11-year-old girl dies as tree falls on her due to heavy wind in Kasargod
Kasargod: Tragedy struck on Monday evening when a tree, uprooted by strong winds and heavy rain, claimed the life of a student in the vicinity of Puttige.
The victim, identified as Aishat Min Ha, was an 11-year-old sixth standard student at Angadi Mogar Government Secondary School.
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The incident occurred around 4 pm while Aishat was playing near the tree. Suddenly, the force of the wind and rain caused the tree to break and fall, tragically trapping the young girl underneath. Upon witnessing the incident, local residents rushed to her aid and took her to a hospital in Kumbale.
The girl however, had already succumbed to her injuries before reaching the hospital.
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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.
