COPS & CHALK: Amihiya police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa BHOPAL: Like most of its peers, Amihiya police station’s stock-in-trade remains FIR. Unlike them, however, it has gone beyond the three dreaded letters – to the full alphabet, blackboards, benches, students and teachers, reports Amarjeet Singh. This police station in MP’s Rewa turns into a…
MOYNA: NIA arrested TMC worker Swapan Bhowmik in connection with the 2023 murder of a BJP booth president in the run-up to panchayat elections. Bhowmik, absconding for over a year and a half, was arrested from his daughter’s residence in Sabang in East Midnapore on Friday. The family of Bijoy Krishna Bhunia had approached Calcutta…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee leads a protest rally from Jadavpur to Hazra Crossing against ED raids on I-PAC office in Kolkata KOLKATA: Coinciding with its fight against ED over searches on I-PAC, Trinamool Congress released on Saturday a three-minute campaign song and music video titled ‘Jotoi koro hamla, abar jitbe Bangla’ (Attack as much…
Police and central force personnel outside I-PAC director Pratik Jain’s residence at Loudon Street in Kolkata during the ED raid on Jan 8 KOLKATA: Local police began identifying ED officials and Central Armed Police Force personnel allegedly involved in “theft of documents” during ED searches at I-PAC chief Pratik Jain’s residence on Loudon Street in…
Calcutta high court’s acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul declined on Friday ED’s request to assign its petition seeking a CBI probe against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, DGP Rajeev Kumar and Kolkata Police commissioner to a new bench. The matter remains before a single-judge bench, which had earlier postponed hearings to Jan 14 after courtroom commotion….
PATNA: BJP-led NDA hit out at AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi over his remarks that a hijab-clad woman would one day become Prime Minister, triggering a sharp exchange over Constitution, religion and political power Saturday, reports Jai Narain Pandey. Union minister Giriraj Singh accused Owaisi of pursuing divisive ideas. “Owaisi has Ghazwa-e-Hind (conquest of India) in…
MUMBAI: BJP candidate Makrand Narwekar, brother of state assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar, is among the richest candidates in the forthcoming BMC elections, with assets worth Rs 124 crore declared in his affidavit, report Richa Pinto & Hemali Chhapia. The 47-year-old two-time corporator, listed as an advocate in his affidavit, purchased 27 land parcels in Alibaug…
CHANDIGARH: Clarifying that the death of a soldier cannot be solely attributed to alcohol consumption, Armed Force Tribunal has held that other service-related factors, including deployment on higher altitude are also contributing factors, reports Ajay Sura. The tribunal passed these orders while granting special family pension to the widow of an IAF soldier who died…
NAGPUR: Reiterating the limits of judicial intervention at the threshold stage, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court recently held that the inherent powers under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) cannot be invoked to stifle a legitimate prosecution, particularly when the allegations disclose a prima facie offence requiring trial. A division bench…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat HC ruled that terms and conditions agreed during the divorce are fully enforceable and executable by a family court, which earlier refused to direct a divorced woman to relinquish her rights in a joint property with her ex-husband. The couple involved in this case married in 2008 in Ahmedabad. They had a daughter…