Seven held in murder attempt case
Mangaluru (PTI): Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested seven persons including a rowdy-sheeter in a case relating to the attempt on the life of a fish merchant at Ajjinadka in Ullal police station limits.
The rowdy-sheeter who was arrested has been identified as Talat (35), a resident of Phinalnagar. The other accused who were nabbed are: Aachi, Noufal, Ashpak, Nisaak, Rifat Ali and Rahim, police sources said on Monday.
Talat and seven others had tried to kill fish merchant Arif, a resident of K C Road in Ajjinadka with a sword on May 26.
Arif, who is also a rowdy-sheeter, was involved in a money transaction with Talat in connection with ish trade. The verbal duel over the transaction resulted in the attack on Arif, the sources said.
The accused Talat is also the prime accused in a double murder case in Farangipete and his associate Noufal is also an accused in the case. Several cases of robbery, theft and murder attempt are pending against Talat in Mangaluru police Commissionerate limits, sources said.
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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.
