Villagers pelt stones at anti-encroachment team in MP’s Dhar district
Dhar (MP) (PTI): Local residents hurled stones at an administration and police team that had gone to remove alleged encroachments in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Saturday, damaging two government vehicles, officials said.
The incident took place at Sirsodiya within the jurisdiction of Dhamnod police station, about 55 km from the district headquarters.
While a few reports claimed that a woman and a police station house officer (SHO) were injured due to the stone pelting, Additional Superintendent of Police Vijay Dawar said “things would be clearer after the Medico-Legal Case of the (affected) people”.
The matter is exaggerated, the official said, without disclosing more details about the alleged encroachments.
Asked about reports claiming that the SHO was taken to Indore for medical care, Dawar said the policeman suffered a fracture in his leg while getting down a ladder.
He said a window pane of the tehsildar’s vehicle was damaged, and a police vehicle was also attacked.
Police have begun identifying those involved in the stone pelting and action is being taken against them, he added.
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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.
