Page 508 - Law Crime
Gangster Ankit Bhadu was using sophisticated weapons: Punjab Police
Notorious gangster Ankit Bhadu, who was killed in an encounter with the Punjab Police in Mohali district, was using sophisticated weapons to carry out his criminal activities, a senior police official said Friday. The Punjab Police neutralised Bhadu of the dreaded Lawrence Bishnoi gang and arrested his accomplices Jarmanpreet Singh and Gurvinder Singh during an encounter in a residential locality near Zirakpur in Mohali on Thursday night, IGP Intelligence, Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU), Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh told reporters here. Bhadu's both accomplices belong to Tarn Taran district, he added. The official said Bhadu, who hailed from Siriey Wala village in Abhor, Punjab, and the two accomplices were wanted in over two dozen cases pertaining to murder, contract killing, extortion and other heinous crimes. Bhadu's arrested accomplices, who did not belong to any particular gang, had taken the flat on rent, "which they were basically using as a hideout", he said. Not paying heed
SC asks all states, UTs to file info on manual scavengers employed directly or indirectly
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the chief secretaries of all states and Union Territories (UTs) to place on record status report on number of manual scavengers employed directly or indirectly since 1993 when the law prohibiting the practice was enacted. Hearing a plea on the issue, a bench of justices A K Sikri and S Abdul Nazeer observed that the matter was serious and asked all the states and the UTs to file their reply within four weeks. The plea, filed by a NGO Criminal Justice Society of India headed by senior advocate K T S Tulsi, sought the number of manual scavengers who have died since 1993. The plea filed through Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi also sought a direction to all the states, UTs and the Indian Railways to investigate the death of manual scavengers and initiate criminal proceedings under IPC Section 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against the authorities, agencies, contractors or any other official who have directly or indirectly employed ...
One arrested for rape, murder of five-year-old girl
A pavement-dweller was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing a five-year-old girl in Mahim in Central Mumbai, a senior police official said. The girl, whose family lives in a roadside shanty along LJ Road, had gone missing early Thursday morning. Her body was found in the same area a few hours later. After questioning several suspects, the police zeroed in on Mehadi Hassan (23) as the culprit, said the official. Hassan, who lives on the pavement, abducted the girl when her parents were asleep, took her to a nearby secluded place and sexually assaulted her, the official said. He then allegedly strangulated her and left the body there, the official added. The accused was arrested under kidnapping, rape and murder under the IPC as well as under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
Zee Media files criminal complaint against publishers and editors of The Wire
Zee Media Corporation Ltd. has filed a criminal complaint against the publishers and editors of online news portal The Wire for allegedly defaming it by attributing wrongdoing on its part in relation to black money and demonetisation deposits. The complaint, filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Sumeet Anand, alleged that two articles published by the online news portal "caused serious harm to the reputation of the complainant by imputing behaviour incompatible with proper conduct and suggestions of involvement in improper activity". The court has put up the matter for consideration on March 28. The complaint, filed through advocate Vijay Aggarwal, has sought the prosecution of The Wire's publisher, Foundation of Independent Journalism, directors and founding editors, Siddharth Vardarajan and Sidharth Roshanlal Bhatia, its director M K Venu and the authors of the articles, Gulam Shaik Budan and Anuj Srivas. The complaint has been filed under sections 499 and 500 (defamation) of the IPC
TN court cancels bail of 2 key accused in Kodanad case
A court here Friday cancelled the bail granted to two key accused in the 2017 Kodanad heist, nearly a month after they alleged the involvement of Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami in the case in a video released by a journalist. Nilgiris District Judge P Vadamalai passed the order, allowing a petition by the state government which had contended that the two prime accused -- K V Sayan and K C Manoj -- were hampering the investigation and intimidating witnesses by making such public statements. He dismissed a petition by Sayan offering to record a confessional statement about the crime, saying it was not in proper format. A guard of Kodanad estate was found dead on April 23, 2017 in the robbery attempt. Later police arrested 10 people, including Sayan and Manoj. Kanagaraj, a former driver of Jayalalithaa and accused of a key role in the heist, and Sayan's wife and daughter were killed in separate road accidents during the probe. Another employee of the estate was found dead in a ..
Sasikala moves HC to quash order of dismissal of appeal by
Former AIADMK leader V K Sasikala and her relative V Bhaskaran on Friday moved the Madras High Court, seeking quashing of an order of the Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi whereby it dismissed their appeal in FERA cases on the grounds of delay. A division bench of justices M M Sundresh and C Saravanan issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate, returnable within two weeks, on the pleas by Sasikala and Bhaskaran who sought that their cases be restored with the Tribunal. The notice was accepted by Special Public Prosecutor of the Enforcement Directorate Hema Babu. The Enforcement Directorate had initiated prosecution proceedings against Sasikala and her relative V Bhaskaran in the case relating to import of transponders to the now defunct JJ TV in which the court had slapped a Rs 18 crore penalty on them for allegedly violating foreign exchange rules. They challenged it before Appelate Tribunal in Delhi, which dismissed the petitions on the grounds that the appeal was not filed in ...
MLA murder case: SC dismisses D P Yadav's plea for bail
The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a plea of controversial Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, serving life imprisonment in a murder case, seeking bail on medical grounds. The apex court, however, directed the Dehradun Jail authorities to "take all steps" to ensure that his medical condition is taken care of. Yadav, who was earlier granted interim bail to undergo a spinal surgery at the Yashoda Hospital and Research Centre in Ghaziabad, surrendered back to jail on December 6 last year after the procedure on the order of the apex court. The fresh plea said Yadav has been facing post-operative complications and he be granted bail in view of the fact that even the jail authorities have suggested his treatment at All India Medical Sciences (AIIMS). A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it would not grant him the bail and rather ask the Nainital High Court to expedite the hearing on his appeal against the conviction in the murder case. "Heard counsel for the petitioner and ...
Delhi Police officer shot at near Vijay Ghat
An officer of the Delhi Police was shot at allegedly by two men on their bike near Vijay Ghat in Delhi, police said Friday. Assistant Sub Inspector Bedi Ram (50), who is posted at Nizamuddin police station, was heading home after his duty on Thursday night when he was attacked by the men, who were yet to identified. On his way home, when Bedi Ram reached the underpass behind Vijay Ghat, two men who were apparently chasing him stopped his vehicle and shot at him. He was shot at in the left side of his lower abdomen. Soon, the two men fled from the spot, Harendra Kumar Singh, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) said. The officer was rushed to AIIMS Trauma Centre where he is undergoing treatment. He was operated and is now said to be out of danger, Singh said. Whether the officer was robbed of his valuables will be clear only after he gives a statement to police, he added. A case has been registered at Kotwali police station and the matter is being probed, the officer ...
Court summons BJP MP in defamation case
A Delhi court has summoned senior advocate and BJD MP Pinaki Misra on March 5 in connection with a criminal defamation complaint filed by another lawyer for allegedly making objectionable remarks against him in an interview last year. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal passed the order after examining the complainant as a part of pre summoning evidence. In his complaint, advocate Siddhartha Singh has sought Misra's prosecution under sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code for alleged defamatory remarks against him in an interview to a newspaper in August last year. He said the remarks made by Misra "diminished his public image and severally affected his professional life". The court said, "Let fresh summons be issued to the accused to face trial on March 5." In his complaint, Singh claimed that Misra made the remarks after he had filed a complaint before the Bar Council of Delhi against him over "unprofessional" conduct for representing discoms before the ...
3 held for robbing Delhi bizman
Three persons were arrested on Friday for allegedly robbing a Delhi-based businessman of Rs 28 lakh in Sahibabad early this month, police said. Acting on a tip-off, the accused -- Ashok Rana, Harish and Parvinder -- were arrested near Karhera village around 7 am, a police officer said. The three, all residents of Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district, have confessed to robbing Om Prakash Prajapati, who had arrived in Sahibabad to pay Rs 28 lakh to a broker on February 2, said Sahibabad Circle Officer Rakesh Kumar Mishra. One of the accused had lured Prajapati on the pretext of managing a low-priced property for him in Delhi, for which an advance was to be paid to the owner in Sahibabad, the officer said. Prajapati had reached the broker's office along with his two friends. The broker took him in a car that was driven by Rana. When the car reached near Ram Manohar Lohia Park, another car waylaid the vehicle and Prajapati was robbed of Rs 28 lakh at gunpoint. The businessman was pushed ..
Stopped 25 per cent deduction from prisoners' wages for victim fund: Delhi govt to HC
The AAP government on Friday told the Delhi High Court that the practice of deducting 25 per cent of salaries of prisoners towards a victim compensation fund has been stopped. The submission was made before a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao by the Delhi government during hearing of a PIL opposing the practice. "The deduction has been stopped pursuant to the high court's order," Delhi government additional standing counsel Gautam Narayan told the bench, which had on December 3 last put on hold the deductions. Advocate Ajay Verma, appearing for petitioner Katyayini, told the court that of the funds collected till date from the prisoners' wages, more than Rs 14 crore was lying unutilised and it has to be decided whether the amount would be refunded or transferred to another scheme. Taking note of the submission, the bench listed the matter for hearing on May 13 by when the Delhi government has to file an affidavit indicating what it intends to do with the ...
Delhi govt withdraws condition of no political activity for Om Prakash Chautala's furlough
The Delhi government has withdrawn the condition of no political activity during the three-week furlough of former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, who is serving a 10-year jail term in teachers' recruitment scam case, on his request. Chautala's lawyer Amit Sahni said that the INLD leader was released from Tihar Jail on furlough on Friday evening. "The Delhi government has withdrawn the condition of no political activity. "The government has conceded to the representation of Chautala in which he had urged that this condition be withdrawn," Sahni said. Initially, the INLD chief was to be released on furlough on January 22, ahead of Jind by-poll. However, the release was postponed to January 29, that is, after elections with the condition that he shall not attend/address any political meeting/gathering and shall not indulge in political activities during the period of furlough, his plea claimed. The January 28 by-poll was necessitated following the death of INLD MLA Harichand
INX Media: P Chidambaram questioned by ED in money laundering case
Former finance minister P Chidambaram was on Friday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering probe related to INX Media. The Congress leader, who was summoned to record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), arrived at the agency's office in central Delhi at about 11 am and left after about three hours. Chidambaram has been grilled in this case in December last too. It is understood that he was questioned in context to some documents seized and recovered by the agency in the case. His son Karti was questioned by the agency in the same case on Thursday for about six hours. The ED attached Karti's assets worth an estimated Rs 54 crore, located in India and abroad, in the case last year. The central probe agency registered the PMLA case on the basis of a CBI FIR and had alleged irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of Rs 305 ...
Mystery deepens over dead CEO with $145 mn worth crypto passwords
As the mystery deepens around the death of Gerald Cotten, CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Quadriga CX, new details have emerged leading to speculation and allegations.
Seven get life imprisonment for killing 2 men that led to Muzaffarnagar riots
Seven persons were sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday by a court here for killing two men, which is believed to have triggered the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 in Uttar Pradesh. Additional District and Sessions Judge Himashu Bhatnagar also imposed a fine of Rs 21,20,000 on each of the seven accused -- Muzammil, Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem, Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal -- for killing Gaurav and Sachin on August 27, 2013 and rioting. The court said that 80 per cent of the fine will go to the family of the two men who were killed. This is the first case out of total 57 in which the seven men were found guilty, district prosecution counsel Rajiv Sharma said. The court had convicted the accused on Wednesday. According to the First Information Report, the two youths of Kawal village under Jansath police station area were battered to death by three of the five men. The two other accused, Afzal and Iqbal, however, were later summoned by the court under provisions of section 319 of the Criminal
No relevance of TDB plea in SC seeking time to implement Sep 28 order: Kerala govt
The Kerala government Friday said there was now no relevance for the Travancore Devaswom Board's plea in the Supreme Court, seeking extension of time to implement its September 28 verdict, permitting women of all age groups entry into the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala. Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran said the plea was filed during the two-month-long Sabarimala pilgrim season as there was not much basic facilities for women devotees reaching there in large numbers. "Since the pilgrim season is over, there is no relevance for such a plea now," he told reporters here. The minister claimed the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) had accepted the Supreme Court order. "Don't forget the fact that TDB had accepted the Supreme Court verdict," he said, referring to the U-turn made by the board when the apex court Wednesday heard pleas, seeking review of its verdict. He said the board took a stand in line with the Supreme Court order during the hearing of pleas seeking review on ...
Two men arrested by customs for smuggling 12 air guns at Delhi airport
Two men have been arrested by customs officials at Delhi airport for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country 12 air guns, according to an official statement issued on Friday. The accused were intercepted on their arrival from Dubai on Wednesday. A detailed baggage and personal search resulted in the recovery of 52 disassembled parts of 12 air guns of foreign origin kept in their checked-in baggage, the customs department said in the statement. The duo were arrested and the air guns seized, it said.
1MDB scam: Former Malaysian PM to face more charges
A court in Malaysia on Friday charged former Prime Minister Najib Razak with three more counts of money laundering linked to a corruption scandal involving state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
2013 Muzaffarnagar riots: Life imprisonment to 7 convicts
Seven persons accused of killing two youngsters, Gaurav and Sachin, in 2013 in Kawal in Muzaffarnagar were sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court on Friday.
Indian toddler Sherin Mathews' foster parents to be tried separately: US court
A US court has ruled that the Indian-American foster parents of Sherin Mathews, accused in the death of their 3-year-old special needs daughter, will face separate trials, according to a media report. Sherin, who was adopted by Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews in 2016, was found dead in a culvert near the family's home in Richardson, Texas, on October 22, 2017, two weeks after her family reported her missing. Wesley initially told the police that his daughter had gone missing from outside the house. He had made her stand outside the house at 3 am as punishment for not finishing her milk. Sherin was missing when he went back for her, Wesley had contended. He changed his story later and told investigators that Sherin died after choking on milk. He admitted to putting her body in the culvert near their home in Richardson in suburban Dallas. There will be separate trials for the parents accused in the death of Sherin, Fox4News.com reported, quoting a ruling by the Dallas County Court on ..