AUM members ordered to compensate family of murdered man.TOKYO, Aug. 29 Kyodo The Tokyo District Court Tokyo District Court (東京地方裁判所; Tōkyō Chihō Saibansho) is a district court in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. See also
n.pr 1. in Ayurveda, the subtle, noiseless cosmic vibration in which consciousness existed in the beginning, before the elements appeared. abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point and killed in 1995. The court said senior member Yoshihiro Inoue, 31, and six other AUM members should compensate the family of Kiyoshi Kariya, the clerical chief of a notary's office in Tokyo's Meguro Ward, which had sought 128 million yen in damages from eight former AUM members. Presiding Judge presiding judge n. 1) in both state and federal appeals court, the judge who chairs the panel of three or more judges during hearings and supervises the business of the court. Hiroshi Ohashi said although the defendants did not intend to kill Kariya, cult founder Shoko Asahara, 46, ordered them to abduct abduct /ab·duct/ (ab-dukt´) to draw away from the median plane, or (the digits) from the axial line of a limb.abdu´cent ab·duct v. Kariya and they were responsible for the unlawful acts of abducting ab·duct tr.v. ab·duct·ed, ab·duct·ing, ab·ducts 1. To carry off by force; kidnap. 2. Physiology To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb. him, confining him and eventually killing him. Asahara decided to abduct Kariya in order to get information from him on the whereabouts of his sister, who was a member of the cult but had fled from an AUM facility with the intention of quitting the cult. Inoue and the others abducted Kariya in February 1995 on a street in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward and confined him in a cult facility in Yamanashi Prefecture. They injected him with an excessive amount of anesthetic in order to get the information, but he died of the overdose. The judge ruled that one of the defendants was not liable for damages. The court also ruled that Kariya's sister owns a claim to about 44 million yen from the cult's bankruptcy administrator. The sister had demanded the cult and five senior members return a 60 million yen donation she had made to the cult. In the case, Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, has been ordered to pay about 103 million yen in damages and return 60 million yen in donations to Kariya's relatives. The family and the cult have already reached a settlement. |
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