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Rajasthan: 2 held, five cartons of liquor seized
Rajasthan police has arrested two people and seized five cartons of liquor from their possession here in Dungarpur."Based on a tip-off, we found two cartons of liquor from a vehicle outside a showroom and arrested two people in the case. After interrogating them, three more cartons were recovered from the showroom," said police.The arrests were made on Saturday.A case has been registered and investigation is underway.
Russia slams US for sentencing Mari Butina, calls it travesty of justice
Addressing a forum in Beijing, Putin said that the sentence looked like an attempt by US law enforcement and judicial officials to save face.He said, "It's an outrage" adding, "It is, in fact, arbitrary. It's not clear what she was convicted of or what crime she committed."They arrested her and put the girl in jail. But there was nothing on her, so, in order not to look totally stupid, they gave her, fixed her up, with an 18-month sentence to show that she was guilty of something," Al Jazeera quoted the Russian President as saying.Putin's remarks came after a Columbian court sentenced Butina to 18 months in prison followed by deportation.The 30-year-old Siberia native had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without registering.On Friday, Butina pleaded guilty in front of a US judge and expressed remorse for conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence US conservative activists and Republicans.The ...
San Diego: Man arrested for shooting at synagogue during Passover celebrations
A man was detained in connection with a shooting at a synagogue in California on Saturday afternoon that caused injuries, the police said."A man has been detained for questioning in connection with a shooting incident at the Chabad of Poway synagogue. @SDSOPoway Deputies were called to Chabad Way just before 11:30 a.m. There are injuries. This is a developing situation," the San Diego Police took to Twitter as saying.The police said that the shooting around 11:30 a.m. (local time) at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California, about 25 miles north of San Diego.The police said that there were injuries but that no additional details were immediately available. However, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department added that the wounded were shifted to Palomar Medical Center.Derryl Acosta, a spokesman at Palomar Medical Center, told The New York Times that the hospital's trauma centre in Escondido, California, was expecting at least one patient and that one to four additional ...
Araku MLA murder case: Maoist cadre held, handed over to NIA
One person, a member of Nandpur Area Committee of CPI Maoist and one of the accused in Araku MLA Kidari Sarveswara Rao murder case, was arrested by Koraput police on Saturday and handed over to National Investigation Agency (NIA).The arrested person has been identified as Jayaram Khilla of Tala Kandapalli village in Padwa panchayat of Dumrbiguda in Visakhapatnam district.Last year in September, two political leaders, including sitting Telegu Desam Party (TDP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Kidari Sarveswara Rao, were shot dead by Naxals in Dumbriguda Mandal of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam district.The other person who fell prey to the ultras was former TDP MLA Siveri Soma.Rao and Soma were shot dead while they were on their way to participate in Gramadarsini program in the interior village in Dubriguda Mandal, police said.The accused has been booked under various sections of Arms act, Indian Penal code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act."Khilla will be taken on remand by
Retired HC judge, son booked for dowry harrassment
A case of dowry harassment has been filed against retired Tamil Nadu High Court Judge N N Rama Mohan Rao, his wife Durga Jayalaxmi and son Vasista here, police said.Avinash Mohanthy, DCP with the CCS police told ANI over the phone that the case was filed after receiving a complaint against a woman Sindhu Sharma who claimed that she had been staying with Vasistha since their marriage in the year 2012. The couple also has two daughters.As per Sindhu's complaint, her husband and in-laws had been harassing her for dowry and husband had beaten her up too due to which she received injuries and was admitted to a hospital.Police said on Friday a counselling session was also conducted with both the parties but no headway was made and the complainant requested to register a case.A case has been registered under relevant sections against Vasishta, Rammohan Rao and his wife Durga Lakshmi.
CBI starts probe into Pollachi sex scandal
CBI has registered two cases and begun an investigation into the Pollachi sex scandal case. Earlier, the case was registered with Tamil Nadu police but now CBI has taken over the investigation in the case.In the Pollachi sex scandal, more than 50 women were allegedly lured and sexually harassed by a gang of four and the acts were video-graphed.Four accused identified as Sabarirajan, Sathish, Thirunavukarasu and Vasan Kumar were arrested in the case.They have been arrested under Section 392, 354 (A), 354 (B) of the Indian Penal Code and 66A of the Information Technology Act.The case was transferred to the Crime Branch-CID (CB-CID), a special wing of the CID, which initiated an inquiry into the matter on March 13 after receiving requisite documents from the local police.On March 26, CB-CID had summoned Thendral Manimaran, son of DMK's Coimbatore rural district secretary Thendral Selvaraj in connection with the case.Also, a First Information Report (FIR) was filed by Crime Branch on ...
BJD candidate held for attacking magistrate gets bail
A special court here Saturday granted conditional bail to BJD candidate and sitting MLA Pradeep Maharathy who was arrested on the charge of attacking a magistrate of the Election Commission's flying squad. The court granted bail to the MLA on a surety of Rs 50,000 with a condition not to influence the witnesses, government pleader Pradipta Kumar Mishra said. The court also directed him to cooperate with police in the investigation. Earlier, police had submitted the case diary and injury report in the court. The Pipili candidate's plea was slated to be heard on Wednesday but it was deferred due to delay in submission of case diary and injury report. Maharathy, who is presently admitted to the Capital Hospital under judicial custody, was arrested on April 22 for attacking the EC's flying squad, including its magistrate, on the night of April 21. The EC flying squad had reached Maharathy's farm house at Pipili after getting information about distribution of money and liquor before the ...
CBI starts probe into Pollachi case
The CBI has registered two cases and started investigation in Pollachi sexual harassment case in Tamil Nadu in which a college girl alleged that two of her friends along with two other associates sexually assaulted her and clicked a video, threatening to upload it on the internet, the agency said on Saturday.
Inmate dies in hospital; family stages protest against police
A 55-year-old convict died at a hospital here due multiple organ failure, police said Saturday. Family members of the deceased, Mohammad Ramzan, carried out a protest as they accused the police of beating and thrashing him. According to the police, Ramzan, an inmate of the Kota central jail who was serving a sentence for murder, died at the New Medical College Hospital (NMCH) on Friday night after prolonged illness. Ramzan, a resident of Mangrol town of Rajasthan's Baran district, suffered from a severe kidney problem and was admitted to the NMCH on March 23 and again on April 25. He was admitted to SMS hospital in Jaipur from April 21-25, said Kota central jail superintendent Suman Maliwal. The doctors at the SMS hospital said both of Ramzan's kidneys had failed and he was under medical observation at the NMCH, Maliwal said. "Not even once during this period when his health deteriorated did he stay in the jail," the jail superintendent said. A medical board carried out a post-mortem .
'Centre misusing CBI, giving political colour to sugar mill case': Maywati
BSP chief Mayawati Saturday accused the Centre of misusing the CBI during elections, saying the case pertaining to the sale of 21 state-owned sugar mills during her tenure as Uttar Pradesh chief minister was being given a political colour. Her remarks came after the CBI registered an FIR and six preliminary enquiries to probe the alleged irregularities in the sale of the 21 sugar mills. "In this election, the BJP is misusing government institutions including the CBI, which has never happened earlier. The case pertaining to the sugar mills is being given a political colour, and this is an example of gross misuse of the CBI," she alleged. "The department concerned sold the sugar mills. If there is any shortcoming, then it can be probed. But, the timing is wrong, and the action carried out during the election is misguiding people. The public must remain alert about this conspiracy," Mayawati told reporters here during a press conference. The sale of the sugar mills in 2011-12 led to a .
Case against retd HC judge, wife and son on daughter-in-laws
A case has been registered against a retired high court judge, his wife and son on a complaint by his daughter-in-law of cruelty towards her, police said Saturday. The case has been registered under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and dowry prohibition act, they said.
10 Kaushal gang shooters arrested in Gurugram
The Gurugram Police Crime Branch on Saturday arrested four more shooters of the notorious Kaushal gang, a day after six dreaded sharp shooters of the same gang were held, under the Operation Clean-up.
Assange may have been victim of 'espionage' in embassy: lawyers
Julian Assange's lawyers have filed a court complaint in Spain against a group of Spaniards they allege extorted the WikiLeaks founder whom they say may have been the victim of "espionage", a source in his defence team said Saturday. Assange, who for seven years lived holed up in London's Ecuadoran embassy where he had taken refuge to avoid extradition to Sweden on rape accusations, was arrested on April 11 after Quito terminated his asylum. The 47-year-old founder of WikiLeaks, which exposed everything from US military secrets to the wealthy's tax evasion, is now awaiting sentencing for breaching his British bail conditions in 2012. The source, who wished to remain anonymous, said the complaint was against "a group of Spaniards who allegedly engaged in extortion." The source told AFP the complaint was also against various employees of the embassy and Ecuador's foreign ministry "who could be responsible," without detailing how. The source added a probe was ongoing into the alleged ...
Musharraf will return to Pakistan on May 1: Lawyer
Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, who is facing high treason case, is likely to return to the country on May 1, his lawyer said on Saturday. A special court indicted General (retd) Musharraf, 75, for high treason in March 2014. He left for Dubai in 2016 to "seek medical treatment" and has not returned since. Last month, he was admitted to a hospital in Dubai after suffering a reaction from a rare disease for which he is already under treatment. "Despite his deteriorating medical condition, the former military ruler is determined to appear before the court that had summoned him for the hearing scheduled for May 2," Musharraf's lawyer Salman Safdar told reporters. "The approval of former president's personal physician had become of upmost importance in the current circumstances, considering his fragile medical condition," Safdar was quoted as saying by the Express News. However, family sources have confirmed his arrival date, he added. The Pakistan's Supreme Court, ..
TDP leader detained at Renigunta airport for carrying bullets
A Telugu Desam Party leader bound for Hyderabad by a private airlines flight was detained at the Renigunta airport, near here, Saturday for carrying 20 bullets, an airport official said. The party leader from Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh was handed over to police by the airport authorities as the bullets were detected during scanning, the official said. After preliminary inquiry, the passenger was found to have a valid gun licence, police said. However, further interrogation of the party man was on as he did not initially disclose the fact that he was carrying the ammunition, they added.
Journalist held for circulating 'fake letter'
A journalist was arrested here Saturday for allegedly circulating a "fake letter,"purportedly written by home minister M B Patil to Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi in 2017 on religion tag to the Lingayat sect. Patil had termed the letter fake and alleged that it was a conspiracy against him by his rivals. Inspector General of Police CID, economic offence wing and cyber crime Hemant Nimbalkar told PTI that Hemant Kumar was arrested here Saturday. Kumar is special correspondent of a Delhi based English and Hindi magazine. Police in a release said Hemanth Kumar was arrested, "based on credible evidence corroborated by oral statement." He was produced before a court, which granted police custody of Kumar till April 30, it said. The 'letter' had first emerged during the Karnataka assembly elections in 2018. It resurfaced during the current Lok Sabha electionwith BJP first publishing it on its Twitter handle on April 15. Condemning the arrest, a delegation of BJP leaders, led by ..
HC junks plea seeking to reject DMK candidate Senthil Balaji's nomination
The Madras High Court Saturday dismissed a petition seeking a direction to the Election Commission to reject the nomination of DMK candidate Senthil Balaji for the Aravakurichi Assembly bypoll. A Division Bench comprising Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad also imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on the petitioner. The petitioner A P Geetha, women's wing secretary of Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi (DMSK), contended that the former Minister should not be allowed to contest in elections because he had allegedly indulged in electoral malpractices in 2016. Balaji who won as an AIADMK candidate was suspended by the Speaker along with 18 other MLAs. Senior counsel P Wilson, who appeared on behalf of Balaji argued that the PIL lacked bonafide and the same petitioner had filed a plea in 2016 which was dismissed by the court. The petitioner had also filed a plea previously challenging Balaji's election before his disqualification by the Speaker, the counsel said. Balaji also submitted that ...
Man accused of killing wife and stabbing daughter arrested
A 52-year-old man who had fled after allegedly killing his wife and attacking his soon-to-be-married daughter was arrested Saturday, police said. Mohan Mahajan, the accused, was nabbed from Vasargaon in Thane district, a police official said. Mahajan, who drove an auto-rickshaw, often fought with his wife and was living separately for the last two years, police said. The family lived in Thankar pada locality of Kalyan in the district. On the night of April 25, he visited his family and picked a quarrel during which he allegedly stabbed his wife Manisha(45) with a knife. When the couple's daughter Gauravi (24) tried to intervene, Mahajan allegedly stabbed her too. While Manisha died on the way to hospital, Gauravi, who was to get married on May 8, is battling for life at a hospital, police said. Police registered a case of murder and attempt to murder against Mahajan and arrested him Saturday from Vasargaon where he was hiding. Further probe is on.
'Notorious' criminal booked under PSA in J-K's Ramban
A "notorious" criminal, who also used to be in the forefront of anti-national protests, was Saturday booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesman said. Bahar Ahmed Dar, a resident of Darpura tehsil of Banihal, was booked under the PSA and lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail, Jammu, on the directions of district magistrate, Ramban, he said. "Dar is a known history sheeter of the area (Banihal) and as many as six FIRs related to narcotic smuggling, robbery and rioting stand registered against him at the local police station," the spokesman said. He said Dar was arrested with two kilograms of charas on March 16. "Dar was also used to be on the forefront of anti-national activities and often used to lead anti-national rallies and protests. The public of Banihal was weary of his activities as he was luring the youths into drugs and other anti-social and anti-national activities," the spokesman said. The PSA is an administrative ...
Boy held for electrocuting girl after sexual harassment
A plus-two student was arrested Saturday for allegedly killing a class VII girl by electrocuting her after sexually harassing her, police said. The 12-year old girl was found dead in her house near Vadamathurai in the district, and a case of suspicious death was registered, the police said. Investigation revealed the boy had sexually harassed the girl and then killed her by electrocution, they said. The parents of the girl staged an agitation demanding the arrest of the accused, they added.