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Insurance firms can't be liable to pay compensation to those who travel in goods carriers: Madras HC
The Madras High Court Friday held that insurance companies cannot be made liable to pay compensation to accident victims who travel in goods carriers. Justices K K Sasidharan and R Subramanian said that in the light of the categorical pronouncements of the Supreme Court in various accidents, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunals are not right in directing insurance companies to pay the compensation and recover the same from the vehicle owner. The bench gave the ruling while passing orders on a batch of appeals from Bharati AXA General Insurance Company Limited in Bengaluru, challenging a September 23, 2014 order of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal in Dharmapuri, on October 24. On September 1 2011, a 16-member marriage party from Kottapatty village had engaged a goods carrier to go to Soolakurichi to attend the event. On the way back, the van turned turtle, killing some people and injuring others. They moved the tribunal, which in September 2014 awarded various amounts. The tribunal ...
CBI feud: Alok Verma counters corruption charges before CVC panel; Asthana could not get an audience
CBI Director Alok Verma Friday appeared before a panel headed by Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary and countered for the second consecutive day the corruption charges levelled against him by Special Director Rakesh Asthana, who followed him to the office of the anti-corruption watchdog but could not get an audience, officials said. Asthana came to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) office at around 4.45 PM and stayed there for around 10 minutes, but could not meet any senior official as there was no scheduled appointment. Verma is understood to have given point-wise refusal to all the allegations levelled by Asthana before the panel comprising Vigilance Commissioners T M Bhasin and Sharad Kumar, they said. Justice A K Patnaik, a retired Supreme Court judge, who has been asked by the apex court to supervise the CVC inquiry was also present, the officials said. Verma came to the CVC office early Friday morning and stayed there for about an hour, they said. He did not speak
Three blasts, gunfire heard in Somali capital Mogadishu
Three large explosions hit Mogadishu on Friday, sending large plumes of smoke billowing into the air, while volleys of gunfire could also be heard in the Somali capital, according to an AFP reporter. Twin car bombs first went off near two popular hotels as well as the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) police headquarters, followed by gunfire and a third explosion in the same area a while later. "There is an attack going on at the CID area, two car bombs went off and gunfire followed but we don't have details," said police official Ibrahim Mohamed, referring to the initial attack.
Boy falls into septic tank, dies
A three-year-old boy on Friday died after falling into a septic tank in an abandoned house here, police said.
Stray cases of burning of firecrackers reported a day after Diwali
Delhi reported stray incidents of burning of firecrackers a day after Diwali in violation of the Supreme Court order, police said, even as the air quality remained in the "severe" category for the second consecutive day Friday. Police said it can take legal action against the violators of the court directive "but at the end of the day it is also the responsibility of the public to follow the order". Several areas in the national capital, including ITO, Mayur Vihar, Dilshad Garden, Shalimar Bagh and Taimur Nagar, reported incidents of firecracker burning. The Supreme Court had allowed people to burst firecrackers from 8 pm to 10 pm on Diwali. The top court also allowed the manufacture and sale of only "green crackers", which have low emission of light, sound and harmful chemicals. Police said a total of 40 cases were registered on Thursday in north-east district, including five in Dwarka and five in Rohini, and 13 cases were registered in South East district for bursting ...
3-yr-old falls into open pit in Narela, dies
A three-year-old boy died after falling into an open pit in Rohini's Narela area on Friday, police said. The deceased was identified as Dhruv, resident of Narela, they added. The incident took place at around 11 am on Friday morning. Dhruv and his friends were playing near an abandoned building outside which a pit had been dug. Dhruv fell into the tank and died, said Gaurav Sharma, additional deputy commissioner of police (Rohini) said. Dhruv's grandfather was watching him play when the incident took place, Sharma said. The building had been abandoned for the past six to eight months and there was no construction work going on there, Sharma added. The police have registered a case and are looking for the building owner for not covering the tank. There was no fencing around the tank and not even a signboard to warn the public, said another senior officer. Dhruv's father is an e-rickshaw driver and they live in a rented house at Narela. His mother is a homemaker and he had a ...
CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana visits CVC office, could not meet officials
Hours after CBI Director Alok Verma appeared before the Chief Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary-led inquiry panel, Special Director Rakesh Asthana visited the office of the anti-corruption watchdog on Friday, officials said. They said Asthana, who had come to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) office at around 4.45 PM, stayed there for 10 minutes but could not meet any senior official as there was no scheduled appointment. "He could not meet Central Vigilance Commissioner Chowdary or any of the Vigilance Commissioners -- T M Bhasin and Sharad Kumar -- as they, along with other senior officials of the commission, were in a meeting," one of the officials said, requesting anonymity. Asthana had visited the CVC office on Thursday as well and met Chowdary and Vigilance Commissioner Sharad Kumar, the officials said. Earlier in the day, CBI Director Alok Verma appeared before the panel headed by Chowdary and countered the corruption charges levelled against him by Asthana for the ...
Madras High Court dismisses Maran brothers' petitions
In a setback to former Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his elder brother and Sun TV group head Kalanithi Maran, the Madras High Court on Friday dismissed the petitions filed by them to quash charges framed against them in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case.
CCB issues notice to Reddy
A day after conducting searches at his Ballari residence, the Central Crime Branch here Friday issued notice asking mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy, who is absconding, to appear before it on November 11. Reddy is wanted in connection with money transaction amounting to crores of rupees allegedly linked to a ponzi scheme. The central crime branch (CCB) is also hunting for Reddy's close aide Ali Khan, who allegedly struck a Rs 20-crore deal with Syed Ahmed Fareed of Ambidant Marketing Pvt Ltd, a firm accused of involvement in the ponzi scheme, to bail him out of an Enforcement Directorate investigation. Reddy's lawyer C H Hanumantharaya, who earlier moved a city civil court Friday seeking anticipatory bail plea, told reporters that Reddy would take a call Saturday whether to appear before the CCB or not. "The bail plea we had filed was withdrawn after the court asked the prosecution to file their objection by Monday. The court also agreed to hear the victims of the case
3 new members appointed to CBDT
Three IRS officers have been appointed as new members in the CBDT, the policy-making body for the Income Tax (I-T) Department. The officers P K Dash, Akhilesh Ranjan and Neena Kumar, are from the 1982-batch of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and have taken charge of their posts in the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). While Dash was till now serving as the principal chief commissioner of I-T (PCCIT) in Bhopal, Ranjan and Kumar have been serving as the PCCsIT in Delhi. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had issued the order for their appointment on November 6. With the new joinings, the CBDT is now a full house after a long time. The board has a strength of five members and a chairman. The two other members of the CBDT are IRS officers Aditya Vikram and P C Mody while the borad's Chairman is Sushil Chandra. The CBDT frames policy for the I-T Department that is tasked to enforce direct tax laws in the country. It functions under
CCI finds no violation of competition norms in Maharashtra chemists' association case
The Competition Commission has found no evidence of Mumbai-based Retail and Dispensing Chemists Association (RDCA) indulging in anti-competitive practices with respect to charging fee for product information services from pharmaceutical companies. After taking into consideration the report of its investigation arm Director General (DG) and views from various entities, the regulator has ruled that there is "no cogent evidence on record" to suggest that collection of Product Information Services (PIS) charges by the association was mandatory. Generally, PIS is in the nature of a fee charged by chemists and druggists associations for introducing a new product/drug launched by the pharmaceutical companies in their bulletins and newsletters. The CCI also said that implementation of the decision in the present case would be subject to proceedings before the Delhi High Court. After the regulator ordered a detailed probe into the matter on August 25, 2015, the RDCA had moved the Delhi High ...
BSNL Case: Madras HC dismisses Maran brothers' plea to quash charges
In a setback to former Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran, the Madras High Court on Friday dismissed their petitions along with that of three others, seeking quashing of all charges framed against them by a special court in the alleged illegal BSNL telephone exchange case.Justice AD Jagadish Chandira remanded the matter to the special court for framing of charges in accordance with the law. It is worth mentioning that the petitioners had claimed that there were certain errors like framing of common charges against all the accused without any material to substantiate individual involvement in the case and they had sought quashing of chargers against them.Maran brothers and five others were charged with illegally getting over 760 telephone connections when Dayanidhi Maran was the Union Telecom Minister. Earlier in July this year, the Madras High Court had set aside the lower court's order granting acquittal to the Maran brothers. The Central Bureau of
NGT orders probe against industrial unit running in residential area of Wazirpur
The National Green Tribunal has directed the North Delhi Municipal Corporation and Delhi Pollution Control Committee to inquire and take action against an alleged illegal building running industrial activity in its premises in Wazirpur here. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed the municipal corporation and the pollution monitoring body to look into the matter and take appropriate action in accordance with the law. "We direct the North Delhi Municipal Corporation and Delhi Pollution Control Committee to jointly look into the matter and take such steps as may be found necessary in accordance with the law. The Delhi Pollution Control Committee will be the nodal agency," the bench said. The green panel said the report of the steps taken be furnished to it on or before December 15, 2018 by e-mail and posted the matter for consideration in the last week of January 2019. The tribunal's order came while hearing a plea filed by city resident Mohd. Salim ...
Man sentenced for mail bomb, threats to Swedish lawmakers
A Swedish man was convicted of attempted murder Friday for sending a letter bomb to a bitcoin company in London and also convicted of sending threatening letters to lawmakers in Sweden, including government members. The Stockholm District Court sentenced Michael Salonen, 43, to seven years in prison. The court said Salonen mailed a package containing two pipe bomb-like devices in August 2017 to London-based bitcoin company Cryptopay, addressed to two employees. It was sent care of an accounting firm, where it was opened, but the device didn't explode. Salonen's DNA was found by British police on the bomb. The court said Salonen was guilty of 20 counts of threats for including a white powder in letters to lawmakers sent in 2017. Sweden's security service which was involved in the case because it concerned national government members, determined the powder was harmless. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven received a handwritten letter with the text "you will soon be dead" and some powder. The .
Labourer crushed to death under wheels in front of mother
A 45-year-old man, who was alighting from an RTV bus, lost his balance and was crushed under its wheels on Friday here, police said. Mahender, a daily wage labourer, died in front of his mother who was sitting inside the bus, they said. The victim had come to a bus stand near Laxmi Nagar Metro Station in east Delhi to drop his 68-year-old mother. After his mother boarded the RTV bus, he was getting down from the vehicle when he fell from the footboard, said a senior police officer. His head was crushed under the wheels of the bus, he said. A case was registered in the matter on a complaint by his mother, police said. Mahender was declared brought dead at the hospital, said Pankaj Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), adding the bus driver fled the spot after the incident. The accused Rahul (30), however, was later arrested, police added.
Woman's body recovered from well, husband, in-laws booked for murder
The husband and in-laws of a 22-year-old woman were Friday booked for murder after her body was recovered from a well in Jhalawar district of the state, the police said. Bhuribai Bairwa was found floating in the well near Jatamadi village under Asnawar police station, SHO Islam Ali said. A case of murder for dowry was registered against the woman's husband Kailash Bairwa and her in-laws, Ali said, adding that the deceased's body was handed over to her family members after the postmortem examination. Ever since she got married four years ago, she was being tortured for dowry by her husband and in-laws, the members of the woman's family alleged in the police complaint, Ali said. They also claimed that after murdering Bhuribai, her in-laws threw her body into the well, the police officer added.
Prisoners claim not paid for work done for outside agency: HC seeks prison stand
The Delhi High Court has sought to know the stand of the Mandoli prison authorities on a letter sent by some inmates lodged there alleging they were not paid wages for work they did for an electronics firm that came to the jail to hire workers. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao asked the Delhi government's additional standing counsel Gautam Narayan to seek instructions on the issue raised by the inmates and inform the court by the next date of hearing on January 28, 2019. The court also issued notice to the firm, M/s Lord Krishna, and sought its response to the communication sent by six inmates from Central Jail No.14, Mandoli, Delhi. The inmates have claimed in their letter to the high court that they were hired by the firm for cutting LED diffusers and housing for wages of 50 paise per piece. They have alleged in their letter that together they had cut 30,000 pieces for which they were to receive Rs 15,000, but it was not paid to them. The court on its own .
AAP MP files complaint against BJP's Manoj Tiwari
AAP Rajya Sabha member N.D. Gupta on Friday filed a written complaint with the police against BJP's Delhi chief Manoj Tiwari on charges of inciting violence at the inauguration of the Signature Bridge here.
Man held for raping teenage daughter in Maha
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father for three years in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Friday. The accused, 38, a resident of Pasthal village in Palghar was arrested on Thursday, they said. The accused lived with his second wife and the victim, daughter from his first wife, police said. "The accused and his first wife got separated years back and their daughter was living with him," Sarjerao Kumbhar, inspector of Tarapur police station said. "The accused sexually assaulted his daughter on multiple occasions since 2015. He used to threaten the victim against disclosing it to anyone," he said. The girl finally shared her ordeal with her step-mother, who lodged a complaint against the accused after which he was arrested. The accused was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) and also under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, they said.
SC asks Goa court to hold hearing in Tarun Tejpal's rape case
New Delhi (India), Nov 9 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday asked a trial court in Goa, which is hearing a rape case against former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal, to put the trial on hold until the top court hears the matter on November 27.The decision was taken by a bench headed by Justice AK Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan who has put the trial on hold till November 27.Earlier on October 4, the apex court had asked the trial court in Mapusa town of Goa not to proceed with the hearing of the case till October 31."An interim order dated October 4, 2018, would continue till the next date of hearing," the Bench said.Tejpal was accused of rape by one of his junior colleagues on November 7, 2013. Tejpal allegedly sexually assaulted the complainant in the elevator of the Grand Hyatt in Panaji, where Tehelka was holding its annual Think Fest.The trial court had charged Tejpal with rape, sexual harassment and wrongful restraint to which he had pleaded not guilty.Tejpal had challenged the trial