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ED questions Robert Vadra for over six hours in money laundering case
Four days after a Delhi court ordered Robert Vadra to join the Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation, he was questioned for over six hours on Wednesday.
Municipal council chief officer caught while taking bribe
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) caught the chief of a municipal council in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district Wednesday while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 2 lakh. Nanasaheb Vishvanath Mahanwar, chief officer of the Devlali-Pravra Municipal Council, was allegedly taking money through assistant fireman Mukund Musmade. Mahanwar had allegedly demanded bribe from a contractor, whose contract for garbage collection and cleaning of roads at Rahata town had been suspended, an ACB release said. Mahanwar allegedly promised to restore the contract if the contractor paid him bribe, the ACB said. After the contractor approached the ACB, a trap was laid, and Musmade was caught while taking bribe on behalf of Mahanwar at a hotel on Ahmednagar-Manmad road, it said. Mahanwar was detained subsequently. A case was registered at Rahuri police station. It was Mahanwar who, as district planning officer, had first cleared the e-tender filed by the contractor in 2018. However, the contract ...
2 held with three stolen motorcycles
A 28-year-old man and his brother-in-law were arrested for allegedly stealing vehicles from Dwarka, police said Wednesday. The accused were identified as Najafgarh residents Shiv Kumar (28) and Vipin (24), they said. While police were patrolling near Gopal Nagar on Tuesday, they noticed two men on a motorcycle without number plate and apprehended the accused persons, Anto Alphonse, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka), said. During interrogation, they disclosed that they had two more stolen motorcycles which they had parked in an abandoned plot at Meena Colony area, the DCP said, adding that a total of three motorcycles were recovered from their possession.
Golfer Jyoti Randhawa moves HC for bail in connection with poaching charges
Golfer Jyoti Randhawa moved the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday, seeking bail in connection with poaching charges levelled against him. The Lucknow bench of the court granted the Uttar Pradesh government three days' time to file its counter-affidavit on Randhawa's plea and fixed the next date of hearing on February 15. A bench of Justice Mohammad Faiz Alam Khan passed the order on the plea of Randhawa, who sought bail claiming that he was innocent and was booked on false charges. Opposing the plea, the state's lawyer demanded time to file a reply. Randhawa and his friend Mahesh Virajdar, a former Navy officer, were arrested from the Motipur range of the Katarniaghat Forest Sanctuary, a part of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve that stretches across Bahraich and Lakhimpur Kheri districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Forest officials had alleged that a .22-bore rifle, 60 cartridges, an animal hide -- possibly that of a sambar killed 10 to 12 days earlier -- and two dead jungle fowls were found in
Two held with illicit liquor worth Rs 50 lakh in UP
Police arrested two men and seized illegal liquor worth Rs 50 lakh from their possession in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district on Wednesday, an official said. A truck was intercepted at Bidoli check post under Jhinjhana pplice station area and 1,000 cartons of illicit liquor were recovered during a search of the vehicle, Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Pandey said. The arrested persons were identified as Surender and Ashish. A third person, Narender, managed to flee from the spot, he said. During interrogation, the arrested duo told police that the liquor was being transported from Punjab to Lucknow for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Pandey said. A case has been registered against the three, the police said.
Two members of Sadam Gauri gang held: Police
Two members of the Sadam Gauri gang were arrested for allegedly extorting money from bootleggers and gamblers on the pretext of providing them security, police said on Wednesday. The accused were identified as Pankaj (22) and Karan (21), both residents of Hastal in Uttam Nagar, they added. Acting on a tip-off that the accused would come near the Nawada metro station on the intervening night of February 4 and 5, the police nabbed the duo, Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) Rajiv Ranjan said. The accused were wanted in an attempt to murder case, wherein they, along with their associates, had attacked the houses of bootleggers in the Uttam Nagar area in order to extort money from them, the officer said, adding that the two had also fired gunshots at a fruit vendor. Investigations revealed that in August last year, the accused, along with their associates, had thrashed the residents of JJ Colony, Hastal Road and fired gunshots in order to terrorise the public, Ranjan said. The ...
SC petitioned to direct political parties to only field graduates below 75 years of age in elections
A plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, seeking a direction that political parties should only field candidates who are graduates and below 75 years of age at the time of notification of an election. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi is seized of a PIL filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay seeking various reliefs, including setting up of special courts to try criminal cases involving lawmakers. Upadhyay, in its fresh interim plea, said imposing a condition during elections to prevent parties from fielding illiterate candidates is a "reasonable restriction" keeping in mind the concessions and privileges enjoyed by MLAs, MLCs and MPs. The plea said the functions performed by legislators are vital to democracy and there is no reason why they should be held to lower standards than municipal councilors and gram pradhans. "In many states, candidates for municipal councilor and gram pradhan certainly would not be considered at all if they are illiterate," the ..
Madras HC nixes builder's bid to avoid repaying Rs 1.1 cr incurred as expenditure by authorities
Almost five years after a building in the city collapsed, leading to the death of 61 people and injury to 27, the Madras High Court prevented the builder's bid to avoid repaying Rs 1.1 crore incurred as expenditure by authorities to demolish an unsafe second tower at the site. Prime Shrusti Housing Pvt Ltd built 86 residential apartments in two 11-storied buildings at Moulivakkam here. On June 28, 2014, Block B collapsed, leading to the death of 61 workers. As Block A stood too close to the collapsed structure, it too had suffered instability and was later certified as unsafe for occupation. Pursuant to a Supreme Court order, Block A was demolished using implosion technology, and the company was slapped demolition charge of Rs 1.1 crore. Refusing to pay the sum, the company said it was liable to pay only Rs 49.9 lakh, and that the rest should be adjusted from open space reservation charges, premium FSI charges and infrastructure development charges. The first bench of Chief Justice .
Centre, AG take different stance over punishing Bhushan for 'contempt' tweets in CBI case
The Centre and Attorney General K K Venugopal took differing stance in the Supreme Court in their contempt pleas against activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan on whether he be punished for his tweets which alleged that the government had misled the court in a matter related to the appointment of interim CBI director M Nageswara Rao. Calling Venugopal 'Bhismpitama' and magnanimous in not seeking punishment for Bhushan, the Centre said it wants that punishment should be awarded to Bhushan as deterrence. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Navin Sinha said however that punishment for a lawyer should be the last resort, and referred to its recent verdict in which it held that contempt is 'Brahmastra' which is to be used sparingly. The bench was hearing two contempt petitions filed separately by the Centre and the AG against Bhushan for the tweets. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, argued that "statements like black day in the history of judiciary. Injustice has been ...
Missing Delhi shelter home inmates yet to reach their homes: Nepal Embassy
The Nepal Embassy has told the Delhi Police that eight women and a minor who had disappeared from a Shahdara shelter home last year have not returned to their homes, police said Wednesday. The Delhi Police had sought the assistance of the Nepal Embassy and the NGOs of Nepalese origin in the case. "The Nepal Embassy reached out to the families of the women and the minor and it was found that they had not reached homes. We are in touch with the NGOs to trace the missing women and the minor," said a senior police officer, privy to the probe. The officer said the Nepal Embassy sent them a reply around a fortnight ago and are currently relying on NGOs to get a breakthrough in the case. Eight women and a minor were reported missing from the shelter home in Shahdara in the first week of December. The Delhi Commission For Women had alleged foul play in the incident and the Delhi government suspended two senior officials in the case. The case was transferred from the district police to the ...
Identity of accused in sexual assault cases should be protected: PIL
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday served notices to the Centre and state governments on a petition demanding that the name of the accused in cases of sexual assault should not be published. Section 228 (A) of the Indian Penal Code is "gender discriminatory" as it only protects the identity of the woman victim, the petition filed by P G Najpandey and Mumtaz Ahmed Khan said. The section prohibits disclosure of the identity of the victim of sexual assault and related offences. A division bench of Chief Justice S K Seth and Justice V K Shukla admitted the public interest litigation (PIL) for hearing, said Ajay Shankar Raizada, the petitioners' counsel. The petition contended that there was no bar on the publication of the name of male accused in such cases, though the law considers every person innocent till proved guilty. The government should show how only the victim woman is affected if the identity is disclosed, but not the male accused. Section 228 (A) violates the right to .
Body parts in bins: Small time director held for killing wife
More than a fortnight after dismembered body parts of a woman were found in garbage bins in the city, police have cracked the case with the arrest of her husband, who is a small-time film director and producer, Wednesday. The woman's identity was also established nearly two weeks after her severed limbs with tattoo designs were found in a dumpyard located in southern part of Chennai. The police, who began investigation last month with just the tattoos as clues Wednesday arrested 51-year-old Balakrishnan for allegedly killing his wife, Sandhya (35). "Various cases of missing women were examined, among them identification marks of Sandhya who went missing in Chennai matched with the tattoos found on the severed legs," Chennai Police Commissioner A K Vishwanathan told reporters when asked how the case was solved. Balakrishnan, after killing his wife on January 19, dismembered the body the next day and dumped the parts packed in plastic bags in various garbage bins in the ...
Security guard arrested for molesting girl
A security guard of a housing society in suburban Vile Parle has been arrested for allegedly stalking and molesting a girl, the police said Wednesday. Ankit Singh (21) allegedly followed the girl, a Class 10 student, when she was going to a tuition Tuesday morning, a police official said. Singh works as a security guard of a building in the area where the girl lives, he said. He caught up with her near Milan Subway, started shouting at her and allegedly touched her inappropriately, the official said. The girl ran off and approached a policeman on duty in the subway. Singh was apprehended immediately and brought to the Santacruz police station. A case under IPC sections 354 (molestation) and 354-D (stalking) was registered against him. He was produced before a court Wednesday which remanded him in police custody till February 8, said his lawyer R U Jha.
Ansal gave false info for passport, Delhi Police tells HC
An FIR was registered against real estate baron Sushil Ansal and some erring officials for concealing facts in his passport, the city police told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday.
Income Tax dept to record Indrani's statement on bank account
A CBI court hearing the Sheena Bora murder case on Wednesday allowed the Income Tax department to record the statement of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea after it was told that authorities have found out about her bank account. The IT department on Wednesday submitted a letter seeking permission of the special CBI court, which is conducting the murder trial, for recording Mukerjea's statement under section 131 of the IT Act. Provision 131 empowers the authorities to conduct inquiries, summon persons or witnesses, examine them under oath, compel production of books of account and documents, and issue commissions. After Mukerjea gave her consent, Special CBI Judge J C Jagdale granted permission to IT officials to record her statement at the Bayculla Jail, where she is currently lodged, on February 7. Mukerjea is facing trial for allegedly killing Sheena (24), her daughter from an earlier relationship, in April 2012. Police arrested Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and her then
Six cops suspended for links with drug trade
Four sub-inspectors (PSIs) and two constables of Nagpur Police have been suspended for alleged connection with drug traffickers, a senior official said here Wednesday. The action followed the arrest of Firoz alias Abu Aziz Khan, a notorious criminal, in a drug seizure case, said Joint Commissioner of Police Ravindra Kadam. Kadam said the investigation revealed that these policemen were allegedly in touch with Khan. The suspended police personnels were identified as PSI Manoj Orke, Nilesh Purbe, Sajid Mowal and Sharad Shimpne, and police constables Jayanta Selot and Shyam Mishra. The Crime Branch is conducting further probe, he added.
Auto driver shot dead in Delhi's Shahdara by bike-borne men
A 28-year-old auto driver was shot dead by two bike borne men in Delhi's Shahdara, police said Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Rohit, a resident of Geeta Colony area. He sustained single bullet injury, Meghna Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara), said. The incident happened on Tuesday night in Krishna Nagar area when Rohit was returning home after dropping off passengers. The incident was captured in a CCTV camera, which was installed in the area, a senior police officer said. The CCTV footage showed that two men on a bike came there and shot Rohit once and fled from the spot. However, they could not be identified yet, police said. They suspect personal enmity behind the killing as there was no attempt of robbery, Yadav added. A case has been registered and investigations are on, police said.
Notice to Prashant Bhushan on contempt plea
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to advocate Prashant Bhushan on a contempt plea filed by Attorney General K.K. Venugopal and the Centre saying that Bhushan tweeted that the government "fabricated" minutes of a selection panel meeting on the appointment of then acting CBI Director M. Nageswara Rao.
Suspected Paris arsonist 'just released from psychiatric ward'
The woman suspected of setting fire to a Paris apartment building in which 10 people died had only just been released from a psychiatric ward, sources close to the investigation said Wednesday. The woman in her 40s, who lived in the building, is understood to have been treated a dozen times in psychiatric facilities. In late January she was released from Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris, sources said. The fire on the upper floors of the building on Rue Erlanger in the upscale 16th Paris district, was the most deadly in the capital since 2005. Thirty people were also hurt in the blaze which ravaged much of the back of the building in the early hours of Tuesday. Some 20 firemen Wednesday continued to search through the building's blackened remains, part of which has been declared unsafe to live in. Dramatic footage of the scene, filmed by firemen and neighbours, showed flames shooting out of windows and firemen climbing narrow ladders to rescue terrified residents, some dressed
Man electrocuted to death in Rajasthan's Bundi district
A 25-year-old contractual employee of Jaipur Vidutt Vitran Nigam Limited (JVVNL) was electrocuted to death Wednesday in Rajasthan's Bundi district, police said. Sohanlal Meena, a resident of Mahapura village, was working on an electricity feeder near Daulatpura village when the incident occurred, Station House Officer (SHO) of the Indergarh police station Harish Bharti said. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, he added. The preliminary investigation has revealed that Meena reportedly had not called for a power cut before climbing the feeder and died, the SHO said, adding the matter will be investigated. The family of the deceased demonstrated a protest demanding compensation and denied to take the body. The protest was called off after hours of persuasion from the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) and other officials, police said. The body was handed over to the family after post-mortem, SHO said. A case has been registered under section 174 (police to .