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Make CDR of Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal case
Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav Thursday demanded that the call detail record (CDR) of mobile phone of Brajesh Thakur, the kingpin of Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, be made public so that the other accused could be nabbed. The RJD leader claimed that the state police had lodged FIR against accused into the incident after two months of it coming to light and that too under relatively weaker sections of the law in order to protect them. The relevant sections of POCSO Act were added against the accused only after Supreme Courts directive, he told reporters. Tejashwi, a former Deputy Chief Minister of the state, was speaking to the mediapersons in the assembly premises after Speaker Vijay Kumar Choudhary rejected adjournment motion of RJD legislators seeking debate on Muzaffarpur shelter home case relating to sexual abuse of more than 30 girls over a period of time. Our adjournment motion was rejected. When I was speaking in the ...
VVIP chopper case: Court grants 7-day bail to Rajiv Saxena
A Delhi court Thursday granted bail for seven days to Rajiv Saxena, arrested in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland money-laundering case, and sought a detailed medical report on him from AIIMS within a week. Special Judge Arvind Kumar granted the relief to Saxena and directed him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh with two sureties of the like amount. It also imposed certain conditions, including that Saxena would not leave the national capital without the permission of the court and he should not tamper with evidence or try to contact any witness. It also asked him to join investigation as and when called by the investigating officer. "As per ED, the accused has fully cooperated during investigation and they have not opposed his bail application. Further detailed report regarding his medical condition from AIIMS is awaited. Considering the overall facts and circumstances, Rajeev Saxena is admitted in interim bail till February 22," the court said. The Enforcement Directorate ...
HC enhances Moin Qureshi's security deposit for travelling abroad
The Delhi High Court on Thursday enhanced the security amount from Rs 2 crore to Rs 6 crore to be deposited by meat exporter Moin Qureshi, an accused in a cheating and corruption case, to travel to the UAE and Pakistan, following a plea by the CBI. Justice Sunil Gaur increased the amount after noting that a co-accused in the case, businessman Pradeep Koneru, was allowed to travel abroad on furnishing of a security deposit of Rs 6 crore. The court passed the order on the plea of CBI which requested that the security deposited be increased from Rs 2 crore to Rs 6 crore and also contended the trial court ought to have mandated higher amount as was done by the high court for a co-accused in the case. Qureshi, on February 1, was allowed by a trial court to travel to the UAE from February 15-23 for attending the Gulf Food Festival and from March 6-20 to Pakistan to attend his niece's wedding. The high court said it deems it appropriate to put Qureshi on a par with co-accused Koneru and ...
Three more held in Ludhiana gang rape case: Police
Three more persons, including a juvenile, were held Thursday in connection with the gang rape of a 21-year-old woman near Issewal village here, taking the total number of those nabbed in the case to six, police said. "All six accused involved in the gang rape have been arrested," Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta told the media here Thursday. Of the three held Thursday, one is a juvenile studying in class 11, the DGP said, adding that he was nabbed from New Basti Changran in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. The other two accused, Saif Ali and Ajay alias Lalan, both residents of Tibba village in Punjab's Kapurthala district, were arrested in Talwandi Naubad village here, he said. Sadiq Ali, Jagroop Singh alias Rupi, and Surmo are the three accused arrested earlier. A Ludhiana court on Wednesday remanded them for seven days in police custody. The DGP said all the accused are either friends or relatives of the woman. The probe would be completed within seven days and police would try to put ..
Cannot disclose data on phone tapping permissions: MHA
The number of permissions given to central agencies for phone tapping cannot be disclosed as it would prejudicially affect interests of the state, might endanger a person or impede the process of investigation, the Home Ministry said in response to an RTI query. The applicant had sought to know the number of sanctions issued by the ministry to central agencies permitting them to intercept phones between 2009 and 2018. He had also asked for data related to the number of times an agency had sought permission to tap phones and about permissions being denied by the ministry. The applicant did not seek any specific details such as cases, individuals, file noting from the ministry. The Home Ministry invoked three exemption clauses from the RTI Act to withhold the information without giving any reasons. Giving reason is mandatory in case information is being denied by a public authority. The ministry took refuge under Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act to withhold data. The section exempts ...
Arms supplier held in Delhi, over 100 pistols seized
A 30-year-old illegal arms supplier was arrested here and ten illegal pistols were recovered from his possession, the Delhi Police said on Thursday. Ramzan, a resident of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh procured the illegal firearms from Umarti village in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh, they said. Based on a tip off, a trap was laid near DND flyover on Outer Ring Road on Wednesday where the accused had come to deliver a consignment of illegal arms, P S Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) said. At his instance, 97 semi-automatic pistols, to be supplied in Mewat region of UP, Haryana and other areas, were seized from a car on the Mehrauli-Badarpur road, the police said. A case was registered against Ramzan and investigations are on, a police officer said.
Man held for raping minor daughter for 5 years in Odisha
A 42-year-old man was arrested Thursday for allegedly raping his minor daughter for five years in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said. The man, a father of three, was taken into custody following a complaint by his 14-year-old daughter lodged on Wednesday, they said. The victim is the eldest among two sisters and a brother, Inspector In-Charge of Jarada police station Mrutunjaya Swain said. The accused, who works as a labourer in Chennai, was booked under various sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said. The victim, a class 8 student, was rescued from her home and kept in a child care centre, police said. Apparently her mother was not aware of the situation. The accused had been sexually abusing the girl for the last five years whenever he came home from his workplace, police said. The matter came to the fore when the girl narrated about it to her friends in school and one of them informed the Childline on phone. "We inquired the ..
Five killed, 1 injured as car rams into truck
Five people, including a two-year-old child, were killed and another one was injured Thursday when their car rammed into a stationary truck in the Bachrawan area here, police said. The accident took place under the Kundanganj police station area when the car was on its way to Hardoi from Allahabad, Superintendent of Police Sunil Singh said. The deceased have been identified as Vibhuti Sharma, 40, his wife Kanchan Sharma, 36, Jasu, 2, Madhuri Sharma, 68, and driver Alok Singh, 27, he said. Kavya, 5, has been admitted to a hospital and her condition is stated to be serious, Singh said.
Trafficked woman of Odisha rescued from Rajasthan
A 22-year-old woman of Odisha, who was allegedly trafficked over one-and-a-half months ago, was rescued from Rajasthan, police said Thursday. One person, identified as Sukhbir Singh Jath, of Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan was arrested in this connection. Sub-Divisional Police Officer Bhawani Sankar Udgata said some people kidnapped the woman from Bhubaneswar and handed her over to a man and a woman who forcibly married her off to Jath for Rs 1.5 lakh. The father of the woman had lodged a complaint in the Town police station here in January stating that his daughter went missing, police said. The police started an investigation and found that she was at Chirawa in Jhunjhunu district. A police team, along with the parents of the woman, then went to Rajasthan and rescued her on Wednesday, Udgata said. The police were yet to capture the man and woman who had married her off to Jath at Chhota Bulunda in Jhunjhunu district, Udgata said. A team set up to arrest the two will ...
Parents of 2012 gangrape victim want convicts to be hanged soon
Parents of the December 16, 2012, gangrape victim on Thursday moved a plea in a Delhi court seeking to expedite the hanging of the four convicts in the case.
Man gets life sentence for raping female relative
A court in Maharashtra's Palghar district Thursday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for repeatedly raping a minor girl, who was his relative. District judge Rajendra Majgaonkar convicted Arvind Patil under IPC section 376 (rape) and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him. The court also held Patil's wife Manisha (35) and her mother Bhanubai Kini (57) guilty under the POCSO Act for abetting the crime, and awarded them ten years of rigorous imprisonment besides imposing a fine of Rs 1,000 each. According to the prosecution, after the girl's mother died, her father married another woman and the minor was sent to her grandmother's house for schooling. Between June 2013 and April 2014, Patil repeatedly raped the girl and threatened to kill her and her parents if she told anyone about it, prosecutor Deepak Tare said. When the victim became pregnant, she told Manisha and Bhanubai about it, but ...
Shehbaz Sharif granted bail in corruption cases
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday approved Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif's bail petitions in Ashiana Iqbal Housing Scheme and Ramzan Sugar Mills corruption cases and ordered his release.
Philippines' journalist Maria Ressa freed on bail
Maria Ressa, a high-profile Philippines journalist and Time magazine Person of the Year, was freed on bail on Thursday after her arrest overnight on charges of "cyber-libel" drew international condemnation.
Pak court grants bail to PML-N chief Shehbaz Sharif
A top court Thursday granted bail to Shehbaz Sharif in two corruption cases, in a major relief to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief and Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly who is currently in a jail. A two-member bench of the Lahore High Court headed by Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmed accepted Sharif's plea and granted him bail in the Rs 1400 crore Ashiyana Housing and Ramzan Sugar Mills scams. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had taken 67-year-old Sharif, the younger brother of jailed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, into custody on October 5. He is accused of allegedly cancelling the contract of a successful bidder in the scheme and awarding the same to his favourite firm. Sharif, who has been in the Kot Lakhpat jail Lahore, declared the verdict "a victory of truth". He said false cases were instituted against him on "political grounds". He said if a corruption of a penny is proved against him, he will quit politics. In both cases the NAB prosecutor failed to .
Absconding Sterling Biotech promoters move court against NBWs, asked to give add in 15 days
Absconding Sterling Biotech Ltd (SBL) promoters -- Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, Chetankumar Jayantilal Sandesara and Dipti Chetan Sandesara -- moved a Delhi court Thursday seeking cancellation of Non-Bailable Warrants (NBWs) issued against them in the Rs 8,100 crore bank fraud case. They moved the application through their counsel before Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora, who directed them to furnish their address to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within 15 days and listed the matter for April 2. The promoters have also sought permission to be represented in the court through their counsel. The ED opposed their plea, saying extradition proceedings from Italy and Nigeria are being carried out against the Sandesaras as they have been absconding since the investigation and an open ended NBW was obtained from the court for this purpose. The court had on January 21 allowed the agency to go ahead with the extradition process initiated against four SBL promoters including ...
VVIP chopper case: Court grants 7-day interim bail to Rajiv Saxena, ED poses no challenge
A Delhi court Thursday granted interim bail for seven days to Rajiv Saxena, arrested in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland money-laundering case, on two sureties of Rs 5 lakh each. Special Judge Arvind Kumar, while granting the bail, asked AIIMS to file a detailed medical report on Saxena's health and posted the matter for hearing on February 22. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which had supported his bail plea yesterday, said the medical report submitted by AIIMS was not detailed. In the previous hearing on Wednesday, the ED had said that it was not opposing Saxena's bail plea due to his medical condition and the fact that he was cooperating in the probe. The court asked the lawyer appearing for the ED whether the bail was not being opposed on merits, to which he replied that he was relying only on Saxena's medical condition as he is suffering from leukamia. To this, the court had said, "remember it will apply in other cases then. We are recording everything, whatever you are ...
Drug peddler held in J-K's Ganderbal
A suspected drug peddler was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district, police said Thursday. "Police arrested a drug peddler Wednesday following action against those involved in drug peddling in Ganderbal," a police official said. The arrested person has been identified as Suhail Ahmed Tantray, he said, adding that 15 bottles of Codeine Phosphate, an opioid analgesic acting by blocking pain, were seized form his possession. A case under relevant sections of the law has been registered against Tantray in Ganderbal police station and further investigation is underway, the official said.
MP teacher awarded death sentence for minor's rape moves SC
A school teacher convicted for raping a four-year-old-girl has filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court against his death penalty, a prison official said on Thursday. Mahendra Singh Gond (28) filed the SLP in the Supreme Court on February 11, challenging his death sentence in the rape case, Jabalpur Central Jail's law officer Ashok Singh told PTI. A trial court in Satna had earlier this month issued a 'death warrant' against Gond after the Madhya Pradesh High Court confirmed his death sentence on January 25, he said. The trial court had sent the death warrant, fixing his execution for March 2, 2019, through an e-mail to the Central Jail earlier this month. The convict has other remedies also as he can file a mercy petition before the President, Singh said, adding the death warrant will be executed only after all the available legal remedies are exhausted. The trial court had sentenced Gond to death under the recently-introduced Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section ...
Philippines journalist and Duterte critic Ressa freed on bail
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was freed on bail on Thursday following an arrest that sparked international censure and allegations she is being targeted over her news site's criticism of President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa, 55, spent a night in detention after authorities arrested the veteran reporter at her Manila office Wednesday in a sharp upping of government pressure on her and her website Rappler. The site and Ressa have been hit with tax evasion charges and now a libel case after clashing repeatedly with Duterte over his deadly crackdown on narcotics that has killed thousands. "The message that the government is sending is very clear... be silent or you're next," an emotional Ressa told reporters outside a Manila court. She stumped up a bond of 100,000-pesos ($1,900), the sixth time since December that she has paid bail on a government case. "I am appealing to you not to be silent, even if -- and especially if -- you're next," added Ressa, who was named a Time Magazine "Person
Turkey detains three over Istanbul building collapse: report
Turkish authorities on Thursday detained three suspects over the collapse of an apartment building in Istanbul that claimed the lives of 21 people, local media reported. The suspects held over the collapse in the residential district of Kartal on the Asian side of the city were identified as project officer Suzan Cayir, technical implementation supervisor Ugur Misirlioglu and building inspector Arzu Keles Boran, the state run TRT television reported. They are charged with "killing by negligence," according to the NTV television. The eight-storey block where 43 people were registered as living crumbled last week but the cause still remains unclear. Local officials said three storeys were illegally added -- a common practice in the country's largest metropolis of around 15 million people. The collapse fanned criticism of a government amnesty granted last year to people accused of illegal building -- a measure announced ahead of municipal elections this March. President Recep Tayyip ...