Udupi: Heavy rains claim two lives in Kundapura
Kundapura: The relentless downpour in Udupi district over the past three days has resulted in two tragic fatalities in Kundapura. The entire region has been severely impacted by the heavy rainfall, causing adverse conditions.
In separate incidents in Kundapura, two individuals lost their lives due to the harsh weather conditions prevailing in the district. On Tuesday evening, Seshadri Aital (71), a resident of Toplumane village in Yedamoge, tragically drowned in the Kubja river while crossing a temporary wooden footbridge connecting his house to his areca nut plantation. His body was later recovered from the eight feet deep waters of the Mundkanaole bush around 10:45 pm.
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Similarly, Dinakara Shetty (53) from Ulthoor village in Kundapura taluk met with a fatal accident when his motorcycle skidded into a nearby lake. Dinakara, who worked as a cashier in a hotel in Manur, was en route to his wife's house in Ulthoor village, Maliadi. The heavy rainfall had caused the lake near his house to overflow, submerging the adjacent dirt road. In the darkness, he inadvertently plunged into the water pit along with his bike, resulting in his tragic demise.
The rivers in the area are flowing at high levels, and with the persistent rainfall and strong winds, there is an increased risk of flooding in low-lying areas, further exacerbating the situation in neighboring regions.
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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.
