sanction is granted to the scheme under section 230 & 232 of the Companies Act, 2013." It further added: "The petitioners shall however remain bound to comply with the statutory requirements in accordance with law." The NCLT ordered dissolution of the transferor company Dr Naresh Trehan & Associates Health Services ...
Farmer booked for parading five Dalit children naked in village
A farmer allegedly assaulted five Dalit children before stripping and parading them naked in Sohian Kalan village here for stealing radish from his fields. A criminal case was today registered against him, SHO Police Station Majitha Mohit Kumar said. He said the incident occurred three days back when the children, who belonged to poor families, were playing and flying kites in the area. Ashurbanpal Singh Latti accused them of uprooting radishes from his fields and in anger, thrashed and stripped them, the police official said. He then paraded them naked on the road as punishment, he said. The SHO said a video of the incident was recorded by bystander which went viral on social media. The parents of the children registered a complaint against the accused today, he said.
Gang of thieves busted in Noida
A gang of thieves was busted and five alleged criminals arrested here, police said today. The accused -- Qamar, Alam, Feroze, Samir, Naeem and Nadeem -- were arrested from Tilapta crossing last night, they said. The police have recovered two country made pistols, one knife, two cutter, one monitor, a battery inverter, a car, one tempo and four motorcycles from their possession. On interrogation, they revealed they were members of a gang of thieves and used to commit thefts at factories.
Jaipur: Man throws acid on woman
A woman got 20 percent burn injuries after a man threw acid on her at a mall here on Wednesday, police said.The man, who allegedly had a love affair with the woman, was also injured in the incident at Triton Mall, where she was employed as a housekeeper.Both the man and the woman got burn injuries on their face and hands, and have been admitted to Sawai Man Singh Hospital (SMHS), a police official said.According to the official, an investigation is underway into the matter."The woman has chemical burns on face and hands. Her condition is stable and admitted to the plastic surgery ward. All her medication and treatment is being done free of cost," Dr S.S. Yadav said.