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Kerala nun rape: Witness found dead, family demands inquiry
The family of Father Kuriakose Kattuthara, a priest who was a key witness in the alleged rape case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal and found dead in suspicious circumstances on Monday, has filed a complaint with the Alappuzha police seeking a detailed inquiry into his death.The cause of Father Kattuthara's death is yet to be ascertained."Father Kattuthara used to stay in a church in Dasuya. He was 62. The Father was taken to a hospital where he was later declared dead. I have been told that there were no marks on his body and he vomited on the bed. They have also found a blood pressure tablet. He was not provided security. Now we will do a post-mortem," Dasuya's Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), AR Sharma told ANI.Bishop Mulakkal, who recently came out on bail from a Kerala jail, is facing allegations of repeatedly raping a nun of his own congregation, a charge that he denies.The allegations against the senior catholic priest whipped up a storm, polarising the church hierarchy ...
NCB seizes over 9,600-ltrs of chemical used to prepare heroin
Over 9,600-litres of a chemical, often used illegally to prepare heroin drugs, has been seized from Noida and three people have been detained in this connection, the NCB said Monday. They said a team of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sleuths raided a few locations in Noida and Ghazibad near here for over four days and that led to the seizure. "Acetic anhydride is a chemical necessary for manufacturing heroin and its trade is regulated under the anti-narcotics law," the agency said. The chemical is used as an acetylation agent to process morphine into heroin. The chemical was kept in drums labelled as "lubricant oil" and hence it is suspected that it was meant to be diverted for preparation of heroin by concealing its identity. "Three people, including a foreigner, have been detained for questioning," it said.
Ensure Malegaon case trial is not delayed, Bombay HC tells NIA
The Bombay High Court Monday directed the special National Investigating Agency (NIA) court here to ensure that the trial in the Malegaon 2008 blast case is conducted without delay. Six persons were killed and over a 100 injured when an explosive device strapped to a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon in Maharashtra, on September 29, 2008. A bench of Justices SS Shinde and AS Gadkari Monday directed advocate Sandesh Patil, who appeared for the NIA, to ensure that the agency did not seek any adjournment on Friday, October 26, the next date of hearing in the case. The special court is likely to begin framing of charges against the accused persons on October 26. The bench was hearing a plea filed by Sameer Kulkarni, one of the accused in the case, seeking that the trial be expedited and that the special court be directed to conduct daily hearings in the matter. The bench, however, refused to grant Kulkarni's plea for a day to day hearing. Instead, it noted that since there ...
Sexual assault case: SC asks Daati Maharaj to move HC with his grievances
The Supreme Court Monday asked the self-styled preacher Daati Maharaj, accused in a sexual assault case, to move Delhi High Court with his grievances over the alleged concealment of information from that court by the victim. The top court, however, granted liberty to Maharaj to approach it after the matter is finally adjudicated by the High Court. A bench of Justices N V Ramana and M M Shantangoudar asked senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Daati Maharaj to move the high court which had ordered CBI probe into the sexual assault case against him. Rohatgi said that the petitioner before the high court on whose plea the CBI probe was ordered had concealed the information that a criminal writ filed by the same set of lawyers was dismissed by the high court, and even a petition was withdrawn from the Supreme Court. "They committed a criminal contempt by playing fraud upon the court. They have not disclosed that a petition for CBI probe was already dismissed by the high court and a
Bengal Trinamool leader shot at on Sunday, dies
A Trinamool Congress leader from West Bengal's Birbhum district, who was hospitalised with bullet injuries, died on Monday, the hospital sources said.
NHRC notice to DGP over stripping of mother-daughter in police custody in Bilaspur
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the police chief of Chhattisgarh over reports of an elderly woman and her daughter being allegedly stripped naked and severely beaten by a woman police personnel in front of male colleagues at a police station in Bilaspur. Describing it as an "inhuman and barbaric act", the NHRC in a statement on Monday said it has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report on the matter. According to the report, the 60-year-old woman and her 27-year-old daughter, arrested on the charges of theft, were stripped naked and severely beaten by a woman police personnel in front of male police officials at City Kotwali Police Station on October 14, the NHRC said. "Reportedly, being a patient of hypertension, the mother requested for medical treatment but was not heard. The injuries were inflected even on their vital body parts," the rights panel said. The Commission has issued a notice to the Director General of Police (DGP), Chhattisgarh, ...
Nimbalkar case: HC rejects plea to have Hazare as witness
The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to direct a lower court to examine social activist Anna Hazare as a prosecution witness in the 2006 murder case of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar, saying it has not found anything to show that Hazare's evidence would be useful to the case. Justice Mridula Bhatkar dismissed an application filed by Nimbalkar's widow Anandidevi challenging an April 12 order passed by the sessions court exempting Hazare from being examined as a prosecution witness in the case. The application claimed that Hazare was an important witness as he was aware of the conspiracy hatched by the prime accused and former state minister Padamsinh Patil to kill Nimbalkar. The application alleged that Patil had also conspired to kill Hazare. Justice Bhatkar on Monday said Hazare's evidence was only hearsay and that it was not direct evidence of the alleged conspiracy. "There is nothing on record to show that Hazare had direct knowledge of the conspiracy. There is no direct ...
Hyatt brawl: Ashish Pandey's judicial custody extended by 14 days
The Patiala House Court on Monday extended the judicial custody of Ashish Pandey, son of former MP from Bahujan Samaj Party, Rakesh Pandey, in connection with a Delhi hotel brawl case.The judicial custody has been extended by 14 days.However, no bail application was moved by Ashish today.On October 19, the court had dismissed his bail plea and sent him to judicial custody till today, in connection with the case. On October 18, the court had sent him to one-day police remand.Ashish was formally arrested by the Delhi police following his surrender before Patiala House Court on October 18. The police had sought for a four-day custodial remand for him.The Delhi police on Friday produced him before the Duty magistrate Sumit Anand and sought a remand of two more days to determine if there were any financial transactions that took place between Ashish and the three women who accompanied him in the car. The police had said they need to find out who all Ashish met and helped him during the ...
Ashish Pandey's judicial custody extended by 14 days
No bail application was moved by Ashish today
Jharkhand HC orders CBI probe into encounter of 12 alleged Maoists
The Jharkhand High Court on Monday ordered a CBI inquiry into an alleged fake encounter in 2015 in Palamu, in which security forces killed 12 people after branding them as Maoists.
Two brothers held for killing cab driver in Kota
Two brothers in Rajasthan's Kota city were arrested for allegedly killing an Ola cab driver after robbing him of cash to pay off debts they owed to money lenders, police said Monday. The body of 23-year-old cab driver Shaharukh Hussain, a resident of Jagpura here, was spotted last Thursday on roadside near Gopalpura village under the DeoliManji police station, about 25 kilometers away from the district headquarters, they said. The two brothers identified as Jitendra Suman (22) and Sunil Saini (18), residents of Arandkheda village in Kota district were arrested Sunday, said DeoliManji police station SHO Amarnath. The duo was produced before a court on Monday which sent the accused to four days police remand, he said. The debt-ridden elder brother Suman conspired to rob the driver assuming that he might be in possession of ample cash paid to him by customers in lieu of rides, the SHO said. The duo had also tried to flee with the cab but it ran out of fuel, following which they abandoned
SC dismisses PIL to lower men's marriageable age
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer, Asok Pande, seeking to lower the marriageable age for men from 21 to 18 years.A two-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi and comprising of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 on the petitioner while dismissing the petition.Pande (50), in his petition, had stated that if an 18-year-old man has the right to vote and join the Indian army, there was no rationale in restricting his right to marry until attaining the age of 21.
FWICE to issue show cause notice to Alok Nath, Sajid Khan
The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) on Monday said it will issue show cause notices to actor Alok Nath and actor-director Sajid Khan, who have been accused of sexual harassment and violation.
Gangster held along with 2 associates in Jalandhar
The Punjab Police Monday claimed to have nabbed a gangster along with two of his associates and seized a firearm and drugs from them. They were arrested in a joint operation by the Counter-Intelligence Wing, Jalandhar, and district police of Hoshiarpur, officials said. The accused were identified as gangster Kulwant Singh, alias Gopa, and his associates Anmol Dutta and Rahul, police said. Gopa is wanted in five to six cases of robbery and attempts to murder, they said. A pistol with live cartridge and 49 grams of a narcotic powder was recovered from their possession, officials said. Assistant Inspector General (AIG), Counter Intelligence, Jalandhar, H P S Khakh said the department has been looking for Ravi Balachaurian, Ghanti Mahilpurian and Kulwant Singh for quite some time. The trio are suspected to have been involved in various crimes, including a bank robbery in Hoshiarpur district in July and looting a wine contractor in Jalandhar of Rs 21 lakh in September, officials said. The .
Secy among 3 employees held for blackmailing Paytm boss with stolen data, info
Three Paytm employees, including a woman, were arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to extort Rs 20 crore from the e-wallet giant's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma after threatening to leak stolen personal data and confidential information, Noida Police said here. The arrested woman, who allegedly masterminded the extortion bid, is the secretary of Sharma and the trio had threatened to leak the data and misuse the information to cause the firm loss and dent its public image, officials said. The three employees of the Noida-headquartered e-commerce and wallet firm were arrested by a team from the Sector 20 police station, while the fourth accused in the case is still at large, a senior official said. The owner of Paytm had made a complaint with the police that their employees, a woman and her aides, had stolen some data from the company and were blackmailing. They were demanding Rs 20 crore for not leaking it, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ajay Pal Sharma ..
4 new judges take oath in Delhi High Court
Four new Justices took oath as Delhi High Court Judges on Monday.
Student gang raped in Muzaffarpur
A class nine student has been allegedly gang raped in her home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur town, police said on Monday. The incident took place night at the girl's residence at Imli chowk here on Sunday night, Mithanpura SHO Vijay Prasad Rai said. Four persons, one of them the owner of a carton factory, forced their way into the girl's house, beat up her family memberss, tied their hands and gagged them before committing the alleged crime, he said. An FIR has been registered by the police on the basis of the victim's statement, the SHO said adding raids are being conducted at possible hideouts, including the houses of the accused, to apprehend them. The medical examination of the girl is on and the incident is being probed, senior superintendent of police Manoj Kumar said.
CBI arrests its Deputy SP in bribery case involving its Special Director
The CBI has arrested its Deputy Superintendent of Police Devender Kumar in connection with bribery allegations involving its Special Director and second-in-command Rakesh Asthana, officials said Monday. Kumar, who was earlier the investigation officer in a case involving meat exporter Moin Qureshi, has been arrested on the allegations of forgery in recording the statement of Sathish Sana, who had alleged to have paid bribes to get relief in the case, they said. It is alleged that a statement of Sana was purportedly recorded on September 26, 2018 by the investigating team headed by Asthana, but it emerged in the CBI probe that on that given day the businessman was in Hyderabad, they claimed. In his statement, Sana had purportedly said that he had in June this year discussed his case with Telugu Desam Party's Rajya Sabha member C M Ramesh who, after speaking to the CBI Director, had assured him that he would not be summoned again. "From June onwards, I was not called by the CBI. I was ..
Srijan scam: No important dossiers stolen from house of accused, says police
The Bihar Police on Monday denied theft of important dossiers pertaining to Srijan scam from the house of one of the accused Manorama Devi.Speaking to ANI, Bihar Additional Director General of Police Sanjeev Kumar Singhal said that all the significant documents have earlier been seized by the probe agency."None of the vital documents have been stolen from Devi's house. The Central Investigation Bureau had already seized all the papers related to the scam when it initiated the probe," he said.Devi had filed a complaint to the police claiming that thieves had barged into her house and stolen some of the important documents related to the scam.The Srijan scam involves an alleged transfer of government funds amounting to Rs 1000 crore to the accounts of a non-government organization (NGO), Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti Limited, which used to provide vocational training to women.The NGO allegedly pilfered funds from the bank accounts of the Bhagalpur district administration to meet ...
Saudi operative seen in Khashoggi's clothes after he was killed: Report
One person from the 15-member team suspected to be behind the death of Jamal Khashoggi dressed up in his clothes and was captured on surveillance cameras around Istanbul on the day the journalist was killed, CNN reported on Monday citing a senior Turkish official.