New Delhi: Pointing out that the place of arrest was mentioned erroneously in the arrest memo of a man in judicial custody, a Delhi court has granted the accused bail, citing violation of constitutional safeguards.The court of judicial magistrate first class P Bhargav Rao, in an order dated Aug 23, granted bail to Mohammad Chand,…
Pune: Police on Tuesday found the body of a man (27), who had been missing since Sunday, in a lake near Talegaon railway station. On Sunday night, a 22-year-old woman’s body was recovered from the same lake. “Prima facie, they might have died by suicide together,” an officer from Talegaon Dabhade police station said.According to…
New Delhi: Noting that archaic laws were causing a hindrance in the timely delivery of justice in civil matters, a Delhi court has said that “one simply cannot run a bullet train with the bogies of a goods train”.Hearing a civil suit for the recovery of Rs 24 lakh, the court of district judge (commercial)…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal (Western Zone), Pune, has ordered constitution of a joint committee comprising representatives from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), and the Pune district collector, to verify if untreated wastewater from villages under the zilla parishad is released into the Pavana river.The tribunal passed the…
Mumbai: A 27-year-old man who smuggled around 1 kg of gold dust worth Rs 1.02 crores inside his rectum was arrested at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai on Sunday.Acting on intelligence, the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs intercepted Wahid Isab when he crossed the green channel, suspecting he was carrying some…
New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India and National Monuments Authority have red-flagged extensive modern interventions carried out over the years at Ashiq Allah Dargah and the Chillagah of Baba Sheikh Fariduddin Shakar Ganj in Sanjay Van, Mehrauli. Officials of the trust managing the two monuments claim these changes were necessary for “public convenience and protection…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is likely to restart ayurvedic outpatient department (OPD) which closed during Covid-19 at Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH).The decision is being explored after BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe, along with several ayurveda practitioners, met the PCMC commissioner to press for its revival last week.A senior official from the civic…
Mumbai: A special NIA court on Tuesday granted Elgar Parishad accused, Sagar Gorkhe, permission to use a personal laptop to access his case files while in prison.The judge acknowledged the substantial volume of legal documents in the case, stating, “It is next to impossible to carry each and every hard copy of the case papers…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has set aside an order of the sentence review board (SRB), which rejected the plea for the premature release of a man serving life term for killing his wife and two children.The court noted that the “social investigation report” and the opinion of the probation officer suggested that the convict…
Pune: The health department on Tuesday suspended the live liver transplant licence of Sahyadri Hospitals’ Deccan branch, four days after the death of a healthy donor on Aug 22, while her post-mortem report was still awaited.The health department also decided to constitute an enquiry panel to primarily probe into the donor’s death in a high-level…
