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SC says CVC report on CBI chief 'v uncomplimentary' in part, gives him till Monday to respond
The CVC's "exhaustive" preliminary report on allegations against CBI Director Alok Verma concludes that some findings are "complimentary" and some "very uncomplimentary", needing further investigation by the panel, the Supreme Court said Friday. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi ordered that the confidential Central Vigilance Commission report be given to Verma in a sealed cover and asked him to respond to it by Monday, also in a sealed cover. It will take up the matter on Tuesday. Verma would respond to the CVC report as soon as possible and would file his reply on November 19, his lawyer, Fali S Nariman, told the bench. "Once we will have your (Verma) response, we will take a decision," the CJI said. The top court was hearing Verma's plea challenging the government's order divesting him of his duties and sending him on leave in view of allegations of corruption against him. The allegations were levelled by his deputy Asthana, against whom the CBI has filed an FIR on ...
Three 'RTI activists' held for extortion
Three men claiming to be RTI activists, were arrested for allegedly extorting a builder at Dombivli in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Friday. Two of the arrested accused are brothers, police said adding that they had asked the victim to either pay Rs 30 lakh to them or allot three flats in his housing project. The Anti Extortion Cell (AEC) of the crime branch of Thane police made the arrest on Thursday morning. According to police, with their arrest, the total number of self-proclaimed RTI activists held for allegedly extorting builders has gone up to eight within a month. The trio was identified as Vasant Joshi (46), Vinod Gangaram Joshi (35) and Kalpesh Gangaram Joshi (29), they said. As per the complaint lodged by the builder, the trio had been harassing him since 2017. They filed an RTI query with the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) about one his housing projects in Dombivli. "They demanded Rs 30 lakh from him in lieu of withdrawing the ...
Motor vehicle inspector arrested for possessing
A junior motor vehicle inspector has been arrested by anti-graft vigilance wing in Bhadrak district of Odisha for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The motor vehicle inspector, Shankar Narayan Choudhury, was arrested from the RTO office in Bhadrak on Thursday after search operations carried out in his office room and houses showed that he had amassed huge properties beyond his known income sources, a vigilance official said. The raids were carried out in a building owned by him in Bhubaneswar, another building in Cuttack, office room at Bhadrak, rented house at Bhadrak and houses of his two relatives at Burla and Bhubaneswar on Wednesday on the basis of search warrants issued by a special court, he said. During the exercise, Choudhury was found to have assets worth Rs 1.76 crore including buildings in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, seven homestead plots in Bhubaneswar, Rs 13,03,000 in cash, a car, a motor cycle, bank deposits, gold ..
N. Korea to expel US citizen who 'illegally entered' country: KCNA
North Korea has decided to expel a US citizen who illegally entered the country last month, Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency said Friday. The man, identified as Lawrence Bruce Byron, had been in custody after crossing into North Korea from China on October 16, it said. "While being questioned, he said he had illegally entered the country under the command of the US Central Intelligence Agency", KCNA said. "Relevant authorities have decided to expel him from the country", it added. A man with the same name was arrested in South Korea while trying to sneak over the inter-Korean border in November last year. Byron, who is in his late 50s and from Louisiana, was later deported back to the US. Media reports said he told South Korean officials he sought to facilitate talks between North Korea and the United States, although he is a private citizen.
Board of Arshiya withdraws proposal for preferential issue of warrants
At meeting held on 16 November 2018
CVC report on CBI Director has some 'very uncomplimentary' findings: SC
The Supreme Court Friday said the CVC's "exhaustive" preliminary report on allegations against CBI Director Alok Verma has concluded that some findings are "complimentary" and some "very uncomplimentary", needing further investigation by the panel. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi ordered that the confidential Central Vigilance Commission report be given to Verma in a sealed cover and asked him to respond to it by Monday, also in a sealed cover. It will take up the matter on Tuesday. The bench, also comprising Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, said the CVC inquiry, which was being supervised by former apex court judge Justice A K Patnaik, has given an exhaustive report on the various charges against Verma. "CVC has filed an exhaustive report. The report has been categorised and is very complimentary on some charges, not so complimentary some charges and very uncomplimentary on some charges. CVC report says some charges are required to be investigated and they need time," ..
Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling
Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide on Friday, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the deaths of a quarter of the population. The Khmer Rouge's former head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, and "Brother Number 2" Nuon Chea, 92, are the two most senior living members of the ultra-Maoist group that seized control of Cambodia from 1975-1979. The reign of terror led by "Brother Number 1" Pol Pot left some two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions but Friday's ruling was the first to acknowledge a genocide. The defendants were previously handed life sentences in 2014 over the violent and forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975. But Friday's judgement at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) also found Nuon Chea guilty of genocide against the ethnic Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minority group, among a litany of other crimes. "The chamber finds .
Retired govt official found dead with bullet wounds in Palghar
A 72-year-old retired government official was Wednesday found dead with bullet injuries in his bungalow in neighbouring Palghar's Maswan locality, police said Friday. Police identified the victim as Pandarinath Sankhe, a retired Tehsildar of Vasai. "Four bullet wounds were found on the temple of the victim. He had just come back from a morning walk on Wednesday. His wife and security guard heard gunshots and rushed in to see the victim lying in a pool of blood. A licenced revolver was lying close to him," a Manor police station official said. Sankhe was declared dead on arrival by local hospital authorities, the official said, adding that the body had been sent to state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai for autopsy. A case of accidental death has been registered for the moment but police are not ruling out any possibility, he added.
SP leader commits suicide
A Samajwadi Party leader allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself after an altercation with wife, police said Friday. Sanjay alias Sheebu (32), a district panchayat member, shot himself with his licensed pistol at his residence in Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh. Sheebu is the son of former MLA Shabbir Ahmad. The body has been sent for postmortem, they said.
Maha: Three booked for kidnapping minor in Bhiwandi
Three persons have been booked for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old girl for marriage from Bhiwandi in the district, police said Friday. Thane police PRO Sukhada Narkar identified the accused as Bijjo Rais Khan, his sister Chandini Ansari and her husband Hayder Ansari. "The accused, who were in Bhiwandi for a marriage function on November 9, stayed for the night at the complainant's house. In the morning the accused and the complainant's daughter were missing," a Thane police official said. After a frantic search, the complainant managed to get through to the accused on phone and was informed that his daughter was with them and they intended to get her married to accused Bijjo Rais Khan, the official said. A case has been registered and efforts were on to nab the accused, the official added.
J K Simmons to star in 'Veronica Mars' revival
Veteran actor J K Simmons has joined the cast of Hulu's "Veronica Mars" revival. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Simmons will play an ex-con named Clyde Prickett in the series. Clyde served 10 years for racketeering and was the first inmate in Chino to offer protection to Neptune real estate developer Big Dick Casablancas (David Starzyk) when he entered the prison. After getting free Clyde started working as the elder Casablancas' fixer. He is the smarter and more dangerous of the two and has a network of fellow ex-cons he uses to do his dirty work. The eight-episode Hulu series also features Dawnn Lewis, Patton Oswalt, Clifton Collins Jr and Izabela Vidovic. Series veterans Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Jason Dohring, Percy Daggs III, Francis Capra, Ryan Hansen, Max Greenfield and Daran Norris are all returning. The new season revolves around a series of murders among spring break partiers in Neptune. The family of one victim asks Veronica (Bell) to look into the case, ...
Julian Assange charged in US: WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was behind a massive dump of classified US documents in 2010, has been charged in the United States, WikiLeaks said Thursday night. Prosecutors revealed the existence of the sealed indictment inadvertently in a court filing in an unrelated case, WikiLeaks said. The exact nature of the charges against Assange was not immediately known.
Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide by Cambodia tribunal
Two of the Khmer Rouges top leaders on Friday were found guilty of genocide at a tribunal here.
Thane Rural cops book Heera Group MD for cheating investors
A woman arrested earlier by Mumbai police for allegedly duping investors to the tune of Rs 300 crore has been charged with similar offences in neighbouring Thane as well, police said Friday. Nowhera Shaikh, managing director of Heera Group, which had floated several investment schemes claiming they were compliant with Islamic principles of finance, was arrested by Mumbai police's Economic Offences Wing on October 26 for allegedly duping investors of Rs 300 crore. Shaikh was first arrested by Hyderabad police on October 17 after several investors there filed complaints of cheating against her group. After she was released on bail by a court, a team of Mumbai EOW took her in custody. Thane Rural police spokesperson Yuvraj Kalkutage Friday said that 40 investors here had accused Shaikh of cheating them of Rs 4.12 crore. A case of cheating and other offences has been registered at Kashimira police station against Shaikh and some employees of her firm, Kalkutage said. He told
El Chapo bribed Interpol, Mexican officials to keep drugs flowing, informant says
Drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman paid huge bribes to Mexican prosecutors, police, military and even Interpol to ensure smooth operations for his Sinaloa cartel, a key informant said at his US trial on Thursday. Jesus "El Rey" Zambada, brother of the cartel's co-head, the still-at-large Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, detailed the eye-watering costs of protecting cocaine shipments that originated in Colombia and travelled to the US via Mexico -- with payments amounting to USD 300,000 per month in Mexico City alone. Zambada, who worked for the cartel from 1987 until his arrest in 2008, was returning to the witness stand on the third day of a trial expected to last about four months. He told the court that as the head of the organization's operations in the capital city, he personally paid bribes to the attorney general's office, the federal highway police that also operates bridges and airports, federal, state and local police forces, and "Interpol, as well." "The bribes for officials in .
Ramdev backs demand for implementation of Ram temple ordinance
Yog guru Ramdev has favoured taking the ordinance route in case of further delays in the construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya by calling it "statutory".Ramdev said the Supreme Court is delaying the Ayodhya matter, adding that there is a need to bring an ordinance in the Parliament for the early construction of Ram Temple."The Supreme Court is delaying the matter. No hope is seen from that (SC) side. Only one option is left, that is to bring an ordinance in the Parliament to start construction of the temple. The process is statutory. If the temple was built without the Supreme Court's order or ordinance in the Parliament, then, the chances would be there that the law and order will get disrupted," he said.On October 29, the Yog guru had said that people were losing their patience due to the delay in the construction of the temple."People are losing their patience due to delay on the issue of Ram Temple by the Supreme Court. In a democracy, the Parliament is supreme. An ordinance ...
Saudi FM denies crown prince's link to Khashoggi case
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir on Thursday insisted that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "absolutely" had nothing to do with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Khmer Rouge leaders to face genocide verdict for first time
Two senior leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime face a verdict Friday on genocide charges, in a ruling that experts say will bring down the curtain on the troubled UN-backed tribunal's quest for justice. The Khmer Rouge's former head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, and "Brother Number 2" Nuon Chea, 92, are the two most senior living members of the ultra-Maoist group that seized control of Cambodia from 1975-1979. The reign of terror led by "Brother Number 1" Pol Pot left around two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions. The two defendants were previously handed life sentences in 2014 over the violent and forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975. But Friday's judgement at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) will decide whether the pair are guilty of overseeing genocide against ethnic Vietnamese and the Cham Muslim minority, as well as a host of other crimes. "The verdict is essentially the Nuremberg judgement for the ECCC and
Saudi investigation reveals Khashoggi murdered with 'overdose'
Saudi Arabia's Public Prosecution revealed Thursday that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered with "overdose" of a drug injected by a group of Saudi agents.
Putin critic claims victory after rights court condemns arrests
Europe's top rights court condemned Russia on Thursday over a series of arrests of the outspoken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, calling them "politically motivated" attempts to curtail opposition to President Vladimir Putin's government. Judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said seven arrests between 2012 and 2014 had violated Navalny's rights to security, a fair trial and the freedom of assembly. Each time the anti-corruption campaigner was detained and later convicted of either breaching procedures for holding public demonstrations or disobeying a police order. In two of the arrests, the court ruled that "they had actually aimed at suppressing political pluralism". "It is a very clear judgment," Navalny said after the ruling in Strasbourg, where he managed to arrive Wednesday after Russian border guards prevented him from flying out of Moscow the day before. The agents said he could not leave until he paid a fine of 2.1 million rubles (28,000 euros, $31,600) ...