Commuters, ambulances face inconvenience as heavy rains pile up traffic on Mangaluru roads
Mangaluru: Heavy rainfall in Mangaluru on Monday evening resulted in the submergence of Pumpwell Circle, one of the city's main junctions, leading to traffic disruption and inconvenience for the public. With coastal districts already on an orange alert, the City Traffic Police took the necessary measure of halting the traffic moving towards the city and other areas from Pumpwell.
As a consequence of the flooding at Pumpwell circle, vehicles that were stranded at the junction, as well as those intending to take the Pumpwell route, sought alternative routes towards Valencia and Jeppinamogaru, exacerbating the congestion on the roads. The situation became more challenging as ambulances, trying to navigate through the traffic were inconvenienced due to the traffic congestion.
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Eyewitnesses reported that the heavy traffic caused ambulances entering the city to face difficulties and, in some cases, become scattered due to the congestion. This added to the overall inconvenience caused by the flooding and traffic disruptions at Pumpwell junction.
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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.
