The Delhi High court on Tuesday dismissed Umar Khalid’s bail plea. The bench had reserved its decision on September 9. Umar Khalid had moved to the Delhi HC after he was denied bail by the trial court on March 24.  He has been booked under several provisions of the stringent... The post appeared first on .

The Delhi High court on Tuesday dismissed Umar Khalid’s bail plea. The bench had reserved its decision on September 9. Umar Khalid had moved to the Delhi HC after he was denied bail by the trial court on March 24.  He has been booked under several provisions of the stringent... The post appeared first on .

Guwahati Apr 25 PTI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday directed that the 36 job aspirants who were arrested for staging a demonstration in front of the state police headquarters here last week be released Sarma directed the police department to look into the case sympathetically from a humanitarian angle and take steps for their early release according to a statement issued by the Chief Ministers Office CMOThe arrested youths who were seeking job as constables in Assam Police were demonstrating in front of the headquarters of the force demanding immediate announcement of the results of the recruitment examination held in FebruaryAround 115 people were detained from the spot by the police on April 18 and out of them 36 were arrestedA case was registered against them in Paltan Bazar police station under various sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act A court remanded them to four days police custodyGuwahati Joint Commissioner of Police Partha Sarathi Mahanta had told reporters that it is being investigated why the agitators were trying to put pressure on the authorities concerned to declare the results within such a short time PTI DG DG NN NN

Itanagar Mar 28 PTI A graffiti artist who was among the two persons arrested in Arunachal Pradesh for allegedly defacing an artwork on the boundary wall of the civil secretariat has found support in a youth organisation that has threatened to block roads for an indefinite period in protestNilim Mahanta an artist-cum-activist was held in North Lakhimpur district in Assam while another person advocate E Mili was apprehended from Roing in Lower Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday nightThey have been accused of defacing a portion of a mural on the civil secretariat wall depicting art and culture of the tribal community by drawing a resistance logo on it and writing No More Dams with black paint the Capital Region Superintendent of Police in Arunachal Pradesh Jimmy Chiram saidA case under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act 1984 has been registered against them at the Itanagar police station the SP saidSeveral activists and locals had been opposing the Dibang multipurpose project in Arunachal Pradesh over issues ranging from displacement and deforestation to loss of community landTaking exception to the police action the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra Parishad AJYCP on Monday announced that it would stage an indefinite road blockade if Mahanta is not released within 12 hoursThis fascist government now fears everyone They fear democratic protests power of pen free speech and artists they are trying to suppress people due to that fear AJYCP General Secretary Palash Changmai said on his Facebook pageThe outfit held a protest against the arrest in North Lakhimpur town during the dayNilim has always raised his voice against any injustice through his paintings If he is not released within the next 12 hours we will start an indefinite road blockade against Arunachal Pradesh the outfits central committee assistant general secretary Saurav Das saidThe artists mother Swargojyoti Goswami told PTI that her son was invited to Itanagar a few days ago by the anti-dam activists of the Dibang Multipurpose Project which is a hydropower-cum-flood moderation scheme proposed on Dibang RiverNilim was paid an honorarium by the anti-big dam activists of Arunachal Pradesh for a wall painting We dont know what happened there but want our son home immediately she saidOpposition Raijor Dal president and Assam MLA Akhil Gogoi condemned the arrest of Mahanta by the Arunachal Pradesh governmentThe police action is undemocratic and fascist We demand that the artist be released and charges against him be removed he told reporters outside Assam AssemblyEchoing him Assam Jatiya Parishad president Lurinjyoti Gogoi said the action on the part of the Arunachal Pradesh Police was vindictive immoral and undemocraticPeople have the right to protest in a democracy and no power hungry government can snatch this right he added PTI UPL TR COR RMS RMS

Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], December 24 (ANI): In the wake of the Ludhiana District court complex explosion, Additional forces have been called in for better policing, said Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, Ludhiana Commissioner of Police.

Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], December 24 (ANI): The person who died in the Ludhiana court blast yesterday is believed to have had brought explosives to the District Court Complex, police said on Friday.

Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], December 23 (ANI): Days after sacrilege and hours after the Ludhiana court blast, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) President Navjot Singh Sidhu questions the timing of series of events happening in the state prior to the upcoming assembly elections.

Thane Nov 28 PTI A Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation driver attached to the undertakings Kalyan depot in Thane district was arrested for allegedly throwing a stone at one of its buses police said on Sunday MSRTC staffers have been on strike since October 28 and bus operations across its 250 depots statewide have been affected from November 9 though friction is being witnessed among employees of late as some of them have begun to break ranks and return to work A police official said Saturdays stone pelting incident was also the result of this friction among staffers One driver returned to work on the Kalyan-Bhiwandi route on Saturday afternoon which angered his colleague Vitthal Kehdkar who threw a stone at the formers bus in Kongaon area The glass of the vehicle was damaged though no one was injured the official said Kehdkar was charged under IPC and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act provisions for using criminal force to deter a public servant from carrying out his duties and endangering human life through a rash and negligent act he said Staffers of the loss-making MSRTC have been demanding its merger with the state government which will give employees better salaries and greater job security PTI COR BNM BNM BNM

Kochi Nov 22 PTI The accused in the 2015 Assembly ruckus case including General Education Minister V Sivankutty on Monday filed a revision petition before the Kerala High Court against the dismissal of their discharge petition by a lower court in Thiruvananthapuram The court admitted the petition filed by Sivankutty MLA K T Jaleel former minister E P Jayarajan K Ajith C K Sadasivan and K Kunhammed all opposition MLAs then Justice K Haripal issued notice to the state government and sought its response in the matter It is most respectfully submitted that the petitioners are totally innocent of the allegations raised in the case and the findings in the final report are not supported by any legal evidence and are groundless in toto and even if those groundless allegationsfindings are accepted at its face value none of the offences is made out against the petitioners the petition filed by the Left party leaders said The petition said none of the then MLAs have filed any complaint regarding the incident and the investigation was done by a CBCID DySP based on a letter of Legislative secretary The petition claimed that the report of the investigation was highly tainted and biased to project a totally distorted version of incidents which happened in the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 2015 On October 13 in a setback to Keralas ruling LDF Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate CJM dismissed the discharge petitions filed by the accused in the case saying the material produced before it by the prosecution disclose a grave suspicion that the accused have committed the offences Dismissing the petitions the CJM also directed the minister and five other accused to appear before it on November 22 to frame charges In its order the court had said that the statement of the witnesses recorded by police DVDs and other documents before the court disclose that there are sufficient circumstances against the accused to frame a charge against accused 1 to 6 The trial court in September 2020 had rejected the LDF governments plea to withdraw a case related to the ruckus in the state assembly saying allowing it would send a wrong message to society The petition was filed by the government seeking withdrawal of the case registered under sections 447 criminal trespass 427 mischief causing damage read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code IPC and Sec 31 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property PDPP Act by the previous Oommen Chandy-led UDF government Subsequently on July 28 the Supreme Court dismissed the Kerala governments plea for withdrawal of the case against the six LDF leaders saying privileges and immunities are not gateways to claim exemptions from criminal law which governs the action of every citizen The apex court had also said that committing acts of destruction of public property cannot be equated with either freedom of speech in the legislature or with forms of protest legitimately available to the members of the Opposition The assembly had witnessed unprecedented scenes on March 13 2015 as the LDF members then in the opposition tried to prevent Finance Minister K M Mani who was facing charges in the bar bribery scam from presenting the state budget Besides flinging the Speakers chair from the podium electronic equipment like computers keyboards and mikes on the desk of the presiding officer were also allegedly damaged by the then LDF members causing a loss of Rs 220 lakh PTI COR RRT APR APR

New Delhi Nov 17 PTI Two people were arrested for allegedly trying to enter the Rashtrapati Bhawan police said on WednesdayThe incident took place around 1130 pm on Monday they saidThey were identified as Shivam Sharma and Kusum Rajput They were under the influence of alcohol when they tried to force their way into Rashtrapati Bhawan the police said adding that an FIR was registered against the duoBoth of them work at a salon the police saidThe case was filed against them under sections of trespass the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and the Motor Vehicles Act on the complaint of an ACP rank officer at the South Avenue police station the FIR statedThe accused were in a car and they forcefully entered the Presidents Estate without any authorisation the FIR statedSharma was sent to RML hospital for medical examination it addedThe duo were sent to 14 days judicial custody the police said PTI NIT IJT