Belthangady | Gang rape of minor girl: Three including boy arrested
Belthangady: Three individuals, including a minor, have been arrested by Belthangady Police in connection with the gang rape of a minor girl, which resulted in her pregnancy. The case, reported on May 31, led to charges under the Gang Rape and POCSO Act at the Belthangady Police Station.
The suspects, hailing from Moodbidire, namely Muhammad Iksal (26), Farooq (19), and the minor boy, were apprehended on June 1 by Belthangady police. While the adult suspects were remanded to judicial custody by the Belthangady court, the minor boy was taken before the Mangaluru Juvenile Court and subsequently placed in the Mangaluru remand home.
The victim, who reported the crime, is currently receiving treatment at a hospital and is six months pregnant.
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Court can reject anticipatory bail but cannot direct accused to surrender: SC
New Delhi (PTI): A court can reject anticipatory bail of an accused but it has no jurisdiction to direct him to surrender before the trial court, the Supreme Court has said.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observation while hearing a plea filed by a man accused of cheating and forgery.
"If the court wants to reject the anticipatory bail, it may do so, but the court has no jurisdiction to say that the petitioner should now surrender," the bench said.
The Jharkhand High Court had rejected anticipatory bail plea of the accused and asked him to surrender and seek regular bail.
In this case, a complaint had been filed before a magistrate alleging offences under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document) and 120B read with 34 of the IPC, in connection with a land dispute.
The high court had dismissed the second anticipatory bail application of the accused on the ground that no new circumstances were shown.
It had relied on its earlier order rejecting his first anticipatory bail plea, in which the court directed the petitioner to surrender before the trial court and seek regular bail in terms of the decision in Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI.
The top court said such a direction was wholly without jurisdiction and said that if a court chooses to reject anticipatory bail, it may do so, but it cannot compel the accused to surrender.
