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CBI DSP Kumar moves bail plea before Delhi court
CBI's Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Devender Kumar, arrested in connection with bribery allegations involving the agency's Special Director Rakesh Asthana, moved a bail application before a court here Monday. Special CBI Judge Santosh Snehi Mann fixed the matter for hearing on Tuesday, when Kumar will be produced before the court on the expiry of his seven-day CBI custody granted by the court earlier. Besides Asthana and Kumar, two alleged middlemen -- Manoj Prasad and Somesh Prasad -- have also been named as accused in the case.
Court not above Parliament: Swamy on Ayodhya matter
Hours after the Supreme Court adjourned the Ayodhya title suit till January 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy said that the court is not above the Parliament and that he would raise the issue in the upcoming winter session.Swamy also said that the Parliament has the right to alter laws and the apex court can only consider whether they are in violation of the Constitution or not. He further said that the top court cannot pass any law and only the Parliament can. "So they have put it off to January, that's the court's authority but in my opinion Parliament also has an authority. The court is not above Parliament. This mistake should be removed from the minds of the people. We have the right to alter laws. The Supreme Court can consider whether this is a violation of the Constitution or not. Nothing more than that. Supreme Court cannot pass any law, only Parliament can," the BJP leader said."In my opinion, we should do it (bring an ordinance on the matter). We ..
Khaleda Zia sentenced to 7 years in another graft case
Bangladesh's ailing former prime minister Khaleda Zia suffered a major setback on Monday when a court here jailed her to seven years in a second corruption case for embezzling millions from a charitable trust in her late husband's name, ahead of general elections. Zia, 73, is already behind bars after being handed a five-year term in February in another case related to embezzlement of funds of an orphanage named after her husband late president Ziaur Rahman. The latest sentence, which comes ahead of general elections in December, is related the Zia Charitable Trust. According to the case, Zia and three others abused their power and collected USD 375,000 for the trust from unknown sources. Judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman announced the verdict from the temporary premises of the court at the old central prison at Dhaka's Nazimuddin Road. The final trial proceedings in the case went ahead in the absence of Zia, the leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), after the prison ...
Delhi HC seeks CBI response on middleman Manoj Prasad's plea seeking quashing of FIR against him
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought CBI's response on middleman Manoj Prasad's plea seeking quashing of FIR against him in the bribery case involving Special Director Rakesh Asthana. A bench of Justice Najmi Waziri directed CBI to file reply on Prasad's plea on or before October 31. The high court listed the matter for hearing on November 1. Prasad, who is in the CBI custody till October 30 had sought quashing of the FIR lodged on October 15 and a stay on the investigation by the agency till the disposal of the petition.
BJP rakes up Ram Temple before elections: Chidambaram
Congress leader and former Union Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday accused the BJP of polarising views on the Ram Temple issue ahead of Lok Sabha polls and said the Ayodhya dispute was "a familiar story".
Maha: Ex-corporator shot at in Malegaon, attackers at large
Two motorcycle-borne men fired at a former corporator in Malegaon in Maharashtra's Nashik district, a senior police official said Monday. Shaikh Khalil Shaikh Rashid was returning from his field in the early hours Sunday when two persons on a motorcycle shot at and injured him on the hand, said Malegaon Additional Superintendent of Police Neelotpal. Rashid was rushed to a nearby hospital and doctors there said his condition is now stable, Neelotpal informed. A hunt is on for the attackers who are yet to be identified, the Addl SP added. Rashid is a former chairman of the Standing Committee of the Malegaon Municipal Corporation. He is the uncle of Malegaon's Congress MLA Asif Shaikh and brother of Malegaon mayor Shaikh Rashid Shaikh Shafi. The MLA and mayor, speaking to reporters separately Sunday, said police was probing the issue and they would wait for the outcome of the investigations before offering any comment on the incident.
Gujarat woman cop killed by husband, in-laws for property
A woman police officer was allegedly hacked to death in Gujarat by her husband and in- laws who were eyeing her property, police said Monday. The incident took place Sunday night at Junagadh town, around 315km from here, they said. The body of Kiran Joshi (41), who was serving as an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) at the Visavadar police station in Junagadh district, was found in a pool of blood at her residence in the Madhuram area Monday morning, they said. In his complaint to the police, Kiran Joshi's brother Mahesh Joshi has alleged his sister was killed by her husband Pankaj Vegda, brother-in-law Dipak Vegda, mother-in-law Rasila Vegda and father-in-law Bhavani Vegda as part of a conspiracy to grab her property. While Kiran Joshi's husband is untraceable, the police have started questioning the other three accused named in the complaint, said Deputy Superintendent of Police H S Ratnu. "Kiran was murdered using a sharp weapon at her residence yesterday night. We have ...
Justice Bopanna sworn in as Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court
Justice Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna, a judge of the Karnataka High Court, was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court on Monday.Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi administered the oath of office to Justice Bopanna at Raj Bhavan on Monday morning. Justice Bopanna, 59 took charge from the acting Chief Justice, A. K. Goswami. Gauhati High Court looks after matters related to Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.Born in 1959, Justice Bopanna enrolled as an advocate in November 1984 and practised in civil, constitutional, company, service and labour matters in the Karnataka High Court as well as in the civil and labour courts, says his profile details in the website of the Karnataka High Court.He also worked as legal advisor to central public sector undertakings and as Additional Central Government Standing Counsel from 1999 to 2005. Justice Bopanna was appointed as an additional judge of the Karnataka High Court in January 2006 and a permanent judge on March 1, ...
Bhima Koregaon: SC issues notice to Navlakha
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to activist Gautam Navlakha on a petition related to his transit remand and house arrest in the Bhima Koregaon case. The petition was filed by Maharashtra government against the Delhi High court order which had allowed Navlakha's release from house arrest.The apex court also set aside a Bombay High Court order that had refused to grant more time to Pune Police for filing the charge sheet against some activists arrested in the case.A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India issued notice to Navlakha who is one of the five activists arrested in the case. The Bench also set aside Delhi High Court order of quashing Navlakha's transit remand.On October 1, the Delhi High Court had freed the activist from house arrest, which, earlier had been extended by the apex court to four weeks. The High Court bench, while delivering the judgement, had said that the detention was untenable in law.Navlakha, along with four activists, was detained on August 28 for
Ex-Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia sentenced to 7 years over graft case
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khalida Zia and three others were sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday in connection with Zia Charitable Trust graft case.A Dhaka court pronounced the verdict almost seven years after the case was filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2011, reported Dhaka Tribune. A fine of 10 lakh taka each has also been imposed on the accused, who will have to serve an additional six more months in prison if they fail to pay it.The other three accused in the case are, Khaleda's former political secretary Harris Chowdhury; Harris' assistant private secretary Ziaul Islam Munna; and Monirul Islam Khan, the assistant private secretary to former Dhaka city mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.Zia, chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and the three other accused misused their positions to raise funds for Zia Charitable Trust from unknown sources, Dhaka Tribune reported.Zia is already serving five years in jail after being found guilty in Zia Orphanage Trust .
2 die in road accident in UP
Two youths died after colliding with a truck near Korrum village, police said Monday. Rajiv Patel (20) and Shiv Autar (19) were on a motorcycle when they collided with a speeding truck Sunday night, said Baberu police station Circle Officer Rajiv Pratap Singh. Both the youths were rushed to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries, he added. The accused truck driver has been arrested, Singh said.
CEO of news channel arrested in extortion case
The Editor-in-Chief and CEO of a news channel in Uttarakhand was arrested from his Ghaziabad residence on Sunday for allegedly putting pressure on one of his employees to do a sting operation on prominent politicians including the state chief minister with an intent to blackmail them, police said. Samachar Plus CEO Umesh Kumar Sharma was arrested from his Ghaziabad residence after raids were conducted at his office in Noida and residence in Ghaziabad, ADG (law and order) Ashok Kumar said. Samachar Plus channel, which has operations in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, was in the news in 2016 when it did a sting operation of the then Chief Minister Harish Rawat purportedly showing him negotiating a deal to bribe disgruntled MLAs and buy their support ahead of a floor test in the state assembly. Sharma was arrested following a complaint lodged against himby a journalist of the channel Ayush Gaud accusing him of threatening to eliminate him after he failed to do a sting operation on ...
Businessman accused of sexually assaulting French girl evading arrest: Police
A 56-year-old Delhi businessman is evading arrest after being accused of sexually assaulting a teenage French girl staying in his house as part of a student exchange programme, police said Monday. Devesh Srivastava, Joint Commissioner of Police (Southern range), said the accused has been absconding since the complaint was filed on October 23 at the Neb Sarai police station in south Delhi. He said the alleged incident happened on October 18 at the businessman's residence in Neb Sarai. The 16-year-old French girl had met the businessman's daughter in France through a student exchange programme earlier this year. When she came here in October, she stayed with the Indian student's family, Srivastava said. On October 18, the Indian student's father allegedly touched her inappropriately when she was packing her bags, he said. Subsequently, the man allegedly assaulted her sexually, according to the complaint. The next day, the French girl narrated the alleged incident to her fellow students .
School teacher shot dead in Delhi
A 41-year-old school teacher was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Delhi on Monday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Sunita, a resident of Bawana village. "The police received a call at around 8.05 am regarding the shooting incident in Rohini's Bawana area. After reaching the spot, it was found that a school teacher sustained three bullet injuries and was lying in a pool of blood. The woman was rushed to Maharishi Valmiki Hospital where she was declared brought dead," said Rajneesh Gupta, deputy commissioner of police (Rohini). The body will be handed over to her family members after post-mortem, the DCP said, adding that further details were awaited.
Muzaffarpur case: Ex-Bihar Minister's husband surrenders
Former Bihar Minister Manju Verma's husband Chandrasekhar Verma surrendered before a court on Monday in connection to the Muzaffarpur shelter home case.
Khaleda Zia gets 7-year jail in graft case
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia was on Monday sentenced to seven-year jail in a corruption case.
SC to fix schedule of hearing of Ayodhya land dispute cases in January next year
The Supreme Court on Monday fixed the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute cases for the first week of January next year before an appropriate bench, which will decide the schedule of hearing. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said the appropriate bench will decide the future course of hearing in January next year on the appeals filed against the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ayodhya land dispute case. "We will fix the date of hearing of the Ayodhya dispute case before the appropriate bench in January," the bench, which also comprised Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, said. Earlier, a three judge bench, by a 2:1 majority, refused to refer to a five-judge constitution bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgement that a mosque was not integral to Islam. The matter had arisen during the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute. An apex court bench headed by then Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the civil suit has to be decided .
Man arrested in J&K for daughter's rape
A man in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district was arrested on Monday for raping his daughter, police said.
Man arrested for selling two-month-old twin daughters
A man has been arrested for allegedly selling off his twin daughters to two childless couples in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said Monday. Ratan Brahma(38) of Bahaduria village had allegedly sold his two-month-old twin daughters to a rice trader for Rs 1 lakh and to a couple of Ramchandrapur village for Rs 80,000, they said. Brahma and his wife also have a 10-year-old daughter. The police arrested Brahma Sunday night and rescued one of the twins from the rice trader's house at Thakurnagar area. The second baby was recovered from the house of another childless couple at Ramchandrapur village, they said. The twins have been kept at a Chandpara health centre and would be produced before the child welfare committee on Monday, the police added.
Female teacher shot dead in Delhi
A female teacher was shot dead by unidentified assailants here on Monday while she was on her way to school, police said.