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Follow rules while allotting quarters to court staff: HC
The Madras High Court has directed its registry to follow rules and regulations while allotting accommodation to court employees and verify the genuineness of occupation of quarters and initiate action if there were any irregularities. Justice S M Subramaniam gave the direction while disposing of a petition from the Madras High Court Staff Association, seeking to allow its members to retain the rental quarters in the event of being transferred to Madurai on a temporary basis even during their absence. He also directed the Registrar General of Madras High Court to maintain a seniority register. Justice Subramaniam directed the registry to inspect all government accommodations allotted to high court employees with the assistance of its vigilance department and identify genuineness or otherwise of the occupation of the quarters. "In case of transfers, a specific application is to be submitted by the allottee/employee, seeking permission for retention of accommodation and on
Kasganj clashes: Rahul Upadhyay alive, says UP Police
Inspector General Aligarh Range, Sanjeev Gupta on Monday said Rahul Upadhyay, whose death aggravated the rampant violence across Kasganj district, is alive.Four people have also been arrested for spreading the rumour.Talking with ANI, Gupta said, "Contrary to rumours spread on social media, Rahul Upadhyay is alive. We have arrested four people for spreading false rumours."Upadhyay had allegedly died, along with another person named Chandan Gupta, in the clashes which broke out in Kasganj on Republic Day.Angered by the rumours of Upadhyay's death, the mob staged violence over the course of three days.On Sunday, more than 30 people were sent to jail on charges of murder and 51 others were detained by police, in connection with the violence that erupted in the vicinity.One person died and two others were injured after a clash broke out between two communities during 'Tiranga Yatra' in the district on Republic Day.Both the groups reportedly pelted stones and also fired bullets at each ...
Man fakes attack on himself, gets real feel of bars
A man, who allegedly shot himself in order to offload a debt, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district, the police said. Ali Mohammed, who owed Rs 6 lakh to a friend, filed a complaint by himself on Saturday alleging that some people fired gunshots at him and two of his friends and looted Rs 2.50 lakh, a police official told reporters last evening. Sustained interrogation revealed that Mohammed, along with his accomplices, had staged the attack so that he would not have to pay the debt. Mohammed did not return the money inspite of giving many assurances. Even the bullet injury on him was self-inflicted, the police official said.
Woman councilor death case: Delhi Court acquits man, parents
A Delhi Court on Monday acquitted a man and his parents, involved in the 2012 death case of a sitting woman Councillor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), Satyam Yadav and her daughter.Yadav and her 18-month-old daughter were found dead under suspicious circumstances at their residence in Nangloi in November 2012.The victim's family accused her in-laws and husband of harassing her for dowry and also blamed them for the two deaths.Yadav was a Councillor from Nangloi East of the Municipal Corporation.A case was registered under the relevant Sections of dowry death and murder.
Three of family found murdered in Hyderabad
The bodies of a young woman, her mother and four-year-old daughter were found in their apartment on Hyderabad's outskirts on Monday, police said. The young woman's estranged husband is the prime suspect and is absconding.
Vegetable vendor arrested for repeatedly raping neighbour
A vegetable vendor from Nalla Sopara near Vasai was yesterday arrested for allegedly raping his 18-year-old neighbour on multiple occasions, police said today. Senior Inspector Sanjay Hazare of Valiv Police Station said the victim, in her complaint filed yesterday, has stated that the vendor first raped her in March last year when she was alone at home. "She was having a headache and the accused gave her some tablets which made her drowsy. She has said that he raped her on several occasions by giving her these tablets," the official said. The accused also threatened to kill the victim in case she revealed her ordeal to anyone, police said. A case under section 376 (rape), 328 (causing hurt by poison) as well as other sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered and investigations were underway, he informed.
Kim Jong-Nam met American days before his death: witness
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un met an unidentified American on a tourist island in Malaysia four days before he was assassinated in a Cold War-style hit, a court heard today. Kim Jong-Nam met the man at a hotel in Langkawi on February 9, a witness told the trial of two women accused of the killing that stunned the world. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong allegedly rubbed VX nerve agent on Kim's face at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on February 13 as he waited to board a flight to Macau. Kim died in agony shortly afterwards and the women were arrested days later. The pair, who face death by hanging if convicted, have pleaded not guilty and said they were tricked into believing they were part of a prank reality TV show, with their lawyers blaming North Korean agents. South Korea also has accused North Korea of ordering the murder, an allegation it denies. Today's trial, defence lawyer Gooi Soon Seng questioned senior ...
Odisha Police arrests BSF constable for trafficking woman
Odisha Police has arrested a BSF constable from West Bengal on the charge of trafficking a woman from Malkangiri on the promise of marriage and abondoning her at Sonepat in Haryana, police said today. A Odisha Police team with the help of its West Bengal counterpart arrested the constable from 43 BN BSF Rosan Bagh, Murshidabad on January 25. He was produced before the court of additional chief judicial magistrate of Lalbagh, Murshidabad the next day and with its permission was takent on four days' transit remand to Malkangiri yesterday, the police said. The Odisha police has registered a case of trafficking against the BSF constable, who hails from Rohat village in Sonepat district of Haryana, they said. The constable had come in contact with the woman, who is from Chitrakonda area, when he was posted at MV 79 under Kalimela police station of Malkangiri district in 2012. In September next year he took the woman with him to Sonepat and kept her in a rented house there, ...
Sohrabuddin case: HC seeks chart of discharged cops, charges
The Bombay High Court today asked the CBI to submit a chart giving names of police officers whose discharge from the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case has been challenged, and the roles ascribed to them in the charge sheet. Justice Revati Mohite-Dere also said that she would hear the petitions filed by Shaikh's brother Rubabuddin Shaikh and the Central Bureau of Investigation challenging the discharge of some of the accused on a daily basis. "Give a chart...containing the names of those whose discharge has been challenged, the charges and sections imposed by the CBI (against them) in the charge sheet," the judge said. The hearing will begin from February 9. Rubabuddin has filed revision applications challenging the trial court orders between August 2016 and August 2017 discharging IPS officers D G Vanzara (retired), Rajkumar Pandiyan, and Dinesh M N from the case. The trial court discharged 15 of the 38 people named by the CBI in its charge sheet during this ...
ED custody of Guj-based firm's director extended till Feb 7
A Delhi court has extended till February 7 the Enforcement Directorate custody of a director of a Gujarat-based pharma firm in a money laundering case related to a Rs 5,000-crore bank fraud case. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma extended the custody of Rajbhushan Omprakash Dixit, a director of Sterling Biotech, after special public prosecutor Nitesh Rana, appearing for the ED, said his further custodial interrogation was required by the agency. Rana told the court that the accused, arrested on January 25, is to be confronted with various documents and co-accused to unearth the larger conspiracy. This is the third arrest in the case. The agency arrested a former director of Andhra Bank, Anup Prakash Garg earlier this month, and a Delhi-based businessman Gagan Dhawan in November last year. While Garg is currently in judicial custody, Dhawan was granted bail in January 4. All three were arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). They were named ..
Man's hacking in Rajasthan: SC asks widow to file fresh plea
The Supreme Court today granted liberty to the widow of a Muslim labourer from West Bengal, who was hacked and burnt alive in Rajasthan on December 6 last year, to file a fresh petition seeking an independent probe into the murder. Gulbahar Bibi, wife of 50-year-old Mohammed Bhatta Sheikh, is also seeking a direction that the video of her husband's ghastly murder and setting him ablaze be withdrawn from the internet and social media sites. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra allowed senior lawyer Indira Jaising, counsel for Bibi, to withdraw the present plea and file a "better petition" and asked the apex court registry to list the fresh one for hearing on February 5. "File a properly drafted petition. We allow the present writ petition to be withdrawn with the liberty to file a fresh one," the bench, which also comprised Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, said. Earlier, the top court had termed as "horrendous" the video of the Muslim labourer being ...
U.S. authorities due to make arrests in futures 'spoofing' probe - sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities were set to arrest several people on Monday in connection with a federal investigation into so-called spoofing and manipulation in the U.S. futures market by three European banks, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Woman, daughter, grandchild found murdered at home in Hyd
A 25-year-old woman, her middle-aged mother and her 5-year-old daughter were today found dead in their house in Chandanagar area here, police said. Chandanagar Police Station Inspector N Tirupati Rao identified the three as G Aparna Devi, her mother Jayalaxmi and Aparna's daughter Karthikeya, adding that neighbours alerted the police after a foul smell started emanating from the house. "While Aparna's body, with her head smashed, was found in the kitchen, the bodies of her mother and her daughter were found on the cot," the Inspector said. He said that Aparna, who worked in an electronics store, was staying separately from her husband for the past two years. A case of murder has been registered and further investigations were on, Rao said.
Swamy's plea in Sunanda's death: SC questions maintainability
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy was today asked by the Supreme Court to satisfy it on the aspect of maintainability of his plea seeking an SIT probe into the death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar. The apex court observed this while hearing Swamy's appeal against the Delhi High Court's October 26 last year's verdict dismissing his plea for a probe by a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) into Pushkar's death. Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a suite of a five-star hotel in Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014. "Before going into the merits, we need to be satisfied on maintainability (of the plea)," a bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and Amitava Roy told Swamy. Swamy told the bench that when the matter relating to the probe into Indian Premier League (IPL) was going on, the issue of Pushkar's "unnatural death" came to fore. "It took one year for Delhi Police to lodge an FIR. The autopsy report says it was an ...
Police foils woman's self immolation bid
A 50-year-old widow made a vain attempt to set herself ablaze at the collectorate premises here today after police allegedly prevented her from meeting the Collector to request a probe into the 'mysterious' death of her teenaged daughter. Police said their personnel present there foiled her attempt and later allowed her to meet the Collector Sandeep Nandoori. The woman, hailing from Mavadikaalai, about 80 km from here, alleged that the inspector at a police station abused her for lodging the complaint. She said she wanted to give a complaint to the collector as police could not ascertain the reason behind the mysterious death of her daughter When police stopped her at the collectorate gate and did not allow her to meet Nandoori at the grievances day meeting, she doused herself with kerosene and tried to set herself ablaze. However, police at the entrance prevented her lighting the match stick and took her to meet the collector Sandeep Nandoori.
Bankruptcy code used actively to resolve NPA problem: Economic Survey
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) mechanism "is being used actively" to resolve the NPA (non performing assets) problem of the banking sector, the Economic Survey 2017-18 tabled in Parliament said on Monday.
Newborn girl found dead in dustbin outside Safdarjung hospital
A newborn girl was today found dead in a dustbin near the mortuary of Safdarjung Hospital in south Delhi. A senior official said police received a PCR call regarding a newborn girl lying dead in a dustbin at the rear of the hospital's mortuary. "According to a tag on the body, the baby was premature, weighed 1.42 kg and was born at 11:58 pm on January 27. "During an inquiry, the father of the girl said his wife gave birth to a stillborn baby," the official said. He told police that doctors handed over the baby to the father, who threw her into a dustbin near the mortuary of the hospital as he did not what to do. "A probe into the matter is underway," he added.
Miscreants loot police vehicle at gunpoint
Miscreants have looted a Dail 100 Police vehicle at gunpoint in Panna's Bamurha village of Madhya Pradesh.Besides looting the vehicle, they held the policemen captive and kidnapped a girl on Saturday.The identity of the girl is not yet known.Further investigating in the case is on.
HC voices concern over safety of people, says arsonist on the
The Delhi High Court today expressed apprehension over the safety of people in their homes in the national capital, saying that an "arsonist is on the loose throwing fire bombs and setting cars ablaze". The remarks were made by the court during the hearing of a petition relating to a woman lawyer's assault by the police in a stalking case against her in connection with a property dispute. There was high drama during the proceedings as some advocates beat up an unidentified man suspecting him to behind the recent attacks on lawyers. A senior lawyers, who have been representing the woman, have been at the receiving end of arson attacks at their homes and the cars of two of them were set ablaze. According to court staff, the bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Deepa Sharma had risen for a five-minute break when some of the advocates present in the court beat up the man. Lawyers said the man did not state how he entered the court premises and alleged his face resembled ...
Govt to decide if 2017 Manodhairya scheme will cover older
The Maharashtra government today informed the Bombay High Court that it would soon take a policy decision on whether women-related offences lodged after December 2009 would fall under the Manodhairya Yojana of 2013 or the new scheme of last year. Under the Manodhairya scheme of October 2013, the victims of acid attacks and rape cases were liable for monetary compensation up to Rs 3 lakh. But, after facing flak from the high court, the state government in December last year came up with a revised scheme under which the monetary compensation was increased to up to Rs 10 lakh. The government, however, said the new scheme would not be with retrospective effect. Additional government pleader Neha Bhide told a division bench of Justices R M Borde and R G Ketkar that the 2013 scheme covered cases lodged after December 31, 2009. "A separate policy decision will now be taken on the cut-off date for the new scheme. This policy decision will also decide whether the cases lodged ...