Saharanpur: An 18-year-old NEET aspirant on his way to an exam centre was killed after his motorcycle was hit by a truck in Sarsawa area on Sunday, police said.
The National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) was conducted on Sunday.
Ruchit Kamboj, a resident of Mohalla Durga Colony, was travelling to Deoband with his friend when the accident occurred, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sagar Jain told PTI.
Kamboj sustained serious head injuries while his friend escaped with minor injuries, he said.
A police team took Kamboj to a hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.
The driver of the truck abandoned the vehicle and fled, police said, adding that the body has been sent for postmortem.
Lucknow: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has given an application in Badaun court, for carrying out a survey of the Jama Masjid there.
A lawyer on behalf of the ASI appeared before the court, agreeing to carry out the survey and also seeking time for it.
Mukesh Patel, state president of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, had filed an application in the court of civil judge, senior division, Badaun in September 2022, claiming that the Jama Masjid was Neelkanth Mahadev temple that was destroyed and converted into a mosque.
The Mahasabha had sought a survey of the mosque by the ASI. It made three parties to the case, including ASI, the state government and the mosque committee.
According to Hindu Mahasabha’s advocate Ved Prakash Sahu, the ASI will carry out a survey of the Jama Masjid and thereafter submit its report in court.
The court had given 15 days’ time to the ASI for submitting the report, Sahu added.
The next date for the hearing of the case is May 30.
New Delhi: With just a few days to go for the May 10 assembly elections in Karnataka, the Congress on Friday targeted the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the issue of corruption, and also released a “rate card” of alleged corruption in the southern state.
The Congress first shared the rate card from the official Twitter handle of the party in a bid to scale up attacks on the issue of corruption.
In the post, the Congress alleged that the Karnataka Chief Minister’s post was up for grabs for Rs 2,500 crore and the rate of ministerial posts was Rs 500 crore.
Sharing the post on Twitter, the party wrote, “Kannadigas! Here is the corruption rate card of the ‘TROUBLE ENGINE’ 40% Sarkara.”
The post also highlighted figures for “Appointment and Transfer Rates”, “Job Rates”, and alleged commission for government deals.
Following the party’s stand, even former Congress president Rahul Gandhi also shared the post and targeted the BJP, saying “trouble Engine BJP is in love with the number 40, people of Karnataka will give them 40 seats only”.
In a tweet, Rahul Gandhi said: “BJP’s 40% Commission Sarkara’s ‘Rate Card’! ‘Trouble Engine’ BJP is in love with the number 40, people of Karnataka will give them 40 seats only!”
The Congress and Rahul Gandhi has been attacking the BJP over the alleged corruption in the BJP government in the state.
Last year, the Congress launched PayCM campaign in the state to highlight the alleged corruption.
The Congress has been campaigning aggressively in Karnataka and has cornered the BJP on issues of corruption and several other matters.
The Congress released its manifesto on Tuesday and also announced several promises for the people of the state.
The party also promised to repeal, within one year of coming to power, “all unjust laws and other anti-people laws” passed by the BJP government in the state.
To woo the voters in the state, Congress announced Gruha Jyothi (200 units of free electricity), Gruha Lakshmi – Rs 2,000 monthly to every woman head of the family, Anna Bhagya – 10 kg of food grains of their choice (among rice, ragi, jowar, millet) to every person in a BPL family.
The election for the 224-member assembly is scheduled on May 10 and counting of votes will take place on May 13.
Hathras: A bride who was booked here for celebratory firing, has gone absconding after the police began searching for her.
SHO of Kotwali Hathras Junction, Girish Chand Gautam, said, “A case has been registered against the bride Ragini, a resident of Hathras Junction area, under IPC section 25(9) (celebratory gunfire). Fearing arrest, she has absconded. We are on the look-out for her. We are also trying to identify the person who handed over the pistol to the bride.”
A video had gone viral on social media which shows a bride holding a pistol and firing several rounds in air while the groom sitting beside her, looks confused.
The police have registered a case against the 23-year-old bride on the charges of engaging in celebratory firing on her wedding day.
A relative of the bride recorded the video of the incident, which took place on Friday night at a guest house in Hathras district and uploaded it on social media.
The purported video shows an unidentified man handing over a pistol to the bride, identified as Ragini, who can be seen firing in the air after the garland exchange ceremony.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar said, “The matter is being investigated thoroughly. A case was registered against a bride for flouting norms related to celebratory firing after she fired four times in the air from a firearm during her wedding on Friday.”
One person in whose name the license of the firearm was issued, has also been booked on Sunday, said Girish Chand Gautam, incharge, Hathras Junction police station.
“Whoever uses firearm in a rash or negligent manner or engages in celebratory gunfire so as to endanger human life or safety of others shall be punishable with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to rupees one lakh, or with both,” reads section 25 (9) of the IPC.
Muzaffarnagar: Union Minister Giriraj Singh has stirred a new controversy by demanding that Muzaffarnagar be renamed.
He said that Muzaffarnagar has been the capital of farmers and the name was hurting its pride. There is a need for a new name for the district to erase the signs of Mughals after over seven decades of the country’s Independence.
Reacting to the minister’s demand, Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) district president Yogesh Sharma said the statement was nothing but a political stunt.
“The Lok Sabha polls are around, and they raise such issues to polarise people,” he said.
Muzaffarnagar has been the centre stage of farmers’ politics.
The district was rocked by riots in 2013 that claimed many lives and rendered over 50,000 people homeless.
The riots affected social and political equations in the area, which are said to have helped the BJP in getting a landslide victory in 2014 polls.
Bhadohi: A man has been booked for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl earlier this month holding her captive for three days, police said on Thursday.
“We have received a complaint of from family members of a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly kept forcibly at a place for three days and raped by one Rishi Seth.
The incident occurred earlier this month,” Kotwali Police Station SHO Ajay Kumar Seth said.
Seth was booked under several sections of the IPC and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act on Wednesday.
“The victim was taken for a medical examination and we have formed a team to arrest the accused,” said the SHO.
Muzaffarnagar: A minor girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzzafarnagar district was electrocuted to death while her younger sister sustained serious injuries after coming in contact with a high-tension wire, police said.
The incident took place in Kasiara village in Charthawal on Sunday when the sisters had gone to collect grass from a field.
Station House Officer of Charthawal police station, Rakesh Singh, said Anushka, 12, and Avni, 10, accidentally touched the broken high-tension wire.
Anushka died on the spot while her sister was taken to a hospital in critical condition, police said.
Angry local residents protested against the district administration, demanding compensation for the family of the deceased girl.
The protest was called off after assurance of help from senior administration officials.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Parmanand Jha, said that the state Electricity Department will give a compensation of Rs five lakh to the family according to the rules.
He also assured to help in the treatment of the injured girl.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the conviction and sentence of senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan’s son Abdullah Azam Khan in a 15-year-old case without hearing the state.
A bench of justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna asked senior advocate Vivek Tankha and advocate Sumeer Sodhi to serve the copy of the petition to the standing counsel of Uttar Pradesh government and posted the matter for further hearing on April 5.
Tankha said Khan was a juvenile at the time of offence and hence his conviction and sentence be stayed.
“Sorry, for that we will have to hear the state also,” the bench said.
During the hearing, Tankha said Khan was juvenile at the time of incident and the high court has erred in not staying the session court’s order.
In his plea filed through Sodhi, Khan said he has challenged the order of Allahabad High Court dated March 17 by which it had asked the state to respond to the appeal in three weeks.
“The high court failed to appreciate the fact that if the application is not decided expeditiously then the same would be rendered infructuous and the petitioner would suffer irreparable harm which no court of competent jurisdiction would be able to undo even if the application is decided in favour of the petitioner,” it said.
Giving the detail of the case, he said the trial court had on February 13, convicted him for offences punishable under section 353 and 341 of IPC and other offences and sentenced him to undergo two years of simple imprisonment with a fine of Rs 2,000.
He said subsequent to the order of the trial court, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly secretariat on February 15, notified that Suar constituency of Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh has become vacant with effect from February 13.
Khan said he appealed the verdict of the trial court before additional sessions judge Rampur and also filed an application for stay of conviction and sentence but the court on February 28 dismissed the plea and application.
He said that on the same day he approached the high court against the order of the sessions court but the high court on March 17, granted a time period of three weeks to the state government to respond to his plea.
“In a nutshell, the case of the SLP petitioner before this court is that the impugned order passed by the high court is bad in law as the said order is passed without taking into account the urgent requirement of the issues involved in the application preferred by the petitioner,” the plea said.
Khan said that non-adjudication of his application in a time bound manner would render the same infructuous and therefore it is imperative that the high court considers the application as soon as possible, given the potential consequences of the conviction and sentence, which may include re-election on his assembly seat in the assembly.
“The petitioner believes that during the pendency of the application before the high court, by-election to the Rampur constituency would be announced. The petitioner is concerned that if such an announcement is made and thereafter, the high court passes a stay order the same would be rendered moot due to the announcement of the by-elections,” his plea said.
Khan said his conviction is legally unsustainable as he was a minor when the offence was committed.
“There are judicial orders to the effect that the date of birth of the petitioner is January 1, 1993, hence the petitioner was merely 15 years old at the time of commission of the offence in question. Accordingly, the entire trial proceedings are flawed,” he said.
The FIR against Khan, Azam and seven others was lodged in 2008.
Khan had sat on dharna on a state highway on January 29, 2008 as their cavalcade was stopped by police for checking in the wake of an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Rampur in Uttar Pradesh on December 31, 2007.
The FIR was lodged at the Chhajlait police station.
While Khan and Azam were sentenced to two years in jail under section 353 (criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and other provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the seven other accused were exonerated.
Gangster Atiq Ahmed’s convoy halts briefly in MP’s Shivpuri district on way to Prayagraj
Prayagraj: Gangster-politician Khalid Azim alias Ashraf was brought to the Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh Monday evening amid tight security arrangements, hours after his brother Atiq Ahmed was escorted to the prison from Gujarat.
Ashraf and Atiq will be produced before a court on Tuesday, when it is likely to pass an order in a 17-year-old kidnapping case against them.
Ashraf, lodged in the Bareilly District Jail since July 2020, was brought to the Naini Central Jail Monday evening amid tight security arrangements, officials said. A police team accompanying him left Bareilly for Prayagraj Monday morning.
Atiq Ahmed was brought to the jail in Prayagraj from a prison in Gujarat. The police cavalcade bringing him reached the Naini Jail at 5.30 pm on Monday.
The brothers are named in several criminal cases, including the recent Umesh Pal murder case, police said.
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