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12 senior I-T officers asked to compulsorily retire
As many as 12 senior officers including Joint Commissioners and Commissioners of Income Tax department have been given compulsory retirement under Rule 56 by Finance Ministry.As per the sources from Finance Ministry, the names of the officials are Ashok Agarwal Joint Commissioner (Income Tax) on grounds of serious complaints of corruption and major extortion from businessmen, S K Srivastava Commissioner (Appeal) Noida (IRS, 1989), Commissioner (Appeal), Noida, accused of sexual harassment of two women IRS Commissioners.Homi Rajvansh (IRS, 1985) who had acquired movable and immovable assets worth over Rs 3 crore in the name of self and his family members and BB Rajendra Prasad on allegations of obtaining illegal gratification in lieu of passing a favourable appeal order in a case were the others.Other officers who were asked to take retirement include Ajoy Kumar Singh, B. Arulappa, Alok Kumar Mitra, Chander Saini Bharti, Andasu Ravindar, Vivek Batra, Swetabh Suman and Ram Kumar ...
Govt compulsorily retires tax officers over charges ranging from extortion, bribe, sexual harassment
The government has compulsorily retired almost a dozen senior tax officers on charges ranging from extortion, bribe and sexual harassment.
50-yr-old gets life imprisonment for raping minor in Dausa
A 50-year old man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday for raping a minor girl in Dausa district of Rajasthan. Magistrate of Special POCSO court Aarti Bhardwaj convicted Prabhudayal under sections 376 AB, 506 of the IPC and 5/6 of the POCSO Act and pronounced the life sentence (imprisonment till the end of life) verdict, said public prosecutor Kamlesh Sharma. The judgment has come within a year of the crime. The court has also awarded two-year imprisonment under section 506 of IPC, which will go concurrent. Besides, a penalty of Rs 2 lakh was also imposed on Prabhudayal. The prosecutor said Prabhudayal had raped an 11-year old girl and FIR was registered with Baswa Police Station of Dausa on June 11, 2018. Police had filed chargesheet on July 12, 2018.
Rajasthan guv condemns minor's killing in Aligarh
Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh has condemned the brutal murder of a two-and-a half-year-old girl in Tappal area of Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh. He said the horrific incident will remain a blot on society. "The culprits should be given rigorous punishment," a statement quoted Singh as saying on Monday. The victim's decomposed body was found in a garbage dump three days after she was reported missing by her family in Tappal township last week. The incident has triggered massive outrage.
16 police teams formed to nab those involved in TV crew attack: Delhi police
Sixteen police teams have been conducting raids across Delhi-NCR to nab the two bike-borne assailants who reportedly fired at the crew of a news channel when they were going on an assignment in south Delhi, officials said Monday. A joint team of Crime Branch and Southern Range conducted the raids across the national capital and questioned more than 50 suspects in connection with the case, police said. "We have alerted the entire network of informers with the details of suspects. The sketch of two suspects have been prepared and circulated for identification. A total of 16 teams are working on the case and multiple raids were conducted in Delhi-NCR area," Ram Gopal Naik, DCP (Crime), said. "We have specific leads in the case and our teams are working on the case. We are also verifying the status of robbers who came out on bail from Tihar recently," he said. In a suspected case of attempt to robbery, two bike-borne assailants opened fire at the news channel crew at the Barapullah ...
Family of victim disappointed over quantum of sentence, acquittal of one accused
The father of the eight-year-old nomadic girl, who was gangraped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, welcomed the Monday judgement convicting six men in the case, but said his family was expecting that the culprits would be handed down death penalty. He also expressed unhappiness over the acquittal of the seventh accused. The court sentenced three men including a temple caretaker to life imprisonment till last breath after convicting them along with three others for the ghastly crime that shook the nation 17 months ago. "We were expecting that they (culprits) will be hanged for the heinous crime which they have committed with my daughter," Mohammad Akhtar, biological father of the minor, told PTI over phone from the upper reaches of Verinag in Anantnag district of South Kashmir. The family is presently on bi-annual migration in search of greener pastures in the Valley. Reacting to the judgement, he said they were surprised over the acquittal of one of the main accused, Vishal,
Kathua perpetrators acted as if law of jungle prevalent in society: Judge
Holding that perpetrators of the gangrape and murder of a girl in Kathua acted as if there is a "law of jungle" prevalent in the society, judge Tejwinder Singh summed up the enormity of the crime with a touching couplet by Mirza Ghalib which says that hunters had placed the net near a nest and the young one was caught before it could take its first flight. In his judgment after hearing arguments from both sides for 367 days, Singh sentenced three accused to life imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and murder and three more to five years in jail for destruction of evidence. One accused was acquitted. Singh started his order with the couplet from Ghalib's ghazal -- "Pinha tha daam-e-sakht qareeb ashiyaan ke, udhne hi nahi paye the ki girftar hum hue". Also cited by the Supreme Court in a 2011 case of murder of a sex worker in West Bengal, the couplet poignantly summed up the Kathua case which shook the conscience of the nation. Singh said the couplet applies squarely to the facts of ...
AAP demands from Home minister meeting on Delhi's law & order
The Aam Aadmi Party Monday demanded from Union Home Minister Amit Shah to hold a meeting on law and order situation in the national capital, raising questions over the safety of common men here. AAP senior leader Gopal Rai demanded the meeting in the wake of firings at the vehicle of a TV news channel crew by two bike-borne men at Barapullah flyover Sunday. "The home minister should hold a meeting on the law and order situation in the national capital. If journalists are not safe in the country, what will happen to the safety of the common men living in the capital," said Rai, hitting out at the Centre over the law and order situation in New Delhi. "We demand that the accused in the case be arrested immediately," he said. "The BJP which has formed the government for the second time should ensure that the law and order situation in Delhi is improved," he added. In a suspected case of attempted robbery, two bike-borne miscreants allegedly opened fire at a news channel crew on their way
Two Chinese engineers among 3 killed in boiler blast at Haryana factory
Three persons, including two Chinese nationals, were killed when a boiler exploded at a pharmaceutical raw material manufacturing unit in Rojka Meo Industrial Area in Haryana's Mewat, police said Monday. "The two Chinese nationals were working in the company as senior engineer and production engineer. The other person who died in the incident was a welder," said Sangeeta Kalia, Mewat's Superintendent of Police. She said welding works were underway on the boiler on Sunday around 4pm when it exploded and caught fire, leaving the welder and the two engineers dead. After the incident, five fire tenders were sent to put out the fire. Kalia said a case of negligence has been registered against two company officials and further investigations were on. "Even 24 hours after the incident took place, the company has failed to provide us with any document related to the boiler to establish whether its inspection had been carried out in the past or the record about its maintenance. All these ...
Man held for killing elderly house owner in 2015
A man, carrying a reward of Rs 50,000, was arrested for allegedly killing an elderly man and robbing him in Shahdara four years ago, police said Monday. Pardeep (26) committed the crime along with his relative Manoj in 2015. Manoj was arrested that year, while Pardeep was declared an absconder by a city court, they said. Manoj, a resident of Ghonda district in Uttar Pradesh, is currently in judicial custody. He stayed as a tenant at the house of the deceased, police said. According to a complaint filed by the daughter-in-law of the victim, Manoj lived as tenant in the house owned by the deceased, Ratan Singh. On May 25, 2015 Manoj came to his rented accommodation along with Pardeep. When Singh asked Manoj about his friend, he got annoyed and threatened the house owner with dire consequences, Rajesh Deo, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), said. At about 12.30 am the same day, the complainant saw her father-in-law lying unconscious on the cot. Manoj and Pardeep were not present in ..
Kathua gangrape: 3 including mastermind given life term, 3 others 5 year jail
A court on Monday sentenced three men including a temple caretaker to life imprisonment till last breath for the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir shortly after convicting them along with three others for the ghastly crime that shook the nation 17 months ago. Sanji Ram, the mastermind and caretaker of the 'devasthanam' (temple) where the crime took place in January last year, Deepak Khajuria, a Special Police Officer, and Parvesh Kumar, a civilian--the three main accused--were spared death penalty, a punishment sought by the prosecution during the year-long in-camera trial in the court of judge Tejwinder Singh here. "The perpetrators of this crime have acted in such a manner as if there is a 'law of jungle' prevalent in the society," the judge said, adding the facts in the case are many but truth is one that under a criminal conspiracy, an innocent eight-year old minor girl has been kidnapped, wrongfully confined, drugged, raped and .
Verdict gives hope that such brutalities will not go unpunished: V K Singh on Kathua case
Union minister V K Singh hailed the court verdict in the Kathua rape-and-murder case on Monday and said it gave hope that such brutalities would not go punished. He also stressed on the need to educate boys on how to treat and respect women. "Guilty from #Kathua rape-murder case are convicted-it gives me hope that such brutalities will not go unpunished. But it also makes me think of our collective consciousness as a society-why should Kathua or Aligarh happen? Need to educate our boys on how to treat & respect women," the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways said in a tweet. A court in Punjab's Pathankot sentenced the three main accused in the gangrape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua to life imprisonment, while awarding a five-year jail term to three others for destruction of evidence. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also welcomed the court verdict, saying there should be no mercy for the accused as they committed .
Maha: 4 army men, including major, booked for assaulting jawan
Four army personnel, including a Major, were booked on charges of attempt to murder and wrongful confinement after a soldier alleged they assaulted him for refusing to drink liquor, police said Monday. A Sanghavi police station official said the incident took place at the Aundh Military Station on June 3. "Jawan Ramesh Mohanrao Bishnoi has filed a complaint that the accused called him to a barrack and offered him liquor. When he refused, they poured alcohol into his mouth and later beat him with a rod," the official said. A case was registered against the four, which also included a Lieutenant, a Subedar and a Naib Subedar, under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 332 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code, he said. "No arrests have been made so far. We have received a letter from the Aundh military station that they have started a court of inquiry into the incident," the official said.
Kathua verdict: Prosecution lawyers face abuses from convicts' kin
Prosecution lawyers in the Kathua gangrape-and-murder case were heckled outside the court premises by the family members of the six men convicted on Monday for the ghastly crime. Harminder Singh and Bhupinder Singh, the lawyers for the Jammu and Kashmir CID who secured justice for the eight-year-old girl, faced visibly agitated kin of the accused who hurled abuses at them as they came out from the court of Pathankot District and Sessions Judge Tejwinder Singh. The Punjab police came to their rescue, pushing the crowd aside so that the lawyers could leave safely. After a trial lasting 367 days, the court sentenced to life imprisonment the three main accused while it awarded five years in jail to three others for destruction of evidence. The court complex was heavily fortified as the state police and its special units threw a strong security ring, anticipating incidents of violence and protests, which have been a regular feature in this sensitive case which took political ...
Hope victim's family can 'find justice' in court verdict: Congress on Kathua case
The Congress welcomed the court verdict in the Kathua rape-and-murder case on Monday and hoped that the victim's family would be able to "find justice" in it. A court in Punjab's Pathankot sentenced the three main accused in the gangrape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua to life imprisonment on Monday, while awarding a five-year jail term to three others for destruction of evidence. "We welcome the High Court's judgement in the Kathua rape & murder case (sic)," the Congress wrote on its Twitter handle, adding that it hoped that through the verdict, the girl's family could "find justice". The girl was kidnapped on January 10 last year and gangraped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua after having been kept sedated for four days. She was later bludgeoned to death. The incident led to a countrywide outcry and the trial was held on a day-to-day basis at the district and sessions court in Pathankot. "Glad that 6 of the Kathua ..
History-sheeter teen killed by mob in Maha's Jalna, 9 arrested
A 17-year-old boy with several crime cases against his name died after receiving severe injuries in a beating by a mob in Maharashtra's Jalna district, police said. The minor and his brothers had looted a family in Lohar Mohalla here on June 6 after which the latter, along with friends, ransacked the deceased's house, said Inspector Sanjay Deshmukh of Sadar Bazar police station. "When the deceased came to check on his house on Sunday, he was spotted by a mob which assaulted him. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed to injuries, following which his sister lodged a complaint," he said. Deshmukh said 20 people were booked for the assault on the minor, of which nine people, including two women, have been arrested and remanded in police custody till June 14. "The deceased, his brothers and their father have several cases against their names under IPC, MCOCA and the MaharashtraPreventionofDangerousActivitiesofSlumlords (MPDA). The deceased walked free in these cases as he ..
Pune: 4 Army men, including major, booked for assaulting jawan
Four army personnel, including a major, were booked on charges of attempt to murder and wrongful confinement after a soldier alleged they assaulted him for refusing to drink liquor, police said Monday. A Sanghavi police station official said the incident took place in Aundh military station on June 3. "Jawan Ramesh Mohanrao Bishnoi has filed a complaint that the accused called him to a barrack and offered him liquor. When he refused, they poured alcohol into his mouth and later beat him with a rod," the official said. The official said a case was registered against the major, lieutenant, subedar and naik subedar under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 332 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code. "No arrests have been made so far. We have received a letter from the Aundh military station that they have started a court of inquiry into the incident," the official informed.
Aligarh murder case: DCW chief writes to PM Modi seeking death sentence for accused
Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Swati Maliwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding death sentence for the accused in the rape case of a two-and-a-half-year-girl in Tappal in Aligarh.Earlier, Maliwal re-tweeted the statement of Shilpa Sharma, mother of the deceased Twinkle Sharma who sought the death penalty for accused."Her 2.5-year-old daughter brutally raped & murdered. Eyes gauged out & extreme injury inflicted. Govt arrested culprit but its enough? In a land where Nirbhaya is yet 2 get justice, what hope is 4 the little child? Law of death penalty has been made, yet to be implemented! Sick!" she said.Four persons including the main accused Zahid, his wife, and associate Aslam have been arrested for abducting and killing the girl in a revenge crime over a financial dispute Zahid had with the child's father.The girl's mutilated body was found on June 2 in a garbage dump.Uttar Pradesh Police had constituted a special investigation team ...
Noted gangster arrested in Punjab
The Punjab Police on Monday said it has arrested a noted gangster after an exchange of fire in Nurpurbedi area in Ropar district.
Zardari arrested by NAB in fake accounts case (2nd Lead)
Former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was on Monday arrested by the country's anti-corruption watchdog in a fake bank accounts case.