Miscreants torch huts belonging to Dalits
Bengaluru: Unidentified miscreants torched four-five huts of Dalits in the Thattehalli village of Belur taluk in Hassan district.
There are about 80 Dalit families in this village and about 50 families in an acre and eight guntas of land live in trouble. They are living with cattle farming and sheep farming. As the area was not enough, 4-5 Dalit families had built huts in a 30-acre and 38 guntas of government land on Survey No. 51.
It is alleged that Surveyors Karthik and Rudranna have set the huts on fire.
The victims have urged that Dalit leaders should visit Thattehalli village and fight for the justice of Dalit families.
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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.
