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Pradhan dares Odisha CM to order CBI probe

BJP leader and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today stepped up attack on Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over suicide of a minor girl, who had alleged rape by four men in uniform, and dared him to order a CBI probe into the episode. Noting that Haryana government had handed over a similar rape case to CBI for inquiry, Pradhan dared the BJD government to order a CBI probe into alleged rape of the 14-year-old girl at Kunduli in Koraput on October 10, last year if it has the courage and moral. The Petroleum Minister was speaking to reporters after Prime Minister Narendra Modis Mann ki Baat radio programme at Sikharchandi Nagar in Patia area here. The rape survivor committed suicide on January 22. Pradhan alleged that Patnaik is unable to gauge the agony of the people as he has turned "blind due to absolute power." "The protector becoming a predator in Kunduli gang rape case is an irony for democracy," claimed the BJP leader. Pradhan alleged that the ruling BJD is ...

Dharmendra Pradhan seeks CBI probe into Odisha gang rape

Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said the gang rape case of a minor girl in Odisha's Koraput district should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Man beheads wife on suspicion of character

A pregnant woman was allegedly beheaded today by her drunkard husband who suspected her character in Kosdani village of the district, police said. The incident occurred in the morning when the accused, identified as Pramod Pawar, had a heated argument with his wife Seema at their hut, they said. In a fit of rage, Pawar allegedly attacked Seema with an axe, police said. On hearing her cries, neighbours rushed Seema to local hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead. Police have registered a case of murder against the accused and have launched a search to arrest him. According to police, Pramod was a drunkard and did odd jobs for living. During an argument, he questionned the fidelity of his wife who was expecting, a Arni police station official said. Both Pramod and Seema are in their late 30s.

Court quashes man's jail term, says key witness not properly

An eight-month jail term awarded to a man for ramming his car into a stationary truck and causing death of a person has been set aside by a Delhi court which said the convict did not get proper opportunity to cross-examine a key eye witness. Additional Sessions Judge Suresh Kumar Gupta quashed the conviction and sentence order of the magisterial court and asked it to decide the matter afresh in accordance with law. "To my mind, trial court has not given proper opportunity for the cross examination of prosecution witness though reliance is placed on his testimony while convicting the appellant (convict)," the judge said while allowing the appeal of the car driver against the conviction and sentence orders. The sessions court observed that cross examination of any witness "is essential in order to bring out the truth during the course of cross examination. The appellant has no way to bring his defence on record except to test the credibility of the witness during the ...

Building collapse: Main witness says had warned authorities

The main witness in the 2013 Shil- Daighar building collapse case told a local court that he had warned civic authorities about the impending danger due to construction of substandard and unauthorised structures. The main witness, Mangal Patil, was examined by Special Public Prosecutor Shishir Hire and cross-examined last week by defence counsel MZG alias Baba Shaikh. He told District Judge V V Bambarde that he had warned the civic officials about the impending danger posed due to the construction of the substandard and unauthorised structures. In the Shil-Daighar building collapse in April 2013, 74 persons were killed while over 60 injured. On certain occasions, Patil said that he went to the meet top civic officials but was unable meet them. The court is trying 27 accused and the hearing will continue tomorrow.

Kunduli gang-rape: Pradhan demands Patnaik's resignation

Speaking to ANI, Pradhan even questioned the morality of the state government over the sensitivity of the case."If Naveen Patnaik has any moral responsibility left then he should offer his resignation and hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)," he said.A class IX girl committed suicide on January 22 after being allegedly gang-raped by four security personnel in Koraput district in October last year.The incident triggered a massive outrage across the state.In November last year, the girl attempted to kill herself, after which Patnaik ordered a judicial probe into the incident.

Two arrested for duping seven by promising civic jobs

Two persons were arrested for allegedly cheating unemployed youth with false promises of government jobs, Hyderabad police officials said. R Rajashekar and R Ramakanth, employees of private firms, duped seven job aspirants by giving them forged appointment letters after collecting Rs 3.15 lakh from them on the pretext of offering jobs as junior assistants in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, a release from Hyderabad Police said. The two were arrested yesterday after the victims approached the police on realising that they had been cheated, said officials. A case under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) and 506 (criminal intimidation) was registered, officials added.

1 person arrested for killing elder brother

A man was killed allegedly by his younger brother at Pandapara in Jalpaiguri district, police said today. The accused was arrested today, the police said. A quarrel broke out between the brothers on Saturday night at their rented house in Pandapara when the younger brother allegedly struck his elder brother's head with an iron rod, a police officer said. The elder brother's body was recovered from their house on today morning, the officer said. They used to quarrel often, the landlord, Partha Majumdar said in his statement, he said. The motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained, the officer added.

Sherin's sister to live with family of foster parents

The Indian-American adoptive parents of Sherin Mathews, the girl found dead in a culvert in Dallas, have forfeited their parental rights to their 4-year- old biological child, who now has to live with family members with both her parents in jail ahead of their sentencing. Wesley and Sini Mathews signed relinquishment paperwork for their biological child on Friday during their scheduled final Child Protective Service (CPS) hearing, according to US media reports. CPS officials had removed her from the Mathews' Richardson home on October 9, two days after her sister Sherin was reported missing. Sherin's decomposed body was found two weeks later in a culvert close to her home. An autopsy concluded Sherin died of homicidal violence, but how she died could not be determined by the Dallas Medical Examiner's Office due to the decomposition of the body. Wesley, 37, has been charged with capital murder in Sherin's death. Sini, 35, was arrested on a charge of child abandonment or .

Cong demands judicial probe into Kasganj violence

The Congress today demanded an independent judicial probe by a sitting high court judge into violence in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj that erupted after a boy was killed in clashes following stone-pelting on a motorcycle rally taken out to celebrate Republic Day. Congress leader Pramod Tiwari alleged callousness and mismanagement on the part of the Uttar Pradesh government and local administration led to clashes between two communities in Kasganj. He said the continuing violence threatened peace in the entire state. "How did this happen, who did it? The truth will come out only when an independent judicial probe is conducted by a sitting high court judge. "We demand an independent probe by a sitting high court judge into the incident," he said. "Till when will incidents of gangrape continue under your rule and in the BJP-ruled states. When will you apprehend the culprits and give them exemplary punishment?" he asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Scrapped notes of Rs 2.53 cr face value seized; four held

The city police arrested four persons here for allegedly trying to exchange the scrapped currency notes. They recovered the demonetised currency notes with a face value of Rs 2.53 crore from them, an official said. During the checking of vehicles at Bahadurpura Cross Road on January 26, the four men tried to speed away in their car. The police personnel chased the vehicle and after stopping it, they found the four persons in possession of the old currency notes in Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Zone) V Satyanarayana said in a release yesterday. The accused -- Amit Bagri, a businessman from Bengaluru, and the three locals -- were allegedly planning to exchange the old notes with the new currency on a commission basis, he said. The four persons were arrested yesterday and a case was registered against them under the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Act, 2017, he said. The police also informed the Income Tax department

Fadnavis announces ex-gratia in MRI death case

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday announced a compensation of Rs. 5 lakhs for family of the victim in Nair Hospital case.A 32-year-old Rajesh Maru lost his life on Saturday evening, after he was sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine.An FIR has been registered against the hospital's doctor Siddhant Shah, ward boy Vitthal Chavan and one lady ward attendant Sunita Surve under Section 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).The hospital authorities have also handed over the CCTV footage of the incident to the police.Meanwhile, Maru's relative blamed the hospital authorities' negligence for his death."He went there to visit my ailing mother. A ward boy told him to carry an oxygen cylinder with him to MRI room which is prohibited. It all happened because of the carelessness of hospital's doctors and administration. No security guard was either present to tell him that he should not carry oxygen cylinder with him to MRI room," .

Mumbai hospital: Man sucked into MRI machine, CM gives ex-gratia to family

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis announces Rs 500,000 ex gratia for family of victim who was sucked into the MRI machine on Saturday

Man dies in freak accident in hospital's MRI room

A 32-year-old man died after he inhaled an excessive amount of liquid oxygen in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room at a hospital here, a senior police official said today. Rajesh Maru was killed in the incident last evening at the civic-run hospital in Central Mumbai, following which a case was registered against three people -- a doctor, a ward boy and a woman cleaner, police said. Maru had gone to the hospital for one of his relatives MRI scan, another official said. The victim, as directed by the doctor, took the patient to the MRI ward for the scan. There an oxygen cylinder leaked, he said. The oxygen was in liquid form which is poisonous. The victim inhaled it in an excessive amount and died on the spot, another senior police official said. He said that the patient was not affected in the incident. The Agripada police has registered a case under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against the doctor, the ward boy and a woman cleaner, ..

Three dead in car accident, overspeeding suspected, say cops

Three people were killed and one injured after the car they were travelling in hit a tree here today morning. According to Chevella Police Station Circle Inspector G Guruvaiah, the mishap occurred between 6:45 am and 7:00 am near Meerjaguda village gate, around 40 kms from here. It killed three occupants of the car instantly, he added. The deceased were identified as K Praveen Kumar and A Arjun Kumar, both software engineers working in an IT company here and B David, an employee of a private company, he said. The injured has been identified as G Sravan, also a software engineer, and he had been shifted to a nearby hospital,the inspector said. "In view of the long holiday, the four friends were proceeding from Hyderabad to Vikarabad by car. It was being driven by Praveen Kumar. He lost control when the car reached Meerjaguda village gate and it slid off the road, possibly due to speeding, and hit a tree," Guruvaiah told PTI. A case was registered under relevant IPC ...

Two drug peddlers arrested in Jammu, Doda: Police

Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested along with poppy straw and charas in separate operations in Doda and Jammu districts, police claimed today. Gurpreet, hailing from Punjab, was arrested during vehicle checking at Manda Naka in Pacca Danga area of the city this afternoon, a police spokesman said. Singh tried to escape when the police stopped his vehicle for checking but was overpowered and arrested after nine kgs of poppy straw was recovered from his possession, he said. In another operation, a drug peddler was arrested from Kahara bridge near Gandoh in Doda district last evening and some 'charas' was recovered from him, he said. Both the drug peddlers were booked under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, the police spokesman said.

On court's direction, police book MLA for 'grabbing' land

Police have registered a case against a Congress MLA and his four associates for allegedly grabbing the land of a 55-year-old tribal in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, following the direction from a local court. Dukhlal Kanwar, a resident of Chuiya village, had filed a petition in a local court seeking action against the MLA, Jaisingh Agrawal, who represents the Korba constituency, and four others for allegedly capturing 0.45 hectare of his land. The court of Special Judge under Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Yogesh Pareek, had on January 15 directed the Anusuchit Janjati Kalyan (AJK) police station in Korba to lodge an FIR against the five persons. The AJK police last evening registered the case against the 48-year-old legislator and his associates - Surendra Jaiswal (52), Bhola Soni (38), Vijay Singh (48) and Darshan Manikpuri (45) - under various sections of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, station house officer R S .

J&K police registers FIR on civilian deaths in Shopian firing

Army personnel were mentioned in an FIR registered by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in connection with a firing incident in Shopian district that left two persons dead and nine injured, officials said. The personnel belong to the 10 Garhwal unit of the Army and include a Major rank officer have been mentioned in the FIR,they said. The case was registered under sections 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder), the officials said. Two youth were killed and nine others injured allegedly in Army firing at Ganovpora in Shopian yesterday when a stonepelting mob targeted a convoy. The Mehbooba Mufti led state government has also ordered a magisterial probe into the incident even as a defence spokesman maintained that the soldiers opened firing in self defence.

Kasganj clash: Situation under control, says UP police

The Uttar Pradesh police on Sunday said that the situation is under control in Kasganj after violence broke out on the Republic Day, wherein one person died and two others were injured.Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP), OP Singh said that drone surveillance is being conducted to maintain law and order."Situation in Kasganj is under control. No incidents have taken place in the last few hours. Through drones we are conducting surveillance. Our priority is to maintain law and order. We had put restrictions on the internet for few hours to restrain rumours from being spread but we took this step to maintain law and order which is our utmost priority", Singh told ANI.He added that a number of people have been arrested and patrolling has been intensified.Meanwhile, raids were conducted at the residence of an accused in connection with the case.All internet services have been suspended from 5 p.m. on January 27 to 10 p.m. on January 28.One person died and two others were ...

MRI death case: Three accused arrested

The three accused in the death of a man at Nair Hospital here have been arrested.The three were detained earlier this morning.32-year-old Rajesh Maru lost his life on Saturday evening after he was sucked into a MRI machine.An FIR was registered against the hospital's doctor Siddhant Shah, ward boy Vitthal Chavan and one lady ward attendant Sunita Surve under Section 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The hospital authorities have also handed over the CCTV footage of the incident to the police.Meanwhile, Maru's relative blamed the hospital authorities' negligence for his death."He went there to visit my ailing mother. A ward boy told him to carry an oxygen cylinder with him to MRI room which is prohibited. It all happened because of the carelessness of hospital's doctors and administration. No security guard was either present to tell him that he should not carry oxygen cylinder with him to MRI room," Maru's brother-in-law, Harish Solanki told ANI."As ..