New Delhi, Feb. 6 (PTI): The Supreme Court has dismissed the Indian Railways’ plea challenging the apex consumer commission’s direction to pay Rs 2.01 lakh to a lady doctor whose luggage was stolen while travelling by train.
The court held the railways liable to pay the fine. Previously, the consumer commission had said the ticket checker had failed to ensure that no intruders entered the reserved coach of the Kushinagar Express in 1996 when Dr Shobha Agarwal and her daughter were travelling.
Vadodara (PTI): A dolphin was found dead on the banks of Dhadhar river near Vadodara on Wednesday, a forest official said. He added that the mammal had come along with high tide but could not swim back.
London (PTI): Two Indian-origin robbers have been each sentenced to nearly four years in prison for brutally attacking a frail 80-year-old man. Harbans Singh and Varinder Singh had knocked down the pensioner leaving him with injuries on his face and hands.
Jammu (PTI): The National Knowledge Network’s points of presence has been launched in Jammu. The network is a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-India network for providing a unified high-speed network backbone for all knowledge-related institutions in the country.
Mumbai (PTI): A special MCOCA court has remanded Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akhtar in ATS custody till February 18 in connection with the 2011 Mumbai terror attack case. The duo were held by the Mumbai ATS on Wednesday after a Delhi court allowed their plea.
Coimbatore (PTI): An amount of Rs 10 lakh is missing from an SBI branch here. It was part of Rs 3 crore kept on a table in the locker room for dispatch to various ATMs. The money was found missing during the mandatory counting, police said. The CCTV camera in the branch had not been working for two days.
Srinagar, Feb. 6: Jammu and Kashmir’s junior health minister was today booked for allegedly trying to molest a lady doctor.
The alleged incident occurred a few days ago when Shabir Ahmad Khan had called the doctor to his office to discuss some departmental matters, according to the victim’s complaint. Khan is from the Congress, which is part of the Omar Abdullah government. He is likely to be arrested, sources said. Khan was not available for comment.
New Delhi (PTI): A parliamentary committee has recommended that any Indian or foreign entity found guilty of bribing a public servant shall be liable for punishment besides a fine, going beyond the provisions of an anti-graft bill.
New Delhi (PTI): The family members of an aviation instructor who died in an accident involving a rashly driven school bus in 2009 have been awarded over Rs 40 lakh by a motor tribunal. Ashok Kumar Sethi, 61, was travelling by his car behind the bus, which suddenly stopped in a negligent manner resulting in the accident.
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Rebel Kerala CPM leader T.P. Chandrasekharan’s widow K.K. Rema continued a fast for the fourth day on Thursday, for a CBI probe into the conspiracy behind her husband’s murder.
Berhampur (PTI): An 18-year-old girl missing for the last six months from Odisha’s Kandhamal district has been rescued from New Delhi’s Nihal Vihar recently, police said. The girl was found working as a domestic help in a house. Her father had lodged an FIR on January 8 after all searches proved futile. The police are still looking for the person who had taken her to Delhi.
Nashik (PTI): The anti-corruption bureau has caught an assistant engineer of the Maharashtra state electricity distribution company accepting an alleged bribe of Rs 21,000 for providing a new connection.
