Mangaluru: Passenger dies after auto-rickshaw overturns near Urwastore
Mangaluru: A tragic incident occurred in Mangaluru when a passenger lost his life after the rickshaw he was traveling in overturned near Urwa store in the city.
The deceased has been identified as Sridhar B, a 29-year-old senior liaison officer working in a private organization.
Sridhar, originally from Adagur in Belur taluk of Hassan district, was residing in a rented house in Ashok Nagar. On Sunday, he accompanied a friend in a rickshaw to explore nearby rental houses. Suddenly, a pedestrian darted across the road near Urwa store, causing the rickshaw driver to lose control in an attempt to avoid a collision. Consequently, the rickshaw overturned, flinging Sridhar onto the road and trapping him underneath.
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Sustaining severe injuries in the accident, Sridhar was promptly rushed to a private hospital in the city. Tragically, he succumbed to his injuries during the journey. Fortunately, the rickshaw driver and another passenger escaped unhurt in the incident. It has been reported that Sridhar got married just a year ago.
Following a post-mortem examination conducted on Monday morning, the body of the deceased was handed over to his family members. The Mangaluru City West Police station has registered a case in connection with the incident and is conducting an investigation into the matter.
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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.
