New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Friday said that Hindutva is neither Left nor Right and its essence is "integral humanism".
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Jodhpur/Jaipur, Oct 22 (PTI) In an apparently emerging trend defying the justice-delayed-justice-denied syndrome, yet another court in Rajasthan sentenced a child rapist and killer to death on Friday, barely in a month after the commission of the crime. A special POCSO court in Merta city in the Nagaur district awarded the death penalty to a 25-year-old man after convicting him of raping and killing a seven-year-old girl on September 20 this year in a village under the Padukalan police station in the district. Special Judge Rekha Rathore sentenced the convict Dinesh Jat, a maternal uncle of the victim, terming his offence as “the rarest of rare” after holding the trial continuously for 11 days, Special Public Prosecutor Sumer Singh said. Earlier on October 5, a Jaipur court had sentenced a 25-year-old man to 20 years in jail for raping a 9-year-old girl, imposing the punishment within nine days of the commission of the crime. Setting a benchmark on the swiftness of the delivery of the verdict that, experts say, also enhances the deterrence value of the punishment, the special Jaipur POCSO court, had decided the case within five working days after filing of the charge sheet by the police in barely 18 hours. Additional Sessions Judge Rathore held the continuous trial after the Nagaur police completed the probe into the case in barely six days and filed the charge sheet on September 27, said SPP Singh. During the trial, the ASJ examined 29 prosecution witnesses while the defence was able to put up only one witness in defence of accused Jat, he said. The court, however, dismissed the defence witness’ deposition claiming accused Jat to be suffering from a mental disability as it found the accused to be fully mentally fit, said Singh. According to the prosecution, the girl’s maternal uncle had on September 20 lured her to an agriculture farm, where he raped her and fearing that she might disclose the incident to other family members, had killed her and dumped her body behind bushes. On a complaint lodged by the girl’s mother, police managed to recover the victim’s body and arrest Dinesh Jat the same day. Expediting the investigation into the case, police filed the charge sheet in just six days in the POCSO Court. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot too welcomed the prompt court decision and swift police probe into the case. PTI CORR SDA.
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New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) India and the UK on Friday agreed to strengthen cooperation in the Indo-Pacific as their foreign ministers held extensive talks on key bilateral and regional issues and stressed the need for safe and unhindered access for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and ensuring that it is not used to threaten or attack any country or to shelter or train terrorists.
Sharjah, Oct 22 (PTI) Netherlands all-rounder Ryan ten Doeschate on Friday announced his retirement from international cricket after his side failed to qualify for the Super 12 stage of the T20 World Cup here.
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Odense, Oct 22 (PTI) Returning to action after a break, India's double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu on Friday bowed out of the Denmark open badminton tournament after losing in straight games to world no 8 Korean An Seyoung in the women's singles quarterfinals here.
New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) Delhi on Friday recorded one death due to COVID-19 and 38 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 0.07 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department.
New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Friday said India has a strong voice in the World Trade Organization and she is hopeful of a good outcome at the forthcoming ministerial conference at Geneva.
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IITGN’s model to accurately assess rainfall-induced damages in road networks
Lucknow, Oct 22 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government decided on Friday to transfer money directly to the bank accounts of the parents of the students studying in Classes 1 to 8 in government and government-aided primary schools for buying uniforms, shoes, socks, sweaters and school bags.
Jammu, Oct 22 (PTI) Union minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Friday said the Centre has conceived a project to develop 400 city forests across the country to increase the green cover in urban areas.
Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will put in place a four-layered regulatory structure for non-banking financial companies to keep a stricter vigil on the shadow banking sector and minimise risks for the overall financial system.
Johannesburg, Oct 22 (PTI) Tens of thousands of South Africans participated in special prayers across the country on Friday as four Indian-origin brothers who were abducted on Wednesday morning while on their way to school remained missing.
London, Oct 22 (PTI) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted on Friday that the country’s rising COVID-19 infections daily figure, which crossed 50,000 this week, is “fully in line” with predictions and ruled out the need for another national lockdown.
Ghaziabad, Oct 22 (PTI) A special court here on Friday sentenced a man to seven years in jail for raping a minor girl eight years ago and leaving her with a six-month pregnancy. Special Judge Piyush Tiwari of a court set up under the POCSO Act convicted and sentenced Sahibabad resident Amzad despite the victim claiming that she was 18-year-old at the time of the alleged rape. Turning hostile to the prosecution case, she also pleaded with the court that she wanted to live with Amzad as she had been living with his family since his arrest in June 2014, Special Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Bakharva said. The court, however, sentenced the man to seven years in jail and also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 ignoring the victim’s pleas and after ascertaining that she was only 17 years old at the time of her rape, he added. The court, however, giving the convict the benefit of section 428 of the Criminal Procedure Code, set off Amzad’s sentence against the period of his detention that he underwent during the trial as he was never granted bail after his arrest in June 2014. The victim’s father who had lodged the complaint of her daughter’s rape had died during the trial, he said, adding the court asked the convict to give Rs 35,000 out of the fine to the victim. PTI CORR.
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Destitute found dead in J-K's Anantnag
Srinagar, Oct 22 (PTI) A destitute, believed to be a non-local, was found dead in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police said.
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Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) There was a sigh of relief as well as joy among the exhibitors as audiences returned to the theatres, which reopened in Maharashtra on Friday with the necessary COVID-19 guidelines in place.
Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) Filmmaker-writer Tahira Kashyap Khurrana believes there is a need for more layered and complex characters to be written for women in cinema.
New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have developed a new integrated predictive model to accurately asses damages in road networks caused by heavy rainfall.
Mumbai, Oct 20 (PTI) The 12th edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest will be held in November and will see participation by some of the top names from the literary world, including Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Ruskin Bond and Nick Hornby.
