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Woman raped in Palghar
An 18-year-old newly married woman was allegedly raped by her 21-year-old neighbour at knife point in Dhansar locality of the city, police said today. The accused, who has been identified, is yet to be arrested. "The alleged incident occurred on January 22 noon when the woman was alone in her house," said Palghar police station inspector Kiran Kabadi. The victim and her husband, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh, came to stay in the locality just a week back, he said. Police have launched a manhunt for the accused who also belonged to Uttar Pradesh. "The accused barged into the house when the woman was alone and raped her at knife point," the officer said quoting the complaint.
'Delhi MCDs failed to utilise Rs 2,000 collected as
All three municipal corporations in Delhi were not able to utilise around Rs 2,000 crore collected as conversion and parking charges from city's markets between 2006 and 2017, a government source said today. Most of this amount was "diverted" into employees related expenditures, according to the source, who cited details of a report submitted by the MCDs to a Special Committee of Delhi Assembly. Earlier this month, Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel had referred issues related to the ongoing sealing drive and conversion charges to the Special Committee and asked it to submit its report on the first day of the next session. The Aam Aadmi Party, which leads the Delhi government, has been opposing the BJP-led civic bodies for the ongoing sealing drive. It has been learnt that all three municipal commissioners yesterday appeared before the committee and submitted details that the funds -- collected as conversion and parking charges -- were "diverted" for making payments of ...
Tripura guv demands probe into death of Syama Prasad Mukherjee
Tripura governor Tathagatha Roy today said the Centre should constitute a probe into the "mysterious death" of Syama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. "This is my personal opinion that there should be a proper inquiry into the death of Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. Both of them died under mysterious circumstances. We don't know actually what happened to both of them, there should be a proper probe into it," Roy told reporters at the sidelines of a programme here. Roy said if inquiry committee can be constituted on the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and killing of Mahatma Gandhi, then why can't a probe be ordered into the death of Mukherjee and Upadhyaya. The BJS was founded in 1951. The present day BJP is the successor party of the BJS, which merged itself into the Janata Party in 1977. Mukherjee was strongly opposed to Article 370, and felt it as a threat to national ...
Runaway drug racketeer held from Bengaluru
Police today announced arrest of Faiyaz Shaikh, suspected to be the kingpin of a drug racket busted in Vasai in the district last year, from Bengaluru. Shaikh was evading arrest for the last four months since the police raided a locality in Manickpur area of Vasai and arrested three persons for allegedly carrying 21.70 kg Ephedrine. The trio were booked under various section of the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Based on the information given by the trio, the police on October 3 last year seized an SUV, 5.25 kg Heroin, 24.69 kg Isosafrole, drug-manufacturing material--collectively worth Rs 40 crore from a farm house in Talsari village in Palghar district, a senior police officer said today. He said a police team camped for nearly 27 days in the Karnataka capital before it could lay its hands on Shaikh. "Shaikh and his associate Sajid Shaikh were spotted by police in a car in Jaynagar locality of Bengaluru on January 22 and were arrested after a ...
Interstate gangster arrested
A 29-year-old alleged interstate gangster, who was involved in a double murder case and jumped parole, has been arrested, police said today. Acting on a tip-off, the accused, Avdesh Yadav alias Gabbar, was arrested from Nala Road between Najafgarh-Kakrola on January 20, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Bhisham Singh said. "In September 2016, the accused, involved in several cases, including a double murder case, was released from jail on parole for his wife's treatment, but did not surrender and absconded to his native place in Shikohabad, Uttar Pradesh," the official said. He was subsequently declared a proclaimed offender by the trial courts. During interrogation, the official said, it was learnt that in 2008, Avdesh came in contact with another dreaded gangster Shiva Suri, and joined his gang in order to earn easy money. "The Shiva Suri gang is active in west, south-west and Dwarka districts in Delhi and indulges in extortion from businessmen and trades," Singh .
Ex-Rajya Sabha member held guilty in dowry death
A court here on Wednesday held former BSP Rajya Sabha member Narendra Kashyap, his wife and their son guilty for the death of his daughter-in-law in 2016.
Mother, son murdered in UP
In a shocking incident, an aged woman and her son were shot dead in broad daylight in a Meerut village in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police said.
Congress alleges pressure on CBI in Sohrabuddin case
The Congress today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "exerting pressure" on the CBI, a day after the agency opposed the PIL against its decision not to challenge a lower court order discharging BJP chief Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case. Congress spokesperson RPN Singh alleged that the Centre was out to defeat the ends of justice by "misusing" CBI as a "captive puppet", which, the opposition party said is trying to scuttle a Public Interest Litigation(PIL) in the case against Shah allegedly under pressure from the prime minister and his office. "The CBI functions under the Ministry of Personnel, which works directly under Prime Minister's Office. Why is the prime minister continuously exerting pressure on the CBI and why he does not want the truth to come out? We are asking this question and people of the country want to know this," he told reporters. Singh, however, did not elaborate beyond levelling the allegation against the Modi .
3 tantriks among 6 arrested for murder of ad-hoc teacher in Chhattisgarh
Police in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund have arrested six persons, including three tantriks and a teacher, for the murder of an ad-hoc teacher on January 21.
Putin arch-foe presses case against Russia in European court
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny took his battle with President Vladimir Putin back to Europe's top rights court today, complaining of his repeated arrests ahead of elections in March. Navalny has asked the European Court of Human Rights, which is based in the French city of Strasbourg, to rule on whether Russia has violated his basic rights by repeatedly detaining him. The 41-year-old politician, who has been barred from standing in the March presidential poll, did not speak to the press on arrival at the court with his lawyer at around 8 am (0700 GMT). He was arrested seven times between 2012 and 2014. Each time he was taken to a police station, held for several hours and eventually charged with public order offences. Navalny, 41, has complained that the arrests were arbitrary, violating the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), to which Russia is a signatory. In 2013 he was found guilty in an embezzlement case involving an allegedly crooked timber deal ..
Lawyer alleges court didn't follow procedure in rape case
A Mumbai-based lawyer has written to the Chief Justice of India and the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court alleging that proper procedure was not followed by a Pune trial court in dealing with an alleged rape case. The lawyer, who has written to the CJI and others, told a press conference here that while granting anticipatory bail to an accused in an alleged rape case, the trial court judge did not allow in-camera hearing in the matter which had revealed the victim's identity. Advocate Dipti Srivatsan Kale, who is representing the victim, also alleged that the Mumbai High Court has kept her appeal against the anticipatory bail granted to the accused, Rohit Tilak, pending for four months. She said she has also pleaded before the apex court for invocation of writ jurisdiction for violation of the victims's fundamental rights. The lawyer said the victim had filed a transfer application with the district judge, which was also summarily dismissed. She said the ...
HC stays cheating case against Puducherry minister
The Madras High Court today stayed till February 24 further proceedings in a "cheating and misappropriation" case pending against Puducherry minister Malladi Krishna Rao in a lower court. Justice M S Ramesh granted the stay on a petition by Rao seeking to quash the proceedings pending before the judicial magistrate court in Yanam, an enclave of the union territory of Puducherry in Andhra Pradesh. The case arose out of a private complaint filed in the magistrate court by Kodumuri Hari Kusuma Kumar of Yanam, from where Rao has been elected to the Puducherry assembly. The complainant has alleged that Rao had obtained 1,600 sq metre of government land in Yanam on lease to run a old age home in 1998 but allegedly constructed a building in violation of lease conditions and also sub-let part of the premises to an educational society in 2005. Rao had received Rs 2.16 lakh as rent during 2005-08 when he was a minister and misappropriated the amount for his own use and thus ...
Bawana fire: Court sends factory owner to 5-day police custody
A Delhi court today sent the owner of the firecracker storage unit in Bawana area here, where 17 people were killed in a massive blaze, to five-day police custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh allowed the Delhi Police to quiz 49-year-old accused Manoj Jain, who was arrested on January 21 in connection with the fire tragedy which took place a day before, till January 29. Jain was produced before the court from judicial custody. "Having considered the submissions in light of the record, gravity of the incident which had led to unfortunate demise of 17 persons and injury of two others, this court is of a view that the investigating agency deserves every lawful opportunity to investigate the matter fairly. "In these circumstances, this court allows and grants police custody remand of the accused Manoj Jain...," the court said in its order. The police told the court that the custody of the accused was required to nab the absconding co-accused Lalit ...
Salute fortitude of girls: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday saluted the fortitude of the girl child on National Girl Child Day.
Three members of Naga insurgent group arrested
In a major blow to Naga insurgents, a senior cadre and two other members of the NSCN (Kitovi-Neopak) group have been apprehended in Kohima district of Nagaland, a Defence Ministry release said on Wednesday.
Danish inventor tortured journo before killing her:prosecutors
Danish inventor Peter Madsen tied up and tortured Swedish journalist Kim Wall before killing and dismembering her on board his homemade submarine last year, the indictment obtained by AFP on Wednesday showed. In a grisly case that shocked the public, the remains of 30-year-old Wall were found in plastic bags over a series of weeks in Koge Bay, after she vanished while interviewing Madsen on his submarine on August 10. Madsen, who was arrested and detained shortly after Wall's disappearance, has admitted cutting up her body and dumping it at sea but has denied intentionally killing her or having any sexual relations with her. He was formally charged on January 16 with premeditated murder, desecration of a corpse, and sexual relations other than intercourse, among other things. According to the charge sheet, Madsen, 47, tied Wall up by the head, arms and legs before beating and "stabbing and cutting her", including 14 stab wounds and holes in her genital area. He then ...
Need for balance between State's actions & citizen's right: SC
There is a need to strike a balance between individual's privacy rights and the State's responsibilities at a time when the nation faces threats of terrorism and money laundering and to keep a tab on welfare expenditure, the Supreme Court said today. Its observation came after a senior lawyer, challenging the validity of the government's flagship Aadhaar programme and its enabling Act of 2016, said the Constitution does not allow a surveillance State as it is technically possible now to track every transaction, profile individuals or even "compromise constitutional functionaries". A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hearing a petitions challenging Aadhaar, said no system in the world was secure and the issue was not as to how data is collected, but how the information so collected are used or misused. "We live in the times of terrorism and money laundering and welfare expenditure (of the state), and this has to be balanced (with ...
HC junks gag order against media in Sohrabuddin encounter case
Calling the press "most powerful watchdog of society", the Bombay High Court today quashed the trial court's order which barred journalists from reporting the proceedings of the high-profile Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case. Justice Revati Mohite-Dere ruled that the special CBI court had overreached its powers by issuing the gag order, and said in reporting court proceedings, the press "serves the larger purpose of making such information available to the general public" which is entitled to it. She agreed with the petitioners -- a group of court reporters and a city-based journalists' union -- that under the Code of Criminal Procedure, only high courts and the Supreme Court can issue such prohibitory orders, that too in rare cases and for a limited period of time. Mere apprehension of the accused that media may sensationalise the proceedings was not a sufficient ground for banning reporting it, the high court said. On November 29 last year, special CBI judge S J ..
Rajiv case: Serious issues raised, says SC, seeks CBI's reply
The Supreme Court today termed as "serious" and "debatable" the questions raised by a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and asked the CBI to respond to his plea seeking recall of the apex court's May 1999 order upholding his conviction. The apex court issued notice to the CBI and asked it to file its response within three weeks on the application filed by convict A G Perarivalan, who was initially awarded death sentence in the case which was later commuted to life term. He has sought recall of the apex court's May 1999 order upholding his conviction saying he was not aware of the conspiracy. A bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumathi, which posted the matter for hearing on February 21, also indicated that it could refer the matter to a larger bench. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on the night of May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a woman suicide bomber, identified as Dhanu, at a poll rally. Fourteen others, ...
No end to Lalu woes; gets 5 yr jail in 3rd case of fodder scam
In more trouble for RJD chief Lalu Prasad, a special CBI court in Ranchi today sentenced him to five years in jail in a third case related to the multi- crore fodder scam. Prasad and another former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra were sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by the court of S S Prasad in the case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.62 crore from Chaibasa treasury in the early 1990s. The court also imposed Rs 10 lakh fine on him and Mishra on two counts of Rs 5 lakh each. The RJD chief is already lodged in Birsa Munda jail in Ranchi since December 23 last year in connection with the second case of fodder scam related to illegal withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from Deogarh treasury. Prasad was present in court when the sentence was pronounced today. With this judgement, Prasad has been convicted in three cases of the over Rs 900 crore fodder scam in Animal Husbandry department of undivided Bihar when the RJD was in power. Two other cases ...