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Judicial Magistrate Saurabh Goyal said the police officer's action was "an attack upon the sanctity of judicial records. In an order dated April 2, the judge said, "I hold that the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused, SI Kavita Mathur, committed forgery of public documents, forged documents were used as genuine by her for the purpose of deceiving and influencing official processes..." Mathur was posted as an SI at Palam village police station in 2015 when she forged ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court convicted a former sub-inspector for forging signatures of senior police officers on chargesheets and filing them in court, terming her action "an attack upon the sanctity of judicial records". Judicial Magistrate Saurabh Goyal also found SI Kavita Mathur guilty of sending a threatening message to a senior officer. The judge held her guilty of committing forgery of public documents and using them as genuine for deceiving official processes. According to the prosecution ...Read More >
PUNE/NASHIK: The Ahilyanagar police have launched an investigation to determine whether the arrested self-styled godman, Ashok Kharat, was involved in additional cases of land fraud targeting farmers in the district. District SP Somnath Gharge told HT that the police are examining the money trail linked to Kharat's more than 100 bank accounts, which were opened under fictitious names. While the account holders' names differed, all accounts listed Kharat as the nominee, and the registered mobile ...Read More >
SRINAGAR, Apr 3: Head of All India Imam Organisation, Dr Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, today said that Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) would 'very soon' be re-integrated with India. "I want to say one thing to our neighbouring country from standing here in Kashmir that PoK, which is an integral part of India, will definitely rejoin India because the people of PoK want to have a referendum there," Ilyasi told reporters here. CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO He claimed that the residents of PoK are keen to re-in ...Read More >
SRINAGAR: The lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, on Friday ordered a magisterial inquiry into a recent encounter in Ganderbal district and sought a report within seven days.The Army had claimed on April 1 that an unidentified terrorist was killed in the operation at Arhama the previous night, while the slain person's family denied any terror links and demanded a probe."I have ordered a thorough and impartial magisterial inquiry into the Arhama, Ganderbal incident. The inquiry ...Read More >
Motihari (Bihar), Apr 3 (PTI) Four people died on Friday after allegedly drinking spurious liquor in Bihar's East Champaran district, taking the toll to five, officials said. The first death was reported on Thursday. As many as 12 people have been arrested in connection with the deaths in the Turkauliya and Raghunathpur areas of Motihari, said East Champaran District Magistrate Saurabh Jorwal. A case of murder has been registered based on complaints filed by the family members of the deceased ...Read More >
In the verdict passed on March 30, special judge R R Patare, hearing cases pertaining to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, cleared Haji Ali Mohammed Hakim and Irfan Maisher Qureshi of all the charges. The case dates back to July 9, 2017, when the Anti Narcotic Cell of the Worli unit received a tip-off regarding drug delivery near Foras Road in Nagpada area of south Mumbai. Acting on the information, the ANC team intercepted a taxi and apprehended Hakim with 15.66 kilograms of ...Read More >
New Delhi: The death toll in Motihari, Bihar, has risen to four on Friday, while six others are still battling for life. As per the officials, seven people have been discharged after initial treatment. The tragedy began in Balganga village under the Raghunathpur police station. The most horrifying part is that six to seven people who consumed the alcohol almost lost their eyesight. East Champaran District Magistrate Saurabh Jorwal said, The death toll has now mounted to four. Bodies have been s ...Read More >
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has directed a magisterial inquiry into the Ganderbal encounter in which Raashid Ahmad Mughal was killed, following questions raised by political leaders and the family's assertion that he had no links to terrorism. Jammu and Kashmir Home Department has formally instructed the Ganderbal district magistrate to conduct a "thorough and impartial" inquiry into the April 1 encounter. The department directed that the investigation be completed within seven da ...Read More >
Motihari (Bihar), Apr 3 (PTI) The death toll in the suspected hooch tragedy rose to four on Friday after three more persons died allegedly due to consumption of spurious liquor in dry Bihar's East Champaran district, officials said. At least six others are undergoing treatment at a government hospital, while seven people have been discharged after initial treatment, they said. The incident took place at Turkauliya and Raghunathpur areas of Motihari on Thursday. East Champaran District Magistr ...Read More >
HT visited Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing in Lajpat Nagar, where the exercise began at 8:10 pm with a complete blackout across the campus. The campus, which housed around 250 students along with academic and administrative staff, then saw a swift and coordinated response from multiple agencies to carry out evacuation and rescue operations. A circular to carry out a mock drill was issued by the directorate of civil defence to magistrates of 13 district last week. Also Read: Delhi to wi ...Read More >
Pune/Nashik: A Nashik court on Thursday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to a week's police custody in a second sexual abuse case, alleging forced termination of pregnancy and sustained coercion. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which arrested Kharat from Nashik Central Jail on Wednesday evening in another case, told the court that custodial interrogation was crucial to probe the abortion angle, source of pills and alleged threats to the survivor. The court of chief judicial magist ...Read More >
New Delhi/Kolkata, April 2: The Supreme Court of India on Thursday sharply criticised the West Bengal administration, describing the state as the "most polarised" in the country, following a serious law-and-order lapse in Malda district. The apex court took suo motu cognisance of a letter from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court detailing an alarming incident during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' lists, in which seven judicial officers -- including three women and a fi ...Read More >
After BJP, the Communist Party of India (CPI (M)) on Monday on Monday levelled serious allegations against the Himachal Pradesh government and chief secretary Sanjay Gupta accusing them of facilitating land mafia activities and benami land deals in the state. They also sought a probe by special investigation team (SIT). However, chief secretary termed the allegations as "baseless". The CPI (M) raised the issue of violation of Section 118 of the Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act cit ...Read More >
The Delhi high court on Thursday granted a final opportunity to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and other respondents to file their replies in the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) petition seeking expunging of adverse observations made by a trial court while discharging them in the excise policy case. A bench of justice Swarana Kanta Sharma issued the direction after counsel appearing for Kejriwal and others sought additional time to submit their responses. The court was informed that ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) A civil defence mock drill was conducted across all 13 districts of Delhi on Thursday, simulating a hostile attack scenario with air raid warnings, blackout measures and evacuation exercises in place. The large-scale exercise, carried out by the Directorate of Civil Defence, began at 8 pm at 17 locations, including hospitals, educational institutions, residential complexes, government offices and public spaces, according to a statement. Teams undertook mock rescue and ev ...Read More >
Cuttack: In a crackdown on LPG black marketing, the district administration on Thursday seized 55 cylinders from a residential premises in Khan Nagar, even as the Collector directed officials to maintain strict vigil to ensure uninterrupted supply of cooking gas to the public. Acting on the instructions of District Collector and Magistrate Dattatreya Bhausaheb Shinde, enforcement teams intensified raids across the district. During one such operation, a squad seized 55 LPG cylinders -- 48 domest ...Read More >
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has defended himself in court, arguing that allegations of 'hate speech' and 'defamation' stemming from his criticism of political ideology are baseless. He contends that his speech constitutes political critique, protected under the freedom of speech, without aiming to incite violence or defame any group. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has described the claims against him as a misuse of the legal process, after a Delhi court dismissed a plea for an ...Read More >
Refusing to take cognisance of the complaint, additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) Paras Dalal of Rouse Avenue Courts, in a 31-page order, said the complaint by Lipika Mitra lacked the necessary ingredients to initiate criminal defamation proceedings against the minister. Terming the complaint "worthless material" that had been "stretched for too long," the court said the statements made by Sitharaman were nothing more than political discourse among rival parties. Mitra, represented by ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has told a Delhi court that a revision petition assailing the dismissal of a plea seeking an FIR against him is an abuse of law, as mere criticism of a political ideology has vaguely been categorised as "hate speech" and "defamation". The leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha filed his response on Wednesday before Special Judge Jitendra Singh, seeking the dismissal of the revision plea. The court was hearing the revision plea filed ...Read More >
Malda: Protests against the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) process of electoral rolls intensified sharply across Malda district for the second day today, spreading from Sujapur and Mothabari to Old Malda and English Bazar. Demonstrators demanding inclusion of 'valid voters' in the electoral list clashed with the police, leaving a police vehicle driver seriously injured. Law enforcement resorted to lobbing tear gas shells to bring the situation under control. The unrest follows a dramatic esca ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 2: A Delhi court has drawn attention after using the 29-letter word "floccinaucinihilipilification" while dismissing a criminal defamation complaint against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The case, filed by Lipika Mitra, was rejected by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Paras Dalal at the Rouse Avenue Court, which described the complaint as "valueless or worthless." The court observed that the complaint lacked merit and had been prolonged unnecessarily. In its or ...Read More >
Nashik, Apr 2 (PTI) A court in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Thursday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to seven-day police custody in a second rape case where he is accused of sexually exploiting a woman on multiple occasions since 2020 under the guise of religious rituals. Kharat, arrested by a Special Investigation Team on Wednesday in the second rape case, was produced via video conferencing from jail before Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani, who sent him to SIT custody till ...Read More >
Aizawl (Mizoram) [India], April 2 (ANI): Mizoram police seized a large quantity of drugs worth over Rs 25 crore in separate operations in the state over the past few days. According to the Mizoram police, on March 31, Aizawl District Special Branch (DSB) team intercepted two Myanmar nationals, Thanglianmung (26 years old) and Manglianthang (23 years old), both of Thinglei, Tidim district, Myanmar, near Tawngtaimual, Zemabawk area. Also Read | Ashok Kharat Case: Self-Styled Godman Accused of Fe ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought a report from the West Bengal Police Director General of Police (DGP) for more than 10 hours, till they were rescued at midnight by CAPF, in connection with the incident in Malda's Kaliachak incident after seven judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed by a huge number of voters whose names had been deleted in the Adjudication process, in Malda district's Kaliachak, for more than ten hours. Meanwhile, Supreme Court has sho ...Read More >
Aizawl (Mizoram) [India], April 2 (ANI): Mizoram police seized a large quantity of drugs worth over Rs 25 crore in separate operations in the state over the past few days. According to the Mizoram police, on March 31, Aizawl District Special Branch (DSB) team intercepted two Myanmar nationals, Thanglianmung (26 years old) and Manglianthang (23 years old), both of Thinglei, Tidim district, Myanmar, near Tawngtaimual, Zemabawk area. "During the checking of their belongings in the presence of a w ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) The BJP on Thursday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of instigating a mob to gherao for several hours seven judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Malda district over the deletion of names from the voters list. Security forces used batons to disperse the crowd and rescued the judicial officers, including three women, late at night on Wednesday. Alleging large-scale removal of names of voters in the SIR process, the prote ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi Police have arrested three individuals for allegedly operating an illegal LPG gas storage and refilling racket in the Palam area, recovering 45 Bharat Gas cylinders from the spot, officials said on Thursday. In a significant crackdown, a team from Palam Village Police Station dismantled the illegal operation that was being run from a residential locality in Palam. The accused have been identified as Anaar Singh, a resident of Najafgarh, who worked as a ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Sukanta Majumdar, the Union Minister of State for Education and Development of North Eastern Region, condemned the crisis in Malda, where seven judicial officers were detained following protests over voter deletions under the ongoing SIR process. Criticising the recent violence, Majumdar asserted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's statements are responsible for the prevailing volatile situation on the ground. Also Read | Indian Stock Market Crash: Sensex Fa ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday refused to take cognisance of a criminal defamation complaint against Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, holding that no prima facie case was made out to proceed further.Additional chief judicial magistrate Paras Dalal of the Rouse Avenue Court observed that the court failed to find the "necessary ingredients of criminal defamation" in the complaint. Dismissing the plea, the court termed it "floccinaucinihilipilification" -- an English word meaning s ...Read More >
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