Indian Express 13.04.2010
In Brief
Express News Services Tags : iebrief, delhi Posted: Tuesday , Apr 13, 2010 at 0150 hrs
New Delhi: HC asks civic body to de-seal Tata phone towersIn a relief to Tata Teleservices Ltd, the Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to de-seal 35 towers of the company across the city. The towers were recently sealed by the civic body for being in violation of law and functioning without approval.
The court passed the order on a petition filed by Wireless TT Info-Services Ltd, a wholly owned company of Tata Teleservices Ltd, seeking direction to de-seal the towers and to restrain the civic body from sealing its other towers. The company contended that the civic body had no authority to seal the towers and its move was in violation of the Telegraph Act.
The MCD, in the beginning of the year, had started the sealing drive after it found that majority of the towers were set up without its approval. The municipal body said of the 5,364 towers in the city, only 2,412 have the permission and the remaining 2,952 were illegal. The civic body had issued notices to 1,532 cellular operators, asking them to either apply for regularisation or remove the towers.
BMW case: Apex court to hear appeal
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to grant a preliminary hearing to the petition filed by the Delhi Police challenging the Delhi High Court’s order that reduced the punishment of Sanjeev Nanda for mowing down six persons with his BMW car a decade ago. The hearing has been listed for July this year
The police have already appealed against the July 20, 2009 verdict of the High Court, which had set aside the trial court’s conviction for the offence of ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’ which attracts a punishment of up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
The High Court had convicted Nanda, 31, grandson of former Naval Chief S M Nanda, under 304A (causing death by rash and negligent act) of IPC which carries a maximum punishment of two years.
Man convicted of raping daughter
A Delhi court on Monday convicted a man for raping his daughter and fathering her baby, trashing his plea that she was a consenting party and observed “submission of the body under the influence of fear or terror is no consent.”
Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau termed the incident as “shocking” and held accused Sant Ram alias Sadhu Ram guilty under various provisions of the IPC dealing with rape and criminal intimidation.Mere act of helpless resignation in the face of inevitable compulsion, quiescence, non-resistance or passive giving in, when volitional faculty is either crowded by fear or vitiated by duress, cannot be deemed to be consent,” the court said. The court is to announce the quantum of sentence next week.
An FIR lodged by the mother of the victim on April 25, 2006 at Kanjhawala police station stated that her husband
Sant Ram had raped their daughter. During trial, the victim testified that her father had been raping her when she was 10-year-old and in the absence of her mother treated her like his wife.
