Oxygen cylinder blast outside private hospital in UP: Two dead
Lucknow: Two people were killed as an oxygen cylinder exploded outside the Dayal Hospital of the Ravi Nagar area, Mughalsarai, in Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh, between 9 am and 9:30 am on Friday.
The cylinder exploding could be heard up to half a kilometer away. Also, glasses of nearby houses shattered due to the intensity of the blast, reports NDTV.
The mutilated bodies of the victims of the blast were seen in visuals lying on the road amid the debris. The visuals also show a truck that was used to carry oxygen cylinders parked by the road near the hospital.
The Chandauli Superintendent of Police and the Mughalsarai legislator rushed to the blast spot immediately.
The police took into custody the bodies of the blast victims and sent them for autopsy. The security camera footage in the area is being checked for clues in the matter.The cylinder exploding could be heard up to half a kilometer away, reports NDTV.
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ED can't arrest accused after special court has taken cognisance of complaint: SC
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court Thursday held that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) cannot arrest an accused under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after a special court has taken cognisance of the complaint of money laundering.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said when an accused appears before a court in pursuance of a summons, the agency will have to apply to the court concerned to get his custody.
"If the accused appears before the special court by summons (issued by court), it cannot be treated that he is in custody," it said.
"Accused who appeared before the court pursuant to the summons not required to apply for bail, and thus twin conditions of Section 45 of PMLA not applicable," the bench said in its judgment.
The twin conditions state that when an accused in a money laundering case applies for bail, the court has to first allow the public prosecutor to be heard and only when it is satisfied that the accused is not guilty and unlikely to commit a similar offence when released, can bail be granted.
The apex court judgment was pronounced on a question of whether an accused in a money laundering case has to meet the stringent twin test for bail even in cases where the special court takes cognisance of the offence.
