New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI): A Delhi Court on Friday granted bail to two women accused in a case related to the Mundka building fire. These accused women are the wife and the mother of the owner of the building where the incident occurred on May 13, 2022.

Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 31 (ANI): A day after an Indore resident alleged that his landlord asked him to vacate the house for having a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, SHO, MG Road PS, Dharamveer Singh Nagar on Wednesday said the former was found to be not paying his rent for a long time and was resorting to such complaints "to gain cheap popularity".

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 6 (ANI): A customer stabbed a fruit-seller to death after a dispute over a money transaction in the Null Bazar area of Mumbai on Saturday after which the Crime Branch arrested the accused while he was trying to flee from the state.

New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): A jilted lover died by suicide after allegedly physically assaulting a girl in Loni, Uttar Pradesh on Monday.

New Delhi Oct 25 PTI Drawing the distinction between preparation and the attempt to commit an offence under penal laws the Supreme Court Monday set aside the verdict of Madhya Pradesh High Court acquitting a man of the harsher charge of attempting to rape two minor girls in 2005 and ordered him to surrender back to jail forthwith In the verdict the top court dealt extensively with the terms preparation and the attempt the pre-requisites of a criminal offence and said the attempt consists the intention moral guilt and its depraving impact on the societal values is no less than the actual crime The judgement came on an appeal of the Madhya Pradesh government in which the apex court termed as untenable the verdict of the High Court which had acquitted a convict on a harsher charge of attempting to rape two girls of the age of eight and nine years respectively in his house saying he only prepared and did not attempt to rape the minors The Madhya Pradesh High Court had set aside the trial courts order of conviction under Section 3762f rape of a minor read with Section 511 attempt to commit rape of the IPC and instead held guilty under Section 354 outraging the modesty under the IPC and consequently had reduced the jail term from 5 years to 2 years The apex court bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli set aside the high court verdict restored the trial courts order and punishment of five years jail term for the offence of attempt to rape and asked the police to file a compliance report on the surrender of the convict to jail The high court had distinguished between two terms preparation and attempt used in the IPC and said the accused did not make all efforts to attempt to commit rape with both prosecutrixes he had not gone beyond the stage of preparation and he did not intend to do so at all events It is a well-settled principle of law that preparation of any offence cannot be termed as an attempt to commit the same offence The high court verdict led the top court to deal with the legal prerequisites of a criminal act such as mens rea intention to commit offence preparation attempt to commit an offence and the commission of an offence It is a settled proposition of criminal Jurisprudence that in every crime there is first Mens Rea secondly preparation to commit it and thirdly attempt to commit it If the third stage that is attempt is successful then the crime is complete If the attempt fails the crime is not complete but the law still punishes the person for attempting the said act Attempt is punishable because even an unsuccessful commission of the offence is preceded by mens rea moral guilt and its depraving impact on the societal values is no less than the actual commission the bench said While the stage of preparation consists of deliberation devising or arranging the means or measures which would be necessary for the commission of the offence the attempt to commit the offence starts immediately after the completion of preparation However if the attributes are unambiguously beyond the stage of preparation then the misdemeanours shall qualify to be termed as an attempt to commit the principal offence and such attempt in itself is a punishable offence in view of Section 511 IPC The preparation or attempt to commit the offence will be predominantly determined on evaluation of the act and conduct of an accused and as to whether or not the incident tantamounts to transgressing the thin space between preparation and attempt the bench said In our considered opinion the act of the convict of luring the minor girls taking them inside the room closing the doors and taking the victims to a room with the motive of carnal knowledge was the end of preparation to commit the offence the bench said His following action of stripping the prosecutrix and himself and rubbing his genitals against those of the victims was indeed an endeavour to commit sexual intercourse These acts of the respondent were deliberately done with manifest intention to commit the offence aimed and were reasonably proximate to the consummation of the offence the judgement said Since the acts of the convict exceeded the stage beyond preparation and preceded the actual penetration the trial court rightly held him guilty of attempting to commit rape it said The findings given contrarily by the High Court in ignorance of the material evidence on record are perverse and untenable in the eyes of law We thus allow the appeal set aside the judgment of the High Court and restore that of the Trial Court it said It directed the convict to surrender within two weeks and serve the remainder of his sentence as awarded by the Trial Court In case the respondent fails to surrender the Police Authorities are directed to arrest him and send a compliance report it said As per police in 2005 two minor victims of 9 and 8 years respectively were induced by their neighbors in his house when they were playing gillidanda in a street near their house The accused attempted to rape the girlsPTI SJK SJK RKS RKS

Tarn Taran, September 24: A 45-year-old man was allegedly murdered by his younger brother and sister-in-law in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mehal Singh. The incident took place in Bodalkeeri village under the jurisdiction of the Verowal police station. Mehal was hit on the head with a brick by […]

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