5 vehicles damaged, passengers injured in serial accident near M’luru city
Mangaluru: A serial accident was witnessed at Kallapu near Thokkottu on the outskirts of the city on Sunday night, where five vehicles were damaged and many people injured.
The driver of an Innova car travelling from Thokkottu to Mangaluru overtook another car. As he suddenly turned the vehicle towards the left, the second car hit the Innova on the back bumper. This caused the Innova to whirl on the road, when another car coming down the road hit it. The passengers in the third car included ladies and 10 children.
A Swift car and a two-wheeler were also hit by the cars, furthering the impact of the collisions. All the five vehicles were damaged in the series of accidents.
Amrit, a student of a private college in Mangaluru, the rider of the two-wheeler and the passengers in the cars were injured and were admitted to hospital.
Mangalore Traffic South Police officials are investigating the incident.
During the visit to the spot, they found that the Innova car driver, whose rashness led to the mess, and the vehicle were missing from the accident site.
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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.
