Byndoor: MESCOM lineman electrocuted while working on power transformer
Byndoor: In a tragic incident, a Mangalore Electricity Supply Company lineman lost his life after he was electrocuted while repairing a transformer near Taggarse village in Heggeri on Monday.
The deceased has been identified as Saleem (38), a resident of Mundgod in Uttara Kannada district. Saleem has been serving the MESCOM Byndoor for the past 8 years.
The incident reportedly took place when Saleem was repairing the electrical connection near the power transformer in Heggeri when he was electrocuted. He was seriously injured and died on the way to the hospital.
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Saleem is survived by his wife and their two-month-old child.
A case in connection with the incident has been registered at the Byndoor Police Station.
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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.
