New Delhi Nov 17 PTI The Delhi High Court has denied bail to a man arrested for allegedly helping an undertrial gangster to escape from a hospital here on the ground that the conspiracy of helping the prisoner escape from the lawful judicial custody is of huge magnitude which could have serious effects on public safety and graver consequences on the societyThe high court said that an operation of this complexity that is to aid an undertrial of notorious credentials to escape lawful custody has wide ramifications that may shake the confidence of the public in the police administration as well as the criminal justice systemJustice Subramonium Prasad said granting bail to the accused at this juncture has the potential to encourage copycat criminal behaviour and dismissed the plea of accused Bhupender Singh alias BhuttanThe court noted that in this case around 10-12 persons were involved in the successful escape of gangster Kuldeep alias Fajja and two minors were made accomplices and abettors to the act of escaping the undertrial as they created chaos by throwing chilly powder in the eyes of the police personnel who were accompanying himAccording to the prosecution Singh was the one who took the undertrial on his scooty from Jaipur Golden Hospital to Rohini to a safe house for providing refuge to him Fajja was encountered by the police after a high voltage gunfight Singh was arrested on March 28The judge said the contention of Singhs counsel that the maximum punishment for the offences he is charged with is of no consequence as the gravity of the conspiracy to enable a dreaded gangster to escape from lawful custody has a greater bearing on this court while deciding this petitionThe evidentiary value of the disclosure statement and whether the petitioner Singh can be identified in the CCTV footage will be decided during the course of the trial This court needs to bear in mind that the act was meticulously planned and swiftly implementedThe conspiracy of helping Kuldeep alias Fajja escape from the lawful judicial custody is of huge magnitude which could have serious effects on public safety and graver consequences on society as a whole To execute this conspiracy it required skill tact and a high level of intricate planning and plotting the court saidIt added that tampering with evidence or influencing witnesses also cannot be ruled out PTI SKV SKV RKS RKS

New Delhi Sep 22 PTI An 18-year-old man was arrested and three juveniles were apprehended after they allegedly stabbed three people killing one of them in northwest Delhis Mangolpuri area police said on WednesdayAccording to the police they found Yashish 22 and Raj Kumar 42 both residents of Mangolpuri with stab wounds on Sunday and took them to the Sanjay Gandhi HospitalAnother Mangolpuri resident Mihir 18 was found admitted with stab injuries too a senior police officer saidYashish told the police that that he was sitting outside his house when around four people tried to snatch his mobile phone When he resisted he was stabbed by one of them the officer saidMeanwhile his neighbour Raj Kumar tried to intervene and he was also stabbed The accused then escaped from the spot the police saidThey had a scuffle with Mihir at a nearby place and stabbed him too the officer saidTwo separate cases under relevant sections were registered at the Mangolpuri police station and an investigation was taken up the police saidDuring the investigation all four accused were apprehended Out of them three were juveniles The knife used in the crime was recovered at their instance Deputy Commissioner of Police outer Parvinder Singh saidThe accused revealed that Yashish had beaten one of their associates and hence they took revenge They also said that Mihir along with his associates wanted to assault them and that is why they stabbed him the DCP saidKumar succumbed to injuries on Wednesday morning at the Jaipur Golden Hospital and section 302 murder has been added in the FIR PTI NIT IJT

New Delhi The Delhi High Court Monday granted additional time of six weeks to the Centre and Delhi government to file replies on a plea seeking CBI probe into the death of 21 COVID-19 patients at Jaipur Golden Hospital here in April allegedly due to oxygen shortageYou have approached the MM Metropolitan Magistrate also said Justice Rekha Palli as the matter was listed for further hearing on December 9Senior advocate Rahul Mehra and standing counsel Kiritman Singh appearing for Delhi government and the Centre respectively sought to file their responses to the petitionAdvocate Utsav Bains appearing for the petitioners said that the aggrieved families before the high court and the magisterial court were not the sameThe petitioners claimed that the committee came out with an erroneous report that those who died did not suffer suffocation due to lack of oxygen supply

New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday granted more time to the Centre and Delhi government to file a reply on a petition seeking court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigation into the deaths of COVID-19 patients at Jaipur Golden Hospital in April, allegedly due to oxygen shortage.