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Man held captive, beaten up by Raj minister's son
A man was allegedly held captive and beaten up by Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Hem Singh Bhadana's son and his friends in Alwar.The victim's father said, "Some unidentified people verbally abused the minister, and my son was standing there while this happened. Those people fled but he was caught. He was later held captive and beaten up. We had to go to get him freed. We were also threatened."The victim was later admitted in the nearby hospital under critical condition.The police, however, have denied commenting on the incident."We are not in a position to comment now. As soon as the FIR is lodged, we will begin the legal procedure," Shivaji Park SHO Vinod Samaria said.Further details are awaited.
Delhi court to hear coal block allocation case today
A Delhi Court will today continue to hear coal block allocation scam case.On December 16, 2017 the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Delhi sentenced former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda to three years of imprisonment in connection with Jharkhand coal scam.Justice Bharat Parashar also sentenced Koda's close aide Vijay Joshi, former Coal Secretary HC Gupta and Jharkhand's then Chief Secretary AK Basu to jail for three years.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh each on Koda and Joshi, while a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on Gupta and Basu.Private company Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Ltd (VISUL) was also found guilty of criminal conspiracy and cheating under the Prevention of Corruption Act and was slapped with a fine of Rs 50 lakh.However, two months statutory interim bail has been granted to Koda, Gupta, Joshi and Basu to appeal in the High Court.Koda was convicted in the case of illegal allocation of a coal block in Jharkhand to a Kolkata-based firm.The ...
'Two leaves' bribery: Delhi court to continue hearing
A Delhi court on Thursday will continue to hear the two leaves symbol bribery case.The court is likely to take cognizance of the chargesheet filed by Delhi Police naming sidelined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader TTV Dinakaran, Sukesh Chandrashekhar, Mallikarjuna, Nathu Singh, Pulkit Kundra, B Kumar, Jai Vikram Haran and Narendra Jain.Meanwhile, Dinakaran is likely to seek exemption from appearance in the wake of RK Nagar by-polls.On December 14, Dhinakaran was named in the chargesheet along with others in the case.During the hearing in the case, it was revealed that the Delhi Police recently filed the supplementary chargesheet before Tis Hazari court and named Dhinakaran, Chandrashekhar, Mallikarjuna, Singh, Kundra, B Kumar, Lalit Kumar, Haran and Jain.Dhinakaran was charged under section 120 B (Criminal Conspiracy) and 201 IPC (Destruction of evidence).On November 23, the court pulled up the police once again for not filing supplementary chargesheet against .
Delhi HC to hear Chautala's plea seeking parole
The Delhi High Court will later today hear the plea filed by former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala seeking two-month parole to look after his ailing wife.Chautala is serving a ten-year jail term in a teachers' recruitment scam case.The High Court on December 11 issued a notice to the state government to file a response on a parole petition moved by Chautala.Earlier in March, the High Court had cancelled the parole which was granted to Chautala after he violated the terms and conditions of the parole.The police raised objections that he was holding public meetings in violation of his parole conditions.The Delhi High Court had earlier granted three weeks parole to Chautala, on health grounds.The court had also granted parole to Chautala to attend his grandson's engagement function.On January 22, 2013, a trial court had sentenced 55 accused under the JBT scam for illegally recruiting 3,206 teachers in Haryana in the year 2000.Among those convicted were 82-year-old Chautala's .
Infant selling racket busted in Hyderabad
The sleuths of Special Operation Team (SOT) Rachakonda on Wednesday busted an infant selling racket by arresting a six member gang.The police apprehended the culprits from Venkateshwara Swamy Temple here in Saroor Nagar.The police also rescued a six-day-old baby girl. The infant has been handed over to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC).The culprits have been identified as Kedavath Ravi, Kedavath Saroja, Vadithyavath Rukka, Mudavath Lakshman, Narsingh and Varithyavath Redya.According to media reports, the gang trapped a poor tribal couple of Mahboob Nagar District and bought their new born for Rs. 15,000.The police have also seized one car, four mobile phones and Aadhar cards.A sumoto case U/sec. 370(4) IPC, Sec 75, 81 of Juvenile Justice Act 2015 has been registered at the PS Saroornagar police station.
Raj HC issues notices to state govt on plea challenging RJS
The high court here today issued notices to the state government, the court's registrar general and registrar (examination) on a petition challenging the constitutionality of a rule on the minimum age requirement for appearing in the Rajasthan Judicial Services examination. The division bench comprising justices Sangeet Lodha and Vineet Kumar Mathur sought their reply by January 4. Arguing in the court, petitioner Sarwar Khan's counsel Rajak Haidar said the minimum age for a civil judge is 23 years under the Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules 2010. "On the contrary, the minimum age for a civil judge in the states of Delhi, Haryana, MP, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh etc is 21 years. Also, the minimum age for the civil services examination under UPSC and RPSC is also 21 years," he said. Khan completed his law graduation from Jai Narayan Vyas University in 2015 and was eligible for direct recruitment as a civil judge. But given that the minimum age required was 23 years on January .
Varnika Kundu stalking case: HC orders Vikas Barala's phone records
Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered the Chandigarh Police to provide information on call details of Vikas Barala, son of Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party President Subhash Barala, and his friend Ashish Kumar in connection with the Varnika Kundu stalking case.The court has also deferred the hearing in the case to January 11.Earlier on October 13, a Chandigarh court framed Vikas Barala on charges of stalking and attempting to kidnap the senior IAS officer's daughter.The incident, which took place on August 4, created a ruckus across the country, when Kundu accused Vikas and his friend Ashish Kumar of following her car in the middle of the night in Chandigarh.The two men were then arrested on the basis of her complaint but were released on bail, as they were booked under bailable sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Motor Vehicles Act.However, they were arrested again on August 9 under sections 365 (Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person) ..
Dalit woman stripped, beaten over land dispute in Vizag
A Dalit woman was allegedly beaten up and stripped by a group of people here over a land dispute, the police said. The incident happened on December 18 at Jerripothulapalem area under Pendurthi police station limits in Visakhapatnam city but a complaint was filed today, they said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order, South Zone) T Ravi Kumar Murthy said that the dispute was over a plot of land measuring 0.7 acres that was allotted to 22 beneficiaries of the state's NTR Housing Scheme. However, the complainant and a few other families had been engaging in agricultural activities on the same plot of land claiming that it was allotted to them by the government over two decades ago, said police. The incident happened when some of the beneficiaries of the NTR Housing Scheme arrived at the plot on Monday to carry out ground-breaking work. A clash ensued between the beneficiaries of the scheme and the complainant, leading to the woman being assaulted and stripped, the .
Man in Rajasthan burns two wives to death in car, held
In a horrific incident, a man burnt his two wives to death in a car after an argument broke out between the women while travelling together in Rajasthan's Jalore district, police said on Wednesday.
HC dismisses Tejpal's plea for quashing of rape, other charges
In a setback to Tehelka's former editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, the Bombay High Court today dismissed his petition seeking quashing of rape and other charges levelled against him by a former woman colleague. Turning down the plea, Justice Nutan Sardessai of the Goa bench of the high court observed that no case whatsoever is made out for interference in the decision of the trial court to frame charges against Tejpal, who has been accused of raping the woman during an event in Goa in 2013. Tejpal had moved a petition before the HC against the framing of charges under various sections, including those related to rape, against him by the District and Sessions Court at Mapusa. The court had framed charges against Tejpal under IPC sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 376 (rape) and 376(2)(k) (rape of a woman by a person being in the position of control or dominance over the woman), and began the trial last month. The crime branch later added to the case IPC sections 341 ...
Parents among three held for death of 11-year-old girl
The parents of an 11-year-old girl and their relative were arrested today for allegedly torturing and killing her, police said. The accused - Ambaji Bekre (41), his wife Meenaxi (37) and their relative Madhuri Shinde (29) - are residents of Virar in adjoining Palghar district, an official release said. The incident took place on December 16 but the arrests were made today, it said, adding the trio has been charged with murder and other offences. The girl had been suffering from some ailments, including constipation, a week before the incident. Instead of taking her to a doctor, her mother Meenaxi Bekre, who believed in witchcraft and home remedies, and the girl's aunt Shinde decided to treat her at home, the release said. On the fateful day, her mother used witchcraft to treat the girl, a student of Class 6. Meenaxi Bekre sprinkled 'kumkum' (a powder used during social and religious events) on her daughter. She then sat on her stomach and started pressing it, the relese .
Couple killed over old enmity in Rajasthan
A 30-year-old woman and her husband were today killed by three members of a family over an old enmity in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district, police said. Shobabai was run over by a tractor and her husband Raju Lal Patidar (40) abducted by a man who, accompanied by two of his family members, wanted to avenge the murder of his son. In 2014, Raju Lal Patidar had allegedly killed Fateh Singh's son over a trivial dispute. The Patidars were under trial in a local court for murder, police said. Determined to avenge his son's murder, Fateh Singh, along with Kalu Singh and Durga Singh, killed Shobabai and abducted Patidar whose body was found later in the evening, said Jhalawar DSP Vaibhav Sharma. The accused have been booked under various section of the IPC, the DSP said, adding that police teams have been sent to nab the accused. Shobabai's body was handed over to her family members after postmortem and husband's body was kept in the mortuary for the postmortem to be carried out ...
Halt execution of academic 'immediately', UN experts tell Iran
Four UN rights experts today called on Iran to "immediately" annul the death sentence against an academic accused of espionage during nuclear talks with world powers, warning his trial had been marred by violations. Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian emergency medicine specialist resident in Sweden, was sentenced to death in the Islamic republic in October for spying for Israel. The academic was a visiting professor at Belgium's Vrije Universiteit Brussel when he was arrested during a trip to Iran in April 2016. He was accused of passing information to Israel's Mossad intelligence service during the negotiations that led to Iran's nuclear deal with world powers in 2015. Djalali has said he is being punished for refusing to spy for Iran while working in Europe. In a statement, the four independent experts working with the United Nations warned that "the procedure against him was marred by numerous reports of due process and fair trial violations". The UN expert on the human ...
Police complaint against Dhinkaran aide who released video
The one man Commission probing the circumstances leading to hospitalisation and medical treatment provided to late J Jayalalithaa till her death last year filed a police complaint today against an aide of TTV Dhinakaran who released a purported video of the late Chief Minister. According to a police official, a complaint has been received from the Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission "seeking action against Vetrivel" even as the Commission has started the inquiry as per its terms of reference. The official declined to divulge details of the complaint. The Commission reportedly alleged that Vetrivel had intentionally released the purported video to "degrade" it and to create law and order problems. Earlier the Election Commisson had also filed a complaint against Vetrivel. The release of the video, purpotedly showing Jayalalithaa in a hospital, released by P Vetrivel, loyalist of sidelined AIADMK leader Dhinakaran, had set off a political controversy. DMK ,which raised the ..
Two migrants in US win permission to have abortions
Two young undocumented migrant women have won a court battle to be able to have abortions in the United States. The conclusion came yesterday evening as the Justice Department said it would refrain from appealing a ruling that gave the women permission to end their pregnancies. That decision came Monday from US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington DC. But the broader legal battle is not over, said the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes government policy in these circumstances. When pregnant minors enter the country illegally, US authorities give them a choice: agree to be deported and have an abortion in their home country, or stay in America and have the baby. The ACLU argues that forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term violates a constitutionally protected right to privacy. In this latest case, the women were initially presented as being 17 years old. But authorities concluded that one of them was actually 19, although she denied it, and freed her
It was Ilyasi's duty to make 3-yr-old daughter witness: Court
Suhaib Ilyasi's daughter, who was three-year-old and an eyewitness to the killing of her mother, was never interrogated or produced before investigating agencies, a Delhi court has noted in its judgement convicting the former TV producer and anchor of 'India's Most Wanted'. The court, which took on record the contention Ilyasi's counsel that his daughter was never made a witness by the prosecution, said that it was "his duty" to produce eyewitness of the incident as he had initially given a statement regarding his wife Anju's death to the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) as a complainant. "Initially, it was accused, who gave statement to the SDM as complainant, therefore, it was his duty to produce eyewitness of the incident, if any, before SDM or investigating agencies to get his/her statement recorded, which was not done by him. "Although the accused asked his inlaws...to come and give statement to the SDM, he never produced his daughter before the SDM or Investigating
Five persons injured as car driven by boy hits them
Five persons suffered minor injuries on Wednesday when they were hit by a car driven by a boy in west Delhi, police said.
Businessman shot dead, 2 injured by ex-employee in Dwarka
A businessman was allegedly shot dead and two others were injured after they were attacked by an ex-employee, along with his accomplices, in Dwarka, police said today. Rajendra Garg, a dealer of a multinational food and beverage company, his brother Ramesh and their employee Kamal Dev, left their office in Kakrola village yesterday, they said. While they were going towards Najafgarh Road, a biker accidentally touched their car following which they had a heated argument, the police said. Garg, who was behind the wheel, was allegedly shot at by the pillion rider, they said. The man, who was on the motorcycle, allegedly attacked Ramesh on his head with an iron rod, the police said. The pillion rider allegedly shot at Kamal Dev, who was in the backseat of the car. They also took a bag containing Rs 3.5 lakh, they said. A passerby, who tried to intervene, was threatened by the accused who fled after firing in the air, the police said. Garg, who was in his 50s, was declared ...
Bihar court awards 10-year RI to man arrested with liquor
A court here today awarded a 10-year rigorous imprisonment to a man, who was arrested with more than 100 litres of liquor last year. Additional District Judge Kaushalendra Kumar awarded the punishment to Ganesh Sao, who was arrested with 144 litres of liquor from his house at Kadirganj within the Town police station limits. The judge also slapped a fine of Rs one lakh on the convict. Sale and consumption of alcohol was banned in Bihar by the state government over a year ago.
Three held for sexually assaulting minor girl in Kolkata
Three people have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor pavement-dwelling girl in Kolkata, police said on Wednesday.