Anand Mohan J

Yasin Malik was produced before Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh, who is expected to hear arguments on the quantum of the sentence on May 25, in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir Valley.

Senior officers of Seoni district admit they rely on tip-offs from various vigilante outfits, including Bajrang Dal men, to check cattle smuggling in the region.

The families of some of the six others arrested claimed they were cajoled into joining the raid, which led to the deaths, by people they met at a local wedding. Another accused is a tribal youth whose family does “not know much” about the case.

In 2015, a three-member Special Investigation Team, constituted by the central government to reinvestigate the cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, decided to reopen the case.

Professor Khalid Moin is accused of taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh for issuing a structural safety certificate for a project at Botanical Garden in Noida.

Many who lost their hand carts and small shops said that amid heavy police presence and barricading, they are unable to resume work. And since these families live on daily wages, they say their savings have begun to dip.

Political barbs have been exchanged between AAP and BJP over the communal violence that broke out in Jahangirpuri on Saturday, with both alleging that one of the arrested accused, Ansar, was a member of the other party.

Congress leader Anil Chaudhary sat in protest against the police for not allowing them to meet people. He left after several requests from the police.

The family of 10 resides inside two rooms and sells cattle feed for a living. They buy it for Rs 3 per kg and sell it at the local markets, managing to make Rs 300-400 a day.

The Delhi municipal corporation's snap anti-encroachment demolition drive, a few days after a Hanuman Jayanti procession in the area sparked communal violence, has left in its wake a trail of devastation and despair, cutting across fault lines.

With the Supreme Court ordering a status quo on the anti-encroachment and demolition drive, North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) Mayor, Raja Iqbal said they were stopping the drive.

The National Monuments Authority (NMA) had asked the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to retrieve two Ganesha idols from the Qutub Minar complex where the Authority’s chairman says the “placement of the idols is disrespectful” and move them to the National Museum.

Earlier, in the day the Delhi Police said they have arrested 14 people on charges of rioting and attempt to murder among others.

Jahangirpuri’s block B and C, where the communal clashes took place, is home to a working class population including fish sellers, mobile repair shops and clothes retailers.

This is the first major communal flare-up in the national capital since the February 2020 Northeast Delhi riots, which left 53 people dead and many more injured.

The court also said that the LOC was issued based on "wrong interpretation and understanding of the law", and cautioned CBI that the agency’s power to "investigate and prosecute is not an unbridled power”.

Tahir Hussain was booked in this case after a Head Constable from Karawal Nagar police station spotted a board hung on an electric pole with photographs of Hussain and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

The agency told the court that Ramakrishna by “gross abuse of her official position illegally and arbitrarily appointed Anand Subramanian, who did not have any prior experience”.

Taking to Twitter on Friday, Patel said that he “will continue to stand for my rights” and that “there is absolutely no doubt” that he “will win this”.

Aakar Patel was due to travel to the US from the Bangalore International Airport on Wednesday and he was stopped by the immigration authorities on the ground. He was informed that an LOC was issued against him in connection with a case against Amnesty India in 2019 when he had headed the organisation.

Patel sought the issuance of directions to the CBI to remove and withdraw the lookout circular which was issued "without following due process of law and almost arbitrarily". The court issued a notice to the CBI and will hear the matter Thursday.

The court said that the "liberty of an individual is not absolute”.

Additional Sessions Judge Vishal Gogne was dealing with three separate bail orders in which the three accused persons had all made the same allegations against the Special Staff team of Dwarka district.

The court said ‘the possibility of any enthusiastic police officer misinterpreting plain and simple words on account of suspicion and over zealous approach cannot be ruled out’