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24-yr-old arrested with heroin in Manali
A 24-year-old man was on Tuesday arrested with 13 grams of heroin at a tourist spot in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, police said. Baldev, a resident of Halyatar village in Mandi district was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, Kullu Superintendent of Police Shalini Agnihotri said. Further investigation was on, she added.
6-yr-old girl molested by teacher in school
A six-year-old student of a government-run school was allegedly molested by a teacher in its premises last month, following which the accused was arrested, police said Tuesday. The police had a tough time controlling the victim's family members who tried to force their way into the school, located in the southern part of the city, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast division) Kalyan Mukherjee said. According to the DCP, 10 police personnel, including two officers in-charge of Gariahat and Lake police stations were injured in brickbatting by the protesters. The police had to use the baton to disperse the agitators and three people were arrested for attacking the personnel of the force and destroying public properties, he said. Asked about the lathicharge on the protesters, Mukherjee said the police took the step to save themselves and public properties. The accused, he said, was arrested and booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 and a probe
Bulgarian jailed over Pakistan attack threats: Czech court
A young Bulgarian man was sentenced to 40 months in jail by a Czech court Tuesday over messages threatening terror attacks in Pakistan unless Islamabad freed a woman arrested with heroin in the country. The regional court in Plzen, west of Prague, found 21-year-old Nikolai Simeonov Ivanov guilty of sending the threats by email and text message to a television channel and news website in Pakistan. The threats demanded the release of a Czech woman he knew, named as Tereza H, who had been arrested in January at Lahore airport. "If Pakistan does not free within 48 hours Tereza, arrested with nine kilos of heroin, and does not let her take a plane to the Czech Republic, terrorist attacks will take place in Pakistan," said the message, read out in court by the prosecution. Ivanov, who has lived in Plzen since 2016, was sentenced to 40 months in prison by the court, after admitting that he had sent the messages, adding that he had not realised the consequences of the threats. "I did not ...
Udit Raj remarks against #MeToo movement reflects BJP's 'anti-woman' mindset: Cong
The Congress Tuesday hit out at BJP MP Udit Raj over his remarks against the #MeToo movement saying it reflects the ruling party's "anti-woman" mindset. Raj termed the #MeToo movement in India as a "wrong practice" and questioned the relevance of making sexual harassment allegations against anybody after 10 years. Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi condemned the remarks saying these "reinforce the anti-women mindset of the ruling BJP". "The remarks are extremely contempt-worthy," she said. Observing that one should go case-by-case, Raj said there are several instances where women did this after taking money and then moved on to the next target.
Total breakdown of law and order in UP, alleges AIDWA
Alleging a total breakdown in the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, the women wing of the CPI(M) Tuesday condemned an attack on activists Pankhudi Pathak and Maria Alam "by Bajrang Dal members" in Aligarh. The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) also alleged that the Uttar Pradesh Police was misusing its powers. "There is a total breakdown of law and order in UP. The administration and police are blatantly misusing their powers and are in connivance with the Sangh Parivar in targeting Muslims, Dalits and Christians," AIDWA alleged in a statement. They said Pathak was going to meet the families of Mustaqeem and Naushad, who were killed in an alleged false encounter in Aligarh on September 17. She was allegedly threatened by Bajrang Dal activists and her car was smashed. AIDWA also alleged that Alam, a social worker, and other activists were surrounded by Bajrang Dal members who were called by the Atroli police when the group visited the police station to enquire ...
1.26 lakh violations of model code so far in Telangana
: Telangana Chief Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar Tuesday said nearly 1.26 lakh violations of the election code of conduct have been reported from all over the state so far after it came into force. An official release said these violations were related to wall-writings, posters, banners among others. In all 55 cases have been registered so far regarding these violations, it said. As many as 79,703 defacements of public properties have been removed and about 46,000 in private properties, the release said.
HC summons investigating officer over 'tardy' probe into rape, human trafficking of minor
Upset with the "tardy" probe into the rape and illegal abortion of a minor girl trafficked from Assam 10 years ago at the age of five, the Rajasthan High Court Tuesday summoned the investigating officer of the case. A Jodhpur bench of the high court ordered the investigating officer of the Pandva police station in Churu district to appear before it on October 25, the next date of hearing of the plea complaining of slow probe into the case. Justice P S Bhati summoned the police official on a plea filed last week by one Jai Chand, a social activist of Sandva village in the district, where the girl had allegedly been held captive since her trafficking. Petitioner's counsel Rajak Haider told the court that the girl had been brought to Sandva village from Lakhimpur in Assam over ten years ago at the age of five by a human trafficking agent and handed over to one Rakesh Kumar of the village. Rakesh had been raping and tormenting the girl with assistance of his wife, the counsel told the ...
Delhi Police free to probe complaint against Amrapali Group: SC
The Supreme Court Tuesday said that Delhi Police was free to investigate a complaint against Amrapali Group of companies as the court had not stayed a criminal probe in any case against the embattled real estate firm. A bench of justices Arun Mishra and U U Lalit, which send three directors of the group to police custody for not handing over all the documents to the forensic auditors, dealt with an application filed by the police in this regard. Additional Solicitor General Vikramjit Banerjee, appearing for the police, told the bench that they wanted to be impleaded as a party in the case since a complaint has been received by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) against the group. He referred to the apex court's March 27 order which had said that "No coercive action will be taken by any authority with respect to the building where completion is going on under the order passed by this court." The bench, which observed that the application has been filed by the police "unnecessarily", said
Man found dead in cotton field, honour killing suspected
In a suspected honour killing, a 23-year-old man was found dead in a cotton field on the outskirts of Vankayagudem village in Karimnagar district Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Gaddi Kumar of Tadikal village, police said. Huzurabad Assistant Commissioner of Police T.Krupakar said the parents of Kumar had filed a complaint Monday stating that he was missing. The parents alleged that he was in love with a minor girl belonging to another caste in the same village. They suspect that the girl's parents had killed him. Police had earlier registered a case against Kumar under IPC section 354 D (stalking) on a complaint from the girl's parents. The deceased had reportedly picked up the girl from her college at Huzurabad and sent her back to her house, recently. "No visible injuries were found on the body and the cause of death will be known only after autopsy," Krupakar said. Villagers staged a protest and allegedly broke the windshields of some police vehicles. A ..
HC declines to entertain PIL seeking compliance of SC order on decriminalising politics
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (EC) to comply with the Supreme Court's directions to de-criminalise politics. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao asked the petitioner, a BJP leader and lawyer, to move the apex court instead if he thought that elections were being held in violation of the Supreme Court's September 25 verdict. It declined to issue any interim direction to the EC. The petitioner, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, contended before the court that the EC on October 5 issued a notification for election in five states without putting in place guidelines in accordance with the apex court judgement. The Supreme Court in its judgement had asked the Parliament to make law to ensure that persons facing serious criminal cases do not enter the political arena. It had recommended that Parliament bring out a "strong law" whereby it would be mandatory for the political parties to revoke ...
Teenager shoots himself dead in school toilet
A class 10 boy allegedly shot himself dead in the toilet of his school in Purba Barddhaman district on Monday, police said. Kalim Seikh (15) of Dadhia Gopal Das High School, a government aided co-educational school at Ketugram, used a country-made 7 mm pistol to commit suicide, police said. "We heard the sound of a gunshot from the boys' toilet around 11 am shortly after the prayer. When we reached there, Kalim was lying on the floor in a pool of blood," headmaster Biswanath Ghosh said. The authorities informed the police and when the boy was taken to hospital, he was declared dead on arrival. The body was sent for post-mortem examination. Apparently it was a case of suicide and a love affair could be behind it, police said after preliminary investigation. It is not clear how the boy, whose father works in Kerala, procured the pistol. His family members, however, alleged without elaboration that Kalim was killed by his friends.
CM gives Rs 50 lakh compensation to ex-ISRO scientist Nambi
Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan was Tuesday given Rs 50 lakh by the Kerala government in compliance with a recent Supreme Court order awarding the compensation to him for being falsely implicated in the 1994 espionage case. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan handed over a cheque for Rs 50 lakh to 76-year old Narayanan at a function organised at the state secretariat here, three weeks after the apex court ordered the relief holding that he was "arrested unnecessarily, harassed and subjected to mental cruelty." Narayanan said he was very sure from the beginning itself that the case against him was false. 'I am happy that the government is with me," he said. The apex court had on September 14 ordered a probe into the role of the Kerala police in the case and awarded Rs 50 lakh as compensation to Narayanan, directing the state government to pay it within eight weeks. Speaking at the function, Vijayan said the compensation amount had to be paid by the officials responsible .
Two arrested for illegally selling Buprenorphine tablets
Two employees of a de-addiction centre were arrested for illegally selling Buprenorphine tablets received from the government, police said Tuesday. The accused were identified as Franklin Lazarus (54) and Manish Kumar Mehta (40), employees of Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses (SPYM). "The Crime Branch received information that the two are involved in illegal sale of narcotic drug Buprenorphine which is supplied by government to the de-addiction centers of SPYM NGO. The drug was meant to be given to addicts admitted there," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ajit Kumar Singla said. Lazarus was arrested from Vasant Kunj area with an illegal consignment of 3,800 tablets of Buprenorphine which he was supposed to deliver to one of his customers. A case was registered against them under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. During investigation, Mehta was also arrested, Singla said. The two would sell a strip of Buprenorphine tablets for Rs 200 each, Singhla ...
Steps are being taken to ensure cases do not get deleted from SC list, says CJI
Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Tuesday said steps are being taken to ensure that cases, filed in the Supreme Court, do not get deleted. The CJI, on his first day in the office last week, had made clear that "parameters" for urgent mentioning and listing of cases would be laid down and till then, only cases like execution of death penalty and eviction would be treated as urgent. Justice Gogoi said today that the apex court would to like hear as many cases as it can but all of them cannot be heard due to the paucity of time. He assured lawyers, who were waiting in the queue, that a system would be put in place to ensure that once a case is listed for hearing, then it does not get deleted. He assured that there would be no abrupt deletion of cases. "It won't happen that a matter will be deleted six times before it gets listed. We are taking care of it. Deletion will happen only on an informed basis." The CJI had said earlier that there would be no mentioning of cases for urgent hearing and ..
Court sends BrahMoS Aerospace engineer to 3 days transit remand
The Nagpur Sessions Court on Tuesday granted three days transit remand of BrahMoS Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal to the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terror Squad (ATS). Agarwal was arrested on Monday for allegedly spying for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and passing details of the BrahMos missile.Agarwal had been working as senior systems engineer at BrahMos Aerospace facility in Nagpur for past four years. The ATS said that he allegedly used to chat with Pakistan-based IDs on social media.Talking about the same, Nishant's father told media, "I will go with the court's decision. I don't think my son is guilty. However, if he is found guilty then I will not consider it a lie. No such evidence has come before me which confirms that he is guilty. I will definitely look forward to defend him."Nishant was working as an engineer on a Defence project, said Aseem Arun, Inspector General of ATS, Uttar Pradesh. "We also found evidence of him chatting on Facebook with Pakistan-based ...
SC sends Amrapali's directors to police custody
Coming down heavily on the real estate company, Amrapali, for wilfully disobeying the Supreme Court's earlier orders, the apex court on Tuesday sent company's three Group Directors - Anil Kumar Sharma, Shiv Priya and Ajay Kumar - in police custody for not handing over all the documents with respect to its account related forensics audits."You are not complying with the apex court's earlier orders as far as the forensic audits are concerned. What is this," a division bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Arun Mishra and also comprising Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, said, in its order.The top court passed the order, after two forensic auditors -- Ravindra Bhatia and P Aggarwal -- appeared personally before it and stated that Amrapali has not provided any relevant documents with respect to forensic auditors and no cooperation has been extended.During the course of hearing, the court asked the police to escort the three directors to the offices of Amrapali and seize and handover the ...
Editors Guild expresses concern over reports of sexual misconduct in media
Taking note of alleged sexual harassment and assault on women journalists by their men colleagues, Editors Guild of India has condemned all "predatory conduct by such men".In a statement, the Editors Guild said, "It is worse when the perpetrators also happen to be enjoying senior or supervisory positions in the profession."It also assured solidarity with women journalists who have brought the critical issues in public debate."The Guild is committed to ensuring that the legal rights of either the victims or the accused are not violated. A fair, just and safe working environment is essential if press freedoms are to flourish. The newsroom in our profession is a relatively informal, free-spirited and hallowed space. It must be protected," the statement read.Extending support to all women journalists, the Guild called upon the media organisations to hold unbiased inquiries into all reported cases."This is the time for all of us to strengthen our internal processes. It includes training of
Delhi HC disappointed over delay in 2G spectrum case
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday expressed disappointment over delay in the 2G spectrum case.The court was hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) appeal against the acquittal of Essar Group promoters Ravi Kant Ruia and Anshuman Ruia and others in a case arising out of the probe in 2G scam.It was also hearing the CBI's plea against the acquittal of former union telecom minister A Raja, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Kanimozhi and others in the case.The accused today sought time to file their responses in the matter. However, the court pulled them up for not doing the same on time. The accused alleged that the CBI has not provided some requisite documents to them.The court will now hear the matter on February 7 next year.On August 10, the High Court had granted additional time to A Raja, Kanimozhi and others to file their replies against the CBI's appeal challenging their acquittal.The CBI has challenged the Patiala House court's ruling which had acquitted all the ..
Trump apologises to Kavanaugh for 'pain' caused during confirmation process
United States President Donald Trump on Monday apologised to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the ordeal that Kavanaugh and his family had to go through during the confirmation process, at the ceremonial swearing-in event in the White House.Referring to the allegations of sexual harassment by Christine Blasey Ford which led to the hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Trump apologised for the "terrible pain and suffering" that Kavanaugh and his family were subjected to.CNN quoted Trump as saying, "Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process."Trump further asserted that a man or a woman in this country "must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty"."You, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent," Trump reiterated.Judge
Goa MLA son's car mows down girl in Belagavi
The speeding BMW car of Kyle Ticlo, son of Goa Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Glen Tilco, allegedly mowed down a girl in Karnataka's Belagavi on Tuesday. The accused has been arrested for rash driving.Two more girls got injured in the incident and they have been admitted in a hospital. The accident took place when the girls were crossing Goa-Belgaum National Highway."Three girls were hit because of rash and negligent driving by the MLA's son who was driving the car. The girls were crossing the highway. Unfortunately, it led to the death of one of the girls, while the other two were injured and admitted to the hospital," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Belagavi) Sima Latkar told ANI."A mob gathered at the spot and broke the windshields of the car and tried to set it ablaze," he added.The DCP further said that the MLA's son has been arrested and booked under Section 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), while seven people were also arrested ...