In a second successive triumph, Vijit Singh, the former Jaipur royal got a major relief when the Rajasthan high court declined to cancel his bail in the hit-and-run case on Tuesday.

A day earlier a city lower court granted him bail in another police case related to the same accident in which a college student from Kota was killed and her four colleagues were injured in December last. Singh is accused of causing the accident while driving a high-end car in a highly inebriated state.

Judicial magistrate (first class) AK Mandavgade on Tuesday remanded University of Pune’s (UoP) assistant registrar MS Gaikwad (53) of Sus Road in police custody till Saturday.

The Chatuhshrungi police had arrested Gaikwad and produced him in the court on Tuesday. They also arrested section officer of the administration department RH Attar of Sangamner.

The university had registered a First Information Report (FIR) with the Chatuhshrungi police on Monday in connection with the recruitment examination for class III and class IV non-teaching posts on February 14.

Wellington  - A 17-year-old Korean student was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination when he appeared in court Wednesday charged with stabbing a teacher during a class at an Auckland college, news reports said.

A judge in the Auckland District Court remanded Tae Won Chung in custody until March 18 on a charge of wounding Japanese language teacher David Warren, 49, with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, on Tuesday.

Hong Kong  - A Hong Kong cop convicted of mugging a woman is the third police officer in his family to be arrested for a serious crime, a news report said Wednesday.

Senior constable Leung Wai-hung, 44, pleaded guilty to theft after grabbing a 53-year-old woman's handbag and punching and kicking her as she lay on the ground in July
2008.

Leung, who committed the robbery because of his heavy gambling debts, appeared Tuesday in court and will be sentenced on March 18, the South China Morning Post reported.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a court hearing a dowry-related case cannot force a man to pay alimony to his estranged wife as a pre-condition for anticipatory bail.

The judgment is significant as it cautions trial and high courts across the country against unnecessarily harassing husbands and their parents in dowry cases. Such conditions are "onerous and excessive", a bench headed by justice RV Raveendran said.

The apex court quashed a Delhi high court's two-year-old order directing a man to pay Rs12,500 in maintenance to his wife as a condition for anticipatory bail.

VS Gohil files application in sessions court, hearing deferred till Wednesday

Former second inspector of the Naroda police, VS Gohil, applied for bail in the city sessions court on Monday. The metropolitan court had earlier sent Gohil to judicial custody after rejecting an application submitted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) seeking his remand.

The SIT had sought Gohil’s remand on the ground that, though he was a responsible police officer, he had not fired at the mob when riots had broken out in the area on February 28, 2002.