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DTC driver found dead
The body of a DTC driver with strangulation marks was found dumped in an isolated area in Sonepat, police said Saturday. The deceased was identified as Pritam Singh, (58), a resident of Swaroop Nagar, they added. Singh had gone missing on February 13, following which his son Deepak Chouhan approached Keshavpuram police. In a missing report, Chouhan stated that his father, a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) driver, left the depot after his duty on February 13. When his father did not reach home, they started looking for him. While searching, they came across his Santro car abandoned in the Alipur area, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya said. His body with strangulation marks was found dumped at an isolated area in Sonipat on February 14, the officer said. A case has been registered and an investigation taken up, she said. Prima facie, it appears that the DTC driver was strangulated to death. However, the exact cause of death be ascertained only after ...
18-month-old girl raped in Madhya Pradesh; accused arrested
An 18-month-old girl was allegedly raped by a man here in Madhya Pradesh, police said Saturday. The accused, who was known to the victim's family, has been arrested, they said. The 20-year-old man took the minor girl from her parents on the pretext of playing with her Thursday evening, police inspector Jaipal Inwasi. He then allegedly raped her at an agriculture farm in Harsud area, some 50km from the district headquarters, he said. When the man did not return with the toddler till night, the girl's mother lodged a police complaint, Inwasi said. The police launched a search and found that the girl has been sexually assaulted, he said. The police arrested the accused and booked him under IPC section 376AB and also relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the inspector said.
Manipur student leader held on sedition charges in Delhi
Manipur Students' Association Delhi (MSAD) advisor Thokchom Veewon was arrested under sedition charges by a joint team of Delhi and Manipur police here on Friday, police said.
Man arrested in UP for objectionable remarks on social media over Pulwama terror attack
One person has been arrested in Mau district for allegedly making objectionable remarks on social media in connection with the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF jawans lost their lives. "Mohammad Osama, a resident of Madanpura under Dakshintola police station (of Mau district) has been arrested for making objectionable remarks vis-a-vis the Pulwama incident. A case has been registered against him under the IT Act and IPC," the Mau Police said in a tweet on Saturday. The statement was made on the social media Thursday evening, police said.
US prosecutors charges 2 ex-Cognizant executives in $2m bribery of TN officials
Two former high-ranking executives of the technology giant Cognizant have been charged by US prosecutors in the alleged $2 million bribery of Tamil Nadu government officials to get building permits for campus in Chennai.
Court extends Vadra's interim bail till March 2
A Delhi court on Saturday extended Robert Vadra's interim bail till March 2. Vadra was present at the court for the first time in connection with a money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Bihar court orders probe into role of Nitish, officials in release of funds to shelter home
A court here Saturday directed the CBI to probe the role of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and several senior bureaucrats in the release of funds between 2013 and 2018 to a Muzaffarpur shelter home that was rocked by a sex scandal. Special POCSO judge Manoj Kumar passed the order against five officials on Saturday, a day after similar judgement was given with respect to Kumar and two other bureaucrats. Ashwani Kumar, a self-styled medical practitioner who was attached to the shelter home as a doctor and was accused of injecting the inmates with sedatives before they were sexually exploited, had filed the petition through his counsel Sudhir Kumar Ojha. According to Ojha, the court gave its order against Kumar, principal secretary of social welfare department Atul Prasad and former Muzaffarpur district magistrate Dharmendra Kumar on Friday. Its order on a supplementary petition naming former principal secretaries of social welfare department S M Raju, Vandana Kini and Arvind ...
Two get 10 years in jail in separate POCSO cases in Mumbai
Two persons were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in separate cases of sexual assault in Byculla and Govandi areas of the city. Anil Tari (30) was sentenced by a POCSO court for raping a five-year-old girl in Byculla in 2014 after luring her with chocolates, additional public prosecutor Rakesh Tiwari said. In the second case, a POCSO court held Rajesh Rajput (26) guilty of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in Govandi in 2015. The victim, who was lured by a Rs 10 note by Rajput, narrated the ordeal when his mother queried where he had got the money from. Rajput was convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, additional public prosecutor Meera Chaudhery said.
ED creates STF to probe drug money laundering cases
A Special Task Force (STF) has been created in the ED, the central agency that enforces the PMLA and FEMA laws in the country, to speedily probe money laundering cases emerging from illegal narcotics trade. Officials said ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra has ordered for the creation of the first-ever STF in the agency and it will be headed by a special director-rank officer based at its headquarters in Delhi. The STF team will comprise of a joint director, deputy directors and others as part of the new setup. The force will specifically look into past and probable cases of illegal narcotics trade, drug crime syndicates and hawala transactions that have national and international links and such instances will be dealt under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said. The agency estimates that a number of terror financing cases have their roots in the illegal trade of narcotics transport, sale, purchase and smuggling and hence it was decided to work on these cases on ...
Court extends Vadra's interim bail till Mar 2, directs him to join probe
Robert Vadra's interim bail was Saturday extended till March 2 in a money laundering case by a Delhi court which asked him to join the probe whenever asked to, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleged that he was not cooperating in the matter. Vadra, who appeared in court, sought extension of the interim bail after the ED requested for more time to file a reply to his anticipatory bail plea. Special judge Arvind Kumar granted the relief to Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, and said the interim orders of protection from arrest will continue till the next date of hearing. The court also extended the protection from arrest granted to his close aide and co-accused in the case, Manoj Arora, till the next date of hearing i.e., March 2. ED's Special Public Prosecutors D P Singh and Nitesh Rana told the court that it needed to question Vadra in the case and opposed his anticipatory bail plea, saying that he was not cooperating in the case. The agency also ...
Man sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to rape minor
A POCSO court here sentenced a 21-year-old man to life imprisonment for attempting to rape a minor. In his statement, Judge Bannalal Jat termed the crime as one of the most heinous and barbaric and said that the perpetrator needed to be given the harshest punishment, said Public Prosecutor Dinesh Kumar Sharma. The convict was identified as Kailash Chandra. Chandra was caught red-handed while attempting to rape the three-year-old girl on October 11 last year, Sharma said, adding that 30 witnesses had been examined in the case, Sharma said. On October 11, the convict abducted the girl from the Rai Ka Bagh railway station when she was sleeping next to her mother and took her to a secluded place near the station, the public prosecutor said. He was caught red-handed by officials of the Government Railway Police (GRP). Chandra was immediately arrested while the girl was sent for medical examination, Sharma added.
Kerala priest sentenced to 20-year RI for raping, impregnating minor
A former vicar of a Catholic church near here was Saturday sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping and impregnating a minor in 2016. Thalassery POCSO Court Judge P S Vinod also slapped a fine of Rs 3 lakh on Robin Vadakkencheril (51). The accused was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment each under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). These sentences would run concurrently. The girl had later given birth to a baby boy at a private hospital in Kuthuparamba in Kannur and was shifted to an orphanage at Vythiri in neighbouring Wayanad district. Half of the fine amount will be given to the victim. The court has awarded the sentence under various provisions of the POCSO Act and Section 376 (2) (f) (rape of girl under 12 years) of the IPC. The court also directed initiation of criminal proceedings against the girl's parents who had turned hostile in the case. Initially, the biological father of the .
Baring Vostok's Calvey tells Russian court he will cooperate with investigation
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Michael Calvey, the U.S. founder of one of Russia's biggest private equity firms, told a Russian court on Saturday he would cooperate with an investigation into alleged financial misconduct and comply with terms if put under house arrest.
Businessman held, jailed for Rs 7.35 crore Income Tax default
The Income Tax department has arrested and jailed a businessman from Tumakuru in Karnataka for allegedly defaulting tax to the tune of Rs 7.35 crore. The businessman, whose name has been withheld, was not willing to pay the outstanding tax and interest despite losing appeals up to the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, and being served with a notice of demand by the Tax Recovery Officer (TRO), the I-T department said in a release. The taxpayer was granted several opportunities by the TRO to pay the outstanding amount, but he failed to appear before the officer on 17 occasions, the release said. Finally he appeared following a show-cause notice on October 3, 2018 but could not offer any explanation for non-payment of taxes due, it said. He was arrested and produced before the Tax Recovery Officer-7, Bengaluru on February 15. "Since he failed to make satisfactory arrangement for payment of the tax arrears, he has been committed to Civil Prison the same day at Parappana Agrahara
Drug smuggler held in J-K's Reasi
A "notorious" drug peddler was arrested Saturday and 'charas' (cannabis) was seized from his possession in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Kesar Ram, a resident of Bhaga village, was noticed moving suspiciously in Saldi village by a police patrolling party and was stopped for checking, a police spokesman said. He said 520 grams of charas was recovered from his possession. Ram is a notorious drug peddler, he added. A case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) act was registered against him and investigation is underway, the spokesman said.
Trump's ex-aide faces up to 24 years in jail
US President Donald Trump's former election campaign manager Paul Manafort should be jailed for up to 24 years, special counsel Robert Mueller has said.
Karnataka audio clip row: Yeddyurappa, others get bail
BS Yeddyurappa, Preetham Gowda, Shivanna Gowda, and Marakal on Saturday got bail in the case registered by Sharanagouda, son of Gurmitkal MLA Naganagouda Kandkur, over an alleged call made to him by Yeddyurappa.The bail granted by City Civil Special Court also asked all the four to pay Rs 1 lakh each as bond.Sharanagouda, on Wednesday, had filed a police complaint against the BJP leaders over an alleged audiotape released by Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.The controversial audio clip allegedly contains a conversation between BJP state president Yeddyurappa and Sharanagouda. Kumaraswamy alleged that Yeddyurappa was purportedly trying to lure a JD(S) MLA.The complaint was filed at Devadurga police station under Section 506 of IPC (Punishment for criminal intimidation).This comes after the Karnataka Assembly on February 14 witnessed uproar as BJP legislators walked up to the Well of the House in protest against the formation of SIT into the audio tape matter.Yeddyurappa said: ...
Delhi court holds man guilty of raping US citizen
A man has been held guilty of digital rape of a US citizen by a Delhi court, which said her testimony could not be said to be unreliable as she came all the way from her country to depose in the case. When someone rapes a person using their finger or fingers it is termed as digital rape. Noting that the woman had no other interest left in India as her marriage had already broken down after the incident, Additional Sessions Judge Illa Rawat said the woman's testimony cannot be discarded despite some discrepancies. According to the complaint, two foreign nationals of US and Russia were allegedly sexually abused by their landlord's son in the early hours of June 24, 2013, while they were sleeping in their room. A case was lodged against the accused based on the statement of the US national. The accused had claimed that there were disputes between the woman's husband and him which had led to lodging of this case. The court said the police failed to prove the charge under section 376 of ...
Court extends Vadra's interim bail till Mar 2, directs him to join probe whenever called
A Delhi court Saturday extended till March 2 the interim bail granted to Robert Vadra in a money laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and directed him to join the probe, whenever asked to, after the agency claimed that he was not cooperating in the matter. Vadra's lawyer sought extension of the interim bail after ED requested for more time to file a reply to his anticipatory bail plea. Special judge Arvind Kumar granted the relief to Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, and said the interim orders of protection from arrest will continue till next date of hearing. The court also extended the protection from arrest granted to his close aide and co-accused in the case, Manoj Arora, till the next date of hearing i.e., March 2. The ED told the court that it needed to question Vadra in the case and opposed his anticipatory bail plea, saying that he was not cooperating in the case. It also said that Vadra has been summoned for questioning on ...
Passenger caught with foreign currencies at Goa airport
Customs authorities Saturday caught an international passenger at the Goa airport for illegally carrying foreign currencies worth Rs 7.64 lakh, a senior official said. The passenger was bound for Sharjah in the UAE by an Air Arabia flight when he was intercepted by Air Customs officers at the international airport in Dabolim, Commissioner of Customs in Goa R Manohar said. The officers recovered assorted foreign currencies equivalent to Rs 7.64 lakh from the passenger who was apprehended, he said. "The said assorted foreign currencies were concealed inside wallet and hand baggage of the said international passenger," Manohar said. "The currencies were seized under the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962," he added. The identity of the passenger was not revealed. "The Air Customs of Goa Commissionerate has seized foreign currencies equivalent to approximately Rs 75.14 lakh from international passengers at the Dabolim international airport since April 2018," Manohar said.