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Man falls to death in Maha Mantralaya
A 45-year-old man fell to his death from the fifth floor of the Mantralaya in south Mumbai today, police said. However, it is not yet confirmed whether the man, identified as Harshal Raote, committed suicide or was it an accidental fall, a police official said. The incident occurred at around 6:10 PM, he said. According to police, Raote was found lying in a pool of blood in the open space inside the state secretariat. He was rushed to St George Hospital in south Mumbai, where he was declared brought dead, hospital superintendent Madhukar Gaikwad said. He was working as a para legal volunteer with the Maharashtra State Legal ServicesAuthority in Paithan in Aurangabad. After the incident, Opposition leaders Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Dhananjay Munde and AjitPawar rushed to the Mantralaya to seek details about the incident.
Two held at Delhi airport for smuggling gold worth Rs 22 lakh
Two men have been arrested by the customs for allegedly trying to smuggle gold, valuing about Rs 22 lakh, into the country by concealing it in liquor bottles purchased at a duty-free shop at the Delhi airport, according to an official statement issued today. The accused were intercepted after their arrival here from Bangkok on Tuesday. "A detailed and personal search resulted in recovery of four plates of gold, total weighing 783 grams," the statement by the customs said. The value of the gold, which has been seized, is about Rs 21.86 lakh. Describing the modus operandi, a senior customs official said the accused were operating in a group of eight people. They had purchased liquors from a Delhi duty-free shop and had gone to Bangkok and there, through some of their associates, they got the gold concealed beneath the bottles, he said. Two of them on their arrival in Delhi had tried to walk out with the gold hidden in four liquor bottles being carried by them but were ...
SC fixes March 14 as next date in Ayodhya case
The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed March 14 as the next date of hearing in Ayodhya case.The three-judge bench gave the next date as some of the documents and translations were yet to be filed before the apex court.The Supreme Court was likely to start 'final hearings' on a bunch of 13 petitions over the 2.7 acre disputed Ayodhya site that is claimed by both Hindus and Muslims.The petitions before the judges relate to the 2010 verdict of the Allahabad High Court in the title suit that had been pending for nearly six decades. The dispute before the court was whether the 2.7 acres of disputed land on which the Babri Masjid stood before it was demolished on December 6, 1992, belongs to the Sunni Central Waqf Board or to the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha.Thousands of Hindu karsevaks had demolished the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. Around 2,000 people were killed in the riots that followed the Babri Masjid demolition.
Victims accuse Abdeslam of 'mocking' Belgian terror trial
Lawyers for police officers hurt in a shootout with Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam accused him of scorning Belgian justice after he refused to appear at his trial when it resumed today. Abdeslam, 28, accused judges of being anti-Muslim, refused to answer questions, and proclaimed he put his "trust in Allah" on the first day of the high-security trial on Monday. The Belgian-born Frenchman of Moroccan descent then refused to attend Thursday's resumption of the hearing into the March 2016 gunbattle in Brussels in which three police were wounded, and was represented instead by his lawyer. "His attitude and his opportunism tire me," Tom Bauwens, a lawyer for two of the elite police officers involved in the raid in the Forest district of Brussels, told the courtroom. "He will mock our rule of law, he will mock everybody. He will not recognise your court, he will not recognise your laws," he said. "But he will nevertheless ask for a lawyer to plead his case before you," .
Children's homes: HC asks chief secy to explain non-compliance
The Bombay High Court today pulled up the Maharashtra government for its insensitivity towards improving the conditions at the homes of children and mentally challenged kids, and non-compliance of past orders. A division bench of Justices A S Oka and P N Deshmukh directed the Chief Secretary to file an affidavit personally, explaining the delay in the compliance of directions passed by the court last year. The bench was hearing a public interest litigation on the poor conditions at children's homes (shelter homes) and the homes for mentally challened children in the state, set up under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. The court has taken up the case suo moto (on its own). In April 2017, it had passed several directions, saying it is the government's legal and constitutional obligation to set up adequate number of such homes and provide them with necessary infrastructure. Upon reading the affidavits filed by the government today, the ...
UP: Police inspector rapes junior for 8 years
An FIR has been lodged by a woman constable, posted at Meerut's senior superintendent of police (SSP) office, against an inspector, Lokenderpal, Singh in an alleged rape case.She accused him of sexually assaulting her repeatedly since 2010.Speaking on the same, the victim said "I met him in Bulandshah in 2009 during a family dispute in which my family was involved. He built a friendship with my grandfather and started taking me to court. In June 2010, he spiked my drink and raped me and made a video at gunpoint. He has been exploiting me since then.""He has been threatening me of leaking the video on the internet and said he would falsely implicate my family members in some case or get them killed" she further said.After suffering for eight years, the victim finally decided to approach the Meerut's senior superintendent of police (SSP) with her ordeal, later the FIR was registered in women police station in Meerut.Merrut's SSP Man Singh Chouhan, speaking on the same, said, "An FIR has
Student's car snatched at gunpoint in Noida
Armed men allegedly robbed an MBA student of his car near sector 45, Noida, police said today. Vibhanshu Jindal, a resident of Kaithal in Haryana, was on his way to sector 10, Noida when the incident occurred, they said. As he reached near sector 45, a car overtook him and forced him to halt, the police said. Then armed men came out from that car and overpowered him at gunpoint and robbed his car, they said. The victim lodged his complaint at sector 39 Police Station, Noida, they said.
Consider reconstituting tree committee: HC to Thane corporatn
The Bombay High Court today asked the Thane Municipal Corporation to consider re-constituting its Tree Authority Committee, appointing experts on the body which decides if cutting a tree should be allowed or not. The high court had last month restrained the committee from passing any orders, observing that it appeared that its members were not applying mind while giving permissions to cut trees. A division bench of Justices A S Oka and P N Deshmukh was hearing a public interest litigation filed by Thane resident Rohan Joshi, who claimed that corporators and other members of the committee are not qualified enough. The court today asked Ram Apte, TMC lawyer, to consider dissolving the present committee. "Why cannot the tree authority committee be re-constituted with experts? This will put an end to the entire controversy. The corporation should consider this seriously. Follow provisions of the law and see to it that experts from concerned fields are also appointed to the .
BJP MLA raises Dalit issues in Rajasthan Assembly
Ruling BJP MLA Heera Lal today accused police officials of Rajasthan's Tonk district of not taking action in a sexual harassment case of a minor Dalit girl in his constituency. In the Zero Hour of the Assembly, the Niwai legislator alleged that neither the Station House Officer (SHO) nor the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Tonk had listened or sympathised with the plea of the 17-year-old girl. The girl was allegedly molested by her school principal a few days back and when her family members approached the SP, the officer said that she had no time for them, the MLA alleged. Opposition Congress created an uproar over the issue, saying that though the BJP MLA was targeting the government, the government was not serious about Dalit issues. The law and order situation in the state has deteriorated, the Congress alleged, demanding a reply from Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria. Kataria was not present in the House at that time. Lal demanded action against the SHO ...
Disciplinary proceedings are not human rights violation: HC
Disciplinary proceedings are not human rights violation and security agencies, exempted from the purview of the RTI Act, need not provide information on such issues, the Delhi High Court has ruled. The ruling by Justice Vibhu Bakhru came on a CBI plea challenging a Central Information Commission (CIC) order directing the agency to provide one of its officers the status and details of disciplinary proceedings against him. The court set aside the CIC's order of June 9, 2017, saying that the commission "fell in error" by issuing the direction. The verdict assumes significance as agencies which are exempted from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, are required under the transparency law to provide information they have pertaining to human rights violation and corruption. In the instant case, the CBI officer, who was seeking the status of the disciplinary proceedings initiated against him in 2011, had contended that the pendency of the proceedings had resulted
Amid campaigning, man held with arms and ammunition in Tripura
Amid the high-pitch electioneering for the February 18 assembly elections, Tripura Police arrested a tribal man with three sophisticated revolvers and a large quantity of ammunition, police said here on Thursday.
Court to record evidence on Apr 7 on Jaitley's defamation plea
A metropolitan court here today fixed April 7 for recording evidence in a criminal defamation complaint filed by Union minister Arun Jaitley against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other AAP leaders in the DDCA row. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat was informed by Jaitley's advocate that the BJP politician was unable to appear before the court due to the ongoing Parliament session. Jaitley had on August 5 last year accused Kejriwal and other AAP leaders -- Kumar Viswas, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha, Ashutosh and Deepak Bajpai -- of making a series of "false, scandalous and defamatory" allegations against him, claiming it adversely affected his reputation. The AAP leaders had alleged there were financial irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) when Jaitley was its president from 2000 to 2013, prompting the minister to lodge defamation cases against them. The court allowed Jaitley's plea seeking exemption from personal ...
Cong MLAs stage walkout in Chhattisgarh House
The main opposition Congress today staged a walkout in the Chhattisgarh Assembly alleging that the police are not taking timely action in criminal cases and are delaying the process of filing of chargesheets. During Question Hour, BJP MLA Awdhesh Singh Chandel sought to know the exact number of criminal offences registered in his Bemetara assembly constituency between 2015-16and December 2017. He asked the state government's reply on the number of cases in which chargesheets have been filed and the deadline for taking action in the pending matters. In his reply, Home Minister Ramsewak Paikra informed that 369 cases of murder, loot, theft, dacoity, rape, duping, chain snatching and burglary were registered during this period in the region and that chargesheets have been filed in 164 cases. Paikra, however, said it was not possible to tell when the action would be taken in remaining cases. Meanwhile, Congress MLAs Satyanarayan Sharma, Santram Netam, Mohan Markam and others
Teacher held for girl's death
A private school teacher, who had allegedly slapped an 11-year-old girl resulting in her death, was arrested today, police said. An FIR was registered against Rajni Upadhyay on charges of culpable homicide and voluntarily causing hurt, SHO Rasra Kotwali, Jagdish Chandra Yadav said. According to the post-mortem report two injury marks have been found on the deceased's head, the SHO said. The family members of the girl, who was a student of class five in the school in Rasra area, alleged that the teacher slapped her on February 5 due to which she fainted. She was later admitted to the hospital where she died yesterday, they said. They had also staged a protest outside the school with the dead body of the girl demanding action against the teacher.
Thai PM says law applies to tycoon accused of poaching
A Thai tycoon charged with poaching a leopard in a national park will not escape justice despite his wealth, the country's junta leader vowed today, as public outcry rages over impunity for the kingdom's rich and powerful. Construction magnate Premchai Karnasuta was arrested along with three others on Sunday night by rangers who stumbled upon their camp in a wildlife sanctuary in western Thailand. They seized guns, ammunition and animal carcasses including a rare black leopard, leading to police charges for hunting in the national reserve and poaching a protected species. Premchai is the president of the publicly traded Italian- Thai Development, a Bangkok-based company that helped build Thailand's Suvarnabhumi airport and the city's skytrain public transit system known as the BTS. He has denied the charges and was swiftly granted bail for under USD 5,000, stirring Thai social media into life fearing the multi-millionaire may evade justice like other mega-rich suspects
35-yr-old tent house owner shot dead
A 35-year-old tent house owner was killed today when an unidentified person fired at him, police said. The deceased was identified as Rajkumar Yadav, the said. Yadav was on his way to distributing money to some of the labourers employed by him when around 11.45 am, an unidentified person shot him dead, the police said in a statement. The incident happened at Mama Chauraha, Vrindavan Colony here, they said. A case was registered in this regard, police said.
RTG Share Broking settles case with Sebi, pays Rs 2.55 lakh
RTG Share Broking Ltd has settled a case with markets regulator Sebi related to alleged violation of norms after paying Rs 2.55 lakh towards settlement. The regulator had initiated adjudication proceedings against RTG for violating Sebi (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, among others. While the proceedings were in progress, the firm had submitted an application for their settlement. The settlement terms as proposed by RTG were considered by the regulator's internal committee and placed before the High Powered Advisory Committee (HPAC). After considering the facts of the case, HPAC recommended for its settlement on payment of Rs 2.55 lakh by the firm. Last week, RTG paid the settlement amount following which the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) settled the case. However, Sebi said that enforcement action can be initiated against the firm if any representation made by it in the present settlement proceedings is subsequently discovered to be untrue.
Maldives crisis: CJ's lawyers express concerns over arbitrary arrest
The lawyers for Chief Justice of the Maldives Abdulla Saeed have expressed grave concerns over the continued arbitrary detention of the Chief Justice.A statement by the lawyers, said that the Chief Justice was detained on February 6 at around 3 am by masked security personnel loyal to Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen and that no further explanations or warrant were produced at the time of arrest.The statement added that Justice Saeed was forcefully dragged on the floor from his chambers by uniformed security personnel in riot gear after he told them they were in contempt of court and were in violation of the constitution, he was later taken to Dhoonidhoo Detention Centre where he continues to be incarcerated.Justice Saeed had informed his lawyers that immediately after the SC ruling on February 1, he received a number of threats, including a call saying they would cut him to pieces unless he reversed the ruling, the statement continued.The Chief Justice was given access to his ...
Mother, son killed in road accident
A woman and her son were killed when their Maruti car was rammed by a speeding Scorpio at Modi Nagar in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district on Thursday, police said.
Biker dies in freak accident in Delhi, 7 policemen suspended
A biker was killed here on Thursday after his neck got stuck in a wire at a police barricade, a police officer said, adding that an Inspector was transferred and seven policemen were suspended over the accident.