New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has directed the city government to pay Rs 18.44 lakh as compensation to the adoptive father of a 19-year-old man who died by suicide in police custody, holding that an unnatural custodial death, even if by suicide, attracts public law liability for violation of the fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution.In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, a single-judge Bench of Justice Sachin Datta held that the state, as custodian of life…
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Patna, June 30 (IANS) An accused who escaped from police custody after a court appearance in Bihar’s Gopalganj district on Tuesday is being sought by multiple police teams in an extensive search operation. The incident occurred while police personnel from the Town Police Station were escorting the accused to Chanve Divisional Jail.According to police, the accused jumped out of the police vehicle when it reached near Vrindavan Sadasi Rai Tola village on the Gopalganj–Mirganj NH-531. Officers im…
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) Rezaul Khan, the former Trinamool Congress president of Indpur block in Bankura district, has been arrested by the police on charges of assaulting a BJP worker and allegedly molesting his wife.A senior officer of the Bankura district police said on Sunday that the arrest was made on the basis of a complaint lodged by the BJP worker.The BJP worker alleged that Rezaul attacked him at his residence and assaulted him. He further alleged that the Trinamool Congress leader mole…
New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court has taken suo motu (on its own motion) cognisance of the high-profile suspected dowry death of model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma at her matrimonial home in Bhopal, amid allegations of institutional bias and procedural lapses in the investigation. As per details uploaded on the website of the apex court, the matter has been registered as “In Re: Alleged Institutional Bias and Procedural Discrepancies in the Unnatural Death of a Young Girl at Her Matrimo…
Ranchi, March 5 (IANS) A man accused of kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide inside the lockup of Namkum police station in Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi, police said on Thursday.The deceased has been identified as Jagay Munda, 45, a resident of Khunti district. He had been arrested on March 4 in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a minor boy in the Namkum police station area.According to police, Munda was kept in the lockup at Namkum police station after …
Jaipur, Feb 5 (IANS) The chilling Indore honeymoon murder case of Sonam Raghuvanshi had barely faded from public memory when a strikingly similar crime surfaced in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar, this time not on a tourist trip, but on a deserted village road.At the centre of the plot was a newly married woman who allegedly conspired with her longtime lover to eliminate her husband, just three months after marriage.The wife accused of plotting her husband’s killing has been taken into police remand….
Jaipur, Dec 26 (IANS) In a major development in the gang rape case involving a woman manager of a private IT company, three accused, including the CEO, have been sent to three days’ police custody.Superintendent of Police Yogesh Goel said the accused were arrested on Wednesday night. As Thursday was a holiday, the accused were produced before the court on Friday, which remanded them to police custody for further interrogation.During initial questioning, police revealed that the incident is linke…