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Time of India
an hour ago
- Time of India
Man gets 22 yrs RIfor raping Dalit girl
Bareilly: A 29-year-old man was awarded rigorous imprisonment (RI) of 22 years by a Pocso court for abducting and raping a 16-year-old Dalit girl and attempting to change her religion. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The incident was reported in Kheri's Tikunia, situated near the India-Nepal border, in 2020. ADGC Brajesh Kumar Pandey said, "The crime was reported on June 8, 2020, when a minor girl, who studied in an inter-college, was abducted by Mohd Haneef. The accused took her to Pilibhit, where she was raped and he also tried to change her religion. The girl managed to escape and return home on June 17, and the accused was arrested on Sept 28 and charged under sections of rape, abduction, along with Pocso and SC/ST acts. A chargesheet was filed against him in the court in Nov 2020. " The court of ADJ Ghulam Mustafa found Haneef guilty under sections of rape, abduction and the Pocso Act on May 27, and sentenced him to 22 years in jail along with a fine of Rs 22,000 on Wednesday.
New Indian Express
15 hours ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Rajbhar adamant to field candidate on Mau Sadar
With disqualification of MLA Abbas Ansari from UP assembly following his conviction in a hate speech case leading to two-year jail term, his vacated Mau Sadar seat could be a potential bone of contention between the ruling BJP and ally OP Rajbhar's Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP). Rajbhar is insisting to field his candidate from the seat. In fact, the seat rightfully belongs to SBSP as Ansari, though a sympathiser of SP, had contested on the symbol of SBSP which was in alliance with SP in 2022 Assembly elections. Post polls, Rajbhar parted ways from Akhilesh and joined NDA, becoming a minister in Yogi cabinet. Pitched battle between revenue officers Six days after allegedly assaulting a junior officer inside income tax office in Lucknow, Joint Commissioner of Income Tax Yogendra Kumar Mishra was suspended on Wednesday. The order said a criminal case is under investigation against Mishra, a 2014-batch IRS officer, currently posted in Kashipur, Uttarakhand. Pending inquiry, his headquarters has been shifted to Kolkata. Mishra has been directed not to leave headquarters without prior permission. The move comes in the wake of allegations levelled against him by Gaurav Garg, a 2016-batch IRS officer posted in Lucknow. Garg had filed an FIR accusing Mishra of launching a violent, premeditated attack on him. District judge issues memo over 'stale' snack Apparently, a trivial request of tea and biscuits by an Additional District Judge in an eastern UP district court drove her to issue a written memo to the attendant. The memo, needless to say, went viral. The ADJ was hosting a colleague in her chamber during lunch break and requested two cups of tea and biscuits. The attendant returned with two steaming cups, but no biscuits. The judge once asked again for the biscuits. The attendant nodded and disappeared, only to return with a small plate of 'dalmoth' (a snack). But there was a problem: the dalmoth was stale. As per the memo issued to the attendant, it was old, stale, and carried a foul smell. Namita Bajpai Our correspondent in Uttar Pradesh
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Key witness shot in Deoria, two days before court hearing
Two unidentified men on a motorcycle opened fire on a 50-year-old woman in Deoria district on Sunday, just two days before a scheduled court hearing in an alleged sexual assault case involving her daughter. The woman, a key eyewitness in the case, was returning from a medical store when she was attacked. She sustained bullet injuries to her chest and is currently undergoing treatment at Maharishi Devraha Baba Medical College, Deoria, police said. According to police officials, the woman had filed a complaint last year against two youths accused of sexually assaulting her daughter. Both accused were arrested and later released on bail. The hearing in the case is scheduled for June 3 at the additional district judge (ADJ) court in Deoria. Circle officer Ashutosh Kumar Srivastava said two police teams have been formed to track down the attackers. Police have obtained CCTV footage from the vicinity of the crime scene to identify the motorcycle and the assailants. 'A case has been registered under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Ekauana police station in the district. The victim has been identified as Durgavati Devi.' Police sources said that the suspects possibly belong to Gagi village, which falls under the Gagha police station limits in Gorakhpur district. A team of police personnel raided the village on Sunday evening, but the suspects were not found at their residence. Officials said the connection between the shooting and the ongoing sexual assault case is under close examination. They added that the accused's role in the attack has not been ruled out.
India Gazette
6 days ago
- India Gazette
Ankita Bhandari Murder Case: Court orders Rs 4 lakh fine as compensation to victim's parents
Pauri Garhwal (Uttarakhand) [India], May 30 (ANI): After the Additional District Judge (ADJ) court in Kotdwar pronounced life imprisonment to all three accused in the Ankita Bhandari murder case, Advocate Avnish Negi, lawyer representing the victim, on Friday said that the prosecution presented 47 witnesses in the case and the court has ordered accused to pay Rs 4 lakh fine to victim's parents as compensation. 'On the appeal of the prosecution, a fine of Rs 4 lakhs was ordered to be paid to the victim's parents as compensation. The full judgment is yet to come... We had presented forty-seven witnesses,' Negi, who represented Ankita and was appointed by the government, told ANI. He informed that the court has granted life imprisonment to all three accused under sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). 'All three accused have been sentenced to life imprisonment. They have been convicted under Section 302 and sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50, three have been punished and charged under the relevant section of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act of 1956, which provides jail time of five years and life imprisonment under sections 302 and 201,' Negi added. In a significant verdict, the ADJ court in Kotdwar has sentenced all three accused in the Ankita Bhandari murder case--resort owner Pulkit Arya, Saurabh Bhaskar, and Ankit Gupta--to life imprisonment. The Additional District and Sessions Judge Court Kotdwar in Uttarakhand convicted the trio under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including Section 302 (murder), Section 201 (destruction of evidence), Section 120B (criminal conspiracy), Section 354A (sexual harassment), and provisions of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act. The court pronounced the verdict after a thorough trial, confirming the charges against the trio. Earlier, the accused were found guilty of the brutal murder of 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari, a receptionist at a resort in Rishikesh, whose case had sparked widespread outrage across the state. While speaking to ANI, the victim's mother, Soni Devi, broke down in grief, urging the people of Uttarakhand to continue supporting the family and demanding capital punishment for those accused in the case that shook the state in 2022. Ankita Bhandari, a resident of the Pauri district, used to work at Vanantra Resort in Rishikesh. It is alleged that the resort owner, Pulkit Arya and his associates, Saurabh Bhaskar and Ankit, had murdered Ankita by pushing her into the barrage. The body of Ankita Bhandari was recovered from the Chilla canal in Rishikesh on September 24. She was reported missing for at least six days before the officials found her body. An SIT headed by Deputy Inspector General of Police P Renuka Devi was initially probing the case. The first hearing of the case started on January 30, 2023, in the ADJ Court in Kotdwar. After the SIT investigation, a 500-page chargesheet was filed in the court by the prosecution regarding this murder. After the charges were framed against the three accused of this sensational murder, Vanantra Resort owner Pulkit Arya, his employee Saurabh Bhaskar and Ankit Gupta, the testimony of the prosecution started from March 28, 2023. In the hearing that lasted for about two years and eight months, 47 witnesses, including the investigator, were examined in the court on behalf of the prosecution. However, the SIT had made 97 witnesses in this case, of which only 47 important witnesses were produced in the court. (ANI)
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Business Standard
6 days ago
- Business Standard
Ankita Bhandari murder case: Court give life imprisonment to three accused
A court of Additional District Judge (ADJ) in Uttarakhand's Pauri district on Friday sentenced three accused to life imprisonment in the 2022 Ankita Bhandari murder case. Ankita Bhandari (19) worked at Vanantra Resort, in Yamkeshwar of Pauri district, as a receptionist. She was murdered by the resort owner, Pulkit Arya (the son of now expelled BJP leader Vinod Arya), and two of his employees, Saurabh Bhaskar and Ankit Gupta, on September 18, 2022, news agency PTI reported. The three were convicted under multiple sections, including Section 302 (murder), Section 201 (destruction of evidence), Section 120B (criminal conspiracy), Section 354A (sexual harassment), and provisions of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act. Reports suggest that Ankita was pushed into the barrage by the resort owner and his two employees. Bhandari was reported missing for at least six days before her body was recovered on September 24 from the Chilla canal in Rishikesh. The incident triggered protests by locals seeking justice for the 19-year-old victim. Following the intensified protests, the Uttarakhand government formed a special investigation team to probe the murder. Parts of the resort where Ankita worked were also demolished in an order passed by the authorities, alleging some structures were constructed illegally. Investigation revealed that Bhandari and Arya, the main accused, had a dispute over something, following which the three accused pushed her into a barrage. Speaking to ANI, the victim's mother urged the people of Uttarakhand to support their family in seeking capital punishment for those accused in the case. She said, 'May the criminals be sentenced to death...I appeal to the public of Uttarakhand to keep on supporting us and come to the Kotdwar court to boost our morale.' The hearing of the case began in January 2023 in the ADJ court in Kotdwar. The prosecution filed a 500-page chargesheet in the court. In a trial that lasted nearly two years, the court examined 47 witnesses out of the 97 witnesses listed. (With agency inputs)
