Cricketer Yash Dayal moves HC challenging sexual exploitation FIR
Prayagraj, Jul 10 (PTI): Cricketer Yash Dayal has filed a writ petition before the Allahabad High Court challenging an FIR lodged against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a woman.
Dayal, who plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), has sought stay of his arrest, as well as quashing of the FIR registered against him.
Dayal, 27, was booked on July 6 at Indirapuram Police Station in Ghaziabad district under Section 69 (Sexual intercourse by deceitful means etc) of the BNS.
The matter is likely to be heard by a division bench next week.
The cricketer has been accused of sexually exploiting a woman through promise of marriage. According to the complainant, the two had met around five years ago.
The alleged victim has also claimed that Dayal kept postponing her proposal to marry and eventually she came to know that Dayal was involved with other women as well.
The complaint was initially submitted on June 21 via the chief minister's online grievance portal (IGRS).
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
