Serial killer ‘Cyanide Mohan’ gets life term untill death in seventh case
Mangaluru, Feb 23: The 6th additional district principal and sessions court on Saturday convicted serial killer Cyanide Mohan for life imprisonment untill death.
Date Of conviction
Under IPC Section 366, he has to undergo six years of imprisonment and pay Rs 3,000 penalty and if he failed to pay the penalty, he has to undergo further one month imprisonment. Under IPC Section 302, he was convicted for life imprisonment, under Section 376, seven years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty, and if failed to pay the penalty, he has to serve one more month conviction. Under section 328, seven years imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty, under section 201, five years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty, under section 392, five years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 3,000 penalty and under section 417 he has to undergo six months imprisonment. The court also said that the family members of the victim are eligible to get the compensation from the legal authority.
About incident
Mohan met a 25 year old lady of Mani gram Panchayat at Wenlock hospital saying that his name was Sadananda Nayak. Later, he proposed her to marry him and asked her to come to Puttur bus stand on January 2, 2008 wearing gold ornaments. When she came, they went to Madikeri and got a room at a lodge in the name of Ananda Nayak. In spite her opposition, he raped her on that night.
Plan for murder
Asking her to keep all her jewelry and money at room to go out, he took her to Madikeri bus stand and later, he forced her to take contraceptive pills in the form of cyanide. She went to a washroom at the bus stand and took the cyanide and collapsed there itself. Later, Mohan went to lodge and escaped after taking all gold ornaments and cash of her. Though she was taken to the hospital, she was declared brought dead. The case was handed over to COD which filed charge sheet to the court.
Judge DT Puttaranga Swamy heard the evidences of 40 people, verified 64 documents and considered 38 evidences before awarding the verdict. Now, the convicted could not go on parole. Public prosecutor Judith M Crasta argued against the convicted.
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May initiate contempt action if states, UTs non compliant against misleading ads: SC
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned states and union territories of contempt action if they failed to act against misleading advertisements.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan perused a note submitted by senior advocate Shadan Farasat, who is assisting the apex court as an amicus curiae in the matter, and observed a number of states were non-compliant as indicated in the note.
"We make it clear that if we find non-compliance by any of the states and union territories, we may have to initiate proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, against the states concerned," the bench said.
The issue pertaining to misleading advertisements had cropped up before the top court while hearing a plea filed by the Indian Medical Association in 2022 alleging a smear campaign by Patanjali Ayurved Ltd against the Covid vaccination drive and modern systems of medicine.
The top court had highlighted the aspect of misleading advertisements being published or displayed in media contrary to the provisions of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and the rules, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
During the hearing on Wednesday, the amicus said as per the affidavits filed by the states and union territories so far, virtually no prosecution under the 1954 Act was taking place.
While Section 3 of the Act deals with prohibition of advertisement of certain drugs for treatment of certain diseases and disorders, Section 4 relates to prohibition of misleading advertisements of drugs.
The bench referred to affidavits filed by some of the states and questioned why they hadn't acted on the basis of complaints received.
Some states, it noted, found it difficult to identify the violaters.
"We will take contempt action now," the bench said, "and we will threadbare examine the compliance made by each states."
The bench said it would consider the compliance made by Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir on February 10.
And if these states wanted to file further affidavits reporting compliance, they were free to do so by February 3, it added.
The bench said compliance by states including Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab would be considered on February 24.
It said compliance regarding other states and union territories would be considered on March 17.
While hearing the matter in July last year, the apex court said the Ministry of Ayush should set up a dashboard to make available to the consumers the details about the complaints filed on misleading advertisements and the progress made on them.
In April last year, the top court asked the Centre and state licensing authorities to "activate" themselves to deal with misleading advertisements.
