Vitla: Man murders older brother over property dispute
Bantwal: A property dispute between two brothers ended with the younger brother murdering his older brother at Kodange near Vitla in the taluk.
The murder victim has been identified as Ganesh (53), a resident of Banaari Kodange. His younger brother, Padmanabha (49), has been identified as the accused, the police informed.
Reportedly, the brothers had had a dispute over property for quite some time. Both brothers, who were habitual drinkers, used to get into fights on the issue, it is learned. Even as recently as a month ago, a complaint had been filed at the Vitla police station in this regard.
On Tuesday night, the fight between the brothers ended with the murder of Ganesh.
The Vitla police, who arrived at the incident site, have reportedly undertaken an inquiry into the case.
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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.
