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Supreme Court rejects net neutrality appeal
The Supreme Court has ended the court fight over repealed Obama-era "net neutrality" rules that required internet providers to treat all online traffic equally. The court on Monday rejected appeals from the telecommunications industry seeking to throw out a lower court ruling in favour of the "net neutrality" rules. The Federal Communications Commission under President Donald Trump has rolled back the rules, but the industry also wanted to wipe the court ruling off the books. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have granted the industry's request. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh took no part in the case without offering any reason. Kavanaugh ruled on the issue while an appeals court judge and Roberts has an investment portfolio that includes telecommunications companies.
2 arrested, juvenile apprehended for cheating people through Paytm: Police
Two men were arrested and a juvenile was apprehended for allegedly cheating people through Paytm, police said Monday. The accused were Islamuddin alias Mustkeem (20), Wasim alias Ansar (26), both residents of Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh, and a juvenile, they added. According to the police, on October 26, Vishesh Aggarwal, who ran a hardware shop in the Bharat Nagar area here, filed a complaint at the New Friends Colony police station regarding two fraudulent transactions from his Paytm account of Rs 12,999 and Rs 1,799 respectively, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said in a statement. Aggarwal alleged that on October 22, he received a call from a man, who wished to buy some hardware from his shop. He asked for Aggarwal's Paytm account details and subsequently, the two fraudulent transactions took place, the DCP said. During investigation, the police found that the accused had bought a mobile phone after transferring the money from the victim's Paytm ...
FIR against Union minister Rajen Gohain, 5 others for making
Police registered an FIR against Union minister Rajen Gohain and five other political leaders Monday for allegedly making provocative statements to divide two communities in Assam in connection with the Tinsukia killings. The police said a complaint was filed by Inamul Haque Laskar, general secretary of Ex-ULFA United Platform, Barak, at Silchar Sadar police station. Besides Gohain, the Minister of State for Railways, the FIR was lodged against BJP MLA Shiladitya Dev, party leader Pradeep Dutta Rai, Congress MP Sushmita Dev, party MLA Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha and Chandan Sarkar. No specific statement was cited in the FIR against them, but it was alleged that they had given such statements on many occasions. Suspected militants in battle fatigue had shot dead five Bengali-speaking people, including three members of a family, beside a bridge near Kheronibari village on Thursday night. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Friday blamed inflammatory speeches by individuals and ...
Assam killings: BJP issues legal notice against Bengal Trinamool leader
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday issued a legal notice against Trinamool Congress MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee for blaming the saffron outfit for the killing of five Bengalis in Assam's Tinsukia and warned him of further legal action, a senior state BJP leader said.
Kolkata woman burnt for dowry, extra-marital affair; 3 held
A 22-year-old woman in Kolkata's Baguiati area sought justice before succumbing to burn injuries, after which her husband and two others have been arrested, police said on Monday.
Undertrial who escaped from court premises held
A 35-year-old undertrial prisoner who had last week escaped from the premises of a court in south Mumbai, was Monday arrested in suburban Andheri, the police said. The accused Yogesh Darji had given police the slip after he was produced in the court on November 3 in connection with a cheating case registered against him in September last year, a police official said. He was then lodged in the Thane Central prison, he said. Darji was booked under section 224 (Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), he said.
BJP leaders take up assault on Tiwari with police
A day after a scuffle broke out between AAP legislator Amanatullah Khan and Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari during the inauguration of Signature Bridge, BJP workers on Monday filed complaints with Delhi Police against Khan for assaulting and causing physical hurt to its party MP.
Ex-Wall Street banker's insider trading conviction overturned
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court on Monday overturned the insider trading conviction of a former Wall Street investment banker accused of passing tips about five mergers in the healthcare industry to his father, and ordered a new trial.
Activists unhappy with SC's Aadhaar Act order on social benefits
About 170 members of various campaigns working with vulnerable groups on Monday expressed disappointment with the Supreme Court's September 20 order of upholding parts of the Aadhaar Act allowing the state to make the use of Aadhaar and biometric authentication mandatory for citizens to receive social benefits.
Three policemen accused of taking Rs 20 lakh dismissed
Three policemen, who allegedly took away Rs 20 lakh in cash from an employee of a jewellery store under the pretext of checking the source of money, have been dismissed from service, a police official said here Monday. The three - two head constables and a constable - were suspended last year after they took the cash from the staff of the store and hid the cash in a bush, the police said. The accused, manning a checkpost here, had questioned the employee after intercepting a bus in which he was travelling and sought documents for the source of the money before taking it away, they said. The three were dismissed after a departmental inquiry, a police official here told PTI. The cash was recovered by the police.
Police seize 3,500 kg firecrackers in Delhi; 26 arrested
The Delhi Police has seized over 3,500 kg of firecrackers from various parts of the city since October 23 and arrested 26 persons for storing them without license. The police have also registered 29 cases following the Supreme Court order on sale of old firecrackers, a senior police official said Monday. Two days before Diwali, the national capital recorded its worst air quality of the season on Monday, with the pollution levels inching towards "severe plus emergency" category due to a change in wind direction and rampant stubble burning in neighbouring states. Authorities predict the air quality to worsen during Diwali as they say burning firecrackers will spike air pollution to 'very severe' levels. According to police, 3,847 kg of firecrackers have been seized from various parts of the city. The police seized 1,045 kg firecrackers from Shahdara, 1,688 kg from west Delhi, 659 kg from north Delhi, 227 kg from east Delhi, 72 kg from south-east Delhi, 96 packets from outer Delhi, 54 kg
Maha: Newly-elected sugar factory head shoots self in Pune
The head of a cooperative sugar factory here allegedly committed suicide Monday afternoon by shooting himself with a revolver, police said. Pradip Nimbalkar, who was elected chairperson of Shri Chhatrapati Cooperative Sugar Factory on October 31, was declared dead on arrival after being rushed with a bullet injury from his residence in Sansar area of Indapur tehsil here to a hospital in Baramati, an official said. The official said that a suicide note, which was yet to be verified, had been found at the scene of incident. "The incident took place around 2.30 pm on Monday at his residence. Upon hearing a bullet shot, family members ran towards a first floor room in the house and found Nimbalkar in a pool of blood," the official said.
Three-year-old girl's throat slit in tantric ritual
In what is suspected to be a macabre tantric ritual, the body of a three-year-old girl was found with her throat slit in a village in the district, the police said Monday. A woman allegedly practising witchcraft has been arrested, police said. Chinnappillai took the girl, who was playing in front of her house at Kurumpatti, into the forest and allegedly killed her believing that a child sacrifice would increase her tantric power, they said. She was produced before a court which remanded her in judicial custody. The child went missing on October 25 and her parents found her body with the throat slit, but the jewels intact, police sources said. Chinnappillai, on suspicion, was interrogated and she confessed to the crime, they added.
CBI denies questioning Assam minister Sarma in bribery case
The CBI denied Monday reports that it has questioned Assam minister Himant Biswa Sarma in connection with its probe into the multi-crore Louis Berger bribery scam case. CBI Spokesperson R K Gaur dismissed reports that Sarma was questioned by the agency in connection with the case as reported by some news organisations. No such questioning has taken place as reported in a section of the media, Gaur said. In its order on September 1, 2017, the Gauhati High Court had asked the CBI to take over the probe, saying the state police's investigation was not satisfactory. It is alleged that US-based Louis Berger had adopted illegal means for obtaining three water supply projects in Goa and Guwahati. Unidentified officials of the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority, the US-based multinational company, Louis Berger International, and the Assam government have been booked on charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption, according to the CBI FIR.
SP transferred in Tinsukia killing case, opposition leader for judicial probe
Four days after the killing of five persons in Tinsukia district, the Assam government Monday transferred Sadiya police district SP Prasanta Sagar Changmai with immediate effect. Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia of the Congress demanded a judicial probe into the killings "In the interest of public service, Prasanta Sagar Changmai, Superintendent of Police, Sadiya, is transferred," an official notification of the Home Department said. Changmai and Debojit Deuri, Commandant of the 24th AP(IR)Bn at Charaimari in Baksa, would exchange their places of posting, according to the notification. Suspected militants in battle fatigue shot dead five Bengali-speaking persons, including three members of a family, beside a bridge near Kheronibari village Thursday night. The village falls under the Sadiya police district. Meanwhile, Saikia demanded a judicial probe into the killings, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led state government was using the administrative machinery to create ...
#MeToo: Assam policewoman accuses IPS officer of sexual
A senior Assam police official is the latest to be caught in the ongoing #MeToo storm after he was accused of sexually harassing his junior colleague. Majuli (HQ) Additional Superintendent of Police Leena Doley has charged Additional Director General (Law and Order) Mukesh Agarwal with sexual misconduct six years back. Agarwal could not be contacted for his reaction. "I am a survivor of sexual harassment at the workplace. In the March of 2012, one of my seniors, Mukesh Agrawal, IPS, then IGP (Logistics), offered to take me on a holiday with him for the efficient work I had done," Doley wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. The police officer said she had refused and informed the DGP about it. "Anyway, a lot transpired after that - my written complaint against Mukesh Agrawal, IPS, IGP (L), Assam, now ADGP (L&O), Assam, Guwahati," she said. Doley's husband had committed suicide around six months after the complaint was lodged. "Following which, the Inquiry Officer, Ms. Emily ...
Woman disrobed, beaten up by relatives in Rajasthan
A married woman was reportedly disrobed, beaten and spat in her face by her maternal relatives in Rajasthan's Udaipur district when she demanded back the money which she had lent them, police said Monday. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media. The incident took place on October 11 when the woman went to her maternal uncle Kishan Lal to get back Rs 2 lakh. An FIR was registered in the case following a complaint by the victim woman on October 20, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Amba Mata police station, Narayan Singh said. Lal, his wife Meera Bai, their daughters Deepika and Jyoti and sons Kuldeep and Vishu have been booked, he said. The matter is being probed, police added.
Frenchman linked to Sarkozy probe faces January UK extradition hearing
A key figure arrested in Britain as part of a campaign finance probe in France into former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday had his extradition hearing set for January. French investigators want to question Alexandre Djouhri over the alleged illegal financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign by former Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. Djouhri will face a four-day hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in London from January 21 to 24. His lawyers sought to have his bail conditions eased but judge Vanessa Baraitser, hearing the case at the court, refused. Djouhri was excused attendance for the 40-minute case management hearing. The extradition hearing will be the next time that the case appears before the court. Outstanding defence evidence must be submitted by November 16, with the French authorities to respond by December 7 and all the documents in the case to be brought together by December 14. Five witnesses were being lined up to give evidence in Djouhri's
2508 kg firecrackers seized by Delhi Police, 15 arrested
The Delhi Police have seized over 2,500kg of banned firecrackers from West Delhi, North Delhi, East Delhi and South Delhi respectively and arrested 15 people, following the Supreme Court's order that allowed the sale and use of only "green" and "low emission" firecrackers in Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR).According to police, 1688kg of firecrackers were seized from West Delhi, 660kg seized from North Delhi, 150kg from East Delhi and 10kg from South Delhi.A total of 18 cases have been registered, the police said.These seizures have been made from November 1 till yesterday night.On Saturday, the Delhi police arrested a person for allegedly possessing firecrackers and explosive items weighing 625 kg without any license.The accused, Ravinder, a resident of South Ganesh Nagar in Laxmi Nagar area, was arrested for stocking old firecrackers and explosive items in his shop located in the Sadar Bazaar area of the national capital, despite a Supreme Court ban on selling and burning of old .
All in just 20 hours: Asian couple stole diamond in Dubai, nabbed at Delhi airport
Dubai Police have recovered a diamond worth AED 300,000 (about 81,673 US dollars) just 20 hours after it was stolen by an Asian couple.The 3.27 carat gem was recovered after being stolen by the couple from a jewellery shop in Naif area. They left the country before being caught in India after Dubai Police alerted the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and Indian authorities and brought them back to Dubai.Though the owner of the shop found out about the missing diamond and informed the police about three hours after the incident, the police managed to recover the gem within 20 hours in cooperation with the Indian authorities."The couple was identified in a short time and arrested in transit area in India as they were trying to smuggle the diamond to their home country," Major-General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, the commander-in-chief of Dubai Police, said. He praised the work of his officers at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) who recovered the gem in such .