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Engineer's murder: Wife wanted divorce, planned killing, says police
The wife of an engineer, who was found dead with gun shot injuries inside his car two days ago in Greater Noida, has been booked for planning his killing and three persons arrested, police said Wednesday. The body of Rupendra Singh Chandel was found inside his hatchback car under mysterious circumstances on April 28 near Gaur City, they said. A case was registered at the Bisrakh police station against unidentified persons and probe taken up, a senior official said. "During probe, it emerged that Chandel's wife had planned the killing. She had an illicit relationship with Omvir Singh and wanted to eliminate her husband. Omvir had roped in two other men for the job,"Krishna told reporters. Singh was arrested on Wednesday from the Tigri roundabout along with his two aides Sumit Kumar and Bhoole. The 0.32 bore pistol used in the crime has been recovered, he said. The officer said Amrita Chandel wanted a divorce from her husband, but he was reluctant to do so. This led her to plan his ...
SC declares "null and void" Archery Association's Dec elections
The Supreme Court Wednesday declared "null and void" the elections conducted last December by the Archery Association of India (AAI) that were monitored by high court-appointed administrator S Y Quraishi, and directed fresh polling within four weeks. It also set aside the AAI constitution, as amended by the Delhi High Court-appointed administrator, saying that steps taken by him were not in conformity with the directions passed by the top court earlier. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Ajay Rastogi said that the incumbent elected body would continue to function as a committee of administrators of the AAI and allowed it to be in office until the newly elected body takes over. "The Committee shall discharge only routine and day-to-day activities and shall not take any policy decision or create new financial liability, until the newly elected body takes over," the bench said. "We further declare that all steps taken by the administrator on the basis of the administrator's ...
Man gets life sentence for killing paramour's husband
A sessions court in Gujarat's Dahod has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of his friend. According to the prosecution, the convict, Dilip Deval, was having an affair with the victim's wife and therefore wanted him out of the way. Additional Sessions Judge Z V Trivedi sentenced Deval to life imprisonment Tuesday. "It is evident that the murder of the victim was committed by Dilip Deval just to remove him so that he (Deval) could stay with victim's wife," the court noted. The prosecution told the court that on December 4, 2013, Deval took his friend Viral Rameshchandra Sheth to his farm at Kharedi village and shot him dead. He then buried the body in the field and sealed the spot with cement. Next day, Sheth's father lodged a complaint about his son going missing, but police remained clueless about his whereabouts for four years. Deval was arrested in another murder case in April 2017, and during interrogation revealed that he had killed Viral Rameshchandra ...
AAI president Rao resigns, unsure of contesting in future
Archery Association of India president B.V.P. Rao, on Wednesday, decided to resign from his post despite the Supreme Court asking him to continue as one of the administrators till fresh elections are held.
Woman, 2 kids die in gas cylinder blast
A woman and her two children, aged 5 and 3, died when a cooking gas cylinder exploded at their homen here Wednesday, police said. The incident happened when the woman was cooking and her husband had gone out. The house was also damaged in the blast, police said, adding the bodies were charred.
SC sets aside HC order directing CBI to probe transfer of temple land belonging to deity
The Supreme Court Wednesday set aside the Jharkhand High Court's order by which the CBI was directed to probe alleged illegal transfer of a Ram temple land in Ranchi belonging to the deity. The apex court observed that remarks by the high court that the matter was needed to be probed by the CBI were "wholly untenable" and the power to direct a CBI investigation should not be exercised in a routine manner without examining the complexities and nature of offence. A bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta delivered the judgement on an appeal filed against the June 7, 2017 order of the high court. "We find that the high court has completely misdirected itself in directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over investigation in a matter which relates to the rights of the trustees to sell property of a religious trust or deity, giving rise to civil dispute," the bench said. The high court had directed CBI probe into the matter and said it was of the prima facie .
SC reserves order on Centre's plea for SC/ST law verdict review
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the Centre's plea seeking recall of its 2018 judgment diluting stringent provisions of immediate arrest and no anticipatory bail for the accused on a complaint filed under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Notice to JKLF-Y, asked to explain why it would not be confirmed as unlawful organisation
The recently banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) led by separatist leader Yasin Malik has been served with a show-cause notice by a tribunal to explain why it would not be confirmed as an unlawful organisation, officials said Wednesday. The registrar of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal, Delhi High Court, has served the notice on the JKLF-Y under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 and gave the group 30 days to explain why their association, declared as unlawful, be not adjudicated to be so and why an order confirming such declaration be not made under the act. The tribunal has asked the JKLF-Y to file objections or affidavits, if any, before the next date of hearing, to the registrar of the tribunal located at the Delhi High Court, a Jammu and Kashmir government official said. The JKLF-Y has also been asked to appear before the tribunal through a duly authorised person on May 30 for further proceedings. The central government had constituted the ..
Court summons to Rahul in defamation suit for calling Shah 'murder-accused'
A court in Ahmedabad Wednesday issued summons to Congress president Rahul Gandhi in response to a criminal defamation suit filed by a BJP worker for calling BJP chief Amit Shah a "murder accused". Additional chief metropolitan magistrate D S Dabhi issued a summons, returnable on July 6, holding that prima facie (on the face of it) there was a case of criminal defamation against Gandhi under section 500 of the IPC. Krishnavadan Brahmbhatt, a local BJP corporator stated in the complaint that Gandhi, at an election rally in Jabalpur on April 23, said, "Murder-accused BJP chief Amit Shah, wah, kya shaan hai (how glorious)!" Brahmbhatt contended that Gandhi's remark was defamatory as Shah, in 2015, was acquitted by a CBI court in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case. Neither the High Court nor the Supreme Court entertained challenge to Shah's acquittal, he said. "Gandhi (thus) committed offence of defamation as per sections 499 and 500 of the IPC," he said. The CBI court's January 2, 2015
Two drug peddlers arrested in J-K's Doda
Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested Wednesday in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir and lodged in a jail for a period of one month under preventive detention, police said. Mohammad Saleem and Asim Bhat, both residents of Kotli village, were arrested from Bhaderwah town of the district for their involvement in drug peddling and providing drugs to the youth, a police spokesman said. He said both the accused were produced before Tehsildar Bhaderwah and by the order's of Executive Magistrate 1st class, they were booked under various sections of CrPC and lodged in district jail Kishtwar for a period of one month.
Youth held for stoning neighbour to death
A 20-year-old youth, who had allegedly stoned his neighbour to death along with two accomplices, was arrested from Narela here, police said Wednesday. The suspect has been identified as Bhupender, a resident of Narela, they said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Crime, Ram Gopal Naik said, "A 50-year-old woman from Narela had complained that her son Ajay Kumar (22) was abducted around 6 pm on Sunday." According to the woman, she and her son had gone to purchase milk from Vijay Chowk in Narela. Her son was walking at a distance from her, when a car stopped nearby, two persons came out of it and abducted Ajay, the woman told the police. Naik said she had identified one of the assailants as Mohit, a resident of their area. Later, Ajay was found dead near the Kundli-Ghaziabad Peripheral Expressway on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. His face was badly smashed with stones, he said. The autopsy was conducted on Tuesday. Police said they got a tip-off Wednesday that Bhupender,
Ahmedabad court summons Rahul in defamation case
A court here on Wednesday issued summons to Congress President Rahul Gandhi in a suit filed by a BJP member accusing him of making defamatory statements against the party President Amit Shah at a poll rally in Madhya Pradesh last month.
Gujarat working for out-of-court settlement in PepsiCo cases
The Gujarat government is working for an out-of-court settlement of cases filed by PepsiCo against nine state farmers for growing a variety of potato "registered" by the food and beverages giant, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said Wednesday. Nine farmers from Sabarkantha and Aravalli districts have been sued by PepsiCo in two separate courts for allegedly growing a variety of potatoes for which the company has claimed plant variety protection (PVP) rights and sought damages of as much as Rs 1 crore from each of them. The American MNC has claimed the potato variety in question has been "registered" by it. "The government is trying to ensure that the issue is resolved outside the court properly and as per the law, in a manner that it is helpful to farmers. "The agriculture secretary and chief secretary have been informed regarding the same," Patel told reporters here. PepsiCo had last week offered to settle lawsuits against the farmers, but only if they gave an ...
Double EPIC: Atishi's locus standi in plaint quizzed
A Delhi court on Wednesday asked Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) East Delhi Lok Sabha candidate Atishi to explain her locus standi in filing a criminal complaint against Gautam Gambhir, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee for the seat, for holding two voter ID cards.
Man carrying live bullet held at Delhi Metro station
A man was Wednesday apprehended at a metro station here for allegedly carrying a live bullet in his bag, officials said. Ranu Khan (29), was held by the CISF personnel at New Delhi metro station around 8 am after the baggage scanner detected a live bullet of 8 mm caliber in his bag, they said. The accused was then handed over to the local police by the Central Industrial Security Force for further investigation, officials said. Khan, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district, said he is a carpenter and had come here to meet his brother who lives in Jafrabad area. Carrying arms and ammunition in the Delhi Metro is banned by the law.
After 14 years, SC lifts stay granted in divorce case
Fourteen years after staying a divorce proceeding pending before a district court in Delhi, the Supreme Court Wednesday lifted the stay and allowed the plea of a woman who was seeking transfer of the case to some other court. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi noted that a petition seeking transfer of the case was filed by the woman and the apex court had stayed the proceedings pending in the lower court in April 2005. While hearing the case in 2005, the apex court had expanded its ambit by raising the larger issue of compulsory registration of marriage. The bench Wednesday sought to know about the woman who had filed the transfer petition. "What happened to the main case of the lady who had come here for transfer of case? Where has she gone. The (stay) order was of 2005. What has happened to that lady?," asked the bench, which also comprised Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna. "They (woman and her husband) must have become old, too old to seek divorce. For 14 years, ...
Police use Google location data to nab 2 murder accused
Aided by Google's location data, the Delhi Police was able to arrest two people for allegedly killing a 60-year-old man, officials said Wednesday. Accused Rajesh (35) and Sagar (30), residents of the Sundar Nagari area here, were arrested Tuesday for killing Ram Karan Verma, they said. "On March 4, Sunil Verma, son of Ram Karan Verma, filed a case at Nand Nagari police station where he stated that his father was missing since March 2. Sunil alleged that Rajesh and Sagar were behind it," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast) Atul Kumar Thakur said. A case of abduction was registered on March 20 and a probe launched, Thakur said. He said as officials made very little headway after analysing call detail records (CDRs) of Rajesh and Sagar, police looked into the March 2 Google location data of one of the accused which showed that the person had visited the Lucknow Expressway that day. When asked about the visit, the accused failed to give a satisfactory answer and ended up confessing .
Ultimate duty of DDA is to ensure development of Delhi, should be allowed to use its discretion:HC
The ultimate duty of the DDA is to ensure development of the national capital and it should be allowed to exercise its discretion as it thinks best, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice C Hari Shankar said even if, in a given case, the court feels that the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) could have acted otherwise, restraint has to be exercised by law on the DDA. "It cannot be said, with any modicum of legitimacy, that the DDA has any axe to grind against any person to whom land is to be allotted by it, or that it acts mala fide in that regard. "The decision of allotment of alternative plots, to persons whose lands have been acquired, is, at all times, essentially and fundamentally a decision of policy. So long, as the decision does not result in unconstitutional, or unjust, deprivation of the right of the citizen to property, it remains substantially immune from judicial review," the judge said. The observations came while dismissing a plea by a city resident, Ram Kumar, seeking .
Assange jailed in UK for bail norm breach
A British court on Wednesday sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in prison for violating bail conditions in 2012 to avoid a Swedish extradition request.
SC refuses to take up urgent mentioning in coming week
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to take up any mentioning from the lawyers who wanted their cases to be heard on an urgent basis."There will be no more mentioning in the coming six days," said a three-judge judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan GogoiThe apex court said that in the coming six days, starting from Friday, the Court will list around 4,000 matters.