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Patel takes oath as Chief Justice of Delhi HC
Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Friday. Lt Governor Anil Baijal administered the oath of office to Justice Patel at a function held at Raj Niwas here. Earlier, Justice Patel was posted at the Jharkhand High Court. The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended his name for the appointment as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and cabinet colleagues, senior members of the judiciary, officers of the Delhi government and other officials were present at the ceremony. With an approved strength of 60, the Delhi High Court has a shortage of around 24 judges.
Why helmet rule not enforced in Chennai, asks HC
The Madras High Court asked why the compulsory helmet rule for both rider and pillion could not be implemented here while the same was successfully enforced in cities like Delhi and Bengaluru. "We have not seen a single pillion rider wearing helmet," a division bench of Justice S Manikumar and Justice Subramonium Prasad observed. The bench made the observation Thursday while hearing a plea moved by K K Rajendran seeking to implement the compulsory helmet rule both for rider and pillion. When the PIL came up for hearing, the court insisted that authorities must take stringent action against the violators by imposing heavy penalty and impounding the vehicles. To this, additional advocate general Aravind Pandian said as per the Motor Vehicles Act, only Rs 100 can be levied as penalty for violation of helmet rule. As to impounding vehicles, the First Bench of the court has already passed appropriate directions to impound vehicles for violation of the helmet rule. Such impounded vehicles ..
Aligarh minor-girl murder: Victim's mother urges PM Modi, Yogi to hang the accused
Shilpa Sharma, mother of the two-year-old Twinkle, who was brutally murdered in Aligarh, on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to serve justice to her daughter by hanging the accused.The body of the girl was found in a garbage dump on Sunday. Two persons, Zahid and Aslam, have been arrested for killing the child in Tappal area of the city. Police said that on June 5 the girl was abducted and killed in a revenge crime over a financial dispute her father had with Zahid. A postmortem was conducted under the supervision of a three-doctor team which confirmed that she was strangulated but ruled out the possibility of rape, the police said."The girl went missing on May 30 from our relative's home. We searched every street in the area, but could not find her. Later, we got to know about her on May 2. The sweepers told us about the body when we saw it, then we got to know that it was our child. When we saw the body, one of her hand was ..
Fmr Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar deposes before CBI
Former commissioner of Kolkata Police Rajeev Kumar Friday appeared before the CBI in connection with the multi-crore Saradha scam, that left thousands of small investors in the lurch. Kumar, who is presently the additional director general of police in the CID, reached the CBI office in the morning to face questioning by the agency officials for the second time, sources in the agency said. In February, Kumar had been interrogated by CBI officials in Shillong under directions of the Supreme Court which had asked him to cooperate with the probing agency. The senior police officer was heading the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of West Bengal Police before the Central Bureau of Investigation took over the case. The premier investigative agency had last month issued a lookout notice against Kumar and directed all airports and immigration authorities to alert it if they spot him leaving the country. Kumar, who recently moved the Calcutta High Court seeking quashing of the CBI notice ...
Para commando shoots self in J&K's Shopian
An Army paratrooper committed suicide on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police said.
Defamation case: Court grants bail to 3 AAP leaders, directs Kejriwal to appear in next hearing
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to three AAP leaders and directed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it on July 16 in a defamation case filed by local BJP leader Rajiv Babbar over their alleged remarks on tampering of voters' list by BJP.AAP leaders -- Sushil Gupta, Manoj Kumar and Atishi Marlena, who appeared before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Samar Vishal, were granted bail by the court on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 each.The court also allowed the application of Kejriwal for exemption from personal appearance for today, as he had to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Justice D N Patel as the Chief justice of the Delhi High Court and later a meeting of the Delhi Jal Board.In the defamation case, Babbar has alleged that the four AAP leaders harmed the reputation of BJP by blaming it for "deletion of the names of voters" from the electoral list in the national capital.According to Babbar, they had stated that 30 lakh names of "Poorvanchalis, ...
Dead body of a man found in a servants' quarter in South Avenue
The dead body of a 50-year old person was found in a servants' quarter at Delhi's South Avenue area, which houses residences of Members of Parliament, police said Friday. Police said the incident took place on Thursday night and stab wounds were found on the body of the deceased, police said. The deceased was the husband of a servant who lives in the servant quarters at South Avenue, a senior police officer said. Further details are awaited, they added.
NRC: Centre sets ball rolling for missing persons to approach foreigners tribunals
With the final list of the NRC getting ready to be published in less than two months, the Centre has set the ball rolling for those whose names are missing to approach the foreigners tribunals. The tribunals will deliver their verdict within four months of missing persons submitting their records. Exercising its powers conferred by the Foreigners Act, 1946, the central government has issued an order saying a person whose name is not part of the National Register of Citizens, currently being updated in Assam, can approach any such tribunal with a certified copy of the rejection order received from the NRC authorities along with the grounds for appeal. The order was uploaded on the website of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday night. "The final order of the tribunal shall contain its opinion on the matter whether the Appellant is eligible for inclusion in the NRC or not. It shall also contain the opinion of the tribunal on the reference of the District Magistrate. The ...
Court reserves order on Indrani Mukerjee's plea to turn approver in INX media case
A Delhi court on Friday reserved its order on a plea filed by Indrani Mukerjea seeking permission to turn approver in the INX media case in which former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram are facing a probe.Special CBI Judge Arun Bhardwaj, after hearing arguments of lawyers appearing for CBI and Indrani Mukerjea, posted the matter for hearing to July 4.Last year, Indrani, who is the former head of INX Media, after giving a confessional statement in the court in connection with the INX Media case, filed a plea seeking to become an approver in the case.She is currently lodged in the Byculla jail in Mumbai in connection with the murder case of her daughter Sheena Bora.CBI had earlier submitted that it has come across evidence in the form of conversations which only Indrani Mukerjea is privy to and will help consolidate the case.On May 15, 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered an FIR in the case alleging irregularities in the Foreign ...
Malegaon blast accused Pragya appears in NIA court in Mumbai
Newly elected BJP MP and 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case accused Pragya Singh Thakur Friday appeared before a special court here. It was Thakur's first appearance before the NIA court, which is conducting trial in the 11-year-old case, after being elected to Lok Sabha from Bhopal last month. The last time she had shown up in the court was during framing of charges in the case in October last year. Special NIA Judge V S Padalkar last month directed all the accused, including Thakur, to appear before the court at least once a week. The judge then said an exemption from appearance would be granted only if cogent reasons were submitted. On Monday, the special court rejected application of Thakur, who defeated Congress veteran Digvijay Singh from Bhopal, for exemption from appearance in the court this week. The 49-year-old Hindutva activist had sought the exemption for completing formalities relating to her election to Parliament, but the court said her presence is necessary at this stage in
Rahul, Priyanka condemn toddler's murder in UP
Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday condemned the brutal killing of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district and demanded strict action against the accused.
Aligarh accused to be booked under NSA, fast-tracked in court
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to book the two accused in the murder of a two-and-a-half year old girl here under the National Security Act (NSA) and transfer the case to a fast track court.
Man found killed at Akola railway station
An unidentified man was found killed at the Akola railway station here in eastern Maharashtra, the Railway Police said Friday. The body of the man, who appeared to be aged 30 to 35 years, was found on platform number 4 Friday morning, they said. A person, who is said to be mentally challenged, has been arrested in connection with the incident, the police said. It appears the victim, whose identity is yet to be established, was attacked with a sharp-edged weapon Thursday night, they said. Further investigation was underway, the police added.
Rahul, Priyanka express shock over killing of Aligarh child, demand action
Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday expressed shock at the horrific killing of a three-year-old girl in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh and demanded swift action against the killers. He wondered how any human being can treat a child so brutally and said such a crime should not go unpunished. "The horrific murder of a little girl in Aligarh, UP has shocked and disturbed me. How can any human being treat a child with such brutality? This terrible crime must not go unpunished. The UP police must act swiftly to bring the killers to justice," he said on Twitter. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also took to Twitter to condemn the inhuman crime. "The brutal murder in Aligarh is yet another inhuman, unspeakable crime against an innocent child. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain her parents must feel. What has become of us," she asked. She said she has been shaken and wondered what kind of society is being made. She demanded the strongest punishment for this crime. Aligarh ...
UP: Woman commits suicide after being thrashed by husband
A women allegedly immolated herself after being beaten by her husband in an inebriated state, police said Friday. The incident took place in Kharauli village in Kamasin area, they said. As the victim Gaura (30) was being physically assaulted, someone informed the police which reached the spot and tried to control the situation. However, the woman entered the house and set herself alight. She was taken to the hospital but was declared dead, they said. Police has detained the husband of the victim and is probing the matter.
Motorcycle collides with private bus; four killed
Four men were killed when the motorcycle they were riding on collided with a passenger bus near here in Chhattisgarh, police said Friday. The incident occurred Thursday night on a bridge near Pampshala village, under the Farsabahar police station area of Jashpur district, when the victims were returning after attending a marriage, a local police official said. Their motorcycle collided head-on with the private passenger bus ahead of the village, leaving all of them dead on the spot, he added. The deceased were identified as Sawan Sai, Pramod Sai, natives of nearby Pandripani village, and Dipak Yadav and Suresh were, who hailed from Pampshala, he said. The bodies were sent to a local hospital for post- mortem, the official said. A case has been registered against the bus driver who has been arrested, he said. The bus involved in the mishap has also been seized, the official added.
Delhi: 2 gangsters held after brief exchange of fire
Two gangsters were arrested in the national capital after a brief exchange of fire with the Special Cell on Friday in Jahangirpuri area, an official said.During the firing, one of the gangsters named Salman Munna sustained an injury during the gun-battle with the forces. He was immediately rushed to Babu Jagjiwan Ram Hospital.The incident took place in the wee hours of Friday.The police informed that they have recovered two semi-automatic pistols of .32 bore with 5 live cartridges along with one Apache motorcycle from the gangsters.The authorities further told media that Salman was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh while Nazim was carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on their arrest.Both the accused have been booked in many cases at various police stations in and around Delhi.
Tunisian-German couple in court over 'ricin attack plot'
A Tunisian man and his German wife will stand trial from Friday, charged with planning a foiled biological bomb attack in Germany with the deadly poison ricin. Sief Allah H., 30, and his wife Yasmin, 43, were arrested a year ago by an anti-terrorist squad that found 84 milligrams of the toxin in their Cologne apartment. The arrests likely prevented what would have been Germany's first biological attack, said Holger Muench, head of the BKA Federal Criminal Police Office, at the time. Federal prosecutors said the couple had "for a long time identified with the aims and values of the foreign terrorist organisation Islamic State". They decided in 2017 to detonate an explosive in a large crowd, "to kill and wound the largest possible number of people," said prosecutors ahead of the trial in Duesseldorf. The pair had allegedly researched various forms of explosives before deciding on the deadly poison. They ordered 3,300 castor beans over the internet and successfully made a small amount of
Order reserved on Indrani Mukerjea's approver plea
A Delhi court on Friday reserved order on the plea of former INX Media director Indrani Mukerjea seeking to become an approver in the case.
Mumbai cricketer hacked to death
A cricketer-cum-coach from Bhandup was attacked with choppers near a petrol pump shortly before midnight, police said here on Friday.