Orissa HC declares Cong MLA's election in 2019 null and void
Cuttack, Mar 4: The Orissa High Court on Monday declared the election of Congress leader Mohammed Moquim from the Cuttack-Barabati Assembly seat in 2019 as null and void.
Adjudicating over a petition filed by BJD leader Debasis Samantray, Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo annulled the election of Moquim for failing to furnish detailed criminal antecedents during the time of filing his nomination in April 2019.
Samantray, a BJD leader and former MLA of Barabati-Cuttack who was recently elected as a Rajya Sabha member, had moved the high court in July 2019, alleging that Moquim had submitted false affidavits along with his nomination during the May 2019 elections.
The Congress leader was twice fined Rs 10,000 by the court during the adjudication of the case for non-appearance.
Moquim had won the assembly election for the first time in 2019 by defeating Samantray by a narrow margin of a little over 2,000 votes.
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Bengaluru police arrest 6 from TN's Coimbatore in dacoity case
Bengaluru (PTI): Six persons were arrested from Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district in connection with a dacoity case here, police said on Sunday.
The police seized two two-wheelers, four mobile phones, and two laptops worth Rs 3 lakh from the accused.
The accused allegedly trespassed into a house here and threatened the occupants with deadly weapons, earlier this month.
According to police, the complainant, a resident of Pavamana Nagar within the limits of Konanakunte Police Station, submitted a complaint on April 18. He was a college student, originally from Kerala. He, along with six other students, resided in the house and all were pursuing studies at the same college.
On the night of April 17, around late hours, six unknown persons aged between 20-25 years unlawfully entered the house. They assaulted the occupants with their hands and a knife, causing bleeding injuries, threatened them, and robbed them of Rs 10,000 cash, four mobile phones, two laptops, and a two-wheeler, they said, adding that based on the complaint, a dacoity case was registered.
During the investigation, the police conducted inquiries from various angles and gathered credible information through informants. the an official release said, adding, the accused were later picked up from Coimbatore.
The police recovered the stolen laptops, mobile phones, a two-wheeler belonging to the complainant, and another one used in the commission of the offence, they said.
"Upon interrogation, all six accused confessed to their involvement in the offence."
The six accused were produced before a court, which remanded them to judicial custody, they added.
