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Suspected Bodo militant arrested in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: A suspected Bodo militant from Nagaland, Burling Bhutur a top leader of NDFB-Songbijit outfit, was arrested by the Bengaluru Police on Saturday, January 24.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi who confirmed the arrest stated that the militant was nabbed from a house located in Cottonpet, Bengaluru.

Also known as Birkhang Basumatary, Bhutur was directly involved in the killing of eight Adivasis at Lungsung on December 23 and six Hindi-speaking persons at Serfanguri in Kokrajhar district of Assam on January 16 last year, a PTI report from Guwahati quoted Assam IGP L R Bishnoi as saying. Terming the arrest as a “big catch”, Bishnoi said the arrest was made on a tip off by the Assam Police.

The NDFB(S) had launched an attack on adivasis in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts on December 23 last following which there was retaliatory violence and police firing resulting in the killing of 81 persons.

Earlier on January 16 last year six Hindi-speaking persons were shot dead after the armed insurgents pulled down around 12 passengers from a bus coming from to Shillong and opened fire on them at Athiabari under Serfanguri police station.

(Agencies)

Nandita suicide case: High Court dismisses plea for CBI probe

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Thirthahalli Nandita

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the death of Nandita, a 14-year-old student from Tirthahalli in Shivamogga district.

The girl’s father had filed the petition questioning the probe by the State police.

However, Justice K.L. Manjunath dismissed the petition after the State Advocate-General told the court that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to which the probe was entrusted to, had almost completed the investigation, and the final report would be submitted to the jurisdictional court within two weeks.

The CID had recently announced that girl had committed suicide, and dismissed her father’s claim that she was murdered. Besides, the CID had also ruled out her modesty being outraged.

Terming the panchayts “super governments”, the High Court on Friday asked the State to control their functions before they go out of control in granting licences for various purposes without having the powers to do so.

“These panchayats are acting like super governments. They are issuing all kinds of licences, though they don’t have any power. Government needs to cap them…,” observed Justice Ram Mohan Reddy during the hearing of a petition through which the court has been monitoring the steps taken by the government to prevent the formation of layouts illegally on lands coming under the jurisdiction of panchayts.

Senior IAS officer Rajeev Chawla, who is assisting the court as court commissioner, told the court that he would bring to the notice of the government the issues related to panchayats.

Janardhan Reddy released

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Bengaluru: Mining baron and former Karnataka minister Janardhan Reddy, accused of ilegal mining was released from jail at around 4.45 p.m. on Friday.

Supreme Court on Tuesday had granted bail to the mining baron accused in the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC).

The apex court granted bail after CBI submitted that the investigation in the case involving Reddy is complete and both the charge sheet as well as the supplementary charge sheet have been filed.

Though the bail formalities were over few hours ago, sources said Mr. Reddy stayed in jail premises to wait for an auspicious time to exit jail. He greeted and thanked the jail staff before leaving the premises.

Mr. Reddy will be taken to a private hospital for medical check-up since he was suffering from back-ache and minor aliments, police sources said.

Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law BV Srinivas Reddy, managing director of OMC, were arrested by CBI on September 5, 2011 from Bellary in Karnataka and brought to Hyderabad.

In the OMC case, the company is accused of changing mining lease boundary markings and indulging in illegal mining in the Bellary Reserve Forest area, spread over Bellary in Karnataka and Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.

Indians out of mens, women's doubles, mixed doubles hopes alive

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Melbourne: The Indian contingent had a disappointing day in the men’s and women’s doubles competitions of the Australian Open, getting knocked out in their respective second round matches at the Melbourne Park Friday.

But Sania Mirza won her opening round match in mixed doubles to keep the country’s challenge alive.

In the women’s doubles contest, Sania and Chinese Taiei’s Hsieh Su-wei lost 6-7 (5), 4-6 against Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski and Polish Alicja Rosolska. However, the 28-year-old partnered Brazilian Bruno Soares to defeat the mixed doubles pair of Hungarian Timea Babos and American Eric Butorac 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (10-3) to advance to the second round.

The Indo-South African pair of Paes and Raven Klaasen lost 6-2, 4-6, 1-6 to Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini, while Bopanna and his Canadian partner Daniel Nestor went down 5-7, 3-6 to American Feliciano Lopez and Belarusian Max Mirnyi in the men’s doubles.

Paes-Klaasen started the match well, winning the first set and hit 29 winners but that wasn’t enough as Bolelli-Fognini outhit them with 31 winners. The Indo-South African pair made 21 unforced errors as compared to 22 by their opponents.

Bopanna-Nestor pair scored 25 winners as compared to 33 by Lopez-Mirnyi. The Indo-Canadian pair made 10 unforced errors against Lopez-Mirnyi, who made 12 unforced errors.

The Indo-Chinese Taipei pair of Sania and Su-Wei scored only 29 winners as compared to 45 fired by Dabrowski and Rosolska, who also made 23 unforced errors while Sania-Su-Wei did 18 unforced errors.

(IANS)

Irom Sharmila released from jail once again

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Imphal: A local court on Thursday rejected charges of attempt to suicide against rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila by her indefinite fast for 14 years demanding repeal of AFSPA and ordered her immediate release from custody.

The 42-year-old has been under arrest under section 309 of the Indian Penal Code for attempt to commit suicide. Judicial magistrate (Imphal East) Wisdom Kamodang ruled that the prosecution has failed to give any evidence that she is trying to commit suicide and ordered that Sharmila be discharged in the case.

Imphal West SP Jhaljit told PTI she has been released from prison according to court orders. Demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, Sharmila has refused to eat or drink anything since November, 2000. After her release in the evening, Sharmila again sat on fast under a shed in the local market.

On 19 August 2014, another Manipur court had ordered Sharmila to be released stating that her hunger strike was a “political demand through lawful means”. However, she was re-arrested three days later for allegedly attempting to commit suicide. To keep her alive she is forcibly nose-fed in Imphal’s Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital, a special ward which acts as a prison for her. International human rights body Amnesty has appealed to the authorities saying she should not be arrested once again.

“It is an outrage that Irom Sharmila has been in prison for over 14 years for a peaceful protest,” said Shemeer Babu, Programmes Director, Amnesty International India.

“The judgement must end the farcical cycle of arrest and re-arrest that this brave activist has faced for so long. Authorities must not detain Irom Sharmila again, but engage with the issues she is raising.”

Last month, the central government had said they have decided to repeal Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, which makes attempting to commit suicide punishable with imprisonment for up to one year.

Sharmila had been arrested, released and then re-arrested from time to time on the charge of attempting to commit suicide. The maximum punishment under Section 309 of the IPC is a one-year jail term.

(PTI)

U T Khader files complaint against mischievous WhatsApp message

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Bengaluru: Health Minister U T Khader has filed a complaint against mischief mongers for spreading false rumours about his daughter’s lavish marriage on social media.

The message, which has been spreading on WhatsApp for the past 10 days, reached the Minister when some of his friends, who received the forwarded message, called him to check.

The message carries a picture of a girl decked in gold and stated to be Mr. Khader’s daughter. It calls him “gold Minister”. The photo is not that of his daughter, who is aged 12.

Even some politicians took to social media to ridicule him.

Even some politicians took to social media to ridicule him.

His staff filed a complaint in Vidhana Soudha police station stating that some mischief mongers have misused the social platform to embarrass the Minister and damage his reputation.

The police have registered a case under Information Technology Act and said that they would seek the help of cyber crime officers to trace the person who initiated the message.

Three killed, many injured in bomb blast in Bihar court

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The blast took place when some prisoners were being brought to the court lock-up and it seems to be a plot to help prisoners escape.

The police said a woman was carrying the bomb and was killed when it exploded.

The police said a woman was carrying the bomb and was killed when it exploded.

Patna: A suspected woman suicide bomber detonated a crude bomb at the Ara Civil Court, in the Bhojpur district of Bihar, killing herself, a police constable and an undertrial, and injuring 16 others on Thursday.

The blast took place when a van carrying undertrials for production in the court entered the premises and they were being taken to the court lock-up. The police suspect the woman, aged 35-40, was a human bomb.

Local officials said that two undertrials escaped in the chaos following the blast. One out of the two under-trials, who fled was identified as Lambu Sharma, according to a PTI report.

Sixteen others, who sustained serious injuries in the incident, have been rushed to the local hospital. Two of the injured are said to be in a serious condition. Police officials are at the blast site and are investigating the case. The injured include lawyers and policemen.

Agencies reported that R K Singh, the Member of Parliament from Ara, confirmed the blast saying that it seems to be a plot to help some prisoners escape. The police, however, ruled out the possibility of the blast being a terror attack, according to television reports.

According to an official at the Bihar chief minister’s office, the Union Home Ministry has sought a report on the incident.

Agenceis said that the woman entered the court premises at Ara carrying the bomb in her purse. She detonated the crude bomb when the undertrials being brought to the court were disembarking from the van.

There was panic in the court premises following the bomb blast and in town of Ara. Security in the court premises has been beefed up following the blast.

BBMP demolishes shops in Malleswaram market

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Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) razed 80 shops to ground in Malleshwarm market area, to make way for market development project planned jointly by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and BBMP.

Lakshminarasiah, Joint Commissioner, West, BBMP, said that they have got the court order and a letter from the BBMP commissioner to go ahead with the demolition. The demolition will take place in a phased manner. He said that the demolition notice was issued to shop owners to evacuate the market even before December.

N Venkataswamy, President of Malleshwarm market association said, “We don’t know what to do and we are helpless. “He further added that he was not informed in advance about the demolition.

Earlier on Dec 12, 2014, 18 shops were demolished by the BBMP under police protection, despite opposition by the vendors.

The 2.08 acre market was slated to be developed jointly by the BBMP and the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). Though the BDA has back tracked, the BBMP has gone ahead with the demolition.

Youth from Goa held for hoax call of terror attack on Obama

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Panaji: A 19-year-old youth from Goa has been arrested for making a hoax call to Delhi Police warning them of a terror attack on US President Barack Obama. The youth, from South Goa district, made the call to the Delhi Police control room at around 7 AM yesterday saying that he has recorded a conversation of terrorists plotting an attack on Obama during his upcoming India visit, Superintendent of Police (South) Shekhar Prabhudesai said.

According to police, the youth “did it to get publicity” and was upset at not being able to take part in the Republic Day parade. The law enforcement agencies in Delhi swung into action after getting the call and at around 12.30 PM they traced it to South Goa’s Cuncolim village, 45 kms from Panaji.

The college-going youth was picked up based on the mobile phone call details by Cuncolim police. They interrogated him in the presence of senior officers who had rushed to the village from Panaji. During interrogation, the youth “confessed that he did it to get publicity”, Prabhudesai said adding that subsequently he was arrested last night.

“He said he did it to get publicity. He also wanted to participate in the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, but he could not do so because of which he was disturbed,” he said. The youth would be produced before Judicial Magistrate First Class in Margao town.

(PTI)

SC says Gurunath Meiyappan was involved in betting, tells Srinivasan to choose between CSK and BCCI top job

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Supreme Court, reading out a 130-page order, has said that BCCI functions are public functions, amenable to judicial law. N. Srinivasan has to choose between his IPL team Chennai Super Kings and BCCI president’s post.

File photo of Gurunath Meiyappan.

File photo of Gurunath Meiyappan.

by Soumitra Bose, NDTVSports

After almost 18 months of deliberations on the 2013 Indian Premier League betting and match-fixing scandal, the Supreme Court has said that N. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra of Rajasthan Royals were involved in betting. However, it also said that Srinivasan was not guilty of cover-up and “charges against him, at best, be regarded as suspicion.” It also said that “BCCI functions are public functions, amenable to judicial law.”

However, the top court has said that conflict of interest issues remain and Srinivasan has to choose between his IPL team Chennai Super Kings and the cricket Board. Srinivasan is also the first chairman of ICC.

Srinivasan is seeking a re-election as BCCI president and Thursday’s order will be a shot in the arm. In the wake of the IPL probe, Srinivasan was stood down last year by the top court from his position as Board chief. The BCCI has already postponed its Annual General Meeting and elections twice. As per its constitution, the AGM should have been held by September 30 last year. Srinivasan is seeking another term, this time as a candidate backed by the BCCI’s East Zone units.

The Supreme Court-appointed probe committee, led by Justice Mukul Mudgal, had in its first report indicted Meiyappan of betting and sharing team information. Srinivasan had mentioned that Gurunath was a mere ‘cricket enthusiast.’ Srinivasan was earlier charged with conflict of interest and not taking adequate action against involved in ‘misdemeanours.’

The case dates back to June 2013 when Aditya Verma, secretary of the Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB), raised charges of a conflict of interest in the BCCI’s original two-member inquiry panel for the IPL corruption issue.

A Bombay High Court ruling later termed the probe panel “illegal”. The BCCI and the CAB filed petitions in the Supreme Court against this order, with the CAB contending that the Bombay High Court could have suggested a fresh mechanism to look into the corruption allegations.

The Supreme Court then appointed a three-member committee, headed by former High Court judge Mukul Mudgal and comprising additional solicitor general L Nageswara Rao and Nilay Dutta to conduct an independent inquiry into the allegations of corruption against Srinivasan’s son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings official Gurunath Meiyappan, India Cements, and Rajasthan Royals team owner Raj Kundra, as well as with the larger mandate of allegations around betting and spot-fixing in IPL matches and the involvement of players.

(With inputs from A. Vaidyanathan)

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