Rider in Kundapur loses control over scooter due to heavy rain; falls, drowns in roadside lake
Kundapur: In a tragic incident near Thekkatte in Kundapur taluk at midnight on Tuesday, a rider lost control over his scooter in the heavy rain, resulting in the vehicle falling into a lake by the road and the rider drowning in the waters.
The deceased rider has been identified as Diwakar Shetty, a 65-year-old resident of Malyadi near Thekkatte. He is learned to have been returning home on his scooter but lost control while turning on the road near his house on account of the intense rainfall. As the road had no barrier, Shetty toppled to a depth of six feet.
The eyewitnesses rushed to help and informed the police, fire brigade staff members and diving expert Ishwar Malpe about the incident. Malpe, who searched in the waters of the lake, got the scooter out, but had to search till 1:30 am Wednesday to find the body of Shetty.
A case has been filed at the Kota Police Station and an investigation of the matter is underway.
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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.
