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Bihar: Gaya SDO held for accepting bribe
Gaya Sub Divisional Officer, Suraj Kumar Sinha has been arrested for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh here, police said."We had received a complaint against Sinha from Saarim Ali. We'll take Sinha to Patna where he'll be produced before a court," said DSP (Vigilance) Gopal Paswan.Ali said the sub-divisional officer had demanded a bribe of over Rs 2 lakh from him in a land dispute case.The vigilance department officials said Sinha was arrested while he was allegedly accepting the bribe.Sinha said he is being framed in the matter.
CJI sexual harrasment case: Justice Ramana recuses himself from SC probe committee
Supreme Court Justice NV Ramana, part of the three judges of the apex court's in-house committee appointed to examine the allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, on Thursday opted out following objections from the woman complainant.Ramana's recusal comes after the complainant expressed reservations about his inclusion in the committee citing that he should drop out as he is a "close friend" and "like a family member" of Gogoi.In his letter, Ramana highlighted that he was asked to be a part of the committee on the approval of Full Court."Firstly, I may have pre-judged the matter based on a selective extract of my speech on the occasion of Centenary Celebrations of the High Court Building at Hyderabad, and, secondly, I am a close friend of the Chief Justice of India and like a family member to him. These grounds, according to the complainant, raise fears that her affidavit and evidence will not receive an objective and fair hearing," he ...
Body count rises to 7 in Cyprus 'serial killings' probe
Cypriot authorities on Thursday uncovered another body in a widening probe into the murders of foreign women and girls after a suspected serial killer confessed to seven killings, police sources said. A 35-year-old Greek Cypriot army officer appeared for a remand hearing in court in connection with the murder of a third Filipina woman who was reported missing last year. Police sources, quoted by the state-run CNA news agency, said authorities were also looking into cases involving an Asian woman as well as that of a Romanian mother and her young daughter reported missing in 2016. The suspect, who allegedly confessed to seven killings, earlier Thursday showed investigators the spot where he had dumped a body in a well at an army firing range outside the capital Nicosia. As the case becomes more complex, Cypriot police are requesting the aid of experts from British law enforcement. They include a coroner, a clinical psychiatrist, a forensic specialist and investigators experienced in ...
1 killed, 3 injured after car rams into divider at Signature Bridge
A 23-year-old man was killed and three others were injured after their car rammed into a divider at the Signature Bridge on early Thursday, police said. The four friends -- Ashish, Rishabh, Yash and Vishal -- had gone for a ride in their car at the Signature Bridge. Ashish, who was driving the car, lost control over the vehicle and the car rammed into a divider at the bridge, police said. Ashish was rushed to the Trauma Centre Civil Lines, where he was declared brought dead by doctors while Vishal's condition was stated to be critical. Rishabh and Yash sustained minor injuries, police said. After conducting the postmortem, the body was handed over to the family members, they said. A case under appropriate sections was registered and a probe was underway, police added.
23-year-old man shot at by two bike-borne assailants for not sharing cigarette
A 23-year-old man was shot at allegedly by two unidentified bike-borne men after he refused to share a cigarette with them in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh, police said Thursday. Amir Khan sustained a bullet injury to the right side of his chest, they said. In his statement to police, Khan said that he and his friend were standing near a shopping mall at around 9.30 pm on Wednesday when two unidentified men came on a motorcycle and asked him for a cigarette. When he refused, the two men abused him which led to an argument. One of the two bike-borne men took out at a pistol and opened fired at Khan, a senior officer said. A case of attempt to murder was registered and efforts were being made to identify the two men who were at large, he said. Last year in August, a 29-year-old non-teaching staff of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was allegedly stabbed to death while his cousin was injured, following a scuffle over asking directions to a cigarette shop. In another incident in ...
Six, including 5 kids, dead as truck collides with motorbike
Six people, including five children, were killed when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a truck in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar district Thursday night, police said. The tragic incident took place on Balodabazar bypass under the City Kotwali police station area, a local police official said. A man and five children who were all below 10 years of age were riding the motorcycle which collided with a truck, leaving all six dead on the spot, he said. The truck driver has been arrested, he added.
CJI case: Justice Malhotra second woman in panel
Justice Indu Malhotra will replace Justice N.V. Ramana on the three-member Supreme Court panel set up to look into allegations of sexual harassment, by a former court staffer, against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
Delhi man held for stabbing mother, brother to death
Police have arrested a man for allegedly stabbing his mother and younger brother to death with a pair of scissors in Bindapur area of the national capital.The cause of the incident, which occurred on Tuesday night, is said to be family dispute, police said on Thursday.As per the police, the family members have been at loggerheads with each other in the recent past.A case has been registered and the investigation is underway.
NIA arrests 2 accused in Jaish conspiracy case
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested two accused in the Jaish conspiracy case where top leadership of Jaish-e-Mohammad (Jem) was allegedly recruiting persons for carrying out terror attacks in India.The accused, identified as Tanveer (29) and Billal Mir (23), are residents of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, the NIA said in a statement.According to the agency, both were members of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation."Accused Tanveer and Bilal Mir were brought from Kot Bhalwal Jail, Jammu, where they have been detained under Public Safety Act, and produced before the NIA Special Court today against a production warrant," the NIA said."The investigation has disclosed that earlier arrested accused Sajjad Ahmad was in regular contact with these accused over WhatsApp," the agency mentioned.The NIA court has granted seven days custody of the two accused to the investigative agency (up to May 2).
Apoorva, arrested for killing husband Rohit Tiwari, showing confusing behaviour: Police
Apoorva, the lawyer wife of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari who has been arrested for allegedly killing him, has showed confusing behaviour, a police officer said Thursday, adding she regrets her action sometimes and appears cold about the incident other times. During four days of intense interrogation, she did not break down once but now she appears to be regretting smothering Tiwari on the night of April 15-16. She also claimed that Tiwari's mother, Ujjwala, often interfered between them and this affected the couple's relationship, the officer said. On the night Tiwari was killed, he and Apoorva were in their room at the Defence Colony residence when they had a fight over Tiwari's proximity with his sister-in-law. "She told him she did not like his proximity with his sister-in-law and that he used to drink with her. He teased her saying that when he was returning from Uttarkhand, he and his sister-in-law drank alcohol from the same glass. This angered Apoorva. She held on to his neck and when .
Justice Ramana recuses from panel, terms aspersions against him baseless
Justice N V Ramana, who recused himself from the in-house inquiry panel set up to examine the allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Thursday termed as "baseless and unfounded" the "aspersions" cast by a former woman employee of the apex court on him. Opting himself out of the three-member in-house inquiry committee, Justice Ramana said he has recused only to "avoid any suspicion that this institution will not conduct itself in keeping with the highest standards of judicial propriety and wisdom". In a letter to Justice S A Bobde, who is heading the panel, Justice Ramana said his recusal was a clear message to the nation that there should be no fears about "probity in our institution, and that we will not refrain from going to any extent to protect the trust reposed in us". The woman, in her letter to the panel on Wednesday, expressed objection to the presence of Justice Ramana in the committee on the ground that he is a close friend of the CJI ...
NIA arrests two Jaish terrorists
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two terrorists belonging to Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) on Thursday. The two terrorists -- Tanveer alias Tanveer Ahmad Ganie (29) and Bilal Mir alias Bilal Ahmad Mir (23) -- were detained under the Public Safety Act and put in the Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu, a statement issued by the NIA said. They were produced before a special court that remanded them to a seven-day custody of the NIA. The case against the duo pertained to a criminal conspiracy hatched by the top JeM leadership to strengthen the banned terror outfit's base in India by recruiting persons for carrying out acts of terrorism, the agency said. "An investigation has disclosed that earlier arrested accused Sajjad Ahmad was in regular contact with these accused over WhatsApp during the relevant period," it added. The case was registered by the NIA on the basis of information received initially by the Centre regarding a criminal conspiracy involving certain people for
Man held in TN for killing ex-employer's father in Mumbai
A man was arrested in Tamil Nadu for allegedly killing his former employer's 70-year-old father in suburban Borivali last week, police said on Thursday. The accused, identified as Mahesh Chandra Gouda, who hailed from Karnataka, used to work in the shop of the victim's son earlier, police said. According to police, Waman Malhar Joshi was murdered by an unidentified person while he was alone at his residence on April 18. His son Vilas Joshi, 35, lodged a complaint in this connection and a case under section 302 (murder) of IPC was registered, a police official said. "During the probe, it came to light that the attacker had also looted Rs 10,000 from the house. Accordingly, relevant sections of the IPC were added in the case," he said. Police suspected the role of persons known to the victim and accordingly started keeping a tab on the movement of the victim's relatives as well as the people who worked in Joshi's shop. "It was learnt that Gouda, who used to earlier work in
HC sends death penalty ruling back to trial court
Three years after a Thane court awarded death penalty to a man for raping and murdering a 7-year-old girl, the Bombay High Court Thursday remanded the case back to it on account of procedural lapses. A bench of justices B P Dharmadhikari and P D Naik set aside the trial court's order awarding Atul Rama Lote death penalty Thursday. It remanded the case back to the trial court, asking it to reconsider the facts and evidence and decide whether to hold a retrial or proceed anew from the stage of framing of charges -- when procedural lapses were committed. On September 28, 2016, the Thane court awarded Lote death sentence. He was accused of abducting, raping and killing the minor daughter of an acquaintance in 2014. When the state government's petition seeking confirmation of death sentence was taken up by the High Court, Lote's lawyer Yug Chaudhary pointed out certain lapses. In February 2014, the police charge sheeted Lote under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (A) (kidnapping a .
Noida man who fled with minor to marry her held in Daman & Diu
A 24-year-old man, charged with kidnapping a girl from here and taking her to Daman and Diu with a promise of marrying her, has been arrested, police said Thursday. The accused, Manoj Kumar Singh, and the girl are from Hoshiarpur village in Noida and had gone missing on April 9 after which a complaint was lodged at the Sector 49 police station by her family, a police official said. "When probe was taken up, we found that the accused has taken the girl to Daman and Diu. We tracked him down there and arrested him yesterday. Both were brought here on Thursday," Station House Officer (SHO) Ajay Aggarwal said. He said the girl had consented to go along with the accused, but since she is a minor her consent is not enough in a case like this. Aggarwal said that Singh has worked in private companies as a driver and had been to the western state earlier also. "Now also he moved there with the girl and had taken up a job of driver in some private company," he added. The accused has been charged
Justice Indu Malhotra appointed to in-house inquiry panel to probe allegations against CJI
Supreme Court judge Indu Malhotra was Thursday appointed as the third member of the in-house inquiry panel set up to examine allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi following recusal of Justice N V Ramana. Senior-most judge S A Bobde, who is heading the panel, has appointed Justice Malhotra to the committee. Justice Indira Banerjee is also part of the panel. The development assumes significance as the former woman employee of the apex court had written a letter on Wednesday to the panel expressing reservation over the inclusion of Justice Ramana on the ground that he is a close friend of the CJI and a regular visitor to his house. In her letter to Justice Bobde, she had also raised question over the presence of only one woman apex court judge -- Banerjee -- in the panel to examine her allegations against the CJI which according to her is not in accordance with the Vishaka Guidelines. The woman is supposed to appear before the panel on ...
Quarters for cops: HC directs TN police to launch website
The Madras High Court Thursday said there was "favouritism and nepotism" in the allotment of residential quarters to police personnel in Tamil Nadu and ordered the launch of a website to facilitate an online application process. It also directed the state police chief to constitute a team to conduct inspections and collect particulars of illegal occupants and issue show-cause notice to them to vacate within 60 days from the date of receipt of notice. Justice S M Subramaniam gave the direction on a petition by M Ragupathy, who is working with the Police Department. The petitioner sought a direction to the Director General of Police to consider his representation for change of quarters. Disposing of the plea, the judge said, "This court is of the considered opinion that there are growing instances in the Police Department that quarters are allotted in violation of the rules in force. Police quarters are allotted based on favouritism and nepotism." ".... in the event of providing ...
France promises trial over missing Japanese student
A Chilean national is to be tried in France for the suspected murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend, with Paris to request his extradition later this year, a prosecutor said Thursday. Narumi Kurosaki, 21, went missing in December 2016 from her university residence in Besancon, a town near the Alps in eastern France, after having dinner with her Chilean ex, Nicolas Zepeda. Investigators are convinced she was killed by Zepeda in a jealous rage, but despite extensive searches, her body was never found. Zepeda, who is the sole suspect, returned to Chile shortly after she went missing, before investigators could issue an arrest warrant. He denies any involvement in her disappearance. Earlier this month, the Besancon prosecutor Etienne Manteaux travelled to Chile with a judge and two police investigators to interview Zepeda, with the announcement made on their return. "French judicial authorities will formalise an extradition request this autumn which will be presented to their Chilean ...
'Justice Ramana recused himself so that exercise doesn't get vitiated'
The letter by Justice N V Ramana recusing himself from the Supreme Court's in-house inquiry panel, set up to examine the allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, has said he is opting out so that the exercise is "not vitiated", according to sources. Justice Ramana in his letter has said that he has not recused owing to the objections raised by the apex court's former woman employee who has levelled allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI, the sources said. They said Justice Ramana has written a letter to Justice S A Bobde, who is heading the in-house inquiry panel. "Justice Ramana has recused and letter has been sent to Justice Bobde. It is a big three-page letter. The recusal is not based on the grounds raised by the former woman employee. But it is done so that the whole exercise does not get vitiated," the sources said. The recusal came a day after the woman wrote a letter to the panel expressing reservation over the inclusion of ...
ED files supplementary charge sheet against Om Prakash Chautala in DA case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a supplementary charge sheet before a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, pertaining to his recently attached properties in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case.The charge sheet has been filed before CBI Judge Kamini Lau and will be considered on May 16.The court has asked ED's counsel Naveen Kumar Matta to file a progress report on the rest of Chautala's properties on next date of hearing.According to the charge sheet, the ED initiated a probe under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on the basis of an FIR registered by the CBI and the charge sheet filed by it against Chautala and his sons Abhay and Ajay Chautala under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 13 (2) read with 13(1) (e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988."CBI's investigation revealed that Om Prakash Chautala had allegedly acquired assets disproportionate to his known ...