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Ryan case accused to be tried as adult: Juvenile board
A 16-year-old student, accused of killing a seven-year-old boy at the Ryan International School here, will be tried as an adult, the Juvenile Justice Board held today and directed he be produced before the Gurgaon sessions court on Friday. The JJB passed the order on a plea that the accused teenager should not be treated as a juvenile. At its last hearing on December 15, the board had reserved its decision till today on the plea. If convicted, he will stay in a correctional home till he is 21-years old after which the court can shift him to a jail or grant him bail, it said. It said the accused be produced before the sessions court here on December 22. The board had earlier rejected the bail plea of the Class 11 Ryan International School student, charged with killing Pradhuman Thakur, a Class 2 student of the same school, in the school premises on September 8. It had set up a committee which included a psychologist from the PGI, Rohtak for an expert opinion on the ...
4 followers of Dera chief arrested for setting coaches on fire
Four men, suspected to be followers of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Singh, have been arrested for allegedly setting empty train coaches in Anand Vihar on fire following the self-styled godman's conviction in August, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) said today. On the basis of a tip-off, four men, identified as Vijay Malik, Bir Sungh, Kanhaiya Lal Mittal and Harjeet Singh, were arrested, the RPF said. On August 25, two empty coaches of the Rewa Express stationed at the Anand Vihar Railway Station were set ablaze by miscreants. Some bottles with an inflammable liquid were also found at the spot which indicated it to be the handiwork of some miscreants, the RPF said. The RPF sought help from the Delhi Police's Special Cell and a joint team of both the units arrested the four accused. The RPF said that the accused admitted that they are followers of the godman and had set ablaze the coaches of the train at Anand Vihar, the RPF said. In August, cases of torching of DTC ...
CBI arrests senior railway official in bribery case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a railway official from state's Shahjapur district while accepting a bribe of Rs.10,000.A case has been registered against the accused, senior section engineer PD Pushkar, under Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, for demanding and accepting the bribe from a contractor involved in railway works.Earlier, the CBI had received a complaint, alleging that Pushkar was demanding bribe from the contractor for a railway work done by the latter and for not obstructing an ongoing project.Following the complaint, the CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red handed, according to the investigation agency's statement.Searches have been conducted at the office and residential premises of accused at Shujalpur and Ujjain leading to recovery of incriminating documents.The agency is further probing the matter.
Missing Ghatshila girl's body found
Police have recovered the body of the 19-year-old girl, who went missing from her Kalighat accommodation since December 10. The body of Sushmita Roy was recovered from the banks of river Hooghly in North Port area on Monday, police said. She was later identified by her mother from her clothes and the tattoo she had, a police officer said. Roy was a resident of Ghatshila in Jharkhand and had come to the city to pursue studies and was staying in Kalighat area. The search was initiated after Roy's family had lodged a complaint with the Kalighat Police Station. Family members of the girl have alleged that she had been receiving "threat calls" from unknown persons, he said. According to the officer, the girl was probably having an affair with an unknown person from Ghatshila who may have played a role in her death. "We are going through the call details of the girl's number and trying to find out whether she was in touch with anybody before she went missing. We have to find out
Allow regularisation of unauthorised plots only if there is no
The Madras High Court has said regularisation of unauthorised plots can be allowed under section 113-C of the Tamil Nadu Country Planning Act only if there is no violation of construction in such plots. Justice S Vaidyanathan also made it clear that during such process 'set-back violations' should not be regularised. The judge passed the order on a batch of pleas moved by owners of unauthorised properties in the city. Originally, the petitioners wanted the court to quash a government order issued by the Housing and Urban Development dated February 9, 2005 fixing a cut-off date for regularisation of plots-- March 31, 2002-- as illegal and unconstitutional. When the pleas came up, the CMDA submitted that even though the petitioners' contention may not be correct, in view of introduction of section 113-C in the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, a new scheme has been formed. Under the scheme, the petitioners can apply before the authority concerned seeking ...
12 companies fined for violation of NGT norms in NCR
The district administration of Gautam Buddha Nagar today slapped fines on 12 firms for violation of National Green Tribunal norms, officials said. Working on the directives of the District Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Brajesh Narain Singh, Noida City Magistrate Mahendra Kumar Singh sent show-cause notices to five companies and levied fines of Rs 5 lakh on each of them, they said. The companies were given a week's time to reply and fines would be recovered thereafter, the officials added. Three of these companies are located in Sector 150 and two in Sector 143 here. Likewise, five other companies were fined Rs 50,000 each as per a Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board report that they were causing air and water pollution, the sources said. Companies fined are concrete mix plants located in Noida and Greater Noida. One company was fined Rs 1 lakh and a factory owner was fined Rs 5,000, they added.
HC anguished over noise pollution in UP
Irked over the authorities' failure to curb noise pollution, the Allahabad High Court today asked the Uttar Pradesh government whether the loudspeakers or public address systems installed at mosques, temples, churches, gurdwaras etc. were installed after obtaining a written permission from the authorities concerned. If that was not the case, then what action had been taken against such unauthorised installations and also against those officers, who failed to ensure the mandatory requirement of obtaining a written permission, the Lucknow bench of the court asked. It directed the principal secretary (home) and chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board to file their personal affidavits, along with the aforesaid information, on February 1, 2018. A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Abdul Moin issued the directions on a PIL filed by lawyer Moti Lal Yadav, seeking a strict compliance of the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, which were framed in ...
Max hospital licence cancellation stayed; resumes operations
The Delhi government order cancelling the licence of Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, has been stayed by an appellate body, following which the facility resumed its operations today. The licence cancellation case pertains to the premature twins, one of whom (a baby boy) was wrongly declared dead on November 30 at the hospital in north-west Delhi where he was born, and who died during treatment at a nursing home in Pitampura a week later. Both the babies were declared stillborn by the hospital and handed over to the family allegedly in a polythene bag. But to their utter horror, they found that the boy was still alive, while they were on way to do their final rites. The case triggered an outrage, prompting the AAP government's health department to cancel its licence on December 8 for alleged medical negligence. The Court of Financial Commissioner stayed the cancellation order issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) till the next hearing, January 9, ...
CBI arrests SDM office staffer in bribery case
The CBI has arrested two persons, including an official working in an SDM's office, on charge of demanding and accepting Rs 40,000 as bribe for clearing a construction-related file, an official said on Wednesday.
Man kills would-be groom of woman colleague; arrested
Upset on learning that a woman colleague he was in love with would be marrying another man, a marketing manager at a city based realty firm allegedly electrocuted him. Police said Shiva Basavegowda (29), who was arrested today, hatched the plot to kill the man, a deputy manager in a private bank, after learning that his colleague would be marrying him. He befriended the man about six months back and on December 3 took him to a hamlet near Kaggalipura, about 30 km from here and electrocuted him, using an electrical line he had earlier drawn from a small transformer. Police said their investigation revealed his involvement, following which he was arrested. A case of murder, criminal conspiracy and destroying evidence was registered against him, they said.
Woman booked for recording police station premises with spycam
A woman has been booked under the Official Secrets Act for allegedly recording various rooms of Rabale police station in Navi Mumbai using a spycam concealed in her sunglasses. Police said that Sapna Amarsingh Sandhu (35) was caught yesterday morning while recording a video of the police station's premises including the duty officer room and the crime record room using a spycam concealed in her sunglasses. The official said that the crime record room of a police station is designated as a prohibited place for photography or recording of any kind of video. He said that 17 video clips recorded in this manner were found with Sandhu. Sandhu had filed a Right to Information plea with Rabale police and had visited the station in that connection, said the official. "We have registered an offence against the person under sections 3 and 7 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923," the official said.
CBI to probe case of girls' illegal confinement in Rohini
The Delhi High Court today directed the CBI to investigate the alleged illegal confinement of girls and women in a north Delhi ashram where they were kept in "animal-like" conditions behind metal doors in a "fortress" surrounded by barbed wire. Taking note of the "seriousness and the sensitivity of the matter", a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar asked the CBI director to forthwith constitute a special investigation team (SIT) which will take charge of all the records and documents pertaining to the case. The court asked the CBI to investigate the FIRs lodged in Delhi against the Rohini-based ashram and its founder-cum- spiritual head Virender Dev Dixit and the daily diary entries relating to complaints of missing girls, commission of sexual offences and even a case of suicide there. With regard to the cases lodged in Uttar Pradesh against the institute and its founder, the agency has to place a status report in the court before the ...
CISF nabs IGI Airport staffer for hiding passenger's mobile
An airline employee, working at the Delhi airport, has been apprehended by the CISF for allegedly concealing a passenger's lost mobile phone and not depositing it to the authorities, the force said today. A CISF spokesperson said the authorities of the force at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport recently received a complaint from the family of the passenger, who had left for Amsterdam on December 14, that he had lost his phone in the international terminal area. The CCTV footage of that day was checked and it was seen that passenger Amrik Singh's phone was picked up by another person and handed over to a ground-handling staffer of an airline operating at the IGI Airport, he said. The staffer, J Singh, did not deposit the phone and kept it with himself for all these days, the spokesperson said. The airport employee was called by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) authorities and during interrogation he allegedly accepted that he hid the phone and kept .
Justice U.D. Salvi appointed acting chairperson of NGT
Justice Umesh Dattatraya Salvi on Wednesday took charge as acting chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a day after Justice Swatanter Kumar retired.
Orange boss and tycoon Tapie sent to trial in France: source
PARIS (Reuters) - French tycoon Bernard Tapie and Stephane Richard, head of telecoms company Orange, have been ordered to stand trial over a disputed state payment to Tapie a decade ago when Richard held a senior government post, a judicial source said.
Teen held in Gurugram school killing to be tried as an adult
In a significant decision, the Juvenile Justice Board ruled on Wednesday that the 16-year-old student arrested on charge of killing a Class 2 boy at the Ryan International School in Gurugram district will be tried as a major.
Girl from Jharkhand dies mysteriously in Kolkata
A girl from Jharkhand's Ghatshila, who came here to pursue an air hostess training course, has died under mysterious circumstances, police said on Wednesday.
2G scam cases: Special court to pronounce judgements tomorrow
A special court here is likely to decide tomorrow the fate of former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and several others in the much-anticipated 2G spectrum allocation scam cases. Special CBI judge O P Saini is scheduled to pronounce tomorrow the judgements in separate cases lodged by the CBI and the ED in the infamous 2G scam which rocked the UPA government. The court, which is exclusively dealing with the cases arising out of the 2G spectrum scam, has directed all accused, including Raja, Kanimozhi and others to remain present before it tomorrow for the verdict. The trial in 2G spectrum scam started six years ago in 2011 after the court had framed charges against 17 accused in the CBI's case for the offences which entails punishment ranging from six months in life imprisonment. One of the cases in which judgement is likely to be delivered tomorrow involves Essar Group promoters Ravi Kant Ruia and Anshuman Ruia, Loop Telecom promoters Kiran Khaitan, her ...
Scribe's killing: HC orders govt to submit chargesheet,
The Tripura High Court today ordered the state government to submit the chargesheet and other documents relevant to the investigation into the killing of television journalist Santanu Bhowmik. Bhowmik was hacked to death on September 20 at Mandai in West Tripura district, 28 km from the state capital. He had gone there to cover a demonstration of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), a political party representing the tribals. The father of the slain journalist, Sadhan Bhowmik, had filed a petition in the high court, seeking a CBI probe into his son's killing. Public Prosecutor Subrata Sarkar said the court had ordered for the submission of chargesheet and other relevant documents on or before January 24. The Tripura government had formed a special investigation team (SIT), headed by an inspector general of the state police, to look into the incident. The SIT had submitted the chargesheet before the chief judicial magistrate's court on December 12. The ...
HC dismisses PIL challenging appointment of MP law officers
The Madhya Pradesh High Court today dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the appointment of law officers made by the state government. The Indore bench of the high court, comprising justices P K Jaiswal Virender Singh, dismissed the PIL filed by activist Mahesh Garg. The plea alleged that the appointment of law officers for representing the state government in the high court has been made as per the "whims and fancies" of the ruling BJP and the minimum eligibility criteria for the post has been ignored. However, while dismissing the PIL, the high court cited a Supreme Court observation. "The apex court has observed that the states should do well to reform their system of selection and appointment (of law officers) to make the same more transparent, fair and objective and if necessary, may amend the manuals/rules and regulations on the subject," the court said. "Therefore, it is (for) the state government to consider the directions issued by apex ...