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Yogi govt approves loan of Rs. 2000 cr to expedite construction of Purvanchal expressway
The Yogi Adityanath government on Tuesday approved a loan of Rs 2,000 crore to expedite the construction of the Purvanchal expressway.Briefing the media on decisions taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Adityanath, state government spokespersons Shrikant Sharma and Siddharth Nath Singh said that six proposals were approved."In an effort to expedite the construction of the Purvanchal expressway, the Yogi government approved a loan of Rs. 2,000 crore," they said."The Cabinet has also approved the amendment in the Civil Procedure Act, 1908. Disputes arising from mutual reconciliation and arbitration of Section-102 and Section-115 can now be heard in the district courts instead of the High Court. Apart from the district judge, ADJ will also be able to hear the cases. The bail bond has also been increased from Rs 25,000 to 50,000 under section 102. Similarly, the bail bond has been increased from Rs. 5 lakh to Rs. 25 lakh under section 115," an Uttar Pradesh government ...
5-year-old girl kidnapped, raped in MP's Narsinghpur
A five-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped by an unidentified person in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur, a police official said Tuesday. The girl is severely injured and is undergoing treatment in a hospital in Jabalpur, he added. "Some nomad families are staying on a plot near the bus stand under Ganj police station limits. The five-year-old girl belongs to one of these families. She was raped on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday," Narsinghpur Superintendent of Police Gurukaran Singh said. "The victim was sleeping with her mother and sister. She was picked up by an unidentified person and raped near a bridge. She was found unconscious at the spot by her family," Singh added. On the advice of local doctors, police have admitted the girl to a hospital in Jabalpur, he added. A case of rape and kidnapping has been lodged under relevant sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said. After the kin of the victim alleged ...
Bank robbery foiled, nine held in Thane district
Police Monday night foiled a bank robbery bid and arrested nine persons before they could execute their plan in Thane district of Maharashtra. Deputy Commissioner of Police Vivek Pansare Tuesday said a patrolling team stopped a man moving suspiciously on a motorcycle in Kalyan Monday night, who disclosed that other members of the gang were going to rob a nationalised bank on the Kalyan-Murbad road in the wee hours of Tuesday. When the gang members arrived at the spot, police personnel who were lying in wait arrested them. The accused hailed from Chennai and various places in Andhra Pradesh, the DCP said. A police official said the gang members have at least 23 cases pending against them in Maharashtra and Karnataka. Police seized three motorcycles, knives, sickles, glass cutters, screw drivers and 25 mobile phone handsets from the accused and booked them under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Arms Act. Further investigation is underway.
Delhi court sentences AAP MLA to 3 months in jail for obstructing polling process
A Delhi court Tuesday sentenced AAP MLA Manoj Kumar to three months in jail for obstructing the election process at a booth in east Delhi during the 2013 Assembly polls, saying offences relating to polls should be sternly dealt with. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, however, granted Kumar bail on furnishing a bond of Rs 10,000 to enable him to challenge the order in a superior court. Kumar, currently an MLA from east Delhi's Kondli constituency, had denied the charges and claimed that the case was politically motivated. "The accused, Manoj Kumar, has been convicted for the commission of offence under section 131 (disorderly conduct in or near polling stations) of the Representation of People Act. He is sentenced with a simple imprisonment of a period of three months and with a fine of Rs 10,000," the court said. It has also sentenced him to three months in jail for commission of offence under Section 186 (obstructing public servant in discharging public ...
SIDCO case:HC grants anticipatory bail to DMK MLA, wife
The Madras High Court Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to DMK MLA M Subramanian and his wife in connection with a case relating to alleged grabbing of a government property by creating forged documents. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan directed both of them to appear before a Metropolitan Magistrate Court here on condition that they shall execute a bond for Rs 10,000 with two sureties for a like sum to the satisfaction of the Magistrate within 15 days from the date of the order. The matter relates to the allegation against Subramanian, former Chennai Mayor, on grabbing of a property belonging to Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO), by creating forged and fabricated documents. Senior counsel P Wilson appearing for the former mayor and his wife had submitted that the de facto complainant was a third party and he had nothing to do with the property. In his order, the judge said Subramanian and his wife were in possession of the property from 1996. The de ...
Man slits daughter-in-law's throat following an argument over fixing a bulb
A 65-year-old man allegedly slit the throat of his daughter-in-law following an argument over fixing a bulb at their residence in central Delhi's Paharganj, police said Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as 33-year-old Neeraj, who was a homemaker, they said. According to the police, the incident took place on Tuesday night. An argument broke out between the woman and her father-in-law - Bhagatram (65) over fixing a bulb in the house. The woman had allegedly removed the bulb that was initially fixed by her father-in-law. An argument ensued over it. Later, when her father-in-law was having dinner with his wife, she insisted on having dinner with them. Police said he did not want to have dinner with her. The woman often had fights with her in-laws over her husband who has hardly visited them in the last seven years. On Tuesday night, however, the issue over fixing the bulb and dinner escalated further and led to an altercation which led to the murder, a senior police officer ...
Rajiv Gandhi assassination: HC allows Nalini to appear in person to argue her plea for leave
The Madras High Court on Tuesday granted permission to Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to appear in person on July 5 to argue her plea for six months' ordinary leave to make arrangements for her daughter's wedding. Nalini, who has been in prison for over 27 years, wanted the court to direct the Superintendent of Police, Special Prison for Women in Vellore, to produce her before the court so that she could argue her case for leave as party-in-person. A division bench of justices M M Sundaresh and M Nirmal Kumar gave her permission to personally appear on that day at 2.15 pm to argue her case, but made it clear that she shall act in accordance with the prison manual and rules and co-operate with the police escort. "This court is not in a position to deny her request. After all, a lawyer is only a representative of a party. "When the party wishes to appear in person and put forth her case, the court of law is not required to reject the ...
Telangana: 34-year-old man hacked to death by relative
A 34-year-old man was allegedly beheaded in broad daylight by his relative on Tuesday.According to police, the deceased, identified as C Raju, was designated as village resource assistant after the death of his father."Accused Chinna Venkatanna had asked Raju to leave the job as he wanted to replace him. After Raju rejected his proposal, Chinna hacked him to death in Ryalampadu village within the limits of Dhuroor police station," the police said.A case has been registered under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The body was shifted to the local government hospital for postmortem.
Mom alleges daughter forcibly converted to Christianity;
Alleging that her 22-year old daughter was forcibly converted to Christianity, a Hindu woman Tuesday petitioned the District Superintendent of Police seeking to restore her, police said. The woman, a resident of nearby Arasur, approached the SP after the local police recently closed her complaint as her daughter during an inquiry told them she had embraced Christianity on her own volition. According to the petitioner, she noticed her daughter, working in Tiruchirappalli, wearing a chain with a Cross when she had come home last week. When asked about it, she had told her mother that she had converted to Christianity. The mother then lodged a complaint in Sulur Police station. On being questioned by police officials, her daughter said she had changed her religion on her own. Since she was a major, the police closed the complaint. However, the woman's mother insisted that her daughter was forced to convert and sought the intervention of the SP to get her back.
Sherin's murder case: Indian-American adoptive father pleads guilty to lesser charge
In an unexpected turn, the Indian-American father, accused of killing his 3-year-old adopted daughter Sherin Mathews and hiding her body in a culvert in suburban Dallas, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, according to media reports. Wesley Mathews, 39, pleaded guilty to injury to a child by omission even before his capital murder trial opened at a Dallas district court on Monday. The lesser charge comes with a lighter possible sentence. Mathews had been charged with capital murder of a person under the age of 10 in the death of his special needs adoptive daughter, Sherin, in October 2017. If convicted, Mathews faced life in prison without the possibility of parole. Now, with the charge of first-degree injury to a child by omission, Mathews could get probation or face prison and life with the possibility of parole after serving 30 years, nbcdfw.com reported. It was not clear if this guilty plea removes the additional charges of capital murder and tampering with a corpse, the report
Russia jails Polish citizen for 14 years on spy charges
Russia on Tuesday sentenced a Polish citizen to 14 years in prison camps on spying charges, Moscow's FSB security service said. Marian Radzajewski tried to bring military information that included "state secrets" from Russia to Poland, the FSB said in a statement. He also tried to obtain "secret components of Russian S-300 air defence systems", it said. The FSB said he was arrested "while attempting to complete the transaction". "The investigation confirmed that Marian Radzajewski acted in the interests of a Polish organisation that is a leading supplier of (Poland's) national armed and special forces," the statement said. He was sentenced at a closed trial in Moscow. His lawyer, cited by the Interfax news agency, said he "did not agree with the terms of the charges" and intended to appeal the decision. According to Interfax, Marian Radzajewski was born in 1977 and was the director of a transport company in Bialystok, a city in northeastern Poland. Spy convictions have increased in ...
Bihar: Man carries child on shoulder after being denied an ambulance
A man in Nalanda was allegedly forced to carry the body of his eight-year-old son on his shoulder due to unavailability of an ambulance at the government hospital.The incident took place at the Sadar Hospital here on Tuesday. The father had brought his son to the hospital after the child complained of fever and abdominal pain."An inquiry will be conducted regarding this matter. If negligence is found then strict action will be taken," said District Magistrate Yogendra Singh.Singh further shared that similar incidents have taken place in the past too.This comes at a time when 131 children have died in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).Total 111 deaths have been reported from government-run SKMCH and 20 in Kejriwal hospital.
'Urgent' need for international probe on Khashoggi killing: fiancee
The Turkish fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday appealed for an international investigation into his "premeditated" killing amid evidence of high-level Saudi involvement. Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and US resident, was killed last October by Saudi agents while at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul to obtain paperwork ahead of his wedding to Hatice Cengiz. "There is an urgent need for an international investigation of this murder," Cengiz said at an event on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, speaking through a translator. Her comments came after the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, released a damning report that found "credible evidence" linking Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the killing. The independent rights expert, who does not speak for the United Nations but reports her findings to it, called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ..
Rape case registered against VC of veterinary science varsity
A case of rape has been registered against Vice Chancellor of Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University Dr P D Juyal following a court direction, the police said here Tuesday. A first information report was filed against Dr Juyal under section 376 (rape) of the IPC Monday, Civil Lines Police Station in-charge Praveen Singh Dhurve told PTI. A court of Judicial Magistrate (First Class) on December 29, 2018, had directed the police to register an FIR. The forty-year-old woman had approached the court seeking a direction to police to file an FIR and investigate her complaint. Neither police nor the state women's commission were heeding her complaint, she claimed. The vice chancellor challenged the lower court's order before the high court. On February 8, 2019, the high court stayed the magistrate's direction. On June 20, the HC vacated the stay, said advocate Aman Sharma, her lawyer. According to the woman, she first met Dr Juyal when she complained about the death of her
No decision yet on Ram Rahim's parole: Haryana CM
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said that the state government has not yet taken a decision on self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's appeal for parole.Khattar also asserted that the state government cannot stop anyone from seeking parole.The Chief Minister opined that as per certain legal procedures, a person who has the right to seek parole can ask for it."There are certain legal procedures and a person who has the right to seek parole can seek it. We cannot stop anyone. As of now, no decision has been taken on Ram Rahim's parole," Khattar said during an event.Ram Rahim, who is serving life imprisonment in Rohtak's Sunaria jail for the murder of a journalist and 20 years in prison for raping two of his women followers, had sought parole in a letter to the jail authorities.He sought parole saying he wants to farm his land in Sirsa, which is lying barren.Jail authorities had sent his parole appeal to the district administration which, in turn, forwarded it .
SC refuses to entertain plea for CBI probe into murder of UP bar leader
The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain a plea seeking a CBI probe into the recent killing of Uttar Pradesh Bar Council president Darvesh Singh Yadav at the Agra court premises and asked the petitioner to approach the Allahabad High Court. A vacation bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai said that as far as the specific matter relating to the bar leader's murder is concerned, the petitioner would have to approach the jurisdictional high court. The bench referred to the prayers made in the petition filed before it and said most were pertaining to the incident in which the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council president was shot dead. When the counsel appearing for petitioner referred to another incident in a district court premises in Delhi, the bench said, "Please do your homework. File separate petitions. Your prayers are primarily dealing with one incident. You go to the jurisdictional high court". When the petitioner said that issue raised in the plea was regarding ...
DCW seeks information from Delhi Police on offenders released on bail in POCSO cases
The Delhi Commission of Women (DCW) on Tuesday sought the information from the Delhi Police on all the offenders who have been released on bail in cases pertaining to rape of a minor, in the national capital. It has directed the Police to submit the report by July 8.Taking suo-moto cognizance of the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Narela earlier this month, DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal sent a letter in this regard to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, asking for a complete list of accused and convicted persons against whom FIR has been filed in POCSO cases and are currently out on bail.The Chairperson asked the DCP to apprise of the mechanism to ensure monitoring of accused out on bail, in order to ensure they do not commit the crime again."It has now been learnt, through media reports, that the accused in the Narela rape case has been a 'repeated offender' and had been arrested in 2011 for raping a minor. He was released on bail after spending a year in jail post which ..
Chopper scam: SC asks Rajeev Saxena if his relatives would guarantee return after ED objects
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Rajeev Saxena, an approver in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper scam, if his two relatives are willing to stand surety for him by depositing Rs five crore each for allowing him to travel abroad on medical grounds. A vacation bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai took note of the objections of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that Saxena, who has been allowed by trial and high courts to go abroad for treatment for blood cancer and other ailments, has no roots in India and he may not return if permitted to go. "Your apprehensions may be right or wrong, but are you (government) powerless to get him back," the bench said. "We understand your apprehensions. His (Saxena's) passport is for limited period. If you can suggest other conditions, then they can also be imposed," it said. "No country will say that it is powerless," Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the ED, said. The court asked senior advocate ...
Sherin's case: Indian-American adoptive father pleads guilty to lesser charge
In an unexpected turn, the Indian-American father, accused of killing his 3-year-old adopted daughter Sherin Mathews and hiding her body in a culvert in suburban Dallas has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, according to media reports. Wesley Mathews, 39, pleaded guilty to injury to a child by omission even before his capital murder trial opened at a Dallas district court on Monday. The lesser charge comes with a lighter possible sentence. Mathews had been charged with capital murder of a person under the age of 10 in the death of his special needs adoptive daughter, Sherin, in October 2017. If convicted, Mathews faced life in prison without the possibility of parole. Now, with the charge of first-degree injury to a child by omission, Mathews could get probation or face prison and life with the possibility of parole after serving 30 years, nbcdfw.com reported. If he had been found guilty of capital murder, Mathews would have faced an automatic life sentence without parole for the ...
Contractual nursing officers protest outside Health Minister's residence in Delhi
After being terminated from their jobs, contractual nursing officers of Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday sat on a protest outside the residence of Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.Contractual nursing officers from Ram Manohar Lohia (RML), Lady Hardinge and Kalawati Hospital also joined the protest outside Health Minister's residence.Nursing officers alleged that hospital administration had served them termination notices stating that permanent staff will be hired in their place."The number of permanent staff to be hired is 1278, while there are more than 3000 vacancies in the hospital. There are adequate vacancies for us," said a protesting officer.Those who were protesting said they are now over the age limit and will not be able to appear for exams to other government jobs."I got an All India rank of 74 and was still hired on a contractual basis. Now, these people are saying that they will terminate us. I am over-age for any government job now. All these protesting .
