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The Delhi High Court asked the Centre Monday if it had done any research or scientific assessment before coming out with an ordinance to award death penalty for rape of girls below the age of 12. The high court was dealing with an old PIL that challenged the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act of 2013, in which a penal provision — minimum of seven years of jail term — for a rape convict was included and the court’s discretion to award less than that was taken away. “Did you carry out…

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‘Over 4000 Cases Settled In Single Day In National Lok Adalat’: Judge

April 24, 2018 strong

More than four thousand cases were settled on a single day in the National Lok Adalat organised in the District Court Mathura, a judge in Mathura said. Not only 3,025 cases were settled but also an amount of Rs. 98,30,329 was realized as decree amount for 18 execution cases,” District Judge Ajeet Singh said. He said the orders were passed to provide compensation claim to the tune of Rs. 7,50,000 amongst 21 behavioural cases and one motor accident case. Orders were also passed to provide compensation claim Rs. 1,42,95,000 to aggrieved parties in 27 motor accident…

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In Loan Fraud Case, Assets Worth 1,122 Crore Of Gujarat Firm Attached

April 24, 2018 strong

The Enforcement Directorate today said it has attached assets worth Rs. 1,122 crore, including wind mills and an under-construction hotel, of Vadodara-based DPIL Pvt Ltd in connection with its money laundering probe in a bank fraud case. Diamond Power Infrastructure Limited (DPIL) is accused of cheating various banks to the tune of Rs. 2,654 crore. The central probe agency had filed a criminal case against the firm and its promoters under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), after taking cognisance of a CBI FIR, and had searched its premises last month. “The assets…

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FIFA subjects 2026 Morocco World Cup bid to fresh scrutiny

April 24, 2018 strong

Morocco’s World Cup bid is facing fresh scrutiny this week with the arrival of another delegation from FIFA after an initial task force found deficiencies in the proposals for the 2026 tournament. In a downbeat conclusion to the visit by the inspectors last week, Morocco’s bid leader acknowledged it had to improve the quality of the submission made to FIFA in March because inadequacies were identified by football’s governing body. The previously unplanned second inspection of Morocco is an indication of the more rigorous process introduced by FIFA following criticism…

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Need one win to set ball rolling, says disappointed Plunkett

April 24, 2018 strong

Down but not out. That’s what pacer Liam Plunkett tried to convey while summing up the mood in the Delhi Daredevils camp after suffering yet another loss in the Indian Premier League. Delhi Daredevils came agonisingly close to breaking their run of reverses, only to lose by four runs to Kings XI Punjab at the Ferozeshah Kotla last night. “It was really disappointing to lose such a close game. I think we should have won this match. It is really frustrating for all of us,” Plunkett said at the post-match…

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Dutt biopic titled ‘Sanju’, Ranbir spitting image of controversial Bollywood star

April 24, 2018 strong

The first look and teaser of Sanjay Dutt’s much-awaited biopic is finally out and the Rajkumar Hirani-directed movie, featuring Ranbir Kapoor in the lead role, is titled “Sanju”. The first poster of the film was launched earlier today featuring Ranbir in the five iconic looks of Dutt from different phases of his life, starting from “Rocky” and going on to the time he was released from Yerwada Central Jail in 2016, after serving a five-year sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case. The teaser begins with Ranbir breaking…

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Cong hands stained with Muslims’ blood: Salman Khurshid

April 24, 2018 strong

In a statement which might not go down well with his party, former Union minister Salman Khurshid has said there are Muslims’ blood stains on the Congress hands. Khurshid made the remarks in response to a question by an Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student at a programme as to how the Congress would wash off the blood stains of Muslims from its hands. “It is a political question. There is blood on our hands. I am also a part of the Congress so let me say it, we have blood…

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Software better tackling IS propaganda, Facebook says

April 24, 2018 strong

Facebook today said new detection tools wielded by its counterterrorism team are quickly detecting and removing extremist propaganda for the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda. The leading social network ‘took action’ on 1.9 million pieces of IS or al-Qaeda-linked content in the first three months of this year — nearly double the amount from the previous quarter, according to vice president of global policy management Monika Bickert and global head of counterterrorism policy Brian Fishman. “Taking action,” the company said, generally involved removing “the vast majority of this content.” It…

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Van plows into Toronto crowd in ‘deliberate’ act, leaving 10 dead

April 24, 2018 strong

At least 10 people have died after a man plowed a white rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in Canada’s biggest city Toronto, in what police dubbed a “deliberate” attack. The incident took place in broad daylight around 16 kilometers from a conference center hosting a meeting of G7 ministers, but officials said they had no evidence of a link to the event. “The actions definitely looked deliberate,” Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told journalists. Ralph Goodale, the minister of public security, added that “on the basis of all…

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Aseemanand’s confession to police not voluntary: NIA court

April 24, 2018 strong

The special anti-terror court that acquitted five accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case held that the confessional statement of Hindu preacher Swami Aseemanand to the police, which he retracted later, was not voluntary. The NIA court also maintained that a person cannot be considered “communal or anti-social” only because of links to the RSS, which is not a banned organisation. The court also dismissed the prosecution’s claim that Aseemanand had confessed to his guilt to two inmates of a prison here, saying the CBI, which initially probed the case…