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Man shot dead in Noida
A 30-year-old man was shot dead in a village here, allegedly by two motorcycle-borne assailants Thursday, police said. The incident took place in the afternoon at Rohallapur village in Sector 132, police said. Pankaj, who hailed from Faizabad district, worked as an electrician for a private builder's group and the incident appears to be a case of personal enmity, a police official said. "Pankaj was in the village when the two accused arrived there on a motorcycle, pumped a bullet into his body and fled," the official said. The assailants have not been identified so far. A case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal had been registered on the basis of a complaint by Pankaj's brother at the Expressway police station, the official said. The body has been sent for autopsy and further probe was underway, police said.
Minor raped for six months, man held
A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday for allegedly raping a minor in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district, police said. The accused, a resident of a village under the Khanpur police station here, had allegedly been raping his 16-year-old neighbour for the past six months and had threatened her with dire consequences if she spoke to anyone about it, Siyana Circle Officer (CO) Dhan Prakash Tyagi said. He said the incident came to the notice of the girl's parents on Monday when she was stated to be pregnant. An FIR was filed on Tuesday by the girl's parents under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The accused was sent to jail after the girl's statement was recorded in the presence of a judicial magistrate under Section 164 of the CrPC, the CO added.
Sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt gets life sentence in 1990 custodial death case
A court in Gujarat on Thursday sentenced sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in a custodial death case dating back to 1990 when he was posted as an additional superintendent of police in this district. Bhatt, who earlier made allegations against then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi over his handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots, has been behind bars in Palanpur for the last nine months in another case of allegedly framing a man in a drug seizure matter. The Gujarat-cadre officer was suspended from the Indian Police Service in 2011 and sacked by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in August 2015 on grounds of "unauthorized absence from service". On Thursday, the Jamnagar-based court of sessions judge D N Vyas convicted Bhatt and police constable Pravinsinh Zala under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to life in jail in the 29-year-old custodial death case. Five others -- sub-inspectors Dipak Shah and Sailesh Pandya and constables ...
Court rejects Pragya's plea for exemption from appearance
The trial court here Thursday rejected an application made by BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, seeking permanent exemption from appearance once a week. The newly-elected Bhopal MP had said in her plea that she was suffering from various ailments and was not in the condition to attend the court. Thakur had also said that being a 'sadhvi' (a woman ascetic), she has to follow strict discipline for her 'sadhna' (worship) and adhere to certain dietary rules. In view of all this, it was not possible for her to travel from Bhopal to Mumbai every week, said the application filed by her lawyer advocate J P Mishra. She had also cited her duties as Bhopal MP as a reason for not being able to attend the court. Advocate Mishra had also submitted that as per her party's whip, she needs to attend the ongoing Parliament session. Therefore, she should be exempted from appearance at least till the end of Parliament session on July 26, the lawyer said. However, .
Scribes of Noida-based TV channel denied bail in illegal operations case
Three journalists of a Noida-based news channel, who were arrested for airing alleged defamatory content against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, were Thursday denied bail by a court here in a second case of illegal operations. The scribes of Nation Live channel -- Ishika Singh, Anuj Shukla and Anshul Kaushik, were granted bail on Wednesday in a defamation case by the same court. Singh and Shukla were arrested on June 8, two days after the channel aired the controversial content, and remanded in 14-day judicial custody. Kaushik was held on the night of June 10. Two separate FIRs were registered against them at the Phase 3 police station. One of the FIRs was lodged under sections 153 (promoting enmity between different groups), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory), 505 [1] (whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumour or report) and 505 [2] (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The other FIR was ...
Renowned jurist dies in Patna
Renowned jurist Justice (Retd) Binod Kumar Roy, who had served as Chief Justice of Gauhati, Sikkim and Punjab and Haryana High Courts, on Thursday died here after prolonged illness. He was 76 and is survived by two daughters and a son. Born on December 26, 1944, Roy began his career as an advocate at the Patna High Court where he excelled in civil, labour, criminal and constitutional matters before being elevated to the Bench in 1988. He was subsequently transferred to Allahabad High Court in 1994 and became the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court on October 14, 2002, from where he moved to Gauhati High Court in May 21, 2005. His last assignment was at the Sikkim High Court where he assumed charge on September 30, 2005 and retired on December 27, 2006. He had shifted to his home town upon retirement and was admitted to a private hospital for some time, where he breathed his last Thursday morning, family sources said. One of his sons-in-law Justice Dr Ravi ...
Pak to set up more than 100 courts to deal with gender-based violence
Pakistan's Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa has announced to set up more than 100 dedicated courts across the country to deal with the gender-based violence and issues related to children. "We are setting up 116 gender-based violence courts and child courts in each district," Chief Justice Khosa said on Wednesday while addressing a ceremony on expeditious justice initiative for judges of additional Model Criminal Trial Courts. The court would be different from the traditional courts, which proved inadequate to deal with the cases of gender related violence, he said. Talking about children courts, the chief justice said that the courtroom will be specially designed, which will look like a home, where children can speak their heart without any fear. He said that there will be at least one such court in every district, where women can go and tell their problems. Khosa said that such courts were first started in four districts, which was further expanded to seven districts. He said 10 more .
Tanzanian court sentences 3 Muslims to death for murder
A court in Tanzania has sentenced three Muslims to be hanged for decapitating four Christians in 2015 during an outbreak of violence fuelled by religion, a legal source said. The East African country maintains the death penalty on its statutes, although nobody has been executed since 1994. High Court Justice Lameck Mlacha in the northwestern town of Bukoba on Wednesday found the three guilty of murder, the source in the court clerk's office told AFP, asking not to be named. The conviction was partially based on a video in which all three men appeared to acknowledge to police and local officials that the crime was motivated by religious convictions, added the source. They killed their victims on November 11, 2015 and left headless bodies to be found at Katoma in the Bukoba district. The three men are already serving jail terms for their involvement in arson attacks on more than a dozen churches, according to prosecutor Hashim Ngole, quoted by the Tanzanian press. Ngole said that 13 ...
Woman killed, her six-month-old baby alone at home for hours
A 23-year-old woman was found killed at her home at Bhiwandi in the district, police said Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday, when the woman was at home with her six-month-old baby, police said. According to police, the child was found sitting beside the bloodied body by the victim's husband after he returned home from work at night. "Someone hit the woman, Cintadevi Yadav, on her head with a blunt object at her house in Rahanal village. At the time of the incident, she was at home with her six-month-old child as her husband had gone for work," Thane police spokesperson Sukhada Narkar said. "When her husband returned home around 8 pm, he found her murdered and the child sitting beside her body," she said. The woman's body was sent for post-mortem and an offence under IPC section 302 (murder) was registered at Narpoli police station. No arrest has been made in this connection so far, police said.
French mother faces 20 years in jail for murdering 5 of her children
French prosecutors on Thursday demanded a 20-year prison term for a woman charged with killing five of her children right after they were born, a crime that only came to light one and a half decades after the corpses were discovered. Sylvie Horning, 55, was detained in November 2017 on suspicions she murdered the five children between 1990 and 2005. Horning, the mother of three adult children, is thought to have hidden her pregnancies even from her partner, giving birth in secret and then strangling the newborns at her house in Wittelsheim in eastern France. Nothing untoward was suspected until the discovery in 2003 of the bodies of four babies in rubbish bags in the nearby Galfingue forest. But the initial investigation was closed in 2009 after it failed to yield clues to the deaths. It was reopened in 2016 to take advantage of advances in DNA testing, and a year later investigators made the first link between Horning and the deaths, completely by chance, after her DNA was taken in ..
Pakistan says it will create gender-based violence courts
Pakistan's top judge has vowed to set up more than 100 gender-based violence courts in the patriarchal country regularly ranked as among the most dangerous in the world for women. Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said the Supreme Court is "in the offing to set up 116 gender-based violence courts and also child courts in every district in Pakistan". The courts "will be designed to look entirely different both in their infrastructure and working than other courts," he told judges in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday. He offered no further details, and Supreme Court officials told AFP the plan is still being discussed. Women have long fought for their rights in deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan, where activists say men commit "pervasive" violence against them, often with impunity. Justice is elusive in a sluggish court system advocates say is slanted against female victims. Many cases of violence against women in rural areas are not reported to authorities and instead mediated by ...
MP: Five missing after boat capsizes in Narmada
A boat carrying 15 persons capsized in the Narmada river in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh Thursday, police said. While others managed to swim ashore, five persons -- four women and a boy -- were still missing, said district Superintendent of Police RRS Parihar. The incident took place at Narayanganj when the victims were going from Bakhari Ghat in Seoni district to Gohgaon Ghat in Mandla district, he said. Additional collector Meena Masram and senior police officials have reached the spot and a search operation is on, he said.
American charged with spying in Russia appeals to Trump
An American man kept behind bars in Russia on spying charges on Thursday appealed to US President Donald Trump for help. Paul Whelan was arrested in a hotel room in Moscow at the end of December and charged with espionage, which carries up to 20 years in prison in Russia. The former US Marine denies the charges, and his lawyer that his client was handed a flash drive that had classified information on it that he didn't know about. Whelan, who also holds British, Irish and Canadian citizenship, appealed to Trump in a Moscow court to intervene in his case and "defend" him. "Mr. President, we cannot keep America great unless we aggressively protect American citizens wherever they are in the world," Whelan said, reading out his statement. He also said he was a victim of "political kidnapping." Whelan previously complained of poor conditions in the Moscow jail he is being kept. He said Thursday that the conditions there have somewhat improved.
Three held for creating ruckus on sets of ALTBalaji's 'Fixer'
Three persons have arrested for allegedly misbehaving with the cast and crew of ALTBalaji's upcoming web series 'Fixer' here on Wednesday.An FIR has been lodged at Kasarwadavali police station against the three accused -- Rohit Khandelwal, Krishna Sona, and Sonu -- for grievously hurting the crew and illegally gathering at the shooting location.The accused have been charged under different Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 326 (voluntarily causing grievous injury).Actors Mahie Gill and Shabir Ahluwalia are a part of the show. Only Gill was shooting when the alleged incident took place.According to Sakett Saawhney, producer of the show, the team had valid shooting permission, but some drunk goons disrupted them and attacked the crew."We were shooting in a factory with valid permissions since 7 am. Suddenly around 4 pm some drunk goons came with sticks and rods and attacked our artist, technicians, and crew. They said that this is their location and we cannot shoot ...
Truck driver shot dead over Rs 20 in UP
A truck driver was shot dead by security guards of a sand mine in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district on Thursday for allegedly paying Rs 30 as 'rangdaari' (extortion) to them instead of Rs 50, a police official said. Station house officer, Sisolar, Rakesh Kumar Pandey, said the incident took place around 4 am. The security guards at Bhulsi sand mine-3 got into an argument with the truck driver, Arun Kumar (22), after he paid Rs 30 instead of Rs 50 as 'rangdaari', he said. "There was an argument over Rs 20 and the angry security guards fired at Arun Kumar," the SHO said. Based on a complaint lodged by the deceased's father, a case has been registered against four persons, including the mine owner, Pandey said. The body of the deceased has been sent for post mortem and investigation in the case is underway, he said.
486 liquor cartons missing from police strong room in UP
A total of 486 cartons of liquor that had been seized during raids conducted in 2017 and 2018 have gone missing from a police station here, an official said Thursday. The incident came to light on Wednesday that the seized cartons of liquor were missing from the 'malkhana' (strong room) of the Titavi police station, Station House Officer (SHO) S Kumar said. A case of negligence has been registered against Jagbir Singh, in-charge of the malkhana, and the matter is being investigated, he said. Last year, a 9mm pistol seized from a criminal had also allegedly gone missing from the strong room of the Titavi police station.
Sacked cop Sanjiv Bhatt gets life sentence in 29-year-old custodial death case
A court in Gujarat on Thursday sentenced sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in a custodial death case dating back to 1990 when he was posted as additional superintendent of police in this district. Bhatt, who earlier filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court against the role of then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots in the state, is currently behind bars in another case of falsely implicating a man for alleged possession of drugs. He was suspended from the Indian Police Service in 2011 and sacked by the Ministry of Home Affairs in August 2015 for 'unauthorised absence' from service. The Jamnagar-based court of sessions judge D N Vyas on Wednesday convicted Bhatt and police constable Pravinsinh Zala under Indian Penal Code Section 302 (murder) and sentenced them to life in jail in the 29-year-old custodial death case. The court also convicted five other policemen - sub-inspectors Dipak Shah and Sailesh Pandya, and constables Pravinsih Jadeja, ...
Mumbai: NIA court rejects Pragya Thakur's request for permanent exemption from appearing in the court
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court, on Thursday, rejected the plea of BJP MP Pragya Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case for permanent exemption from attending the court once in a week.The court had on June 3 directed Thakur and all other accused in the case to appear before it once a week.Thakur sought exemption on the ground she is a Member of Parliament and has to attend the parliament on a day-to-day basis.The court stated that these grounds were not reasonable for granting a permanent exemption from attending the court once in a week during day-to-day hearing of the blast case.The court, however, gave her exemption for Thursday from attending the court.Besides the Bhopal MP, the other accused are Lt Col Prasad Purohit, retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Ajay Rahirkar, Sameer Kulkarni and Sudhakar Chaturvedi.They have been charged under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the relevant sections of ...
100,000 South Koreans call for judge to be sacked over child rape case
More than 100,000 South Koreans are demanding the dismissal of a judge who reduced the prison sentence of a child rapist to three years. Lee, identified only by his surname, was jailed in November for eight years for raping a 10-year-old child after making her drink an alcoholic beverage at his house in 2018. The 35-year-old, who runs a private tutoring company, claimed the sex was "consensual" and that he believed the victim was much older than South Korea's age of consent, which is 13. Last week, Seoul high court judge Han Kyu-hyun reduced the sentence to three years, saying there was "insufficient evidence" -- other than the child's testimony -- that Lee assaulted her. Women's rights activists and the public protested the verdict, saying child victims of sexual violence were not being protected. "The victim was a 10-year-old, and it seems like the appeals court treated the case as if she were an adult," said Chun Jung-ah, a lawyer who has represented many victims of sexual ...
Goa: Five held in two gambling raids
Police arrested five persons and seized over Rs 43,000 in two separate gambling raids here on Wednesday.According to Superintendent of Police (SP) Pankaj Kumar Singh, five persons were arrested by Goa Crime Branch while they were accepting gambling bids."Three accused, identified as Rajesh (44), Sagar (41) and Sandeep (38), were arrested in the first raid conducted at Old bus stand Ponda. Cash worth Rs. 15,200 and gambling articles were recovered from them", Singh said.Singh added, "The second raid was conducted near the fish market in Nagoa and Salcete where two accused --Manoranjan Gill (38) and Francis Fernandes (59)-- were nabbed. Along with gambling articles, Rs 28,120 was recovered from them."Further investigation is underway.