MUMBAI: The Colaba police has booked an advocate, a suspended deputy secretary in the home department and a builder for allegedly forging letters that claimed the lawyer was appointed special public prosecutor in matters related to the builder. Shekhar Jagtap, the lawyer, appeared as special prosecutor in court in several cases and tried to help Shyam Sundar Agrawal, the builder, including by arguing against bail for a rival builder, said police officials.
Lawyer, home dept official, builder booked for forgery, cheating
The forged letters, signed by deputy secretary Kishore Bhalerao, came to light after Sanjay Punamiya, the rival builder, filed…
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Agra A case was registered against the incharge of New Agra police station, chowki incharge and 8 to 10 other policemen in connection with the death of a lawyer who was found dead after falling from the eighth floor of an apartment on Friday night. The incharge of New Agra police station and police chowki in charge were suspended after lawyers staged a protest at the civil court on Saturday.
Lawyers staging protest at Civil Court gates in Agra on Saturday. (HT)
The case was registered under Section 147 (rioting), 302 (murder), 201 (destroying evidence), 342 (wrongful conviction), 427 (causing…
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“They haven’t abused or neglected him in any way,” she said of the parents. “[Indiana] still used the disagreement over gender as a reason to keep him out of their home until he turned 18.”
“What’s shocking is the Indiana courts upheld this, and now the Supreme Court is their last stop and their last hope to make sure this doesn’t happen again to others,” she said.
Windham said he hopes the court will “wipe this stain off of Mary and Jeremy’s record.”
“They have other young children at home. They don’t want something like this to happen again,” she…
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