According to sources, Kumar along with six others have been charged of defrauding from ORHDC on the pretext of giving flats to as many as 27 people. However, the then accounts officer Chitta Mallick has been acquitted by the court.
Kumar was convicted of financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 55 lakh earlier in August this year.
Kumar who was the MD of ORHDC during 2001, Biswal Constructions director Bijay Biswal and five other officials of the corporation have been accused of furnishing fake certificates and abuse of power and will face the trial.
Recently, Kumar along with the then executive director (technical) of OHRDC Purna Chandra Das, assistant manager Sanjay Mohanty, accounts officer Pradip Rout, accountant Chitta Mallick and secretary of Gramya Bikash Manch, Asish Das were convicted by the court under section 13 (2), 13(1) (d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and section 420 and 120 of IPC in connection with financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 55 lakh in the corporation in 2000. They were each awarded 3-year jail term.
Reports claim that as many as 22 financial irregularities and disproportionate asset cases are pending against the senior IAS officer.
The disqualification was pronounced by the Ganjam District and Sessions Court in response to a petition filed by former Mayor Siba Shankar Dash.
After hearing the witnesses of both sides, the court found that Madhavi had provided false data regarding her marital status.
The petitioner had alleged that she married for the second time without obtaining divorce from her first husband.
“Her second husband admitted before the court that Madhavi had not shown him any court decree regarding her divorce. She has been disqualified as corporator,” the petitioner’s lawyer said.
On the other hand, Madhavi said she will challenge the order of lower court in High Court. “I will definitely move High Court soon as the case is a matter of my honour. I hope the higher court would provide me justice,” she added.
Madhavi was the first woman mayor of the 40-member civic body and had been in office since June 2016.
"It's not called preliminary but internal report based on which the final report is prepared. The preliminary report is the one which is prepared at district-level forensic laboratory, but not at the State laboratory. The content of a report cannot be changed in the final stage," Bimalendu Ray, former assistant director of State Forensic Laboratory said.
Ray's statement hinted at manipulation, which in the history of the state forensic laboratory is not new as similar allegations surfaced during 1999 Anjana Mishra gang rape case.
"In Anjana Mishra case, two assistant directors had manipulated the report under pressure and for which they were in CBI net,” Ray added.
The State forensic laboratory director Purnachandra Mandal, who ordered a departmental inquiry into the leakage of the ‘preliminary inter-divisional report’ today said "The final report which we have submitted to court has no mention of semen on the clothes of the victim. We have started a departmental inquiry into how the preliminary report was leaked."
The preliminary report, the findings of which were aired on OTV had mentioned that as per the chemical tests conducted at the laboratory, traces of semen of two persons were found on the clothes of the Kunduli gang rape victim, who committed suicide on January 22, 2018.
The Nuapada resident has alleged that the girls were threatening him and blackmailing him along with their male friend who had recorded the video of the assault.
“I had a love affair with one of the girls seen in the video. Though I had told her several times that I have applied for divorce in my first marriage and the matter is sub-judice and I could only marry her after the divorce formalities are completed, she kept blackmailing me,” said the man.
“She has taken money, mobile phones, jewellery and watches from me over the past one year during our relationship,” he said.
He also alleged that the girls intentionally assaulted him after hatching a plot to blackmail him and then shared the video on social media.
The man has already attempted suicide twice claimed his lawyer, Bana Mohanty. He also said that the video is the evidence against the girls and the people who shared the video on social media first should also be tracked.
Earlier, a video showing the two girls assaulting the man in a park went viral on social media.
Besides, Singh has also been asked to deposit Rs 100 crore with the court’s registry.
On April 24, Singh, who was arrested from Nagpur, had pleaded guilty of all charges in writing before the court. The company had allegedly collected money from small investors in Odisha with a promise of high returns ranging from 15 to 20 per cent.
Last month, the court had sentenced chit fund firm Artha Tatwa (AT) Group’s chief Pradip Sethy to 7-year imprisonment for his involvement in the multi-crore chit fund scam in Odisha.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on Sethy, failing which he will be required to undergo another 6 months of imprisonment.
Apart from him, the court also sentenced Manoj Patnaik, another director of AT Group to 4 years of imprisonment and imposed on him a fine of Rs 10,000.
Both Sethy and Patnaik had pleaded guilty before the CBI court.
Report said the boatman Bidesh Mallick alias Hatia along with other injured passengers of the ill-fated boat were rescued and admitted to MKCG hospital on Saturday. As the hospital authorities discharged Mallick after his recovery, he was detained by the MKCG Medical Outpost police. Later, the Rambha Police arrived at the outpost and arrested him.
Talking to media persons, IIC of Rambha Police Station Prasant Kumar Das said a case has been registered against Mallick under section 280, 337, 338, 304 and 34 of the IPC for ferrying the boat without license and carrying passengers without ensuring safety measures in gross violation of rules. “We will forward the boatman to court after interrogating him about the mishap”, he added.
The IIC also informed that police would take similar action against another boatman, a minor, who was manning the ill-fated boat with Mallick.
Asked whether the police has interrogated some of the passengers as to how they could not know that the boat in which they were travelling was a fishing boat which had holes, Das said the passengers said by the time they noticed some holes in the boat, it was too late as the boat was already in the deep waters and far away from the shore.
The arrested boatman said he had tried his best to save the lives of the passengers. “After rescuing some passengers, I lost my conscious due to severe exhaustion. After I regained my conscious, I found myself at the hospital,” he added.
He said though he had told the passengers that he can carry a maximum of 15 passengers, they did not pay heed to his advice and as a result, the tragic incident took place.
Mallick also said he had asked the passengers to set in the middle of the boat. But they did not listen and sat on one side of the boat which lost balance and the lake water entered into the boat which later capsized.
He, however, said though it was a fishing boat, he used to ferry a couple of tourists occasionally.
Notably, 29 members (18 male, 8 female and 3 children) of a family and their relatives and friends of Sabulia village were on the way to Ghantasila inside the lake for a picnic on Saturday when the boatman lost control of the overloaded boat which capsized.
While four persons including two children died in the mishap, the remaining passengers were rescued by the local fishermen and the Fire Brigade team.
The arrested has been identified as Kasinath Marandi.
“I had managed tolerate the former ward member as he was sexually exploiting my wife earlier. But this time it was beyond my toleration as he again exploited my wife. Determined to eliminate him, I caught him inside the mango orchard, tied his hands and mouth and set him on fire after pouring kerosene on his body,” Marandi told media persons at the Khunta Police Station.
IIC of Khunta Police station Niranjan Das said a team of Khunta Police led by Sudarshan Baghe raided the Marandi’s father-in-law’s house in Rajabandha village under Saraskana police station limits in the early morning and arrested him.
Asked about the incident, the IIC said as per information the deceased was sexually exploiting the wife of the accused. A meeting in this connection was held recently in the house of the deceased where he had promised not to indulge in such activity in future. But he again did the same with the wife in the absence of her husband. After coming to know about the incident from his wife after his return to home, the accused made up his mind and killed him by pouring kerosene on his body after tying his hands and mouth inside the mango orchard in the village.
“We will forward him to the court today,” the IIC added.
The arrested have been identified as Akshaya Behera (20), Sidhanta Nayak (19) and Guru Behera (20) of Bhattapada village under Mancheswar Police Station limits and Biswajit Nayak (23) of PHD Colony in Kedarpalli area under Capital Police Station limits.
According to police, the four anti-socials used to loot mobile phones from the commuters in the city especially on National Highway.
They will be forwarded to the court tomorrow.
The advocate also drew the attention of the court about the deteriorating health condition of Nayak. The court ordered the jail authorities to conduct the check up by the doctors.
Nayak was sent back to Jharpada jail again after being produced in court as his two-day remand period ended today. On the other hand, the Commissionerate police has not applied for fresh remand.
The police has given emphasis on the organisational structure. “We are trying to understand the organisational structure. We will trace the how the fire safety related files were moved and by whom. The involvements of those will come to fore, they will be questioned”, police commissioner YB Khurania said.
The police have grilled the hospital owner during two-day remand period on various aspects including functioning of the hospital even after the expiry of registration as per the clinical establishment act.
Similarly, the probe team also questioned him about the renewal of the licence sans fire safety certificate. He was also interrogated about the circumstances that led to the tragedy which claimed 26 lives.
Nayak – who rose from a humble computer science teacher to a successful entrepreneur, surrendered before Khandagiri police on Thursday. He was arrested amid growing outrage that he ran the hospital flouting fire safety norms.
He was booked under sections 304, 308, 285 and 34 of Indian Penal Code most of which are non-bailable.
According to sources, the SIT will submit 15 guns seized from SOG jawans and empty cartridges before the Baliguda Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) court.
Besides, the probe agency will also deposit the clothes of the deceased before the court today. The evidences will be later sent to the forensic science laboratory for test, the sources added.
Notably, five villagers, including two women and a two-year old child, were killed during an anti-Maoists operation by Special Operation Group (SOG) jawans inside Malapanga forest in Kandhamal district on July 8 night.
Following the incident, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had directed a Special Investigation Team of the State Human Rights Protection Cell (HRPC) to probe the incident.
In a lengthy interview to OTV, the minor girl’s father also stated that his daughter was at home on June 28, the day police claimed it produced the victim before the court to record her statement.
“My daughter has not gone to court....They (police) may have taken another girl to the court and enacted the whole drama....My daughter has not gone to court on June 28,” said the father of the minor victim.
Such a statement has not only given a fresh twist to the case, but has also raised doubts on the claim of police that it had recorded the victim’s statement on the incident under Section 164 of CrPC on June 28. Going by the statement of the victim’s father, the obvious question that arises is: if she was at home, then who the police produced before the court and whose statement it recorded.
Again, if the victim’s statement was not recorded before the court on that particular day, why did her father not complain about this when police claimed about the same?
During the interview, the victim's father also wanted the case against the actor to be withdrawn claiming a settlement had been reached between them. Vouching for the character of Papu, the victim’s father mentioned that the actor is a gentleman and he speaks to him frequently.
“I don’t want the matter to go any further...My daughter is in a tender age....The way the society is changing, I want my daughter to excel in studies...If this case continues, it might hamper her studies and also she may be disturbed mentally,” he maintained.
Legal professionals, however, believe that the chances of an amicable settlement between the parties in the case, scheduled to be heard on July 11, are remote.
“The investigation is in an early stage and I think there is very little scope of getting bail in the matter. He (Papu) will not go scotfree in the case. The court will not allow compromise as the sections under which he has been booked are not compoundable,” senior lawyer Madhu Madhav Jena said.
On the statement of the victim’s father, he said, “The victim’s father is saying that she has not attended the court. But we do not believe this as he seems to be influenced to give statement like this.”
The court will hear the petition on Papu’s bail on July 11.
“The father of the victim filed an affidavit the court saying ‘we do not want to proceed any further in the case since the matter has been amicably settled among both the parties’," said Friends Foundation secretary Babita Kar, who had filed the complaint against Papu Pom Pom in the Mahila police station here on behalf of the victim.
“Within three days of the lodging of the police complaint, one person went to the house of the victim with a packet and met her parents. The victim’s parents beat her up and did not allow her to meet us. At that point, the statement of the victim was recorded by the Commissionerate Police under Sec 164 of IPC. This kind of amicable compromise does not happen in a minor girl sexual abuse case. Therefore, the court rejected the affidavit,” she added.
Court sources, however, disputed Kar's claim that the affidavit had been rejected. The hearing on the affidavit by the court along with Papu's bail plea on July 11, they said.
Kar said; “A gang must have been involved in this case. The Commissionerate Police has not sought remand for Papu and his aide yet.”.
On the other hand, the public prosecutor told OTV that the judge in the court stated that the father of the victim had no locus standi to file such an affidavit in the case.
Legal experts are of the opinion that the charges against Papu are all cognisable offences and compromise cannot be reached in such cases.
The winner of the mega show Ranjita Panigrahi, a native of Bhadrak, also demanded a ban on the channel. "I want a ban on Sarthak channel," she said.
"I was declared winner in the grand finale and was crowned accordingly. If votes from the audience were really needed, it could have been done before or during the semi final round," Panigrahi said.
Ranjita's mother also reacted sharply to the decision of the channel authorities and warned them of legal action. " As the mother of the contestant, I have decided to move court against such decision. I never thought that Sarthak TV would stoop down to this level," she said.
On the other hand, the channel has said that it has all the right to change the format of a programme during the course of shooting. "This allegation has no basis. A channel has full authority to make changes in its format until it is aired," Sarthak TV's non-fiction head Sreemant Kumar said.
Launched in 2013, Rajo Queen is one of the most innovative reality shows on Sarthak TV,
The show is based on popular Odia festival 'Raja'. As the festival is basically celebrated by unmarried girls, the channel invites them for audition for the programme. Channel sources said they are shortlisted on the basis of their IQ, general knowledge and smartness.The most talented of them is crowned as the 'Rajo Queen'.
Ollywood celebrities like Debashish Patra, Sritam Das, Priya Chowdhary, Prakruti Mishra, Jina Samal and Anubha Sourya are the mentors of the mega programme for this season.
The court, in its interim order in January this year, had asked Rajshree to pay Rs 25,000 per month. He had also deposited the amount in January and Barsa Swony had received the amount.
After the interim order, Rajashree's lawyer Harekrushna Das had said that he would challenge the order in the High Court.
"Rajashree is unemployed but his wife Barsa Swony has got sufficient funds at her disposal. She owns a trust named ‘Barsa Swony Trust’ and also runs a ‘Kalyan Mandap’. She gets enough money by doing TV anchoring. She has the ability to sustain herself. We would move high court against the order,” Das had said.
Alleging that her estranged husband Rajashree Mohanty and her in-laws continue to live a lavish life with assets worth crores of rupees, Barsa Swony had filed a miscellaneous case under Sec-24 last year demanding Rs 60,000 as monthly maintenance.
Rout had appealed to the court to grant bail for his treatment outside Odisha. In the petition, he had mentioned that he needed ultra modern medical services and for which he needs to go out of the State.
The public prosecutor informed the court that Rout is being given the best medical services for his illness.
After hearing both sides, the court rejected the bail petition of Rout and directed the jail authorities to provide appropriate health services to him.
Notably, Rout owns the Athagarh farm house near Cuttack in which Om and Dipu were beaten to death by the criminal siblings.
The court has posted the hearing on the bail plea on March 1, sources said.
Notably, Jessy was arrested by Soro police for instigating Raja to commit suicide while returning after performing in a stage show by Kalinga Kanya Gananatya at Taranka Tipisigadia under Makhanpur panchayat under Khaira block in Balasore district on February 6.
Initially, he was rushed to Bhadrak district headquarters hospital and was later shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
According to reports, the prisoner, identified as Ashok Behera, was brought to court from Jharapada Jail here for a hearing in connection with a case.
He jumped from the third floor of the court building while trying to flee the spot, reports added.
Noting that "Since 2005, no licence has been issued", the court said: "There may be a regulation, but that does not amount to total prohibition."
The state, the bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan in their judgment said, was "aiming to achieve something indirectly which it could not do directly". "Such a situation is beyond comprehension and cannot be countenanced".
Saying that there is no quarrel over regulating the dance bars and making the "obscene dances" as penal offence, Justice Sikri pronouncing the judgement said the conditions stipulated under the law are "virtually impossible to perform" and the "real consequences and effect (of the regulation) is to prohibit such dance bars."
The court said this as it struck down certain provisions of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurant and Bar Rooms and Protection of Dignity of Women (Working therein) Act, 2016.
The court described as "impossible condition" that dance bars should be located one km from educational and religious institutions.
Describing as "totally disproportionate, unreasonable and arbitrary", the provision that proscribes serving of alcohol in the bar room where dances are staged, the court said, "We see no reason as to why the liquor cannot be served at such places. It seems that state is more influenced by moralistic overtones under wrong presumption that persons after consuming alcohol would misbehave with the dancers."
The court said, "If this is so, such a presumption would be equally applicable to bar rooms where the alcohol is served by women waitresses."
Quashing the provision, the court said that there could be "aberrations or sporadic incidents" of misbehaviour after taking liquor which could happen not only at the dance bars but at other places, including bar rooms and even main restaurants.
"Other measures have to be adopted to check such a nuance", the court said.
Upholding the provision that prohibits throwing or showering of coins, currency notes or any article or anything which can be monetised on the stage, the court said that "handing over of the notes to the dancers personally is not inappropriate."
The court set aside the provision of giving the tips only by adding the same to the bills.
Upholding the provision on employer entering into a contract with working women, dancers and waiters/waitresses and depositing their remuneration in bank accounts and describing it as transparent, the court, however, said "the condition of employing such persons on a monthly salary does not stand the judicial scrutiny."
Holding as "sufficient and substantial" the five-anda-half-hour time for the dance performances, the court said, "We do not find it to be manifestly unreasonable. Merely because establishments are otherwise open until 1:30 am (next day) or 12:30 am (next day) does not mean that the state has no power to restrict the time of dance performances till 11:30 pm".
Described as "totally inappropriate and amounting to invasion of privacy" the mandatory installation of CCTV cameras in dance area, the court said it violates Articles 14, 19(1)(a) and 21 of the Constitution.
Having taken a dim view of the way regulatory regime was being used to stall the dance bars, the court said, "We hope applications for granting licences shall now be considered more objectively and with an open mind so that there is no complete ban on staging dance performances at designated places prescribed in the Act."
Assailing the notion of that state that dance performances in the dance bars do not have "moralistic basis" and were giving rise to "exploitation of women", the court said, "We would like to re-emphasise that the state cannot take exception to staging dance performances per se".
The order came following a hearing on a fresh plea filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The ED has sought action against him under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance in the over Rs 9,000-crore bank fraud case.
Prevention of Money Laundering Act Court Special Judge M.S. Azmi ordered issue of the notice to Mallya after taking cognisance of the recent second ED chargesheet and its application on June 22 seeking to invoke the charges against him under the FEO Ordinance.
This is first time that action has been initiated invoking the new Ordinance promulgated by the government to tackle fugitive bank loan defaulters.
If Mallya -- currently holed up in the United Kingdom -- fails to honour the special court's summons, he could be proclaimed a "Fugitive Economic Offender", and all his properties can be confiscated.
The special court has earlier issued non-bailable arrest warrants in Mallya's name in the two main cases lodged by the ED, but he has denied all charges against him.
New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Sunday ended her nine-day fast after President Ram Nath Kovind approved an ordinance to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years.
Maliwal, 33, went on an indefinite hunger strike at Rajghat and refused to break it despite failing health till the government acted seriously against those who sexually assault young girls.
On Sunday, the President promulgated The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018, which was approved by the cabinet on Saturday.
Maliwal began her fast following the widely condemned rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir in January and similar crimes elsewhere in the country.
"Our state government is committed not only to the cause of justice, but also justice at the doorstep for the people of Odisha. In the process, new courts are being established every year and during the last four years the state government has established more than 170 courts," said the Chief Minister.
Patnaik was speaking at the Bhoomi Poojan ceremony of the Judicial Court Complex in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Deepak Misra performed the Bhoomi Poojan ceremony of the Judicial Court Complex in the Civil Court premises here.
The Chief Minister said this year, the government has decided to establish fifty more courts, including family courts and additional district judge courts.
Besides that, the government has recently established three commercial courts to create an investor-friendly atmosphere in the state, the CM added.
Later, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra attending the state level conference on "Juvenile Justice: Issues and Challenges" at the Judicial Academy in Cuttack on Sunday.
He said providing employment opportunities to juveniles can help in curbing crime and other offences committed by them and also enhance their self-confidence.
"It is only through proper employment, juveniles in conflict with the law and order be made to return to the mainstream," said Justice Misra.
The court order came on a complaint filed by an NGO Nyayabhoomi through its secretary Rakesh Agarwal.
The complaint was filed against ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd which runs Ola, Uber India Systems Pvt Ltd and the Serendipity Infolabs Pvt Ltd which runs 'Taxi For Sure'.
"Prima facie, it is clear that excess fare has been charged by the respondent company in violation of Motor Vehicles (MV) Act notification dated June 20, 2013 as well as City Taxi Scheme (CTS)," the court said.
"Accordingly, prima facie of permit violation under section 192A of MV Act is made out," the court said.
The NGO has sought recovery of a whopping Rs 91,000 crore from cab service providers for allegedly not adhering to rules relating to fares and not operating by meters.
It had sought lodging of an FIR alleging that by providing taxi and auto rickshaw services, they were violating permit conditions which amounted to commission of offences under sections 66 and 192A of the MV Act.
ICMIS helps with digital filing of the cases called e-filing and enables litigants to easily access the information online.
The Prime Minister uploaded the ICMIS on the Supreme Court's website, in a function marked at Vigyan Bhawan in the presence of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Stressing upon the need of using technology for improving the justice delivery system of India, Justice Khehar said that e-filing was the best that has happened till now to the system.
"This has given lawyers an option to e-file, they need not come to the registry, they can file the case from their offices. E-filing is the best that has happened till now. We are improving that... I think it will be a great environmental help as well," the Chief Justice said.
Saying that the judiciary needed technology to ease the working environment of court and to tackle the huge number of cases, Khehar added that all the high courts and district courts must also use this system.
"I've spoken about filing in the SC and the introduction of this system for SC, I propose to take this system to all HCs and then all District Courts," he said.
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved an ordinance to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age.
Official sources said that the criminal law amendment ordinance seeks to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act to introduce a new provision to sentence convicts of such crimes punishment of death.
The move comes against the backdrop of the alleged rape and murder of girls in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and Gujarat's Surat district recently.
The rape of a minor in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh had also outraged the nation.
The ordinance would be now sent to the President for his approval.
Out of the total cases, 4,05,483 cases were of civil in nature, while the remaining 9,13,505 were criminal cases, he said.
"Of them, 2,00,710 cases were pending for disposal for above ten years, while 2,65,577 cases were five-year-old," Sahoo said.
He said of the total sanctioned 27 judges posts in the High Court, eight remained vacant. Similarly, 191 judges posts were to be filled in lower courts against the sanctioned strength of 804 posts.
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The minister, however, said he was yet to get information on the rate of conviction in the state.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Virender Bhat awarded seven years jail to convict Jagdish Nautiyal, a gazetted NHRC officer for establishing physical relations with a widow and marrying her by concealing his first marriage.
The court observed that the convict is the son of a retired assistant registrar of the high court, and said this made the "offence committed by him more serious."
"The persons like the convict (Nautiyal) are expected to exhibit a moral character of the highest degree and serve as an example in the society," the judge said in the order delivered Monday.
Observing that assault upon a socially weak widow after inducing a belief in her mind that she has become lawfully married to the assailant cannot be termed an offence of lesser gravity, the court slapped a fine of Rs. 1.5 lakh on him.
According to the prosecution, the victim had alleged that the convict had established physical relations with her and married her after concealing his first marriage.
Nautiyal married her after the death of the victim's husband. A few months after the marriage, the victim came to know that he was married and had two kids, the prosecution said.
A case was registered against him July 2011 in Nanakpura in west Delhi.
The court observed that despite being happily married and having children, he was "overpowered by excessive erotic desire" and approached the victim soon after the death of her husband.
The chief judicial magistrate ordered the detention of the minister of state for minority affairs and parliamentary affairs but later released him on a personal bond of Rs.20,000.
The verdict came in a case related to a protest reportedly led by the Bharatiya Janata Party leader in 2009 at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.
Naqvi, who was in Rampur Wednesday, denied he was present at the 2009 protest and said he will appeal in a higher court.
Police had registered a case against Naqvi and 200 other people.
According to the ED, the Westminster Court issued the arrest warrant against Nirav Modi on March 13.
The Indian government had moved an extradition request for Modi, who is currently in London, ED sources said in Delhi.
The court granted bail to the BJD MLA against sureties of Rs 50,000 and two bailers. Maharathy has also been directed to refrain from influencing witnesses and to cooperate with police during investigation.
Maharathy was arrested on April 22 for allegedly attacking Election Commission flying squad Magistrate Rabinarayan Patra and Static Surveillance Team (SST) members at the former's farm house in Pipili area of Puri district.
Maharathy has been charged with serious offences including 307 (Attempt to Murder), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 147 (rioting) & 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon).
Earlier, the ruling party legislator was sent to Jharpada Special Jail after the Bhubaneswar Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) had turned down his bail petition.
"With the investigation mostly complete, and considering the health condition of Maharathy, the court granted him bail on condition that he should not threaten witnesses, refrain himself from indulging in criminal activities and coordinate the Investigation Officer in the probe," said Pradipta Kumar Mishra, Additional Government lawyer.
A senior CBI official said, "A case in alleged irregularities in Himachal Pradesh pre-Matric and post-Matric scholarship scheme has been registered against unknown officials under sections of criminal breach, cheating by personation, forgery, Forgery of record of court or of public register and using as genuine a forged document."
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case on the request of the Himachal Pradesh government.
The official said that the unknown officials alleged misappropriated scholarship funds of the Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe, Other backward classes and minority community to the tune of around Rs 250 crore.
He said the searches were conducted at 22 educational institution premises in Himachal Pradesh's Una, Shimla, Solan, Bilaspur, Chamba, Kangra and Shirmor, in Punjab's Mohali, Nawan Shahar and Gurdaspur and in Haryana's Karnal and Ambala.
Sanji Ram, the caretaker of the temple where the crime took place, Special Police Officer Deepak Khajuria and Parvesh Kumar, a civilian, have been convicted under Ranbir Penal Code sections pertaining to criminal conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, gangrape, destruction of evidence, drugging the victim and common intention. the lawyers said.
They have been sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs 1 lakh each for murder along with 25 years in jail for gangrape, they said.
Three accomplices -- Sub Inspector Anand Dutta, Head Constable Tilak Raj and special police officer Surender Verma -- who were convicted for destruction of evidence have been handed over five years imprisonment, they said.
The lawyer representing Shiv Sena in the apex court told PTI that the party has preferred not to mention the petition.
Advocate Sunil Fernandes, who had filed the petition on behalf of the Shiv Sena, said on Tuesday that the Supreme Court had asked them to mention the writ petition at 10:30 AM on Wednesday.
The lawyer said another petition challenging the imposition of President's rule in the state was being readied but were non-committal when the fresh petition will be filed.
The plaintiff has contended that she has contributed skills and knowledge in the making of the film "Chhappak", which is going to be released on Friday.
The maker of the film despite acknowledging her work and assurance had not given her due credit.
This is what her Facebook post mentioned.
"If a person has been given a promise based on which a contribution is made, the work needs to be acknowledged. I am not concerned for money, I am seeking acknowledgement," said senior advocate Sanjay Parikh appearing for the complainant and lawyer Aparna Bhatt.
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Additional Civil Judge Pankaj Sharma said it was necessary that advocate Aparna Bhat's contribution is acknowledged.
"This Court is of the considered view that facts are indicative that the plea of the plaintiff for interim injunction is well-founded and it is necessary that her contribution be acknowledged by providing on the slide on the actual footage and the images, the line 'Aparna Bhat continues to fight the cases of sexual and physical violence against women' during the screening of the film.
"The said line on screen maybe with a rider that the same is with the court order," the judge said.
Advocate Bhat filed the application saying that despite representing Agarwal in courts for several years and helping in the movie-making, she was not given credit in the movie.
She said the filmmakers took her help in the entire process of writing and shooting the movie, but did not give the credit.
(PTI)
The actor, who was in his early sixties, was admitted to a city hospital after he contracted the coronavirus.
According to Tamhane, who directed him in the acclaimed 2014 “Court”, the actor was put on ventilator and breathed his last around 3 AM.
“It’s true. He passed away at around 3 AM in the hospital. He had COVID-19 and was on ventilator. It’s an extremely unfortunate news. It is yet to sink in,” Tamhane told PTI.
Sathidar rose to prominence after playing the role of protest singer NaNarayan Kamble in “Court”, who is accused of encouraging a manhole worker to commit suicide through one of his folk songs.
Tamhane said the news of Sathidar’s demise has come as a “huge shock” to him.
“He was not only an actor, activist and a poet but also one of the nicest human beings I’ve met. I still can’t process it. He was a fantastic person and I can now only think of the time we spent making ‘Court,'” the director added.
Apart from “Court”, which was India’s official entry to Oscars 2016, Sathidar went on to feature in two more short films.
The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict.
“Honourable court has awarded him greater punishment under 376 2I of Indian Penal Code (IPC). In case the accused fails to submit the fine of Rs 10,000, he will have to serve five-years more imprisonment,” informed government advocate Ramesh Mohanty.
The girl, who belongs to Nishintakoili police limits in Cuttack district, had gone to her aunt’s house in Dharmasala on April 13, 2014 to watch Ram Navami Yatra.
The minor girl was alone at her aunt’s home on April 21 where she was raped by Karunakara.
Initially, the girl was mum on the incident after the accused threatened her for life but later when her health condition deteriorated, she revealed everything before her parents. Later her family filed a complaint in the police station.
A Special Court in Cuttack under POCSO Act took cognizance of all the reports, witnesses and medical reports before pronouncing the verdict.