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Gangster Arun Gawli, brother, five others acquitted in 20-year-old extortion case

14May

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Gangster Arun Gawli, brother, five others acquitted in 20-year-old extortion case

GANGSTER Arun Gawli, his brother and five others were acquitted by a special court Wednesday in a case of extortion dating back to 2005, where it was claimed that a builder was threatened and forced to give his gang Rs 8 lakh. The court said there was no evidence to show that a criminal conspiracy was planned and the money was extorted by any of the accused. Gawli, however, is behind bars serving life imprisonment for the murder of a councillor in 2007. Special Judge B D Shelke said there was no sufficient evidence to prove the case against the accused. They were acquitted of charges including extortion, criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. The present case against Gawli and his co-accused was based on a compl...

Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is redundant

23Apr

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Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is redundant

Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has ostensibly reduced the gravity of cases of sexual intercourse registered on the false promise of marriage by reducing punishment, compared to the offence of rape defined under Section 63 BNS (or Section 375 of the IPC). | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Cases of rape registered on the premise of false promise of marriage have been in the eye of the storm for a long time. It is often alleged that despite the consent of some women to a physical relationship, the men in those relationships are accused of rape. It was expected that the Central government would do away with the provision of the law which undermines the agency of women in giving their free and info...

A couple comes to a hotel for a rendezvous, a family altercation ensues — then shots ring out

2Apr

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A couple comes to a hotel for a rendezvous, a family altercation ensues — then shots ring out

A proprietor of a Pataudi hotel was detained Tuesday in connection with a firing incident in the morning that left three injured. Local police received information about the incident at 11.30 am. The issue arose after the hotel owner, a 50-year-old, fired shots after getting into an altercation with the family members of a woman who had come to his establishment with a man. The couple is allegedly in a relationship, as per police sources. Story continues below this ad The kin of the woman, who had gathered in large numbers as per police, reached the hotel looking for her and had been trying to enter it. An altercation with the hotel owner then ensued, leading to him firing shots from a licensed weapon. Two of those injured were passersby, while one was a relative of the wo...

A message to district magistrates and the police

27Feb

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A message to district magistrates and the police

Recently, two First Information Reports (FIRs) were registered under Section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in Indore for violating the District Magistrate’s prohibitory orders issued under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). These Sections correspond to Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), respectively. In a bid to make Indore free of beggars, the district administration had issued prohibitory orders on January 2, 2025. One FIR was registered against the person who gave alms to a beggar and the second was registered against a woman beggar’s son who had taken responsibility for preventing her from begging but she was found begging anyway. Both FIRs were filed on the complaint of the Begging ...