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Relative held as teenager doused with petrol suffers burns from stove
A man was held in Kapurthala town on charge of throwing petrol on a 16-year-old girl relative, who suffered burns due to resultant fire in the kitchen of her house, police said.
Nuapada youth arrested for shoplifting
The police has arrested a youth from Nuapada district allegedly for stealing at least 20 gold rings from a jewellery shop here, a police officer said today. A team of Purighat police arrested the youth from his native village in Nuapada district yesterday, the officer said. The gold rings, weighing around 100 gram, were stolen from the shop last month, the officer said, adding six out of the total number of 20 stolen rings were recovered from the accused person's possession. "The accused person's accomplice is still at large," he said. The accused youth and his accomplice had come to the jewellery shop at Nayasarak here on January 29 and posed as customers, the officer said, adding that the duo had picked up a box containing at least 20 gold rings while the salesman was busy attending other customers. The duo was identified with the help of CCTV footages that were obtained from the jewellery shop during investigation, he said.
Punjab school head, teacher held for raping Dalit student a year ago
A government school principal and a teacher have been arrested on the charge of raping a 16-year-old Dalit girl student in Jagraon sub-division of Punjab, police said on Thursday.
Madras HC laments slow response of officials to court orders
Coming down on "slow motioned" response by authorities in implementing court orders, the Madras High Court today observed judicial delay was not a systemic malady as believed and perceived but also a product of tendencies that breed causes for avoidable actions. "The pachyderm insensitivity and slow-motioned response has come to define the attitude of the statutory and administrative functionaries in implementing court orders, unmindful of the agony the citizen endures," Justice N Seshasayee said. Every action spurred by lack of required responsibility burdens the judicial axle, drains the judicial time and buries the cry for justice in deserving causes, he said. The judge made the observations while hearing a petition by T Chakarapani and six others seeking to consider their representations for compensation for the lands acquired from them by the highways department in 2006. According to the petitioners, separate awards were passed quantifying the compensation payable, .
Madras HC permits I-T dept to assess income of film financier
The Madras High Court today permitted the Income Tax department to proceed with assessment of income of film financier G N Anbuchezhian with regard to about Rs 357 crore worth materials seized in a raid in 2015 but directed it not to pass the final order. A division bench comprising justices S Manikumar and V Bhavani Subbaroyan gave the interim order on an appeal by Anbuchezhian challenging the dismissal of his petition against an I-T settlement commission order by a single judge bench. The bench said the assistant commissioner of Income Tax, Central Circle 2, here can proceed with the assessment but should not pass the final order. The I-T settlement commission had rejected the claim of Anbuchezhian in two settlement applications with regard to the the seized materials worth about Rs 357 crore, holding that it lacked "trueness and fullness". According to the appellant, the I-T department conducted searches in his offices and residential premises in Chennai and Madurai ..
Pakistani arrested in Canada accused of sex offense in Texas
Harris County prosecutors say a 41- year-old Pakistani man who fled Texas where he's charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl is being returned to Houston after he was arrested and unsuccessfully sought asylum in Canada. Authorities say Aamir Khan was being extradited today from Quebec. The head of the fugitive apprehension section of the Harris County district attorney's office, Kim Bryant, says Khan was "walking through the woods" in November in Canada when he was arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Officials believe he was planning to return to his native Pakistan. Khan is facing up to 20 years in prison in Texas if convicted of charges of indecency with a child and sexual assault of a child. He does not yet have a court appearance scheduled in Houston.
Warrant against Damania in Khadse defamation case
A court in Jalgaon district in north Maharashtra today issued a non-bailable warrant against social activist Anjali Damania in a case filed against her for allegedly defaming senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse. BJP worker Sunil Patil filed the case against Damania in a magistrate's court at Raver in Jalgaon district last year. "The court had earlier summoned Damania, but she failed to appear. So the court today issued a non-bailable warrant against her and directed the Santacruz police in Mumbai to execute it," said Patil's lawyer Chandrajeet Patil. Damania, a former Aam Aadmi Party leader, had levelled several allegations against Khadse when he was a revenue minister in the BJP-led state government. It included an allegation of illegalities in a land deal by his family at Bhosri in Pune, which forced Khadse to resign. Later, the government appointed an inquiry commission headed by a retired judge to probe the land deal. After the commission submitted its report to the ...
Pakistani Islamist radicals hail acquittals over lynching
Pakistani suspects acquitted this week in the lynching of a university student falsely accused of blasphemy received a rousing welcome home in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province following their release from detention. A video showing some of the suspects being greeted by a crowd of radical Islamists and showered with rose petals in the northwestern town of Mardan went viral today, underscoring the volatile issue of blasphemy against Islam, which is punishable by death in Pakistan. Mere allegations are often enough to provoke mob violence. A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced a man to death, convicted 30 suspects and acquitted 26 others over last year's murder of Mohammad Mashal Khan by a mob on his university campus. The trial was held at a high-security prison in the northwestern town of Haripur.
Ex-corporator among 4 booked for cheating
Four persons were booked today for allegedly cheating loan seekers to the tune of Rs 29.80 lakh by promising them credit from banks, police said. The four accused included a former Shiv Sena corporator and a member of the city women wing of the party, a senior police official said. The case was registered against the four under various sections of the IPC on the complaint lodged by at least eight victims. Explaining the modus operandi of the accused, the officer said they used to promise getting personal and business loans from banks on a commission basis. The accused are identified as Pawan Kadam, the former corporator, Rajashree More, Bhanumati Bhoir and Swapnil Bhoir.
Groundnut fire: Guj Cong MLA demands inquiry by HC judges
Gujarat Congress MLA Harshad Ribadia today demanded inquiry by sitting high court judges into a fire at a warehouse at Gondal in Rajkot district which destroyed a groundnut stock worth Rs 28 crore. In a letter to Governor O P Kohli, Ribadia claimed the CID-Crime, which is investigating the case, and the BJP government were trying to shield the real culprits by not probing the roles of co-operative societies which had procured groundnuts from farmers and stored them in the warehouse. On February 6, CID-Crime had claimed that sparks from a welding machine which was being used to fix metal gates caused the massive blaze. It arrested the owner and manager of the warehouse and four labourers engaged in the welding work. "Instead of conducting a thorough probe, the CID as well as the state government are trying to shield real culprits by arresting some welders. Why the police did not bother to probe the roles of some co-operative societies against whom many representations ...
NIA nabs 2 more from UP in LeT activities case
The NIA has arrested two men, suspected to be hawala operators, from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh in connection with its probe into the activities of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba in India, an agency spokesperson said here today. With these arrests, the total number of people taken into custody in this case has risen to seven, he said. The two have been identified as Dinesh Garg alias Ankit Garg (34) and Adish Kumar Jain (57), the National Investigation Agency said, adding they were "acting as hawala operators". The spokesperson said the central probe agency had searched the premises of the two men in Muzaffarnaghar on February 3. According to him, they were "in telephonic contact with some Indian gold smugglers, based in the Saudi Arabia". They were found "paying the cost of the smuggled gold purchased by them in cash to their conduits and couriers", he said. One of the conduits, the spokesperson said, was Abdul Samad, arrested in this case a few days ago. Samad is ..
Verify complaint against Kejriwal, Goa court tells complainant
A Goa trial court on Thursday directed a Sub-Divisional Magistrate, who was a former Returning Officer during the February 2017 state assembly polls, to verify his complaint filed against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for exhorting voters to accept money from rival parties, but to vote for his AAP.
1 dead, 3 wounded after stabbing at Texas church service
One man has died after he and three others were stabbed during a church service at a private home in Texas, police said today. As many as 20 people were in the home last night when an apparent member of the congregation pulled a knife and stabbed four men, according to Corpus Christi police Lt Chris Hooper. He said a 61-year-old man later died of his injuries, while the church's 54-year-old pastor was hospitalised in serious condition. Hooper declined to identify the victims. But police said late yesterday that a band member was stabbed in the neck and the pastor was stabbed in the chest, and both were taken hospitalised with life-threatening injuries. Police said two other men suffered puncture wounds, one to a hand and the other to his arm, while trying to get the suspect away from the pastor. The suspect, 28-year-old Marco Antonio Moreno, surrendered immediately after the stabbing to congregants, Hooper said. Moreno was being held at the Nueces County jail on charges .
Khwaja Yunus case: CID wants to put 4 more ex-cops on trial
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Maharashtra today moved a sessions court seeking to put on trial former police officer Praful Bhosale and three others in the Khwaja Yunus custodial death case. The CID filed the application a month after key prosecution witness, Mohammed Abdul Mateen, deposed before the trial court here that he had seen Bhosale, the then assistant police inspector Hemant Desai, and two other policemen (identified only as "Vhanmane and Khot" in the plea) assaulting Yunus in the police lock-up. Yunus (27) had been picked up by police in the 2002 Ghatkopar blast case in Mumbai. While the police claimed that he escaped while being taken to Aurangabad for the purpose of the probe,a CID inquiry -- ordered by the high court on a petition filed by his father -- revealed that he died in police custody. The inquiry indicted 14 policemen, but the government sanctioned prosecution of only four -- Sachin Waze,Rajendra Tiwari, Rajaram Nikam and Sunil ...
Cambodia frees on bail 7 Westerners held for 'dirty dancing'
A court in Cambodia has allowed the release on bail of seven Westerners who were arrested last month for allegedly posting photos on social media of themselves engaged in sexually suggestive dancing, a court official said today. Yim Srang, a court spokesman in the northwestern province of Siem Reap, said the investigation of the case has been completed and the seven were freed yesterday, but no trial date has been set. He said three other people remained in detention but he didn't know their names or nationalities. The 10 arrested people, five from the United Kingdom, two from Canada, and one each from Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand, were detained when police raided a commercially organised party at a rented villa in Siem Reap town and found people dancing at a event described as a pub crawl. Siem Reap is near the famous Angkor Wat temple complex. Police who conducted the raid originally detained almost 90 people, and it was unclear why they singled out 10 to ...
HC directs son to pay late father's unpaid compensation to
The Madras High Court has observed that when a father's assets are passed on to his son after his death, so are his liabilities. Making the observation, Justice S Vaidayanathan directed a man to pay the compensation that ought to have been disbursed by his late father to the family of a worker killed while he was engaged in drainage cleaning. The matter relates to the payment of compensation to the family of the deceased who was engaged for cleaning the drainage in the house where the petitioner's father lived. The petitioner, A Ravichandran, had challenged a Chennai corporation zonal officer's order directing him to pay Rs 10 lakh as liability to Adhilakshmi, legal heir of Narasimhan, who died on August 26, 2001. "The concept of pious (moral) obligation originated in Dharmasastras," the judge said in the recent verdict. "Just as Lord Rama was obligated to fulfil his deceased father's promise to his step-mother, the petitioner herein is obligated to pay compensation to ...
1984 riots: Tytler files police complaint against DSGMC chief
Jagdish Tytler has filed a police complaint against Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Manjit Singh GK, accusing him of circulating a "doctored" video clip showing the Congress leader, a police official said today. Tytler, an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, filed the complaint at Kapashera police station in south west Delhi. He has also separately complained to the cyber cell of Delhi Police in connection with the circulation of the video. "A complaint has been received from Tytler and we are looking into it," the official said. In a press conference on Monday, Singh released a video clip of a purported sting operation recorded in 2011, showing Tytler in conversation with a few people. He claimed he had received the video from an unidentified sender on February 3. Manjit Singh had demanded Tytler's arrest on the basis of the video clip. The video clip circulated by Manjit Singh are completely "false and doctored", Tytler said, calling ...
HC orders KP Assembly Speaker to administer oath to Hindu
The Peshawar High Court today directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial Assembly speaker to administer oath to jailed Hindu lawmaker of Pakistan Tehrik- e-Insaaf Baldev Kumar as a minority member of the House. Kumar is in jail on charges of his involvement in assassination of a party leader Sardar Soran Singh. He moved the high court after the Speaker refused to invite him to take oath as he was accused of killing the PTI member of Provincial Assembly. Kumar, in his plea, said that the Election Commission of Pakistan had declared him elected on the vacant seat in August 2016, making him eligible to take the oath of office, but the Speaker "time and again" failed to issue his production order so that he could take the oath.
Saudi Arabia executes 4 Pakistanis for murder, rape
Saudi Arabia today executed four Pakistani men convicted of raping and murdering a woman and raping her teenage son, the interior ministry said. The men were also convicted of stealing jewellery and cash after entering the woman's home in Riyadh and raping and strangling her, according to a ministry statement cited by the official SPA news agency. Saudi Arabia has executed 20 people since the start of 2018, according to an AFP count. Last year, 141 people were put to death in the kingdom, where executions are carried out by the sword.
PCB charges Nasir of breach of Anti-corruption Code of Conduct
The Pakistan Cricket Board today charged former Test opener Nasir Jamshed with multiple breaches of its Anti-corruption Code of Conduct and given him 14 days to respond to the charges. The PCB said in a statement that Nasir had been issued a notice under which he has been charged with multiple violations of the code of conduct in respect of spot-fixing and corruption issues. The Board has already suspended Nasir for 12 months for not cooperating with the anti-corruption tribunal in the Pakistan Super League spot-fixing scandal which erupted last year. The tribunal has already banned national team members Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif for five years on charges in the PSL spot-fixing scandal. Nasir, who resides in the United Kingdom, has so far failed to appear before the tribunal in the PSL case as he claims his passport is with the UK National Crime Agency which is investigating him in cricket corruption related issues. "PCB remains resilient in its fight against ...