56- year-old woman rescued from 25-foot pit dug in Nagarabhavi by GBA
Bengaluru: In an incident reported from Nagarabhavi early Friday, a 56-year-old woman who fell into a 25-foot pit near a public park was rescued by Chandra Layout Police.
According to police sources, the woman fell into the pit while returning home after visiting a temple. Unable to get out of the pit, she contacted her family, following which her son called the Emergency Helpline 112, as reported by Deccan Herald.
Assistant Sub-inspector Srinivas Murthy and Head Constable Vinoda KM of the Hoysala Squad, Chandra Layout Police Station, rushed to the spot successfully tracing the woman using her phone location. They also got her out of the pit using an iron rope and took her immediately to hospital since she was exhausted.
The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) reportedly got the road dug for an underpass within the limits of the Jnanabharati Police Station. Police have added that no barricades had been placed at the spot nor were any safety measures taken to prevent accidents near the pit.
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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.
