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SC collegium recommends names of new judges for elevation to high courts
The Supreme Court Collegium Friday made public the names of six judicial officers and two advocates it has recommended as the judges of three high courts. The apex court collegium also recommended names of seven additional judges to be appointed as permanent judges in the Gauhati High Court. Besides the Gauhati High Court, the recommendations have also been made for the Madhya Pradesh High Court, the Calcutta High Court and the Punjab & Haryana High Court. The recommendations, made on October 24 by the collegium comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, have been posted on the official website of the apex court. The Collegium recommend that additional judges -- Justices Lanusungkum Jamir, Manash Ranjan Pathak, Achintya Malla Bujor Barua, Kalyan Rai Surana, Prasanta Kumar Deka, Nelson Sailo and Ajit Borthakur -- be appointed as permanent judges of the Gauhati High Court. It recommended names of three judicial officers -- Vishnu Pratap Singh
UP STF arrests six for leaking question paper of constable recruitment exam
Six members of a gang involved in leaking a question paper of a constable recruitment examination were arrested by the UP Special Task Force in Agra. In a statement issued here Friday, the STF said the members of the gang were trying to leak the examination paper to the aspirants in lieu of financial gains from them. The examination was scheduled on October 25 and October 26, and the arrests were made Thursday. "Acting on a tip-off that some people have gathered at Khandauli area of Agra to leak the question paper to aspirants in lieu of financial gains, a team of UP STF stationed in Agra arrested six people. The arrested are Arun, Monu, Chandraveer Singh, Raju, Ajit and Kuldeep," the STF said. Two cars, six mobile phones and Rs 2 lakh were recovered from them. When interrogated, the arrested persons said they used to impersonate aspirants in various examinations and charge Rs 2 lakh from each aspirant," the STF said. A case has been registered against the arrested persons under the .
Pak army chief endorses death sentences of 14 'hardcore terrorists'
Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday endorsed the death sentences of 14 "hardcore terrorists" who were convicted by special military courts. The military courts were set up soon after the Peshawar attack of December 2014 that killed nearly 150 schoolchildren for speedy trial of militants in Pakistan. The Army said Bajwa "confirmed death sentences awarded to 14 hardcore terrorists, who were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism". They were found guilty of attacking armed forces, law enforcing agencies, killing of innocent civilians and destruction of educational institutions. "On the whole, they were involved in killing of 22 persons including 3 civilians, 19 Armed Forces/Frontier Constabulary/ police officials and injuring 23 others," the Army said, adding arms and explosives were also recovered from their possession. These convicts were tried by special military courts but the dates and venues of the trial was not shared by the Army due to security ...
Two arrested for trying to kill man in Outer Delhi's Mangol Puri
Two men were arrested for allegedly trying to kill a man in Outer Delhi's Mangol Puri area, police said Friday. The accused were identified as Amit (22) and Saurabh (22), both are residents of Bhind, Madhya Pradesh, they added. On October 14, an incident of gunshot was reported at Mangol Puri police station. During the incident, a man sustained gun injuries, Seju Kuruvilla, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) said. During investigation, CCTV footages were shown to the victim. On his instance, one Amit friend of Saurabh, who is a relative of his sister-in-law Uma, resident of Vijay Vihar, Delhi, was observed as prime suspect, Kuruvilla added. The victim disclosed that he had a dispute with Uma over a parental property, the DCP said. However, police called Uma for her statement. She mislead them and did not disclose about Saurabh and Amit. Through CDR details, police conducted several raids and both the suspects were arrested from Vijay Vihar area, the DCP said. During interrogation, .
HC to hear plea against Ahmed Patel's Rajya Sabha election
In a setback for Ahmed Patel, the Gujarat High Court on Friday said it will hear a petition filed by BJP's Balwantsinh Rajput against the senior Congress leader's election to the Rajya Sabha last year. Patel's application questioning the maintainability of Rajput's plea was dismissed by Justice Bela Trivedi. The court will now hear the plea from November 19. The Congress leader was elected to the upper house of Parliament after he defeated Rajput who had quit the Congress to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Patel was declared the winner after the Election Commission invalidated the votes of rebel Congress MLAs Bholabhai Gohel and Raghavjee Patel, bringing down the number of votes needed for victory to 44 from 45. Rajput challenged, before the high court, the poll panel's decision to invalidate the votes of the two rebel MLAs. Had these votes been counted, he would have defeated Patel, the BJP leader said. Rajput also alleged that Patel had taken Congress MLAs to a resort in ...
Mumbai: Political leaders meet hawker beaten up in Dadar
Former Maharashtra minister Kripashankar Singh and some BJP leaders met hawker Vishal Pandey who was beaten up earlier this week allegedly by Shiv Sena workers. Singh, BJP Mumbai general secretary Amarjeet Mishra and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Mumbai unit chief Mohit Khamboj assured Pandey of legal and financial support. Singh called it an unfortunate incident while Mishra offered monetary help to the hawker's family. Pandey, who lives in Prabhadevi, was beaten up Wednesday near Siddhivinayak Temple in Dadar. He was admitted in KEM Hospital in Parel with head and back injuries. A police complaint was filed against three persons who were nabbed Thursday and granted bail by a local court Friday.
Three men held for looting collection agent
Three men were arrested for robbing a collection agent of Rs 6 lakh at gunpoint, police said Friday. Acting upon a secret information and CCTV footage, Indirapuram police made the arrests in the case that took place on August 29. City Superintendent of Police Shlok Kumar said the accused have been identified as Rahul, Ravi and Amit. They told police during interrogation that when collection agent Sachin reached near Shipra Sun City, they waylaid his bike and snatched the cash and the bike on gun point. Ravi and Amit are the real cousin brothers of Sachin and knew about his cash collection work. They hatched a plan to rob him with the help of his friend Rahul. Police have recovered 1 lakh 51 thousand rupees, a motor cycle and three knives from their possession. A pulsar motor cycle has also been recovered which was used in commission of the crime. They have been sent to jail, the officer added.
China to enhance law enforcement cooperation with Bangladesh
China hopes to enhance law enforcement cooperation with Bangladesh, a senior Chinese official said here on Friday.
KG student raped by school bus driver in Greater Noida
A three-and-half-year old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by the driver of her school bus in Greater Noida, officials said Friday. The mother of the victim, who is studying in kindergarten of a private school in Sector 70, said the matter came to light earlier this month when her daughter returned home and started crying. "I was at my office in Gurgaon on October 9 and my husband went to pick up our daughter when she returned from the school on the bus in the afternoon," she said in her complaint. "As soon as she alighted and saw her father, the girl started crying and on being asked the reason she told her father that 'driver bhaiyya' had taken her undergarments off and touched her inappropriately," she said. Later, the woman said her husband informed her about the incident after which she again talked to their daughter regarding what had happened. "She narrated her ordeal to me and I recorded what she said. My daughter asked me not to record the video as the driver would beat .
Assange would surrender to Britain if no US extradition
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would end his five-year stay in Ecuador's London embassy and hand himself over to British authorities if given assurances he would not face extradition to the US, his lawyer said Friday. Assange has been holed up at the embassy since 2012, concerned that a British arrest warrant would result in his extradition to the United States, where he could be tried for revealing state secrets. Assange would "face up" to surrendering to British authorities who want to arrest him for breaching bail conditions, said his lawyer Carlos Poveda. "In British justice, he could even be sentenced to three to six months' imprisonment," Poveda said. "But what is being requested from the legal team is that there is a necessary assurance that after that sentence he will not be extradited to the United States." This would be "an extremely important condition" for the 47-year-old Australian, the lawyer said. Ecuador gave Assange diplomatic protection in 2012 after a British ...
18-yr-old man killed in suspected case of honour killing, body dumped in canal
In a suspected case of honour killing, an 18-year-old man was allegedly kidnapped and beaten to death, all of which was captured on a video by the accused, including the cousin of a minor girl the victim was in relationship with, police said Friday. The deceased was identified as Sahil alias Gapchu, a resident of Bawana, they said. The accused persons beat up the victim before strangulating him to death. They even recorded a video clip where Sahil was seen bleeding, police said. They then dumped the body in a canal in Sonipat and burnt the victim's car at an isolated spot, they added. A complaint was filed by the victim's uncle at the Bawana police station alleging that his nephew, Sahil, has been missing. He alleged that Sahil had left home in his car in the evening and had not returned home since then. Subsequently, a case was registered, a senior police officer said. Acting on a tip off, a trap was laid in the Bawana area and one of the accused Rakesh, 25, was apprehended. During ..
Swachh Nyayalaya project should also deal with garbage, weeding out old files: Justice Lokur
Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur Friday said besides construction and maintenance of washrooms in over 16,000 court rooms, a mechanism needs to be devised to deal with garbage and also to weed out old case files. He was speaking at a pre-launch function of 'Swachh Nyayalaya project, which would be inaugurated on the occasion of Law Day on November 26 by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. The project, which is ostensibly on the lines of the Centre's flagship scheme Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, would be undertaken by NITI Aayog and the Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation along with the Department of Justice and would include construction of new toilets in court complexes in the country, besides maintaining existing ones. "So really the idea behind this Swachh Nyayalaya is to have those general clean up in terms of maintenance, in terms of house keeping issues, of course, providing toilets, washrooms and all that is one of the aspects of housekeeping and maintenance but equally .
Aadhaar details help 5-yr-old girl reunite with family
The Haryana Police has managed to reunite a five-year-old girl, who was missing for over three months, with her family in Panchkula using her Aadhaar biometric details. The police said the girl had gone missing on July 24 from Patiala and a complaint in this regard was registered at the Anaj Mandi Police Station. The girl was reunited with her family by the Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Haryana Police in Panchkula. A team of AHTU had visited Aadhaar card office in Sector -1 Panchkula to get leads about the missing girl. After completing the required formalities, the team handed over the girl to her parents at Bal Sadan in Panchkula, police said.
Bhima Koregaon case: Court rejects bail pleas of 3 activists
The Pune Sessions Court on Friday rejected bail plea of Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Sudha Bharadwaj--three of the five activists arrested in the Bhima Koregaon violence case.The defence moved the Pune Sessions Court seeking an extension of the house arrest of Gonsalves and Ferreira for seven days since their house arrest ends today following the Supreme Court's order and accordingly Pune police can now arrest them.On October 24, the Pune Sessions Court had said that it will pronounce the verdict on bail applications of Gonsalves, Ferreira and Bharadwaj today.A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi will on October 29 hear Maharashtra government's plea challenging a Bombay High Court order that refused to grant more time to the Pune Police for filing charge sheet against activists arrested in connection with the case.The five activists, namely poet Varavara Rao, lawyer Bharadwaj, activists Ferreira, Gonsalves and Gautam Navlakha,
Russian man held with over 1 kg of charas in HP
A Russian man was arrested with over one kg of charas in Bhuntar area of Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, police said Friday. The accused was identified as Konstantin, Kullu Superintendent of Police Shalini Agnihotri said. A case was registered against him under Section 20 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the SP said, adding that a probe into the matter was underway.
Konark police to interrogate Abhijit Iyer Mitra
A Konark court Friday allowed police two-day remand of Delhi-based journalist Abhijit Iyer Mitra, arrested for his alleged derogatory remarks on Sun Temple and Odisha culture. The Judicial Magistrate (First Class), Konark granted local police to keep Iyer Mitra on its remand from 2 pm of October 26 till 2 pm of October 28. Mitra will be interrogated in connection with a case filed at the Konark police station in Puri district on September 19, a police officer said. A case was registered against Mitra at Konark police station under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology (IT) Act on the basis of a complaint lodged by Bimbadhar Goura of Konark area. Goura had alleged that Mitra had made derogatory remarks on Sun Temple in a video which he had posted on his Twitter handle. On Tuesday, Iyer was arrested by the Bhubaneswar Police in connection with a criminal case filed against him at Saheed Nagar police station after he appeared before the House Committee .
SC declines hearing on PIL by lawyer against polygamy, asks him to pay pending cost first
The Supreme Court Friday declined to hear on priority a petition filed by an advocate against the practice of polygamy among Muslims, saying he should first deposit a fine that was due. When the petition filed by Asok Pande came up for hearing, a bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur reminded the advocate that he was imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 by the apex court recently for filing a plea and until he deposits that amount with the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee, his matter would not be heard. A bench of the apex court had on October 22 dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Pande and had imposed the cost on him for seeking a direction that legal marriageable age for men should be brought down from 21 to 18 years. "Have you paid the cost," the bench, also comprising justices S A Nazeer and Deepak Gupta, asked the lawyer who said he would do it soon. The bench then said, "We will hear you only after you deposit the cost imposed on you." It also directed the apex ..
Armed man arrested from near school in Madhya Pradesh
A 30-year-old man armed with a gun and live cartridges, and loitering near a school was arrested Friday here in Madhya Pradesh, police said. The man, Anil Burman, was apparently looking for a girl student studying in the school at village Boriya, around 17km from the district headquarters, they said. As soon as the police got information about the armed man moving near the school, they swung into action and arrested Burman, a resident of Pondi-Patan village in Jabalpur district, Katangi police station Assistant Sub-Inspector Milan Singh Rajput said. One country-made revolver, two live cartridges and three caps of used cartridges stuck in the firearm were seized from him, he said. Five mobile phones were also seized from him, he said. The incident occurred when students were leaving for home after school hours, the ASI added. The man appeared to be "mentally sick", the police officer said, citing preliminary interrogation. Rajput said they were grilling the accused to find .
Newborn baby girl dumped in ant-infested bush in Tripura
A two-day-old abandoned girl, covered with ant bites, was recovered from a bush in Sipahijala district about 30 km from here, police said on Friday. Yhe incident occurred at Amarendranagar in the district on Thursday, they said. "A villager, identified as Bodholokkhi Debbarma, heard the cry of a baby from inside a bush and she immediately informed us. We took the baby to the nearby Bishramganja hospital last evening and the hospital authority shifted her to Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) hospital at Agartala after preliminary treatment," said Pannalal Saha, Officer in-charge of Bishramganja Police station. The newborn had innumerable ant bites on her body, Saha said. The baby was admitted to IGM hospital and is being treated in Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, police said. No has been arrested so far and an investigation is on, the police officer said. When contacted, Bipul Kanti Majumder, Central Coordinator of Childline India, a project of Ministry of Women and ...
Four held for killing elderly sisters in Delhi
Delhi Police on Friday arrested a plumber and his three accomplices for robbing and killing two elderly sisters in their residence in west Delhi, an officer said.