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HC asks Delhi govt to reconsider OP Chautala's plea seeking parole
Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Delhi government to reconsider its stand on the parole plea filed by former Haryana CM OP Chautala.Justice AK Chawla asked the Delhi Government to communicate its decision on Chautala's plea and directed that a copy of the decision be communicated to the petitioner immediately.The court was hearing a plea filed by Chautala seeking parole for a period of three months as his wife is critically ill and is admitted to a hospital.Senior advocate N Hariharan and lawyer Amit Sahni appearing for Chautala told the court that as per the Parole and Furlough Guidelines, Delhi Prison Rules, a convict is entitled to avail parole twice a year for eight weeks and as Chautala has not availed parole for more than a year he is entitled to be released.Earlier, the Delhi Government's standing counsel Rahul Mehra strongly opposed the parole plea stating that Chautala was seeking parole for a political agenda as general elections were underway in the country.Mehra had ...
Alwar gang-rape case: NHRC issues notice to Rajasthan govt over police inaction
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of a case where a woman was allegedly gang-raped by five men while her husband was beaten up by a group of five men in Thanagaji area of Alwar district in Rajasthan on April 26.A video shot by the alleged accused of the gruesome incident, reportedly, went viral on social media.Reportedly, despite having registered an FIR in the matter, the police did not take any action for four days because of elections on May 6.The Commission has also observed that the contents of the media reports, if true, amount to the gross violation of the human rights of the victim woman and her husband."Accordingly, it has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, Rajasthan calling for a report in the matter, within six weeks including action taken against the guilty and relief/ counselling provided to the victim woman," the NHRC said in a release."The Commission would also like to know whether ...
Report of SC panel travesty of justice: PUCL
The PUCL on Wednesday said the report of the Supreme Court in-house committee which concluded that there was no substance in the allegations of sexual harassment made by a former woman employee of the apex court against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi was "gross travesty of justice, flagrant violation of the principles of natural justice and rule of law".
6 criminals held after gunfight with police in Ghaziabad
Six criminals were Wednesday arrested here following a gunfight with police in which two goons sustained injuries, officials said. The accused, who were travelling in two cars, opened fired at police personnel on being signalled to stop for a routine checking, they said. Police fired in return and in the ensuing gun battle, two of the accused sustained injuries, Superintendent of Police (Rural Area) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said, adding that they were immediately rushed to primary health centre in Loni. The injured were identified as Ravi Dutta of Nazafgarh in Delhi and Shahnawaz of Meerut, Jadaun said. The others were identified as Nigam Khari, Ravinder, Jaan Mohammad and Ashraf, he added. Six countrymade pistols and 22 live cartridges were found in their possession, the SP said. All six of them are hardcore criminal and are wanted in several cases, the officer added.
SC notice to Jaising, Grover's NGO; lawyers claim victimization
Senior lawyers Indira Jaising and Anand Grover on Wednesday claimed victimisation after the Supreme Court issued notice to them and their NGO, Lawyers Collective, on a plea seeking investigation and filing of a case against it for allegedly violating rules for receipt and utilization of foreign funds.
Alwar gang rape: 4 arrested; action taken against officers
Four of the five suspects in the Alwar gang-rape case have been arrested while the city SP has been shunted out and an SHO suspended in the wake of the April 26 incident in which police have been accused of delaying action on the pretext of poll preparations. The husband of the victim claimed that he had approached the Thanagazi police station SHO and the SP with his complaint, but he was asked to wait as they were busy with the elections. He alleged that an FIR was lodged only on May 2. As the case came into light, Jaipur Inspector General S Segathir said Wednesday four people have been arrested and 14 police teams pressed into service to nab the remaining accused. Those arrested were identified as Indraraj Gurjar, Ashok and Mukesh and Mahesh Gurjar, the officer said, adding that Mukesh had also recorded the crime and uploaded the video on social media. Mahesh Gurjar was arrested on Wednesday night, the police said. On Tuesday night, the Rajasthan government removed Alwar ...
UN 'deeply concerned' at arrests, abductions in Libya
Tripoli, May 8 (IANS/AKI) The United Nations mission in Libya said on Wednesday it is "deeply concerned" at a spike in abductions, disappearances and arbitrary arrests of activists and reporters in the war-torn country since fighting broke out in the capital, Tripoli, in early April.
Man gets life sentence for killing wife, father-in-law
A city court Wednesday awarded life sentence to a man for murdering his wife and father-in- law over monetary issue in 2013. During his deposition, a police official said he was on patrol duty in October 2013 when he came to know about the double murder in Sakinaka area of suburban Andheri. The official said when he reached the spot near a housing society, he found two bodies lying in a pool of blood. According to the prosecution, the president of the housing society told police the bodies were of Nilesh Kamble's wife Saraswati and his father-in-law Mahadev Lokhande. The housing society president, a key witness in the case, had told the court that after committing the crime, Kamble called him saying he had killed both of them. The key witness told the court the convict had further revealed that his father-in-law was demanding Rs 70,000 from him, which led to a fight between them. During the scuffle, Kamble attacked his father-in-law with a knife and then his wife when she tried to ..
London court denies bail to Nirav Modi for third time
A London Court on Wednesday rejected the third bail plea filed by fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi."Bail not granted. I find that it's a large fraud and I am concerned about Modi's lack of community ties in the UK. He has access to resources and interference with the witnesses is a concern too. Any interference with witnesses will contradict the case," Magistrate Emma said while pronouncing the order.Judge Emma Arbuthnot while dismissing the third bail plea filed by the diamond merchant said that the matter will now be listed for hearing after 28 days.This was a renewed bail application due to change of circumstances and the bail security was doubled. An accused is allowed to file for bail only twice unless there has been a significant change in circumstances.During the course of hearing, prosecution CPS appearing for the Indian government urged the court not to grant him bail on the basis of change of circumstances.CPS contended before the court that Nirav Modi is influencing the
Bail to 155 of 192 arrested from rave party in Noida
As many as 155 people who were arrested from a rave party held illegally at a farmhouse in Greater Noida were granted bail by a local court Wednesday, police said. Five, including the owner of the farmhouse and the organisers of the party, were sent in police remand by the Surajpur court while 32 are in judicial custody, an official said. As many as 161 men and 31 women, including students and working professionals, were arrested from a rave party being held illegally at a farmhouse in Noida on Saturday night. "We have got remand of five of them, including the owner of the farmhouse and the organisers of the illegal event. As many as 155 people were granted bail by the court, while the rest are still in jail," SHO of Sector 49 police station and investigating officer of the case Ajay Aggarwal told PTI. According to police, the five alleged organisers who have been sent in police remand are Kapil Singh Bhati, Adnan Ahmed, Pankaj Sharma, Balesh Kohli and Amit Tyagi, who owns the ...
BJP asks Monserratte to make public cases pending against him
The BJP Wednesday demanded that Congress candidate for the Panaji assembly bypoll Atanasio Monserratte make public the criminal cases pending against him, which is mandatory as per the Supreme Court directives. Addressing a press conference, Goa BJP spokesman Damodar Naik said Monserratte is yet to make public the criminal cases pending against him through advertisements in newspapers, which is necessary as per the SC guidelines. Naik said Monserratte should publicise details about the criminal cases pending against him, at least three times before the campaigning ends on May 17. The by-election for the Panaji Assembly segment is scheduled on May 19 in which Monserratte is pitted against the BJP's Siddharth Kunkolienkar, the Goa Suraksha Manchs Subhash Velingkar and Valmiki Naik of the AAP. The BJP spokesman said Monserratte has specifically mentioned in his affidavit, filed before the Chief Electoral Officer along with his nomination form, that four cases are pending ...
Youth arrested for raping teen
A 19-year-old youth has been arrested on charges of raping and blackmailing a teenager in Rajasthan's Jaipur district, police said on Wednesday. The accused, Imran Khan, took the 14-year-old to a place in Bagru town, 28 km southwest of Jaipur, on April 26 and allegedly raped her. The youth also took some photos and blackmailed her, the police said. The girl narrated the incident to her family on Tuesday, following which an FIR was lodged and Khan was arrested, the police added.
SAT grants interim stay on Sebi's order against Infotech Financial, NSE official, others
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has granted interim stay on Sebi's order against Ajay Shah, Infotech Financial Services, its two company directors as well as NSE's senior official Suprabhat Lala in the co-location case. The NSE in 2009 had engaged Shah and Infotech Financial Services for a research project. However, the entities allegedly developed an algorithm (algo) trading software by misusing confidential data from the NSE, according to Sebi. In separate orders while granting interim relief to Infotech and others, the SAT said more than 10 years have elapsed and the entities were associated with the market during this period and no complaint on any other score has been found against them. Besides, "the data which is alleged to have been used by the appellants (Infotech and others) for preparation of Algo trading software was explained by NSE to be in the public domain in related proceedings made against NSE," the tribunal said in the orders dated May 7. Meanwhile, Sebi's .
Maulvi booked for hitting minor girl with belt in Noida
A religious teacher was Wednesday booked for allegedly thrashing a six-year-old girl with a belt at a madrassa in sector 115 here, police said. A complaint was lodged at the sector 49 police station here against maulvi Ladak Hussain by the minor girl's father, a resident of sector 73, they said. "The six-year-old girl was enrolled at the madrassa in sector 115. When I went to meet her recently, I found she had bruises from a belt on her back. She told me that she was brutally beaten by the maulvi," the complainant alleged. He further claimed that on enquiring about the matter at the madrassa, he was "threatened by around 10 people who had sticks in their hands". A non-cognisable report (NCR) has been filed against the religious teacher, who is on the run, and he has been booked under Indian Penal Code section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and related offences, SHO of sector 49 Ajay Aggarwal told PTI. "We have raided a few places where he could have been found. He appears to have gone
Nirav Modi denied bail for a third time, to remain in 'unliveable' UK jail
Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi was denied bail by a UK court on Wednesday for the third time in his extradition case to India to face charges in the Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case amounting to up to USD 2 billion and will continue to be lodged in a London jail described by his lawyers as "unliveable". His bail, which had already been rejected twice before by Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, came up for a third attempt before Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot, who ruled that while the doubling of security offered by Modi's lawyers did amount to a change in circumstances in order for her to hear the "renewed" bail plea, she still had similar concerns as before that he would fail to surrender before the court. "This is a large fraud and the doubling of security to 2 million pounds is not sufficient to cover a combination of concerns that he would fail to surrender (if bail is granted)," said Judge Arbuthnot. The next hearing in the case will now take ...
HC seeks EC response on PIL over deletion of voter names under Kanyakumari LS seat
The Madras High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Election Commission on a plea which sought a probe into deletion of names of about 45,000 voters under Kanyakumari Lok Sabha constituency where polling was held on April 18. A vacation bench of Justice S Vaidyanathan and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued the notice seeking a status report on the issue, returnable by June 12. The PIL was filed by A Rajkumar, the district coordinator of a fishermen association at Agastheeswaram Mayiladi in the district. Counsel for the petitioner argued that people, whose names were found deleted this time, had voted in the 2016 assembly elections. The deletion of 45,000 names was violative of the fundamental rights, the counsel said and sought a direction from the court to constitute a committee to probe the matter. "Authorities have not followed due process of law before deleting the names," the petitioner said and sought to restrain them from counting votes on May 23. He also sought repoll in ...
Man arrested for killing moneylender in Ghaziabad
A man was arrested in connection with the killing of a moneylender here earlier this week, police said Wednesday. The accused, identified as Shahrukh, a resident of Pasonda village, was arrested Tuesday night they said. On the night of May 5, the moneylender, Yusuf alias Dinna, was strangled to death over some monetary dispute, police said. A bed sheet used for throttling and the car in which the body was ferried have been recovered, they said. Deputy Superintendent of Police Rakesh Mishra said the accused was arrested from an e-rickshaw parking on the basis of a tip-off. The accused confessed to the killing and said he did so because the moneylender was charging him an interest rate of 20 per cent, the DSP said. Shahrukh had taken a loan of Rs 1.25 lakh from him just to get rid of repaying the amount, he planned to eliminate him with the help of his friend Imran, Mishra added. On Sunday, at around 9 pm, he called Dinna at the parking on the pretext of repaying the dues and served ...
UK court again rejects Nirav Modi's bail plea
A British court on Wednesday extended, till May 30, the judicial custody of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, while rejecting his fourth bail plea as it suspected that he could flee the country and "interfere" with witnesses.
SC in-House Inquiry Committee members did injustice to institution in case against CJI: Shourie
The Judges of the In-House Inquiry Committee of the apex court, which gave clean chit to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on the allegations of sexual harassment against him, has done grave "injustice to the complainant, the CJI and the Supreme Court as an institution," former Union Minister Arun Shourie said on Wednesday. Shourie alleged that the members of the inquiry panel were acting as the "members of a club". "In the current controversy in sexual harassment allegations made against the CJI, the three judges who were asked to investigate the matter have behaved like the members of a club. They have done grave injustice to the complainant, the CJI and to the Supreme Court as an institution," he said. The former minister and veteran journalist, who was delivering his fourth 'Nani Palkhivala lecture here, said that because of the infirmities in the whole procedure of dealing with the allegations, doubts will always linger that the three members of the committee were shielding the CJI ...
Nellore: Stray dog chews country-made bomb, dies
A stray dog was killed in Udayagiri on Wednesday when it chewed up a country-made bomb which ended up exploding in its mouth."The bomb, suspected to have been manufactured to hunt jungle pigs, was chewed up by the dog. It exploded in the dog's mouth, blowing up its head to smithereens," said police officials.A case has been registered in the incident and further probe is underway.