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| Hoeness sent to 'Mein Kampf' jail in tax evasion crackdown | |  By Jens Hack LANDSBERG, Germany (Reuters) - Former Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, convicted of tax evasion in one of Germany's most spectacular cases of fraud, will spend the next 3-1/2 years in a prison that once housed Adolf Hitler. Prison officials took 160 journalists on a tour on Monday of the prison 70 km (45 miles) west of Munich, where Hitler dictated "Mein Kampf" to Rudolf Hess after being convicted for his failed 1923 beer hall putsch. Hoeness, Germany's most famous soccer manager, was convicted on March 16 of evading 28.5 million euros in taxes on income earned in a secret Swiss bank account.
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| Taboo-breaking Basque comedy is blockbuster in Spain | |  By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish filmgoers are queueing up for a surprise hit comedy about Basques and separatist guerrillas - complete with jokes about car-bombings - in a film that would have been unthinkable in Spain before now. The movie, "8 Apellidos Vascos" (8 Basque Surnames), has viewers in stitches over the cultural divide between a slick-haired young man from southern Spain and his Basque girlfriend. "It is very, very healthy for all of us that we are laughing at ourselves and especially that people in troubled areas of the country are able to laugh at themselves," Enrique Gonzalez Macho, president of the Spanish Film Academy, said in a television interview on Monday. The Basque separatist movement ETA declared an end to its armed struggle in 2011, after decades of violence in which more than 100 people were killed.
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| Accused cannot be allowed to die in prison: Court | | | Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma said this while granting interim bail to 82-year-old Krishan Gopal Bali, facing trial in a rape case. Citing ill health, Bali had requested the court to grant him bail. |
| CJI concerned at declining conviction rate in rape cases | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Chief Justice of India P.Sathasivam Monday expressed unhappiness on the declining of conviction rate in rape cases and emphasized that women judicial officials can play a major role in conducting trial in such cases. Citing the National Crime Records Bureau data for 2010-2012, Chief Justice Sathasivam said that conviction rate for all major crimes against woman have declined. "The conviction rate for rape has declined from 26.6 (percent) in 2010 to 24.2 in 2012, for molestation, from 29.7 to 24 in the same period, and for eve teasing (harassment) from 52.8 in 2010 to 36.9 in 2012," he said. He stressed enrollment of more proportion of women in the legal system. |
| Delhi HC stays BSP MP's bail in maid torture case | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday stayed the two months interim bail granted to BSP parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh, accused for torturing his maid, on the plea of police seeking cancellation of his bail. Justice Sunil Gaur stayed the bail granted to Singh who is still in jail in another case. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP cannot walk out of jail, as he has not been granted bail in a separate rape case in which he is facing trial. Moving the high court, Delhi Police sought cancellation of Singh's bail saying he is influential person and if released on bail, he would tamper with evidence and influence the witnesses. |
| Two minors drown in Yamuna | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Two minors drowned after the motorbike they were riding along with two other friends fell from a temporary bridge into the Yamuna river here Monday morning, police said. |
| Ugandan president dismisses aid cuts at rally against gays | |  By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - President Yoweri Museveni told a rally of religious leaders, politicians and thousands of supporters on Monday that Uganda could live without aid that Western donors suspended or diverted in protest at an anti-gay bill that became law in February. Western donors have halted or re-directed about $118 million in aid since Museveni signed the law, which toughened existing rules against gays and prescribed life in jail for what it called "aggravated homosexuality", such as sex with a minor. Despite the Western outcry, the thousands who turned out at Monday's rally in a square in Kampala underlined public support for the law. Uganda now has of some of the toughest codes, yet it is only one of 37 African nations that outlaw homosexuality.
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| Second suicide in a month gets IIT Kharagpur worried | | | Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) The second incident of a student allegedly committing suicide within a month at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, has raised deep concern among the authorities of the oldest IIT in the country. Fourth year Chemical Engineering student Lokesh Kumar Goyal (22) was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his hostel room late Sunday night. Confirming the incident, institute's Registrar T.K. Ghosal expressed his dismay over Goyal's death as he was good student and did not seem to suffer from any kind of depression. |
| Case against Italian marines adjourned to July 31 | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) A court here Monday adjourned, to July 31, the hearing in a case against two Italian marines allegedly involved in the killing of two Indian fishermen in 2012, after it was told the apex court ordered proceedings before the special court be kept in abeyance. Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar adjourned the hearing after National Investigation Agency (NIA) lawyers and defence counsel apprised the court that that the apex court March 28 had said that the proceedings before the special court be kept in abeyance. Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone were arrested for killing two Indian fisherman off the coast of Kerala in February 2012, mistaking their fishing boat for a pirate vessel. NIA prosecutor Ahmed Khan, however, told the court that instead of adjourning the matter "sine die", the case should be listed after three months. |
| 'Trinamool mulling action against official who accused legislator' | | | Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) A Trinamool Congress leader Monday said the party was mulling legal action against a West Bengal government official who has accused a legislator of threatening to behead him for removing posters of party supremo Mamata Banerjee. Party general secretary Mukul Roy rubbished the allegations and accused the officer of maligning the legislator with an ulterior motive. "It is clear that he is working with an ulterior motive and at the behest of some political party, he has lodged the complaint to malign the Trinamool and its legislator Dhiman Roy. Block Development Officer of Habra II in North 24 Parganas district, Dinabandhu Gayen, in his FIR to the Ashokenagar police station March 26, alleged that local legislator Dhiman Roy abused him on telephone after a Model Code of Conduct team removed the posters and festoons bearing Banerjee's pictures from public places March 24. |
| NHRC denies ordering action against Somnath Bharti | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission Monday denied it asked Delhi Police to take action against former AAP minister Somnath Bharti for his controversial campaign against an alleged drug and prostitution racket. "The NHRC has seen news stories that it has given a direction for taking action against Somnath Bharti in the Khirki Extension incident," said an NHRC statement. On Jan 15, Bharti - then law minister in the Aam Aadmi Party's 49-day government - along with his supporters ordered police to raid houses rented by Ugandan women in south Delhi's Khirki Extension area, claiming they were being used for drug trafficking and prostitution. The NHRC statement said another complaint was received on the incident "which was forwarded to the concerned authority for taking such action as deemed appropriate". |
| Airhostess case: Notice to police on plea to cancel Kanda's bail | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to police on a plea of former air hostess Geetika Sharma's brother seeking cancellation of bail to former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, who was in jail for the past 18 months after being accused of abetting her suicide. Justice V.P. Vaish sought Delhi Police's reply by April 17. Approaching the high court, Sharma's brother contended that Kanda is an influential person and while on bail, will try to tamper with evidence and influence the witnesses. Asking the court to cancel the bail given to Kanda, he said that the trial court has not taken into consideration all the aspects while granting him bail. |
| Youth who killed mother arrested | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) A 19-year-old youth who strangled his mother here and dumped her body in the box of a bed has been arrested, police said Monday. |
| Bahrain jails 13 for life over protest, attack - lawyer | | | Thirteen Bahrainis were sentenced to life in prison after they were convicted of trying to kill two policemen by attacking their vehicle and of taking part in an illegal protest, their lawyer said on Monday. The sentences, handed out on Sunday, come days ahead of Bahrain's Formula One Grand Prix - an annual event which has been cancelled once, then staged amid heavy security since the demonstrations began. Bahrain has accused Shi'ite power Iran of fomenting the unrest. Iran denies having links to Bahrain's opposition or any hand in the violence, but it says it is supportive of Shi'ites there. |
| China charges former senior military officer with graft - Xinhua | | | China has charged former senior army officer Gu Junshan with corruption, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday, in what is likely to be the country's worst military scandal since a vice admiral was jailed for life for embezzlement in 2006. In a renewed campaign on graft, Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to go after both powerful "tigers" and lowly "flies", warning that the issue is so severe it threatens the ruling Communist Party's survival. Gu has been charged with corruption, taking bribes, misuse of public funds and abuse of power, Xinhua said on one of its official microblogs. He will be tried by a military court, it added. |
| New battle rages over death toll from Venezuela crisis | |  By Daniel Wallis and Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - After her bus was stopped at a barricade set up by protesters in Venezuela one night last week, a pregnant 28-year-old got off to walk home in the dark. Adriana Urquiola, who worked as a sign language interpreter at a TV station, was returning from a shopping trip. The government accuses the opposition of wanting more fatalities to make their case of state-sponsored violence against peaceful rallies and justify international sanctions against members of President Nicolas Maduro's administration. The opposition says the government wants a higher toll as it blames the chaos on opposition gunmen and hooded demonstrators blocking roads, and to distract from the issues that started the protests, such as high inflation, food shortages and crime.
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| Thai PM defends negligence charges as economy falters | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday defended herself against negligence charges linked to a ruinous government rice pledging scheme that could lead to her removal from office, the latest development in a political crisis that has gripped the country for months. The charges were brought against her by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) which, should it forward the case to the Senate for possible impeachment, would mean Yingluck being suspended from official duties. Yingluck asked for more time to call on 10 witnesses and to submit further documents to support her defence, NACC member Prasart Pongsivapai told reporters following the meeting. The commission will act with justice toward the prime minister and in a straight-forward manner." Yingluck has come under pressure over the past five months from protesters who have occupied state offices and parts of Bangkok in a bid to remove her and rid the country of the influence of her brother, ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
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| Delhi gang rape: SC extends stay on death sentence of two convicts | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday extended till April 7 the stay on the execution of the death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta, two of the four convicts in the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, as it sought a copy of the trial court judgment. The death sentence of the four convicts was upheld by the Delhi High Court March 13. The apex court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice J. Chelameswar at the outset of the hearing said they have gone through the judgment of the high court upholding their conviction and award of death sentence but would like to go though the judgment of the trial court. |
| Jharkhand food inspector arrested taking bribe | | | Ranchi, March 31 (IANS) Jharkhand vigilance sleuths arrested a food inspector, Sanjay Kumar, here Monday and seized Rs.3,000 from him, said an official. "We arrested Sanjay Kumar who took a bribe of Rs.3,000 from a restaurant owner for giving him a licence. |
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