Cuttack: Orissa high court has come down heavily on Odisha State Education Programme Authority (OSEPA) for arbitrarily demoting an officer after more than 15 years in a higher post, restoring him as assistant director (management information system) with all service and financial benefits and imposing an ‘exemplary’ fine of Rs 1 lakh on the authority.A…
Berhampur: The special vigilance court in Berhampur on Tuesday sentenced a 68-year-old retired junior engineer in Rayagada district to three years’ imprisonment for possession of disproportionate assets worth over Rs 16.35 lakh, about 18 years ago.Vigilance judge Gyanendra Kumar Barik also slapped a Rs 1 lakh fine on the convict, Ashok Kumar Padhy. He will…
Bettiah: A local court in West Champaran on Monday sentenced two residents of West Bengal to life imprisonment for trafficking three minor girls from Bihar, observing that the convicts had failed to explain why they were taking the children to Asansol.District and Additional Sessions Judge-IV Manvendra Mishra convicted Niyoti Devi and Nagesh Bhuiyan under Section…
Mangaluru: A man was arrested and remanded in judicial custody after the district consumer disputes redressal commission in Udupi sentenced him to three years simple imprisonment for wilfully failing to comply with its order in a consumer dispute involving registration of an apartment or payment of compensation.Decree holder Santosh Pai had filed a consumer complaint…
Panaji: State govt on Thursday regularised 300 illegal houses constructed on govt land, comunidade land and land owned by individuals under the Mhaje Ghar scheme. State govt urged the people who have still not applied under the Majhe Ghar scheme to regularise their houses to apply.Chief minister Pramod Sawant said that a total of over…
Ghaziabad: A special Pocso court on Monday sentenced a man to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh for sexually assaulting his minor neighbour in Modinagar three years ago. The convict had lured the child to his bicycle for a quick trip to the market to buy a TV remote,…
