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Pune MLA tries to touch feet of man who filed extortion FIR
A video of a Maharashtra BJP MLA purportedly trying to touch the feet of a man who had filed an FIR against him for extortion was displayed here Tuesday. The complainant Ravindra Barate had on October 12 lodged an FIR against Yogesh Tilekar, the MLA from Hadapsar in Pune, his brother Chetan and one Ganesh Kamthe under IPC section 385 (extortion) for allegedly demanding Rs 50 lakh from a firm to allow it to lay optical fibre cables for internet in an area in Hadapsar. While addressing a press conference Tuesday, Barate claimed he had approached Kondhwa police station with a complaint application against Tileker and two others on September 8. "On September 12, Tilekar was called by Kondhwa police station for enquiry, however, instead of going to the police station, he along with a common friend, met me at a restaurant, where he apologised with folded hands and tried to touch my feet for his 'wrongdoings'," claimed Barate. Barate said he told the MLA that he would not ...
Controversy over posters of Tejaswi, rape-tainted RJD leader
In a fresh controversy surrounding RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's ongoing Samvidhan Bachao Yatra, posters were put up in Nawada district ahead of his arrival there featuring him with local MLA Raj Ballabh Yadav who is in jail for allegedly raping a minor girl. The RJD heir apparent, however, brushed aside the incident, saying he was in Patna while the posters were being put up in the central Bihar town by enthusiastic supporters. The former deputy chief minister also said the MLA was facing trial and was yet to be proven guilty by court. The ruling JD(U) in the state shot off an open letter to his mother and RJD national vice-president Rabri Devi, cautioning her against her sons hobnobbing with people who were "synonymous with terror for the women of Bihar". "Is it necessary to bestow honour on a rape accused? Your husband Lalu Prasad is serving sentences in corruption cases. Is it essential to be corrupt and a rape accused for upholding the virtues of social justice and communal ...
Man held in Delhi for supplying illegal arms
A man has been arrested from northwest Delhi's Kanjhawala village for allegedly supplying illegal weapons, police said Tuesday. The accused has been identified as Deepak alias Rajesh, who is a resident of Delhi's Bakkarwala area, they said. On Monday, police received information that an arms supplier Deepak would come to Kanjhawala to deliver a consignment of weapons. Thereafter, police laid a trap and at around 5.40 pm the accused arrived, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ajit Kumar Singla said. During interrogation Deepak told police that he has been arrested in about a dozen criminal cases previously, he said. When he was in jail in 2014, Deepak met an arms supplier, Manish, a resident of Bulandshahr, Singla said. After coming out on bail they both started working together. Manish procured weapons through his contacts in Bulandshahr and supplied them to Deepak who in turn sold them to criminals in Delhi-NCR, he added. A 7.65 mm pistol and two .315 bore pistols were ...
20-yr-old arrested in online harassment case
A 20-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly harassing a woman on social media, police said Tuesday. The accused, identified as Deevakar Shakya, a resident of Gandhi Nagar in Delhi, is a final year Bachelor in Commerce student, they said. On October 16, the victim filed a complaint at Geeta Colony Police Station, stating an unidentified person had created a fake Facebook account using her name and photograph. The user of the profile was sending her morphed, vulgar photographs on her original Facebook account, officials said. These photos would mostly be morphed nude pictures take from the internet where the accused would superimpose the victim's face on them, the victim said in her plaint. The complainant said the accused was threatening to rape her, Meghna Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) said. The case was transferred to cyber cell. During investigation, the police found the accused used to deactivate the account after sending the vulgar messages to the victim, ..
Ayodhya title suit: Haryana minister disappointed over adjournment
Haryana Minister Anil Vij has expressed disappointment over adjournment of the Ayodhya title suit case by the Supreme Court.He said, "The Supreme Court is great, it can do whatever it wants. It can open at 12 in the night for Yakub Memom, but it can keep deferring the hearing on Ram Mandir for which people have been desperately waiting. It all depends on the Supreme Court."On Monday, the court adjourned the hearing on the Ayodhya title suit case until January 2019 to fix the date of hearing in the matter.The top court had adjourned the matter which challenged the Allahabad High Court ruling of 2010. The 2010 verdict had divided the disputed land in Ayodhya into three parts for each party - the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.
CBI vs CBI: Devender Kumar, Manoj Prasad sent to 14-day judicial custody
A Delhi Court remanded Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Devender Kumar and Dubai-based businessman and middleman Manoj Prasad, who were arrested in connection with bribery allegations against the agency's Special Director Rakesh Asthana, to judicial custody for 14 days.On Monday, Kumar had moved a bail application before the special court following his arrest by the CBI last week. In his application, Kumar mentioned that the agency did not have valid search warrants when his office and residence were raided by the agency's anti-corruption unit. During the raid, Kumar's personal computers were also seized by the officials.Asthana, who has been sent on leave along with CBI director Alok Verma, was named in an FIR by businessman Satish Babu Sana. The court will hear Kumar's bail application on Thursday.
Orphanage case: Ex-Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia's sentence doubled
A Bangladesh court on Tuesday extended the sentence of former Prime Minister and chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia from five to 10 years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.According to the Dhaka Tribune, the sentence was extended after the court accepted Anti-Corruption Commission's petition seeking to increase Khaleda's imprisonment.Earlier this year, Khaleda along with five others including her son Tarique Rehman was sentenced to five years in prison in the orphanage corruption case. The case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2008 pertains to alleged misappropriation of funds amounting to 2.1 crore taka that were said to have come from a foreign bank in the form of grants for orphans.This comes a day after Khaleda was sentenced to seven years in prison in connection with Zia Charitable Trust graft case.Khaleda has served as Bangladesh Prime Minister for two terms, 1991-1996 and 2001-2006.
Sealing drive: SC reserves order on contempt plea against Manoj Tiwari
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a contempt plea filed against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manoj Tiwari for allegedly breaking the seal of a locked house in an unauthorised colony in North East Delhi's Gokulpur area.The apex court has asked Tiwari to appear before the court again when it will pass the order.During the hearing, Tiwari's counsel argued that the BJP Delhi unit president did nothing wrong by breaking the lock of the sealed premise that would amount to contempt of court."Judges sit in this cozy area where nobody comes to question them. People question me (Tiwari), I am responsible," the counsel said on behalf of Tiwari.Earlier, the BJP leader had urged the top court to stop the sealing drive till the final verdict is pronounced in the case.He further alleged that the monitoring committee appointed by the top court, along with corrupt officials, is running a "corruption racket in the capital".The BJP leader had also said that he submitted an ...
MP CM's son files defamation case against Rahul Gandhi
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's son Kartikey Singh on Tuesday filed a defamation case against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for "dragging" his name into the Panama paper leak controversy.Kartikey's lawyer Shirish Shrivastava told ANI, "We have filed a defamation case against Rahul Gandhi. Yesterday during a political rally he gave a statement in which he linked Shivraj Singh Chouhan's son to Panama papers. It is completely baseless. This is a highly objectionable statement which has been given with a clear-cut criminal intent. He is trying to mislead people by making allegations against the Chief Minister without having a fact."The defamation suit has been filed under Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code, said the advocate.Meanwhile, Kartikey brushed aside Gandhi's statement as "baseless" saying, "I don't hold him (Rahul Gandhi) responsible, entire Congress party is confused. Allegations by him are completely baseless, he himself accepted that. But he .
Rahul 'mixed-up' CM's of MP, C'garh as both face serious graft allegations: Cong
The Congress said Tuesday party president Rahul Gandhi's "mix up" between the chief ministers of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh was caused as both were facing serious corruption allegations and he was extensively touring both the states along with Rajasthan. Kartikey Chouhan, the son of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Tuesday filed a criminal defamation case against Gandhi for alleging at a rally that his name figured in the Panama Papers. Gandhi, meanwhile, said he mentioned the name of Chouhan's son in the context of Panama Papers due to "confusion". Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, at a press conference here, said Gandhi was extensively travelling for elections to Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, and the chief ministers of the three states were facing "serious corruption charges". He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also made "Saint Kabir, Guru Nankadeva and Baba Gorakhnath sit together" when they belonged to different centuries. "What ...
Scribe beaten to death in Jharkhand
A 32-year-old journalist of a vernacular daily was allegedly abducted and beaten to death by unidentified people in Jharkhand's Chatra district, police said Tuesday. According to Superintendent of Police Akhilesh B Beriar, Chandan Tiwari, who worked for Hindi daily 'Aaj', was last seen near his home at around 8 pm on Monday. The police was informed that some unidentified people have abducted Tiwari and had taken him towards a jungle near Baltherwa village under Simaria administrative area -- around 110 km northwest of Ranchi, Beriar said. The body of Tiwari, a resident of Dumbi village of the district, was found in the morning from the jungle. He was rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead, the officer said. Tiwari's family members have accused ultra outfit Trutiya Prastuti Committee for the incident. The SP, however, said the exact cause as well as the identity of the killers were yet to be ascertained. The incident would be probed by a special investigation team and
Chouhan's son files defamation case, Rahul says he got confused
Son of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Kartikey, on Tuesday filed a defamation case against Rahul Gandhi who linked his name to the Panama papers, but the Congress President clarified he got "confused" due to "scams" in BJP state governments and was referring to the son of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh.
Court rejects Mallya plea against ED proceedings for FEO tag
A special court Tuesday rejected businessman Vijay Mallya's plea seeking a stay on the proceedings initiated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to declare him a fugitive economic offender (FEO). Special judge M S Azmi rejected Mallya's plea and said the court will hear arguments on the main ED plea to declare the beleaguered industrialist an FEO on November 22. The special court had heard extensive arguments on Friday from Mallya's lawyer as well as the ED counsel on his petition seeking a stay on proceedings of the financial crime probe agency against him. The ED has sought that Mallya, who is currently in the UK, be declared an FEO and his properties be confiscated and brought under the control of the Union government as per provisions of the new FEO Act. Mallya's counsel Amit Desai, however, had urged the court, set up under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), to refrain from hearing the ED's plea at least till November 26. Desai had told the court that earlier this ...
Guj HC quashes rape case against Swaminarayan sect priest
The Gujarat High Court Tuesday quashed an FIR of rape registered against a priest of the Swaminarayan sect after the woman who had filed a case against him told the court that she didn't want to pursue the matter. A division bench of justices A S Dave and A Y Kogje allowed the petition moved by priest Karan Swarup Babubhai Savani (24) to quash the FIR lodged against him after the woman, who was present in the court Tuesday, submitted an affidavit stating that she had no objection if the FIR is dismissed, and that she did not want to pursue the matter. The woman had earlier alleged that Savani had raped her on two occasions this month in a room adjacent to the Swaminarayan temple at Dabholi under the pretext of helping her financially for her mother's surgery. The priest was arrested on October 24.
We increase strength of judges, but are unable to better infrastructure: Justice S Ravindra Bhat
Recommending the Andhra Pradesh government to have a master plan for all courts with uniform sizes and amenities, Delhi High Court Judge S Ravindra Bhat said the judicial system can increase the strength of judges but is unable to make changes to the existing infrastructure. Speaking at a workshop on 'Andhra Pradesh: Building the Nation's First Justice City' which was jointly organised by Centre for Strategy and Leadership (CSL) and Capital Region Development Authority, the nodal agency for developing Amaravati, Bhat appreciated the AP government's desire to build a high court in a public-friendly manner. "Courts basically are for the people, for access to justice. We must look at public buildings which are friendly to the people," Bhat said. The event was attended by Supreme Court judges N V Ramana, L Nageswara Rao, Vineet Saran and Mohan Shantanagoudar. Justices Suresh Kait and Prathiba M Singh of the Delhi High Court were also among the dignitaries. Amaravati, the new capital of ...
MP hospital goof-up: Christian cremated after body handed over
In a major goof-up on the part of a state-run hospital here, a 57-year-old Christian man's body was handed over by its staffers to the relatives of a Hindu deceased who cremated him as per customs in Badwai village near here, police said Tuesday. A case was filed against the management of the state-run Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) for the lapse and the relatives of the Hindu deceased for hurting religious sentiments, a police official said. Kunjmon KP, a Christian resident of Ashoka Garden area in Bhopal, died on October 27 after suffering a cardiac arrest, his friend Reji Joseph said Tuesday. "Kunjmon's remains were kept in a morgue at the BMHRC. When his son, two daughters and other relatives went to collect his body Monday, they were handed over another man's body by the hospital staffers," he claimed. When we saw that it was not Kunjmon's body and protested, the hospital staffers realised that they had handed over Kunjmon's body to the kin of .
Electronic evidences support bribery allegations against CBI Spl director Rakesh Asthana: DSP to SC
CBI DSP AK Bassi on Tuesday alleged in the Supreme Court that the investigation based on the electronic evidence supported the case of bribery against Special Director Rakesh Asthana. Bassi in his petition, challenging his transfer to Andaman and Nicobar Islands on October 24, has claimed that Somesh Prasad -- brother of Dubai-based middlemen Manoj Prasad who was arrested in the case -- was also in contact with a high ranking official of R&AW. Giving the sequence of events since Hyderabad based businessman Sathish Babu Sana filed the complaint against Asthana and CBI DSP Devendra Kumar, the petition stated that the businessman was harassed during the investigation of case against controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi and had paid bribe in lieu of relief from the SIT headed by Asthana. He alleged that there were five acceptances of illegal gratification in the name of Asthana through the two middlemen and during investigation, role of another high ranking bureaucrat Samanta ...
HC judge to supervise IGPs probe
The Orissa High Court Tuesday ordered that a sitting judge of the court will supervise on a day-to-day basis the investigation being conducted by crime branch IGP into the four criminal cases registered in August on the police-lawyer face off. Justice C R Dash, a judge of this court, will supervise the investigation day-to-day and the investigating officer is directed to report to the concerned judge everyday to appraise the development of the investigation, said the order passed by a Bench headed by Chief Justice K S Jhaveri. Crime Branch IGP Arun Bothra, who is on leave due to illness, has been ordered to carry out the investigation immediately after resumption of duty so as to complete the same before November 9, the day fixed for next hearing. The Supreme Court in September had entrusted IGP Bothra to investigate the cases. Meanwhile, the general body of the High Court Bar Association Tuesday decided to continue their two-month-long strike till Thursday when it will chalk out its .
SC junks plea challenging Trai's tariff order for channels
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea challenging the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's March, 2017 regulations and tariff order relating to fixation of charges for free and pay channels. It said in view of any inconsistency, the TRAI Act must prevail over the Copyright Act with regard to issues such as royalties and compensation to be paid. A bench comprising Justices Rohinton F Nariman and Navin Sinha said the Regulation and the Tariff Order have been made keeping the interests of the stakeholders and the consumers in mind and are "intra vires" the regulation power contained in Section 36 of the TRAI Act. The bench said that if in exercise of its regulatory power under the TRAI Act, the regulator were to impinge upon compensation payable for copyright, "the best way in which both statutes can be harmonised is to state that, the TRAI Act, being a statute conceived in public interest, which is to serve the interest of both broadcasters and consumers, must prevail, to ..
Puducherry MLA, father sentenced to one year in jail in disproportionate assets case
A CBI court on Tuesday sentenced opposition All India NR Congress (AINRC) legislator Ashok Anand and his father to one-year imprisonment in a disproportionate assets case. The CBI's Anti-Corruption Branch, Chennai, had registered a case against the legislator, his father C Anand and mother Vijayalakshmi for accumulating assets to the tune of Rs 3.75 crore, disproportionate to their known sources of income, between January 1, 1997 and January 7, 2006. Vijayalakshmi expired during the trial and the charges against her were abated. CBI special judge P Dhanabal delivered the verdict. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on Anand and his father, who is a former public works department chief engineer, under the Prevention of Corruption Act.