Page 2040 - Law Crime
Protests to continue till 'Padmaavat' is banned: Karni Sena
Shri Rajput Karni Sena chief Lokendra Singh Kalvi on Thursday said the nationwide protests will continue till the Bollywood film "Padmaavat" is banned.
Kamala Mills fire: Bail pleas of five accused rejected
A Mumbai Court on Thursday rejected the bail applications of all five accused in connection with the Kamala Mills fire case that claimed 14 lives.Earlier in the week, the Bhoiwada Court sent Kamala Mills owner Ramesh Govani to police custody till January 29 in this connection. He was detained on January 22 by police for interrogation.Earlier in the month, families of two people who lost their lives in the fire strongly opposed the granting of bail to the five accused - Yug Tuli, Yug Pathak, Abhijit Mankar, Jigar Sanghvi and Kripesh Sanghvi - by a Mumbai court.
Two minors from Jharkhand working as domestic helps rescued
Two sisters aged seven and ten years were rescued by the Delhi Commission for Women and police from their employer's home in north-west Delhi's Pitampura where they were allegedly confined and harassed physically and mentally. The accused, a 45-year-old businessman who has a factry of plastic granules in outer Delhi, has been arrested. They two sisters told the police that they had been brought to Delhi by someone from their village in Jharkhand and were working as domestic helps.. "We are also trying to identify the placement agency through which the girls were employed," said a senior police official. The police have also informed Jharkhand Bhawan officials and have requested them to trace the parents of the girls. The DCW had received a call on its women helpline - 181- about the minor girls being illegally confined in a house in Pitampura. A neighbour had made the call. A team of DCW counsellors immediately reached the spot with the Delhi Police. On enquiring about ...
Cops bust inter-state gang of bank robbers
Police today said they have busted an inter-state gang of bank robbers with the arrest of five persons from whose possession more than Rs 20 lakh in cash, jewellery, vehicles and other valuables have been recovered. The robbers were arrested from different places during raids conducted by a Special Investigating Team which was formed after the heist of nearly Rs 50 lakh from a UCO Bank branch in the town's Gola Road area on January 4, Deepak Ranjan, Superintendent of Police, Samastipur, said. The SP said the robbers were identified with the help of CCTV footage obtained from shops situated near the bank and their arrests followed raids conducted in various parts of Bihar and in states like Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. The arrested were identified as Amit Singh and Raushan Kumar Singh of Patna district and Sujit Kumar, Dhiraj Jha and Shivam of Vaishali district. A total of Rs 21.95 lakh in cash, two stolen bikes, dozens of mobile phones and jewellery besides arms and ...
Woman arrested for torturing 5-year-old girl
Police have arrested a 36-year-old woman for allegedly torturing a child as she did not want to keep the child at her home. Nalasopara police sub-inspector Abasaheb Patil said that the 5-year-old child was the daughter of the accused's brother-in-law and had been sent from Uttar Pradesh to the accused's house to attend school here. The matter came to light after a video of the woman, identified by police as Ragini Singh, torturing the girl went viral on social media, resulting in a welfare organisation filing a police complaint. Police said that a medical examination of the child had confirmed that she has wounds, several of them old, all over her body including some that may have been caused by a hot knife. The official said that a case under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and the Indian Penal Code had been registered and further investigations were underway. He added that the girl had been sent to a rescue home.
Ex-MP in judicial custody, son jailed for 7 years
Former BSP MP Narendra Kashyap, his wife and their son were sent to judicial custody on Thursday over the death of his daughter-in-law Himani Kashyap in 2016 in a dowry case.
Reply why no treatment to head injuries patient: HC to Health Ministry
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Health Ministry and others on a plea by a man refused treatment in two Delhi hospitals despite suffering serious head injuries.
Blackmoney case: HC grants bail to two Delhi businessmen
The Delhi High Court today granted bail to two Delhi-based businessmen, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with its probe in a Rs 8,000 crore black money racket that also allegedly involves RJD chief Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti and her husband. The agency had on December 23 last year filed a charge sheet against Bharti and her husband. A trial court had on December 8 last year denied bail to the two businessmen, Virendra Jain and Surender Kumar Jain, against which they had moved the high court. Justice Mukta Gupta granted the relief to them saying the nature of evidence in the case was primarily documentary which has been collected by the probe agency, the trial was likely to take some time. If convicted, the maximum sentence that can be awarded would be seven years in jail. "It is, therefore, directed that the petitioners be released on bail on furnishing personal bond in the sum of Rs two lakh each with two sureties of the like amount, ...
Indian in Pak jail has to wait till Jan 31 to know his fate
Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari, languishing in a Pakistani jail, even after serving a 3-year prison term, has failed to secure his release as authorities did not submit the record of his conviction by a military court and his jail warrant to a top court here. Ansari, a Mumbai resident, was arrested in 2012 for illegally entering Pakistan from Afghanistan reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. He was tried in a military court and was given three years' rigorous imprisonment. In November last year, he had filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court, pleading that he should not be treated as a "spy" as he was not involved in "anti-state activities". Though India has sought consular access to Ansari, Pakistan has not yet provided it, the Ministry of External Affairs had said in New Delhi earlier this month. Resuming the hearing in the case, the two-judge Peshawar High Court (PHC) bench, comprising Chief justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Mohammad Ghazanfar, ...
Couple arrested in Nepal for slaughtering cow
A couple has been arrested in Nepal for slaughtering a cow, the national animal of the Hindu majority nation. Durgaman Tamang, 33, and his wife Dil Maya Tamang, 28, were arrested in Lamjung district of western Nepal yesterday. Another man involved in the crime is absconding, police said. Police said they have confiscated weapons used in slaughtering the cow. Police said the couple has been remanded to police custody for 10 days for investigation. A case has been filed at the district court against the.. Nepal became a secular state in 2008. Cow, which is sacred to the Hindus, was declared the national animal of Nepal in 2015 in the country's secular Constitution.
Padmaavat row:SC to hear contempt plea against 4 states, Karni
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday two pleas seeking contempt action against four state governments and Shree Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena for allegedly violating its order allowing nationwide release of the controversial movie 'Padmaavat'. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, which had set aside the ban imposed on the film by some states on January 18, said it would consider all the fresh pleas on January 29. Congress supporter Tehseen Poonawala, in his plea, has said the governments of Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh "continue to allow disruptive activities of the Karni Sena and in not effectively cracking down upon their actions of violent hooliganism across the states named ..., do not honour the judgement and order of this court." Besides initiating contempt proceedings against four states, he has also sought a direction to their governments to "actively control the law and order ...
Kamala Mills fire: CM should not support BMC chief, says Cong
Opposition leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil today asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis "not to support" BMC Commissioner Ajoy Mehta over the Kamala Mills fire incident. Mehta is probing the December 29 tragedy in which 14 people dining at two resto pubs in the Kamala Mills compound in Central Mumbai died due to blaze. Illegal extensions and alterations allegedly made by the owners of upsacale 1Above and Mojo's Bistro pubs is suspected to be the cause behind the incident. "I would like to tell the chief minister that he should not support the BMC commissioner who was aware of all the irregularities in granting permissions to bars and restaurants in the Kamala Mills compound and other parts of the city. This would boomerang on the CM," the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly told reporters. The Congress leader alleged that Mehta took many decisions without the knowledge of the BMC general body. "Things like with whose consultation in Urban Development ..
Satyender Jain seeks stay on attachment proceedings in HC
Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain today moved the Delhi High Court seeking stay of the proceedings before the adjudicating aurthority in connection with an Income Tax order under the new benami law to provisionally attach assets allegedly linked to him. The application came up for hearing before Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who listed it for March 31, when the court is scheduled to hear the AAP leader's plea against the authority's decision to attach some of his assets. While adjourning the matter for the next date, the court noted in its order that Jain's counsel has claimed that the main petition has been partially heard by some other bench, so this application should also be listed there. "List this matter before the appropriate bench as per the convenience of the Acting Chief Justice," the judge said. When the matter was initially filed in the court against the IT order, it had refused to stay the proceedings before the adjudicating aurthority as sought by the ...
Ker CPI-M dubs as lie fraud charge against senior leader's
Ruling CPI-M in Kerala today dismissed as a 'lie' the fraud allegations against the son of a senior Marxist leader with chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan turning down demand for a probe. Rallying behind its state secretary Kodieryi Balakrishnan a day after the allegations against his son Binoy surfaced, the CPI-M state unit and the state secretariat in separate statements claimed the charges were "baseless lie" and part of attacks by "anti-CPIM Malayalam media barons". According to a complaint by the Dubai-based JAAS Tourism company, Binoy, elder son of Balakrishnan, had allegedly cheated the firm of Rs 13 crore. The state secretariat, which met here, said: "Allegations against Binoy, who is residing in Dubai since 2003, are baseless...Binoy himself had clarified neither any case was pending against him in Dubai nor he faced any travel ban." It said the media had reported that there was a complaint against Binoy with regard to financial dealings in Dubai. The allegations ...
HC upholds Ker ordinance on Travancore Devaswom Board
The Kerala High Court today upheld a state government ordinance reducing the term of the Travancore Devaswom Board members from three to two years. A division bench comprising justices P R Ramachandra Menon and Devan Ramachandran dismissed the pleas filed by Prayar Gopalakrishnan and Ajay Tharayil, former president and member respectively of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), challenging the ordinance. The government was well within its authority to take such a decision, the bench said. It upheld the government stand that its action was only to reduce the enhanced three-year term to two years. In their petitions, Gopalakrishnan and Ajay, both appointed by the previous UDF Government, said the Supreme Court has held that the power of ordinance making cannot be exercised for extraneous or political considerations. They submitted that ordinance making was now subject to judicial review and can be interdicted if sufficient grounds were made out, including that of malafide, .
Bangladesh prosecutors seek life for opposition leader Zia
Bangladesh prosecutors today demanded life imprisonment for opposition leader Khaleda Zia for corruption. The two-time prime minister and head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party could be banned from standing in a national election this year if she is convicted. Zia has said the case is politically motivated. The trial of Zia and her son Tarique Rahman before a special anti-corruption court ended Thursday and a judge said a verdict would be given February 8. "We hope all the accused of this case will be sentenced to life in jail," lead prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kazal told reporters after the final arguments. Prosecutors have accused Zia, her son and aides of stealing some 21 million taka ($252,000) from a trust created for an orphanage. Hearings have been delayed for years by numerous petitions to higher courts. Zia's lawyers say the charges are aimed at keeping Zia and her family, which ruled the country for 15 years, from politics. "It is not a criminal case. It is .
SC asks C'garh HC to modify order on taking Aadhaar for bail
The Supreme Court today asked the Chhattisgarh High Court to modify in ten days its order directing all trial courts in the state to mandatorily accept copies of Aadhaar card for releasing an accused on bail. The January 5 order of the high court had created much hue and cry in the Naxal-affected state, as a large number of accused continued to languish in jails despite getting bail, but not getting release warrants due to delay in verification of Aadhaar and revenue records or surety papers by the police. With the situation aggravating, a Bilaspur district judge wrote a letter to the High Court on January 10 apprising it about the problems being faced due to the January 5 order, including non-grant of bail to those accused even of petty offences. The high court took the letter of the district judge on record and instituted another case to deal with the situation. Further hearing of the high court is scheduled on January 29. Today, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and
Senior citizen found brutally killed in Vizag city
A 64-year-old man was found brutally killed near Andhra University's quarters under the Three-Town police station limits early morning today. B Venkata Ramana Murthy, the deceased, had retired from the railways and lived in Kancharapalem area, police said. Financial disputes or some previous enmity could be behind his killing, police suspect. The body was found near the residential quarters of J Vara Prasad, a junior assistant at Andhra University. Assistant Commissioner of Police A Narasimha Murthy said the assailants seemed to have attacked the victim with a hammer and sticks, among other weapons. He had multiple injuries on the body, the ACP said. Preliminary investigation revealed that someone known to the victim could be involved in the crime, the police officer said. Police are searching for Vara Prasad and his friend Jagadeesh, with whom the victim was seen last.
Discom engineer arrested for graft
An assistant engineer of the Jodhpur power discom was today arrested by the Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 15000, an official said. Engineer Mahendra Meena, posted in Sridungargarh, had demanded the bribe from complainant Shrawan Kumar to revise his electricity bills, the official said. He said that after verification of the complaint, a trap was laid and the accused was caught accepting the bribe. The accused has been arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Prisoner facing murder trial admitted to hospital
A 30-year-old man facing trial for the killing four of his family members was taken ill and admitted to the Medical College hospital here. Condition of Cadell Jeansean Raja, who became sick after food clogged in the throat, was serious, Medical College Hospital sources said. He is admitted to the Intensive care unit of the hospital, sources said. He is now lodged in Poojapura Central prison here as an undertrial after he was arrested in connection with the murder of four members of his family including his parents and a sister at their house at Nanthancode near here in April 2017.