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HC stays defamation case against DMK leader
The Madras High Court today stayed proceedings in a case against a DMK functionary in a lower court over his alleged defamatory social media post against a Tamil Nadu Minister. Justice M S Ramesh issued the interim order on a petition by DMK headquarters Executive Committee member S Killai Ravindran seeking to quash the proceedings pending in the Judicial Magistrate Court in Sirkazhi in Nagapattinam district. He ordered notice to A Packirisamy, an AIADMK worker, on whose complaint the case was filed against Ravindran, who had unsuccessfully contested in the last year assembly elections from the Sirkazhi constituency. According to the complaint, Ravindran posted defamatory message against Handlooms and Textiles Minister O S Manian on facebook. In his petition, Ravindran contended that the complaint was not an aggrieved party. The Minister has not given any complaint. He also claimed that he had only extracted some comment published in a magazine about the minister and ...
Two gangsters killed in encounter with Punjab police
Two gangsters were shot dead and three arrested in an encounter with the Punjab Police today in a village near here, officials said. They were suspected to be accomplices of Punjab's most wanted gangster, Vicky Gounder, one of the main accused in the Nabha jailbreak case in Punjab last year, police said. They allegedly held a person, identified as Nishan Singh, at gunpoint and drove away in his car but were intercepted at Gulabgarh on Bathinda-Talwandi Sabo road by a police team that had been chasing them, officials added. The miscreants then opened fire at the police, Inspector General of Police (Bathinda Zone) M S Chhina said, adding that three gangsters were injured in retaliatory firing and two among them, Manpreet Manna and Prabdeep, succumbed to injuries at the Bathinda Civil Hospital. Amritpal, Gurvinder Singh, alias Ginda, and Harwinder Singh, alias Binda, were arrested, and Amritpal was undergoing treatment, Chhina said. Police recovered a 9mm pistol, .32-bore ...
Medical negligence complaint against hospital after woman dies
A woman, who was operated at a private hospital here last night died today following which one of her relatives has submitted a medical negligence complaint to the police, officials said today. Bodaki village resident Akbar said that his aunt Reena complained of stomach ache last evening and was admitted at a private hospital. The doctors at the hospital conducted an operation. According to police, the deceased's family have claimed that as her condition deteriorated after the operation she was referred to another hospital where she died today. The complain alleges medical negligence by those who conducted the surgery, a police official said. "A complaint was received and the matter is being investigated. The hospital management has denied the negligence charge," said an officer at the Kasna police station.
Member of 'thak thak' gang shot in leg during encounter
An alleged member of 'Thak Thak' gang was arrested last night after an encounter in which a miscreant and a constable received bullet injuries, police claimed today. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) H N Singh said that last night Sudhir Kumar of village Makanpur alighted from his car near Vaishali metro station when two bike-borne men broke open the windowpane and took away his bag containing cash, laptop and some documents. "Kumar immediately informed the police about the number of the bike on which the duo fled. A police team which was checking vehicles near a mall signalled the bike to stop but its riders sped away," Singh said. The police team chased them. Finding themselves encircled, they opened fire, the SSP said. "In retaliation the police party also fired upon them. One of the assailants sustained a bullet shot injury in his leg while a constable too sustained injury in his left bicep. The injured accused has been identified as Venkatesh (30) from ...
BSES labour supervisor held for stealing cable worth Rs 10 L
A 37-year-old BSES labour supervisor was arrested for allegedly stealing cable worth Rs 10 lakh from a metro site in Jamia Nagar, the police said today. On December 5, BSES contractor Karan Sharma approached the police with a complaint about theft of a wooden drum containing 492 metres of cable weighing 4,400 kg from an underconstruction Jamia Milia University metro station site, they added. During investigation, the police analysed the CCTV footages from the site. In one of the CCTV footages, a hydra crane and a tempo were seen passing in front of Holy Family hospital in the night. The police team traced the crane and the owner revealed that it was hired by a BSES employee for lifting the heavy cable wire roll, said Chinmoy Biswal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast). Yesterday, the police nabbed one Ashwani Kumar alias Bablu, a BSES contractual labour supervisor in connection with the theft, said the officer. He tried to sell the stolen cable to three-four junk
Two held, stolen property worth Rs 5 lakh seized
Police today arrested two men and recovered stolen property worth Rs 5 lakh, including gold and silver jewellery. The seized goods included 128 grams of gold, 700 grams of silver jewellery, Rs 1 lakh in cash and two motor cycles, said DSP A Pallapuraju. The arrested men were identified as Siripalli Satish (25) and Garikena Arvind (23), natives of Saryanarayana Punam. Both were involved in four thefts in Kakinada, Sarpavaram and Indrapalem areas, he said.
Admit mentally challenged murder accused to hospital: Court
A sessions court here today ordered officials to admit a mentally challenged person, accused of causing the death of a man in 2015, to the Government Institute of Mental Health in Chennai. Principal District and Sessions Judge A Kayalvizhi also ordered the family of A Balamurugan to pay a fine of Rs 10,100 which would be paid to the kin of the deceased. Balamurugan was staying near Erwadi Durgah in the district, where large number of mentally challenged persons are brought by their families with the belief that they would get cured. He allegedly hit Abdul Nazer, a mentally-challenged person from Kerala, with an object in a sudden fit of anger. Nazer died in a hospital later without responding to treatment. Erwadi police registered a case against Balamurugan. Taking into account that he was mentally challenged, the Judge directed the officials to move him to the Chennai hospital.
Terror funding: Court seeks NIA's reply on stone pelter's bail
An alleged stone pelter, arrested by the NIA in connection with its probe into the funding of terror and separatist activities in Kashmir Valley, today moved a court here seeking bail. District judge Poonam A Bamba sought a response from the National Investigating Agency (NIA) by January 18 on the application moved by 24-year-old Javed Ahmed Bhat, claiming that he was wrongly implicated in the case. The NIA arrested Bhat on September 5 for his alleged involvement in stone pelting and organising groups of youths who would throw stones at the security personnel involved in counter-insurgency operations. In his bail application moved through advocate M S Khan, Bhat claimed that he neither indulged in any anti-national activity, nor was associated with any organisation or participated in stone pelting. "He (Bhat) is having clean antecedents and there is no material of any nature connecting him with the incidents of stone pelting in any manner whatsoever. He is a permanent ..
SC asks Centre to file draft rules on appointment in tribunals
The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to file amended draft rules, to be framed under the 2017 Finance Act which would deal with appointment and service conditions of judicial and non-judicial members of as many as 19 tribunals including the National Green Tribunal (NGT). A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked Attorney General K K Venugopal that draft amended Tribunal, Appellate and other Authorities (Qualifications, Experience and other conditions of Service of Members) Rules, 2017, which would govern procedure of appointment, removal and service conditions of chairperson and members of tribunals, be filed before it by January 4. The bench, also comprising justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, asked Venugopal to provide the copy of draft rules to senior lawyers Arvind Datar and Mohan Parasaran for their perusal and suggestions. Several persons and organisations, represented by Datar and Parasaran, have moved the apex court challenging the ...
Duty evasion case: SC grants bail to Sasikala's husband, his
The Supreme Court today granted bail to M Natarajan, husband of jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, and his nephew in a duty evasion case connected to the import of a luxury car from the UK and asked them to deposit Rs 25 lakh each in its Registry. The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra. The bench asked the two to approach the trial court which would decide their bail conditions. The Madras High Court had on November 17 upheld a trial court order sentencing Natarajan, along with three others-- his nephew V Bhaskaran, Yogesh Balakrishnan and Sujaritha Sundararajan in the 23-year-old duty evasion case. They were convicted for conspiracy, forgery, cheating and tax evasion and sentenced to two years in jail in the case by a CBI court in 2010. A special leave petition was moved before the bench, which also comprised justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, challenging the high court order. The high court had said that there was ample evidence ..
Woman commits suicide at Garden Reach
Police today recovered the body of a woman hanging from the ceiling of the room where she was staying along with her baby boy in the city's Garden Reach area. Acting on a call from the landlord of the premises where the deceased Munni (24) was staying with her three-year-old son, police of Garden Reach unit reached the place and found her hanging, an officer said. When she was taken to the SSKM hospital, the woman was declared brought dead. Her husband, a mason, was away from home for over a month and police suspect that to be a reason for her to slip into depression, the officer said. The baby was present at the spot but is absolutely fine, he added. "Going by the circumstantial evidences, it seems to be a case of suicide out of depression. However, we are waiting for the postmortem report which will be delivered tomorrow," the officer said.
Rescued girl refuses to go with parents
A traumatised four-year-old girl, who was rescued from her relatives house recently, today refused to go home with her parents. The district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has decided to keep the minor girl in a local child-care institution (CCI) here. "We have put the child in a CCI as she has refused to go home with her parents. She appears to be much traumatised and we are taking all care to ensure that she is properly counselled", said CWC chairman Bikash Mohapatra. The minor girl was staying with her aunt for over nine months now as her parents work in New Delhi. On Tuesday she was rescued from her aunts house after it was found that the girl was physically tortured by her aunt (fathers sister). Summoned by the CWC, the girls father and mother arrived here from New Delhi and wanted to take their daughter home on the day. But seeing the parents, the girl cried frightfully and refused to go near them. She said she would continue to stay in the CCI, according to ...
Ex-Kerala minister seeks shifting of case to another SC bench
A lawyer representing former Kerala transport minister Thomas Chandy, facing allegation of land encroachment, has written a letter to the Supreme Court requesting shifting of his matter from a bench having a particular judge. The letter dated December 13 was written by an advocate on record K R Sasiprabhu to secretary general of Supreme Court saying that senior advocate Vivek Tankha, who appears for Chandy, "on account of personal reasons does not appear before the bench in which Justice A M Sapre is a part of". The case was initially listed for hearing today before a bench of justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre but was later shifted to a three-judge comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud. "The petitioner will lose the service of able lawyer who is well versed in the facts and laws involved in the case," the letter said while referring to Tankha who represented Chandy even in the Kerala High Court. "In the circumstances, I ...
Two cops suspended for demanding bribes in Noida
Two policemen were suspended from duty today after a complaint of bribery was lodged against them at a police station here, officials said. R Singh and K Singh were suspended by Senior Superintendent of Police Love Kumar after an initial inquiry by the police found them guilty of demanding bribes, they added. Few days ago, a clash broke out between two groups in Kasna village here. Both groups had filed FIRs against each other following which the village panchayat mediated a truce, the complainants said, adding that the policemen demanded a bribe when they went to withdraw their complaints.
Assam citizenship: SC says claims of left out persons to be
The Supreme Court today said that claims of those citizens, whose names do not figure in the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam to be published by December 31, would be scrutinised and included in the subsequent list, if found genuine. The top court made it clear that publication of draft NRC was not the "end of the process" and claims and objections of aggrieved parties could be filed and would be verified in accordance with law. "We reiterate the aforesaid observation meaning thereby that the claims/cases of the left out applicants whose names are not included in the draft NRC to be published on or before December 31, 2017 will be scrutinised and thereafter, if found eligible, would be included in the subsequent draft NRC," a bench comprising justices Ranjan Gogoi and R F Nariman said. The bench gave the liberty to Assam to give wide publicity or coverage to its direction so as to ally all fears and apprehensions that may exist. The apex court had on ..
Police officer booked for demanding computer printer as bribe
A police officer was booked by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB)today for demanding a computer printer as bribe in return for helping an accused get bail. An ACB official said that Assistant Police Inspector (API) Satishchandra Rathod, 37, of Shivajinagar police station in Mankhurd was booked under section 15 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. He said that the complainant, who had been directed by court to mark his attendance in Shivajinagar police station, approached ACB Mumbai saying that the API was demanding a computer printer. After verification of the complaint revealed that Rathod had attempted to obtain a computer printer as gratification, an offence was registered against him, the official said. A probe is currently underway, he added.
Dec 16 gangrape: Two death row convicts file review plea in SC
Two of the four death row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder case today moved the Supreme Court for review of its verdict upholding the capital punishment awarded to them. The review petition by convicts Vinay Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta came after the apex court on December 12 completed the hearing on the review plea filed by another death row convict Mukesh. A 23-year-old paramedic student was gangraped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a moving bus in South Delhi by a gang of six persons and severely assaulted before being thrown out naked. She succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. The review plea, filed through advocate A P Singh for two of the convicts, claimed that death penalty was a premeditated and "cold blooded killing" of a human being by the state in the name of justice. It said the investigation in the matter was not only flawed but also unreliable as many facts of ..
Imran not out, close aide disqualified in foreign funding case
Pakistan's cricketer-turned- politician Imran Khan today survived being disqualified from parliament as the Supreme Court dismissed a petition against him in a foreign funding case, months after prime minister Nawaz Sharif was forced to quit by the court in the Panama Papers case.
Cash snatched from woman at ATM booth
A woman was robbed of Rs 3,000 outside an ATM booth at Dadri today, police said. Escorts Colony, Dadri, resident Pushpa Sharma today went to withdraw Rs 3,000 from an ATM at the railway road, an officer said. When she entered the ATM booth, a man got in. She sought his help to withdraw cash, the officer added. However, when the machine delivered the cash, the man snatched it and ran away, the official said adding a complaint was lodged at Dadri police station.
RS-appointed panel's clean chit to MP HC judge facing sexual
A sitting judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, facing sexual harassment charges levelled by a former judicial officer, has been given a clean chit by a panel appointed by the Rajya Sabha chairman. Now, Justice S K Gangele will not face impeachment proceedings. The report of the committee constituted under the Judges Inquiry Act, 1968 was tabled in the Rajya Sabha today. The panel, comprising Supreme Court judge R Bhanumathi, Justice Manjula Chellur and jurist K K Venugopal, was set up in April 2015 by the then Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari after admitting a motion supported by 58 members to impeach Justice Gangele. Hundred MPs of the Lok Sabha or 50 members of the Rajya Sabha have to sign such a motion of impeachment for it to be accepted and taken up in the House. In this case, 58 members had submitted a motion to Ansari for initiating the impeachment process against Justice Gangele for alleged sexual harassment of the woman judge in Gwalior. The committee ...