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Time of India
27-05-2025
- Time of India
2 sentenced to 3-year imprisonment for fraud
Bhopal: A court of Judicial Magistrate First Class here on Tuesday sentenced two persons to three years of rigorous imprisonment under sections 420 and 34 of the IPC on charges of fraud. The accused, Devendra Swaroop Bhatnagar and Avdhesh Singh Sisodia, sold a plot of land belonging to someone else. According to the prosecution, Prem Singh and R K Goyal lodged a complaint at Bagsewaniya police station on June 9, 2012, accusing Bhatnagar and Sisodia of showing plot no. 23 in Gulabi Nagari housing society as their plot, selling it to them, and receiving Rs 7 lakh from them in cash. Later, they allotted them plot no. 22 and said the registry of the plot would be done in one month's time. However, they disappeared after that. They later came to know that even plot no. 23 didn't belong to Bhadoriya as they were told. R K Goyal filed a complaint in the SDM court, saying that plot no. 22, measuring 996 square feet, was shown to him by Devendra Swaroop Bhatnagar as his plot. He signed a sale agreement with him, received Rs 7 lakh in cash, but he didn't get the plot registered in his name, and it was later revealed that he had no plot in the said housing society. Based on his complaint, Bagsewaniya police registered a case against Bhatnagar and Sisodia and, after further investigation, charge-sheeted them under sections 420 and 34 of the IPC. The court of JMFC, Rahul Singh Yadav, on the basis of evidence produced in the court, sentenced the two accused to three years of rigorous imprisonment each and also fined them Rs 1,000 each.
New Indian Express
21-05-2025
- New Indian Express
Man posing as Jharkhand doctor gets 30 months jail term
ROURKELA: The court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Sharmistha Padhi on Monday sentenced a 53-year-old man to 30 months of imprisonment for impersonating a doctor. A habitual offender, Padmanava Mukhi Karua was caught serving in Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) by stealing the identity of a Jharkhand doctor. Impersonating as Dr Ramesh Chandra Jha of adjacent Jharkhand, Karua had got contractual appointment in the dialysis unit of RGH through an outsourcing agency on December 26, 2023. His fake identity got revealed accidentally in June 2024. A resident of Rourkela city, Karua has studied up to Class XII. According to police, Karua had availed a loan of about Rs 16.5 lakh from a private non-banking financial company by forging the documents of Dr Jha. However, he had failed to change the actual phone number of Dr Jha. The authorities of the finance company called Dr Jha's number and came to know about the fraud. Subsequently, a complaint was filed in RN Pali police station. After his arrest, Karua revealed his original identity and confessed to his crime.
Time of India
11-05-2025
- Time of India
Man sentenced to one year jail for housebreaking and assault in Bhopal
Bhopal/Jabalpur: A court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) here sentenced a person to one year of rigorous imprisonment on charges of housebreaking and assaulting a woman under sections 452 and 323 of the IPC. He was also fined Rs 2,000 by the complainant lodged a complaint at the police station that at 7:30 pm, she was cooking food at home when her neighbour, Yogesh Yadav, broke into her house and started abusing her. He threatened her to withdraw the FIR against him lodged by her and her daughter. Yadav said that he spent Rs 20,000 to get bail in the case from the court and asked her to return the money. He also beat her with a stick, causing her injury near the left wrist. She was rescued by her mother, daughter, and neighbour. While leaving her house, the accused threatened her to withdraw the FIR or else he would kill police registered a case against the accused under sections 452, 327, 294, and part-2 of 506 of the IPC and, following further investigation, presented a charge sheet in the JMFC court. The court of Rahul Singh Yadav found the accused guilty under sections 452 and 323 of the IPC and sentenced him to one year of rigorous imprisonment. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Mother's Day wishes , messages , and quotes !
Hans India
04-05-2025
- Hans India
Court Rejects Wife's Maintenance Plea For Concealing Financial Status
A Delhi court has rejected a woman's plea for interim maintenance from her husband after finding that she deliberately concealed her true financial situation and educational background in an apparent attempt to extract money from her estranged spouse. The Judicial Magistrate First Class (Mahila Court) noted in Friday's ruling: "It prima facie seems that the petitioner has tried to conceal her true financial condition and working and educational experience in order to extort money by way of maintenance from the respondent." The woman had requested Rs 50,000 monthly maintenance (including Rs 18,000 for rent), claiming in her affidavits that she was an unemployed graduate with no income. Meanwhile, her husband, represented by Advocate Pravesh Dabas, submitted that he earned Rs 55,000 monthly, paid Rs 8,000 in rent, and was responsible for a Rs 35,000 EMI. The couple, who married in July 2022 and separated in October 2023, are currently undergoing divorce proceedings. During the hearing, the husband successfully demonstrated that his wife had omitted significant details about her qualifications and employment history. He presented evidence including her diploma in computer science and engineering, BEd certificate, and an offer letter from Little Millennium Education Pvt Ltd. The wife later acknowledged having taught at GD Goenka School for one year from September 2022. Additionally, the husband submitted an income tax return from 2021-2022 showing her income as Rs 1.3 lakhs, further contradicting her claims of financial dependency. "The Courts are not there to create an army of unemployed educationally qualified women," the court stated, referencing precedents cited by the husband's legal counsel. "The petitioner as per the record brought forth by the respondent seems to be financially sound and capable of making independent source of earning." When questioned about these inconsistencies, the wife attributed the omissions to "human error," an explanation the court found inadequate. "No reasonable explanation is given throughout the argument as to why the concealments are there in the income affidavit," the court observed. The court concluded that granting interim maintenance "would amount to giving benefit of her own wrong to the petitioner," noting that the woman "in no way seems to be in the condition of destitution and vagrancy." A separate domestic violence case filed by the woman against her husband remains ongoing.
Time of India
25-04-2025
- Time of India
Karnataka high court orders release of murder suspect for not providing arrest grounds details
Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court has struck down a remand order and ordered the release of a murder suspect, citing failure to provide proper grounds for arrest and other essential details. Hemantha Datta, alias Hemantha or Baby, a delivery boy from Arsikere town in Hassan district, challenged the remand order dated Feb 17, 2023, issued by Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Arsikere. He was booked under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the IPC. His arrest memo and remand order merely stated his requirement in a murder case, with intimation given to his brother-in-law. You Can Also Check: Bengaluru AQI | Weather in Bengaluru | Bank Holidays in Bengaluru | Public Holidays in Bengaluru His defence argued that his fundamental rights under Articles 21 and 22(1) of the Constitution were violated, stemming from the non-communication of arrest grounds. The arrest memo lacked adequate justification for his detention. The additional state public prosecutor countered that the petitioner had received the arrest memo and intimation, in line with sections 50 and 50-A of CrPC. The prosecutor added that the requirement for a written communication of arrest grounds came into effect only after the Supreme Court's judgment in Pankaj Bansal case on Oct 3, 2023. Justice Hemant Chandanagoudar referred to CBI vs RR Kishore case, where a constitution bench ruled that any law violating fundamental rights is void from the inception under Article 13(2). He also noted that procedural justice can be applied retrospectively, particularly when beneficial construction extends beyond procedural law. The court observed that the arrest memo lacked essential information to the arestee-petitioner upon arrest, calling it a serious irregularity. This, the judge ruled, amounts to a violation of Articles 13(2), 21, and 22(1) of the constitution. Justice Chandanagoudar ordered petitioner's release on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh surety, mandating him to appear before the investigation officer when summoned and refrain from influencing any witnesses.
