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Mourinho avoids jail but is hit by fine for tax fraud in Spain
Ex-Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has avoided jail for tax fraud as part of a deal with Spanish prosecutors revealed Tuesday but will pay a fine of close to two million euros. The 56-year-old is accused of committing tax fraud in 2011 and 2012 when he coached Spanish giants Real Madrid. According to the agreement seen by AFP, Mourinho accepted a one-year jail sentence immediately commuted to a fine of 182,500 euros. The Portuguese coach will also have to pay an additional penalty of 1.98 million euros. Mourinho already paid 1.14 million euros in 2015 as an administrative penalty and the deal stipulates that prosecutors won't oppose that this amount be deduced from the overall fine. The agreement still has to be validated by a judge. - Image rights - ================ Mourinho, sacked by Manchester United in December following a string of disappointing performances, is the latest high-profile football figure to be judged over his tax affairs in Spain. Spanish prosecutors accuse
Charge sheet in minor's rape case filed in a week
The charge sheet in the rape case of a four-year-old girl in Rajasthan's Sikar district has been filed within a week after the incident took place, police said Tuesday. "The charge sheet against Kalia alias Karan was presented in a POCSO court on Monday. He allegedly raped the girl on the night of January 30 on a cremation ground near their huts," SHO of Khatushyamji police station Surendra Saini said. The FIR against the accused was lodged on January 31 under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said. "He was caught soon after the incident and was placed under arrest. He is currently under judicial custody and the girl is being treated at a hospital in Jaipur," the SHO added.
Unclaimed bag creates security scare at Delhi airport, cops find gold bars worth Rs 1.78 crore
An unclaimed bag lying in the international arrival terminal of the Delhi airport triggered a security alarm leading to recovery of 32 gold bars worth Rs 1.78 crore, officials said Tuesday. They said a bag lying in a luggage trolley was spotted by CISF security personnel at the international transfer area of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Monday night and soon a bomb detection and disposal team of the force was rushed to check the contents. While the bag did not contain any explosive or improvised explosive device (IED), 32 gold bars weighing 5.9 kgs was recovered from it, they said. When no passenger claimed it, a CCTV review was done and it was found that an unidentified passenger, who came from Hong Kong and took a flight to Mumbai, dumped the bag in the terminal area, possibly in fear of being caught by security agencies, they said. The gold bars, valued at Rs 1.78 crore, have been handed over to Customs authorities at the airport for further probe, officials ...
NSA invoked against three men accused of cow slaughter in MP
Authorities have slapped the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against three men accused of killing a cow at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Tuesday. The trio, identified as Shakeel, Nadeem and Azam, were sent to jail by a local court on Monday. "Acting on a tip-off that a few persons were allegedly involved in illegal act of slaughtering a cow, police raided a place at Kharkali village near here last Friday and seized a large knife and beef from the spot," Moghat police station in-charge, Mohan Singore said. However, the accused fled from the spot during the police action, he said. But police arrested them on Saturday from their different hideouts in Khandwa city and district collector, Vishesh Garhpale, slapped the provisions of the NSA against them, Singore said. "On Monday, they were produced before a local court, which sentenced them to jail under the NSA and other relevant sections of the IPC," he added. According to police, Nadeem was earlier also ...
Man held for rape bid on one-year-old girl in Delhi's Aman Vihar
A man was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a one-year-old girl in outer Delhi's Aman Vihar, police said Tuesday. The 22-year-old accused was working at a food stall and lured the niece of his employer on the pretext of buying her toffees on Monday, they said. Finding their daughter missing, her parents and neighbours started looking for her and found her with the accused in a room, police said. The accused had removed her clothes and was trying to force himself on her but she was saved in the nick of time, they said. The accused was thrashed by the girls' family and neighbours before being handed over to the police, they added. The medical examination of the girl revealed that she had not been raped and is safe. A case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered and the accused nabbed, police said.
People found close to TMC arrested in Saradha scam, AG tells SC
CBI told the Supreme Court Tuesday that its probe into the Saradha scam led to the arrest of "people found close to or connected" to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. The submission was made by Attorney General K K Venugopal before a bench, comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjeev Khanna, which was hearing the CBI plea seeking direction against the Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar who has avoided to join the investigation. Venugopal narrated the legal proceedings since 2014 and said all cases relating to the Chit Fund scam in West Bengal were transferred to the CBI. "Before that, the state had itself has appointed a SIT. Between April, 2014 and when the judgement was pronounced in 2017, we have collected material and proceeded to make arrests. some of them were People found close to or connected to the TMC, the ruling party," he told the bench. He said CBI issued summons to Kumar, who was the functional head of the SIT as ...
SC order tight slap for TMC govt, brought Mamata's political histrionics to a screeching halt : BJP
Dubbing the Supreme Court direction to the Kolkata police chief to join the CBI probe into the Saradha chit fund scam a "tight slap" for the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, the BJP Tuesday said it has brought her "political histrionics" to a screeching halt. Asserting that the order has vindicated the BJP's stand, party leader and Union minister Smriti Irani cited the court's direction to Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to appear before the CBI for questioning at a "neutral place" like Shillong to claim that it shows a state of lawlessness exists in West Bengal. The apex court said Kumar will appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Shillong, Meghalaya, and no coercive step, including the arrest of the Kolkata police chief, will take place during the course of the probe. Addressing a press conference, Irani said the BJP lauds the order which, she asserted, brought "anarchist" Banerjee's "political histrionics" to a screeching halt. She said the ...
MP cop on leave for son's wedding shot at, injured in Khandwa
A Madhya Pradesh police sub-inspector was Tuesday shot at and injured by motorcycle-borne persons in Khandwa district, a senior official said. Sub-Inspector K K Agrawal, posted in Burhanpur district, was in Khandwa to attend his son's marriage when the incident happened in Harsud Road area here, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mahendra Tarnekar said. Agrawal was returning home on a two-wheeler after distributing marriage invitation cards in the afternoon, he added. The unidentified persons shot two times at Agrawal, with one bullet hitting him on the waist, the Additional SP said. "He was rushed to the district hospital by people who were passing by in a car. He is out of danger," Tarnekar said. Another official said this was the second time Agrawal has been shot at. Earlier, around ten years ago, some persons fired at him in Khandwa's Budhwara Bazaar area but he escaped unhurt, this official said.
Reid & Taylor to be liquidated: NCLT Mumbai
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Mumbai on Tuesday ordered the liquidation of textile and fashion major Reid & Taylor after all attempts to revive it failed.
Go to Shillong, it is a cool place: SC to CBI, Kolkata Police Commissioner
"Go to Shillong. It is a cool place. Both sides will remain cool there," observed the Supreme Court in a lighter vein while accepting the request of the CBI that Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar be directed to join investigation in connection with Saradha scam at a neutral place. The remark was made by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi after passing the order in which a bench headed by him said that Kumar has to make himself available before the CBI for investigation. After the bench, also comprising Justices Deepka Gupta and Sanjeev Khanna, had almost completed the dictation of the order, Attorney General K K Venugopal raised the issue of neutral place. "To avoid all unnecessary controversy, we direct the Commissioner of Police to appear before the investigating agency in Shillong, Meghalaya, on such date(s) as may be fixed," the bench said in its order. During the hearing, the CBI alleged total breakdown of constitutional machinery in the state by citing the incident of Sunday ..
Using Aadhaar biometrics to identify bodies not feasible technologically, legally: UIDAI to HC
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that it was not legally and technologically feasible to use Aadhaar biometrics for forensic purposes like identification of dead persons. The UIDAI told a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao that using Aadhaar biometrics to identify bodies would be contrary to the Aadhaar Act. The authority, represented by advocate Zoheb Hossain, further claimed that even the Supreme Court in a verdict last year had held that the biometrics were not to be used for any other purpose than those stipulated in the Act. The UIDAI has contended that the Aadhaar Act was enacted to provide good governance as well as an efficient, transparent and targeted delivery of subsidies, benefits, services and social schemes. However, petitioner Amit Sahni told the court that Aadhaar was being used to trace and identify missing children and, therefore, it can be used to identify unidentified bodies as ...
No proposal being considered to scrap sedition law: Hansraj Ahir
MoS Home Hansraj Ahir on Tuesday said no proposal is being considered by the Centre to scrap the sedition law."No such proposal (scrapping sedition law) is under consideration by the Government," Ahir said in a written reply in LokSabha.Last month, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal had accused the Centre of misusing sedition charges and termed it a "colonial law".Speaking to ANI, Sibal had said, "There is no need for a sedition law in today's times, it is a colonial law. Many who merely speak or tweet against the government have sedition charges imposed against them; it is being misused by the Centre just to keep citizens in check."The reaction from the Congress leader came two days after Delhi Police slapped charges of sedition, rioting, and criminal conspiracy on former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a three-year-old incident which rocked the campus of India's premier seat of learning on the evening of February 9, ...
Congress MP calls Rajeev Kumar as Mamata Banerjee's 'servant'
Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday said that Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's "servant as he works on her directions."MP from the state's Baharampur constituency, Chowdhury said: "There is no democracy in Bengal. It is with the help of the ruling government that people were looted in the chit fund scam. This Police Commissioner is Mamata's servant. He will do whatever she says."The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Rajeev Kumar to appear before the CBI in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam probe.The bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, said that no coercive step should be taken against Kumar, who will now appear before the CBI in Shillong in Meghalaya.The Supreme Court, which posted further hearing in the case to February 20, also issued a contempt notice to West Bengal Chief Secretary, the DGP and the Kolkata Police Commissioner on a plea which said that a CBI team was ...
Kerala's PWD Minister to be booked on charges of sexual harassment
Ambalappuzha Judicial First Class Magistrate Court on Tuesday asked the police to register a case against Kerala Public Works Department Minister G. Sudhakaran on the basis of a sexual harassment complaint filed by a woman.The petition has been filed by the minister's former women personal staff member.The complainant alleged that Sudhakaran had outraged the modesty of a woman by criticizing her at a public function. She also alleged that the local police refused to file a complaint about the incident that took place on February 28, 2016, when the accused was an MLA.The petitioner was Sudhakaran personal staff member from 2006 to 2011.
Delhi HC directs CBI to not to take coercive action against Pradeep Koneru
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed CBI to not take any coercive action against businessman Pradeep Koneru, a witness in the ED case probing allegations of bribery and extortion against former CBI Chief AP Singh and middleman Moin Qureshi.The court has also asked Koneru to cooperate in the CBI investigation as and when needed.According to Koneru, the court was told that he had an apprehension of arrest by CBI which wanted to make him an accused in the same case.Reportedly, in August 2018, CBI teams from Delhi had raided the Hyderabad-based house of Koneru to gather evidence in a corruption case involving controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi and former CBI director AP Singh.It was alleged that Koneru had taken help from Moin Qureshi to get help in favour of his two family members accused in the Emaar case probed by CBI's Hyderabad unit.
Mamata has 'egg on her face' with SC ruling: says Smriti Irani
Union Minister Smriti Irani slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying the Trinamool Congress supremo had "egg on her face" following Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling directing Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to appear before the CBI in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam.Addressing a press conference here, Union Minister Smriti Irani said: "The political histrionics of Mamata Banerjee was brought to screeching halt by the Supreme Court. The political environment in West Bengal is not suitable. The Supreme Court gave its judgement keeping that in mind and directed Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to present himself in Shillong."She added: "There exists a state of lawlessness in West Bengal, the anarchist Chief Minister intervened in the process of collection of evidence by officers, upon whose instructions officers were heckled, manhandled and detained, their families harassed, their homes surrounded."The Union Minister said that the Bharatiya ...
Disowned by hubby, dejected Pak woman drowns infant daughter in sea
A woman was arrested in Pakistan for allegedly drowning her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter in the sea after being abandoned by her husband, police said Tuesday. The 28-year-old woman committed the crime as her husband threw her and his daughter out of the house and her family refused to give them shelter, they said. SSP South Investigation Tariq Dharejo said the woman planned to commit suicide after the incident. "She had no place to live and no one to turn to which led her to commit the crime," he said.
HC asks CBI to not take coercive steps against businessman accused in case involving Moin Qureshi
The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the CBI to not take coercive steps against a Hyderabad-based businessman who is an accused in a corruption case involving meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi, the agency's ex-director A P Singh and a witness in the ED case. A bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal sought responses of the CBI and ED on a plea by Pradeep Koneru, the Hyderabad-based businessman. The court said no coercive steps be taken against Koneru till the next date of hearing on March 19. It, however, granted liberty to CBI to seek modification of this order at any stage. It asked Koneru to keep joining the investigation as and when called by CBI officials. Koneru, who was represented by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, said the ED filed a chargesheet in 2018 arraying him as a prosecution witness and not an accused but he was shocked to learn that CBI has issued a "recommendation for his arrest". The FIR, in connection with which Koneru was being questioned, ..
Saradha chit fund: Kolkata Police Commissioner tampered evidence, CBI tells SC
The CBI Tuesday alleged in the Supreme Court that Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, who was leading the SIT probe into Saradha chit fund scam, tampered with the electronic evidence and handed over document to the agency some of which were "doctored". The CBI also alleged that there was a "wilful" omission and commission by him and the Special Investigating Team (SIT) of which he was its functional head. Attorney General K K Venugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that Kumar was not cooperating in the investigation of chit fund cases, handed over to the CBI by the Supreme Court, and the SIT had not given the complete call data details. "What was given to us were doctored copy of call records," the attorney general told a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjeev Khanna. The CBI alleged that the laptop and cellphones recovered from Sudipta Sen, Chairman of the Saradha and Rose Valley ponzy scheme by the SIT were not sent to .
Clear all hurdles for smooth trial in Malegaon case: Bombay HC to NIA
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to "clear all hurdles" in the 2008 Malegaon blast case and ensure that the trial proceeds "smoothly". A bench of Justices A S Oka and A S Gadkari noted that over 20 applications and appeals had been filed in the high court by various parties on varied grounds in the case. As a result, the court had to sift through voluminous paperwork and over 4,000 exhibits, it said. "How's the court expected to clear these appeals in time if parties keep filing applications. We are certain most of these applications and pleas might even be frivolous," the bench said. "As a prosecuting agency, it is your (NIA) duty to ensure that all hurdles are removed and the trial in the case goes on smoothly," it said. The bench was hearing an appeal filed by Sameer Kulkarni, a co-accused in the case, challenging a 2017 order of a special NIA court, which permitted the use of photocopies of statements of witnesses and confessions of