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Kangaroo court in WB orders gang-rape, murder of teenager

September 4, 2014

Kolkata, Sep 4: As punishment for his failure to pay the rent for a tractor, a kangaroo court ordered the gang-rape and murder of a farmer’s 17-year-old daughter, who had tried to save her father from being beaten up by locals.

Kangaroo courtThe naked body of the girl was found on Wednesday near railways tracks at Dhupguri in the Jalpaiguri district of North Bengal, a day after she had gone missing.

The kangaroo court in the girl’s village was being overseen by a local Trinamool Congress councillor and her husband. The police believe that the girl was gang-raped and murdered for intervening when locals tried to rough up her father on Monday.

A senior police official said the victim’s father identified her body on Wednesday afternoon and lodged an FIR at the Dhupguri police station against 13 people for rape, murder and kidnap. The body has already been sent for postmortem and the police have detained two persons in connection with the case.

Officials said the trouble began on Monday, when the farmer’s request for more time to make the payment was turned down by the kangaroo court. The girl went missing on Tuesday night, after which Superintendent of Police Kunal Agarwal and Additional Superintendent James Kujur reached the village.

The police said the local Trinamool councillor and her husband were present when the girl came out of her house and pleaded with the kangaroo court not to beat up her father on Monday.

Officials believe she was ushered out of the meeting by a person known to her before she went missing.

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February 7,2020

Jammu & Kashmir, Feb 7: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, besides two political stalwarts from NC and its arch-rival PDP were booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) by the administration on Thursday, officials said.

A magistrate accompanied by police served the order to Mufti at the bungalow where she has been detained, the officials said.

Abdullah was also booked under the PSA, they said.

National Conference general secretary and former minister Ali Mohammed Sagar, who wields a support base in downtown city, was served with a PSA notice public order by the authorities.

Similarly, senior PDP leader Sartaj Madani was booked under the PSA. Madani is the maternal uncle of former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti.

Both Sagar and Madani were detained in the aftermath of August 5 crackdown by the Centre on politicians following abrogation of special status of the erstwhile state, besides its bifurcation into two union territories.

Their six-month preventive custody was ending on Thursday.

Earlier, the officials had said that former NC legislator Bashir Ahmed Veeri was also booked under the PSA but later it turned out that he had been released.

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January 18,2020

Mumbai, Jan 18: Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Friday said shops, restaurants, malls and pubs will remain open 24 hours on an experimental basis in a few areas of Mumbai from January 26.

The areas where these establishments will remain open all night are Fort and Kala Ghoda in south Mumbai and Bandra Kurla Complex in the west.

Thackeray had batted for all-night-open eateries and other establishments in the city during the earlier BJP-Shiv Sena regime too.

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July 16,2020

New Delhi, Jul 16: The Rajasthan High Court will hear Thursday afternoon a petition filed on behalf of the Sachin Pilot camp, challenging a move to disqualify dissident MLAs from the state assembly.

The plea against the disqualification notices sent from the Speaker’s office to Pilot and 18 other Congress MLAs will be heard by Justice Satish Chandra Sharma.

The 19 MLAs were sent notices Tuesday by the Speaker after the Congress complained that the MLAs had defied a party whip to attend two Congress Legislature Party meetings. 

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