tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71621202471296083252024-03-18T15:18:18.283+05:30Advocate Kamal Kumar PandeySupreme Court of IndiaKamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.comBlogger1862125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-55179458167944392442013-10-03T17:52:00.001+05:302013-10-03T17:52:09.509+05:30LEGAL NEWS 03.10.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Government should disclose reasons
behind the refusal of visa to American historian Peter Heehs, author of the
controversial 'The Lives of Sri</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Aurobindo" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Aurobindo</span></a>', and its
subsequent extension after controversy erupted, the Central Information
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The author of the controversial book was living in country for nearly 40 years
during which he had been working on the digitisation and archiving the works of
spiritual guru Sri Aurobindo in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Puducherry" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Puducherry</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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After the book sparked angry reactions from the followers of Sri Aurobindo,
Heehs was told by Union Home Ministry about the decision that his visa would
not be extended and he needs to leave the country by the middle of April, 2012.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The decision was later reviewed after several eminent personalities wrote to
the Government against the decision to not extend the visa.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Following the episode, the appellant, Amit Bhargava sought to know from the
Home Ministry the grounds of denial, review and the extension given to Heehs.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Ministry said it had provided only selective information on the episode
severing the un-disclosable portions under the provisions of Section 8(1)(a) of
the RTI Act which prohibits information pertaining to security of the country
and other similar issues.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Bhargava stated, "In the present case, public interest in disclosure
outweighs the harm to the protected interests and therefore the CPIO be
directed not to severe any information."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Agreeing with Bhargava, Information Commissioner Sushma Singh directed the Home
Ministry to provide complete information along with file notings related to the
episode.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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But she refused to pass a similar order for his request seeking information
from Intelligence Bureau on the issue as it is an exempted organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) has said that it would serve summons of the US Federal
court — issued on September 25 for Prime Minister Dr</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Manmohan
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he was visiting US — in India, according to the provisions of the Hague
Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra judicial documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has engaged Washington based prominent process server firm 'Process Forwarding
International' (PFI) to serve summons on PM Singh in New Delhi. SJJ's legal
advisor Gurpatwant Sigh Pannun said that PFI was the official process server to
United States department of justice and US department of state and had
extensive experience in executing services related to process with relevant
authority in foreign country using approved international law methods — the
Hague Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra judicial documents
in civil and commercial matters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Due to the high security detail, the rights group could not serve the
outstanding Washington court's summons on the Prime Minister during the
Obama-Singh meeting at White House and now we intend to serve these through
Hague Convention," Pannun said. He pointed out that Rule 4(f)(1) of
district of Columbia superior court rules of civil procedure provided that
service upon individuals in a foreign country could be effected by any agreed
means reasonably calculated to give notice, such as those means authorized by
the Hague Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra-judicial
documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Hague Service Convention is a treaty which allows service of summons and other
judicial papers between the signatory countries without diplomatic involvement.
The Hague Service Convention was signed and ratified by India in 2006 while
United States has been a signatory to the treaty since 1967. Under Hague
Service Convention, a central authority has been established by the government
of India for receiving and serving summons from foreign courts. Under Article
15 of the Hague Service Convention, once a copy of the summons and complaint is
delivered to the central authority of India, the service is considered
complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
24-page complaint filed by SFJ on September 25 before Washington DC district
court alleged that Manmohan Singh's culpability in the crimes of torture and
extra-judicial killings of Sikh community started in 1991 when he took the
office of finance minister of India. Manmohan Singh approved and financed, as
head of finance ministry, the infamous practice of "cash rewards" to
members of security forces for killing Sikhs through extra-judicial means often
in "staged and fake encounters" to curb the Sikh rights' movement in
Punjab, the complaint further alleges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complaint further alleged that during his tenure as PM (2004-present), Manmohan
Singh actively shielded and protected the members of his political party who
were involved in organizing and carrying out attacks on the Sikh population of
India during November 1984, resulting in the death of more than 30,000 Sikhs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For showing a 'rigid and narrow mindset' that 'does
not support transparency in the functioning of public authorities', the Central
Information Commission (CIC) has berated the conduct of Upkar Singh, former
Director Public Instructions (DPI), schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
much so that the Chief Information Commissioner Deepak Sandhu recommended
disciplinary action against Upkar Singh. The PCS officer has earned wrath of
the CIC for denying information to a teacher demanded by her under the Right to
Information Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peeved
with Singh's conduct, the Commission has recommended his immediate removal from
the post of First Appellate Authority (FAA), Education Department. The
Commission has held that Singh needs to be given training under the RTI Act.
Also, the Commission has imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the UT Education
Department for harassing her own teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
directions have been passed on an appeal filed by Sangeeta Rani, a headmistress
in a local school. Rani had sought information under Right to Information, on
November 11, 2011 from the District Education Officer (DEO), Chandigarh
Administration. Rani had sought information pertaining status of her case
relating to anomaly in pay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On
Novemer 29, 2011 the DEO had furnished the requisite information. Not satisfied
with the reply, she approached the DPI schools on December 12, 2011 who is the
first appellate authority but to no avail. She then approached the Commission
on January 25 seeking directions to decide her appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
Commission in July last gave two weeks time to the DPI to decide Rani's appeal.
Much to her chagrin, her case was not decided. She again approached the CIC on
September 17, 2012. Surprisingly, the Education Department in its defence took
the ground that neither it had received Rani's application nor it had received
the Commission's orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However,
the department's lie was nailed by Rani after she produced a copy of the
receipt of e-Jan Sampark Centre and other documents to prove that her appeal
and Commission's orders were received by the department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rani
further alleged that 'in violation of directions of the Commission', she was
never called for hearing by the DPI. Shockingly, the DPI asked her to appear
for hearing after a year, as alleged by Rani.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recording
contentions of both the parties, the CIC rubbished the ground taken by the
Education Department that it had not received Rani's appeal and Commission's
orders. The CIC has issued show cause notices to the concerned Central Public
Information Officer (CPIO) and other official who received the RTI application
to "show cause why penalty should not be imposed upon him/her for not
having provided information within the time frame prescribed under the RTI
Act".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
concerned officials have been directed to appear before the Commission in
second week of November. Commenting on the conduct of DPI, the CIC has ruled,
"Such an approach is contrary to the true spirit of the RTI Act and is
indicative of a very narrow and rigid mindset which does not support
transparency in the functioning of public authorities." Recommending
removal of Upkar Singh from the post of FAA, the CIC ruled out that Singh be
'provided training' as per relevant provisions of the RTI Act. The Commission
has taken strong note of the 'mental and physical harassment suffered by the
teacher' and that she had to "run from pillar to post in order to obtain
the requested information without any success for the last almost two
years."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imposing
a penalty of Rs 5,000 on the department, the CIC has directed that information
demanded by Rani be furnished within two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CIC directed the drugs
controller in Delhi to publish list of</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacistsworking in</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">names and addresses</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the department's website. This
is the 180th in a series of important judgements given by former Central
Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi that can be used or quoted in an RTI
application</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Central Information Commission (CIC), while allowing an appeal complaint,
directed the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public Information</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer (PIO) and assistant drugs
controller in the Department of Drugs Control in Govt of National Capital
Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), to provide the information sought by the appellant
and also publish the same</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on its website under the Right to
Information (RTI) Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While giving the judgement on 10
June 2009, Shailesh Gandhi, the then Central Information Commissioner said,
"This will also help citizens</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to monitor</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whether</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are following appropriate measures
and whether public authority is doing its job. Dr AK Singla, drug controller,
will ensure that the list of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shall be put up on its website
before 15 August 2009, and then send the compliance report to the CIC."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Faridabad resident Rahul Sharma,
on 10 January 2009, sought from the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public
Information</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer
(PIO) information regarding details of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in Delhi. Here is the
information he sought under the RTI Act...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) Name, address of medical</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">retail store</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with name, address of
working pharmacist in records of Drugs Control Dept, Govt of NCT of Delhi, to
fulfil the requirement of Drugs and</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">Cosmetics</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Act, 1940.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In his reply, the PIO said,
"I am to inform you that the information sought by you is not available in
the compiled form. The said information is available in the individual sales
file of the firms. You may inspect the relevant files on any working days/hours
with prior<span class="ilad"><span id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">intimation</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in this department."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not satisfied with the PIO's
order, Sharma, the appellant, filed his first appeal. In his order, the First
Appellate Authority (FAA) said, "I am convinced that the Link</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public Information</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer of the Drugs Control
Department had provided the information available with him and had even asked
him to inspect the relevant files with regard to his queries."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharma, still not satisfied with
the PIO's reply and order by the FAA, then approached the CIC with his second
appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the hearing before the
Bench of Mr Gandhi, the PIO stated that the details sought by the appellant
(Sharma) would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority.
Hence, he has offered inspection of the records to the appellant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharma stated that as per Section
4(1)(b)(xiii) of the RTI Act, 'particulars of recipients of concessions,
permits or authorizations granted by it' should be</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">disclosed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The PIO told the Bench that they
would be able to provide</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names
and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
medical</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(chemist)
retail stores and at present, the data of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in these stores is not
available in collated form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Gandhi felt that there was a
need for this information to be provided</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by the public authority since this
was definitely a very important part of information relating tomedical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While allowing the appeal, he then
directed the PIO to give the information about</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the medical</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(chemist) retail stores in Delhi
to Sharma before 20 June 2009. The Bench also directed the Drugs Control
Department to ensure that the list ofpharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shall be put up on its website
before 15 August 2009.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">High Court cracks whip, SMC seals ‘illegal’ structures</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h6>
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buildings sealed in Jawahar Nagar, drive to continue<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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panel has identified 2500 violations in Srinagar<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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Oct 2: Complying with High Court directions, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation
(SMC) Wednesday swung into action sealing 19 out of 45 identified ‘illegal’
structures in Srinagar city.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
SMC said the enforcement team of the Corporation headed by Chief Enforcement
Officer Hakim Aijaz Ahmad, sealed 19 structures constructed in violation of the
norms laid down in the Srinagar Master Plan. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
“SMC today sealed around 19 illegal structures including a hotel, a stationary
gallery and a clinic in posh Jawahar Nagar area of the city were sealed,”
Masarat Yousuf, SMC’s Media Relations Officer (MRO) told local news gathering
agency KNS.<br />
She said the illegal structures at Jawahar Nagar had become a nuisance for the
general public and the same were sealed with the help of police in presence of
the executive magistrate. The sealing operation, she said, was supervised by
Secretary SMC Hilal Ahmad Diwani.<br />
Officials said the maiden operation ever performed in the City was started in
coordination between police and the civil administration. The Corporation is
likely to seal more structures tomorrow particularly in Hyderpora area, sources
said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
However, as the buildings were being sealed in the Jawahar Nagar area, locals
tried to resist the move saying “only a few underprivileged had been targeted
whereas the real big sharks remain untouched.”<br />
“Why we alone are being targeted? Why were we allotted licenses for running
hotels and shops in the first instance? Now we are left without livelihood,”
proprietors of the sealed structures said.<br />
But some residents of the colony on the other hand hailed the SMC move saying
“commercialization of residential areas had taken away the charm of once serene
localities like Karan Nagar and Jawahar Nagar areas where the illegal
commercial complexes have mushroomed over the years.”<br />
Though there was some sloganeering and stone pelting too, the government team
went ahead with the task. Secretary SMC Hilal Diwani who was a part of
the team said as many as 17 buildings were sealed in Jawahar Nagar area alone
till sundown when the they headed towards Karan Nagar where the buildings were
being sealed when reports last poured in.<br />
Officials said District Magistrate Er Farooq Ahmed Shah, SMC Commissioner Dr GN
Qasba and SSP Srinagar, Syed Aashiq Hussain Bukhari had “coordinated the
operation at highest levels” while the district administration deployed four
magistrates for the task.<br />
Pertinently, on September 30, a division bench of J&K High Court comprising
Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey asked SMC to seal as
many as 45 illegal structures within the City that have come up, over the
years, in violation of the Srinagar Master Plan.<br />
The Court had directed the Corporation to swing into action and take
appropriate steps for sealing buildings belonging to any violators as per the
show-cause notices and the demolition orders passed (by the Corporation) on
March 16, 2009 or thereafter. The Court had also directed Director General of
Police (DGP) to provide help if required by SMC for sealing the illegal
structures. The Court had also given a deadline of three days to SMC to seal
these structures and file a status report with the Registrar Judicial on
October 4.<br />
The Corporation had pleaded before the court that show cause notices have
already been issued to various violators on March 6, 2009 and demolition order
passed on March 16, 2009.<br />
During earlier hearings, Advocate General Mohammad Ishaq Qadri had informed the
Court that there was gross violation of the Master Plan because residential
areas are being used for commercial purposes and that there was no effective
control exercised by the SMC.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Pertinently, an official panel on Master Plan violations constituted by the
state government in 2010 has identified around 2500 illegal structures in and
around the Srinagar city falling in SMC and SDA local areas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The panel, comprising representatives from SMC, SDA, R&B Department, PDD
and Revenue Department, has already submitted its report to the government. The
committee was headed by then Additional Commissioner Kashmir, Ishtiaq Ahmed
Ashai.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The report, according to sources, reveals that of the 2500 identified illegal
structures, around 1100 not only violate the Master Plan norms but are a major
hindrance in the smooth flow of traffic on some key roads. With inputs from<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong>KNS</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Court asks whether DGP is afraid of Salim Raj<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Kerala High Court on Tuesday roundly rapped the
Director-General of Police for forwarding a complaint against Salim Raj,
suspended gunman of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, to the State government
instead of ordering an inquiry into it. Justice Harul-Ul-Rashid also orally
wondered why the DGP and other police officers were “afraid of this police
constable.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">‘‘Why the people are afraid of
this police constable?’’ the court asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The court orally pointed out
that it had never ever seen a DGP forwarding a complaint received by him to the
State government. The complaint was forwarded to the State government and the
Chief Minster issued a receipt after getting the complaint. In fact, the
petitioners lodged a complaint against Salim Raj in the police stations concerned
and later with the DIG. The forwarding of the complaint by the DGP to the
government was against provisions of the criminal procedure code, the court
orally observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The conduct of the DGP and other
police officers came under fire from the judge when petitions seeking a CBI
probe into the allegations that Salim Raj was involved in land grab cases came
up for hearing. Salim Raj is under suspension following allegations against him
in connection with the solar scam. During the hearing of the petition, the
court orally pointed out that the police constable seemed to be getting
complete protection from the State government. The court said that land mafia
was suspected to be operating in the State. In fact, it wondered whether
democratic governance was in place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The court also pointed out that
the government should not have filed appeal against the single judge’s interim
order directing the DGP to seize the telephonic conversation records, including
the voice records of Salim Raj and others, in connection with the land grab
cases. In fact, the government could have brought to the notice of the single
judge that the interim order was passed without making the telephone service
providers as respondents in the petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The filing of appeal by the
government on the every next after the single judge’s order came and the
appearing of Advocate General K.P. Dandapani on behalf of the government were
severely criticised by political leaders. The hearing was adjourned to
September 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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probe into charges against Sunil Tatkare<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
Bombay high court on Tuesday rapped the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Economic
Offences Wing for failing to conduct a “fair and proper” investigation into
money laundering and land grabbing allegation against state minister and NCP
leader Sunil Tatkare.<br />
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A division bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MS Sonak said: “There has been
no investigation at all. This is a complete failure on the part of EOW and ACB.
The position of the person (Tatkare) in public domain is deflecting the
fairness in the inquiry.”<br />
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The judges came down heavily on the investigating agencies after going through
probe reports submitted by them following a court order in a public interest
litigation filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya.<br />
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“Every page of the report lacks proper application of mind. Prima facie, the
investigating agencies have virtually abdicated their duty to investigate
fairly on the ground that the investigations will have to be done by the Income
Tax department, the Enforcement Directorate and the Registrar of Companies,”
the court said.<br />
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“This in our view would be no justification for the agencies to walk away from
its obligation to conduct a fair probe,” the court said, directing the agencies
to complete their investigation within three months and submit a final report
by January 7, 2014.<br />
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The court added that if it was not satisfied with the investigation after three
months, it would transfer the probe to the CBI.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The bench observed that the ACB in its report had said since the allegations
involve companies, the Registrar of Companies will have to conduct an inquiry.
“The ACB report has not tried to find out the financial standing of Tatkare and
his family members,” HC said.<br />
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Senior counsel Aspi Chinoy appearing for Tatkare sought dismissal of the PIL on
the ground that Somaiya could file a private complaint in a magistrate court.<br />
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</span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE CASE</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
Kirit Somaiya, a BJP leader and former MP, in the PIL sought probe by the CBI
into the alleged money laundering and land grabbing by companies floated by NCP
leader Sunil Tatkare (in pic) and his relatives.<br />
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Somaiya has listed 51 companies formed by Tatkare which have his family members
and friends as directors, and alleged they bought benami lands in state and
indulged in money-laundering.<br />
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Tatkare has termed the petition as false, malicious and politically motivated
in his reply affidavit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DA case<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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DELHI: In a relief to J Jayalalithaa, the Supreme Court today set aside the
Karnataka Government's decision to remove Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) G
Bhawani Singh from the disproportionate assets case against the Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the decision as "malafide", a bench of justices B S Chauhan and S A
Bobde also asked the Karnataka High Court and the state government to consider
extending tenure of the special trial judge as per the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"The extension can be given as per the law and in consultation with the
high court," the bench said, adding the trial court's record runs into
nearly 33,000 pages and the recording of statements of witnesses has also
completed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
apex court, on September 25, had reserved its verdict on the issue of
appointment and sacking of SPP Singh in the case and also on the AIADMK Chief's
plea for extension of the tenure of the trial judge who is scheduled to retire
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Earlier
during the proceedings, DMK General Secretary K Anbalagan had opposed
Jayalalithaa's plea, saying that she and other accused were allegedly
responsible for the protracted trial in the 17-year-old case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Attorney
General G E Vahanvati, appearing for Karnataka Government, had also opposed the
plea of Jayalalithaa on the SPP and for extension of the tenure of the special
judge till the completion of the trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench had deliberated on the political overtones on the issue of the
appointment and sacking Singh as the SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Was
there (in Karnataka) the same government? When did the government
change,?" the bench had asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Attorney General had said the new government came on May 8 this year but the
appointment of Singh was done without any consultation between the state
government and the chief justice of the Karnataka High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench, which had perused the records, had noted Singh, who has been sacked as
SPP in the case, was appointed without any objection by Karnataka government to
conduct the trial in the 17-year-old case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
court had on September 20 called for the entire record relating to the
controversy surrounding the appointment and sacking of Singh for its perusal to
ascertain the reasons for dropping him from conducting the proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa's
counsel had alleged that removal of Singh came at a time when the criminal
procedure in the case was at the final stage and was done with a political
motive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bhawani
Singh was appointed as the SPP following the resignation of former Advocate
General B V Acharya, who was the prosecutor in the case from February 2005 to
August 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Karnataka
government had on August 26 issued the notification withdrawing the appointment
of Singh as SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief is accused of amassing Rs 66.65 crore
between 1991 and 1996 when she was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.<o:p></o:p></span></page2></div>
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The case was transferred by the apex court from Chennai to Bangalore in 2003
during her earlier tenure as the Chief Minister for a free and fair trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa
had alleged the case was slapped on her by the previous DMK government for
political reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa
and three other accused Sasikala, Ilavarasi and V N Sudhakaran have also sought
a direction to restrain Karnataka government from appointing a new judge for
conducting the trial against them in a Bangalore court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the hearing on September 13, the apex court had objected to Karnataka
government's notification "misrepresenting" an undertaking given by
it as an order of the apex court on the appointment of SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench had on August 30 restrained Karnataka government from appointing new SPP
in the case. The order was passed on a plea by Jayalalithaa challenging the
removal of Bhawani Singh as SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Supreme Court extends MBBS admission
deadline by two weeks in Maharashtra<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Supreme Court has extended by
two weeks the September 30 deadline of completing admission process for MBBS in
medical colleges in Maharashtra, dismissing a plea by Medical Council of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The order was passed by the apex
court considering the fact that some of the medical colleges in the state had
enhanced the seats but were denied permission by the Medical Council of India
(MCI) to take admission for extra seats as they fell few days short of the
mandatory 10 years of completion of their functioning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MCI had challenged the Bombay High
Court order allowing two Government Medical Colleges--Indira Gandhi Government
Medical College, Nagpur and Government Medical College, Akola to fill
additional seats created by them though they were few days short of mandatory
10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An apex court bench comprising
justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri on Monday permitted the Director of
Medical Education, Maharashtra to finalise the admission of students in view of
the newly enhanced 100 seats to the two Government Medical Colleges by October
14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advocate Jugal Kishore Gilda, who
has been appearing as amicus curiae in the matter, opposed the contention of
the MCI whose Special Leave Petition (SLP) was dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We find no ground to
entertain the SLP. It is dismissed leaving open the questions raised in the
matter to be decided in appropriate case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"However, considering the
peculiar facts of the case, we are inclined to give a direction in respect of
all colleges in the state of Maharashtra to complete the admission formalities
within a period of two weeks from today. We make it clear that this order shall
not be treated as a precedent," the bench said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The apex court, a few years ago,
had fixed September 30 as a cut-off date for completing the admission process
in medical colleges every year across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay
High Court had asked MCI to consider enhancement of 50 seats in each of the
college in view of the policy of the Centre to increase 50 seats in each of the
government medical colleges to augment the health services in view of the
scarcity of doctors faced by the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nullifying
the Tamil subject examination conducted by the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB)
for recruitment of postgraduate assistants (2012-13) on July 21 due to multiple
wrong questions, the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) has ordered that a
re-examination be held.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Delivering
the judgment on a petition filed by a candidate called Vijayalakshmi, Justice S
Nagamuthu observed that the TRB had forced him to order a re-examination
because of its “indifferent” attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
TRB had earlier in another case informed the principal Bench of the High Court
that it would ensure there were no errors in future exams conducted by it. But
the agency had failed to keep up its promise, the judge said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
the hearing of the case, to avoid a re-examination, Advocate General A L
Somayaji had made three suggestions to the court. One, grace marks could be
provided to students who had attended the erroneous questions in Booklet B.
Two, only 110 correct questions in Booklet B would be evaluated. Three, in all
the four booklets (A, B, C and D), only questions with cumulative marks for 110
would be valued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Justice
Nagamuthu rejected all three suggestions saying that if adopted they would do
injustice to meritorious candidates. Valuing the question paper for only 110
marks would not serve the purpose of conducting the exam. “In competitive
examinations, all should be treated equals. No one should be affected due to
the mistakes made by someone,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on a PIL against the proposed sale of two Naval warships to Sri Lanka.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HC bench of Justices Jayachandhran and M Venugopal ordered issuance of notice
and posted the case for hearing to October 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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city-based advocate, had submitted yesterday that</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Minister%20of%20State"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Minister of State</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">in the PMO V Narayanasamy had
recently stated that India was in the process of supplying two warships to Sri
Lanka.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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republic were killed by its</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Army"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Army</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">during the war against</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/LTTE"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">LTTE</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stating there was a strong
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Tamil Nadu, he said Tamils were angered and agonised by the proposal to sell
warships as "these could be used against the fishermen from the
state".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition as there had been no response to his representation to the union
government and the state chief secretary to drop the proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Oct 2:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rashid Malbari, who has
been lodged in Mangalore jail since 2009 and was recently convicted of
possessing illegal arms, has been granted interim bail by the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fourth additional district and sessions court had sentenced Malbari (42) and
Mohammed Hashim to five years in jail and imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 for
possessing illegal weapons. The verdict was challenged in the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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high court which heard the case granted interim bail to Malbari and ordered
his release. However, as he is facing several other charges, he will continue
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punishment for possessing illegal weapons is three years, and Malbari has
already spent 4 years and six months in jail. Hence he has been granted
interim bail, said his lawyer Purushottam Poojary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and his gang were arrested at Chattanchal, Kasargod on March 29, 2009 by the
DCIB police led by inspector H N Venkatesh Prasanna. The police had seized an
9 mm pistol and ammunitions from the gang. His accomplices Mohamme Hashim,
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RTI activist Satish Shetty had filed complaints against 13 people in the case<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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its inclination to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to
re-investigate the alleged land grab case which was filed by slain RTI activist
Satish Shetty in 2009, the Bombay high court on Tuesday has directed the state
to file a detailed affidavit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 2009, Shetty had filed a complaint with the Lonavla city police station
against 13 people, including the CMD of IRB Infrastructure Developers, Virendra
Mahiskar, and the sub-registrar of assurances in Lonavla. dna had reported on
August 12 that the CBI has filed an application before the HC seeking
permission to reopen and re-investigate the case in which the government had
filed a closure report. “The CBI has also sought that the closure report should
be set aside,” CBI counsel Hiten Venegaonkar said. Justice ML Tahilyani on
Tuesday directed the government to file a detailed affidavit along with the
documents on which the local police had relied while filing the closure report
in the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The
detailed affidavit should state on what basis the closure report was filed,
including the sale deed, revenue records and the correspondents between the
revenue officers,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tuesday, the government conceded that prima facie the transfer of land seems
fraudulent. The judge then asked, “...Then how did you file the closure
report?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigating officer, Sunil Tonape, had filed a closure report before the
metropolitan magistrate Vadgaon Maval on September 28, 2011, stating that the
police did not find any evidence to substantiate Shetty’s allegations. The
magistrate had accepted the closure report on December 27, 2011. Tonape was
then attached with the local crime branch, Pune (rural). Presently, he is
assistant police inspector attached with the Walchandnagar police station at
Indapur, Pune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2009, Shetty had alleged that IRB had connived with government officials and
others to conduct large-scale irregularities and purchase land at Taje and
Pimploli villages near the Mumbai-Pune expressway. Following Shetty’s
investigations and complaint, the Lonavla police on October 15, 2009,
registered an offence (C.R.No.152/2009) against one Deepak Gadgil and 12
others, including the CMD of an infrastructure major, and the sub-registrar of
assurances of Maval area in Lonavla. The case was registered under various
sections of the Indian Penal Code.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sent a criminal contempt of court notice to
ex-Army chief General V K Singh after finding his recent barbs at the apex
court's handling of his petition on the age issue prima facie scandalous and
lowering its dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Commencing
contempt of court proceedings against the former Army chief, a bench of
Justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale noted in its order that the retired general
had on February 10 last year withdrawn his plea after attorney general G E
Vahanvati assured the court that the Centre would not be vindictive towards the
then serving Army chief for his unprecedented action of moving court on his age
issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Finding that Gen Singh's remarks about the decision of the apex court was based
on wrong premises as the court had not adjudicated upon his plea, the bench
took suo motu notice of a newspaper report on September 22, which reported that
the former Army chief had slammed the SC's decision on his age issue while
defending his comments about Army funding J&K ministers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench's initial recording of views on Gen Singh's reported remarks bore the
tell-tale signs of the seriousness with which the court viewed the entire
controversy. It said, "Attribution of motive to members of the bench
amounted to an attempt to scandalize the court. Prima facie the statement of
General V K Singh amounts to scandalize the court and lower its dignity."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cognizance of the remarks under Article 129 of the Constitution empowering the
apex court to 'punish for contempt of itself' and under the provisions of
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, the bench issued notices to Gen Singh and the
newspaper, which carried the report about his remarks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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February 10, the court's reluctance to get drawn into the task of determining
the actual date of birth of Gen Singh, who was seeking its alteration from May
10, 1950 to May 10, 1951, had forced him to withdraw his plea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court had recorded the AG's statement, "The Union government had never
questioned Gen Singh's integrity or bona fides but contested his petition as a
matter of principle, which did not cast any reflection on his ability to lead
the Army."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court thought it was putting a controversy to rest and said it was proud of an
Army chief like Gen Singh who had served in it for 38 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Justices Lodha and Gokhale had declined his counsel U U Lalit's request to
record that the date of birth row had been amicably settled as the Army chief
was not pressing his petition in view of the court's order that the date of May
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bench had said, "As a matter of fact, the question before us in the writ
petition is not about the declaration of the actual date of birth of the
petitioner, but it concerns the recognition of a particular date of birth of
the petitioner by the government in the official record." The Centre had
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Gen Singh's persistent attempts since 1985 to correct his date of birth, it had
disapproved of the way he attempted to wriggle out of his commitment given to
the his erstwhile Army chief and the ministry of defence in 2009 that he would
accept 1950 as his year of birth and treat the controversy as a closed chapter.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AJMER: The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has received severe blows from the
trial courts at Ajmer in almost every<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>case booked in the district in the past one year. The courts
have observed that the ACB was unable to prove even prima facie evidences like
a demand of bribe being made by the accused in these cases. The bureau's modus
operandi for traps in all these cases have been recorded mobile conversations,
which are corroboratory facts and not primary evidences.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The ACB cases in the district have been hitting headlines for a year, as even
topmost police officers were caught on charges of demanding and accepting bribes.
The alleged irregularities in recruitments at the district and sessions court,
too, got highlighted as the bureau sleuths named a sitting judge there in the
chargesheet.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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There have been five<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>cases from the district wherein the ACB claimed to unearth
the corruption at the top levels. In four of these cases, the investigating
agency has suffered sharp disapprovals at the primary stage of framing charges.
The trial courts not only discharged two accused in separate cases, but also
dropped grievous charges against the others. The fifth case, that of Narendra
Tanwar of the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, is yet to enter the trial
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"Senior officials are studying where our teams lacked in the
investigations so that corrective measures can be taken," said a source in
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Different ACB teams from Ajmer, Bhilwara and Jaipur worked on these cases with
serious charges on top officials. The teams came up with chargesheets running
into three to six thousands pages. "The court orders show that the ACB
failed to collect primary evidences or witnesses and largely relied on mobile
conversation recordings," said a senior advocate practicing criminal law.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In most of these cases there ACB could not come with strong evidences that a
primary demand of bribe was made. "Not a single witness came in the
notorious 'police monthly extortion case' that accused senior police officers
of collecting monthly bribes at the police station level. ACB showed that the
police station sent monthly collections to the SP and other officials, but the
sources of this collection were not investigated by the agency," added
another advocate.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In the case against IPS officer Ajay Singh, the court dropped corruption
charges and framed him under IPC 384 and 120-B for extortion and criminal
conspiracy. "This case was made up on the basis of statements of the
complainant and telephonic recordings of conversation between ASI Prem Singh
and IPS Ajay Sing," a lawyer said. Similarly, suspended RPS Rajesh Meena's
brother Hitesh could not be linked in the corruption chain and the court
discharged him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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</ins></span></span><strong style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Case-I:</ins></span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Former deputy manager of Rajasthan cooperative dairy
federation Surendra Sharma was sentenced to only two years in a case of
amassing property disproportionate to known sources of income. The corruption
case was highlighted as the ACB claimed to recover around Rs 2,000 crore from
Sharma in 2010. The ACB was unable to produce evidences the misuse of office
and taking bribe.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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were dropped against suspended SP Rajesh Meena, ASP Lokesh Sonwal and
accomplice Ramdev Thathera in the</ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>'police monthly extortion' case. The trial court put a
question mark on the facts collected during ACB investigation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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charges and tried only under IPC sections 384 and 120-B, which is for extortion
and criminal conspiracy. The court made an examination that preliminary
evidences which were produced by ACB do not connect with the bribe recovered
from ASI Prem Singh in Ramganj police station.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Court recruitment corruption case. Charges of corruption were dropped against
the accused Razak. Corruption charges were framed against court clerk Rajesh
Sharma and advocate Hemraj Kanawat. Razak, Rajesh and Hemraj are also charged
for criminal conspiracy.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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an NRI facing charges of kidnapping and confining an Indian girl be extradited
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The court recommended extradition of Kulwinder Singh Uppal after he agreed to
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"I hereby recommend to the Union of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to extradite... Uppal to the
requesting state i.E. United Kingdom," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Sudesh+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sudesh Kumar</span></a>, said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Centre, through its counsel NK Matta, had forwarded the request received
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It was stated in the request that the accused had fled UK after some other
accused in the case were convicted by a Leicester crown court. It also said
that an arrest warrant was issued against Uppal on January 29 by a court in
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The court, while recommending the extradition, referred to a statement from
Narinder Singh Soand, Leicestershire Police's detective sergeant, before a
court there in which he had provided details of Uppal's offence.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Soand had stated that Uppal had met a girl at a wedding in Jalandhar in India
and asked her to come to UK to work as a dancer for him. The girl had reached
UK in March 2010 and worked with Uppal as a dancer at Ilford and Bolton, he
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Soand also said that Uppal had forced the girl to engage in sexual activities
with him and his clients. She was abused and threatened upon refusing to do so,
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The girl left Bolton with one Jaswinder Singh and came to Leicester on June 18,
2010, but Uppal arrived at her house on July 9 with some others and forced her
into a car, he said, adding the girl was held hostage at a house for the whole
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stayed approvals granted to 162 applications for clinical trials in the country
and asked the sector regulator to provide evidence that norms for drug-related
research are being followed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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order, issued on Monday, was in response to a petition filed by a health
activist group. It is the latest in a series of measures the top court has
taken following allegations of violation of clinical trial norms in the
country. The DCGI has been given two weeks' time to reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Between July and August this year, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)
had received 1,122 applications for clinical trials, of which the New Drug
Committee approved 285 and the regulator cleared 162.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The court has said it will
not allow clinical trials of new chemical entity until all the preparations are
done," said</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay%20Parikh"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sanjay Parikh</span></a>, counsel for Swasthya Adhikar Manch, the
NGO that filed the writ petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court has also given the health ministry 10 weeks' time to come out with a plan
for implementation of the suggestions given by state governments and other
stakeholders to strengthen the regulatory framework regarding clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Biotechnology firm</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/biocon-ltd/stocks/companyid-2082.cms"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Biocon</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ltd's
chairman and managing director</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Kiran%20Mazumdar-Shaw"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">said the court order is a set
back. "A black day for Indian science and a sad reflection on our
judiciary. This is a pure Luddite approach which is killing progress,"
Shaw responded to a query on twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Public concerns over allegations
of unethical clinical trials in the country gained momentum following reports
of deaths due to drug study-related injuries in rural Gujarat and Andhra
Pradesh. As per reports, the victims were participants in a trial for a</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/cervical%20cancer"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">cervical cancer</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In
the last one year, the drug controller, under the supervision of the Supreme
Court, set up various committees and devised compensation guidelines for
victims of clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The government council in
July had passed a note that the drug controller had not approved any trials in
the country since January, and then less than a month we see so many trials
getting approved," said</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Amulya%20Nidhi"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Amulya Nidhi</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">of
Swasthya Adhikar Manch. "These speedy approvals indicate that the
government is still not following proper norms."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madras High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has ruled that a decree passed by
a civil court cannot be relied upon for changing the date of birth in the
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Dismissing a petition by IPS officer M Ramasubramani, a Division Bench said
that the alteration made in the SSLC certificate on the basis of the decree
passed by the civil court can be ignored by central and state authorities as
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The nullity of the decree can be pleaded at any stage of the proceedings and be
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"If we ignore the said correction made in the SSLC certificate on the
basis of a civil court decree, there is no other material to prove the
petitioner's date of birth as being July 3, 1958," said Justices N Paul
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The IPS officer had challenged a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order
dismissing his application seeking quashing of a Government Order which had
rejected his request for a change in his date of birth.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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As a DSP recruited through the state Public Service Commission, his
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But the petitioner had pleaded that the above step was not in keeping with the
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The officer later obtained a decree from Virudhunagar Munsif Court and
submitted a representation to the Home Department, which rejected it, saying
that the civil court decree was not binding on the department.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Though his application challenging the rejection resulted in the setting aside
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CAT rejected his second application on the ground that the date of birth as
declared by a person in the application for recruitment shall be accepted by
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response on a PIL seeking to know why only Muslim girls were being given
benefits and financial aid under its minority welfare scheme "Hamari Beti,
Uska Kal".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
bench of the Allahabad HC consisting of acting chief justice Laxmikant
Mohapatra and justice Rakesh Srivastava, while hearing a public interest
litigation (PIL) Tuesday, had sought a reply from the state government within
three weeks on why girls from a select community were being benefited by the
welfare scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PIL, filed by Ashok Srivastava of Siddharthanagar, alleges that the Aug 14,
2012 order of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state had said that
Muslim girls will be given Rs.30,000 for higher education and marriage and had
claimed that this was in contravention to the right of equality enshrined in
the Indian Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petitioner had also alleged that the government was trying to divide the
society on religious lines by doing so for political gains. The PIL cites the
Supreme Court (SC) order in the Indra Sahini case wherein the apex court had
said that no reservation can be granted on religious lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Counsel
of the Uttar Pradesh government AK Goel, however, told the court that the state
government was doing so as part of its mandated task of "minority
welfare".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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added that the grant was being given to all minorities, including Hindu's. The
"Hamari Beti, Uska Kal" scheme has been one of the most propagated
schemes of the UP government and SP leaders, including the chief minister, miss
no opportunity to highlight it as a major welfare scheme for the Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/apple-growers" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">apple growers</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from Himachal Pradesh, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-high-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has rejected the notification issued
by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-government" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi government</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to charge 6% commission from them
(growers) in Azadpur Mandi for selling their produce. For the last many years,
commission charged in Delhi market had remained a major issue in the state.
Now, the HC judgment has triggered a race for credit among political leaders.
The state government had taken up the issue with Delhi government with regard
to enforcement of bylaw- 49 (3) — that though the commission be charged at the
existing rate of 6%, it be taken from buyers and not farmers or sellers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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After the Delhi high court judgment on Tuesday, while BJP leader and former
horticulture minister Narender Bragta soon after claimed that his party was
instrumental in taking up the issue whether it was in power or not. Not to be
left behind, Congress on Wednesday gave the entire credit to chief minister
Virbhadra Singh.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Bragta claimed that in 1998, when he was the horticulture minister, he had
raised the issue with then Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma-led
government, after which charging of commission was stopped. Later, when the
Congress government in Delhi reimposed the commission, the HP government had
approached the court, he added.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Meanwhile, horticulture minister Vidya Stokes and chief parliamentary secretary
Rohit Thakur claimed that the HC relief to farmers and horticulturists of the
state was due to the efforts of Virbhadra Singh, who pursued the matter with
the chief ministers of Delhi from time to time, regarding the brazen fleecing
of the commission agents in Delhi.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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They said the high court decision was a welcome step as the Congress government
had relentlessly pursued the case through the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Himachal-Pradesh" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Himachal Pradesh</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>State Agriculture Marketing Board even
during its last regime. The chief minister was well aware of the issue of
illegal commission being charged by the agents at Azadpur market, they said. As
huge quantities of apples and vegetables from the state are sold through the
commission agents in Azadpur, one of the biggest wholesale markets in Asia, the
marginal farmers suffer huge losses.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Stokes, too, is a prominent apple grower in Himachal Pradesh. Horticulture is a
vital sector in the state's economy as it generates more than Rs 3,200 crore
annual income. Apple constitutes about 93% of the state's total fruit produce.
Besides apple, other fruits like pear, peach, cherry, apricot, kiwi,
strawberry, olive, almond and plum are the major commercial crops of the state.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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six seats for SC candidates in Puducherry not reservation but only concession:
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Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer)’s stipulation that
Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates in Puducherry should obtain residence
certificate from the territorial government as an eligibility condition for
admission to MBBS under the Puducherry residents’ quota has been upheld by the
Madras High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petitions challenging the clause in the prospectus, which required that a
person claiming admission to JIPMER, a Central government institution, under
the quota earmarked for Puducherry SC candidates, should have mandatorily
resided continuously in the Union Territory for five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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40 seats are for the residents of Puducherry. Of this number, six seats are for
SC candidates of Puducherry origin. The grandparents of the petitioners,
Santhosh Tamilarasan E and others, were residents of the Union Territory as on
March 5, 1964, the date on which the President issued the notification relating
to Puducherry. The petitioners are not residing at Puducherry at present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In view of the condition, they
would not be considered for admission to the seats reserved for the residents
of the Union Territory. Therefore, they wanted the clause to be quashed and a
direction to consider them for admission. The Standing Counsel for JIPMER,
M.T.Arunan, said the seats earmarked for the Puducherry residents could not be
treated as reservation. It was only a channel of admission. It was only to give
an opportunity to local SC candidates six seats were earmarked for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petitioners proceeded on a wrong notion that reservation of seats by JIPMER for
the local SC candidates was in the nature of a constitutional reservation. The
institution had already reserved 15 per cent seats for SC candidates. This
reservation was not confined to SC candidates of Puducherry. To get admission
against this quota, there was no need to fulfil the residential requirement.
The earmarking of six seats was not at all a reservation, but only a concession
for local SCs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the upscale<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/multi-specialty-Lilavati-Hospital" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">multi-specialty Lilavati Hospital</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Bandra.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC passed the order while hearing and admitting an appeal filed by Prabodh
against a city civil judge's order that dismissed him as a trustee. The appeal
is among the long string of cases in a family dispute between trustees of the
charitable hospital that was started by the late Kirtilal Mehta.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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On September 27, Justice A P Bhangale heard counsels Janak Dwarkadas and
Prateek Sekseria for Prabodh and Pranav Badheka for permanent trustee Charu
Mehta and ordered that the city civil order would remain suspended till the
appeals are heard.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC will now decide on the effect of a foreign conviction on qualification
of trustees under the Bombay Public Trusts Act. Charu had moved the charity
commissioner for removal of Prabodh, her brother-in-law, as a trustee of the hospital
on the grounds that he was convicted in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Antwerp" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Antwerp</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Belgium" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Belgium</span></a>, in 2007 and sentenced to six months
in a case of alleged fraud, forgery and moral turpitude. He was thus
disqualified to serve as a trustee, she had argued and the charity commissioner
and later the city civil court had agreed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC said that it would decide if Prabodh was convicted for offences of moral
turpitude, which would disqualify him as a trustee and also, whether a
rehabilitation order would amount to erasing his conviction.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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dilapidated building, to vacate her flat within one month. The tenant, Esther
Manickam, who has been paying a monthly rent of Rs 50 for decades, was offered
Rs 1 crore by the owner to move out of old building but she had refused.<br />
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Justice-Anoop-Mohta" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Justice Anoop Mohta</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>refused to grant the tenant any relief
against the demolition notice served by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BMC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">BMC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
the old building which has been declared dangerous.<br />
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"The structure if it is required to be demolished and as except Esther all
have already vacated, there is no reason that the building in question (should)
be repaired by the owner only to permit her to occupy one flat in
question," said Justice Mohta. The judge cited earlier orders of the court
that allowed "the corporation to evict occupier/owner of dilapidated
building even by force".<br />
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The court said the tenant's offer to repair the premises was of "no
assistance as it would cause further complications and especially when no one
else is occupying the other portions". The court said it cannot direct
that the building be maintained just because a lone opposing tenant wants to
continue to occupy a dangerous building.<br />
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Esther, who has been staying in the Juhu flat measuring 340 square feet for
decades and paying a monthly rent of Rs 50, refused to move out of the building
despite the landlord's offer of Rs 1 crore.<br />
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The BMC, earlier this year, had served a demolition notice on the building
which had been classified as dangerous. A report by VJTI also said that repairs
were not viable for the old building. But Esther rejected the Rs 1 crore offer
and insisted on a flat in a new building on the same premises. The landlord and
the developer refused to give her that saying that 13 other tenants of the
building had accepted the same offer.<br />
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The court said it could not overlook the expert's opinion and said that
Esther's claims in her applications were "contradictory, inconsistent and
in fact self destructive".<br />
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"Esther, though at her risk is occupying the premises alone and compelling
the landlord/owner to maintain the whole premises/building in spite of the
clear offer given to her, is unjustifiable," said the judge.<br />
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"The owner of the property is entitled to deal with the property. Even
otherwise, tenants cannot object to transfer and/or even to create third-party
rights or interest in such property by the landlord. The owner, therefore, if
he wants to develop the property, but for want of insistence to have permanent
alternate accommodation in the same premises, (and hurdles are created) to the
whole project, is entitled to oppose the action of the tenant," the court
said.<br />
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"The costs already incurred by paying a huge amount just cannot be
overlooked merely because one tenant/occupant is opposing to develop and/or not
permitting the owner to develop the property." The court added that the
owner of the property cannot be compelled to give a specific offer to a tenant.<br />
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The court refused to give Esther any reprieve from the demolition proceedings
and allowed her four weeks' time to vacate her flat on the condition that she
files an undertaking to move out.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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The Madras High Court on Tuesday set aside an order of the city Police
Commissioner denying permission to a pro-Tamil outfit for holding an indefinite
fast here to press for the expulsion of Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth of
Nations and shifting a meeting of the international body from Colombo.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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Allowing the petition by K Thiagarajan of Thamizgh Thesiya Vidhuthalai Iyakkam,
Justice KK Sasidharan said the authorities should consider the request in light
of the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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Thiagarajan had sought permission from the police for holding the indefinite
fast from today to press for the expulsion of Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth
of Nations, besides shifting the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) from Colombo slated in November. He also wanted to urge Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to boycott the meeting if held in Sri Lanka.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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reasonable restrictions could be imposed on the exercise of such rights, the
Judge said it was impermissible to prohibit (protest) without any rhyme or
reason. He held that the Commissioner was not correct in denying permission to
the fast and quashed his September 19 order.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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However, the judge, accepting the contention of the police that the Marina
Beach venue proposed by the petitioner would cause traffic problems, suggested
selecting an alternative location opposite the Government Guesthouse at Chepauk
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The court put a series of conditions for the petitioner, including that he
should give an undertaking that he would not induce violence during the protest
and should cooperate with the police to ensure law and order.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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If any leaders supporting the cause wants to speak near the venue of the fast,
a prior intimation should be given to the local police and permission should be
taken by the petitioner, the judge said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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PANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa has convicted accused<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Baswaraj-Kedarji" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Baswaraj Kedarji</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in a case of bouncing of a cheque
amounting to 50,000 and directed the trial court to impose a sentence against
him.<br />
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In this case, a judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) court at Panaji had in
2012 exonerated the accused Baswaraj Kedarji. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JMFC-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">JMFC court</span></a>accepted his defence that the cheque
was issued by him towards purchase of sand and that the case was filed against
him by the complainant Vithal Zalmi for not making payment towards the purchase
of a vehicle as scrap.<br />
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The high court has convicted the accused Baswaraj Kedarji for dishonouring of
the cheque for 50,000 and remanded the matter before the trial court to impose
the sentence.<br />
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While convicting the accused, justice R C Chavan observed thus: "Faced
with the prospect of being convicted and there being no other defence open, the
accused may take the defence of this type and allege that the cheque was issued
for something else. If such defences were to be accepted, it would be impossible
to achieve the object for which Section 138 was brought on the statute book.
The findings of the learned magistrate, therefore are thoroughly improbable and
unsustainable."<br />
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The high court noted that in view of the admission of the accused that he had issued
the cheque towards purchase of sand, he was obliged to see that the cheque was
honoured, irrespective of the fact that the complainant may not have been able
to prove the purpose for which the cheque was issued.<br />
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As the accused did not appear before it, the high court directed the magistrate
to enforce his appearance within one month and impose sentence after hearing
the parties.<br />
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Advocate for the appellant, D Pangam argued that a complaint of offence
punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act cannot be tried
as if it is a civil suit. Pangam stated that the trial court should have held
that the accused was liable to pay as he admitted that the cheque was issued by
him towards purchase of sand.<br />
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The complainant Vithal Tulshidas Zalmi had alleged before the trial court that
he had sold his vehicle for scrap for 1.50 lakh to accused Baswaraj Kedarji. In
this transaction, a cheque for 50,000 was given by Kedarji to Zalmi. However,
the cheque was dishonoured .<br />
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During the hearing of the case in the trial court, the accused claimed that the
cheque was issued towards purchase of sand and not for purchase of scrap of a
vehicle. The JMFC court held that the complainant failed to prove beyond
reasonable doubt that the cheque was issued towards the purchase of scrap
vehicle. Aggrieved by the decision, the complainant filed appeal in the high
court.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A petition seeking to protect</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Tamil+Nadu" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tamil Nadu</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pilgrims visiting the famous hill
shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Thirumala in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Andhra+Pradesh" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Andhra Pradesh</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the backdrop of continuing anti-<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Telangana" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Telangana</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stir has been filed in the Madras
High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Petitioner, advocate Gnanasekharan, sought a direction to the Centre and the
governments of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh to take adequate steps to provide
sufficient protection to the pilgrims en route</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Tirumala" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tirumala</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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He said the Centre's announcement on July 31 last that a separate Telangana
would be formed has triggered protests in more than ten districts, including
Chitoor under which Tirupati-Tirumala falls.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The anti-telangana protesters were indulging in violence and disrupting
peaceful life. Pilgrims from Tamil Nadu to Tirumala were not allowed to visit
the shrine, he charged.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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He submitted that he had been visiting the temple continuously from 1983 and
the Freedom of Worship and Religious Practice which are guaranteed under the
Constitution had been affected by the acts of trouble makers.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The PIL is expected to come up for hearing on October 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Madras High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has dismissed a petition which
sought a direction to the Centre to enhance the retirement age for judges in
High Courts and the Supreme Court.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The First Bench, comprising acting Chief Justice</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Rajesh+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Rajesh Kumar</span></a>Agrawal
and Justice M Sathyanarayanan, rejected the petition filed by an advocate V
Vasanthakumar at the admission stage itself.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The petitioner had sought a direction to the Centre to take immediate and
effective measures to pass "The Constitution (114) Amendment Bill
2010" within a time-frame to be fixed by this court.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Originally, under article 217(1) of Constitution of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a>, the age of
retirement of High Court Judges was fixed as 60. By an amendment in the year
1963, it was increased to 62. Later in August 25, 2010, it was further raised
to 65 by an amendment which had been referred to a Parliamentary Standing
Committee, which he wanted to be passed.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Bench, quoting judgments of the Supreme Court, said no writ can be issued
directing the authorities to introduce the above said amendment in Lok Sabah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HC to hear contempt plea against PM on ordinance<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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IANS,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lucknow
: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court would Thursday hear a contempt
petition against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of the ordinance to
save convicted lawmakers from disqualification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
contempt petition filed by social activist Nutan Thakur accuses Singh of
"having openly defied the orders of the Supreme Court".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench of Justice Ajai Lamba would hear the petition in which the petitioner
cites the case of Lily Thomas vs Union of India & Others, wherein the apex
court had struck down section 8(4) as being ultra-vires because it provides
different dates of disqualification for sitting MP/MLA vis-a-vis those
qualified to be chosen so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Despite
this, the prime minister, in a clear violation of the Supreme Court order,
recommended the Representation of the People (Second Amendment and Validation)
Ordinance, 2013 with minor amendment in section 8(4), Thakur told IANS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"I
have prayed for initiating action against the prime minister under section 12
of the Contempt of Courts Act 1971," Thakur said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
relevant ordinance seeks to override the Supreme Court's decision on
disqualifying convicted lawmakers. The ordinance, cleared by the union cabinet
and awaiting President Pranab Mukherjee's signature, was last week trashed by
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as "complete nonsense" and fit
to be "torn up and thrown away".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cops over Shetty muder case<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not require the Bombay High Court’s
nod to investigate into city activist Satish Shetty’s murder, the court on
Tuesday rapped city police for closing a complaint lodged by the late Right to
Information (RTI) activist.<br />
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Referring to the case, Justice M L Tahaliyani sought to know from the
prosecutor —“If the original owners of land acquired for construction of the
Mumbai-Pune Expressway were compensated, then how can the name of the
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation's (MSRDC) Executive Engineer
be deleted and the original owners sell their land for a second time?”<br />
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The court further asked, “Does it not amount to creating false documents?
Does it not amount to forgery?” Shetty, in an FIR lodged in October 2009, had
alleged that the name of one MSRDC’s Executive Engineer was deleted from
revenue records.<br />
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He also pointed out that several plots of land acquired by the State
government for building the Mumbai-Pune Expressway were sold twice by their
original owners to Aryan Infrastructure and Investment —an IRB Group company
which constructed the expressway.<br />
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Additional Public Prosecutor Deepak More responded by saying that the revenue
records were ultimately corrected and the case was closed since there was no
loss caused to public exchequer. Irked by the response, the court questioned,
“On what basis have you come to this conclusion?”<br />
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The court was hearing a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI), seeking permission to reopen and reinvestigate the case — based on
complaints lodged by Shetty, which were closed by Pune rural police, terming
it as baseless.<br />
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Advocate Hitendra Venegaonkar, appearing for CBI, submitted before court that
the investigating agency had arrived on a conclusion that the motive behind
Shetty’s murder was connected to the complaints lodged by him.<br />
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CBI has sought the court's permission to reopen and reinvestigate the case.
Thirty-eight-year-old Shetty had exposed several illegalities in the
Expressway land deal, in and around Pune.<br />
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He was stabbed to death in broad daylight near his residence on January 13,
2010, when he had stepped out for morning walk.<br />
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Justice Tahaliyani has now directed the prosecutor to file an additional
affidavit explaining why the case was closed and also sought a set of
investigation papers of the case. The case will now be heard on October 15. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HC seeks status report from DDA on illegal construction in city <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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report from DDA and other agencies of city government on a PIL alleging
“rampant” illegal construction on public land in and around the capital.
Seeking response from DDA and also from police, South Delhi MCD, DJB and
BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana in a
recent order sought a status report by November 27. Representational image
of a construction site. Reuters image The bench was hearing a PIL by Fraternity
Against Corruption, a registered trust, alleging “rampant
land grabbing, encroachment and illegal construction on DDA lands in
and around Delhi which is open and brazen loot of public resources
affecting public at large.” According to the plea, due to mismanagement of DDA,
large chunks of land particularly in South Delhi are being
misused and the land owning agency has failed to take care of
them properly. “…The land mafia in connivance with corrupt officials of
DDA grab the vacant DDA lands and then raise unauthorised construction
over these lands. Their illegal activities do not end with this and they
further sell these illegally constructed houses to innocent public and
dupe them of their hard earned money,” the plea alleged. Referring to a
high court’s decision in which the bench had ordered police to inform the
concerned agency and also stop the illegal construction on DDA land, the
plea said, ”…Delhi Police merely acts as a post office, they just inform
this illegal activity to the public authority once, after that they just
remain mute spectator to this brazen activities.” The PIL, filed through
counsel Sunder Khatri and Dhananjay Tyagi, cited some areas where the
alleged land grabbing by mafias had occurred in South Delhi. PTI</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Public+Interest+Litigation" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Public Interest Litigation</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has urged the Bombay High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to direct the Government and local
authorities to issue guidelines so to ensure that cosmetic goods, personal
hygiene products, skin and hair care creams and lotions are sealed before being
sold in the Indian market.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The PIL said that currently such products are sold without seal and this</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Results" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">results</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in contamination or adulteration
of the goods which is harmful to the health of the consumer.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Use of contaminated or adulterated products can cause skin irritation and
rashes or other health hazard which should be prevented in consumer interest,
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The petitioner said that a leading multinational company had in a letter replied
that sealing of cosmetic products is not a mandatory requirement of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and hence it was not following the
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The PIL, to come up for hearing tomorrow before a bench headed by Chief
Justice, said the shopkeepers very often use the contents of the products in
order to demonstrate them to the consumers and in the process they run the risk
of contamination. This is very harmful to the health of people.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Not just this, most of the time the weight or volume of the contents of the
goods are not found to be equivalent to the quantity mentioned on the packet or
tube because they are not sealed. The possibility of tampering is thus not
ruled out, the petitioner argued.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Petitioner said she had written letters to several multinational companies
to check whether they were sealing the products and found that this practice
was not being followed because it was not compulsory.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The PIL prayed that Public Health Department, Legal Meteorology (weights and
measures) and Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Departments of
Maharashtra Government may be asked to issue guidelines to ensure that such
products are sealed by the companies before being sold in the market.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The petition enclosed opinion of doctors and experts to support the contention
that such products should be sealed.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The respondents to the PIL include multi-national companies, Johnson and Johnson,
Procter and Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Colgate Palmolive (India).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has directed the city police to produce before it case papers pertaining to a
complaint lodged by Anita Advani, who claims to have been the live-in partner
of late actor Rajesh Khanna, against Khanna`s wife Dimple Kapadia and her
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hearing a petition filed by Dimple and others seeking quashing of the case
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"The respondent (Anita) has submitted some photographs and CCTV footages
to substantiate her case. The prosecution shall produce all relevant case
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Soon after the death of Khanna on July 18 last year, Anita had filed a
complaint in the Bandra metropolitan magistrate court against Dimple and her
family, including her daughters Twinkle and Rinkie, and son-in-law Akshay
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In the complaint, Anita had included video and audio recording of Khanna`s
signature being taken on a will forcibly and other footage to prove that she
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According to Anita, she was the actor`s live-in partner but was driven out of the
suburban bungalow when Khanna fell sick. Anita had sought maintenance from
Dimple and her family.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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In her petition, Dimple contended that she was the legally wedded wife of
Khanna and as such no other woman can claim share in the wealth left behind by her
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Tuesday slammed an advocate who used derogatory language in his petition while
seeking to restrict relatives of politicians from contesting in polls, and
imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him. The court also directed that the fine
should be paid to Mediation and Reconciliation Centre within two weeks. The
First Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice M
Sathyanarayanan, dismissed the petition of advocate R Balasubramanian, who
sought to restrict politicians' relatives from contesting Parliament and
Assembly polls and also a direction to the President, Chief Election
Commissioner and Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer, to whom he had sent
representations. On the advocate's earlier petition, in which he had used
derogatory language, the bench said it had not imposed costs on him, thinking
that as an advocate he would realise his role and responsibilities and desist
from doing so in future. However, he had not learnt his lesson, had taken a
conscious decision not to mend his way and in his September 10 representation
to the President and to authorities, used derogatory remarks against the
sitting Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) elected from this state without any
responsibility, the court said. Madras HC slams lawyer for language, fines him
Rs 10,000 It said the court depreciated such a kind of practice by the
petitioner, who claims to be practicing advocate. On the legality of the
petitioner, the Bench said in the absence of any statutory right on the part of
the petitioner with a corresponding obligation on the part of the respondents,
such a kind of relief cannot be issued. The bench later dismissed the petition
at the admission stage observing it did not find any merit in it and directed
the petitioner to pay within two weeks Rs 10,000 to the Mediation and
Reconciliation Centre, attached to the Court. If it was not complied with, the
Chennai District Collector should treat it as arrears of land revenue and take
appropriate steps to recover it and to pay the Centre, the court said. PTI</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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asked former Miss World Yukta Mookhey and her estranged husband Tuli to attempt
to find a way to resolve their disputes. Justice Sadhna Jadhav met Mookhey and
Nagpur-based businessman Tuli separately in her chamber on Monday evening and
later held discussions with their lawyers.</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The judge suggested some
ways for the couple to deal with their disputes," said a lawyer. The
matter will be heard on October 14. Meanwhile, the HC has asked both the sides
to sit and attempt to reconcile the differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The HC initiative came on an anticipatory bail application filed by Tuli,
seeking protection from arrest in a criminal case lodged by Mookhey. In July,
Mookhey had lodged an FIR accusing Tuli of committing unnatural sex and alleged
that Tuli and her in-laws had subjected her to cruelty and criminal breach of
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remarked that no case of harassment and cruelty under Section 498-A of the IPC
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AURANGABAD: The High Court Bar Association of Bombay Bench at Aurangabad on
Wednesday protested against the high court administration for delay in handing
over the possession of 2.714 acres of land for construction of an
eight-storeyed building housing around 1,200 lawyers' chambers. The premises is
touted to be the first of its kind in Marathwada.<br />
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President of the association president, S B Talekar, said, "The high court
(HC) administration has been inept, indecisive and insensitive towards the
cause of the lawyers. It has not been able to hand over the possession of the
land, obtain a no objection certificate from Cidco and finalize the building
plan received from architects from all over India. The president and secretary
of managing committee of the bar association met the chief justice individually
requesting him to expedite the process, but in vain."<br />
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He said that it's been about six years since the foundation stone for the
building was laid by the then chief minister late Vilasrao Deshmukh. "We
even made representations many times to the chief justice, HC registrar
administration and the HC building committee, but to no avail," Talekar
said.<br />
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"The honourable chief justice of the Bombay high court had cleared the
proposal to measure and hand over the land on August 2 this year. Thereafter,
the land was measured and demarcated by the deputy superintendent of land
records, Aurangabad," he said.<br />
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"The registrar administration is asking the bar association to approach
the chairman of lawyers' chamber committee, who in turn is asking us to wait
for the decision of the building committee. The bar association is running from
pillar to post and has been making requests to expedite the process,"
Talekar said.<br />
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"Almost three years have passed since the advocates deposited Rs 1 lakh
each for the construction of the building. In the meantime, the cost of
construction has gone up by more than 300%. Even the state ministry of law and
judiciary had cleared the proposal in March 2013," he added.<br />
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A S Sawant, secretary of the association, said, "The chambers for lawyers
is the need of the hour. It would be nothing but an adjunct and extension of
the high court. The association and the bench would be immensely benefited
since the lawyers will be able to utilize not only internet facility and access
almost all law journals and reports available all over the world."<br />
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When asked about the issue, C V Bhadang, registrar general of Bombay high
court, said, "The high court is actively considering the issue. We are
aware of the urgency of the matter and a decision in this regard will be
communicated to the bar association soon."<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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ordered a CBI probe against a retired police officer for allegedly possessing
disproportionate assets worth more than Rs 10 crore. The investigation must be
entrusted to an officer not below the rank of an SP in the Central Bureau of
Investigation, it noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a petition filed in 2008 by G Durga Rao, a retired employee of vigilance and
enforcement cell in the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, seeking directions
to the authorities to register a criminal case against G Anjaiah, retired
additional superintendent of police in V&E, MCH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anjaiah was suspended three times on corruption charges when he was working as
the Additional SP in the MCH and at the time of retirement he owned 35 acres of
agriculture land in Medak district, 15 acres at Shadnagar and Medchal,
two-storeyed building at Begumpet and several other properties in the
state capital. K Ravinder Reddy, the then inspector of police, ACB, who
conducted an enquiry said that the allegations were incorrect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When the issue was reported in the media, he applied for voluntary retirement
and the government allowed him to retire from service without making any
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claimed that the allegations made against him by the petitioner were enquired
into by the ACB and it was revealed that there was no truth in the allegations
and that the state government also dropped further action against him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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inspector was one-sided and that it cannot be said to be a full-fledged
enquiry. The enquiry reports were also not submitted to the court, he said.
While allowing the petition, the judge directed the joint director of the CBI,
Hyderabad, to register a case against Anjaiah and conduct a thorough
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Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday denied permission to the Punjab
Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) here to provisionally admit students for
the fresh batch of MBBS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HTStoryPageControl_StoryPhoto1_ltrVideo">With the
last date of admission over on Monday, PIMS has lost the chance to admit a
batch of 150 MBBS students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anticipating
a favourable verdict from the court, the institute management had issued an
advertisement in newspapers, inviting candidates from the state to fill forms,
which were provided free of cost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reportedly submitted in response to the advertisement by Sunday evening. The
authorities had called the parents after 3pm on Monday for counselling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to HT, principal director Dr Kulbir Kaur said, "We have failed to get the
court nod to admit students. The exercise done on Saturday and Sunday had been
nullified. We were hopeful of getting relief, so we took a chance by inviting
candidates. Today (Monday) was the last date of counselling also, as per
instructions of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On
July 16, the Medical Council of India (MCI) had barred PIMS from admitting
students for this session (2013-14) in MBBS, using its powers under Section
10(A) of the MCI Act, due to the institute's failure to fulfil the condition of
requisite infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
institute started in 2011 and has admitted two MBBS batches so far. It was
allotted to a society headed by Punjab rural development minister Surjit Singh
Rakhra on a 99-year lease. In March-April, the institute had witnessed a series
of strikes by paramedical staff, doctors and administrative staff over
non-payment of salaries for months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KOCHI: The state government should consider revising a contract granted for a
public project if the cost of implementing the project escalated much after
awarding the contract, the high court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice A M Shaffique gave the directive while considering a petition filed by
a PWD contractor, K I Poulose of Muvattupuzha, who, in January 2006, had taken
up the construction of Chelachuvadu-Vannapuram Road in Idukki district.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Implemented using Nabard's rural infrastructure development fund, the contract
was worth Rs 686 lakh. It was agreed by the contractor and the government that
the scale of rates (SOR) applicable for the work would be that of 2004.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, the cost later escalated to Rs 14.49 crore, due to the extra work for
excavation of earth, medium rock and hard rock.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Though the work was supposed to be completed within 12 months as per the
contract, it could be finished only in 2009 on account of delay in handing over
of work site besides the extra work.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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During this period, the SOR had changed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Thrice-(musician)" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">thrice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>while
the contractor had undertaken work as per the 2004 SOR. He had filed four
representations to the government, in February 2009, March, December 2010 and
July 2011, requesting to make the 2008 SOR applicable to the contract.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Through an order issued in September 2012, the government declined to grant
2008 SOR for the contract, citing that the contractor had specifically agreed
to the condition that he would not claim any enhanced rate for the work done
during the extended period.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The contractor sought a review of the decision but was declined by the
government in October 2012.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Representing the contractor at the high court, senior counsel N Nandakumara
Menon said the government had given enhanced rates to several contractors who
had undertaken similar works under the Nabard scheme.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government's counsel argued that the contractor was not entitled to make
any claim as he had submitted an estimate on the basis of the 2004 SOR.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the inquiry report of the chief engineer of the PWD administration
wing, of the additional Rs 769 lakh sought, Rs 643 lakh was for excavation,
which could not be verified as the work was already completed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Ruling against rejection for not being able to verify, the court pointed out
that the contractor had submitted several representations making such a claim
at different times and the government failed to take them into consideration.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government's inter-office communication containing a statement of analysis
of cost difference based on 2004 and 2008 SOR indicates that the contractor is
entitled to a balance of Rs 4.97 crore, the court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Quashing the government orders rejecting the contractor's claim for revision,
the court ordered the government to consider his representation afresh and pass
an order within three months.<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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A division bench of the high court headed by Chief Justice D H Waghela on
Tuesday asked the state government to re-visit the rules on transfer of primary
and middle school teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench made this suggestion, while hearing a writ appeal preferred by the state
government. The appeal challenged a single-judge bench's directive to the state
government to post a teacher near Ramanagaram town and also increasing one per
cent cap on such request transfers to five per cent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Rules are often framed in a hurry. There is no corresponding link between
rules and the act. Rule is made with the intention to help the spouses, who are
living separately. But now, practically, rules are separating them from each
other. Rules should not be anti-family. They should be friendly to the family.
Rules should be framed in such a way that it will give priority to the
spouses," the bench observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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General Prof Ravivarma Kumar accepted the suggestion and sought some time to
have a re-look at the rules. He was of the view that the state has to prepare a
draft and then invite objections and finalize the rules. He also assured the
court that by next academic year new rules will be in force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the bench declined to give time till January and adjourned the hearing to
December 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lalitha, who was working as assistant teacher in Chikkakanagalu village, Alur
taluk, Hassan district, had sought transfer stating that her husband
Shashidhar, a practising advocate, stayed in Bangalore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monday, said these sex determination complaint filed against actor Shah Rukh
Khan and his wife Gauri was "unfounded". Social activist Varsha
Deshpande had accused the couple of determining the sex of their surrogate
child AbRam.</span></em><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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frivolous complaint, but it is unfounded, meaning without foundation,"
observed Justice</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/sadhana-nitro-chem-ltd/stocks/companyid-13158.cms"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sadhana</span></a>Jadhav.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The High Court was hearing a petition filed by Deshpande seeking early hearing
of the complaint filed by her in a Metropolitan Magistrate's court. She had
sought action against Shahrukh, Gauri, Jaslok hospital and its doctor under the
Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex
Selection) Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition said the Supreme Court says all cases under the Act concerned should
be decided within six months. The HC enquired about the source of information
with Deshpande's advocate, Uday Warunjikar, who quoted a newspaper report dated
June 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The
newspaper report does not include any statement of the actor couple. Don't you
think you should have put in some more effort to substantiate the complaint
before making such sensitive allegations?" the court asked. The court also
noted that while the newspaper report was of June 14, the child was born on May
27 and prior to that no report or statement was issued that the couple was
havinga baby boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Suggesting
that the parties should put an end to the matter in view of the Appropriate
Authority's conclusion, the court directed the BMC to submit by October 3, its
report and other relevant documents before the magistrate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BMC counsel M P S Rao reiterated that the corporation had conducted inquiry
into the allegations and has found that everything is in order and nothing is
amiss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court sternly directed the Maharashtra
government to take steps for early implementation of rules for the 'Maharashtra
Government Servants Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of delay in
Discharge of Official Duties Act, 2005' which is more commonly known as
'citizens' charter'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"This
court, expects the government to expedite the process, so that the draft rules
for 'citizens' charter' are placed before the state legislature in any case in
the forthcoming winter session, for approval," a single-judge bench
comprising Justice Arun Chaudhari said, before adjourning the hearing by two
months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The directives came while hearing a petition filed by Vidarbha Taxpayers
Association (VTA) secretary Tejinder Singh Renu who had originally filed the
PIL on September 14, 2011. Earlier, he was allowed to knock off name of first
respondent, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While
explaining about the current position of draft rules, government pleader Nitin
Sambre informed that the process to finalize them has already been expedited.
He pointed out that legislative committee after making some recommendations
would place those before the cabinet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While
hearing the PIL, the then division bench comprising justices Dilip Sinha and
Ashok Bhangale, on December 21, 2011, had directed the government to affix
'citizens' charter' on notice board of all its departments. "It's
important to note that provisions of 'citizens' charter' by the government's
administrative departments must be made known to the common man for whom it is
meant," they had observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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judges had directed all 29 government departments to affix copy of 'citizens'
charter' on the notice board to be placed at the front lobby or at a place,
easily visible to visitors. They were told to complete the exercise within two
months and finalize the rules to carry out purpose of the Act without further
delay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
the government failed to take steps in this regard, Renu filed a contempt
petition after which notices were issued to CM along with principal secretary
of state General Administration Department (GAD) KP Bakshi and his counterpart
at Law and Judiciary Department VL Achaliya, who is also the senior law
adviser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
last hearing, Renu contended that the approach of the respondents, including
CM, was very casual and lethargic in implementation and compliance of the 2011
order. Even the legislative assembly had convened many sessions but the issue
not even came for the discussion and rules of the Act of 2005 were not framed
till date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He
also argued that the directives to display the 'citizens' charter' in each
administrative department and all their offices in Maharashtra were not being
complied with in its entirety. Despite repeated reminders and specific requests
made by the petitioner from time to time to the respondents, no action was
taken in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MUMBAI: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-high-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has restrained the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BMC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">BMC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from
taking any coercive steps against<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-Hospital" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay Hospital</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for recovery of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/enhanced-property-tax" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">enhanced property tax</span></a>. The BMC recently served
the hospital a bill of almost Rs 2 crore in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/property-tax" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">property tax</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
2010 to 2013. The property tax rose sharply after the BMC withdrew long
existing exemptions granted to such charitable hospitals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The hospital dragged the BMC to court, challenging denial of exemptions since
2010. It questioned the "unlawful and exorbitant" demand. Hospital's
counsel Virag Tulzapurkar contended in the court last week that general tax
could be levied for all buildings and lands in the city except those
exclusively used and occupied for charitable purposes. They challenged the
validity of the 2010 civic law that governs fixation of capital value of
property to calculate property tax and said property tax for charitable
hospitals cannot be calculated on the basis of capital value as a
"separate category".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Considering the importance of the issue that would have an impact on other
charitable hospitals too, the high court has sought a reply from the BMC. It
adjourned the matter to October 23. It said restraining order against the BMC
is subject to the hospital depositing 25% of the demand raised.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Instead of giving incentives to hospitals, especially private charitable
hospitals doing excellent work, the BMC is taking away incentives one by one.
This is most unfortunate," said Subhash Kothari of Kanga & Co, the law
firm that represents the Bombay Hospital.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The hospital's case is that under the guise of rationalizing the property tax
structure in Mumbai pursuant to the requirement of the Jawaharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission (JNUURM) for financial viability of cities, the
BMC "abused the provision of the scheme". The BMC framed a law, by
itself a mouthful, called the Factors and Categories of Users of Buildings and
Lands (Assignment of Weightages by Multiplication) Fixation of Capital Value
Rules, 2010. The implementation of the law began in May 2013 with retrospective
effect.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The civic body, under the new rules, is calculating the taxes based on the age
of the building, location, use and other factors and the hospital says, as a
result, its property tax has shot up three times. For a hospital, there ought
to be relaxations, said experts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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judgment of the Madras High Court refusing to recall the Returning Officer as a
witness to adduce evidence in the election petition against former Union
Minister M.K. Alagiri filed by P.A. Mohan through legal representative A.
Lazar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Kurian Joseph, after hearing senior counsel Guru Krishna Kumar and counsel
Balaji Srinivasan appearing for Mr. Lazar, dismissed the special leave petition
against the High Court judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Needless to say that the dismissal of special leave petition shall not be an
impediment in challenging the impugned order in the appeal if the election
petition is ultimately dismissed and the matter is carried to this court.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the election petition pending
in the High Court, Mr. Lazar prayed for marking/exhibiting of documents already
on record by the court’s witness, which were vital for adjudication of the
petition by recalling the witness. However, the High Court rejected the plea
holding that exhibiting the documents would require elaborate evidence and
would delay the adjudication of the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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judgment said the documents were vital and required for prosecution of the case
and the High Court had committed an error by rejecting his plea to recall the
witness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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letter to Union Law minister Kapil Sibal recommending benches of High Court in
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Chief Minister was politically motivated, lawyers of Balasore and Mayurbhanj
districts have threatened to intensify their agitation. They said North Odisha
has always been neglected, be it the demand for a Government medical college or
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staged an agitation before the district court. They decided to continue their
cease-work till October 5 in protest against the Government’s indifferent
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president Niranjan Panda said unlike Western Odisha region, here lawyers have
been resorting to peaceful demonstration by not hampering normal life. “But it
does not mean that the Government would not consider our demand,” said Baripada
Bar Association president Srinibas Pradhan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have demanded the circuit bench to be set up at Baripada, those in Balasore
said they would support any place suitable for the people of the entire region
comprising five districts including Jajpur, Bhadrak and Keonjhar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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districts of North Odisha were pending in the High Court which is much more
than the total pending cases of any other region of the State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Muncipal Corporation (BMC) for withholding its teachers’ dues for the past 30
years and paying pension after deductions, the Bombay high court on Tuesday
directed the civic body to pay their pension without any deductions. The court
also said that the BMC is liable to pay 12 per cent interest on their dues.<br />
A division bench of Justice S.J. Vazifdar and Justice K.R. Sriram was hearing
the petition filed by two teachers — Hemalatha Varadan and Madhavi Pradhan. The
retired teachers, in their petition, have stated that they were appointed as
“trained teachers” in aided schools by the BMC.<br />
The civic body, however, at the time of their retirement took a stand that they
were not qualified and labelled them as “untrained teachers”, denying them
proper pension, the petition states. The civic body is also in the process of
recovering the difference in salary of a trained teacher and an untrained one
by giving them a lower pension, it adds.<br />
Appearing for the petitioners, advocate Rahul Walia informed the court that
both the retired teachers were getting a meagre pension of `3,000 and even
after around 30 years of service, they were denied their gratuity and other
dues.<br />
Taking cognisanse of the teachers’ plight, the court directed the BMC to pay
pension without any deductions. “They (BMC) shall be liable to pay an interest
of 12 per cent of gratuity and other dues in favour of the petitioners,” said
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In an important judgment, The Bombay HC has ruled that the civil court must
consider facts and circumstances in each suit before deciding that it is barred
from questioning the BMC's power to issue notices or directions regarding
unauthorized constructions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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515A amendment was made to the BMC Act last year to take action against
unauthorized constructions without intervention by way of stay usually obtained
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The HC's ruling came on a petition by Abdul Mansoori, challenging the BMC's
August 1 notice under Section 354A (to vacate) of the BMC Act alleging that he
had carried out an unauthorized construction on a plot in Bandra (W). Mansoori
denied the allegation, saying the ground plus one storey structure has been in
existence for several years. He said on August 5, the BMC demolished the first
floor without giving him an opportunity to satisfy that the notice is bad in
law. Mansoori then filed a suit in Dindoshi civil court, but taking note of the
bar to the jurisdiction of the civil courts under Section 515A, he was denied
interim relief. He then moved the HC. His advocate, Anita Castelino, expressed
apprehension that the BMC would demolish the entire structure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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September 13, a division bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and Gautam Patel
said the bar under Section 515A to civil courts to question any notice, order
or direction under Section 351 (demolition) or 354A (to stop work) shall not be
questioned in any suit or other legal proceedings "does not mean a suit
before a civil court is per se not tenable".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other words, a civil court's power to take on a civil suit, as much as
scrutinize and verify the plaint, register it, is not taken away by such a bar,
adding that for that bar to apply, the civil court is obliged to consider the
facts and circumstances in each suit and then apply Section 515A of the BMC Act."
They said unless the plea of ousting the jurisdiction based on Section 515A is
considered in each case, the civil court's jurisdiction is not ousted. "To
non-suit somebody and prevent him from approaching a civil court merely because
there is a statutory bar is not a correct understanding of the law," they
wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to seek interim relief before the civil court that will consider his plea in
accordance with law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pricing aspects of<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/pharmaceuticals"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">pharmaceuticals</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">are critical for the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/general%20public"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">general public</span></a>,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/CCI"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">CCI</span></a>Chairman</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Ashok%20Chawla"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Ashok Chawla</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">has
said that some cases of probe into alleged unfair practices in this space are
in the "pipeline".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on some entities, including chemists and druggists associations, for indulging
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"There are a number of cases, which have been dealt with. There are some
(more) cases in the pipeline," CCI Chairman Ashok Chawla told PTI in an
interview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to him, the Commission has already looked into many cases on the pharmaceutical
retail side, while penalties have also been imposed on entities for adopting
restrictive practices and not allowing others to enter the trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is an important area from our point of view because pharmaceutical retail and
prices at the consumer end impact a very large number of the population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"That
is something which is critical from both the competition law point of view and
also the socio-political point of view," Chawla said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On
healthcare sector, the Commission is looking at possible anti-competitive
practices with regard to hospitals asking patients to take the services of a
particular entity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the CCI chief noted that pricing of services in the healthcare would not
exactly fall under its purview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there is tying in of supply of services, there are some cases we are looking
at...," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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providing specific details, Chawla said that one case is at an advanced stage
where the allegation is that of insisting on going to a certain supplier of
services by a hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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otherwise whether the charges are high or low, it is not really for us to see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"We
don't interfere in fixing of prices and the actual movements in the market
place. That is not our job," he noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ensures fair trade practices across sectors in the market place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been pulled up by the Central Administrative Tribunal for taking lenient action
against an employee against whom charges of treating female employees unequally
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Vijayakrishnan, a transmission executive at the AIR. In February, he was
transferred from Chennai to Karaikal. The official had moved the tribunal
against the transfer stating that it was done with malafide intentions as he
contested an association election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vijayakrishnan alleging sexual harassment. This was followed by the formation
of a five-member committee to probe the allegations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-86721921077212644112013-10-03T17:50:00.003+05:302013-10-03T17:50:47.496+05:30LEGAL NEWS 03.10.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Government should disclose reasons
behind the refusal of visa to American historian Peter Heehs, author of the
controversial 'The Lives of Sri</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Aurobindo" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Aurobindo</span></a>', and its
subsequent extension after controversy erupted, the Central Information
Commission has ruled.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The author of the controversial book was living in country for nearly 40 years
during which he had been working on the digitisation and archiving the works of
spiritual guru Sri Aurobindo in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Puducherry" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Puducherry</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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After the book sparked angry reactions from the followers of Sri Aurobindo,
Heehs was told by Union Home Ministry about the decision that his visa would
not be extended and he needs to leave the country by the middle of April, 2012.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The decision was later reviewed after several eminent personalities wrote to
the Government against the decision to not extend the visa.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Following the episode, the appellant, Amit Bhargava sought to know from the
Home Ministry the grounds of denial, review and the extension given to Heehs.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Ministry said it had provided only selective information on the episode
severing the un-disclosable portions under the provisions of Section 8(1)(a) of
the RTI Act which prohibits information pertaining to security of the country
and other similar issues.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Bhargava stated, "In the present case, public interest in disclosure
outweighs the harm to the protected interests and therefore the CPIO be
directed not to severe any information."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Agreeing with Bhargava, Information Commissioner Sushma Singh directed the Home
Ministry to provide complete information along with file notings related to the
episode.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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But she refused to pass a similar order for his request seeking information
from Intelligence Bureau on the issue as it is an exempted organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) has said that it would serve summons of the US Federal
court — issued on September 25 for Prime Minister Dr</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Manmohan
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he was visiting US — in India, according to the provisions of the Hague
Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra judicial documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has engaged Washington based prominent process server firm 'Process Forwarding
International' (PFI) to serve summons on PM Singh in New Delhi. SJJ's legal
advisor Gurpatwant Sigh Pannun said that PFI was the official process server to
United States department of justice and US department of state and had
extensive experience in executing services related to process with relevant
authority in foreign country using approved international law methods — the
Hague Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra judicial documents
in civil and commercial matters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Due to the high security detail, the rights group could not serve the
outstanding Washington court's summons on the Prime Minister during the
Obama-Singh meeting at White House and now we intend to serve these through
Hague Convention," Pannun said. He pointed out that Rule 4(f)(1) of
district of Columbia superior court rules of civil procedure provided that
service upon individuals in a foreign country could be effected by any agreed
means reasonably calculated to give notice, such as those means authorized by
the Hague Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra-judicial
documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Hague Service Convention is a treaty which allows service of summons and other
judicial papers between the signatory countries without diplomatic involvement.
The Hague Service Convention was signed and ratified by India in 2006 while
United States has been a signatory to the treaty since 1967. Under Hague
Service Convention, a central authority has been established by the government
of India for receiving and serving summons from foreign courts. Under Article
15 of the Hague Service Convention, once a copy of the summons and complaint is
delivered to the central authority of India, the service is considered
complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
24-page complaint filed by SFJ on September 25 before Washington DC district
court alleged that Manmohan Singh's culpability in the crimes of torture and
extra-judicial killings of Sikh community started in 1991 when he took the
office of finance minister of India. Manmohan Singh approved and financed, as
head of finance ministry, the infamous practice of "cash rewards" to
members of security forces for killing Sikhs through extra-judicial means often
in "staged and fake encounters" to curb the Sikh rights' movement in
Punjab, the complaint further alleges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complaint further alleged that during his tenure as PM (2004-present), Manmohan
Singh actively shielded and protected the members of his political party who
were involved in organizing and carrying out attacks on the Sikh population of
India during November 1984, resulting in the death of more than 30,000 Sikhs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For showing a 'rigid and narrow mindset' that 'does
not support transparency in the functioning of public authorities', the Central
Information Commission (CIC) has berated the conduct of Upkar Singh, former
Director Public Instructions (DPI), schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
much so that the Chief Information Commissioner Deepak Sandhu recommended
disciplinary action against Upkar Singh. The PCS officer has earned wrath of
the CIC for denying information to a teacher demanded by her under the Right to
Information Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peeved
with Singh's conduct, the Commission has recommended his immediate removal from
the post of First Appellate Authority (FAA), Education Department. The
Commission has held that Singh needs to be given training under the RTI Act.
Also, the Commission has imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the UT Education
Department for harassing her own teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
directions have been passed on an appeal filed by Sangeeta Rani, a headmistress
in a local school. Rani had sought information under Right to Information, on
November 11, 2011 from the District Education Officer (DEO), Chandigarh
Administration. Rani had sought information pertaining status of her case
relating to anomaly in pay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On
Novemer 29, 2011 the DEO had furnished the requisite information. Not satisfied
with the reply, she approached the DPI schools on December 12, 2011 who is the
first appellate authority but to no avail. She then approached the Commission
on January 25 seeking directions to decide her appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
Commission in July last gave two weeks time to the DPI to decide Rani's appeal.
Much to her chagrin, her case was not decided. She again approached the CIC on
September 17, 2012. Surprisingly, the Education Department in its defence took
the ground that neither it had received Rani's application nor it had received
the Commission's orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However,
the department's lie was nailed by Rani after she produced a copy of the
receipt of e-Jan Sampark Centre and other documents to prove that her appeal
and Commission's orders were received by the department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rani
further alleged that 'in violation of directions of the Commission', she was
never called for hearing by the DPI. Shockingly, the DPI asked her to appear
for hearing after a year, as alleged by Rani.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recording
contentions of both the parties, the CIC rubbished the ground taken by the
Education Department that it had not received Rani's appeal and Commission's
orders. The CIC has issued show cause notices to the concerned Central Public
Information Officer (CPIO) and other official who received the RTI application
to "show cause why penalty should not be imposed upon him/her for not
having provided information within the time frame prescribed under the RTI
Act".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
concerned officials have been directed to appear before the Commission in
second week of November. Commenting on the conduct of DPI, the CIC has ruled,
"Such an approach is contrary to the true spirit of the RTI Act and is
indicative of a very narrow and rigid mindset which does not support
transparency in the functioning of public authorities." Recommending
removal of Upkar Singh from the post of FAA, the CIC ruled out that Singh be
'provided training' as per relevant provisions of the RTI Act. The Commission
has taken strong note of the 'mental and physical harassment suffered by the
teacher' and that she had to "run from pillar to post in order to obtain
the requested information without any success for the last almost two
years."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imposing
a penalty of Rs 5,000 on the department, the CIC has directed that information
demanded by Rani be furnished within two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RTI Judgement Series: Publish list
ofpharmacists</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CIC directed the drugs
controller in Delhi to publish list of</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacistsworking in</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">names and addresses</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the department's website. This
is the 180th in a series of important judgements given by former Central
Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi that can be used or quoted in an RTI
application</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Central Information Commission (CIC), while allowing an appeal complaint,
directed the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public Information</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer (PIO) and assistant drugs
controller in the Department of Drugs Control in Govt of National Capital
Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), to provide the information sought by the appellant
and also publish the same</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on its website under the Right to
Information (RTI) Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While giving the judgement on 10
June 2009, Shailesh Gandhi, the then Central Information Commissioner said,
"This will also help citizens</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to monitor</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whether</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are following appropriate measures
and whether public authority is doing its job. Dr AK Singla, drug controller,
will ensure that the list of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shall be put up on its website
before 15 August 2009, and then send the compliance report to the CIC."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Faridabad resident Rahul Sharma,
on 10 January 2009, sought from the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public
Information</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer
(PIO) information regarding details of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in Delhi. Here is the
information he sought under the RTI Act...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) Name, address of medical</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">retail store</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with name, address of
working pharmacist in records of Drugs Control Dept, Govt of NCT of Delhi, to
fulfil the requirement of Drugs and</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">Cosmetics</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Act, 1940.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In his reply, the PIO said,
"I am to inform you that the information sought by you is not available in
the compiled form. The said information is available in the individual sales
file of the firms. You may inspect the relevant files on any working days/hours
with prior<span class="ilad"><span id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">intimation</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in this department."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not satisfied with the PIO's
order, Sharma, the appellant, filed his first appeal. In his order, the First
Appellate Authority (FAA) said, "I am convinced that the Link</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public Information</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer of the Drugs Control
Department had provided the information available with him and had even asked
him to inspect the relevant files with regard to his queries."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharma, still not satisfied with
the PIO's reply and order by the FAA, then approached the CIC with his second
appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the hearing before the
Bench of Mr Gandhi, the PIO stated that the details sought by the appellant
(Sharma) would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority.
Hence, he has offered inspection of the records to the appellant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharma stated that as per Section
4(1)(b)(xiii) of the RTI Act, 'particulars of recipients of concessions,
permits or authorizations granted by it' should be</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">disclosed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The PIO told the Bench that they
would be able to provide</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names
and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
medical</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(chemist)
retail stores and at present, the data of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in these stores is not
available in collated form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Gandhi felt that there was a
need for this information to be provided</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by the public authority since this
was definitely a very important part of information relating tomedical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While allowing the appeal, he then
directed the PIO to give the information about</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the medical</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(chemist) retail stores in Delhi
to Sharma before 20 June 2009. The Bench also directed the Drugs Control
Department to ensure that the list ofpharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shall be put up on its website
before 15 August 2009.<br />
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<span style="color: #121212; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Srinagar,
Oct 2: Complying with High Court directions, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation
(SMC) Wednesday swung into action sealing 19 out of 45 identified ‘illegal’
structures in Srinagar city.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
SMC said the enforcement team of the Corporation headed by Chief Enforcement
Officer Hakim Aijaz Ahmad, sealed 19 structures constructed in violation of the
norms laid down in the Srinagar Master Plan. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
“SMC today sealed around 19 illegal structures including a hotel, a stationary
gallery and a clinic in posh Jawahar Nagar area of the city were sealed,”
Masarat Yousuf, SMC’s Media Relations Officer (MRO) told local news gathering
agency KNS.<br />
She said the illegal structures at Jawahar Nagar had become a nuisance for the
general public and the same were sealed with the help of police in presence of
the executive magistrate. The sealing operation, she said, was supervised by
Secretary SMC Hilal Ahmad Diwani.<br />
Officials said the maiden operation ever performed in the City was started in
coordination between police and the civil administration. The Corporation is
likely to seal more structures tomorrow particularly in Hyderpora area, sources
said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
However, as the buildings were being sealed in the Jawahar Nagar area, locals
tried to resist the move saying “only a few underprivileged had been targeted
whereas the real big sharks remain untouched.”<br />
“Why we alone are being targeted? Why were we allotted licenses for running
hotels and shops in the first instance? Now we are left without livelihood,”
proprietors of the sealed structures said.<br />
But some residents of the colony on the other hand hailed the SMC move saying
“commercialization of residential areas had taken away the charm of once serene
localities like Karan Nagar and Jawahar Nagar areas where the illegal
commercial complexes have mushroomed over the years.”<br />
Though there was some sloganeering and stone pelting too, the government team
went ahead with the task. Secretary SMC Hilal Diwani who was a part of
the team said as many as 17 buildings were sealed in Jawahar Nagar area alone
till sundown when the they headed towards Karan Nagar where the buildings were
being sealed when reports last poured in.<br />
Officials said District Magistrate Er Farooq Ahmed Shah, SMC Commissioner Dr GN
Qasba and SSP Srinagar, Syed Aashiq Hussain Bukhari had “coordinated the
operation at highest levels” while the district administration deployed four
magistrates for the task.<br />
Pertinently, on September 30, a division bench of J&K High Court comprising
Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey asked SMC to seal as
many as 45 illegal structures within the City that have come up, over the
years, in violation of the Srinagar Master Plan.<br />
The Court had directed the Corporation to swing into action and take
appropriate steps for sealing buildings belonging to any violators as per the
show-cause notices and the demolition orders passed (by the Corporation) on
March 16, 2009 or thereafter. The Court had also directed Director General of
Police (DGP) to provide help if required by SMC for sealing the illegal
structures. The Court had also given a deadline of three days to SMC to seal
these structures and file a status report with the Registrar Judicial on
October 4.<br />
The Corporation had pleaded before the court that show cause notices have
already been issued to various violators on March 6, 2009 and demolition order
passed on March 16, 2009.<br />
During earlier hearings, Advocate General Mohammad Ishaq Qadri had informed the
Court that there was gross violation of the Master Plan because residential
areas are being used for commercial purposes and that there was no effective
control exercised by the SMC.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Pertinently, an official panel on Master Plan violations constituted by the
state government in 2010 has identified around 2500 illegal structures in and
around the Srinagar city falling in SMC and SDA local areas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The panel, comprising representatives from SMC, SDA, R&B Department, PDD
and Revenue Department, has already submitted its report to the government. The
committee was headed by then Additional Commissioner Kashmir, Ishtiaq Ahmed
Ashai.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The report, according to sources, reveals that of the 2500 identified illegal
structures, around 1100 not only violate the Master Plan norms but are a major
hindrance in the smooth flow of traffic on some key roads. With inputs from<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong>KNS</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Kerala High Court on Tuesday roundly rapped the
Director-General of Police for forwarding a complaint against Salim Raj,
suspended gunman of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, to the State government
instead of ordering an inquiry into it. Justice Harul-Ul-Rashid also orally
wondered why the DGP and other police officers were “afraid of this police
constable.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that it had never ever seen a DGP forwarding a complaint received by him to the
State government. The complaint was forwarded to the State government and the
Chief Minster issued a receipt after getting the complaint. In fact, the
petitioners lodged a complaint against Salim Raj in the police stations concerned
and later with the DIG. The forwarding of the complaint by the DGP to the
government was against provisions of the criminal procedure code, the court
orally observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The conduct of the DGP and other
police officers came under fire from the judge when petitions seeking a CBI
probe into the allegations that Salim Raj was involved in land grab cases came
up for hearing. Salim Raj is under suspension following allegations against him
in connection with the solar scam. During the hearing of the petition, the
court orally pointed out that the police constable seemed to be getting
complete protection from the State government. The court said that land mafia
was suspected to be operating in the State. In fact, it wondered whether
democratic governance was in place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the government should not have filed appeal against the single judge’s interim
order directing the DGP to seize the telephonic conversation records, including
the voice records of Salim Raj and others, in connection with the land grab
cases. In fact, the government could have brought to the notice of the single
judge that the interim order was passed without making the telephone service
providers as respondents in the petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government on the every next after the single judge’s order came and the
appearing of Advocate General K.P. Dandapani on behalf of the government were
severely criticised by political leaders. The hearing was adjourned to
September 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bombay high court on Tuesday rapped the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Economic
Offences Wing for failing to conduct a “fair and proper” investigation into
money laundering and land grabbing allegation against state minister and NCP
leader Sunil Tatkare.<br />
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A division bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MS Sonak said: “There has been
no investigation at all. This is a complete failure on the part of EOW and ACB.
The position of the person (Tatkare) in public domain is deflecting the
fairness in the inquiry.”<br />
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The judges came down heavily on the investigating agencies after going through
probe reports submitted by them following a court order in a public interest
litigation filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya.<br />
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“Every page of the report lacks proper application of mind. Prima facie, the
investigating agencies have virtually abdicated their duty to investigate
fairly on the ground that the investigations will have to be done by the Income
Tax department, the Enforcement Directorate and the Registrar of Companies,”
the court said.<br />
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“This in our view would be no justification for the agencies to walk away from
its obligation to conduct a fair probe,” the court said, directing the agencies
to complete their investigation within three months and submit a final report
by January 7, 2014.<br />
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The court added that if it was not satisfied with the investigation after three
months, it would transfer the probe to the CBI.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The bench observed that the ACB in its report had said since the allegations
involve companies, the Registrar of Companies will have to conduct an inquiry.
“The ACB report has not tried to find out the financial standing of Tatkare and
his family members,” HC said.<br />
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Senior counsel Aspi Chinoy appearing for Tatkare sought dismissal of the PIL on
the ground that Somaiya could file a private complaint in a magistrate court.<br />
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</span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE CASE</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
Kirit Somaiya, a BJP leader and former MP, in the PIL sought probe by the CBI
into the alleged money laundering and land grabbing by companies floated by NCP
leader Sunil Tatkare (in pic) and his relatives.<br />
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Somaiya has listed 51 companies formed by Tatkare which have his family members
and friends as directors, and alleged they bought benami lands in state and
indulged in money-laundering.<br />
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Tatkare has termed the petition as false, malicious and politically motivated
in his reply affidavit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: In a relief to J Jayalalithaa, the Supreme Court today set aside the
Karnataka Government's decision to remove Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) G
Bhawani Singh from the disproportionate assets case against the Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the decision as "malafide", a bench of justices B S Chauhan and S A
Bobde also asked the Karnataka High Court and the state government to consider
extending tenure of the special trial judge as per the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"The extension can be given as per the law and in consultation with the
high court," the bench said, adding the trial court's record runs into
nearly 33,000 pages and the recording of statements of witnesses has also
completed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
apex court, on September 25, had reserved its verdict on the issue of
appointment and sacking of SPP Singh in the case and also on the AIADMK Chief's
plea for extension of the tenure of the trial judge who is scheduled to retire
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Earlier
during the proceedings, DMK General Secretary K Anbalagan had opposed
Jayalalithaa's plea, saying that she and other accused were allegedly
responsible for the protracted trial in the 17-year-old case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Attorney
General G E Vahanvati, appearing for Karnataka Government, had also opposed the
plea of Jayalalithaa on the SPP and for extension of the tenure of the special
judge till the completion of the trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench had deliberated on the political overtones on the issue of the
appointment and sacking Singh as the SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there (in Karnataka) the same government? When did the government
change,?" the bench had asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Attorney General had said the new government came on May 8 this year but the
appointment of Singh was done without any consultation between the state
government and the chief justice of the Karnataka High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench, which had perused the records, had noted Singh, who has been sacked as
SPP in the case, was appointed without any objection by Karnataka government to
conduct the trial in the 17-year-old case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
court had on September 20 called for the entire record relating to the
controversy surrounding the appointment and sacking of Singh for its perusal to
ascertain the reasons for dropping him from conducting the proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa's
counsel had alleged that removal of Singh came at a time when the criminal
procedure in the case was at the final stage and was done with a political
motive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bhawani
Singh was appointed as the SPP following the resignation of former Advocate
General B V Acharya, who was the prosecutor in the case from February 2005 to
August 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Karnataka
government had on August 26 issued the notification withdrawing the appointment
of Singh as SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief is accused of amassing Rs 66.65 crore
between 1991 and 1996 when she was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.<o:p></o:p></span></page2></div>
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The case was transferred by the apex court from Chennai to Bangalore in 2003
during her earlier tenure as the Chief Minister for a free and fair trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa
had alleged the case was slapped on her by the previous DMK government for
political reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa
and three other accused Sasikala, Ilavarasi and V N Sudhakaran have also sought
a direction to restrain Karnataka government from appointing a new judge for
conducting the trial against them in a Bangalore court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
the hearing on September 13, the apex court had objected to Karnataka
government's notification "misrepresenting" an undertaking given by
it as an order of the apex court on the appointment of SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench had on August 30 restrained Karnataka government from appointing new SPP
in the case. The order was passed on a plea by Jayalalithaa challenging the
removal of Bhawani Singh as SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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deadline by two weeks in Maharashtra<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Supreme Court has extended by
two weeks the September 30 deadline of completing admission process for MBBS in
medical colleges in Maharashtra, dismissing a plea by Medical Council of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The order was passed by the apex
court considering the fact that some of the medical colleges in the state had
enhanced the seats but were denied permission by the Medical Council of India
(MCI) to take admission for extra seats as they fell few days short of the
mandatory 10 years of completion of their functioning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MCI had challenged the Bombay High
Court order allowing two Government Medical Colleges--Indira Gandhi Government
Medical College, Nagpur and Government Medical College, Akola to fill
additional seats created by them though they were few days short of mandatory
10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An apex court bench comprising
justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri on Monday permitted the Director of
Medical Education, Maharashtra to finalise the admission of students in view of
the newly enhanced 100 seats to the two Government Medical Colleges by October
14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advocate Jugal Kishore Gilda, who
has been appearing as amicus curiae in the matter, opposed the contention of
the MCI whose Special Leave Petition (SLP) was dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We find no ground to
entertain the SLP. It is dismissed leaving open the questions raised in the
matter to be decided in appropriate case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"However, considering the
peculiar facts of the case, we are inclined to give a direction in respect of
all colleges in the state of Maharashtra to complete the admission formalities
within a period of two weeks from today. We make it clear that this order shall
not be treated as a precedent," the bench said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The apex court, a few years ago,
had fixed September 30 as a cut-off date for completing the admission process
in medical colleges every year across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay
High Court had asked MCI to consider enhancement of 50 seats in each of the
college in view of the policy of the Centre to increase 50 seats in each of the
government medical colleges to augment the health services in view of the
scarcity of doctors faced by the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nullifying
the Tamil subject examination conducted by the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB)
for recruitment of postgraduate assistants (2012-13) on July 21 due to multiple
wrong questions, the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) has ordered that a
re-examination be held.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Delivering
the judgment on a petition filed by a candidate called Vijayalakshmi, Justice S
Nagamuthu observed that the TRB had forced him to order a re-examination
because of its “indifferent” attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
TRB had earlier in another case informed the principal Bench of the High Court
that it would ensure there were no errors in future exams conducted by it. But
the agency had failed to keep up its promise, the judge said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the hearing of the case, to avoid a re-examination, Advocate General A L
Somayaji had made three suggestions to the court. One, grace marks could be
provided to students who had attended the erroneous questions in Booklet B.
Two, only 110 correct questions in Booklet B would be evaluated. Three, in all
the four booklets (A, B, C and D), only questions with cumulative marks for 110
would be valued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Justice
Nagamuthu rejected all three suggestions saying that if adopted they would do
injustice to meritorious candidates. Valuing the question paper for only 110
marks would not serve the purpose of conducting the exam. “In competitive
examinations, all should be treated equals. No one should be affected due to
the mistakes made by someone,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He alleged that the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sri%20Lankan%20Navy"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sri Lankan Navy</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">killed 500 fishermen from</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil%20Nadu"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tamil Nadu</span></a>, while thousands of Tamils in the island
republic were killed by its</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Army"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Army</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">during the war against</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/LTTE"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">LTTE</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stating there was a strong
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Tamil Nadu, he said Tamils were angered and agonised by the proposal to sell
warships as "these could be used against the fishermen from the
state".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition as there had been no response to his representation to the union
government and the state chief secretary to drop the proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Oct 2:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rashid Malbari, who has
been lodged in Mangalore jail since 2009 and was recently convicted of
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fourth additional district and sessions court had sentenced Malbari (42) and
Mohammed Hashim to five years in jail and imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 for
possessing illegal weapons. The verdict was challenged in the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DCIB police led by inspector H N Venkatesh Prasanna. The police had seized an
9 mm pistol and ammunitions from the gang. His accomplices Mohamme Hashim,
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RTI activist Satish Shetty had filed complaints against 13 people in the case<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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its inclination to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to
re-investigate the alleged land grab case which was filed by slain RTI activist
Satish Shetty in 2009, the Bombay high court on Tuesday has directed the state
to file a detailed affidavit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 2009, Shetty had filed a complaint with the Lonavla city police station
against 13 people, including the CMD of IRB Infrastructure Developers, Virendra
Mahiskar, and the sub-registrar of assurances in Lonavla. dna had reported on
August 12 that the CBI has filed an application before the HC seeking
permission to reopen and re-investigate the case in which the government had
filed a closure report. “The CBI has also sought that the closure report should
be set aside,” CBI counsel Hiten Venegaonkar said. Justice ML Tahilyani on
Tuesday directed the government to file a detailed affidavit along with the
documents on which the local police had relied while filing the closure report
in the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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detailed affidavit should state on what basis the closure report was filed,
including the sale deed, revenue records and the correspondents between the
revenue officers,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tuesday, the government conceded that prima facie the transfer of land seems
fraudulent. The judge then asked, “...Then how did you file the closure
report?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigating officer, Sunil Tonape, had filed a closure report before the
metropolitan magistrate Vadgaon Maval on September 28, 2011, stating that the
police did not find any evidence to substantiate Shetty’s allegations. The
magistrate had accepted the closure report on December 27, 2011. Tonape was
then attached with the local crime branch, Pune (rural). Presently, he is
assistant police inspector attached with the Walchandnagar police station at
Indapur, Pune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2009, Shetty had alleged that IRB had connived with government officials and
others to conduct large-scale irregularities and purchase land at Taje and
Pimploli villages near the Mumbai-Pune expressway. Following Shetty’s
investigations and complaint, the Lonavla police on October 15, 2009,
registered an offence (C.R.No.152/2009) against one Deepak Gadgil and 12
others, including the CMD of an infrastructure major, and the sub-registrar of
assurances of Maval area in Lonavla. The case was registered under various
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DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sent a criminal contempt of court notice to
ex-Army chief General V K Singh after finding his recent barbs at the apex
court's handling of his petition on the age issue prima facie scandalous and
lowering its dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Commencing
contempt of court proceedings against the former Army chief, a bench of
Justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale noted in its order that the retired general
had on February 10 last year withdrawn his plea after attorney general G E
Vahanvati assured the court that the Centre would not be vindictive towards the
then serving Army chief for his unprecedented action of moving court on his age
issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Finding that Gen Singh's remarks about the decision of the apex court was based
on wrong premises as the court had not adjudicated upon his plea, the bench
took suo motu notice of a newspaper report on September 22, which reported that
the former Army chief had slammed the SC's decision on his age issue while
defending his comments about Army funding J&K ministers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench's initial recording of views on Gen Singh's reported remarks bore the
tell-tale signs of the seriousness with which the court viewed the entire
controversy. It said, "Attribution of motive to members of the bench
amounted to an attempt to scandalize the court. Prima facie the statement of
General V K Singh amounts to scandalize the court and lower its dignity."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cognizance of the remarks under Article 129 of the Constitution empowering the
apex court to 'punish for contempt of itself' and under the provisions of
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, the bench issued notices to Gen Singh and the
newspaper, which carried the report about his remarks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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February 10, the court's reluctance to get drawn into the task of determining
the actual date of birth of Gen Singh, who was seeking its alteration from May
10, 1950 to May 10, 1951, had forced him to withdraw his plea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
court had recorded the AG's statement, "The Union government had never
questioned Gen Singh's integrity or bona fides but contested his petition as a
matter of principle, which did not cast any reflection on his ability to lead
the Army."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court thought it was putting a controversy to rest and said it was proud of an
Army chief like Gen Singh who had served in it for 38 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">However,
Justices Lodha and Gokhale had declined his counsel U U Lalit's request to
record that the date of birth row had been amicably settled as the Army chief
was not pressing his petition in view of the court's order that the date of May
10, 1950 would remain confined to his service records alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench had said, "As a matter of fact, the question before us in the writ
petition is not about the declaration of the actual date of birth of the
petitioner, but it concerns the recognition of a particular date of birth of
the petitioner by the government in the official record." The Centre had
showed to the court repeated written commitments by Gen Singh to abide by 1950
as his year of birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gen Singh's persistent attempts since 1985 to correct his date of birth, it had
disapproved of the way he attempted to wriggle out of his commitment given to
the his erstwhile Army chief and the ministry of defence in 2009 that he would
accept 1950 as his year of birth and treat the controversy as a closed chapter.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AJMER: The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has received severe blows from the
trial courts at Ajmer in almost every<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>case booked in the district in the past one year. The courts
have observed that the ACB was unable to prove even prima facie evidences like
a demand of bribe being made by the accused in these cases. The bureau's modus
operandi for traps in all these cases have been recorded mobile conversations,
which are corroboratory facts and not primary evidences.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The ACB cases in the district have been hitting headlines for a year, as even
topmost police officers were caught on charges of demanding and accepting bribes.
The alleged irregularities in recruitments at the district and sessions court,
too, got highlighted as the bureau sleuths named a sitting judge there in the
chargesheet.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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There have been five<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>cases from the district wherein the ACB claimed to unearth
the corruption at the top levels. In four of these cases, the investigating
agency has suffered sharp disapprovals at the primary stage of framing charges.
The trial courts not only discharged two accused in separate cases, but also
dropped grievous charges against the others. The fifth case, that of Narendra
Tanwar of the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, is yet to enter the trial
stage.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Senior officials are studying where our teams lacked in the
investigations so that corrective measures can be taken," said a source in
the ACB.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Different ACB teams from Ajmer, Bhilwara and Jaipur worked on these cases with
serious charges on top officials. The teams came up with chargesheets running
into three to six thousands pages. "The court orders show that the ACB
failed to collect primary evidences or witnesses and largely relied on mobile
conversation recordings," said a senior advocate practicing criminal law.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In most of these cases there ACB could not come with strong evidences that a
primary demand of bribe was made. "Not a single witness came in the
notorious 'police monthly extortion case' that accused senior police officers
of collecting monthly bribes at the police station level. ACB showed that the
police station sent monthly collections to the SP and other officials, but the
sources of this collection were not investigated by the agency," added
another advocate.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In the case against IPS officer Ajay Singh, the court dropped corruption
charges and framed him under IPC 384 and 120-B for extortion and criminal
conspiracy. "This case was made up on the basis of statements of the
complainant and telephonic recordings of conversation between ASI Prem Singh
and IPS Ajay Sing," a lawyer said. Similarly, suspended RPS Rajesh Meena's
brother Hitesh could not be linked in the corruption chain and the court
discharged him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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federation Surendra Sharma was sentenced to only two years in a case of
amassing property disproportionate to known sources of income. The corruption
case was highlighted as the ACB claimed to recover around Rs 2,000 crore from
Sharma in 2010. The ACB was unable to produce evidences the misuse of office
and taking bribe.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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were dropped against suspended SP Rajesh Meena, ASP Lokesh Sonwal and
accomplice Ramdev Thathera in the</ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>'police monthly extortion' case. The trial court put a
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charges and tried only under IPC sections 384 and 120-B, which is for extortion
and criminal conspiracy. The court made an examination that preliminary
evidences which were produced by ACB do not connect with the bribe recovered
from ASI Prem Singh in Ramganj police station.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Court recruitment corruption case. Charges of corruption were dropped against
the accused Razak. Corruption charges were framed against court clerk Rajesh
Sharma and advocate Hemraj Kanawat. Razak, Rajesh and Hemraj are also charged
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an NRI facing charges of kidnapping and confining an Indian girl be extradited
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The court recommended extradition of Kulwinder Singh Uppal after he agreed to
be extradited to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uk" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">UK</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to stand trial in the case. Uppal
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"I hereby recommend to the Union of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to extradite... Uppal to the
requesting state i.E. United Kingdom," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Sudesh+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sudesh Kumar</span></a>, said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Centre, through its counsel NK Matta, had forwarded the request received
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It was stated in the request that the accused had fled UK after some other
accused in the case were convicted by a Leicester crown court. It also said
that an arrest warrant was issued against Uppal on January 29 by a court in
Westminster.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The court, while recommending the extradition, referred to a statement from
Narinder Singh Soand, Leicestershire Police's detective sergeant, before a
court there in which he had provided details of Uppal's offence.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Soand had stated that Uppal had met a girl at a wedding in Jalandhar in India
and asked her to come to UK to work as a dancer for him. The girl had reached
UK in March 2010 and worked with Uppal as a dancer at Ilford and Bolton, he
said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Soand also said that Uppal had forced the girl to engage in sexual activities
with him and his clients. She was abused and threatened upon refusing to do so,
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The girl left Bolton with one Jaswinder Singh and came to Leicester on June 18,
2010, but Uppal arrived at her house on July 9 with some others and forced her
into a car, he said, adding the girl was held hostage at a house for the whole
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stayed approvals granted to 162 applications for clinical trials in the country
and asked the sector regulator to provide evidence that norms for drug-related
research are being followed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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order, issued on Monday, was in response to a petition filed by a health
activist group. It is the latest in a series of measures the top court has
taken following allegations of violation of clinical trial norms in the
country. The DCGI has been given two weeks' time to reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Between July and August this year, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)
had received 1,122 applications for clinical trials, of which the New Drug
Committee approved 285 and the regulator cleared 162.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The court has said it will
not allow clinical trials of new chemical entity until all the preparations are
done," said</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay%20Parikh"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sanjay Parikh</span></a>, counsel for Swasthya Adhikar Manch, the
NGO that filed the writ petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
court has also given the health ministry 10 weeks' time to come out with a plan
for implementation of the suggestions given by state governments and other
stakeholders to strengthen the regulatory framework regarding clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Biotechnology firm</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/biocon-ltd/stocks/companyid-2082.cms"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Biocon</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ltd's
chairman and managing director</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Kiran%20Mazumdar-Shaw"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">said the court order is a set
back. "A black day for Indian science and a sad reflection on our
judiciary. This is a pure Luddite approach which is killing progress,"
Shaw responded to a query on twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Public concerns over allegations
of unethical clinical trials in the country gained momentum following reports
of deaths due to drug study-related injuries in rural Gujarat and Andhra
Pradesh. As per reports, the victims were participants in a trial for a</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/cervical%20cancer"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">cervical cancer</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the last one year, the drug controller, under the supervision of the Supreme
Court, set up various committees and devised compensation guidelines for
victims of clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The government council in
July had passed a note that the drug controller had not approved any trials in
the country since January, and then less than a month we see so many trials
getting approved," said</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Amulya%20Nidhi"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Amulya Nidhi</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">of
Swasthya Adhikar Manch. "These speedy approvals indicate that the
government is still not following proper norms."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madras High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has ruled that a decree passed by
a civil court cannot be relied upon for changing the date of birth in the
Service Register of an employee.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Dismissing a petition by IPS officer M Ramasubramani, a Division Bench said
that the alteration made in the SSLC certificate on the basis of the decree
passed by the civil court can be ignored by central and state authorities as
being void.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The nullity of the decree can be pleaded at any stage of the proceedings and be
even raised collaterally in other courts, the bench said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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"If we ignore the said correction made in the SSLC certificate on the
basis of a civil court decree, there is no other material to prove the
petitioner's date of birth as being July 3, 1958," said Justices N Paul
Vasanthakumar and Justice MM Sundresh.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The IPS officer had challenged a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order
dismissing his application seeking quashing of a Government Order which had
rejected his request for a change in his date of birth.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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As a DSP recruited through the state Public Service Commission, his
representation in this regard in 1990 was rejected the following year.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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But the petitioner had pleaded that the above step was not in keeping with the
Tamil Nadu State and Subordinate Service Rules.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The officer later obtained a decree from Virudhunagar Munsif Court and
submitted a representation to the Home Department, which rejected it, saying
that the civil court decree was not binding on the department.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Though his application challenging the rejection resulted in the setting aside
of the order, the fresh plea with the government was again turned down.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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CAT rejected his second application on the ground that the date of birth as
declared by a person in the application for recruitment shall be accepted by
the central government and as per Rule 16 A (4).</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The date of birth accepted by the central government cannot be altered except
where a bona fide clerical mistake has occurred.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Relying on a Supreme Court judgement, CAT rejected the application of the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Allahabad" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Allahabad</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(HC) sought the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uttar+Pradesh" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Uttar Pradesh</span></a> government's
response on a PIL seeking to know why only Muslim girls were being given
benefits and financial aid under its minority welfare scheme "Hamari Beti,
Uska Kal".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
bench of the Allahabad HC consisting of acting chief justice Laxmikant
Mohapatra and justice Rakesh Srivastava, while hearing a public interest
litigation (PIL) Tuesday, had sought a reply from the state government within
three weeks on why girls from a select community were being benefited by the
welfare scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
PIL, filed by Ashok Srivastava of Siddharthanagar, alleges that the Aug 14,
2012 order of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state had said that
Muslim girls will be given Rs.30,000 for higher education and marriage and had
claimed that this was in contravention to the right of equality enshrined in
the Indian Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petitioner had also alleged that the government was trying to divide the
society on religious lines by doing so for political gains. The PIL cites the
Supreme Court (SC) order in the Indra Sahini case wherein the apex court had
said that no reservation can be granted on religious lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Counsel
of the Uttar Pradesh government AK Goel, however, told the court that the state
government was doing so as part of its mandated task of "minority
welfare".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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added that the grant was being given to all minorities, including Hindu's. The
"Hamari Beti, Uska Kal" scheme has been one of the most propagated
schemes of the UP government and SP leaders, including the chief minister, miss
no opportunity to highlight it as a major welfare scheme for the Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/apple-growers" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">apple growers</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from Himachal Pradesh, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-high-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has rejected the notification issued
by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-government" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi government</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to charge 6% commission from them
(growers) in Azadpur Mandi for selling their produce. For the last many years,
commission charged in Delhi market had remained a major issue in the state.
Now, the HC judgment has triggered a race for credit among political leaders.
The state government had taken up the issue with Delhi government with regard
to enforcement of bylaw- 49 (3) — that though the commission be charged at the
existing rate of 6%, it be taken from buyers and not farmers or sellers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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After the Delhi high court judgment on Tuesday, while BJP leader and former
horticulture minister Narender Bragta soon after claimed that his party was
instrumental in taking up the issue whether it was in power or not. Not to be
left behind, Congress on Wednesday gave the entire credit to chief minister
Virbhadra Singh.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Bragta claimed that in 1998, when he was the horticulture minister, he had
raised the issue with then Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma-led
government, after which charging of commission was stopped. Later, when the
Congress government in Delhi reimposed the commission, the HP government had
approached the court, he added.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Meanwhile, horticulture minister Vidya Stokes and chief parliamentary secretary
Rohit Thakur claimed that the HC relief to farmers and horticulturists of the
state was due to the efforts of Virbhadra Singh, who pursued the matter with
the chief ministers of Delhi from time to time, regarding the brazen fleecing
of the commission agents in Delhi.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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They said the high court decision was a welcome step as the Congress government
had relentlessly pursued the case through the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Himachal-Pradesh" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Himachal Pradesh</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>State Agriculture Marketing Board even
during its last regime. The chief minister was well aware of the issue of
illegal commission being charged by the agents at Azadpur market, they said. As
huge quantities of apples and vegetables from the state are sold through the
commission agents in Azadpur, one of the biggest wholesale markets in Asia, the
marginal farmers suffer huge losses.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Stokes, too, is a prominent apple grower in Himachal Pradesh. Horticulture is a
vital sector in the state's economy as it generates more than Rs 3,200 crore
annual income. Apple constitutes about 93% of the state's total fruit produce.
Besides apple, other fruits like pear, peach, cherry, apricot, kiwi,
strawberry, olive, almond and plum are the major commercial crops of the state.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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six seats for SC candidates in Puducherry not reservation but only concession:
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Jawaharlal Institute of
Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer)’s stipulation that
Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates in Puducherry should obtain residence
certificate from the territorial government as an eligibility condition for
admission to MBBS under the Puducherry residents’ quota has been upheld by the
Madras High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A few SC origin candidates filed
petitions challenging the clause in the prospectus, which required that a
person claiming admission to JIPMER, a Central government institution, under
the quota earmarked for Puducherry SC candidates, should have mandatorily
resided continuously in the Union Territory for five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Out of the total 141 MBBS seats,
40 seats are for the residents of Puducherry. Of this number, six seats are for
SC candidates of Puducherry origin. The grandparents of the petitioners,
Santhosh Tamilarasan E and others, were residents of the Union Territory as on
March 5, 1964, the date on which the President issued the notification relating
to Puducherry. The petitioners are not residing at Puducherry at present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In view of the condition, they
would not be considered for admission to the seats reserved for the residents
of the Union Territory. Therefore, they wanted the clause to be quashed and a
direction to consider them for admission. The Standing Counsel for JIPMER,
M.T.Arunan, said the seats earmarked for the Puducherry residents could not be
treated as reservation. It was only a channel of admission. It was only to give
an opportunity to local SC candidates six seats were earmarked for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mr.Justice Sasidharan said the
petitioners proceeded on a wrong notion that reservation of seats by JIPMER for
the local SC candidates was in the nature of a constitutional reservation. The
institution had already reserved 15 per cent seats for SC candidates. This
reservation was not confined to SC candidates of Puducherry. To get admission
against this quota, there was no need to fulfil the residential requirement.
The earmarking of six seats was not at all a reservation, but only a concession
for local SCs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dismissing trustee of Lilavati Hospital<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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the upscale<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/multi-specialty-Lilavati-Hospital" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">multi-specialty Lilavati Hospital</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Bandra.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC passed the order while hearing and admitting an appeal filed by Prabodh
against a city civil judge's order that dismissed him as a trustee. The appeal
is among the long string of cases in a family dispute between trustees of the
charitable hospital that was started by the late Kirtilal Mehta.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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On September 27, Justice A P Bhangale heard counsels Janak Dwarkadas and
Prateek Sekseria for Prabodh and Pranav Badheka for permanent trustee Charu
Mehta and ordered that the city civil order would remain suspended till the
appeals are heard.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC will now decide on the effect of a foreign conviction on qualification
of trustees under the Bombay Public Trusts Act. Charu had moved the charity
commissioner for removal of Prabodh, her brother-in-law, as a trustee of the hospital
on the grounds that he was convicted in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Antwerp" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Antwerp</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Belgium" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Belgium</span></a>, in 2007 and sentenced to six months
in a case of alleged fraud, forgery and moral turpitude. He was thus
disqualified to serve as a trustee, she had argued and the charity commissioner
and later the city civil court had agreed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC said that it would decide if Prabodh was convicted for offences of moral
turpitude, which would disqualify him as a trustee and also, whether a
rehabilitation order would amount to erasing his conviction.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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dilapidated building, to vacate her flat within one month. The tenant, Esther
Manickam, who has been paying a monthly rent of Rs 50 for decades, was offered
Rs 1 crore by the owner to move out of old building but she had refused.<br />
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Justice-Anoop-Mohta" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Justice Anoop Mohta</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>refused to grant the tenant any relief
against the demolition notice served by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BMC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">BMC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
the old building which has been declared dangerous.<br />
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"The structure if it is required to be demolished and as except Esther all
have already vacated, there is no reason that the building in question (should)
be repaired by the owner only to permit her to occupy one flat in
question," said Justice Mohta. The judge cited earlier orders of the court
that allowed "the corporation to evict occupier/owner of dilapidated
building even by force".<br />
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The court said the tenant's offer to repair the premises was of "no
assistance as it would cause further complications and especially when no one
else is occupying the other portions". The court said it cannot direct
that the building be maintained just because a lone opposing tenant wants to
continue to occupy a dangerous building.<br />
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Esther, who has been staying in the Juhu flat measuring 340 square feet for
decades and paying a monthly rent of Rs 50, refused to move out of the building
despite the landlord's offer of Rs 1 crore.<br />
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The BMC, earlier this year, had served a demolition notice on the building
which had been classified as dangerous. A report by VJTI also said that repairs
were not viable for the old building. But Esther rejected the Rs 1 crore offer
and insisted on a flat in a new building on the same premises. The landlord and
the developer refused to give her that saying that 13 other tenants of the
building had accepted the same offer.<br />
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The court said it could not overlook the expert's opinion and said that
Esther's claims in her applications were "contradictory, inconsistent and
in fact self destructive".<br />
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"Esther, though at her risk is occupying the premises alone and compelling
the landlord/owner to maintain the whole premises/building in spite of the
clear offer given to her, is unjustifiable," said the judge.<br />
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"The owner of the property is entitled to deal with the property. Even
otherwise, tenants cannot object to transfer and/or even to create third-party
rights or interest in such property by the landlord. The owner, therefore, if
he wants to develop the property, but for want of insistence to have permanent
alternate accommodation in the same premises, (and hurdles are created) to the
whole project, is entitled to oppose the action of the tenant," the court
said.<br />
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"The costs already incurred by paying a huge amount just cannot be
overlooked merely because one tenant/occupant is opposing to develop and/or not
permitting the owner to develop the property." The court added that the
owner of the property cannot be compelled to give a specific offer to a tenant.<br />
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The court refused to give Esther any reprieve from the demolition proceedings
and allowed her four weeks' time to vacate her flat on the condition that she
files an undertaking to move out.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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The Madras High Court on Tuesday set aside an order of the city Police
Commissioner denying permission to a pro-Tamil outfit for holding an indefinite
fast here to press for the expulsion of Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth of
Nations and shifting a meeting of the international body from Colombo.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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Allowing the petition by K Thiagarajan of Thamizgh Thesiya Vidhuthalai Iyakkam,
Justice KK Sasidharan said the authorities should consider the request in light
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Thiagarajan had sought permission from the police for holding the indefinite
fast from today to press for the expulsion of Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth
of Nations, besides shifting the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) from Colombo slated in November. He also wanted to urge Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to boycott the meeting if held in Sri Lanka.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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reasonable restrictions could be imposed on the exercise of such rights, the
Judge said it was impermissible to prohibit (protest) without any rhyme or
reason. He held that the Commissioner was not correct in denying permission to
the fast and quashed his September 19 order.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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However, the judge, accepting the contention of the police that the Marina
Beach venue proposed by the petitioner would cause traffic problems, suggested
selecting an alternative location opposite the Government Guesthouse at Chepauk
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PANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa has convicted accused<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Baswaraj-Kedarji" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Baswaraj Kedarji</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in a case of bouncing of a cheque
amounting to 50,000 and directed the trial court to impose a sentence against
him.<br />
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In this case, a judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) court at Panaji had in
2012 exonerated the accused Baswaraj Kedarji. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JMFC-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">JMFC court</span></a>accepted his defence that the cheque
was issued by him towards purchase of sand and that the case was filed against
him by the complainant Vithal Zalmi for not making payment towards the purchase
of a vehicle as scrap.<br />
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The high court has convicted the accused Baswaraj Kedarji for dishonouring of
the cheque for 50,000 and remanded the matter before the trial court to impose
the sentence.<br />
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While convicting the accused, justice R C Chavan observed thus: "Faced
with the prospect of being convicted and there being no other defence open, the
accused may take the defence of this type and allege that the cheque was issued
for something else. If such defences were to be accepted, it would be impossible
to achieve the object for which Section 138 was brought on the statute book.
The findings of the learned magistrate, therefore are thoroughly improbable and
unsustainable."<br />
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The high court noted that in view of the admission of the accused that he had issued
the cheque towards purchase of sand, he was obliged to see that the cheque was
honoured, irrespective of the fact that the complainant may not have been able
to prove the purpose for which the cheque was issued.<br />
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As the accused did not appear before it, the high court directed the magistrate
to enforce his appearance within one month and impose sentence after hearing
the parties.<br />
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Advocate for the appellant, D Pangam argued that a complaint of offence
punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act cannot be tried
as if it is a civil suit. Pangam stated that the trial court should have held
that the accused was liable to pay as he admitted that the cheque was issued by
him towards purchase of sand.<br />
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The complainant Vithal Tulshidas Zalmi had alleged before the trial court that
he had sold his vehicle for scrap for 1.50 lakh to accused Baswaraj Kedarji. In
this transaction, a cheque for 50,000 was given by Kedarji to Zalmi. However,
the cheque was dishonoured .<br />
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During the hearing of the case in the trial court, the accused claimed that the
cheque was issued towards purchase of sand and not for purchase of scrap of a
vehicle. The JMFC court held that the complainant failed to prove beyond
reasonable doubt that the cheque was issued towards the purchase of scrap
vehicle. Aggrieved by the decision, the complainant filed appeal in the high
court.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A petition seeking to protect</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Tamil+Nadu" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tamil Nadu</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pilgrims visiting the famous hill
shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Thirumala in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Andhra+Pradesh" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Andhra Pradesh</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the backdrop of continuing anti-<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Telangana" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Telangana</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stir has been filed in the Madras
High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Petitioner, advocate Gnanasekharan, sought a direction to the Centre and the
governments of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh to take adequate steps to provide
sufficient protection to the pilgrims en route</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Tirumala" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tirumala</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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He said the Centre's announcement on July 31 last that a separate Telangana
would be formed has triggered protests in more than ten districts, including
Chitoor under which Tirupati-Tirumala falls.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The anti-telangana protesters were indulging in violence and disrupting
peaceful life. Pilgrims from Tamil Nadu to Tirumala were not allowed to visit
the shrine, he charged.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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He submitted that he had been visiting the temple continuously from 1983 and
the Freedom of Worship and Religious Practice which are guaranteed under the
Constitution had been affected by the acts of trouble makers.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The PIL is expected to come up for hearing on October 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Madras High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has dismissed a petition which
sought a direction to the Centre to enhance the retirement age for judges in
High Courts and the Supreme Court.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The First Bench, comprising acting Chief Justice</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Rajesh+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Rajesh Kumar</span></a>Agrawal
and Justice M Sathyanarayanan, rejected the petition filed by an advocate V
Vasanthakumar at the admission stage itself.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The petitioner had sought a direction to the Centre to take immediate and
effective measures to pass "The Constitution (114) Amendment Bill
2010" within a time-frame to be fixed by this court.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Originally, under article 217(1) of Constitution of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a>, the age of
retirement of High Court Judges was fixed as 60. By an amendment in the year
1963, it was increased to 62. Later in August 25, 2010, it was further raised
to 65 by an amendment which had been referred to a Parliamentary Standing
Committee, which he wanted to be passed.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Bench, quoting judgments of the Supreme Court, said no writ can be issued
directing the authorities to introduce the above said amendment in Lok Sabah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court would Thursday hear a contempt
petition against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of the ordinance to
save convicted lawmakers from disqualification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
contempt petition filed by social activist Nutan Thakur accuses Singh of
"having openly defied the orders of the Supreme Court".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench of Justice Ajai Lamba would hear the petition in which the petitioner
cites the case of Lily Thomas vs Union of India & Others, wherein the apex
court had struck down section 8(4) as being ultra-vires because it provides
different dates of disqualification for sitting MP/MLA vis-a-vis those
qualified to be chosen so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Despite
this, the prime minister, in a clear violation of the Supreme Court order,
recommended the Representation of the People (Second Amendment and Validation)
Ordinance, 2013 with minor amendment in section 8(4), Thakur told IANS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"I
have prayed for initiating action against the prime minister under section 12
of the Contempt of Courts Act 1971," Thakur said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
relevant ordinance seeks to override the Supreme Court's decision on
disqualifying convicted lawmakers. The ordinance, cleared by the union cabinet
and awaiting President Pranab Mukherjee's signature, was last week trashed by
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as "complete nonsense" and fit
to be "torn up and thrown away".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not require the Bombay High Court’s
nod to investigate into city activist Satish Shetty’s murder, the court on
Tuesday rapped city police for closing a complaint lodged by the late Right to
Information (RTI) activist.<br />
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Referring to the case, Justice M L Tahaliyani sought to know from the
prosecutor —“If the original owners of land acquired for construction of the
Mumbai-Pune Expressway were compensated, then how can the name of the
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation's (MSRDC) Executive Engineer
be deleted and the original owners sell their land for a second time?”<br />
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The court further asked, “Does it not amount to creating false documents?
Does it not amount to forgery?” Shetty, in an FIR lodged in October 2009, had
alleged that the name of one MSRDC’s Executive Engineer was deleted from
revenue records.<br />
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He also pointed out that several plots of land acquired by the State
government for building the Mumbai-Pune Expressway were sold twice by their
original owners to Aryan Infrastructure and Investment —an IRB Group company
which constructed the expressway.<br />
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Additional Public Prosecutor Deepak More responded by saying that the revenue
records were ultimately corrected and the case was closed since there was no
loss caused to public exchequer. Irked by the response, the court questioned,
“On what basis have you come to this conclusion?”<br />
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The court was hearing a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI), seeking permission to reopen and reinvestigate the case — based on
complaints lodged by Shetty, which were closed by Pune rural police, terming
it as baseless.<br />
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Advocate Hitendra Venegaonkar, appearing for CBI, submitted before court that
the investigating agency had arrived on a conclusion that the motive behind
Shetty’s murder was connected to the complaints lodged by him.<br />
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CBI has sought the court's permission to reopen and reinvestigate the case.
Thirty-eight-year-old Shetty had exposed several illegalities in the
Expressway land deal, in and around Pune.<br />
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He was stabbed to death in broad daylight near his residence on January 13,
2010, when he had stepped out for morning walk.<br />
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Justice Tahaliyani has now directed the prosecutor to file an additional
affidavit explaining why the case was closed and also sought a set of
investigation papers of the case. The case will now be heard on October 15. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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report from DDA and other agencies of city government on a PIL alleging
“rampant” illegal construction on public land in and around the capital.
Seeking response from DDA and also from police, South Delhi MCD, DJB and
BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana in a
recent order sought a status report by November 27. Representational image
of a construction site. Reuters image The bench was hearing a PIL by Fraternity
Against Corruption, a registered trust, alleging “rampant
land grabbing, encroachment and illegal construction on DDA lands in
and around Delhi which is open and brazen loot of public resources
affecting public at large.” According to the plea, due to mismanagement of DDA,
large chunks of land particularly in South Delhi are being
misused and the land owning agency has failed to take care of
them properly. “…The land mafia in connivance with corrupt officials of
DDA grab the vacant DDA lands and then raise unauthorised construction
over these lands. Their illegal activities do not end with this and they
further sell these illegally constructed houses to innocent public and
dupe them of their hard earned money,” the plea alleged. Referring to a
high court’s decision in which the bench had ordered police to inform the
concerned agency and also stop the illegal construction on DDA land, the
plea said, ”…Delhi Police merely acts as a post office, they just inform
this illegal activity to the public authority once, after that they just
remain mute spectator to this brazen activities.” The PIL, filed through
counsel Sunder Khatri and Dhananjay Tyagi, cited some areas where the
alleged land grabbing by mafias had occurred in South Delhi. PTI</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Public+Interest+Litigation" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Public Interest Litigation</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has urged the Bombay High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to direct the Government and local
authorities to issue guidelines so to ensure that cosmetic goods, personal
hygiene products, skin and hair care creams and lotions are sealed before being
sold in the Indian market.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The PIL said that currently such products are sold without seal and this</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Results" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">results</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in contamination or adulteration
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Use of contaminated or adulterated products can cause skin irritation and
rashes or other health hazard which should be prevented in consumer interest,
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The petitioner said that a leading multinational company had in a letter replied
that sealing of cosmetic products is not a mandatory requirement of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and hence it was not following the
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The PIL, to come up for hearing tomorrow before a bench headed by Chief
Justice, said the shopkeepers very often use the contents of the products in
order to demonstrate them to the consumers and in the process they run the risk
of contamination. This is very harmful to the health of people.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Not just this, most of the time the weight or volume of the contents of the
goods are not found to be equivalent to the quantity mentioned on the packet or
tube because they are not sealed. The possibility of tampering is thus not
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The Petitioner said she had written letters to several multinational companies
to check whether they were sealing the products and found that this practice
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The PIL prayed that Public Health Department, Legal Meteorology (weights and
measures) and Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Departments of
Maharashtra Government may be asked to issue guidelines to ensure that such
products are sealed by the companies before being sold in the market.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The petition enclosed opinion of doctors and experts to support the contention
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Procter and Gamble, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Colgate Palmolive (India).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has directed the city police to produce before it case papers pertaining to a
complaint lodged by Anita Advani, who claims to have been the live-in partner
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"The respondent (Anita) has submitted some photographs and CCTV footages
to substantiate her case. The prosecution shall produce all relevant case
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Soon after the death of Khanna on July 18 last year, Anita had filed a
complaint in the Bandra metropolitan magistrate court against Dimple and her
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signature being taken on a will forcibly and other footage to prove that she
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According to Anita, she was the actor`s live-in partner but was driven out of the
suburban bungalow when Khanna fell sick. Anita had sought maintenance from
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In her petition, Dimple contended that she was the legally wedded wife of
Khanna and as such no other woman can claim share in the wealth left behind by her
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Tuesday slammed an advocate who used derogatory language in his petition while
seeking to restrict relatives of politicians from contesting in polls, and
imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him. The court also directed that the fine
should be paid to Mediation and Reconciliation Centre within two weeks. The
First Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice M
Sathyanarayanan, dismissed the petition of advocate R Balasubramanian, who
sought to restrict politicians' relatives from contesting Parliament and
Assembly polls and also a direction to the President, Chief Election
Commissioner and Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer, to whom he had sent
representations. On the advocate's earlier petition, in which he had used
derogatory language, the bench said it had not imposed costs on him, thinking
that as an advocate he would realise his role and responsibilities and desist
from doing so in future. However, he had not learnt his lesson, had taken a
conscious decision not to mend his way and in his September 10 representation
to the President and to authorities, used derogatory remarks against the
sitting Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) elected from this state without any
responsibility, the court said. Madras HC slams lawyer for language, fines him
Rs 10,000 It said the court depreciated such a kind of practice by the
petitioner, who claims to be practicing advocate. On the legality of the
petitioner, the Bench said in the absence of any statutory right on the part of
the petitioner with a corresponding obligation on the part of the respondents,
such a kind of relief cannot be issued. The bench later dismissed the petition
at the admission stage observing it did not find any merit in it and directed
the petitioner to pay within two weeks Rs 10,000 to the Mediation and
Reconciliation Centre, attached to the Court. If it was not complied with, the
Chennai District Collector should treat it as arrears of land revenue and take
appropriate steps to recover it and to pay the Centre, the court said. PTI</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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asked former Miss World Yukta Mookhey and her estranged husband Tuli to attempt
to find a way to resolve their disputes. Justice Sadhna Jadhav met Mookhey and
Nagpur-based businessman Tuli separately in her chamber on Monday evening and
later held discussions with their lawyers.</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The judge suggested some
ways for the couple to deal with their disputes," said a lawyer. The
matter will be heard on October 14. Meanwhile, the HC has asked both the sides
to sit and attempt to reconcile the differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The HC initiative came on an anticipatory bail application filed by Tuli,
seeking protection from arrest in a criminal case lodged by Mookhey. In July,
Mookhey had lodged an FIR accusing Tuli of committing unnatural sex and alleged
that Tuli and her in-laws had subjected her to cruelty and criminal breach of
trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remarked that no case of harassment and cruelty under Section 498-A of the IPC
had been made out. However,the HC did not agree to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-View"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">the
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said the trial judge did not seem to have considered the 15 non-cognizable
offences, proceedings under the Domestic Violence Act and two other complaints
filed by Mookhey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AURANGABAD: The High Court Bar Association of Bombay Bench at Aurangabad on
Wednesday protested against the high court administration for delay in handing
over the possession of 2.714 acres of land for construction of an
eight-storeyed building housing around 1,200 lawyers' chambers. The premises is
touted to be the first of its kind in Marathwada.<br />
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President of the association president, S B Talekar, said, "The high court
(HC) administration has been inept, indecisive and insensitive towards the
cause of the lawyers. It has not been able to hand over the possession of the
land, obtain a no objection certificate from Cidco and finalize the building
plan received from architects from all over India. The president and secretary
of managing committee of the bar association met the chief justice individually
requesting him to expedite the process, but in vain."<br />
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He said that it's been about six years since the foundation stone for the
building was laid by the then chief minister late Vilasrao Deshmukh. "We
even made representations many times to the chief justice, HC registrar
administration and the HC building committee, but to no avail," Talekar
said.<br />
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"The honourable chief justice of the Bombay high court had cleared the
proposal to measure and hand over the land on August 2 this year. Thereafter,
the land was measured and demarcated by the deputy superintendent of land
records, Aurangabad," he said.<br />
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"The registrar administration is asking the bar association to approach
the chairman of lawyers' chamber committee, who in turn is asking us to wait
for the decision of the building committee. The bar association is running from
pillar to post and has been making requests to expedite the process,"
Talekar said.<br />
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"Almost three years have passed since the advocates deposited Rs 1 lakh
each for the construction of the building. In the meantime, the cost of
construction has gone up by more than 300%. Even the state ministry of law and
judiciary had cleared the proposal in March 2013," he added.<br />
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A S Sawant, secretary of the association, said, "The chambers for lawyers
is the need of the hour. It would be nothing but an adjunct and extension of
the high court. The association and the bench would be immensely benefited
since the lawyers will be able to utilize not only internet facility and access
almost all law journals and reports available all over the world."<br />
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When asked about the issue, C V Bhadang, registrar general of Bombay high
court, said, "The high court is actively considering the issue. We are
aware of the urgency of the matter and a decision in this regard will be
communicated to the bar association soon."<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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ordered a CBI probe against a retired police officer for allegedly possessing
disproportionate assets worth more than Rs 10 crore. The investigation must be
entrusted to an officer not below the rank of an SP in the Central Bureau of
Investigation, it noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a petition filed in 2008 by G Durga Rao, a retired employee of vigilance and
enforcement cell in the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, seeking directions
to the authorities to register a criminal case against G Anjaiah, retired
additional superintendent of police in V&E, MCH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anjaiah was suspended three times on corruption charges when he was working as
the Additional SP in the MCH and at the time of retirement he owned 35 acres of
agriculture land in Medak district, 15 acres at Shadnagar and Medchal,
two-storeyed building at Begumpet and several other properties in the
state capital. K Ravinder Reddy, the then inspector of police, ACB, who
conducted an enquiry said that the allegations were incorrect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When the issue was reported in the media, he applied for voluntary retirement
and the government allowed him to retire from service without making any
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into by the ACB and it was revealed that there was no truth in the allegations
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inspector was one-sided and that it cannot be said to be a full-fledged
enquiry. The enquiry reports were also not submitted to the court, he said.
While allowing the petition, the judge directed the joint director of the CBI,
Hyderabad, to register a case against Anjaiah and conduct a thorough
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Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday denied permission to the Punjab
Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) here to provisionally admit students for
the fresh batch of MBBS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last date of admission over on Monday, PIMS has lost the chance to admit a
batch of 150 MBBS students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anticipating
a favourable verdict from the court, the institute management had issued an
advertisement in newspapers, inviting candidates from the state to fill forms,
which were provided free of cost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reportedly submitted in response to the advertisement by Sunday evening. The
authorities had called the parents after 3pm on Monday for counselling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Talking
to HT, principal director Dr Kulbir Kaur said, "We have failed to get the
court nod to admit students. The exercise done on Saturday and Sunday had been
nullified. We were hopeful of getting relief, so we took a chance by inviting
candidates. Today (Monday) was the last date of counselling also, as per
instructions of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On
July 16, the Medical Council of India (MCI) had barred PIMS from admitting
students for this session (2013-14) in MBBS, using its powers under Section
10(A) of the MCI Act, due to the institute's failure to fulfil the condition of
requisite infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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institute started in 2011 and has admitted two MBBS batches so far. It was
allotted to a society headed by Punjab rural development minister Surjit Singh
Rakhra on a 99-year lease. In March-April, the institute had witnessed a series
of strikes by paramedical staff, doctors and administrative staff over
non-payment of salaries for months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KOCHI: The state government should consider revising a contract granted for a
public project if the cost of implementing the project escalated much after
awarding the contract, the high court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice A M Shaffique gave the directive while considering a petition filed by
a PWD contractor, K I Poulose of Muvattupuzha, who, in January 2006, had taken
up the construction of Chelachuvadu-Vannapuram Road in Idukki district.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Implemented using Nabard's rural infrastructure development fund, the contract
was worth Rs 686 lakh. It was agreed by the contractor and the government that
the scale of rates (SOR) applicable for the work would be that of 2004.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, the cost later escalated to Rs 14.49 crore, due to the extra work for
excavation of earth, medium rock and hard rock.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Though the work was supposed to be completed within 12 months as per the
contract, it could be finished only in 2009 on account of delay in handing over
of work site besides the extra work.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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During this period, the SOR had changed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Thrice-(musician)" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">thrice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>while
the contractor had undertaken work as per the 2004 SOR. He had filed four
representations to the government, in February 2009, March, December 2010 and
July 2011, requesting to make the 2008 SOR applicable to the contract.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Through an order issued in September 2012, the government declined to grant
2008 SOR for the contract, citing that the contractor had specifically agreed
to the condition that he would not claim any enhanced rate for the work done
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The contractor sought a review of the decision but was declined by the
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Representing the contractor at the high court, senior counsel N Nandakumara
Menon said the government had given enhanced rates to several contractors who
had undertaken similar works under the Nabard scheme.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government's counsel argued that the contractor was not entitled to make
any claim as he had submitted an estimate on the basis of the 2004 SOR.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the inquiry report of the chief engineer of the PWD administration
wing, of the additional Rs 769 lakh sought, Rs 643 lakh was for excavation,
which could not be verified as the work was already completed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Ruling against rejection for not being able to verify, the court pointed out
that the contractor had submitted several representations making such a claim
at different times and the government failed to take them into consideration.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government's inter-office communication containing a statement of analysis
of cost difference based on 2004 and 2008 SOR indicates that the contractor is
entitled to a balance of Rs 4.97 crore, the court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Quashing the government orders rejecting the contractor's claim for revision,
the court ordered the government to consider his representation afresh and pass
an order within three months.<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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A division bench of the high court headed by Chief Justice D H Waghela on
Tuesday asked the state government to re-visit the rules on transfer of primary
and middle school teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench made this suggestion, while hearing a writ appeal preferred by the state
government. The appeal challenged a single-judge bench's directive to the state
government to post a teacher near Ramanagaram town and also increasing one per
cent cap on such request transfers to five per cent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Rules are often framed in a hurry. There is no corresponding link between
rules and the act. Rule is made with the intention to help the spouses, who are
living separately. But now, practically, rules are separating them from each
other. Rules should not be anti-family. They should be friendly to the family.
Rules should be framed in such a way that it will give priority to the
spouses," the bench observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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General Prof Ravivarma Kumar accepted the suggestion and sought some time to
have a re-look at the rules. He was of the view that the state has to prepare a
draft and then invite objections and finalize the rules. He also assured the
court that by next academic year new rules will be in force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the bench declined to give time till January and adjourned the hearing to
December 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lalitha, who was working as assistant teacher in Chikkakanagalu village, Alur
taluk, Hassan district, had sought transfer stating that her husband
Shashidhar, a practising advocate, stayed in Bangalore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monday, said these sex determination complaint filed against actor Shah Rukh
Khan and his wife Gauri was "unfounded". Social activist Varsha
Deshpande had accused the couple of determining the sex of their surrogate
child AbRam.</span></em><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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frivolous complaint, but it is unfounded, meaning without foundation,"
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The High Court was hearing a petition filed by Deshpande seeking early hearing
of the complaint filed by her in a Metropolitan Magistrate's court. She had
sought action against Shahrukh, Gauri, Jaslok hospital and its doctor under the
Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex
Selection) Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition said the Supreme Court says all cases under the Act concerned should
be decided within six months. The HC enquired about the source of information
with Deshpande's advocate, Uday Warunjikar, who quoted a newspaper report dated
June 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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newspaper report does not include any statement of the actor couple. Don't you
think you should have put in some more effort to substantiate the complaint
before making such sensitive allegations?" the court asked. The court also
noted that while the newspaper report was of June 14, the child was born on May
27 and prior to that no report or statement was issued that the couple was
havinga baby boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that the parties should put an end to the matter in view of the Appropriate
Authority's conclusion, the court directed the BMC to submit by October 3, its
report and other relevant documents before the magistrate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BMC counsel M P S Rao reiterated that the corporation had conducted inquiry
into the allegations and has found that everything is in order and nothing is
amiss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court sternly directed the Maharashtra
government to take steps for early implementation of rules for the 'Maharashtra
Government Servants Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of delay in
Discharge of Official Duties Act, 2005' which is more commonly known as
'citizens' charter'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court, expects the government to expedite the process, so that the draft rules
for 'citizens' charter' are placed before the state legislature in any case in
the forthcoming winter session, for approval," a single-judge bench
comprising Justice Arun Chaudhari said, before adjourning the hearing by two
months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The directives came while hearing a petition filed by Vidarbha Taxpayers
Association (VTA) secretary Tejinder Singh Renu who had originally filed the
PIL on September 14, 2011. Earlier, he was allowed to knock off name of first
respondent, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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explaining about the current position of draft rules, government pleader Nitin
Sambre informed that the process to finalize them has already been expedited.
He pointed out that legislative committee after making some recommendations
would place those before the cabinet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearing the PIL, the then division bench comprising justices Dilip Sinha and
Ashok Bhangale, on December 21, 2011, had directed the government to affix
'citizens' charter' on notice board of all its departments. "It's
important to note that provisions of 'citizens' charter' by the government's
administrative departments must be made known to the common man for whom it is
meant," they had observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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judges had directed all 29 government departments to affix copy of 'citizens'
charter' on the notice board to be placed at the front lobby or at a place,
easily visible to visitors. They were told to complete the exercise within two
months and finalize the rules to carry out purpose of the Act without further
delay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the government failed to take steps in this regard, Renu filed a contempt
petition after which notices were issued to CM along with principal secretary
of state General Administration Department (GAD) KP Bakshi and his counterpart
at Law and Judiciary Department VL Achaliya, who is also the senior law
adviser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
last hearing, Renu contended that the approach of the respondents, including
CM, was very casual and lethargic in implementation and compliance of the 2011
order. Even the legislative assembly had convened many sessions but the issue
not even came for the discussion and rules of the Act of 2005 were not framed
till date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also argued that the directives to display the 'citizens' charter' in each
administrative department and all their offices in Maharashtra were not being
complied with in its entirety. Despite repeated reminders and specific requests
made by the petitioner from time to time to the respondents, no action was
taken in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MUMBAI: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-high-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has restrained the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BMC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">BMC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from
taking any coercive steps against<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-Hospital" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay Hospital</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for recovery of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/enhanced-property-tax" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">enhanced property tax</span></a>. The BMC recently served
the hospital a bill of almost Rs 2 crore in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/property-tax" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">property tax</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
2010 to 2013. The property tax rose sharply after the BMC withdrew long
existing exemptions granted to such charitable hospitals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The hospital dragged the BMC to court, challenging denial of exemptions since
2010. It questioned the "unlawful and exorbitant" demand. Hospital's
counsel Virag Tulzapurkar contended in the court last week that general tax
could be levied for all buildings and lands in the city except those
exclusively used and occupied for charitable purposes. They challenged the
validity of the 2010 civic law that governs fixation of capital value of
property to calculate property tax and said property tax for charitable
hospitals cannot be calculated on the basis of capital value as a
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Considering the importance of the issue that would have an impact on other
charitable hospitals too, the high court has sought a reply from the BMC. It
adjourned the matter to October 23. It said restraining order against the BMC
is subject to the hospital depositing 25% of the demand raised.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Instead of giving incentives to hospitals, especially private charitable
hospitals doing excellent work, the BMC is taking away incentives one by one.
This is most unfortunate," said Subhash Kothari of Kanga & Co, the law
firm that represents the Bombay Hospital.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The hospital's case is that under the guise of rationalizing the property tax
structure in Mumbai pursuant to the requirement of the Jawaharlal Nehru
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BMC "abused the provision of the scheme". The BMC framed a law, by
itself a mouthful, called the Factors and Categories of Users of Buildings and
Lands (Assignment of Weightages by Multiplication) Fixation of Capital Value
Rules, 2010. The implementation of the law began in May 2013 with retrospective
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The civic body, under the new rules, is calculating the taxes based on the age
of the building, location, use and other factors and the hospital says, as a
result, its property tax has shot up three times. For a hospital, there ought
to be relaxations, said experts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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judgment of the Madras High Court refusing to recall the Returning Officer as a
witness to adduce evidence in the election petition against former Union
Minister M.K. Alagiri filed by P.A. Mohan through legal representative A.
Lazar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Balaji Srinivasan appearing for Mr. Lazar, dismissed the special leave petition
against the High Court judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Needless to say that the dismissal of special leave petition shall not be an
impediment in challenging the impugned order in the appeal if the election
petition is ultimately dismissed and the matter is carried to this court.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the High Court, Mr. Lazar prayed for marking/exhibiting of documents already
on record by the court’s witness, which were vital for adjudication of the
petition by recalling the witness. However, the High Court rejected the plea
holding that exhibiting the documents would require elaborate evidence and
would delay the adjudication of the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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judgment said the documents were vital and required for prosecution of the case
and the High Court had committed an error by rejecting his plea to recall the
witness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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letter to Union Law minister Kapil Sibal recommending benches of High Court in
Southern and Western Odisha has left the lawyers in North Odisha agitated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chief Minister was politically motivated, lawyers of Balasore and Mayurbhanj
districts have threatened to intensify their agitation. They said North Odisha
has always been neglected, be it the demand for a Government medical college or
separate revenue division. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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staged an agitation before the district court. They decided to continue their
cease-work till October 5 in protest against the Government’s indifferent
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president Niranjan Panda said unlike Western Odisha region, here lawyers have
been resorting to peaceful demonstration by not hampering normal life. “But it
does not mean that the Government would not consider our demand,” said Baripada
Bar Association president Srinibas Pradhan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have demanded the circuit bench to be set up at Baripada, those in Balasore
said they would support any place suitable for the people of the entire region
comprising five districts including Jajpur, Bhadrak and Keonjhar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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districts of North Odisha were pending in the High Court which is much more
than the total pending cases of any other region of the State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pulling up the Brihanmumbai
Muncipal Corporation (BMC) for withholding its teachers’ dues for the past 30
years and paying pension after deductions, the Bombay high court on Tuesday
directed the civic body to pay their pension without any deductions. The court
also said that the BMC is liable to pay 12 per cent interest on their dues.<br />
A division bench of Justice S.J. Vazifdar and Justice K.R. Sriram was hearing
the petition filed by two teachers — Hemalatha Varadan and Madhavi Pradhan. The
retired teachers, in their petition, have stated that they were appointed as
“trained teachers” in aided schools by the BMC.<br />
The civic body, however, at the time of their retirement took a stand that they
were not qualified and labelled them as “untrained teachers”, denying them
proper pension, the petition states. The civic body is also in the process of
recovering the difference in salary of a trained teacher and an untrained one
by giving them a lower pension, it adds.<br />
Appearing for the petitioners, advocate Rahul Walia informed the court that
both the retired teachers were getting a meagre pension of `3,000 and even
after around 30 years of service, they were denied their gratuity and other
dues.<br />
Taking cognisanse of the teachers’ plight, the court directed the BMC to pay
pension without any deductions. “They (BMC) shall be liable to pay an interest
of 12 per cent of gratuity and other dues in favour of the petitioners,” said
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In an important judgment, The Bombay HC has ruled that the civil court must
consider facts and circumstances in each suit before deciding that it is barred
from questioning the BMC's power to issue notices or directions regarding
unauthorized constructions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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515A amendment was made to the BMC Act last year to take action against
unauthorized constructions without intervention by way of stay usually obtained
from city civil courts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The HC's ruling came on a petition by Abdul Mansoori, challenging the BMC's
August 1 notice under Section 354A (to vacate) of the BMC Act alleging that he
had carried out an unauthorized construction on a plot in Bandra (W). Mansoori
denied the allegation, saying the ground plus one storey structure has been in
existence for several years. He said on August 5, the BMC demolished the first
floor without giving him an opportunity to satisfy that the notice is bad in
law. Mansoori then filed a suit in Dindoshi civil court, but taking note of the
bar to the jurisdiction of the civil courts under Section 515A, he was denied
interim relief. He then moved the HC. His advocate, Anita Castelino, expressed
apprehension that the BMC would demolish the entire structure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On
September 13, a division bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and Gautam Patel
said the bar under Section 515A to civil courts to question any notice, order
or direction under Section 351 (demolition) or 354A (to stop work) shall not be
questioned in any suit or other legal proceedings "does not mean a suit
before a civil court is per se not tenable".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other words, a civil court's power to take on a civil suit, as much as
scrutinize and verify the plaint, register it, is not taken away by such a bar,
adding that for that bar to apply, the civil court is obliged to consider the
facts and circumstances in each suit and then apply Section 515A of the BMC Act."
They said unless the plea of ousting the jurisdiction based on Section 515A is
considered in each case, the civil court's jurisdiction is not ousted. "To
non-suit somebody and prevent him from approaching a civil court merely because
there is a statutory bar is not a correct understanding of the law," they
wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to seek interim relief before the civil court that will consider his plea in
accordance with law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said that some cases of probe into alleged unfair practices in this space are
in the "pipeline".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on some entities, including chemists and druggists associations, for indulging
in unfair trade practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"There are a number of cases, which have been dealt with. There are some
(more) cases in the pipeline," CCI Chairman Ashok Chawla told PTI in an
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">According
to him, the Commission has already looked into many cases on the pharmaceutical
retail side, while penalties have also been imposed on entities for adopting
restrictive practices and not allowing others to enter the trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"That
is an important area from our point of view because pharmaceutical retail and
prices at the consumer end impact a very large number of the population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"That
is something which is critical from both the competition law point of view and
also the socio-political point of view," Chawla said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On
healthcare sector, the Commission is looking at possible anti-competitive
practices with regard to hospitals asking patients to take the services of a
particular entity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">However,
the CCI chief noted that pricing of services in the healthcare would not
exactly fall under its purview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"When
there is tying in of supply of services, there are some cases we are looking
at...," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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providing specific details, Chawla said that one case is at an advanced stage
where the allegation is that of insisting on going to a certain supplier of
services by a hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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otherwise whether the charges are high or low, it is not really for us to see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"We
don't interfere in fixing of prices and the actual movements in the market
place. That is not our job," he noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ensures fair trade practices across sectors in the market place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been pulled up by the Central Administrative Tribunal for taking lenient action
against an employee against whom charges of treating female employees unequally
was proved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transfer of the official from Chennai to Karaikal has been set aside by the
tribunal, stating it was not the suitable action in the instant case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vijayakrishnan, a transmission executive at the AIR. In February, he was
transferred from Chennai to Karaikal. The official had moved the tribunal
against the transfer stating that it was done with malafide intentions as he
contested an association election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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number of complaints were received from women transmission executives against
Vijayakrishnan alleging sexual harassment. This was followed by the formation
of a five-member committee to probe the allegations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-68743922421291363072013-10-03T17:50:00.001+05:302013-10-03T17:50:31.819+05:30LEGAL NEWS 03.10.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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behind the refusal of visa to American historian Peter Heehs, author of the
controversial 'The Lives of Sri</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Aurobindo" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Aurobindo</span></a>', and its
subsequent extension after controversy erupted, the Central Information
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The author of the controversial book was living in country for nearly 40 years
during which he had been working on the digitisation and archiving the works of
spiritual guru Sri Aurobindo in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Puducherry" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Puducherry</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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After the book sparked angry reactions from the followers of Sri Aurobindo,
Heehs was told by Union Home Ministry about the decision that his visa would
not be extended and he needs to leave the country by the middle of April, 2012.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The decision was later reviewed after several eminent personalities wrote to
the Government against the decision to not extend the visa.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Following the episode, the appellant, Amit Bhargava sought to know from the
Home Ministry the grounds of denial, review and the extension given to Heehs.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Ministry said it had provided only selective information on the episode
severing the un-disclosable portions under the provisions of Section 8(1)(a) of
the RTI Act which prohibits information pertaining to security of the country
and other similar issues.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Bhargava stated, "In the present case, public interest in disclosure
outweighs the harm to the protected interests and therefore the CPIO be
directed not to severe any information."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Agreeing with Bhargava, Information Commissioner Sushma Singh directed the Home
Ministry to provide complete information along with file notings related to the
episode.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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But she refused to pass a similar order for his request seeking information
from Intelligence Bureau on the issue as it is an exempted organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">JALANDHAR: US based rights group
Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) has said that it would serve summons of the US Federal
court — issued on September 25 for Prime Minister Dr</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Manmohan
Singh</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">when
he was visiting US — in India, according to the provisions of the Hague
Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra judicial documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has engaged Washington based prominent process server firm 'Process Forwarding
International' (PFI) to serve summons on PM Singh in New Delhi. SJJ's legal
advisor Gurpatwant Sigh Pannun said that PFI was the official process server to
United States department of justice and US department of state and had
extensive experience in executing services related to process with relevant
authority in foreign country using approved international law methods — the
Hague Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra judicial documents
in civil and commercial matters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Due to the high security detail, the rights group could not serve the
outstanding Washington court's summons on the Prime Minister during the
Obama-Singh meeting at White House and now we intend to serve these through
Hague Convention," Pannun said. He pointed out that Rule 4(f)(1) of
district of Columbia superior court rules of civil procedure provided that
service upon individuals in a foreign country could be effected by any agreed
means reasonably calculated to give notice, such as those means authorized by
the Hague Convention on the service abroad of judicial and extra-judicial
documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Hague Service Convention is a treaty which allows service of summons and other
judicial papers between the signatory countries without diplomatic involvement.
The Hague Service Convention was signed and ratified by India in 2006 while
United States has been a signatory to the treaty since 1967. Under Hague
Service Convention, a central authority has been established by the government
of India for receiving and serving summons from foreign courts. Under Article
15 of the Hague Service Convention, once a copy of the summons and complaint is
delivered to the central authority of India, the service is considered
complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
24-page complaint filed by SFJ on September 25 before Washington DC district
court alleged that Manmohan Singh's culpability in the crimes of torture and
extra-judicial killings of Sikh community started in 1991 when he took the
office of finance minister of India. Manmohan Singh approved and financed, as
head of finance ministry, the infamous practice of "cash rewards" to
members of security forces for killing Sikhs through extra-judicial means often
in "staged and fake encounters" to curb the Sikh rights' movement in
Punjab, the complaint further alleges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complaint further alleged that during his tenure as PM (2004-present), Manmohan
Singh actively shielded and protected the members of his political party who
were involved in organizing and carrying out attacks on the Sikh population of
India during November 1984, resulting in the death of more than 30,000 Sikhs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For showing a 'rigid and narrow mindset' that 'does
not support transparency in the functioning of public authorities', the Central
Information Commission (CIC) has berated the conduct of Upkar Singh, former
Director Public Instructions (DPI), schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
much so that the Chief Information Commissioner Deepak Sandhu recommended
disciplinary action against Upkar Singh. The PCS officer has earned wrath of
the CIC for denying information to a teacher demanded by her under the Right to
Information Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peeved
with Singh's conduct, the Commission has recommended his immediate removal from
the post of First Appellate Authority (FAA), Education Department. The
Commission has held that Singh needs to be given training under the RTI Act.
Also, the Commission has imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the UT Education
Department for harassing her own teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
directions have been passed on an appeal filed by Sangeeta Rani, a headmistress
in a local school. Rani had sought information under Right to Information, on
November 11, 2011 from the District Education Officer (DEO), Chandigarh
Administration. Rani had sought information pertaining status of her case
relating to anomaly in pay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On
Novemer 29, 2011 the DEO had furnished the requisite information. Not satisfied
with the reply, she approached the DPI schools on December 12, 2011 who is the
first appellate authority but to no avail. She then approached the Commission
on January 25 seeking directions to decide her appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
Commission in July last gave two weeks time to the DPI to decide Rani's appeal.
Much to her chagrin, her case was not decided. She again approached the CIC on
September 17, 2012. Surprisingly, the Education Department in its defence took
the ground that neither it had received Rani's application nor it had received
the Commission's orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However,
the department's lie was nailed by Rani after she produced a copy of the
receipt of e-Jan Sampark Centre and other documents to prove that her appeal
and Commission's orders were received by the department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rani
further alleged that 'in violation of directions of the Commission', she was
never called for hearing by the DPI. Shockingly, the DPI asked her to appear
for hearing after a year, as alleged by Rani.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recording
contentions of both the parties, the CIC rubbished the ground taken by the
Education Department that it had not received Rani's appeal and Commission's
orders. The CIC has issued show cause notices to the concerned Central Public
Information Officer (CPIO) and other official who received the RTI application
to "show cause why penalty should not be imposed upon him/her for not
having provided information within the time frame prescribed under the RTI
Act".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
concerned officials have been directed to appear before the Commission in
second week of November. Commenting on the conduct of DPI, the CIC has ruled,
"Such an approach is contrary to the true spirit of the RTI Act and is
indicative of a very narrow and rigid mindset which does not support
transparency in the functioning of public authorities." Recommending
removal of Upkar Singh from the post of FAA, the CIC ruled out that Singh be
'provided training' as per relevant provisions of the RTI Act. The Commission
has taken strong note of the 'mental and physical harassment suffered by the
teacher' and that she had to "run from pillar to post in order to obtain
the requested information without any success for the last almost two
years."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imposing
a penalty of Rs 5,000 on the department, the CIC has directed that information
demanded by Rani be furnished within two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RTI Judgement Series: Publish list
ofpharmacists</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working
in</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical
stores in Delhi<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CIC directed the drugs
controller in Delhi to publish list of</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacistsworking in</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">names and addresses</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the department's website. This
is the 180th in a series of important judgements given by former Central
Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi that can be used or quoted in an RTI
application</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Central Information Commission (CIC), while allowing an appeal complaint,
directed the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public Information</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer (PIO) and assistant drugs
controller in the Department of Drugs Control in Govt of National Capital
Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), to provide the information sought by the appellant
and also publish the same</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on its website under the Right to
Information (RTI) Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While giving the judgement on 10
June 2009, Shailesh Gandhi, the then Central Information Commissioner said,
"This will also help citizens</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to monitor</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whether</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are following appropriate measures
and whether public authority is doing its job. Dr AK Singla, drug controller,
will ensure that the list of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shall be put up on its website
before 15 August 2009, and then send the compliance report to the CIC."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Faridabad resident Rahul Sharma,
on 10 January 2009, sought from the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public
Information</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer
(PIO) information regarding details of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in Delhi. Here is the
information he sought under the RTI Act...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) Name, address of medical</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">retail store</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with name, address of
working pharmacist in records of Drugs Control Dept, Govt of NCT of Delhi, to
fulfil the requirement of Drugs and</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">Cosmetics</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Act, 1940.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In his reply, the PIO said,
"I am to inform you that the information sought by you is not available in
the compiled form. The said information is available in the individual sales
file of the firms. You may inspect the relevant files on any working days/hours
with prior<span class="ilad"><span id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;">intimation</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in this department."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not satisfied with the PIO's
order, Sharma, the appellant, filed his first appeal. In his order, the First
Appellate Authority (FAA) said, "I am convinced that the Link</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Public Information</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officer of the Drugs Control
Department had provided the information available with him and had even asked
him to inspect the relevant files with regard to his queries."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the PIO's reply and order by the FAA, then approached the CIC with his second
appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the hearing before the
Bench of Mr Gandhi, the PIO stated that the details sought by the appellant
(Sharma) would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority.
Hence, he has offered inspection of the records to the appellant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharma stated that as per Section
4(1)(b)(xiii) of the RTI Act, 'particulars of recipients of concessions,
permits or authorizations granted by it' should be</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">disclosed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The PIO told the Bench that they
would be able to provide</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names
and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; cursor: pointer !important; float: none;"><span class="ilad"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
medical</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(chemist)
retail stores and at present, the data of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in these stores is not
available in collated form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Gandhi felt that there was a
need for this information to be provided</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">suo-moto</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by the public authority since this
was definitely a very important part of information relating tomedical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While allowing the appeal, he then
directed the PIO to give the information about</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the medical</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(chemist) retail stores in Delhi
to Sharma before 20 June 2009. The Bench also directed the Drugs Control
Department to ensure that the list ofpharmacists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">medical stores</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along with their</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">names and addresses</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shall be put up on its website
before 15 August 2009.<br />
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<span style="color: #121212; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Srinagar,
Oct 2: Complying with High Court directions, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation
(SMC) Wednesday swung into action sealing 19 out of 45 identified ‘illegal’
structures in Srinagar city.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
SMC said the enforcement team of the Corporation headed by Chief Enforcement
Officer Hakim Aijaz Ahmad, sealed 19 structures constructed in violation of the
norms laid down in the Srinagar Master Plan. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
“SMC today sealed around 19 illegal structures including a hotel, a stationary
gallery and a clinic in posh Jawahar Nagar area of the city were sealed,”
Masarat Yousuf, SMC’s Media Relations Officer (MRO) told local news gathering
agency KNS.<br />
She said the illegal structures at Jawahar Nagar had become a nuisance for the
general public and the same were sealed with the help of police in presence of
the executive magistrate. The sealing operation, she said, was supervised by
Secretary SMC Hilal Ahmad Diwani.<br />
Officials said the maiden operation ever performed in the City was started in
coordination between police and the civil administration. The Corporation is
likely to seal more structures tomorrow particularly in Hyderpora area, sources
said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
However, as the buildings were being sealed in the Jawahar Nagar area, locals
tried to resist the move saying “only a few underprivileged had been targeted
whereas the real big sharks remain untouched.”<br />
“Why we alone are being targeted? Why were we allotted licenses for running
hotels and shops in the first instance? Now we are left without livelihood,”
proprietors of the sealed structures said.<br />
But some residents of the colony on the other hand hailed the SMC move saying
“commercialization of residential areas had taken away the charm of once serene
localities like Karan Nagar and Jawahar Nagar areas where the illegal
commercial complexes have mushroomed over the years.”<br />
Though there was some sloganeering and stone pelting too, the government team
went ahead with the task. Secretary SMC Hilal Diwani who was a part of
the team said as many as 17 buildings were sealed in Jawahar Nagar area alone
till sundown when the they headed towards Karan Nagar where the buildings were
being sealed when reports last poured in.<br />
Officials said District Magistrate Er Farooq Ahmed Shah, SMC Commissioner Dr GN
Qasba and SSP Srinagar, Syed Aashiq Hussain Bukhari had “coordinated the
operation at highest levels” while the district administration deployed four
magistrates for the task.<br />
Pertinently, on September 30, a division bench of J&K High Court comprising
Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey asked SMC to seal as
many as 45 illegal structures within the City that have come up, over the
years, in violation of the Srinagar Master Plan.<br />
The Court had directed the Corporation to swing into action and take
appropriate steps for sealing buildings belonging to any violators as per the
show-cause notices and the demolition orders passed (by the Corporation) on
March 16, 2009 or thereafter. The Court had also directed Director General of
Police (DGP) to provide help if required by SMC for sealing the illegal
structures. The Court had also given a deadline of three days to SMC to seal
these structures and file a status report with the Registrar Judicial on
October 4.<br />
The Corporation had pleaded before the court that show cause notices have
already been issued to various violators on March 6, 2009 and demolition order
passed on March 16, 2009.<br />
During earlier hearings, Advocate General Mohammad Ishaq Qadri had informed the
Court that there was gross violation of the Master Plan because residential
areas are being used for commercial purposes and that there was no effective
control exercised by the SMC.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Pertinently, an official panel on Master Plan violations constituted by the
state government in 2010 has identified around 2500 illegal structures in and
around the Srinagar city falling in SMC and SDA local areas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The panel, comprising representatives from SMC, SDA, R&B Department, PDD
and Revenue Department, has already submitted its report to the government. The
committee was headed by then Additional Commissioner Kashmir, Ishtiaq Ahmed
Ashai.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The report, according to sources, reveals that of the 2500 identified illegal
structures, around 1100 not only violate the Master Plan norms but are a major
hindrance in the smooth flow of traffic on some key roads. With inputs from<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><strong>KNS</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Kerala High Court on Tuesday roundly rapped the
Director-General of Police for forwarding a complaint against Salim Raj,
suspended gunman of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, to the State government
instead of ordering an inquiry into it. Justice Harul-Ul-Rashid also orally
wondered why the DGP and other police officers were “afraid of this police
constable.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that it had never ever seen a DGP forwarding a complaint received by him to the
State government. The complaint was forwarded to the State government and the
Chief Minster issued a receipt after getting the complaint. In fact, the
petitioners lodged a complaint against Salim Raj in the police stations concerned
and later with the DIG. The forwarding of the complaint by the DGP to the
government was against provisions of the criminal procedure code, the court
orally observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The conduct of the DGP and other
police officers came under fire from the judge when petitions seeking a CBI
probe into the allegations that Salim Raj was involved in land grab cases came
up for hearing. Salim Raj is under suspension following allegations against him
in connection with the solar scam. During the hearing of the petition, the
court orally pointed out that the police constable seemed to be getting
complete protection from the State government. The court said that land mafia
was suspected to be operating in the State. In fact, it wondered whether
democratic governance was in place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the government should not have filed appeal against the single judge’s interim
order directing the DGP to seize the telephonic conversation records, including
the voice records of Salim Raj and others, in connection with the land grab
cases. In fact, the government could have brought to the notice of the single
judge that the interim order was passed without making the telephone service
providers as respondents in the petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government on the every next after the single judge’s order came and the
appearing of Advocate General K.P. Dandapani on behalf of the government were
severely criticised by political leaders. The hearing was adjourned to
September 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/dna-correspondent"><span style="color: #444444;">DNA Correspondent</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bombay high court on Tuesday rapped the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Economic
Offences Wing for failing to conduct a “fair and proper” investigation into
money laundering and land grabbing allegation against state minister and NCP
leader Sunil Tatkare.<br />
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A division bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MS Sonak said: “There has been
no investigation at all. This is a complete failure on the part of EOW and ACB.
The position of the person (Tatkare) in public domain is deflecting the
fairness in the inquiry.”<br />
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The judges came down heavily on the investigating agencies after going through
probe reports submitted by them following a court order in a public interest
litigation filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya.<br />
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“Every page of the report lacks proper application of mind. Prima facie, the
investigating agencies have virtually abdicated their duty to investigate
fairly on the ground that the investigations will have to be done by the Income
Tax department, the Enforcement Directorate and the Registrar of Companies,”
the court said.<br />
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“This in our view would be no justification for the agencies to walk away from
its obligation to conduct a fair probe,” the court said, directing the agencies
to complete their investigation within three months and submit a final report
by January 7, 2014.<br />
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The court added that if it was not satisfied with the investigation after three
months, it would transfer the probe to the CBI.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The bench observed that the ACB in its report had said since the allegations
involve companies, the Registrar of Companies will have to conduct an inquiry.
“The ACB report has not tried to find out the financial standing of Tatkare and
his family members,” HC said.<br />
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Senior counsel Aspi Chinoy appearing for Tatkare sought dismissal of the PIL on
the ground that Somaiya could file a private complaint in a magistrate court.<br />
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</span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE CASE</span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
Kirit Somaiya, a BJP leader and former MP, in the PIL sought probe by the CBI
into the alleged money laundering and land grabbing by companies floated by NCP
leader Sunil Tatkare (in pic) and his relatives.<br />
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Somaiya has listed 51 companies formed by Tatkare which have his family members
and friends as directors, and alleged they bought benami lands in state and
indulged in money-laundering.<br />
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Tatkare has termed the petition as false, malicious and politically motivated
in his reply affidavit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: In a relief to J Jayalalithaa, the Supreme Court today set aside the
Karnataka Government's decision to remove Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) G
Bhawani Singh from the disproportionate assets case against the Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the decision as "malafide", a bench of justices B S Chauhan and S A
Bobde also asked the Karnataka High Court and the state government to consider
extending tenure of the special trial judge as per the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"The extension can be given as per the law and in consultation with the
high court," the bench said, adding the trial court's record runs into
nearly 33,000 pages and the recording of statements of witnesses has also
completed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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apex court, on September 25, had reserved its verdict on the issue of
appointment and sacking of SPP Singh in the case and also on the AIADMK Chief's
plea for extension of the tenure of the trial judge who is scheduled to retire
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Earlier
during the proceedings, DMK General Secretary K Anbalagan had opposed
Jayalalithaa's plea, saying that she and other accused were allegedly
responsible for the protracted trial in the 17-year-old case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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General G E Vahanvati, appearing for Karnataka Government, had also opposed the
plea of Jayalalithaa on the SPP and for extension of the tenure of the special
judge till the completion of the trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench had deliberated on the political overtones on the issue of the
appointment and sacking Singh as the SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there (in Karnataka) the same government? When did the government
change,?" the bench had asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Attorney General had said the new government came on May 8 this year but the
appointment of Singh was done without any consultation between the state
government and the chief justice of the Karnataka High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench, which had perused the records, had noted Singh, who has been sacked as
SPP in the case, was appointed without any objection by Karnataka government to
conduct the trial in the 17-year-old case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court had on September 20 called for the entire record relating to the
controversy surrounding the appointment and sacking of Singh for its perusal to
ascertain the reasons for dropping him from conducting the proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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counsel had alleged that removal of Singh came at a time when the criminal
procedure in the case was at the final stage and was done with a political
motive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bhawani
Singh was appointed as the SPP following the resignation of former Advocate
General B V Acharya, who was the prosecutor in the case from February 2005 to
August 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Karnataka
government had on August 26 issued the notification withdrawing the appointment
of Singh as SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief is accused of amassing Rs 66.65 crore
between 1991 and 1996 when she was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.<o:p></o:p></span></page2></div>
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The case was transferred by the apex court from Chennai to Bangalore in 2003
during her earlier tenure as the Chief Minister for a free and fair trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa
had alleged the case was slapped on her by the previous DMK government for
political reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jayalalithaa
and three other accused Sasikala, Ilavarasi and V N Sudhakaran have also sought
a direction to restrain Karnataka government from appointing a new judge for
conducting the trial against them in a Bangalore court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
the hearing on September 13, the apex court had objected to Karnataka
government's notification "misrepresenting" an undertaking given by
it as an order of the apex court on the appointment of SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench had on August 30 restrained Karnataka government from appointing new SPP
in the case. The order was passed on a plea by Jayalalithaa challenging the
removal of Bhawani Singh as SPP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Supreme Court extends MBBS admission
deadline by two weeks in Maharashtra<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Supreme Court has extended by
two weeks the September 30 deadline of completing admission process for MBBS in
medical colleges in Maharashtra, dismissing a plea by Medical Council of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The order was passed by the apex
court considering the fact that some of the medical colleges in the state had
enhanced the seats but were denied permission by the Medical Council of India
(MCI) to take admission for extra seats as they fell few days short of the
mandatory 10 years of completion of their functioning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">MCI had challenged the Bombay High
Court order allowing two Government Medical Colleges--Indira Gandhi Government
Medical College, Nagpur and Government Medical College, Akola to fill
additional seats created by them though they were few days short of mandatory
10 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An apex court bench comprising
justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri on Monday permitted the Director of
Medical Education, Maharashtra to finalise the admission of students in view of
the newly enhanced 100 seats to the two Government Medical Colleges by October
14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Advocate Jugal Kishore Gilda, who
has been appearing as amicus curiae in the matter, opposed the contention of
the MCI whose Special Leave Petition (SLP) was dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We find no ground to
entertain the SLP. It is dismissed leaving open the questions raised in the
matter to be decided in appropriate case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"However, considering the
peculiar facts of the case, we are inclined to give a direction in respect of
all colleges in the state of Maharashtra to complete the admission formalities
within a period of two weeks from today. We make it clear that this order shall
not be treated as a precedent," the bench said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The apex court, a few years ago,
had fixed September 30 as a cut-off date for completing the admission process
in medical colleges every year across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay
High Court had asked MCI to consider enhancement of 50 seats in each of the
college in view of the policy of the Centre to increase 50 seats in each of the
government medical colleges to augment the health services in view of the
scarcity of doctors faced by the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nullifying
the Tamil subject examination conducted by the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB)
for recruitment of postgraduate assistants (2012-13) on July 21 due to multiple
wrong questions, the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) has ordered that a
re-examination be held.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Delivering
the judgment on a petition filed by a candidate called Vijayalakshmi, Justice S
Nagamuthu observed that the TRB had forced him to order a re-examination
because of its “indifferent” attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TRB had earlier in another case informed the principal Bench of the High Court
that it would ensure there were no errors in future exams conducted by it. But
the agency had failed to keep up its promise, the judge said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
the hearing of the case, to avoid a re-examination, Advocate General A L
Somayaji had made three suggestions to the court. One, grace marks could be
provided to students who had attended the erroneous questions in Booklet B.
Two, only 110 correct questions in Booklet B would be evaluated. Three, in all
the four booklets (A, B, C and D), only questions with cumulative marks for 110
would be valued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Justice
Nagamuthu rejected all three suggestions saying that if adopted they would do
injustice to meritorious candidates. Valuing the question paper for only 110
marks would not serve the purpose of conducting the exam. “In competitive
examinations, all should be treated equals. No one should be affected due to
the mistakes made by someone,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on a PIL against the proposed sale of two Naval warships to Sri Lanka.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recently stated that India was in the process of supplying two warships to Sri
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He alleged that the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sri%20Lankan%20Navy"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sri Lankan Navy</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">killed 500 fishermen from</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil%20Nadu"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tamil Nadu</span></a>, while thousands of Tamils in the island
republic were killed by its</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Army"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Army</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">during the war against</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/LTTE"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">LTTE</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tamil Nadu, he said Tamils were angered and agonised by the proposal to sell
warships as "these could be used against the fishermen from the
state".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition as there had been no response to his representation to the union
government and the state chief secretary to drop the proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mangalore:
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mangalore,
Oct 2:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Rashid Malbari, who has
been lodged in Mangalore jail since 2009 and was recently convicted of
possessing illegal arms, has been granted interim bail by the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
fourth additional district and sessions court had sentenced Malbari (42) and
Mohammed Hashim to five years in jail and imposed a penalty of Rs 10,000 for
possessing illegal weapons. The verdict was challenged in the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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high court which heard the case granted interim bail to Malbari and ordered
his release. However, as he is facing several other charges, he will continue
to remain in custody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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punishment for possessing illegal weapons is three years, and Malbari has
already spent 4 years and six months in jail. Hence he has been granted
interim bail, said his lawyer Purushottam Poojary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malbari
and his gang were arrested at Chattanchal, Kasargod on March 29, 2009 by the
DCIB police led by inspector H N Venkatesh Prasanna. The police had seized an
9 mm pistol and ammunitions from the gang. His accomplices Mohamme Hashim,
Sayaf and Ibu alias Ibrahim are the others in custody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mahajani</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slain
RTI activist Satish Shetty had filed complaints against 13 people in the case<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Expressing
its inclination to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to
re-investigate the alleged land grab case which was filed by slain RTI activist
Satish Shetty in 2009, the Bombay high court on Tuesday has directed the state
to file a detailed affidavit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 2009, Shetty had filed a complaint with the Lonavla city police station
against 13 people, including the CMD of IRB Infrastructure Developers, Virendra
Mahiskar, and the sub-registrar of assurances in Lonavla. dna had reported on
August 12 that the CBI has filed an application before the HC seeking
permission to reopen and re-investigate the case in which the government had
filed a closure report. “The CBI has also sought that the closure report should
be set aside,” CBI counsel Hiten Venegaonkar said. Justice ML Tahilyani on
Tuesday directed the government to file a detailed affidavit along with the
documents on which the local police had relied while filing the closure report
in the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The
detailed affidavit should state on what basis the closure report was filed,
including the sale deed, revenue records and the correspondents between the
revenue officers,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On
Tuesday, the government conceded that prima facie the transfer of land seems
fraudulent. The judge then asked, “...Then how did you file the closure
report?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
investigating officer, Sunil Tonape, had filed a closure report before the
metropolitan magistrate Vadgaon Maval on September 28, 2011, stating that the
police did not find any evidence to substantiate Shetty’s allegations. The
magistrate had accepted the closure report on December 27, 2011. Tonape was
then attached with the local crime branch, Pune (rural). Presently, he is
assistant police inspector attached with the Walchandnagar police station at
Indapur, Pune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
2009, Shetty had alleged that IRB had connived with government officials and
others to conduct large-scale irregularities and purchase land at Taje and
Pimploli villages near the Mumbai-Pune expressway. Following Shetty’s
investigations and complaint, the Lonavla police on October 15, 2009,
registered an offence (C.R.No.152/2009) against one Deepak Gadgil and 12
others, including the CMD of an infrastructure major, and the sub-registrar of
assurances of Maval area in Lonavla. The case was registered under various
sections of the Indian Penal Code.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sent a criminal contempt of court notice to
ex-Army chief General V K Singh after finding his recent barbs at the apex
court's handling of his petition on the age issue prima facie scandalous and
lowering its dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Commencing
contempt of court proceedings against the former Army chief, a bench of
Justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale noted in its order that the retired general
had on February 10 last year withdrawn his plea after attorney general G E
Vahanvati assured the court that the Centre would not be vindictive towards the
then serving Army chief for his unprecedented action of moving court on his age
issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Finding that Gen Singh's remarks about the decision of the apex court was based
on wrong premises as the court had not adjudicated upon his plea, the bench
took suo motu notice of a newspaper report on September 22, which reported that
the former Army chief had slammed the SC's decision on his age issue while
defending his comments about Army funding J&K ministers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench's initial recording of views on Gen Singh's reported remarks bore the
tell-tale signs of the seriousness with which the court viewed the entire
controversy. It said, "Attribution of motive to members of the bench
amounted to an attempt to scandalize the court. Prima facie the statement of
General V K Singh amounts to scandalize the court and lower its dignity."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cognizance of the remarks under Article 129 of the Constitution empowering the
apex court to 'punish for contempt of itself' and under the provisions of
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, the bench issued notices to Gen Singh and the
newspaper, which carried the report about his remarks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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February 10, the court's reluctance to get drawn into the task of determining
the actual date of birth of Gen Singh, who was seeking its alteration from May
10, 1950 to May 10, 1951, had forced him to withdraw his plea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
court had recorded the AG's statement, "The Union government had never
questioned Gen Singh's integrity or bona fides but contested his petition as a
matter of principle, which did not cast any reflection on his ability to lead
the Army."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
court thought it was putting a controversy to rest and said it was proud of an
Army chief like Gen Singh who had served in it for 38 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">However,
Justices Lodha and Gokhale had declined his counsel U U Lalit's request to
record that the date of birth row had been amicably settled as the Army chief
was not pressing his petition in view of the court's order that the date of May
10, 1950 would remain confined to his service records alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench had said, "As a matter of fact, the question before us in the writ
petition is not about the declaration of the actual date of birth of the
petitioner, but it concerns the recognition of a particular date of birth of
the petitioner by the government in the official record." The Centre had
showed to the court repeated written commitments by Gen Singh to abide by 1950
as his year of birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gen Singh's persistent attempts since 1985 to correct his date of birth, it had
disapproved of the way he attempted to wriggle out of his commitment given to
the his erstwhile Army chief and the ministry of defence in 2009 that he would
accept 1950 as his year of birth and treat the controversy as a closed chapter.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AJMER: The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) has received severe blows from the
trial courts at Ajmer in almost every<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>case booked in the district in the past one year. The courts
have observed that the ACB was unable to prove even prima facie evidences like
a demand of bribe being made by the accused in these cases. The bureau's modus
operandi for traps in all these cases have been recorded mobile conversations,
which are corroboratory facts and not primary evidences.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The ACB cases in the district have been hitting headlines for a year, as even
topmost police officers were caught on charges of demanding and accepting bribes.
The alleged irregularities in recruitments at the district and sessions court,
too, got highlighted as the bureau sleuths named a sitting judge there in the
chargesheet.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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There have been five<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>cases from the district wherein the ACB claimed to unearth
the corruption at the top levels. In four of these cases, the investigating
agency has suffered sharp disapprovals at the primary stage of framing charges.
The trial courts not only discharged two accused in separate cases, but also
dropped grievous charges against the others. The fifth case, that of Narendra
Tanwar of the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, is yet to enter the trial
stage.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Senior officials are studying where our teams lacked in the
investigations so that corrective measures can be taken," said a source in
the ACB.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Different ACB teams from Ajmer, Bhilwara and Jaipur worked on these cases with
serious charges on top officials. The teams came up with chargesheets running
into three to six thousands pages. "The court orders show that the ACB
failed to collect primary evidences or witnesses and largely relied on mobile
conversation recordings," said a senior advocate practicing criminal law.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In most of these cases there ACB could not come with strong evidences that a
primary demand of bribe was made. "Not a single witness came in the
notorious 'police monthly extortion case' that accused senior police officers
of collecting monthly bribes at the police station level. ACB showed that the
police station sent monthly collections to the SP and other officials, but the
sources of this collection were not investigated by the agency," added
another advocate.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In the case against IPS officer Ajay Singh, the court dropped corruption
charges and framed him under IPC 384 and 120-B for extortion and criminal
conspiracy. "This case was made up on the basis of statements of the
complainant and telephonic recordings of conversation between ASI Prem Singh
and IPS Ajay Sing," a lawyer said. Similarly, suspended RPS Rajesh Meena's
brother Hitesh could not be linked in the corruption chain and the court
discharged him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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</ins></span></span><strong style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Case-I:</ins></span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Former deputy manager of Rajasthan cooperative dairy
federation Surendra Sharma was sentenced to only two years in a case of
amassing property disproportionate to known sources of income. The corruption
case was highlighted as the ACB claimed to recover around Rs 2,000 crore from
Sharma in 2010. The ACB was unable to produce evidences the misuse of office
and taking bribe.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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were dropped against suspended SP Rajesh Meena, ASP Lokesh Sonwal and
accomplice Ramdev Thathera in the</ins></span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">sensational</span></ins></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>'police monthly extortion' case. The trial court put a
question mark on the facts collected during ACB investigation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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</ins></span></span><strong style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Case-III:</ins></span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span></b></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Accused IPS officer Ajay Singh was discharged from corruption
charges and tried only under IPC sections 384 and 120-B, which is for extortion
and criminal conspiracy. The court made an examination that preliminary
evidences which were produced by ACB do not connect with the bribe recovered
from ASI Prem Singh in Ramganj police station.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Court recruitment corruption case. Charges of corruption were dropped against
the accused Razak. Corruption charges were framed against court clerk Rajesh
Sharma and advocate Hemraj Kanawat. Razak, Rajesh and Hemraj are also charged
for criminal conspiracy.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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an NRI facing charges of kidnapping and confining an Indian girl be extradited
to United Kingdom to stand trial in the case.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The court recommended extradition of Kulwinder Singh Uppal after he agreed to
be extradited to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uk" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">UK</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to stand trial in the case. Uppal
had fled UK and was arrested in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Chandigarh" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Chandigarh</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on August 26 of this year.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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"I hereby recommend to the Union of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to extradite... Uppal to the
requesting state i.E. United Kingdom," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Sudesh+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sudesh Kumar</span></a>, said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Centre, through its counsel NK Matta, had forwarded the request received
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It was stated in the request that the accused had fled UK after some other
accused in the case were convicted by a Leicester crown court. It also said
that an arrest warrant was issued against Uppal on January 29 by a court in
Westminster.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The court, while recommending the extradition, referred to a statement from
Narinder Singh Soand, Leicestershire Police's detective sergeant, before a
court there in which he had provided details of Uppal's offence.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Soand had stated that Uppal had met a girl at a wedding in Jalandhar in India
and asked her to come to UK to work as a dancer for him. The girl had reached
UK in March 2010 and worked with Uppal as a dancer at Ilford and Bolton, he
said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Soand also said that Uppal had forced the girl to engage in sexual activities
with him and his clients. She was abused and threatened upon refusing to do so,
Soand had added.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The girl left Bolton with one Jaswinder Singh and came to Leicester on June 18,
2010, but Uppal arrived at her house on July 9 with some others and forced her
into a car, he said, adding the girl was held hostage at a house for the whole
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RAJAGOPAL, ET Bureau</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Oct 1, 2013, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stayed approvals granted to 162 applications for clinical trials in the country
and asked the sector regulator to provide evidence that norms for drug-related
research are being followed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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order, issued on Monday, was in response to a petition filed by a health
activist group. It is the latest in a series of measures the top court has
taken following allegations of violation of clinical trial norms in the
country. The DCGI has been given two weeks' time to reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Between July and August this year, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)
had received 1,122 applications for clinical trials, of which the New Drug
Committee approved 285 and the regulator cleared 162.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The court has said it will
not allow clinical trials of new chemical entity until all the preparations are
done," said</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay%20Parikh"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Sanjay Parikh</span></a>, counsel for Swasthya Adhikar Manch, the
NGO that filed the writ petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
court has also given the health ministry 10 weeks' time to come out with a plan
for implementation of the suggestions given by state governments and other
stakeholders to strengthen the regulatory framework regarding clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Biotechnology firm</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/biocon-ltd/stocks/companyid-2082.cms"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Biocon</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ltd's
chairman and managing director</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Kiran%20Mazumdar-Shaw"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">said the court order is a set
back. "A black day for Indian science and a sad reflection on our
judiciary. This is a pure Luddite approach which is killing progress,"
Shaw responded to a query on twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Public concerns over allegations
of unethical clinical trials in the country gained momentum following reports
of deaths due to drug study-related injuries in rural Gujarat and Andhra
Pradesh. As per reports, the victims were participants in a trial for a</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/cervical%20cancer"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">cervical cancer</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In
the last one year, the drug controller, under the supervision of the Supreme
Court, set up various committees and devised compensation guidelines for
victims of clinical trials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The government council in
July had passed a note that the drug controller had not approved any trials in
the country since January, and then less than a month we see so many trials
getting approved," said</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Amulya%20Nidhi"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Amulya Nidhi</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">of
Swasthya Adhikar Manch. "These speedy approvals indicate that the
government is still not following proper norms."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madras High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has ruled that a decree passed by
a civil court cannot be relied upon for changing the date of birth in the
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Dismissing a petition by IPS officer M Ramasubramani, a Division Bench said
that the alteration made in the SSLC certificate on the basis of the decree
passed by the civil court can be ignored by central and state authorities as
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The nullity of the decree can be pleaded at any stage of the proceedings and be
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"If we ignore the said correction made in the SSLC certificate on the
basis of a civil court decree, there is no other material to prove the
petitioner's date of birth as being July 3, 1958," said Justices N Paul
Vasanthakumar and Justice MM Sundresh.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The IPS officer had challenged a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order
dismissing his application seeking quashing of a Government Order which had
rejected his request for a change in his date of birth.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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As a DSP recruited through the state Public Service Commission, his
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But the petitioner had pleaded that the above step was not in keeping with the
Tamil Nadu State and Subordinate Service Rules.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The officer later obtained a decree from Virudhunagar Munsif Court and
submitted a representation to the Home Department, which rejected it, saying
that the civil court decree was not binding on the department.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Though his application challenging the rejection resulted in the setting aside
of the order, the fresh plea with the government was again turned down.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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CAT rejected his second application on the ground that the date of birth as
declared by a person in the application for recruitment shall be accepted by
the central government and as per Rule 16 A (4).</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The date of birth accepted by the central government cannot be altered except
where a bona fide clerical mistake has occurred.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Relying on a Supreme Court judgement, CAT rejected the application of the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Allahabad" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Allahabad</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(HC) sought the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uttar+Pradesh" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Uttar Pradesh</span></a> government's
response on a PIL seeking to know why only Muslim girls were being given
benefits and financial aid under its minority welfare scheme "Hamari Beti,
Uska Kal".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench of the Allahabad HC consisting of acting chief justice Laxmikant
Mohapatra and justice Rakesh Srivastava, while hearing a public interest
litigation (PIL) Tuesday, had sought a reply from the state government within
three weeks on why girls from a select community were being benefited by the
welfare scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PIL, filed by Ashok Srivastava of Siddharthanagar, alleges that the Aug 14,
2012 order of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state had said that
Muslim girls will be given Rs.30,000 for higher education and marriage and had
claimed that this was in contravention to the right of equality enshrined in
the Indian Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
petitioner had also alleged that the government was trying to divide the
society on religious lines by doing so for political gains. The PIL cites the
Supreme Court (SC) order in the Indra Sahini case wherein the apex court had
said that no reservation can be granted on religious lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Counsel
of the Uttar Pradesh government AK Goel, however, told the court that the state
government was doing so as part of its mandated task of "minority
welfare".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
added that the grant was being given to all minorities, including Hindu's. The
"Hamari Beti, Uska Kal" scheme has been one of the most propagated
schemes of the UP government and SP leaders, including the chief minister, miss
no opportunity to highlight it as a major welfare scheme for the Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/apple-growers" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">apple growers</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from Himachal Pradesh, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-high-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has rejected the notification issued
by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-government" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi government</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to charge 6% commission from them
(growers) in Azadpur Mandi for selling their produce. For the last many years,
commission charged in Delhi market had remained a major issue in the state.
Now, the HC judgment has triggered a race for credit among political leaders.
The state government had taken up the issue with Delhi government with regard
to enforcement of bylaw- 49 (3) — that though the commission be charged at the
existing rate of 6%, it be taken from buyers and not farmers or sellers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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After the Delhi high court judgment on Tuesday, while BJP leader and former
horticulture minister Narender Bragta soon after claimed that his party was
instrumental in taking up the issue whether it was in power or not. Not to be
left behind, Congress on Wednesday gave the entire credit to chief minister
Virbhadra Singh.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Bragta claimed that in 1998, when he was the horticulture minister, he had
raised the issue with then Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma-led
government, after which charging of commission was stopped. Later, when the
Congress government in Delhi reimposed the commission, the HP government had
approached the court, he added.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Meanwhile, horticulture minister Vidya Stokes and chief parliamentary secretary
Rohit Thakur claimed that the HC relief to farmers and horticulturists of the
state was due to the efforts of Virbhadra Singh, who pursued the matter with
the chief ministers of Delhi from time to time, regarding the brazen fleecing
of the commission agents in Delhi.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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They said the high court decision was a welcome step as the Congress government
had relentlessly pursued the case through the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Himachal-Pradesh" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Himachal Pradesh</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>State Agriculture Marketing Board even
during its last regime. The chief minister was well aware of the issue of
illegal commission being charged by the agents at Azadpur market, they said. As
huge quantities of apples and vegetables from the state are sold through the
commission agents in Azadpur, one of the biggest wholesale markets in Asia, the
marginal farmers suffer huge losses.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Stokes, too, is a prominent apple grower in Himachal Pradesh. Horticulture is a
vital sector in the state's economy as it generates more than Rs 3,200 crore
annual income. Apple constitutes about 93% of the state's total fruit produce.
Besides apple, other fruits like pear, peach, cherry, apricot, kiwi,
strawberry, olive, almond and plum are the major commercial crops of the state.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Jawaharlal Institute of
Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer)’s stipulation that
Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates in Puducherry should obtain residence
certificate from the territorial government as an eligibility condition for
admission to MBBS under the Puducherry residents’ quota has been upheld by the
Madras High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A few SC origin candidates filed
petitions challenging the clause in the prospectus, which required that a
person claiming admission to JIPMER, a Central government institution, under
the quota earmarked for Puducherry SC candidates, should have mandatorily
resided continuously in the Union Territory for five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Out of the total 141 MBBS seats,
40 seats are for the residents of Puducherry. Of this number, six seats are for
SC candidates of Puducherry origin. The grandparents of the petitioners,
Santhosh Tamilarasan E and others, were residents of the Union Territory as on
March 5, 1964, the date on which the President issued the notification relating
to Puducherry. The petitioners are not residing at Puducherry at present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In view of the condition, they
would not be considered for admission to the seats reserved for the residents
of the Union Territory. Therefore, they wanted the clause to be quashed and a
direction to consider them for admission. The Standing Counsel for JIPMER,
M.T.Arunan, said the seats earmarked for the Puducherry residents could not be
treated as reservation. It was only a channel of admission. It was only to give
an opportunity to local SC candidates six seats were earmarked for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mr.Justice Sasidharan said the
petitioners proceeded on a wrong notion that reservation of seats by JIPMER for
the local SC candidates was in the nature of a constitutional reservation. The
institution had already reserved 15 per cent seats for SC candidates. This
reservation was not confined to SC candidates of Puducherry. To get admission
against this quota, there was no need to fulfil the residential requirement.
The earmarking of six seats was not at all a reservation, but only a concession
for local SCs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dismissing trustee of Lilavati Hospital<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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the upscale<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/multi-specialty-Lilavati-Hospital" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">multi-specialty Lilavati Hospital</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Bandra.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC passed the order while hearing and admitting an appeal filed by Prabodh
against a city civil judge's order that dismissed him as a trustee. The appeal
is among the long string of cases in a family dispute between trustees of the
charitable hospital that was started by the late Kirtilal Mehta.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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On September 27, Justice A P Bhangale heard counsels Janak Dwarkadas and
Prateek Sekseria for Prabodh and Pranav Badheka for permanent trustee Charu
Mehta and ordered that the city civil order would remain suspended till the
appeals are heard.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC will now decide on the effect of a foreign conviction on qualification
of trustees under the Bombay Public Trusts Act. Charu had moved the charity
commissioner for removal of Prabodh, her brother-in-law, as a trustee of the hospital
on the grounds that he was convicted in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Antwerp" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Antwerp</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Belgium" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Belgium</span></a>, in 2007 and sentenced to six months
in a case of alleged fraud, forgery and moral turpitude. He was thus
disqualified to serve as a trustee, she had argued and the charity commissioner
and later the city civil court had agreed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC said that it would decide if Prabodh was convicted for offences of moral
turpitude, which would disqualify him as a trustee and also, whether a
rehabilitation order would amount to erasing his conviction.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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dilapidated building, to vacate her flat within one month. The tenant, Esther
Manickam, who has been paying a monthly rent of Rs 50 for decades, was offered
Rs 1 crore by the owner to move out of old building but she had refused.<br />
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Justice-Anoop-Mohta" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Justice Anoop Mohta</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>refused to grant the tenant any relief
against the demolition notice served by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BMC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">BMC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
the old building which has been declared dangerous.<br />
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"The structure if it is required to be demolished and as except Esther all
have already vacated, there is no reason that the building in question (should)
be repaired by the owner only to permit her to occupy one flat in
question," said Justice Mohta. The judge cited earlier orders of the court
that allowed "the corporation to evict occupier/owner of dilapidated
building even by force".<br />
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The court said the tenant's offer to repair the premises was of "no
assistance as it would cause further complications and especially when no one
else is occupying the other portions". The court said it cannot direct
that the building be maintained just because a lone opposing tenant wants to
continue to occupy a dangerous building.<br />
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Esther, who has been staying in the Juhu flat measuring 340 square feet for
decades and paying a monthly rent of Rs 50, refused to move out of the building
despite the landlord's offer of Rs 1 crore.<br />
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The BMC, earlier this year, had served a demolition notice on the building
which had been classified as dangerous. A report by VJTI also said that repairs
were not viable for the old building. But Esther rejected the Rs 1 crore offer
and insisted on a flat in a new building on the same premises. The landlord and
the developer refused to give her that saying that 13 other tenants of the
building had accepted the same offer.<br />
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The court said it could not overlook the expert's opinion and said that
Esther's claims in her applications were "contradictory, inconsistent and
in fact self destructive".<br />
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"Esther, though at her risk is occupying the premises alone and compelling
the landlord/owner to maintain the whole premises/building in spite of the
clear offer given to her, is unjustifiable," said the judge.<br />
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"The owner of the property is entitled to deal with the property. Even
otherwise, tenants cannot object to transfer and/or even to create third-party
rights or interest in such property by the landlord. The owner, therefore, if
he wants to develop the property, but for want of insistence to have permanent
alternate accommodation in the same premises, (and hurdles are created) to the
whole project, is entitled to oppose the action of the tenant," the court
said.<br />
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"The costs already incurred by paying a huge amount just cannot be
overlooked merely because one tenant/occupant is opposing to develop and/or not
permitting the owner to develop the property." The court added that the
owner of the property cannot be compelled to give a specific offer to a tenant.<br />
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The court refused to give Esther any reprieve from the demolition proceedings
and allowed her four weeks' time to vacate her flat on the condition that she
files an undertaking to move out.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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The Madras High Court on Tuesday set aside an order of the city Police
Commissioner denying permission to a pro-Tamil outfit for holding an indefinite
fast here to press for the expulsion of Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth of
Nations and shifting a meeting of the international body from Colombo.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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Allowing the petition by K Thiagarajan of Thamizgh Thesiya Vidhuthalai Iyakkam,
Justice KK Sasidharan said the authorities should consider the request in light
of the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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Thiagarajan had sought permission from the police for holding the indefinite
fast from today to press for the expulsion of Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth
of Nations, besides shifting the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting
(CHOGM) from Colombo slated in November. He also wanted to urge Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to boycott the meeting if held in Sri Lanka.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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reasonable restrictions could be imposed on the exercise of such rights, the
Judge said it was impermissible to prohibit (protest) without any rhyme or
reason. He held that the Commissioner was not correct in denying permission to
the fast and quashed his September 19 order.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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However, the judge, accepting the contention of the police that the Marina
Beach venue proposed by the petitioner would cause traffic problems, suggested
selecting an alternative location opposite the Government Guesthouse at Chepauk
or Valluvar Kottam.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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The court put a series of conditions for the petitioner, including that he
should give an undertaking that he would not induce violence during the protest
and should cooperate with the police to ensure law and order.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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If any leaders supporting the cause wants to speak near the venue of the fast,
a prior intimation should be given to the local police and permission should be
taken by the petitioner, the judge said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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It directed the Police Commissioner to grant permission by imposing necessary
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PANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa has convicted accused<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Baswaraj-Kedarji" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Baswaraj Kedarji</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in a case of bouncing of a cheque
amounting to 50,000 and directed the trial court to impose a sentence against
him.<br />
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In this case, a judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) court at Panaji had in
2012 exonerated the accused Baswaraj Kedarji. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JMFC-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">JMFC court</span></a>accepted his defence that the cheque
was issued by him towards purchase of sand and that the case was filed against
him by the complainant Vithal Zalmi for not making payment towards the purchase
of a vehicle as scrap.<br />
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The high court has convicted the accused Baswaraj Kedarji for dishonouring of
the cheque for 50,000 and remanded the matter before the trial court to impose
the sentence.<br />
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While convicting the accused, justice R C Chavan observed thus: "Faced
with the prospect of being convicted and there being no other defence open, the
accused may take the defence of this type and allege that the cheque was issued
for something else. If such defences were to be accepted, it would be impossible
to achieve the object for which Section 138 was brought on the statute book.
The findings of the learned magistrate, therefore are thoroughly improbable and
unsustainable."<br />
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The high court noted that in view of the admission of the accused that he had issued
the cheque towards purchase of sand, he was obliged to see that the cheque was
honoured, irrespective of the fact that the complainant may not have been able
to prove the purpose for which the cheque was issued.<br />
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As the accused did not appear before it, the high court directed the magistrate
to enforce his appearance within one month and impose sentence after hearing
the parties.<br />
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Advocate for the appellant, D Pangam argued that a complaint of offence
punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act cannot be tried
as if it is a civil suit. Pangam stated that the trial court should have held
that the accused was liable to pay as he admitted that the cheque was issued by
him towards purchase of sand.<br />
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The complainant Vithal Tulshidas Zalmi had alleged before the trial court that
he had sold his vehicle for scrap for 1.50 lakh to accused Baswaraj Kedarji. In
this transaction, a cheque for 50,000 was given by Kedarji to Zalmi. However,
the cheque was dishonoured .<br />
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During the hearing of the case in the trial court, the accused claimed that the
cheque was issued towards purchase of sand and not for purchase of scrap of a
vehicle. The JMFC court held that the complainant failed to prove beyond
reasonable doubt that the cheque was issued towards the purchase of scrap
vehicle. Aggrieved by the decision, the complainant filed appeal in the high
court.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A petition seeking to protect</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Tamil+Nadu" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tamil Nadu</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pilgrims visiting the famous hill
shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Thirumala in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Andhra+Pradesh" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Andhra Pradesh</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the backdrop of continuing anti-<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Telangana" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Telangana</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stir has been filed in the Madras
High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Petitioner, advocate Gnanasekharan, sought a direction to the Centre and the
governments of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh to take adequate steps to provide
sufficient protection to the pilgrims en route</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Tirumala" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Tirumala</span></a>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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He said the Centre's announcement on July 31 last that a separate Telangana
would be formed has triggered protests in more than ten districts, including
Chitoor under which Tirupati-Tirumala falls.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The anti-telangana protesters were indulging in violence and disrupting
peaceful life. Pilgrims from Tamil Nadu to Tirumala were not allowed to visit
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He submitted that he had been visiting the temple continuously from 1983 and
the Freedom of Worship and Religious Practice which are guaranteed under the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Madras High</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has dismissed a petition which
sought a direction to the Centre to enhance the retirement age for judges in
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The First Bench, comprising acting Chief Justice</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Rajesh+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Rajesh Kumar</span></a>Agrawal
and Justice M Sathyanarayanan, rejected the petition filed by an advocate V
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The petitioner had sought a direction to the Centre to take immediate and
effective measures to pass "The Constitution (114) Amendment Bill
2010" within a time-frame to be fixed by this court.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Originally, under article 217(1) of Constitution of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a>, the age of
retirement of High Court Judges was fixed as 60. By an amendment in the year
1963, it was increased to 62. Later in August 25, 2010, it was further raised
to 65 by an amendment which had been referred to a Parliamentary Standing
Committee, which he wanted to be passed.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The Bench, quoting judgments of the Supreme Court, said no writ can be issued
directing the authorities to introduce the above said amendment in Lok Sabah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court would Thursday hear a contempt
petition against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of the ordinance to
save convicted lawmakers from disqualification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
contempt petition filed by social activist Nutan Thakur accuses Singh of
"having openly defied the orders of the Supreme Court".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench of Justice Ajai Lamba would hear the petition in which the petitioner
cites the case of Lily Thomas vs Union of India & Others, wherein the apex
court had struck down section 8(4) as being ultra-vires because it provides
different dates of disqualification for sitting MP/MLA vis-a-vis those
qualified to be chosen so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Despite
this, the prime minister, in a clear violation of the Supreme Court order,
recommended the Representation of the People (Second Amendment and Validation)
Ordinance, 2013 with minor amendment in section 8(4), Thakur told IANS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have prayed for initiating action against the prime minister under section 12
of the Contempt of Courts Act 1971," Thakur said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
relevant ordinance seeks to override the Supreme Court's decision on
disqualifying convicted lawmakers. The ordinance, cleared by the union cabinet
and awaiting President Pranab Mukherjee's signature, was last week trashed by
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as "complete nonsense" and fit
to be "torn up and thrown away".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not require the Bombay High Court’s
nod to investigate into city activist Satish Shetty’s murder, the court on
Tuesday rapped city police for closing a complaint lodged by the late Right to
Information (RTI) activist.<br />
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Referring to the case, Justice M L Tahaliyani sought to know from the
prosecutor —“If the original owners of land acquired for construction of the
Mumbai-Pune Expressway were compensated, then how can the name of the
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation's (MSRDC) Executive Engineer
be deleted and the original owners sell their land for a second time?”<br />
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The court further asked, “Does it not amount to creating false documents?
Does it not amount to forgery?” Shetty, in an FIR lodged in October 2009, had
alleged that the name of one MSRDC’s Executive Engineer was deleted from
revenue records.<br />
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He also pointed out that several plots of land acquired by the State
government for building the Mumbai-Pune Expressway were sold twice by their
original owners to Aryan Infrastructure and Investment —an IRB Group company
which constructed the expressway.<br />
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Additional Public Prosecutor Deepak More responded by saying that the revenue
records were ultimately corrected and the case was closed since there was no
loss caused to public exchequer. Irked by the response, the court questioned,
“On what basis have you come to this conclusion?”<br />
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The court was hearing a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI), seeking permission to reopen and reinvestigate the case — based on
complaints lodged by Shetty, which were closed by Pune rural police, terming
it as baseless.<br />
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Advocate Hitendra Venegaonkar, appearing for CBI, submitted before court that
the investigating agency had arrived on a conclusion that the motive behind
Shetty’s murder was connected to the complaints lodged by him.<br />
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CBI has sought the court's permission to reopen and reinvestigate the case.
Thirty-eight-year-old Shetty had exposed several illegalities in the
Expressway land deal, in and around Pune.<br />
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He was stabbed to death in broad daylight near his residence on January 13,
2010, when he had stepped out for morning walk.<br />
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Justice Tahaliyani has now directed the prosecutor to file an additional
affidavit explaining why the case was closed and also sought a set of
investigation papers of the case. The case will now be heard on October 15. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HC seeks status report from DDA on illegal construction in city <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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report from DDA and other agencies of city government on a PIL alleging
“rampant” illegal construction on public land in and around the capital.
Seeking response from DDA and also from police, South Delhi MCD, DJB and
BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana in a
recent order sought a status report by November 27. Representational image
of a construction site. Reuters image The bench was hearing a PIL by Fraternity
Against Corruption, a registered trust, alleging “rampant
land grabbing, encroachment and illegal construction on DDA lands in
and around Delhi which is open and brazen loot of public resources
affecting public at large.” According to the plea, due to mismanagement of DDA,
large chunks of land particularly in South Delhi are being
misused and the land owning agency has failed to take care of
them properly. “…The land mafia in connivance with corrupt officials of
DDA grab the vacant DDA lands and then raise unauthorised construction
over these lands. Their illegal activities do not end with this and they
further sell these illegally constructed houses to innocent public and
dupe them of their hard earned money,” the plea alleged. Referring to a
high court’s decision in which the bench had ordered police to inform the
concerned agency and also stop the illegal construction on DDA land, the
plea said, ”…Delhi Police merely acts as a post office, they just inform
this illegal activity to the public authority once, after that they just
remain mute spectator to this brazen activities.” The PIL, filed through
counsel Sunder Khatri and Dhananjay Tyagi, cited some areas where the
alleged land grabbing by mafias had occurred in South Delhi. PTI</span><br />
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authorities to issue guidelines so to ensure that cosmetic goods, personal
hygiene products, skin and hair care creams and lotions are sealed before being
sold in the Indian market.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The PIL said that currently such products are sold without seal and this</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Results" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">results</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in contamination or adulteration
of the goods which is harmful to the health of the consumer.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Use of contaminated or adulterated products can cause skin irritation and
rashes or other health hazard which should be prevented in consumer interest,
the PIL, filed by advocate Geetanjali Dutta, contended.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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The petitioner said that a leading multinational company had in a letter replied
that sealing of cosmetic products is not a mandatory requirement of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">India</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and hence it was not following the
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The PIL, to come up for hearing tomorrow before a bench headed by Chief
Justice, said the shopkeepers very often use the contents of the products in
order to demonstrate them to the consumers and in the process they run the risk
of contamination. This is very harmful to the health of people.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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Not just this, most of the time the weight or volume of the contents of the
goods are not found to be equivalent to the quantity mentioned on the packet or
tube because they are not sealed. The possibility of tampering is thus not
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The Petitioner said she had written letters to several multinational companies
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The PIL prayed that Public Health Department, Legal Meteorology (weights and
measures) and Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Departments of
Maharashtra Government may be asked to issue guidelines to ensure that such
products are sealed by the companies before being sold in the market.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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has directed the city police to produce before it case papers pertaining to a
complaint lodged by Anita Advani, who claims to have been the live-in partner
of late actor Rajesh Khanna, against Khanna`s wife Dimple Kapadia and her
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"The respondent (Anita) has submitted some photographs and CCTV footages
to substantiate her case. The prosecution shall produce all relevant case
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Soon after the death of Khanna on July 18 last year, Anita had filed a
complaint in the Bandra metropolitan magistrate court against Dimple and her
family, including her daughters Twinkle and Rinkie, and son-in-law Akshay
Kumar, under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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signature being taken on a will forcibly and other footage to prove that she
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suburban bungalow when Khanna fell sick. Anita had sought maintenance from
Dimple and her family.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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In her petition, Dimple contended that she was the legally wedded wife of
Khanna and as such no other woman can claim share in the wealth left behind by her
husband.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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Tuesday slammed an advocate who used derogatory language in his petition while
seeking to restrict relatives of politicians from contesting in polls, and
imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on him. The court also directed that the fine
should be paid to Mediation and Reconciliation Centre within two weeks. The
First Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice M
Sathyanarayanan, dismissed the petition of advocate R Balasubramanian, who
sought to restrict politicians' relatives from contesting Parliament and
Assembly polls and also a direction to the President, Chief Election
Commissioner and Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer, to whom he had sent
representations. On the advocate's earlier petition, in which he had used
derogatory language, the bench said it had not imposed costs on him, thinking
that as an advocate he would realise his role and responsibilities and desist
from doing so in future. However, he had not learnt his lesson, had taken a
conscious decision not to mend his way and in his September 10 representation
to the President and to authorities, used derogatory remarks against the
sitting Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) elected from this state without any
responsibility, the court said. Madras HC slams lawyer for language, fines him
Rs 10,000 It said the court depreciated such a kind of practice by the
petitioner, who claims to be practicing advocate. On the legality of the
petitioner, the Bench said in the absence of any statutory right on the part of
the petitioner with a corresponding obligation on the part of the respondents,
such a kind of relief cannot be issued. The bench later dismissed the petition
at the admission stage observing it did not find any merit in it and directed
the petitioner to pay within two weeks Rs 10,000 to the Mediation and
Reconciliation Centre, attached to the Court. If it was not complied with, the
Chennai District Collector should treat it as arrears of land revenue and take
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asked former Miss World Yukta Mookhey and her estranged husband Tuli to attempt
to find a way to resolve their disputes. Justice Sadhna Jadhav met Mookhey and
Nagpur-based businessman Tuli separately in her chamber on Monday evening and
later held discussions with their lawyers.</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The judge suggested some
ways for the couple to deal with their disputes," said a lawyer. The
matter will be heard on October 14. Meanwhile, the HC has asked both the sides
to sit and attempt to reconcile the differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The HC initiative came on an anticipatory bail application filed by Tuli,
seeking protection from arrest in a criminal case lodged by Mookhey. In July,
Mookhey had lodged an FIR accusing Tuli of committing unnatural sex and alleged
that Tuli and her in-laws had subjected her to cruelty and criminal breach of
trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remarked that no case of harassment and cruelty under Section 498-A of the IPC
had been made out. However,the HC did not agree to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-View"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">the
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said the trial judge did not seem to have considered the 15 non-cognizable
offences, proceedings under the Domestic Violence Act and two other complaints
filed by Mookhey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AURANGABAD: The High Court Bar Association of Bombay Bench at Aurangabad on
Wednesday protested against the high court administration for delay in handing
over the possession of 2.714 acres of land for construction of an
eight-storeyed building housing around 1,200 lawyers' chambers. The premises is
touted to be the first of its kind in Marathwada.<br />
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President of the association president, S B Talekar, said, "The high court
(HC) administration has been inept, indecisive and insensitive towards the
cause of the lawyers. It has not been able to hand over the possession of the
land, obtain a no objection certificate from Cidco and finalize the building
plan received from architects from all over India. The president and secretary
of managing committee of the bar association met the chief justice individually
requesting him to expedite the process, but in vain."<br />
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He said that it's been about six years since the foundation stone for the
building was laid by the then chief minister late Vilasrao Deshmukh. "We
even made representations many times to the chief justice, HC registrar
administration and the HC building committee, but to no avail," Talekar
said.<br />
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"The honourable chief justice of the Bombay high court had cleared the
proposal to measure and hand over the land on August 2 this year. Thereafter,
the land was measured and demarcated by the deputy superintendent of land
records, Aurangabad," he said.<br />
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"The registrar administration is asking the bar association to approach
the chairman of lawyers' chamber committee, who in turn is asking us to wait
for the decision of the building committee. The bar association is running from
pillar to post and has been making requests to expedite the process,"
Talekar said.<br />
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"Almost three years have passed since the advocates deposited Rs 1 lakh
each for the construction of the building. In the meantime, the cost of
construction has gone up by more than 300%. Even the state ministry of law and
judiciary had cleared the proposal in March 2013," he added.<br />
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A S Sawant, secretary of the association, said, "The chambers for lawyers
is the need of the hour. It would be nothing but an adjunct and extension of
the high court. The association and the bench would be immensely benefited
since the lawyers will be able to utilize not only internet facility and access
almost all law journals and reports available all over the world."<br />
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When asked about the issue, C V Bhadang, registrar general of Bombay high
court, said, "The high court is actively considering the issue. We are
aware of the urgency of the matter and a decision in this regard will be
communicated to the bar association soon."<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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ordered a CBI probe against a retired police officer for allegedly possessing
disproportionate assets worth more than Rs 10 crore. The investigation must be
entrusted to an officer not below the rank of an SP in the Central Bureau of
Investigation, it noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a petition filed in 2008 by G Durga Rao, a retired employee of vigilance and
enforcement cell in the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, seeking directions
to the authorities to register a criminal case against G Anjaiah, retired
additional superintendent of police in V&E, MCH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Additional SP in the MCH and at the time of retirement he owned 35 acres of
agriculture land in Medak district, 15 acres at Shadnagar and Medchal,
two-storeyed building at Begumpet and several other properties in the
state capital. K Ravinder Reddy, the then inspector of police, ACB, who
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enquiry. The enquiry reports were also not submitted to the court, he said.
While allowing the petition, the judge directed the joint director of the CBI,
Hyderabad, to register a case against Anjaiah and conduct a thorough
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Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday denied permission to the Punjab
Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) here to provisionally admit students for
the fresh batch of MBBS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last date of admission over on Monday, PIMS has lost the chance to admit a
batch of 150 MBBS students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a favourable verdict from the court, the institute management had issued an
advertisement in newspapers, inviting candidates from the state to fill forms,
which were provided free of cost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reportedly submitted in response to the advertisement by Sunday evening. The
authorities had called the parents after 3pm on Monday for counselling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to HT, principal director Dr Kulbir Kaur said, "We have failed to get the
court nod to admit students. The exercise done on Saturday and Sunday had been
nullified. We were hopeful of getting relief, so we took a chance by inviting
candidates. Today (Monday) was the last date of counselling also, as per
instructions of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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July 16, the Medical Council of India (MCI) had barred PIMS from admitting
students for this session (2013-14) in MBBS, using its powers under Section
10(A) of the MCI Act, due to the institute's failure to fulfil the condition of
requisite infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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institute started in 2011 and has admitted two MBBS batches so far. It was
allotted to a society headed by Punjab rural development minister Surjit Singh
Rakhra on a 99-year lease. In March-April, the institute had witnessed a series
of strikes by paramedical staff, doctors and administrative staff over
non-payment of salaries for months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KOCHI: The state government should consider revising a contract granted for a
public project if the cost of implementing the project escalated much after
awarding the contract, the high court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice A M Shaffique gave the directive while considering a petition filed by
a PWD contractor, K I Poulose of Muvattupuzha, who, in January 2006, had taken
up the construction of Chelachuvadu-Vannapuram Road in Idukki district.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Implemented using Nabard's rural infrastructure development fund, the contract
was worth Rs 686 lakh. It was agreed by the contractor and the government that
the scale of rates (SOR) applicable for the work would be that of 2004.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, the cost later escalated to Rs 14.49 crore, due to the extra work for
excavation of earth, medium rock and hard rock.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Though the work was supposed to be completed within 12 months as per the
contract, it could be finished only in 2009 on account of delay in handing over
of work site besides the extra work.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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During this period, the SOR had changed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Thrice-(musician)" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">thrice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>while
the contractor had undertaken work as per the 2004 SOR. He had filed four
representations to the government, in February 2009, March, December 2010 and
July 2011, requesting to make the 2008 SOR applicable to the contract.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Through an order issued in September 2012, the government declined to grant
2008 SOR for the contract, citing that the contractor had specifically agreed
to the condition that he would not claim any enhanced rate for the work done
during the extended period.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The contractor sought a review of the decision but was declined by the
government in October 2012.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Representing the contractor at the high court, senior counsel N Nandakumara
Menon said the government had given enhanced rates to several contractors who
had undertaken similar works under the Nabard scheme.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government's counsel argued that the contractor was not entitled to make
any claim as he had submitted an estimate on the basis of the 2004 SOR.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the inquiry report of the chief engineer of the PWD administration
wing, of the additional Rs 769 lakh sought, Rs 643 lakh was for excavation,
which could not be verified as the work was already completed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Ruling against rejection for not being able to verify, the court pointed out
that the contractor had submitted several representations making such a claim
at different times and the government failed to take them into consideration.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government's inter-office communication containing a statement of analysis
of cost difference based on 2004 and 2008 SOR indicates that the contractor is
entitled to a balance of Rs 4.97 crore, the court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Quashing the government orders rejecting the contractor's claim for revision,
the court ordered the government to consider his representation afresh and pass
an order within three months.<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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A division bench of the high court headed by Chief Justice D H Waghela on
Tuesday asked the state government to re-visit the rules on transfer of primary
and middle school teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
bench made this suggestion, while hearing a writ appeal preferred by the state
government. The appeal challenged a single-judge bench's directive to the state
government to post a teacher near Ramanagaram town and also increasing one per
cent cap on such request transfers to five per cent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"Rules are often framed in a hurry. There is no corresponding link between
rules and the act. Rule is made with the intention to help the spouses, who are
living separately. But now, practically, rules are separating them from each
other. Rules should not be anti-family. They should be friendly to the family.
Rules should be framed in such a way that it will give priority to the
spouses," the bench observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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General Prof Ravivarma Kumar accepted the suggestion and sought some time to
have a re-look at the rules. He was of the view that the state has to prepare a
draft and then invite objections and finalize the rules. He also assured the
court that by next academic year new rules will be in force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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December 29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lalitha, who was working as assistant teacher in Chikkakanagalu village, Alur
taluk, Hassan district, had sought transfer stating that her husband
Shashidhar, a practising advocate, stayed in Bangalore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monday, said these sex determination complaint filed against actor Shah Rukh
Khan and his wife Gauri was "unfounded". Social activist Varsha
Deshpande had accused the couple of determining the sex of their surrogate
child AbRam.</span></em><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The High Court was hearing a petition filed by Deshpande seeking early hearing
of the complaint filed by her in a Metropolitan Magistrate's court. She had
sought action against Shahrukh, Gauri, Jaslok hospital and its doctor under the
Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex
Selection) Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition said the Supreme Court says all cases under the Act concerned should
be decided within six months. The HC enquired about the source of information
with Deshpande's advocate, Uday Warunjikar, who quoted a newspaper report dated
June 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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newspaper report does not include any statement of the actor couple. Don't you
think you should have put in some more effort to substantiate the complaint
before making such sensitive allegations?" the court asked. The court also
noted that while the newspaper report was of June 14, the child was born on May
27 and prior to that no report or statement was issued that the couple was
havinga baby boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that the parties should put an end to the matter in view of the Appropriate
Authority's conclusion, the court directed the BMC to submit by October 3, its
report and other relevant documents before the magistrate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BMC counsel M P S Rao reiterated that the corporation had conducted inquiry
into the allegations and has found that everything is in order and nothing is
amiss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court sternly directed the Maharashtra
government to take steps for early implementation of rules for the 'Maharashtra
Government Servants Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of delay in
Discharge of Official Duties Act, 2005' which is more commonly known as
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court, expects the government to expedite the process, so that the draft rules
for 'citizens' charter' are placed before the state legislature in any case in
the forthcoming winter session, for approval," a single-judge bench
comprising Justice Arun Chaudhari said, before adjourning the hearing by two
months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The directives came while hearing a petition filed by Vidarbha Taxpayers
Association (VTA) secretary Tejinder Singh Renu who had originally filed the
PIL on September 14, 2011. Earlier, he was allowed to knock off name of first
respondent, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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explaining about the current position of draft rules, government pleader Nitin
Sambre informed that the process to finalize them has already been expedited.
He pointed out that legislative committee after making some recommendations
would place those before the cabinet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearing the PIL, the then division bench comprising justices Dilip Sinha and
Ashok Bhangale, on December 21, 2011, had directed the government to affix
'citizens' charter' on notice board of all its departments. "It's
important to note that provisions of 'citizens' charter' by the government's
administrative departments must be made known to the common man for whom it is
meant," they had observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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judges had directed all 29 government departments to affix copy of 'citizens'
charter' on the notice board to be placed at the front lobby or at a place,
easily visible to visitors. They were told to complete the exercise within two
months and finalize the rules to carry out purpose of the Act without further
delay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the government failed to take steps in this regard, Renu filed a contempt
petition after which notices were issued to CM along with principal secretary
of state General Administration Department (GAD) KP Bakshi and his counterpart
at Law and Judiciary Department VL Achaliya, who is also the senior law
adviser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last hearing, Renu contended that the approach of the respondents, including
CM, was very casual and lethargic in implementation and compliance of the 2011
order. Even the legislative assembly had convened many sessions but the issue
not even came for the discussion and rules of the Act of 2005 were not framed
till date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also argued that the directives to display the 'citizens' charter' in each
administrative department and all their offices in Maharashtra were not being
complied with in its entirety. Despite repeated reminders and specific requests
made by the petitioner from time to time to the respondents, no action was
taken in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MUMBAI: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-high-court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has restrained the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BMC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">BMC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from
taking any coercive steps against<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-Hospital" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay Hospital</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for recovery of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/enhanced-property-tax" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">enhanced property tax</span></a>. The BMC recently served
the hospital a bill of almost Rs 2 crore in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/property-tax" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">property tax</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
2010 to 2013. The property tax rose sharply after the BMC withdrew long
existing exemptions granted to such charitable hospitals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The hospital dragged the BMC to court, challenging denial of exemptions since
2010. It questioned the "unlawful and exorbitant" demand. Hospital's
counsel Virag Tulzapurkar contended in the court last week that general tax
could be levied for all buildings and lands in the city except those
exclusively used and occupied for charitable purposes. They challenged the
validity of the 2010 civic law that governs fixation of capital value of
property to calculate property tax and said property tax for charitable
hospitals cannot be calculated on the basis of capital value as a
"separate category".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Considering the importance of the issue that would have an impact on other
charitable hospitals too, the high court has sought a reply from the BMC. It
adjourned the matter to October 23. It said restraining order against the BMC
is subject to the hospital depositing 25% of the demand raised.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Instead of giving incentives to hospitals, especially private charitable
hospitals doing excellent work, the BMC is taking away incentives one by one.
This is most unfortunate," said Subhash Kothari of Kanga & Co, the law
firm that represents the Bombay Hospital.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The hospital's case is that under the guise of rationalizing the property tax
structure in Mumbai pursuant to the requirement of the Jawaharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission (JNUURM) for financial viability of cities, the
BMC "abused the provision of the scheme". The BMC framed a law, by
itself a mouthful, called the Factors and Categories of Users of Buildings and
Lands (Assignment of Weightages by Multiplication) Fixation of Capital Value
Rules, 2010. The implementation of the law began in May 2013 with retrospective
effect.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The civic body, under the new rules, is calculating the taxes based on the age
of the building, location, use and other factors and the hospital says, as a
result, its property tax has shot up three times. For a hospital, there ought
to be relaxations, said experts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to interfere with a
judgment of the Madras High Court refusing to recall the Returning Officer as a
witness to adduce evidence in the election petition against former Union
Minister M.K. Alagiri filed by P.A. Mohan through legal representative A.
Lazar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Kurian Joseph, after hearing senior counsel Guru Krishna Kumar and counsel
Balaji Srinivasan appearing for Mr. Lazar, dismissed the special leave petition
against the High Court judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Needless to say that the dismissal of special leave petition shall not be an
impediment in challenging the impugned order in the appeal if the election
petition is ultimately dismissed and the matter is carried to this court.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the election petition pending
in the High Court, Mr. Lazar prayed for marking/exhibiting of documents already
on record by the court’s witness, which were vital for adjudication of the
petition by recalling the witness. However, the High Court rejected the plea
holding that exhibiting the documents would require elaborate evidence and
would delay the adjudication of the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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judgment said the documents were vital and required for prosecution of the case
and the High Court had committed an error by rejecting his plea to recall the
witness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Odisha lawyers fume over Naveen move on HC bench<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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letter to Union Law minister Kapil Sibal recommending benches of High Court in
Southern and Western Odisha has left the lawyers in North Odisha agitated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chief Minister was politically motivated, lawyers of Balasore and Mayurbhanj
districts have threatened to intensify their agitation. They said North Odisha
has always been neglected, be it the demand for a Government medical college or
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staged an agitation before the district court. They decided to continue their
cease-work till October 5 in protest against the Government’s indifferent
attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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president Niranjan Panda said unlike Western Odisha region, here lawyers have
been resorting to peaceful demonstration by not hampering normal life. “But it
does not mean that the Government would not consider our demand,” said Baripada
Bar Association president Srinibas Pradhan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have demanded the circuit bench to be set up at Baripada, those in Balasore
said they would support any place suitable for the people of the entire region
comprising five districts including Jajpur, Bhadrak and Keonjhar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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districts of North Odisha were pending in the High Court which is much more
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Muncipal Corporation (BMC) for withholding its teachers’ dues for the past 30
years and paying pension after deductions, the Bombay high court on Tuesday
directed the civic body to pay their pension without any deductions. The court
also said that the BMC is liable to pay 12 per cent interest on their dues.<br />
A division bench of Justice S.J. Vazifdar and Justice K.R. Sriram was hearing
the petition filed by two teachers — Hemalatha Varadan and Madhavi Pradhan. The
retired teachers, in their petition, have stated that they were appointed as
“trained teachers” in aided schools by the BMC.<br />
The civic body, however, at the time of their retirement took a stand that they
were not qualified and labelled them as “untrained teachers”, denying them
proper pension, the petition states. The civic body is also in the process of
recovering the difference in salary of a trained teacher and an untrained one
by giving them a lower pension, it adds.<br />
Appearing for the petitioners, advocate Rahul Walia informed the court that
both the retired teachers were getting a meagre pension of `3,000 and even
after around 30 years of service, they were denied their gratuity and other
dues.<br />
Taking cognisanse of the teachers’ plight, the court directed the BMC to pay
pension without any deductions. “They (BMC) shall be liable to pay an interest
of 12 per cent of gratuity and other dues in favour of the petitioners,” said
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In an important judgment, The Bombay HC has ruled that the civil court must
consider facts and circumstances in each suit before deciding that it is barred
from questioning the BMC's power to issue notices or directions regarding
unauthorized constructions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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515A amendment was made to the BMC Act last year to take action against
unauthorized constructions without intervention by way of stay usually obtained
from city civil courts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The HC's ruling came on a petition by Abdul Mansoori, challenging the BMC's
August 1 notice under Section 354A (to vacate) of the BMC Act alleging that he
had carried out an unauthorized construction on a plot in Bandra (W). Mansoori
denied the allegation, saying the ground plus one storey structure has been in
existence for several years. He said on August 5, the BMC demolished the first
floor without giving him an opportunity to satisfy that the notice is bad in
law. Mansoori then filed a suit in Dindoshi civil court, but taking note of the
bar to the jurisdiction of the civil courts under Section 515A, he was denied
interim relief. He then moved the HC. His advocate, Anita Castelino, expressed
apprehension that the BMC would demolish the entire structure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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September 13, a division bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and Gautam Patel
said the bar under Section 515A to civil courts to question any notice, order
or direction under Section 351 (demolition) or 354A (to stop work) shall not be
questioned in any suit or other legal proceedings "does not mean a suit
before a civil court is per se not tenable".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other words, a civil court's power to take on a civil suit, as much as
scrutinize and verify the plaint, register it, is not taken away by such a bar,
adding that for that bar to apply, the civil court is obliged to consider the
facts and circumstances in each suit and then apply Section 515A of the BMC Act."
They said unless the plea of ousting the jurisdiction based on Section 515A is
considered in each case, the civil court's jurisdiction is not ousted. "To
non-suit somebody and prevent him from approaching a civil court merely because
there is a statutory bar is not a correct understanding of the law," they
wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pricing aspects of<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/pharmaceuticals"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">pharmaceuticals</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">are critical for the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/general%20public"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">general public</span></a>,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/CCI"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">CCI</span></a>Chairman</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Ashok%20Chawla"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Ashok Chawla</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">has
said that some cases of probe into alleged unfair practices in this space are
in the "pipeline".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on some entities, including chemists and druggists associations, for indulging
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"There are a number of cases, which have been dealt with. There are some
(more) cases in the pipeline," CCI Chairman Ashok Chawla told PTI in an
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">According
to him, the Commission has already looked into many cases on the pharmaceutical
retail side, while penalties have also been imposed on entities for adopting
restrictive practices and not allowing others to enter the trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"That
is an important area from our point of view because pharmaceutical retail and
prices at the consumer end impact a very large number of the population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"That
is something which is critical from both the competition law point of view and
also the socio-political point of view," Chawla said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On
healthcare sector, the Commission is looking at possible anti-competitive
practices with regard to hospitals asking patients to take the services of a
particular entity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">However,
the CCI chief noted that pricing of services in the healthcare would not
exactly fall under its purview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"When
there is tying in of supply of services, there are some cases we are looking
at...," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Without
providing specific details, Chawla said that one case is at an advanced stage
where the allegation is that of insisting on going to a certain supplier of
services by a hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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otherwise whether the charges are high or low, it is not really for us to see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"We
don't interfere in fixing of prices and the actual movements in the market
place. That is not our job," he noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CCI
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been pulled up by the Central Administrative Tribunal for taking lenient action
against an employee against whom charges of treating female employees unequally
was proved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transfer of the official from Chennai to Karaikal has been set aside by the
tribunal, stating it was not the suitable action in the instant case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vijayakrishnan, a transmission executive at the AIR. In February, he was
transferred from Chennai to Karaikal. The official had moved the tribunal
against the transfer stating that it was done with malafide intentions as he
contested an association election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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number of complaints were received from women transmission executives against
Vijayakrishnan alleging sexual harassment. This was followed by the formation
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of unequal treatment of women employees. The AIR said, based on the report, the
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Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-679532389862292732013-08-30T12:20:00.001+05:302013-08-30T12:20:50.291+05:30Legal News India 30.08.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights
Commission rapped the BSF in a case of attempted rape of a woman and murder of
her father saying the prime concern of the court of inquiry of the border
guarding force was to protect colleagues rather than upholding the law.
Following NHRC's recommendation, the home ministry paid Rs eight lakh monetary
relief to four members of the victims' family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The NHRC's observation was in the context of a
November 2010 case where three BSF constables attempted to rape a girl near
Amjadnagar border outpost in south Tripura, killed her father and wounded her
brothers when they tried to save her. The victim and her family live in
Tripura.</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The NHRC found that the BSF's staff court of
inquiry (CoI) absolved the three constables accused in the case. On a stern
note, the NHRC said, "This was almost invariably the case with the BSF's
court of inquiry, staffed by junior officers, whose primary concern seemed to
be to protect their colleagues rather than to uphold the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">When contacted, senior home ministry and BSF
officers said they could not recall the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">In December 2010, the Asian Centre for Human
Rights (ACHR) filed a complaint with the NHRC against the BSF's atrocities and
human rights violations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The NHRC had sent showcause notice to the
Centre. However, the government of India did not respond to the NHRC's
showcause notice nor forwarded the report of the BSF's CoI. "Therefore,
the Commission presumed the Government of India had nothing to say in the
matter and recommended payment of monetary relief to the victims," said
the NHRC spokesperson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">ACHR director Suhas Chakma said, "This is
a classic case of how Indian security forces treat cases of violence against
women, where all attempts are made to protect the culprits."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">He urged the NHRC to not close the case till
the MHA informed about steps taken to ensure that the three BSF personnel are
tried for the crimes they are accused of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Earlier, the MHA paid Rs five lakh each to the
kin of two men killed by the BSF in 2010 on the India-Bangladesh border in West
Bengal's Murshidabad following an NHRC recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">NEW DELHI: The alleged involvement of a
16-year-old in the brutal Mumbai gang-rape has restarted the debate on the
severity of punishment for juveniles who commit heinous crimes. A National
Commission for Women (NCW) member told TOI on Sunday that she was in favour of
reducing the age of juveniles from 18 years to 16 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">NCW member Nirmala Sawant Prabhawalkar, who
met the Mumbai rape victim and has been tasked to prepare a report on the
incident, said, "The age of a juvenile should be brought down from 18
years to 16 years so if a person between 16-18 years is involved in a heinous
crime like rape or murder, he or she should be treated as an adult."
Prabhawalkar said her views were personal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The issue was part of a raging debate after it
was found that one of the accused in the December 16 gang-rape in Delhi was a
17-year-old, just a few months shy of maturity. According to the Juvenile
Justice Act, a person below 18 years can only be given a maximum of three years
of punishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">"With changing times, even a 14-year-old
has a high level of awareness. It has now become a trend to use juveniles for
crimes as they get away with lighter punishment," Prabhawalkar said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The NCW member said if juveniles were involved
in petty crimes, they should be dealt with leniently as the crime was done
because of poor socio-economic conditions. She said the same could not apply to
involvement in serious crimes like rape and murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The JJ Act treats people below the age of 18
as children and provides for a chance at reformation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Prabhawalkar will submit her report to the
commission on Tuesday in which she is likely to recommend fast-track courts and
quick investigation for the five accused. "We hope that the accused will
be given life imprisonment," she added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HC denies Maudany bail
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday denied bail for the third time
to Abdul Nasir Maudany, leader of the People’s Democratic Party and an accused
in the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Justice N. Ananda refused to accept the medical reasons put
forward by Mr. Maudany seeking enlargement on bail for the purpose of securing
better treatment for his ailments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mr. Maudany had claimed that his ailments had worsened as the
prison authorities were not providing him proper treatment despite the
directions of the High Court and the Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">However, the prosecution alleged that Mr. Maudany was “deliberately
magnifying and exaggerating” all his ailments to gain the sympathy of the court
to get bail. Pointing out Mr. Maudany was refusing to take treatment, the
prosecution presented a list before the court indicating that on 11 occasions
between May and August 2013, Mr. Maudany had refused to get treatment at
private hospitals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c3c65;">HC rejects Abu Jundal's plea against solitary
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<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/hc-rejects-abu-jundal-s-plea-against-solitary-confinement-113082800866_1.html">http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/hc-rejects-abu-jundal-s-plea-against-solitary-confinement-113082800866_1.html</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Jundal petitioned
the HC seeking to be transferred out of the cell and not be kept in solitary
confinement</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Observing that prison management
and security as well as safety of inmates is a policy matter,the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Bombay+High+Court" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Bombay High Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">today dismissed a petition filed by
alleged LeT operative<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Abu+Jundal" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Abu Jundal</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, seeking a direction to jail authorities
to not keep him in solitary confinement.<br />
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Jundal, who was arrested in June last year for his alleged involvement in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=26%2F11" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">26/11</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">terror attack and the 2006 Aurangabad arms
haul case, is presently lodged in the same cell where Pakistani terrorist<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Ajmal+Kasab" target="_blank">Ajmal Kasab</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was
lodged in the Arthur Road prison in central Mumbai.<br />
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Jundal petitioned the HC seeking to be transferred out of the cell and not be
kept in solitary confinement.<br />
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"The applicant (Jundal) has been kept in solitary confinement since six
months. Due to this, he is depressed and thus not able to think clearly. Like
all undertrials, Jundal should also be kept in common barracks and allowed
certain privileges," the petition states.<br />
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The Maharashtra government opposed the petition saying he was kept in solitary
confinement due to security reasons.<br />
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A division bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and G S Patel accepted the
government's contention and dismissed the petition.<br />
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"Is it the right of the accused to say where he should be lodged ? These
are all policy matters. Some anxiety has been expressed and hence this decision
has been taken to keep him in solitary confinement," the bench said.<br />
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It added that the security of prison and its inmates and its management are all
policy matters and the jail authority is solely responsible for it. "Any
measure taken by them (authorities) cannot be interfered with by this
court," the court added.<br />
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Before the lower court, Jundal in his application had claimed that he was
hallucinating about Kasab who was hanged to death.<br />
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The lower court had directed for a psychiatrist to check up Jundal. The jail
authorities, however, said that Jundal was mentally sound following which the
court rejected his application.Jundal then moved the High Court.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Punjab and Haryana High Court on
Tuesday questioned Chandigarh and Haryana as to how they can make appointments
to the VAT Tribunal without consulting the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The query was raised during the
resumed hearing of two public interest litigations, challenging appointments of
chairman and members of the tribunal, filed by Advocate H C Arora. The
petitioner sought directions to Chandigarh Administration to appoint the
chairman and members of UT Chandigarh Vat Tribunal only after consultation with
the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Additional Advocate General,
Haryana and senior standing counsel for Chandigarh Administration were
questioned as to how the chairman and members to the said tribunal can be
appointed without consulting the high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Law officers of Haryana and
Chandigarh Administration sought a short adjournment to explain their stand.
The PIL will now come up for hearing on September 20. It is pertinent to note
that the Chief Minister of Haryana had made the aforesaid three appointments to
Haryana Vat Tribunal without consulting the High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Likewise, the Chandigarh
Administration had appointed its Advisor to Administrator as chairman of the UT
Chandigarh Vats Tribunal, while the three posts of members are lying vacant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c3c65;">HC questions Maha govt on safeguards against
data theft<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Emphasising the importance of
issues covered under the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Information+Technology" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Information Technology</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(IT) Act, the Bombay High<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">today said the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Maharashtra" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Maharashtra</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">government should come up with a system to
protect and detect data theft.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and G S Patel was hearing a
petition filed by a private software company seeking direction to the cyber
crime cell of the city police to investigate into its complaint against an
employee for alleged data theft.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Is there a single system in Maharashtra designated as a protective
system?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Mumbai" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mumbai</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">is supposed to be the financial capital
with two stock exchanges. You (government) are sitting on a time bomb which may
explode anytime," the bench said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"What do you do when a bank or some other financial institution loses its
data? These days almost everyone uses online<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Banking" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">banking</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">where several personal details have to be
provided. What steps has the government taken regarding protection and
detection of data theft," Justice Patel questioned.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice Dharmadhikari suggested the police not to brush aside such complaints
all the time. "Whenever a complaint is filed police looks at it with a
narrow perspective. Instead the police should look at the whole Act," the
court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The IT Act is not about just Facebook and Twitter and other social
networking accounts but also about misuse of financial information," the
bench said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court has directed senior officials of the cyber crime cell to look into
the issue and apprise the court on the next date of hearing on September 19.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the petition filed by H R Mantra company, which provides software
solutions to other companies, one of their employee Sneha Sahu had allegedly
misused data regarding quotations and clients list and provided it to a rival
company Synergy Software.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"A complaint was lodged with the Charkop police on September 17 last year.
A month later they asked us to approach the cyber crime cell in Bandra. In
November, we forwarded the complaint to Bandra but after three months the
matter was reverted to Charkop police. Following this we filed this
petition," advocate Ramprakash Pandey said.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c3c65;">HC dismisses appeal of retd forest ranger<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">: Madras High<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">today dismissed an appeal filed by a
retired forest ranger, challenging a single judge's order, dismissing his plea
for reinstatement on the ground that his date of birth had been wrongly
entered.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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While upholding the single judge's order, the First Bench, comprising Acting
Chief Justice<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Rajesh+Kumar" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Rajesh Kumar</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Agrawal and Justice T Raja, observed that
the documents and register were tampered with and the petitioner's claim for
correction in date of birth was rejected.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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R Mohanasundaram, who joined service in August 1981, submitted an application
to authorities in April 1993, claiming his date of birth was wrongly entered as
May 1952 instead of May 1956.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Mohanasundaram, who retired from service in May 2010, contended that if the year
of birth had been taken as 1952, he would have served four more years and
retired before 2014.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Prior to his retirement in January 2010, the Forest Department Secretary took
up this case with Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, who ordered it to be
investigated by an officer not below the rank of Deputy Collector.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Meanwhile, Mohanasundaram was fighting for his promotion in court, which
recommended an investigation into the matter.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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When the authorities perused relevant documents, it came to light that the
documents pertaining to Mohanasundaram's date of birth were tampered and his
name conspicuously inserted in the register.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A single judge before whom the matter was heard had concluded that the records
were tampered and dismissed the petition against which Mohanasundram preferred
an appeal.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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DELHI: In a rare case, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Supreme Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>today conducted two-hour-long
in-camera proceedings in the former corporate lobbyist<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Niira-Radia"><span style="color: #024d99;">Niira Radia</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>phone
tapping case for knowing the Centre's stand and perusing "top secret"
documents which formed the basis for interception of her calls.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The proceedings before a bench of justices G S Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda,
began from 10.30 AM and went on till 12.30 PM during which two additional
solicitor generals, CBI,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Income-Tax-Department"><span style="color: #024d99;">Income Tax Department</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and Home Ministry officers were
allowed into the court room but all advocates appearing for different parties,
journalists and others were barred.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The bench concluded the in-camera proceedings and posted the matter for an open
court hearing on October 1.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The bench had on August 27 decided to hold in-camera proceedings in the case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Although in-camera proceedings are normal in trial courts in sensitive cases,
in the Supreme Court this is the second time that such hearing is being
conducted in recent years. The last time such a proceeding took place in the
apex court was in the hawala case in 1996.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The apex court had decided on in-camera hearing after it found that many
controversial and sensitive information and names of people figure in the
various reports disclosure of which in public domain could harm national
interest and could tarnish the image of people till they were established.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Today's in-camera proceedings were confined to the bench perusing the
government's confidential report and the Centre's submission on the issue.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The conversations were recorded as part of surveillance of Radia's phone on a
complaint to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Finance-Minister"><span style="color: #024d99;">Finance Minister</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on November 16, 2007 alleging that
within a span of nine years she had built up a business empire worth Rs 300
crore.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government had recorded 180 days of Radia's conversations--first from
August 20, 2008 onwards for 60 days and then from October 19 for another 60
days. Later, on May 11, 2009, her phone was again put on surveillance for
another 60 days following a fresh order given on May 8.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The apex court had ordered setting up of a team of investigators to examine the
contents of the conversations.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court had perused the report and transcripts prepared by the special team
of investigators and said that "some of the items highlighted will become
the subject matter of investigation".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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district programme manager by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Rural-Health-Mission"><span style="color: #024d99;">National Rural Health Mission</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(NRHM), which was expected to be
declared on Friday, will not be declared now. Indore bench of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh-High-Court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Madhya Pradesh High Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has stays publication of result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students has field a writ petition in the court of Justice N K Modi on the
ground that they were not allowed to sit in the examination held on August 25
for the above mention post. On this HC granted stay on the result which was
supposed to be declared on August 29 and instructed state government to file
their reply within seven days. Over 600 students from across the state has
appeared for 29 posts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when some of the students reached at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Medicab-Institute-of-Technology-and-Management"><span style="color: #024d99;">Medicab Institute of Technology and Management</span></a>,
one of the centre for examination, they were not allowed to enter inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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examination timing were from 10am to 11.30 am, petitioners were in queue at
entrance gate along with their admit cards and I.D proof suddenly the gate of
entrance were closed at 9.30am by security guard and due to lots of crowd there
are few candidates (more then 60 out of which few of them are Petitioners) were
not allowed to seat in examination. All those candidates try their best for
entering in examination but nothing happen even the examination in-charge
didn't supported the students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some of the candidates give a call at Bhopal NRHM head office and they assured
them that a re-examination will be conduct for all of them at 12.30 pm. But no
re-examinations were taken by NRHM at the said time. Later candidates went to
Kishan Ganj Police station, Indore and an application were given by them
regarding all this incidence but no action were initiated by the concerned
police station.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ground writ petition were filed and HC heard it on priority basis and stay were
granted on result publication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Tamil Nadu government's user-pay policy of imposing infrastructure and
amenities (I&A) charges on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/builders"><span style="color: #024d99;">builders</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
developers who construct residential and commercial structures received Madras high
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The levy, which initially amounted to about 100 per sqft of built up area for
new multi-storeyed buildings in the city, came into force in 2008 as the
government thought private developers derived "appreciable gains" in
development and hence they should share the cost involved in creating
infrastructure of international standards in the state. The government reduced
the rates a year later. However, some builders had challenged it in the court.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Additional advocate-general P H Arvindh Pandian argued that massive
developments were taking place all around the state and developers were not
providing necessary infrastructure to residents of townships being developed by
them. The government, instead, is forced to provide all necessary
infrastructure for ensuring sustainable development and the financial
commitment in this regard is substantial, he said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Agreeing with him and upholding the legality of the newly inserted provisions
in Section 63 of the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning (Levy of
Infrastructure and Amenity Charges) Rules 2008, a division bench comprising
Justice R Banumathi and Justice T S Sivagnanam said: "Promoters develop
properties without providing basic infrastructure. Under such circumstances,
the user-pay concept is a solution for sustainable development.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Advantages enjoyed by builders are a special advantage and simultaneously
there is additional burden on the municipal services. The state would be
justified in levying infrastructure and amenities charges."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Noting that the right to develop a property is not unfettered but subject to
restrictions, the judges said: "Merely because builders have acquired
interest in vast extent of land, as a matter of right they cannot claim that
they would be entitled to construct buildings consisting of any number of
floors and compel the authorities to grant permission for such development.
When such large-scale development of properties is done with several floors,
the government thought it fit to consider those as special cases, and by taking
note of the impact that would be caused to other parameters, decided to levy
and collect I&A charges."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The levy was to meet the impact of development and for ensuring sustainable
development, they added.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The judges rejected developers' submission that providing water and sewerage
facilities to land owners and developers was a public duty, statutorily imposed
on state agencies and hence no additional charges should be levied. They also
rejected the argument that I&A charges would amount to multiple levy, as
promoters already were paying water and sewerage charges under Section 59 of
the Rules. "I&A is a levy with a distinct purpose, object and
intent," the bench held.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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government to form a committee within a month to take necessary steps to ensure
that investors who have been duped by 23 non-banking financial companies (<span style="background: white;">NBFCs</span>) get their money back.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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The court's directive has come at a time when the hearings of five PILs and two
writ petitions filed by investors are going on in the HC. The government
earlier stopped the operations of these NBFCs and seized their assets. In the
previous hearing, the state government had informed the HC that a proposal is
being prepared for facilitating return of the amount seized from the NBFCs to
the rightful claimant.<br />
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Sources said that the state government will auction the seized assets of these
companies and their officials to mop up the money to repay the rightful
claimants.<br />
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"The state government has agreed to form the committee. This committee
will monitor the various ways to return the money to the rightful
claimants," said M K Sarma, counsel of Uttam Chetia, one of the
petitioners. The committee is likely to have retired judges in its panel. The
panel members will verify the claims of the duped investors before they are
returned their money.<br />
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Assam"><span style="color: #024d99;">Assam</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Police
in an affidavit filed to the HC stated that 192 cases have been registered
against 117 such illegal companies. The present set of petitions is against 23
of these companies.<br />
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The special investigative team (SIT) of police, which is monitoring and
supervising investigation of the 192 cases, has arrested 273 persons and filed
chargesheets in 12 cases. It has also submitted final reports in three other
cases.<br />
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"A sum of approximately Rs 93 lakhs has been seized and bank accounts
containing about Rs 24 crores has been frozen. Some immovable properly has also
been seized and the court has been moved for attachment of some other
property," said the affidavit of Assam Police.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Centre was today directed by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Delhi" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Delhi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>High<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
file a detailed affidavit on the contempt plea filed against it to start a
three-year "Bachelor of Rural Health Care (BRHC)" course for those
practicing medicine in primary health centres in rural areas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice S K Mishra granted eight weeks to the Health Ministry to reply and
sought a detailed affidavit indicating if steps have been taken in this regard.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Let a detailed affidavit be filed by the Centre. Further, steps, if any,
have been taken by the government so far," the court said and fixed
December 5 for further hearing of the case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The bench was hearing a contempt plea, filed through advocate Prashant Bhushan,
by petitioner Meenakshi Gautam who said rural people have no worthwhile access
to medical help and face great risk to their lives due to lack of qualified
medical practitioners in rural areas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Seeking an order to initiate contempt proceedings, she said a division bench of
this high court had on November 10, 2010 ordered Medical Council of India to
begin BRHC course, approved by the Health Ministry, by March 2011 but nothing
has been done so far.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court had given MCI two months time to finalise the curriculum and syllabus
of the three-and-half-year Primary Healthcare Practitioner Course, approved by
the Union government, she added.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The course was named BRHC, she said adding the court had given another two
months to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for the endorsement of the
course syllabus.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The course should have been introduced by March 2011 as per the time-line
stipulated by the court in its order. No such course has been introduced by the
Ministry as of February 2012. MCI had apparently opposed the course in 2011 and
is not willing to notify, the petitioner said, seeking the court's direction to
begin the course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wednesday upheld the State government’s 1997 decision dividing the Karnataka
Road Transport Corporation and establishing transport corporations for
Bangalore city, the North East, the North West and for other regions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Justice N. Kumar and Justice V. Suri Appa Rao passed the order while setting
aside the July 2, 2007 order of a single judge, who had declared that setting
up of new corporations for different parts of the State was not permissible in
law while permitting the government to establish subsidiaries of the KSRTC as
per Section 17A of the Road Transport Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the government notification creating North West Road Transport Corporation to
cover Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, and Bijapur districts; North East Karnataka Road
Transport Corporation to cover Bidar, Gulbarga, Raichur and Belllary districts;
Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation for Bangalore city; and KSRTC for
old Mysore and other nationalised areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ruled that the government had the power under Section 3 of the RTC Act to set
up transport corporations either for the whole of the State or for any part of
the State and creation of these new corporations come under Section 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court bench here in connection with the case related to the emerald (maragatha)
lingam that went missing from the Kunnathur Chatram, a century-old guest house
for devotees of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Meenakshi-Sundareswarar-temple"><span style="color: #024d99;">Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple</span></a>. It was also
alleged that the lingam worth several crores of rupees has been looted and
smuggled to Singapore by the government officials and politicians through
hawala agents.<br />
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On Thursday, justice N Kirubakaran passed an interim direction regarding the
appearance of commissioner after hearing a writ petition filed by a Madurai-based
advocate, who is also the president of inter-religious advocates association.
The petitioner had said that the lingam kept under the custody of the
corporation had gone missing.<br />
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He further said that no FIR was registered on his complaint filed at the Thallkulam
police on August 27 in that regard.<br />
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Seeking various directions, including locating and recovering of the lingam
that was donated by the Kunnathur zamin, a petition has been filed dragging the
chief secretary and home secretary of state, Madurai's collector and
corporation commissioner, Indian ambassador to Singapore, as parties to the
case.<br />
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Seeking direction to directorate of revenue intelligence,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Intelligence-Bureau"><span style="color: #024d99;">intelligence bureau</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and CBI to conduct investigation, the
petitioner's advocate told the court that the corporation removed the lingam
from the Kunnathur Chatram during the demolition and reconstruction of the
building in 2009.<br />
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When there was public outcry in 2010 that due to the politicians' pressure the
government officials had duplicated the lingam, the corporation confirmed that
the lingam is very safe and it is in the corporation treasury, which also
stated that the same is original and can be tested and proved at any point of
time, the court was told.<br />
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The court was also pointed out that the priest who performed poojas to the
lingam at that time had applied to the corporation under the Right to
Information Act in 2010 about its whereabouts, but he went missing since the date
of his petition.<br />
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Following it, justice Kirubakaran questioned the government about the
whereabouts of the lingam. Is it (lingam) available?, asked the judge. To it,
he was told that instruction has to be get from the corporation. Following it,
the court gave interim direction seeking appearance of the commissioner on
Friday and posted the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CCI has given its approval to conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra Group's
(M&M) proposed multi-structured deal with Spain's auto-component maker CIE
Group, saying the deal will not have adverse effect on competition.<br />
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As per the deal, CIE would consolidate its European forgings businesses with
Mahindra Systech firms that comprises of Mahindra Forgings, Mahindra
Composites, Mahindra Castings, Mahindra Investments (India), Mahindra Gears
International and MUSCO, into one entity -- Mahindra CIE Automotive.<br />
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In its order dated August 21, but made public Thursday, the Competition
Commission of India (CCI) said that "the proposed combination is not
likely to have appreciable adverse effect on competition in India and
therefore, the Commission hereby approves the proposed combination
under...(Competition) Act".<br />
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The Competition watchdog observed that the deal did not "contemplate
combination of two existing players in the Indian auto-component manufacturing
business".<br />
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Further, after the implementation of the deal, M&M would continue to be
present as a shareholder of Mahindra CIE with a holding of 20.04 percent, it
said.<br />
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CCI also noted that CIE Group had no presence in the auto-component business in
India as well as no investments in Indian firms invlved in auto-component
businesses.<br />
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The regulator also noted that the technologies currently being used by the
Mahindra Systech firms would continue to be utilised after deal comes into
effect.<br />
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M&M and CIE Group had entered into various agreements on June 15, 2013
following which they had approached CCI for its approval.<br />
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The deal comprises a series of steps such as acquisition of stake in Mahindra
Forgings, Mahindra Composites and Mahindra Castings by a CIE group company,
Participaciones Internacionales Autometal.<br />
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Besides, Mahindra Overseas Investment Company would acquire 13.5 percent stake
in CIE Group.<br />
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Following these acquisitions, Mahindra Composites, Mahindra Castings, MUSCO,
Mahindra Gears International and Mahindra Investments (India) and CIE's
Participaciones Internacionales Autometal Tres would be merged with Mahindra
Forgings, which would be then renamed as Mahindra CIE Automotive.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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India moves PM-led cabinet committee on investment to expedite investment<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-27/news/41499325_1_cairn-india-oil-and-gas-contracts-field-development-costs">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-27/news/41499325_1_cairn-india-oil-and-gas-contracts-field-development-costs</a></div>
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<span class="pubdate"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Rajeev Jayaswal, ET Bureau</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Aug 27, 2013, 06.02AM IST</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: Cairn India, the operator of the country's biggest onland oilfield, has
approached the prime minister-led cabinet committee on investment (CCI) to
resolve regulatory hurdles that have blocked<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/investments"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">investments</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of
$2.4 billion and sought its help in reimbursing about $1 billion it spent to
develop the block.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The government has recently set up a special cell in the cabinet secretariat to
assist investors facing regulatory delays. The CCI is directly monitoring
progress of more than two dozens oil and gas projects worth over Rs 103,700
crore. Most of these projects are implemented by state-run companies,
government officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="author"><span style="background: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;">J. VENKATESAN</span></span><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 15.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Plea against
30-year sentence without remission misconceived, says Bench<o:p></o:p></span></i></h2>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Supreme Court is
competent and has the jurisdiction to fix a particular number of years with or
without remission when it commutes the death sentence to life term while
upholding the conviction of the accused under Section 302 of the Indian Penal
Code, a Bench has ruled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It rejected a writ petition
filed by Gurvail Singh alias Gala for converting his sentence from 30 years in
jail without remission to life imprisonment. He also sought a declaration that
this court was not competent to fix a particular number of years (with or
without remission) when it commuted the death sentence. The petitioner, along
with the co-accused, was charged with killing four persons on the intervening
night of August 20-21, 2000 and the trial court in Punjab awarded the death
penalty and this was confirmed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, the Supreme Court
commuted it to life imprisonment with a direction that the petitioner serve 30
years in jail without remission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rejecting Gala’s argument,
the Bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and S.A. Bodbea said the issue raised in
this petition was elaborately dealt with by a three-judge Bench in Swamy Shraddananda
case, in which it was held that life imprisonment could not be equivalent to
imprisonment for 14 or 20 years, rather it always meant the whole natural life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“This court has always
clarified that the punishment so awarded would be subject to any order passed
in exercise of the clemency powers of the President or the Governor, as the
case may be. Pardon, reprieve and remissions are granted in exercise of
prerogative power. The power to grant pardons and to commute sentences is
coupled with a duty to exercise the same fairly and reasonably. Thus, such
orders do not interfere with the sovereign power of the state.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bench said: “This court
issued orders to deprive a convict of the benefit of remissions only in cases
where the death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment and it does not
apply in all cases wherein the person has been sentenced to life imprisonment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A local<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has
directed the police to register a case on the basis of a complaint of cheating
against employees and representatives of a real estate firm, which include the
son of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Madhya+Pradesh" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Madhya Pradesh</span></a>Lokayukta.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Complainant Abhijeet Tripathi told reporters that Judicial Magistrate R K
Rawatkar directed the Aerodrome Police Station to register a case against the
firm Emmar MGF Land Ltd and its employees under sections 420 (cheating) and 406
(criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The magistrate directed the police to finish the probe and file the final
report by October 28.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Tripathi said he had filed the complaint against the company and its
representatives including Shrawan Gupta, Mehar Singh, Abhay Mishra,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Ajay" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Ajay</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Nambiar
and Siddharth Naolekar. Siddharth is the son of Madhya Pradesh state Lokayukta
P P Naolekar.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to Tripathi, he purchased a plot at Indore Greens township and paid
Rs 38,84,691 to the company. But, later he learnt through RTI that the firm had
kept the plot as a collateral with the government, and could not have sold it
off.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Tripathi then sought his money back, but in vain. After the Aerodrome Police
did not conduct any probe on his complaint, he approached the court.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Meanwhile, when asked for a comment, the company spokesperson said "We
have not received any such court order so far and we shall only be able to
comment on the same once we get the order, if any".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fourth Additional District and Sessions Court on Thursday sentenced underworld
don Dawood Ibrahim’s hitman Rasheed Malbari and his aide Mohammad Hasim to five
years’ rigorous imprisonment. It also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the two
terrorists.</span></b><b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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In case they fail to pay the fine, they will serve an extra year in jail, the
court ruled.<br />
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Judge B K Naik pronounced the judgement in the jam-packed court hall here. The
court on Monday had convicted the two men for possessing illegal weapons, under
Section 25 (1) (a) of the Arms Act. After hearing the final arguments and
counter-arguments on Wednesday, the court reserved the pronouncement of the
quantum of punishment for Thursday.<br />
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While prosecutor Manjunath Bhat Panne sought a maximum punishment of 10 years
under the Arms Act, defence lawyer Purushotham Poojary prayed for lenience as
possession of firearms had not been prohibited under the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Malbari, who has
already spent 53 months in jail, will serve the remaining seven-month term in a
central prison in Karnataka.<br />
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Malbari was arrested by the District Crime Branch Bureau and police officers of
the Intelligence wing at a house in Chattanchal near Kasargod on March 30,
2009. His associate Hasim was apprehended in Talapady. The police had then
seized a 9mm US-made pistol and five bullets from Malbari, and a 9mm pistol and
five bullets from Hasim.<br />
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In the charge sheet, the police had accused the duo of conspiring to kill BJP
leader Varun Gandhi and Pramod Muthalik of Sri Rama Sene. Though the
accusations were not proved in the court, the accused were sent to jail for
possessing illegal arms.<br />
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Speaking to reporters, Panne said he would decide his next move of filing a
revision petition seeking further punishment after receiving the certified copy
of the judgement. “There was provision for sentencing the accused to 10 years
in prison,” he said.<br />
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Malbari told reporters that the court had convicted him without proper
evidence. “I have been falsely victimised and they have punished me because I
am a Muslim. I will appeal to the High Court against the sessions court
judgement,” he said.He also alleged police conspiracy and the role of Hindu
organisations such as the Bajrang Dal and the RSS behind his conviction.<br />
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name was not ‘Malbari’ and that he neither hailed from Malabar in Kerala.</span></b><b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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in Udupi district,” he said. He claimed that the Mumbai police who arrested him
had named him Malbari because he spoke the Beary language the police might have
mistaken for Malayalam.</span></b><b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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people from South India ‘Malabaris’. Incidentally, many people who work in West
Asia either belong to the coastal region of Karnataka or Kerala.</span></b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/pil-filed-in-sc-for-court-monitored-cbi-probe-in-asarams-case-1070279.html">http://www.firstpost.com/india/pil-filed-in-sc-for-court-monitored-cbi-probe-in-asarams-case-1070279.html</a></div>
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seeking a court-monitored CBI probe into an alleged sexual assault case
involving self-styled godman Asaram Bapu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The petition referred to the recent statement by
Asaram’s son Narayan Sai that the minor girl was “mentally
unstable” and said there was “low implementation” of the
Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Court-monitored CBI probe into the incident involving the rape of minor by
Asaram Bapu in the Jodhpur Ashram premises …,” Chennai-based D I Nathan
said in his PIL filed through advocate N Rajaraman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for immediate scientific test for ascertaining the biological age of
victims, who are children, and fast tracking of the probe so that evidence
was not obliterated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ask ”all district SP level officers across the country for objective
investigation by a police team of female investigators sensitized to deal
with the offences involving sexual assault of child or juvenile.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The petitioner said the object of the Juvenile
Justice Act, 2000 was “repeatedly violated and disregarded by
the police, state authorities and the accused who are violating the
privacy and the right to life of minor victims.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It said sensitivity of the police investigating
crimes against the juvenile victims and the media, which is
reporting such crimes against the victims, were violating the purpose
of the Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">72-year-old Asaram, who is accused of sexually
assaulting a minor, will face arrest if he fails to appear before
the Jodhpur Police tomorrow. Asaram had sought extension in the date
of appearance before the investigation officer of the case at Jodhpur
citing he had various pre-decided religious fixtures lined up
till September 19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(IT), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and CBI into alleged match fixing and
betting in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Premier-League"><span style="color: #024d99;">Indian Premier League</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(IPL) cricket matches, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-High-Court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay High Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ordered on Thursday that a copy of the
petition be served to these agencies within three weeks.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The order was given by a bench headed by Justice PV Hardas which heared a
public interest litigation (PIL) filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar
asking for probe by central agencies into alleged nexus of cricket players with
bookies.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petitioner prayed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) be
directed to register a case of cheating against players and bookies who had
allegedly developed nexus with vested interests for "fixing matches or
promoting betting in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IPL"><span style="color: #024d99;">IPL</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>matches".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The PIL alleged that offences had been committed in the context of match fixing
during IPL 2013 and also urged a direction to ED, IT as well as Mumbai police
and Delhi police to co-operate with the CBI which should take up the role of
co-ordinating these investigations.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petitioner said that on a request by the central government, the CBI had
earlier conducted a preliminary inquiry into the alleged nexus of players with
bookies. This report should culminate in the filing of an FIR if offences had
been committed. However, this had not been done, the PIL said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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When the IPL scam broke this year, some bookies' names had cropped up during
investigations conducted separately by Delhi police and Mumbai police, the PIL
said, adding that a central and independent agency like the CBI must be
directed to probe the alleged cricket match fixing and betting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme%20Court"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Supreme Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>today
asked the Centre to file its response on a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/PIL"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">PIL</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>seeking initiation of removal process
of former Chief Justice of India<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/K%20G%20Balakrishnan"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">K G Balakrishnan</span></a>from the post of NHRC Chairman for his
alleged "misbehaviour" and purchase of benami properties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"At this stage, we are asking the Centre to file its response within three
weeks," a bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the earlier complaint filed on this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">"More
than two-and-a-half years have elapsed since we made the complaint with them.
The complaint was supported by documents also. This issue cannot be allowed to
go on and on," lawyer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Prashant%20Bhushan"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Prashant Bhushan</span></a>, who has filed the PIL on behalf of
NGO Common Cause, said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Centre) have disposed of the complaint or it is still pending with them,"
the bench said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which had been given to it leveling allegations of corruption against, among
others, chief justice of India P Sathasivam, his predecessor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Altamas-Kabir"><span style="color: #024d99;">Altamas Kabir</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and attorney general G E Vahanvati.<br />
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The PMO's disclosure on August 23 of these as-yet unverified allegations
complied with a statutory safeguard. The RTI reply specifically said that
"the concerned third parties were given opportunity to make
representations regarding disclosure of the documents" in accordance with
section 11 of RTI.<br />
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Responding to a plea from RTI activist<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Subhash-Chandra"><span style="color: #024d99;">Subhash Chandra</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Agrawal, the PMO added for good
measure that it was enclosing a copy of the complaint, which had been sent by
journalist M Furquan on May 5, "after completing the third party
procedures".<br />
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All this implies that the PMO decided to disclose Furquan's complaint after
notifying not only him but also the other "concerned third parties" -
namely, the judges and law officer - who had been attacked by him. For, section
11 stipulates that no confidential information "which relates to or has
been supplied by a third party" can be disclosed without observing the
principles of natural justice.<br />
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Interesting, in the same RTI reply, the PMO declined to disclose another
complaint, which was only against Kabir and had been filed on March 19 by chief
justice of the Gujarat high court Bhaskar Bhattacharya.<br />
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The explanation given by the PMO for withholding it is telling: Justice
Bhattacharya stated that "his communication was confidential in nature and
is meant for constitutional functionaries concerning a particular subject
matter. He has therefore requested that the contents of the letter should not
be disclosed to any person/authority, who is not a participant in the process.
In view of the submission made by the third party, the information cannot be
provided."<br />
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The grounds for withholding Bhattacharya's letter, which had been written
towards the end of Kabir's tenure as CJI, make the disclosure of Furqan's
letter under the same provision all the more significant. In any event, it is
contrary to the trend of being cagey about disclosing information relating to
judicial accountability.<br />
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As for the action taken on Furquan's complaint, the PMO said generally that it
had been filed "as per guidelines for processing of public petitions in
the office". The six-page complaint attributed ulterior motives to several
judicial decisions taken by Kabir and other Supreme Court judges. It also all
alleged that there was an "unholy nexus" between Kabir and Vahanvati.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-66996051738156028252013-08-09T18:18:00.000+05:302013-08-09T18:18:03.350+05:30Legal News 09.08.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Court notice to Centre, Jammu & Kashmir on judicial probe into Ramban
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DELHI: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme%20Court"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Supreme Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>today
sought response of the Centre and the Jammu & Kashmir government on a PIL
seeking judicial inquiry into the BSF firing in Ramban district of the state in
which four persons were killed and several injured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">A bench
of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Ranjana%20Desai"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Ranjana Desai</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>issued
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security, lodging and medical facilities to Amarnath and Vaishnodevi pilgrims
who get stranded during their journey due to imposition of curfew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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secretary of J&K National Panthers Party, said four civilians were killed
and 44 persons including security personnel were injured on July 18 when a BSF
team had opened fire at a mob that had gathered at its camp in Ramban district
protesting against alleged manhandling of an imam of the area by the force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the family members of those killed in the firing and Rs 10 lakh for the
injured persons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A Public Interest Litigation filed in the Gujarat High Court has demanded that
`interference' of Prime Minister's Office in the probe into the Ishrat Jehan
encounter killing be stopped.<br style="outline: none;" />
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A division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B
Pardiwala heard the matter on Thursday before adjourning it to August 16 for
further hearing.<br style="outline: none;" />
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Kantilal Chavda, a local resident, has alleged in the PIL that the PMO, through
Union Ministry of Home Affairs and CBI, is interfering in the investigation.<br style="outline: none;" />
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"Investigations have revealed, as reflected in the charge-sheet, that the
then Director, Intelligence Bureau, was the main conspirator...despite this, he
has not been arraigned as accused," the petition says.<br style="outline: none;" />
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"It appears that the intention of the central government is to play a
political game rather than unearth the truth", it charged.<br style="outline: none;" />
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The charge-sheet filed by CBI claims the inputs about four `terrorists'
entering Ahmedabad in 2004 to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi was
provided by Rajinder Kumar, and weapons found on the dead bodies of the four
were also supplied by him.<br style="outline: none;" />
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Ishrat, a Mumbai-based student, her friend Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai,
and their associates Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were gunned down by Crime
Branch sleuths on June 15, 2004 near here. According to CBI, the encounter, a
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Observing
that the Centre has the executive powers to analyse threat</span> perception
and provide protection to any private person or entity, the Bombay High Court
today dismissed a PIL challenging the 'Z' category CRPF security given to
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.<br />
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A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M S Sancklecha today
dismissed the public interest litigation filed by two social activists Nitin
Deshpande and Vikrant Karnik seeking quashing of the April 21 order of the
Union government, which gave CRPF security to Ambani.<br />
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"There is nothing in the CRPF Act or rules that take away the executive
powers of the central government to provide protection to a private person or
entity. It is up to the authority to scrutinise and decide on demand for
protection, " the court said.<br />
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The court relied on a 1955 judgement of the Supreme Court which said the Centre
can take executive decisions and need not wait for the Parliament to enact or
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"The executive powers of the central government are co-existent with the
legislative power of the Parliament," the High Court said today, quoting
the apex court order.<br />
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The bench further said that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) can be
deployed for protection and prevention of crime.<br />
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"CRPF may be deployed anywhere in India not only for restoration of law
and order but also for any other purpose as decided by the Centre," Chief
Justice Shah said.<br />
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The petitioners' lawyer Ashish Mehta argued that in 2009, the CISF Act was
amended so that they could provide protection to private installations like oil
refineries.<br />
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"Similarly, if CRPF commandos are deployed for protection of private
persons, then even the CRPF Act and rules should be amended," Mehta said.<br />
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"If you (petitioner) do not have objection to CISF providing protection to
oil refineries then why are you raising objection to protection given to the
person who put these oil refineries?" Chief Justice Shah queried.<br />
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The court further said that it cannot entertain PILs filed for publicity and
that the petitioner should specify some illegality and injustice therein.<br />
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The government had sanctioned security after Ambani's office informed the
Mumbai police about threatening letters purportedly sent by terror group Indian
Mujahideen (IM).<br />
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Additional Solicitor General Kevic Setalvad argued that Ambani, who has been
provided 25 CRPF commandos, is paying around Rs 15 lakh every month towards the
protection.<br />
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According to the PIL, CRPF is constituted to tackle emergency situations, and
not for day-to-day law and order duties.<br />
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"The service of the CRPF is required only when there arises situation of
national emergency, terrorist attacks, internal disturbances, riots or
otherwise which is beyond the control of the local police," it states.<br />
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including Cabinet ministers, chief ministers, Supreme Court and High Court
judges, leading politicians and senior bureaucrats.<o:p></o:p><br />
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affidavits. There should not have been water-logging after the assurance given
by the civic and other agencies to court on July 24....," a division bench
of acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru said during an
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for short term-measures and in case of their failure, the heads will take
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GUWAHATI, Aug 8 – The Gauhati High Court today took cognizance of a
Public Interest Litigation(PIL) filed by a number of eminent personalities
including Dr Nirmal Choudhury and Homen Borgohain over protection and
conservation of water bodies in Guwahati.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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authorities including the Chief Secretary, State</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Environment </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and Forest department, Guwahati Development department,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> State Revenue </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">department,
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ruing over the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> present </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">state of water bodies, especially the Silsako and the
Bondajaan water bodies, Dr Nirmal Choudhury told mediapersons that greed and
ignorance of the people have pushed the water bodies towards near-extinction
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commission formed by the Government ten years back, said, “I had made a number
of recommendations regarding conservation of water bodies and on the ways to
tackle the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> problem </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">of artificial flood in Guwahati. Unfortunately, most of the
recommendations remained on papers only.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“A holistic approach is required from the
Government to conserve and protect the water bodies which are so important for
our eco-system. Of</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> course</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, funds would be required but that would be worth an
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Sahitya Sabha Homen Borgohain said that although the Government had enacted a
law in 2008 to protect and conserve the water bodies, it itself resorted to
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Had the recommendations of Dr Choudhury inquiry
commission been executed, the state of affairs would have been far better.
Inquiry commissions formed by the Government have turned into gimmicks,”
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illegal</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> occupants </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and also demolish unauthorized constructions in the
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steps </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">are not taken, the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">problem</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">of artificial flood will never be solved,” Borgohain opined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-50227481588910349472013-08-08T13:11:00.002+05:302013-08-08T13:11:47.232+05:30Legal News 08.08.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Supreme Court on
Wednesday night stayed the execution of Maganlal Barela, who was sentenced to
death for beheading his five daughters after an argument with his two wives. He
was to be hanged today morning. Further hearing of the case is scheduled to
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of execution was passed by the Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam at his
residence around 11.30 pm on Wednesday night after senior counsel Colin
Gonsalves approached him with a plea to suspend the execution scheduled for
Thursday morning. Since the CJI could not call the two other companion judges
to his residence at the odd hour, he passed an order staying the execution and
posted the matter for further hearing as a first case on Thursday morning to be
heard by a Bench headed by him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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District and Sessions Court issued a black warrant for Mr. Barela’s execution
after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his clemency petition last month. His
plea to commute his sentence to life imprisonment had been rejected by the High
Court and the Supreme Court. Barela killed his five daughters, aged 1 to 6,
with an axe in the village of Kaneria on June 11, 2010. He tried to hang
himself after the crime, but was unsuccessful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The CBI
on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it did not require the government's
sanction for a corruption probe against public servants in court-monitored
cases but the government disagreed with this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told an apex court bench of Justice RM
Lodha, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Kurian Joseph it would file an
application seeking its go-ahead to begin investigating an officer suspected of
wrongdoing in the allocation of coal blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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counsel Amarendra Saran, appearing for the CBI, sought to keep the government
away from the process of giving sanction for investigating public servants
facing corruption allegations but Attorney General GE Vahanvati said the court
could seek the stand of government on such a plea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the wake of the Gorkha Janmukti
Morcha (GJM)-sponsored indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling Hills, the Calcutta
High Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to ensure there was
no forced shutdown and asked it to submit a compliance report in seven days.<br />
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Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the court's intervention against
forced shutdowns, a division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice
Joymalyo Bagchi asked the state government to ensure that railways, offices and
education institutions are not subjected to forcible shutdowns.<br />
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While pronouncing the order, the bench however, remarked "democratic
aspirations of the people cannot be curtailed forcibly" and added that
"such shutdowns are undemocratic".<br />
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The court also asked the Mamata Banerjee administration to furnish a copy of
the order to the representatives of the GJM.<br />
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The High Court earlier had declared bandhs (shutdowns) illegal.<br />
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Life in the North West Bengal hills has been crippled since the past week
following the GJM's indefinite shutdown to press for a separate Gorkhaland
state to be carved out of parts of Darjeeling and its neighbouring Jalpaiguri
district.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The move came after the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance's
endorsement of statehood to Telangana.<br />
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stayed the interim order of a single judge directing police to take custody of
telephone records, including voice records, of Salim Rajan, former gunman of
Chief Minister<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Oommen+Chandy" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Oommen Chandy</span></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The order in this regard was issued by a division bench comprising Chief
Justice Manjula Chellur and justice A M Shafique on a an appeal by the state
government challenging the legality of the interim order, passed two days ago.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice V K Mohan had on August 5 directed Inspector General of Police to seize
the telephone records of Salim Rajan and that of his relatives while admitting
two petitions filed by A K Shariffa of Kochi and Premchand R Nair of
Thiruvananthapuram seeking<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Cbi" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">CBI</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>probe
into the activities of Salim Rajan and some of his relatives involved in
dubious land deals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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When the appeal came up, Advocate General K P Dandapani contended that the land
transactions took place long back and and no criminal cases were pending
against Salim Rajan and his relatives before any forum.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The bench orally observed that petitioner has not preferred any complainant
before any police station against the phone calls or seizure of telephone
records. Instead, Shariffa had directly preferred a complaint to the<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Director+General+Of+Police" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Director General of Police</span></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the petitioner, she submitted a complaint to DGP due to
"illegal influences, money and manpower' by the Chief Minister's gunman
and no action was taken.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In an unusual move, the government today approached the Kerala High Court
challenging the order to seize the telephone records of Salim Rajan, who was
suspended from service after it was found that he had made and received phone
calls from Saritha S Nair, accused in the solar panel scam.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The allegation against Salim Rajan and his relatives was that they had tried to
usurp about 1.16 acres of land at Kalamassery in Kochi belonging to Shariffa
and 45.5 acres of land at Thiruvananthapuram belonging to Premchand R Nair.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The bench, however, declined to stay the order directing the seizure of revenue
records relating to the alleged deals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Salim Rajan was suspended from service when the solar panel scam broke out and
media reports surfaced that he had made and received calls from the accused
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The Bombay High Court today refused to direct CBI to probe into alleged
malpractice due to which IPS officer K L Bishnoi cleared his LLB exam without
appearing for practicals and also against other policemen who had conducted an
inquiry and gave a clean chit to him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and S B Shukre was hearing a
petition filed by Chitra Salunkhe, former vice principal of Siddarth Law
College, seeking a CBI probe against Bishnoi and other IPS officers for
allegedly shielding him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Earlier, the High Court had directed former Director General of Police, K
Subramanium to conduct an inquiry into it. The DGP gave a clean chit to all the
officers but recommended advisory note to be issued to two of them for
non-application of mind and casual approach while dealing with complaints filed
by Salunkhe against Bishnoi.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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soon after the report was submitted, Salunkhe sought CBI inquiry alleging that
the DGP inquiry was just an "eyewash".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court today, however, observed that the inquiry conducted by the former DGP
was not dis satisfactory. "We do not find any substance in the allegations
of the petitioner. We found nothing in the report which would warrant us to
direct for CBI investigation," Justice Dharmadhikari said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court further held that it does not find the DGP inquiry report
"perverse or erroneous in law" and hence to falsify it at this stage
was unwarranted.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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examination with the help of then acting principal I A Inamdar, without
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On Salunkhe's complaint, seven IPS officers had conducted an inquiry into the
matter. After Bishnoi was given a clean chit, Salunkhe approached the high
court seeking action against the senior cops for submitting "false"
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Besides Maria, the other officers who faced inquiry were Additional Director
Generals of Police Pankaj Gupta and Mohan Rathod, Additional Commissioner of
Police Sanjay Saxena and three Deputy Commissioners of Police - Naval Bajaj,
Brijesh Singh and Vishwas Nangre-Patil.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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asked district judges and police chiefs across<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uttar+Pradesh" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Uttar Pradesh</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
work together to ensure that the backlog of over six lakh criminal cases where
the accused "were absconding (or) not appearing before courts" for
more than three months were "wiped out".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A bench of Justices Amar Saran and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Dinesh" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Dinesh</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Gupta
also asked the state DGP, Principal Secretary (Home) and district judges to
"send feedback to the HC registry by the 7th of each month" regarding
the extent to which the above directions were being followed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In a May 24 order, the court had asked the officials concerned to "ensure
the appearance of charge-sheeted accused within three months" who had
failed to present themselves for hearings in courts across UP.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court noted there were 6.20 lakh cases across UP in which the accused had
not appeared before the trial court despite submission of a charge-sheet.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Fixing Aug. 30 as the next date of hearing in the matter, HC sought
"further feedback and compliance affidavits" on behalf of the
Principal Secretary (Home) and the DGP and ordered "senior officials
capable of taking decisions and responding to the court's queries" to
remain present on that date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Madras High Court bench
here has issued an order forbearing the Virudhunagar district manager of Tasmac
from opening a liquor shop at Vadamalapuram village near Sivakasi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“When the people of a
locality are against the establishment of liquor shops, the democratically
elected government should respect their wishes and consider them in proper
perspective,” ruled a division bench comprising Justices N. Paul Vasanthakumar
and P. Devadass in their order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The petitioner, T. Paul
Raj, a resident of Vadamalapuram, filed the public interest litigation opposing
the proposal of the district manager of Tasmac to open a liquor shop in the
village. In his petition, Mr. Raj alleged that the officials proposed to open
the Tasmac shop despite the objections raised by the villagers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Vadamalapuram village
panchayat had passed a resolution on July 1, 2013 requesting the district
collector not to permit the opening of liquor shops in the village. The villagers
sent a communication to the officials on July 16, 2013 objecting to the opening
of a liquor shop in the village”, contended the petitioner’s counsel G.R.
Swaminathan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there was a high school in the village, which was attended by girl students
from six surrounding villages. Having a Tasmac shop in the village would be a
hindrance to them, he contended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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behalf of Tasmac, M. Muniasamy, contended that establishing a liquor shop in
Vadamalapuram village would fetch more income to the government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the views of the villagers and the resolution of the panchayat should be given
due consideration by the district manager of Tasmac, whose sole intention,
according to his submission, is to fetch more income to the government”, the
judges observed in their order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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issued notice to Delhi Police asking it to file a status report indicating
security and safety measures in and around Kalkaji temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A division bench of Acting Chief Justice
B.D. Ahmad and Justice Vibhu Bakhru also asked the fire department to file a
status report on compliance of the safety regulations within the temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The court's direction came on a PIL filed by
advocate Piyush Joshi seeking directions for Delhi Police to provide adequate
security and safety at the Kalkaji temple and other basic amenities, including
sanitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The bench also issued notice to the central
government, Sri Kalkaji Mandir Prabhandhak Sudhar Committee, Delhi government,
lieutenant governor, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Municipal Corporation
of Delhi (MCD), police commissioner, police station house office of Kalkaji and
Delhi fire service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The petitioner said that he saw the
prevailing deplorable conditions at the Kalkaji temple such as lack of proper
hygiene and sanitation, mismanagement, lack of security, unauthorised
occupation of the dharamshalas in the temple premises, lack of basic amenities
like shoe storage facilities etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Filing the plea, the advocate said the
conditions in the temple premises do not conform to any civic standards of
sanitation, health and fire safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">It added that no security measures are
present at the temple to prevent untoward incidents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Poor sanitation conditions at the
temple are breeding ground for diseases. No proper waste disposal system has
made the temple premises unhygienic," the PIL stated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and demolish illegal unauthorised construction in and around the temple and MCD
to check all unscrupulous vendors who have raised unauthorised structure around
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"There is encroachment upon temple
property by unauthorised and unscrupulous persons who pollute the temple
premises without taking any measures to depose of the waste and garbage, which
is generated from their respective shop structures," the plea said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in a shelter home near Bagalur and rescued on Tuesday, were questioned by
the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) to find out what exactly happened in the
shelter home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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classmate’s parents, pleading to help her. The girl said that over the three
months of her stay in the shelter, she was abused by the caretaker Samuel.
Other girls at the shelter too were abused by the caretaker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kothanur police. The police have written to the Child Welfare Committee seeking
directions on where to send the girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another place. We have written to the CWC seeking directions in this regard,”
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“The investigation is still in the process. We have questioned 8 children so
far,” she said. “We have also asked the police to include violation of Protection
of Children from Sexual Abuse Act 2012 in the FIR against Samuel,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when they saw their son for the first time in 10 days at the Government Home
for Boys at Royapuram on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on July 26, was thought to have drowned in the Marina Beach and his parents
wandered around various beaches hoping that his body would be washed ashore.
But, Vignesh was rescued and officials of the Child Welfare Committee escorted
him around Chennai to identify his residence as he did not know the precise
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a housemaid from Manapakkam, had skipped school and left with his neighbour on
July 26 for sightseeing. They visited Guindy and later spent time at the Marina
after which Vignesh went missing. His neighbour, who returned home, reportedly
lied to Vignesh’s family that he had drowned. “We went to many beaches hoping
to find either him or his body. Every time, we heard about a young boy’s
death, we got scared thinking that it could be our son,” a teary Papathi said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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initially told the CWC that he lived in ‘Kolapakkam’ near Porur. On Saturday,
CWC staff escorted the boy to places in south Chennai and other suburbs hoping
that he would identify his locality. “When he travelled in a suburban train, he
identified the station where he had to get down and we found that it was not
‘Kolapakkam’ but Manapakkam. Parents and police thought he was dead,” said
Agnes Shanthi, CWC chairperson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In the past week, 124<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/criminal-cases"><span style="color: #024d99;">criminal cases</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>under specific sections of the Indian
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protests. The cases were related to damage to statues of national leaders,
vehicles, public property, rioting and assault. Over 1,000 persons were taken
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In these 124 criminal cases, 221 persons were arrested. Among the 124 cases, 39
were related to damage to statues of national leaders and 94 culprits have been
arrested. "Damage to statues is bound to provoke strong reaction from
various sections of society and also cause animosity between different groups.
Therefore, we have invoked specific provisions of law, including Section 153-A
(Promoting enmity between classes) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The
punishment prescribed under Section 153-A is imprisonment up to three
years," additional director-general (Law & Order) VSK Kaumudi said.<br />
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The additional DG, who is also spokesperson of the AP police, said people with
certain vested interest were indulging in mudslinging against police department
and such persons would be liable for stringent criminal action as per the law.
He said the police department was apolitical and works without any
discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, religion or region.<br />
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The AP police headquarters has advised all district superintendents of police
(SPs) to take preventive action to maintain law and order.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Murder
convicts in Punjab and Haryana are not entitled to B-class facilities in jails,
while Punjab has also decided to deny such facilities to prisoners involved in
"any kind of acid attack".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This decision was conveyed to the Punjab and
Haryana high court through affidavits filed on behalf of the states during
resumed hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the withdrawal of
B-class facilities to convicts in murder cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In pursuance to the directions issued by a
division bench of the high court on July 10, the Haryana jails department had
issued instructions to the director general of prisons (DGP), on August 1 that
murder convicts shall not be entitled to B-class facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The circular clarified that the facilities
shall also now not be available to prisoners involved in (i) Lurking house
trespass or house breaking where death or grievous hurt is caused (under
Sections 406 or 459 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC); (ii) offences against the
state punishable under Section 121 to 124-A IPC; (iii) Immoral trafficking in
minors (sections 3, 4, 5 of the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act; (iv) Offences
under sections 17 (c) or 18 (b) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychiatric Substances
Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">An additional affidavit has been filed by
Jagjit Singh, additional inspector general of prisons, Haryana, stating that as
per instructions issued by the additional chief secretary vide a letter dated
August 1, facilities provided to convicts in murder cases had been withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The additional advocate general, Punjab,
produced a August 6 communication of the jails department, Punjab, to the ADGP
(prisons), conveying that the state government had decided that prisoners
involved in "murder/culpable homicide/causing death by negligence or rash
act" shall not be entitled to B-class facilities. The Punjab government
has also deprived prisoners involved in "any kind of acid attack on the
body of a person" from B-class facilities in jails. Besides, those
involved in offences under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act have
also been disentitled from B-class facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The inmate gets facilities of bedding,
separately cooked food or home-cooked food, newspapers and magazines, exemption
from hard jobs, can wear clothes other than prisoner's uniform, and can have
more visitors as compared to ordinary prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The standing counsel for UT Chandigarh stated
before the HC that the matter was being considered by its home department. The
HC, therefore, granted two more weeks to the Chandigarh administration for
compliance of its order dated July 10. The PIL shall now be listed for
compliance only for the UT on August 30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Convicts challenge decision</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Five inmates of the Gurgaon jail, undergoing
life imprisonment for murder, moved an application for intervention in the PIL.
They stated that the right to better-class facilities available to them under
provisions of the Punjab Jails Manual could not be taken away by the issuance
of any circular or notification by the state government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, alleged Lashkar operative and key
plotter of 26/11 terror strikes, on Wednesday filed a bail application, saying
though he has been in jail for the past one year, the trial in the case is yet
to begin.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The respondent (state) is deliberately delaying the court proceedings and
hence prolonging the trial with mala-fide intentions," said Jundal's bail
application, filed by his lawyer advocate Ejaz Naqvi in a sessions court.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The plea further says that Jundal is innocent and has been implicated. The
court has asked the state to file its reply by August 20.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Beed resident Jundal was deported from Saudi Arabia in June 2012. According to
the Crime Branch, he was one of the key conspirators of Mumbai terror attacks
of November 2008 which had left 166 dead and scores injured.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In its 13,000-page charge sheet filed last October, the Crime Branch has
alleged that Jundal was present with LeT chief Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and others
in a Karachi-based "control room", monitoring the 26/11 terror
strike. The cops claim it was Jundal who taught Hindi to the 10 Pakistani
attackers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In Maharashtra, Jundal is also accused of involvement in the 2006 Aurangabad
arms haul case, the 2010 German Bakery blast in Pune, and Nashik police academy
attack conspiracy.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The 32-year-old is currently lodged in Arthur Road Jail's high security cell
that earlier had housed Ajmal Qasab. He has filed many applications, claiming
that Qasab's ghost was haunting him in the cell and that he be allowed to stay
with other prisoners. All the pleas were rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/lakhan-bhaiyya-encounter-brother-moves-hc-against-sharma-s-113080701524_1.html">http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/lakhan-bhaiyya-encounter-brother-moves-hc-against-sharma-s-113080701524_1.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
family of Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiyya, a suspected aide of Chhota
Rajan, killed in a fake encounter in 2006, today approached the Bombay High<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>challenging
the acquittal of encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma by a sessions court.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Ramnarayan's advocate brother Ramprasad Gupta filed a petition in the high
court, saying, "The sessions court order acquitting Sharma is erroneous
under<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Law" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">law</span></a>. There is evidence against Sharma."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The sessions court had last month acquitted Sharma after observing that there
is no direct or circumstantial evidence to show his involvement in the case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court, however, convicted 21 persons, including 13 policemen, and sentenced
them to life imprisonment on charge of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Murder" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">murder</span></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The lower court had termed the prosecution evidence against Sharma as
"weak" to come to the conclusion that he had led the police team that
carried out the encounter.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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On November 11, 2006, a police team picked up Ramnarayan, along with his friend
Anil Bheda, from Vashi in Navi Mumbai on the suspicion that he was a member of
the Chhota Rajan gang, and shot him dead near Nana Nani Park in suburban
Versova in Western Mumbai on the same evening.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to prosecution, Bheda was initially detained at D N Nagar police
station in Versova and was later shifted to Kolhapur. He was subsequently
brought back to Mumbai and was detained for about a month.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Soon thereafter, Ramprasad Gupta moved the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Bombay+High+Court" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bombay High Court</span></a>, alleging that police had murdered
his brother.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In February 2008, the high court ordered a magisterial inquiry which concluded
that it was a "cold-blooded murder".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In September 2009, the HC constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe the
case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Pradeep Sharma had been arrested by SIT on January 8, 2010, along with 21
others for their involvement in Ramnarayan's killing.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to investigators, Ramnarayan was killed at the instance of Navi
Mumbai-based builder Janardhan Bange alias Janya Sheth, who had got in touch
with Sharma to have Ramnarayan eliminated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two other co-accused in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sohrabuddin-Sheikh-fake-encounter-case"><span style="color: #024d99;">Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>have urged the city sessions court to
conduct day-to-day hearing on chargesheets by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CID"><span style="color: #024d99;">CID</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(crime) in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake
encounter case. They face prosecution on chargesheets filed by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI"><span style="color: #024d99;">CBI</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Mumbai in the same case.<br />
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Two chargesheets were filed by CID (crime) in 2007 before the probe was
transferred to CBI by the Supreme Court. Before the SC stayed proceedings in
this case in September 2009, the prosecutor also made opening statements and
submitted draft charges to the court. These chargesheets along with other case
papers are lying with the Gujarat high court registry in sealed covers.<br />
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Vanzara, M L Parmar and N H Dabhi have claimed that the SC orders were silent
on this case and a criminal case has to reach its logical end by conducting a
trial. Hence the court should immediately ask jail authorities of Sabarmati
Central Jail and Taloja Jail in Maharashtra to produce the accused before the
court every 14 days.<br />
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The accused persons' lawyer V D Gajjar contended that the SC had ordered CBI to
probe the case in January 2010, but the old case was ignored completely. Nor
was this case transferred to Mumbai. He also cited the Tulsiram Prajapati fake
encounter case, which witnessed similar developments.<br />
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Advocate Gajjar claimed that the accused including Vanzara are still in the
custody of Palanpur's sessions court, as CID (crime) had filed a chargesheet in
a Danta court. The accused cops are regularly produced before the judge in
Palanpur every 14 days, but the same procedure has not been adopted in the
Sohrabuddin encounter case. Hence, Vanzara and others should be regularly
produced before the sessions court in Bhadra.<br />
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The applicants also urged the court if case records cannot be called for
prosecution from the high court, the accused should be discharged or acquitted.
The court has issued notice to the public prosecutor in this regard and
scheduled a further hearing for August 14.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Four months after the capital was
divided into 11 judicial districts, the Delhi High Court has agreed to grant
the Delhi Police Special Cell a designated court to handle all the cases that
the cell was investigating.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Earlier this week, the Delhi High
Court passed an administrative order which stated that all sessions trial cases
— except for those under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)
Act — will now be tried by the court of the second senior-most Additional
Sessions Judge (ASJ-2) at Patiala House Courts complex. The order also stated
that the transfer was "with immediate effect".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">According to the order, all
pre-trial proceedings — such as remand of accused, submission of chargesheet,
etc. — of cases investigated by the Special Cell will be done in the court of
the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, New Delhi, at Patiala House Courts complex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">It, however, remains to be clarified
whether the cases, which are in their final stage of trial as well as those in
which judgments have been reserved, will also be transferred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">A huge number of cases, including
the high-profile IPL spot-fixing case, the Delhi serial blasts case, the cases
against the various alleged modules of terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen,
among others, which are presently being heard in various sessions courts in the
city, will now be heard by a single judge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The hearing in the Delhi serial
blasts case, which was scheduled to be heard before the court of ASJ Narinder
Kumar at Tis Hazari on Wednesday, was deferred to next week as the court was
informed about the High Court order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by seven accused in the IPL spot-fixing case was also deferred by the Saket
court to Thursday, and will now be heard at the Patiala House Courts complex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Delhi Police Special Cell had in
February sent a representation to the High Court demanding a dedicated special
court to hear its cases, citing the sensitive nature of these cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Cell said its cases needed to be
transferred to a single court to ensure better security for its officers as
well as the accused in the cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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representing several alleged Indian Mujahideen members, said the move may delay
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"The purpose of a dedicated
court is to dispose of cases expeditiously. This would be defeated if you
transfer 100-150 cases to a single court," Khan said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00417b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Delhi police
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Delhi: The Delhi Police has been pulled up by a court here for "shutting
its eyes" on the complaint of its lady constable accusing a Station House
Officer of molesting her in a police station.<br />
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The court also expressed its displeasure over a magisterial court's refusal to
order registration of FIR on her complaint.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"It is very unfortunate that a department (Delhi Police), which is
responsible to investigate every crime in Delhi, is alleged to have shut its
eyes from the crime having been committed upon their own employee i.i.
Complainant and that allegedly by their officer i.e. SHO, who was duty bound to
prevent crime in his area," Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar
Shastri said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The ASJ's observation came on an appeal filed by a lady constable through her counsel
Hena Shah against a magisterial court order refusing to direct lodging of FIR
on her complaint against the then SHO, BS Rana of Kalkaji Police Station here,
citing absence of independent witnesses to prove allegations.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The Sessions court, however, sets aside the magistrate's decision saying,
"A prima facie case of cognizable offence was made out. In my opinion, it
was contrary to law, not to direct the SHO to register FIR."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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It also directed the complainant to appear before the trial court on August 12.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The 22-year-old constable had said that in January 2012 while she was posted at
Kalkaji Police Station, the SHO had allegedly molested her in a rest room of
the police station.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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here.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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While directing the magistrate to hear the case afresh, the court said,
"It is eerie that a young working girl could not get justice even from a
court of law, which rejected her prayer, saying all the facts of the case were
within the knowledge of the complainant and hence there appeared no ground to
issue any direction to the SHO."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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It also observed that "a young constable swearing on oath an incident of
molestation at the hands of her boss, it was established during department
enquiry that the complainant and respondents met together in police station in
the night.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">"It is very hard to believe that such young official will
level false allegation against her boss and a senior police officer like SHO
and that relating to her own dignity," the judge added.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court in its order also noted the complainant's claim that she had lodged a
complaint with the DCP concerned as well as to the Commissioner of Police, but
no FIR was registered and she was transferred from the police station.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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DELHI: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-High-Court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi High Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>today refused to entertain a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/PIL"><span style="color: #024d99;">PIL</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>seeking quashing of controversial<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Food-Security-ordinance"><span style="color: #024d99;">Food Security ordinance</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for alleged "misuse" of
constitutional provision to gain political mileage, saying it was for
Parliament to take a decision on it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Parliament is in session and it is for the Parliament to take a
decision... we refrain from expressing any opinion on the issue. The petition
is dismissed," a bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Vibhu-Bakhru"><span style="color: #024d99;">Vibhu Bakhru</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court was hearing the PIL filed by advocate M L Sharma questioning the procedure
adopted and claimed that an ordinance can be promulgated only under
extraordinary circumstances which was lacking in the present case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The PIL was filed in the High Court after the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Supreme Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>refused to entertain it saying that it
cannot examine the ordinance on the ground that there was political dimension
or objective behind it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The apex court, however, had given liberty to the lawyer to move the high court
for redressal of his grievances.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Prior to bringing the ordinance, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Food-Security-bill"><span style="color: #024d99;">Food Security bill</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was brought three times before
Parliament and the ordinance was brought in contravention of the constitutional
mandate for gaining political mileage," Sharma said, adding that he was
not against the bill but was opposing the procedures adopted to bring it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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It sought quashing of the ordinance alleging that the constitutional provision
has been misused for pre-election propaganda and political gains.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"We cannot decide it," the High Court said. The petition alleged
Article 123 of the Constitution that deals with the power of the President to
promulgate ordinances during the recess of Parliament has been misused as there
was no "emergency" situation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"There was no emergency circumstances exist to issue impugn ordinance
hence it does not comply with the terms of Art. 123. Therefore, the impugned
notification is unconstitutional and is liable to be declared unconstitutional
and void," it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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file its response to a PIL alleging that the Censor Board (CBFC) in connivance
with film makers is allowing "double meaning" dialogues, "foul
language and sex scenes" to be exhibited in films.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) to file an affidavit within two weeks making
its stand clear on the issue raised in the petition on the functioning of
Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In the petition, social activist Teena Sharma sought a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Cbi" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">CBI</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>inquiry
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She alleged that it was "working hand-in-glove with filmmakers, allowing
double meaning dialogues, foul language and sex scenes to be exhibited in
films."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Citing some<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Bollywood" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bollywood</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>films,
the petitioner said, "I demand a thorough explanation about how these
movies are fit for public viewing under 'U/A' or 'A' certificates, as it is in
clear violation of the Cinematograph Act, the Young Persons (Harmful
Publications) Act, and the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition)
Act."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Delhi: The city government and police chief were on Wednesday directed by the
Delhi High Court to explain the steps taken by them to prevent bikers from
performing stunts in public places including near India Gate, where a teenager
lost his life during firing by cops on stunters last month.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru issued
notice to the Centre, Delhi government and the Police Commissioner and sought
their responses by October 23 on a PIL seeking action against such bikers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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such bikers from performing stunts," the bench said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The order came on the PIL filed by Hari Kishan Dayal, a city-based retired
professor, who said he was aggrieved by "lawlessness" in Delhi and
the "vulnerability" of men and women here due to such bikers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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these anti-social elements go on rampage on their bikes, by over speeding and
performing stunts on roads and harass the general public."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Inspite of prior information, the police do not make adequate
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The petition, filed through counsel Pradeep Arya and Monica Arora, said that
due to the failure of the police to stop such bikers, a 19-year-old boy lost
his life last month.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The counsel said that incidents of bikers performing stunts on roads are on the
rise and it is not only hazardous for them but also endangers lives of others
on the road.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The plea alleged that despite claims by the police, the situation on the ground
has not changed since the December 16 gang-rape incident and police continues
to be "insensitive".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The environment in public places, roads and transport is as unsafe as
ever and the criminals have an utter disregard for the law," the petition
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the banking industry are set to change with several more lenders expected to
come up in the country by year-end, while a few could be merged, the
Competition Commission of India (CCI), the country’s fair trade regulator, has
finally been given oversight powers to prohibit monopoly in the sector.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, in case of a merger of a failed bank
with another healthy lender as in the case of bankrupt Global Trust Bank that
was amalgamated with the state-owned Oriental Bank of Commerce in 2004, the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would get full power to decide on the fate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Earlier, any mergers in the banking space
were kept out of CCI’s ambit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“While any merger in the banking space would
need the approval of the CCI, we would not play a role in case of a merger of a
failed bank with another bank as in such cases there is no time for scrutiny
because public money is involved and it needs to be addressed immediately,”
Ashok Chawla, chairman, CCI, told HT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that it may initiate consolidation among public sector banks to create
mega-banking entities to compete with foreign banks. Such mergers too may have
to pass through CCI’s scanner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“We understand the need to create banking
behemoths to compete with the foreign banks but in case there are mergers among
government-run banks, CCI would definitely go through the process,” Chawla
added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="upper"><b><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;">NEW DELHI,
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Competition Commission of India has penalised 11 shoe manufacturers for
indulging in collusive and restrictive bidding for a tender floated by the
Ministry of Commerce for procurement of ankle boot sole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Imposing a
penalty of Rs 6.18 crore on the 11 firms, CCI asked the companies to ‘cease and
desist’ from anti-competitive practices in future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals under the Commerce Ministry had
approached CCI after finding a similarity in the bids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was
found that the difference in quoted prices of different bidders was very
narrow. Following an investigation by the Director General, which indicated
collusive bidding, penalty rate was 5 per cent of the average turnover of the
company. The estimates of the tender requirement indicated in the tender
enquiry was valued at Rs 10.45 crore and consisted of 45 items of different
sizes and colours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“The
Commission is of the view that the opposite party bidders by quoting identical
/ near identical rates had indirectly determined prices/rates in the rates
contract finalised by the DG S&G and indulged in bid rigging/ collusive
bidding in contravening provisions. Further, the opposite parties by imposing
quantity restrictions for the RC period as well as per controlled/ limited the
supply of the product in question and share the market controlled/ limited
supply of the product in question and shared the market of the product among
themselves under an agreement/arrangement,” CCI said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
companies penalised include A R Polymers, Puja Enterprises, M B Rubber,
Tirupati Footwear, H B Rubber, Rajkumar Dyeing and Printing Works, Preet
Footwears, S S Rubbers, R S industries, Shiva Rubber Industries and Derpa
Industrial Polymers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Advocates and litigants having mobile phones
with Android Operating System-based internet connection can now easily access
Supreme Court Display Board and know the flow of their case on any particular
day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam on
Wednesday launched the facility at a function at the apex court in the presence
of Law Minister Kapil Sibal, judges and bar leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The CJI also inaugurated some other
e-facilities, isncluding SMS on filing and registration of cases. This facility
enables an Advocate on Record (who does actual filing of cases in the SC) and
parties in person to receive instant update through SMS on their mobile on
successful filing or registration of their case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Details about filing and pendency of courts
across the country will also be easily accessible with the inauguration of the
National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) by the CJI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">With the launch of the first phase of NJDG,
case data of all the courts, including those at district level, will be
available on a single website -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="skimwords-unlinked">ecourts.gov.in</span>. The portal will have data from
around 10,000 courts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Any visitor to this website can access
the status of the case, the cause list of the district courts and in some
cases, daily order or judgement of the case, searchable on the basis of case
number, party name, advocate name etc.," Justice Madan B Lokur, in-charge
of the e-committee which was entrusted with the task of developing the portal,
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">CJI Sathasivam appreciated the effort and
said this will go a long way in administration of justice as the Chief Justices
of different high courts will have the actual idea of case status of different
courts in the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Justice Lokur said the data of all the courts
will also serve as a "backbone database" for the NJDG which is
intended to become a case information storehouse for justice delivery system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Law Minister Kapil Sibal said it will help in
court management and will bring in more transparency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-63573427460198967402013-07-14T13:11:00.003+05:302013-07-14T13:11:55.329+05:30LEGAL NEWS 14.07.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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awarded death sentence by a lower court in connection with an alleged honour
killing case of Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench comprising Justice Amar Saran and Justice Pankaj Naqvi on
Friday ordered "the release of Natthu, Rakesh, Mahavir, Viresh,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jai-Prakash"><span style="color: #024d99;">Jai Prakash</span></a>, Pappu and Gulab Singh"
holding that they "stand acquitted of charges they had been found guilty
of".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The appellants had challenged July 30, 2012 order of additional sessions judge,
Badaun.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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They were awarded death sentence for allegedly burning<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">alive</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Deen Dayal and Anita in a village under Gunnaur police
station of the district on the intervening night of May 22-23, 2006.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Anita was the daughter of one of the appellants, Natthu.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The girl's affair with Deen Dayal was said to have been bitterly opposed by her
family.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, during the trial, Natthu denied his involvement in the incident and
claimed that the remaining six accused had "resorted to this abhorrent
crime to grab his property".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The high court struck down the conviction of all the seven accused observing
that the trial court had convicted them "on the strength of the
statement" given by Natthu, which was "not a substantive piece of
evidence which could have nailed the other set of accused persons".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The trial court was swayed by the fact Natthu in his statement ... had
admitted his presence at the scene of occurrence," the court noted, adding
"this approach was absolutely de hors the law.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The prosecution had failed to prove the case, in the mode and manner as alleged
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Giving
relief to a person whose appointment as Associate Professor in Naval Architecture
and Ocean Engineering in the school of Naval Architecture here was withdrawn,
the Madras High<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has
directed the Indian Maritime University to allow him to join duty.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice D Hariparanthaman, while passing an interim order yesterday, directed
the Indian Maritime University to allow M S Ravi Sharma to work as Associate
Professor and issued a notice to it directing it not to fill the post.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petitioner Sharma, who resigned his job in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=USA" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">USA</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>after
his selection as Associate Professor, had challenged the University decision to
withdraw the appointment order issued to him in this June.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petitioner submitted that the University invited applications for
recruitment of various faculty members in September 2012, pursuant to which he
applied for the post.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sharma further submitted that he attended the interview through Video
Conferencing in November 2012 and an order of appointment was issued on
December 4, 2012 asking him to join duty on or before March 3, 2013.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In the meantime the Ministry of Shipping, which constituted a Faculty
Assessment Committee, kept in abeyance the joining of selected candidates and
new set of directions were issued by it because of which he was not able to
join duty, he stated.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sharma contended that there was no deviation in the recruitment process, but on
the basis of an order issued by the Ministry of Shipping, the university
withdrew the appointment order on June 14 following which he challenged the
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move to make its employees posted in southern region work longer than their
counterparts elsewhere in the country.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>
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The airline changed working hours to 44 hours per week for all its employees at
airports, hangars and administrative offices in the southern region in
February. But the new schedule was implemented only in southern and western
regions. The western region, however, went back to the old schedule after the
employees approached the Bombay high court against the new rules and some staff
unions asked their members not to follow the revised timings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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But the southern region stuck with the new rules. The employees then challenged
the increased working hours in the high court, which in May this year issued a
stay on the new schedule. An affidavit filed by Air Corporation Employees
Union, which opposed the move, said the airline decided to change work hours
without amending the Indian Airlines (general employees) Service Regulations
and without the consent of employees.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Rejecting Air India's appeal seeking lifting of the stay order, Justice D
Hariparanthaman, in an interim order on July 8, said the court could not accept
the airline's argument that the new work hours were introduced because the
company was making a loss.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The issue has it origin in Air India's decision to hive off ground handling and
engineering sections into two subsidiaries. Ground handling employees were to
be brought under<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Air-India"><span style="color: #024d99;">Air India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Air
Transport Services and engineering staff under Air India Engineering Services.
"A few employees were transferred while a few were sent on deputation. To
ensure that the employees did not complain about the change in working hours,
the management changed the timings for all employees," said an employee.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The new work hours force several employees to stay back for more than one
and a half day though there is no work to do," said another employee. More
than 250 employees were affected by the new timings, he said. The airline
follows two sets of work hours - 38 hours per week and 44 hours per week -
because the nature of work for those at airport terminals, hangars and workshops
and those in administrative offices are different. The different working hours
are also linked to different incentives and compensations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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red cards<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://sikhsangat.org/2013/hc-seeks-info-on-panel-to-review-cancellation-of-victims-red-cards/">http://sikhsangat.org/2013/hc-seeks-info-on-panel-to-review-cancellation-of-victims-red-cards/</a></div>
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<span class="author"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://sikhsangat.org/author/jsingh/" title="Posts by JSingh"><span style="color: #888888;">JSingh</span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">July 13, 2013</span><span class="category"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://sikhsangat.org/category/asia/" title="View all posts in Asia"><span style="color: #bc0c0c;">Asia</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Chandigarh:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The Punjab and Haryana high court on
Tuesday directed the Punjab government to inform about modalities for the
formation of a high-level committee to review orders of the authority
cancelling red cards of victims of the 1984 Sikh genocide .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The division bench
comprising chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and justice Augustine George Masih
was hearing a bunch of petitions of Sikh genocide victims taking up
the issue of cancellation of their red cards illegally and also about
cancellation of red cards of illegal beneficiaries. The state government had
issued red cards to riot victims so as to avail compensation of Rs 2 lakh and
other benefits in housing schemes and commercial booths as per the state
policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Appearing for the state
government, advocate general Ashok Aggarwal sought time from the court to seek
instructions from the appropriate authorities regarding the constitution of the
high-level committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Representing the riot
victims in one case, advocate Mansur Ali said the Ludhiana deputy commissioner
(DC) had in an arbitrary manner cancelled red cards issued to the petitioners
despite the fact that the latter had submitted all comprehensive proofs to the
authorities that during the 1984 genocide , they were displaced from
various cities and states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The court was informed that
after the high court directions on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by
the Sikh Danga Peerat Welfare Committee, P unjab, regarding illegal issuance of
red cards to some people, the Ludhiana DC had ordered an inquiry into the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The high court had on
February 13 stayed the Ludhiana DC’s January 29 order cancelling red cards
issued to 20 victims of the 1984 genocide .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Source</span></strong><em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">: The
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Post-Graduate
Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) director to decide on the
appointment of assistant administrative officers' and other posts that have
been challenged in a petition filed by a workers' union of the institute,
within two months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The directions came from the division bench comprising chief justice Sanjay
Kishan Kaul and justice Augustine George Masih on a public interest litigation
filed by Adhoc Front PGI Employees' Union.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The petitioner union had sought quashing of
the selection of five assistant administrative officers namely Dinesh Kumar,
Sanjay Trikha, Ankur Sharma, Surinder Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Saxena stating
that these selections had been made in "utter violation" of rules and
advertisements.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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It was submitted that also the appointments to the three advertised posts of
assistant accounts officers and lower division clerks had been made by
violating the rules after 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court was informed that despite bringing
the issue to the notice of the authorities concerned, no action had been taken
so far and that needed to be probed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">After hearing the case, though the court
questioned the petitioner's counsel about the delay in filing the petition in
the high court but since the matter seemed to be important, the court issued
directions to the PGIMER director to look into the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://newindianexpress.com/nation/Treatment-of-SOL-students-PIL-in-HC/2013/07/14/article1682881.ece">http://newindianexpress.com/nation/Treatment-of-SOL-students-PIL-in-HC/2013/07/14/article1682881.ece</a></div>
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turn of the open school which has been taken to court for its alleged
‘indifferent’ treatment meted out to the students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice
Vibhu Bhakru of the Delhi High Court has sought responses from the Central
Government, Delhi University, and its School of Open Learning (SOL) against a
PIL filled by an organisation called Fight for Human Rights by September 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the SOL were extremely ‘arbitrary and discriminatory.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discourage the students to take admission for studies with SOL and this results
in the defeat of the very purpose of imparting education to maximum number of
citizens,” the PIL said. The plea said that the SOL procedure while
conducting annual examinations, rechecking and revaluation of answer sheets and
treatment of students is arbitrary and discriminatory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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administration stating that the school declares result very late depriving
students the chance to pursue higher studies. “The authorities concerned
conduct the annual examination for the students of SOL in May/June every
year and declare results very late in November/December,” it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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paper in their final year, are deprived of the chance to pursue higher studies
because the result of supplementary examination conducted for failed students
is announced very late when admission of all courses are closed by all
universities,” it added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Subhadra Channa, professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi
says, “There may be disparity in terms of facilities, but this may not
necessarily be termed as human rights violation. The biggest problem is that
the number of students admitted in SOL are much more than that of regular
students and so it takes time to deliver the facilities provided to regular
students such as examination results.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which stated that the St Mary's School in Pune Camp "shall reserve"
25% seats for children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups of
society as provided under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009.<br />
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The high court division bench of justices V M Kanade and K R Shriram stated in
its modified order on July 11 that the word "reserve" is substituted
by the words "keep vacant".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Move"><span style="color: #024d99;">The move</span></a>came after it was brought to the
court's notice that the 25% seats ought to be kept vacant till it issues
further orders on the writ petition filed by the school.<br />
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The earlier order read, "...the petitioner (St Mary's School) shall
reserve 25% seats for children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged
group of the society as defined under the said Act." Referring to this,
the petitioner made an application submitting that it did not mention that the
said seats should be kept vacant until further orders.<br />
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The bench has since ruled, "In our view, it is obvious that there is a
typographical mistake in the said order and it is clarified that the petitioner
shall keep 25% seats vacant. In the order, the word 'reserve' therefore is
substituted by the word 'keep vacant'. The order is accordingly modified."<br />
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The matter is now expected to be heard on August 8, considering that the court
has extended the returnable date for the notices issued to the respondents,
including the Pune zilla parishad (ZP) education officer, by four weeks.<br />
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Representatives of non-aided minority schools here have expressed their
satisfaction over the modified order as the high court - in another petition
filed by the Bishop's education society regarding its schools at Pune Camp,
Kalyaninagar and Undri - is dealing with the question as to what constitutes
"aid".<br />
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This is in view of the Supreme Court's ruling that the RTE Act is applicable to
aided minority schools only and is not applicable to non-aided minority
schools.<br />
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The St Mary's School, relying on the high court's May 15 order in the Bishop's
Schools matter, had pleaded for an interim stay on the ZP education officer's
May 5 order. The ZP order had directed the school to cancel its admission
process for academic year 2013-14 for not adhering to the provisions of the RTE
Act regarding 25% quota.<br />
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The Bishop's education society has claimed the status of a non-aided minority
institution and has argued that it is not bound by RTE provisions. However, the
ZP, which had directed the Bishop's Schools to cancel their admissions process
for 2013-14 for not adhering to the 25% quota under the RTE Act, has contested
the society's claim.<br />
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The ZP has submitted in the court that the Bishop's School in Pune Camp is
located on land granted by the central government on lease at a concessional
rate, while the schools in Kalyaninagar and Undri were receiving aid in the
form of concession in property tax.<br />
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The court observed that whether concession in property tax could be considered
as "aid" was a matter that required debate. It has since allowed the
Bishop's Schools to fill up 75% seats on a first-come-first basis, while
admissions to the remaining 25% seats shall be subject to further orders. The
Bishop's matter is slated to be next heard on August 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Gujarat<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/high-court"><span style="color: #024d99;">high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on
Friday asked Veer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Narmad</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>South
Gujarat University (<span style="background: white;">VNSGU</span>) to give
admission on 600 seats of<span style="background: white;">BCom</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at CJ Patel College (<span style="background: white;">CJPC</span>),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Variav</span>, which was suspended by it from the
admission process. The university had suspended the college from<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Centralized-Admission-Committee"><span style="color: #024d99;">Centralized Admission Committee</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<span style="background: white;">CAC</span>)
in June end and did not allow admissions on the 600 B Com seats.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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The university has now initiated the process for admission on the 600 seats of
CJPC. "According to the court order, we will immediately publish an
advertisement announcing admission on 600 seats. The CAC has also been asked to
take necessary steps to include the college in the admission process,"
said Dakshesh Thakar, vice-chancellor, VNSGU.<br />
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Earlier, the college was suspended from admission process by the university,
saying that the CJPC had failed to deposit Rs 50 lakh with it as security
deposit towards teachers' salaries. Teachers at the college were not paid
salaries as per the 6{+t}{+h}<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pay-Commission"><span style="color: #024d99;">Pay Commission</span></a>, the university claimed.<br />
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On the Rs 50 lakh deposit, the court order said, "Considering the issue
involved in this petition, this court is of the opinion that the demand raised
by the university on the basis of the resolution passed by the syndicate is not
backed and/or supported by any rule or regulation. Prima facie, the respondents
(VNSGU) are not able to establish that there is any legal basis for such
demand."<br />
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However, the court asked CJPC to submit an affidavit agreeing to pay salaries
to its teachers as per the 6{+t}{+h} Pay Commission. "We are ready to pay
salaries as per the norms but the teachers are not qualified. Hence, we are not
paying them the full salary. The court is yet to decide the issue," said
Jagdish Tekrawala, managing trustee of CJPC, Variav.<br />
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The university argued that CJPC was allowed to collect fees from students to
accommodate teachers' salaries as per the 6{+t}{+h} Pay Commission. However,
despite it collecting high fees, it was not paying salaries to its teachers as
per the norms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to provide treatment to a remand prisoner suffering by cancer at the Government<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>RajajiHospital (GRH). The prisoner,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sownther<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>aliasSownthrapandian, was arrested on
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Seeking treatment for Sownther at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Adayar-Cancer-Research-Institute"><span style="color: #024d99;">Adayar Cancer Research Institute</span></a>, his wife,
Karthiga Rani, 29, a resident of Thirunagar in Madurai, filed a writ petition
before the bench.<br />
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Disposing the petition, justice S Manikumar ordered that Sownther should first
be treated at Madurai GRH and be shifted to Adayar cancer institute, if
necessary.<br />
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According to the petitioner, her husband is suffering from giant cell tumor
(Grade II), for which he underwent three surgeries on his left leg knee during
2009 -2010 in a private hospital in Madurai. Doctors had advised him to undergo
one more surgery.<br />
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The petition claimed that the Jaihindpuram police in Madurai had foisted a
false case on Sownther on June 17. Sownther has been accused of robbing Rs 700
from a Meenakshi Sundaram at knifepoint. The police booked him in the case with
the malafide intention of detaining him, the petition said.<br />
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Rani claimed that she visited Madurai central prison four times and found that
he was unable to walk without help. She pleaded before the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/prison-authority"><span style="color: #024d99;">prison authority</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that he be allowed treatment on July
10. The writ petition was filed as there was no proper response from the prison
authorities, Rani claimed.<br />
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interest if his/her "general reputation" is not good even without
tangible material to substantiate it, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Punjab-and-Haryana-high-court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Punjab and Haryana high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Fateh Deep Singh
passed the order on Friday while upholding the high court decision on premature
retirement of Haryana Superior Judicial Services judicial officer Chaman Lal
Mohal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Mohal was entitled to work till the age of 60, but was forced to prematurely
retire on January 29 after the court's administrative judge declared his
integrity as "doubtful".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The officer appealed against the decision in February, arguing there was no
material or the basis for doubting his integrity. He submitted that there was
no complaint against him in 2011-12 nor any other material or report was ever
communicated to him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court dismissed his petition and held that it was not necessary to limit
the "material" only to written complaints or "tangible"
evidence pointing fingers at the integrity of the judicial officer.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Such evidence may not be forthcoming in such cases," the bench said.
It observed that if an authority bona fide forms an opinion that the integrity
of a particular officer is doubtful, the correctness of that opinion cannot be
challenged before courts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Karnataka High Court has issued orders for winding up Capt. G.R. Gopinath’s
Deccan Cargo and Express Logistics Pvt Ltd (DCEL), which operates under the
‘Deccan 360’ brand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The High
Court’s order indicates that DCEL, even after being given several opportunities,
could not pay dues to the tune of Rs 39 lakh to Dubai-based United Aviation
Services (UAS) and Rs 1.36 crore to Patel Integrated Logistics Pvt Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court
directed the winding up of the company in its June 11, 2013 order based on two
petitions — one filed by UAS, which provided various facilities like permits,
ground handling and fuelling in West Asia, Europe and Russia for DCEL, and
another one filed by Patel Integrated, which had provided various logistic
services to DCEL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, the
Court has ordered the Official Liquidator to commence the liquidation process.
Last year itself, the court had prohibited DCEL from selling any of its assets
following these two petitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">DCEL had
opposed Patel Integrated’s plea. It alleged that the petition for winding up
was filed to avoid payment of court fee to launch a recovery suit under the
civil laws, and to “pressurise the company (DCEL) to act in accordance with the
dictates of Patel Integrated”. However, DCEL did not file any objection against
the plea of UAS to wind up the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Both the
petitioners knocked the doors of the court in 2011 after failing in their
attempts to recover DCEL’s dues since 2009. It was pointed out in the petitions
that DCEL had asked many of its 600-odd employees to either quit or go on long
leave due to a serious financial crisis, and that it was selling its assets to
clear its debts. As DCEL too had admitted its financial difficulties in making
payments, the petitioner-companies had pleaded for the winding up of DCEL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court
also noticed that though two separate public notices were issued in 2012 about
the pleas for winding up, no objection was received against them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Airport and Ground Services Pvt Ltd, JP Aviation Services Pvt Ltd, Lufthansa
Tehnik Services India Ltd, Aegis Ltd, Dolphin Transport Corporation and
Mindtree Ltd had also approached the court subsequently for winding up DCEL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">However,
the court, in its various orders issued between June 12 and 28, has referred
them to the Official Liquidator for claiming the amount due through the
liquidation process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">DCEL was
originally incorporated as Deccan Cargo Ltd in 2001 and later changed its name
to DCEL in 2007-08. It launched operations in November 2009, two years after
Capt Gopinath sold off his airline business, Deccan Aviation, to Vijay Mallya’s
Kingfisher Airlines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Delhi" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Delhi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>High<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has agreed to hear a petition seeking
urgent measures to improve traffic flow on the busy Vikas Marg for reducing
accidents and saving motorists' time and energy.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A division bench of Acting Chief Justice
B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru, before which the petition came up
recently, decided to hear it Aug 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Petitioner Sudhir Jain, an author, sought
direction to the Delhi government and joint commissioner of police (traffic) to
apply his suggestions to decongest the east Delhi road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Jain contended that as per his proposal the
traffic flow between ITO to Anand Vihar will become smooth and continuous
during office hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">He said he had surveyed the stretch and
found that the techniques currently used by the traffic department to manage
the vehicles were adding to congestion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"The process (of traffic department)
encourages lane changing, mixes non-motorised and motorised vehicle flow,
creates traffic bottleneck and increases waiting at intersections. The effect,
in turn, increases traffic congestion, air and sound pollution and wastes
commuters' time and energy," the petition said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">He submitted that "the improvement in
traffic flow on decongested Vikas Marg can be used as an example to simplify
traffic management on all arterial roads, especially on which traffic at
intersections is still managed by signals."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The petitioner said he wrote to various
authorities about the plan but they ignored his suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Upholding a Punjab and Haryana high court judgment, the Supreme Court has
ordered enhancement of compensation payable to several<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/landowners" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">landowners</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>whose
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Recently, a single bench of Punjab and Haryana high court had enhanced the amount
of compensation payable to the landowners from Rs 28,15,356 per acre to Rs
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The state government and landowners had moved the apex court over the issue of
compensation. After hearing a bunch of petitions, the apex court on July 2,
ordered the Haryana government and HSIIDC to pay Rs 9,24,644 per acre to
petitioners.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The two-member bench of Justice G S Singhvi and Justice S J Mukhopadhya, also
ordered that the payment shall be made to the landowners and/or their legal
representatives by following the procedure laid down in the interim orders
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The landowners of dozens of villages near Gurgaon had been fighting a lengthy
legal battle against low compensation awarded to them by the Haryana
government. The petitioners included people whose land had been acquired in the
past several years.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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During the hearing the counsel of the landowner submitted that the high court
should not have imposed a cut of one-fourth in one batch of appeals
(petitioners) and 20% cut in the other batch of appeals (petitioners) as per
the average sale price reflected on the ground that the area of the land
acquired by the Haryana government was too large. The apex court held that in a
matter like the present one, it cannot be ignored that the land was acquired
for setting up an industrial model township in Manesar and after developing the
land, the HSIIDC was bound to sell the plots at a much higher price to the
existing or prospective industrial entrepreneurs.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Commenting on the criteria relied on by the high court, the SC held that in
this scenario, the judges committed an error by applying one-fourth or 20% cut
on market value determined for the purpose of payment of relief to the
landowners. The high court had enhanced the amount of compensation payable to
the landowners from Rs 28,15,356 per acre to Rs 37,40,000 per acre. After
hearing all the arguments, the SC held that Haryana shall pay Rs 9,24,644 per
acre to the landowners and/or their legal representatives along with all statutory
benefits within a period of four months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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probing a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/criminal-case" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">criminal case</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has earned flak from a trial court,
which called its investigations a "sham" and pulled up the cops for
taking the version of the accused as "gospel truth".</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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Chief metropolitan magistrate Ajay Pandey said, "The investigators believe
the version of accused is gospel truth and do not bother to recover the
misappropriated articles, or cheated money, or to find the nexus among the
accused."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court's remarks came on the investigation done by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Economic-Offence-Wing" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Economic Offence Wing</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(EOW) on a complaint of forgery,
making a false document,<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/criminal-conspiracy" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">criminal conspiracy</span></a>, etc filed by a Korean
national against nine people.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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While the FIR was registered in March 2012, cops are still investigating the
case. The court was appalled that police relied on the complainant to find
evidence, and said if the complainant could have recovered the misappropriated
article, there was no need for the court to order filing of the FIR.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Complainant's counsel Vijay Aggarwal contended that police was shielding the
accused and let the evidence disappear. The court directed the investigating
officer to make all efforts to recover the embezzled articles and other
evidence. It also asked police to submit a compliance report by July 20.<o:p></o:p></span></tmp></span></div>
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CIL - Report<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Commission has ordered another probe into the allegations that state run CIL
and its subsidiaries abused dominant market position in supplying fuel to power
plants.<br />
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The latest investigation against the country's largest coal miner comes on a
complaint filed by West Bengal Power Development Corporation.<br />
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The Commission has already ordered probe in the wake of five complaints against
CIL and in at least three cases, the investigation reports have been submitted
to the regulator.<br />
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Finding prima facie evidence of abuse of dominant market position, the
Competition Commission of India on July 5th ordered probe against Coal India
and its three subsidiaries. They are Eastern Coalfields, Bharat Coking Coal and
Mahanadi Coalfields.<br />
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CCI said that "The Commission is of the opinion that the present case was
a fit case for investigation into the allegations made by the informant about
violation of provisions of Competition Act."<br />
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As per the latest complaint, CIL imposed unfair conditions in the Fuel Supply
Agreements for providing coal to thermal power plants.<br />
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According to the Commission, CIL is in a dominant position as it accounts for
about 82% of coal supply in the country.<br />
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It said that "Taking advantage of their dominant position, the opposite
parties were allegedly not adhering to the terms and conditions in the Fuel
Supply Agreements and conducting themselves in a manner detrimental to the
interest of the informant."<br />
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It added that the FSA's terms and conditions were being "heavily loaded in
favour of opposite parties. the consumer had no alternative but to depend on
them for fuel supply.<br />
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Source - PTI<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c3c65; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 29.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Man gets life
term for killing DU students' union president<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A man
has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a students' union
president of a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Delhi" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Delhi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>University college 14 years ago by a
Delhi<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">court</span></a>, which termed
it as a "rare" case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau sentenced Jitender alias Kalla for
murdering Anil Badana, the then president of Satyawati College students' union
and made it clear that he would not be considered for any remission till he
spends 30 years in jail.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"I am of a considered opinion that this case cannot be put on the same
pedestal as other ordinary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Murder" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">murder</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>cases. It is also true that punishment
in every case does send a message to the community at large.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Thus besides a number of other factors to be considered one of the
relevant factor... Is the sentiments of community or the message which may
travel to the community at large and the fact that it may deter similar other
such like offenders. The present case can be easily classified as a 'rare case'
which calls for the exercising of alternative options by the court," the
judge said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court imposed a fine of Rs four lakh on Kalla, who is in jail from past
over 13 years, and said if the amount is realised, Rs two lakh should be given
to the victim's family.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the prosecution, Kalla had shot dead Badana, 26, at a marriage
function under Keshav Puram police station on March 10, 1999. Kalla was harbouring
ill-will against Badana as he was going to depose against him in a criminal
case, it said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Kalla had also injured the bridegroom's father Madan Lal Sharma while opening
fire indiscriminately as those attending function tried to nab him, it said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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One of the eye witnesses Sumit Nayyar, who had informed the police about the
incident, had to pay a heavy price as Kalla immediately went to his home at
Mukherjee Nagar to kill him but when he realised that Sumit had not reached
there, the accused pumped three bullets in the chest of his father to scare him
away from maintaining his stand before the police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c3c65; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 29.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">SC tells NDMA to
file status report on Uttarakhand rescue operations by July 26<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
Supreme<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has asked the National Disaster
Management Authority (NDMA) to submit its status report on rescue operations in
rain-ravaged<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uttarakhand" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Uttarakhand</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by July 26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik asked
the NDMA to file an affidavit on the status of rescue operations within two
weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand Government
informed the court that pilgrims who were stranded in the various affected
areas of the state have been evacuated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The bench posted the matter for further
hearing on July 26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The court was hearing a PIL filed by a
lawyer, who has sought the apex court's directions to the Centre and the state
government to rescue people stranded in the flood-hit areas in Uttarakhand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Meanwhile,
a team from the National Human Rights Commission-<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=NHRC" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">NHRC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will visit the flood ravaged
Uttarakhand on July 15 (Monday) to take stock of the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The NHRC in a statement said that the team
headed by the Director General (Investigation), Kanwaljit Deol, will hold
meetings with senior officials of the State Government and Non-governmental
organisations during their four-day stay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the state and make assessment of various aspects including the number of
deaths, relief camps, alternate arrangements for rehabilitation of affected
people, restoration of infrastructure and monetary relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Motor Accident
Claims Tribunal (MACT), Pune recently ordered the owner of a goods carrier and
Cholamandalam General Insurance Company to pay compensation of Rs20 lakh to the
relatives of a 30-year-old man who was killed in a road accident involving the
vehicle last year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The parties in the case had resorted to mediation and agreed to
the amount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The order was issued by MACT member and additional sessions judge
SV Mane after the legal heirs of the deceased, Vinod Gorakh Kadam of Kiwale,
filed a claim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The petition named the goods carrier owner Sandeep Kute and
Cholamandalam General Insurance Company as respondents.<br />
Kadam used to work with a private firm and earned Rs20,500 per month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On September 9, 2012, the goods carrier dashed his bicycle near
Dehu Road at 2 pm, killing Kadam on the spot. The Dehu Road police station
arrested the goods carrier driver for rash and negligent driving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In December last year, Kadam’s wife Swati (27), son Shaurya (4)
and parents moved the MACT through their lawyer Atul Gunjal, seeking
compensation of Rs30 lakh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The case came up for hearing before the MACT member VK Shewale.
Later it was sent for mediation when both parties showed interest for
settlement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Within six months, the compensation amount was settled and the
insurance firm agreed to pay Rs20 lakh considering the age and earning capacity
of the deceased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court deals blow to prevalent illegal police practice<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span class="pubdate"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">TNN</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #999999; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jul 13, 2013, 06.53AM IST</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">PANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa has
held that police cannot deny registration of a FIR by stating that the matter
is of a civil nature when the complaint discloses the commission of a criminal
offence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The verdict comes as a blow to the illegal
practice adopted by police of declining investigations of criminal cases and
advising complainants to approach the civil courts for relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high
court passed the judgment on a petition filed by Chowgule and Company Pvt Ltd
against<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Panaji"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Panaji</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>police station. The company alleged
that it was forcibly ousted from a premises in a building in Panaji.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">A division bench comprising Justice A P
Lavande and Justice U V Bakre stated that the law permits the victim to sue for
civil wrong and at the same time proceed against the wrongdoer for having
committed a criminal offence and hence it was incumbent upon the police to have
registered a FIR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high court added that the facts stated in
the complaint give cause of action to Chowgules to file a civil suit. However,
the same, prima facie, also discloses the ingredients of many of the offences
mentioned therein, some of which are cognizable, the court opined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Chowgule claimed that it was a lawful tenant
of the premises, however, the possession of the premises, except for one room
was taken over clandestinely by business partners Tahir and Zeenat Isani.
Later, the Isanis renovated, reconstructed and modified the premises and
started using it for their business purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On November 3, 2010, Chowgule lodged a
complaint of house trespass, mischief and under other sections of IPC. On
September 12, 2011 police informed the company that the matter was of a civil
nature and requested it to approach the civil court for redressal. Later, when
the petitioner approached a judicial magistrate first class court, it held that
the report filed by the company before the police does not disclose criminal
intention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">During the
hearing of the case, advocate S D Lotlikar argued that Chowgule was restored possession
of the premises by Rizvi Estates and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Hotels-(musician)"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Hotels</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Pvt
Ltd following a consent decree passed in a civil suit in 2007. The Isanis
criminally trespassed into the premises and dispossessed Chowgule, he stated.
Lotlikar stated that no inquiry was conducted by police to treat the case as a
civil matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On the other hand, additional public
prosecutor M Amonkar submitted that the building owner had sold the premises to
Tahir Isani by deed of sale dated April 24, 2007. He submitted that there was
delay in lodging the report and that a preliminary inquiry was duly conducted
by the investigating officer and found that the matter was of a civil nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high court opined that the consent decree,
reveals that Rizvi Estates and Hotels Pvt Ltd had restored possession of the
premises to Chowgule and therefore, prima facie, there was ample evidence to
show that Chowgule was in lawful possession of the premises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high court stated that when a report
relating to the commission of cognizable offence is received by an officer in
charge of a police station, he has to register a FIR in terms of Section 154(1)
of CrPC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court observed that there can be no
dispute that in appropriate cases a preliminary inquiry may be conducted before
registering the FIR. It also noted that Panaji police station records
pertaining to the case do not reveal that any preliminary inquiry was conducted
to conclude that the case is of a civil nature and not a cognizable offence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">"In our view the report (complaint),
prima facie disclosed the commission of offences punishable under Sections 447;
448; 453; 427 read with Section 34 of IPC," the bench said. Stating that
criminal intention is made out prima facie, the court has directed the police
to register the offence. tnn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2a2a2; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%; text-transform: uppercase;">BY:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://hillpost.in/author/ravinder/" title="Posts by Ravinder Makhaik"><span style="color: #004276;">RAVINDER MAKHAIK</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: -3px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">JULY 12, 2013 18:12</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shimla</ins></span></strong><span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>: Suing a judge for
not acting diligently and in good faith, resulting in defamation of the
petitioner, is something unheard of in India but the Himachal Pradesh High
Court is confronted with just such an issue and has reserved its order for next
week about whether to admit or dismiss such a suit.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Yesterday taking up
the application moved under section 482 of Cr.PC, Chief Justice AM Khanwilkar
heading the bench with Justice Kuldip Singh after issuing a stern warning to
the petitioner in person, Deepak Khosla, about the nature of the relief sought,
(compensation of Rs 1 Cr) said in open court that in all his career in the bar
or as a Judge, he had not come across any such case where judges were intended
to be sued. <o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Showing preparedness
for all judicial action arising out of moving such an application before the
higher court, Khosla relied upon the Judges Protection Act 1850 and Judges
Protection Act 1985, and stated in court that the 1850 Act granted judges
immunity only in civil matters and the 1985 Act had not debarred higher courts
from taking action against subordinate judicial officers.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>However, the
petitioner in court stated that no mala fides was being alleged against two judges
of a district court arrayed by name in the application but alleges “implied
malice” resulting from their negligence in diligently perusing the case
materials before them in which Khosla is an accused.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Besides the two
judicial officers of a district court in Solan, ten others, including police
officers, public prosecutors and others have been named as respondents. The
petitioner has also evoked Article 227 and section 397-404 of CrPC to make out
a case.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>To buttress his
argument Khosla cited the10 April, 2013 judgment in S.Velankanni v
Chitradevi & others case of Madras High Court wherein immunity under the
Judicial Protection Act was denied and Rs 1 lakh compensation was imposed on a
judicial magistrate for wrongfully remanding a rape victim to judicial custody.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Leading the charge for
the state and district judges in question, Advocate General Sharwan Dogra
termed the application as an attempt to breech the protection judicial officers
had under the constitution and the Judicial Protection Acts. “It could lead to
a breakdown of the system,” he said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Without going into the
merits of the petitioners’ case, the advocate general sought outright dismissal
of the suit and asked for exemplary treatment so as to discourage such
litigation as it was an attack on the very institution under which the judicial
system of the country worked.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Given a chance to
respond, Khosla said that by entertaining his application, the court could, in
fact, send out a positive message, showing that it was willing to entertain
cases against judicial officers, rendering all, including judicial officers,
equal before law.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The case which was
initially listed for the morning session was postponed for the afternoon as the
advocate general was not available earlier.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Argued for about two
hours, the listed matter evoked much interest in court and was attended by many
senior lawyers, before the bench reserved its order for next week.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Before moving to the next listed matter, Khosla, with the
court’s permission bowed out saying in Hindi, ‘<strong>Gustaki Maaf</strong>’, to which the chief justice
responded in equal measure, ending the serious proceedings with a smile on the
face of everybody present.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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activist Commodore Lokesh Batra has written a letter to President<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Pranab+Mukherjee" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pranab Mukherjee</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in which he has said that amendment to
RTI Act, 2005 will be contempt of assurance given in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Parliament" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Parliament</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"On 05 July 2009, the then Minister of
State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions had assured
the Parliament in a written response to a question that the 'Non-Governmental
Organisations and Social activists' will be consulted before any amendment to
the RTI Act, 2005," he said in his letter to President Mukherjee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Commodore Batra told President Mukherjee
there are media reports that the Government is contemplating to counter the decision
of the CIC declaring six political parties as Public authorities which are
subject to the Right to Information Act by amending the RTI Act, 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"The representatives of all political
parties have stated that they believe the CIC decision is unsound legally and
hence they are opposing it. If they are being truthful, they can certainly go
in a writ to the Courts. In the past CIC decisions have been quashed by the
Courts," said Commodore Batra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"In the instant case I cannot see any
reason which justifies any amendment to the RTI Act, 2005 by the Government and
that too without consulting all the stakeholders/ Citizenry at large that
include 'Non-Governmental Organisations and Social activists'," he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Commodore Batra in his letter requested
President Mukherjee to communicate to the Government not to undertake any
amendment to the RTI Act, 2005 without consulting all the stakeholders i.e.
Citizenry at large that include 'Non-Governmental Organisations and Social
activists', as assured in the Parliament lest it becomes contempt of assurance
given in the Parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">After
13 years of the matter being registered, the sessions court on Thursday held
suspended additional commissioner of police Ajay Kumar Jain and wife Anita Jain
guilty and sentenced the couple to three years imprisonment in a
disproportionate assets case worth around `32 lakh. It also slapped a fine of
`25,000 each.<br />
In a separate case, Jain was earlier sentenced to five years in prison for
seeking a `5 lakh bribe from a junior in lieu of protection in a departmental
inquiry. He was out on bail that was granted by the Bombay high court.<br />
While reading out the order, Special Judge V. A. Daulatabadkar said, “In the
case of a default, both the accused will have to serve three months rigorous
imprisonment. There is no need for a separate order for the attachment of the
disproportionate assets.”<br />
Terming an appeal for bail as Jain’s constitutional right, the court asked him
and Anita to furnish a bail bond of `50,000 each.<br />
The matter dates back to 1995 when an open inquiry in the matter was ordered.
The state home department had received an anonymous letter in the year 1990
against Jain where it was alleged that a Kandivali slumlord by the name
Birender Shukla had gifted Jain a Maruti car.<br />
According to investigation officer of the anti-corruption bureau, Arun Wahable,
Jain was involved in several cases of converting “black money into white”.
“Jain and one Kasliwal, the owner of the fictitious ‘Coopergaon Estate’, were
working in tandem. Jain and his family had flats in the building that existed
only on paper. Kasliwal later filed an ‘eviction suit’ to which Jain gave his
consent, but demanded `5 lakh,” said Mr Wahable, adding that Jain himself gave
the amount in cash and asked him to return it by cheque.<br />
“The common link between the two was their chartered accountant P.C. Lodha, who
is an accused in the graft case against Jain,” said Mr Wahable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-34892549273540105222013-07-14T13:11:00.001+05:302013-07-14T13:11:22.818+05:30LEGAL NEWS 14.07.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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awarded death sentence by a lower court in connection with an alleged honour
killing case of Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench comprising Justice Amar Saran and Justice Pankaj Naqvi on
Friday ordered "the release of Natthu, Rakesh, Mahavir, Viresh,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jai-Prakash"><span style="color: #024d99;">Jai Prakash</span></a>, Pappu and Gulab Singh"
holding that they "stand acquitted of charges they had been found guilty
of".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The appellants had challenged July 30, 2012 order of additional sessions judge,
Badaun.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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They were awarded death sentence for allegedly burning<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">alive</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Deen Dayal and Anita in a village under Gunnaur police
station of the district on the intervening night of May 22-23, 2006.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Anita was the daughter of one of the appellants, Natthu.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The girl's affair with Deen Dayal was said to have been bitterly opposed by her
family.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, during the trial, Natthu denied his involvement in the incident and
claimed that the remaining six accused had "resorted to this abhorrent
crime to grab his property".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The high court struck down the conviction of all the seven accused observing
that the trial court had convicted them "on the strength of the
statement" given by Natthu, which was "not a substantive piece of
evidence which could have nailed the other set of accused persons".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The trial court was swayed by the fact Natthu in his statement ... had
admitted his presence at the scene of occurrence," the court noted, adding
"this approach was absolutely de hors the law.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The prosecution had failed to prove the case, in the mode and manner as alleged
by them beyond a reasonable doubt.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-comes-to-the-rescue-of-job-aspirant-113071300501_1.html">http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-comes-to-the-rescue-of-job-aspirant-113071300501_1.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Giving
relief to a person whose appointment as Associate Professor in Naval Architecture
and Ocean Engineering in the school of Naval Architecture here was withdrawn,
the Madras High<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has
directed the Indian Maritime University to allow him to join duty.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice D Hariparanthaman, while passing an interim order yesterday, directed
the Indian Maritime University to allow M S Ravi Sharma to work as Associate
Professor and issued a notice to it directing it not to fill the post.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petitioner Sharma, who resigned his job in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=USA" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">USA</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>after
his selection as Associate Professor, had challenged the University decision to
withdraw the appointment order issued to him in this June.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petitioner submitted that the University invited applications for
recruitment of various faculty members in September 2012, pursuant to which he
applied for the post.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sharma further submitted that he attended the interview through Video
Conferencing in November 2012 and an order of appointment was issued on
December 4, 2012 asking him to join duty on or before March 3, 2013.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In the meantime the Ministry of Shipping, which constituted a Faculty
Assessment Committee, kept in abeyance the joining of selected candidates and
new set of directions were issued by it because of which he was not able to
join duty, he stated.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sharma contended that there was no deviation in the recruitment process, but on
the basis of an order issued by the Ministry of Shipping, the university
withdrew the appointment order on June 14 following which he challenged the
decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The airline changed working hours to 44 hours per week for all its employees at
airports, hangars and administrative offices in the southern region in
February. But the new schedule was implemented only in southern and western
regions. The western region, however, went back to the old schedule after the
employees approached the Bombay high court against the new rules and some staff
unions asked their members not to follow the revised timings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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But the southern region stuck with the new rules. The employees then challenged
the increased working hours in the high court, which in May this year issued a
stay on the new schedule. An affidavit filed by Air Corporation Employees
Union, which opposed the move, said the airline decided to change work hours
without amending the Indian Airlines (general employees) Service Regulations
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Rejecting Air India's appeal seeking lifting of the stay order, Justice D
Hariparanthaman, in an interim order on July 8, said the court could not accept
the airline's argument that the new work hours were introduced because the
company was making a loss.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The issue has it origin in Air India's decision to hive off ground handling and
engineering sections into two subsidiaries. Ground handling employees were to
be brought under<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Air-India"><span style="color: #024d99;">Air India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Air
Transport Services and engineering staff under Air India Engineering Services.
"A few employees were transferred while a few were sent on deputation. To
ensure that the employees did not complain about the change in working hours,
the management changed the timings for all employees," said an employee.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The new work hours force several employees to stay back for more than one
and a half day though there is no work to do," said another employee. More
than 250 employees were affected by the new timings, he said. The airline
follows two sets of work hours - 38 hours per week and 44 hours per week -
because the nature of work for those at airport terminals, hangars and workshops
and those in administrative offices are different. The different working hours
are also linked to different incentives and compensations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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red cards<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://sikhsangat.org/2013/hc-seeks-info-on-panel-to-review-cancellation-of-victims-red-cards/">http://sikhsangat.org/2013/hc-seeks-info-on-panel-to-review-cancellation-of-victims-red-cards/</a></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Chandigarh:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The Punjab and Haryana high court on
Tuesday directed the Punjab government to inform about modalities for the
formation of a high-level committee to review orders of the authority
cancelling red cards of victims of the 1984 Sikh genocide .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The division bench
comprising chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and justice Augustine George Masih
was hearing a bunch of petitions of Sikh genocide victims taking up
the issue of cancellation of their red cards illegally and also about
cancellation of red cards of illegal beneficiaries. The state government had
issued red cards to riot victims so as to avail compensation of Rs 2 lakh and
other benefits in housing schemes and commercial booths as per the state
policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Appearing for the state
government, advocate general Ashok Aggarwal sought time from the court to seek
instructions from the appropriate authorities regarding the constitution of the
high-level committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Representing the riot
victims in one case, advocate Mansur Ali said the Ludhiana deputy commissioner
(DC) had in an arbitrary manner cancelled red cards issued to the petitioners
despite the fact that the latter had submitted all comprehensive proofs to the
authorities that during the 1984 genocide , they were displaced from
various cities and states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The court was informed that
after the high court directions on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by
the Sikh Danga Peerat Welfare Committee, P unjab, regarding illegal issuance of
red cards to some people, the Ludhiana DC had ordered an inquiry into the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PTSansRegular","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The high court had on
February 13 stayed the Ludhiana DC’s January 29 order cancelling red cards
issued to 20 victims of the 1984 genocide .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Post-Graduate
Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) director to decide on the
appointment of assistant administrative officers' and other posts that have
been challenged in a petition filed by a workers' union of the institute,
within two months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The directions came from the division bench comprising chief justice Sanjay
Kishan Kaul and justice Augustine George Masih on a public interest litigation
filed by Adhoc Front PGI Employees' Union.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The petitioner union had sought quashing of
the selection of five assistant administrative officers namely Dinesh Kumar,
Sanjay Trikha, Ankur Sharma, Surinder Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Saxena stating
that these selections had been made in "utter violation" of rules and
advertisements.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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It was submitted that also the appointments to the three advertised posts of
assistant accounts officers and lower division clerks had been made by
violating the rules after 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court was informed that despite bringing
the issue to the notice of the authorities concerned, no action had been taken
so far and that needed to be probed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">After hearing the case, though the court
questioned the petitioner's counsel about the delay in filing the petition in
the high court but since the matter seemed to be important, the court issued
directions to the PGIMER director to look into the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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turn of the open school which has been taken to court for its alleged
‘indifferent’ treatment meted out to the students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vibhu Bhakru of the Delhi High Court has sought responses from the Central
Government, Delhi University, and its School of Open Learning (SOL) against a
PIL filled by an organisation called Fight for Human Rights by September 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the SOL were extremely ‘arbitrary and discriminatory.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discourage the students to take admission for studies with SOL and this results
in the defeat of the very purpose of imparting education to maximum number of
citizens,” the PIL said. The plea said that the SOL procedure while
conducting annual examinations, rechecking and revaluation of answer sheets and
treatment of students is arbitrary and discriminatory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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administration stating that the school declares result very late depriving
students the chance to pursue higher studies. “The authorities concerned
conduct the annual examination for the students of SOL in May/June every
year and declare results very late in November/December,” it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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paper in their final year, are deprived of the chance to pursue higher studies
because the result of supplementary examination conducted for failed students
is announced very late when admission of all courses are closed by all
universities,” it added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Subhadra Channa, professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi
says, “There may be disparity in terms of facilities, but this may not
necessarily be termed as human rights violation. The biggest problem is that
the number of students admitted in SOL are much more than that of regular
students and so it takes time to deliver the facilities provided to regular
students such as examination results.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which stated that the St Mary's School in Pune Camp "shall reserve"
25% seats for children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups of
society as provided under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009.<br />
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The high court division bench of justices V M Kanade and K R Shriram stated in
its modified order on July 11 that the word "reserve" is substituted
by the words "keep vacant".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Move"><span style="color: #024d99;">The move</span></a>came after it was brought to the
court's notice that the 25% seats ought to be kept vacant till it issues
further orders on the writ petition filed by the school.<br />
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The earlier order read, "...the petitioner (St Mary's School) shall
reserve 25% seats for children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged
group of the society as defined under the said Act." Referring to this,
the petitioner made an application submitting that it did not mention that the
said seats should be kept vacant until further orders.<br />
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The bench has since ruled, "In our view, it is obvious that there is a
typographical mistake in the said order and it is clarified that the petitioner
shall keep 25% seats vacant. In the order, the word 'reserve' therefore is
substituted by the word 'keep vacant'. The order is accordingly modified."<br />
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The matter is now expected to be heard on August 8, considering that the court
has extended the returnable date for the notices issued to the respondents,
including the Pune zilla parishad (ZP) education officer, by four weeks.<br />
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Representatives of non-aided minority schools here have expressed their
satisfaction over the modified order as the high court - in another petition
filed by the Bishop's education society regarding its schools at Pune Camp,
Kalyaninagar and Undri - is dealing with the question as to what constitutes
"aid".<br />
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This is in view of the Supreme Court's ruling that the RTE Act is applicable to
aided minority schools only and is not applicable to non-aided minority
schools.<br />
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The St Mary's School, relying on the high court's May 15 order in the Bishop's
Schools matter, had pleaded for an interim stay on the ZP education officer's
May 5 order. The ZP order had directed the school to cancel its admission
process for academic year 2013-14 for not adhering to the provisions of the RTE
Act regarding 25% quota.<br />
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The Bishop's education society has claimed the status of a non-aided minority
institution and has argued that it is not bound by RTE provisions. However, the
ZP, which had directed the Bishop's Schools to cancel their admissions process
for 2013-14 for not adhering to the 25% quota under the RTE Act, has contested
the society's claim.<br />
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The ZP has submitted in the court that the Bishop's School in Pune Camp is
located on land granted by the central government on lease at a concessional
rate, while the schools in Kalyaninagar and Undri were receiving aid in the
form of concession in property tax.<br />
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The court observed that whether concession in property tax could be considered
as "aid" was a matter that required debate. It has since allowed the
Bishop's Schools to fill up 75% seats on a first-come-first basis, while
admissions to the remaining 25% seats shall be subject to further orders. The
Bishop's matter is slated to be next heard on August 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Gujarat<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/high-court"><span style="color: #024d99;">high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on
Friday asked Veer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Narmad</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>South
Gujarat University (<span style="background: white;">VNSGU</span>) to give
admission on 600 seats of<span style="background: white;">BCom</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at CJ Patel College (<span style="background: white;">CJPC</span>),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Variav</span>, which was suspended by it from the
admission process. The university had suspended the college from<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Centralized-Admission-Committee"><span style="color: #024d99;">Centralized Admission Committee</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<span style="background: white;">CAC</span>)
in June end and did not allow admissions on the 600 B Com seats.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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The university has now initiated the process for admission on the 600 seats of
CJPC. "According to the court order, we will immediately publish an
advertisement announcing admission on 600 seats. The CAC has also been asked to
take necessary steps to include the college in the admission process,"
said Dakshesh Thakar, vice-chancellor, VNSGU.<br />
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Earlier, the college was suspended from admission process by the university,
saying that the CJPC had failed to deposit Rs 50 lakh with it as security
deposit towards teachers' salaries. Teachers at the college were not paid
salaries as per the 6{+t}{+h}<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pay-Commission"><span style="color: #024d99;">Pay Commission</span></a>, the university claimed.<br />
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On the Rs 50 lakh deposit, the court order said, "Considering the issue
involved in this petition, this court is of the opinion that the demand raised
by the university on the basis of the resolution passed by the syndicate is not
backed and/or supported by any rule or regulation. Prima facie, the respondents
(VNSGU) are not able to establish that there is any legal basis for such
demand."<br />
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However, the court asked CJPC to submit an affidavit agreeing to pay salaries
to its teachers as per the 6{+t}{+h} Pay Commission. "We are ready to pay
salaries as per the norms but the teachers are not qualified. Hence, we are not
paying them the full salary. The court is yet to decide the issue," said
Jagdish Tekrawala, managing trustee of CJPC, Variav.<br />
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The university argued that CJPC was allowed to collect fees from students to
accommodate teachers' salaries as per the 6{+t}{+h} Pay Commission. However,
despite it collecting high fees, it was not paying salaries to its teachers as
per the norms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to provide treatment to a remand prisoner suffering by cancer at the Government<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>RajajiHospital (GRH). The prisoner,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sownther<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>aliasSownthrapandian, was arrested on
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Seeking treatment for Sownther at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Adayar-Cancer-Research-Institute"><span style="color: #024d99;">Adayar Cancer Research Institute</span></a>, his wife,
Karthiga Rani, 29, a resident of Thirunagar in Madurai, filed a writ petition
before the bench.<br />
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Disposing the petition, justice S Manikumar ordered that Sownther should first
be treated at Madurai GRH and be shifted to Adayar cancer institute, if
necessary.<br />
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According to the petitioner, her husband is suffering from giant cell tumor
(Grade II), for which he underwent three surgeries on his left leg knee during
2009 -2010 in a private hospital in Madurai. Doctors had advised him to undergo
one more surgery.<br />
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The petition claimed that the Jaihindpuram police in Madurai had foisted a
false case on Sownther on June 17. Sownther has been accused of robbing Rs 700
from a Meenakshi Sundaram at knifepoint. The police booked him in the case with
the malafide intention of detaining him, the petition said.<br />
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Rani claimed that she visited Madurai central prison four times and found that
he was unable to walk without help. She pleaded before the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/prison-authority"><span style="color: #024d99;">prison authority</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that he be allowed treatment on July
10. The writ petition was filed as there was no proper response from the prison
authorities, Rani claimed.<br />
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interest if his/her "general reputation" is not good even without
tangible material to substantiate it, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Punjab-and-Haryana-high-court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Punjab and Haryana high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Fateh Deep Singh
passed the order on Friday while upholding the high court decision on premature
retirement of Haryana Superior Judicial Services judicial officer Chaman Lal
Mohal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Mohal was entitled to work till the age of 60, but was forced to prematurely
retire on January 29 after the court's administrative judge declared his
integrity as "doubtful".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The officer appealed against the decision in February, arguing there was no
material or the basis for doubting his integrity. He submitted that there was
no complaint against him in 2011-12 nor any other material or report was ever
communicated to him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court dismissed his petition and held that it was not necessary to limit
the "material" only to written complaints or "tangible"
evidence pointing fingers at the integrity of the judicial officer.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Such evidence may not be forthcoming in such cases," the bench said.
It observed that if an authority bona fide forms an opinion that the integrity
of a particular officer is doubtful, the correctness of that opinion cannot be
challenged before courts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Karnataka High Court has issued orders for winding up Capt. G.R. Gopinath’s
Deccan Cargo and Express Logistics Pvt Ltd (DCEL), which operates under the
‘Deccan 360’ brand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The High
Court’s order indicates that DCEL, even after being given several opportunities,
could not pay dues to the tune of Rs 39 lakh to Dubai-based United Aviation
Services (UAS) and Rs 1.36 crore to Patel Integrated Logistics Pvt Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court
directed the winding up of the company in its June 11, 2013 order based on two
petitions — one filed by UAS, which provided various facilities like permits,
ground handling and fuelling in West Asia, Europe and Russia for DCEL, and
another one filed by Patel Integrated, which had provided various logistic
services to DCEL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now, the
Court has ordered the Official Liquidator to commence the liquidation process.
Last year itself, the court had prohibited DCEL from selling any of its assets
following these two petitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">DCEL had
opposed Patel Integrated’s plea. It alleged that the petition for winding up
was filed to avoid payment of court fee to launch a recovery suit under the
civil laws, and to “pressurise the company (DCEL) to act in accordance with the
dictates of Patel Integrated”. However, DCEL did not file any objection against
the plea of UAS to wind up the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Both the
petitioners knocked the doors of the court in 2011 after failing in their
attempts to recover DCEL’s dues since 2009. It was pointed out in the petitions
that DCEL had asked many of its 600-odd employees to either quit or go on long
leave due to a serious financial crisis, and that it was selling its assets to
clear its debts. As DCEL too had admitted its financial difficulties in making
payments, the petitioner-companies had pleaded for the winding up of DCEL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court
also noticed that though two separate public notices were issued in 2012 about
the pleas for winding up, no objection was received against them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Airport and Ground Services Pvt Ltd, JP Aviation Services Pvt Ltd, Lufthansa
Tehnik Services India Ltd, Aegis Ltd, Dolphin Transport Corporation and
Mindtree Ltd had also approached the court subsequently for winding up DCEL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">However,
the court, in its various orders issued between June 12 and 28, has referred
them to the Official Liquidator for claiming the amount due through the
liquidation process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">DCEL was
originally incorporated as Deccan Cargo Ltd in 2001 and later changed its name
to DCEL in 2007-08. It launched operations in November 2009, two years after
Capt Gopinath sold off his airline business, Deccan Aviation, to Vijay Mallya’s
Kingfisher Airlines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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urgent measures to improve traffic flow on the busy Vikas Marg for reducing
accidents and saving motorists' time and energy.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru, before which the petition came up
recently, decided to hear it Aug 22.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Petitioner Sudhir Jain, an author, sought
direction to the Delhi government and joint commissioner of police (traffic) to
apply his suggestions to decongest the east Delhi road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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traffic flow between ITO to Anand Vihar will become smooth and continuous
during office hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">He said he had surveyed the stretch and
found that the techniques currently used by the traffic department to manage
the vehicles were adding to congestion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"The process (of traffic department)
encourages lane changing, mixes non-motorised and motorised vehicle flow,
creates traffic bottleneck and increases waiting at intersections. The effect,
in turn, increases traffic congestion, air and sound pollution and wastes
commuters' time and energy," the petition said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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traffic flow on decongested Vikas Marg can be used as an example to simplify
traffic management on all arterial roads, especially on which traffic at
intersections is still managed by signals."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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authorities about the plan but they ignored his suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Upholding a Punjab and Haryana high court judgment, the Supreme Court has
ordered enhancement of compensation payable to several<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/landowners" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">landowners</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>whose
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Recently, a single bench of Punjab and Haryana high court had enhanced the amount
of compensation payable to the landowners from Rs 28,15,356 per acre to Rs
37,40,000 per acre.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The state government and landowners had moved the apex court over the issue of
compensation. After hearing a bunch of petitions, the apex court on July 2,
ordered the Haryana government and HSIIDC to pay Rs 9,24,644 per acre to
petitioners.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The two-member bench of Justice G S Singhvi and Justice S J Mukhopadhya, also
ordered that the payment shall be made to the landowners and/or their legal
representatives by following the procedure laid down in the interim orders
passed by the apex court.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The landowners of dozens of villages near Gurgaon had been fighting a lengthy
legal battle against low compensation awarded to them by the Haryana
government. The petitioners included people whose land had been acquired in the
past several years.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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During the hearing the counsel of the landowner submitted that the high court
should not have imposed a cut of one-fourth in one batch of appeals
(petitioners) and 20% cut in the other batch of appeals (petitioners) as per
the average sale price reflected on the ground that the area of the land
acquired by the Haryana government was too large. The apex court held that in a
matter like the present one, it cannot be ignored that the land was acquired
for setting up an industrial model township in Manesar and after developing the
land, the HSIIDC was bound to sell the plots at a much higher price to the
existing or prospective industrial entrepreneurs.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Commenting on the criteria relied on by the high court, the SC held that in
this scenario, the judges committed an error by applying one-fourth or 20% cut
on market value determined for the purpose of payment of relief to the
landowners. The high court had enhanced the amount of compensation payable to
the landowners from Rs 28,15,356 per acre to Rs 37,40,000 per acre. After
hearing all the arguments, the SC held that Haryana shall pay Rs 9,24,644 per
acre to the landowners and/or their legal representatives along with all statutory
benefits within a period of four months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tmp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">NEW DELHI: The lackadaisical
attitude of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-Police" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi Police</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in
probing a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/criminal-case" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">criminal case</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has earned flak from a trial court,
which called its investigations a "sham" and pulled up the cops for
taking the version of the accused as "gospel truth".</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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Chief metropolitan magistrate Ajay Pandey said, "The investigators believe
the version of accused is gospel truth and do not bother to recover the
misappropriated articles, or cheated money, or to find the nexus among the
accused."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court's remarks came on the investigation done by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Economic-Offence-Wing" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Economic Offence Wing</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(EOW) on a complaint of forgery,
making a false document,<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/criminal-conspiracy" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">criminal conspiracy</span></a>, etc filed by a Korean
national against nine people.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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While the FIR was registered in March 2012, cops are still investigating the
case. The court was appalled that police relied on the complainant to find
evidence, and said if the complainant could have recovered the misappropriated
article, there was no need for the court to order filing of the FIR.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Complainant's counsel Vijay Aggarwal contended that police was shielding the
accused and let the evidence disappear. The court directed the investigating
officer to make all efforts to recover the embezzled articles and other
evidence. It also asked police to submit a compliance report by July 20.<o:p></o:p></span></tmp></span></div>
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CIL - Report<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.coalguru.com/india/cci_orders_probe_against_cil_report/11174">http://www.coalguru.com/india/cci_orders_probe_against_cil_report/11174</a></div>
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<i><span style="color: #777777; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13 hours 22 minutes ago<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Commission has ordered another probe into the allegations that state run CIL
and its subsidiaries abused dominant market position in supplying fuel to power
plants.<br />
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The latest investigation against the country's largest coal miner comes on a
complaint filed by West Bengal Power Development Corporation.<br />
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The Commission has already ordered probe in the wake of five complaints against
CIL and in at least three cases, the investigation reports have been submitted
to the regulator.<br />
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Finding prima facie evidence of abuse of dominant market position, the
Competition Commission of India on July 5th ordered probe against Coal India
and its three subsidiaries. They are Eastern Coalfields, Bharat Coking Coal and
Mahanadi Coalfields.<br />
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CCI said that "The Commission is of the opinion that the present case was
a fit case for investigation into the allegations made by the informant about
violation of provisions of Competition Act."<br />
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As per the latest complaint, CIL imposed unfair conditions in the Fuel Supply
Agreements for providing coal to thermal power plants.<br />
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According to the Commission, CIL is in a dominant position as it accounts for
about 82% of coal supply in the country.<br />
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It said that "Taking advantage of their dominant position, the opposite
parties were allegedly not adhering to the terms and conditions in the Fuel
Supply Agreements and conducting themselves in a manner detrimental to the
interest of the informant."<br />
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It added that the FSA's terms and conditions were being "heavily loaded in
favour of opposite parties. the consumer had no alternative but to depend on
them for fuel supply.<br />
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Source - PTI<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c3c65; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 29.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Man gets life
term for killing DU students' union president<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/man-gets-life-term-for-killing-du-students-union-president-113071300476_1.html">http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/man-gets-life-term-for-killing-du-students-union-president-113071300476_1.html</a></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A man
has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a students' union
president of a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Delhi" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Delhi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>University college 14 years ago by a
Delhi<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">court</span></a>, which termed
it as a "rare" case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau sentenced Jitender alias Kalla for
murdering Anil Badana, the then president of Satyawati College students' union
and made it clear that he would not be considered for any remission till he
spends 30 years in jail.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"I am of a considered opinion that this case cannot be put on the same
pedestal as other ordinary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Murder" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">murder</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>cases. It is also true that punishment
in every case does send a message to the community at large.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Thus besides a number of other factors to be considered one of the
relevant factor... Is the sentiments of community or the message which may
travel to the community at large and the fact that it may deter similar other
such like offenders. The present case can be easily classified as a 'rare case'
which calls for the exercising of alternative options by the court," the
judge said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court imposed a fine of Rs four lakh on Kalla, who is in jail from past
over 13 years, and said if the amount is realised, Rs two lakh should be given
to the victim's family.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the prosecution, Kalla had shot dead Badana, 26, at a marriage
function under Keshav Puram police station on March 10, 1999. Kalla was harbouring
ill-will against Badana as he was going to depose against him in a criminal
case, it said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Kalla had also injured the bridegroom's father Madan Lal Sharma while opening
fire indiscriminately as those attending function tried to nab him, it said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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One of the eye witnesses Sumit Nayyar, who had informed the police about the
incident, had to pay a heavy price as Kalla immediately went to his home at
Mukherjee Nagar to kill him but when he realised that Sumit had not reached
there, the accused pumped three bullets in the chest of his father to scare him
away from maintaining his stand before the police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c3c65; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 29.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">SC tells NDMA to
file status report on Uttarakhand rescue operations by July 26<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
Supreme<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Court" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has asked the National Disaster
Management Authority (NDMA) to submit its status report on rescue operations in
rain-ravaged<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uttarakhand" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Uttarakhand</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by July 26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik asked
the NDMA to file an affidavit on the status of rescue operations within two
weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand Government
informed the court that pilgrims who were stranded in the various affected
areas of the state have been evacuated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The bench posted the matter for further
hearing on July 26.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The court was hearing a PIL filed by a
lawyer, who has sought the apex court's directions to the Centre and the state
government to rescue people stranded in the flood-hit areas in Uttarakhand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Meanwhile,
a team from the National Human Rights Commission-<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=NHRC" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">NHRC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will visit the flood ravaged
Uttarakhand on July 15 (Monday) to take stock of the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The NHRC in a statement said that the team
headed by the Director General (Investigation), Kanwaljit Deol, will hold
meetings with senior officials of the State Government and Non-governmental
organisations during their four-day stay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The team will also visit the affected areas
of the state and make assessment of various aspects including the number of
deaths, relief camps, alternate arrangements for rehabilitation of affected
people, restoration of infrastructure and monetary relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-weight: normal;">Mishap victim's kin get Rs20 lakh compensation<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/pune/1860414/report-mishap-victim-s-kin-get-rs20-lakh-compensation">http://www.dnaindia.com/pune/1860414/report-mishap-victim-s-kin-get-rs20-lakh-compensation</a></div>
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2013, 1:05 IST | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Motor Accident
Claims Tribunal (MACT), Pune recently ordered the owner of a goods carrier and
Cholamandalam General Insurance Company to pay compensation of Rs20 lakh to the
relatives of a 30-year-old man who was killed in a road accident involving the
vehicle last year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The parties in the case had resorted to mediation and agreed to
the amount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The order was issued by MACT member and additional sessions judge
SV Mane after the legal heirs of the deceased, Vinod Gorakh Kadam of Kiwale,
filed a claim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The petition named the goods carrier owner Sandeep Kute and
Cholamandalam General Insurance Company as respondents.<br />
Kadam used to work with a private firm and earned Rs20,500 per month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On September 9, 2012, the goods carrier dashed his bicycle near
Dehu Road at 2 pm, killing Kadam on the spot. The Dehu Road police station
arrested the goods carrier driver for rash and negligent driving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In December last year, Kadam’s wife Swati (27), son Shaurya (4)
and parents moved the MACT through their lawyer Atul Gunjal, seeking
compensation of Rs30 lakh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The case came up for hearing before the MACT member VK Shewale.
Later it was sent for mediation when both parties showed interest for
settlement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Within six months, the compensation amount was settled and the
insurance firm agreed to pay Rs20 lakh considering the age and earning capacity
of the deceased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court deals blow to prevalent illegal police practice<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-13/goa/40553092_1_chowgule-premises-s-d-lotlikar">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-13/goa/40553092_1_chowgule-premises-s-d-lotlikar</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">PANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa has
held that police cannot deny registration of a FIR by stating that the matter
is of a civil nature when the complaint discloses the commission of a criminal
offence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The verdict comes as a blow to the illegal
practice adopted by police of declining investigations of criminal cases and
advising complainants to approach the civil courts for relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high
court passed the judgment on a petition filed by Chowgule and Company Pvt Ltd
against<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Panaji"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Panaji</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>police station. The company alleged
that it was forcibly ousted from a premises in a building in Panaji.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">A division bench comprising Justice A P
Lavande and Justice U V Bakre stated that the law permits the victim to sue for
civil wrong and at the same time proceed against the wrongdoer for having
committed a criminal offence and hence it was incumbent upon the police to have
registered a FIR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high court added that the facts stated in
the complaint give cause of action to Chowgules to file a civil suit. However,
the same, prima facie, also discloses the ingredients of many of the offences
mentioned therein, some of which are cognizable, the court opined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Chowgule claimed that it was a lawful tenant
of the premises, however, the possession of the premises, except for one room
was taken over clandestinely by business partners Tahir and Zeenat Isani.
Later, the Isanis renovated, reconstructed and modified the premises and
started using it for their business purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On November 3, 2010, Chowgule lodged a
complaint of house trespass, mischief and under other sections of IPC. On
September 12, 2011 police informed the company that the matter was of a civil
nature and requested it to approach the civil court for redressal. Later, when
the petitioner approached a judicial magistrate first class court, it held that
the report filed by the company before the police does not disclose criminal
intention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">During the
hearing of the case, advocate S D Lotlikar argued that Chowgule was restored possession
of the premises by Rizvi Estates and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Hotels-(musician)"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Hotels</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Pvt
Ltd following a consent decree passed in a civil suit in 2007. The Isanis
criminally trespassed into the premises and dispossessed Chowgule, he stated.
Lotlikar stated that no inquiry was conducted by police to treat the case as a
civil matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On the other hand, additional public
prosecutor M Amonkar submitted that the building owner had sold the premises to
Tahir Isani by deed of sale dated April 24, 2007. He submitted that there was
delay in lodging the report and that a preliminary inquiry was duly conducted
by the investigating officer and found that the matter was of a civil nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high court opined that the consent decree,
reveals that Rizvi Estates and Hotels Pvt Ltd had restored possession of the
premises to Chowgule and therefore, prima facie, there was ample evidence to
show that Chowgule was in lawful possession of the premises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high court stated that when a report
relating to the commission of cognizable offence is received by an officer in
charge of a police station, he has to register a FIR in terms of Section 154(1)
of CrPC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court observed that there can be no
dispute that in appropriate cases a preliminary inquiry may be conducted before
registering the FIR. It also noted that Panaji police station records
pertaining to the case do not reveal that any preliminary inquiry was conducted
to conclude that the case is of a civil nature and not a cognizable offence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">"In our view the report (complaint),
prima facie disclosed the commission of offences punishable under Sections 447;
448; 453; 427 read with Section 34 of IPC," the bench said. Stating that
criminal intention is made out prima facie, the court has directed the police
to register the offence. tnn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shimla</ins></span></strong><span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>: Suing a judge for
not acting diligently and in good faith, resulting in defamation of the
petitioner, is something unheard of in India but the Himachal Pradesh High
Court is confronted with just such an issue and has reserved its order for next
week about whether to admit or dismiss such a suit.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Yesterday taking up
the application moved under section 482 of Cr.PC, Chief Justice AM Khanwilkar
heading the bench with Justice Kuldip Singh after issuing a stern warning to
the petitioner in person, Deepak Khosla, about the nature of the relief sought,
(compensation of Rs 1 Cr) said in open court that in all his career in the bar
or as a Judge, he had not come across any such case where judges were intended
to be sued. <o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Showing preparedness
for all judicial action arising out of moving such an application before the
higher court, Khosla relied upon the Judges Protection Act 1850 and Judges
Protection Act 1985, and stated in court that the 1850 Act granted judges
immunity only in civil matters and the 1985 Act had not debarred higher courts
from taking action against subordinate judicial officers.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>However, the
petitioner in court stated that no mala fides was being alleged against two judges
of a district court arrayed by name in the application but alleges “implied
malice” resulting from their negligence in diligently perusing the case
materials before them in which Khosla is an accused.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Besides the two
judicial officers of a district court in Solan, ten others, including police
officers, public prosecutors and others have been named as respondents. The
petitioner has also evoked Article 227 and section 397-404 of CrPC to make out
a case.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>To buttress his
argument Khosla cited the10 April, 2013 judgment in S.Velankanni v
Chitradevi & others case of Madras High Court wherein immunity under the
Judicial Protection Act was denied and Rs 1 lakh compensation was imposed on a
judicial magistrate for wrongfully remanding a rape victim to judicial custody.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Leading the charge for
the state and district judges in question, Advocate General Sharwan Dogra
termed the application as an attempt to breech the protection judicial officers
had under the constitution and the Judicial Protection Acts. “It could lead to
a breakdown of the system,” he said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Without going into the
merits of the petitioners’ case, the advocate general sought outright dismissal
of the suit and asked for exemplary treatment so as to discourage such
litigation as it was an attack on the very institution under which the judicial
system of the country worked.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Given a chance to
respond, Khosla said that by entertaining his application, the court could, in
fact, send out a positive message, showing that it was willing to entertain
cases against judicial officers, rendering all, including judicial officers,
equal before law.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The case which was
initially listed for the morning session was postponed for the afternoon as the
advocate general was not available earlier.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252324; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Argued for about two
hours, the listed matter evoked much interest in court and was attended by many
senior lawyers, before the bench reserved its order for next week.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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court’s permission bowed out saying in Hindi, ‘<strong>Gustaki Maaf</strong>’, to which the chief justice
responded in equal measure, ending the serious proceedings with a smile on the
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">RTI
activist Commodore Lokesh Batra has written a letter to President<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Pranab+Mukherjee" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pranab Mukherjee</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in which he has said that amendment to
RTI Act, 2005 will be contempt of assurance given in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Parliament" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Parliament</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"On 05 July 2009, the then Minister of
State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions had assured
the Parliament in a written response to a question that the 'Non-Governmental
Organisations and Social activists' will be consulted before any amendment to
the RTI Act, 2005," he said in his letter to President Mukherjee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Commodore Batra told President Mukherjee
there are media reports that the Government is contemplating to counter the decision
of the CIC declaring six political parties as Public authorities which are
subject to the Right to Information Act by amending the RTI Act, 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"The representatives of all political
parties have stated that they believe the CIC decision is unsound legally and
hence they are opposing it. If they are being truthful, they can certainly go
in a writ to the Courts. In the past CIC decisions have been quashed by the
Courts," said Commodore Batra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"In the instant case I cannot see any
reason which justifies any amendment to the RTI Act, 2005 by the Government and
that too without consulting all the stakeholders/ Citizenry at large that
include 'Non-Governmental Organisations and Social activists'," he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Commodore Batra in his letter requested
President Mukherjee to communicate to the Government not to undertake any
amendment to the RTI Act, 2005 without consulting all the stakeholders i.e.
Citizenry at large that include 'Non-Governmental Organisations and Social
activists', as assured in the Parliament lest it becomes contempt of assurance
given in the Parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">After
13 years of the matter being registered, the sessions court on Thursday held
suspended additional commissioner of police Ajay Kumar Jain and wife Anita Jain
guilty and sentenced the couple to three years imprisonment in a
disproportionate assets case worth around `32 lakh. It also slapped a fine of
`25,000 each.<br />
In a separate case, Jain was earlier sentenced to five years in prison for
seeking a `5 lakh bribe from a junior in lieu of protection in a departmental
inquiry. He was out on bail that was granted by the Bombay high court.<br />
While reading out the order, Special Judge V. A. Daulatabadkar said, “In the
case of a default, both the accused will have to serve three months rigorous
imprisonment. There is no need for a separate order for the attachment of the
disproportionate assets.”<br />
Terming an appeal for bail as Jain’s constitutional right, the court asked him
and Anita to furnish a bail bond of `50,000 each.<br />
The matter dates back to 1995 when an open inquiry in the matter was ordered.
The state home department had received an anonymous letter in the year 1990
against Jain where it was alleged that a Kandivali slumlord by the name
Birender Shukla had gifted Jain a Maruti car.<br />
According to investigation officer of the anti-corruption bureau, Arun Wahable,
Jain was involved in several cases of converting “black money into white”.
“Jain and one Kasliwal, the owner of the fictitious ‘Coopergaon Estate’, were
working in tandem. Jain and his family had flats in the building that existed
only on paper. Kasliwal later filed an ‘eviction suit’ to which Jain gave his
consent, but demanded `5 lakh,” said Mr Wahable, adding that Jain himself gave
the amount in cash and asked him to return it by cheque.<br />
“The common link between the two was their chartered accountant P.C. Lodha, who
is an accused in the graft case against Jain,” said Mr Wahable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-40989413012175184072013-07-13T12:03:00.002+05:302013-07-13T12:03:49.224+05:30LEGAL NEWS 13.07.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RTI ambit: Sources<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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exempt all political parties from the ambit of Right to Information Act,
sources said on Thursday. The government has faced a lot of flak for planning
to bring in an ordinance to keep political parties out of the RTI ambit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Bill is likely to be introduced in the Monsoon Session of Parliament and most
parties have agreed to be out of the RTI cover. In a landmark decision, the
Chief Information Commissioner had ruled all political parties will come under
the ambit of the Right to Information Act. The ruling provides for greater
transparency in the working of the political parties as now the public has the
right to get information about their functioning and funding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">However,
political parties came out opposing the CIC's order with the Janata Dal United
and the Communist Party of India - Marxist slamming the decision saying the CIC
exceeded its brief. Even the Congress hit out at the proposal with Minister for
Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari saying CIC's order is "a bit of
a stretch."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/mumbai/40535455_1_bombay-high-court-sessions-court-victim">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/mumbai/40535455_1_bombay-high-court-sessions-court-victim</a></div>
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a rape accused Manesh Kotiyan (39) noted: "She had not cried for help and
had not taken her resistance to a logical end. Hence, it would not be
justifiable to hold that the consent was obtained by intimidation, force
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that he was married and had children. Since he has served around three years in
prison, the court ordered his release.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">"There is no evidence that the accused
coerced her and raped her," said advocate Arfan Sait, who was appointed by
the high court legal aid cell to defend Kotiyan. "He had always intended
to marry her and had told her he would do so once the divorce proceedings
ended."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The case dates back to March 2010, when the
victim girl who was four months pregnant lodged a case of rape against Kotiyan.
The two had met when they were working at a stationery shop in Borivli. In
November 2009, they had gone to Gorai to celebrate Kotiyan's birthday, where
according to the prosecution he forced her into having sexual intercourse. A
sessions court in 2012 held Kotiyan guilty of rape and sentenced him to seven
years rigorous imprisonment. Kotiyan filed an appeal in the HC. "It is
clear from her deposition that she had lodged the FIR in a fit of rage,"
said the HC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/3-cpim-leaders-part-of-conspiracy-court-told/article4904622.ece" style="outline: none;">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/3-cpim-leaders-part-of-conspiracy-court-told/article4904622.ece</a></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 15.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Trial continues
in T.P. Chandrasekharan murder case<o:p></o:p></span></i></h2>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Three
leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M] — C.H. Ashokan,
former secretary of the Onchiyam area committee; K.K. Krishnan, member of the
same committee; and C. Jyothi Babu, member, Kunnothuparamba local committee —
were involved in the hatching of a conspiracy to kill Revolutionary Marxist
Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan, K.V. Santhosh, chief investigating
officer, told the trial court here on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mr.
Santhosh, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP), Crime Branch, was deposing
before R. Narayana Pisharadi, Judge, Special Additional District and Sessions
Court (Marad Cases) here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Chandrasekharan
was killed by a gang allegedly hired by the CPI(M) at Vallikkad, near Onchiyam,
Vadakara, around 10.15 p.m. on May 4, 2012. Special public prosecutor C.K.
Sreedharan examined the main prosecution witness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
officer said he had arrested the three CPI(M) leaders and the conspiracy angle
came to light while interrogating them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Both
Ashokan (9th accused) and Krishnan (10th accused) were arrested on May 23, 2012
and Jyothy Babu (12th accused) on May 19, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">They had
conspired with the assailants to murder Chandrasekharan, he said adding that
Ashokan expired on July 5, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mr.
Santhosh said he took over the case from Jossy Cherian, DySP, Vadakara,
following an order by Additional Director General of Police (Crimes) Vinson M.
Paul on May 15, 2012. He had secured the custody of C. Rajith (27th accused),
P.M. Rameesh (28th accused), K.P. Dipin (29th accused), and M.K. Raveendran,
aka Padayankandi Raveendran (30th accused), member of the Orkatteri local
committee, at the Vadakara DySP office on May 15, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">He said he
had prepared the observation mahassar pertaining to disclosures made by Rameesh
that he, along with Dipin, had initially concealed the weapons in a shrubbery
near an orphanage and a double-storey house at Azhiyoor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">He had
furnished a report in the court regarding the arrests of K.C. Ramachandran (8th
accused), member of the Kunnummakkara local committee of the CPI(M), M.
Saneesh (41st accused), K.P. Dishad (20th accused), and P.K. Mohammed Faslu
(21st accused). They were arrested by DySP A.P. Shoukath Ali on May 15, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mr.
Santhosh also submitted in court a copy of the lookout circular issued by
Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) T.P. Senkumar against P.K.
Kunhanandan(13th accused), member of the Panur area committee member of the
CPI(M), to all seaports and airports to prevent him from fleeing the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
officer said he had filed an application at the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court
on May 25, 2012 seeking to record the statements of T.K. Sumesh, aka Kochakkalan
Sumesh, Anshith Narayanan, and K.K. Subin to record their under Section 164
(recording of confessions and statements). Subsequently, the Nadapuram Judicial
First Class Magistrate Court recorded their statements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 29pt;">Blow to Mulayam, Mayawati: HC bans
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Allahabad High Court today
ordered a ban on caste-based rallies across Uttar Pradesh where major political
parties regularly hold such gatherings. "We stay caste-based rallies
throughout the state of UP," the Lucknow bench of the court comprising
justices Uma Nath Singh and Mahendra Dayal said on a PIL filed by a local
lawyer Motilal Yadav. The bench issued notices to central and state
governments, EC, Congress, BJP, SP and BSP which have been made respondents in
the PIL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The ruling comes against the
backdrop of the BSP recently organising Brahmin Bhaichara Sammelan in 40
districts of the state, including one addressed by party supremo Mayawati in
Lucknow. SP too had organised a similar event in Lucknow recently besides a
Muslim Sammelan. The PIL submitted that there was a spurt of caste-based
political rallies in the state. It said political parties were organising
caste-based rallies in the name of different castes like Brahmin, Kshatriya and
Vaishya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The petitioner submitted while such
events were causing damage to social unity and harmony, they were also
vitiating the society, which was against the spirit of the Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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14:19 IST | Place: Delhi | Agency: DNA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Orders government, MCD to devise better ways to address beatings
complaints at school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Delhi High Court has directed the city municipal corporations
and the Delhi government to devise a mechanism to protect municipal and
government school students from corporal punishment.<br />
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It has ordered both the parties to devise the mechanism by July 31 that will
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The court order comes after several students from MCD and government schools
had written postcards to the then Chief Justice of the HC on Diwali
highlighting instances of abuse and assaults by teachers apart from other
issues.<br />
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“Corporal punishment is banned across the country. However, it has been brought
to our notice that such instances continue to occur,” said the court. “Put in a
mechanism where the authority is not the school but a third party. Also
advertise the new mechanism so that the students and their parents are aware of
the same.”</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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Also questioning the available infrastructure in primary schools run by the
MCD, the court further directed all the three municipal corporations to submit
a status report detailing the standards prescribed, if any, for maintenance of
infrastructure and other facilities by the next date of hearing.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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In 2010, several students studying in MCD and government schools had written to
D Murgesan, the then Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, raising issues ranging
from corporal punishment to infrastructure and quality of teaching in the
their schools. The Court had then taken suo moto cognisance and converted
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Window-panes are broken, exposing the children to the chilling winter-breeze</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: MuseoSlab500Regular, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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Desks are in a damaged state.<br />
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Mid-day meals are not provided in time.<br />
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Students’ toilets remain very dirty; only teachers’ toilet remains clean.<br />
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Students are asked to broom the classrooms themselves.<br />
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Some of teachers come to class but leave without teaching.<br />
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court summons CBSE official over IIT mess<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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senior officer of the Central Board of Secondary Education (</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">CBSE<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">) to appear before the court on
July 17 along with records to explain how</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">normalisation</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">has been worked out and applied for</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">IIT<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">(Advanced) examination.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The judge was dealing with a batch of writ
petitions filed by one L Sharat and others. They complained that while making
admissions to the National Institute of Technologies (NIT), formerly Regional
Engineering Colleges (REC), students who scored high marks in JEE (Advanced),
were put to disadvantage in the name of normalisation. Gandra Mohan Rao,
counsel for the petitioners, produced a bunch of mark sheets and comparative
tables to demonstrate how, in the name of normalization, students of the state
were being deprived of seats in premier institutions like NITs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arrived at. Justice Ranganathan warned that the court will not tolerate any
delay in filing counter affidavit. He said prima facie there seems to be
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high court bats for Class XII pupil with learning disability<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/mumbai/40535107_1_learning-disability-kartik-chief-justice-mohit-shah">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/mumbai/40535107_1_learning-disability-kartik-chief-justice-mohit-shah</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday said
it is a school's duty to inform parents to get a certificate stating their
child has a learning disability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The HC also directed the Maharashtra State
Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education to grant 20 grace marks to a
Nerul student with a learning disability so that he could pass his HSC exam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Justice M S Sanklecha heard a petition by Belapur resident Sonia Damle
after the Board rejected her plea for grace marks to be given to her son Kartik
(18) (name changed) who has a learning disability. A student of S S High School
and Junior College in Nerul, Kartik had appeared for his exams in February
2013. He had passed all subjects except mathematics and statistics. A
revaluation indicated there was no change in marks but he was referred to be
assessed for learning disability. On June 14, KEM Hospital certified Kartik as
having dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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copy of the certificate stating the boy had a learning disability, had not been
submitted within the stipulated date of September 30, 2012, given on a July
2012 school circular. Damle's advocate Sheetal Kumar argued that the school did
not inform the parents about the circular. The school's advocate said the
circular had been displayed on the noticeboard on July 26, 2012, and students
had also been informed of the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with learning disability to understand the purport and impact of the
circular," said the HC. It directed the Board to ensure schools are sent a
copy of the circular and ordered school managements to send a copy to parents.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Govt
washing hands of Sunil Tatkare probe, says Bombay high court<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/mumbai/40535170_1_irrigation-scam-status-report-eow">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/mumbai/40535170_1_irrigation-scam-status-report-eow</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">MUMBAI:
The Bombay high court on Thursday expressed serious concern about the inquiry
against water resources minister Sunil Tatkare for alleged land grab,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Money-Laundering"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">money
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role in the multi-crore irrigation scam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">A division
bench said the status report submitted by the economic offences wing (EOW) and
the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) lacked depth and slammed the Raigad collector
for "delegating" his job to a subordinate revenue officer. The HC
directed a "proper inquiry" by the Enforcement Directorate, ACB, EOW,
Registrar of Companies and the collector into allegations made in a PIL by</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bharatiya-Janata-Party"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">BJP</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">leader</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kirit-Somaiya-(politician)"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Kirit
Somaiya</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">(see box).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Advocate general Darius Khambata handed over
the status report in a sealed cover to the bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud
and Suresh Gupte on Thursday. After going through it, Justice Chandrachud said:
"Do you realize that they have washed their hands of the matter... the
collector had also passed off his responsibility to the tehsildar from whom he
sought information. It appeared that he was under pressure from very senior
government officials.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Justice Chandrachud was visibly dissatisfied
with the reports which the HC had sought after the state assured that the EOW
and collector were looking into Somaiya's complaints. Taking up the EOW report
that annexed one from the collector on the status of agricultural land owned by
Tatkare's companies, he said: "How can companies be agriculturists?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The judge made it clear to Tatkare's counsel
Aspi Chinoy: "We don't want to monitor the probe" but "there
should be a proper probe". The ACB is looking into the charges and the ED
must probe the money laundering allegations, the court said, pointing out that
the PIL has made specific complaints with land records and names of companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Earlier, Chinoy had reiterated his
"preliminary objection" to the PIL being heard before other legal
remedies of filing a proper criminal complaint was exhausted. He said an
investigation is still on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">At this, Somaiya's counsel Rajiv Kumar said
since last July, the authorities have ignored complaints against Tatkare and
hence, they were "compelled to approach the HC". "It is obvious
the investigation agencies are under the control of those in power in the state
and not interested in carrying out a proper probe," said Kumar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The counsel added that the minister in his
affidavit in reply has made "general evasive denial" whereas he
"owed it to the public to explain each allegation against him of the
irrigation scam and land grab".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">After the court was told during the earlier
hearings the EOW would look into the allegations, Somaiya gave documents to the
agency but said there had been "no response from the EOW since
February", it was submitted. The HC asked the agencies to come back with a
proper report on August 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Supreme Court: Those
in jail or police custody can't contest elections<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/supreme-court-those-in-jail-or-police-custody-can-t-contest-elections-390895">http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/supreme-court-those-in-jail-or-police-custody-can-t-contest-elections-390895</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Edited by</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/topic/deepshikha-ghosh"><span style="color: #0033cc;">Deepshikha
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/list/cities/1/delhi" style="cursor: text;"><span style="color: black;">New Delhi</span></a>: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The
Supreme Court has barred those in jail from contesting elections, a landmark
ruling that will prevent jailed politicians from contesting even if they are
not convicted of any crime yet.<br />
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This judgement came along with the court's verdict on Wednesday that MPs and
MLAs convicted of a crime would stand disqualified from the date of conviction,
and could not stay on even if they appealed to a higher court.<br />
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The top court has confirmed the 2004 order of the Patna High court, and agreed
that "If a jailed person can't vote, a jailed person can't contest
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"A right to vote is a
statutory right, the law gives it, and the law takes it away. Persons convicted
of crime are kept away from elections. The court has no hesitation in
interpreting the Constitution and the Laws framed under it, that persons in the
lawful custody of the police also will not be voters, in which case, they will
neither be electors. The law temporarily takes away the power of such persons
to go anywhere near the election scene," said the Supreme Court.<br />
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Simply put, a person can't contest if he's in jail or police custody during the
elections.<br />
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This could affect politicians like Jagan Reddy, who had been in jail for over a
year in a disproportionate assets case.<br />
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The verdict is in response to a petition filed in 2004 by the Election
Commission, which had been asked by the Patna High Court to strike off names of
jailed persons from the voters list.<br />
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The poll panel had argued that the election process had already started, and it
was too late to change the voters list. The Supreme Court had stayed the high
court order at the time.<br />
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persons from contesting even if they have not been charge-sheeted. Many
politicians say it opens a can of worms as it can be easily misused against
political rivals.<br />
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Political parties had also been wary of the verdict disqualifying convicted
MPs, since they feared it could be misused for score-settling, though parties
like the Congress and BJP had officially welcomed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 43.0pt; font-weight: normal;">PIL filed in Madurai against BSNL
discontinuing the telegram<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Madurai:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Against the backdrop of BSNL discontinuing the
160-year-old telegraph service from 15 July, a PIL was today filed in the
Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court here seeking a stay on the order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">A Division Bench of Justice Paul N
Vasanthakumar and Justice P Devadoss directed the central government advocate
to get instructions and posted the case for hearing tomorrow.</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Seeking the court’s intervention
to stay the order of BSNL senior GM discontinuing the service, the petitioner
highlighted the various important roles played by telegram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The petitioner, President of the
Federation of Consumer and Service Organizations, M.Sekaran, rejected BSNL’s
contention that there are no users of the telegram, alleging the service alone
had faced step-motherly treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">If BSNL felt that it could not run
the service, it could as well hand over the service to the postal department
which was handling it efficiently from 1850 to 1990.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Robert Chandrakumar, another
petitioner, also filed a PIL with the same prayers on the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The petitioner wanted the
telegraph service to be continued at affordable rates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">According to a recent circular
issued by Shameem Akhtar, Sr General Manager (Telegraph Services) Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) Corporate office, New Delhi, the telegraph service is
to be discontinued with effect from 15 July, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seeks court's help in setting up museum<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/madurai/40535424_1_district-collector-berlin-museum-urn">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/madurai/40535424_1_district-collector-berlin-museum-urn</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">MADURAI: A
public interest litigation (PIL) filed before the Madras high court bench here
had sought the court's intervention in setting up a museum in Tuticorin
district.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The petition has sought direction to the
district collector to set up museum at the Adhichanallur Village Panchayat, as
the district authority started its work to set up museum at another Karunkulam
village panchayat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The petition was filed by C Sankar Ganesh of
Veloor-Adhichanallur, Tuticorin. The petitioner contended that the district
authority's action is against the notification issued by the department of
culture and archaeological survey of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">According to him, Adhichanallur village is
located on the right side of the Tamirabarani river in Srivaikuntham taluk in
the district and it is described as paleo-neolithic archaeological site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The first extensive urn in village was
discovered by Dr Jagor of Germany in 1876 and many things found by him are kept
in Berlin Museum, Germany. In 1903, the French archaeologist excavated one more
urn in 1903 and took his findings to Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Thereafter, Alexander Rea, attached to Chennai
museum, discovered a good number of urns, gold diadems and thousands of
potshords from the village.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Besides, the ASI, Chennai resumed its
excavation work at the village in 2004 and 2005 and found more than 160 urns
involving Tamil Brahmi scripts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Apart from this, the village also had the
iron-age habitation site, which was discovered recently, the petitioner stated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Following it, the authorities took steps to
set up museum in the very same place of Adhichanallur itself and planned to
exhibit the excavated things including the things kept in Chennai museum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">But, to shock and surprise, a place near
Tamirabarani river in Karunkulam village panchayat was identified for setting
up of museum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Challenging it, the villagers sent a
representation to the district collector on June 3, requesting him to set up
museum at the original place where the excavations were made. But, there was no
action on the part of the collector and construction work was started at the
new place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Hence, a writ was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">When the PIL came up for admission before the
division bench of Justices N. Paul Vasanthakumar and P. Devadass on Wednesday,
the bench ordered notice to the collector and superintending engineer of ASI,
Chennai and posted the matter by two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #004276; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">HC relief for Kripa in land
grab case<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/hc-relief-kripa-land-grab-case-188">http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/hc-relief-kripa-land-grab-case-188</a></div>
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<span style="color: #362f2d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">MLA and
former Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh on Wednesday got some
relief when the Bombay high court dismissed a PIL seeking CBI probe against him
in connection with property grabbing allegations.<br />
A division bench of Justices P.V. Hardas and Mridula Bhatkar dismissed the
petition filed by Tulsidas Nair, who had alleged that Singh and his son had
usurped his properties worth crores of rupees, and were threatening to kill him
if he did not vacate his house at Kalina.<br />
However, the division bench noted that an inquiry conducted by a magistrate on
the high court’s order had given a clean chit to Singh and therefore, there was
no need for CBI investigation into the allegations.<br />
“The magistrate’s report found that none of the grievances were genuine. The
petitioner also had adequate remedies like filing private complaint under
Section 156 (3) of the Criminal Procedure Code. Therefore, the relieves sought
in the petition cannot be granted,” the high court said.<br />
Under Section 156 (3) of CrPC, a magistrate can direct the police to conduct
investigation and register a case if there is substance in the complaint.<br />
The high court, however, said police protection provided to Mr Nair as per an
earlier order would continue, and if the police wanted to withdraw it, they
would have to seek the court’s permission.<br />
In November last year, the HC had ordered magisterial inquiry into the
allegations. In its report, which was submitted in the HC in January this year,
the magistrate held that Mr Nair did not produce any record to prove that he
was forced to sell his properties because of the alleged threats and “torture”.<br />
The report reads: “There is also no material to prove that respondent 6
(Kripashankar) had instructed police officers to implicate the petitioner in
false cases. The name of respondent 6 appears to have been included in this
petition after a PIL was filed by another person against the same respondent
for disproportionate assets.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-weight: normal;">Police
tells HC that plans are on to ban processions and meetings on weekdays<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/kolkata/40535530_1_kmc-kolkata-police-kolkata-municipal-corporation">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-12/kolkata/40535530_1_kmc-kolkata-police-kolkata-municipal-corporation</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">KOLKATA: The Kolkata Police, in a report
submitted to Calcutta high court, has stated that it is contemplating a ban on
processions and meetings on roads leading to the central business district
(CBD), College Square and Jadavpur on weekdays. Processions and meetings can be
organized at a space earmarked by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on
weekends, the police have stated. Discussions on this have apparently been
taken up with the urban development department and KMC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The report is in response to directions on the
police by the high court while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) moved
by environment activist Subhas Datta in 2003. In the PIL, Datta had submitted
that citizens, particularly motorists and those availing public transport, face
tremendous trouble due to processions and meetings on weekdays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">"While not hampering democratic rights,
we should ensure that the rights of the common citizen are not infringed.
Restriction on processions and meetings on the roads on working days in and
around the commercial and office area of BBD Bag and Esplanade, the educational
hubs of College Square and Jadavpur is being contemplated. Such meetings may be
held in the space provided by the KMC on non-working days, so that the flow of
traffic is not disrupted. The matter has been taken up with the urban development
department and KMC," the report signed by the deputy commissioner
(traffic) of Kolkata Police states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The police have also stated in the report that
multi-level and underground parking facilities have been planned.
"Multi-level parking or underground parking on tram and bus
terminuses/depots, KMC stores or godowns, KMC parks as well as Kolkata Port
Trust (KoPT) land have been planned. The matter has been taken up with the
transport department, urban development department, KMC, KoPT and public works
department (PWD)," the report said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On hawkers, the Kolkata Police has stated that
no new encroachments are being permitted while a high-power experts' committee
of the urban development department is examining the issue of hawkers. It has
also been stated that a process is on to install a large number of
close-circuit television cameras with connectivity to the police control room
in Lalbazar. Greater emphasis is being given on signals at intersections where
the volume of traffic is heavy to avoid congestion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attend to bad roads and healthcare provided to personnel involved in managing
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Thursday, the division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Joymalya
Bagchi directed KMC to submit a report with its views within two weeks. The
transport and urban development departments, KoPT and PWD have also been asked
to submit reports within two weeks," Datta said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">NASHIK:
The state and the Union governments on Thursday refused to contribute funds for
the consultation fee of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-National"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">the
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Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) which has been assigned the work of
suggesting measures to control Godavari pollution to the Nashik Municiapal
Corporation (NMC).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the divisional bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Gautam Patel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">At the hearing, advocate general of the state
Khambata Darayas and additional solicitor general Kevick Settlewad of the
cenral government said the state and Union governments refused to contribute
for NEERI's consultation fee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">"Darayas said that since the NMC was
responsible for polluting the river, it should pay the entire amount. He said
that if the state and Union governments paid for the NMC, then every
corporation will end up asking for financial assistance from them. He also
questioned where all the money collected as taxes by the NMC for the sewage
treatment plants (STPs) went. Settlewad also gave similar arguments. They said,
as per sections 66 and 67 of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, this
is the responsibility of the corporations," said lawyer of the petitioners
Pravarthak Pathak, who pointed out that the petitioners had already stated this
in the PIL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The high
court, on Monday (July 8) had ordered the additional solicitor general of the
Union government and advocate general of the state government to be present on
Thursday to sort out the issue of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Funding"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">funding</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">the consultation fee of NEERI. NEERI had been
appointed by the court on April 18, on the Maharashtra Pollution Control
Board's (MPCB) suggestions, to give solutions to the NMC to control river
pollution. The hearing was on public interest litigation (PIL) filed by
non-governmental organisation Godavari Gatarikaran Virodhi Manch against
government officials for failing to control river pollution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On May 6,
NEERI had presented a proposal of Rs 80 lakh to provide solutions to the
pollution issue which the high court accepted. The court then ordered the NMC
to pay Rs 15 lakh within two weeks and also ordered the central and state
governments to contribute the remaining amount. Thereafter, NEERI visited the
city, inspected</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-River"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">the
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submitted its report to the high court on June 21 and the next hearing was
scheduled for Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On Monday, representatives of the state government
said the Centre refused to pay for NEERI's consultancy following which the
court ordered the additional solicitor general of the Union government and
advocate general of the state government to be present on Thursday for the
hearing. The order was passed by the two-judge bench, Abhay Oka and Gautam
Patel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The next hearing has been scheduled for July
18 as the lawyer of the NMC was not present for Thursday's hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The petitioners have also submitted a
rejoinder to their PIL, stating the NMC had not shown the pipelines of the STPs
from where untreated sewage water entered the river to NEERI, due to which the
issue did not reflect in the latter's report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Senior IPS officer Satish Verma, who
assisted CBI in the Ishrat Jahan encounter probe, Thursday filed a petition in
the High Court stating that an inquiry report that cleared him in a case
involving alleged fake police encounters and custodial deaths in Porbandar
district in 1998 had been submitted in the HC long ago.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">A PIL filed by a voluntary
organisation has accused Verma, who was then Superintendent of Police in
Porbandar district, of complicity in three staged encounters and custodial
deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The officer stated in his latest
petition that the court had earlier ordered the then Special IG of CID (Crime),
Hiralal, to investigate the case and that the latter had submitted a compliance
report before the HC registry after which the matter was disposed of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"We have moved the petition
before the chief court (of the HC) to clarify that the report was submitted
before the court and that the matter was disposed of. Hearing on the same is
scheduled on Friday," Verma's counsel I H Syed said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The case has seen several twists and
turns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Last year, Hiralal Shial, brother of
Jasu Shial who was one of three people who allegedly died in custody, moved a
petition in the HC claiming nothing was done on its order of investigation in
the matter and sought fresh directions from the court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last year, ordered the state government to initiate a fresh inquiry and submit
a report in three months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Verma challenged the HC order in the
Supreme Court, arguing that the then Special IG of CID (Crime), Hiralal, had
held an inquiry and given him a clean chit in a report, a copy of which was
available with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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claimed the report was missing from its records and raised doubts over the
authenticity of the report produced by Verma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The SC dismissed Verma's petition on
May 3 while directing him to approach the HC with a fresh petition. Verma again
moved a petition before HC, which is pending.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Expressing
shock at allegations of a graveyard in Pune being dug and skeletons removed for
development and construction of five Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA)
buildings, Bombay High Court (HC) sought replies Thursday from Pune Municipal
Corporation (PMC) and SRA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">A division
bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and S C Gupte was hearing a PIL by Mushtaque
Fakhruddin alleging a three-acre plot having a mosque and burial ground was
fraudulently sanctioned for development by the civic body in connivance with
developer Golden Constructions. He said the developer had started construction
of five buildings on the land and was removing skeletons from the graveyard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shocking where we are headed. Hope skeletons are not being removed,"
justice Chandrachud said. The bench directed PMC and SRA to file an affidavit
by July 16 stating if construction was taking place at the graveyard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Gujarat High Court Chief Justice
Bhaskar Bhattacharya has complained that Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir —
who retires on July 18 — blocked his elevation to the Supreme Court earlier
this year because, as a member of the collegium of the Calcutta High Court, he
had opposed the appointment of CJI Kabir's lawyer sister to the Bench, a
decision he said was tantamount to "rape" of the court.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">On September 13, 2010, the CJI's sister,
Shukla Kabir Sinha, was appointed to the bench of the Calcutta HC after the HC
collegium ignored Justice Bhattacharya's written submission on why she should
not be appointed to the post.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">CJI Kabir — then a senior judge of
the apex court — was a member of the SC collegium that considered the HC's
recommendation. However, sources said he had recused himself from the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">On March 19 this year, after being
overlooked for elevation to the Supreme Court by a collegium headed by CJI
Kabir, Chief Justice Bhattacharya, who was the third seniormost High Court
Chief Justice at the time, sent a 10-page letter to the President of India,
Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Two other High Court CJs — Bombay
High Court CJ Mohit S Shah and Uttarakhand High Court CJ Barin Ghosh — too were
overlooked for elevation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">In his letter to the CJI, accessed
by The Indian Express, Chief Justice Bhattacharya wrote: "As a human
being, I have a reasonable basis to apprehend that the fact that as a member of
the collegium while I was a judge of the Calcutta HC, I raised serious
objections against the elevation of Smt Shukla Kabir Sinha, your (CJI Altamas
Kabir's) younger sister, is the real reason for making such observations
against me."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">When contacted, the Prime Minister's
spokesperson said: "The letter was addressed to the Chief Justice of
India, and the PMO had no role to play in it as appointments of judges are
decided by the collegium."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Justice Bhattacharya has asked that
his letter be shown to all members of the collegium. He has also requested that
he be shown "the material which led you (CJI Kabir) to take such a
decision regarding my competence and character". He has said that he will
resign if he is given "justifiable reasons".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Neither CJI Kabir nor Justice
Bhattacharya could be reached for a comment. Questionnaires emailed to their
offices elicited no response. Justice Shukla Kabir Sinha was not available for
a comment. Law Minister Kapil Sibal declined to comment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">While rejecting the claim of the
three seniormost CJs, the collegium had said that they were "not suitable
to hold the office of Supreme Court judge and their elevation as such would
prove to be counter-productive and not conducive to administration of justice,"
according to a Hindustan Times report which Justice Bhattacharya has quoted in
his letter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Justice Bhattacharya has also given
his reasons for opposing the CJI's sister's name for judgeship, including what
he has called her poor practice, reflected in her annual income-tax statements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"In my view as an advocate who
at the age of 58 years is just capable of earning a net amount of Rs 88,000
from practice should in no case be recommended for judgeship. We cannot lose
sight of the fact that a High Court chaprasi gets more than Rs 13,000 per month
as salary which is equivalent to Rs 1,56,000 per annum which is almost double
the income of Mrs Shukla Kabir Sinha from her practice as a lawyer," he
wrote in his note for the collegium, extracts from which are part of his letter
to the CJI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The letter also says that he had
raised the issue of the CJI's sister taking "four years for passing BA
examination after clearing senior Cambridge and five years for getting MA
degree after graduation, although the usual time taken for clearing these
examinations is three years and two years respectively".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"I don't have a personal
inimical feeling against Mrs Sinha who is just like my sister... However, as I
treat the HC to which I belong for the full time-being as my mother, I
earnestly believed that to elevate Mrs Sinha at the age of 59, there is no
instance in the past of elevation of a Judge from the Bar at the age of 59
years... would give a wrong signal and people would lose faith in the judiciary
and the collegium system... For the above reasons, I made my observations
which, however, didn't get the approval of the Chief Justice of the Calcutta HC
and of Judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose, who was the other member of the collegium
and who has superseded me this time," the letter reads. "So far as I
can remember, Justice Pinaki Ghose in his recommendation observed that if
Shukla Kabir is elevated as a judge, she would be an asset to the
judiciary."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Justice Bhattacharya has also
written, "When time came for selection of Smt Shukla Kabir Sinha as a
Judge of the HC, I was pressured to agree to such a proposal as a member of the
collegium, but I thought it would amount to committing rape of the Calcutta HC,
which was like my mother and if I didn't raise any objections that would amount
to closing my eyes while my mother was being raped. As a result, I used rather
strong words so that by looking at the nature of words used by me, the person
responsible for sending such a recommendation would have a second thought...
Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful in resisting the rape of my mother in spite
of my earnest endeavour. However, at the time of my death, I will not repent
that I ever compromised with wrong for the sake of my career."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">* Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya also
referred to "another recent incident" that he says could have made
the collegium reject him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">* According to Justice Bhattacharya,
a former Gujarat HC Chief Justice who is now in the Supreme Court withdrew an
excess amount of Rs 54,650 as TA/DA which is not permissible without furnishing
proof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">* "There are several other
honourable judges who had withdrawn similar amounts in excess of the rules.
After receiving such clarification from the Centre, I, as the chief justice of
the Gujarat HC, placed the matter in the Standing Committee of seven judges and
they unanimously resolved that the honourable judges... should pay back the
excess amount," his letter reads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">* As per the letter, when the judge,
who is now in the Supreme Court, was requested to repay the excess amount, his
office wrote to the HC registrar telling him "not to make any such
unnecessary and unwarranted correspondence."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">* "As your younger brother, I
seek advice from you as to what should be my duty as the present CJ if I find
that a former Chief Justice of the High Court who is now judge of the SC is
found to have withdrawn excess amount not intentionally but due to some
ambiguity in existing rules?" the CJ asks the CJI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">JABALPUR: Calling for an immediate halt on
illegal construction on the banks of Narmada river, Madhya Pradesh high court
(MPHC) has issued directions to the government to formulate a cohesive policy
to check pollutions in all rivers flowing across the state. A division bench
comprising acting chief justice KK Lahoti and Justice Subhash Kekde has
demanded a detailed action plan to be perused by the state by July 18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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drawn courts attention to the practice of idol immersion in Narmada during
major Hindu festivals which it claimed is leading to greater toxicity in the
water. The chemical pollutants, the petitioner claimed, is not only endangering
aquatic life but is also posing a major health challenge for the populace residing
by the bank. The court had on April 5, directed the state to make alternate
arrangement for immersion and follow the guidelines prepared by the Maharashtra
pollution control board as per the directives of Bombay high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the court ordered municipal authorities to check release of polluted drain and
sewage water into the river. Narmada, the bench observed, is the one of the few
rivers in the country which has a comparative lower pollution level. The
lifeline needs to be protected from pollutants and if the state government did
not realize the urgency of the situation there would be a crisis of drinking
water in next fifteen years."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Satish Verma, the bench has banned construction within the 300 metres of the
river bank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Observing that a child suffers an intense psychological trauma if he or she is
expelled or continued in the same class upon failing in the final examination,
the Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation
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"A child who is not allowed to progress to the next standard suffers from
an intense psychological trauma resulting in loss of self-worth. Holding back
for want of adequate performance assessed with conventional methods like
examinations places the child in a position of disadvantage in relation to his
or her peers," the court said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The division bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and S C Gupte was hearing a
public interest litigation filed by Arun Joshi, director of a Solapur-based
educational institute, stating that this provision had resulted in
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"The kind of pressure we put on our children these days... .At such a
young age learning process need not be based only on exams. I was also a
student and now a parent...I know how exams can be," Justice Chandrachud
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social realities. "Assessing knowledge merely in terms of performance in
examination takes a very narrow view of the purpose of education. Education
must emphasise the need to initiate the child into a holistic pattern of
development," the bench said, dismissing the PIL.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to ministry of youth affairs and sports, New Delhi, Sports Development
Authority of Tamil Nadu and Indian Olympic Association on a petition filed by
Dr Srinivasa Ragavan, Professor of Forensic Medicine, Chennai.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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action against one PV Rathee of Chandigarh, P Prabhu of Chennai and Kulwinder
Singh of Gurgaon for issuing bogus National Level Sports Certificates and
declare the sports/merit certificates issued by them as null and void.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Centre and state sports authorities by August 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Ragavan submitted that his son being an
outstanding Gymnast at state and national level had an occasion to see the
certificates issued by those persons the legal action sought by him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gymnastic Federation of India and Indian Olympic Association, it was revealed
that the above persons were not recognised by Indian Olympic Association and
Gymnastic Federation of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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them would amount to forgery and criminal breach of trust and cheating, and
sought for direction from high court for appropriate legal action by the
Central and state sports authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Published: 23:38 IST(11/7/2013) | Last Updated: 23:46 IST(11/7/2013)</span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday
directed the special CBI judge, Chandigarh, to frame charges against the
accused, including former high court judge Nirmal Yadav, by July 21 in the
August 2008 case of Rs-15-lakh bribe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Taking up the application from special CBI
judge Vimal Kumar, justice Paramjeet Singh granted the authority 10-day
extension for framing the charges. In the application moved on July 6, the
special CBI judge had mentioned that arguments for the framing of charges had
commenced and would continue for some more days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On May 13, the high court while disposing of
justice Yadav's petition, had granted justice Yadav 15 days to inspect the case
record and ordered the trial court to decide the issue of the framing of
charges within 15 days thereafter, after hearing both parties (petitioner and
the Central Bureau of Investigation).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, the special CBI judge in his
application mentioned that in the meantime, justice Yadav had moved the Supreme
Court, challenging high court's order of May 13, so on her counsel's request,
the case had been adjourned to July 6. But on July 5, the Supreme Court had
dismissed her petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The special CBI judge mentioned that it was
on July 6 that CBI's senior public prosecutor Anupam Gupta had commenced his arguments
on the framing of charges. The case was then adjourned for July 8 and, after
the arguments, posted for further arguments to July 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In August 2008, a parcel containing</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="webrupee"><span style="font-family: MyFont_IE, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rs.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: MyFont_IE, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">15 lakh
allegedly meant for justice Nirmal Yadav of the Punjab and Haryana high court
was delivered by mistake to justice Nirmaljit Kaur. On November 11, 2010, the
high court gave the nod for justice Yadav's prosecution. On March 1, 2011, the
President granted the prosecution sanction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">In a development which will not only
benefit litigants, but also bring down "frivolous adjournments", the
Punjab and Haryana High Court has started posting daily orders on its official
website.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Till now, one had to wait for days
and in some cases, weeks to obtain copies of orders passed by the high court.
But now, the court has made a special provision that will ensure that daily
orders are made available online. Minutes after a high court judge signs a
daily order, it will be posted online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The development assumes significance
as this facility was, a couple of months back, limited to lawyers and court
staff on the high court premises. But now, the daily orders will be made
available to all, including litigants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">One can access the orders by
visiting the official website (www.highcourtchd.gov.in). A separate tab under
the head 'daily order' has been created on the website. The window has three
fields - case type, case number and case year. One can fill the details of case
type and number to learn the day's development. Even, interim orders can be
obtained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">This facility has been introduced by
the high court for the first time. Till now, as per available information, such
a facility was only available in the Delhi High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Will reduce adjournments the process
is expected to bring down the number of adjournments sought by lawyers.
"Since daily and interim orders were difficult to access and one had to
request for inspection of files, lawyers had to seek adjournment if an interim
order was not available on the file. Plus, the entire exercise of seeking
permission to inspect the file was cumbersome and time consuming. This has been
done away with," said a senior high court officer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court is also in the process of
streamlining the facility, so that there are no technical glitches, while
obtaining the daily orders. "We cannot afford to delay posting of daily
orders online," the officer added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Punjab and Haryana High Court
has already begun its exercise to be paperless. The court has initiated the
system of e-filing, with an aim to put the justice delivery system on fast
track and end the morass of paperwork.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Supreme Court on Friday stayed
all the proceedings related to admissions in Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) in the Andhra Pradesh High Court which had directed the premier instutute
not to fill four seats which were offered to students from the state but were
denied on the ground of poor percentile.<br style="outline: none;" />
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A bench comprising justices K S Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose issued
notices and sought response within two weeks from those candidates on whose
petition the high court had passed the order on July 8.<br style="outline: none;" />
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The appeal was filed by the organising chairman of Joint Entrance Examination
(JEE) (advanced) 2013, IIT Delhi, seeking stay of the interim order contending
that the high court completely ignored the terms and conditions of the JEE.<br style="outline: none;" />
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Senior advocate V Giri and advocate Madhu Smita Bora contended that the high
court failed to appreciate that many deserving candidates would get adversely
affected as a result of keeping four seats reserved for the respondent students
who did not fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria for admission into the IIT.<br style="outline: none;" />
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The four students had contended before the high court that the prescribed
condition of successful candidates being within "top 20 percentile of
successful candidates in class 12th examination conducted by the respective
boards in applicable categories" was arbitrary and unreasonable.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea challenging the Delhi
high court's order that the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Right-to-Education" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Right to Education</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(RTE) Act is not applicable to nursery
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NGO,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Social-Jurist" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Social Jurist</span></a>, challenging the high court's
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Advocate Ashok Aggarwal, appearing for the NGO, submitted that the high court
erred in holding that the RTE Act applied only in the matter of admission of
children between the age of 6 years to 14 years and that is not applicable to
nursery admissions.<br />
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"The Delhi high court has clearly erred in law in holding that the
provisions of Section 13 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act, 2009, apply only in the matter of admission of the children
between the age of 6 years to 14 years and are not applicable to the admission
of children below 6 years in unaided private schools," the NGO has
submitted in its petition.<br />
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"Section 13 of the act was formulated in the context of rampant screening
practices being adopted by the private unaided schools in nursery admissions
which had resulted in a comprehensive round of litigation in the high court. It
was to correct this mischief the said provision was incorporated," the
petition said.<br />
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The high court had passed the verdict on February 19, holding that the RTE Act
and subsequent government notifications were not applicable to nursery
admission in unaided private schools.<br />
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It had, however, asked the Centre to consider amending the act to include
nursery education as well, saying that the schools could not be allowed to run
as "teaching shops" as it would be "detrimental to equal
opportunity to children".<br />
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The high court had said, "Though we have held that the Right to Education
Act is not applicable to nursery schools, in our opinion there cannot be any different
yardstick to be adopted for education to children up to the age of 14 years
irrespective of the fact that it applies to only elementary education."<br />
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"It is the right time for the government to consider the applicability of
the Right to Education Act to the nursery classes as well, as in many of the
states admissions are made right from the nursery classes and the children so
admitted are automatically allowed to continue from class I. In that sense, the
provisions of Section 13 would be rendered meaningless insofar as it prohibits
screening procedure at the time of selection," it had said.<o:p></o:p></span></tmp></span></div>
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DELHI: Government's attempt to put a ban on pornographic websites seems to have
hit a roadblock. The central government has told the Supreme Court that it is
difficult to block international<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/porn-websites-in-India" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">porn websites in India</span></a>.<br />
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In response, the apex court has advised the government to work with various
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</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">Earlier this week, a Parliamentary committee
decided to look into the aspect of cyber porn and ways to check it amid
complaints that it is "distorting and distressing" the society. The
Committee on Petitions of the Rajya Sabha has taken cognizance of a plea made
to it, seeking a check on cyber pornography by amending the IT Act, 2000.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">The
petition has demanded an amendment to the IT Act so as to make pornography on
computer or mobile a crime, attracting severe punishment to the producers,
distributors and viewers of such sites.</span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">The committee sought opinion from
stakeholders and public to help formulate its view.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">In an order dated June 13, Department of
Telecom (</span><span style="background: white;">DoT</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">)
has directed internet service providers (ISPs) to block 39 websites. Most of
them are web forums where internet users share images and URLs to download
pornographic files. But some of these websites are also image hosts and file
hosts, mostly used to store and share files that are non-pornographic.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
While watching or distributing child pornography is illegal in India, watching
adult pornography is not banned. The blocked websites are hosted outside India
and claim to operate under the 18 USC 2257 rule enforced by the US. The rule
specifies that producers of pornographic material are required to retain
records showing performers were over 18 years of age at the time the video or
image was captured.<br />
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Though IT Act doesn't criminalize watching porn, the new rules notified in 2011
have certain provisions that show the government wants to dictate what people
watch or do not watch on the web. For example, the rules ask an intermediary
like an ISP to "inform users of computer resources not to host, display,
upload, modify, publish, and transmit any information that is obscene and
pornographic."<br />
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<span class="author"><span style="background: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;">R. SIVARAMAN</span></span><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">After
medical experts gave conflicting opinions on the cause of Dharmapuri youth E.
Ilavarasan’s death, the Madras High Court on Friday ordered a fresh autopsy by
a team of forensic experts from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS), New Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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post-mortem examination will be done on Saturday and the body handed over to
the Dalit youth’s father. The Bench, comprising Justices V.Dhanapalan and
C.T.Selvam, directed the AIIMS Director to depute a team of three forensic
medicine experts for the purpose of conducting the fresh autopsy on the body,
which now lies at the mortuary of the Government General Hospital, Dharmapuri.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ilavarasan
was found dead near a railway track in Dharmapuri on July 4. A. Ramesh, his
friend, filed a petition in the High Court for a direction to get the autopsy
done by a team of doctors, along with a doctor of his choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Public
Prosecutor opposed the plea, contending that a post-mortem had been done and
videographed. The Bench ordered that the body be preserved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The judges
viewed the video recording of the autopsy last Tuesday in the presence of seven
medical/ forensic experts. As conflicting opinions arose among them, two more
forensic medicine experts – K. Thangaraj of SRM Medical College and Research
Centre, and P. Sampath Kumar of Sri Ramachandra Medical College – were directed
to examine the body on Thursday. Mr. Justice Dhananpalan observed, “One has
suggested that it was suicide while another has termed it otherwise.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">They noted
that the two, who were only asked to find out whether a second post-mortem was
needed, had “exceeded their brief”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bench
said: “We firmly express that we do not find any reason to suspect any
wrongdoing in the conduct of the previous autopsy. Even so, when two experts
appointed by us are at variance, it only would be appropriate to permit a
second post-mortem. We add that the course we are adopting is not to be seen as
any blemish upon the State.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It felt
that fresh autopsy be done by a team that is independent and neutral. Asking
the registry to communicate the order to AIIMS, New Delhi, urgently, the court
directed the State government to make arrangements for the travel and
accommodation of the doctors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SHIMLA: Suing a judge for not acting diligently and in good faith, resulting in
defamation of the petitioner, is something unheard of in India but the Himachal
Pradesh high court is confronted with just such an issue and has reserved its
order on whether to admit or dismiss such a case.<br />
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On Thursday, taking up the application moved under Section 482 of CrPC, Chief
Justice A M Khanwilkar heading the bench with Justice Kuldip Singh after
issuing a stern warning to petitioner Deepak Khosla about the nature of the
relief sought, (compensation of Rs 1 Cr) said in the open court that in all his
career in the bar or as a judge he had not come across any such case where
judges were intended to be sued.<br />
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Showing preparedness for all judicial action arising out of moving such an
application before the higher court, Khosla relied upon the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Judges-Protection-Act" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Judges Protection Act</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>1850 and Judges Protection Act 1985
and pointed out that the 1850 Act granted judges immunity only in civil matters
and the 1985 Act had not debarred higher courts from taking action against
subordinate judicial officers.<br />
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However, the petitioner in court stated that no mala fides was being alleged
against two judges of a district court arrayed by name in the application but
alleges "implied malice" resulting from their negligence in
diligently perusing the case materials before them in which Khosla is an
accused.<br />
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Besides, the two judicial officers of a district court in Solan, 10 others,
including police officers, public prosecutors and others have been named as
respondents. The petitioner has also evoked Article 227 and Section 397-404 of
CrPC to make out a case. To buttress his argument Khosla cited the April 10,
2013, judgment in S.Velankanni v Chitradevi & others case wherein immunity
under the Judicial Protection Act was denied and Rs 1 lakh compensation was
imposed on a judicial magistrate for wrongfully remanding a rape victim to
judicial custody.<br />
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Leading the charge for the state and judges, advocate general Sharwan Dogra
termed the application as an attempt to breech the protection judicial officers
had under the constitution and the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Judicial-Protection-Acts" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Judicial Protection Acts</span></a>. Without going into
the merits of the petitioners' case, the advocate general sought outright
dismissal of such a plea, asked for exemplary treatment so as to discourage
such litigation as it was an attack on the very institution under which the
judicial system of the country worked.<br />
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Given a chance to respond, Khosla said that by entertaining his application the
court could, in fact, send out a positive message where it was willing to
entertain cases against judicial officers, rendering all, including judicial
officers, equal before law.<br />
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Argued for about two hours, the listed matter evoked much interest in open
court, which was attended many senior lawyers, before the bench reserved its
order for next week. Before moving to the next listed matter, Khosla, with the
court's permission bowed out saying in Hindi, 'gustaki maaf', to which the
chief justice responded in equal measure, ending the proceedings with a smile
on everybody present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Court on Friday asked the Maharashtra government if it knows India's national
anthem, while hearing a PIL seeking withdrawal of class X and XII text books in
which the word 'Sindh' has been replaced by 'Sindhu'.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and SC Gupte issued notice to the
state government and the Principal Secretary of the Home Department and asked
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"Does the state government not know what our national anthem is? You
(government) cannot start changing words in the national anthem. What do you
propose to do?" Justice Chandrachud asked.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after the advocate insisted on arguing in Tamil, holding that the Constitution
clearly states that the language of the Supreme Court and High Courts
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Justice S Manikumar said the court was constrained to dismiss the writ
petitions "having regard to the constitutional provision and the binding
effect of the Constitutional Bench judgment of the Supreme Court in Madhu
Limaye Vs Ved Murthi Case in which the court held that the court language was
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The judge said when advocate Raj Narain insisted that he would speak only in
Hindi, the Supreme court bench HAD pointed out that the Attorney General was
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Some of the members of the Bench could not understand the arguments made in
Hindi and the bench had observed that in the circumstances, it was futile to
permit Raj Narain to speak in Hindi, the judge said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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The apex court had also given three alternatives to Raj Narain, including to
argue in English, or allow another lawyer to present his case,or submit a
written arguement in English. If Raj Narain was not agreeable to the options,
there was no other alternative except to cancel the intervention (dismissing),
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Similarly in this case also, Justice Manikumar said Advocate Bhagavath Singh
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Besides Art.348 of the Constitution of India clearly stated that the language
of the Supreme courts and High courts "shall be in English", the
judge said.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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One of the petitions dismissed today was by a woman Ayisha Banu had requested
the court to direct the Ministry of Overseas Affairs to bring her husband back
to India from Saudi Arabia.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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The other was from Sundar Rajan of Kanayakumari who sought court's intervention
to direct the executive officer of Karunkal panchayat in Kanyakumari district
to give plan approval for his house. The plea was also dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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notice to the CBI on the bail plea of former councillor Balwan Khokkar, serving
life sentence in the jail after his conviction in a case related to the 1984
anti-Sikh riots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kumar but convicted five others, including Khokkar, in a case related to the
killing of five people in Delhi Cantonment area during violence against the
Sikhs following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on Oct
31, 1984.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High
Court has served a show cause notice to the sugar unit of the Purti Group as to
why it should not be penalised for not paying income-tax.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The notice was issued on an appeal
filed by the I-T department against an order of the Income-Tax Tribunal in
December upholding a Purti Group's plea against the penalty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The tax was imposed on the company,
which was in news last year for its association with former BJP president Nitin
Gadkari, after it agreed to pay dues accrued after "revision" of
returns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The I-T department has sought to
know from HC if the appellate tribunal erred in cancelling the penalty without
appreciating that it was imposed after the assessee revised income following
action by the department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"The assessee failed to prove
reduction in income shown earlier was bona fide," the petition says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The taxes are for five assessment
years beginning 2001-02.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The default was noticed in documents
seized during searches at Mehta Group of Industries in Nagpur in 2006. Purti
Group claimed to have taken money from Mehta Group for capital expenditure and
showed interest paid. The I-T department found the deal suspicious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The capital cost shown on paper
initially by Purti Group was found to be inflated and was revised downward
after the I-T department brought it to the notice of the company. This
increased income. The tax it attracted was seen as evasion vis-a-vis returns
filed earlier and hence the penalty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Considering the request made by Baba Piara
Singh Bhaniara to remove objectionable parts from his banned book, 'Bhavsagar
Samundar Amarbani Granth', the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday directed
the Punjab government to take a decision on the matter in nine weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The full bench comprising justices Surya
Kant, Jitendra Chauhan and Surinder Gupta, while hearing Bhaniara's petition,
also made it clear that if the final decision in the case could not be taken by
September 23, the case would be heard on a daily basis thereon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Punjab government had imposed a ban on
the book on December 15, 2008. Baba Bhaniara had moved the high court
challenging the state government notification imposing the ban. The book was
opposed by many members of the Sikh community on the ground that the Baba was
equating himself with the Sikh Gurus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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high court on June 3 last year, four members of the five-member expert
committee constituted on the high court's order had justified the ban on the
book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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judicial magistrate, Ambala, had sentenced Baba Bhaniara and seven others to
three years' jail on the charges of promoting religious enmity for burning
pages of Guru Granth Sahib in 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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asking him to move to</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Gujarat" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Gujarat</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">on the ground that he has to look after his
wife who suffers from acute gangrene that has made her handicapped and
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A bench of Justices Geeta Mittal and Deepa Sharma granted interim protection to
Head Constable Subhash Chander and put a stay on his movement order till August
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Chander told the court that he was given movement orders even as his
representation against being transferred was pending before DG, BSF and that
the medical treatment advised to his wife is available only in Delhi.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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Counsel appearing for BSF informed the court that the representation made by
Chander against the transfer/ movement order is under consideration after which
the court put a stay on the same till August 21.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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Chander, working as a driver in the 25th Battalion of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Border+Security+Force" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Border Security Force</span></a>,
had moved the High Court against the Centre and Director General of BSF seeking
cancellation of order dated June 6 by which he was to move to Gujarat.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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His counsel Kamal Katyan told the court that Chander joined BSF as a constable
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He told the court that in April 2008, while he was posted in Punjab, his wife
started complaining of acute pain in her legs and doctors advised that she be
taken to Delhi for better diagnosis and treatment.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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In November 2008, doctors at RML hospital diagnosed the disease as gangrene and
performed surgery on her legs but it did not improve her situation and in
February 2009, artificial arteries were inserted in her legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shankar Pandey to file report of the inquiry conducted by him in the alleged Rs
1,400 crore scam in</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Uttar+Pradesh" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Uttar Pradesh</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Rural Engineering Department on July 17.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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The Lucknow bench of the High Court, comprising justices Devi Prasad Singh and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Vinay+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Vinay Kumar</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Mathur, gave the directions on a petition
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The court also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to file all records
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The PCS officer had alleged that police force was sent to his residence for
serving the notice of inquiry, which was against the norms, and demanded a
compensation of Rs 5 crore from the government in this regard.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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Pandey had also alleged that at the instance of senior IAS officer and
Principal Secretary, Appointment,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Rajiv+Kumar" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Rajiv Kumar</span></a>, with
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He had alleged that he was being continuously harassed by Kumar and other
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On behalf of the state government, additional advocate general Zafaryab Jilani
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Pandey had on July 1 opted for voluntary retirement in protest against the
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response to four petitions challenging their victory in the recently held
assembly elections.<br />
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Justice HN Nagamohan Das ordered notice to the minister in response to a
petition filed by Chandrappa challenging his election from Holalkere
constituency in Chitradurga district.<br />
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Anil Lad representing Bellary city constituency in response to a similar
election petition filed by T Parthasarathi, the defeated candidate. Both these
cases were adjourned to August 7.<br />
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Similar notices were served to Sindagi MLA Bhusanur Ramesh and former minister
PM Narendraswamy (Malavalli MLA by Justice L Narayanaswamy. These two petitions
have been adjourned to August 5.<br />
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Observing that it was the state's responsibility to ensure safety of tourists
and students, the Bombay High Court directed Maharashtra government on Friday
to draft a policy to keep tab on trekking camps organised by unregistered tour
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filed by a city-based couple who lost their teenage son on a trek conducted by
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According to the PIL filed by Anil Mahajan and his wife, their only son Harshal
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July 12: The High Court has issued arrest warrant against Sarpanch of
Faisalabad village of Surankote after a girl wrote letter to Chief Justice
seeking justice for her being allegedly raped by the Sarpanch who is out on
bail.<br />
Sources in the Court said that the letter was treated as a petition by the
Chief Justice and the case was listed before Justice M H Attar who directed
the police to arrest the accused Sarpanch forthwith.<br />
On May 25, police had claimed to have booked Mohammad Riaz, 40, son of Mohammad
Shafi Sarpanch of Faisalabad village of Surankote Tehsil in Poonch district
for allegedly raping a minor girl, who was working and living as maid in
his house for the last couple of years.<br />
Police had said the domestic help Naiheda (name changed) along with her kin
reached Police Station Surankote and gave a written complaint alleging the
Sarpanch allegedly raped her for more than two months and when she became
pregnant, he aborted her pregnancy by using some medicines.<br />
Kin of the victim pleading anonymity had told Kashmir Times Jammu edition
that the girl was living in the house of Sarpanch for the last couple of
years. The girl was minor and was working as maid in the house of Sarpanch,
who lured her and started allegedly raping her for last three months.
According to him when the girl became pregnant he aborted her pregnancy
with the help of some medicines. He claimed that Sarpanch threatened her
with dire consequences if she disclosed it to anyone. The Sarpanch
threatened to kill her along with her parents, he added.<br />
The relative of the victim, who accompanied her to Police Station also
claimed that last evening girl managed to escape from Sarpanch’s house and
reached her father’s house where she narrated the whole story to her
family. The family along with the girl came to Police Station Surankote and
lodged a FIR against Sarpanch.<br />
A case was registered under FIR number 55 under section 376 RPC at Police
Station Surankote and police had raided various places to arrest the
culprit. However, the culprit was still at large when the reports last came
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The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-High-Court" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay High
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know from the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Board-of-Control-for-Cricket-in-India" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Board of Control
for Cricket in India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(BCCI)
if it has initiated any probe against cricket players in the IPL spot fixing
scandal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" />
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A division bench of Justices S J Vazifdar and M S Sonak was hearing a petition
filed by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Cricket-Association-of-Bihar" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Cricket
Association of Bihar</span></a>challenging the constitution of the two-member
commission set up by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/BCCI" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">BCCI</span></a>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/IPL-Governing-Council" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">IPL Governing
Council</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to probe the
allegations of betting and spot fixing.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" />
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The petition alleged blatant bias by former BCCI president N Srinivasan in the
light of mounting allegations against himself and in constituting the probe
panel as he is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/india-cements-ltd/stocks/companyid-13550.cms" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024d99;">India Cements
Ltd</span></a>, which owns the IPL team 'Chennai Super Kings'.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" />
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The bench was today informed by senior counsel Rafiq Dada, appearing for BCCI,
that the commission was inquiring into allegations against official member of
CSK team Gurunath Meiyappan, India Cements, Jaipur Cricket and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Raj-Kundra" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Raj Kundra</span></a>, who owns<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajasthan-Royals" pg="asTopicL1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Rajasthan Royals</span></a>team.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" />
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"What about players then? Spot fixing will include players' complicity
also. Is the BCCI probing players also," the court queried.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" />
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Dada replied that the cricket board was inquiring into that angle also but it
is being done separately and is not part of the probe being conducted by the
commission. Dada also pointed out that the commission has already finished
hearing arguments of all parties involved. "Written submissions will be
handed over to the commission after which the panel would submit its report,"
the senior counsel said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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file an affidavit explaining the details of funds allotted in the last three
years for setting up libraries in government and aided higher secondary schools
in the state. The Bench also issued notices to General Education department and
the Higher Secondary director.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vinod Chandran issued the directive on a petition filed by Manutious, plus one
student of SNDP Higher Secondary School, Udayamperoor in Ernkaulam
seeking a directive to the state to ensure that libraries were set up in all
the aided higher secondary schools in the State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amount allotted for setting up the library, buying books and posting
librarians. The petitioner pointed out that despite
mandatory requirements under the Kerala Education Rules, the aided school
managements were not setting up libraries and the students were thus deprived
of their right to pursue their studies. Libraries were really an integral party
of the studies and the post of librarian has been mandatory in the special
rules, it was submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aided higher secondary schools failed to set up a library and post a librarian,
they should not be given permission to admit students in plus two courses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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posting sufficient librarians. However, no aided higher secondary school had
set up libraries in their schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government schools in the state. Hence 1441 librarians are to be posted in the
schools. The financial commitment for the posts would be more than `20 crore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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regular inspection in all HSSs to ensure that the libraries were functioning in
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Delhi: Seeking expunction of adverse remarks by trial court against it in the
former airhostess suicide case, the Delhi Police on Friday told the High Court
that they amounted to "destroying the prosecution case before it
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before Justice G P Mittal, Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra read
out certain remarks from the trial court's order on framing of charges against
former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda and his employee Aruna Chadha.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The trial court's remarks that the investigating agency has chosen not to
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reach the truth (with regard to the sexual exploitation of the victim) is like
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"What more evidence can we bring to support our case," he said while
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Luthra was arguing for a plea moved by Delhi Police objecting to the trial
court's remark dubbing the probe as "tainted and stinking" and
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Luthra also said that if the trial court felt that more was needed to be done,
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The trial court had in its May 10 order said, "It appears that taking a
cue from the victim's post-mortem report dated August 6, 2012, the
investigation progressed towards ascertaining sexual exploitation of the
deceased. The disclosure statement of accused Aruna Chadha was recorded on
August 10, 2012. The statement of the doctor (gyanecologist) was also recorded
on August 12, 2012.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Thereafter, it appears that for reasons best known to the investigating
agency, further investigation in this direction has not been conducted to
collect further evidence."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The former air hostess, who was earlier employed with Kanda's MLDR airlines,
was found dead on August 5 last year at her Ashok Vihar residence in North West
Delhi. In her August 4 suicide note, she had said she was ending her life due
to "harassment" by Kanda, 46, and Chadha, 40.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Desingu, president of the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) in Chennai, on the basis
of a letter from the members of the legal fraternity dated July 11 2012. The
first bench of Acting Chief Justice R K Agrawal and Justice M Sathyanarayanan,
which initiated the proceedings, posted the matter for further hearing on
September 3 and dispensed with the presence of Desingu in the court on that
day. The July 7 letter allegedly explained the “questionable tactics of a
member of the Bar in approaching DRT presiding officer for certain favour”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-47965407053624584702013-05-18T14:43:00.001+05:302013-05-18T14:43:11.161+05:30LEGAL NEWS 18.05.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Supreme Court's diktat to states to implement the Centre's guidelines with
regard to regulating online activity is welcome, coming as it does in the
backdrop of arbitrary arrests made for derogatory posts on popular social
networking sites such as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Facebook"><span style="color: #024d99;">Facebook</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
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The court like the Centre directed that no citizen should be arrested for any
such online posts without the permission of senior police officials.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The directives yet again bring to the fore the grey areas in the Information
Technology (IT) Act, 2000 and need for review of the legislation. Take for
instance, Section 66 A of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IT-Act"><span style="color: #024d99;">IT
Act</span></a>, which spells out as an offence any information sent through a
computer or communication device if the material is "grossly offensive,
has menacing character, is sent to cause annoyance, insult, inconvenience,
danger, obstruction, ill will and enmity, hatred or for criminal
intimidation". The terminology used is very arbitrary and has in the past
been used to quell dissent.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The misuse was best illustrated when two girls on the outskirts of Mumbai (in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Palghar"><span style="color: #024d99;">Palghar</span></a>) were arrested last year— for posting a comment on
Facebook lamenting the shutdown of the city following Shiv Sena leader Bal
Thackeray's death and the other for 'liking' the post.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Legal provisions that are couched in such generic language are open to misuse
and interpretation that curb the fundamental rights of speech and expression.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Promiscuous character of woman can't be ground of
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Trust of India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>: New
Delhi, Fri May 17 2013, 18:50 hrs</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Promiscuous character of a woman is
irrelevant in rape cases and a rapist cannot take it as ground of defence for
his heinous act, the Supreme Court has ruled saying even a female of easy
virtue has a right to life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Holding that rape is not only an
offence against a woman, but a crime against the entire society, the apex court
said that courts should deal with such cases sternly and severely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"Even if the victim had lost
her virginity earlier, it can certainly not give a licence to any person to
rape her. It is the accused who was on trial and not the victim. So as to
whether the victim is of a promiscuous character is totally an irrelevant issue
altogether in a case of rape," a bench of justices B S Chauhan and F M I
Kalifulla said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The bench passed the order on an
appeal filed by a rape convict challenging his conviction on the ground that
the victim was of promiscuous character and had been habitual to sexual
activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">It, however, refused to grant relief
to the accused saying that it is not material that the rape victim was
accustomed to sexual intercourse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"Even a woman of easy virtue
has a right to refuse to submit herself to sexual intercourse to anyone and
everyone, because she is not a vulnerable object or prey for being sexually assaulted
by anyone and everyone," the bench said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"The courts should deal with
such cases sternly and severely. Sexual violence, apart from being a
dehumanizing act, is an unlawful intrusion on the right of privacy and sanctity
of a woman. It is a serious blow to her supreme honour and offends her
self-esteem and dignity as well," the bench said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"It degrades and humiliates the
victim and where the victim is a helpless innocent child or a minor, it leaves
behind a traumatic experience. A rapist not only causes physical injuries, but
leaves behind a scar on the most cherished position of a woman, i.e. her
dignity, honour, reputation and chastity," it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="author"><span style="background: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;">J. VENKATESAN</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 15.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Supersession
only in exceptional circumstances, not for extraneous considerations<o:p></o:p></span></i></h2>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Supreme Court on
Thursday decried the tendency of State governments superseding elected
cooperative societies for political or extraneous reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Supersession of an elected
managing committee/board is an exception and [can] be resorted to only in
exceptional circumstances,” said a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and
Dipak Misra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sending a warning to the
States, the Bench imposed Rs. 1 lakh in costs on the Madhya Pradesh government,
payable to the Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority. The court ordered
reinstatement of the Board of Directors of the District Cooperative Central
Bank Ltd., Panna, forthwith and that it be allowed to continue for the period
it had been put out of office by an impugned order which was quashed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bench also imposed
costs of Rs. 10, 000 on the Joint Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Sagar, who
passed the order. The amount “will be deducted from his salary and deposited in
the Panna DCB within two months.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Writing the judgment,
Justice Radhakrishnan said an elected committee should not be penalised for the
shortcomings or illegalities committed by the previous committees, unless
“there is any deliberate inaction in rectifying the illegalities.” The elected
committee should be given at least six months to rectify defects, if any,
pointed out in the audit report on incidents which originated when the previous
committee was in office. “The Registrar/Joint Registrar is legally obliged to
comply with all the statutory formalities including consultation with the
financing/controlling banks, etc. Only after getting their view, can an opinion
be formed as to whether an elected committee be ousted or not.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bench said the
Registrar/Joint Registrar should always bear in mind the consequences of
supersession, which had the effect of not only ousting the Board but also
disqualifying its members from contesting subsequent elections. “The
Registrar/Joint Registrar shall not act under political pressure or influence
and, if he does, he will be subjected to disciplinary proceedings and also held
personally liable for the cost of legal proceedings.” Taxpayers’ money should
not be spent by the State government or the Registrar on unnecessary litigation
involving disputes among various factions in a co-operative society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the instant case, the
Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Sagar Division, superseded the Board
of Directors of the Panna DCCB without consulting the Reserve Bank of India.
The Board challenged the order. A single judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court
disposed of the writ petition, directing the parties to avail themselves of
alternative remedy provided under Section 78 of the Act. But on appeal, a Division
Bench set aside the supersession. Aggrieved, Madhya Pradesh filed the present
appeal, which was dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The Supreme Court has refused to interfere
in the functioning of the Group of Ministers (GoM) examining the issue of CBI's
autonomy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A two-judge bench comprising of Justices B S
Chauhan and Dipak Misra on Friday declined to hear the plea of a group of CBI
cadre officers who moved the apex court to restrain the Centre from framing new
rules for the appointment of officers against the recommendation of the
parliamentary committees which have suggested building of a strong CBI cadre
and to reduce dependence of deputation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The judges while noting that they cannot
pass such an order, said the officers can approach the bench, which is seized
of the matter pertaining to filling up vacancies in CBI after the court's
vacation, for redressal of their grievance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"We cannot pass such order of mandamus
to the government. We cannot pre-empt ordinance," the bench said, adding,
"Propriety says that it should come before the same bench."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The officers, in their petition, have
questioned the government for setting up of the Group of Ministers (GoM) and
not implementing the recommendations in parliamentary committee reports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">They have submitted that the GoM must give
them the opportunity to make representations before it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Under the garb of the direction of
this court, the government which has deliberately disregarded and failed to
take into consideration various reports of parliamentary standing committees,
has arbitrarily set up a GoM," Advocate Kamini Jaiswal, appearing for the
CBI officers, said on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The petition has said, "Cadre officers
have been deliberately kept away in the functioning of CBI as none of them in
the last 50 years has even been appointed to any post in the organisation
dealing with the administrative and policy-making decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Under the garb of the direction of
this court, the government which has deliberately disregarded and failed to
take into consideration various reports of parliamentary standing committees,
has arbitrarily set up a GoM ," it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The GoM was set up after the apex court had
asked the government to bring a law to give the agency functional autonomy and
to stop interference in its functioning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pertaining to large number of vacancies in CBI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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theft has surfaced in the land sale of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Petrofils-Co-operative-Limited"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Petrofils Co-operative Limited</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(PIL). Investigations by the district
administration have revealed that the state government has suffered losses
worth Rs 132 crore towards premium during the sale of huge land owned by PIL.
Thirty-four buyers didn't pay any premium on the land that was sold off by the
liquidator after PIL, a joint venture between Government of India and Weavers'
Co-operative Societies, went into liquidation in 2000.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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theft case citing flouting of rules under Bombay Land Revenue Code. According
to the district administration, the buyers didn't pay premium worth Rs 132
crore on the PIL land measuring over 1.17 lakh square metre. "The buyers
didn't pay the premium on the land and also didn't get mandatory government
permission required before transferring the land in their names," Rao
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The buyers may be sent notices for flouting rules and asked to reply as to why
the state government shouldn't take away the land that costs over Rs 226 crore.
Of the 34 buyers, eight are major purchasers who have together bought land
worth Rs 104 crore.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aspire-Confra-Private-Ltd"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Aspire Confra Private Ltd</span></a>paid Rs 84 crore for the
land and is yet to pay Rs 42 crore towards premium.<br />
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Prestige Infra Pvt Ltd bought the land at Rs 3.92 crore and didn't pay premium
on it apart from Jyotsna Shah, who purchased five different plots but didn't
pay premium. The district administration has also decided to write to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vadodara-Urban-Development-Authority"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Vadodara Urban Development Authority</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(VUDA) to cancel the building
permissions on the land. VUDA had given building permissions without required
documents, said the officials.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Haryana high court for not taking action against rapper Honey Singh, the
Punjabi singer was booked at the city police station here under Section 294
(obscene acts and songs to the annoyance of others in public place) of the
Indian<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="msoIns"><ins>Penal
Code (IPC).<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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On Thursday, the police received directions from the under secretary (home),
after which the first information report (FIR) was registered at 11:30pm.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Section 294 of the IPC, the accused can be punished with imprisonment for a
term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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have registered a case against Honey Singh and started an investigation,” said
Nawanshahr senior superintendent of police (SSP) Dhanpreet Kaur.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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matter had reached the HC through a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by
Nawanshahr-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Human Empowerment League
of Punjab (HELP), through its general secretary Parvinder Singh Kittna.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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PIL had sought directions to set up an effective mechanism to curb the menace
of lewd songs. The PIL, filed through advocate HC Arora, had submitted that all
limits of decency were being violated by certain singers. The petitioner had
particularly mentioned Honey’s song “Main hoon balatkari” (I am a rapist),
stating that it had hurt the sentiments of all civilised citizens of the
country. But for promoting rape culture, the song had no message to convey, the
petitioner had claimed.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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high court bench comprising acting chief justice Jasbir Singh and justice
Rakesh Kumar Jain, that heard the petition, had taken exception to the song and
remarked that it was difficult to go through the whole of it. The bench, on May
14, had directed the Punjab government to take appropriate action against the
singer for the vulgar song. It had also asked for fresh summons to be served on
Honey for July 4 through e-mail as he had failed to appear for the previous
hearing. The court ordered to implead the Haryana government as well as the
Chandigarh administration as respondents in this case, asking them to take
action in accordance with the law on the issue of vulgar songs.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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satisfaction at the registration of the FIR, Kittna said other such
“irresponsible” singers should also be taken to task. “The Punjab government is
not taking the issue seriously. At a hearing, the government submitted in the
high court that a policy was underway to check cultural vulgarity, but on the
next date, it washed its hands of its responsibility by stating that obscene
songs could be downloaded from any online source,” rued Kittna.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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alleged that the NGO’s complaint, submitted to the Nawanshahr police on January
1, was kept pending for several days before he was told that it had been
forwarded to the Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), where a
case had already been registered against Honey.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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dilly-dallying made us invoke the high court’s intervention under Article 226
of the Constitution,” he added.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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SSP claimed that it was not under any pressure that the police had not taken
action when the complaint was submitted. “The complaint was referred to the
police station where a case had been registered against the singer,” she said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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sought a reply from the state government on a plea seeking action against Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, his wife Dimple, who happens to be MP,
and others for attending a mass marriage in which at least 20 minors tied the
knot at Niwadi, Tikamgarh in MP on March 9 this year. Akhilesh and Dimple were
chief guests at the function.<br />
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The mass marriage was organized by MLA from Niwadi, Tikamgarh, Meena Yadav and
her husband MLA from Garrauthai, Jhansi, in UP Deep Narayan Yadav, the Public
Interest Litigation (PIL), said.<br />
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A division bench of High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice K K Lahoti and
Justice MA Siddiqui directed the State to file reply within four weeks on what
action it has taken in the matter, after Gyandeen Ahirwar, a BJP activist,
moved the PIL stating that police haven't taken action against the organizers
under Child Marriage Act.<br />
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He claimed that though he apprised officials present during solemnizing the
marriage, they didn't heed and abandoned the child marriages. The petitioner's
counsel Dinesh Upadhyaya told the court that police didn't even receive the
complaint of his client on the day of marriages or thereafter.<br />
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The petitioner has also sought direction for taking action against the chief guests
and those attended the mass marriage function.<br />
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Furthermore, the petitioner has demanded action against Niwadi Police station
incharge Priyanka Pathak for not taking action despite being in the know of the
minor marriages.<br />
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There are provisions under Child Marriage Act to prosecute the organizers and
persons who attended the mass marriage where minors entered into the wedlock,
Upadhyay contended.<br />
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Akhilesh, Dimple, Deep Naryan Yadav, Meena, Tikamgarh collector, sub-divisional
officer (Niwadi), the superintendent of police, sub-divisional officer police
(Niwadi), Priyanka and Niwadi Family and Child Welfare project officer DK Dixit
have been made the respondents in the PIL.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Bombay high court has quashed a controversial circular issued by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/general-administration-department"><span style="color: #024d99;">general administration department</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(GAD) on<span style="background: white;">recruitments</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and promotions against reserved posts
in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-government"><span style="color: #024d99;">state government</span></a>.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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According to the circular, if a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/scheduled-caste"><span style="color: #024d99;">scheduled caste</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(SC) candidate is not available for a
reserved post, then the GAD can fill up the vacancy by a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/scheduled-tribe"><span style="color: #024d99;">scheduled tribe</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(ST) nominee or the next candidate in
the roster, while a law enacted on October 27, 2004, provided that such a post
should be kept vacant for a prescribed period.<br />
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"The circular issued by the GAD on October 27, 2008, is quashed being
contrary to the Maharashtra Act of 2004, as well as it violates the
Constitution," Justice R M Borde and Justice T V Nalawade had observed in
a 23-page order<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>in their
order last week.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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The 2004 law was enacted to provide for reservation of vacancies and posts in
public services in favour of persons belonging to SC, ST, de-notified tribes,
nomadic tribes, special backward category and other backward classes (OBC). The
act<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>specifies that posts
reserved for SC, ST, de-notified tribes, nomadic tribes, special backward
category and other backward classes mentioned in the law shall not be filled in
by other candidates not belonging to that caste, tribe, category or class for
which the posts are reserved. It prescribed a specific procedure to be followed
for filling unreserved vacancy if no suitable candidate is available.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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It was submitted that in the event of non-availability of the candidates
belonging to the SC, ST, de-notified tribes, nomadic tribes, special backward
category and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/OBC"><span style="color: #024d99;">OBC</span></a>,
the posts shall be kept vacant for up to five recruitment years. Even then
after making efforts for recruiting candidates from among the backward
categories, if the post cannot be filled in, the same shall be filled in by
interchanging reservation among the categories. But even after interchanging of
reservation, if a candidate is not available, the post shall be declared to be
available for general category nominees in the seventh year and a proposal
shall be forwarded to the GAD.<br />
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For filling up vacancies through promotions, the act provided that in the event
of non-availability of candidates, the posts will be kept vacant for three
recruitment years and efforts would be made to fill the vacancies from among
the reserved categories concerned.<br />
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The GAD circular on October 27, 2008,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>provided
that if there is a difficulty in filling up the posts or candidates of a
particular reserved category were not available, the post will be offered to
the next roster point category within the reservation percentage.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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But the petitioner contended that by doing sofilling up the vacancy in such a
manner</span>, the basic right of the candidate of a particular reserved
category is taken away and thus, the circular is bad in law. "In fact, the
new circular is a departure from the original law," the petitioner said.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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He pointed out that if the roster point prescribed for offering promotion to ST
nominee and in the event of non-availability of a candidate belonging to ST,
the reservation will be shifted to de-notified candidate or any other category.
"This prescription is against the spirit of the original law," he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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arrest of actor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Kalabhavan</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Mani,
who moved the court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with the alleged
assault on two forest officers at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Athirappilly</span>.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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Hearing Mani's plea, justice K Ramakrishnan also sought the view of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-government"><span style="color: #024d99;">state government</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on the anticipatory bail. He later
adjourned the hearing of the case to Monday.<br />
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The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vettilappara-police"><span style="color: #024d99;">Vettilappara police</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had registered a case against Mani for
the offence under Sections 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public
servant from his duty), 294 (b) (utters obscene words) and 506 (i) (criminal
intimidation) of the IPC.<br />
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Police registered the case after<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Mani
had allegedly assaulted two forest officials on May 15. According to the
police, Mani allegedly attacked them when they asked him to stop the car for
checking. Mani had contended that he was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">travelling</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>along
with his friend Dr<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Gopinath</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
his wife<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Jaya</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>when the
forest officials asked him to stop the car. "Without any provocation, the
officials showered abusive words and insulted the woman," he submitted.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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Police had also registered cases against the forest officials in connection
with the incident.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a public sector organization shall not be denied to a job-seeker on the ground
of conviction in a criminal case unless offences have an element of "moral
turpitude", the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-High-Court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi High Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and V Kameswar Rao said an inference
should not be drawn about the antecedent and character of a job-seeker on the
basis of his conviction in a criminal case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The law declared was that every conviction for an offence would not
require an inference to be drawn that the antecedent and character of the wrong
doer is of a kind that public employment has to be denied," the court
said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Citing a previous verdict, the bench said "further, offences being
classified as cognizable and non-cognizable, bailable as well as non-bailable,
it was highlighted that only such offences which have an element of moral
turpitude would<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/warrant"><span style="color: #024d99;">warrant</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>public
employment to be denied."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The observations came while dismissing an appeal of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-police"><span style="color: #024d99;">Delhi police</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which
was filed against the judgment of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Central-Administrative-Tribunal"><span style="color: #024d99;">Central Administrative Tribunal</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(CAT).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The CAT had given the judgement in favour of a constable who was earlier
convicted and fined by a criminal court after he pleaded guilty in a case
lodged for rashly driving his motorcycle.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Police had taken the plea that the constable used to drive four-wheeled police
vehicle and after the conviction, he cannot be allowed to continue.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court upheld the judgment of the CAT.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Meghalaya high court on Friday dismissed the writ petition filed by Chandra
Mohan Jha (CMJ) university against the order issued by governor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RS-Mooshary"><span style="color: #024d99;">RS Mooshary</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>who
is also university's visitor directing the varsity to stop new admissions and
to submit a fresh proposal for appointment of the Chancellor.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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Chief Justice T Meena Kumari said "this Court finds that the letter of the
Secretary of the Governor as contained under April 30, 2013 has no legal
infirmity and it need not be interfered with by this Court."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In line with the governor's order, the Court directed the University to stop
fresh admission till controversy is resolved.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"It is also made clear that till controversy is resolved, the University
shall not admit the students in the university," the order said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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On April 30, Meghalaya governor, RS Mooshahary who is also the visitor has
directed the CMJ University to withdraw all the degrees awarded by it so far
and to submit a fresh proposal for the appointment of the Chancellor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reserves judgement on Talwars' petition<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Allahabad, May 17: The Allahabad<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.oneindia.in/topic/high-court" title="Topic: High Court"><span style="color: #0066cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">High Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>today
reserved its judgement on a petition of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar,
accused of killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, seeking
summoning of 14 witnesses and recording their statements in trial court.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice Rajesh Dayal Khare reserved
judgement on the petition of the Noida-based couple, whose petition was filed
on May 15, two days after they were ticked off by the Supreme Court for
adopting "a wrong procedure" by approaching it directly without first
having moved the High Court.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Talwars have challenged a CBI court
order on May 4 whereby their request for summoning and recording statements of
14 witnesses, including top IPS officer Arun Kumar who is at present the ADG
(Law and Order) of Uttar Pradesh and was a Joint Director of the CBI during the
probe, was turned down.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><a href="http://news.oneindia.in/topic/aarushi" title="Topic: Aarushi"><span style="color: #0066cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Aarushi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was
found dead with her throat slit in her bedroom on May 16, 2008.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The initial suspicion went on Hemraj whose
body was later found in the terrace at their residence in Jalvayu Vihar in
Noida on the outskirts of Delhi.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The high-profile case was handed over to
CBI after a recommendation to the effect by the then Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister, in the wake of outcry against alleged shoddy investigation by the
police.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>A closure report was filed by the CBI in
December, 2010, wherein Rajesh Talwar had been called the sole suspect but lack
of adequate evidence was also cited.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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court at Ghaziabad expressed the view that there was enough evidence against
Aarsuhi's parents and initiated proceedings against them.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/crime/High-Court-grants-temporary-relief-to-former-PWD-engineer/articleshow/20117460.cms">http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/crime/High-Court-grants-temporary-relief-to-former-PWD-engineer/articleshow/20117460.cms</a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Bombay High Court has directed the police not to file
a chargesheet against a retired PWD engineer, accused of spending Rs 113 crore
more than a sanctioned budget. The court has asked the police to wait until
June 20, where it will hear the official's petition.<br />
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A division bench was hearing a petition filed by Swamidas Chobe, who served in
Maharashtra PWD as executive engineer from 2010 to January 2012, seeking to
quash the case lodged against him by the Azad Maidan police last October. Chobe
was booked for for alleged criminal breach of trust and issuing cheques to
contractors well above the sanctioned budget amount.<br />
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As executive engineer, Chobe was required to look after maintenance and repairs
of minister's bungalows, Mantralaya, High Court building, judges' residence
building, MLA hostel, all government buildings and heritage buildings for which
contractors were appointed.<br />
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Chobe's advocates argued that in a number of cases, repair works are required
to be carried out on a priority basis and considering the urgency, pending
bills are cleared at the earliest and cheques are issued.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>PTI</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Visit ex-CJ S S Dewan and his wife to ensure
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/visit-excj-s-s-dewan--and-his-wife-to-ensure-their-safety-hc-to-ssp/1117267/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/visit-excj-s-s-dewan--and-his-wife-to-ensure-their-safety-hc-to-ssp/1117267/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Punjab and Haryana High Court on
Friday refused to enlarge the scope of the petition as demanded by former Chief
Justice Shanti Sarup Dewan, finding averments raised by him apprehending threat
to his life from his son, as "insufficient".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">However, keeping in view his
"exalted stature and status", the High Court on Friday directed the
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Chandigarh or any other officer to
visit Dewan and his wife at their residence in Sector 11-B of the city. The
court has asked the officer to visit the elderly couple within 24 hours to
"take stock of the situation".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Liberty has been granted to the
police to take all necessary steps "as deemed fit to ensure the protection
of life and liberty" of Dewan and his wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court refused to go into the
other demands raised by former Chief Justice Shanti Sarup Dewan wherein he had
averred that special cells be created to deal with the complaints of senior
citizens in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Showing no conviction in the demand,
the High Court held, "A legislation called The Maintenance and Welfare of
Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 is already in place."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"This is a comprehensive
enactment covering the issues relating to maintenance of parents/ senior
citizens," it pointed out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Dewan had petitioned the High Court
alleging that his son and his daughter-in-law have "traumatised the
petitioners and made their lives a living hell in the twilight of their
life." The petitioner alleged that at times their son and his wife use
unparliamentary language while addressing them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/hc-notice-to-police-on-swamys-plea-to-quash-fir/articleshow/20104347.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/hc-notice-to-police-on-swamys-plea-to-quash-fir/articleshow/20104347.cms</a></div>
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DELHI: The Delhi High Court today sought response from the police on a plea of
Janata Party President<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Subramanian-Swamy"><span style="color: #024d99;">Subramanian Swamy</span></a>seeking quashing of an FIR
lodged against him for writing an "inflammatory" article in a Mumbai
daily in 2011.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Issuing notice to Delhi Police, Justice Kailash Gambhir sought its response by
August 26 on Swamy's plea for quashing of the FIR on the ground that
"whatever investigation has been done by the police in past 21 months, no
material has been found which would cause communal disharmony in society".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A case was filed against Swamy in October 2011 by the Crime Branch of Delhi
Police, on a complaint from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/the-National"><span style="color: #024d99;">the National</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Commission
for Minorities, for writing in July 2011 the alleged inflammatory article which
the complaint said was intended to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/spread"><span style="color: #024d99;">spread</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>communal
enmity.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Appearing for Swamy, senior advocate<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/KTS-Tulsi"><span style="color: #024d99;">KTS Tulsi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>submitted
before the court that, "In 2005, Swamy had written a book on terrorism in
India and the content of the book did not cause any sort of communal
disturbance but writing an article, which is based on the book, became
offensive."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The investigation is going on from past 21 months and no case has been
made out so far," the counsel also argued.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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To this argument, Justice Gambhir said, "These kind of expressions cannot
be expected from you as you are a political leader, economist and also an
educationist," and issued notice to police.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Swamy was granted anticipatory bail in January 2012 by the high court after he
had given an undertaking in the court that he would refrain from writing such
articles in future.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Earlier, Swamy's counsel had argued that this case was lodged to harass his
client as he (Swamy) had exposed the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/2G-scam"><span style="color: #024d99;">2G scam</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>against
the government.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court has been appointed Chief Justice of the AP high court. Following assent
from President<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pranab-Mukherjee"><span style="color: #024d99;">Pranab Mukherjee</span></a>, the Centre on Friday
notified the new CJ's appointment.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Born on May 7, 1953, and brought up in Kolkata, Justice Sengupta started his
legal<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.speakingtree.in/topics/journey/journey" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024d99;">journey</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as a lawyer in April 1981 and
practised civil, criminal and constitutional matters at the Calcutta high
court. He was appointed permanent judge of the Calcutta high court in 1997. He
also held the position of the executive chairman of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/West-Bengal"><span style="color: #024d99;">West Bengal</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>state
legal services authority and also the post of acting chief justice of Calcutta
high court in October 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">CMD says
action should be taken against the media company</span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has begun a probe into the debt-laden
media company Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd (DCHL).<br />
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The investigation follows a complaint by Canara Bank of irregularities in the
DCHL balance sheet when it had done a forensic audit of the Hyderabad-based
company.<br />
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“There are irregularities in the books of accounts and, accordingly, action
should be taken,” said Canara’s chairman and managing director, R K Dubey. “We
have filed a case in the Debt Recovery Tribunal. We have also filed a case with
the CBI and they have started investigation. Initial action has been initiated
and every effort will be made to recover the money.”<br />
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He said the bank had written to CBI about three months earlier, after the
forensic audit it had commissioned was found to be making no progress. DCHL, he
said, owed Rs 360 crore to Canara; the former’s total debt liability was around
Rs 4,000 crore.<br />
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The CMD was responding to a volley of questions, on his first visit to this
city after taking charge of the bank.<br />
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“The purpose of the forensic audit was to know where the money had gone,” he
explained further. “But that purpose was not served fully as the balance sheet
did not reveal the true picture. The balance sheet did not contain all the
loans lent by banks. That means there are several issues in the balance sheet
itself.”<br />
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He said the forensic audit threw limited light on these things, as it was very
difficult to find the end-use of the funds after these got transferred. He
clarified that Canara was not a lead bank for DCHL and nor was there any
consortium of lenders to the firm. <br />
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Beside the absence of loan entries, the forensic audit also pointed to filing
of wrong registration certificates, in a bid to take loans by mortgaging the
same property with multiple lenders, he alleged. It was, he added, difficult to
know as to what part of the security was available to whom.<br />
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“About 40-50 per cent of loans have been secured by current assets and
receivables. There are multiple claims because the security charged to me is
also charged to other banks,” he said, stating it was going to be a court or a
judicial authority which would decide which secured lender has got what share
of security.<br />
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Hopeful of recovering the money, he said the bank had taken all legal measures,
including recourse under the Securitisation Act and multiple suits seeking
interim relief.<br />
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On the demerger plan DCHL had referred to in its annual report, the Canara Bank
chairman said it had not sent any proposals to the bank in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: normal;">The Delhi High Court
today upheld the central government's decision forfeiting four years' service
of a police officer for demanding bribe to bail out the driver and release the
vehicle in a rash and negligent driving case in 1999.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Allowing the appeal of Delhi government against the Central Administrative
Tribunal's (CAT) order, a bench of justices B D Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul set
aside the Tribunal's order in which the Home Ministry was directed to restore
the four years of service of the officer and pay him all financial benefits.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Observing that the disciplinary proceedings was initiated to bring out the
truth, the court said the inquiry officer had conducted the probe within the
rules prescribed under the Delhi Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"We find that the Inquiry Officer was well within his powers to ask
questions to the witnesses in order to establish the identity of the delinquent
officer and his approach was in accordance with the procedural requirements
contemplated under Rule 16 of the said rules....The impugned order (CAT) cannot
be sustained. The same is accordingly set aside. The petition is allowed,"
the bench said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The Inquiry Officer has ample power to put forth questions to the
witnesses to test the authenticity of their statements. Disciplinary
proceedings cannot be regarded as adversarial in nature as the sublime
philosophy behind these proceedings is a quest to unravel the truth," the
court also said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chit-Fund-Act"><span style="color: #024d99;">Chit Fund Act</span></a>, 1982, as the existing web of
state and central regulations is so porous that preventing a Saradha-type scam
was next to impossible.<br />
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After hearing finance, tax and stock market officials on Friday, committee
chair<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Yashwant-Sinha"><span style="color: #024d99;">Yashwant Sinha</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is understood to have been in favour
of doing away with the law altogether so that chit funds were deemed illegal.<br />
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Sinha along with some other committee members like CPI's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gurudas-Dasgupta"><span style="color: #024d99;">Gurudas Dasgupta</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>felt efforts must be made to ensure
people who currently turn to chit funds due to lack of options are provided
more trustworthy investment avenues. However, Congress's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay-Nirupam-(politician)"><span style="color: #024d99;">Sanjay Nirupam</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>asked for doing away with chit funds,
saying that there are now enough financial instruments available.<br />
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Senior officials like economic affairs secretary Arvind Mayaram pointed to the
problem of multiple regulators and lack of coordination between the Centre and
states that allowed unscrupulous chit funds from taking investors for a ride.<br />
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MPs felt lack of banking services in many parts of the country, particularly in
rural areas, helped chit funds present themselves as an attractive proposition
with promise of high returns acting as bait.<br />
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Dasgupta is understood to have suggested widening the reach of options like
postal<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Savings"><span style="color: #024d99;">savings</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
provide the economically vulnerable a safer bet instead of dubious chit funds.<br />
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BJD's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhartruhari-Mahtab"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bhartruhari Mahtab</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is learnt to have argued that existing
laws must be made more stringent and all efforts be made to ensure that those
guilty of scams like the Saradha case received exemplary punishment.<br />
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Trinamool Congress's Sudip Bandyopadhyay is understood to have said the state
government could not be held responsible for chit fund scams, while Dasgupta
said the money investors lost was unlikely to be recovered.<br />
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While not all committee members are likely to support Sinha's view — which he
said in his personal capacity — the panel's report could recommend drastic
measures as the former<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Finance-Minister"><span style="color: #024d99;">finance minister</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>felt chit funds are inherently risky.<br />
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Sources said the sentiment expressed by many MPs was that it will be hard to
prevent gullible investors, particularly those from the economically less
well-off sections, from falling for tempting chit fund offers.<br />
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The committee also briefly discussed its long pending report on defining the
below poverty line population with members disagreeing on inclusion and
exclusion norms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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five orphaned hearing and speech impaired girls between the age of 15 and 17
years were raped, one molested several times for a year, and the others beaten
up by some employees of an NGO based in the city's Kanota area.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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These girls were staying in the hostel of the NGO - Awaaz Foundation - while
learning to express themselves by speaking to some extent. The hostel warden, a
security guard and a clerk raped two of them. One other girl was molested and
two were beaten up. Police said the two girls were forced to have unnatural sex
also.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The police have rounded up the warden and the clerk for rape, while NGO
in-charge, a woman, was arrested for hiding the crime and the clerk's wife was
nabbed for beating up the girls. The security guard had left the job about five
months ago and is on the run.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The shocking case came to light when these girls returned to the child shelter
home run by the state government in Gandhi Nagar after completing the course
and complained to the authorities there.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The state government's child welfare committee (CWC) investigated the case for
a month on its own and then lodged an FIR on Friday evening. The police
officers were recording the statement of the children till late night.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Commissioner of police Biju Jorge Josheph told TOI that the victims are in the
age group of 15 and 17 years. "They are orphaned, so they live in the
child shelter home. The inmates study at various schools in the city. As the
victims were hearing and speech impaired, the shelter authorities had sent them
to Awaaz Foundation in Kanota area to learn to speak or express themselves
properly. About 100 students, including girls and boys, were living in the foundation's
hostel and they used to return to the child shelter home during
vacations," the officer said. Police said the foundation was running since
2007.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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These girls had come to the shelter home in the first week of April and lodged
a complaint with the shelter authorities. "The matter was brought to the
notice of the CWC on April 13. Its members investigated the case on their own
and lodged an FIR with the police on Friday," the officer said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The police officials were shocked to hear the stories of rape and harassment of
these girls. Two of these girls were beaten up for resisting rape and forced to
have unnatural sex by the hostel warden, Ashok Prajapat, security guard Mahesh
Mali and clerk Suresh Bairwa.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"The girls had even complained about it to the foundation's in-charge
Alpana, a woman; however, she hushed it up. When clerk Suresh Bairwa's wife
came to know about the complaint, she severely beat them up," the officer
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Competition Appellate
Tribunal (COMPAT) today granted a stay on the penalty of Rs 1,163 crore levied
on Ambuja Cements Ltd by the Competition Commission of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been asked to deposit Rs 116.30 crore, amounting to 10 per cent of the penalty,
within four weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stock exchanges, Ambuja Cements said the CCI had imposed the penalty of Rs
1,163 crore on it following competititon law proceedings that began in 2010 to
investigate several prominent cement producers including Ambuja Cements. Ambuja
Cements had filed an appeal in the COMPAT seeking stay on the penalty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an order issued today stayed the penalty levied against the company by CCI with
a condition that it deposited 10 per cent of the penalty amounting to Rs 116.30
crore within four weeks from today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trading at Rs 190.65 (face value Rs 2), a gain of Rs 4.05, on the NSE at 1.40
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fine imposed by the Competition Commission of India has been approved by the
Competition Apellate Tribunal. Cement companies will now have to pay the fine
within a month.</span></em><span style="color: #005066; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Competition Apellate Tribunal (COMPAT) on Friday directed the country's top 11
cement manufacturers to pay up 10 percent of the total fine imposed by the
Competition Commission of India (CCI) in its June order of last year against
these firms. The list of affected companies include<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/cement-major/ambuja-cements/AC18"><span style="color: #015ea3;">Ambuja Cement</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>, Binani Cement,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/cementmajor/jkcement/JKC03"><span style="color: #015ea3;">JK Cement</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/infrastructure-general/jaiprakash-associates/JA02"><span style="color: #015ea3;">Jaypee Associates</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and seven others apart from the
lobbying firm Cement Manufacturer’s Association. In this interim order<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/compat-fine-won39t-impact-cement-cos-experts_873596.html#toptag"><span style="color: #015ea3;">COMPAT also ruled that if the companies fail to deposit
the expected amount</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>,
their pending pleas against the CCI's order would be rejected. CNBC-TV18’s
Ronojoy Banerjee reports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">It is a
conditional stay order granted by the COMPAT which means that their earlier
stay order on the need for the cement companies to pay the cumulative fine of
about Rs 6300 crore remains. However, as the COMPAT hears cases, the companies
have now been directed to pay a token amount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">This is
going to vary from company to company, cumulatively, this will come to Rs 630
crore, but it will vary from company to company depending on the amount of fine
that was originally imposed by the CCI on each of these companies. For
instance, in case of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/infrastructure-general/jaiprakash-associates/JA02"><span style="color: #015ea3; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Jaiprakash Associates</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #015ea3; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span></a>which
faces the maximum brunt of the fine by the CCI, they will have to pay out in
the range of about Rs 130 crore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">An interim
order can only be challenged through a writ petition but according to the legal
counsel of many of these companies, there is little taste for a battle
with the government. Many companies are expected to pay, in fact,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/cement-major/ambuja-cements/AC18"><span style="color: #015ea3; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Ambuja Cements</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has
agreed to pay about Rs 116.3 crore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The
next date of hearing is going to be in August. But not much of an impact on
cement companies has been exemplified because the share prices did not react
too much on this news as this is just a token amount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Green-Tribunal"><span style="color: #024d99;">National Green Tribunal</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<span style="background: white;">NGT</span>)
has directed the state government to take measures to ensure that there no
discharge of effluent, domestic discharge, sewage or any<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/solid-waste-disposal"><span style="color: #024d99;">solid waste disposal</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the Upper Lake. The tribunal also
directed the state government to file a report indicating the number of
encroachments and buildings in the catchment area of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Upper-Lake"><span style="color: #024d99;">Upper Lake</span></a>and which do not have proper
drainage system.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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Acting on a petition filed by Dr Alankrita Mehra, a radiologist with the
People's College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, the tribunal also
directed for constituting a committee consisting of collector of Bhopal, member
secretary of pollution control board (PCB), regional officer in charge of
ministry of environment, Bhopal, conservator of forest and a senior officer
from the department of housing, land and environment and department of urban
development of Madhya Pradesh, which shall ensure that the said directions are
carried out .<br />
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The petition mentions that "...the Upper Lake has shrunk appreciably as it
has reduced from an initial area of 30 sq kms to 8 sq kms. The total length of
the lake was 38 kms, but it reduced to 5 kms in 2009. Further large percentage
of population depends on the groundwater which is severely polluted. That the
situation is so disappointing as the state government and the local municipal
Corporation is consistently ignoring their sewage systems that need upgradation
and maintenance..."<br />
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Also, it states that the current trend of activities around the upper lake show
deviation in land use has been noticed in several places on the banks of the
Upper Lake edge.<br />
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Advocate for the petitioner Vivek Choudhary told TOI, "The pollution in
the lake has now reached an alarming level ".<br />
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"Further no effective measures have been taken for making it pollution
free. The lake water is used for drinking purposes and is adversely affecting
the health of the people at large, aquatic animals, migratory birds and the
quality of the crops and vegetables that are grown in this area," he said.<br />
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The petition also mentions how "...tremendous pressure is placed on these
water bodies due to the inflow of untreated sewage and other anthropogenic
activity..."<br />
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The next hearing in this regard is scheduled on May 24.<br />
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Reduction in storage capacity due to siltation<br />
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Dumping of sewage<br />
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Use of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture<br />
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Eco-tourism-activities"><span style="color: #024d99;">Eco-tourism activities</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/adventure-sports"><span style="color: #024d99;">adventure sports</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and leisure activities like boating,
ferry etc<br />
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Immersion of idols<br />
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Encroachment on the catchment area-construction of marriage gardens, hospitals,
educational institutions and others<br />
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Establishment and operation of commercial, educational Institutions and illegal
colonies<br />
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Excessive growth of aquatic plants<br />
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Threat to aquatic life (bio-diversity)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The National Green Tribunal on
Friday tore into Delhi’s public works department for presenting wrong facts
regarding the road-widening project in Vasant Kunj.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">When a PWD executive engineer said no trees
had been felled for the project, the tribunal said, “The forest department says
48 trees were cut (without its permission). How dare you lie before us?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">When the engineer could not produce any
document to substantiate his claim, the tribunal asked the PWD lawyer, “Has he
come here for a picnic?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The NGT expressed anguish at the behaviour of
the official and for trying to mislead the tribunal. “His statement in any case
is rebutted by the stand taken by the forest department and photographs placed
on record by the petitioner,” the NGT said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The tribunal ordered the official to produce
all records, including the layout plan and tender documents, related to the
project by May 20, the next date of hearing. Till then, an interim stay on the
project, ordered earlier by the tribunal, will remain in force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The tribunal was hearing a petition filed by
Sonya Ghosh, a resident of the south Delhi colony. She said, “We moved the
tribunal when a large number of trees were felled without permission from the
forest department.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Her lawyer Parul Gupta said, “We have
submitted satellite images of two periods — November 2012 and February 2013 --
to show that trees had indeed been felled.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The tribunal said the grievance of the
petitioner stands substantiated. “The project was in progress without the
forest department’s permission,” it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The PWD’s plan is to widen the road from 16
to 30 metres to 75 metres. On completion, this will be the Capital’s widest
road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The tribunal on Friday said the PWD’s action
was bound to have adverse impact on the environment. “Felling of trees in this
manner violates the provisions of the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 and
Indian Forest Act, 1927,” it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The National Green Tribunal,
Southern Bench, on Friday, directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board
(TNPCB) and the Commissionerate of Food Safety and Drug Administration to
inspect the 92 packaged drinking water units that were closed recently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It has asked them to submit
a report on May 27 after analysing water samples obtained from these units that
are located in and around the city. Until then, the units should remain closed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">On March 5, the Tribunal
Bench, comprising Justice M. Chockalingam and Prof. R. Nagendran, took note of
an article in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Hindu</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>revealing pollution and contamination
in water packaged by some of these units. When served with a notice,
authorities, including the TNPCB, filed replies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It came to light that there
were 121 packaged water units functioning in and around the city and, of them,
only 23 had obtained valid consent from the TNPCB. Based on a direction from
the tribunal, the TNPCB served closure orders on 92 units.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">S. Balaji, TNPCB
member-secretary, appeared on Friday before the Bench and filed an action-taken
report stating electricity supply to 78 of these units had been disconnected.
Power supply to the remaining units too would be discontinued shortly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Taking up five applications
filed by individual units and the South India Packaged Drinking Water
Manufacturers’ Association, Justice Chockalingam and Prof. Nagendran said, “We
are not against closure of water packaging industries completely. Our only
concern is that procedures and norms must be followed while processing the
water.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Prof. Nagendran said, “We
are making the TNPCB follow the norms. Water packaging should be done as per
standard procedures.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The counsel representing
the units said the packaged water they had been supplying until now met the
required quality norms. There was no illegality or violation of any procedure.
They sought a stay on the closure orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">S. Saravanan, TNPCB’s
counsel, said the closure orders should continue until the quality of water
supplied by the units was certified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">our correspondent<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday formed an inquiry
tribunal, comprising Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court,
to ascertain the facts about to the death of an Indian death row prisoner
confined in Kot Lakhpat Jail.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The tribunal will start its inquiry proceedings at the LHC
principal seat and in the jail from the date to be notified later on and, if
needed, in India.The government handout said that any person desirous of making
submissions before the tribunal was required to register with registrar of the
tribunal, Yousaf Aujla, and file written submissions along relevant documents,
if any, accompanied with the copy of CNIC within seven days. The persons within
India are required to get themselves registered with the tribunal at official
URL http://mail.punjab.gov.pk at the following email address:
“registrartribunalss@ lhc.gov.pk”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">All the state functionaries including all the officers concerned
of the federal and provincial governments are notified to render full
assistance and cooperation to the Tribunal and its authorized officers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tribunal team to scout sites next month<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hindustan Times</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Panchkula, May 17, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%;">Providing some relief to the municipal corporation (MC) of Panchkula and
the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), the National Green Tribunal,
New Delhi, on Friday ruled that the dumping ground in Sector 23-25 could be
used temporarily. However, a two-member expert panel from the tribunal <span class="msoIns"><ins>would visit Panchkula next month and submit a report about
the best-suited sites for garbage dumps.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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The sites in contention include one in Jhuriwala, which already has
environmental clearance for a solid waste management plant, besides the Sector
23-25 ground and the one located in Madanwala (Pinjore) suggested by the Hemant
Sarin, one of the petitioners in the case. Sarin had raised the issue of fire
in the dumping ground of Sector 23-25 that had made the life of residents
difficult for many days. The MC informed the tribunal that an FIR had been
registered in that regard. <o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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an interim order on May 3, the tribunal had restrained both HUDA and MC from
using the Sector 23-25 site, as its use was causing environmental pollution.
After the order, in the absence of an alternate site for garbage dumping, the
MC first stopped lifting the garbage containers, and later it dumped garbage in
low-lying areas, even in the industrial area adjoining Zirakpur.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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arguments, the MC told the tribunal expressly that it did not have an
alternative site to dump garbage while HUDA submitted that it was looking for one.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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the detailed order is yet to come out, it was conveyed to the civic authorities
to use disinfectants and scientifically dispose of the garbage for the time
being at the Sector 23-25 site. "We hope the MC and HUDA will respect the
decision and keep in mind the inconvenience faced by residents," said
Sarin.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The National Green Tribunal on
Friday ordered various land-owning agencies and departments of the Centre and
Delhi government to free all trees in the Capital of concrete by July 12 or
face consequences.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hearing a petition filed by tree enthusiast
Aditya N Prasad and others, the tribunal said the deadline was the “last
opportunity” for the respondents, including the three municipal corporations,
Delhi Development Authority, New Delhi Municipal Council, Public Works
Department, Delhi Cantonment Board, Delhi Transport Corporation and the
National Highway Authority of India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rajiv Dutta, the petitioners’ lawyer, said,
“Central rules for de-choking of trees were issued in 2000. Since then, there
have been two high court orders. But concretisation continued. Now the entire
de-choking exercise will cost a lot of public money.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“The story has remained the same for so many
years. To date, except for some NDMC areas, not a single tile/concrete has been
removed, not even from the trees whose photographs and locations have been
annexed to the petition,” Dutta said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Co-petitioner RL Mahanta said, “Back in 2007
and 2009, these departments assured the high court they would free trees of
cement but nothing much happened. This shows they don’t respect the court. Even
the tribunal’s order on April 23 to remove concrete around trees has failed to
shake them. I hope there’s some action now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The laxity could be gauged from the fact even
by Friday, many departments had not even responded to the petition. “Let the
replies be filed within three weeks by way of last opportunity,” the tribunal
said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“We express all hope that authorities will
complete their work by the next date of hearing. In default, obviously, the
consequences of the law shall follow,” it added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">AK Shukla, Delhi chief conservator of
forests, said, “Tender documents for construction works continue to be prepared
in the old-fashioned way. They don’t mention deconcretisation rules. We have
taken it up with agencies concerned.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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vacancies for the posts of district judge, a writ petition has been filed
before the Madras high court (Madurai bench). The petition filed by a
differently abled person states that the government has issued the notification
for these entry-level posts without reservation for the<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/differently-abled-people"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">differently-abled people</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(DAP).<br />
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The government issued the notification without following a 2011 order of Madras
high court in reply to writ petitions directing the government to give chance
to the DAP in the next recruitment drive (ie the current one) for the district
judges, the petition filed by advocate M Ponniah, who himself is disabled, stated.<br />
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A few days ago another petition was filed before the Madras high court
principal bench by P Ramalingam, former president of TN Judicial Officers
Association and retired district judge, challenging the same notification on
the ground that the government fills up the vacancies without using the service
quota (promotion should be given to the sub judges as district judge). On this
petition, the court has ordered notice to the government and the high court
registry.<br />
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After hearing the petition of Ponniah, the division bench, comprising Justices
M Duraiswamy and T Raja, ordered notices to be issue to the chief secretary of
the Tamil Nadu government, secretary of the public department and the registrar
general of the Madras high court.<br />
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On May 1, the public department had issued the notification inviting
applications from advocates with seven years of practice to fill up 23
vacancies of district judge in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu-State-Judicial-Service"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Tamil Nadu State Judicial Service</span></a>.<br />
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The notification also contained the details about distribution of vacancies,
according to reservation, among backward classes (6 posts), general (8)
scheduled castes (3), most backward classes and denotified communities (4),
scheduled castes (Arunthathiyars on preferential basis) (1) and backward class
Muslims (1). However, the notification did not provide for reservation for DAPs
who are entitled for 3% reservation under the Persons with Disabilities (Equal
Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. Even
though, the DAPs were selected to the post of civil judge (junior division), so
far they have not been given a chance in the recruitment for district judge.
After the Act came into force, two selections to the district judge cadre were
made. In 2011, 17 candidates were selected to the post out of 2,541 applicants
who appeared for the written examination. Prior to this, 11 persons were
selected.<br />
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The recent notification aims to fill up 23 vacancies.<br />
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The current vacancy in district judge cadre is 51. According to the Act, one
DAP should be appointed in the government service as one among 33 judges. As
the government issued notification without giving reservation to the disabled,
the writ petition was filed challenging the notification, the petitioner
alleged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DELHI: Indian pacer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/S-Sreesanth"><span style="color: #024d99;">S Sreesanth</span></a>, who is being quizzed along with
13 others in the IPL spot-fixing scandal case, today moved a Delhi court
seeking a a copy of the FIR registered against him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sreesanth, his two teammates of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajasthan-Royals"><span style="color: #024d99;">Rajasthan Royals</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>franchise and 11 bookies were yeserday
remanded to police custody for five days.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The cricketer be supplied with a copy of the FIR for preparing his defence, the
application, filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Lokesh Kumar
Sharma, said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court has so far not fixed a date for hearing it. The accused should be
told about the grounds of arrest, Deepak Prakash, counsel for the cricketer,
said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The accused is an international player and had no reasons to get involved in
such acts, the lawyer said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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While seeking seven days police custody for interrogation, the police had told
the court that Sreesanth and his IPL teammates<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajit-Chandila"><span style="color: #024d99;">Ajit Chandila</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and Ankit Chavan, who were arrested in
Mumbai yesterday, had betted and taken money for every ball and run in every
over.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Police had also sought remand for custodial interrogation of the cricketers and
others to unearth the entire conspiracy relating to spot-fixing in three IPL
matches involving Rajasthan Royals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sreesanth and two other cricketers were arrested in a post-midnight operation
in Mumbai on May 16 by Delhi police for spot-fixing in IPL matches for payments
of upto Rs 60 lakhs just for giving away pre-determined number of runs in an
over.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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It said the cricketers had indulged in spot-fixing in at least three IPL
matches as per arrangements with bookies who have<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/underworld"><span style="color: #024d99;">underworld</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>connections
abroad.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The players, who have been suspended by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/BCCI"><span style="color: #024d99;">BCCI</span></a>,
have been booked under section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy)
of the IPC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Think before you flash a red light on your car just for fun. The Calcutta high
court on Friday gave the police power to combat the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/misuse-of-beacons"><span style="color: #024d99;">misuse of beacons</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in cars in the state.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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The division bench of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Justice-Ashim-Kumar-Roy"><span style="color: #024d99;">Justice Ashim Kumar Roy</span></a>and Justice MP
Srivastav directed the director general of state police and the commissioner of
Kolkata Police to act on the order.<br />
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If any person misuses the red light in the car, then the police can start cases
against him or her under Section 419 of the IPC which reads as "cheating
impersonation, the bench ordered. The court has also given police the power to
initiate cases against the accused without taking the sanction of any
authority.<br />
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The high court observed that common people should also be aware that use of red
light in cars is a crime and the nearest police outlet should be informed in
case they come across such misuse. Police will then take action against.<br />
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Advocate Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee had argued in the court that it was fashion
to use red light in private cars these days. The state government had already
issued a notification stating names of the people who are entitled to use a
beacon on their car.<br />
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In spite of such notification people are violating norms by using beacons at
their whims and fancies which should be dealt with strongly, Chatterjee added.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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1993 Mumbai blast: TADA court issues NBW against
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The special TADA court today issued
non-bailable warrants against two convicts of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts
case as they failed to surrender within the deadline set by the Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Actor Sanjay Dutt, for whom
yesterday's deadline had been set by the SC, has surrendered before the
authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">But the two fellow convicts, Sharif
(Dada) Parkar and Zebunisa Kazi, today moved separate applications before the
TADA Court seeking more time to surrender on medical grounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Sharif (Dada) Parkar, who is over 80
years old, had been hospitalised following chest pain, and doctors had advised
him angioplasty procedure, his lawyer Farhana Shah told the Judge G A Sanap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The lawyer of Zebunisa Kazi (75)
said Kazi had been advised to take certain medical tests and she needed time
till May 20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The TADA judge, however, said it
would not be possible for him to consider these pleas as the deadline had been
fixed by the apex court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">While Parkar was to surrender
yesterday, Kazi was to give herself up before the court today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Prosecutor Deepak Salvi moved an
application seeking non-bailable arrest warrants against the two for not
following the Supreme Court's order. The court accepted the plea and issued
non-bailable warrants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Parkar had played a role in
organising the landing of arms and RDX in Raigad district at the instance of
Tiger Memon. The RDX was used in the March 1993 serial blasts. He had also
arranged a conspiracy meeting in Raigad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Kazi was convicted for allowing the
co-accused to keep some weapons at her house for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ruckus<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The eviction order of a tenant for creating
nuisance at a housing society in Thane by running a playgroup in a residential
tenement, was upheld by the Bombay high court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Acting on a suit filed by landlady Sudha
Barve, a joint civil court junior division at Thane had, on July 29, 1999,
ordered the eviction of Ranjana Padhye, because of the nuisance created
by 18-20 children at a crèche run by her and change of use of the residential
premises without the consent of the landlord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Three years later, a joint district judge at
Thane reversed the order based on an appeal by Padhye and dismissed Barve’s
suit. “If parents of the children come to the premises on scooters or by
autorickshaws, some nuisance is bound to be created. However, this is not an
actionable nuisance,” the joint district judge had said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, on May 10, the HC struck down the
joint district judge’s order and upheld the order of eviction. Justice Bhushan
Gavai struck down the appellate court’s findings after finding several
witnesses supporting the landlady’s case. The judge also noted that the
cooperative housing society had complained about the nuisance and requested
Padhye to stop it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Justice Gavai also upheld the trial court’s
finding that the residential tenement had been put to commercial use without
the consent of the landlady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Further, HC also looked into the point of
comparative hardship. In this respect, the trial court had ruled in favour of the
landlady since she had a family of six and needed the premises for accomodating
her family. Further, since Padhye owned a house at Dombivli, she could shift
there with her family, the court had held. However, the judge rejected this
approach of the appellate court to direct a separation of the landlady’s
family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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directed all<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/private-schools"><span style="color: #024d99;">private schools</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Chandigarh to provide complete
information about their fee and salary structure and also told it to make
payments to its teachers through account payee cheques only.<br />
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The directions come in the wake of a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking
better facilities in government schools in the UT. However, during the hearing
of the case, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Independent-School-Association"><span style="color: #024d99;">Independent School Association</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>moved an application requesting the
high court to implead them as a party to assist the court in the matter.<br />
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A division bench comprising acting chief justice Jasbir Singh and Justice
Rakesh Kumar Jain directed the association to prepare a chart, comparing it
with government schools, mentioning their fee structure and salary paid by them
to their teachers. Directions have also been given to provide information about
the qualifications of teachers serving in private schools of the city. The HC
also asked private schools to provide information about the number of teachers
dismissed by them in the past five years. The case would now come up for
hearing on July 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Class 3, 4 contractual employees should be paid
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Allahabad, Sat May 18 2013, 01:01 hrs</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Allahabad High Court on Friday
directed all the district courts in the state to ensure that all the Class 3
and 4 employees, engaged on contract basis, be given salary and other
allowances at par with the regular employees. The court has asked the Registrar
General of the High Court to communicate the order to all the district courts
immediately for compliance. A single judge bench of Justice Sabhajeet passed
the order in this regard on a petition filed by Mohammad Saeed and another. The
petitioners were sweepers, engaged on contract basis in Jaunpur district court.
They had sought wages equal to those of the regular employees. The petitioners
had also submitted that they had been engaged since 2004 and were getting only
Rs 2,000 per month as consolidated fixed salary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Madras high court has issued notice to the actor on a petition filed by a
film exhibitors' body accusing the actor of submitting forged documents before
the<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Competition-Commission-of-India"><span style="color: #024d99;">Competition Commission of India</span></a>.<br />
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A vacation judge, Justice M Venugopal, issued notices, returnable in four
weeks, on a petition of R Panneerselvam, general secretary of the Tamil Nadu
Film Exhibitors Association, on Friday.<br />
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The matter relates to a complaint lodged by Kamal's film company, Raj Kamal
International, against a non-existent Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners Association,
alleging that the latter had adopted a resolution not to release 'Vishwaroopam'
in Tamil Nadu in January this year.<br />
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As evidence, the actor had submitted a resolution printed on a letter head
carrying the name of Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners Association, which is
non-existent, but had the registration number and address of the Tamil Nadu
Film Exhibitors Association. The commission has issued notice to the
exhibitors.<br />
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Denying that it had ever adopted such a resolution, and stating that exhibitors
had contributed to the success of the film, the association said its reputation
had been maligned and that the complaint aimed at harassing the forum.<br />
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Since the Chennai city police had not taken any action despite a complaint, the
present petition to direct the authorities to register a criminal case and
proceed in accordance with law had been filed, said Panneerselvam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-election-commission"><span style="color: #024d99;">state election commission</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>filed an application in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Calcutta-high-court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Calcutta high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Friday seeking deletion of the
portion of Tuesday's division bench's ruling that records it as a "consent
order". But that is only a fraction of the application, where the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">state
election commission</span>has virtually challenged the division bench's ruling
on Tuesday, a rarity in the history of the high court.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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The state election commission's petition says that it disagrees with the
government counsel over deployment of forces and categorization of polling
booths - normal, less sensitive, sensitive and high sensitive. The state
election commission also expressed dismay over the division bench's order that
asks the state government to meet any shortfall in security forces by
requisitioning police from the Centre or other states, "as may be
considered appropriate by the state government".<br />
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The state election commission application submits that the bench, while passing
the order, had said that the state would make the arrangements in consultation
with the state election commission. The 'consultation' part is missing from the
order that contravenes with the powers and functions of the state election
commission as enshrined in the Constitution and also in the West Bengal
Panchayat Elections Act, 2003, says the 800-page petition. State election
commission secretary Tapas Ray filed it on Friday with annexures of the
division bench ruling and the Justice Biswanath Somadder order.<br />
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The state poll body doesn't agree with the division bench's ruling that states:
"The findings recorded before the single bench on merits shall not be
treated as precedent ..." The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra
and Justice Joymalya Bagchi will take up the matter for hearing when the high
court reopens after summer vacation on June 3.<br />
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By moving the application, lawyers say, the state election commission is
keeping the door open to move Supreme Court with a petition to strike down
Section 42 of the West Bengal Panchayat Elections Act, 2003, which doesn't go
with Article 243 K of the Constitution that provides for the supremacy of the
state election commission in all matters concerning elections.<br />
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According to senior counsel Samaraditya Pal, the state election commission move
won't affect the panchayat poll process underway. The state election commission
will only urge the high court to drop the opening line of Tuesday's ruling that
says: "Happily the disputes raised in this appeal between the state
government and the state election commission with respect to holding of panchayat
polls have been amicably settled and is being decided by the following<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/consent-order"><span style="color: #024d99;">consent order</span></a>." Pal took exception to
this portion of the ruling on getting a certified copy of it and said he is "neither
happy nor was his consent sought in the order". Such a revision
application is unique as it seeks a review or revision of the court order.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sarkar, CPM MLA from Purnia, the Patna high court on Friday acquitted former<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Purnia-MP"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Purnia MP</span></a>Rajesh Ranjan alias<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pappu-Yadav"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Pappu Yadav</span></a>, former MLA Rajan Tiwari and Anil Yadav
of the charge of murder, giving them benefit of doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when he was in his car in Khazanchihat in Purnia town on June 14, 1998. Pappu,
then an RJD MP and known political rival of Sarkar, was arrested in 1999, and
is currently lodged in the Beur Central Jail.<br />
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A division bench comprising Justice V N Sinha and Justice A K Lal set aside the
judgment of a special CBI court which had awarded them life sentence on
February 14, 2008. While allowing the criminal appeals filed by the trio, the
division bench held the circumstantial evidence gathered by the CBI against
Pappu, Rajan and Anil was not strong enough on which their conviction could be
based.<br />
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After an FIR was lodged in the Khazanchihat police station, the case was handed
over to the CBI. The investigating agency filed the chargesheet, maintaining
Pappu hatched a conspiracy to get Sarkar killed by shooter Rajan. The
chargesheet further said Anil was driving the motorcycle and Rajan was riding
the pillion when he shot Sarkar.<br />
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The circumstantial evidence collected by the CBI was that after the murder,
Rajan reached Katihar and talked to Pappu on phone. The CBI also produced three
prosecution witnesses in the trial court.<br />
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The trio's defence was that Sarkar's bodyguard, Ramesh Oraon, who was sitting
with Sarkar in the car when the murder took place, had not seen the prosecution
witnesses.<br />
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The division bench had reserved the judgment on the three criminal appeals on
February 26 this year. On Friday, it delivered the 273-page judgment.<br />
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CBI counsel Bipin Kumar Sinha said after studying the judgment, the
investigating agency might move the Supreme Court and challenge the verdict of
the division bench. He said Rajan had confessed in his statement before a
magistrate that Pappu had hatched the plot to kill Sarkar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thursday issued notice to the state government, director general of town and
country planning (DTCP),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Municipal-Corporation"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Municipal Corporation</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Gurgaon (MCG),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Haryana-Urban-Development-Authority"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Haryana Urban Development Authority</span></a>(HUDA) and others
for not completing the external and internal<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/development-works"><span style="color: #024d99; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">development works</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at
residential colonies within the given time frame. The court has directed them
to file a report before August 19.<br />
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The court issued notice on the basis of a petition filed by the Gurgaon
Citizens' Council (GCC) after the state government and other parties concerned
despite the directions issued by the apex court issued tax demand to the
petitioner.<br />
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President of the council, R S Rathee said in December while hearing our case
the Supreme Court had directed HUDA and the private builders to finish the
external and internal development within six months and hand over charge to the
MCG so that it can start providing the essential services to those residing in
private builder areas.<br />
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The private builder area residents have long been protesting against the way
they are being made to pay twice - to the private builder for maintenance and
to the MCG as property tax.<br />
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Even after inclusion of licensed areas in the Municipal Corporation way back in
2008 the MCG did not take over the licensed areas and did not provide any
services but were very prompt in issuing public notice for imposition of tax
and also issued individual notices to the resident without following due
procedure as prescribed under the act, said Rathee.<br />
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Earlier GCC wrote to MCG commissioner to find out if it will be able to take
over the private builder area within this timeframe and start providing us
services. But when it failed to take over, GCC approached the high court and
filed a petition against all three government agencies - HUDA, MCG DTPC for
failing to comply with the Supreme Court order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HC issues norms for Arya Samaj marriages<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Holding that marriages performed
without parents' consent were creating social problems, the Madhya Pradesh High
Court has issued detailed guidelines to Arya Samaj temples, a favourite place
where couples in hurry usually tie the knot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Gwalior Bench said that it had
come to its notice that teenage girls were getting married and Arya Samaj
temples were issuing certificates causing tensions in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">In his brief order, Justice N K Mody
asked the Arya Samaj temple managements to take written applications from the
would-be bride and groom and fix the marriage date at least a week later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The management should inform both
sets of parents by a registered intimation the date and time of the proposed
ceremony as also to the police station and district collector in whose
jurisdiction the would-be groom and bride reside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relatives from each side should be present at the time of the marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The order came on habeas corpus
petition filed by a 28-year-old resident of Gwalior who wanted the custody of
his 21-year-old wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The woman told the court that it was
true that she married on April 5 at an Arya Samaj temple in Gwalior but
insisted that it was "under undue influence". She said that only a
priest and a photographer were present but no relative or friend was present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Supreme Court</span></a>challenging the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Calcutta-high-court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Calcutta high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>division bench's May 13 order handing
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Dhaniakhalicustodial death
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The order was a stinging indictment of the state's premier probe agency, CID,
which the HC blamed for "shutting its eyes to conspiracy angle in the case
involving a police officer and the local MLA". The HC had in its order
cited six specific instances where it held<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CID"><span style="color: #024d99;">CID</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>could have probed better.<br />
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Following mass demolition of temples on encroached government land in Cuttack,
the spotlight has now shifted to Bhubaneswar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Encouraged with the execution of Orissa high
court's January 6, 2011 direction to evict religious structures on government
land in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar
Development Authority (BDA) have also started consultation for a suitable
process to end encroachments in the name of temples.<br />
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BMC commissioner Sanjib Mishra said the civic body has already decided to raze
unauthorized temples on its premises. "We will remove all such intrusions.
In fact, we have already decided to bulldoze the temple inside BMC Hospital. In
case of two other temples, the HC has stayed the demolition," Mishra said.<br />
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A team of enforcement squad of BDA on Friday went to Cuttack Development
Authority (CDA) to learn about the modalities of eviction under the latter's
jurisdiction. "Because of religious sentiments, the government was earlier
lenient while dealing with encroachments by places of worship. However, in view
of the Cuttack example, we also have to gear up for such future action on temples
here soon," said a senior BDA officer.<br />
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Though the government has not prepared any comprehensive list of religious
structures on encroached government land in the state capital, sources estimate
the total number of such places would be around 150 in and around Bhubaneswar.
The temples are on lands under the general administration, BDA, BMC and revenue
department. Apart from giant structures on NH sides at Rasulgarh and Vani
Vihar, there are temples inside Odisha Primary Education Programme Authority
office, heads of department building, near Master Canteen and several police
stations, among several other places.<br />
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Revenue divisional commissioner (RDC), central zone, Aravinda Padhee who is
chairman of the committee overseeing demolition of places of worship in
Cuttack, said the mass demolition in Cuttack is on the specific direction of
the HC. "There is no such direction for other cities. However, the
encroachments everywhere are being removed under the Orissa Prevention of Land
Encroachment Act 1972," he said.<br />
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One Abhiram Mallick has filed a PIL seeking demolition of temples on the
premises of government establishments across the state. "The HC direction
on the basis of which the demolition is being undertaken in Cuttack has cited
an interim order of the Supreme Court. The same order of the apex court has
also directed all the state governments to review unauthorized religious
structures on a case to case basis and prevent future encroachments. We have
thus prayed the HC to direct the state government to demolish all such
buildings in the state," said Mallick's counsel Khirod Rout. Mallick has
also pleaded for removal of photographs of deities from government offices and
police stations to maintain a secular ambience in the offices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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controversy surrounding the proposed Rs 2,184-crore 700-mw gas-based power
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Larsen and Toubro (L&T), one of the shortlisted bidders for the project has
moved the Karnataka High Court contesting Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd
(KPCL)’s move to term its bid unresponsive without furnishing reasons for the
same. KPCL, which had selected Alstom, one of the bidders as the lowest bidder
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The matter was even taken up before the High Court by two of the other
shortlisted bidders--L&T and Tata Projects earlier this year. The court had
disposed off the matter stating that it was not an appropriate time for the
petition to be filed as the contract was not handed over to anybody yet.<br />
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And, in its 322nd meeting, the Board had said: “As an outcome of the writ
petitions filed by L&T and Tata Projects before the High Court, it was
decided to form a sub-committee to examine the relevant issues and make
suitable recommendations for expeditious finalisation of the tender of the
project.”<br />
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Following the recommendations of the sub-committee, KPCL contacted all the four
shortlisted bidders, Alstom, L&T, Tata Projects and BHEL to resolve the
aforementioned issues.<br />
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The Board has noted that Alstom, vide a letter dated February 12, 2013 had
expressed its inability to withdraw “such permitted, albeit unresolved,
technical and commercial deviations on the terms requested,” which disqualified
Alstom.<br />
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In pursuit of a vendor, KPCL however got itself into a new controversy by
terming the bid of L&T, which was the second lowest bidder (L-2) when
Alstom was still in the race ‘unresponsive’, despite the company agreeing to
withdraw all the deviations (technical and commercial) unconditionally.<br />
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L&T has since moved the High Court against this vide a writ petition
(18607), the preliminary hearing of which is already complete and the matter is
posted for hearing post vacation.<br />
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On March 4, 2013, KPCL communicated with L&T, inviting them for a meeting
to resolve the deviations.<br />
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During the meeting on March 5, L&T was asked to withdraw deviations without
any financial implications to KPCL and among the deviations mentioned were
those relating to Auxiliary Power Consumption and Entry Tax.<br />
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L&T, KPCL sources said, had raised a clarification as these two things were
not mentioned in the scheduled list of deviations in the tender document and
that it did not qualify as a deviation. However, the Corporation was not
willing to concede and eventually, sources said, L&T agreed to
unconditionally withdraw all the deviations unconditionally.<br />
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In a surprising move, KPCL has termed L&T’s bid unresponsive, while, with
the unconditional withdrawal of the deviations, L&T, which was the L-2
should have automatically qualified for price negotiations.<br />
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But, minutes before the Election Commission invoked the model code of conduct
on March 20, the then Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who was also the
Chairman of KPCL, awarded the Rs 2,184-crore contract for a power project at
Bidadi to Tata Projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Kannur
(Kerala), May 18</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">: A Sessions Court here on Friday ordered DNA test
on Bitti Mohanty to obtain scientific proof for establishing his identity
following his arrest in March this year after being on the run for several
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Bitti remained absconding by jumping bail following his
conviction for raping of a German woman at Alwar in Jaipur.<br />
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Additional Sessions Judge K V Jayakumar issued the order today on Kerala
Police’s plea seeking permission of the test to obtain scientific proof for
establishing Bitti’s identity, who had been impersonating here as Raghav Rajan.<br />
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Earlier, a magistrate court at Payannur in the district had rejected the police
plea for DNA test.<br />
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Bitti, son of former Odisha DGP B B Mohanty, had been living in Kannur for last
two years as Raghav Rajan and had obtained a bank job before he was arrested on
March 9 by the Kerala Police.<br />
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Bitti was charged with impersonation, cheating and forgery.<br />
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After his arrest, a police team was sent to Odisha to question Bitti’s father
and he had subsequently identified his son through photographs shown to him.<br />
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After jumping bail, Bitti had spent few months in Puttaparthi, where he had
enrolled as student in a private institution in Kannur allegedly using forged
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Delhi, May 17 (IANS)</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The
Supreme Court has said that an order that has been obtained by an accused by
practising fraud and suppression of facts could not be allowed to survive and
it was obligated to set aside such an order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">“A victim
of a crime has as much right to get justice from the court as an accused who
enjoys the benefit of innocence till the allegations are proven against him,”
said a bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Dipak Misra in their
judgment pronounced Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
said this while setting aside the order of the Rajasthan High Court and that of
an additional district and sessions judge, Jodhpur and restoring the order of
the additional chief judicial magistrate summoning Prem Prakash to face trial
in the wake of a complaint received by it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">In the
instant case, on a plea by one Prem Prakash, the additional district and
session judge, Jodhpur, quashed the order of the additional chief judicial
magistrate taking cognizance of a protest petition and summoned him through
arrest warrant. The judge quashed it holding that when the offences were
triable by the session’s court, the magistrate could not have taken cognizance
on the basis of a protest petition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">However,
it was held back from the court of the judge, that another additional district
and sessions judge at Jodhpur had, after hearing detailed arguments, July 27,
2009 framed the charges against the accused that included Prem Prakash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Holding
that it was clear case of suppression, the court said, “…though the respondent
was fully aware about the fact that charges had been framed against him by the
learned trial Judge, yet he did not bring the same to the notice of the
revisional court hearing the revision against the order taking cognizance”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">“Any one
who takes recourse to method of suppression in a court of law, is, in
actuality, playing fraud with the court, and the maxim supressio veri, expression
faisi, i.e., suppression of the truth is equivalent to the expression of
falsehood, gets attracted,” said Justice Misra pronouncing the judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Noting
that as the order has been obtained by practising fraud and suppressing
material fact before a court of law to gain advantage, the court said that it
cannot be allowed to stand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Invoking
its powers under article 142 of the constitution, the court said that
“cognizance of the offences had been rightly taken by the learned Magistrate
and charges, as we find, have been correctly framed by the learned trial
Judge”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
said that when an order of quashment of summons has been obtained by
suppression of facts, “this court has an obligation to set aside the said order
and restore the order framing charges and direct the trial to go on”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sentenced a 70-year-old man accused in the rape and murder of a 48-year-old
woman, to life term rigorous imprisonment. Judge C S Sudha awarded the sentence
to Egerios Michael of Thodiyilkizhakkethil, Padappakkara. Besides the life term
he has been awarded with a fine of `1 lakh and 10 year RI. The incident
took place in Vellimon on 14 November, 2005, when the woman had gone for
bathing and washing clothes at an unoccupied plot near her house. The elder
sister of the victim went in search of her, after the latter failed to return
home even after a couple of hours, only to find her body dumped in the nearby
Kanjiracode Lake. According to prosecution case, Egerios had reached the
area in a boat, while the victim was bathing near a well located at the
plot. The accused brutally attacked her and subjected her to sexual
assault. In an attempt to destroy evidence, the victim, who had fallen
unconscious, was thrown into the lake nearby. He also robbed the gold chain
weighing two sovereigns worn by the victim. The post-mortem report had
confirmed that the victim died after drowning in the lake compounded by
injuries in her neck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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found him guilty under IPC Section 302 (murder), seven-year RI under section
326 (rape), two-year RI under section 201 (destruction of evidence) and one
year RI under section 379 (robbery). On failure to pay the fine, he will have
to serve an additional term of one year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-33305253143923174912013-04-02T22:19:00.003+05:302013-04-02T22:19:19.921+05:30LEGAL NEWS 02.04.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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government and the Union ministry of environment and forests, among others,
over allegations that there has been massive encroachment of the floodplains of
Yamuna and Hindon by the land mafia. The notices were issued by the principal
bench of the tribunal over an application filed by environmental activists of
Ghaziabad.<br />
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The applicants have alleged that that the floodplains have been encroached with
concrete and permanent structures that are bound to cause ecological havoc in
the form of floods besides upsetting the natural hydrological cycle of the
areas situated close to the two rivers.<br />
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"The river beds, considered highly eco-fragile, have been usurped by land
mafia in connivance with administration officials. Colonies have come up on the
river beds," states the petition. Apart from the environment ministry and
the UP government, activists have also held the union ministry of water
resources and the governments of Delhi and Haryana for lapses that have led to
the construction of concrete structures on the floodplains, thereby polluting
the rivers.<br />
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Apart from floodplains along Delhi, it has been alleged that similar
encroachments have been made by colonizers in Faridabad, Agra and Mathura,
thereby leading to discharge of large amounts of solid toxic waste into the
already highly polluted rivers.<br />
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"Yamuna and Hindon rivers, once found to be extremely rich in terrestrial
and aquatic bio-diversity, had now lost much of it due to ever-increasing human
influence on them in the form of encroachments by concretized farmhouses, plots
and colonies," states the petition.<br />
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Activists have further argued that with reduced dissolved oxygen, and high
biological and chemical oxygen demands inside the Yamuna and Hindon, aquatic
life, comprising diverse life forms of amphibians and vertebrates has almost
ceased to exist.<br />
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Activists have demanded for directions to be passed to all agencies to prevent
civic agencies from setting up any new concrete structures and registration of
FIRs against violators who have trespassed the floodplain areas. Besides, the
activists have also demanded for the constitution of a monitoring commission to
ensure time-bound and transparent implementation of enactments specified in the
National Green Tribunal Act 2010 to protect the rivers.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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committed atrocities to them. They also demanded that the offenses the police
filed against the locals be dropped. They also streesed that action be taken
against those who attacked their local leader<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nilesh-Goaonkar"><span style="color: #024d99;">Nilesh Goaonkar</span></a>.<br />
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Locals pointed out that the fact that atrocities had been committed has been
recognized as the</span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Human-Rights-Commission"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #024d99; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">National Human Rights Commission</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">(NHRC) had issued directions to the state
government to pay 5,000 to each of the 737 victims.<br />
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On April 23, 2011, a large number of Cavrem residents took to the streets
protesting illegal mining and unregulated mining transportation, blocking all
roads and disrupting mining transportation. Close to 100 villagers, including
elderly people, were arrested and taken to the police station. The villagers
had alleged that many of them were manhandled by the police to the extent that
one of the women's sari was torn and her mangalsutra lost.<br />
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"Why do the locals still have to face charges by the police during that
incident. Not only should they get speedy justice but all the charges against
them should be dropped," said activist Judith Almeida.<br />
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The locals further raised the issue of Nilesh Gaonkar and are irate that no
action has been taken. Gaonkar, an engineer by profession, was beaten up near
the Verna industrial estate by unidentified people armed with an iron rod on
his way to work on May 12, 2011.<br />
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He survived the assault and the grievous injuries on the head and two surgeries
on a broken hand. He even lost his job at the company he worked 12 months at.
The police case of attempt to murder has not seen much progress since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">CHENNAI:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Vedanta"><span style="color: #024e97; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Vedanta</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">group firm<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/sterlite-industries-india-ltd/stocks/companyid-12977.cms" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024e97;">Sterlite Industries</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>today moved the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Green-Tribunal"><span style="color: #024e97; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">National
Green Tribunal</span></a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">challenging an order of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu"><span style="color: #024e97; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Tamil
Nadu</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Pollution
Control Board directing closure of its copper smelter plant in Tuticorin in the
wake of alleged noxious gas leak recently.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In its applications before the Southern bench of the Tribunal, the company also
challenged another order of the TNPCB disconnecting the power supply to the
unit located in Tuticorin, which was shut down on March 30.<br />
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"The impugned orders have been issued in gross violation of natural
justice and in unseemly haste...," it contended.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Making his submissions before the Bench comprising its judicial member Justice<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/M.-Chockalingam"><span style="color: #024e97; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">M.
Chockalingam</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">and
expert member Prof.Nagendran, senior counsel for the company<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/T-R-Rajagopalan"><span style="color: #024e97; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">T R
Rajagopalan</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">submitted
the orders have been passed without giving an opportunity to the Sterlite
Industries.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The matter was posted to April 9 for further hearing. The TNPCB, under
instructions from District Collector</span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Ashish-Kumar"><span style="color: #024e97; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Ashish
Kumar</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">had on
March 30 issued a notice directing Sterlite to close the plant in the wake of alleged
leak of sulphur dioxide in the area on March 23, affecting local people.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sterlite submitted before the green Tribunal that the company was meeting more
than 55 per cent of copper requirement of the country and employed 1,000
permanent workers and about 3,500 contract labourers, besides providing 15,000
indirect jobs.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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All of them would be left in the lurch and without remuneration if the unit
remains closed, it argued.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Raising preliminary objection, Advocate General A L Somaiji said the unit had
been functioning after getting directions from courts. In a case related to it,
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court"><span style="color: #024e97; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Supreme
Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">is to
pronounce orders.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Even on Monday, the matter was mentioned before the Supreme Court and it said
the TNPCB is well within the rights, he said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Somaiji said the District Collector had received several complaints from people
of the locality that they experienced eye irritation, continuous cough and
throat suffocation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Since it was a serious matter involving public health, the TNPCB ordered the
closure of the unit, he submitted.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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After the submissions of counsels, the Bench directed the the District
Collector and the TNPCB to file their counters to decide whether an interim
order can be given or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The decisions taken
by the chairpersons of the two houses of Parliament were protected under
Parliamentary privileges and therefore, are not covered under the transparency
law the Right To Information (RTI) Act, the Central Information Commission has
observed.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Country’s information
watchdog, however, allowed the respective chairpersons to decide whether the
information can be disclosed to RTI applicants or not.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The CIC delivered its
views while deciding an appeal filed by RTI application Subhash Aggarwal
seeking communication between Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar and Leader of
Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on appointment of Lok Sabha secretary
general TK Vishwanathan.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Lok Sabha
secretariat had given the letter written by Swaraj to Lok Sabha speaker
protesting against his appointment but what the speaker told the leader of
opposition was not provided.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The commission said
that the Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar should take a call whether the
information should be provided or not. The privilege under which the
information is denied should enlisted in the communication to the applicant,
the CIC order said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Aggarwal’s request
for all communication between the Speaker and Prime Minister in the last three
years was also denied on the ground of being privilege information.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The commission, in
its order said that it agreed with the contention of Lok Sabha that drawing a
parallel between the correspondence made available by the ‘Election Commission
of India’ or the ‘National Advisory Council’ and the correspondence between the
Prime Minister and the Speaker was not appropriate. Reason being a specific
provision under section 8 of the RTI Act regarding breach of privilege of the
Parliament or State Legislature, the commission said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Therefore, the
commission said only that information not attracting section 8 of the RTI Act
should be provided.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI), on Monday, said that any core investment company (CIC) registered with
it needs minimum Rs.500 crore owned funds to set up a joint venture company for
undertaking insurance business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Among other norms, the RBI
said that the level of net non-performing assets shall be not more than 1 per
cent of total advances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Further, it should have
registered net profit continuously for three consecutive years, and “the track
record of the performance of the subsidiaries, if any, of the CIC concerned
should be satisfactory,” RBI said in a notification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Adjusted net worth</span></b><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">These companies are
required to maintain adjusted net worth which would be not less than 30 per
cent of aggregate risk-weighted assets on balance sheet and risk adjusted value
of off-balance sheet items.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The RBI said that no CIC
would be allowed to conduct such business departmentally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Further, an NBFC (in its
group / outside the group) would normally not be allowed to join an insurance
company on risk participation basis, and, hence, should not provide direct or
indirect financial support to the insurance venture.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Within the group, the apex
bank said, CICs may be permitted to invest up to 100 per cent of the equity of
the insurance company either on a solo basis or in joint venture with other
non-financial entities in the group. In case where a foreign partner
contributes 26 per cent of the equity, more than one CIC may be allowed to
participate in the equity of the insurance joint venture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">CICs cannot enter insurance
business as agents and companies that wish to participate in insurance business
as investors or on risk participation basis will be required to obtain prior
approval of the central bank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 42pt;">RTI Judgement Series: PIO at magistrate’s office asked to
providecomplete information<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">The CIC
issued a show cause notice to the PIO for not providing</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">complete information</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">within 30 days. This is the
67th in a series of important judgements given by former Central Information
Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi that can be used or quoted in an RTI</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">application</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
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The Central Information<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="ilad">Commission</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(CIC),
while asking the Public Information Officers (PIOs) of the sub-divisional
magistrate (Model Town) at Delhi to provide information, also issued a
show-cause notice for not providing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>complete
information<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>within stipulated
time limit of 30 days as per the Right to Information (RTI) Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">While giving
this important judgement on 5 April 2010, Shailesh Gandhi, the then Central
Information Commissioner said, “...the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>complete
information<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was not provided (by
the PIO) to the appellant. The PIO is now directed to provide specific
information like present<span class="ilad">status of application</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>along with file notings and correspondence
available on the records and names and definitions of officer who have dealt
with the file.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">New Delhi
resident Neera Nashier, on 9 September 2009, sought information about a
complaint filed with ACB on embezzlement of funds in 1996 from the sub-divisional
magistrate (SDM) Ram Pura, Delhi. Here is the information she sought and the
reply provided by the PIO...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">1. Whether
the Jat caste belonging to UP are covered in the OBC list for obtaining
certificates from Delhi. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
The information sought is attached with the sheet.</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">2. What
relevant documents/proof is required to be submitted for getting OBC
certificates?</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
As above.</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">3. After
applying for OBC in your office, what is the time frame to issue the
certificate/reject the</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">application?</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
Normally 21 days.</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">4. If no
rejection is issued after conducting all enquiries within the fixed time frame,
then why not “deemed to be accepted” system can be considered? </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
The official is allowed for the seeking information under RTI Act, 2005, and
there is no provision to make queries as to why, where, etc.</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">5. Let me
know the status of my</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">application</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">which was received vide</span></strong><span class="ilad"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">acknowledgement</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">No.82745. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
Enquiry pending from parental address.</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">6. Also let
me know the reason of delay in the issuing the OBC certificate.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
Do. (As above)</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">7. Provide
appellant the name of the official responsible for this delay. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
Do. (As above.)</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">8. Let the
appellant know the provisions/penalties of action against the official(s) for
causing wilful delay in not giving the certificate in time.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">PIO's Reply:
Do. (As above.)</span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Nashier then
filed her first appeal claiming that the PIO did not supply the desired
information. In his order, the First Appellate Authority (FAA) dismissed the
appeal stating that the information was supplied by the PIO.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Nashier then
approached the CIC with a second appeal claiming that the FAA dismissed her
first appeal without hearing her side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">During the
hearing, Mr Gandhi, the then CIC, noted that both the parties were not present.
From a perusal of the papers, it appeared that the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>complete information<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was not provided to the appellant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">He then
directed the PIO to provide specific information about the present<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>status of application<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>along with file notings and
correspondence available on records and name and designations of officers who
have dealt with the file. The CIC also directed the PIO to supply photocopies
of file notings and communications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Mr Gandhi
said, “from the facts before the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Commission,
the PIO is guilty of not furnishing information within the time specified under
sub-section (1) of Section7 by not replying in 30 days”. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Commission<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>then issued a show-cause notice to the
PIO and asked him to give his written submissions as to why penalty should not
be imposed on him as per Section 20(1) of the RTI Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">CENTRAL INFORMATION</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">COMMISSION</span></strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Decision
No.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">CIC/SG/A/2010/900396/7357<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CIC/SG/A/2010/900396<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">Appellant
: Neera Nashier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Old Middle<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="ilad">school</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Building,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">MUMBAI:
CBI today opposed the petition filed by former chief minister of Maharashtra,<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ashok-Chavan"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Ashok
Chavan</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>seeking to
quash the case registered against him in the Adarsh Society scam. Chavan has
sought the quashing of the FIR lodged against him by CBI; arguing that he was
falsely implicated by political rivals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The petition also claims that CBI has no
jurisdiction to probe the case, as neither the high court nor the Maharashtra
government had asked it to take over the probe. At the last hearing, HC had
sought replies from both the state and the CBI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">CBI said in its reply-affidavit today that
Chavan, as the chief minister, granted 'undue favours' to the 'Society', in
return for which his relatives were allotted three flats. Chavan also asked the
'Society' to take 40 per cent members from civilian category, when it was
originally meant only for war veterans, CBI alleged, adding that Chavan played
a key role in the scam. As for the jurisdiction, it said that the defence
Ministry had forwarded a complaint to it, which led to the probe. However, the
Maharashtra government, in its affidavit, reiterated its stand that CBI had no
jurisdiction to probe the scam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The division bench of Justices P V Hardas and
A R Joshi today sought copies of all the orders passed by other benches in the
case, and affidavits filed by parties. The next hearing will be on April 12.
Chavan's mother-in-law Bhagvati Sharma, sister-in-law Seema Sharma and
father-in-law's brother Madanlal Sharma have flats in the 'Society'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">CBI has filed chargesheets against the former
chief Minister and 12 others for criminal conspiracy, cheating and criminal
misconduct under Indian Penal Code and also under Prevention of Corruption Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In Punjab court, six-year-old
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<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/in-punjab-court-six-year-old-describes-torture-by-father-348829">http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/in-punjab-court-six-year-old-describes-torture-by-father-348829</a></div>
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Trust of India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">| Updated:
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Patiala: </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">A six-year-old boy was allegedly singed with
cigarette butts and slashed with a shaving blade by his father who inflicted
injuries all over his body.<br />
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The harrowing tale of torture was narrated by the child himself in a local
court, hearing a divorce case of his parents.<br />
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The court was shocked and dismayed to see injury marks on the body of the child
and ordered the police to get the child medically examined in the local
Government Rajindra Hospital.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The child
told the doctors yesterday that his father Baljit Singh inflicted injuries all
over his body.<br />
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There were about 16 blade cut marks on different parts of his body, doctors
said, adding his back had burn marks caused by cigarette butts.<br />
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The parents of the child had filed a divorce case and the court had earlier
given custody of the child to the father.<br />
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It also directed the accused that the child would be allowed to meet his mother
once every month.<br />
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When the boy insisted on meeting his mother, the father was so annoyed that he
started torturing the child.<br />
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A case has been registered against the accused Baljit Singh at the Patiala
Sadar Police Station under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, police
said, adding, efforts are on to arrest him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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against CBI court order<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/mittal-moves-sc-against-cbi-court-order-113040100490_1.html">http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/mittal-moves-sc-against-cbi-court-order-113040100490_1.html</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
special court had named Mittal, Hutchison Essar's former MD Asim Ghosh and
Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia as accused in 2G scam<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Bharti Airtel Chairman
Sunil Mittal has moved the Supreme Court, seeking the summons issued against
him by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court be quashed.<br />
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On March 19, the special court had named Mittal, former managing director of
Hutchison Essar Asim Ghosh and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia as accused in the
2G telecom spectrum allocation scam. The court had asked Mittal to appear
before it on April 11.<br />
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Bharti Airtel declined to comment on the development.<br />
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On March 19, the CBI court took cognisance of a charge sheet. In his order,
judge O P Saini said Mittal, Ruia and Ghosh were the “alter egos” of their
respective companies. “The acts of the companies are to be attributed and
imputed to them. I find enough material on record to proceed against them.”
Saini also said they represented “the directing mind and will of each company”.<br />
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On the same day, an Essar spokesperson had said the company was consulting
experts and exploring all legal options and “will in due course take up
appropriate legal proceedings to challenge the order.”<br />
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Citing its failure to find any private individual in the criminal conspiracy,
the CBI had, in its charge sheet dated December 21, 2012, only named Shyamal
Ghosh, then telecom secretary, and three private companies---Bharti Cellular
(now Bharti Airtel), Hutchison Max (now Vodafone) and Sterling Cellular (now
Vodafone)---as accused.<br />
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The CBI special court has summoned all the three corporate bigwigs to the court
on April 11, with Shyamal Ghosh and the representatives of the accused
companies. Consequently, the charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating under
the Indian Penal Code will be applicable on the accused executives. Besides,
Ghosh has been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act, applicable only
on government officials.<br />
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The 2G case involves former telecom minister A Raja and fifteen others. In
this, CBI had alleged Ghosh was in conspiracy with the former telecom minister,
Pramod Mahajan, who abused his position as a public person and showed undue
favour to beneficiary companies, causing a loss of Rs 846.44 crore to the
exchequer.<br />
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In his last hearing before the order, Saini had asked CBI to name the private
individuals involved in the case, as “it takes two people to do a conspiracy
and it cannot name only a government person”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #393939; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">SC
ruling on Novartis victory of humanity over commercial consideration: Bhaskar
Narayana, Natco Pharma<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-01/news/38189465_1_novartis-drug-natco-pharma-bhaskar-narayana">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-01/news/38189465_1_novartis-drug-natco-pharma-bhaskar-narayana</a></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">In
an interview with ET Now,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><strong><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Bhaskar
Narayana, Finance Director, Natco Pharma,</span></i></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></b></span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">shares
his views on the SC judgement on Novartis'</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/cancer"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">cancer</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">drug patent issue. Excerpts:</span></em><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Your
reaction to this announcement and what this means for generic makers in India?</span></strong><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">Basically this stands out as a unique
victory of humanity over commercial consideration, to put it very plainly. I
think the element of innovation which deserves protection has been plainly
lacking in the case of Novartis, which has been upheld by the Supreme Court. We
are yet to see the full judgement, but nevertheless this is our immediate
reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">In
a nutshell how would this if at all impact</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/natco-pharma-ltd/stocks/companyid-8305.cms"><span style="color: #336797; font-weight: normal;">Natco Pharma</span></a></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span><strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">on the financials in the
immediate front because I am guessing you get some forwards into drugs that you
would seek to sell if not selling already?</span></strong><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">No, no, we are already selling it. We are
selling it from a long time, if I am not mistaken from 2003 onwards. So t has
no effect on the company as such.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">What
is the market for this drug and how much does this benefit on an annual basis?</span></strong><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">We garner about 20-23 crore of sales
annually from this one drug.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Could
you just highlight once again for the benefit for our viewers the price
differential for this drug in the market?</span></strong><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The
price differential is almost 10 times. The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/novartis-india-ltd/stocks/companyid-13653.cms"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Novartis</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">drug is ten times costlier than our own
drug. So it simply puts that parity because Novartis has been selling it at
international prices all over the world and whatever price it sells in the US,
it sells at the same price in India, but our drug has been almost 90% cheaper
than the Novartis drug.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Will
you go ahead with the Glevi9c generic version at this point?</span></strong><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is no question of it because we are already in the market where we have been
selling this drug from a long time and we continue to manufacture and sell it.
We have no legal restriction at all. The only thing is that our stand has been
vindicated by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme%20Court"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #336797; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;">Supreme
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in Erode, awarding life sentence to two persons for allegedly murdering a
watchman for gain in a temple in Uthukuli, were set aside by the Madras High
Court on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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death of the deceased or dacoity,” a division bench comprising Justices K N
Basha and P Devadass observed and quashed the lower court conviction order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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temple situated at a lonely place in the hillock on January 27, 2004.
Table-drawers and hundial were found broken. The deity’s coronet, chest-armour,
feet-armour and hand-armour and a two-wheeler of Murugasamy were found missing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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registered a case and arrested Shankar and Ramesh. As some other accused were
absconding, the cast was split into two and the case against Shankar and Ramesh
was taken to the Sessions Court, which awarded, among other things, life term
to the duo. Hence, the present appeals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the death of Murugasamy. The recovery of temple properties from their
possession had also not been established, they added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recoveries projected in this case were tainted, open to doubt, lacked
credibility and it was a stage-managed show. When the very recovery evidence
pressed into service had not been established, the question of raising
presumption vide Sec 114 of the Evidence Act and no -offering of explanation by
the accused as to the recovery during their examination under Sec 313 CrPC did
not arise. The prosecution had not established the charges framed against the
appellants, the judges added, and set aside the lower court order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c3c65; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 29.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Youth and friend
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<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/youth-and-friend-acquitted-of-charge-of-gangraping-cousin-113040100403_1.html">http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/youth-and-friend-acquitted-of-charge-of-gangraping-cousin-113040100403_1.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A youth and his friend have been acquitted
of charges of abducting and gangraping his cousin last year by special fast
track court here after the girl did not support the prosecution's case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Additional Sessions Judge T R Naval acquitted Delhi residents Shoaib and his
friend Rashid of the charges of abducting, gangraping and hurting the girl by
giving her poison.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"It is held that prosecution could not prove its case against both or
either of the accused beyond any reasonable suspicion and shadow of doubt that
they both or either of them committed offence of kidnapping, abducting or
inducing women to compel marriage, offence of causing hurt by means of poison
and offence of gang rape under the IPC.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Consequently, by giving them benefit of doubt, both the accused are
acquitted for the said offences," the judge said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to police, the accused had abducted the 18-year-old girl in March
last year and after confining her at several places, they had gangraped her by
mixing stupefying substance in her tea.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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When the girl returned to her house after two months, she told the police that
she had gone with accused Shoaib, son of her mother's sister, and he had taken
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having an affair with him for past few months. She had said that he made
physical relations with her on the pretext of marrying her and had later
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conclusion that prosecution has failed to prove its case against both the
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her. It said even the girl's parents and brother, who were also witness, had
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<span style="color: #6f6a2f; font-size: 17.5pt;">Move aimed to prevent
Kingfisher airlines creditors from selling shares in United Spirits, Mangalore
Chemicals and Fertilizers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Author/P.R.%20Sanjai"><span style="color: #aa6015; font-size: 15.5pt;">P.R. Sanjai</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="displaynmedia"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 15.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; padding: 0in;">First Published:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 15.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt;">Tue, Apr 02 2013. 12
40 AM IST</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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02 2013. 12 43 AM IST<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Mumbai:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Vijay Mallya’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/UB%20Group"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">UB
Group</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, promoter of Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, petitioned the Bombay high
court last week to prevent creditors of the grounded airline from selling
shares in group companies United Spirits Ltd (USL) and Mangalore Chemicals and
Fertilizers Ltd (</span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/MCF"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">MCF</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">) that it
has pledged as loan collateral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
petition signals that the process of loan recovery could well be fraught with
prolonged legal battles for the lenders to the airline. The petition will come
up for hearing on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A
consortium of 14 banks with combined exposure of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">7,000 crore to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Kingfisher%20Airlines"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Kingfisher
Airlines</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">has
started selling shares in USL and MCF that Mallya offered as collateral when
the airline’s debt was restructured in 2011, according to two bankers who
declined to be identified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“We have
started selling the shares. The group has moved court, but we are confident
that we will be able to recover part of our money through the sale,” one of the
bankers said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Kingfisher
Airlines has been grounded since 1 October, first because of staff protests
over unpaid salaries and thereafter because of regulatory issues. Its flying
licence expired on 31 December and a revival plan prepared by the airline to
start limited operations this summer failed to convince the aviation regulator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) would like to see no-objection
certificates from airport operators, aircraft leasing companies, certificates
of support from maintenance firms and spare parts vendors of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Airbus"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Airbus</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">aircraft and salaries paid before the airline
can fly again,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Mint<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i>reported
on 16 January, citing a DGCA official who didn’t want to be named.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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move by UB Group to petition the high court indicates the legal uncertainties
that creditors of the airline are likely to encounter in the process of
recovering the money</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">they are
owed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mallya
did not reply to a query seeking a clarification on the development, but a
senior UB Group executive confirmed that a petition has been filed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For their
part, the lenders are preparing to file a petition in a debt recovery tribunal
(DRT) against the airline under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of
Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act after recalling their
loans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This
could happen before the end of this week. The Act allows secured creditors to
move a DRT to recover their money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Recovery
cases at a DRT are cleared relatively faster than conventional legal means, but
a borrower can move a higher court against decisions by a tribunal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/State%20Bank%20of%20India"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">State
Bank of India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/SBI"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">SBI</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">), the
leader of the creditors’ consortium, has the maximum exposure at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1,600 crore to Kingfisher, followed by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Punjab%20National%20Bank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Punjab
National Bank</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/PNB"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">PNB</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">800 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/IDBI%20Bank%20Ltd"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">IDBI
Bank Ltd</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">800 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Bank%20of%20India"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bank
of India</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="brand"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/BoI"><span style="color: #aa6015; font-weight: normal;">BoI</span></a></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">650 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Bank%20of%20Baroda"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bank
of Baroda</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="brand"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/BoB"><span style="color: #aa6015; font-weight: normal;">BoB</span></a></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">550 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/United%20Bank%20of%20India"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">United
Bank of India</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/UBI"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">UBI</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">430 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Central%20Bank%20of%20India"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Central
Bank of India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">410 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/UCO%20Bank%20Ltd"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">UCO
Bank Ltd</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">320
crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Corporation%20Bank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Corporation
Bank</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">310 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/State%20Bank%20of%20Mysore"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">State
Bank of Mysore</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">, an SBI associate bank, (</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">150 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Indian%20Overseas%20Bank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Indian
Overseas Bank</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">140 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Federal%20Bank%20Ltd"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Federal
Bank Ltd</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">90 crore);<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Punjab%20and%20Sind%20Bank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Punjab
and Sind Bank</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">60 crore) and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Axis%20Bank%20Ltd"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Axis
Bank Ltd</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">50 crore).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Overall,
their exposure is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">6,360 crore, with unpaid interest
taking it up to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">7,000 crore .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Apart
from shares in USL and MCF, the lenders hold two UB Group properties in Mumbai
and Goa and two helicopters, besides the Kingfisher Airline brand as collateral
in addition to a personal guarantee from Mallya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“We are
confident of recovering about one-fourth of our exposure through share sale and
sale of properties and helicopters,” said the first banker cited above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">On
Monday, USL shares lost 0.45% to close at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1,889.45 each while MCF’s shares
rose 13.52% to end at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">32.75 on BSE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lenders
have turned up the heat on Mallya after<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Diageo%20Plc"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Diageo
Plc</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">of the UK in November agreed to buy a 53.4%
stake in USL for</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">11,170
crore, including an open offer to buy 26% from public shareholders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Finance
minister<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/P.%20Chidambaram"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">P.
Chidambaram</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">recently
called upon banks to aggressively push for the recovery of bad assets and chase
the “affluent promoters” of “sick companies”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">There are
other lenders to Kingfisher outside the consortium. They are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="company"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Srei%20Infrastructure%20Finance%20Ltd"><span style="color: #aa6015; font-weight: normal;">Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd</span></a></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">430 crore),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Jammu%20and%20Kashmir%20Bank%20Ltd"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jammu
and Kashmir Bank Ltd</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">80 crore) and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Oriental%20Bank%20of%20Commerce"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Oriental
Bank of Commerce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(</span><span class="webrupee"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: WebRupee, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Rs.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">50 crore). A debt fund operated
by Kolkata-based Srei Infrastructure bought<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/ICICI%20Bank%20Ltd"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">ICICI
Bank Ltd</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">’s exposure to the airline in July 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
non-banking financial company and Jammu and Kashmir Bank have shares of USL and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/McDowell%20Holdings%20Ltd"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">McDowell
Holdings Ltd</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">as
collateral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Another
senior banker, requesting anonymity, said the consortium had empowered a core
group formed to recover debt to take legal actions against the UB Group. The
members of the core group are SBI, PNB, BoB, BoI,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/IDBI%20Bank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">IDBI
Bank</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #aa6015; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">and UBI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">According
to consulting firm Capa, Kingfisher Airlines’ suspension of operations has had
a knock-on impact on the global leasing and financing sector, highlighting some
of the challenges facing aircraft financiers and lessors in the Indian market,
besides raising concerns about regulatory safeguards with regard to
international investment in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“The
continued delays by the Indian government to de-register Kingfisher-operated
aircraft since it suspended operations in October 2012 is also expected to hurt
other, still-operational, Indian carriers while also creating the impression
that India is not adhering to the Cape Town Convention, of which it is a
signatory,” Capa said in a report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Cape
Town Convention is an international treaty aimed at standardizing transactions
involving movable property. In this case, India will have to facilitate smooth
transfer of aircraft to owners if an airline defaults in lease rentals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 29.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Govt calls meeting of CMs, chief justices to bring down pendency<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-calls-meeting-of-CMs-chief-justices-to-bring-down-pendency/articleshow/19334021.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-calls-meeting-of-CMs-chief-justices-to-bring-down-pendency/articleshow/19334021.cms</a></div>
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<span class="byline"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">TNN</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">|</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Apr 2, 2013, 02.46 AM IST</span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #616161; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>NEW DELHI: The government has called
a meeting of all chief ministers and chief justices of high courts on April 7
to discuss strategy to bring down pendency of cases in different courts and
initiate the process of largescale recruitment of judges.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<br />
After the law ministry initiated the move last month, Chief Justice of India<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Altamas-Kabir"><span style="color: #024d99;">Altamas Kabir</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had written to all chief justices of
high courts asking them to strongly take up the matter of doubling the strength
of judiciary with the state governments. He had sought an increase of the
annual outlay by the state governments.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CJI"><span style="color: #024d99;">CJI</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had emphasized that state governments
must be persuaded to double the number of courts in subordinate judiciary,
along with the necessary infrastructure and staff at the earliest.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The central government has set aside Rs 2,800 crore to set up fast track courts
and for recruitment of judges. Sources in the law ministry said the CJI has set
a target of taking the strength of the judiciary from the current 18,871 to
more than 30,000 in the next five years.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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year decided to make the judicial system 'five-plus free', ie, free of cases
more than five years old. An SC projection says the number of cases will expand
to 15 crore in the next three decades requiring at least 75,000 judges.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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seeking its permission to drop certain charges against gangster Abu Salem under
TADA and Explosive Substances Act in view of its commitment to Portuguese
government at the time of his extradition that he shall not be awarded death
penalty or detained in custody for more than 25 years if found guilty.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Appearing before a bench headed by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Justice-Aftab-Alam"><span style="color: #024d99;">Justice Aftab Alam</span></a>, attorney general<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/G-E-Vahanwati"><span style="color: #024d99;">G E Vahanwati</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>said the government was committed to
its assurance given to the Portuguese court and government and sought the apex
court's permission to drop the additional charges framed against Salem by the
trial court.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"As a matter of fact, charges framed by trial court have been termed as
additional charges by the Portuguese courts because of which the Portuguese
courts have come to the conclusion that there has been a violation of rule of
speciality. More so, the technicality on which the appellant has raised various
objections/litigations/representations in India as well as in Portugal..."
the agency said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The agency, however, clarified that withdrawing certain charges against Salem
would not harm the CBI case. "It would also be pertinent to point out that
offences for which Salem was extradited to India, are grave enough to award him
the maximum punishment and therefore no prejudice would be caused to the CBI if
the present application is allowed," the application said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The agency sought withdrawal of charges under section 5 and 6 of TADA and
sections 4(b) and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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'soon-to-come' final chargesheet in the Jagan disproportionate assets case, the
CBI on Monday attacked R&B minister Dharmana Prasada Rao and chief minister
N Kiran Kumar Reddy and charged them with "behaving in a manner that is
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The CBI made these observations while opposing a petition filed by Dharmana in
the high court seeking a stay on the proceedings in the Vanpic aspect of the
Jagan assets case in the trial court. Dharmana's contention was that since the
state had not given a sanction to prosecute him, the court's action in this
regard was unlawful. After being named as accused No. 5 in the Vanpic case,
Dharmana had put in his papers but continues to be minister as the chief
minister is yet to accept the resignation letter.<br />
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However, after taking cognizance of the Vanpic case, the CBI court has been
summoning the minister for all the court hearings along with other accused in
the case. Now, the minister wants the high court to declare it as illegal and
stay the proceedings of the trial court.<br />
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Appearing on behalf of CBI, senior counsel Ashok Bhan told Justice B
Seshasayana Reddy of the high court that Dharmana should have quit his cabinet
post owning the responsibility for doling out 18,000 acres to unscrupulous
private enterprise in an illegal manner in the Vanpic case as revenue minister
in the YSR regime. "He had even bypassed the empowered committee to do
this and if any semblance of morality is left, he should quit because he
violated the very oath he took as minister and as legislator. The chief
minister too should have risen above cheap politics, accepted Dharmana's
resignation and allowed the prosecution to commence without any fetters. If the
CM has got any respect for probity in public life, he should forthwith accept
the resignation of Dharmana," the counsel said.<br />
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According to Ashok Bhan, the protection available to a public servant under section
19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act is not available to Dharmana in this
case because he is no more a public servant. of the Assembly 2004 to 2009<br />
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He perpetrated the Vanpic fraud as revenue minister of the previous government
and should account for his past conduct. "He may be a public servant in
his position as legislator but this can't be his shield," the CBI counsel
said citing the judgment of the Supreme Court in Haryana's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Singh-Chautala"><span style="color: #024d99;">Ajay Singh Chautala</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>case who was prosecuted without any
sanction from the state. Moreover, the counsel said, the CBI court has only
taken cognizance of the offences committed under IPC provisions and we are
urging the court to take cognizance of the case under prevention of corruption
Act also because no such sanction is needed now.<br />
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Senior counsel B Kumar, appearing for Dharmana, said that the CBI court
committed an error in overlooking the import of Section 362 CrPC which bars any
criminal court from reviewing or modifying an order passed earlier. On
September 13 last year, the lower court concluded that sanction under Section
19 of the PC Act was a necessary precursor to taking of cognizance of offences
under the Act, he said.<br />
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The subsequent modified order affected the rights of the petitioner as it was
passed without allowing the latter to be heard on the substantive question of
law involved in the modification sought by the CBI. Such an order of review or
alteration was in violation of Section 362 CrPC which states that the criminal
courts do not have the power of review, he argued.<br />
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<b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">New Delhi:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Jailed former Haryana chief
minister OP Chautala was admitted to RML hospital here Monday morning and
failed to appear for trial in a disproportionate assets case before a Delhi
court which pulled up Tihar Prisons Authority for not intimating it about the
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a report on the health status of 78-year-old Chautala. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">Chautala has been lodged in Tihar Jail after being sentenced to
ten year imprisonment in the 2000 JBT scam and was to be produced before
Special CBI Judge Manu Rai Sethi, who is conducting trial in a disproportionate
case against the INLD chief and his sons Ajay and Abhay Chautala. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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authorities had not informed the court about his hospitalisation for a
"digestive disorder" and consequent inability to appear before
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">"As per his counsel, accused (Chautala) was admitted in
hospital in morning itself. Superintendent of Tihar Jail no. 2 (where Chautala
is lodged) ought to have sent a written communication in this regard to the
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This lax attitude of the superintendent is viewed with concern by this court.
Let notice be issued to him with direction to inform the court of latest health
status of the accused," the court said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hospitalisation and later a police personnel from the lock-up told the court
that a wireless message was received in this regard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">On March 25, the court had rejected Chautala's plea to get a pacemaker
implanted at a private hospital at his own expense and instead referred him to
RML Hospital here saying it has all the infrastructure and facilities required
for his treatment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">The court is hearing a disproportionate assets case registered by
CBI against Chautala in 2010 on a complaint by Haryana Congress leader Shamsher
Singh Surjewala who accused him of amassing assets worth Rs 6.09 crore, far
exceeding his legal income between 1993 and 2006. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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imprisonment by a Delhi court on January 22 for illegally recruiting 3,206
junior basic trained (JBT) teachers in the state in 2000. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Gautam+Datt"><span style="color: #003580; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; text-transform: uppercase;">GAUTAM DATT</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">PUBLISHED:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="article-timestamp"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">23:16 GMT,
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panel has stopped short of giving full powers of civil contempt to the armed
forces tribunal, leaving serving officers outside its jurisdiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The vice-chiefs of army, air
force and navy had expressed reservations about the amendment in the Armed
Forces Tribunal Act (AFT) seeking civil contempt powers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Currently, the tribunal only has
criminal contempt powers, because of which it has been considered toothless.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A parliamentary standing
committee, which had considered the proposed amendments, has recommended that
the civil contempt powers be applicable only to the officers of the defence
ministry, other civilian organisations and retired defence personnel.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The army told the panel that
giving civil contempt power to the tribunal will have implementational problems
as many of its officers are posted in inaccessible areas of Jammu and Kashmir
and the North-East.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Most of these, so to say,
civil contempt cases are cases by name against the senior commanders and
commanding officers, who are responsible for all the administration and
discipline in units and formations," an army source said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Can you imagine a unit
carrying out counter-terrorist operations without the commander who is missing
because of summons from the court?"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">But the defence ministry did not
agree with the three services. It cited a 2006 case pertaining to Fayaz Khan,
who was dismissed from the army.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The tribunal had ruled in his
favour but the order was not implemented by the army forcing the AFT bench to
observe that it was handicapped in the absence of civil contempt powers.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The ministry said the Solicitor
General of India, who appeared in the case in the Supreme Court, had also
advised the ministry to amend the AFT Act to include the power of civil
contempt expeditiously.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The ministry claimed that the law
ministry and the Attorney General were also in favour of this by amending
section 19 of the AFT Act, 2007.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Currently, the Act has only
criminal contempt powers. It was meant to address grievances of the armed
forces personnel but in the absence of full powers, it is facing problems in
addressing the issue.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The amendment will now be placed
before the government for approval.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their responses to separate petitions seeking implementation of police reforms
and recent police excesses in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bihar"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #024d99; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bihar</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">and Punjab.<br />
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"We normally do not summon officers. The governments think that they can
play with the court's orders. They must respond to what courts have asked them
to respond," a bench of justices G S Singvi and Kurian Joseph said.<br />
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"Sorry for the inconvenience. We will take up the matter for hearing on
day-after-tomorrow," Justice Singhvi said and asked the states, which have
so far not responded, to file their affidavits by Tuesday evening after
supplying advance copies to Attorney General (AG)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/G-E-Vahanvati"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #024d99; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">G E Vahanvati</span></a><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">, senior
advocate Harish Salve and others.<br />
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"Those states/officers, who have not filed the affidavits, should
understand that they have to file them by tomorrow evening or the court may
have to summon senior officers to assist the court," the bench said after
the AG said only eight states have so far filed their replies.<br />
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The court had earlier taken suo motu cognisance of news reports on separate
incidents in which a woman was beaten up in Punjab and some ladies teachers
were assaulted in Patna during an agitation.<br />
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It had issued notices to the Centre and states saying the beating up of
innocent and unarmed people was "animal behaviour".<br />
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During the hearing, the Attorney General, who along with Salve and others, is
assisting the court, said the affidavit filed by the Bihar DGP is
"conspicuously" silent over the assault on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Women"><span style="color: #024d99;">women</span></a>teachers
who were sitting inside a tent.<br />
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"It is just merciless. One can understand the use of force if there is
unlawful assembly. But here teachers have been beaten up mercilessly when they
were sitting in a tent," the court said.<br />
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There is no explanation why women were beaten up, the court said and criticized<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Practice"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #024d99; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">the practice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">of justifying such incidents to the media by the officers
concerned.<br />
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"The moment such wrong is committed, some police officers go on TV and try
to justify the police action," it said adding that even after 66 years of
independence, "the helpless and ladies" are being beaten up.<br />
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"The ailment starts at the grassroot level. At the recruitment level,
there is extraneous considerations," the court said.<br />
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The court fixed the matter for hearing on April 3. Earlier, the court had
slammed Bihar and Punjab governments for recent incidents of police excesses
and issued notices to the chief secretaries, the home secretaries and the DGPs
of all states and police commissioners of UTs on implementation of its earlier
directions in the Prakash Singh case on police reforms.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ministry amends rules regarding mining project expansion<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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DELHI: The Environment Ministry has amended rules exempting expansion of mining
projects from public hearing, sources said.</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">The rules have been amended in line with the
decision taken by the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) to end the
prolonged delays in various projects including mining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">For one-time capacity expansion of 25 per cent
or less, coal mining projects have now been exempted from public hearing
provided it had taken place at the time of obtaining the existing Environment
Clearance and the mining is confined to the existing lease area, official
sources said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">It has been decided that "no fresh
Environment Clearance (EC) shall be required for a mining project at the time
of renewal of mining lease if EC was obtained under the EIA Notification of
2006," says a fresh Ministry notification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f57a5; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 23.0pt;">High Court orders supply of subsidised diesel to Kerala Water
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Kerala High Court on
Monday directed the two public sector oil companies to sell high speed diesel
to the State Water Transport Department at subsidised rates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The interim directive comes
close on the heels of a similar directive for supplying subsidised diesel to
KSRTC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Justice V.Chitambaresh
issued the directive on a petition moved by the government department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The State government gave
an undertaking that it would pay up the differences in the prices of diesel to
the oil companies if the writ petition was ultimately dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In its petition, the
Transport Department said that it was not operating its boat service with the
sole motive of making profit. It aimed to provide maximum service to the
general public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The oil companies were
supplying diesel at non-subsidised rate, as the department had been categorised
as a bulk consumer. The average consumption of diesel a month was 1.80 lakes
litres. This entailed an additional expense of more than Rs 20 lakh a month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The department was
operating 733 numbers of services a day using 58 boats. A total of 60,000
commuters were dependent on its service. The department was forced to bear an
additional burden on account of buying diesel at enhanced price, even as it was
incurring a loss of Rs 26 crore a year. Therefore, the department was entitled
to diesel at the subsidised price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The petitioner sought to
quash the Centre’s order directing the oil companies to sell diesel to bulk
consumers at non-subsidized price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Indian Oil Corporation and
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation contended that while the Centre and the public
sector oil companies were providing a subsidy of Rs 11.20 per litre of diesel,
the State Government was levying tax to the tune of almost the same amount on
every litre of diesel being sold to bulk consumers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In fact, the levy of
ad-valorem VAT rate of 20 per cent on diesel by the State Government had
enabled it to generate incremental revenue in the wake of the hike in the basic
selling price of diesel meant for bulk consumer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wedlock<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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Published: 01:44 IST(2/4/2013) | Last Updated: 01:45 IST(2/4/2013)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Bombay high court
recently upheld the order of a Pune family court directing a 29-year-old man to
pay Rs1,000 toward monthly maintenance to an eight-year-old boy born out of his
illegitimate relationship with a woman, who had accused him of rape.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice Roshan Dalvi
rejected the plea filed by Indrajeet Surve, a driver, challenging the family
court order of July 12, 2011, contending that the child was illegitimate and
sought to dispute his paternity.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Surve argued that the
mother had filed a false case of rape against him with an intention to extort
money and the trial court had acquitted him of the charge in November 2006.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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however, rejected the challenge after finding that the child’s paternity had
not been justifiably denied by him.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Surve had also challenged
the quantum of the maintenance amount on grounds that it was exorbitant in view
of his monthly income of Rs5,000 earned as a driver of a private vehicle.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>On the other hand,
the woman’s counsel, Pramod Pawar, pointed out that the 28-year-old unwed mother
worked as a housemaid and the family court fixed the amount at Rs1,000 in view
of statements made by Surve himself. Justice Dalvi refused to interfere with
the family court order considering the amount was rather paltry and there was
nothing erroneous about it.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Surve and the woman
were reportedly in a relationship when she was residing at a village in
Ratnagiri. The woman alleged that Surve made false promises of marriage and
convinced her to maintain a physical relationship, and the child was born in February
2005. However, Surve later refused to marry the woman compelling her to lodge a
complaint of rape.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/high-court-initiates-pil-on-outofschool-children/article4570507.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/high-court-initiates-pil-on-outofschool-children/article4570507.ece</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Karnataka High Court on
Monday ordered issue of notice to the State government while<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>suo motu</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>treating as a public interest
litigation petition a report, “The glitches that dog RTE implementation”, in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Hindu</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on March 31 based on a State-level
meet on the RTE Act held in the city recently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The report said that during
the meet, organised by the People’s Alliance for Right to Education (PAFRE), a
facilitator of the organisation, quoting government’s figures, had stated that
“54,000 children are still out of school…” “If the news item is correct, then
it is a serious violation on a massive scale. About 54,000 children are not
going to schools means that they may be engaged as child labourers and in other
activities… their future is dark,” a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice
D.H. Waghela and Justice B.V. Nagarathna orally observed during the hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It has been pointed out in
the petition that a large number of students being out of school would mean
that provisions of the RTE Act are not being properly implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bench directed the
government to file its affidavit and also to ascertain details about the PAFRE
so that it could be treated as intervener in the present proceedings to assist
the court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advocate Aditya Sondhi as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>amicus
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Centre and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Haryana</span>government on Monday on a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">PIL</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>requesting a CBI probe into an alleged
scam in purchase of fungicide from a German company.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">HaryanaIAS</span>officer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">AshokKhemka</span>,
who is currently the managing director of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Haryana</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Seeds
Development Corporation, had recently alleged that the fungicide, manufactured
by a German company, was not the cure for treating a wheat seed disease for
which it was bought for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Rs</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>60<span style="background: white;">crore</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
then further given to the farmers on 100% subsidy. A division bench comprising
Chief Justice A K<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Sikri</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
Justice R K<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Jain</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>issued
the notices while hearing a plea filed by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">BhiwaniSudhar</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">VikasSamiti</span>,
an NGO, through its president<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Pawan</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kumar<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;">Anchal</span>.<span style="background: white;"><br />
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The petitioner had sought directions for a probe by an independent agency in
the "arbitrary purchase of 'RAXIL 2DS' fungicide worth several crores by
Haryana government for treatment of wheat seed including 'Karnal Bunt' disease
in violation of the Insecticides Act, 1968." The PIL stated that this particular
fungicide was also purchased at higher than the market rates by officers of the
Haryana government. According to the petitioner, on October 6, 2010, in a
meeting under the chairmanship of Haryana chief minister, the decision to use
RAXIL 2DS was taken without checking any scientific data.<br />
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The use of RAXIL 2DS was made compulsory for control of Loose Smut, Flag Smut
and Karnal Bunt diseases in wheat seeds, before the seeds could be certified by
the state seed certification agency, stated the petition. According to the
petition, no scientific data or research supports the claim that this fungicide
controlled or cured one of the three diseases - the Karnal Bunt disease.<br />
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"Even if it is presumed that the concerned research department of
university had conducted credible scientific research establishing that said
fungicide controlled Karnal Bunt disease in wheat crop, it was incumbent upon
the manufacturing company to approach Central Insecticide Board for approval
and registration under the relevant statute," stated the petitioner. The
case will come up for further hearing on April 12. Meanwhile, IAS officer
Khemka, who had cancelled the mutation of Robert Vadra<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/dlf-ltd/stocks/companyid-12393.cms" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024d99;">DLF</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>deal had also recommended a criminal
case against the German company for making "false claims to sell fungicide
in Haryana".<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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The Bombay high court on Monday lashed out at the government for indulging in
"lip service" and not doing anything concrete about solving the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/garbage-dumping-problem" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">garbage dumping problem</span></a>.</span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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A division bench of Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice A P Bhangale was hearing
a clutch of petitions regarding garbage dumping issues in various civic
corporations and councils. The judges had clubbed all matters together saying
they would pass individual orders.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Government pleader S S Shinde said the state sought time for monitoring and
ensuring compliance of rules and regulations under the<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Environment-Protection-Act" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Environment Protection Act</span></a>, specifically the
Municipal Solid Waste Management and Handling Rules.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The judges said rather than assurance on paper and "lip service", the
court wants action. The HC said the state must show seriousness by identifying
land available for dumping. "You don't have to develop the land. You just
have to acquire it and begin dumping immediately," said Justice
Khanwilkar.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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When a few advocates pointed out individual problems, the judges said they
would concentrate on the general issue of making land first available and then
go into specific violations. "Think of the common good, not an individual
case. If tomorrow residential garbage is not picked by the corporation because
there is no space, then how do you solve the problem," asked Justice
Khanwilkar.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The judges said in the next hearing they would ask the state to identify land
under the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Town-Planning-Scheme" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Town Planning Scheme</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>within a fortnight and the pollution
control board to grant clearance within 48 hours. They also warned of action
against officials concerned for contempt of court.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></tmp></span></div>
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private blood bank cannot sell blood that is collected through donation for the
purpose of profiteering.<br />
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The HC opined that since people donate blood with good intention to help the
needy, their objective should be borne in mind by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/blood-banks" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">blood banks</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
they should not make it a business of profit.<br />
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With this oral observation, the court directed the largest private blood bank -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Prathama-Blood-Centre" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Prathama Blood Centre</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to deposit 10% of collected blood with
the government hospital free and give 30% blood to the hospitals run by the
civic bodies at a concessional rate. The court ordered so after petitioner
Ashok Naik alleged that the blood banks do not supply blood to public hospitals
and sell it off for profiteering resulting into blood crisis for patients in
general hospitals. He also claimed that this arrangement has been made in the
license terms, said petitioner Ashok Naik's lawyer, Parth Contractor.<br />
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Meanwhile, Naik submitted an affidavit before the court stating that private
blood banks have sold blood to the tune of Rs 11.35 crore in the last three
years. Of this, eight blood banks have made 60% of total business and
Prathama's sell is nearly 25% of total blood sale to patients as well as drug
manufacturing companies. Advocate Contractor made this submission after
analysing affidavits filed by 142 blood banks revealing their sale of blood.
The court later sought details from 52 blood banks that sell blood plasma to
patients and drug manufacturers.<br />
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Naik also claimed in his affidavit that as per the guidelines, all blood banks
are required to provide blood and its components free of cost to patients
suffering from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/haemophilia" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">haemophilia</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
thalasemia and alleged that many blood banks do not follow this and recover
charges from such patients.<br />
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The state government has also furnished a list of blood banks and laboratories
that are qualified to sell plasma and provided details about the sale of plasma
to private drug manufacturers.<br />
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Naik filed a PIL in 2011 questioning the profiteering by private blood bank
through the sale of blood and blood components. He demands regulatory measures
for collection and supply chain of blood and its components so that needy gets
help in time in hospitals.<br />
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The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala has
sought all concerned parties' opinion on the issue and kept further hearing
after two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Gujarat High Court's Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya on Monday offered
to hear in his chamber a plea filed in connection with a lawyer being beaten up
by his colleagues for disregarding a strike call on March 11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
observed that hearing the matter in open court would not be
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">It court was
hearing a public interest litigation filed by Amit Panchal, an HC lawyer, after
one of his colleagues, Jal Unwala, was allegedly abused and beaten up in his
chamber by some senior lawyers and office-bearers of Gujarat High Court
Advocates' Association (GHAA) for working on March 11 despite a strike call
given by the association. Unwala had written a letter to the Chief Justice the
same day seeking his intervention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Unwala and
senior counsel Saurabh Soparkar were also suspended from GHAA for conducting
business on a day when there was a strike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">During the
last hearing on the PIL, the division bench led by Chief Justice Bhattacharya
had asked the parties concerned to resolve the issue amicably while referring
the HC as a "family". It had even asked advocate general Kamal
Trivedi to intervene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">On Monday,
senior counsel Mihir Thakore, appearing for Unwala and Soparkar, pressed for an
apology from the GHAA members before an open court for the March 11 incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Subsequently,
the Chief Justice asked the lawyers to resolve the issue outside the court. He,
in fact, offered to conduct the hearing of the matter inside his chamber to
resolve the issue before adjourning the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">He did not
give any dates for the next hearing and asked the lawyers concerned to inform
the court after arriving at some amicable solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chandigarh, April 01, 2013</span></b><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Punjab and Haryana high court has taken suo motu notice of the plight of 31
undertrials kept in the Phagwara sub-jail in a congested room of 12 foot X 21
foot dimensions and has issued notice of motion to the Punjab government.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
It was during an inspection visit by justice K Kannan</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="msoIns"><ins>to the
Phagwara sub-jail on March 22 that he came face to face with the situation. In
a communication to chief justice Arjan Kumar Sikri, justice Kannan said,
"It (room) is too small to allow for the barest comfort of a civilised
living. It is grossly inhuman to dump so many people in such a small
room."<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Kannan recommended that there is an immediate need for expansion of the jail
premises and as an interim measure at least 25 inmates shall be transferred to
Kapurthala model jail. Justice Kannan also suggested that issues of extension
of remand for the transferred prisoners could be considered through
video-conferencing.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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State Crime Investigation Department will give the Bombay High Court an update
on its probe pertaining to two custodial deaths in the Central Police Station
at</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">Ulhasnagar</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">in Thane district in 2011.</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">A bench of
Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice A P Bhangale will hear a public interest
litigation by social activist</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Hardas</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Tharwani</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">regarding the death of 34 year old Sunil
Shelke. During the hearing the court was informed that in same police station
another man died in custody a month earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">According to Tharwani's petition, Shelke was a
tailor. On his wife's complaint, he and his brother Yogesh were summoned to the
police station on April 11, 2011. Shelke was asked to give a written
undertaking that he will not trouble his wife. When he refused, the brothers
were arrested and mercilessly beaten. Around 10.45 pm, Shelke began vomiting
blood. He was taken to a hospital and brought back within an hour. Around 2 am
on April 12, 2011 he complained of uneasiness and died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">On March 2, 2011 Narayan Rathod (38), an
alleged murder suspect , was illegallydetained without any competent
court'sorder. There were 25 injuries on his body. Following the PIL, six
policemen were book for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and causing
grievous hurt to extort confession. Additional public prosecutor Aruna Pai had
told the court that out of six officers, three are suspended and departmental
inquiry is on against the other three. The State CID, which took over the case
in April 2012, is expected to give the court a status update on its
investigations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-HC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay HC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on
Monday asked the state's lawyer to take instructions from the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Urban-Development-Department" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Urban Development Department</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(UDD) headed by CM<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Prithviraj-Chavan" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Prithviraj Chavan</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and reply to a new PIL that raised
issues about "lack of transparency" in the state's public parking
policy on May 2.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The PIL moved on Monday by Thane-based activist Pravin Wategaonkar, who had
earlier filed a PIL on the Adarsh housing irregularities, said that an RTI
query he made last month showed that no new approvals were given to public
parking lots after June 2012. The files before June 2012 were burnt in the
Mantralaya fire, the department had said. The query was to find out how many
public parking lots were allowed since November 2010.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A bench of Chief Justice<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mohit-Shah" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Mohit Shah</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
Justice Anoop Mohta asked why he had sought details specifically from November
2010 to which Wategaonkar replied that the new minister took over the
department at that time. The government pleader said that the state collected
Rs 100 crore premium, with the BMC collecting an equivalent amount. Wategaonkar
said the state ought to disclose whether it was collected before or after the
fire.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The PIL said developers benefitted from the policy which sought a 'meagre
premium' from them compared to the eventual market price of additional
buildable space.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The PIL said: "In wider public interest, there should be a thorough
investigation of proposals already cleared, and until the probe is complete,
the state be restrained from sanctioning any new proposal. The GoM be directed
to file under affidavit, list of public parking proposals cleared by the
committee formed under DC Rules of BMC, as amended and yet to be sanctioned by
the UD minister and CM so that they remain in public domain."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Based on the outcome of these probes, the GoM be directed to propose a
transparent and time-bound mechanism based on which future public parking
proposals need to be cleared," the PIL stated.<o:p></o:p></tmp></ins></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-01/mumbai/38188267_1_toll-collection-toll-amount-public-interest-litigation">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-01/mumbai/38188267_1_toll-collection-toll-amount-public-interest-litigation</a></div>
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Bombay high court is slated hear on Monday a public interest litigation
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division bench of Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice A P Bhangale will hear</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">public interest litigation filed by social
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Changede against the toll charges on roads which are incomplete in Pune and
Ahmednagar. His petition said the government must not allow the contractor to
charge toll on such roads.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">At a
previous hearing the judges have chided the State government asking why
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government's advocate then had submitted that toll amount cannot be reduced but
the time frame of toll collection can be reduced. The judges pointed out that a
similar problem is faced by citizens all over Maharashtra and questioned how</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">a citizen could be compensated by reducing the
time frame of toll collection when he pays the full toll amount.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">They said the government must take a policy
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advocate sought time to take instructions on how the toll amount could be
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Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-36505032711572927192013-03-23T13:09:00.002+05:302013-03-23T13:09:32.109+05:30LEGAL NEWS 23.03.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #00417b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">SC stays
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Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed till further order the proceedings
pending in a trial court in a corruption case relating to purchase of pistols
for the Army in 1998 in which former Union minister Arun Nehru and others are
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A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir stayed the proceedings before the
trial court which had fixed March 30 for commencement of arguments on charges
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Nehru had moved the apex court against the order passed by the Delhi High Court
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Senior
counsel Vikas Singh and advocate Sandeep Kapur, appearing for Nehru, told the
apex court that the order on cognisance by the special CBI court was passed
"in a casual and perfunctory manner" as the sanction to prosecute
Nehru, a public servant, was not taken before proceeding against him.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"It is pertinent to mention that the bar to taking cognisance under
section 197 CrPC is operative even after a person ceases to be a public servant
by retirement or otherwise and as long as the act complained of is related to
his duties while he was a public servant sanction ought to be sought against
the said person," Nehru, in his petition, said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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According to the FIR registered by CBI against Nehru, who was then a Minister
of State in the Home Ministry, he along with two other senior officials had
allegedly caused a loss of Rs 25 lakh to exchequer in a pistol deal with
Czechoslovakia in 1988.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The case dates back to 1985-86 when BP Singhal, the then
additional secretary in the Home Ministry, and AK Verma, then director in the
Home Ministry, allegedly conspired with Nehru, the then Minister of State
(Internal Security) for Home Affairs, to execute the deal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, proceedings against Singhal and Verma have abated as they have died.
CBI had alleged that Nehru had ignored the guidelines for conducting the
evaluation of 9 mm pistols.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The trial court had taken cognisance of the 24-year-old case against the
accused after rejecting CBI's closure report which had contended that nothing
incriminating could be found against Nehru during the protracted probe.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Nehru, in his petition filed before the apex court, had contended that the high
court had failed to appreciate that in "the instant matter cognisance has
not been taken under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 but under
Prevention of Corruption Act, (Act II), 1947, under which, there is no such bar
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CBI, in its probe in the case, had found that a policy decision to replace .38
mm revolvers with 9 mm pistols was taken on February 21, 1986, following which
global tenders were invited and the deal was finally clinched with Czech firm
Merkuria Foreign Trade Corp for purchase of the pistols.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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CBI had told the trial court that the investigations did not reveal any written
instruction by Nehru. "No prima facie evidence has come (up) that the
accused had committed any misconduct or had misused his office with regard to
the deal," CBI had said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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It had also submitted that Nehru gave approval for the purchase on the
recommendation of the then Home Secretary.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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CBI had filed the closure report on June 13, 2007 but the trial court had
rejected it observing that a few documents reflected involvement of the accused
in the case.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court had taken cognisance of the offences punishable under various
sections of IPC including sections 420 (cheating), 120-B (criminal conspiracy)
and also under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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declined to entertain the bail plea of Haryana lawmaker Gopal Goyal Kanda
currently in judicial custody for allegedly abetting the suicide by air
hostess Geetika Sharma and subsequently by her mother Anuradha Sharma.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Chandramauli Kumar Prasad and Justice V Gopala Gowda while declining to
entertain the bail plea by Kanda asked senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi to
approach the sessions court for the relief.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Delhi High Court had already rejected his plea for bail by going in the
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to the high court order which said Kanda was "reluctant" to go to
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on November 19, 2012, holding that he might influence the witnesses and
tamper with the evidence.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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prosecution that before surrendering, Kanda had destroyed the material
evidence in the case.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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police August 8, 2012, Kanda was denied anticipatory bail both by the trial
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from Sirsa assembly constituency, was arrested on charges of abetting the
suicide by Geetika Sharma August 5, 2012.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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had accused Kanda and his employee Aruna Chadha of allegedly harassing her.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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suicide, her mother Anuradha Sharma too committed suicide in February, for
which she too blamed Kanda and his employee Aruna Chadha.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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charged under section 306 (abetment of suicide), 120 B (criminal
conspiracy), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (destruction of evidence),
467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery with intention to cheat),
469 (forgery with intention to harm reputation) and 471 (using forged
documents as genuine) of the Indian Penal Code and section 66A (hacking of
computers) of the Information Technology Act.</ins></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to examine another PIL on age of offenders<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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relating to the determination of a juvenile delinquent’s age, contending that
the rules framed under the Juvenile Justice Act took away discretion granted to
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A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra issued notice to the
Union government on the petition filed by Nisha Bagchi.<br />
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Senior advocate Mukul Rohtagi appearing for the petitioner submitted that the
rules framed under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act,
providing the determining factors for a juvenile, go beyond the provision, which
has to be quashed. “The provision of the law provided discretion to the judge
which has been taken by the rules,” he said.<br />
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The petition also challenged the methodology adopted by trail court under which
the matriculation certificate is to be given first preference and second the
birth certificate and at last ossification test for ascertaining the age of a
juvenile. “Suppose a person is hefty and well-built, capable of committing rape
and murder and does not seemingly appear to be a juvenile, but produces a
matriculation certificate declaring him to be below 18, the judge is helpless,”
counsel said. In that circumstances, the accused has to be given the benefit of
the special law.<br />
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The bench said it would examine the issue and sought response from the government.<br />
A number of PILs, including one by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy,
has been filed in the apex court.<br />
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The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a plea made by Delhi police seeking a stay
on a High Court order granting permission to December 16 Delhi gang-rape
accused to use TV interviews given by a friend of the victim in their defence.
A three-judge bench presided by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir issued notice to
the accused on a petition challenging the March 7 order. Solicitor General
Mohan Parasaran submitted that the interviews were not admissible and the use
of a CD permitted by the HC in defence of the accused should be stayed.
The court decided to seek response from the accused on the petition. It said
that the use of CD under the Evidence Act is stayed. The HC had allowed a plea
made by accused Ram Singh (since expired) and his brother Mukesh against the
trial court’s order declining them permission to use the interview during the
recording of evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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General of Prosecution says this will help speedy trial<o:p></o:p></span></i></h2>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now that the two Italians
are back in India at the end of an unprecedented stand-off between the two
countries, the marines will have to stand trial before a special court to be
set up by the Union government in accordance with the Supreme Court’s
directive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The apex court had on
January 18 directed that a special court be set up to try the marines accused
of shooting to death two fishermen off the Kerala coast on February 15 last
year. One of the main arguments of the Italian government for not returning the
marines to India after their four-week stay in Italy had been that the
Government of India had taken no step to set up the special court. The Italian
media had criticised the extreme delay in the Indian judicial process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">When a special court is set
up, now that the issue has grabbed international attention, the biggest
challenge before it would be to complete the trial in a short period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">According to T. Asaf Ali,
Kerala’s Director General of Prosecution (DGP), who had represented the State
government in the Kerala High Court in the marines’ case, the best option
before the Union government will be to designate the sessions court in Kollam
as special court to try the sailors. “The best way for a speedy trial is to let
the Kollam court try the case,” Mr. Ali told<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The
Hindu</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Friday. “For this,
the Government of India has to designate it as special court on the basis of
the Supreme Court directive.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mr. Ali pointed out that
the police had filed their charge sheet against the marines before the Kollam
court. All the records and evidences were now before this court. The police had
already completed their investigation and the ship,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Enrica Lexie</i>, which was the key
evidence, had long left the Indian waters. Moreover, if a special court were to
be set up in New Delhi or elsewhere, the witnesses who were in Kerala would all
have to travel to Delhi frequently to testify.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Since the biggest
challenge before a special court would be to complete the trial in a short
time, designating the Kollam court as special court will be the best bet,” Mr.
Ali said. In his view, the Kollam court could complete the trial in three
months as all the records and evidences were already before it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In its January 18 order,
the Supreme Court had said that Kerala had no jurisdiction to try the two
foreigners and asked the Union government to set up a special court, in
consultation with the Chief Justice of India, to try them. The proceedings
pending before the Kollam sessions court should be transferred to the special
court, the court said. The January 18 order also allowed the marines to be
moved from Kochi to New Delhi and let them stay at the Italian embassy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The other day, Finance
Minister P. Chidambaram made no secret of his displeasure at the indulgence
shown to wilful defaulters. These are people who have the capacity to repay, or
are guilty of diverting loans for personal gain, or for purposes other than the
ones stated in the loan applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The financial system
indulges them through endless corporate debt restructuring. Canara Bank is
wringing its hands helplessly after Deloitte reportedly admitted its inability
to trace the loan of Rs 400 crore it extended to a Hyderabad-based media group.
It is now knocking at the doors of the Debt Recovery Tribunal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The media group’s dues to
the Indian banking system are in the region of Rs 5,000 crore. Its promoter’s
dalliance with cricket by sponsoring an IPL team is well known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The rumour mill has it that
the bulk of the money owed by the group has found its way into cricket
investments, apart from investments in fancy cars. Another cricket aficionado
and liquor baron, too, owes our banking system a whopping Rs 7,000 crore. For
too long has the system winked at the shenanigans of wilful defaulters,
sometimes going to the extent of converting the outstandings into equity at
exaggerated valuations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Sick Industrial
Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985, made industrial sickness fashionable
by extending several concessions to sick companies, including stay of coercive
legal proceedings against their assets. There were many instances of contrived
or feigned sickness, with the BIFR unable to tell between what was genuine and
what wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The indulgence to wilful
defaulters has, predictably, spawned a slew of jokes. Such aphorisms as “you
borrow in lakhs, you are in trouble with the bank; borrow in crores, the bank
is in trouble with you” have become the stuff of folklore. Levity aside, the
truth is the lot of the financial system is not hopeless; but only if it
bestirs itself and goes for the jugular of the defaulters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">There is a view that
promoters can take shelter behind limited liability. This is not entirely true
because the financiers invariably take a personal guarantee from the promoters,
be they individuals or corporates. Such personal guarantees should be invoked
without the slightest hesitation. The institution of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>benami</i>, of course, makes things
difficult for financiers in India. The money trail is also often lost in the
dizzying maze of shell companies acting as a buffer. Add the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>hawala</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>route and the repertoire of tricks at
the disposal of the wily defaulters is complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A frontal attack on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>benami</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>brooks no delay. Vested interests have
been scuttling it since 1988, when Rajiv Gandhi made bold to fashion a law that
sent fear down their spines with confiscation staring them in the face.
Inter-corporate loans need to be regulated more strictly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">(The
author is a Delhi-based chartered accountant.)</span></i><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">DMK leader M.K. Alagiri’s
son Durai Dayanidhi has moved the Madras High Court bench here to modify the
conditions of his anticipatory bail. Mr Durai was granted anticipatory bail on
December 10, 2012 in the cases registered against him by the Keelavalavu police
for alleged offences under Mines and Minerals Act and Explosive Substances Act
in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam. The High Court had asked Mr
Durai to surrender his passport at the Judicial Magistrate Court, Melur and
appear before the police whenever he was required for interrogation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has sought the return of his passport considering the nature of his business.
He owns a movie production house and has business interests abroad, making it
necessary for him to make foreign trips frequently, he contended. “The
petitioner has strong roots in the State and will not leave the country. He
will cooperate with the legal process”, Mr Durai’s counsel John Satyan has
stated in the petition. The case is expected to be heard on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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intimidation charges not long ago. But now, at least 13 police constable
aspirants, who were denied the job because they were accused in criminal cases,
are set to don uniforms, thanks to a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madras-high-court"><span style="color: #024d99;">Madras high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>order asking the authorities to ignore
the cases because they had ended in acquittals even before the selection
process began.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A total of 15 people had approached the high court saying they had been
unfairly denied employment as police constables, because police verification
before the appointment revealed they faced either criminal cases or had bad
antecedents. Most of them faced charges like wielding dangerous weapons,
causing hurt, rioting, criminal intimidation and destruction of public
property. One person was charged with attempt to murder.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government issued a notification on March 22, 2012 for selection of
candidates for 13,320 posts — 12,152 police constables, 377 jail wardens and
791 firemen. The written test was held in June 2012. These candidates had
cleared the written test and undergone medical examination, too. The fact that
they once faced criminal cases came to light during character verification by
local police.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Noting that 13 of them had been acquitted from the cases either on the ground
of benefit of doubt or due to dropping of charges, they said their acquittals
happened much before the selection process began. On the date of announcement
of selection process, they had no cases pending against them and hence they
should not have been denied jobs. Two of them, however, said they faced a minor
punishment of imposition of fine and that they should not be deprived of the
job merely because of a minor punishment.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice Vinod K Sharma, allowing the pleas of the 13 aspirants on Friday, said:
"In all these cases, the petitioners were acquitted much before the
commencement of selection process. Acquittal in criminal cases means that the
charges framed against the accused itself were bad, therefore it cannot be said
that persons were involved in any criminal case."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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As for Rule 14(b) of the Special Rules for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu-Police-Subordinate-Services-Rules"><span style="color: #024d99;">Tamil Nadu Police Subordinate Services Rules</span></a>,
which says even acquittal due to 'benefit of doubt' would not absolve a person
completely, Justice Sharma said: "Rule 14(b) can only be interpreted to
mean that if cases, pending at the time of selection, end in acquittal on the
ground of benefit of doubt, then a person can be denied the right of
appointment. But not in a case where much before the start of selection
process, the person is acquitted even by giving benefit of doubt."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The government submitted that the Rule 14(b), the validity of which was upheld
by the apex court, held that a person acquitted or discharged by giving benefit
of doubt or due to the fact that the complainant had turned hostile, has to be
treated as a person involved in a criminal case. Hence, he can still be
disqualified for selection to police service, it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harbinder Kaur, who was assaulted by Punjab policemen in Tarn Taran town of
Punjab earlier this month.<br />
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The CRPF had failed to provide cover to the woman despite HC orders issued on
Tuesday.<br />
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Harbinder has been provided the security by one 'section' of the CRPF troops,
comprising eight cops.<br />
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Earlier, on Friday morning, Justice Ranjit Singh of the HC had issued show
cause notice to IGP (Chandigarh zone) of CRPF for not complying with the directions
of the court issued on March 19.<br />
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The directions came about after the victim had moved the HC informing it that
she was not being provided security by the CRPF despite court directions, which
amounted to showing disregard to the judiciary.<br />
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Within hours after the HC issued the contempt notice, senior standing counsel
of the Union government, Onkar Singh Batalvi, summoned one ASI and seven
constables of CRPF and asked them to provide security to the victim and her
family members.<br />
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After this, the CRPF troops left for Tarn Taran in their official vehicle along
with the woman and her kin.<br />
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On Monday, Harbrinder had moved a petition seeking protection to life and
liberty of her and her family members. She had also alleged that Tarn Taran
police was exerting pressure on her to strike a compromise in the case.<br />
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Hearing her plea, the HC had ordered the transfer of seven cops, who had beaten
her up, out of Tarn Taran district and ordered security for the victim and her
family.<br />
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On March 3, the woman was thrashed in full public view by Punjab cops in Tarn
Taran town after she had approached them with a complaint of sexual harassment.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f57a5; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 23.0pt;">HC order allowing TV interview as evidence in gang rape case
stayed<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span class="author"><span style="background: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;">J. VENKATESAN</span></span><span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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order comes on plea of Delhi Police<o:p></o:p></span></i></h2>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Supreme Court on Friday
stayed the Delhi High Court order allowing the plea of one of the accused in
the December 16, 2012 gang rape case to use as evidence a CD containing the
interview of the victim’s male friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Bench of Chief Justice
Altamas Kabir and Justices Anil R Dave and Ms. Ranjana Desai stayed the March 7
order after the Delhi Police submitted that the TV interview was inadmissible
as evidence and issued notice to the accused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Solicitor-General Mohan
Parasaran appeared for the Delhi government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The High Court had allowed
the contention of accused Ram Singh, who allegedly committed suicide in the
Tihar jail, and his brother Mukesh and set aside the trial court order by which
they were not allowed to exhibit as evidence the CD of the interview telecast
on January 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay
Sharma and Akshay Singh are facing trial. The sixth accused, declared as a
juvenile, is facing trial before the Juvenile Justice Board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In its appeal, the Delhi
government said that by the impugned order the High Court had allowed the
interview to be used as a previous statement though the said interview was
recorded after the statement of the complainant (an eyewitness to the crime)
was recorded under Section 164 Cr.PC., investigation concluded and a charge
sheet was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It said the High Court had
erred in not noticing the dangers of allowing media interviews as evidence in a
criminal trial, especially when such interviews were taken after the filing of
the charge sheet. Such a practice would have a direct effect on the
administration of the criminal justice system as it would lead to an erosion of
the sanctity of the judicial trial and would result in causing undue
interference in criminal justice process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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March 23, 2013</span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Taking
serious note of custodial deaths in Maharashtra, the Bombay high court on
Friday directed the state to devise a plan to prevent the menace.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“The incidences of
custodial deaths are continuing unabated in Maharashtra; what preventive steps
have you taken?” the division bench of judges Ajay Khanwilkar and Ashok
Bhangale sought to know while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed
by city NGO Indian Center for Human Rights and Law.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The bench directed
the secretary (special), home department, to file his personal affidavit by
April 1 disclosing what preventive measures were being taken to prevent
custodial deaths.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The counsel for the
petitioner, Rebecca Gonsalves, pointed out that during the last 10 years, more
than 220 persons had died in police custody in Maharashtra. The PIL cites a
report prepared by Asian Commission for Human Rights revealing that during
between 2001 and 2009, 192 persons had died in police custody in the state.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>According to an
affidavit filed by the state government earlier, 24 persons died in police
custody between January 2008 and March 2009, of which at least 15 deaths were
attributable to atrocities committed by police personnel concerned or
negligence on their part.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Published: 20:04 IST(22/3/2013) | Last Updated: 20:20 IST(22/3/2013)</span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Delhi High Court
on Friday slammed the Censor Board for not doing its job "properly"
and asked it and the Centre to respond to two separate PILs alleging vulgar
content in Salman Khan-starrer 'Dabangg 2' and Saif Ali Khan's 'Race 2'.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>"Nowadays, the
Censor Board is not doing its duty properly," a bench comprising Chief
Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain said while asking the Information and
Broadcasting Ministry, CBFC and producers of 'Dabangg 2' and 'Race 2' to file
their responses by May 14.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>While hearing the PIL
of lawyer Sanjay Kumar seeking a ban of alleged provactive item number of
'Dabangg 2,' the bench ordered deletion of names from an array of parties of
Kareena Kapoor Khan, on whom the song was filmed, director Arbaaz Khan and
musicians duo Sajid and Wajid.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>"Why you have
made the actress a party? This is not a criminal complaint. File a fresh memo
of parties. Delete the name of the actress, director and musicians...,"
Justice Jain said during the hearing.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The bench, however,
refused to stay the release of DVDs of 'Dabangg 2' and 'Race 2' and their
further screening on TV channels. It, meanwhile, gave the petitioners liberty
to approach it again if they receive information that the films are going to be
shown on channels.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>"We are not
experts and have not seen the movies. How can we stay the films on the basis of
photographs we saw here?" the bench said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The other PIL, filed
by social worker Teena Sharma, has sought an immediate ban on further screening
of 'Race 2' in cinema halls and its telecast. It also sought deletion of
explicit scenes and "vulgar" dialogues in the film.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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rickshaw stands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hindustan Times</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Chandigarh, March 22, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%;">The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued show-cause notice to the
Chandigarh deputy commissioner (DC) and municipal commissioner as to why
contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against them for not
demarcating and reviving rickshaw stands in the city despite repeated court <span class="msoIns"><ins>directions.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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A special division bench comprising justice Surya Kant and justice Ajay Tewari
on Friday issued the notices when it came to know that the Chandigarh
authorities had failed to comply with the court orders and were passing the
buck on each other.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The
court was hearing a case pertaining to the introduction of eco-friendly cycle
rickshaws and designating vehicle-free zones in Punjab, Haryana and UT.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Earlier
on November 2, 2012, the court had directed the chief architect of Chandigarh
to designate proper parking space for rickshaws in every sector.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The
court had said it was interested in how to popularise non-polluting vehicles
and also proper parking for them which would reduce traffic chaos and accidents
on roads.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Whereas
during the hearing of the case, the court was informed that chief architect
Sumit Kaur had written a letter to the DC seeking details of demarcated
rickshaw stands in the city but her letter had not received any reply till date
and thus rickshaw parking places all over the city had not been specified.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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for the Chandigarh administration, senior standing counsel Sanjay Kaushal
informed the court that the administration was mulling levying congestion
charges on vehicles in various parkings in the city.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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further reiterated that parking problem cannot be solved in the city and the
ultimate option was to use the public transport system. He also informed the
court that very soon the administration would also put its master plan on the
website to invite objections from the city residents.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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amicus curiae (friend of court) advocate Rita Kohli submitted that the
administration had failed to properly utilise its existing resources to ensure
proper parking space for vehicles, where thousands of vehicles could be parked.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">AHMEDABAD:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Gujarat-high-court"><span style="color: #024e97;">Gujarat high court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Friday gave a go ahead for the
construction or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/railway-line"><span style="color: #024e97;">railway line</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>between<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/mundra-port-and-special-economic-zone-ltd/stocks/companyid-20316.cms" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024e97;">Mundra</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Adipur"><span style="color: #024e97;">Adipur</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/kutch-salt-and-allied-industries-ltd/stocks/companyid-8370.cms" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024e97;">Kutch</span></a>district by Adani<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/mundra-port-and-special-economic-zone-ltd/stocks/companyid-20316.cms" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024e97;">Port Special Economic Zone</span></a>.
The Court rejected a petition by a local resident objecting the company's move
claiming that it did not take the permission of local gram panchayat prior to
constructing the railway line.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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On Ullasba Barach of Luni village in Kutch district had filed a Public Interest
Litigation in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/high-court"><span style="color: #024e97;">high court</span></a>claiming that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/APSEZ"><span style="color: #024e97;">APSEZ</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>cannot construct a railway track
parallel to the existing railway line. She also objected the construction of a
compound wall along the tracks without the permission of local gram panchayat.
She further demanded that an under-bridge be constructed at Luni.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court said that under The SEZ Act, the company is free to construct a
compound wall along the railway line which is part of SEZ. The court ruled that
once an area is notified as a SEZ, local village panchayat does not have any
authority over it. It said that once the plan is approved by the railway
authorities, the court cannot interfere with the decision, whether or not to
construct an overbridge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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singer KS Makhan under HC scanner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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case against singer KS Makhan is under the scanner of the high court now.
Taking up a public interest litigation (PIL) on Friday, the Punjab and Haryana
HC directed the state government to produce details of the decision taken by
the home<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="msoIns"><ins>affairs
department.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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The directions came from a division bench headed by chief justice Arjan Kumar
Sikri on a petition filed by advocate HC Arora, who has challenged the
withdrawal of the case that had been registered against Makhan, his relative
Hardeep Singh and six other persons on August 1, 2006, under the Narcotic Drugs
and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. The chargehseet was presented in April
last year, and additional sessions judge, Jalandhar, framed the charges on
February 22 this year.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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when the case was to come up for prosecution evidence, the home department
directed the deputy commissioner of Jalandhar to withdraw the case.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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informed the high court that under the directions of the Punjab State Human
Rights Commission, the state police's crime branch had even conducted an
inquiry and concluded that the FIR had been registered rightly. Further, Arora
said, in such cases where there is no specific complainant or victim, and the
crime is against society at large, a public notice must be issued to invite
objections against the proposed withdrawal. The case would now come up for
hearing on March 26.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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other Canadian citizens, Lakhwinder Singh Lakha and Raja Boparai, allegedly
used to receive heroin from Makhan's brother Hardeep Singh, a resident of
Shankar village in Jalandhar. It was alleged that Makhan, Boparai and Lakha
used to send money through the hawala route to Hardeep to purchase drugs from
smugglers in Jalandhar, Nakodar and Ludhiana.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Delhi:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
Delhi High Court has issued order for setting up of special court to try
Italian marines, said sources on Friday night. The two Italian marines accused
of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast reached Delhi on Friday after
India gave an assurance that they will not face death penalty nor will they be
arrested, bringing to an end a raging 11-day diplomatic row between the two
countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
marines, Massimiliano Latore and Salvatore Girone, arrested in connection with
the killing of the fishermen in February, 2012 returned late Friday evening in
the company of Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Steffan de Mistura in a military
plane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
dramatic u-turn by the Italian government, which had earlier last week said the
two marines would not be sent back, enabled the marines to meet the deadline
set by the Supreme Court when it gave them permission to go for a month to vote
in the elections there. With the Supreme Court acting tough and restraining the
Italian Ambassador Daniele Mancini from leaving the country, Italy sought and
got assurances to enable the marines' return.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who denied any deal was reached on the issue,
told Parliament that Italy had sought "clarifications" on death
penalty and other issues which were a matter of "concern" to that
country. "It (Italy) sought from India clarifications regarding the
conditions applicable to the marines on their return and the provisions
regarding the death penalty that could be applicable in this case which was an
Italian concern," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3d3d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">"Notwithstanding
the pending proceedings, the government has informed the Italian government
that the two marines will not be liable for arrest if they return within the
time frame laid down by the Supreme Court of India," the minister added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also allayed Italy's fears by saying that "according to well-settled
Indian jurisprudence, this case would not fall in the category of matters which
attract the death penalty, that is to say the rarest of rare cases. Therefore,
there need not be any apprehension in this regard," Khurshid said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">In a
significant judgment, the Gujarat High Court on Friday ordered the state
government to regularise around 1,248 teachers who are teaching disabled
children and grant them all the benefits and allowances given to government
employees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">A division
bench of HC passed the order while acting on a series of petitions that
included a suo motu action taken by the court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">According to
one of the lawyers who appeared for the petitioners, a sizable number of
teachers are teaching disabled children in Gujarat and they are deprived of
regular benefits by the state government. The HC had taken suo motu cognisance
of the matter, said the lawyer who did not want to be named.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Subsequently,
a number of such teachers had joined the litigation after they faced problems
in getting salaries from the NGOs acting as a nodal agency for the scheme under
which they were teaching the disabled students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The lawyer
stated that the teachers were appointed through NGOs under the Integrated
Education for Disabled Children scheme of the Central government. The object
aims at allowing the disabled children to intermingle with normal students. The
scheme was being implemented by the state government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">However, due
to this arrangement, there was no job security for the teachers, who also faced
problems with payments of their salaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"The
court held that under the provisions of the Right to Education Act and Disabled
Children Special Act, the implementation of Acts is a responsibility of the
state government. The court ordered that the teachers be absorbed as the
regular teachers by the state government and entitled to all the benefits of a
regular teacher," the lawyer said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Two persons
were killed Friday when an old two-storey building collapsed in the city. The
deceased were identified as Mahesh Kishor Ojha (43) and Natubhai Mochi (40).
The incident occurred at Devsa na Pado, on Relief Road in walled city area of
Ahmedabad. The police said the building was empty for last few months and it
was under renovation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">'Suspicious' boat spotted off Porbandar coast</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">A
"suspicious" boat moving towards Porbandar was spotted by a Coast
Guard patrol in the Arabian Sea early Friday, sources said, adding that it
changed course and headed towards Jamnagar when challenged. The Coast Guard and
Marine Police have sounded an alert from Okha to Jhakau coast. "When the
Coast Guard ship moved towards the boat, it escaped," Coast Guard
officials said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DIG Alok Kumar, suspended on charge of seeking Rs 10 crore extortion money from
a liquor trader, Friday got a relief from the Patna High Court which put a stay
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Hearing an anticipatory bail petition of the DIG, Justice D K Singh put a stay
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argued that the officer has been implicated in a case of extortion and pleaded
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The officer, who was put under suspension by the state government on February 5
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Kumar has been charged by a liquor trader Tunnaji Pandey of demanding an
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test and final selection of mandi supervisors and assistant secretaries in view
of certain "surprising features" in the selection process.<br />
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A single bench headed by Justice Rajesh Bindal also ordered to implead as
parties in the case all the 21 candidates selected for the post of mandi
supervisions and 15 candidates as assistant secretaries in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Haryana-State-Agriculture-Marketing-Board"><span style="color: #024d99;">Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(HSAMB) and issued them notice through
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Justice Bindal expressed surprise over certain distinctive features of the
result of written test, and noted down the argument of the petitioners' counsel
that out of 27 candidates shortlisted for interviews on the basis of written
test, as many as 19 were from one particular examination centre, namely BN
Senior Secondary School, Panchkula, and again out of 32 candidates shortlisted
for interviews for the post of assistant secretaries, as many as 23 were from
the aforesaid examination centre.<br />
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Thus, for the said post of mandi supervisors, only 8 candidates, and for post
of assistant secretaries, only 9 candidates were successful from remaining 11
centres of examination in Panchkula. The HC expressed surprise that this was
such a case where the number of candidates passing the written test was less
than the number of posts, and even the aforesaid number of candidates were
shortlisted for interview by giving grace marks.<br />
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The HC further directed HSSC to give information regarding candidates who were
shortlisted for interviews from each of the 12 centres of examination and those
who were finally selected and appointed.<br />
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The directions from the HC came in the wake of petitions filed by candidates
Dinesh Beniwal, Mamta Rani and Bhupinder Kumar challenging the selection and
appointment of persons to these posts. Now the case has been fixed for further
hearing on July 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Gujarat
High Court Friday came down heavily on police for its "high-handed,
arbitrary and barbaric" assault on dalits in Rajkot last year and ordered
a compensation of Rs 25,000 each to six of the victims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
also ordered principal secretary (home) to constitute a high-level inquiry into
the entire episode and take necessary action, including criminal prosecution,
against the erring officers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The HC also
said that the amount of compensation be recovered from the salaries of the
erring officers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">A division
bench comprising Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala,
apparently moved by the police atrocities, pronounced the judgment Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
had taken suo motu cognisance of a letter by a human rights activist addressed
to the Chief Justice about the police atrocities on dalits in Rajkot last year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">It all
started on June 24 last year when a dalit leader from Rajkot, Gunvant Rathod,
was killed by some non-dalits. The next day, a funeral procession was taken out
by dalits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">After the
cremation, some in the procession staged protests, demanding arrests of the
culprits, when police lathicharged them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The letter
sent to the Chief Justice also stated that policemen entered the houses of
dalits at Ambedkarnagar and mercilessly beat them up. Those beaten up included
children and women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">One of the
injured, Rupa Sondarava (16), was allegedly kicked by police following which
she sustained serious spinal injury that threatened to cause permanent
disability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The dalits
lodged complaints against policemen but no action was taken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Following
this, one Dr Jayanti Mankadiya wrote to the Chief Justice about the police
atrocities on dalits and sought his intervention. Photographs and a video CD as
evidence of police atrocities accompanied the letter.Subsequently, the court
appointed senior advocate Shalin Mehta as the amicus curiae in the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The state
government had defended the police action saying they were discharging their
duty to maintain law and order. However, the court observed it was quite clear
from the video clip that the policemen acted without any provocation and
mercilessly beat up even those who were not part of the mob.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
observed that in the video that "struck us with horror", policemen
were seen pelting stones back at the mob, which was not expected of them.
"This was unheard of and unexpected of them (police)," it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
also observed that policemen kept beating a man even after he was lying on the
ground, as if he was "a bait before a hungry lion".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Advocate
Hemang Shah, who assisted Mehta in the case, said the court had ordered that
the inquiry committee to be constituted by the principal secretary (home) fix
responsibilities of the erring officers and take appropriate action against
them, which included criminal prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government on a petition filed by M M Mani, the former CPM Idukki district
secretary and the accused in the Anchery Baby murder case, for relaxing his
bail conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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against entering the limits of Idukki district, except for reporting before the
Investigating Officer in the case, between 9 am and 10 pm every Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the condition of restriction on entry into the district and adjourned the case
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a Youth Congress leader who was shot dead on November 13, 1982. He was
arraigned as the second accused in the case registered at the Santhanpara
police station. Mani submitted that for almost two month now, he had been
forced to live outside his hometown. He submitted that as a known politician
and social worker of Idukki, his presence was required in the district for
carrying out his political and social obligations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Bombay High
Court (HC) directed the state government Friday to expedite installation of
CCTV cameras on Mumbai-Pune Expressway and ensure heavy vehicles without
indicators do not ply on the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Hearing a
PIL seeking ambulances and quick medical aid, a division bench of justices A M
Khanwilkar and A P Bhangale asked the government and Maharashtra State Road
Development Corporation (MSRDC) to improve surveillance on the expressway that
has witnessed several accidents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"Expedite
the proposal and get it (CCTV) installed. This will reduce workload on
police," justice Khanwilkar said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Advocate
general Darius Khambata told High Court an MSRDC proposal seeking Rs 37 crore
to install CCTVs would be submitted to the government soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"The
plan is to install fewer cameras with high range to cover the entire
expressway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"The
main control room in Lonavla will do the monitoring," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">After it was
brought to its notice that a majority of accidents on the expressway involved
heavy vehicles plying without proper indicators, High Court asked the
government to appoint dedicated officers at toll booths to check indicators of
vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"In
case a vehicle does not have proper indicators, do not let it ply on the
expressway," the court said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Justice Ahay Manohar Sapre will be sworn in
as the Chief Justice of the new Manipur High Court tomorrow by Governor
Gurbachan Jagat.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Justice Sapre, a former judge of Chhattisgarh High Court, was appointed on
March 19 by President Pranab Mukherjee, official sources said today.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Manipur High Court will have three judges including Chief Justice Sapre, the
sources said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Judge of the Guwahati High Court N Koteswar Singh has been appointed as one of
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The third judge will be appointed soon, the sources said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The new Manipur High Court will be inaugurated by Union Law and Justice
Minister Ashwani Kumar on March 25.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi
Singh will be present at the inauguration ceremony, the sources added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">THANE: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Thane-municipal-corporation"><span style="color: #024d99;">Thane municipal corporation</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>invited the ire of the Bombay high
court recently for its failure to undertake road projects approved in the city
development plan but are at a cross purpose with rules of coastal regulation
zone and forest.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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activists Pradeep Indulkar had filed a PIL in the HC pointing out that the TMC
had suspended the construction work on as many as 19 internal roads and three
roads connecting Mumbai to Thane. This has greatly inconvenienced the citizens
and put a strain on the vehicular traffic as the TMC was hesitant to proceed
with the road project for fear of inviting action from environment and forest
department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bench of Justices<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Khanvikar"><span style="color: #024d99;">Ajay Khanvikar</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and AP Bhangle who then directed the
TMC to take up the issue with the concerned departments and resolve it within
two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said to have expressed optimism that the civic administration would be able to
convince the state departments about the need to improve connectivity and
remove traffic bottleneck in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Thane municipal commissioner will be personally responsible to ensure
compliance of their directions to the administration to apply for permissions
from state departments in two weeks time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pointed out that after laws pertaining to CRZ , forest and environment were
strengthened after the development plan of the city was approved. Most of the
roads displayed in the DP could not be taken up due to the stringent CRZ and
forest laws, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cases, the TMC had taken up road widening work but had to abandon it in some
patches as any conduction activity was prohibited due to CRZ or forest rules.
Such obstacles have resulted in traffic congestions on the streets, he argued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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department to look into the issue where three road projects connecting Mumbai
and Thane were incomplete and also directed the BMC and<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/TMC-administration"><span style="color: #024d99;">TMC administration</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to ensure that work is undertaken and
completed in specified time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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K Jha | Mar 22, 2013, 13:11PM IST</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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copyright battle with 20th Century Fox has suffered a serious blow
with the High Court ruling in favour of 20th Century Fox, thereby putting Mani
Shankar into a position of deep embarrassment at a time when he has just
completed a very successful stint with Gujarat’s chief minister Narendra
Modi in using the holograph 3D technique to project Modi’s life-like image on
stage in several cities of Gujarat simultaneously during the recent election
campaigning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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panache that the Gujarat CM tweeted, “Gujarat Election Campaign 2012 becomes
even more memorable with the 3D interaction creating a Guinness World
Record.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of my life with a 1200-men team spread over 53 locations. Over 100 checklists
had to be got right in each location, a fresh crisis every hour, unbelievable
team-work. It was exhilarating. I’d rather focus on the good work with Modiji
than concern myself with a lawsuit that I had no hand in bringing about.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘Knock Out’ Mani protests. “None of my films so far, whether it was December
16, ‘Rudraksha’ or ‘Mukhbir’ has been remotely unoriginal. As far as I am
concerned ‘Knock Out’ was an original story with original characters. One could
argue that it bears a rough similarity, and that too only in certain parts of
the plot structure, to the Colin Farrell starrer Phone Booth. But I could also
argue that another Hollywood film ‘Liberty Stands Still’ starring Weslet Snipes
is uncannily similar to ‘Phone Booth’. Certain similarities with existent works
are inevitable in the creative process. It doesn’t mean I copied any other film
in ‘Phone Booth’. Anyone who has seen my other films would vouch for my
penchant for originality. We are all inspired by what we see hear and read. But
after all the reading and thinking is done, if what we create comes from within
our hearts then it should be deemed original.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Booth’ became evident, Mani Shankar repeatedly told the producers of ‘Knock
Out’ to talk to 20th Century Fox and settle the matter before it went to court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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month ago. And the other producer Sohail Makhlai refuses to comment. That
leaves poor Mani Shankar to defend the film against charges of plagiarism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to note that a monarchy title ‘Shrimant’ was prefixed to the road named after
Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia in Lutyens Delhi, Central Information
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No other roads named after former rulers like Akbar Road, Aurangzeb Road, and
Ashoka Road has a monarchy title attached to it.<br />
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Not satisfied with New Delhi Municipal Council’s reply that ‘Shrimant’ was
added to the name of the road after a mere letter by chief minister Sheila
Dikshit's then parliamentary secretary Ramakant Goswami, RTI activist Subhash
Chand Aggarwal had approached the CIC three days ago.<br />
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When CIC sought to know the reason behind adding the title of former rulers of
Gwalior, NDMC produced a couple of letters written by Goswami to its then
chairman Subhash Sharma. Goswami had initially requested to name a road after
Madhavrao Scindia and NDMC informed him of renaming Canning Road as Madhavrao
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On February 26, 2002 he again requested Sharma to add ‘Shrimant’ before the
name.<br />
The CIC has directed NDMC to provide Aggarwal all papers in relation to the
decision — whether it was Goswami's decision or the CM's order.<br />
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According to Article 18 of Constitution, no title, not being a military or
academic distinction, shall be conferred by the state.<br />
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Aggarwal told Deccan Herald that the CM should undo the wrong done by writing
to the New Delhi Municipal Council to remove the word ‘Shrimant’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fresh charges were on Saturday read out against actors Saif Ali Khan, Sonali
Bendre,<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tabu" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tabu</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Neelam" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Neelam</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by a court here in the 14-year-old<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/blackbuck" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">blackbuck</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>poaching case.<o:p></o:p></tmp></span></div>
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Magistrate Chandrakala Jain read out the charges under sections 9/51 and 9/52
of Wildlife protection Act and 149 of IPC and posted the case for next hearing
on April 27.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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denied the charges read out to them by the judge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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court but failed to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had revised the charges against the actors in December 2012, charging Salman
Khan with section 51 of Wildlife Protection Act and others including a local
accused Dushyant Singh with section 51/52 of Wildlife Protection Act and
section 149 of IPC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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accused of poaching two Blackbucks in the intervening night of October 1 and 2,
1998 in Kankani village near Jodhpur during the shooting of the film 'Hum Saath
Saath Hain'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-49875404821354512602013-03-22T15:17:00.001+05:302013-03-22T15:17:25.070+05:30LEGAL NEWS 22.03.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Division Bench of the
Kerala High Court on Thursday granted bail to 31 accused persons in the
Suryanelli sex scandal case on stringent conditions after suspending the
execution of the sentences awarded to them by a Special Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bench comprising
Justice K.T. Sankaran and Justice M.L. Joseph Francis, while allowing the bail
pleas, observed that it would not be just and proper to direct the accused to
remain in jail till the disposal of appeals, particularly when they were on bail
during the trial and the appellate stage. The court also noted that the High
Court had earlier suspended the execution of sentence in 2000 and released them
on bail during the hearing of the appeals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The accused moved the High
Court following the Supreme Court verdict setting aside the High Court judgment
acquitting all the accused including three women accused, except Dharmarajan in
the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dharmarajan did not file
any petition seeking to suspend the execution of the sentence and to release
him on bail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">So, Dharmarajan, arrested
recently from Karnataka, will continue to stay in the Central Prison,
Thiruvananthapuram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dismissing the pleading of
the prosecutor that the accused be directed to surrender before granting them
bail, the Bench pointed out that the appeals had been posted for hearing on
April 2. It would be possible to dispose of the appeal at the earliest
.Therefore, it was improper to direct the accused to surrender before the trial
court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A prosecution witness in
the T.P. Chandrasekharan murder case told the trial court in Kozhikode on
Wednesday that he saw M.P. Sanoop (accused number 22), along with T.K. Rajeesh
(fourth accused), one of the alleged killers, on the Vadakara-Nadapuram road
nine days before the incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Deposing before Special
Judge R. Narayana Pisharadi, Special Additional District and Sessions Court
(Marad cases), the witness, P.M. Pramod, said he had seen Sanoop arrive in the
Toyota Innova multi-utility vehicle allegedly used by the assailants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The case related to a
seven-member hired gang hacking to death Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP)
leader T.P. Chandrasekharan at Onchiyam on May 4, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">According to the
prosecution, Sanoop, an activist of the Democratic Youth Federation of India
(DYFI), had gone with some of the alleged killers to identify the regular
routes used by Chandrasekaharan between April 25 and May 4, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The accused had facilitated
the murder of Chandrasekharan and voluntarily concealed the existence of the
design to commit the murder, as per the charge sheet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The witness said he had
seen Sanoop arrive in the Toyota vehicle at the eastern side of the bus station
near the AKG Centre on the Vadakara-Nadapuram road at 4 p.m. on April 26. At
that time he was waiting at the bus station after some work at a furniture shop
owned by one Ashokan, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Pramod said he had
particularly noticed Sanoop, who was his neighbour and friend, as he had
arrived in a luxury car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Afterwards, he went to a
shop. A fat bald man was sitting in the front seat apart from the driver in the
vehicle. Some others were also inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">He came to know that
through newspaper reports that the Toyota vehicle was used by the assailants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">He had identified Rajeesh
through news reports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">During cross-examination,
Pramod admitted that he was an activist of the RMP and he was named second
accused in a case relating to the attack on P. Mohanan (fourteenth accused in
the murder case), member of the Kozhikode district secretariat of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">He said he had been
involved in two cases including an attack on Sanoop. One case had been settled.
A case was also registered against Sanoop for attacking him, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Special public prosecutor
C.K. Sreedharan examined the witness while defence counsel B. Raman Pillai
cross-examined him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The prosecution also
decided to give up examination of two other witnesses, P.P. Preejith and U.
Rajan, after suspecting that they could turn hostile during trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court ordered that the
accused be released on bail on their executing a bond for Rs.50,000 each with
two solvent sureties each to the like amount before the trial court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that they should ‘not cause any annoyance to the peaceful life of the victim
and her family members in any manner whatsoever, and they should ‘not leave the
State without the permission of the court and should surrender their passports
before the court.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/list/cities/1/delhi"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt;">New Delhi</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">: </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The Delhi
High Court has ruled that reporters from newspapers will be allowed to attend
and report on the trial of four men accused of raping and murdering a medical
student on a moving bus in Delhi in December.<br />
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The trial was being held in-camera or behind closed doors on the orders of the
special fast-track court in south Delhi commissioned to handle the case. The
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Six men were arrested for the horrific assault on the student, which included
violating her with an iron rod. One of them, a 17-year-old, is being tried by a
juvenile court. Of the five adults, the alleged mastermind Ram Singh committed
suicide earlier this month by hanging himself in his cell at Tihar Jail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attack on the student made international headlines and forged massive street
protests in India, resulting in new and tough laws to punish crimes against
women.<br />
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The laws - cleared by Parliament this week - recognise stalking and voyeurism
as criminal offences and provide for the death penalty for extreme cases of
rape which leave the victim dead or in coma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In a relief to the main accused in the Aashiana gang rape case, a local court
on Thursday allowed his appeal against the Juvenile Justice Board's order which
had declared him an adult at the time of the crime in 2005. The accused, Gaurav
Shukla, had submitted that he was not allowed by the Board to produce evidence
in support of his contention.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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produce evidence and directed the board to dispose of the case in a month after
submission of age proof. The other five accused in the case have already been
convicted.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The victim, daughter of a scrap dealer, was 13 years old when she was allegedly
abducted, assaulted tortured brutally and gang-raped by six brats on May 2,
2005. While the five accused in the case have been convicted so far, the trial
of the prime accused could not begin due to dispute over his age.
Significantly, while the prime accused is married and has settled in life, the
victim is forced to live in hiding due to life threat and social stigma.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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On January 15 last, when the Juvenile Justice Board declared Gaurav Shukla, the
prime accused in the Aashiana gang-rape case, an adult at the time of incident
(May 2, 2005), the victim's family was overjoyed that the justice, though
delayed , has finally been delivered.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, two months later, it found itself back to square one with additional
sessions court sending the case back to the board on the appeal of the accused
, who claimed that he was not allowed to put evidences in his defence, while
deciding the age dispute.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The victim, Zahira (name changed), broke down after hearing court's order, but
thanked the court for fixing a time frame for disposal of the case. Zahira's
father said, , "We are back to square one. Why the Almighty has put us
through such a difficult test...How long we will have to fight for
justice." Social activists supporting Zahira were also disheartened. State
general secretary, All India Democratic Women's Association , Madhu Garg, said
the sequence of events and legal battle in the case show how difficult it is in
India for a rape victim, particularly from a poor family to fight against an
influential accused . She also drew attention towards the controversy, which
had erupted last month when the birth record of Gaurav went 'missing' from the
record room of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation . However, it was 'discovered'
later when municipal commissioner RK Singh took a tough stand on the complaint
of victim's father. The LMC birth record is crucial evidence because on its
basis, the Juvenile Justice Board had declared Gaurav adult at the time of
incident.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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To recall, the prime accused in the case is also nephew of
mafia-turned-politician Aruna Shankar Shukla who is close to the ruling
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and party's candidate for 2014 Lok
Sabha elections from Unnao. Shankar, however, claims he has no relations with
Gaurav's family for last 20 years.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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After gang-rape , the accused dumped the profusely bleeding girl on the
roadside to die but she survived and lodged a case with the police. Before the
arrest in the rape case, however, the prime accused was booked by the police in
another criminal case in which he managed to get himself declared juvenile. As
a result, he was declared minor in the rape case as well. But, after the
victim's family challenged the order, the district court directed the Juvenile
Justice Board to re-examine the case on the basis of the medical examination
reports and the documents produced by the victim. The legal battle continued
for years before the board declared Gaurav adult at the time of incident on
January 15 earlier this year, paving way for the trial to start.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The trial was to begin from January 21, but on January 18, Gaurav filed appeal
against the board's order before Sessions Judge KK Sharma. The appeal was
admitted for final adjudication but the judge refused to stay the order. He,
however, put a rider that the final verdict will not be delivered till the
disposal of the appeal. Initially, hearings of the appeal and the trial of
Gaurav were held in the Court of Judge Sharma. On February 4, however, Justice
Sharma transferred the trial to the Court of Additional Sessions Judge Akhilesh
Dubey. On February 5, after hearing the appeal for few days, Judge Sharma
transferred it to the Court of Additional Sessions Judge S N Aginihotri.
Justice Dubey fixed February 6, for the trial to begin.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Gaurav, however, moved an application against Justice Dubey requesting the
Sessions Court to transfer the trial to another court. He said Justice Dubey
had already convicted a coaccused Faizan, hence, the judge would be prejudiced
and he had no hope of a "fair trial" . On February 19, the trial was
shifted to the court of additional session judge (<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI"><span style="color: #024d99;">CBI</span></a>)
Brijesh Kumar Mishra . But before the trial could begin , Gaurav filed a
petition in the Lucknow bench of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Allahabad-High-Court"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #024d99; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Allahabad High Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">pleading that he had filed an appeal against the Board's
order, hence, trial proceedings should be stayed till its disposal. The court
stayed the trial and issued order to decide the appeal within a month. Now, the
Additional Sessions Court has sent the matter back to the board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A convict in the 1993 serial bomb blastsc, also known as "Salim
Kutta", had urged the designated TADA Court to drop the epithet as he
found it derogatory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Mohammed
Salim Mira Shaikh, whose life sentence was today confirmed by the Supreme Court
for his complicity in the 1993 serial bomb blasts case, had urged the
designated TADA Court during the trial to drop the offencive epithet
"Kutta", which means dog in Hindi, from the court records.The convict
was known as "Salim Kutta" in underworld circles because of his
ruthless approach towards rivals as he used to pounce upon them like a
'ferocious dog'. "Do I look like a Dog?" he politely asked the court
once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">However,
hearing his plea, designated TADA Judge P D Kode had passed an order dropping
the word "Kutta" from the records after observing that every person
had the right to live with dignity under the Constitution. Salim was leading a
module working for the prime absconding accused in this case- Mohammed Dossa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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participated in the landing of arms and ammunition in Gujarat. Salim and his
men had collected the weapons and RDX and distributed them to co-accused. These
explosives were used in the 1993 blasts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two other landings of arms and ammunition at Dighy and Shekhadi coasts in
Raigad district of Maharashtra which were organised by another absconding
accused Tiger Memon. Salim was convicted by the trial court for participating
in the conspiracy leading to 1993 serial blasts and distribution of arms and
ammunition used in explosions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal;">AP to challenge Supreme Court
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The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to challenge the Supreme Court
interim relief order given to SKS Microfinance for resuming loan operations in
the state. The SC order says that the company has to adhere to the Andhra
Pradesh Microfinance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending) Act, 2011, with
respect to new loan disbursements, interest rates and recovery practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Speaking to FE, Reddy Subramaniam, principal secretary, rural
development, Andhra Pradesh government, said, "The interim relief came
without any notice to the state government, which is the main party in the SKS
case. We could have clarified if we were informed earlier as in any special
leave petition (SLP) cases. Hence, we have decided to challenge the interim
relief order at the earliest.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Reddy clarified that there was no blanket ban on the company to
stop operations. "We only suggested that the company has to abide by the
state regulations to carry out their operations," he said. "We have
neither arrested anybody so far as claimed by the company and not stopped them
from recovering their dues from borrowers," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The state law, the Andhra Pradesh Microfinance Institutions
(Regulation of Money Lending) Act, 2011, defines that no company should use any
coercive methods or any mode of harassment on borrowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">More than 80 suicide cases have been reported in the state due to
harassment by the microfinance institutions due to bad recovery methods.
Incidentally, the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) had also cancelled
the registration of SKS Microfinance in Mahabubnagar district for allegedly not
following rules.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Recently, insurance regulator Irda also slapped a penalty of R50
lakh on SKS, which collected extra funds, apart from the premium, as a
corporate insurance agent without proper disclosure to policy holders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Recently, the Andhra Pradesh HC division bench dismissed the
petitions filed by SKS and other microlenders against the Andhra Pradesh
Microfinance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending) Act, 2011. The company
then moved the apex court. Also, the SC asked the AP government not to take
coercive steps against the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court today rejected the bail plea of
Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Barot, one of the accused in the 2003
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Justice A S Dave, while rejecting the bail application, noted that CBI, in its
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not killed in encounter but was murdered, too had given a statement against
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Earlier, special CBI court in January rejected Barot's bail plea, noting that
as per the central agency's case, "prima facie Sadik was taken from Mumbai
by DSP Tarun Barot on January 3, 2003 and Sadik was last seen with him before
he was killed in cold blood".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Barot was arrested by the CBI on September 26 last year. The CBI has also said
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Sadik Jamal, a resident of Bhavnagar, was killed in encounter by the Gujarat
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trade on Friday after Karnataka High Court approved the demerger plan of the
company, but the stock could not sustain its early gains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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09:49 hours IST, shares declined 0.64 percent to Rs 431.35 on Bombay Stock
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release sent to exchanges, Wipro said the "High Court of Karnataka has
approved the Scheme of Arrangement for demerger of 'diversified business' of
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year in December, the country's largest software firm Wipro had said its
shareholders have approved the scheme of arrangement between Wipro (demerged
company), Azim Premji Custodial Services Pvt Ltd (resulting company) and Wipro
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Cuttack: The Orissa High court today gave its stamp of
approval to Shri Jagannath Temple Administration in demolishing all
encroachments within 10 feet distance from the boundary wall of the
12th-century shrine to retain its majesty and splendour.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench of Chief Justice C Nagappan and Justice Pradeep K Mohanty
directed all the parties concerned to be present on March 29 at 11 am in the
office of the chief administrator for measurement to be undertaken by the
district administration to demolish the illegal structures.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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said all illegal structures should be demolished within 15 days from March 29
and Archaeological Survey of India would complete all repair works of the
Lion's Gate (Singhadwar) of the temple within three months.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The HC also made it clear that no structure close to the wall should have
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Following an earlier HC order, the temple authorities had issued notices to
Pratihary Nijog (a body of major servitors) in March last year to demolish its
office which was close to the boundary wall and stands taller than it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that its office was about 27 feet away from the boundary wall. The HC had then
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During the adjudication of the petition, two HC judges had visited the temple
to ascertain if there was any threat to the Lion's Gate as perceived by many,
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The collector had suggested immediate demolition of Pratihary Nijog office
located between the gate and the mutt for safety reasons. Similar views were
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday asked the
Maharashtra Police whether it was geared to tackle the issue of vacancies that
will be created due to retirements every year and suggested setting up of more
training centres for the force.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A Division Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and AP Bhangale made the observation
while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) highlighting large vacancies
in police force.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Every year there might be a percentage of police officers retiring from
the force thus creating more vacancies. Are you (police) geared up to tackle
this issue? You need to have more training centres so that the number of police
personnel recruited after training is double than those retiring," Justice
Khanwilkar said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Bench as to how many police officers retire every year in the state,
Additional Public Prosecutor Prajakta Shinde put the figure at 10 to 15 but
this failed to convince the Judges.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"How can only 15 persons retire every year from a force with a strength of
over two lakh. Ask some senior police officer to remain present on the next
date," the court said and posted the matter for further hearing on March
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The HC was informed two additional training centres will be set up soon and by
December 2013 the number of posts lying vacant in the police department will
come down to 4,900.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H Waghela and Justice B V
Nagarathna gave the order, hearing a petition by Suvarna and others, all
residents of Adarshnagar in Chamarajpet, seeking that the polluting agarbathi
units be closed down.<br />
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The petitioners submitted that the chemicals used in making agarbathis were
harmful and would lead to several health problems. When the government counsel
submitted that the chemicals used in agarbathis were not harmful, the bench
objected to it and said, “Even the chemicals used in the kitchen are harmful,
how can you say that?”<br />
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The bench was surprised when it found that neither the BBMP nor the Karnataka
State Pollution Control Board had submitted the list of chemicals used in
agarbathis, except imposing several conditions in the manufacturing process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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high court has sought a report from the state police on its policy and
preparedness for security of the litigants on the court campus. Earlier,
Justice Anant Dave had asked the cops to come up with a report on its policy in
regards with the security of the high court campus.<br />
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The court made these queries during the hearing of a bail application filed by
suspended police inspector F M Kureshi, who was in charge of the HC campus's
security. He was arrested by the city crime branch on charges of planting a
crude bomb near the court campus and then raising scare by making a show of
detection.<br />
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Kureshi allegedly planted and recovered the bomb to gain sympathy anticipating
that an army officer would level charges of sexual harassment against him.
These details he revealed during interrogation over the army officer's rape
complaint. He was booked under the Explosives Act.<br />
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After he was granted bail in the alleged rape case by a sessions court, Kureshi
moved the high court seeking bail in the plantation of explosives case. Justice
Dave asked the city crime branch to come up with a report on the specifications
of the bomb Kureshi had allegedly planted, said his counsel Hardik Buch.<br />
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The court has sought these details by April 1, when further hearing on
Kureshi's bail plea has been kept.<o:p></o:p></tmp></span></div>
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high court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre over a PIL objecting to
laying down of a road in the Adani Port Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) in Mundra
block in southern part of Kutch district.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Petitioner Sulaiman Turk has questioned the construction of 9.6 kilometre long
road from the Adani group owned Mundra Port to the National Highway No 8A. He
has alleged that the road is being planned on fertile land of local farmers in
order to save private land of industrialists and influential people. He has
demanded that the authorities should make their plans clear about the direction
and line on which demolition and green felling would take place.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The PIL contends that in the line of cutting, many date palm trees will have to
be chopped off and local farmers would face heavy loss. He also raised the
issue of local shrine belonging to Ashaba Pir, which might be demolished for
construction of this 10 metre wide road.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petitioner has claimed that the shrine has got many devotees in this part,
and its demolition would cause a problem. Hence in order to avoid demolition of
this shrine and other religious places as well as in order to mitigate the
possible loss to farmers, the authorities should be directed to re-think their
plans for this road.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The bench of Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala has asked
the union ministry of commerce and industry to come up with a reply in this
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that their houses were located on a road names Pallichal Road. On the night of
March 2, the Corporation removed the board stating the road’s name and erected
another board re-naming it as V S Krishnan Bhagavathar Road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi government to feed the
names of hospitals in the GPS systems of PCR vans so that policemen on duty are
able to shift victims of rape and people injured in road accidents to nearby
hospitals immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">"For
effective implementation of our earlier order, the Information Technology
department of Delhi government is directed to expedite the process to plot
names and details of hospitals in the GPS of all PCR vans," said a bench
headed by Chief Justice D Murugesan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
also directed the Delhi Police to ensure within 24 hours that all PCR vans were
supplied with the list of hospitals (zone-wise).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The counsel
for Delhi Police assured that the zone-wise list of hospitals would be given to
the PCR vans in the next 24 hours and once the names are plotted in the
tracking units of PCR vans victims will be taken to the closest healthcare
centre without any delay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Without any further delay, details of the hospitals to be furnished to the PCR
vans in 24 hours," the bench, also comprising Justice V K Jain, said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Meanwhile,
Additional Solicitor General Rajeeve Mehra sought four week's time for the
Central government to consider the recommendations of Justice Usha Mehra
committee, set up after December 16 gangrape, to make Delhi and NCR safer for
women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The bench
fixed April 25 as the next date for hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Taking suo
motu cognisance of the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedic student,
the court had earlier directed the Delhi government to issue directions to all
hospitals not to deny treatment to victims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
had taken exception to the act of police and other authorities for alleged
delay in rushing the gangrape victim to a hospital, which was far away from
where she had been dumped by her assailants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The state steel & mines department is
set to miss the deadline stipulated by the Odisha High Court (HC) for disposing
off pending applications for mine lease renewal.<br />
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In an interim order delivered on December 21 last year, the HC had instructed
the state government to dispose off all applications for renewal of mining
leases within three months.<br />
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“There is a huge volume of cases of mining lease renewal pending for disposal.
These being quasi judicial matters, it is not feasible to dispose them off
within three months. Hence, we have decided to request the HC to offer us some
more time,” said a senior steel & mines department official.<br />
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As many as 323 mining lease applications are pending for renewal. Three
officers of the steel & mines department were deployed to decide on renewal
cases.<br />
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The HC had asked the state government to expedite renewal applications while
hearing a petition filed by social activist Biswajit Mohanty, who prayed
for repeal of the Rule 24-A (6) of the Mineral Concession Rules (MCR)-1960
which allowed operation of mines under “deemed extension” clause in the event
of delay in lease renewal.<br />
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The HC, however, declined to pass a stay order on the operation of the mines
under deemed extension provision, saying it has to examine the constitutional
validity of such an action.<br />
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The Odisha HC while admitting the PIL seeking repeal of controversial deemed
extension clause of MCR-1960, had issued notices to the state and Union
government for responses.<br />
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Under Section 24 A clause 6 of MCR, if a miner has applied for lease renewal a
year before the lease expiry and the state government fails to expedite renewal
applications within due date, then the miner will be considered to be operating
the mine under extension of lease validity.<br />
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The petitioner said that many miners are operating under this provision with
the connivance of state government officials and in some cases, the deemed
extension period goes beyond 20 years after lease expiry.<br />
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Fifty miners were operating their leases under ‘deemed extension’. They include
Tata Steel, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL), Odisha Mining Corporation
(OMC), Essel Mining & Industries Ltd (EMIL), Mid East Integrated Steel Ltd,
Ferro Alloys Corporation (FACOR), Rungta Sons and KJS Ahluwalia to name a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the government on which decision is yet to be made if prosecution sanction will
be given. This was informed to the court by government on Thursday while
division bench of justice NK Jain (I) and Meena V Gomber was hearing a PIL
filed by Poonam Chand Bhandari. Government also informed the court that from
February 1 , 2013 till now five such cases have been disposed off and out of
them prosecution sanction in three have been given while in two it has been
denied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other cases and deferred the hearing in this matter for four weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government not to appoint ineligible candidates in the medical officer
recruitment 2012. The Court has also issued notice to the medical director and
recruitment coordinator of Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) and
sought their replies. Single bench of justice Manish Bhandari gave this order
while hearing the petition of one Dr Chandan Singh and others. The petition has
informed the Court that advertisement for the recruitment of medical officers
on 1,000 posts was advertised last year. As per the rules till the final stage
it is an essential eligibility to get registered with Rajasthan Medical
Council. The candidates who did not complete internship till written
examination on February 17, 2013 are ineligible. Still such candidates were
being chosen which resulted in eligible candidates being denied selection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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smoking in public place, the complainant has been ordered by the city’s chief
judicial to appear in the court and get his statements recorded on April 9. The
court gave this order while hearing the complaint of one Anand Singh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The plea contended that the action of the government authorities in tapping the
telephones of various law-abiding citizens disregarded fundamental rights
including right to privacy and were unconstitutional and illegal.<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice V.K. Jain issued
notices, returnable by May 22, to the department of telecommunications, the
director general of ministry of communications and information and technology,
and the home secretary.<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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The court's direction came on a PIL alleging that the government machineries
don't comply with the existing guidelines, laid down by the Supreme Court,
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The plea filed through senior advocate S.K. Rungta said: "The orders for
interception of telephones passed by the home ministry are always mechanical
and stereotyped wherein one and all allegations in one bunch without applying
the procedures laid by law are issued."<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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The PIL sought an "order or direction declaring that Section 5 (2) of the
Indian Telegraph Act is violative of the fundamental and statutory rights of
the citizens, including their right of privacy..."<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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"And that the administrative action of governmental authorities in tapping
the telephones of citizens, without adhering to the guidelines laid down by the
apex court is also unconstitutional and invalid," the PIL added..<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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Rungta said that under the act, the government can order for interception of
phones after following two essential preconditions - occurrence of public
emergency or in the interests of public safety.<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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"The action of telephone tapping affects citizens from all walks of life
and it is neither convenient nor feasible nor possible for hundreds of affected
persons, to individually approach this court for relief," the plea said.<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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The petition citing the Supreme Court ruling on the issue said: "The apex
court has laid down that right to privacy is an integral part of fundamental
right to Life, and therefore it is imperative upon the legislature to suitably
legislate to provide for constitutional safeguards against the arbitrary and
indiscriminate exercise of power under Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph
Act, so as not to infringe upon the Fundamental Right to Life."<br style="outline-style: none;" />
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After the Supreme Court ruling, Parliament ought to have amended the statutory
provisions Section 5 (2) of the Act itself, it added.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Madhya Pradesh High Court has
issued notices to the authorities concerned on a petition filed by actress
Sharmila Tagore and her family members demanding access to their 96-acre land
in Bhopal which has been blocked by a footpath and its railings.</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The notices
were issued by a division bench of Chief Justice SA Bobade and Justice Rajendra
Menon on Tuesday to Bhopal Collector, Lake Conservation Authority and Housing
and Environment department on a petition filed by Sharmila Tagore, her son Saif
Ali Khan and daughter Soha Ali Khan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the
petition, it was alleged that following the construction of a VIP road and the
footpath with railings by the authorities, access to their ancestral land
situated along the road and facing Bhopal's picturesque Upper Lake, had been
blocked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The land
was registered in the name of Begum Sajida Sultan, mother of late Mansoor Ali
Khan, also known as Nawab Pataudi, in the revenue records. After the death of
Pataudi, his wife Sharmila and other family members were contesting the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advocate Rajesh Pancholi said the bench had ordered the authorities concerned
to reply to the notice within two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Earlier
too, the family had filed a petition in the High Court demanding compensation
for laying of VIP road on their land without legally acquiring it, following
which the court directed the Collector to file a report in the matter. However,
the Collector has not yet submitted his report, Pancholi claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The Madras High Court today ordered release of 73 prisoners
languishing in various prisons across Tamil Nadu even after having obtained
bail, but unable to furnish surety.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Disposing off a petition, a Division Bench, comprising Justices Elipe Dharma
Rao and M Venugopal directed their release on bail after a self executed bond
before the court concerned.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The prisoners to be released are from Puzhal (26), Vellore (six),
Tiruchirapalli (17), Tiruchirapalli (Women-three), Salem (seven), Coimbatore
(one), Palayamkottai (six) and Madurai (seven).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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P Senthil Kumar, in his petition prayed for a direction to the authorities
concerned to take necessary action to release on bail the prisoners languishing
in prisons in Tamil Nadu for a long time, without insisting on any surety.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A Bench on Dec 23, 2011, had directed DGP (Prisons) to get details of the
accused, who despite being granted bail, were still languishing in prisons due
to non-furnishing of sureties to the satisfaction of the court concerned.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Accordingly, a statement was filed stating that most bail orders granted by
lower courts were not followed by prisons concerned and details of such
prisoners was also filed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Following another order passed by the court on Jan 8, 2013, Tamil Nadu State
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163 prisoners languishing in jail, even after grant of bail.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The bench cited many Supreme Court judgements and said that considering the
gravity of offences, it is ordering the release of 73 prisoners on bail after a
self executed bond before the court concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">: Karnataka High Court today ordered issue of notice to the
government on an appeal filed by former Additional Commissioner of Police (Law
& Order) T Suneel Kumar challenging the order passed by the Central
Administrative Tribunal vacating the stay on his transfer as IGP and Commandant
of Anti-Naxal Force, Udupi.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Suneel Kumar in his appeal had sought a stay of the CAT order.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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When the appeal came up before a division bench headed by Justice N Kumar, the
court ordered issue of notice to the government.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The CAT yesterday disposed of the Original Application filed by Suneel Kumar
challenging his transfer, vacating the stay granted earlier this month and
directed the government to follow the procedure (pertaining to transfer of IPS
officers) as per the Karnataka Police Amendment Act in "letter and
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In an interim order, the Kerala High Court on Thursday directed oil companies
to supply diesel at subsidised price to Kerala State Transport Corporation,
which has been buying fuel at higher prices since January.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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corporation had petitioned the High Court, taking a cue from Tamil Nadu, which
had last week obtained a court directive to get diesel at market price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Advocate-General
K P Dandapani told the court that the government would meet the loss that the
oil firms would incur from subsidised sale of diesel, subject to the court's
final decision. Subsequently, the HC asked the oil firms to supply diesel at
subsidised rate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In a major blow to former minister
Raghunath Mohanty, the Orissa High Court on Wednesday rejected his plea for
quashing the FIR lodged against him and his family members including son
Rajashree by his daughter-in-law Barsa Swony Choudhury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The single judge bench of Justice
Raghubir Das observed that since prima facie ingredients of the offences
alleged were available in the FIR, it was not inclined to entertain the
petition. The court had concluded hearing on the petition on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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daughter Rupashree and son-in-law Subhendu Kumar Madhuala had filed the
petition seeking quashing of the FIR lodged against them and son Rajashree by
Barsa alleging dowry torture. Rajashree has been arrested by the Human Rights
Protection Cell (HRPC) of State police and kept in judicial custody.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While moving the petition, the
counsel appearing for Mohanty had submitted that the former minister and his
wife used to reside at Bhubaneswar away from the daughter-in-law. His daughter
and son-in-law also resided in another place. Therefore, the allegations made
in the FIR were false and baseless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the law on the issue, they had appealed to the court to quash the FIR. They had
also appealed to the court to pass interim order directing the police not to
take any coercive action against them, which was also rejected along with the
main plea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that as the petitioners had also filed an application seeking anticipatory bail
in the Court, there was no need to pass any interim order in this case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wednesday, admitted a petition seeking to set aside the appointment of Majid
Hussain as city mayor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ahmed Jeddy, an advocate sought a direction in the nature of “writ of quo
warranto” against Majid Hussain. The matter would be heard by Justice Noushad
Ali next week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that he had recently approached the mayor’s office to make a representation on
the deteriorating condition of the poor and those who have taken to begging at
every nook and corner of the city to seek immediate action for their
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the beggers. The mayor behaved in a high-handed manner and summoned ‘goondas’
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Gujarat high court on Thursday asked the state government to find out which
private hospitals deny treatment to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Swine-Flu" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">swine flu</span></a>patients.
Justice<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">Anant</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"> </span>Dave
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Earlier this week, TOI had reported that various private hospitals refuse to
admit patients down with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/H1N1" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">H1N1</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>virus. The high court did not seem
content with the measures taken to contain spread of H1N1 virus and the
treatment provided to the affected. The state government and the corporations
like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AMC" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">AMC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>have been asked to come up with
further details on what "concrete actions" they are planning to take
to contain the situation.<br />
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Justice Dave has initiated proceedings in this regard after the high court
received half a dozen applications from prisons, by which prisoners sought
temporary bail so that they could manage treatment for their family members
suffering from dangerous diseases like swine flu and dengue. The court sought a
report on what action the civic bodies and the government have taken to contain
the diseases.<br />
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The report was submitted before the court on Thursday, in which the government
stated that 63% of swine flu cases have been registered in urban areas governed
by corporations. The government submitted that a committee has been formed to
take measures to contain the spread of the disease, and preventive measures are
being undertaken by the state machineries on war footings.<br />
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The state government also claimed that only 6.3% of total swine flu cases
registered in India have been reported in Gujarat. This shows that the
situation is quite under control in comparison with states like<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tamil Nadu</span></a>,
where 42% swine flu cases of the country have been reported this year.<br />
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However, Justice Dave expressed dissatisfaction over the report and made oral
observation that the government should take concrete steps to check the death
toll that is increasing by day. The HC has asked the government to come up with
action taken reports on each district. Further hearing is kept on March 26.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-64448054901774733992013-03-21T14:12:00.001+05:302013-03-21T14:12:19.014+05:30LEGAL NEWS 21.03.2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of actor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay-Dutt" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Sanjay Dutt</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
has sentenced him to five years imprisonment. The actor has four weeks to
surrender. The court said that the circumstances and nature of the offence was
so serious that Dutt cannot be released on probation.<br />
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The apex court upheld the conviction of Sanjay Dutt under Arms Act in 1993
blasts case, but reduced the six year jail term given by TADA court to five
years.<br />
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The apex court said it agreed with TADA court's decision to acquit him of
terror charges but offences under Arms Act were clearly made out for possessing
and later destroying weapons of prohibited calibre.<br />
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Sanjay Dutt, who has already served nearly 18 months in jail, will now have to
go to jail and serve the remaining term.<br />
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Dutt will not be able to shoot pictures during the remaining three and a half
years of prison term, the apex court said.<br />
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The judgement was delivered by a bench of Justice PS Sathasivam and BS Chauhan.
The judges only read out the excerpts of the voluminous judgement that lasted
for one and a half hours.<br />
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Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to a jail term of six years for illegal possession of
firearms acquired from terrorist acquaintances, who were responsible for the
1993 Mumbai bomb blasts on July 31, 2007.<br />
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He was granted bail by the apex court on November 27, 2007.<br />
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A total of 257 persons were killed and 713 others injured when a series 13
coordinated explosions shattered the metropolis on March 12, 1993.<br />
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The blasts occurred at 12 places including Bombay Stock Exchange building,
Air-India Building at Nariman Point, at Worli opposite Century Bazaar, Hotels
Sea Rock and Juhu Centaur.<o:p></o:p></tmp></span></div>
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DELHI: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Supreme Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Thursday</span><span style="background: white;">upheld the death sentence of Yakub Abdul Razzak Memon
in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.<br />
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The apex court said Yakub, younger brother of<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bill-O'Reilly" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Tiger</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Memon,
was the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.<br />
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The Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of 10 other accused to life
imprisonment.<br />
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The court observed that the other 10 accused were mere 'arrows in the hands of
archers in the shape of Yakub, Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim'.<br />
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</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">The SC said though these 10 parked explosive
laden vehicles at places in Mumbai, they were mere pawns and deserved life
sentence.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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The apex court severely criticized Pakistan for training and arming terrorists,
who caused mayhem in Mumbai.<br />
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SC said Pakistan's ISI was singularly responsible for training the accused and
equipping them to cause the bomb blasts in Mumbai.<br />
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Islamabad owes an explanation not only to India but also to the entire world
for the terror strike, the SC said condemning Pakistan's role.<br />
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SC also severely criticized Mumbai police, custom department officials and
coast guards for failing to check the transportation of sophisticated weapons
and RDX into India.<br />
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Their greed and lack of honesty and integrity not only resulted in huge loss of
lives but also caused a serious set back to India's economy, the SC said.<br />
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The apex court awarded five years sentence to Yusuf Nulwala. The court allowed
Samire Hingora to come out of prison as he had already served 6 and a half
years, the sentence it imposed on him.<br />
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</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">A bench of Justice PS Sathasivam and BS
Chauhan read out in one and a half hours the excerpts of the vouminous
judgement.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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</span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">As many as 257 people were killed and 713
injured in the serial blasts that rocked 12 locations in Mumbai on March 12,
1993. Property worth<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">Rs</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"> </span>30<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">crore</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"> </span>was damaged in the terror
strike.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;"><br />
The fishermen's colony at Mahim Causeway,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-Stock-Exchange" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bombay Stock Exchange</span></a>, Zaveri Bazar, Plaza
Cinema in Dadar, Century Bazaar in Worli, Hotel Sea Rock, Sahar Airport,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Air-India" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Air India</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>building,
Hotel Juhu Centaur and a petrol pump opposite the Sena Bhavan were some of the
places that were targeted.<br />
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According to the CBI, fugitive don<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dawood-Ibrahim" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Dawood Ibrahim</span></a>, along with Pakistant's ISI,
engineered the blasts, and Tiger Memon and his brother Ayub were the main
conspirators.<br />
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In 2007, a trial court held 100 people guilty while 23 were acquitted. Twelve
people were sentenced to death, 20 to life and 68 were given various prison
terms. Three of the convicts — one sentenced to death and two to life-died
during the pendency of the appeal in the apex court, which held day-to-day
hearings for 10 months before reserving its verdict in August 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></tmp></span></div>
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tough stand on the Italian marines' issue, the government has asserted that it
was bound by the Supreme Court's order placing curbs on the movement of<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Italian-ambassador" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Italian ambassador</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to India,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Daniele-Mancini" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Daniele Mancini</span></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"Our constitutional mandate to abide by the apex court orders supersedes
all other obligation," law minister Ashwani Kumar told ToI in an
interview. The assertion comes amid a raging debate over whether government
will be violating its commitment under the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vienna-Convention" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Vienna Convention</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>if it were to enforce apex court's
orders.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The Italian government had on Saturday told the ministry of external affairs
that restricting Mancini's movement at the behest of any Indian authority will
be contrary to New Delhi's commitments under the Vienna Convention: a stance
that has been endorsed by both the<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/European-Union" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">European Union</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(EU) and independent legal experts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, the law minister made it plain that the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Government" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Indian government</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is duty bound under the Constitution
to ensure and facilitate the implementation of the direction of the country's
apex court. "Under<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Article-144" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Article 144</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of
the Constitution all authorities, civil and judicial, in India must act in aid
of the orders of the SC. This constitutional mandate must supersede all other
obligation," he added.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Kumar said that the government will make its position absolutely clear during
the next hearing on the issue.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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This tough stand of the government comes a day after Congress president and UPA
chairperson<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sonia-Gandhi" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Sonia Gandhi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>had
said that "no country will be allowed to take India for granted".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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While the tough stand is seen as a political imperative in view of opposition's
keenness to embarrass the government, it is certain to aggravate tensions with
both Italy and the EU.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"For the moment I can say that the breach of undertaking given to SC by
the Italian government through its ambassador has created an unprecedented
situation fraught with serious consequences in our bilateral relations with
Italy," Kumar said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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He said the question of extent and nature of diplomatic immunity enjoyed by
Italian ambassador under the Vienna Convention ought to be considered in
context of specific factual situation. The law ministry and the treaties
division of the ministry of external affairs are studying the issues involved
and the stand of government in the SC will be a studied response to the
situation considered in all its dimensions, he added.<o:p></o:p></tmp></span></div>
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murdered youth Nitish Katara yesterday moved the Delhi High Court against the
state government's decision to transfer some convicts, including those
sentenced for her son's killing, for the Tihar jail here to prisons in their
home states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in her plea, said that as per media reports, the Delhi government's home
department has written a letter to home secretaries of states for transfer of
convicts, lodged in Tihar Jail, to their own states.</ins></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins><br />
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<span style="background: #F8F8F8;">A letter was sent to the Harayana home
secretary seeking transfer of 55 convicts in the teachers' recruitment scam to
a jail in their state, and a similar letter was written to Uttar Pradesh home
secretary for Vikas and Vishal Yadav, serving life sentence in Tihar for
killing Katara.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #F8F8F8;">The Delhi government made the requests to the
two states on recommendation of the Tihar Jail authorities, the reports said,
to cut the number of inmates in the "overcrowded" jail.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #F8F8F8;">Katara sought the court's direction to call for
a report from the Tihar Jail authorities and the office of the home secretary
and pass appropriate order if decision was taken on this issue.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #F8F8F8;">It was pleaded that the Supreme Court had
transferred the Nitish Katara murder case from Ghaziabad to Delhi on the
grounds that Vikas Yadav's father D.P. Yadav is a very influential person and
there is an immense threat to the witnesses.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #F8F8F8;">She further said that high court is hearing
the appeal filed by both convicts against the trial court order that awarded
life term to them, as well as the appeal by police seeking enhancement of
sentence.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #F8F8F8;">Vikas and Vishal killed Katara on the night of
Feb 17, 2002 after abducting him from a marriage party in Uttar Pradesh's
Ghaziabad.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #F8F8F8;">The trial court sentenced Vikas and Vishal to
life imprisonment in May 2008.</span></ins></span><span style="background: #F8F8F8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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March 20 (IANS) A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Lucknow
bench of the Allahabad High Court Wednesday alleging a print advertisement
given by the Sahara Group was "openly denigrating" market regulator
SEBI.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
PIL was filed by senior police official Amitabh Thakur and his social activist
wife Nutan Thakur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"The
full-page advertisement dated March 17, issued by the Sahara India Parivar and
Subrata Roy Sahara is against the provisions of law as it accuses SEBI
(Securities and Exchange Board of India), which is a statutory body established
to safeguard the interests of investors and to act as the Market
Regulator," Thakur told IANS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
advertisement, he said, has also criticised Justice (retd.) B.N. Agarwal's
conduct. The retired Supreme Court judge was appointed by the apex court to
oversee its order to two Sahara Group companies for refund of investors' money
was obeyed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Both
SEBI and Justice Agarwal are only performing their official duty, the matter is
still sub-judice before the Supreme Court and hence these people could have
presented their grievance there," the petitioner pleaded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">"The
act of criticizing SEBI through an advertisement prima-facie seems to be a
criminal misconduct under sections 186 and 189 of IPC and provisions of
Companies Act, 1956," the PIL says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
petitioners have also sought a complete ban on all advertisements where any
constitutional or statutory bodies are criticised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
PIL is expected to be heard March 22 by the bench of Chief Justice Shiva Kirti
Singh and Justice D.K. Arora.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seeking a CBI inquiry into the alleged role of the Indian government in
“collaborating” with the Sri Lankan security forces in the “genocide”of
40,000 Tamil civilians in the final phase of the war against the LTTE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a Singapore-based Sri Lankan Tamil, A. Kanesalingam, claimed that the alleged
Indian collaboration had been clearly mentioned in the findings of a “panel
of experts” appointed by the UN secretary general in fixing the
accountability for the “genocide.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a practising lawyer in Singapore and had been rendering humanitarian
service to the Tamils affected by the armed conflict during the past 29
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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under Sections 3 and 4 of the IPC a person residing in India who commits a
crime outside the country can be charged and tried in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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duty to investigate any complaint that there was collaboration between the
two governments in a war which had mass killings of civilians,” the petition
said, adding that the panel had found that there was evidence that 40,000
Tamil civilians were intentionally targeted and killed by the Sri Lankan
armed forces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The Delhi High Court today asked the city
government if it had issued any direction to schools on regulating sale of junk
food and aerated drinks in and around their premises even as the Centre said it
would come up with guidelines on the issue by July.<br />
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Issuing notice to Delhi government on a PIL seeking ban on sale of junk food
and aerated drinks in and around schools, a division bench of Chief Justice D
Murugesan and Justice V K Jain sought its response by April 17.<br />
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"We want to know whether the Delhi government has issued directions to the
schools here regarding sale of junk food and carbonated drinks under the Delhi
Education Act," the bench said.<br />
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Meanwhile, Additional Solicitor General(ASG) Rajeeve Mehra told the bench that
the central government would finalise the guidelines by July this year to
regulate the availability of junk foods and carbonated drinks within 500 yards
of a school.<br />
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Earlier, the government had informed the court that the task of framing
guidelines on making available quality and safe food in the schools has been
assigned to AC Nielsen QRG-MARG Pvt Ltd.<br />
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said that in pursuance
of the court's earlier order, it has given the task to formulate the guidelines
to the private firm after inviting proposals from various expert agencies who
do similar work.<br />
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The report had stressed the need for guidelines saying besides the students
studying in public schools, there are more than twelve crore children studying
in government-run primary and upper primary schools in the country.<br />
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"There are several reported incidents of food poisoning in the schools due
to unhygienic food served there," it said adding that hence, it
necessitated the framing of guidelines.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In January last year, the court had given six months' time to FSSAI for framing
guidelines on banning sale of junk food and aerated drinks in and around
educational institutions in the country.<br />
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The court had also asked the FSSAI to consult the All India Food Processors
Association (AIFPA) and restaurant associations for framing the guidelines.<br />
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AIFPA, in its application, had said that it deals with processing of fruits and
vegetables, meat and fish, milk and milk products and also the manufacturers of
biscuits and confectionery products and may give some precious pieces of advice
to the FSSAI.<br />
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The court was hearing the PIL filed by Rakesh Prabhakar, a lawyer for NGO 'Uday
Foundation' seeking a direction banning sale of junk food and aerated drinks in
and around schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The Centre was today asked by the Delhi High
Court to respond to a PIL seeking scrapping of legal provision on interception
of telephone calls, contending its "indiscriminate" use was violative
of fundamental rights.<br />
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The petition also sought a court-monitored probe into alleged
"rampant" illegal tapping of phones in violation of Supreme Court
guidelines.<br />
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Issuing notices to the Ministry of Telecommunication, the Director General of
Ministry of Communication and Information and Technology and Secretary of Home
Ministry, a division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain
sought their replies by May 22.<br />
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The court was hearing a PIL, filed through Advocate S K Rungta, which alleged
that the government machineries don't comply with the existing guidelines laid
down by the Supreme Court while issuing orders to intercept the telephones of
individuals.<br />
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"The orders for interception of telephones passed by the Home Ministry are
always mechanical and stereotype wherein one and all allegations in one bunch
without applying the procedures laid by law are issued," the PIL said.<br />
<br />
"Order or direction declaring that Section 5 (2) of the Indian Telegraph
Act is violative of the fundamental and statutory rights of the citizens,
including their right of privacy.... And that the administrative action of
governmental authorities in tapping the telephones of citizens, without
adhering to the guidelines laid down by the Apex Court is also unconstitutional
and invalid," as per the PIL.<br />
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The plea also said, "pass an order to prevent the use of indiscriminate
telephone tapping by the government machinery illegally - resulting in the
violation of the fundamental rights of the citizens as guaranteed under Article
14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The petition alleged that the action of government authorities in tapping the
telephones of various law abiding citizens, disregarding the fundamental rights
including right to privacy and disregarding the constitutional mandate is
"unconstitutional and illegal".<br />
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The petitioner said under the Act, the government can order for interception of
phones after following two essential preconditions --- occurrence of public
emergency or in the interest of public safety.<br />
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The PIL contended saying "the action of telephone tapping affects citizens
from all walks of life and it is neither convenient nor feasible nor possible
for hundreds of affected persons, to individually approach this court for
relief."<br />
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Citing the Supreme Court ruling on the issue, the petitioner said "the
apex court has laid down that right to privacy is an integral part of
fundamental right to Life, and therefore it is imperative upon the legislature
to suitably legislate to provide for constitutional safeguards against the
arbitrary and indiscriminate exercise of power under Section 5(2) of the Indian
Telegraph Act, so as not to infringe upon the Fundamental Right to Life."<br />
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The petitioner said after the Supreme Court ruling, the Parliament ought to
have amended the statutory provisions Section 5 (2) of the Act itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wednesday cleared Reliance Industries' producing KG-D6 block and gas discovery
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DELHI: In its first decision, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Cabinet-Committee-on-Investment" pg="asTopicL1"><span style="color: #024e97;">Cabinet Committee on Investment</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(CCI) today cleared Reliance
Industries' producing KG-D6 block and gas discovery area NEC-25 along with 3
other areas where the Defence Ministry had either barred oil and gas activity
or put stringent conditions on that.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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In all, 8 blocks including RIL's Krishna Godavari basin KG-D6 block and gas
discovery area of NEC-25 in the North East Coast (NEC) region, were declared
"No-Go" zones for reasons like overlapping with proposed Naval base
or being close to missile launching and Air Force exercise area.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Stringent conditions were put for another 31 exploration areas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The CCI, which had in January-end asked the miniteries of petroleum and defence
to sort out differences, cleared five of the "No-Go" blocks, official
sources said. Three blocks will continue to be No-Go areas.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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RIL's KG-D6, which has been producing oil since September 2008 and gas from
April 2009, was fully cleared for oil and gas activity with total area of 7,645
sq km reduced by 495 sq km to meet defence needs.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Similarly, its NEC-OSN-97/2, where six gas finds have so far been made, cleared
after the portion of the block nearest to the coast was relinquished and the
remaining portion was found to be beyond 100 km from the Chandipur Missle
launch of DRDO and Balasore air-to-air firing range of IAF.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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RIL's KG-OSN-2001/1 was also cleared but the block had already been
relinquished by the operator, sources said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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However, state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) KG basin blocks
KG-OSN-2005/1 and KG-OSN-2005/2 and BG Group's KG-DWN-2009/1 would remain
"No-Go" areas as they fall directly within the boundary of the
proposed naval base.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The CCI decided that the Oil Ministry will take steps for termination of the
contract.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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For<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cairn-india-ltd/stocks/companyid-18772.cms" pg="asTopicL1"><span style="color: #024e97;">Cairn</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>India's KG-OSN-2009/3 and ONGC's
KG-OSN-2009/4 blocks, only a small portion was cleared as the rest was within
the impact zone of IAF's Suryalanka Guided Weapon Firing Range(GWFR) and
Machhlipatnam launch site.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sources said, of the 31 blocks with stringent conditions, 15 where DRDO
clearance was needed, were cleared with some conditions. 17 blocks for which
Navy had given conditional clearance earlier have now been cleared by Navy
without any conditions.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Further, out of the 11 blocks which were conditionally cleared by IAF earlier,
five areas have completely been cleared and one block cleared with a 10 per
cent reduction in area. The remaining five blocks have been cleared fully for
exploration up to 2016 in portions overlapping with defence facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which has been waging a legal battle to recover Rs 126 crore dues from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/deccan-chronicle-holdings-ltd/stocks/companyid-1052.cms" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024d99;">Deccan Chronicle
Holdings Ltd</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(DCHL) at
the Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT), Hyderabad, has now filed a petition urging
the tribunal to impound the passports of DCHL chairman T Venkatram Reddy,
directors Vinayak Ravi Reddy, P K Iyer and others to prevent them from leaving
the country.<br />
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Interestingly, the bank has cited an October 2011 judgment of the Madras High
Court that ruled that DRTs had the power to impound passports of defaulters.
The bank brought to the notice of the DRT an order of a division bench of the
high court comprising Justice D Murugesan and Justice K K Sasidharan that dealt
with a petition filed by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/icici-bank-ltd/stocks/companyid-9194.cms" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024d99;">ICICI Bank</span></a>,
which had lent Rs 222 crore to Subhiksha Trading Services Limited. When the
company did not repay the loan, the high court upheld the DRT's powers to
impound the passport of its promoter and said that the powers conferred on the
DRT to pass interim orders in matters before them have a wider scope. YES bank
is now urging the Hyderabad DRT to use its power under section 19(25) of the
Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act (RDDBFIA) which
confers on it the power to impound passports.<br />
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According to Yes Bank's main petition, the bank had lent Rs 194 crore to DCHL
in 2010 for meeting its financial requirements connected to the conduct of
IPL-4 and IPL-5. DCHL is yet to pay an amount of Rs 126 crore to it, the bank
said. Due to violations in the payment schedule and the unfolding financial
fiasco in which DCHL is now embroiled, the bank recalled its loan on November
30 last year and sought repayment of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></tmp></span><span class="ads"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;">outstanding</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">amount. Now, the bank has moved an additional
application seeking impounding of the passports of DCHL honchos. The DRT posted
the hearing in the case to March 28.<br />
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In another interesting development, the DRT attached the logo and trademarks of
Deccan Chronicle, Asian Age, Financial Chronicle and Andhra Bhoomi newspapers
and several other intangible assets of Deccan Chronicle, Odyssey and Deccan
Chargers. The order to this effect was passed on March 18 after hearing the
plea of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/kotak-mahindra-bank-ltd/stocks/companyid-12161.cms" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024d99;">Kotak Mahindra
Bank</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which had lent Rs
100 crore to DCHL. The bank claimed the first charge over these assets and
wanted the tribunal to restrain the IDBI from unilaterally auctioning them.<br />
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K R Raman of Tatva legal services, who is arguing the case of Kotak Mahindra
Bank, told the tribunal that they will be put to irreparable loss if the
auction is allowed to be conducted without them in the picture. IDBI
trusteeship services too had launched a separate winding-up petition in the AP
High Court against DCHL, aggrieved by the non redemption of Rs 100 crore to two
of its customers,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/hdfc-bank-ltd/stocks/companyid-9195.cms" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #024d99;">HDFC Bank</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and HDFC Ltd, which had bought
non-convertible debentures of DCHL through IDBI.<br />
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When IDBI was planning to auction DCHL assets that were mortgaged to it, Kotak
Mahindra bank moved this petition to restrain them from going ahead without
taking its interests into consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Odisha law minister Raghunath Mohanty seeking quashing of the first information
report (FIR) registered against him and his family, alleging torture of his
daughter-in-law for dowry.</span></b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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Justice Raghubir Das, single-bench judge of the high court at Cuttack, about 26
km from here, completed hearing the petition Tuesday, but had reserved the
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The judge pronounced his verdict Wednesday, a defence lawyer told IANS.<br />
Mohanty had also applied for interim protection for his family and himself
against possible police action. The court refused to grant any interim
protection, the lawyer added.<br />
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Mohanty, five-time legislator from Basta constituency in Balasore district, has
remained incommunicado ever since he resigned from the state cabinet March 15,
a day after his daughter-in-law accused him of torturing her for dowry.</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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Mohanty was holding the portfolios of urban development, law, and information
technology.<br />
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In her complaint at the police station in the district headquarters town of
Balasore, about 220 km from here, the victim Barsa Swony Choudhury, who holds a
Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech) degree, March 14 alleged that she was tortured
by her husband Raja Shree, both physically and mentally, ever since she married
him June 2012.<br />
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She also alleged that her father-in-law Raghunath, mother-in-law Pritilata,
sister-in-law Rupashree and other family member were also involved in the
crime.<br />
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She claimed that her parents had given Rs.10 lakh at the time of the marriage,
as was demanded, but her husband and family-in-law were unhappy and insisted
that her parents pay Rs.25 lakh and also offer a multi-utility vehicle.<br />
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After a public outcry and protests by angry opposition parties, police Sunday
arrested Raja Shree Mohanty, 28, and remanded him to 14-day judicial custody a
day later, after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected.</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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His lawyer Gouri Kumar Barik said a fresh petition was filed in the district
and session court and the hearing is expected Thursday.</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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The Odisha High Court has not yet taken up for hearing the anticipatory bail
plea of Mohanty and his family members, the lawyer said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recommends amendments to AFT Act<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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its report to parliament on Wednesday, the Standing Committee on Defence said
that the defence ministry needs to amend the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007.</span></b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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The committee said in the report that defence ministry has felt the need to
amend the Act to provide the tribunal with stability and confer powers of civil
contempt, jurisdiction and authority in respect of civil contempt as a high
court.<br />
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The standing committee backed the proposal in the Armed Forces Tribunal
(Amendment) Bill to increase the term of office of the tribunal's chairperson
and has asked the ministry to change provisions for giving civil contempt
powers to the tribunal</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
for serving and retired defence personnel.<br />
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The report on “The Armed Forces Tribunal (Amendment) Bill, 2012,” said that
views of all major stakeholders were in favour of increasing tenure of
chairperson or member from four to five years and raising the age of judicial
members from 65 to 67 years.<br />
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On the proposal to give civil contempt powers to the tribunal, the committee
said “dichotomous views” had been expressed by major stakeholders.<br />
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“The committee is of the view that if unfettered civil contempt powers are
bestowed on AFTs (Armed Forces Tribunal), the discipline would be compromised
to a great extent," the report said.<br />
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“Hence, the committee is inclined to give civil contempt powers to AFTs with
regard to the cases of retired defence personnel but conferment of such powers
with regard to serving defence personnel is not acceptable till the justice
delivery system through AFTs is stabilised,” the committee said. The committee
said no serving defence officer should be made to appear before the tribunal
for civil contempt.</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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It asked the armed forces to develop a strong grievance redress system. The
committee recommend that civil contempt powers proposed to be given to the
tribunal shall be applicable to defence ministry and all other civilian
organisations apart from retired defence personnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Gujarat High Court (HC) Wednesday asked Gujarat police on its preparedness
to make sure the safety of litigants on its campus. The court did so while
hearing a bail petition of suspended police inspector F M Qureshi who was
arrested by Ahmedabad City Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) for allegedly
planting crude bombs near the HC, raising scare and then "recovering"
them to gain sympathy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Qureshi was
security in-charge of the HC when he was arrested by police in connection with
an alleged rape case. During investigation, DCB officials discovered that
Qureshi had planted the bombs near the HC and raised a scare and later he
himself found the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">He has been
granted bail by a Sessions Court in the alleged rape case and has presently
moved bail petition in the case where he has been arrested for planting the
crude bombs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">During the
hearing of his petition, Justice Anant Dave Wednesday asked police to submit a
report on its preparedness to make sure safety of litigants at the HC campus.
The court also asked DCB to submit a report on the details of the bombs that
were planted and "recovered" by Qureshi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
reportedly also observed that it does not want a situation like the Delhi High
Court when blasts took place at its gate. Further hearing in the matter has
been posted for April 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hearing a public interest litigation for a ban on Saif Ali Khan-starrer Race 2
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HTStoryPageControl_Para2">the court on
Wednesday said the need was all the more urgent as most films were on
television within days of release. They were being broadcast without any
editing for family viewing.<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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“You only think about your business and how to make more money. Now, you are
also taking everything into the drawing room,” a bench headed by chief justice
D Murugesan told the lawyer representing the film's producer. “You’re teaching
indiscipline to the children and youth. There has to be some mechanism in place
for tougher censorship.”<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Centre should have the power to review certification given to a film by the
Censor Board of Film Certification in case of complaints from the public, it
said. The case will now be heard on March 22.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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a PIL against police as "misconceived, motivated and not in public
interest", the Bombay High Court has dismissed it and imposed costs of Rs
25,000 on the petitioners, Prajashathak Samajik Seva Sanstha.</span></b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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The PIL alleged that Kolhapur Police was "illegally collecting funds from
people by coercive methods".<br />
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Interestingly, this is the second time that fine of Rs 25,000 has been imposed
on the petitioner on the same issue as it had filed a similar PIL earlier which
was also dismissed.<br />
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The Maharashtra government opposed the PIL saying the petitioners had filed a
similar PIL in 2010 which was dismissed by the Bombay High Court and also fined
Rs 25,000 for filing "motivated" PIL.<br />
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The matter went up to the Supreme Court which also confirmed the High Court
order and refused to entertain the PIL, the government informed the bench of
Justices A M Khanwilkar and A P Bhangale last week.<br />
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Hearing the government's plea, the court noted that the petitioners, in the
current PIL, had not disclosed that they had filed a similar PIL earlier and
that costs of Rs 25,000 were imposed. Instead of disclosing material facts,
they filed a PIL on the same issue again, the Judges noted.<br />
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There is substance in the grievance of respondents that the petition does not
constitute a bonafide invocation of the jurisdiction of this Court in public
interest, they said.<br />
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In the earlier PIL filed on March 19, 2010, even before it could come up for
admission, the petitioner issued a press note mentioning that the Court had
taken serious note of the issue raised in the petition. Accordingly, diverse
reports were published in media about the contents of the petition.<br />
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The Judges had then noted "false statement has been recorded in the press
release that the High Court had taken a serious note of the issue. At that
stage, save and except for directing that the petition would come up for
hearing on April 1, 2010, there was no such order of the bench.<br />
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"The petition is therefore not a bonafide attempt at ventilating a genuine
grievance in public interest".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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observed that "the attempt of the petitioner is to obtain publicity for
itself and to malign the officers of the Police Department at Kolhapur. This
Court must strongly deprecate the misuse of its jurisdiction by litigants such
as the petitioner in aid of collateral ends".<br />
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Accordingly, the PIL was disposed of and costs of Rs 25,000 were imposed.<br />
Hearing the current PIL, the judges noted that the petitioner had failed to
disclose the fact that they had filed a similar PIL earlier in which costs were
imposed after it was dismissed.<br />
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S N Patil, Assistant Government Pleader, invited the attention of the Court to
a document filed by the petitioner with a description that it is a copy of the
synopsis of the work done by the Sanstha and/or contribution of the Sanstha to
the public welfare at large.<br />
"However, on perusal of the said document, we are in agreement with the
submission of the respondents that it is finding fault with the opinion
recorded by this Court in the earlier PIL and which was confirmed right up to
the Apex Court," the Judges, hearing the current PIL, noted.<br />
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Counsel for the petitioners, Manoj Patil, submitted that the said document is
part of the Special Leave Petition filed before the Apex Court.<br />
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The Judges, however, noted "the fact remains that this Court has already
declined to entertain PIL at the instance of these petitioners because of their
conduct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and for additional reason of non-disclosure of those material facts in the
present PIL, which came to be filed much later, on October 14, 2011, we have no
hesitation in taking the view that the petitioners have not approached this
Court with clean hands."<br />
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Even the present petition ought to be dismissed as motivated and filed by
persons unworthy of pursuing PIL. Hence it is hereby dismissed and costs of Rs
25,000 imposed on petitioners," the judges said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Allahabad High Court has agreed to hear a public interest litigation
demanding that the setting up of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) in Rae Bareli be stopped. The PIL also demands that such an institute
be set up in Gorakhpur first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
said it would hear the plea along with four other pending PILs regarding AIIMS
institutions in cities like Gorakhpur and Allahabad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Hearing the
PIL on Tuesday, a division bench of Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justice
Dilip Gupta said, "Ordinarily, we are not inclined to add another PIL when
one matter is pending consideration of the court. Learned counsel for the
petitioner, however, submitted that in this PIL there is a different stand to
the effect that setting up of All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Rae
Bareli be stopped."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">It added,
"Prima facie such negative prayer when the state is expected to set up
such premier health institutions at maximum places does not appeal to us.
However, let this writ petition be attached with. four matters pending from
before."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The court
also said that it expected the Additional Solicitor General of India to
represent the Union of India in these matters. The matter may come up for
hearing again after three weeks, though the court has not yet fixed a specific
date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">The PIL was
filed by Jata Shanker Tripathi, a resident of Gorakhpur and activist, through
counsels Siddhartha Verma and Hemant Kumar Dubey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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petition filed by a Nayagaon resident that Punjab State Power Corporation
Limited (PSPCL) was not issuing electricity connections to many nagar panchayat
residents despite HC direction, the Punjab and Haryana high court has issued
notice of motion to the corporation.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HTStoryPageControl_Para2">The petition
filed by Suresh Kumar of Kamao Colony in Nayagaon came up for hearing before
the court headed by justice Rajesh Bindal, which directed the PSPCL to file its
reply by the first week of May.<o:p></o:p></span></ins></span></span></div>
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petitioner informed the court that he along with other petitioners had earlier
approached the court on the issue, wherein the high court by its order dated
January 30 directed PSPCL "to provide temporary electricity connections to
them subject to their fulfilling procedural requirements."<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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the petitioner claimed, despite supply of a copy of the high court order, the
corporation chose to willfully delay the matter which amounts to contempt of
court.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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court was told that the petitioner had applied for the electricity connection
in July 2012 but the officials were harassing him.<br />
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<strong>What HC order says?</strong><b><br />
</b>Earlier, the high court order had said that after completion of paper
formalities and deposit of the prescribed charges, the authority concerned
shall sanction release of temporary electricity connection in favour of the
petitioners within seven days. Within the next 15 days, electricity should be
provided to the petitioners who shall have to pay charges for the power
consumed as per the tariff prescribed by the competent authority.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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HC had made it clear that providing temporary electricity connections "shall
not create any right for the petitioner(s)/applicant(s) either in the matter of
regularisation of the construction raised by them or for grant of permanent
electricity connection."<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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providing electricity connections to the applicants on the ground that the high
court orders dated May 28, 2012, had put a stay on the construction activity in
Nayagaon. Thus, it argued, all activities, including supply of electricity, had
been banned. The court was told that due to illegal constructions in the area,
the high court had imposed the ban.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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the high court in its orders of January 30 made it clear that there was no stay
by the HC on supply of electricity to the applicants.<br />
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<strong>Requirement of NOC</strong><b><br />
</b>The petitioner told the court that PSPCL authorities were asking for a
no-objection certificate (NOC) from Nayagaon nagar panchayat. The panchayat
counsel earlier told the HC that even the local body had written to the PSPCL
in July 2012 that NOC was not required for the grant of temporary electricity
connections for those residing in its jurisdiction and the connection was
required to be issued at the PSPCL level.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Wednesday made it clear that judges
and lawyers are not superior or inferior to each other, but are same in the
court of law. The court's stern observation came while giving a dressing down
to lawyer Arvind Waghmare, who had levelled serious allegations against a
sitting high court judge and a lawyer. Waghmare was charged with contempt of
court by the judges, but then let off when he tendered an unconditional
apology.<br />
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A division bench comprising justices<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhushan-Gavai" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Bhushan Gavai</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and Prasanna Varale blasted the lawyer
for making mala fide and scandalous allegations in a petition filed on behalf
of his father<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Krushanji-Waghmare" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Krushanji Waghmare</span></a>. The petition was dismissed
subsequently.<br />
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While issuing contempt notice to him amid high drama, the court warned him to
withdraw the allegations that cast series aspersions against a sitting judge.
He was asked why action shouldn't be initiated against him, and told to be
present in court after lunch hour. Even Waghmare had dared the court to issue a
notice to him.<br />
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However, when the court resumed work post-lunch, Waghmare looked subdued, with
his hands folded. The entire courtroom was packed with lawyers, court officials
and visitors, standing even outside the room, to listen to the verdict.<br />
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The court began by sternly asking Bar Council of India member<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shashank-Choubey" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Shashank Choubey</span></a>, who was assisting Waghmare
in the contempt proceedings, to tell him to come in proper dress code. Waghmare
wore his black gown and tendered an unconditional apology to the judges. He
said that certain wordings were used inadvertently and out of emotions; it was
not done with a mala fide intention. He added that he would be careful in the
future, and also agreed to withdraw all offending words.<br />
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The court directed him to read out a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #024d99;">Supreme Court</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>judgment of 1955 in the case of
Shariff versus Nagpur judges, while warning him of sentencing him to jail for
six months for contempt. "This judgment of constitutional bench clearly
states that lawyer's duty is to advice the client and not to allow such
allegations," Justice Gavai said.<br />
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Further explaining the role of lawyers, the court said that their duty is first
towards the court. "The judges and lawyers are part of an administration
of justice where no one is superior. The judges are not in a position to
explain to the litigants what is right or wrong and hence it's the duty of
lawyers to guide them properly. If the lawyers themselves indulge in such
malicious, scandalous and unwarranted allegations, then it will adversely
affect the faith of litigants in the judiciary," Justice Gavai pointed
out.<br />
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The court accepted Waghmare's apology and warned him of not to draft a case on
emotions or solely as per the client's wishes. "We don't decide cases of
lawyers but of litigants, and don't care who the lawyer is," the court
said.<o:p></o:p></tmp></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">New Delhi: An incensed Delhi High Court today came down
heavily on a senior officer dealing with night shelters in the city and issued
contempt notice against him saying he has attempted to "interfere in
administration of justice."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain refused to accept the
apology of A K Sharma, Director of night shelter in Delhi Urban Shelter
Improvement Board, who earned the court's ire for writing a letter to an NGO,
which has raised the issue of conditions of night shelters before the court,
asking it for information on how payment is being made to its advocate and
other details.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"How many nights did you spend in the night shelters. Go and spend nights
on roads in the winter then you will know the real situation. Sleeping in AC
room, you cannot feel the plight of poor.... He has to face action now. He has
to lose his job," the court said lashing out at the official.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Issuing show-cause notice to Sharma, who was present in the court to attend the
PIL relating to city's night shelters, the bench sought his reply by April 10.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"When the court has taken suo motu cognisance of the matter and case is
still pending with it, in what capacity he wrote the letter to the NGO,"
the bench also said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"In our opinion it is a clear case of interference in the administration
of justice. We know hat is happening in the night shelters. He has to explain
why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against him,"
the bench also said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Senior advocate Jayant Bhushan appearing for the NGO told the court that Sharma
had on February 14 written the letter to the NGO asking it to explain how
payment is being made to its advocate, adding that if information is not
provided it will be presumed that advocate is being paid "unsystematically".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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To this submission, the bench asked Sharma why he wrote the letter to the NGO
when the court is monitoring the case. "This court is monitoring very few
cases because of the importance of the case... When we are monitoring the case
why do you want the details ? We permitted the advocate to argue the matter,
than how could you question his (lawyer's) presence in the case," the
court asked Sharma.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Meanwhile, Delhi government standing counsel Najmi Waziri said that his conduct
of the officer is "shocking".<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sharma in his letter to the NGO, which is fighting case in the High Court for
proving night shelters to the poor homeless people, said, "An advocate is
appearing in the court on every date on behalf of Shahari Adhikari Manch. The
payment of fee might have also been made either through cash or cheque and from
the account of this organisation.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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"This information may also be provided. In absence of the information, it
shall be presumed that payment of fee to the advocate is being paid unsystematically
by this organisation."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Sharma's letter further stated that the organisation is also providing some
books, documents and other information through printing material from source of
black money, adding that the information will be forwarded to appropriate
authority for action in case the NGO do not reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sought name of the chairman of the executive committee, registration number of
organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the demolition of night shelters set up by the NGO in December 2010 and
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on a petition by actress Sharmila Tagore and her family members demanding
access to their 96-acre land in Bhopal after the construction of a footpath
with railings which is blocking the route.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The notices were</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="msoIns"><ins>issued by the division bench of Chief Justice SA Bobade and
Justice Rajendra Menon on Tuesday to Bhopal collector, Lake Conservation
Authority and Housing and Environment Department on a petition filed by
Sharmila Tagore, her son Saif Ali Khan and daughter Soha Ali Khan.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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petitioners alleged that following the construction of a VIP road and the
footpath with railings by the concerned authorities, access to their ancestral
land situated alongside the road and facing Bhopal's picturesque Upper Lake was
blocked.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Ali Khan, famously known as Nawab Pataudi, in the revenue records.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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the death of Pataudi, his wife Sharmila and other family members were
contesting the case.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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advocate Rajesh Pancholi said the bench has ordered the concerned authorities
to reply to the notice within two weeks.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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also, the family had filed a petition in the high court demanding compensation
for constructing VIP road on their land without legally acquiring it following
which the court directed the collector to file a report in the matter.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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the collector has not yet given its report in the matter, Pancholi claimed.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00417b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">HC seeks
status report on PIL for release of grants to widows, destitute<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">New Delhi: The city government was today directed by the Delhi
High Court to respond to a PIL seeking directions for release of pension for
widows, divorced or destitute women as their pleas have been pending for past
several months.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court also asked the concerned department to file a status report on it by
the next date of hearing.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice V K Jain sought a
response from Delhi government's Department of Women and Child Development and
also asked it to file a detailed status report within two months.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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direct the Department of Women and Child Development to file a detailed status
report explaining the number of applications received by it seeking pension,
how many applications has been rejected by it and also the reason of
rejection," the bench said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The court fixed May 29 for further hearing of the matter.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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The PIL, filed by Delhi Anusuchit Jati Vikas Sangathan, a registered society,
said that to provide social security, Delhi government had started pension
schemes for widows and also the grants by way of financial assistance to
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The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H Waghela and Justice
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In his letter, Rao has said that 50 per cent of the bars were operating in
residential areas and that a majority of them have a second entrance allowing
people to enter and exit even after prescribed hours, in collusion with the
police.<br />
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He has claimed that grant of permission to bars was in violation of Article 21
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Pointing to the wine shops in Upparpet, Magadi Road, West of Chord Road, RPC
Layout and Mysore Road, Rao in his letter has said that most of them were open
till 4 am. “There are several instances of wine shops besides religious places.
Shift the liquor shops or shift the temples,” the letter said. Complaint to
officers in this regard will in turn result in harassment of the complainant,
the letter said.<br />
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Government counsel R Devdas submitted that government cannot initiate action if
the permits have been obtained from a competent authority. He stated the
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<tmp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AHMEDABAD: Vismay Shah, an accused in
the BMW hit and run case in which two youths lost their lives last month, has
approached Gujarat high court for bail. Two persons were killed in the
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He was denied bail by additional sessions judge B J Jadav on March 11. The
rejection of his bail application was mainly based on three reports
establishing that the luxurious car was speeding at more than 100 kilometre per
hour, when it hit the motorcycle in Vastrapur area. The cops had obtained
reports from from the forensic science laboratory, the BMW company engineers
and the RTO. In rejecting Shah's bail plea, the court took into account
testimony of three eye witnesses also. The same judge refused to send Shah to
further remand, as the cops wanted to question him in their custody for 13 more
days.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Shah, 27, was allegedly driving his luxury sedan on February 25 when it rammed
into a motorcycle near Lad Society in Vastrapur. The two youths riding the bike
- Shivam Dave, 25, and Rahul Patel, 21 - died. Shah managed to escape from the
spot and surrendered before police a couple of days later as pressure mounted
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After the incident, the cops invoked section 304A of IPC, but later booked Shah
under section 304 Part II of IPC, which has provision of 10 years'
imprisonment. Shah's bail plea may come up for hearing later this week.<o:p></o:p></tmp></span></ins></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Chennai: Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition
seeking its direction to authorities to implement reservation for SC/ST
candidates in the posts of cooperative society presidents for the coming
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A bench comprising acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice N Paul
Vasanthakumar said the plea cannot be considered by Election Commissioner of
Tamil Nadu Cooperative Election Commission, as he is not the competent
authority to reserve posts of President for SC/ST candidates.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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".. Even otherwise, the election process has already started and
notification was issued on March 4, whereas the writ petition was filed only on
March 12. After the commencement of the election process, this court cannot
interfere with the same," they said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when the school Correspondent passed by was apparently one of the reasons why
S. Peter Raj, a teacher of R.C. Middle School in Tuticorin, was sacked from job
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a division bench comprising Justice Chitra Venkataraman and Justice S. Vimala
upheld a single judge’s order directing immediate reinstatement of Mr. Peter
with full back wages after counsels I. Robert Chandrasekar and G. Prabhu
Rajadurai argued on behalf of the petitioner. Incidentally, Counsel Robert is
one of the former students of the petitioner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was the Headmaster of St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School from 1985 to 1989.
Later he continued service as a postgraduate assistant. “The Correspondent of
the school denied me promotions, refused to sanction casual leave, deducted
money from my salary illegally and harassed me before dismissing me from
service on August 22, 1998,” Mr. Peter told the court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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produce his degree certificates at the school, suppressing facts about past
service experience, misrepresentation of facts to the Joint Director of School
Education and making a grunting noise when the Correspondent walked past the
staff room were the reasons for which Mr. Peter was dismissed from service. Mr.
Peter was then given compulsory retirement after he approached the High Court.
Disposing of the case, Justice Vinod K. Sharma, in an order dated September 13,
2012, held that the punishment imposed on the litigant was “shockingly
disproportionate” to the allegations levelled against him. He also ordered
immediate reinstatement of the teacher in service and directed the school
management to give him full back wages from the time his services were
discontinued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appeal, the school management contended that the punishment cannot be considered
“shockingly disproportionate” to the misconduct of the petitioner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mumbai, March 21, 2013</span></b><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Bombay high court on Wednesday issued notices to the state government and MNS
chief Raj Thackeray on a petition seeking to register a case against Thackeray
and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar for allegedly instigating their party
workers to engage in rioting.<br />
The petition filed</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="msoIns"><ins>by activist Hemant Patil has sought direction to register cases
against the duo, whose public criticism of each other allegedly outraged party
workers, who engaged in rioting last month. It also urged the court to direct
the government to recover the cost of damage to public property.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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court issued notices to all the respondents in the petition and scheduled the
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directed the State Government to conduct elections for local bodies in the
State on time before April 30. The HC gave its decision here on Tuesday, in an
appeal filed by the members of the Uttarkashi municipality council. As per the
court directions, the electors’ list will be based on the 2001 census.</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Pioneer, Dehradun Mayor Vinod Chamoli said that the court’s decision had
vindicated his allegation that the Congress had conspired to defer the local
body elections in the State due to fear of defeat. “The Congress-led State
Government was trying to manipulate the system in the hope of faring better if
local body elections were held later. However, by directing that the elections
be held on time, the HC has facilitated a welcome development because the BJP
is strong and will do well in the local body elections,” he stressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Chamoli
said that as per the directions of the High Court, now all tasks like
delimitation of wards have to be completed before April 7. Since the tenure of
the local bodies is going to be over on May 5, 2013, therefore, obviously these
civic body polls have to be completed before May 5, 2013, he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Opposition in the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun, Ashok Verma, said that the
BJP had misused power. Stating that the Congress respects the decision of the
HC, he said that the party is politically strong and will do well in the
election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The matter
of fact is that whereas the tenure of the civic bodies is going to end on May 5
this year, even after upgradation of the Haldwani and Haridwar municipal
councils into municipal corporations over a year ago, there is no elected
representation in these aforesaid civic bodies. Therefore, resentment among
local public representatives here is quite high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the view that after dissolution of the Haldwani municipal council over a
year ago, there is no elected representation in the Haldwani Municipal
Corporation. It is presently being run by the officials concerned of the
district administration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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why they are of the view that since, civic bodies are directly related to the
issues of common people, timely elections of the civic bodies is vital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bombay
High Court has pulled up the Union Government for not making any efforts to set
up a Board for Industrial and Financial Restructuring (BIFR) in the western
region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The court
was also upset over the failure of the Centre to inform the number of pending
cases in keeping with its earlier order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Division
Bench of Justices A.P. Bhangale and A.M. Khanwilkar on March 15 expressed its
unhappiness over this issue while hearing a PIL filed by the Association for
Aiding Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“We are
appalled to note that although this petition is pending since 2009 praying for
direction against the Respondents (Centre) to set up BIFR in the western region
of the country, no efforts have been taken by the appropriate authority. No
reply has been filed to explain that position,” observed the judges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Not only
that, even the basic information, desired by this court in terms of order dated
November 14, 2011, of number of pending cases, has not been furnished to the
court, which is completely unacceptable,” the bench noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“By way of
indulgence, we defer the hearing of this petition till March 21, 2013 with a
hope that at least the later information will be furnished to the Court before
the next date of hearing,” the bench said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the issue of setting up of BIFR, the Judges said they may consider passing
appropriate order/directions, as may be warranted, after considering the
figures of pending cases that will be furnished to the court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/dna-correspondent"><span style="color: #174f82;">DNA Correspondent</span></a></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>| Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Bombay high court on Tuesday issued notices to several departments of
the state and Central government to make their official websites
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>A
division bench comprising Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anoop Mohta
was hearing the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Indian Centre for
Human Rights, an NGO working for the betterment of disabled persons.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The
PIL states that “the internet has emerged as a critical medium for
communication and dissemination of information by the central and state
governments...to the citizens of India.”<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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adds: “The internet, in conjunction with appropriate web design, can
revolutionise and vastly improve the governments’ capacity to communicate
and provide information to persons with disabilities. A range of assistive
technologies exist, which enable persons with disabilities to access
important governmental and civic information and enable avenues for civic
engagement, on an equal basis with others.”<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>For
instance, visually impaired individuals could make use of electronic screen
readers, which read text out loud, while those with hearing impairments can
access videos or audio with captions and transcripts. Those with motor
disabilities can access web content through other tailored technologies.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>However,
oversights in design and web content development, like mouse-only based web
navigation, uncaptioned audio and video content, as well as unlabelled
graphics, needlessly hamper the access of persons with disabilities to
information.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Although
the National Informatics Centre, the Department of Information Technology,
the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and the
Government of India had formulated guidelines to standardise government
websites to ensure they are disabled-friendly, the guidelines are not being
utilised.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The
PIL seeks that directions be given to various departments to make their
websites disabled-friendly. It will come up for hearing after four weeks.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>@DNA</ins></span></span></em><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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judge order that the registering officers across state should not refuse
registration of lands only on the ground that they were included in the
prohibitory lists, the re-settlement register (RSR) etc and they shall not
insist on production of NOCs as a precondition for land registration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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various individuals challenging rejection of their documents by sub-registrars
and district registrars across the state on the ground that the RSR contains
dots against the name of the owner, or the lands are assessed lands or belonged
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filed by Hanan Abdul Rahim of Kollam seeking police protection for drilling
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Karnataka High Court on
Wednesday asked the Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project (KSHIP) of the
Public Works Department to come out with alternative ways to widen certain
stretches of State Highways in Tumkur division so that all 4,153 trees
identified need not be cut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Division
Bench comprising Chief Justice D.H. Waghela and Justice B.V. Nagarathna issued
the direction while hearing a public interest litigation petition initiated<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="outline: none;">suo motu</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by the court based on a letter written
by Arun Kumar G. from Tumkur complaining about felling of 4,153 trees in the
division. The court in July last year had restrained tree felling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“We do not
like to come in the way of a development programme. But at the same time, it
[development] should not be at the cost of environment. How can you replace old
trees? You have not even submitted applications before the tree authority.
Submit them first. Also, come out with an alternative plan to save as many
trees as possible,” the Bench orally observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“You will
also have to allocate money for environment management plan before taking up
the project plan,” it observed while adjourning further hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Court-appointed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="outline: none;">amicus curiae</i>,
advocate H. Srinivas Rao, had submitted his report indicating that some
stretches of the state highways in this division will witness very less traffic
movement and some stretches could be widened without cutting large number of
trees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The High
Court on Wednesday said that Section 131(1A) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, does
not invest an IT official to set up a camp office at the residence of a person
for the purpose of collecting evidence or investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Justice
Rammohan Reddy made this observation while disposing of a petition filed by
Prakash V. Sanghvi, a resident of Mangalore. The petitioner had questioned the
conduct of an Assistant Director of Income Tax (Investigation), Mangalore. The
petitioner pointed out that the officer, G. Ramesh, had gained entry to the
house in the guise of a salesman and later set up his camp office, from where
the officer issued summons to the petitioner for production of certain
documents and evidences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was
also complained in the petition that the officer, “without any regard to
privacy of women present in the house, searched every nook and corner of the
house” without the help of any woman officer from the department.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3a39; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">While
expressing displeasure over the manner in which the officer conducted himself,
the court asked the department why it could not use women officers as the
police department did in such cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;">The
Central Administrative Tribunal on Wednesday refused to quash the transfer of
T Suneel Kumar as Inspector General of Police and Commander of Anti Naxal
Force, Udupi.</span></strong><b><span style="color: #363636; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><br />
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Suneel Kumar, who was serving as Additional Commissioner (Law and Order),
Bangalore, had moved the Tribunal against the March 11 government order
transferring him as the IGP and Commander of Anti Naxal Force. He had contended
that his transfer was in violation of Section 20(B) of the Karnataka Police
(Amendment) Act, 2012, since the government had not obtained recommendations
from the Police Establishment Board before effecting his transfer. The
Tribunal, which granted a two-week stay on the transfer, dismissed the petition
on Wednesday.<br />
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“This tribunal can envisage that in certain contingencies the State government
may have to issue orders of transfers and postings, particularly concerning
assignments dealing with law and order and internal security on an emergent
basis and it may not be possible to wait for the formal recommendations of the
Police Establishment Board in such contingencies. But such occasion can only be
rare and State government also may be required to record reasons for such
emergent transfers,” The Tribunal noted.<br />
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When the Tribunal noted that it had passed an order a month ago in a similar
case making recommendations by the Board mandatory, the government advocate
submitted that the government was not intimated of the said order before effecting
the transfer. The Tribunal stated that the government, in future, will have to
comply with the direction.<br />
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T Suneel Kumar was relieved from charge Wednesday afternoon by the City Police
Commissioner. He is yet to take charge in Udupi as Commander of Anti Naxal
Force. Alok Kumar assumed charge as Additional Commissioner (Law and Order),
Bangalore. Both the senior officers refused to comment on the issue.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/case-against-ngo-for-forcing-woman-to-file-false-rape-case/1078735/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/case-against-ngo-for-forcing-woman-to-file-false-rape-case/1078735/0</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/aneeshamathur/"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #01446b; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Aneesha Mathur</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">: New Delhi, Sun Feb 24 2013, 00:26 hrs</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A city court
has asked the Delhi Police to conduct an investigation into the role of a
prominent NGO after a "rescued rape victim" told the court that a
worker from the NGO had "tutored" her and told her to falsely depose
that she had been raped by her employer, a businessman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma on Saturday
acquitted the businessman — a Punjabi Bagh resident — of the charge of rape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The court also noted that though the NGO Shakti Vahini had been
associated "in over a thousand cases", this case was the first
instance in which the NGO had gotten involved to the extent of filing an
application for the cancellation of bail of the accused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The businessman had been granted bail to conduct the last rites of
his mother, after spending 72 days in jail. The NGO had filed an application
seeking the cancellation of bail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The court dismissed the application and noted that the NGO had no
locus standi to file a petition regarding the bail of an accused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">During arguments, the court found that the woman, who was sent to
the Nirmal Chhaya women's home, had written to superintendent of Nirmal Chhaya
and that her employer had not raped her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The prosecution said the woman, who hails from Assam, was a minor
and was "rescued" by the NGO and police from the Punjabi Bagh home of
the businessman in October 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">It said the woman had told police that she was being forcibly kept
at the businessman's home for three years with very little pay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The prosecution had chargesheeted the businessman for rape and
under the anti-human trafficking and anti-bonded labour laws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The chargesheet also said the woman had given a statement that she
had been raped numerous times by businessman, who had also "given her some
tablets" after raping her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">However, the woman testified before the court that she had made
false allegations after the NGO worker had told her that she would receive a
lot of money if she filed a complaint of rape against her employer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The woman told court that she was over 20 years old and had come
to Delhi to find a job, along with a person known to her, with the knowledge of
her family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The court noted that "more than normal interest" was
shown by the caseworker, who according to her own testimony, and the woman's
statement, had remained with the woman all through the rescue proceedings as
well as the medical examination, and had also remained present when police and
the magistrate had recorded the statement of the woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Sahni's advocate R N Vats told the court that the accused did not
have any access to the woman at the shelter home and could not have manipulated
or bribed her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Noting that "instances of apparent nexus between the
placement agency, the NGO and police have been noticed, where a poor tribal
woman has been used by any or all three to extort money", the court lodged
a case of perjury against the woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Advocate Supreme Court of India
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Trust of India / New Delhi Oct 10, 2012, 12:53 IST</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Says
Microsoft did not abuse its dominant position regarding sale of software
license</span></b><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><br />
The Competition Appellate Tribunal has upheld the fair trade regulator
Competition Commission's ruling that Microsoft did not abuse its dominant
position regarding sale of software licenses.<br />
The Commission's order came on allegations that Microsoft offered software
licenses at a lower price to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) while
business houses had to buy the same at higher prices from the company.<br />
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"There is no question of any denial of market access
for the reasons stated by us earlier to the effect that respondent no 1
(Microsoft India) was quite justified in refusing to sell the OEM to the
appellant who was not the original equipment manufacturer. In short, we find no
controversy of ... For that matter any other provisions of the act,"
COMPAT has said in the order.<br />
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Microsoft was represented by the law firm Amarchand & Mangaldas in the
matter.<br />
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The complainant -- law firm Singhania and Partners LLP -- had alleged that
Microsoft, with a market share of 90 per cent, was abusing its dominant
position. It also alleged that business houses had to buy the overpriced volume
licenses.<br />
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The Commission's order, dismissing the complaint, had come on June 22, 2011.<br />
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The regulator did not find "prima facie" any substantial material
against the claims that differential pricing strategy adopted by Microsoft
raises competition issue.<br />
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Differing from the majority view, one of the Commission member had opined that
Microsoft appeared to have exploited its monopoly in the software market and
had asked for a probe by the regulators' Director General.<br />
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The tribunal dismissed the petition along with the minority view of the CCI
member.<br />
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The COMPAT bench, headed by its Chairman Justice V S Sirpurkar, said, "...
We must express that we do not agree with the learned member in minority
judgement".<br />
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It also rejected allegations against Microsoft India that it maintains full
control its various softwares through its licensing policy.</div>
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Setting up quasi-judicial tribunals has almost always been accompanied by
squabbles over their powers and appointment of members. The friction started
soon after the launch of the Constitution. The first was over the nature and
duties of industrial tribunals. The Supreme Court ruled in 1950 that though the
tribunal was very much like that of a body discharging judicial functions, it is
not a court in the technical sense.<br />
Since then, more tribunals have been set up to ease the workload on regular
courts. There are over 60 tribunals at the last count. Tribunalisation has
spread to all sectors, covering some 24 ministries and departments.<br />
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tribunals had been stalled by constitutional challenges. The Supreme Court has
delivered major judgments in the matter of administrative tribunals, company
law tribunals, money laundering tribunals and others. More recently, the
Competition Appellate Tribunal was embroiled in a controversy for several
years. The composition of these tribunals was the main poser before the court.</div>
Draftsmen in various ministries had excluded judges in these tribunals and
appeared to pack them with their own tribe. When this imbalance was taken to
the court, the judges gave room to their own retired brethren, on the threat of
striking down the law. From a distance, it looks as if the feud is over who
will get the post-retirement job — the civil servants or judges?<br />
The same issue arose in a petition challenging the Right to Information Act
as the draftsmen excluded judges and gave a clear edge to the babus. The
Supreme Court followed the principles laid down in its earlier judgments and
made a judicial member compulsory in the information commissions. In this
judgment, <em>Namit Sharma vs Union of India</em>, there were a few pages about
how shabbily the law was drafted. For instance, “anyone carrying on any
business or pursuing any profession” cannot be a member of the commission.
Pray, how else can one make a living?<br />
Though the court had merely applied basic principles enunciated earlier,
commentators and the media have surprisingly batted for the <em>babus </em>this
time. The public image of judges is far above that of bureaucrats, but civil
servants got unexpected support from commentators. Judges, who do not normally
approach or influence the media, cannot speak out in defence because of their
position, and one has to read the judgment once again to find out what they
say.<br />
As held in the industrial tribunal case, and several decisions over the
decades, tribunals lead a double life. They take not merely ministerial
decisions, but have many trappings of a civil court. An information commission
decides disputes brought before it after calling both parties. It adjudicates
issues as a court does, and often follows the civil court procedure. It gives a
reasoned order. A party dissatisfied by the order can challenge the finding and
appeal up to the Supreme Court. It has to perform investigative and supervisory
functions. It can impose penalty. The commission has to interpret fundamental
rights like Articles 19(1)(a) and 21 of the Constitution, as the wide expanse
of the Right to Information and Right to Privacy have to be balanced.<br />
If a commission does all these and more, it is not a mere ministerial body.
Retired chief secretaries and expert members, however brilliant they may be,
are not fully equipped for this essentially judicial task. In addition, civil
servants might have glaring conflict of interest. Independence of the
judiciary, a corner stone of the Constitution, is also involved.<br />
Moreover, the court’s precedents and consistent views cannot be bypassed for
information commissions, while the rest of the panels follow them. The talents
of judges, who retire comparatively young these days, should be tapped for
public benefit; otherwise they will sell them to corporate goliaths and acquire
wealth they missed out while watching lawyers make all the money.<br />
The media has reported devastating consequences of the judgment. Though the
court stated that the new framework will be effective only prospectively, many
commissions in large states like Maharashtra, West Bengal and Rajasthan
reportedly stopped work raising imaginary doubts. Without even reading the
judgment, it was alleged that only in this country judges sit on information
commissions. Judges have examined information laws in the US, UK and Canada.
All these democratic countries have given due weight to judicial qualification
and experience of members of these commissions.<br />
It is reported that the government might come up with a review petition.
This is an opportunity to clarify the situation, like the age issue. Members of
the commissions retire at 65 and judges also retire at that age, creating a
riddle. Moreover, there are hold-all phrases while prescribing qualification of
members, like a person’s background in “social service” and “mass media”. Since
the Act and rules do not define such expressions, the court has currently “read
into” the provisions its own meaning. “Vague exclusions” and “uncertain
inclusions”, as the court put it, mar the Act as it stands now. Meanwhile, the
information commissions should start functioning.<br />
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Press Trust of India / Morena (MP) October 09, 2012, 21:45</div>
National Commission for Women (NCW) has condemned as "shameful"
the incident where a married woman was allegedly paraded naked in a village
near here last month over a land dispute. <br />
NCW member Charu Vali Khanna met the 50-year-old victim, a resident of
Balalpur village in the district, yesterday. <br />
Later, she directed the district administration to pay adequate compensation
to the woman and submit the case for trial in the Court at the earliest. <br />
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The woman was assaulted and paraded naked by a group of men
when she opposed them for beating her husband over a land dispute on September
30, Khanna told reporters. </div>
The men had an old land dispute with the woman's family. <br />
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Describing the incident as "shameful", Khanna
expressed displeasure over delay in police action against the accused persons.</div>
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On review plea, Bench to seek clarifications from her, Centre and CBI <br />
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre and the
Central Bureau of Investigation on a plea seeking review of its judgment
granting Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati relief in a disproportionate
assets case. </div>
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A Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and Dipak Misra issued notice
to Ms. Mayawati also </div>
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When senior counsel Shanti Bhushan, appearing for intervener
Kamlesh Verma, insisted on a direction to the CBI to continue the probe against
the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, the Bench said it would seek
clarifications from the respondents whether there was a specific court order
directing registration of a first information report to probe her alleged
disproportionate assets. </div>
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The Bench had on July 6 quashed the FIR registered by the CBI
alleging that she acquired assets disproportionate to the known sources of her
income, on the ground that there was no specific order for a probe into the
disproportionate assets and that the court order was confined to irregularities
in the Taj Corridor project. </div>
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Now Justice Sathasivam told counsel that the orders referred to
by him were cited earlier also and the court took them into consideration while
giving the July 6 judgment. Mr. Bhushan said that during the course of the
probe into the Taj case, the CBI unearthed huge disproportionate assets and a
separate FIR (No. 19) was registered. </div>
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<b>Status report on FIR 19</b> </div>
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Counsel read out the various orders passed by the Supreme Court
and said the CBI had filed several status reports on its investigation. A
status report in respect of FIR 19 was filed by the CBI on July 19, 2004 and
that day the court granted it three months to complete the investigation.
Finding no connection between the facts found in this case and the Taj Corridor
project, the court also de-linked FIR 19 and granted the CBI liberty to proceed
with the probe and take action on the basis of its investigation in FIR 19, he
said. </div>
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Justice Sathasivam asked counsel: “Do you think this court is
protecting her [Ms. Mayawati]? We only said there was no specific direction to
probe her disproportionate assets. This does not bar the CBI from initiating
fresh action independently if there is material. Is there an impediment to the
CBI to undertake a probe?” </div>
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Justice Misra told counsel: “They can approach the Central
government to take up fresh investigation against her. We never said that CBI
has no power to investigate. There is no prohibition. It [CBI] can do so, but
has to get sanction from the State government.” </div>
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Mr. Bhushan said: “When there is a specific order, the probe
should be allowed to continue. No political party will give sanction against
another political leader. It is only the court which can give a direction for
conducting the probe.” </div>
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Supreme Court for conducting the investigation against Ms. Mayawati, the Bench
issued notice and told counsel that it would seek clarification on this aspect.
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Cauvery water dispute: Karunanidhi asks Centre to dismiss Karnataka
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<b>New Delhi:</b> DMK chief M Karunanidhi has asked the Centre to dismiss
the Karnataka government as the state has not released 9000 cusecs of river
water to Tamil Nadu, defying a Supreme Court order. The Tamil Nadu government
has said that it will file a contempt petition in the Supreme Court against
Karnataka. Karnataka is also planning to file a review petition before the
Cauvery River Authority. <br />
Karnataka stopped releasing the Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu late on
Monday night, hours after the state informed the Supreme Court that it was in
no position to continue the water flow from Monday night, a senior official
said. The five crest gates of Krishanaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir in Mandya,
about 80 km from Bangalore, through which Cauvery water was being released to
Tamil Nadu were shut. <br />
Hundreds of farmers gathered at the reservoir to try to prevent water
release raised slogans welcoming the stoppage when Janata Dal-Secular
legislator CS Puttaraju, who had led them, confirmed that water flow had
stopped. Earlier on Monday, Karnataka Law Minister S Suresh Kumar told
reporters in New Delhi that senior counsel Fali Nariman representing the state
had informed the Supreme Court that the state was in no position to release the
water from Monday night. <br />
There was no comment from the court on this submission nor did Tamil Nadu
advocates raise objection to it, he said. The submission was made when the
Supreme Court was hearing Karnataka's plea to immediately allow the state to
stop water release to Tamil Nadu. Karnataka moved the court as it had on
September 28 pulled it up for not obeying the September 19 ruling of Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh as head of Cauvery River Authority (CRA) that it should
release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from September 20 to October 15. <br />
Karnataka began releasing water on September 29 which had led to daily
protests in Bangalore and Cauvery basin districts of Mandya, Mysore and
Chamarajanagar - 80 km, 130 km and about 200 km respectively from Bangalore.
Karnataka had also been pleading with the prime minister to review and stay his
ruling. <br />
The Supreme Court bench of bench of Justice DK Jain and Justice Madan B
Lokur also clarified that their September 28 order "shall not in anyway be
an impediment in the way of chairman CRA to take decision on review application
by the Karnataka government". Soon after the clarification, Chief Minister
Jagadish Shettar announced in New Delhi that the state would file another
appeal to the CRA to withdraw the September 19 order. <br />
Earlier, a delegation of central ministers from Karnataka, External Affairs
Minister SM Krishna, who hails from Mandya, Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge
and Minister of State for Railways KH Muniyappa met Manmohan Singh and urged
him to immediately review his September 19 ruling. A team of 16 Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) parliament members from the state also met Manmohan Singh
with the same plea. <br />
However, immediate review by the prime minister was unlikely as the central
government stand is that he gave the ruling as CRA head and only a meeting of
CRA can do so. The CRA, headed by the prime minister, comprises central water
resources minister and chief ministers of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and
Puducherry, all of which have a share in Cauvery water. Central Water Resources
Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was present when the two teams met Manmohan
Singh, reiterated the stand on Monday. He told reporters after the meeting that
the prime minister had given the ruling on September 19 as head of CRA. It was
not the decision of the prime minister but of the CRA and the CRA would have to
meet to review the decision, Bansal asserted. <br />
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Press Trust of India / Cuttack October 09, 2012, 11:07</div>
State Assembly Speaker Pradeep Kumar Amat and Bonai MLA Bhimsen Choudhury
were issued notices by Odisha High Court today asking them to file their
respective counter affidavits in response to the writ petition filed by BJP
legislature party secretary Karendra Majhi. <br />
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice B K
Mishra directed the court registry to issue express notices to the Speaker and
to the MLA by special messengers ordered to list the matter as soon as the
counter affidavits are received from the respondents. <br />
Majhi last month had filed the writ challenging the August 1, 2012 ruling of
the Speaker in which the latter had rejected an application of BJP. The party
had urged the Speaker to disqualify Choudhury as a member of the House since
the latter had defied the party whip during the 2010 Rajya Sabha election
voting. <br />
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turned down the BJP application on the ground that voting for Rajya Sabha polls
was not a proceeding of the House and the legislator was not inviting
'disqualification' for defying the party whip. </div>
The Bonai MLA was elected on a BJP ticket but he has since been suspended
from the party after the 2010 Rajya Sabha polling. <br />
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violating provisions of 10th Schedule of the Constitution, Majhi had filed
the writ seeking to quash the August 1, 2012 ruling of the Speaker. The
petitioner had also prayed the HC to declare Choudhury's continuance as an MLA
null and void.</div>
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Even Gandharv marriage legal if a child is born: HC</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>NAGPUR: The Bombay High
Court's Aurangabad bench has ruled that even Gandharv form of marriage could be
legal one if a child is born to the couple. The court, while setting aside
Family Court's order that marriage was not proved between a farmer and his
petitioner wife, asked the man to pay maintenance of Rs1,500 per month from
June 2007 to her for entering into matrimony and subsequently cohabitating with
for well over five years.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"The husband can't
be allowed to say that only for the purpose of having a son, he had kept
relations with the present applicant by performing marriage in Gandharv form
and he is treating his son only as a legitimate issue," a single-judge
bench of Justice TV Nalawade ruled. "The evidence of husband or the
circumstance that he had first wife living, is of no help to the husband in
view of the peculiar circumstances of the case," he added.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>According to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gauri-Deshmukh"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Gauri
Deshmukh</span></a>, she had tied knot with Mangesh about eight years back as
per Hindu rites and customs and had a son from him. After a couple of years,
Mangesh allegedly started ill-treating Gauri and also forced her to bring
Rs50,000 from her brother. She was later driven out of home as her brother
failed to pay the amount. She lodged a police complaint and filed a case under
Section 125 of CrPC for getting monthly maintenance from Mangesh in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Family-Court"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Family
Court</span></a>. However it was dismissed as she failed to prove her
relationship.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>She then filed a revision
petition in the high court contending that her husband had failed to provide
her maintenance and she was unable to survive on her own. She claimed that her
in-laws owned 35 acres of irrigated land and Mangesh's annual income was over
Rs50 lakh and demanded maintenance of Rs5,000 per month from him. Mangesh
denied marrying Gauri with Hindu rituals and any relationship with her. He
contended that he already had a wife but since he couldn't get any issue from
her, he entered into a wedlock with Gauri in Gandharv style.</ins></span></div>
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provide her maintenance, Mangesh argued that Gauri was a vegetable vendor with
sufficient income. He added that though he possessed agriculture land, he was
not generating sufficient income to provide her maintenance. "Admittedly,
there was cohabitation of more than five years and a son is born out of this
wedlock. The husband is not denying the paternity of the child and on the
contrary, he wants to treat him as a legitimate child. In view of these
circumstances, this court holds that the wife has given sufficient evidence for
proof of marriage for the purpose of proceeding under Section 125 of CrPC,"
Justice Nalawade ruled and also imposed a cost of Rs1,000 on husband.</ins></span></div>
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Sebi to move Supreme Court over SAT's order on Jaiprakash Associates'
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order passed by the Securities Appellate Tribunal exonerating Jaiprakash
Associates Ltd's executive chairman Manoj Gaur and his family.</div>
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MUMBAI: Capital market regulator <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sebi">Sebi</a> plans to move
the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme
Court</a>, challenging a recent order passed by the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Securities-Appellate-Tribunal">Securities
Appellate Tribunal</a> exonerating <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jaiprakash-associates-ltd/stocks/companyid-1481.cms">Jaiprakash
Associates</a><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jaiprakash-associates-ltd/stocks/companyid-1481.cms" target="_blank">BSE 2.58 %</a> Ltd's executive chairman Manoj Gaur and his
family from <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/insider-trading">insider
trading</a> charges, said two persons familiar with the development. <br />
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Last week, the quasi-judicial body struck down the orders passed by Sebi
against Manoj Gaur, his wife Urvashi Gaur and brother Sameer Gaur after it
observed that the regulator was unable to bring any direct or circumstantial
evidence on record to show that unpublished price sensitive information (UPSI)
was passed between the Gaur family members and trading was done based on it. <br />
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The tribunal also observed that Manoj Gaur's wife and brother traded in shares
which were less in numbers compared to their holding in the company. <br />
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"If Mr. Manoj Gaur had passed on UPSI to Mrs. Urvashi Gaur and she traded
on the basis of that UPSI she would not have traded in 1000 shares only,"
the SAT order said. As on March 23, 2012, Urvashi Gaur was holding 59,045
shares of the company. <br />
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"We cannot lose sight of the fact that the company is a widely held listed
company with a paid up capital divided into 212,64,33,182 equity shares out of
which promoter group holds 44.44 per cent. It is a large infrastructure company
engaged in highways,cement, power and education sector and the executive
chairman of such company would not like to risk the reputation of himself and
the company for 1000 shares," SAT said. <br />
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The tribunal however upheld the charge of insider trading against two other
company officials. <br />
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In January this year, the regulator had found Manoj Gaur,his wife Urvashi Gaur,
brother Sameer Gaur, S D Nailwal, wholetime director of the company, and Harish
K Vaid, senior president corporate affairs and company secretary guilty of
insider trading and had imposed a total fine of Rs 70 lakh on them. </div>
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Press Trust of India / Shirdi/Mumbai October 09, 2012, 11:06</div>
Observing that it was not inclined to hear the matter, the Bombay High Court
has dismissed a PIL that sought to challenge the appointment of K V Ramni as
Advisory Committee head of IT department of Shri Sai Baba Sansthan in Shirdi. <br />
Ramni is Managing Director of Shirdi Sai Baba Trust, Chennai, and considered
an expert in computer technology. He was appointed on this honorary post for a
period of five years in October 2008. <br />
Justices Naresh Patil and A B Chaudhari recently observed that petitioners
had not made any representation to the respondent state in respect of the
contentions raised herein. <br />
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today, we are not inclined to exercise our jurisdiction to entertain this
public interest litigation. PIL is dismissed". </div>
Ramni had donated Rs 100 crores for construction of a tourist rest house
'Sai Ashram' at Shirdi. He had requested allotment of seven per cent rooms to
him. <br />
However, in October 2010, Shirdi's Sai Baba Trust resolved to allot 20 rooms
in the Ashram to Ramni, besides allowing him to open an office for his trust in
the premises of Sai Ashram, the PIL alleged. <br />
The PIL, filed by Shirdi residents, Sandeep Kulkarni and Uttamrao Shelke,
has questioned the decision of Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan to allow Ramni to start
the office of his Chennai-based Shirdi Sai Baba Trust in 'Sai Ashram' at
Shirdi. <br />
The PIL alleged that Ramni, by paying a huge donation of Rs 100 crore, had
influenced the Sai Saba Sansthan to appoint him as the head of IT department of
the Trust. <br />
The PIL prayed that Ramni's appointment in this post was illegal ab-initio
(right from beginning) and was an outcome of an illegal resolution which was
basically against the preamble and object of a special statute enacted by the
government in 2004 for Sai Baba Sansthan. <br />
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deceptively similar to the Sai Baba Sansthan in Shirdi. Due to similarity in
the names of the two trusts, there is a strong possibility of collection of
donations from devotees by Ramni's trust in Shirdi, the PIL argued.</div>
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Court rejects Salman petition for car sale</h1>
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A magistrate court in Mumbai on Monday rejected actor Salman Khan’s
application that stated he wished to sell the car he had driven at the time of
a hit-and-run incident in 2002. The court passed the order on the application
on Monday, said public prosecutor B B Yele. “Khan’s application stated he was
no longer able to maintain the car and thus he wanted to sell it.” <br />
In September 2002, Salman’s car had rammed into a bakery in Bandra, killing
one person and injuring four. The trial in the case against Salman Khan, in
which he has been booked under Section 304A (death by negligence) of the Indian
Penal Code is pending. <br />
A public interest litigation (PIL) had been filed in the Bombay High Court
soon after the incident by senior journalist Nikhil Wagle. The PIL, which has
recently come up for hearing, demands that the punishment for the offence of
death by negligence should be increased from two years to ten years. <br />
Kin yet to get compensation <br />
In 2002, the Bombay High Court had directed the payment of compensation to
the kin of the person who died as well as those injured in the accident. The
High Court was recently told that the kin of the deceased was yet to receive
the Rs 10 lakh compensation, although it was deposited by Salman Khan. <br />
Khan’s counsel Ashok Mundargi told Newsline, “There are multiple
applications filed by several relatives of the dead person, Nurullah Sharif,
which is creating difficulties in the disbursement of compensation.” <br />
Mundargi had told the court that the delay in disbursement of compensation
is due to a “dispute between the kin of the person.” <br />
However, Nurullah’s lawyer Bhagyashree Jakhade said, “There is no dispute as
such and there are only two applications filed for the purpose, both of which
are pending. One of the applications was filed by Nurullah’s mother when his
son was still a minor. That application was also filed on his son’s behalf.
After his son attained the age of majority, he also approached the High Court’s
legal services committee with an application. This is the only confusion in the
matter.”<br />
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Sweeping powers for VC in Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/University-of-Agriculture"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">University
of Agriculture</span></a> and Technology (OUAT) Bill 2012, which was introduced
in the assembly in the monsoon session recently, proposes to curtail the role
of elected representatives in the varsity affairs while giving sweeping powers
to the vice-chancellor.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>If <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Bill"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">the
Bill</span></a> becomes an Act, incumbent vice-chancellor Debi Prasad Ray will
automatically get a two-year extension after his current tenure ends in
December. Ray's re-appointment for a second term for three years from December
2009 had invited a public interest litigation, (PIL) which is still pending at
the Orissa high court.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Consolidating the VC's
powers, the bill proposes to allow the VC to nominate three members to the
varsity board of management (BoM), the apex decision making body of the
university. As of now, the VC can not nominate anyone to the panel. Besides,
the Bill proposes to include only one MLA in the BoM, contrary to the present
custom of having two legislators on the panel.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"The BoM is the apex
body to ensure checks and balances in the VC's functioning. If he or she
manages to have his own people in the apex body, there would be no mechanism to
scrutinize his or her functioning," said a former VC of the varsity on
condition of anonymity.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>According to Clause 24
(7) of the Bill, the VC will hold office for a period of five years or until he
attains the age of 70 years, contrary to the existing provision of appointment
for a period of three years or till the age of 65. According to Section 50 (2)
(C) of the Bill, the incumbent VC would continue in his position for two more
years. Ray's current term ends on December 17.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Ray is at present
enjoying his second term in the office. His first stint at the varsity was from
December 2006 to December 2009. Challenging his second term appointment,
advocate Madhusudan Panda had filed a PIL in the Orissa high court, stating
that it violated the norms of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/University-Grants-Commission"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">University
Grants Commission</span></a> (UGC) and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Council-of-Agricultural-Research"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Indian
Council of Agricultural Research</span></a> (ICAR). The UGC and ICAR norms
prevent a second term appointment.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Dr Bhagirathi Senapati, a
former OUAT VC, said the tenure of a VC should be uniform in all state
universities. "OUAT should not be singled out to make the VC's term
five-year-long as it is three years in other universities," he said.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>When contacted, Ray said
the new Bill was in accordance with the model ICAR Act. "The Bill has gone
through various government departments and the state cabinet before being
introduced in the assembly in the monsoon session. It is not as if I have
manipulated something to get a further extension. I will leave the university
after my current term ends," he said.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>When pointed out that the
model ICAR Act 2009 doesn't recommend VC's nominees to the BoM, he said,
"The government must have introduced the Bill after properly going through
all the aspects. It is now up to the government to take a decision," Ray
said.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The Bill, which will
replace the OUAT Act 1965, also proposes to abolish the post of ex-officio
pro-chancellor, occupied by the state agriculture minister. "It is just an
ornamental post with no executive role," the VC said, justifying the move.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Contrary to the ongoing
practice of two MLAs being made members of the BoM, only one law maker will be
a BoM member. Bhubaneswar-Ekamra MLA Ashok Panda said when the matter would
come up for discussion in the assembly, all these issues would be discussed.
"I will place my views in the assembly. It is too premature to comment on
the matter now," Panda said.</ins></span></div>
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The CBI probing the fake bail bond scam involving Railway Protection Force
(RPF) personnel has sought permission from a local court for conducting
scientific tests on the accused officials. <br />
"We have filed an application before the magistrate's court to conduct
scientific tests as the accused are not revealing anything", said a CBI
official. <br />
One out of the 12 accused whom the agency want to take the test has filed a
reply against undergoing the procedure, he said. <br />
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A PIL in this regard was filed by activist Samir Zaveri, who alleged that a
group of RPF personnel posted at suburban Kurla railway station extorted money
from persons caught for violating railway norms by posing as magistrates and
issuing fake bail bonds. <br />
A division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice R V More had
transferred the probe to CBI in August observing that the Government Railway
Police (GRP) was conducting a "tardy and slow" investigation. <br />
The bench was to transfer the probe into the scam to the State Crime
Investigation Department (CID) but later sought information from CBI as to
whether it was probing into any case pertaining to corruption by RPF personnel.
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The court had sought the information after going through a report submitted
by former Deputy Inspector General A V Jha of RPF stating that the CBI was
seized of the matter regarding illegal gratification, in which, several RPF
personnel were accused. <br />
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as a magistrate and granted bail to the offenders and the money collected was
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7162120247129608325" name="poll"></a><b>Jaipur:</b> State government’s controversial decision to
levy waste disposal charges in electricity bills has been challenged in the
Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday.<br />
Mansarovar Residents Welfare Society’s president Hari Singh Nathawat has
filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) questioning the logic of including
waste disposal charges in electricity bills. “What is the link between garbage
disposal and electricity consumption,” the petitioner asked in the PIL.<br />
The state government through a notification on July 25 had included waste
disposal charges in the electricity bills of consumers for door-to-door garbage
collection and cleaning of roads and drainages.<br />
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to Rs 10000.<br />
Claiming this would an additional burden on the public, the PIL has asked
for equal sharing between the central government, state government and
consumer.<br />
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Religion-based education schemes violate Constitution: Guj HC</h1>
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AHMEDABAD: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gujarat"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Gujarat</span></a>
high court on Monday held the Government cannot give monetary benefits to any
community on the basis of religion as such a move will violate Constitution
that bars discrimination on religious ground.<br />
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B
Pardiwala made this observation while hearing a Public Interest Litigation
(PIL), which sought directions to the Gujarat government to implement a Centre
sponsored pre- <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Metric-%28musician%29"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">metric</span></a>
scholarship scheme launched nationwide in 2008. The PIL was filed by a Congress
leader from Kutch, Adam Chaki. <br />
However, the Bench declined to give any direction since a contradictory view
was taken by another Division Bench of the high court earlier on a similar
petition.<br />
Instead, it referred the issues raised in the PIL to a larger bench, which
would decide if the pre-metric scholarship scheme for students from minority
communities was violative of the Constitution and whether the high court can
direct a state government to implement the scheme.<br />
The Bench noted held that government cannot give monetary benefits to a
community on religious lines as such a move was in violation of Article 15(1)
of the Constitution.<br />
"There cannot be scope of conferring monetary benefits based on
religion," it observed.<br />
The Central scheme is targeted at pre-matric students belonging to religious
minorities whose parents have annual income below Rs 1 lakh. Under it, the
Centre gives 75 per cent of the scholarship amount while states have to bear
the rest.<br />
The Gujarat government had refused to implement the scheme, saying it was
discriminatory in nature. The government had further said it was providing
scholarships to poor students of all communities.<br />
In 2010, a Division Bench had upheld the Centre's <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Funding"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">funding</span></a> of
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Kalpakkam has all facilities to deal with emergencies: Govt</h1>
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CHENNAI: The state government has
rejected arguments that mandatory safety and emergency medical preparedness was
lacking at the nuclear power plant at Kalpakkam, and said there were enough
trained medical and administrative personnel to tackle emergencies. <br />
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A counter-affidavit to this effect was filed before the first bench of the
Madras high court comprising <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Justice">Chief Justice</a>
M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam on Monday, when a PIL seeking compliance
of guidelines pertaining to nuclear and radiological emergencies laid down by
the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Disaster-Management-Authority">National
Disaster Management Authority</a> came up for further hearing. <br />
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The PIL, filed by advocate M Vetriselvan, insisted on establishment of a
super-multispecialty hospital and other amenities stipulated in the guidelines.
Though the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam started operation in
1983, these mandatory requirements were yet to be put in place, argued his
counsel M Radhakrishnan. <br />
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However, denying the allegations, the government submitted that necessary
off-site emergency network was available to deal with radiological
consequences. Noting that the deputy director of health services in
Kancheepuram district is the nodal officer for implementing protective and
relief measures, the counter said protective and relief measures would be made
available by the district administration. <br />
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Reiterating that the medical facilities available at Kalpakkam were fully
equipped and geared up to handle radiation-related emergencies arising from the
plant, the affidavit said that after the initial treatment at the first aid
centre at the site and the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Department-of-Atomic-Energy">Department
of Atomic Energy</a> hospital, patients could be treated at the Chengalpet
government medical college hospital, and also at three government general
hospitals in Chennai. If necessary, specialized hospitals such as <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sri-Ramachandra-Medical-College">Sri
Ramachandra Medical College</a> and Apollo Hospitals, which have burns wards
and other facilities, would be put to use, it said. <br />
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As for facilities such as immunology laboratory, bone marrow bank and
transfusion and stem cell harvesting, the counter said they were available at
the two private hospitals. The PIL will be taken up for further hearing next
week. </div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7162120247129608325" name="top"></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Karnataka High Court notice issued to District In-charge Minister Varthur
Prakash and Mulbagal legislator Amaresh is a positive development in favour of
the Mustoor Gram Panchayat members.<br />
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The members had filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the High Court
against the State government and the district administration, complaining that
the latter had failed to take action against unlicensed sand mining in Mulbagal
taluk, regardless of repeated requests.<br />
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The divisional bench, which heard the case on Monday, sent a notice to Varthur,
Amaresh and 20 officers. It has also strictly ordered that action should be
taken against unlicensed sand mining and that a report on it be submitted by
December 2.<br />
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A decision had been taken on July 2 to stop unauthorised transport of sand
within the panchayat limits. The panchayat members had also submitted memoranda
to the deputy commissioner on July 19, 20 and 23, requesting action against
unlicensed mining, but the requests were ignored, the members detailed in the
PIL.<br />
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N Venkataramegowda, former president of Mustoor Gram Panchayat, residents
within the panchayat limits N C Jagadishwara, B N Changalarayappa, K
Venkataramanappa, Shiva Parvathi Stree Shakthi Sangha president Radhamma filed
the PIL, guided by senior advocate M Shivaprakash.<br />
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<b>Other recipients<br />
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Notices have also been issued to the chief secretary of the State government;
the secretaries of the departments for Industries and Mining, Small Irrigation,
and Transport; the director of the Mining and Geology Department; the senior
geologist in the Department; the joint director of the Irrigation and Mining
Department; the executive engineer of the Department for Small Irrigation; the
assistant executive engineer of the PWD; the Deputy Commissioner; the District
Superintendent of Police; the Deputy Forest Conservation Officer; the
tahsildars of Kolar and Mulbagal taluks; the police inspectors of Mulbagal and
Nangali and the executive officer of Mulbagal Taluk Panchayat, among others.<br />
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There are three to 3.5 thousand residents in the Panchayat, which has about
five villages. The residents depend on agricultural activities for their
livelihood, using the land in Nagavara, Byatanur, Nangali and Mustoor.<br />
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The Gram Panchayat members complained in the PIL that the indiscriminate mining
activities have been destroying the fertility of the soil near the water tanks
in the villages and even reduced the level of underground water. In addition,
the unlicensed transport of sand to Bangalore has affected agriculture, they
said.<br />
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They added that officers in the Mining and Geology Department, the Police
Department and the Revenue Department were fully aware of the rampant mining
but chose to turn a blind eye to the illegal activities. “The officers have all
fueled the development of the sand mafia. The Panchayat and the women’s forum
members have continued to fight agains the sand mining, but have lost the
battle having to face the power of position and wealth. Sand is continuously
mined at 15 acres and 20 guntas of the Nagavara tank, 124 acres and 34 guntas
of the Byatanur tank, and 210 acres of Mustoor tank,” the members said in the
complaint.<br />
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“The rule that the Mining and Geology Department, Regional Transport Office and
the Revenue Department should open check posts and prevent transport of sand
mining has remained only on paper. The officers have clearly failed to fulfill
their duties as defined by the Constitution,” they complained.<br />
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<b>‘Act immediately’<br />
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Shivaprakash, who spoke to Deccan Herald on Tuesday, demanded that the
concerned departments be instructed immediately to take necessary action
against unlicensed mining of sand in the area. “A high powered committee should
be formed to deal with the issue. It has also been requested that the officers
personally recompense the farmers in Mustoor Gram Panchayat area, since the
officers’ negligence and disregard for duty has caused the losses. The life of
the people, natural conditions, underground water level and water bodies have
all been wrecked because of the rampant mining,” he added.<br />
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Shivaprakash also demanded that all departments take action by December this
year. “Varthur Prakash and Amaresh continue to make false promises at every
meeting or function that the unlicensed sand mining would be brought to a halt
and that crores of rupees have been released for the development of the
district. We request them to consider the welfare of the district at least from
now on.”</span></div>
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Press Trust of India / Chennai October 09, 2012, 22:15</div>
Tamil Nadu government today submitted before the Madras High Court that
safety features, security set up and emergency preparedness plans in the Madras
Atomic Power Station, Kalpakkam, near here, are designed and operated as per
the prescribed standards. <br />
This was stated in a counter by the then Commissioner of Revenue
Administration, K Gnanadesikan, to a PIL by one M Vetri Selvan, seeking a
direction to the central and state authorities to implement the National
Disaster Management Guidelines on nuclear and radiological emergencies in and
around the atomic power station. <br />
Gnanadesikan said the plant and site emergencies were handled by the site
committee. The off-site emergency was handled by the district administration
which included sheltering and evacuation. Offsite emergency drills were
conducted once in two years to create and ascertain awareness levels. <br />
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villages were imparted awareness training prior to carrying out the exercise.
The last such drill was done on July 13, 2011 by the National Disaster
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nuclear and radiological emergencies laid down by the NDMA were being implemented
in a phased manner. The counter also detailed the medical preparedness of the
plant as per the NDMA guidelines.</div>
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PIL seeks direction for probe against Vadra</h1>
<a href="http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/fwire-india/pil-seeks-direction-for-probe-against-vadra-485042.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/fwire-india/pil-seeks-direction-for-probe-against-vadra-485042.html</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.firstpost.com/author/hidden" title="hidden"><span class="dateago"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Oct 9, 2012</span></span></a><br />
A writ petition was filed today before Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench
seeking direction for probe into allegation’s levelled by Arvind Kejeriwal
against <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/robert-vadra-profile-101599.html" target="_blank" title="Robert Vadra"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Robert Vadra</span></a>, son-in-law of
Congress president <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/sonia-gandhi-profile-2030.html" target="_self" title="Sonia Gandhi"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Sonia Gandhi</span></a>.<br />
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The petition was filed in the HC registry by Nootan Thakur who claims to be
a social activist.<br />
The petitioner sought a direction to the Prime Minister’s secretary for
conducting an inquiry into the allegations related to transactions between
Vadra and realty major DLF.<br />
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Block online access to controversial film: PIL in HC</h1>
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Controversial promo of the movie - Innocence of Muslims - reached the doorsteps
of the Madras high court, with a public interest writ petition being filed to
block access to the material available online. <br />
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A division bench of Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Elipe-Dharma-Rao">Elipe Dharma
Rao</a> and Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aruna-Jagadeesan">Aruna
Jagadeesan</a>, before which the PIL filed by advocate K M Aasim Shehzad came
up for admission on Tuesday, directed the registry to post the matter before
some other bench for hearing. <br />
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When the matter was taken up, counsel for the petitioner <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjan-Pinto">Sanjan Pinto</a>
submitted that the material was still accessible in India, and wanted the court
to direct the union ministry of communications and information technology,
besides <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Google-India">Google
India</a> Pvt Ltd to enforce blockade and ensure the film was not accessible in
India. <br />
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In the petition, Shehzad listed the links where the offending material was
available and pointed out that several countries had banned and blocked the
promo. Noting that the film contained racist, anti-religious anti-Muslim hate
speech, he said it was the statutory duty of the Central authorities to ensure
that the fundamental right of citizens to freedom of religion was protected. </ins></span></div>
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PIL seeks special buses for school children</h1>
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A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the
Madras High Court Bench in Madurai to frame special rules governing the
transport of school children in government buses, autorickshaws and vans as it
had been done in the case of private school buses. </div>
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A. Arunothayam Erskine of a non-governmental organisation based
in Virudhunagar district had filed the case through his counsel R. Narayanan.
The petitioner stressed that his plea must be considered seriously as more than
60 per cent of school students travelled in vehicles other than school buses. </div>
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Claiming that the State government had issued 27.2 lakh free bus
passes to school children, Mr. Erskine said that most of them had to travel on
footboard in congested buses and suffer humiliation at the hands of bus drivers
and conductors for travelling free of cost. </div>
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He said that girls and physically challenged children faced
physical as well as mental abuse from some unruly elements while travelling in
public transport. Many a times, the government buses did not halt at bus stops
thereby making the school going children run behind the vehicles for a long
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The petitioner suggested that the government could consider
operating special buses exclusively for the use of school children on the lines
of those operated for women alone. The drivers and conductors of those buses
could be sensitized on the need to treat them properly and behave responsibly. </div>
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PIL alleges graft in land allotment in Noida, Greater Noida</h1>
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filed in the Allahabad high court seeking <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI-probe"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">CBI
probe</span></a> into the allotment of land in Noida and Greater Noida to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/hotel-management"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">hotel
management</span></a> and builders at throwaway prices between 2001 and 2011.</ins></span></div>
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application has been filed in a PIL wherein posting of two senior IAS officers,
Rakesh Bahadur and Sanjeev Saran, in Noida authority has been challenged.</ins></span></div>
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at Noida as chairman, while Sajeev Saran is the CEO.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The bench of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Acting-Chief-Justice-Amitava-Lala"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Acting
Chief Justice Amitava Lala</span></a> and Justice PKS Baghel on Tuesday fixed
to hear this PIL filed by advocate Renu Singh on October 17. This plea will be
heard by the bench along with a PIL filed by Madhav Samaj Kalyan Samiti against
these two IAS officers.</ins></span></div>
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embezzlement in allotment of farmers land in Noida to the hotel management and
builders.</ins></span></div>
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an expert committee to tell in definite terms if the use of pesticide
endosulfan could at all be permitted in the country or it would be in greater
human advantage to ban it in entirety.<br />
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A bench asked a slew of questions to the committee, including the exact
quantity of all forms of endosulfan formulations available in the country.<br />
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The court also wanted to know if it was possible to permit the export of the
pesticide in case its use was not allowed here.<br />
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The Bench sought the response within six weeks while clarifying that it would
not give further time to the committee as the PIL petition seeking permanent
ban has been pending for over a year.<br />
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The court passed the fresh directions after noting that the committee which
consisted of, among others, Director-General, Indian Council for Medical
Research (ICMR) and Commissioner, Agriculture provided no “satisfactory
answers.”<br />
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“Needless to say that the matter is pending for over an year, we want a
definite stand of Union of India,” the court said. The interim order banning
use and manufacture of endosulfan was passed on May 13 on the Centre’s support.<br />
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The committee was told on August 5, last year, to conduct scientific study if
the substance caused health hazard or environmental and ecological damage.<br />
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During the hearing, the court observed: “If we allow use of endosulfan, it
creates human crisis, if we continue with ban, it creates economic crisis.” The
remarks came after it was pointed out that it about Rs 1,232 crore would be
required for disposing of the existing stocks.<br />
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The court decided to add Director-General Health Services, one scientist each
from Agriculture Ministry and ICMR and Joint Secretary, Plant Protection,
Agriculture Ministry and Member Secretary, Central Pollution Control Board as
members of the committee.<br />
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Senior counsel Krishnan Venugopal, appearing for PIL petitioner Democratic
Youth Federation of India, submitted that when report of the committee emanated
from the agriculture side, it tried to circumvent the order of the court
banning the use of the pesticide.<br />
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The director of ICMR could not confirm that there was no consequence on human
health due to its use, he said.<br />
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Framing fresh additional issues for consideration, the Bench told the committee
to hold its meeting within one week and also inform it in case, the use of
endosulfan was not permitted, if it was possible to destroy the available
endosulfan and cost, required in it, along with economic ramifications of such
a decision.<br />
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The court, while posting the matter for passing direction for November 20,
said, “We make it clear we will not be inclined to give any further time to
government on the matter.” The Centre had constituted the joint expert
committee having members among others from National Institute of Animal Health,
a group of epidemologists and immunologists to suggest measures on the issue.<br />
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The committee submitted its report on August 24 saying that, except in Kerala
and Karnataka, the ban might not be imposed because no negative impact of this
pesticide on crops, human and animal health and environment had been reported
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Amit Jethava murder: CBI registers case</h1>
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Delhi</ins></span></span></strong><span class="msoIns"><ins> The CBI on Tuesday
registered a case in connection with the 2010 killing of Gujarat-based RTI
activist Amit Jethava in which a state BJP MP is a suspect. </ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The agency started probe on the instructions of the
High Court which had handed over the case to CBI and criticised the state
police for their shoddy investigations in the murder in which BJP MP from
Junagadh Dinu Bogha Solanki’s nephew Shiva Solanki was arrested for allegedly
carrying out the killing but the MP was given a clean chit. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The agency has lodged the FIR against unknown
persons under Section 302 (murder) of IPC, CBI sources said. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The team of special crime unit would soon be
reaching Ahmedabad to initiate its probe in the case, they said. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>A RTI and environment activist, Jethava, who had
filed numerous RTI applications and a PIL against illegal mining in Gir forest
region, was shot dead outside the Gujarat High Court on July 20, 2010. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The killing had sparked an uproar among the RTI
activists across the country who raised concerns over the safety of such
whistleblowers. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>His father Bhikabhai Jethwa had sought a CBI probe
alleging that Dinu Bogha Solanki was behind the murder. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>In his plea before the High Court, Bhikabhai has
alleged that state police had not properly probed the case and the state
government was shielding the BJP MP. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The division bench of Justices D H Vaghela and J C Upadhyay,
on September 25, while handing over the case to CBI had observed that
investigation in Jethava murder case was “far from fair, independent, bona fide
or prompt”. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The High Court had also rapped the state police for
its shoddy probe. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>“It has come on record that Shiva Solanki (nephew of
BJP MP and prime accused in the case) and DB (Dinu Bogha Solanki) were living
together in a joint family and no investigator could have been easily satisfied
with the statements that they did not interact in respect of the conspiracy to
commit a capital crime,” it had said. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Police had arrested six persons including Shiva and
sharp shooter Sailesh Pandya, who had shot at Jethava but it ruled out any
involvement of Dinu Bogha Solanki in the murder. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court later directed the police to specifically
probe the role of the BJP MP but Solanki got a clean chit again. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Jethava had filed several petitions in the Gujarat
High Court including a Public Interest Litigation in connection with illegal
mining in Gir forests in Junagadh district which is a protected area and last
home to Asiatic lions. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The bench while conceding the demand of the RTI
activist’s father Bhikhabhai, had severely criticised the investigation into
the case conducted by Gujarat police. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>“The commission of murder, in the facts of the
present case, amounted to an affront to the judicial system and a challenge to
implementation of an Act of Parliament, with national repercussions and has to
be viewed seriously,” the bench had observed. It had asked the central agency
to complete further investigation and file the report, preferably within six
months. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>“Murder of a petitioner in a PIL and an RTI
activist, in front of the High Court, could be read as a clear message to the
concerned citizens that they may have to pay by their lives, if they insist
upon using the tools placed in their hands by law and approach the court for
redressal of public grievance against some individuals,” it had said. </ins></span><br />
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Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 10, 2012, 17:25 <br />
Rapid changes in lifestyle and work pressure contribute more to depression,
but not many hospitals in India cater to such patients due to lack of training
in dealing with mental health issues. <br />
This view was articulated by National Human Rights Commission Chairperson K
G Balakrishnan who said such issues should be given priority by medical
practitioners. <br />
"There are about 43 hospitals in the government sector and very few in
the private sector that deal with these issues. Also there are no specific
courses in the MBBS too that deal with the issues of mental health, despite the
fact that they are on the rise due to anxiety and depression in India," he
said. <br />
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At a seminar organised by NHRC to mark Mental Health Day
here, a study said issues of mental health are not given as much priority as
other health problems in the country. </div>
Suggesting the need for an insurance cover for mental health patients, Dr
Prahima Murthy from the NIMHANS, Bangalore said there are better
infrastructural facilities available in the hospitals across the country as
compared to ten years back. <br />
But, she said, the number of trained professionals are limited. <br />
In most cases, patients of schizophrenia and paranoia are subjected to
in-human conditions and human rights violations since most of them are forced
to be treated by their family members at various religious institutions, said
Prof Nimesh G Desai, Director of Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied
Sciences. <br />
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legislations to increase awareness amongst patients and family members.</div>
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Stephanians take roll row to rights panel</h1>
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NEW DELHI: Stephanians do nothing by halves. They've gone as far as the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Human-Rights-Commission">National
Human Rights Commission</a> to reclaim for Rohtas the right to sell rolls from
his dhaba on the college campus. A group of the college's alumni - the Old
Stephanian's Association - has lodged a complaint with the NHRC after their
online campaign and furious statement-issuing failed to elicit a response from
college authorities. Their campaign was launched when the roll-ban was first
discovered by teacher in mid-September.<br />
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The former students believe that the livelihood of Rohtas' family - running the
dhaba on the college premises for decades - will be severely impacted by the
ban. The ban itself - imposed because the dhaba is allowed to serve only
certain items (nimbu paani, gulab jamun) and not compete with the cafe -
creates a situation in which it is no longer feasible for Rohtas to run the
stall, argues Old Stephanian, Ashish Joshi. This, apparently, constitutes a
"gross violation of principles of natural justice, human rights and denial
of equal opportunity to Shri Rohtas, who along with his father late Shri Sukhia
has been running the Dhaba in St Stephen's College for more than fifty
years," as the note puts it. The college authorities had defended the move
saying that considering Rohtas' family does not pay anything for the space they
occupy, they should not compete with the college cafe.<br />
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The Old Stephanians counter that Rohtas' father once sold cigarettes and it was
after the university banned cigarettes, "Rohtas was compensated for loss
of income by allowing him to sell rolls etc." Now that even that has been
stopped, says the letter, "Rohtas has been economically deprived.
Situation has been created that his small business would no longer remain
viable and sustainable. Adverse conditions have been whereby he cannot run a
viable and sustainable business."<br />
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"At his age he cannot find another job," continues the letter,
"He will not be able to look after his family and the family will lose
livelihood and hunger will stare at them.The treatment being meted out to
Rohtas is at variance with humanitarian principles."<br />
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Times View<br />
The feeling of outrage at rolls being banned at this eatery may be entirely
genuine, but surely it needs to be tempered with some sense of proportion. We
very much doubt that the idea behind setting up the NHRC was to deal with
violations of students' rights to have the menu of their choice at college eateries.
Raising this issue in such a forum only serves to trivialize the notion of
human rights. The petitioners would be best advised to apologize to the NHRC
for wasting its time and withdraw their plea.</div>
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Ban on tinted car glasses in Kokrajhar</h1>
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KOKRAJHAR: District transport officials along with the traffic police of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kokrajhar">Kokrajhar</a> on
Monday have launched a massive drive against the use of tinted glasses in car
windows or windshields following a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a>
order. Kokrajhar is second to Guwahati in being a part of such a directive.<br />
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District transport officials and the Kokrajhar traffic police were seen
carrying out the drive by removing tinted glasses from cars at several
locations in the town. Apart from private cars, few government vehicles with
tinted glasses were also hauled up.<br />
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Kokrajhar MVI <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/inspector">inspector</a>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/D-Shyam">D Shyam</a> said the
drive is being carried out following the directives of higher authority which
came after the Supreme Court order. The Supreme Court had issued a ban on the
use of sun control films and tinted glasses on May 2. The order was in response
to a PIL which alleged that vehicles with tinted glasses were increasingly used
for criminal activities including sexual abuse. The law enforcing authorities
believe this order will help them control crime and even nab criminals as they
can now easily identify people sitting inside a car.<br />
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activities would be controlled through this. The ban is applicable to all vehicles
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Non-hygienic conditions at slum; HC asks sr official to
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Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 09, 2012, 11:03</div>
Irked over alleged inaction of civic bodies in ensuring "hygienic"
conditions at a slum here, the Delhi High Court today asked a senior Delhi
Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) official to appear before it and
apprise it of steps taken in this regard. <br />
"Do not make a person to come to the court before you (DSIB and MCD)
finally act...Let the person concerned (Chief Engineer of DUSIB) appear in
person next Monday," said Chief Justice D Murugesan. <br />
The bench, also comprising Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, asked the civic
bodies to file a status report by October 15, the next date of hearing, on
steps taken by it to ensure healthy living conditions at Indira Kalyan Vihar
slum at Okhla in South Delhi. <br />
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Human Rights India (CFHRI) through advocate Nanita Sharma alleging South Delhi
Municipal Corporation (SDMC) and the DUSIB were "passing the buck" to
each other, while shying away from their duty to ensure hygienic living
conditions there. </div>
The PIL has sought a direction to the civic bodies "to ensure clean,
hygienic living conditions of the inhabitants of the slum at Indira Kalyan
Vihar" as all drains in the area were found open and clogged. <br />
"The whole slum colony stands by thick swarm of flies carrying germs of
all types of diseases and posing risk of outbreak of an epidemic... <br />
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the slum dwellers is a flurry of buzzing mosquitoes in every nook and corner of
the slum, posing a great risk of outbreak of a lot of deadly diseases like
malaria, dengue, chicken guinea, etc," the petition alleged, adding that
no action has been taken so far by the authorities.</div>
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Road rage victim brings Facebook campaign to real world</h1>
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MUMBAI: A south Mumbai-based advocate, who had flagged off an online
campaign against errant motorists, brought the battle offline on Saturday with
a first-ever meet of all members to discuss how they could make an actual
difference.<br />
Armin Wandrewala, who founded the group Sanity on our Roads (SOOR) on
Facebook, was herself the victim of a road rage case two years ago when a biker
knocked her down as she chided him for breaking a signal. Following the
incident, the Bombay Bar Association pursued the matter, which led to the
filing of a PIL in court.<br />
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agreement with many builders that latter will provide drinking water for
projects, says consumer court is an option</span></div>
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at best, and shady at the other end of the spectrum. While the Bombay High
Court has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to reply to it over not
providing clean drinking water to nearly 5,000 residents of Raheja Gardens
housing complex in Wanowrie, the civic body itself is fighting shy of taking a
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housing projects in areas where the civic body clearly states its inability to
provide clean drinking water after the builder undertakes to provide the same.
However, in case of violations of the undertaking by the builder, there is little
the PMC will do for the aggieved flat owner apart from some friendly advice. <br />
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PMC superintending engineer (Water Supply) Narendra Salunke said, “In case
there is a violation of the undertaking (to provide water) by the builder, the
flat owners can approach a consumer court.<br />
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take action, like withholding building permission for future projects by the
offending builder after verifying the charges. We have not maintained records
of how many such societies have been built based on this undertaking.” <br />
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One of the oldest housing complexes in the city, Raheja Gardens comprises 945
flats. <br />
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The residents had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on February 21, 2012
after it was revealed via an RTI query that Raheja Builders and PMC had signed
a development agreement, which stated that the construction of the scheme is
allowed on the condition that it was the builder’s responsibility to supply
water to all buildings in the layout, instead of the PMC.<br />
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The PIL named the municipal commissioner, Raheja Builders Group, the
superintendent engineer of PMC’s water supply and drainage department and
others as respondents in the case.<br />
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In their petition, residents have claimed that although they are paying water
tax of Rs 12 lakh every year, PMC is denying them their basic right. On July 19
this year, the HC had directed Raheja Builders to look into the matter and take
appropriate steps.<br />
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However, residents are now alleging that the builder is still supplying
contaminated water, mixing it with PMC-provided potable water. They also
furnished a laboratory analysis of the water, which stated that it is not fit
for drinking.<br />
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Prakash Walde, a petitioner and resident, said, “I have purchased a water
filter twice in one month. When the first purifier broke down, the company
changed it during the guarantee period. When I insisted that the machine be
changed again, the sales manager inspected the machine and told us that the
water quality is very bad and no purifier will sustain in such water.”<br />
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A resident of Dahlia Society in Raheja Gardens, Mohammed Sayeed Merchant, said,
“Water supplied by the builder is not potable. I buy mineral water for daily
consumption as I have small children. It’s very expensive to buy water
everyday.”<br />
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A J Mistry, secretary of Lily Society, said, “The water provided by the builder
is so filthy that water purifiers break down. The builder’s new system to
chlorinate it is also not appropriate. It is our basic right to get clean
drinking water. We are the highest taxpayers here and are paying water tax
too.”<br />
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The petition stated the PMC has not been supplying water though it is its
responsibility as per the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, and
that Raheja Builders hid the fact about the development agreement at the time
of handing over possession.<br />
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The PIL further stated, “The source of water is by an underground stream, which
has seepage from a nearby sewage canal. It is an open canal where dogs, cats,
pigs urinate. Solid waste including sanitary napkins, animal carcasses are
dumped in it. The same water is alleged to be ‘treated’ and supplied to the
residents of Raheja Gardens Complex.”<br />
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Advocate for the petitioners, Shirin Merchant, also a resident, said, “We have
prayed that the court be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus under Article 226
of the Constitution of India, 1950, directing the respondent PMC and Raheja
Builders to immediately start supplying adequate potable and pure drinking
water to all the residents of the said Raheja Gardens Complex.”<br />
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The PIL prayed to direct the PMC to permanently refrain itself from sanctioning
building plans based on undertakings given by builders and developers that they
shall supply water to flat buyers.<br />
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It urged to direct that the civic body make it mandatory for such builders to
annexe a copy of such undertakings to the flat booking agreements, to ensure
that flat buyers are informed about such an undertaking. <br />
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The builder should regularly issue public notices in this regard in leading
local newspapers, as well publish the names of such constructions on its
websites permanently to be viewed by prospective flat purchasers.<br />
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The PIL urged that the PMC should refund the water tax that it has been
collecting from the residents of Raheja Gardens Complex since its inception,
showing the amounts received from each tenement.<br />
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A Peerzada, project manager with Raheja Builders, Pune and Sanjay Shinolikar,
general manager, said they cannot comment on this issue as the matter is
sub-judice. “The court will decide the further course of action. We have been
providing clean water right from the first day,” Peerzada said.<br />
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Salunke added, “We’re yet to receive a copy of the HC order. We’ll submit to
the court that we are ready to supply potable water after the existing water
supply network is adequately expanded. As per the undertakings, till date the
responsibility of water supply is with the builder.”<br />
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Advocate Aroona Nafday, convenor, Pune Forum for Flat Owners (PUFO), said,
“There is no provision in any Act or in the DC rules that water cannot be
supplied to residents. It is mandatory that the PMC supply water, as it is a
basic right. <br />
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We’re hopeful the decision will be in favour of the concerned residents.
Sanctioning of building projects should not be given if there is a water
crisis. The concerned builder and PMC engineer should be slapped with criminal
cases, as this is cheating.”</span></div>
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SC quashes liquor vend re-auction that 'favored' Ponty in 2004</h1>
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CHANDIGARH: In a major setback to the Punjab government, the Supreme Court
(SC) on Tuesday dismissed the appeal filed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Punjab-government">Punjab
government</a> against a seven years old verdict of the Punjab and Haryana high
court, which had quashed the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/re-auction-of-liquor-vends">re-auction
of liquor vends</a> in various major cities of the state held in November 2004.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Re-auction of the vends
conducted in November 2004 was found to be conducted in violation of Punjab
Liquor Licence Rules, 1956 to benefit firms of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ponty-Chadha">Ponty Chadha</a>
at the cost of the state exchequer.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>In its November 11, 2005
orders, a division bench comprising Chief Justice D K Jain and Justice Hemant
Gupta of the HC had set aside the auction/re-auction done by the excise
department and also directed that the amount deposited by Sanjeev Bhandari, an
unsuccessful bidder, Rs 6.07 crores be remitted with interest.</ins></span></div>
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had also ordered action against all the government officials for conducting the
re-auction in breach of rules and their failure to carry out the mandate of
liquor rules and to safeguard the interests of the state.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Aggrieved, the Punjab
government had moved SC in appeal to quash the said judgment.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, contesting the
state government's appeal, senior advocate Mohan Jain had argued that the state
exchequer had suffered a loss of Rs 11.78 crore in the re-auction process,
which was done to favour Ponty of UP because it was conducted by changing the
reserve price arbitrarily in contravention of the liquor rules.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Advocate Mohan Jain, who
had appeared for Sanjeev Bhandari, had also contended that the excise
department lowered the reserve price to Rs 75 per bottle so that the bidders,
who belonged to the Ponty group, could take advantage of it. After the
re-auction, he said, the authorities announced a loss of Rs 17.79 crores and
then claimed improvement by reducing the loss to Rs 11.78 crores through
negotiations with successful bidders.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The Punjab government
will have to take action against all those state government officers involved,
because of whom the state exchequer had suffered a huge loss. The state will
have to return Rs 6.7 crores to Sanjeev Bhandari with interest from November
2004.</ins></span></div>
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SC may allow tiger tourism in core reserve areas</h1>
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NEW DELHI: With the season of festivals and holidays drawing near, the
Supreme Court on Tuesday served some good news for wildlife enthusiasts by
indicating that it would lift the two-and-a-half month old ban on tourism in
core areas of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/tiger-reserves">tiger
reserves</a> next week. <br />
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After additional solicitor general Indira Jaising informed that <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Tiger-Conservation-Authority">National
Tiger Conservation Authority</a> (NTCA) would notify new guidelines permitting
regulated tourism in core areas within a week, the court fixed further hearing
on October 16 and said on that day, it would "modify or vacate" its
July 24 interim ban order. <br />
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A bench of Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar realized that the court
could not have passed the July 24 order on a special leave petition challenging
an interim order of Madhya Pradesh High Court and said, "The Supreme Court
could not in these proceedings either put a stamp of approval on the NTCA
guidelines or quash them." <br />
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After the interim ban, the NTCA revisited its guidelines on tiger reserve
management, made a U-turn, and framed fresh guidelines giving importance to
public participation in efforts to conserve tigers and recommended limited
tourism in 20% of core areas under strict supervision of forest officials. <br />
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Given the legal status of the guidelines framed by NTCA under its statutory
obligations, the bench said, "NTCA may therefore issue the formal notification
notifying the comprehensive guidelines in accordance with the Wildlife
Conservation Act. The additional solicitor general appearing for the NTCA
submits that the requisite notification will be issued within a week. List the
matter for further hearing on Tuesday, October 16, for consideration of the
prayer for vacating/modifying the interim order." <br />
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The SC's July 24 interim order banning tourism in core areas of tiger reserves
had cut off access to popular tourist destinations like Dhikala in Corbett
National Park. It had brought politicians and environmentalists together in
citing the importance of tourism in core areas for protecting the endangered
big cat from poachers. <br />
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What the court was concerned about was rampant commercialization of buffer and
core areas of tiger reserves without proper demarcation of these two important
areas in protected forests. Its interim ban had shaken the NTCA to shed its
lethargy and consult stakeholders before framing fresh guidelines on a war
footing. <br />
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On July 9, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) had filed the
'Guidelines for Ecotourism in and around Protected Areas' in the apex court and
said, "Any core area in tiger reserves from which relocation has been
carried out will not be used for tourism activities." <br />
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The guidelines were based on key recommendations of the Tiger Task Force (2005)
and were in sync with Section 38(v) of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 (as
amended in 2006), which defined core/critical wildlife habitats as such areas
that needed to be kept inviolate for tiger conservation without affecting the
rights of Scheduled Tribes or forest dwellers. <br />
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On September 26, the NTCA submitted new guidelines to the SC and said tourists
were permitted to visit only 20% of core areas of tiger reserves and it was
well within ecologically permissible levels. <br />
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Taking into account the court's concern for tiger conservation, the NTCA had
said conservation efforts must have public participation and regulated tourism
was an effective and invaluable tool to harness community support for this
purpose. <br />
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It had said, "With the importance of tourism in tiger conservation in
mind, it is recommended that a maximum of 20% of the core/critical tiger
habitat usage (not exceeding the present usage) for regulated, low-impact
tourist visitation may be permitted." <br />
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The core area is kept free of biotic disturbances and forestry operations,
where collection of minor forest produce, grazing and human disturbances are
not allowed. The Act defines buffer zone as the area peripheral to the critical
tiger habitat or core area providing supplementary habitat for dispersing
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Man ordered capital punishment</div>
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Press Trust of India / Sambalpur (Odisha) October 09, 2012, 11:02 <br />
A local court ordered capital punishment to a man today for the murder of a
minor girl after raping her last month. <br />
District Sessions Judge Bibhu Prasad Routray ordered that Pradip Dalai be
hanged till death for mercilessly killing the 7-year-old old girl and rigorous
life imprisonment for raping her. <br />
Dalai (27), a driver, was also convicted for tampering with evidence
(section 201) and kidnapping (section 366) under the IPC. <br />
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The court had convicted the man October 1 and pronounced the
death sentence today. </div>
The girl, a standard two student, was playing with her friends on September
2 afternoon when Pradip lured her away on the promise of treating her to
chowmein. <br />
When the girl who called Pradip, a father of two, 'mamu' (maternal uncle)
did not return even after night fall her family members launched a search and
found her body in a bush in the early hours of the next day. <br />
The girl, daughter of a daily wage earner, was found to have been raped and
then strangulated during autopsy. <br />
Pradip was arrested and forwarded to court the next day and chargesheeted
within seven days. <br />
Pradip is the sixth person to be awarded the death sentence in Odisha's
Sambalpur district in 58 years. One person was awarded capital punishment in
1954, followed by two in 1993 and another two in 2009. So far only the 1954
death sentence has been executed. <br />
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to death in the country in 2004. He too was charged for raping and murdering a
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Man who staged wife's murder as suicide gets life</div>
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A man who had killed his wife by hanging her from ceiling and attempted to
stage it as suicide has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court. <br />
Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar convicted Feroze considering,
besides other circumstances, the medical opinion which confirmed that the
hanging was not suicidal but "homicidal". <br />
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Feroze. <br />
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court due to lack of evidence. </div>
Feroze was found guilty of murdering his wife Tarannum, whom he had married
in 2007, by hanging her from ceiling of their room on the intervening night of
August 11-12, 2010. <br />
Tarannum's brother told police and the court that Feroze and his mother used
to harass and beat her but it nowhere transpired if it was for dowry. <br />
The court arrived at the conclusion that it was a case of murder and not
suicide, considering the medical evidence that all injuries of the victim were
fresh and death was due to asphyxia caused by homicidal hanging. <br />
On the question as to who killed Tarannum, the court held Feroze guilty as
he had deposed that he was sleeping with his wife in the same room and he found
her hanging when he woke up late in the night. <br />
"In the given circumstances, it was for Feroze to explain as to how did
Tarannum suffer fresh injuries on her person. This goes to show that scuffle
took place prior to Tarannum was hanged. The doctor has categorically opined
that it was not a case of suicidal hanging," the judge said. <br />
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to his mother to inform that his wife has hanged herself and not calling the
police goes against him.</div>
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Transfer bail proceedings to Mumbai: Pandian to HC</h1>
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AHMEDABAD: One of the accused cops in the 2005 <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sohrabuddin-Sheikh-fake-encounter-case">Sohrabuddin
Sheikh fake encounter case</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajkumar-Pandian">Rajkumar
Pandian</a> has requested the Gujarat high court to shift the court proceeding
on his bail plea to Mumbai.</div>
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Pandian's application came after the Supreme
Court transferred the fake encounter case outside Gujarat on the request by the
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Central-Bureau-of-Investigation">Central
Bureau of Investigation</a> (CBI). Justice R H Shukla adjourned the case till
October 16, said the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI">CBI</a>
counsel Yogesh Ravani.</div>
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Pandian argued in this case as party-in-person,
and the local CBI court has now declared that the accused would not be in its
custody as it was to hand over case papers to the high court for further
transfer of case to Mumbai.</div>
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The suspended IPS officer has filed a bail
application before the special CBI court on Mirzapur court campus. His earlier
bail applications were rejected by the sessions court as well as the high
court.</div>
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Last week, the high court refused to entertain a
bail application filed by another accused cop, N K Amin. The high court did not
act on the bail plea citing jurisdiction issue, particularly after the transfer
of the case.</div>
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As per the chargesheets filed by the CBI as well
as CID (crime), it was the former ATS SP Pandian who had gone to Hyderabad to
abduct Sohrabuddin. However, apparently he made the trip as he had gone to
inspect a bomb-blast site in Andhra Pradesh. He has also been accused of
playing key role in elimination of the gangster and his wife Kauserbi after
they were brought to Ahmedabad.</div>
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Pandian has also been named an accused in the
Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter, which took place a year after Sohrabuddin's
encounter. However, Pandian was never arrested by CID (crime), though he has
been in judicial custody in another case for more than five years.</div>
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Twin murder case: Double lifer for six accused </h1>
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News Service</a></div>
Nearly a decade after two men were murdered in Kollakodai in Ponganur village
in Jawadhu Hills, Additional District Sessions Court-III in Tirupattur on
Monday sentenced six persons to double life imprisonment and imposed a fine of
Rs 13,000 each.<br />
Judge M Prakasan found the six accused, Jayabalan (34) and Thirumurugan (29)
of Athimur village, and Bala (alias) Balasubramani (21), Mosh (alias)
Moses (21), Murugan (21), and Manikandan (19), all from Polur, guilty of the
crime and sentenced them to double life imprisonment under Section 396 (dacoity
with murder) of IPC and slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 each. He also awarded them
seven years rigorous imprisonment and penalty of Rs 1,000 each under Section
395 (dacoity), seven years (RI) and penalty of Rs 1,000 under Section 302
(murder) of IPC and two years RI and Rs 1,000 fine under Section 201
(disappearance of evidence) of IPC, said Additional Public Prosecutor A Dilli
Babu.<br />
Jamunamaruthur Police registered a case against the the six accused and
arrested them on December 21, 2002. Police investigations revealed that the
accused had strangled Poochi (40) and Chinnapillai (37), who were on night
watch at a farm, in the late hours of December 17 and robbed them. After
dumping their bodies in a nearby well, they went to Poochi’s house in Ponganur
assaulted his 15-year-old son Babu and escaped with gold jewellery from the
house.<br />
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<b>Mandi (HP), Oct 9 (PTI)</b> Acting on a letter written
by a prisoner lodged in Sub Jail Mandi to Sessions Judge, Mandi, the court
granted him bail and asked him to furnish bail bonds and two sureties before a
lower court.<br />
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Laxmender Pandey, a resident of Kalka (Haryana), wrote a letter to Virender
Singh, Sessions Judge Mandi, seeking bail.</div>
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Court acquits youth of charges of kidnapping minor girl</div>
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Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 09, 2012, 17:05</div>
A Delhi court has acquitted a youth of the charges of kidnapping a
14-year-old girl and forcing her to marry him, relying on her testimony that
she was in love with him and had accompanied him of her own free will. <br />
Additional Sessions Judge J R Aryan freed Bihar-native
Sillan Kumar Das after considering the girl's statement that she knew
him for the past five years and had willingly gone to Bihar with him in
December last year where they had married. <br />
The prosecutor had argued that as the girl was less than 18 years of age,
there was no question of her consenting for being taken away from her parents'
custody. <br />
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However, the court said, "Even if the girl was a little
less than 18 years of age but if she has got married to accused and had
accompanied him by her sweet consent and wish then offence of kidnapping or
graver charge of kidnapping intended for some illicit purpose cannot be held to
have been made out from the evidence of the girl and other evidence. </div>
"Rest all witnesses in this case were formal and
were only of supporting nature. Accordingly, prosecution case was closed.
Accused is acquitted of the charge." <br />
According to prosecution, the girl's parents had lodged a complaint that
there minor daughter has been kidnapped by accused Das on December 29 last year
when she had gone out. <br />
The police said that the girl was kidnapped with an intention to force her
into illicit relationship. <br />
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Delhi in January this year and she told the court that she was in love with Das
and had married him in Bhagalpur in Bihar with her consent.</div>
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Court awards lifer to duo for murdering cop</h6>
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<a href="http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Oct/10/court-awards-lifer-to-duo-for-murdering-cop-83.asp">http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Oct/10/court-awards-lifer-to-duo-for-murdering-cop-83.asp</a></h4>
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SHAHID RAFIQ </h4>
Kupwara, Oct 9: A local court here on Tuesday convicted a duo for murdering a
cop and awarded life term to them.<br />
Principal Sessions Judge Kupwara, Shahzad Azem convicted Shabir Ahmad
Bhat of Maratgam Handwara and Mushtaq Malla of Shatgund Maratgam after they
were found guilty of murdering a cop, Abdul Gaffar Mir of Maratgam Handwara
seven years ago. <br />
After hearing arguments of the counsels representing the State and the
accused, the court had on Wednesday last reserved its judgment on the petition
which was announced on Tuesday.<br />
The prosecution examined 14 witnesses during the trial and all of them
corroborated the contents of the First Information Report.<br />
The prosecution was able to prove the guilt of the accused under Section
302 (murder) of RPC and under section 7/25 of Arms Act, who were accordingly
convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the court with a fine of Rs,
50000 each.<br />
The court directed that Rs 30000 from the fine of each accused be
provided to the next of kin of the victim. “In case of default the convict will
have to undergo a further imprisonment of six months,” the court said in the
86-page judgment.<br />
Emotional scenes were witnessed in the court room, when the judgment was
being pronounced. The family members of the victim family hugged each other.<br />
Reacting to the verdict of court, Zainab widow of the victim said
“justice has been eventually done to us. We were waiting for the day when the
killers would get the lifer”.<br />
The constable Abdul Gaffar Mir of Badugh Kralgund Handwara was killed on
September 6, 2006. A case under FIR under sections 302 of RPC and 7/25 of Arms
Act was registered in Police station Kralgund against the accused. <br />
After concluding investigations, the police had apprehended the accused
and chargesheet was presented in sessions court on August, 22, 2008.<br />
The State was defended by senior public prosecutor Ghulam Muhammad Shah.<br />
while the convicts were represented by counsels, Bashir Ahmad Dar and Mir
Bashir Ahmad.<br />
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TP murder case transferred to Kozhikode court</h1>
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KOZHIKODE: Vadakara judicial first class magistrate has committed the T P
Chandrasekharan murder case to Kozhikode district and sessions court.
Magistrate M Shuhaib transferred the case to the higher court as the procedures
in the magistrate court had been completed. <br />
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The principal sessions judge, Kozhikode, will take a decision on the court
where the case will come up for trial. The principal sessions judge himself can
try the case or will forward the case to some other court. <br />
<br />
Sources said there was very little chance for setting up a special court for
the trial. "If the charges are framed by the court and the schedule fixed,
trial can be finished within months," a source said. <br />
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Meanwhile, Vadakara magistrate rejected the bail pleas of the accused,
including P K Kunhanandan and K C Ramachandran. The accused argued that the
chargesheet in the case was incomplete. But the court accepted the prosecution
stand that only the larger conspiracy behind the case needed to be
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Panel to look into sexual harassment cases within SC premises created</h1>
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<span class="byline">TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 10, 2012, 01.12AM IST</span><i><span style="color: #757575; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></div>
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NEW DELHI: It took 15 years and a petition by 63 women lawyers for the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court-Bar-Association">Supreme
Court Bar Association</a> (SCBA) to set up a committee, as mandated in the apex
court's judgment, to look into complaints of sexual harassment within the
premises of the highest court. <br />
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A month back, the women lawyers had petitioned the Supreme Court seeking
implementation of its 1997 judgment in Vishaka case mandating that every
office, including in the private sector, constitute a committee comprising
mostly of women, to look into complaints of sexual harassment at the workplace.
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The petitioners had said, "There is no forum in Supreme Court, or the
courts below, for women to address the issue of sexual harassment experienced
by them frequently at the hands of their colleagues and persons in whose
contact they come in while discharging their duties as advocates." <br />
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The issue was raised on Tuesday at the Supreme Court Bar Association's
executive meeting by assistant secretary Gaurav Bhatia and the body constituted
a five-member committee to look into complaints of sexual harassment of women
lawyers in the Supreme Court premises. It comprised senior advocates Altaf
Ahmed and Pinky Anand and avocates Meera Bhatia, Kumud Lata Das and Sharbani
Chakravarthy. <br />
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The women lawyers in their petition had said, "In order to sub-serve the
ends of justice towards the women advocates who require protection from sexual
harassment in court precincts, there is an urgent requirement that SC gives
further directions in this regard." They had requested the court to make
them a party in a pending case relating to alleged physical violence against a
female advocate in Delhi High Court. <br />
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As per the guidelines laid down in the 1997 Vishaka judgment, a committee
headed by a woman and with a majority of women members had to be set up in the
apex court, each HC and trial court so that such cases could be addressed and
resolved, the women lawyers had said. "At present, there is no such forum
and in the light of the case before the Supreme Court, such a committee is the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEW DELHI The Supreme Court has said
that anything uttered in a fit of anger resulting in another person committing
an offence or taking his life would not amount to abetment or instigation.<br />
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“The words uttered in the fit of anger or omission without any intention cannot
be termed as an instigation,” a court bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla said in a judgment.<br />
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“The offence of abetment by instigation depends upon the intention of the
person who abets and not upon the act which is done by the person who has
abetted. The abetment may be by an instigation, conspiracy or intentional aid
as provided under Section 107 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” said Justice
Chauhan who pronounced the judgment.<br />
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Holding that the instigation had to be gathered from the circumstances of a
particular case, the court said: “No straight-jacket formula can be laid down
to find out as to whether in a particular case there has been instigation which
forces the person to commit suicide.”<br />
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Referring to a scenario where in a case there may not be direct evidence of
abetment, the judgment said: “In a particular case, there may not be direct
evidence in regard to instigation which may have direct nexus to suicide.”<br />
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Having pointed to a situation of no direct evidence, the judgment said:
“Therefore, in such a case, an inference has to be drawn from the circumstances
and it is to be determined whether circumstances had been such which in fact
had created the situation that a person felt totally frustrated and committed
suicide.”<br />
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“More so” the court said: “While dealing with an application for quashing of
the proceedings, a court cannot form a firm opinion, rather a tentative view
that would evoke the presumption referred to under Section 228 Cr.P.C. (Court
of Criminal Procedure)”<br />
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The Section 228 of the Cr.P.C. deals with the filing of charges says that a
judge before committing a case for trial have to be satisfied that there are
grounds for presuming that the accused has committed an offence. <br />
<br />
Under the Section 228 Cr. P.C. the charges have to be read and explained to the
accused and the accused shall be asked whether he pleads guilty of the offence
charged with or claims to be tried.<br />
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The court said this while dismissing an appeal by one Praveen Pradhan who is
accused of abetting the suicide of one Anuraj Singh.<br />
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In the complaint filed by the deceased Anuraj Singh’s brother, Ambreesh Singh
it was alleged that Praveen Pradhan had been compelling his brother for long to
indulge in several wrongful practices at the work place, which he resisted. In
retribution Pradhan allegedly started making illegal demands, which were not
complied with.<br />
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As a consequence Pradhan on one occasion sought to disgrace Anuraj Singh in
front of the other staff members by saying that “had there been any other
person in his place, he would have died by hanging himself”.<br />
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Soon thereafter, Anuraj Singh on October 6, 2005, narrated the incident to his
relatives and next day on October 7, 2005, committed suicide after
leaving behind a note holding Pradhan responsible for his extreme step.</span></div>
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Five realty firms 'encroach' on defence land, booked</h1>
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Gupta</a>, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 10, 2012, 02.35AM IST</span></div>
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MUMBAI: The Hill Line police in Thane on Tuesday booked five Mumbai-based
construction companies for allegedly encroaching and constructing on land
belonging to the Indian Air Force. The land in question is at Nevali village in
Ambernath taluka of Thane district.</ins></span></div>
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complaint filed by Air Force official Ravindra Ahire, the five companies forged
documents of survey numbers 94,109 and 113 and constructed illegally on the
land.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Sources said the land is
around 40,000 sq ft. The Nevali plot, situated around 50 km from Mumbai, was
one of the busiest airbases of the British during World War II.
Post-Independence, the ownership of the land was transferred to the ministry of
defence. -Pradeep Gupta</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"The companies have
been booked under sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of
property), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), and 34
(common intention) of Indian Penal code and Section 52 (penalty for
unauthorized development) of the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning (MRTP)
Act," said senior inspector N V Jadhav.</ins></span></div>
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Dowry Thrives In India In Gold Or Hard Cash<br />
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<b>By Saraswathi Muniappan</b><br />
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NEW DELHI, Oct 9 (Bernama) -- The skyrocketing gold price has not deterred the
practice of giving dowry in India, instead families have become more innovative
in meeting the dowry obligation.<br />
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Gold, which is traditionally given by the bride's family as dowry, seems to
have lost its luster especially after the commodity's price breached Rs 32,000
(RM1,747) per 10gm recently.<br />
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Nowadays, Indian families seem to have moved away from gold to hard cash or
properties or a combination of any of the two or all three.<br />
<br />
In a modern India, the dowry system seems to have withstood the test of time
and legislation barring the practice. In fact, it is thriving though many view
giving dowry as a diabolic practice.<br />
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Fat Indians weddings and dowry as a precondition for marriage is a norm and
glamorously reported in the media though dowry is blamed for many of the
cruelties against women.<br />
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<b>DOWRY HAS GONE AGAINST WOMEN</b><br />
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Dowry, known as Stree Dhan, is actually gift items usually given to the bride
by her parents and relatives at the time of marriage.<br />
<br />
In Hindu scripts, the Vedas, dowry is mentioned as Kanyadaan (gift of the
maiden), said Nitasha Agarwal, chief manager of Smile Foundation, an NGO
working for women's welfare and empowerment.<br />
<br />
"As the daughter in a family is not entitled for equal share in the family
property, they are given gifts in the form of dowry but sometimes it is offered
to entice the groom's family.<br />
<br />
"This has obviously worked against the women and their basic rights,"
she said.<br />
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<b>CRUELTY TO WOMEN</b><br />
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It is common knowledge that in most communities in India the amount of dowry
given is nothing less then 100 sovereigns of gold and when a girl is born the
family starts saving for her wedding immediately.<br />
<br />
"Thus girls are considered liability, therefore female foeticide and
infanticide prevails," she told Bernama in an email interview.<br />
<br />
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan in his Satyamev Jayate (Truth Alone Prevails) talk
show brought to light that 80 per cent of bank loans were taken by people to
meet dowry demands.<br />
<br />
Moreover, the dowry demands continue even after marriage and failure to fulfill
the demands lead to harassment, physical and mental torture and the horrific
practice of 'bride burning' .<br />
<br />
"One woman dies every hour in India in dowry related cases," Aamir
revealed in his show.<br />
<br />
Nitasha also blamed on the misplaced societal perception that if a girl is
married at an early age, a small amount of dowry would work but if the girl is
educated then the family has to pay a high dowry to seek a bridegroom of same
status.<br />
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Therefore, the dowry system to a great extent is also to be blamed for child
marriages, neglect of daughters and sexual harassment.<br />
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<b>PROHIBITED BY LAW</b><br />
<br />
Meanwhile Dr Rizwana Parvin, a practicing lawyer in Delhi said that India has
sufficient laws to protect women but has not been enforced properly and do not
fully take into account several gender sensitive issues.<br />
<br />
Dowry is even banned under the Dowry Prohibition Act 1961 and Section 498A of
Indian Penal Code (IPC) while a host of other laws protect women against
domestic violence, rape, and prohibit gender selection tests.<br />
<br />
However, there is a lack of awareness about these laws. Also, it is the fear of
social stigma that stops women from seeking divorce when they suffer domestic
violence due to dowry demand or any other reason.<br />
<br />
"So, women to some extent tolerate such harassment either not knowing the
existence of laws that protect them or due to the mindset of how the society
will look at them when they seek divorce," she told Bernama.<br />
<br />
"I have handled a few matrimonial disputes (related to dowry and
otherwise) and the women found proper justice and their needs were well taken
care of.<br />
<br />
"The fact that dowry-related violence and deaths have shown no abatement
in the past two decades only indicate that the existing laws have not been
implemented properly and therefore failed to serve as deterrents," said
Rizwana.<br />
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<b>HIGHEST CRIME AGAINST WOMEN</b><br />
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Thousands of women are killed every year in India over dowry. The cases of
dowry-related torture are the highest accounting for 32.4 per cent of crimes
against women in the country.<br />
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Among the recent cases were a young woman being brutally killed allegedly by
her husband for dowry in Vijapore village of Navsari district, Gujarat and a
woman from Punjab claimed she was tortured by her husband and in-laws for
giving birth to a girl and bringing 'inadequate' dowry.<br />
<br />
And such cases are not restricted to poor or uneducated segment of the Indian
society.<br />
<br />
Early last month, a 28-year-old homemaker was allegedly murdered by her
engineer husband over dowry at Motilal Mallick Lane in Baranagar, Kolkata.
While the husband was arrested, the victim's mother-in-law fled.<br />
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Dowry deaths continue and their perpetrators consistently go unpunished,
despite a considerable amount of activism both globally and domestically and
the availability of international and domestic laws, said Nitasha.<br />
<br />
A report quoting the National Crime Records Bureau's statistics indicate a
crime has been recorded against women in every three minutes in India.<br />
<br />
Every 60 minutes, two women are raped in the country. Every six hours, a young
married woman is found beaten to death, burnt or driven to suicide.<br />
<br />
"Gender subordination is among the reasons for such violence against women
as they are generally considered as secondary compared with men in terms of
education and career," said Nitasha.<br />
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Others were institutionalisation of dowry system all across society-caste,
class and religion as well as turning dowry into opportunity to make gains and
as a marketing exercise. The problem is made worst by the lack of stringent
action against dowry law violators, she pointed out.<br />
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"Women are trying hard to save their lives and dignity with the support of
legal amendments, media, serious activism, and heightened awareness. Despite of
all these protests, India still could not shed the dowry stigma," she
said.<br />
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<b>IT IS STILL NOT TOO LATE</b><br />
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The mechanism to stop crime against women should be strengthened further by
making the authorities, such as police to be more sensitive in handling gender
issues, said Nitasha.<br />
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Firstly, there should be a proper system to report on crime against women,
active and properly functioning women police cell as well as crises centres.<br />
<br />
Shelter homes had to have competent counselors and proper rehabilitation
approach, she explained.<br />
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Capacity building among young girls, boys and local leaders to say no to dowry
is another method of weeding such problem from young.<br />
<br />
She said civil society organisations and individuals should also work on
changing perception of family and society towards girl, especially parental
perception towards their child and her upbringing, rights to property and
awareness on laws and protection policies.<br />
<br />
"We have encourage people to start thinking positively, because when our
social relationship is dictated by religion, caste and creed, we follow all
that exists within. Yet when we come out from the closet, we see others as
humans in our social relationship," she said.<br />
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3/7: 'Yasin Bhatkal planted bomb at Dadar'</h1>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">An accused
in the July 13 Mumbai [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=mumbai" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ] serial blasts
last year has confessed that fugitive Indian Mujahideen [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=indian+mujahideen" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a>
] chief Yasin Bhatkal planted the bomb at suburban Dadar that left one person
dead and 14 others wounded.<br />
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The bomb had exploded atop a bus stop in Dadar. The main objective of Bhatkal
behind hatching the conspiracy and planting the bomb was to trigger communal
conflagration in Mumbai, IM member Nadeem Sheikh said in his 25-page
confession.<br />
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The confession was recorded before a magistrate's court in March under section
164 of CrPC (recording of confessions and statements) and opened last week,
sources said.<br />
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Twenty-seven people were killed and 127 injured when three near-simultaneous
explosions ripped through Dadar, Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House on July 13
evening.<br />
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According to Sheikh, the conspiracy to trigger blasts was hatched in February
2011 after Bhatkal arrived in the city and introduced him to planters of the
bombs at Opera House and Zaveri Bazar, Waqas and Tabrez respectively.<br />
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Sheikh said Bhatkal along with Naquee Ahmed, Waqas, Tabrez, and a person
identified only as Munnabhai [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=munnabhai" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ] worked out the
details of the plan in a secret meeting held on July 7.<br />
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It was after this meeting that Bhatkal asked Ahmed and Munnabhai to steal
two-wheelers and hand them over to Waqas and Tabrez who planted the bombs,
Sheikh said in his statement.<br />
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The locations were chosen after much deliberation so that the planters can not
be identified. <br />
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The ATS had arrested Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon
Naik in the 13/7 case while six other IM members including Bhatkal are
absconding.<br />
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The ATS had filed the first charge sheet in the case on May 25 against 10 IM
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] Control of Organised Crime Act, Indian Penal Code, Explosives Act, Explosives
Substances Act, Prevention of Damage to Public Properties Act and Unlawful
Prevention of Activities Act.<br />
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Among the wanted accused are Riyaz Bhatkal, Yasin Bhatkal -- top operatives of
the home grown terror outfit -- Waqas Ibrahim Sad, Danish alias Tarbez,
Dubai-based Muzaffar Kolah and Tehseen Akhtar Shaikh. <br />
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As per ATS investigations, Bhatkal, Waqas and Tarbez had rented a third floor
flat in suburban Byculla's Habib building where they allegedly assembled
explosives used in setting off the explosions at Dadar, Zaveri Bazaar and Opera
House on July 13, 2011.<br />
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The ATS filed an additional charge sheet against Mohammed Qafeel Ansari on
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<b>Lucknow:</b> A lawyer has moved a court here seeking a direction for
lodging an FIR against Union minister Jairam Ramesh over his comment that there
were more temples in the country than toilets. The court on Tuesday fixed
October 12 as the next date of hearing on the plea. <br />
Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Upadhay also called for a report from local
Alambag police station regarding the plea. The lawyer, Yaduvansh Mani Singh,
has filed the plea alleging that the statement of the Union Rural Development
Minister is an offence under Indian Penal Code and FIR should be lodged against
him in the matter. <br />
The Rural Development Minister earlier had said that toilets are more pure
and holy than temples. <br />
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Drunk driver gets seven years in jail</h1>
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NAGPUR: With drunk and reckless driving on the rise, the court has finally
cracked the whip. Apart from sending a drunk driver to jail for mowing down
three persons and injuring a few, the court also directed the police
commissioner to be vigilant so that mishaps can be averted and violators could
be booked.</ins></span></div>
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additional sessions judge KL Vyas sentenced <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Deepak-Gedam">Deepak Gedam</a>
(23) to seven years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs5,000. The
incident occurred on the Mecosabagh flyover on February 15. After being hit by
Gedam's matador, one of the victims flew off the flyover.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court has also
directed <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jaripatka-police">Jaripatka
police</a> to confiscate the killer matador and auction it so that the proceeds
could go to the kin of the dead and the injured. The auction will take place in
the presence of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/judicial-magistrate">judicial
magistrate</a> within two months.</ins></span></div>
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also been directed to inform the regional transport office (RTO) about the
conviction so that Gedam's licence can be cancelled under the motor vehicles
act.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Additional-public-prosecutor">Additional
public prosecutor</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Deepak-Kolhe">Deepak Kolhe</a>
said the court took a stringent view of the entire episode as it felt that
reckless driving has become a social evil with many teenagers riding or driving
vehicles without licence. Kolhe was assisted by SP Rode.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Gedam was convicted under
section 304 (II) of the Indian penal code (IPC) for culpable homicide not
amounting to murder. Gedam was also sentenced to two years in jail and slapped
with a fine of Rs1,000 for causing grievous injury and endangering lives.</ins></span></div>
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under section 427 of the IPC for causing mischief. Under section 427 of the
IPC, Gedam was sentenced to three months in jail, a fine of Rs500 and
additional imprisonment for seven days in case of a default.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Under section 181 of the
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Gedam was slapped with three months of imprisonment
and a fine of Rs500 for violating safety rules.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>He will also have to
undergo imprisonment for six months and pay a fine of Rs1,000 under section 184
of the Motor Vehicles Act for dangerous driving. The court has also convicted
Gedam under section 185 of the MV Act 1988 sentencing him to a jail term of six
months and a fine Rs2000 for driving under the influence of alcohol.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"The government
doctor, who testified before the court, said that Gedam was so drunk that he
was not in a position to sign. He did not even have a licence, a fact confirmed
by an RTO official," said Kolhe.</ins></span></div>
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Briton to depose via video conferencing</h1>
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PANAJI: The state children's court recently allowed an application filed
by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Central-Bureau-of-Investigation">Central
Bureau of Investigation</a> (CBI) seeking examination of a British witness,
Michael Mannion alias Masala, through video-conferencing in the trial of the
two accused charged for allegedly killing 15-year-old <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Scarlett-Keeling">Scarlett
Keeling</a> at Anjuna beach in 2008.</div>
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Sources said that the court on October 8 passed
the order granting permission for 'video examination'. The premier
investigation agency had filed an application in March 2012 to examine the
witness through video conferencing facility, which is available in the court
hall. The prime British witness had refused to travel to Goa to depose before
the court. Mannion had informed the CBI that he would be able to give his
deposition from England through video conferencing. The court is likely to hear
the case further in the month of November.</div>
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After taking over the investigation from the Goa
police, the CBI had filed a supplementary chargesheet against the accused,
Samson D'Souza and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Placido-Carvalho">Placido
Carvalho</a>, before the court in October 2009. The voluminous chargesheet
filed by the CBI, after conducting investigations for 16 months, charged the
accused for allegedly committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder,
sexual assault, destroying evidence and some other sections of the Indian Penal
Code and the Goa Children's Act. The court has framed charges against the duo.</div>
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Revealing the circumstances in which the British
teenager was killed, the CBI alleged that the victim was seen intoxicated in
front of Lui's Cafe during the night before her body was found on the beach on
Feburary 18, 2008. </div>
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New Delhi, October 09, 2012</div>
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Appearing before a city court on Tuesday, Union home
ministry under secretary Amar Chand suggested initiating extradition
proceedings to secure the presence of some US-based websites, including
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja said he would
not take any coercive steps against the websites at this stage, but directed
Amar Chand to assist complainant Vinai Rai's lawyer in completing the formalities
for serving summons to the websites concerned. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>“In the present case, all the accused are
corporations/juristic personalities. It is appropriate that they be served by
way of summonses. Therefore, advocate for the complainant has been directed to
complete/fill the forms supplied by Amar Chand in response to the summonses
sent on June 12, 2012.” The matter will come up for hearing on October 18. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The complainant, Vinay Rai, brought a criminal case
against 21 websites under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)
including Google, Facebook, Orkut, YouTube, Yahoo, Blogspot and Microsoft.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>He sought the removal of alleged objectionable
content from the websites, and their prosecution for allegedly committing
offences such as circulating obscene materials as part of a criminal
conspiracy. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Referring to the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
(MLAT) between USA and India, Amar Chand said instead of issuing summons to
them, the court should initiate extradition proceedings. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>According to the treaty, even if the court issued
summonses to these websites, the legal process would take a lot of time.</ins></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two days after Arvind Kejriwal
launched his attack against the city government by restoring power supply in
some houses, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd filed a police complaint against a man,
whose connection was restored on Sunday by the activist-turned-politician.<br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During protests across Delhi as part
of his ‘bijli-paani satyagraha’, Kejriwal had visited the house of a labourer
on Sunday at Tigri Colony in south Delhi and reconnected the power line cut off
by the discom. <br />
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BRPL on Tuesday filed the case against the labourer with Neb Sarai police
station in south Delhi.<br />
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In the complaint against Banna Ram, the discom has invoked Section 138 of the
Indian Electricity Act, which states that it is illegal to interfere and fiddle
with the electricity network. The discom said unauthorised power connection is
a punishable offence that may attract imprisonment up to three years. Ram got a
power bill of Rs 15,000 last month, and since he was unable to pay it, the
discom cut off electricity to this house. <br />
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On why a complaint was not filed against Kejriwal, discom officials said action
has been taken against the consumer who has been given the connection. State
power minister Harun Yusuf had accused Kejriwal of trying to spread “anarchy”
and “lawlessness” in the city. <br />
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<b>Case against BJP leader<br />
</b><br />
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) of Monday filed a case under
Sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of duty) and 341
(punishment for wrongful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code against state BJP
leader Vijay Goel for protesting outside the DERC office. DERC filed the case
with Malviya Nagar police station, under whose jurisdiction Goel and his
supporters had protested and disrupted hearing of the agency. <br />
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Police said BJP supporters surrouned DERC chairperson P D Sudhakar in his
office. Police came an hour later and removed the protesters. Police said India
Against Corruption activists had a minor scuffle with policemen when they tried
to enter DERC office in Malviya Nagar.</span></div>
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HC rap govt on failure to curb drunken driving</div>
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Press Trust of India / Mumbai October 09, 2012, 11:03 <br />
The Bombay High Court today came down heavily on the Maharashtra government
for failing to comply with orders passed a decade ago in connection with
measures taken with regard to drunken driving, following the 2002 road accident
involving Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. <br />
A division bench headed by Justice D D Sinha was hearing a public interest
litigation filed by journalist Nikhil Wagle, seeking enhancement of punishment
awarded under section 304 A of IPC for causing death by rash and negligent act
and increase in compensation awarded under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles
Act. <br />
The scribe had filed the PIL soon after the road accident involving the
46-year-old actor. <br />
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On September 29, 2002 an inebriated Salman's Toyota Land
Cruiser run over five persons sleeping on a pavement in Bandra. He was arrested
the next day and booked under sections 304 A, 337 and 338 of IPC. However, he
was released on bail of Rs 950 immediately at the Bandra police station as all
the sections were bailable. </div>
The High Court, had in October 2002, directed the actor to deposit Rs 19
lakh as interim compensation to the deceased's family and the four injured in
the mishap. <br />
The court had also asked the state government to file a report on what
measures it proposes to take regarding such incidents and the union government
to file an affidavit on increase in punishment under section 304 A. <br />
However, till date no reply has been filed. <br />
"Why has the state and union government not filed their affidavits ?
This is a question of an order passed long time ago. Why has nothing been done
yet," Justice Sinha questioned. <br />
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Giving the State and Centre four weeks time to file their
affidavits, he said, "The state government's affidavit should say what
measures it has taken to tackle drunken driving incidents and the Centre's
affidavit should clarify its stand on section 304 A." (MORE)</div>
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State gets HC rap for applying Foreigners’ Act in case of ‘Indian’</h1>
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MUMBAI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-high-court">Bombay high
court</a> on Friday rapped the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state">state</a> for applying
the Foreigners Act to a Pakistani national while claiming that he is an Indian.
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A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Sadhana Jadhav was hearing a
petition by Wadala resident Siraj Khan who entered India at the age of nine. He
has urged for a directive to be deported to his home in Manshera in Pakistan
Occupied Kashmir. The judges observed that after the chargesheet was filed
against Khan, the state government had made a statement that POK is part of
India. "Do you want to contend that he is an Indian citizen? Look at the
situation that emerges because earlier you made a statement that POK is a part
of India. If this statement is accepted, then why have you prosecuted him under
the Foreigners Act? The prosecution must go,'' said Justice Oka. The judges
also noted from the petition that Khan was sent to a remand home in Ahmedabad
and asked the police to verify it. The case will be heard on October 16. </div>
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Varappuzha sex scam: High court raps police for not arresting accused </h1>
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News Service</a></div>
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday criticised the police team probing the
sensational Varappuzha sex scandal case after the court found that an accused
in the case was not arrested even after repeated orders of the court for the
last one year.<br />
Justice P Bhavadasan observed, “It is distressing to note that there has
been no sincere and conscious effort of the police to arrest petitioner
Muhammed Haneefa, of Bekal in Kasargod, the 52nd accused in the Varappuzha
case. Almost a year passed since the first order of this court which directed
the petitioner to surrender.” The court passed the order while dismissing the
anticipatory bail plea of Muhammed Haneefa.<br />
“The court is compelled to believe that even after the dismissal of three
anticipatory bail pleas, the investigating agency does not do anything
against the accused. The agency is being influenced or is working
hand-in-glove with the petitioner,” it said.<br />
The court also said that the delay in arresting the accused is a typical
instance of either incompetency or inefficiency of the investigating agency.
The court also observed that there is no change of circumstances, while the
callous and indifferent attitude of the petitioner to the orders of the court
could not be omitted.<br />
The conduct of the petitioner in flouting the directions of the court and
his ability to keep the investigating agency at bay speaks volumes about the
influence he can wield.<br />
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Govt seeks HC nod to open 19 sand quarries</h1>
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CHENNAI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-government">state
government</a> has sought the Madras high court's nod to open 19 sand quarries
in Trichy, citing rocketing retail sand prices in the state. <br />
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In a review petition, asking for a re-look at the court's order dated August 3,
the secretaries of industries and public works departments, said the government
intended to operate 19 sand quarries for which applications had been submitted
to State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA). <br />
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In the impugned order, a division bench comprising Justices R Banumathi and G M
Akbar Ali ordered the closure of five-year-old quarries in Cauvery-Kollidam
river beds, and stipulated that all new quarries in the region must obtain
SEIAA clearance. <br />
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Government pleader S Venkatesh, representing secretaries of public works and
industries departments, director of geology and mining and the Trichy district
collector, submitted that before the August 3 order, there were 48 sand
quarries in the region accounting for 6,454 lorry loads per day. After the
order, the number of quarries reduced to 21 and lorry loads went down to 4,012
per day. Consequently, the price of sand per load had risen from 4,000 to 8,000
in Trichy, from 6,400 to 12,000 in Coimbatore, from 6,000 to 8,000 in Chennai
and from 8,000 to 14,000 in Madurai, Venkatesh said. <br />
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Pointing out that the court had set a three-month deadline for the functioning
quarries to obtain the clearance, the pleader sought more time, as the
clearance might not come within three months due to procedural implications. <br />
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Venkatesh said the applications had been pending before the collectors of
Thanjavur, Karur and Trichy and that they were being processed when the
impugned judgment was delivered. <br />
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Hence, the new stipulation that new quarries must get clearance from the SEIAA
would cause hardship and affect government's welfare schemes, he said. Noting
that quarries in the Cauvery-Kollidam river beds was the main source of supply
to western and southern areas of the state, he requested the court to review
its order and permit the government to operate the new quarries. <br />
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The bench has adjourned the matter by one week for further hearing. <br />
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After the August 3 order, sand prices per load rose from 6,000 to 8,000 in
Chennai, 4,000 to 8,000 in Trichy, 6,400 to 12,000 in Coimbatore, and from
8,000 to 14,000 in Madurai. </div>
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Jangpura FOB delayed, HC issues notices</h1>
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news service</a> : New Delhi, Wed Oct 10 2012, 02:16 hrs</div>
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Chief Secretary of the
Delhi government, the Transport Commissioner and the general manager of Delhi
Integrated Multi-Model Transport System (DIMTS) to explain why they have not
constructed a foot overbridge near the Jangpura Metro station within the
stipulated time period. <br />
Justice Rajiv Shakhder directed the respondents to file a counter-affidavit
within four weeks and a rejoinder, if any, within two weeks. In April, a
division bench of the court had given the government six months to construct
the foot overbridge. <br />
The court’s deadline came on a PIL filed by the Jangpura Residents’ Welfare
Association, seeking direction to build the bridge as residents of nearby colonies
face the risk of accidents while crossing Lala Lajpat Rai Marg. <br />
In a fresh petition, the welfare association told the court that they had
tried following up with the Transport department as work on the bridge had not
started despite the High Court order. They said the department had set the
deadline for its construction to July 2013. <br />
The petition further asked for contempt proceedings to be initiated against
the respondents and for exemplary costs to be imposed upon them should they not
complete construction of the bridge by October 24.<br />
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HC notice to CBI over bail plea by Janardhana Reddy</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">By <b><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/dna-correspondent"><span style="color: #731643;">DNA Correspondent</span></a></b> | Agency: DNA Published:
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012, 13:18 IST</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The high court on
Monday issued a notice to the CBI concerning a bail petition filed by former
Karnataka Tourism minister G Janardhana Reddy, an accused in the illegal mining
case. It may be recalled that CBI court had rejected his bail petition on
September 25. Reddy, the owner of Associated Mining Company (AMC), is the key
accused in the illegal mining case.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The CBI had registered
cases against two mining firms, including AMC, following raids at Bellary,
Bangalore and Davanagere.<br />
The raids were carried out after the Supreme Court had issued orders directing
the CBI to investigate illegal mining in the state, on the basis of a Central
Empowered Committee report.</ins></span></span><br />
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rules out plea for CBI probe<br />
The High Court on Monday dismissed the plea of Shambunath Prasad seeking a CBI
investigation into the death of his son Aditya Prasad, an engineering student.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The 22-year-old
student of RV Engineering College and a hosteler was on August 14, 2010, found
dead at a house in BEML layout, Rajarajeshwarinagagar, belonging to one
Padmashri. The police had initially registered a case under section 302 of IPC,
but later submitted a B report before the lower court, stating that Aditya had
committed suicide.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>As a protest memo,
Shambunath had contended that the deceased was murdered by Padmashri and had
sought a CBI investigation. His counsel had argued that the statement of the
neighbours, college students and teaching staff were not recorded and there
were serious lapses in the investigation.<br />
The high court observed that a combined reading of the medical report and the
statement recorded by the investigating officer established the fact that
deceased had committed suicide. There was no other material on record to draw a
different conclusion, it added.<br />
<b><br />
</b></ins></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>HC
relief to BU students</ins></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><br />
The high court on Monday directed Bangalore University’s Directorate of
Correspondence Courses to recognise the admission of students who have
forwarded their applications online or through study centres for the admissions
made for 2011-2012. The students should be made to pay fees within a short
period, if not already paid, it added.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The study centres
across the state were permitted to provide admissions to undergraduate courses
only for second and third year and for post graduate courses only for final
year. This was challenged by the study centres.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The high court
observed that these writ petitions were disposed off and directed the
university to communicate the recognition of admissions and also issue
admission tickets through study centres or online to the students within a day
or two, so as to enable them to appear for exams at the Bangalore centre.</ins></span></span><br />
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court, however, said that in future the university should take steps to conduct
examinations at the nearby district headquarters, based on the strength of the
students. They should also fix CCTV cameras to curb malpractice at such study
centres, it added.</ins></span></span></div>
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Press Trust of India / Chennai October 09, 2012, 23:05 <br />
The Madras High Court today refused to quash the FIR filed by CBI against T
D Naidu, Chairman and Managing Trustee of Deen Dayal Medical and Educational
Trust, and dismissed his petition in a bank cheating case. <br />
According to the FIR filed by Superintendent of Police, CBI, Bangalore,
Naidu allegeldy entered into a criminal conspiracy with Branch Manager of
Andhra Bank and others and dishonestly and fraudulently obtained term loan of
Rs 41 crore from the bank. <br />
He had furnished fake documents of qualifications, financial status and
discrepant financial statements and caused a wrongful loss to the bank to the
tune of Rs 57.64 crore, it was alleged. <br />
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held in January, 1981 and was declared competent and authorised to practice
medicine and general surgery. </div>
But on verification, it was found that the certificate he produced was
"only fake." <br />
Justice T Sudanthiram in his order said "the allegations made in the
complaint by the General Manager, Andhra Bank are strengthened by materials
collected during investigation made so far." <br />
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petitioner to quash the FIR are totally unacceptable. Hence, the petition is
dismissed," he said.</div>
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Bombay HC judge made Madhya Pradesh Chief Justice</h1>
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news service</a> : Wed Oct 10 2012, 03:27 hrs</div>
Justice Sharad Bobde of the Bombay High Court was on Tuesday elevated as the
Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is likely to be sworn in on
October 16. <br />
Justice Bobde was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court
in March 2000, two years after he was designated as a senior advocate. He is
known for his sound legal acumen and sharp wit. <br />
He has heard several high-profile cases including the Adarsh housing society
scam, the PIL against Lavasa Corporation Limited, the Maval firing incident and
the residential tower near Hindustan Petroleum Corporation refinery, Chembur. <br />
Justice Bobde, who completed his education in Nagpur, enrolled with the Bar
Council of Maharashtra in September 1978 and practiced as a lawyer mainly
before the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay HC. In his 21-year career as a lawyer he
also appeared before the Bombay HC’s principal bench in Mumbai as well as the
SC. His father Arvind Bobde was the former Advocate General of Maharashtra.<br />
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Police not following HC order: NDMC</h1>
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NEW DELHI: In a fresh development in the controversial <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Akbarabadi-mosque-case"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Akbarabadi
mosque case</span></a>, New Delhi Municipal Corporation has blamed Delhi Police
for ignoring the Delhi high court's order.<br />
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NDMC, in an application filed before the court, has urged it to direct police
to grant protection to the staff who can implement court orders and demolish
illegal structure in Subhash Park area.<br />
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Filed through its standing counsel Ajay Arora, the application recalls HC
passed an explicit order on July 30 this year, asking the agency to take action
against the structure that came up illegally at the earlier Metro site.<br />
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"NDMC was always keen and still is, to ensure compliance of HC orders by
way of removal of unauthorized structure which has come up on public land in
violation of rules procedure and law of the land," the corporation says,
adding it is being unfairly blamed for deliberate inaction when in reality it
is hobbled by complete non-cooperation by police.<br />
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The agency said that initially cops said they couldn't provide enough force in
August as it had to make security arrangements for events like Baba Ramdev's
agitation, Independence Day celebrations and Ramzan. Now that all the events
are over, police should have cooperated. But now, they are taking refuge behind
an application filed by cops seeking modification of the HC demolition order, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/NDMC"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">NDMC</span></a> argues,
urging the court to intervene.<br />
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Citing communication exchanged with the police top brass between July and
September, the agency says though HC has not granted any stay order on the modification
plea of Delhi Police, the latter is being extremely restrained and has refused
to extend any cooperation to enable NDMC to carry out court orders. HC will
take up the plea on Thursday.</div>
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<strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">HC stays DGCA order to revoke approval of Ravi Rishi's firm</span></strong></h1>
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<em><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Pulling up DGCA for a "hasty"
decision, the Delhi High Court today stayed the aviation regulator's order
withdrawing operational safety clearance to repair and maintenance firm
Indocopters Private Ltd (IPL), a group company of Ravi Rishi-led Global Vectra
Helicorp Ltd.</span></em> </h3>
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Delhi High Court today stayed the aviation regulator's order withdrawing
operational safety clearance to repair and maintenance firm Indocopters Private
Ltd (IPL), a group company of Ravi Rishi-led Global Vectra Helicorp Ltd.</div>
Justice Rajiv Shakdher also issued notices to DGCA and Ministries of Civil
Aviation and Home Affairs (MHA) and asked them to file replies by October 10,
the next date of hearing. <br />
The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had on September 18 revoked
Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO) approval and the Continuing
Airworthiness Requirements (CAR) certificate of the IPL after the MHA raised
security concerns and withdrew the clearance accorded to Ravi Rishi-led firms.<br />
Ravi Rishi-led Global Vectra Helicorp Ltd, to which IPL is a sister concern,
is the largest shareholder in Tatra Holdings owning the Czech truck
manufacturer Tatra that is facing CBI probe for allegedly supplying trucks at
exorbitant price to the Indian Army.<br />
During the hearing, Justice Shakdher took a strong note of the
"hasty" decision of DGCA to revoke the approvals of the IPL saying
"why you did not wait till October 18?" The court is slated to hear
the case of Global Vectra Helicorp Ltd on the same issue on October 18.<br />
IPL runs a helicopter repair and maintenance base. The counsel for the
Aviation Ministry, however, said the decision to revoke AMO approval and the
CAR certificate to the firm has been taken following the withdrawal of security
clearance by the MHA.<br />
Senior advocate Atul Nanda, appearing for IPL, said "the revocation of
AMO approval and the CAR certificate can only be done as per the rules
prescribed under the Aircraft Act after serving a notice... and it cannot be
done due to withdrawal of security clearance." <br />
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HC gives three days more to DCHL for giving bank guarantee to BCCI</h1>
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9, 2012, 07.03PM IST </div>
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted three more days to Deccan
Chronicles Holdings Ltd (DCHL) to give an irrevocable and unconditional bank
guarantee of Rs 100 crore to the Indian cricket board regarding IPL franchise
Deccan Chargers.<br />
DCHL, owners of IPL team Deccan Chargers, were on October 1 directed by the
high court to submit by October 9 the bank guarantee which would be in force
for a period of one year.<br />
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The direction was passed by Justice S J Kathawala while hearing a petition
filed by DCHL challenging BCCI's decision to terminate the contract of
cash-strapped Hyderabad franchise.<br />
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had in September taken the decision to terminate the contract after an emergency
IPL Governing Council meeting in Chennai.<br />
DCHL on Tuesday filed an application seeking extension of time to submit the
bank guarantee which was accepted by the court. The company will now have to
give the bank guarantee by Friday.<br />
The court had earlier ordered that DCHL shall bear all expenses for IPL
series-6 including making payments to BCCI towards franchise, players and
support team costs. Besides, DCHL shall also bear the costs of conducting
matches and other expenses, the judge had ruled.<br />
In the event of any default on part of DCHL, BCCI shall be entitled to
invoke the bank guarantee to the extent necessary, Justice Kathawala said.<br />
The court had on September 26 appointed retired Supreme Court judge C K
Thakkar as arbitrator to resolve within three months the dispute between BCCI
and DCHL over the termination of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Deccan-Chargers"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Deccan
Chargers</span></a> franchise.<br />
However, pending arbitration proceedings and making up of an award by the
arbitrator, the judge asked the BCCI not to act on the termination of the
franchise agreement for a period of seven days, if the award is in their
favour.<br />
The judge clarified that this order would immediately cease to be in effect
if DCHL fails to furnish the bank guarantee.<br />
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HC gives govt two months to solve water-logging issue</div>
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New Delhi, October 10, 2012</div>
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A Delhi High Court bench comprising justices Sanjay Kishan
Kaul and Vipin Sanghi on Tuesday granted two months to the Delhi government to
find “short- and long-term” solutions to the problem of waterlogging in the
city. <br />
The breather came after the government’s standing counsel Najmi <span class="msoIns"><ins>Waziri submitted that the third meeting of the 15-member
coordination committee was scheduled to be held on Tuesday to prepare an action
plan. </ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>“Various agencies, including the municipal
corporations, will come forward with measures to handle the water-logging
problem. The committee will also look into suggestions from IIT professors,”
Waziri said. The bench sought a status report from the government and fixed
December 14 as the next date of hearing.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Contempt notice </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>In fresh trouble for the government, Justice Rajiv
Shakdher of the high court directed it to respond to a contempt plea, charging
the authorities with non-compliance of the court’s previous order to build a
foot overbridge (FOB) near Jangpura Metro station in six months.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Issuing contempt notices to the chief secretary of
the Delhi government, the transport commissioner and the general manager of
Delhi Integrated Multi-Model Transit System, the court sought their replies by
December 18 on the contempt plea filed by Jangpura Residents Welfare
Association.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Respite for employees </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The Delhi High Court came to the rescue of nearly
1,000 employees of the ailing shopping cooperative Super Bazaar and stayed its
recent notice asking the workmen not to report to duty. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice Suresh Kait also issued notices to
Cooperative Store Ltd Super Bazaar and Writers and Publishers which is managing
the cooperative’s affairs.</ins></span><br />
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Ladhar's arbitration fee: HC seeks reply from Centre, Punjab</h1>
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<span class="byline">TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 10, 2012, 05.49AM IST</span></div>
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CHANDIGARH: Taking cognizance of a public interest litigation (PIL)
seeking action against senior Punjab IAS officer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sucha-Ram-Ladhar">Sucha Ram
Ladhar</a> on retaining the arbitration fee instead of depositing it with the
government, Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday sought the response of the
Union and Punjab governments as well as Ladhar on the matter.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Division bench of the HC,
comprising Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice R K Jain, issued the notice
after hearing a PIL filed by lawyer H C Arora.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The petition sought
criminal/ departmental action against Ladhar, for fixing charges for
arbitration in various cases of disputes between private parties and the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Highway-Authority-of-India">National
Highway Authority of India</a> (NHAI) and keeping the sum of Rs 1.5 crore
collected in this way.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioner also
prayed that the entire amount be recovered from him along with interest at the
rate of 2% per annum.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>He also submitted that
Ladhar had acted as arbitrator in his ex officio capacity as divisional
commissioner, Jalandhar, forcing the private parties as well as the NHAI to pay
his arbitration fee by inserting a clause in his orders/ awards that a
certified copy of the award be given to the parties on depositing his
arbitration fee in equal share (50:50), failing which his award shall stand
suspended automatically on expiry of 30 days.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, since the NHAI
had opposed the clause regarding arbitration fee, Ladhar subsequently included
another one that initially the total amount of arbitration fee shall be paid by
the private party, which it may recover from NHAI, along with amount of
compensation, at the time of execution of award.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Petitioner also referred
to an order dated March 4, 2009, issued by Ladhar, directing all 629 private
parties, whose dispute was decided by him on January 28, 2009, by a common
award, to pay the arbitration fee at Rs 4,100 per case to him. In this way,
Ladhar demanded Rs.25.79 lakh as his arbitration fee. According to the PIL,
Ladhar has collected approximately Rs.1.5 crore as his arbitration charges in
various cases. Petitioner also referred to Rule 13 (8) of the All India
Services (Conduct) Rules, which says that no member of All India Services can
charge any fee for any work done by him for any private party, or a public
body, without permission of the government.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, Ladhar did not
have any such permission from the government.</ins></span></div>
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HC rules in favour of RGV</h1>
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<span class="byline">VICKEY LALWANI, Mumbai Mirror </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 10,
2012, 09.41AM IST</span><i><span style="color: #757575; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></div>
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The failure of Department had led toablamegameandconsequent rift between <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay-Dutt">Sanjay Dutt</a>,
Dharam Oberoi and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ram-Gopal-Varma">Ram Gopal Varma</a>
only to later see Dutt and Varma patch up, leaving Oberoi in the lurch. </span></em><br />
<br />
A miffed Oberoi went on to file a case against Varma for non payment of dues
amounting to Rs 50 lakh. He took the battle a step further by seeking a stay on
the October 12 release of the film Bhoot2 directed by Varma and produced by
Alumbra Productions Pvt Ltd. <br />
<br />
Oberoi's contention was that <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bhoot 2</span></em> is a film
owned by Varma, and Varma owes him Rs 50 lakh for the movie <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Department</span></em>, co-produced by both
ofthem.However,themattercameup for hearing before the Bombay High Court on
Tuesday and the court refused to grant the stay on Bhoot 2's release. <br />
<br />
Varma and Alumbra Productions Pvt Ltd were represented by lawyer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Vazirani">Ajay Vazirani</a>
of M/s. Hariani & Co., Advocates & Solicitors. Vazirani told TOI,
"Our victory will set an example in the industry for many who try and
stall the release of films a few days prior to their release date in an attempt
to extort money from the filmmakers." <br />
<br />
Oberoi however declined to comment. All we can say is while RGV can heave a
sigh of relief for now as <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bhoot 2</span></em> will hit
theatres on October 12 as preordained, the war between Oberoi and him looks
like it is far from over. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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Rajneesh Goel tells HC: We'll pick up dry waste twice a week</h1>
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BANGALORE: BBMP commissioner <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajneesh-Goel">Rajneesh Goel</a>
on Tuesday submitted before the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Karnataka-High-Court">Karnataka
High Court</a> that dry waste would be collected twice a week and not once as planned
earlier. He told a division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen there
is no problem with further increasing the frequency.</div>
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He was replying to a query posed by the court
after GR Mohan, city advocate who has filed a PIL, claimed that collection of
dry waste once a week will not help the cause.</div>
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The commissioner promised to speed up other
measures for collection and disposal of solid and wet waste.</div>
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The court was further informed that the new
measures by way of fresh tenders would result in 40% reduction in spending on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Garbage-%28musician%29">garbage</a>
collection and disposal in segregated form. "The dry waste is 40% and is
straightaway money. This will reduce the cost of transporting it to landfills
50kms away. There is good demand for composted wet waste as it can be used as
manure. If we remove 40% bulk waste, we have to deal with 1,500 tonnes of wet
waste, 700 tonnes of dry and 300 tonnes of inert waste per day," he
explained.</div>
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The commissioner admitted there are some
constraints regarding collection of waste and hoped the new system of "no
littering" would address this issue. He also said that relaxed tender
conditions have enabled more persons to participate in the process resulting in
competition. The bench directed BBMP to submit a status report by November 6.</div>
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The bench adjourned to Thursday the hearing on
petitions by garbage contractors challenging the new tenders.</div>
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<strong>You'll have to be superseded: HC</strong></div>
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The high court on Tuesday morning warned the BBMP
of supersession if it did not change its ways. A division bench headed by Chief
Justice Vikramajit Sen directed the BBMP commissioner to appear in the
afternoon session to answer queries on the garbage issue.</div>
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The bench asked why the BBMP should not be
superseded as per the KMC Act for failing to address the problem.
"Obviously you are not interested in solving the problem. Everybody is
hand in glove. Supersession is the only way out. We have to do it. If you
cannot solve the problem, you have no business to be there," it observed.</div>
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The PIL by GR Mohan sought a specific direction
for superseding the civic body for failing in its duty.</div>
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The bench observed that citizens can't wait till
the dispute between BBMP and contractors is settled. The bench indicated it
wouldn't hesitate to send officials to jail if they mislead the court.
"Our patience is also running out. Some of your officials must be sent to
those landfills," the bench observed.</div>
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HC rejects plea for policy against female feticide</h1>
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JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday disposed of without any
directions the three applications wherein it was requested that the state
government be asked to take certain <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/policy">policy</a> decisions to
curb female infanticides. <br />
<br />
The applications were filed with the public interest litigation (PIL) already
pending with the court on the subject of female foeticide. The division bench
of chief justice Arun Mishra and justice SS Kothari disposed of the
applications saying the petitioner, advocate SK Gupta should make a
representation before the state as the demands raised by him were a subject
matter of the government policies. Gupta had pleaded that the government be
directed to grant pensions to parents who have two daughters only. The court
was told that the Madhya Pradesh government was already paying the pension such
parents in its state. The second application related to government playing a
role in dispelling the religious belief that last rites of dead person can be
performed only by a son. It was suggested the government should provide
incentives to daughters who perform the last rites of their parents. </ins></span></div>
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HC seeks state’s stand on ownership rights</h1>
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KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Tuesday ordered the state government to
inform its stance on ownership rights over the Halcyon Castle, popularly known
as the Kovalam Palace. <br />
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The directive was given by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula
Chellur and Justice AM Shaffique on a public interest litigation filed by Jana
Samparka Samithi secretary Dhanan K Chettiancheril. <br />
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The society, which claims to be working towards a corruption-free society, said
the palace had played a significant role in the state's history and it should
be deemed as a monument according to the provisions of Ancient Monuments and
Archaeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958. It said the government was bound
to preserve the palace and it did not have the right to dispose it or to hand
over its management to a private party. <br />
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It contended that private groups shouldn't be allowed to use public monuments
for their business interests. Political leaders are unnecessarily accommodating
business groups and the government's decision to lease the palace out is the
result of such corrupt practices, it said. Following media reports on the state
decision to hand over the palace and the accompanying 4.13 hectares to RP Group
on lease, the group had told the media last month that it is the legal owner of
the palace besides revealing that it is willing to hand it over to the state to
avoid litigation. </ins></span></div>
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Reporter / Mumbai/ Ahmedabad Oct 10, 2012, 00:45 IST</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Following
the merger, entire businesses and the undertaking of RJIL would be transferred
to, and vest with, RIL</span></b></div>
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Gujarat high court has allowed the meger of Reliance Jamnagar Infrastructure
Limited (RJIL) with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) the 100 per cent holding
company of the former. The nod has been given under the Sections 391 to 394 of
the Companies Act for Scheme of Arrangement of the nature of amalgamation.</div>
RJIL, a 100 per cent subsidiary of RIL, had sought High Court's permission
for merger with the holding company with a view to optimise profitability,
administration, efficiency of operation and optimal utilisation of available
resources.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Justice Abhilasha Kumari on Monday
granted the scheme of arrangement saying that grant of scheme would ultimately
benefit the company and would not affect anyone’s rights.<br />
While granting the scheme, the court also dealt with the objections raised
by Regional director, ministry of corporate affairs.<br />
The court noted that they were duly taken care off. The court further held
that it has the jurisdiction to decide the issue.<br />
RJIL is presently developer and operator a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in
Jamnagar and was into business of infrastructure development. Whereas RIL is
India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and
materials value chain. It is a Fortune Global 500 Company, with activities
spanning to exploration and production of oil and gas, petroleum refining and
marketing, petrochemicals and textiles.<br />
Following the merger, entire businesses and the undertaking of RJIL would be
transferred to, and vest with, RIL.<br />
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HC reserves verdict in land scam case against Kumaraswamy<br />
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Press Trust of India / Bangalore October 09, 2012, 17:45<br />
The Karnataka High Court today reserved orders on a petition by JDS state
president H D Kumaraswamy seeking quashing of a case filed against him for
alleged illegal denotification of government land in 2007 when he was the chief
minister. <br />
Justice H N Nagamohan Das reserved his judgement after completion of
arguments on the petition. <br />
The case was filed by Lokayukta police on a private complaint by one M S
Mahadevaswamy before the Lokayukta court alleging illegalities in
denotification of three acres of government land here by Kumaraswamy for
"pecuniary gain". <br />
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Police filed the charge sheet against Kumaraswamy on April
16 accusing him of offences under various IPC sections and the Prevention of
Corruption Act. </div>
During the arguments, senior counsel Hazmath Pasha appearing for Kumaraswamy
had submitted his client had "not played a corrupt role and the order of
denotification of the said land was not intentional. <br />
He had also contended that the order of cognisance by the Lokayukta court
"is without any jurisdiction as no sanction has been taken (by the
designated authority)". <br />
Counsel for the respondent Palakshaiah argued there was no need for any
sanction for offences committed under the Prevention of Corruption Act. <br />
Besides Kumaraswamy, former minister C Chennigappa and two others, the
erstwhile owners of the land, have been charged under various sections of IPC.<br />
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HC asks Jharkhand govt to ensure welfare of para teachers<br />
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Press Trust of India / Ranchi October 09, 2012, 22:25 <br />
Jharkhand High Court today directed the state to initiate proper steps for
welfare of para teachers, who were appointed on contract, and demanding
regularisation. <br />
Hearing a petition filed by a forum known as Swarojagar Sangh, Chief Justice
P C Tatia and Justice Jaya Roy also asked government not to stop mid-day meals
for students in the schools. <br />
The Sangh had filed against the frequent strikes by para teachers despite
shortage of staff primary, middle and high schools, disrupting studies in the
schools. <br />
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Praying for a ban of strikes by para teachers, the
petitioner said para-teachers were appointed on contract by the block and the
district officials of the education department and their strikes stopped the
mid-day meal programme as well. </div>
Praying regularisation of their services, the association of para teachers
submitted that they were appointed just like other teachers, but were getting
only Rs 4,500 while other (regular) teachers were drawing Rs 20,000. <br />
The court would hear the petition in November for which date has not yet
been fixed.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #0253b7; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Should banking M&As come under the CCI?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It is the
only body skilled enough to check anticompetitive practices but it has no role
in facilitating the banking consolidation process</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;">Business
Standard / Oct 10, 2012, 00:04 IST</span></b><br />
It is the only body skilled enough to check anticompetitive practices but it
has no role in facilitating the banking consolidation process<br />
<strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">PRADEEP S MEHTA</span></strong><br />
Secretary General, CUTS International<br />
<em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In order to address the overlap
and conflict issues among our regulators and competition agency, the amendment
Bill makes it mandatory for mutual consultation on all such issues”</em><br />
One must compliment Palaniappan Chidambaram to be able to rise above narrow
considerations and support the jurisdiction of the Competition Commission of
India (CCI) as the sole body to review mergers in not only banking, but all
sectors. Thus, he has promoted the integrity of the economic governance system,
which is imperative for the success of economic reforms.<br />
All countries empower the competition regulator to oversee competition
issues in all regulated sectors, including banks, purely because of their
skills. The only exception vis-à-vis banking mergers is Turkey, but there, too,
the central bank has to use the competition law to review mergers. A variation
of this exists in the US, where the Federal Reserve and a few big state banking
regulators oversee banking mergers, but the Antitrust Division of the
Department of Justice can also intervene to check the competition angle.<br />
In many countries wherever competition issues arise in regulated sectors,
including mergers, the competition agency has to mandatorily consult the sector
regulator. The proposed Competition Amendment Bill cleared by the Union Cabinet
on October 4, 2012, has provided for such a coordinated approach. The process
itself has a chequered history, which is relevant to the discourse. To begin
with, the proposed Banking Regulation Amendment Bill, which is pending before
Parliament, ousted the CCI’s jurisdiction on mergers. When the proposal on the
Competition Amendment Bill came up before the Cabinet sometime in July, then
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee sought blanket exemption for banks.
Mukherjee’s position was echoed by Kapil Sibal – the communications minister –
who wanted an exemption for telecom mergers because the Department of Telecom
has its own merger guidelines. Chidambaram, then home minister, opposed it, and
the matter was conveniently referred to a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by
Mukherjee. After Mukherjee became president, Chidambaram was appointed the
chairman of the GOM and also as the new finance minister. He continued with his
earlier stand in the GoM and the Cabinet, fortuitously, did not change the
tune.<br />
In order to address the overlap and conflict issues among our regulators and
competition agency, the amendment Bill makes it mandatory for mutual
consultation on all such issues. This paradigm has also been captured in the
proposed National Competition Policy (and the Planning Commission’s National
Manufacturing Plan), which will now go before the Cabinet for adoption.<br />
We have faced many such conflicting situations in which there are
ambiguities in our laws that create parallel jurisdictions for different
regulators. They end up creating unpredictable legal environments, a lawyer’s
paradise but an investor’s nightmare. Clearly, the law ministry sleeps and
promotes such incoherent ambiguities, while the line ministries push their own
versions, tinged by coalition politics, ignorance and dichotomies. The latest
row is on the draft notification issued by the Central Electricity Regulatory
Commission (CERC) on competition issues in the electricity sector in August,
2012. It is empowered to do so under the Electricity Act, 2003.<br />
Mind you, all regulatory laws are required to promote competition, but it is
only the CCI that is empowered to check anticompetitive practices in the whole
economy. Even our courts have not been able to appreciate this fine
distinction. In the case of a complaint against an aviation fuel cartel, the
Delhi High Court erroneously stayed the proceedings before the CCI on grounds
that the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is the authorised
body. Under its own law, the PNGRB is required to promote competition and
consumer interest, but not check anticompetitive practices. But the PNGRB does not
have any competition regulations.<br />
Why was the CERC sleeping when it could have and should have drafted the
competition regulations long ago? Since the recent debate on banking mergers,
CERC realised that it, too, should flex its muscles. In any event, once
Parliament clears the Competition Amendment Bill and the Banking Regulations
Amendment Bill, ambiguities in other laws will also need sorting out.<br />
<strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">ASHVIN PAREKH</span></strong><br />
Partner | National Leader - Global Financial Services, Ernst & Young<br />
<em>“Risk management practices and financial strength are more crucial to
the sustainability of the sector. So, the commission should perhaps rely on
RBI’s approval framework</em><br />
In a free or competitive market economy, the prices of goods and services
should be determined by demand and supply. The Competition Commission of India
(CCI) was established to prevent practices having adverse effect on
competition, to promote and sustain competition in markets, to protect
consumers’ interests and to ensure freedom of trade carried on by other
participants in markets. Any monopolistic or restrictive trade practice aimed
at controlling supply or prices would be detrimental to the overall economy by
reducing the economic efficiency leading to externalities and costs. Given the
current regulatory framework and powers of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is
there a role for CCI in the banking consolidation process?<br />
Our banking system comprises 86 scheduled commercial banks, 82 regional
rural banks, 1,645 urban cooperative banks (53 scheduled cooperative banks) and
95,765 rural cooperative banks. The business in terms of assets is dominated by
scheduled commercial banks. Unlike manufacturing or other services, a critical
aspect in the banking and financial industry is risk management and financial stability
of the entities. The stringent regulatory and compliance requirements on
capital adequacy and risk management practices lend to the stability of the
banking system.<br />
For financial products and service providers, the size of their balance
sheets lends them financial stability and economies of scale. At any given
instance there may be a variety of risks that are carried in the banks’ balance
sheets. Larger the size, the better able a bank is to hedge and disperse the
concentration as well as other risks within the portfolio. Size also provides
banks with the ability to tide over unfavourable business cycles. The prolonged
period of high interest rates over the last couple of years has adversely
affected many sectors as well as economic growth. The banking sector, though
facing a deteriorating asset quality, has been able to absorb the shock with
steady return on assets and increase in operating income.<br />
Size also allows banks to cross-subsidise products and pricing. Social
banking has been one of the thrust areas in recent years and given the fact
that financial inclusion in the country is around 50 per cent, the size of
banks will be the key in the expansion of banking services. Banking regulations
require banks to keep aside about 28 per cent of funds in cash reserve ratio
and statutory liquidity ratio. Any bank without size and a business model
focused on financial inclusion will struggle to stay afloat. The costs of
social banking have been prohibitive for banks due to lack of branches and
distribution infrastructure. Even with effective leverage of technology, the
small size of financial inclusion portfolios makes it difficult to generate
profits.<br />
The experience in other geographies shows that a pyramid structure has
evolved over time through consolidation and amalgamations. It is based not just
on size but also on the customer segments serviced. For example, in China the
four large banks have approximately 50 per cent market share and in Australia
the big four banks control 77 per cent of the market. Experience in many other
geographies shows a similar trend. Meanwhile, the Indian banking industry is
highly fragmented with the largest bank along with its associates having a
market share of about 23 per cent, the second and the third-largest banks have 5.7
per cent and five per cent share respectively. Importantly, the size of Indian
banks is pale in comparison to global banks. Though on some levels it might be
felt that fragmentation would drive competition and better pricing and service
for customers, smaller sizes have excluded banks from achieving economies of
scale.<br />
Another aspect to consider is whether consolidation would lead to
monopolistic and unfair trade practices. The industry follows a base rate
system for pricing that takes into account the cost of funds, operational costs
and margins to arrive at a price. The high level of transparency and grievance
redressal mechanism precludes unfair trade practices.<br />
The industry may, in effect, benefit from consolidation, given the current
fragmented state, helping improve economies of scale and ability to
cross-subsidise products and pricing. Additionally, appropriate risk management
practices and financial strength are more crucial to the sustainability of the
sector. Considering these factors, the commission may perhaps rely on RBI’s
approval framework.<br />
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CCI rejects complaint against Supertech</h1>
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The Competition Commission today rejected a complaint regarding
alleged abuse of dominance by real estate developer Supertech, as the fair
trade regulator did not find any evidence to support the charges. </div>
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There is nothing on record which gives any evidence of dominance
of Supertech, the regulator said in an order dated October 4. </div>
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The Commission said that it finds that no prima facie case has
been made out against Supertech for violation of the provisions of the Act and
referring the matter to Director General for investigation. </div>
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“Therefore, the dominant position of the opposite party
(Supertech) in the relevant market is not made out under section 4 of the Act.
The question of abuse of dominance, therefore, does not arise,” it added. </div>
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The complaint was moved by Shivang Agarwal and Shubham Agarwal,
who had booked one flat each on payment of Rs 51,000 each. </div>
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The Commission said the grievance of the informants apparently
shows infringement of contractual terms ad idem. </div>
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According to the informants, even though they were informed that
no preferential location charges would be levied on flat on 12th floor and
above, the realty firm raised demand for the same. </div>
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They alleged that Supertech was arbitarily deciding the price and
raising demand contrary to the agreed terms. </div>
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ACB names 4 officers in ‘Adarsh of suburbs’</h1>
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<a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/15/2012101020121010020648201864182e2/ACB-names-4-officers-in-%E2%80%98Adarsh-of-suburbs%E2%80%99.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/15/2012101020121010020648201864182e2/ACB-names-4-officers-in-%E2%80%98Adarsh-of-suburbs%E2%80%99.html</span></a></div>
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Abhijit Sathe and Yogesh Naik</div>
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Even before the dust settles around the Adarsh society scam,
which cost a chief minister and several top IAS officers their jobs, four
senior officers, some of them now retired, are again under scrutiny for bending
rules to divert land reserved for the dishoused in Bandra to build plush
apartments for high court judges.<br />
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The Anti-Corruption Bureau has sought the government's approval to start an
open inquiry into the role of former chief minister late Vilasrao Deshmukh and
the four officers in de-reserving a piece of land near Gurunanak Hospital in
Bandra (east) and allotting it to Nyayasagar Co-operative Housing Society which
has several serving and retired high court judges as members.<br />
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While the ACB will drop Deshmukh's name, the officers facing the heat are --
former additional chief secretary, urban development department, Ramanand
Tiwari; former additional chief secretary (revenue) Rakesh Chandra Joshi, who
is now a member of the Central Administrative Tribunal; former Mumbai district
collector Chitamani Sangitrao; and CEO, Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Sambhaji
Zende-Patil.<br />
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Both Deshmukh and Ramanand Tiwari were also probed for their role in the Adarsh
society scam.<br />
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The ACB in its request for a go-ahead to launch a probe has said all the four
officers held important positions in revenue, urban development department and
the collector's office when the Nyaysagar file was cleared and that they
misused their powers for financial gains.<br />
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State ACB's director-general Raj Khilnani told Mumbai Mirror on Tuesday,
"Even if Vilasrao is no more, our probe against officers will continue.''<br />
<br />
A public interest litigation is also pending before the Bombay High Court on
the same issue.<br />
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Five sitting high court judges, one sitting Supreme Court judge, and the chief
justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court are among the judges allotted apartments
in the building.<br />
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At the heart of the controversy is a 2,494-square-metre plot which, as per the
development plan, was reserved for housing those displaced because of public
projects in the city.<br />
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In 2002, some sitting and retired high court judges wrote to the then chief
minister Vilasrao Deshmukh seeking allocation of land for a housing project.
Two such societies, Nyaya Sagar and Siddhant, were formed and land allocated to
them both a year later.<br />
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According to the ACB, the then chief minister and his bureaucrats issued a
letter of intent to Nyayasagar in 2003 even though the Bandra plot was then
reserved for project-affected people. The change of reservation in the
development plan took place only in 2004.<br />
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There are close to 2.5 lakh families likely to be displaced because of the
projects to be soon launched by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development
Authority, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, the Indian
Railways and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The state government
obviously does not have enough houses to rehabilitate these families.<br />
<br />
The collector's office also went out of its way to allot the land to the
judges' housing society. In March 2003, almost a year before the reservation
was changed, it gave a provisional allotment of land to the society. The reason
assigned for the haste was that the collector's office wanted to prevent
encroachment on the assigned plot.<br />
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None of the four officers in the dock remember anything clearly about the case.
All of them say that they had nothing to do with granting permissions to
Nyaysagar.</div>
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HC to hear Centre’s plea challenging warrant against secretary</h1>
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MUMBAI: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in Mumbai has issued a
bailable warrant against R S Gujral, who, till August this year, was secretary
revenue in the central finance ministry, and is now secretary, expenditure. The
warrant was issued recently to secure Gujral's presence before the tribunal in
connection with a case filed by Nitish Ray, a 78-year-old retired joint
commissioner, Customs & Central Excise, over his promotion as additional
commissioner based on a government order in 2002. <br />
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Ray had retired in the mid-1990s but moved the CAT in 2010 for his
"rightful post dues" as his lawyer Sandeep Marne said. The tribunal
passed orders in March 2011, accepting Ray's petition. But when the government
failed to implement its orders for over a year, Ray filed for contempt in June
this year. The tribunal directed Gujral to appear in person on October 3 and
when he failed to do so, issued the bailable warrant. But between June and
October, the Centre moved the Bombay HC to challenge the March 2011 CAT order.
On September 24, the HC gave the government liberty to comply with the
tribunal's order in six weeks. <br />
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On October 3, the government lawyer V S Masurkar argued that Gujral was under
the impression that he need not appear since the HC had passed orders giving
the ministry six weeks to consider Ray's case. <br />
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The tribunal said, "The respondent was conscious of the fact that he had
to appear to explain why action for contempt should not be initiated against
him.'' <br />
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The tribunal has sought a compliance report from Gujral within a week. <br />
<br />
On Tuesday, the Centre moved the Bombay HC to challenge the bailable warrant on
the grounds that the CAT order was "illegal" as the HC had already
passed orders giving six weeks to the Centre. Besides, it said Gujral had
vacated the post and was now a secretary of another department. In the interim,
the government filed a report, saying it had considered Ray's case and had
rejected it as he was held ineligible for promotion. <br />
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CAT refused to recall its order of bailable warrant and posted the matter for
further hearing on October 15. Now with the government rushing to HC, the HC
bench of Justices D D Sinha and V K Tahilramani on Tuesday said it would hear
the matter on October 10. </div>
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Advocate Supreme Court of India
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Have a heart for poor offenders: Supreme Court</h1>
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<span class="pubdate">Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN</span><span class="separator"> </span>Oct 7, 2012, 05.09AM IST</div>
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has frowned upon the sentencing system which
forces poor petty offenders to remain in jail even after serving their sentence
because of their inability to pay the fine imposed on them along with the
period of imprisonment.<br />
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for poor petty offenders" was the message sent out by a bench of Justices
P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi when it ruled on Friday that trial courts should
use their discretion and not impose hefty fines as defaulting in payment of the
fine entailed additional long period of incarceration. <br />
"Where a substantial term of imprisonment is inflicted, an excessive
fine should not be imposed except in exceptional cases," said Justice
Sathasivam, who authored the judgment. The bench ruled that imprisonment for
defaulting payment of fine was not a sentence. "To put it clear, it is a
penalty which a person incurs on account of non-payment of fine," it said.<br />
"On the other hand, if sentence is imposed, undoubtedly, an offender
must undergo unless it is modified or varied in part or whole in the judicial
proceedings. However, the imprisonment ordered in default of payment of fine
stands on a different footing," the bench said. Advising the trial courts
not to impose "harsh or excessive" fines, the bench said, "It is
the duty of the court to keep in view the nature of the offence, circumstances
in which it was committed, the position of the offender and the other relevant
considerations such as pecuniary circumstances of the accused person as to
character and magnitude of the offence before ordering the offender to suffer
imprisonment in default of payment of fine."<br />
The court probably had in mind the pitiable condition of the poor prisoners
who had no means to foot the fine and prefer to undergo the additional sentence
specified for non-payment of the penalty.<br />
Over seven lakh under-trial prisoners facing charges in petty cases were
released on personal bail bonds in two years from 2009 after then law minister
Veerappa Moily worked hard to convince most of them were facing bailable
offences but were not released because they had no means to furnish bail bond.<br />
In several cases, the under-trial prisoners had served a term which was the
maximum sentence that could have been imposed if s/he were found guilty at the
end of the trial. The bench relaxed the prison term in default of payment of
fine in a case under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Prohibition) Act,
where two people in Gujarat were handed out 15-year imprisonment and a fine of
Rs 1.5 lakh.<br />
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Schools to arrange for basic facilities of water, toilets</h1>
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MORE</a> , <a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/atikhrashid/">Atikh
Rashid</a> : Mon Oct 08 2012, 03:42 hrs</div>
With the Supreme Court making it mandatory for schools, either pubic or
private, to arrange for enough toilet blocks and proper drinking water
facilities on their premises, civic bodies, Zilla Parishads and Cantonment boards
have sprung into action. If civic activists are to be believed, several schools
— be it civic, cantonment and private — have either inadequate number of toilet
blocks or the water tanks are located in unhygienic conditions. <br />
According to a PMC school board official, though civic schools have proper
drinking water facilities, it will have to construct enough toilets and urinal
blocks to meet the state government norm. <br />
In a directive issued on Wednesday, the Supreme Court set a six-month
deadline to create proper drinking water and toilet facilities in all the
schools irrespective of their status — minority or non-minority. <br />
According to Shubhangi Chavan, PMC Deputy Education Officer, “almost all”
300 civic body-run schools have both these facilities but the number of toilet
blocks are not as per norms set up by the state. The norm states there should
be one toilet block and three urinals for every 100-120 student. In a number of
schools there are no separate toilets for girls and boys in schools which operate
in two shifts with girls in morning shift and boys in the afternoon. <br />
“With a couple of exceptions, there are toilet facilities in all the schools
run by the PMC. But we will have to construct more toilet blocks. The Building
Construction Department which is responsible to maintain cleanliness in schools
has sprung into action and we will construct the required number of toilet
blocks and urinals before the SC deadline,” said Chavan. <br />
Of the Rs 2 crore budget allotted for sanitary facilities at civic schools
for 2010-11, only Rs 21 lakh was utilised, officials said. School board
officials said at the schools which do not have toilets, for instance one in
Kokate Vasti, the PMC is facing trouble to construct them as these schools are
built on rented land and the PMC does not have the owner's permission to build
the toilets. <br />
In Pimpri-Chinchwad, education department officials said they have adequate
number of toilets and water facilities in schools, but these need to be
strengthened. “Following the SC directive, we have drawn up a plan to improve
the water and toilet facilities in all our schools,” said PCMC education
official Vishnu Jadhav. The PCMC has 134 primary and secondary schools with a
student count of 60,000. Jadhav said PCMC will next week issue directives to
private schools to ensure they put proper water and toilet facilities on their
premises. Pimpri-Chinchwad has over 200 schools with a student strength of 2.60
lakh. <br />
Deputy education officer of Pune Zilla Parishad P H Mahajan said till last year
many ZP-run schools in the district did not have toilets and urinal blocks but
following an HC order, all these schools have been equipped with required
number of toilets and urinals. <br />
Parents have welcomed the SC order. “In one of the private schools in
Pimpri, toilet blocks are located at the entry gate which spreads stinks in the
entire premise. Students suffer in silence. Now, some sense will prevail among
the management of private schools whose main focus is increasing fees,” said a
parent, Ikhlas Sayeed.<br />
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No lie, says CM; sticks to his stand</div>
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<a href="http://oheraldo.in/News/Main%20Page%20News/No-lie-says-CM-sticks-to-his-stand/65353.html">http://oheraldo.in/News/Main%20Page%20News/No-lie-says-CM-sticks-to-his-stand/65353.html</a></div>
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TEAM HERALD<br />
<a href="mailto:teamherald@herald-goa.com"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">teamherald@herald-goa.com</span></a><br />
PANJIM: Chief Minister ManoharParrikar on Sunday told HERALD that he stood by
his stand that the State government had not been a party to the writ petition
filed in the Supreme Court through the PIL of the Goa Foundation and therefore
the apex court had not been made aware of the actions taken by the State
government in the aftermath of the Shah Commission Report.<br />
Parrikar said now that notices had been issued by the apex court to the State,
the government would instruct its counsel to place before the Court the “series
of actions following due procedure” taken by his administration on the illegal
mining issue. <br />
The chief minister clarified that despite the State government being named as a
respondent, State authorities had not received any copies of the PIL and “we
therefore had no way of knowing what the averments made in the PIL were in the
run-up to the hearing on Friday”. Asked why, in that case, the four senior
advocates recorded as present on behalf of the State (including the State Pollution
Control Board) in the Supreme Court on Friday had not taken the opportunity to
inform the Court of the actions taken by his administration, he conceded they
had not been instructed to do so. <br />
“That’s because unlike our legal officers based in the State, our standing
counsel and other senior advocates representing the Goa government in the
Supreme Court cannot always intervene immediately as they may have insufficient
knowledge of the actions taken by the administration. Now that we have been
provided copies of the PIL and have been given a time-frame within which to
respond, we will be briefing our lawyers to submit to the Court the actions
taken by my government against illegal mining which I reiterate are on the
lines of what the Honorable Supreme Court itself has directed,” the chief
minister told Herald. <br />
Parrikar disagreed with the “interpretation” that the State was a party to the
case and it was on the basis of precisely that locus standi that its lawyers
had appeared in Court on behalf of the State government and itsvarious
departments. “Yes, our lawyers were present but they were not appearing
in the case. They were there, led by our standing counsel, as representatives
of the Goa Government and to observe the proceedings and respond to any questions
or observations the Bench may have had regarding the State government.”<br />
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Petition opposes redevelopment of land of Raymond Mills</h1>
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<span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">Mumbai: A petition opposing redevelopment of land belonging to
Raymond Woollen Mills in nearby Thane has been converted into a PIL by the
Bombay High Court. <br />
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A bench headed by Justice A M Khanvilkar had on October 4 ordered the petition
to be converted into a PIL and placed it for hearing before an appropriate
bench. <br />
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The petition, filed by Kamgar Utkarsha Sabha and local MLA Pratap Sarnaik,
contends that Raymond Woollen Mills has 4,63,000 square metres of land at J K
Gram in Majivra Ovale, which is proposed to be used for redevelopment by the
company. <br />
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The petitioners contend that land is currently being used for industrial
purpose as it has been granted exemption under the Urban Land Ceiling Act.
Under the Act, one can hold huge tracts of land only for industrial use. <br />
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In 2007, the Urban Land Ceiling Act was repealed and a new Act came in. In
November 2009, the Mill submitted proposal to Thane Municipal Corporation for
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say, adding that intention of the Act was to utilise the mill land for
industrial purpose and it would be defeated if the land was allowed to be
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holding vast tracts of land for industrial use remained in force under the new
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HC upholds conviction of couple</h1>
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news service</a> : Mumbai, Mon Oct 08 2012, 03:30 hrs</div>
Bombay High Court (HC) has upheld the conviction of a couple that committed a
murder in 2001 at Sakinaka. The order was passed by a division bench of
Justices Abhay Oka and S P Davare on September 28, nearly nine years after the
trial court judgment. <br />
The murder came to light after a police constable discovered the torso of a
female body in a steel tank covered with a cloth in Andheri-Ghatkopar Link Road
area. The limbs were later found in a dustbin by the roadside. A chopper and a
razor was also found in the bin. <br />
While holding the couple guilty, the court said, “In our considered view, it
is not possible to interfere with the finding of the trial court that the guilt
of both appellants was proved beyond reasonable doubt.” <br />
Accused Mohammed Iqbal Ansari alias Raju Chakravarty was arrested by police
after they found his name written on the tank. His wife Deepa Ansari was
subsequently arrested. While searching their house, police reportedly found
bloodstains on the floor and in a tank in the room. <br />
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KOZHIKODE: A research scholar has moved the high court against the
cancelation of her PhD registration by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Calicut-University">Calicut
University</a>. The complainant, Shahana V A, had earlier approached Malappuram
police's women's cell, accusing the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/vice-chancellor">vice-chancellor</a>,
M Abdul Salam, of shouting and verbally abusing her in his office.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Shahana had pursued
Masters degree in library science before qualifying for Junior Research
Fellowship (JRF). She joined the doctoral programme in Malayalam, but the
varsity expelled her on grounds that she was simultaneously pursuing two
courses. It was also pointed out that she had not obtained transfer certificate
(TC) from the library science department.</ins></span></div>
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claimed that she was a victim of vindictive action by the varsity for filing a
complaint against the VC with the woman's cell. She alleged that the VC shouted
at her and used abusive words when she went to his chamber on July 10 with a
group of students to submit a memorandum against the varsity's decision to
charge a fee from students for using the Seminar Complex.</ins></span></div>
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memorandum, the varsity served her a show-cause notice, seeking explanation on
why disciplinary action should not be taken against her.</ins></span></div>
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before the high court on Saturday, Shahana has said that she was victimized and
the action of the VC cancelling her PhD registration was 'biased, prejudiced
and without any legal basis'.</ins></span></div>
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obtained the TC from the department of library science since it was not mentioned
in the list of documents to be submitted along with the PhD application.
Shahana claimed that she had applied for TC from the department on July 12, but
it was not issued to her till date.</ins></span></div>
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nowhere in the CU statutes it is stated that submission of TC is mandatory for
the students who get JRF to register for PhD and none of my fellow students had
produced the TC before joining the programme," she said. The high court
will take up the case on Monday.</ins></span></div>
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when contacted on Sunday.</ins></span></div>
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Delhi High Court has dismissed a PIL challenging a decision of the President to
appoint Saryu V Doshi as one of three members of a search committee,
constituted to shortlist three names to head Lalit Kala Akademi.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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“As the ultimate decision is left to the President of India, such a decision
cannot be found fault with unless a nominee is not eligible to be nominated in
the Search Committee,” chief justice D Murugesan and justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
said.<br />
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The courts decision came on the PIL filed by Prasanta Kalita, an artist who has
been working with the Akademi here for the past 10 years. Kalita had claimed
that under the rules, Doshi, a former pro-term chairman of the Akademi, cannot
be appointed by the President as one of the members of the search committee,
formed to shortlist names of three persons. <br />
“In terms of constitution/memorandum of association, only a past chairman could
be nominated as one of the members of the search committee,” the PIL said,
adding Doshi was only the pro-term chairman of the Akademi.</span></div>
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one would be appointed as the chairperson of the Akademi. The judgement said,
“The Memorandum of Association empowers the appointment of a pro-term chairman
who will be entitled to discharge, inter alia, all the functions of the chairman
in terms of Clause 5(iv). The selection process began by appointing members to
the search committee to shortlist three names, out of them, one would succeed
Ashok Vajpayee.”<br />
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“Out of three members of the search committee, the petition challenged Doshi on
the ground that she was only a pro-term chairperson. The role of the committee
is only to draw up a panel of three names and submit the same to the President
who shall appoint one of them as the Chairman of the Akademi,” the court said.</span></div>
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Press Trust of India / Mumbai October 07, 2012, 12:55</div>
The Bombay High Court has suggested that Maharashtra government set up a
mechanism whereby police can inform complainants that no 'cognizable' offence
is made out in a case. <br />
Cognizable offence is any serious offence where police have to conduct
probe, without court's order. <br />
"If the police, after applying its mind, feels that no cognizable
offence is made out from the complaint, then it should communicate this
immediately. This will then allow the complainants to pursue other legal
courses," division bench of Justices A S Oka and S S Jadhav said. <br />
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"Why not consider setting up a machinery for
this," the court added. </div>
The bench was hearing a petition filed by a person seeking direction to
Thane police to initiate action on a complaint-letter sent by him in 2009. He
had alleged cheating by a relation. <br />
The police informed the court last week that it conducted inquiry and found
that it was a civil dispute between family members, and no cognizable offence
was made out. <br />
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"People write complaints to the police and do not get a
response for years and then finally they approach High Court seeking relief. We
have to tell them to adopt other legal remedies like filing private complaints
(in Magistrate's court). If you (police) feel no case is made out, then why
can't the police themselves inform the complainant? It is the police's
obligation," Justice Oka said.</div>
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HC orders immediate repairs of Vikhroli court building </h1>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7162120247129608325" name="poll"></a><b><span id="print_div">Mumbai: </span></b>Observing
that the condition of two Metropolitan Magistrate Courts in suburban Vikhroli
was very bad, the Bombay High Court has directed the authorities to carry out
repairs immediately. </div>
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Nitin Jamdar passed the order on two PILs, after a report by HC Registrar said
that immediate repairs were needed. </div>
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Assistant Government pleader Smita Gaidhani submitted
last week that Public Works Department had not maintained the building on the
ground that the property had not been taken on the 'Property Register
Book'. </div>
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High Court directed that PWD Secretary and
Superintending Engineer, Mumbai Circle, be made respondents, and these officers
should take steps to bring the Court premises on the Property Register Book
before October 11. </div>
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Further, the HC said, the officers should inspect the
Vikhroli Court premises before month-end and take a decision on repairs. These
directions would not come in the way of taking up construction of a new court
building on the adjoining land, HC clarified. Any encroachment on that land
should be removed, with police protection, if needed, it said. </div>
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Commissioner to submit a report by October 18, the next date of hearing, about
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Justice Hosbet Suresh, the retired Bombay High Court Judge,
has advocated for giving more power to all the constitutional and statutory
bodies like CAG and inquiry commissions.</div>
"Statutory bodies like CAG and Commissions should have more than
recommendatory powers, their recommendations should be made binding for
Governments and these institutions should also have powers to take penal
actions against defaulting governments or its departments," said Justice
Suresh while addressing media here on Sunday.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was here on Sunday on an
invitation from PUCL (People's Union for Civil Liberties), Gujarat, to release
a book 'Gujarat CAG report: A public hearing of discussion', a compilation of
opinions and suggestions expressed by more than 150 activists during a public
hearing held in the month of June, on the state CAG report.<br />
"The way governments are treating CAG reports for past so many years,
it has become imperative to give more teeth to these constitutional and
statutory bodies," he said. He also emphasised that the different
Commissions set up either by state or central governments should submit their
report within a set time frame and their recommendations should also be made
binding on the governments.<br />
"We have examples of Justice Srikrishna and Justice M S Liberhan
commissions. And in Gujarat, Justice Nanavati commission has not submitted its
final report even after 10 years of its probe," he said. He also took a
dig at the Modi government on neglecting CAG report, which he termed as a
critical organ of the democracy.<br />
"It is very unfortunate that Modi government tabled 2011-12 CAG report
on the very last day of the budget session of the Assembly and it made sure
that no discussion should take place on it," he said.<br />
He said that people outside Gujarat "have a very wrong impression"
that Modi government has done a commendable job with widespread development.<br />
"It is a myth which CAG exposed and hence the government intentionally
avoided a debate on it on the floor of the House, which is essential in
democracy," he added.<br />
Justice Suresh was part of an independent fact finding committee, under the
chairmanship of Justice Krishna Iyer and People's Tribunal on 2002 Gujarat
Riots. "We will be submitting a memorandum to the President with our
demand to give more powers to CAG and other constitutional and statutory
bodies," said Gautam Thakar, the general secretary, PUCL Gujarat chapter.<br />
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HC directs govt to seek Satish's expertise in Ishrat case</h2>
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Ahmedabad: A bench of Gujarat High Court
comprising Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari directed the state
government to ensure Satish Verma's assistance while investigating the Ishrat
probe. The CBI had sought permission to obtain Verma's help. The court directed
the government to provide Verma's expertise for a period of four months. CBI
had appealed against the police enquiry undertaken so that the central agency
could continue the probe with Verma's assistance. This will bring several vital
facts to light.</div>
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Election Commission bans Atal Bihari Vajpayee bags in Himachal </h1>
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<b>Shimla: </b>With the
model code of conduct in force in poll-bound Himachal, the Election Commission
on Sunday asked the state government to stop distribution of carry bags, free
of cost, to PDS consumers with picture of former Premier A B Vajpayee inscribed
on them.<br />
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The scheme to distribute free carry bags to 16 lakh PDS card holders, launched
on August 15 last, had been put on hold till the model code of conduct was in
force in the hill state, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath said. <br />
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Mr Sampath, who was in Shimla to review arrangements for the assembly election,
said "henceforth, no bags will be issued to PDS consumers with pictures of
any political leader inscribed on them." </div>
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regard and no such free bags would be distributed from today. <br />
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The Commission had also received complaints regarding violation of the model
code of conduct by the ruling BJP and these would be looked into and action
taken, if warranted, the CEC said.<br />
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He, however, expressed satisfaction over arrangements made by the state
government for the assembly election slated for November four.<br />
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Mr Sampath said the Commission had received complaints about "bias
reporting" by local Doordarshan Kendra and would take up the matter with
the Union Information and Broadcasting ministry.</div>
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admitted a plea against Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya. The plea
urges the rights panel to initiate a case against him in the death of a
Kingfisher employee's wife.</span></em> </h3>
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<b>T</b>he National Human Rights Commission has admitted a
plea against Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya. The plea urges the
rights panel to initiate a case against him in the death of a Kingfisher
employee's wife. Kingfisher store manager Manas Chakravarti's wife in her
suicide note mentioned that she couldn't take the financial stress caused by
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In her suicide note, 45-year-old Sushmita wrote, "My husband works with
Kingfisher where they have not paid him salary for the last six months. We are
in acute financial crisis and so I am committing suicide". The couple has
a son who's studying in an engineering college. <br />
The victim's body was discovered when her husband, who was at work, alerted
the neighbours as she wasn't answering her phone. When the neighbours broke in
to the house, they found her hanging from the roof. She was rushed to a nearby
hospital where she was declared brought dead.<br />
She had also expressed fear that the company may be closed down and her
husband may lose his job. In the note, she had also said that no one else was
responsible for her taking the extreme step.<br />
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Child rights commission to pull up Haryana Govt on rape cases </h1>
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‘You have seen the sex ratio as well. There are only 830 females to 1000
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Concerned over a spurt in incidents of rape of teenaged girls in
Haryana, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on
Sunday said it will seek explanation from the State Government in each case,
including action taken against culprits. </div>
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The Commission also said the recent incidents with regard to
women in Haryana have emphasised the need to focus on several issues, including
the skewed sex ratio in the northern State. </div>
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“Ten girls have been raped so far. There have been molestation
charges. Our Commission will ask them what has been done in each case. Have all
of the accused been arrested? What proceedings have been done?” NCPCR
chairperson Shanta Sinha said. </div>
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She was reacting to reports on a teenage Dalit girl immolating
herself after allegedly being gangraped in Jind district of Haryana. </div>
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After allegedly being raped by two youths in Narwana sub division
of the district, the shocked girl sprinkled kerosene and set herself afire on
Saturday, adding to a series of such horrific crimes against women in Haryana
during the past one month. </div>
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“We feel that in Haryana, it is not the sole issue which is
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favour of girl children. </div>
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activities. They should be punished so that the girls are safe,” she said. </div>
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OC recommends suspension of Suresh Kalmadi, Lalit Bhanot</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">New Delhi: In a major blow to the
aspirations of Suresh Kalmadi, V K Verma and Lalit Bhanot ahead of the elections,
the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has
recommended that the tainted trio be suspended from all their functions within
the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) with immediate effect.<br />
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The Commission also observed that in view of their tainted history, the trio`s
candidature for the upcoming elections of the Indian Olympic Association was
"not possible".<br />
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The Ethics Commission`s recommendation came after IOC president Jacques Rogge
asked for its view following IOA vice-president Jagdish Tytler`s query on the
position of these three officials ahead of proposed IOA election on November 25
this year.<br />
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The IOC President had asked the Ethics Commission for its opinion in order to
know whether it is possible, according to the Code of Ethics, for Kalmadi,
Verma and Bhanot to stand as candidates for positions on the IOA Board at the
upcoming elections.<br />
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"Point B.5 of the IOC Code of Ethics, in the `Integrity` chapter, states
that `The Olympic parties shall use due care and diligence in fulfilling their
mission. They must not act in a manner likely to tarnish the reputation of the
Olympic Movement.<br />
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"Messrs Kalmadi, Verma and Bhanot were all tried by a criminal court
pursuant to the law on corruption linked to a sports event (2010 Commonwealth
Games). The court even sentenced them to preventive detention for several
months. For his part, Mr Kalmadi was released, but banned from leaving the
national territory unless agreed by the court," chairman of the IOC Ethics
Commission, Youssoupha Ndiaye said in his reply. <br />
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"Although, owing to the application of the principle of presumption of
innocence, the Ethics Commission cannot take any final decision on the
situation of Messrs Kalmadi, Verma and Bhanot, it must however recommend a
provisional measure to protect the reputation of the Olympic Movement",
the Ethics Commission said.<br />
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"In view of this analysis of the facts, the IOC Ethics Commission is of
the opinion that it should recommend that Messrs Kalmadi, Verma and Bhanot be
suspended from all their functions within the IOA until the final decision by
the competent court in India.," he said.<br />
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"That, in consequence, any candidature from these three men for any
position within the IOA is not possible."<br />
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The Ethics Commission also came hard on the IOA for keeping the IOC in dark
over the positions of Kalmadi, Verma and Bhanot irrespective of repeated
reminders.<br />
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"At no time, and in spite of numerous reminders and requests from the IOC,
did the NOC (IOC) clearly make any statement regarding the situation of these
three officials nor take any provisional measure concerning them," it
said.<br />
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All the three officials were jailed and subsequently released on bail in
connection with the Commonwealth Games corruption scandal.<br />
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Kalmadi was the chairman of the Organising Committee while Bhanot was the
Secretary General. Verma was one of the Director Generals of the Organising
Committee.<br />
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Mamta Sharma: In the line of women’s fire</h1>
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Head of National Commision for Women clears the air about
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New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) headed by Mamta Sharma, has,
over the last few months, come under fire. And surprisingly, it is the women
activists, who are finding faults with Sharma and want the Commission scrapped,
claiming it has failed women.<br />
Sharma has sparked a row over her remarks now and then even as the
government is ready with the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2012, to slap life
imprisonment terms on people who commit sexual assault and acid attacks on
women.<br />
The chairperson says: “I am least bothered about opposition to my work and
will remain straightforward in my approach. My mission is to see that we deal
with crimes against women with utmost importance and provide results in the
shortest possible time.”<br />
She is focusing her energies into seeing that only women police officers
investigate rape cases all over the country and they do so with great
sensitivity. And whenever a bail matter is listed for a rape accused, the
lawyer of the Commission should be informed immediately.<br />
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Green Tribunal rejects Centre petition</h1>
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The National Green Tribunal has rejected a petition by the Union ministry of
environment and forests seeking to review an order that asks the government to
adhere to the Gadgil report. <br />
The tribunal headed by Justice A.S. Naidu maintained that the ministry
should grant environmental clearance to the developmental projects in Western
Ghats region only in consonance with the provisions made in the Gadgil report.
This could mean that green signal for the Athirapally hydel project is
unlikely.<br />
Seeking review of the tribunal’s interim order passed on July 25, the MOEF
had stated that the direction “causes prejudice to the MOEF as the (Gadgil)
Report has not attended finality and is still under consideration of the
ministry.” <br />
However, the tribunal noted that this “review petition does not satisfy any
of the mandatory requirements and that the reasons assigned for reviewing the
order are unacceptable.”<br />
“While taking decisions (on environmental clearances), the ministry shall
adhere to the (Gadgil) Report, if the same has not been varied till date,” the
tribunal stated while disposing of the review petition.<br />
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"The increase in the rate could have been effected only at the time of
renewal of the agreement, i.e., with effect from April, 2013," said TDSAT.<br />
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TDSAT's order came over a batch of petitions filed by - Bharti Airtel, Idea
Cellular, Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications, Aircel, Vodafone South
and Vodafone Digilink.<br />
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The tribunal said, "They (operators) have made out a strong prima-facie
case in their favour".<br />
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Infrastructure charges are paid by private telecom firms to BSNL as rental and
maintenance fees to station their link equipment such as terminals and antennas
in the premises of the state-owned companies to get connected in their NLD
(domestic) and ILD (international) networks.<br />
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BSNL had on August 23, 2012 increased the infrastructural charges
retrospectively from April 1, 2009 based on a classification of cities by the
government in 2004.<br />
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The move was challenged by the operators, who had entered into an interconnect
agreement with the PSU after 2001 contending that they have already paid
infrastructural charges in advance for the financial year 2012-2013.<br />
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According to them, it was a commercial agreement between them and BSNL can not
do unilateral revision.<br />
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However, BSNL contended that as per the clauses of the interconnect agreement,
BSNL can alone prescribe the charges from 'time to time' besides laying down
the terms and condition.<br />
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TDSAT bench headed by its Chairman Justice S B Sinha observed BSNL's decision
was based on classification by the government, which had actually divided into
six tiers instead of four and said," prima-facie, we have no doubt in our
mind that the Respondent (BSNL) was required to take a fresh decision". <br />
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upheld insider trading charges against VK Kaul, a former independent director
of Ranbaxy, and his wife Bala Kaul, accusing them of insider </span></em></h3>
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<b>T</b>he Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has upheld
insider trading charges against VK Kaul, a former independent director of <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/pharmaceuticals/ranbaxy-laboratories/RL">Ranbaxy</a>
, and his wife Bala Kaul, accusing them of insider trading. </div>
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had alleged that VK Kaul,
who knew in advance that Ranbaxy's arm Solrex is going to buy shares of Orchid
Chemicals, traded on behalf of his wife ahead of the transaction. While Kaul
has been fined Rs 50 lakh, his wife Bala Kaul has been handed a fine of Rs 10 lakh,
Sebi said in two separate orders.<br />
The case relates to the sale of 6.5 lakh shares in <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/pharmaceuticals/orchid-chemicalspharmaceuticals/OCP">Orchid
Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals</a> (OPCL) by Bear Stearns in March, 2008.<br />
The scrip saw a huge fall in the last half of March, 2008, but then
recovered significantly. Several alerts were generated at the NSE and BSE and
the scrip was taken up for joint investigation by the exchanges on the basis of
which a report was submitted by them in April that year. <br />
Bala Kaul had bought shares of OCPL from stockbroker Religare Securities on
March 27-28, 2008, just prior to the start of share buying by Solrex, a Ranbaxy
holding company, on March 31, 2008.<br />
She bought a total of 35,000 shares at an average price of Rs 131.71 and
sold them on April 10, 2008, at an average price of Rs 219.94, the Sebi said in
its order.<br />
VK Kaul was at that time serving as an independent director in Ranbaxy
Laboratories.<br />
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10:12 <a href="http://www.lawetalnews.com/Articlebyauthor/4475/Pawan-Singh.htm">Pawan
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Delhi</a></span></div>
<span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblcontent">The
Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) has rejected an impleadment plea by
Financial Technologies India Ltd (FTIL), in NSE's appeal against a Rs 55.5
crore penalty imposed by competition watchdog, Competition Commission of India
(CCI).</span><br />
In its application FTIL , seeking to be a party, had contended that there
are some allegations raised by NSE in the appeal which are directly against FTIL
hence it is entitled to be impleaded to refute the same.<br />
NSE opposed FTIL plea on the ground that as it was not a party in the
original proceedings before CCI and was therefore not entitled to join before
the Appellate Tribunal.<br />
"In view of what has
been stated before us, we
do not find any merits whatsoever in the contentions raised before
us in support of the application for impleadment. We, therefore, dismiss the
same," a three-member Compat bench, headed by its Chairman Justice VS Sirpurkar
held.<br />
The CCI direction came on a complaint filed by MCX Stock Exchange
(MCX-SX). MCX-SX in its representation to the CCI had accused NSE of
abusing of its dominant market position.<br />
National Stock Exchange (NSE) had earlier challenged the order dated 23rd
June, 2011 wherein the CCI has held that the appellant-NSE has engaged in the
exclusionary conduct in the aftermarket for exchange related software in the
Currency Derivative Segments (‘CD Segment’).<br />
FTILis engaged in the business of developing and supplying software to
various stock exchange and commodity exchanges. It also provides software
solutions for brokers and other market intermediaries.<br />
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Pathribal encounter: Army asks dead to depose, victims' families shocked </h1>
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<b>Srinagar:</b> The Indian Army is under fire for summoning dead persons in
the probe into the Pathribal encounter that took place in the Anantnag district
of Jammu and Kashmir in March 2000. The families of the victims are shocked at
the callousness. They demand that the trial court be shifted to Kashmir if the
Indian Army wants them to attend the proceedings. <br />
The furore started when the Army served a summons in the name of Amirullah,
who died in 1994, six years before his son Juma Khan and four others were
killed in the fake encounter in Pathribal. Shakoor Khan, Amirullah's grandson,
said, "The summons that they sent us are in the name of my grandfather who
died 20 years ago. We cannot go there." The family members have decided
not to attend the court-martial proceedings if the venue at Nagrota near Jammu
is not transferred to Kashmir. They have also demanded security and counsel of
their own choice. <br />
Roshan Jan, wife of slain Juma Khan, said that she could not understand any
other language except Gojri and hence was unable to attend proceedings. She
added that she was unwell and not in a state to talk. She too demanded that the
venue of the trial be shifted to Kashmir. Abdul Rashid, Juma Khan's son,
questioned the need for a probe. He said, "The Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) has already said they were killed in cold-blood and charge-sheeted.
What is the need to do a probe again? I fear for my family." <br />
Their demand is backed by the political parties in the valley. Mehboob Beg,
a National Conference (NC) MP, said, "The CBI has already confirmed those
were murders. It is time for action and not to go into technicalities." <br />
Five youths were killed in the Pathribal fake encounter in March 2000, a few
days after the Sikh massacre in Chhattisinghpora, again in the Anantnag
district. Earlier this year, the Army told the Supreme Court it will
court-martial the accused officers, following which a Defence Ministry
spokesperson reached out to the families of the slain men saying that the Army
was committed to a fair and transparent trial and "witnesses would be
given reasonable time to record their statements". Since the Pathribal
trial is being taken over by the Army, it should ensure that justice is done.
For the victims who are awaiting justice for 12 long years, the patience is
running thin. <br />
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Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 07, 2012, 11:55<br />
Attending court on each date may be considered equivalent to simple
imprisonment of one day, a Delhi court has observed, while letting off a man on
probation after holding him guilty of assaulting another man in a trial
spanning 11 years. <br />
Metropolitan Magistrate Jagminder Singh let off South West Delhi resident
Lalit Kumar on probation also on grounds of being the sole bread winner of the
family and that he had apologised for his behaviour. <br />
"The convict submits that he is facing trial since 2001 ie, for last
about 11 years and continuously appearing before the court. Attending court on
each date may be considered equivalent to simple imprisonment of one day,"
said the court, letting off the convict on probation on ground that he faced
the trial for 11 years. <br />
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Lalit, a teacher by profession, had abused and assaulted Bihar native Mohan
Kumar. </div>
The prosecution had told the court that Lalit abused and assaulted Mohan
with a dangerous weapon when the victim had gone to his cousin's house where
the accused too was present. <br />
The court convicted Lalit for beating up Mohan but held that there was not
sufficient evidence to conclude that a dangerous weapon had been used by him to
injure the victim. <br />
It noted that the convict has a child and wife to look after and he is the
only earning member of his family. <br />
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convict," the judge said.</div>
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As backlog leads to overcrowding in jails, security concerns abound</h1>
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The snail-paced disposal of cases in Maharashtra's courts has not just
kept the pendency rate high but also caused overcrowding in jails. In most
prisons in the state, the prisoner population is considerably more than the
permitted capacity, leading to law-and-order problems.<br />
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In the state's southern region, where Mumbai falls, three of the four prisons
were overcrowded in the last week of September. Arthur Road jail has a capacity
of 804 but housed 1,995 inmates. Thane jail can accommodate 1,105 inmates but
its population was 1,984. Kalyan jail is meant for 505 prisoners but held
1,122.<br />
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To tackle just such overcrowding, the chief of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Human-Rights-Commission">National
Human Rights Commission</a> had earlier this year recommended creation of night
courts on prison premises to at least dispose of cases relating to petty
crimes. Jail authorities appreciate the suggestion but point out that its
implementation is the government's prerogative. "Although it will help
speed up trials, the idea has to be accepted by the law and judiciary
department and the directorate of prosecution," said a jail officer.
"There have been times when inmates were not taken to court for hearing
due to shortage of escort staff."<br />
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No wonder then, undertrials out on bail as well as those acquitted support
courts in jails or nearby. "It will save time and manpower," said an
inmate who was recently granted bail. They note that, partly due to
overcrowding, the state of most of Maharashtra prisons is abysmal. This has
resulted in fights among prisoners and riots. Recently, an inquiry was set up
when a group of inmates assaulted policemen in Taloja jail.<br />
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Officials argue that prison understaffing compounds problems spawned by
overcrowding. Not infrequently, inmates flee from police custody while being
ferried to court for hearing or back. A few years ago, four undertrials slipped
away while being transported back to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai from a sessions
court in Mumbai.<br />
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The suggestion of night courts in jails finds backers among prisoners and
prison officials but not among many legal experts. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Public-prosecutor">Public
prosecutor</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Neelima-Kasture">Neelima Kasture</a>
maintains nights courts are "not the solution" since they would add
to the burden of judges and lawyers. "We need judges who will not give
repeated adjournments . Unlike earlier, several district judges now focus on
procedural technicalities, which cause unnecessary delay. They must hear the
matter every day and dispose of them quickly. Another problem is lawyers who
survive on adjournments . This practice should be curbed," she said. </div>
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Man gets 2 years in jail for molestation</h1>
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jail for outraging the modesty of his employer's minor daughter. Additional
sessions judge Madhu Jain held Aatik Alam guilty of outraging the modesty of
the five-year-old girl, but acquitted him of rape charges. <br />
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The court also offset Alam's sentence against the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/jail-term">jail term</a> already
served by him during trial. <br />
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The case dated back to September 9, 2010. It was registered on the complaint by
the girl's mother that Alam, who used to work as a helper in her husband's tea
shop in south Delhi, had taken her daughter to a nearby railway track and raped
her. Alam was arrested by the police the same day. <br />
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evidence. Alam had refuted the allegations, saying his employer had implicated
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A youth accused of kidnapping a minor girl, who was months away from turning
an adult, and inducing her to marry him has been acquitted by a Delhi court on
the testimony of the girl that she went with him on her "own free
will". <br />
The trial court quoted a judgement of the Supreme Court in a similar case to
rely on the statement of the victim in the present case who was just four
months away from attaining the majority age of 18 years. <br />
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in her statement under section 164 of CrPC before Metropolitan Magistrate that
she had gone with accused with her own free will, which, by no stretch of
imagination could be said to be the accused having taken her out of the keeping
of lawful guardianship," Additional Sessions Judge Gulshan Kumar said. </div>
Delhi resident Akhtar Ali was freed by the court saying the prosecution has
also failed to prove that accused had abducted the girl with intention to marry
her or to have an illicit relationship with her. <br />
"I am of the view that prosecution has miserably failed to prove on
record that on March 16, 2012... Accused (Ali) abducted the prosecutrix, minor
girl from the custody of her lawful guardians and with an intention that she
may be compelled to marry against her will or with an intention to have an
illicit intercourse with her. <br />
"Accordingly, accused is acquitted of the offences under section 363/366
(kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her for marriage) of the
IPC, he was charged with," the judge said. <br />
The girl's parents had lodged a complaint alleging that on March 16, 2012
the accused had abducted the girl from the custody of her lawful guardians with
an intention to marry her and have an illicit relation with their minor
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Man given 6 months jail term for possessing heroin</h1>
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<span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">New Delhi: A man caught with around 15 grams of heroin this
year has been sentenced to six months in jail by a Delhi court. <br />
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While convicting Central Delhi resident Satish under the Narcotics Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar
also imposed a fine of Rs 500 on him. <br />
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"This court finds that the prosecution has established its case against
the accused... He was found in possession of 15 gms of heroin. <br />
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"Having regard to the quantity recovered from the convict (Satish) and
that he is a poor person and not a previous convict, I hereby sentence him to
imprisonment for a period of six months and to pay fine of Rs 500," the
judge said. </span></div>
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According to the police, 15 grams of heroin was recovered from him after a
formal search was conducted. <br />
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The court, while handing down the punishment, set off half his sentence against
the three-month jail term already served by him. <br />
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assured India that it would bring to justice the perpetrators of the attack on
Lt. Gen. (retired) K S Brar in London on September 30 last, New Delhi is likely
to cite the incident to nudge British and Canadian Governments to keep tab on
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In a letter to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, British Foreign Secretary
William Hague said that the UK Government was determined to bring the
perpetrators of the attack on Indian Army veteran to justice and London would
keep New Delhi updated about the progress of the investigation.<br />
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New Delhi, however, is likely to urge both London and Ottawa that extremists
should not be allowed to take advantage of freedom of expression guaranteed by
local laws to spread fanaticism. India is also set to ask both UK and Canadian
Government to probe if the pro-Khalistani elements in both the countries had
any links with Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence.<br />
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The London Police arrested 10 men and two women in connection with the attack
on Brar, who had led the Operation Blue Star that the Indian Army had carried
out in Golden Temple to flush out the Khalistani militants from the Sikh shrine
in Amritsar in 1984. <br />
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Though Brar said that his “strongly built, bearded and tall” and attackers were
“pro-Khalistanis”, London Police did not disclose identity and ethnicity of
none of the 12 persons it arrested so far, but most of them were from
Wolverhampton, Bromwich and Hillingdon – all known for significant population
of Sikhs. Nine of them were released on bail, while three others are still in
policy custody and being interrogated.<br />
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Sources told Deccan Herald that New Delhi had been receiving intelligence
inputs over the past couple of years about the ISI’s efforts to revive Sikh
militancy in India and to support Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan
Zindabad Force and the newly-formed Khalistan Tiger Force through International
Sikh Youth Federation and its offshoots in European and North American
countries. A senior Punjab Police officer had on September 15, 2011 briefed top
security officials in New Delhi about the intelligence inputs, suggesting that
the ISI had asked the BKI, KZF and KTF to do some “spectacular actions” to
announce their revival.<br />
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Notwithstanding the protracted probe into the 1985 bombing of the Air India’s
Kanishka aircraft by Sikh militants in Canada and the subsequent
much-publicized trial of the accused, pro-Khalistani elements and groups are
still active in the North American country. Krishna last month took up with his
Canadian counterpart John Baird the issue of Khalistani radical elements’
continued presence and activities in the latter’s country. <br />
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Baird assured him that Ottawa would do “everything it could possibly do under
the law to combat radical extremism by such groups in Canada”. He also told
Krishna that Ottawa would look forward to inputs from New Delhi to revise and
update the list of the Sikh militant groups that had been tagged as terrorist
organizations in Canada in 2003.</span></div>
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20% of undertrials are from Maharashtra</h1>
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MUMBAI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/judicial-backlog-in-Maharashtra">judicial
backlog in Maharashtra</a> is edging forward to intractable levels. By the end
of last year, statistics show, the state accounted for one in every five
undertrials booked in the country under the Indian Penal Code. <br />
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According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau, 31 lakh
undertrials were awaiting verdict in Maharashtra in 2011. Of these, just 2.4
lakh witnessed their cases conclude during the year. The remaining 28.6 lakh
undertrials had to wait for their fates to be decided another day. Compared to
the rest of the country, the figure was the highest of all states. And within
Maharashtra, that amounted to a pendency rate of 92.1%. <br />
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Legal experts said the mountainous backlog has necessitated changes in the
legal system. If the growing problem has to be arrested in the state,
"good judges" must be appointed, the number of courts as well as
manpower increased, and unnecessary delays in hearings curbed. <br />
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The NCRB statistics show that by 2011-end the country had 1.38 crore
undertrials. Maharashtra's tally of 28.6 lakh accounted for 20.6% of the
staggering figure; it was followed in the ignominious list by Gujarat (16.1
lakh), Bihar (15.5 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (12 lakh), and Uttar Pradesh (8.6
lakh). <br />
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"One of the main problems is that criminal cases are rising greatly and we
don't have sufficient judges. The authorities should examine this issue
seriously. The number of courts must be increased," said lawyer Majeed
Memon. He added that the judicial backlog has left multitudes of undertrials languishing
in jails endlessly—which is contradictory to constitutional assurances. <br />
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As an instance of the inordinate delay in disposal of cases, lawyers cited the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/2006-Lakkhan-Baiyya-fake-encounter">2006
Lakkhan Baiyya fake encounter</a>. The case is yet to conclude and thus the 22
accused, including13 policemen, still awaiting verdict. <br />
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Special public prosecutor Rohini Salian explained that judicial delays are
often caused by cumbersome procedures. "Even if there 40 matters are
listed, each case is called out, the presence or absence of people recorded and
roznama marked. Many of these matters are then adjourned." <br />
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Salian said that courts accord preference to cases where the accused are in
custody and not to those where the undertrials are out on bail, leading to
prolonged delays in the latter. "Also, courts hear bail, revision and
miscellaneous applications. This leaves many courts with just half a day to
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Enforcement Directorate attaches City Group Swiss accounts</h1>
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NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Enforcement-Directorate">Enforcement
Directorate</a> has attached the Swiss bank accounts of Sayed Mohamed Masood,
chairman of City Limouzine, and other group companies which are being
investigated for alleged financial fraud, sources within the ED told TOI. This
is the first such move under the Prevention of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Money-Laundering">Money
Laundering</a> Act and possibly marks the dismantling of the Swiss wall of
customer confidentially. <br />
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Experts say the move could also have implications for the fight against black
money. <br />
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The Enforcement Directorate is investigating the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Citigroup">City Group</a> and
Masood for alleged money laundering. The group had floated investment schemes
offering high returns, as much as 48% in some cases. </div>
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ED sources say that they were able to convince Swiss authorities that the funds
in some of the Swiss bank accounts of Masoos were "proceeds of
crime". They said Swiss authorities were convinced and cooperated in freezing
some of the bank accounts. The PMLA adjudicating authority now has to confirm
the attachments and once it is done ED will take possession of the funds, the
source said. If the conviction goes through in the case, the funds will be
brought back to India, the source said. <br />
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ED is conducting investigations into the money laundering in countries abroad
in the case. Sources said the investigations so far have revealed that Masood
maintained bank accounts in Switzerland in his name and the name of his companies.
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ED has now attached these bank accounts which had a balance of $ 1.25 million.
Investigations have also revealed huge transactions in foreign bank accounts
and further probe is on in the case. The ED sources say more domestic and
international attachments are likely soon. <br />
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According to the ED, City Limouzines (India) Ltd., City Realcom Ltd., its
chairman <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sayed-Mohamed-Masood">Sayed
Mohamed Masood</a> and other directors of the companies have allegedly duped
thousands of investors across the country of funds to the tune of hundreds of
crores. <br />
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Police across the country are investigating Sayed Mohamed Masood, and City
Group of Companies for cheating and criminal conspiracy under sections 120-B and
420 of the Indian Penal Code, the sources said. <br />
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ED sources say investigations have uncovered huge money laundering in India and
abroad. During the course of investigations, the Enforcement Directorate has
issued 14 attachment orders attaching movable and immovable properties in <br />
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India with a market value of over Rs 130 crores which were registered in the
names of City group of companies, Masood, his wife, daughter, son and other
directors. <br />
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The PMLA adjudicating authority has confirmed all the attachment orders and ED
is in the process of taking over these properties, the sources said. </div>
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Kanda's offensive SMSes forced Geetika to commit suicide?</h1>
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New Delhi, Oct 7: <span id="IL_AD5"><span class="ilad">Delhi police</span></span>
indicted former Haryana Home Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his close associate
Aruna Chaddha regarding Geetika Sharma suicide case. Police on Saturday, Oct 6
submitted charge-sheet to a Delhi court and accused Kanda and Chaddha of
harassing Geetika.<br />
The cops in its charge-sheet said that Kanda's offensive messages (SMSes)
had compelled 23-year-old air-hostess Geetika Sharma who had worked in now
defunct MDLR airlines owned by Kanda.<br />
Following Indian Penal Code (IPC) and <span id="IL_AD2"><span class="ilad">Information
Technology Act</span></span>, the investigative officials charged criminal
conspiracy, destruction of evidence, forgery and sending offensive messages
against Kanda.<br />
Charges against Kanda and Chaddha said that the duo had abetted the suicide
of the former sir-hostess through "malicious and wilful acts of mental
torture, threat, blackmail and <span id="IL_AD4"><span class="ilad">stress</span></span>
and criminal intimidation spread over two years" that forced young Geetika
to end her life.<br />
The charge-sheet also accused Kanda and Chaddha of "harassing,
conspiring, intimidating and creating an atmosphere of terror and continuous
pursuit."<br />
<a alt="Topic: Delhi police" href="http://news.oneindia.in/topic/police" title="Topic: Delhi police"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Delhi police</span></a> also added,
"By sending forged and false e-mails and by making Geetika use forged
No-Objection Certificate when she left MDLR [which she had no reason to suspect
to be forged] and joined Emirates Airlines, Gopal Kanda had created an
atmosphere of suspicion and distrust around Geetika in which she was not able
to hold her head high and face her colleagues. She resigned to save her
dignity... She rightly feared that she would be viewed with suspicion and
distrust by her colleagues, friends and future employers and becoming extremely
distressed and depressed, she decided to end her life by hanging herself."<br />
Geetika committed suicide in her apartment in Delhi on Aug 5. In her suicide
note, Geetika had alleged that Kanda and Aruna Chaddha were responsible for
compelling her to end her life. The police have booked Kanda under <span id="IL_AD3"><span class="ilad">abatement</span></span> to suicide case. He was
forced to resign from his post following his alleged role in Geetika's suicide
case.<br />
Police arrested Chaddha but failed to take Kanda into their custody as he
absconded. Later he surrendered himself and was sent judicial custody.<br />
The suicide case hogged limelight when Kanda's alleged involvement with
Geetika was revealed. The former minister allegedly had an extra-marital affair
with the former air-hostess. However, Kanda's wife rejected to accept such
allegations against her husband.<br />
Many other shocking facts were also reported when a <a alt="Topic: Bollywood" href="http://news.oneindia.in/topic/bollywood" title="Topic: Bollywood"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Bollywood</span></a> starlet Nupur Mehta
stated about Kanda's relationship with another woman Ankita Singh with whom
Geetika had a bitter relation.<br />
Soon after Geetika's <a alt="Topic: suicide" href="http://news.oneindia.in/topic/suicide" title="Topic: suicide"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">suicide</span></a>, Nupur,
an ex-employee of now defunct MDLR airlines, stated that Kanda married Ankita
and both of them have a love-child.<br />
Geetika had filed a <span id="IL_AD1"><span class="ilad">legal case</span></span>
against Ankita who had trespassed into Geetika's apartment in Goa and
threatened the former to resign from Kanda's company.<br />
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A special court awarded 31 years of rigorous imprisonment to a convict in the
2002 Naroda Patiya case on Friday.<br />
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Terming Suresh alias Shehzad Netalkar as one of the main conspirators, special
judge Jyotsana Yagnik sentenced him to 21 years life imprisonment after serving
10 years under section 326 (voluntary causing grievous hurt by dangerous
weapons or means) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).<br />
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On August 29, 2012, Netalkar was held guilty of murder, conspiracy and other
sections of the IPC among 32 accused, including BJP MLA and former minister in
Narendra Modi government, Maya Kodnani.<br />
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As Netalkar had jumped bail and was declared an absconder, the court had
reserved the pronouncement of quantum of punishment till he could be brought
before the court.<br />
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Judge Yagnik had also directed the Supreme Court appointed special
investigation team (SIT) to form a special team to nab Netalkar.<br />
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Following a manhunt in more than six cities of Maharashtra and tracing his
movements on the basis of his mobile phone locations, the special team finally
nabbed him on Thursday from Nandurbar in Maharashtra and produced him before
the court.<br />
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Netalkar repented his acts of 2002 and told the court that he jumped the bail
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The Supreme Court has overruled its own judgment regarding the law on
bounced cheques. The Supreme Court as well as high courts have been following
the wrong judgment in several cases under the Negotiable Instruments Act. Now
it has turned the law around. In this case, the payee did not issue notice to
the drawer when the cheques bounced for the first time. He presented them again,
and they bounced again. Then only he initiated proceedings under the Act. There
were contrary views on whether the proceedings were valid if the payee did not
act for the first time. Therefore the question was referred to a larger bench.
The issue was “whether the payee or holder of cheque can initiate proceedings
of prosecution for the second time if he has not initiated any action on
earlier cause of action?” Settling the law, the Supreme Court, in the latest
case titled MSR Leathers vs S Palaniappan, stated that prosecution based on the
second or successive dishonour of the cheque is also permissible. It overruled
the 1998 decision in Sadanandan Bhadran’s case and now ruled that prosecution
based upon second or successive dishonour of the cheque is also permissible.<br />
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arbitration</strong><br />
The Supreme Court has held that even non-signatory parties to agreements can be
referred to arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. The
expression ‘person claiming through or under’ in Section 45 would mean multiple
and multi-party agreements, though in exceptional case. The judgment in the
case, Chloro Control Ltd vs Severn Trent Water Purification Inc, explained that
even non-signatory parties to some of the agreements can demand and be referred
to arbitration. The Bombay High Court ruling in this case was upheld and the
disputes between various parties were referred to arbitration which will be
conducted according to the rules of International Chamber of Commerce.<br />
<strong>Award must be given to party</strong><br />
The Supreme Court has ruled that the service of a copy of an arbitral award on
the agent or a lawyer of a party did not amount to service on the party itself,
according to the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. In this
case, Benarsi Krishna Committee vs Karmayogi Shelters Ltd, the copy was
available with the lawyer, but not the firm itself. This caused some delay in
challenging the award in the Delhi High Court. A single-judge bench held that
if the lawyer or agent got the copy of the award, that would amount to the
party itself getting it. However the division bench negated this and insisted
that the award should be served on the party itself. On appeal, the Supreme
Court upheld this view and stated that the expression “party”, as defined in
the Act, clearly indicated a person who is a party to an arbitration agreement.
The definition is not qualified in any way so as to include the agent of the
party to such agreement.<br />
<strong>More liability on insurance firms</strong><br />
The Delhi High Court has ruled that a general insurance company must pay the
victim of a road accident even if the terms of the policy have been broken. In
this appeal case, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company vs Savitri, the firm
argued that since it had successfully proved the breach of the terms of policy,
it was entitled to be exonerated of its liability and the motor vehicles
accident tribunal was wrong in fixing the liability on the insurer and then
allowing it to recover the amount from the owner of the vehicle and the driver.
The high court asserted that the insurer’s liability to satisfy third party
liability has been decided by the Supreme Court in several cases. “Even if a
conscious breach on the part of the insured is established, the insurer has a
statutory liability to pay the compensation to the third party and will simply
have the right to recover the same from the insured person,” the judgment said.<br />
<strong>Firm buying flats not ‘consumer’</strong><br />
The National Consumer Commission last week dismissed a complaint moved by
Singhal Finstock Ltd against Jaypee Infratech Ltd complaining of deficiency in
service in allotment of apartments. The crucial question, according to the
judgment, was the purpose of buying the flats — whether it is for commercial
purpose, to earn profits, or for self-use. If it is for commercial purpose, the
former company would not fall in the definition of ‘consumer’. The judgment
stated that though the firm and its directors asserted that the flats were for
providing residence to the executives, they have not proved that it was not for
commercial purpose or as investment. In fact, they declared that they were
investors and the memorandum of association stated that they were in the
business of real estate and other related commercial activities. Therefore, the
commission stated that the complaint was not maintainable under the Consumer
Protection Act.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">A ruling party can suffer debacle at the polls
due to anti-incumbency factors but there’s no recourse for the people who have been
aggrieved by the grave injustice done to them due to undue delay in
dispensation by the institutionally weak judiciary. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">The backlog of undecided court cases keeps
piling up but there’s has been a laxity in filling up the posts of subordinate
court judges, and one might argue that its also due to the collegium system
that vacancies in the Supreme Court and high courts are only going up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">In fact the Supreme Court in 1993 deprived the
executive of its power to appoint and transfer judges and bestowed this job on
a select panel of senior most judges called ‘collegium’.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>There’s only one
judgment that describes the authority of collegium and that’s come from the
Allahabad high court, the oldest high court which is infamous for high backlog
and maximum number of vacancies, 76 or more.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“It’s certainly not
the discretion to delay in making recommendations,’’ it said and added the
process of appointment must be initiated at least six months before a vacancy
arises. It further said the court “must have all the judges in place equal to
the number of sanctioned strength at all times, failing which it is not fully
constituted.’’<br />
``All the constitutional functionaries involved in the process of appointment
have to ensure that the vacancies are filled up, as early as possible,’’ it
added.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>But the situation
remains unchanged. However, there’s been a mounting pressure for having a
relook at the collegium pattern of top judicial appointments. With judiciary
maintaining a stiff posture for protecting the self-designed mechanism, the
government has often talked about evolving an alternative method either by way
of a Judges Accountability law or National Judicial Commission or All India
Judicial Service.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>As government stresses
on the need for such enactments to infuse accountability and transparency in
the most visibly respected institution among all others, recently retired Chief
Justice of India S H Kapadia has expressed apprehension regarding the efficacy
of the government maneuvers. ``We need to conduct a detailed study before we
tinker with the Constitution,” Justice Kapadia said and warned thatany
disturbance in the balance of power among the legislative, executive and
judiciary would damage the Constitution for all times to come.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>But a multi-member
parliament’s committee headed by Shantaram Naik feels that an appraisal of the
vacancy position of Judges in both SC and HCs ``is disheartening’’.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>It makes also a dent
on the judges chosen system saying one major factor affecting this vacancies
appear to be the procedure of appointment and the current proactive of the
collegium system also raises apprehensions. </ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The judicial
incumbency has been felt by former SC judge and jurist V R Krishna Iyer.
"The whole process is almost privatised, personalised and innocent of
governmental comments. Persons are chosen, privileged groups get priority,
reconsideration is often rejected.’’</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He adds:``The
collegium has an unscientific methodology and its selection has given rise to
much criticism. Therefore, the collegium, as a system, must go.’’</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Assuming a law is
enacted to perform the onerous job of filling up judicial posts, would it
ensure that dispensation isn’t affected due to shortage of manpower?</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Perhaps, answer is in
the negative given the prevailing scenario in different tribunals, PSUs and
expert panels which can be filled up with suitable persons by the government
alone.</ins></span></span><br />
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manning all the institutions in time otherwise it would also be blamed for
justice dispensation paralysis.</ins></span></span></div>
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Low conviction rate in cases relying on circumstantial evidence: SC judge</h1>
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JAIPUR: There are unprecedented challenges before the judiciary today and
the biggest among them is the conviction of accused solely on the basis of
circumstantial evidences. Even after having codified laws, criminals go
scot-free and the conviction rate is very low. This was stated by Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gyan-Sudha">Gyan Sudha</a>
Mishra, judge, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme
Court</a> here on Sunday.</div>
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Speaking at the valedictory session of a
three-day judicial conference on administration of criminal justice, she
maintained that judges are put to great moral and mental test in the course of
delivering justice. "It is a daunting task to provide justice to the
victim and giving the criminal his due right to reform and resettle in the
society," said Justice Mishra.</div>
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The conference, jointly organised by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajasthan-High-Court">Rajasthan
High Court</a>, the national judicial academy, Bhopal, and the Rajasthan state
judicial academy, Jodhpur, was addressed by former Supreme Court judges C K
Thakker and A K Ganguly among others. </div>
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Justice Mishra also pointed towards the trend of
increasing number of bail applications reaching the apex court. "I feel
that there has been some doubts in the minds of the judges that the bail
application requires interference. In the olden times, whatever happened in
high court was final. But today Supreme Court is flooded with bail
matters," said Justice Mishra.</div>
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Taking the point forward, she added that nowadays
cases of circumstantial evidence ends up with very low conviction. "By the
time the case reaches the apex court, it is bound to happen that the accused
will be released. We must come with a visionary justice in such cases,"
she said.</div>
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Mishra advocated for going into greater details
in high profile cases or those having big repercussions on the society. She
also said that judges are not blind and well aware of what is going around and
happening in society.</div>
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Chief Justice Arun Mishra of the high court also
pressed for quality justice and called for efficient lawyers to be provided to
poor and needy. "We cannot permit our system to become a mockery. We will
have to revise our methods. Legal aid should have efficient lawyers. If the
situation and case demands, amicus curie should be provided by the
courts," he said. He also asked fellow judges to take the old cases on a
priority basis to reduce the pendency.</div>
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J&K CIC direct officers for prompt disposal of applications</h1>
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G R Sofi on Sunday directed officers for prompt disposal of applications of RTI
cases in the state. <br />
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Sofi, who held a detailed interaction session with Public Information Officers
(PIOs) and Assistant Public Information Officers (APIOs) in Poonch district,
said "officers should promptly dispose of applications of RTI cases".
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Speaking at the session, Sofi said that each individual of the state have the
legal right to obtain certified copies of information regarding official status
of any matter from a PIO of concerned department by tendering a written
application accompanied by prescribed fee. </span></div>
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that the officers are under obligation to provide the information sought under
RTI unless debarred by law. <br />
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The CIC appreciated the measures taken by the district administration in
disseminating awareness regarding various provisions of Right to Information
(RTI) Act. <br />
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As many as 319 RTI applications were received during current fiscal year till
ending September, out of which 280 application were disposed off, whereas rest
applications are under process of disposal, the CIC was told. </div>
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SEBI to act against non-compliance on share capital reconciliation</h1>
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At its board meet, capital markets regulator Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has approved to amend the law to act against
non-compliance on share capital reconciliation.</div>
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the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE) faced over
900 cases of discrepancies on share capital reconciliation.</div>
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and that starting 2014 FIIs will be allowed to re-invest 50% of previous year’s
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follow-on public offers (FPOs) need not meet profitability criteria and SEBI
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-65304723501533436862012-10-07T01:03:00.001+05:302012-10-07T01:03:06.898+05:30LEGAL NEWS 06.10.2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Indore, October 05, 2012</div>
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Eighty-two new cases of silicosis have been identified in
Panna in a recent survey conducted by Environics Trust (Occupation Health and
Safety Centre) in October. According to reports, about a dozen of people are in
serious condition and two have been admitted in the hospital. The two <span class="msoIns"><ins>tribal labourers, whose condition is said to be critical, are
in Balkrishna and Kesu.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The survey was conducted by the Holland-based
specialist, Dr M Murlidhar. A total of 224 labourers working in different mines
of the district were examined by a team led by Murlidhar, in which 82 were
found to be affected by the dreaded silicosis.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Last year, the team had conducted the survey in
September and had identified 39 sufferers, out which four have died till now.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Hindustan Times had carried a story on February 18
and reported the death of a labourer, Kamta Prasad (54), a tribal, who was
suffering from silicosis for the last one year. He was one of the 39 sufferers
in the list prepared by Dr M Murlidhar, who examined 43 tribal labourers in September
2011.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Kamta worked in the sandstone mine with occupational
exposure history of 35 years. He had silicosis with a permanent disability of
50% as per the clinical examination, occupational history and radiology. Prior
to that Shahabuddin, a resident of Panna town, died of Silicosis. There are 122
listed stone mines in the district and nearly 75,000 tribal people works as
labourers in these mines.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The NHRC took congnisance of the HT story and sent a
team to know more about the details of this disease in Panna. The NHRC also
issued notices to the collector, chief medical and health officer (CMHO) and
other higher officials. Yusuf Beg, the activist who raised the issue of Panna,
said, "The team of NHRC had done nothing and identified only 17 patients
among the list given by us. They put a seal on their BPL card and assured for
medical help." He further said that most of the remaining affected persons
including 82 identified this year, are on the verge of death and government has
not taken any appropriate steps to contain the disease in the district.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Srikant Dubey MLA Panna, who had raised the
silicosis issue in legislative assembly in the monsoon session this year said,
"Nothing has been done to save the patients in the district. Everything is
on papers only. I will raise the issue again in winter session."<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins> "About 75,000 tribals of the district are
working in legal and illegal stone mines and if examined, I can challenge that
more than 70% would be found affected with the disease but no one paying any
head to them," Yusuf said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
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CAT directs UPSC, MHA to reconsider DCP's promotion to IPS </h1>
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New Delhi:
The Union government has been asked by the Central Administrative Tribunal to
consider promoting a deputy commissioner of Delhi Police, a DANIPS officer, to
the IPS cadre. <br />
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The CAT has ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the UPSC to convene
a review selection committee to consider the case of the 1988 batch Delhi,
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police Service (DANIPS) officer Rajiv Ranjan after
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tribunal also set aside the UPSC's letter against convening a review selection
committee on the ground that the selection of applicants for promotion to the
IPS of the UT segment for the year 2010 has already been notified. <br />
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"The letter issued by UPSC on applicant's representation and the request
made by respondent 2 (MHA) is not sustainable in the eyes of law. The same
needs to be quashed. We order accordingly.” <br />
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"The respondents (UPSC and MHA) are directed to convene a review selection
committee for considering the applicant's case for promotion to the Union
Territory (UT) segment of the Joint AGMUT cadre of IPS for the year 2010 and
while doing so the committee will also consider his upgraded ACRs along with
other ACRs for proper assessment," the CAT bench presided by Syed Rafat
Alam said. The tribunal's order came on the plea of Rajiv Ranjan, Deputy
Commissioner of Police (DCP), Security, against the decision of the UPSC. <br />
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The senior police official had said he had not been considered for promotion to
the IPS of the UT segment of the Joint Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram Union
Territory (AGMUT) cadre in the November 2011 meeting of the selection committee
as his ACR grading did not meet the required standard. </div>
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Thereafter, he had got hold of his ACRs through an RTI application in
December 2011 and then on his representations the below par ACRs were upgraded.
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Subsequent to upgrading of his ACRs, Ranjan had written to the MHA which had
proposed his case to the UPSC for setting up a review selection committee. <br />
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The UPSC, however, had rejected the MHA's proposal, but the CAT has given him
the requisite relief. <br />
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‘CERC infringing on CCI jurisdiction; there has to be one expert body'</h1>
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Mehak Kasbekar, Bloomberg TV India .<i>Oct 5, 2012,
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'Other regulators are trying to protect their
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India Inc is under fire from the Competition Commission of
India (CCI). The CCI is investigating any activity that resembles unfair
practices by a monopoly, coordinated price moves and any other anti-competitive
behaviour.</div>
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Industries from coal and oil companies to airports and car
makers, are all being studied by the CCI as we speak. When asked about the
authority’s current investigation on Coal India, R Prasad, member of the
investigative division, CCI, told Bloomberg TV India that some power generation
companies have come to the authority and complained that instead of coal,
stones are being supplied. “That is a case of dominance. If someone takes a
mine and squats over it, it becomes anti-competitive because you are reducing
the supply,” said Prasad.</div>
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It's not just Maharashtra, but the Gujarat State Electricity
Corporation (GSEC) has also written to CCI over the quality of coal supplied to
it.</div>
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According to sources, GSEC has written to CCI against South
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The company has put forth that CIL is not supplying proper
quantity of coal and has also questioned the quality of coal supplied say
sources. Sources also claim that GSEC has also complained about stones being
mixed in delivered coal and that there has been a violation in size of coal
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The Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) has also been
under the CCI fire lately. CAG in its report had commented on DIAL that it is
anti-competitive. The report added that when the bidding took place, it was not
mentioned that they will levy development charges. Two issues arise which have
been mentioned in the CAG report also- different development fee for domestic
and international passengers should not be there.</div>
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Prasad says that DIAL has not put in its own money, to that
extent public private partnership (PPP) is not working. “CCI will look into PPP
on a case to case basis across sectors. PPP model can't be changed to your own
benefit when its suits you,” he added.</div>
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PPP model for Delhi Airport was for 30 years and was
extended to 60 years. In the face of the aforementioned event, it implies that
there will be no competition for the Delhi Airport for 60 years now, which is
anti competitive. Thus the CCI had to step in.</div>
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When asked about what is the issue that CCI is looking into
on the oil marketing companies (OMC) front, Prasad said, “CCI has been
discussing OMCs’ raising prices together for two years. Efficiency level of
refineries of all three OMCs can't be the same.</div>
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The CCI is also investigating auto companies’ cartelization.
A hearing will start on car manufacturers this month. “There are 17 companies
involved, so hearing will take 5-6 months,” Prasad explains.</div>
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Even as the CCI keeps a close eye on all business activity,
it has had to approach the Prime Minister to protect its turf post CERC trying
to defend its area of governance. CCI member R Prasad explained why the body
must retain authority in monitoring any competitive activity even in sectors
that have independent regulators.</div>
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He says, “Everyone can't look into competition. There has to
be one body that looks into it. CCI's expanse is wide, but other regulators are
trying to protect their turf.”</div>
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Competition Appellate Tribunal dismisses FTIL plea to be party in NSE, MCX
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NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Competition-Appellate-Tribunal">Competition
Appellate Tribunal</a> (Compat) today dismissed the plea of <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/financial-technologies-india-ltd/stocks/companyid-8164.cms">Financial
Technologies India Ltd</a><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/financial-technologies-india-ltd/stocks/companyid-8164.cms" target="_blank">BSE -0.39 %</a> (FTIL) to be a party in the case related to
NSE's appeal against the Rs 55.5 crore penalty imposed on the stock exchange by
fair trade regulator CCI. <br />
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The CCI order came on a complaint filed by <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/MCX-Stock-Exchange">MCX Stock
Exchange</a> (MCX-SX), which competes with NSE in the currency derivatives
market. <br />
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MCX-SX was set up by FTIL and MCX, the country's biggest commodity bourse. <br />
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A three-member Compat bench, headed by its Chairman Justice V S Sirpurkar,
dismissed FTIL's plea after observing that it does not "find any
merit" in it. <br />
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FTIL's plea was opposed by the NSE, which said that it was not a party before
the CCI ( <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Competition-Commission-of-India">Competition
Commission of India</a>) and hence there is no need for the same in Compat
case. <br />
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The NSE had challenged the CCI order, passed last year, wherein it had imposed
the penalty on the bourse for allegedly abusing its dominance in the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/equity-market">equity market</a>,
thus affecting the competition in currency derivative segment. <br />
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FTIL is a specialist in providing <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/IT-solutions">IT solutions</a>
for the equity, treasury, <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/forex">forex</a>, commodity,
derivatives and depository segments. </div>
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CCI rejects plea against Shriram Chits </h1>
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The Competition Commission has rejected a plea against chit fund
firm Shriram Chits Ltd for allegedly abusing its dominant market position. </div>
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The CCI order, released today, follows a complaint filed by a
chartered accountant Sreeram Murthy, who had invested in chit funds of Shriram
Chits. </div>
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While Murthy had alleged that Shriram Chits “was abusing its dominance
by misleading the consumers through various anti-competitive practices in
contravention of” the Competition Act provisions, CCI said that the matter did
not fall under its jurisdiction. </div>
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The CCI order said, “The opposite party (Shriram Chits) may be a
large chit fund company in Andhra Pradesh and may be dominant. </div>
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“However, mere dominance per se cannot be acted against by the
Commission. To invoke the jurisdiction of the Commission a prima facie abuse or
misuse of the dominance is to be shown...” it added. </div>
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Murthy had approached the CCI after a dispute with Shriram Chits
on settlement of payments between them. </div>
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He had alleged that Shriram Chits has auction turnover of around
Rs 3,000 crore and is stated to be the largest in the business in India. </div>
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Murthy had extensive chit transactions and failed to make
payments to the company, CCI observed. </div>
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“The relief sought by the informant (Murthy) is to direct the
opposite party to settle the issues amicably with him which does not fall
within the purview of the Act. </div>
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“There is no competition concern raised by the informant. </div>
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The informant has already suffered various court decrees and
cannot approach this Commission to give directions to opposite party for
settling monetary claims,” CCI said. </div>
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According to the CCI, these transactions have been from 1993
onward and the chit fund company had filed various civil suits in courts and
obtained decrees against informant in 25 or more cases. </div>
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“In the light of the above facts and situation, the Commission
finds that no prima facie case is made out against the opposite party (Shriram
Chits). Therefore, the matter is hereby closed under section...” CCI said. </div>
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M&As to CCI good for consumer protection'</span></b></div>
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The mandatory reference of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the
financial sector to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) will be good for
consumer protection, as it will check monopolistic tendencies, senior bankers
said.<br />
The Cabinet had on 4 October, cleared amendments to the Companies Bill. One
of the amendments suggested other regulators should mandatorily refer matters
impinging on ‘competition’ to the CCI.<br />
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According to senior bankers and experts, the Reserve Bank of
India (RBI), the regulator for banks and non-banking finance companies, is
doing a good job in improving customer services and protecting depositors’
interests. They said the system is evolving to have specialised bodies to check
monopolistic tendencies, they added.</div>
Maintaining financial stability, one of the key responsibilities of RBI, and
monopoly are two different things, said Rajesh Mokashi, deputy managing
director at rating agency CARE.<br />
According to a public sector executive who did not wish to be named, the new
move will go a long a way in consumer protection. It will be useful for an
outside body to study the in-depth market implications of any M&A in the
financial sector, he added.<br />
While issues of monopoly and consumer interests get focus,<br />
An official with the Indian Banks’ Association, however, cautioned we might
see a turf war among various regulators, as much of the work could involve
interpretation.<br />
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RTI on I-T returns: Sonia Gandhi gets boost from SC </h1>
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<a href="" name="poll"></a><b>New Delhi:</b> Close on the heels of CIC
declaring that no loss was incurred by the government due to Sonia Gandhi's
treatment abroad, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the details of a person's
income tax returns are "personal information" and they don’t fall in
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The details of a person's income tax returns and
performance of an employee are confidential and private in nature, which cannot
be divulged under the provisions of the Right to Information Act (RTI) unless a
larger public interest is involved, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.</div>
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According to a newspaper report, the apex court added
that the disclosure of such information would cause unwarranted invasion of
privacy of that individual.</div>
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The apex court gave the verdict while dismissing a
plea against denial of information regarding a government official’s service
matters and also the details of his assets and liabilities, movable and
immovable properties.</div>
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The Chief Information Commissioner on Wednesday had said
that no loss was incurred by the government due to Sonia Gandhi's treatment
abroad.</div>
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According to reports, Commission in an order said
there is "no record of any expenditure incurred by government" on
Congress president Sonia Gandhi's treatment.</div>
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Citing personal freedom and security risk, Congress
chief Sonia Gandhi had in February declined to disclose her income tax returns.</div>
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The SC decision gives a boost to Sonia Gandhi's claim
that disclosure of such private information to third parties in guise of
transparency in public life would amount to unwarranted invasion of the
individual's privacy.</div>
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Earlier in January this year, Chennai-based RTI
activist V Gopalakrishnan had sought details of her I-T returns for 10 years,
from 2000-2001 to 2010-2011. The assistant commissioner of income tax, New
Delhi, had sought her response to the application on Jan 23. </div>
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3-year-old girl from city beaten, burned by parents last
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Mumbai, October 06, 2012</div>
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In the wake of a mother’s arrest on Thursday for battering
her three-month-old daughter to death, it has come to light that a
three-year-old girl was beaten and burned by her parents in Dharavi in
September. But while it took the Borivli police over a week to start
investigations into <span class="msoIns"><ins>the baby’s death, the Dharavi child
was taken away from her parents by the police and placed in the custody of the
Child Welfare Committee (CWC). Her mother was arrested and is now out on bail,
while the father is absconding.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The child, Sunita Shivsharan, was brought to Sion
hospital by Roshan Shaikh, a social worker, on September 15 after she learnt
about the girl being assaulted through her neighbours.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>“It was a classic case of battered baby syndrome.
The child was bleeding in the eye because of assault near the forehead. She
also had burns and several healed scars. We reported the case to the police,”
said Dr Rajesh Dere, associate professor, forensic medicine, Sion hospital.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The Dharavi police arrested Sunita’s mother
Jayashree under relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice Act. She was released
on bail about a week later. The child was treated for her wounds and discharged
on September 21.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
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Central team visits Cauvery basin, reviews crop position</h1>
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Protests spill over to Bangalore; Karnataka bandh on Saturday<br />
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A four-member Central team inspected Cauvery basin reservoirs and
standing crops in Karnataka on Friday. </div>
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The team which landed in Bangalore on Thursday night, met Chief
Secretary S.V. Ranganath and other officials of the water resources,
agriculture department. The fact-finding central team is headed by Central
Water Commission (CWC) Director B P Pandey. </div>
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The State government gave a detailed presentation on the ground
realities on the water storage levels in the backdrop of deficient rainfall and
drinking water requirements of all the villages, towns, and cities like Mysore,
Mandya and Bangalore. </div>
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Later, the team left for Mysore to get firsthand information and
to study the current situation in the Cauvery basin. </div>
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The Central team, which conducted an aerial survey of Krishna
Raja Sagar (KRS) and surrounding areas, returned to Mysore before leaving for a
study of ground realities in KR Pet, Pandavapura, Mahadevpura and other areas
in the Cauvery basin by road and conducted another inspection at KRS. </div>
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Protests in Bangalore </h3>
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Meanwhile in Bangalore, a series of protests disrupted normal
life in the city. Karnataka Rakshna Vedike took out a procession from National
College grounds in Basavangudi to Freedom Park in the city centre. Janata
Dal-Secular also took out a separate procession over the Cauvery River
Authority (CRA) ruling. </div>
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BJP rebel leader and former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa
sprang a surprise by holding a protest along with his supporters. He blamed
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the present crisis. </div>
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The Prime Minister without assessing the situation in
drought-battered Karnataka ordered release of water to Tamil Nadu and meted out
step-motherly treatment to the State, he said. </div>
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The protests and marches led to traffic blocks in various parts
of the city. </div>
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In Mandya, Cauvery Hitarakshana Samithi President G Madegowda
resumed his relay hunger strike for the second successive day. He hit out at
four Union ministers representing Karnataka for the apathy towards the Cauvery
water issue. </div>
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Karnataka bandh </h3>
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Various organisations in the state have called for a Karnataka
bandh in protest against release of water to Tamil Nadu on Saturday. </div>
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Major trade bodies have supported the bandh. K Shiva Shanmugam,
President, FKCCI has requested the trade, industry and business fraternity to
co-operate. </div>
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The Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) having
99 affiliated associations and over 5,300 members has also supported the
bandh.“The States economy is largely dependent on the agriculture areas covered
by the Cauvery irrigation besides drinking water supply to cardinal centres.
The Cauvery lifeline is vital to sustain the growth of Karnataka and the SSI
fraternity supports the bundh,” said A Vijayendranath, president, KASSIA. </div>
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Land acquisition payout can't be attached till it reaches owner: HC</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>CHANDIGARH: In a
significant verdict with huge implications on payout cases, the Punjab and
Haryana high court has ruled that the land acquisition compensation amount is
not liable to attachment for recovery of any debt and it can be attached only
after it reaches the hands of the land owner.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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comprising Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Kumar">Ajay
Kumar</a> Mittal and Justice G S Sandhawalia, announced the ruling after
hearing a petition filed by Dilbhajan Singh of Bathinda, whose land was
acquired by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Punjab-government">Punjab
government</a> to set up an engineering college at Bathinda.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>In this case, the
enhanced compensation of around Rs 30 lakh was granted by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/HC">HC</a> in an
appeal under The Land Acquisition Act, to Dilbhajan. However, before the
petitioner could receive the payout, it was attached by the Recovery Officer of
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Debts-Recovery-Tribunal">Debts
Recovery Tribunal</a> (DRT), Chandigarh in execution of an order passed
by the Presiding Officer of the DRT, at the instance of Punjab & Sind Bank
to whom Dilbhajan had to pay the loan amount.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioner approached
the HC submitting that under Section 52-A of The Land Acquisition Act, the
compensation payable in respect of acquired land cannot be attached to the
government and that it can be attached only after it reaches the hands of the
land owner.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Counsel for the
petitioner H C Arora also disputed the judgment of the single judge given in
the case of 'Mukhtiara' (1968), wherein it was held that only such compensation
is immune from attachment, where the land concerned itself was exempt from
attachment under some law, like Civil Procedure Code. Arora further submitted
that the judgment of HC in Mukhtiara's case was per se erroneous, as it did not
correctly interpret the provisions of Section 52-A of The Land Acquisition Act.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The division bench, while
accepting Arora's argument, said that a plain reading of the objects and
reasons of the Act spells out the purpose with which it was intended to be
inserted.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>While allowing the writ petition,
the HC restrained the Recovery Officer of DRT, Chandigarh as well as the Land
Acquisition Collector, Bathinda from attaching the amount of compensation
payable to petitioner, and further directed that the compensation shall be
released to the petitioner in accordance with law.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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High Court admits Arun Gawli’s plea against life term.</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express
news service</a> : Sat Oct 06 2012, 01:51 hrs</div>
The Bombay High Court on Friday admitted an appeal filed by
gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli challenging his conviction for the murder
of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar. <br />
On August 31, Gawli was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special Maharashtra
Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court after it held him guilty of
murdering the corporator over a land deal. The former MLA and 10 others had
killed Jamsandekar in 2008. According to the chargesheet, Rs 30 lakh was paid
to the Gawli gang for carrying out the crime. <br />
Gawli is in custody since his arrest in May 2008. On October 7, 2010, the
court had framed charges against Gawli and other accused under MCOCA, sections
302 (Murder), 34 (common intention) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) under the
Indian Penal Court. There are other cases of extortion pending against Gawli.<br />
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Karnataka high court quashes land acquisition for industries</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>BANGALORE: The Karnataka
high court on Friday quashed the acquisition of land by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Karnataka-Industrial-Area-Development-Board">Karnataka
Industrial Area Development Board</a> (KIADB) in the ecologically
sensitive catchment area of Thippagondanahalli reservoir which supplies
drinking water to Bangalore city.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"When the entire
area proposed for the Somapura Industrial Layout is within the catchment area
of TG Halli reservoir, the state government should have considered what is so
inevitable about this land. One cannot comprehend that an industrial area and a
catchment area for drinking water can co-exist by mere regulation,"
Justice AS Bopanna observed, while quashing notification acquiring 6 acres of
agricultural land in Chandanahosahalli under Somapura hobli in Nelamangala
taluk.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>He also noted that the
government had said the area is not ecologically sensitive when a presentation
was made to the ministry of environment and forests. He further observed that
the pollution control board had decided against giving consent to industries.
The petition was filed by some land owners challenging the acquisition of land
for an industrial layout.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<strong><span class="msoIns"><ins><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Poster-menace">Poster menace</a></ins></span></strong><span class="msoIns"><ins><o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The high court on Friday
suggested that booking of cases against political leaders whose photos are
found in illegal poster and banners can help curb the menace.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"Once you take
action against political leaders, their followers will fall in line. You can
make the leaders co-accused in those cases," a division bench headed by
Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen observed while adjourning the hearing on this
issue.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The government advocate
placing the affidavit filed by police commissioner N Jyothi Prakash Mirji said
till September 15, 193 cases have been booked in Bangalore city and there have
been 72 convictions. Counsel for BBMP informed the court that BBMP had
undertaken to paint walls to prevent people from putting up posters. He also
said the civic authority is referring cases to police for further action.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court is hearing two
PILs -- one filed by B Krishna Bhat in 2007 and another by advocate Rajaram
Sooryambail this year. Sooryambail claims police are not taking any action
though they have powers under the Police Act.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<strong><span class="msoIns"><ins>Notice
to government</ins></span></strong><span class="msoIns"><ins><o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice BS Patil on
Friday ordered notice to the state government with regard to a petition filed
by the Advocates Association of Bangalore challenging the appointment of
Justice Vaidyanatha commission of inquiry to probe the March 2 violence at the
City Civil Court Complex. The AAB claimed that constitution of this commission
of enquiry amounts to parallel probe as the high court had already ordered a
probe by a Special Investigation Team headed by former CBI director RK
Raghavan.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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High Court asks centre not to deport Italian woman</h1>
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By IANS,<br />
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Friday directed the central government not
to deport an Italian woman devotee of Shri Satya Sai Baba for her 13-year-long
stay in the country till her plea of extension of her visa is decided.<br />
Justice Rajiv Shakdher said: "The respondents are restrained from
taking any coercive action against the petitioner till her application for
extension/regularisation of X-entry (multiple) visa is decided by the Ministry
of Home Affairs."<br />
Luciana, 67, came to India on a tourist visa Jan 18, 1999, and has been
living at Puttaparthy in Andhra Pradesh.<br />
Luciana was to be deported Friday. Her counsel Biswajeet Swain told the
court that her visa expired July 17 this year and her subsequent representation
for extension of visa has been pending decision with the Ministry of Home
Affairs (MHA).<br />
He submitted the plea after the Foreigners Regional Registration office
(FRRO), Andhra Pradesh, rejected Luciana's plea. She had moved the MHA Oct 1
and her plea is still pending.<br />
The court, however, made it clear to Luciana to leave the country within two
weeks if her visa is not extended, and disposed off her petition.<br />
The petition stated that on July 12 this year, Luciana had moved the FRRO at
Bangalore, which asked her to submit her plea to the FRRO in Andhra Pradesh
which rejected her plea saying "a foreigner cannot be allowed to stay for
more than five years in one stretch".<br />
"Foreigners cannot stay in India for more than five years... They have
to leave the country and re-enter on an appropriate visa," the FRRO had
said, and asked Luciana to leave India by Oct 5.<br />
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Delhi high Court upholds land grant for school</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Garg.cms">Abhinav
Garg</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6, 2012, 05.47AM IST</span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>NEW
DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-high-Court">Delhi
high Court</a> has upheld the grant of land by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-Development-Authority">Delhi
Development Authority</a> (DDA) to a society for running a nursery school. <br />
<br />
"The paramount consideration is to ensure that in this ever-growing city,
nursery school is there in the neighbourhood to provide elementary education to
children of a tender age, and so MPD-2021 facilitates putting of nursery school
plot in question to mixed land use," Justice Sunil Gaur has held in a
recent order. <br />
<br />
DDA's decision to grant land to Tagore Education Society was challenged before
HC on the ground, among others, that yet another school in Chirag Enclave area
will lead to traffic congestion. Through a batch of petitions, Chiragh
Cooperative Building Society and its office holders moved HC against DDA,
arguing that the authority illegally allotted the land to the Tagore society. <br />
<br />
The petitioner society argued that during 1979 to 2002, several representations
and reminders were sent to DDA for intimation of terms and conditions for
allotting the land in question to Chiragh Cooperative, but there was no
response, forcing it to move court. <br />
<br />
DDA told HC that in pursuance of lease agreement licence was given to Chiragh
society to develop the entire land, but the proposed allotment of land for
nursery school in favour of the petitioner society didn't fructify because it
failed to pay the premium demanded, and therefore, the allotment was made to
Tagore society. DDA defended the allotment claiming it was not a case of double
allotment and is a valid agreement. DDA also emphasized that nursery schools in
the neighbourhood are good for children of a tender age and cited the MPD -
2021 to assert that the allotment for school is valid. <br />
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HC agreed that Chirag society had no right to stake claim to the plot as it
never paid the premium. The court said the problem of traffic congestion can be
handled by instructing police to regulate flow of vehicles and put reasonable
restraints where required. <o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Give FIR copy to accused immediately: HC ask Odisha govt.<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/give-fir-copy-to-accused-immediately-hc-ask-odisha-govt/64945/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/give-fir-copy-to-accused-immediately-hc-ask-odisha-govt/64945/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Cuttack October 05, 2012, 21:15<br />
In a significant ruling, Orissa High Court today directed the state government
to provide copies of FIR to accused persons immediately on demand. <br />
In order to protect their right to life and personal liberty, the accused or
their kin would now get the copies of FIR on payment of a nominal fee. <br />
While the criminal justice system in the country has the provision
to supply the copy of the FIR immediately to the complainant alone,
the accused persons were debarred of this facility. <br />
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Without the FIR, the accused person was unable to know
the exact nature of allegations levelled against him and therefore he was
also not able to approach the appropriate forum for getting a relief. </div>
Disposing off a PIL filed by a public spirited lawyer Arun Kumar Budhia, a
Division Bench headed by Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda asked the police to upload
the FIR in police website within 24 hours of registration of the case. <br />
The police station should also make arrangements to give a copy of the FIR
to the accused persons or their kin within 24 hours of application on payment
of a nominal fee, informed the petitioner advocate. <br />
In case the police station fails to provide the copy of FIR within the
stipulated time, a committee comprising three high-level police officers should
declare within three working days as to why the FIR copy was not made available
to the applicant, the HC said in its order. <br />
Similarly, the concerned magistrate holding trial in the case should also
provide the copy of the FIR to the interested persons within two working days
of the application. <br />
Delivering this judgement, the Chief Justice also directed the High Court
registry to send the copies of the judgement to all district judges,
sub-judges, judicial magistrates, the home secretary, DGP, and all SPs to
implement the order within January 31, 2013, Budhia informed.<br />
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Why it took nine years to register FIR against Rathore: HC</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express
news service</a> : Chandigarh, Sat Oct 06 2012, 02:02 hrs</div>
Why was a delay of nine years caused in registering an FIR against former
Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore for molesting teenager
Ruchika? Who are the persons responsible for the said delay? What action was
taken against Sacred Heart School for allegedly expelling Ruchika at the
instance of Rathore? <br />
Demanding answers to these questions, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on
Friday gave two weeks’ time to the respondents, CBI, Haryana and Chandigarh
Administration, to respond by October 19. The court also questioned the locus
standi of the petitioner, World Human Rights Protection Council through its
chairman advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal. <br />
The directions were passed during the resumed hearing of a public interest
litigation filed by the NGO. <br />
The counsel for the Sacred Heart School contended that Ruchika was not
expelled from the school and that her name was struck down from the roll. The
counsel also told the High Court that an inquiry held by the Chandigarh
Administration, which indicted the school authorities for expelling Ruchika,
had been challenged in a lower court. <br />
The counsel for the Central government, advocate Ajay Kaushik, as demanded
by the court, produced a copy of the Bill passed by the Central government for
protection of minor children from molestation. Kaushik also produced the copy
of the inquiry report prepared by the then UT Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM)
Prerna Puri. The PIL will now come up for resumed hearing on October 19. <br />
In JanTuary last, a division bench headed by former Chief Justice Mukul
Mudgal had held that the High Court would consider guidelines to be adopted in
child molestation cases and also the procedure to be adopted when senior police
officers are accused in such cases. <br />
In its PIL, the petitioner had demanded action against the school for
expelling Ruchika at the behest of Rathore and requested the court to fix
responsibility of the errant police officers and others who caused delay of
nine years in registration of an FIR. <br />
A Chandigarh court had held former DGP Rathore guilty of molesting Ruchika
Girhotra and awarded 18 months’ sentence to him in May 2010.<br />
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HC seeks explanation on state policy to regulate summer camps<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-seeks-explanationstate-policy-to-regulate-summer-camps/64807/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-seeks-explanationstate-policy-to-regulate-summer-camps/64807/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Mumbai October 05, 2012, 18:15<br />
The Bombay High Court today sought Maharashtra government's affidavit on a
public interest litigation (PIL) seeking formulation of a policy to regulate
trekking and summer camps organised by private bodies. <br />
The PIL has been filed by Anil and Sunita Mahajan, whose son Harshal died in
May 2006 during a trekking camp to Kulu Manali organised by the city-based
Sahyadri Adventure Foundation. <br />
Soon after the incident, the victim's parents approached the consumer forum,
which directed the organiser to pay a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the parents
in November 2009. <br />
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The parents then approached the high court seeking to know
if there is any state government policy or if it proposes to formulate one, to
regulate such camps organised by private organisations. Several such
organisation are not even registered, the petition said. </div>
A division bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar today directed the state
government to file an affidavit by November 30, explaining if any such policy
already exists and if not, whether such a policy will be formulated.<br />
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Madras HC declines advance bail for Ponmudi, son<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/madras-hc-declines-advance-bail-for-ponmudi-son/64928/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/madras-hc-declines-advance-bail-for-ponmudi-son/64928/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Chennai October 05, 2012, 20:55<br />
The Madras High Court today dismissed anticipatory bail applications filed
by DMK leader and former minister K Ponmudi and his son, in connection with a
case on quarrying of red sand in 'patta' lands. <br />
Ponmudi, DMK strongman in Villupuram, had submitted that he apprehended
arrest for his alleged involvement in the offence and said he was innocent and
had nothing to do with the alleged offence. <br />
The offence was registered under sections of Mines and Minerals (Development
and Regulations) Act, 1957, Tamil Nadu Mines and Minerals Concession Rule,
1959, Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and IPC. <br />
Police had filed a case of irregularities in quarrying of red sand in
'patta' lands in the area, based on the report given by Tahsildar of Vanur in
Villupuram district. Justice G M Akbar Ali dismissed the advance bail pleas.<br />
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Civic officials turn blind eye to HC directive on beacon</h1>
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KOLKATA: On a day when <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Calcutta-high-court">Calcutta
high court</a> observed that it's the state's responsibility to see
whether police are enforcing the notification on use of beacons, some mayoral
council members and other civic body officials were found flaunting the red
lights.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
A visit to the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/KMC">KMC</a>
headquarters on S N Banerjee Road on Friday revealed at least six cars parked
in the VIP zone fitted with red beacons. This place is exclusively reserved for
mayor-in-council members. There are 10 <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/MMiCs">MMiCs</a> in the
KMC and most of them are using SUVs with a red light atop. And not only the
MMiCs, some senior officials, other than the municipal commissioner, are also
using the red light without a flasher.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
A division bench of acting Chief Justice Kalyan
Jyoti Sengupta and Justice Asim Kumar Mondal on Friday expressed dismay over
the failure of the state government to implement its own notification issued
five years ago in 2007, modified in 2010, on the use of beacons and beacons
with flashers by VIPs who are entitled. to use beacons with flasher and beacons
only.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
The transport department, in a recent
notification, has specified 34 categories, who are entitled for red beacons,
though there has been rampant misuse of this privilege.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Acting upon a petition filed by Khandekar Moazzem
Hossain on the misuse of beacons, the division bench has directed the state
transport secretary B P Gopalika to circulate the notification among
superintendents of police, who in turn should inform the officials working
under them. The bench also asked the transport secretary to submit a report on
action taken before the court over steps taken against the offenders by the
third week of November.</div>
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The transport secretary has also been asked to
collect the compliance reports from the officers-in-charge of all police
stations in the state.</div>
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The bench also wanted the police to examine if
cars fitted with beacons have the relevant permission from the motor vehicles
department to use the red light.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Mayor Sovan Chatterjee also uses an SUV fitted
with a red beacon. This apart, officials in the mayor's office too use SUVs
which are part of mayor's convoy and flaunt red beacons. Reacting on the issue,
the mayor said that he had not received any circular from the state on the use
of red beacon. "I have received no circular from the state government on
this issue.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Let the state government send the circular first,
we will take appropriate action," Chatterjee said.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Rupa Bagchi, the opposition leader in the KMC,
said: "We should not expect the MMiCs of the ruling party to obey the
guidelines set by the state as directed by the Calcutta high court.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
By using the red beacon, the MMiCs are showing
off their power. It is an old habit which is hard to change," Bagchi said.
According to her, the civic top brass had asked a section of officials and
MMiCs to restrain from using red beacons eight years ago reacting to a verdict
by the Calcutta high court.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
In yet another case, a division bench of Justice
Ashim Kumar Roy and Justice Dipak Saha Ray directed the DG (traffic) and DC
(traffic) on Friday to file a fresh action-taken report to the court by Monday.
The bench turned down the report submitted by the police on the ground that
they had booked all the offenders under non-bailable sections. Public
prosecutor Debashis Roy pointed out that magistrates and munsifs in the
district courts are also misusing the government notification on beacon. The
bench observed that such practice should be stopped immediately.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
A division bench of Calcutta High Court had asked
the state transport secretary G.P. Gopalika to file an affidavit furnishing a
list who are entitled to use a red beacon and a beacon with a flasher. The
transport secretary had submitted a list of 34 personalities enlisted for the
special status.</div>
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Plea in HC alleging threat to Raj Bhavan</h1>
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NAGPUR: A plea has been moved in the high court
alleging the four-storey structure of JP construction poses security threat to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Raj-Bhavan">Raj
Bhavan</a>. A division bench comprising Justices Pratap Hardas and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ashok-Bhangale">Ashok
Bhangale</a> then issued notices to Town Planning Department, NMC and JP
Construction asking them to file replies within four weeks.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
The petitioner, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mohan-Karemore">Mohan
Karemore</a>, through his counsel <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shrikant-Khandalkar">Shrikant
Khandalkar</a> contended that JP Construction had illegally erected the
structure in front of Raj Bhavan. He claimed that security agencies had removed
a nearby bus station in order to beef up the security, but ignored JP
Construction's building which is being illegally used for commercial purpose.</div>
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He added that the building has neither sought
no-objection certificate (NoC) from the NMC nor secured clearance from the fire
department. Moreover, the fourth floor has been illegally constructed.</div>
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case accused<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_gujarat-hc-declines-to-hear-bail-plea-of-sohrabuddin-case-accused_1749280">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_gujarat-hc-declines-to-hear-bail-plea-of-sohrabuddin-case-accused_1749280</a><br />
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18:40 IST <br />
Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: PTI</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Gujarat
High Court on Friday declined to entertain the bail plea of a suspended police
officer, who is an accused in the 2005 fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, an
alleged gangster, on the ground that the Supreme Court has transferred the case
to Maharashtra.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice
Anant Dave declined to hear the plea of former deputy superintendent of police
NK Amin, who was arrested in case in 2007, holding that his court no longer had
the jurisdiction in the case, with its trial already being shifted to the
Mumbai, and disposed of the plea.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Amin, who is
accused of disposing the body of Kausar Bi, wife of Shaikh, had in 2010 filed
an application to become an approver, but withdrew it later. The former DySP
sought bail on the ground that CBI, probing the case, has no material evidence
against him.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Amin has
also maintained he has been suffering with a life-threatening disease,
obstructive sleep apenia, and needs a minimum of five hours of oxygen supply
under the supervision of a trained medical professional for proper breathing.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Disposing of
Amin's plea, the Gujarat HC asked the CBI to provide proper medical care to him
and directed Amin to file a bail plea in the Maharashtra court. Shaikh, along
with his wife and associate Tulsiram Prajapati, was abducted from Hyderabad by
a Gujarat Police team. On November 26, 2005 Shaikh was allegedly killed in a
staged encounter on Ahmedabad's outskirts. A few days later, his wife was also
killed in mysterious way and her body disposed of.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Amin, then
with the Ahmedabad Crime Branch, has been accused of being involved in the
operation of abducting Shaikh and his wife Kausarbi. Prajapati, a key witness
to the killing of Shaikh, was shot dead, allegedly in a fake encounter, a year
later at Chhapri in Banaskantha district.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Supreme Court has
asked the CBI to probe both encounter cases. Last month, the apex court, on an
application of the CBI, shifted the Shaikh encounter case to Maharashtra.</ins></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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HC upholds rotational headship in Patna univ</div>
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<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Patna/HC-upholds-rotational-headship-in-Patna-univ/Article1-940248.aspx"><b>http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Patna/HC-upholds-rotational-headship-in-Patna-univ/Article1-940248.aspx</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Prashant%20Pratap&op=Story"><b>Prashant
Pratap</b></a><b>, Hindustan Times</b><br />
Patna, October 05, 2012</div>
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First Published: 16:30 IST(5/10/2012)<br />
Last Updated: 16:32 IST(5/10/2012)</div>
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The Patna high court
on Thursday dismissed an appeal challenging the order of its single bench that
confirmed rotational headship for three years in Patna University (PU)
departments. A division bench of justice Shiva Kriti Singh and justice Shivaji
Pandey dismissed the appeal filed by Dr <span class="msoIns"><ins>Sunanda
Banerjee and other teachers of the university.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Banerjee, Dr Rai Murari Prasad and Dr Sudha Sinha
were heads of political science, economics and philosophy departments before
the scheme of rotational headship for three years was introduced.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>In 2010, when the rotational headship was
implemented in PU, Dr Sachidanand Sharma, Dr Bhagwan Prasad Singh and Dr
Rangnath Prasad all professors in PU were appointed heads.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, the tenure of Sharma, Singh and Rangnath
Prasad was cut short by a PU notification and they filed a writ application
before a single bench of the Patna high court.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Allowing the writ application and upholding the
threeyear headship tenure on May 11, 2012, justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi observed
that prior to the rotational headship notification, the head of department
(HOD) was a kind of ‘permanent jamindar’. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The HoD continued to occupy the post till he
superannuated or was otherwise dislodged, justice Tripathi said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>There seemed to be a lot of resentment with such a
permanent arrangement and, therefore, the notification was issued, justice
Tripathi added.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>According to the notification for rotational
headship, the headship was to be rotated only amongst the four seniormost
teachers with a fixed tenure of three years, he said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Aggrieved by the order, Banerjee and others had
filed the appeal before the division bench.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
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Peeved builders move HC over VAT confusion</h1>
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_peeved-builders-move-hc-over-vat-confusion_1749393">http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_peeved-builders-move-hc-over-vat-confusion_1749393</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">Published: Saturday, Oct 6, 2012, 7:59 IST <br />
By </span><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/sudhir-suryawanshi"><b><span style="color: #731643; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Sudhir Suryawanshi</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"> | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Builders
Association of India has approached the Bombay high court, seeking to bring
clarity in the state government’s value added tax (VAT) circular 2005 and 2012.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Apart from the Supreme
Court interim order, the developers are not happy with the sales department’s
complicated and vague circular and the method of calculating VAT. The high
court will hear the writ petition on October 11. <o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“Rather than bringing
clarity, the department is creating confusion in the minds of developers and
buyers. So much is written and talked about VAT, but still, no one has a clear
understanding,” said Anand Gupta, secretary of the Builders Association of India
(BAI). <br />
Shankar Desai, a trustee of BAI, said they were calculating 5% VAT on the basis
of total cost of the construction value of the flat plus 15% profit as an ad
hoc basis.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“But the sales
department refused to accept it. As per the composition scheme U/s 42(3), a
developer has to pay 5% VAT on the agreement value. The department has not
clarified whether the 5% tax is to be calculated on the basis of construction
value or the total flat cost. Sales tax officials are saying that VAT should
only be as per the given formula. Therefore, we have decided to challenge their
decision,” said Desai.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He added that
according to the government, if the land cost is shown then there would be a
deduction in charging VAT. <o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“But it is not clear
whether the land cost should be considered as per the market value or ready
reckoner rate basis. Also, there is no clarity on transfer of developmental
right (TDR). TDR is as good as land. The circular is full of anomalies. There
are several gray areas and no one from the government has addressed them,” said
Desai.</ins></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">HC notice to Gujarat govt on defamation case against
Teesta Setalvad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_hc-notice-to-gujarat-govt-on-defamation-case-against-teesta-setalvad_1749307"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_hc-notice-to-gujarat-govt-on-defamation-case-against-teesta-setalvad_1749307</span></a><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">Published: Friday, Oct 5, 2012, 20:13 IST <br />
Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: PTI</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Gujarat High
Court on Friday issued notice to the state Government on a petition filed by
social activist Teesta Setalvad challenging lower court's order to investigate
a defamation case against her.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice RH
Shukla also issued notice to Setalvad's former associate Rais Khan, who has
filed the defamation case against her, and directed to file affidavits in reply
by November 2, the next date of hearing.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Setalvad's
petition, filed through advocate Kalpesh Shastri, claims that ongoing
investigation exceeds the scope of Criminal Procedure Code provision under
which the magistrate ordered it.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Apart from
seeking quashing of magistrate's order to investigate, Setalvad has said what
the court ordered to investigate has nothing to do with the alleged defamation,
as court has also directed the police to carry out probe against publishers and
editors of the magazine `Communalism Combat'.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Metropolitan
Magistrate TS Brahmabhatt, on July 23, had directed Deputy Commissioner of
Police Zone-V to conduct probe upon Khan's complaint.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Khan had
claimed that Setalvad accused him of discrediting and harassing witnesses of
2002 riot cases. She also accused him of having close ties with VHP and
enjoying its patronage, which amounted to defamation, he said.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Setalvad had requested
the HC to stay the investigation until the petition was decided, but the court
refused, said Khan's lawyer advocate Manisha Lavkumar.</ins></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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HC notice to state school education secretary</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/HC-notice-to-state-school-education-secretary/articleshow/16690048.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/HC-notice-to-state-school-education-secretary/articleshow/16690048.cms</a><span class="byline"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Vaibhav-Ganjapure.cms">Vaibhav
Ganjapure</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 5, 2012, 11.01PM IST</span>
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NAGPUR : The Bombay High Court's bench here
issued notices to State School Education Secretary and others on a petition filed
by Maharashtra Rajya Prathmik Wastishala Nimshikshak Sangh in Yavatmal for
implementation of the Maharashtra government's resolution of July 31, 2009, for
appointing Shikshan Sevaks in the local Zilla Parishad.</div>
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A division bench comprising justices Bhushan
Dharmadhikari and Ashok Bhangale asked all the respondents including Amravati
Divisional Commissioner, Yavatmal Zilla Parishad Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
and its <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Education-Officer">Education
Officer</a> (Primary) to reply in four weeks.</div>
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About 90 members of the Sangh worked as Shikshan
Sevaks from the year 2001 to 2009 on ad-hoc basis despite the fact that there
are vacant posts in the ZP primary schools. The petitioner sought directions to
the CEO and the Education Officer (Primary) to implement the July 31, 2009 GR
to appoint its members on these vacant posts. They also prayed for offering
honorarium of Rs 3,500 instead of Rs 1,500 per month to such teachers. Vishal
Anand and Kishor Ghuguskar held brief for the petitioners.</div>
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Firms move HC to stop panchayats from charging for mobile towers</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/firms-move-hc-to-stop-panchayats-from-charging-for-mobile-towers/1012656/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/firms-move-hc-to-stop-panchayats-from-charging-for-mobile-towers/1012656/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/pti/">Press
Trust of India</a> : Mumbai, Sat Oct 06 2012, 00:40 hrs</div>
Service providers Vodafone Infratel, Bharti Infratel and Indus Tower have moved
Bombay HC alleging gram panchayats in rural Maharashtra were collecting Rs
30,000 to Rs 1 lakh and more as ‘development charge’ to grant NOCs for erecting
mobile towers. The companies said in a petition this was not only seriously
affecting business but also depriving people in villages of mobile services. <br />
The petition alleged some members of gram panchayats were negotiating with
companies and demanding cash to grant NOCs. It said it was becoming difficult
for companies to pay cash without getting receipts. <br />
The petition said the state rural development ministry had recently written
letters to CEOs of all zilla parishads to take action against panchayats
collecting such money. The letters mentioned the practice was not correct and
should be stopped, it said, demanding immediate implementation of the
government suggestion.<br />
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HC orders probe into MBBS admissions </h1>
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<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-orders-probe-into-mbbs-admissions/298139-60-121.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-orders-probe-into-mbbs-admissions/298139-60-121.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://newindianexpress.com/" target="_blank">Express
News Service</a></div>
Dealing with a petition filed by an aspirant seeking admission to MBBS
course under management quota, a division bench of the AP High Court directed
the NTR University of Health Sciences to conduct an enquiry pursuant to the
petitioner’s complaint and with regard to admissions under the quota in the
respondent colleges: Shadan institute of medical sciences and Dr VRK Women’s
medical college for the academic year 2012-13.<br />
Petitioner Farha Sultana, a resident of Hyderabad, complained that the
colleges concerned have refused to grant her seat under the management quota
despite her securing 97.3 percent in Intermediate. She requested the court to direct
the colleges to grant her admissions.<br />
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HC allows Delhi firm to import, sell Samsung computer goods<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-allows-delhi-firm-to-import-sell-samsung-computer-goods/64911/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-allows-delhi-firm-to-import-sell-samsung-computer-goods/64911/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 05, 2012, 20:35<br />
The Delhi High Court has partially set-aside its earlier judgement, which
had restrained a city firm from importing and selling Samsung printers and
other materials. <br />
A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Siddharth Mridul gave the
direction on a plea by the Director of the firm, Champion Computers,
challenging the decision of a single-judge of the high court which had
restrained it from the importing and selling the Samsung printers and other
materials. <br />
The court, however, directed the computer firm to clearly display in its
showroom that it would provide - and not the Samsung Electronics - the warranty
and after-sales service for the Samsung goods sold by it. <br />
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"The appeal is partially allowed. Impugned judgment and
order of February 17, 2012 is set aside insofar the appellants have been
restrained from importing printers, ink cartridges or toners bearing the trade
mark Samsung and selling the same in India. </div>
"But while effecting sale of Samsung/SAMSUNG printers and ink
cartridges/toners, the respondents shall prominently display in their showrooms
that the product sold by them have been imported from abroad and that
respondents (Samsung Electronics) do not give any warranty qua the goods nor
provide any after sales service and that the warranty and after sales service
is provided by the appellants personally," the bench said. <br />
The court, however, said that Champion Computers will "continue to
remain injuncted from meta-tagging (linking) their website to that of
respondent (Samsung Electronics)." <br />
The high court also said the single judge bench had followed an
"erroneous approach" to conclude that import of goods into India
needed the consent of the registered trade mark owner. (MORE)<br />
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HC notice to KHB chairman, others</h1>
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<span class="source">DC</span> </div>
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<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4621">Bengaluru</a>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Following alleged irregularities committed by the
Karnataka Housing Board in acquiring lands for construction of houses and
distribution of compensation, the high court on Friday ordered notices to its
chairman G.T. Devegowda, state government, chief secretary and others.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court was acting on a PIL filed by Mr Gopinath,
who has sought a CBI inquiry into the multi-crore scam. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The case relates alleged irregularities in
acquisition of land in Yelachenahalli of Mysore district.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioner stated that KHB acquired 300 acres at
Yelachenahalli, Kallur and Nagenahalli near Mysore and Rs 6-7 lakh was to be
paid as compensation for each acre. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>But KHB Chairman Devegowda intervened and raised the
compensation to Rs 36 lakh per acre to benefit middlemen who had by then
purchased land from farmers for a lesser cost through benami accounts. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>A committee formed to look into the scam has
presented the report, which has not been implemented. The term of Mr Devegowda
has come to an end, but the government is still continuing with him to close
the case.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Vaidyanatha panel: notice to state, others The HC
ordered notices to the state and central governments and one-man inquiry
commission of Justice R.G. Vaidyanatha following a petition by Advocates’
Association Bangalore. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice B.S. Patil passed the orders on the petition
challenging the constitution of one-man commission of Judge Vaidyanatha to
probe violence at the City Civil Court complex on March 2. The matter was
adjourned to October 9. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>‘Penalise politicians for illegal banners,
cutouts’The HC slammed politicians again for illegal banners and cutouts while
hearing a PIL. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court felt that booking cases against
politicians and film stars in illegal banners and cutouts could put an end to
the menace. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court directed that other similar petitions
should be clubbed and adjourned the matter to November 16.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court had earlier observed, “Fine the
politicians and film producers who put up unauthorised banners without any
fear. If you (BBMP) fail to take steps and report to the court, we will summon
the BBMP commissioner.”<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen had earlier too
mentioned about BBMP’s apathy when he noticed the nuisance of banners while
driving towards the BIA.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
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HC vacates stay on PPT official's suspension order<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-vacates-stayppt-officials-suspension-order/64971/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-vacates-stayppt-officials-suspension-order/64971/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Cuttack October 05, 2012, 21:55<br />
The Orissa High Court has vacated a stay it had granted restraining the
Paradeep Port Trust (PPT) authorities from giving effect to a suspension order
slapped on the Port traffic manager Saroj Kumar Misro. <br />
With this order, the PPT authorities are now one step closer to suspend
Misro, who had been booked by the CBI under Prevention of Corruption Act for
possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. <br />
A Division Bench of Justices B P Das and B K Nayak vacated the stay it had
granted in July this year restraining the port authorities from giving effect
to the May 21, 2012 suspension order handed over to Misro. <br />
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The Bench vacated the stay when the High Court was informed
by the Port authorities that the Central government has in the meantime
approved the suspension order. </div>
However, the High Court in its order also made it clear that the suspension
order on the port traffic manager shall now be subjected to the result of a
writ petition filed by Misro, which is now in the final stage of adjudication
by the High Court. <br />
The Bhubaneswar wing of CBI
had raided the office and official residence of Misro In December 2009. While
conducting search and seizure, the CBI sleuths had stumbled upon assets in the
name of Misro which were incredibly disproportionate to his known sources of
income. <br />
Subsequently, the CBI submitted
charge-sheets against Misro booking him under Section 13(1) and (2) of PC Act
of 1988 after obtaining sanction of prosecution from Union shipping ministry.
While doing so, the CBI had also recommended the PPT authorities to initiate
regular departmental action against Misro. <br />
Accordingly, as per Paradeep Port Employees (Classification, Control and
Appeal) Regulation of 1967, a disciplinary proceeding against Misro was
initiated by the then chairman of the PPT. The disciplinary authority after
collecting sufficient evidence in support of Misro's misconduct placed him
under suspension in May this year.<br />
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Maintenance plea: HC notice to Lissy Priyadarshan </h1>
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News Service</a></div>
The Kerala High Court on Friday issued a notice to actor Lissy Priyadarshan
on a petition filed by her father N D Varkey seeking maintenance from her.<br />
Varkey, 75, of Kothamangalam argued that though the Maintenance Tribunal had
ordered her to pay maintenance, she paid no money for the past two years.<br />
In January 2010, the tribunal had directed Lissy to provide Rs 150 per day
(a sum of Rs 4,500 per month) to her father for purchasing medicine.<br />
Varkey said that he is a sickly person who requires money for his medicine
and is not in a position to maintain himself.<br />
He filed an appeal before the District Collector, who is also the Appellate
Tribunal, and sought an enhancement of `10,000 as maintenance.<br />
However, Lissy moved the High Court and won a favourable order.<br />
The petitioner further argued that the District Collector reviewed the order
and remanded the case to the Maintenance Tribunal despite the protest and his
strong objection.<br />
According to Section 16 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior
Citizens Act, 2007, the Appellate Tribunal has no power to review.<br />
Children or relatives cannot file an appeal under the Act, and only senior
citizens can file appeals, the petition pointed out.<br />
The petitioner further said that he was a septuagenarian and his daughter
was a ‘crorepati’ dabbling in various business activities.<br />
He is unable to maintain himself with his own earnings or out of the
property owned by him, the petition said.<br />
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HC stay on appointment of revised teacher grade II candidates</h1>
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JAIPUR : The Rajasthan high court on Friday
stayed the appointment process of successful candidates of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RPSC-teacher-grade-II-examination">RPSC
teacher grade II examination</a> after the commission revised the
declared results. RPSC had revised the result by reexamining the answersheets
of candidates for social science and mathematics.</div>
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Justice M N Bhandari's order came on a petition
filed by one Dalip Malav and others who were previously declared successful
when the result was initially declared in March this year. "The
petitioners were never provided opportunity of hearing before they were
declared unsuccessful in the revised result declared recently. It was also
brought to the notice of the court that a large number of negative marking has
wrongly been done while treating certain answers as wrong as also there are
certain questions which have been wrongly termed by the expert committee as
incorrect," said Tanveer Ahmed, the counsel for the petitioners.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
The bench has issued show cause notice to
secretary, RPSC, and has also directed that the revised result should not be
operated and acted upon to recommend name of successful candidates of social
science and mathematics subjects to the education department for their
appointment.</div>
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<h1>
C issues notice to Punjab on illegal mining</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express
news service</a> : Chandigarh, Sat Oct 06 2012, 02:59 hrs</div>
Notices have been issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to the state
of Punjab and other parties based on a writ petition to explain its allowing of
illegal mining being carried out at Ropar. <br />
The other parties are the Director, Industries and Commerce, Punjab, Mining
Officer, Industries Department of Punjab, the State Geologist and B S Brar, the
general manager-cum-mining officer of the Department of Mining. <br />
The appellant had filed a notice stating that illegal mining was being
allowed at some locations at Ropar despite court directions against it. He had
himself stopped operations after being issued directions that mining be
stopped, pending environmental clearance. <br />
However, the government had allowed illegal mining to be continued there,
permitting the stone crushers to continue with the units by putting a partial
‘royalty’. Presently, the stone crushers are running the units by getting the
raw material of sand and bajari from Ropar and are lifting the raw materials
from nadi or khad despite the fact that mining has been stopped by the court.
There is sufficient proof regarding this, including photographs showing illegal
mining.<br />
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<h1>
HC notice to state on sacking of 19 female employees</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Vaibhav-Ganjapure.cms">Vaibhav
Ganjapure</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 5, 2012, 11.18PM IST</span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>NAGPUR: The Bombay High
Court's bench here issued notices Maharashtra women and child development
secretary and Nagpur divisional commissioner on the petition filed by 19 female
employees working under the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) project
at <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhandara-Zilla-Parishad">Bhandara
Zilla Parishad</a>. They were asked to file reply by October 17.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>These aggrieved women
moved to the court challenging termination of their services by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/child-development-project-officer">child
development project officer</a> on September 13 last year as per order
of ZP Chief Executive Officer (CEO).<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The Bhandara ZP had came
out with an advertisement on February 25 last year for appointment on the posts
of Anganwadi Sevika, mini Anganwadi Sevika and Madatnis (Helpers), as per
Government Resolution of August 5, 2010. However, the ZP CEO in his order of
August 6, 2011, stated that the interviews held in April last year were not
proper and hence the candidates should be interviewed again.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Earlier, these
petitioners had filed petition in the same court, which was disposed of on
March 12 with an observation that the ZP CEO's order was quashed and set aside
by the divisional commissioner on December 5, 2011, hence there was nothing to
be decided.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, in another plea
by Vidya Sukhdewe on May 4, the court had quashed and set aside the divisional
commissioner's order and restored the appeal back to him for fresh consideration.
This prompted the petitioners to move back to the court contending that the
court orders in this case were passed without giving them hearing in breach of
the principles of natural justice. Vishal Anand and Kishor Ghuguskar appeared
for the petitioners.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Explain illegal structures, HC tells Ulhasnagar civic body</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/pti/">Press
Trust of India</a> : Mumbai, Sat Oct 06 2012, 00:46 hrs</div>
The Bombay High Court (HC) has directed Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation in
Thane district to file an affidavit within four weeks stating what action it
had taken against 110 illegal constructions sanctioned by the then town planner
in 2010. <br />
Justices V M Kanade and Rajesh Ketkar issued the order on Thursday after the
Maharashtra government informed HC it had appointed the director of town
planning in Pune to probe the alleged illegal constructions. <br />
The court was hearing a PIL alleging rampant corruption in the corporation
and claiming on the basis of an RTI reply that 110 plans were sanctioned
illegally in 2010 in Ulhasnagar, a colony of displaced persons from Sindh in
Pakistan who migrated after Partition. <br />
On another PIL in 2005, HC had ordered demolition of 855 buildings in the
town come up in violation of development control (DC) and FSI rules. <br />
The present PIL filed by Ravi Talreja and Hardas Tharwani alleges that then
town planner A P Gurgule, in collusion with civic officials, granted permission
or regularised 110 unauthorised structures in contravention of DC rules. <br />
Counsel for the petitioners Jaiwant Chandnani argued the town planner went
beyond his powers to sanction the plans and prayed for a probe by an
independent agency. A civil court in Ulhasnagar had issued notices to the town
planner and some municipal officials on February15, 2010, for alleged mischief
and forgery. After a few days, the state government transferred Gurgule to
Pune. <br />
The town planner then went on leave from October 19, 2010, to November 4,
2011, and it was in this period that he allegedly granted the illegal
permissions, the petition said on the basis of information gathered through
RTI. <br />
It was further alleged that criminal cases had been registered against
Gurgule. He then absconded and applied for anticipatory bail in HC, which was
rejected. <br />
The petitioners said they had learnt through RTI that Gurgule sanctioned 110
illegal constructions during his tenure or when he was on leave and claimed no
inquiry was conducted by the government despite several pleas by the
authorities.<br />
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HC overrules 44-year-old judgment on compensation to land owners</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express
news service</a> : Chandigarh, Sat Oct 06 2012, 06:20 hrs</div>
The Punjab and Haryana High Court overruled a 44-year-old judgment which
empowered lower Courts to attach compensation to be paid to land owners in lieu
of acquisition of land in the hands of the government concerned, on Friday. <br />
Setting aside the judgment passed in 1968, a division bench comprising
Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal and Justice G S Sandhawalia held that such
compensation which was to be paid to a “defaulter” could not be attached by
lower Courts in favour of the government. <br />
On account of non payment of money by a ‘defaulter’, local Courts used to
attach the compensation so that money was paid to the lender. The directions
were passed by the High Court on an appeal filed by Dilbhajan Singh of
Bathinda. His land was acquired by the Punjab government for the establishment
of a college in Bhatinda. <br />
However, before the petitioner could receive the amount of compensation, it
was attached by the Recovery Officer of Debts Recovery Tribunal, Chandigarh, in
execution of an order passed by the Tribunal’s presiding officer. <br />
The petitioner approached the High Court. Advocate H C Arora, counsel for
the petitioner, submitted that the compensation payable could not be attached
in the hands of the government and that it could be attached only after it
reached the hands of the land owner. <br />
Arora also disputed the judgment passed in 1968 by the HC, where it was held
that only such compensation was immune from attachment, where the concerned
land itself was exempt from attachment under some law.<br />
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HC raps state on absence of policy</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express
news service</a> : Mumbai, Sat Oct 06 2012, 00:39 hrs</div>
Coming down heavily on the state government for the lack of a witness
protection policy, the Bombay High Court on Friday said, “What disturbs the
conscience of the court is that there is no witness protection scheme
formulated by the state government as a part of governance.” <br />
The court said judicial notice has to be taken of the several acquittals in
criminal cases and added, “We are of the view that the state government should
be concerned that in a large number of cases witnesses do not support the
prosecution.” <br />
Justice Abhay Oka said since January, he had heard about 250 cases at the
stage of final hearing. Citing an example of a case in which a police constable
had turned hostile because he was not given protection, the court said, “In 70
per cent of the cases, witnesses turn hostile. This is the state of affairs
now.” <br />
The court was hearing a petition filed by Vijay Jadhav, a witness in a murder
case whose police protection was withdrawn recently. Jadhav contended that he
is a witness in the 1999 murder of corporator Sharad alias Appa Leve in which
Udayanraje Bhosale, MP from Satara, was an accused. <br />
A Division Bench led by Justice Oka observed that the state government has
been “moving in circles” over the issue since January. “This shows that the
state is not interested in giving protection to witnesses,” he said. <br />
“Is anything wrong if someone says they want protection?” the court asked. The
court was told that protection is given to a witness if a specific request is
made. No scheme is formulated but in case of a specific request made by a
witness, the police provide protection after evaluating the threat perception,
the court was informed. <br />
“It appears that the state expects witnesses to apply for protection,” the
court said. Stating that the government ought to formulate a policy to protect
witnesses in criminal cases, the court adjourned the case till October 9. <br />
Turning Hostile <br />
The woman who accused Abhishek Kasliwal, son of industrialist Ambuj
Kasliwal, of rape turned hostile in court. Abhishek was acquitted in March 2011
<br />
The woman who was allegedly raped by actor Shiney Ahuja backtracked in
court. Ahuja, however, was convicted in March 2011 based on medical evidence <br />
In the pending trial of 13 accused in the Mumbai train blasts of July 2006,
six witnesses turned hostile <br />
Thirteen witnesses in the trial of MP Padamsinh Patil, accused of murdering
Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar allegedly over a scam he exposed in Patil’s
sugar factory.<br />
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Newsprint supplier knocks HC doors, seeks DC's winding up</h1>
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HYDERABAD: Hong Kong-based newsprint supplier
Adonis Limited has slapped a winding up petition against beleaguered <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/deccan-chronicle-holdings-ltd/stocks/companyid-1052.cms" target="_blank">Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd</a>
(DCHL) in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Andhra-Pradesh">Andhra
Pradesh</a> high court over dues of around Rs 145 crore.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
The petition, filed under Sections 433 and 439 of
the Companies Act 1956 read with Rule 95 of the Companies (Court) Rules 1959,
states that DCHL is in grave financial constraints, has become commercially
insolvent and non-viable and should be wound up in the interest of the public
and creditors.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Adonis Limited has also urged the HC to restrain
DCHL and its officials from disposing of, alienating, encumbering, transferring
or creating any third party rights or interest on the assets, properties and
funds detailed in the fixed assets schedule of DCHL's 2010-11 balance sheet.
The plea came up for hearing before Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and notices have
been issued to DCHL. Adonis Limited, in its petition, said it had a
long-standing 20-year relationship with DCHL, which defaulted on payments for
shipments worth Rs 128.55 crore of newsprint made from the September 2011 to
April 2012 period despite repeated reminders.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
"The company (DCHL) has failed and neglected
to make payments for various invoices raised between the period September 24,
2011, till April 2012 for 33,794.53 metric tonnes of newsprint totaling a sum
of US$ 23,090,793.42 equivalent to Rs 128,55,46,964.73," Adonis said in
the petition. It has also sought an interest of Rs 16,20,84,973.33 crore from
DCHL.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Pointing out that though earlier delays in
payments by DCHL had been accommodated by Adonis keeping in mind their
long-standing business relationship, Adonis said DCHL had failed to pay up for
newsprint supplied in the September 2011-April 2012 period, for which invoices
with similar credit periods of 60 to 90 days were raised, despite its promoters
repeatedly acknowledging and admitting DCHL's liability.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Adonis said DCHL vice-chairman T Vinayak <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ravi-Reddy">Ravi
Reddy</a> had through letter dated March 29, 2012, acknowledged the <span class="ads">outstanding</span> bills and agreed to clear them before March 31,
2012 or at the latest by April 2012. Apart from this written assurance, several
meetings took place from time to time between senior Adonis Ltd officials and
DCHL directors including its chairman T Venkattram Reddy and Vinayak Ravi
Reddy.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
According to Adonis, it later issued notices
dated July 31, 2012, to Venkattram Reddy, Vinayak Ravi Reddy and PK Iyer to
make payments and not dispose of DCHL's moveable and immovable assets, which
were acknowledged by the three promoters.</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Adonis told the HC that these notices were
followed by a demand notice dated August 18, 2012, to which Adonis received a
reply dated September 8, 2012, from DCHL's advocate making "all kinds of
false allegations only with a view to avoiding consequences of a winding up
petition for its inability to pay debts".</div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
Alleging that in their reply notice DCHL's
promoters desperately attempted to make false claims regarding the quality of
the material supplied despite admitting receiving the goods, Adonis has
contended that the falsity of their claims was clear from the fact that even
after receipt of the August 18 notice DCHL promoters placed an order for
further supply of material vide a letter dated September 4, 2012.</div>
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HC for status quo in golf course case</h1>
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The Madras High Court on Friday ordered status quo on the
80.4-acre Nandanam golf course, for four weeks.</div>
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Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar passed the interim order on
petitions filed by Tamil Nadu Golf Federation, represented by its associate
secretary, S. Raamassubramanian, and Cosmopolitan Club, represented by its
honorary secretary, Bharat V. Epur. </div>
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The Federation said it took upon the challenge of developing the
golf course to international standards following which the Tamil Nadu
government renewed the lease of the golf course in favour of the petitioner and
Cosmopolitan Club in January 2001. </div>
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In June 2002, the joint lease was terminated and there were
attempts by the government to take over the land, the petitioner said. After a
legal battle, in January 2009, the lease was returned to the Federation and
Cosmopolitan Club. </div>
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On September 26 this year, the revenue department directed the
Federation and the Club to show cause, within 15 days, why the joint lease
should not be cancelled. The government had allotted the land to Sports
Development Authority of Tamil Nadu for hosting the 20 Asian Athletic
Championship next year, and establish a sports hub there, it was learnt.</div>
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The petitioner said that the notice was arbitrary, unfair,
illegal and also factually incorrect. Since the government had granted lease of
the golf course for thirty years and the petitioner had spent huge sums on its
development, the government’s decision to allot the land to SDAT seemed
predetermined, the petition said.</div>
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The Federation’s senior counsel, P.S. Raman, argued that for an
international event scheduled to be held in the middle of next year, the
government would not decide on a suitable location, so late in the day.
Therefore, the reason given by the government was arbitrary and untenable, he
said.</div>
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Also, the notice did not disclose why the golf course land was
preferred and if any other land in the city had been considered for SDAT’s
athletic meet, the petitioner said. </div>
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Therefore, the show-cause notice itself was predetermined and
suffered from arbitrariness and non-application of mind by the authorities
concerned, Hence, the present writ petition by the Federation. </div>
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SC rejects Jagan Reddy’s bail plea</h2>
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Apex court also asks Reddy not to apply for bail until CBI
concludes probe into all seven cases booked against him </div>
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<b>Hyderabad:</b> The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday dismissed
the bail plea of Congress rebel and Kadapa member of Parliament (MP) <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Y.S.%20Jagan%20Mohan%20Reddy">Y.S.
Jagan Mohan Reddy</a>, who is being probed by the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his
income.</div>
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The apex court also asked Reddy not to apply for bail until
the CBI concludes its investigation into all the seven cases booked against
him.</div>
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CBI’s counsel told the bench that the agency would complete
the investigation by 31 March 2013 while trying to do so even earlier.</div>
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Appearing for CBI, additional solicitor general <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Mohan%20Parasaran">Mohan
Parasaran</a> and senior counsel <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Ashok%20Bhan">Ashok Bhan</a>
contended that investigations were still under way in the seven cases and
letters rogatory have been issued to various countries. They also said Reddy,
currently lodged in Chanchalguda Central Jail, could influence witnesses with
his political clout.</div>
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“The contours are much larger,” the bench observed, while
refusing to entertain the persistent plea of senior counsel <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Gopal%20Subramaniam">Gopal
Subramaniam</a>, who appeared for Reddy, ‘PTI’ reported. CBI’s counsel told the
bench of justices <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Aftab%20Alam">Aftab Alam</a>
and <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Ranjana%20Prakash%20Desai">Ranjana
Prakash Desai</a> that four chargesheets have been filed in the case so far and
the total amount allegedly accumulated by Reddy and his associates amounted to
more than <span class="webrupee">Rs.</span>3,000 crore.</div>
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SC seeks clarity on retail FDI move</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-seeks-clarity-on-retail-FDI-move/articleshow/16692806.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-seeks-clarity-on-retail-FDI-move/articleshow/16692806.cms</a><span class="byline"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Dhananjay-Mahapatra.cms">Dhananjay
Mahapatra</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6, 2012, 04.13AM IST</span><i><span style="color: #757575; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on
Friday sought clarity from the Centre on the legal sanctity behind recent
decisions allowing <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Foreign-Direct-Investment">foreign
direct investment</a> (FDI) in various sectors, including multi-brand retail,
but clarified that there was <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/No-Doubt-%28musician%29">no
doubt</a> that policy decisions remained in the executive's exclusive domain. <br />
<br />
A bench of Justices R M Lodha and A R Dave asked petitioner advocate M L Sharma
to give a copy of his PIL to attorney general G E Vahanvati to enable him to
give the requisite clarification to the court on October 12, but frowned at the
petitioner for making the Prime Minister's Office a party. Sharma said he would
delete principal secretary in PMO as a respondent. <br />
<br />
Posting the matter for hearing on October 12 to get a clear picture on the
legal scheme that backed the recent decision of the Centre opening up the
retail sector to FDI, the bench confessed that it had an uneasy feeling that
the petitioner had either inadvertently missed out or was not presenting the
correct legal proposition relating to the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Fdi">FDI</a> decisions. <br />
<br />
The bench, meanwhile, had made up its mind to dismiss the PIL, saying,
"You (petitioner) assume that the policy had to be issued in the name of
the President, which is absolutely unfounded. A policy decision need not be
placed before Parliament. Only when a law is enacted on the basis of policy, it
is required to be placed in Parliament. The court has no role in the framing of
policy decisions or lacunae therein." <br />
<br />
But Sharma doggedly defended his challenge to allowing <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Fdi-In-Retail">FDI in retail</a>
and showed the court how the government regulated FDI in India by making rules
and regulations from time to time under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Foreign-Exchange-Management-Act">Foreign
Exchange Management Act</a> (FEMA), 1999. <br />
<br />
He said that Regulation 5 read with provisions of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Federal-Emergency-Management-Agency">FEMA</a>
strictly prohibited FDI in retail trading (except in single brand product retailing),
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Atomic-%28musician%29">atomic</a>
energy, lottery, gambling and betting, business of chit funds, Nidhi company,
trading in transferable development rights (TDRs) and activities/sectors not
opened to private investment. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h1>
SC order has put mine owners in their place'</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/SC-order-has-put-mine-owners-in-their-place/articleshow/16693754.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/SC-order-has-put-mine-owners-in-their-place/articleshow/16693754.cms</a><span class="byline"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="byline">TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6, 2012, 06.19AM IST</span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>PANAJI: Chief minister
Manohar Parrikar said that the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme
Court</a> order on Friday is an endorsement of the state government
order which had asked all mining activity to stop a month ago.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>"The Supreme Court
has not heard the state government in the matter," Parrikar said.
"Let the notice come from the Court, and we will reply," he added.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>He also said that in the
state government's reply, the apex court would be informed that illegalities in
mining were committed during the previous <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Congress">Congress</a>
government regime in the state.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The chief minister said
that the Court may not be aware that this government (his BJP-led one) has not
done any illegalities in mining.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Leader of opposition
Pratapsingh Rane said, "As soon as possible, the SC's environment panel,
the central empowered committee, should complete the inquiry, so that common
man depending on mining should not suffer."<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The All Goa truck owners
association president, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nilkant-Gawas">Nilkant
Gawas</a>, said that "The fight between the Centre and state
government has shown us this day and it would be hard to survive".<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Anti-mining activist <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ramesh-Gawas">Ramesh
Gawas</a> said that the SUpreme Court has endorsed the Shah commission
report and that the order is important for the future of Goa and Goans. He also
said that chief minister Manohar Parrikar should recover the amount of 35,000
crore from mine owners and use it to pay the genuine workers working in mines.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"Mine owners have
always believed that they are above the law since the Portuguese era, and this
order has shown them their place, and that they are not above the law",
Gauns added.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Atul Jadhav, president of
the all Goa barge owners' association, said: "All mining-depended people
should now become party to the petition and pray to classify mines in different
categories so that legal mines are allowed to operate."<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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'Lower courts can ensure fair police probes'</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Lower-courts-can-ensure-fair-police-probes/articleshow/16692607.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Lower-courts-can-ensure-fair-police-probes/articleshow/16692607.cms</a><span class="byline"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="byline">TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6, 2012, 03.51AM IST</span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>JAIPUR: Chief Justice
Arun Mishra of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajasthan-high-court">Rajasthan
high court</a> on Friday observed that the lower judiciary was the best
placed to ensure that police investigate criminal cases fairly. The chief
justice also urged the lower judiciary to strive for conducting speedy trials.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Chief Justice Mishra was
addressing judicial officers at the inauguration of a three-day judicial
conference on administration of criminal justice here on Friday. The conference
organised by the Rajasthan high court, the national judicial academy, Bhopal,
and the Rajasthan state judicial academy, Jodhpur, was addressed by Supreme
Court's former judges C K Thakker and A K Ganguly among others.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>"Whether an
investigation has been done properly or not by the police can be ensured by the
lower courts where the criminal cases are first tried. Lower judiciary is the
master of trials," the chief justice said. He stressed that just as the
police's job was to check crime, the judiciary's task was ensure relief to the
victim. "At the same time, rights of the accused people also need to be
safe guarded by the judiciary," Chief Justice Mishra noted, as he
mentioned on why the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Mohammad Ajmal Amir
Kasab was provided a lawyer.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.0pt;">
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Former SC judge Ganguly,
too, emphasised on adhering to judicial principles. "The British could
rule on more than half of the world because of their adherence to judicial
principles," Justice Ganguly said, while recounting that the former
imperial power framed laws even to takeover countries as colonies.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<h1>
Birlas send legal notice to filmmaker over lyrics</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Birlas-send-legal-notice-to-filmmaker-over-lyrics/articleshow/16693924.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Birlas-send-legal-notice-to-filmmaker-over-lyrics/articleshow/16693924.cms</a><span class="byline"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="byline">Bharati Dubey, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6,
2012, 06.43AM IST</span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>MUMBAI:
The Birlas have sent a legal notice to the makers of the film, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chakravyuh">Chakravyuh</a>,
objecting to the lyrics of the song Mehangai. They argue that the song is
intended to tarnish their reputation.<br />
<br />
The notice dated October 3 has been sent by a legal firm on behalf of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/M/s-Birla-Brothers-Private-Limited">M/s
Birla Brothers Private Limited</a>, B K Birla, Nirmala Birla, S K Birla, C K
Birla, Siddharth Birla, K M Birla and Yash Birla.<br />
<br />
The song takes a dig at the political and economic situation and includes words
such as Birla ho ya Tata, Ambani ho ya Bata, sabne apne chakkar mein desh to
hai kaata. "The notice has been sent to producer-director <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Prakash-Jha">Prakash Jha</a>,
producer Sunil Lulla, songwriter A M Turaz, composer Vijay Verma and singer
Kailash Kher. The film is scheduled for release on October 24.<br />
<br />
The notice states that the Birlas "take pride, and justifiably so, in
having built an impeccable reputation on the foundations of fairness, equality
and sustained commitment to the development of society and the country".
It also points out that the group "has a history spanning 150 years of
dedicated service and contribution to the well-being of the nation through
social and charitable endeavours".<br />
<br />
It has been pointed out that the lyrics, "even if taken in jest, are
undeniably and evidently in poor taste and serve to foster an impression of
social and commercial exploitation of the downtrodden on part of the Birla
group". The notice has asked Jha and the others to forthwith
"withdraw" the derogatory portions within 48 hours with an
unconditional apology to be published in the media. It also seeks an
undertatking that, in future, they will "cease and desist, and not make
similar or other derogatory imputations in any form against our clients".<br />
<br />
The notice says if the "request of our clients" is not heeded in the
said period, legal action —both civil and criminal —will be initiated and the
makers will be held "responsible for all the costs and consequences".<br />
<br />
Jha told TOI: "I have given the notice to my legal team. But I continue to
stand by my conviction; there was no intention to malign or disrespect anybody.
One has only intended to portray the common man's sentiment and the voice of
protest against the system, governance and industrial exploitation."<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<h1>
Legal aid centre eases litigations in villages</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubli/Legal-aid-centre-eases-litigations-in-villages/articleshow/16693853.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubli/Legal-aid-centre-eases-litigations-in-villages/articleshow/16693853.cms</a><span class="byline"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Srinivas-Reddy.cms">Srinivas
Reddy</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6, 2012, 06.34AM IST</span></div>
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HUBLI: JSS Sakri Law College's
free legal aid centre on the college premises has been drawing a good response.<br />
<br />
Initially the staff and students would visit villages in the district as part
of their curriculum to create awareness on various legal aspects. Seminars were
held for the benefit of villagers and pamphlets distributed to create legal
awareness. Understanding law is never easy and as the staff discovered that villagers
were only more confused they took the initiative to start the free legal aid
centre to deal with matrimonial and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/property-disputes">property
disputes</a> which, they found, was on the rise in the villages.<br />
<br />
Villagers found this more convenient than taking their personal battles to
court. They approach the staff for counseling who try solving their problems at
the centre. If they are not happy, then they approach lawyers to fight the
case.<br />
<br />
Ragini Kulkarni (name changed), who wanted her rightful share in the family
property chose to approach the centre instead of dragging her brother to court.
"I visited the centre, sought their counsel. They convinced my brother to
share the property, thus avoiding a messy legal battle," she added.<br />
<br />
Speaking to TOI, Veena Madhav Tonapi, principal, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JSS-Sakri-Law-College">JSS Sakri
Law College</a>, Hubli, said that the centre was started to provide aid and
advice to people who do not want to go to court. "We have people
approaching us from Haveri, Gadag, Belgaum and Dharwad districts. Most of the
problems are to do with marriage and property disputes in the family. We have
8-10 staff members in the panel to counsel them," she says.<br />
<br />
Nagesh Kukanoor (name changed), was planning to go to court over a land dispute
in Kusugal. "When I went to court, I realized that it would be an
expensive affair. I then went to Sakri college centre and got the help I needed
on land disputes," he said.</div>
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<h1>
ISRO security breach: Accused woman's judicial custody ends today </h1>
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<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/isro-security-breach-accused-womans-judicial-custody-ends-today/298336-62.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/news/isro-security-breach-accused-womans-judicial-custody-ends-today/298336-62.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/CNN-IBN.html">CNN-IBN</a></div>
<b>New Delhi:</b> The judicial custody of the woman who breached security at
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in September ends on Friday. Buela M
Sam had posed as a scientist and stayed at the ISRO guest-house for three days
with a fake identity card. The woman, who was carrying fake identity cards, was
arrested by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on September 21. <br />
During a routine check at the ISRO headquarters in Yelahanka, the CISF
stopped her and asked for her ID card. The CISF personnel found the ID card to
be a fake and detained the woman, averting a major security breach. Aadhar and
Pan Card of different identities were also recovered from her. <br />
A 41-year-old from Ahmedabad, Buela is married to one Alex, who is a high
school teacher from Kerala. Her husband claimed that she was not mentally
stable and was undergoing treatment, said Bangalore Police Commissioner Jyoti
Prakash Mirji. Her husband also said that she had been in a depressed state
following her father's death a fortnight ago. Mirji said that her husband’s
claims were being verified. <span style="color: #535353; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
Mirji added that she was staying in the ISRO guest house using the fake ID
and tried to enter the campus when CISF personnel stopped her at the check
post. The policed also said that the woman was apprehended before she could
access any of the sensitive areas inside the ISRO campus. <br />
The woman was handed over to the Bangalore Police and later produced before a
magistrate who sent her to judicial custody till October 6. She has been booked
under Indian Penal Code Sections 171, 448, 471, 465 and 467. Sources say that
the woman has been giving conflicting statements.<br />
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Azad Maidan case: Fresh summons to organisers</div>
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<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Azad-Maidan-case-Fresh-summons-to-organisers/Article1-940531.aspx"><b>http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Azad-Maidan-case-Fresh-summons-to-organisers/Article1-940531.aspx</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=HTC&op=Story"><b>HTC</b></a><b>,
Hindustan Times</b><br />
Mumbai, October 06, 2012</div>
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The Mumbai police crime branch is likely to issue fresh
summons to two or three organisers who stay outside Mumbai and are yet to
record their statement in connection with the August 11 Azad Maidan attack.
Sources in the crime branch said of the 17 who were on stage, they had recorded
the <span class="msoIns"><ins>statements of the others. Commissioner of police
(Mumbai) Satyapal Singh had clarified that action would be taken against the
organisers only if there was evidence against them.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Sources said only five organisers gave speeches at
the rally and were under the police scanner. Of these five, three speeches have
been found to be provocative. <o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>After this the police had invoked section 505 of the
Indian Penal code (IPC) which is about provocative speeches.<o:p></o:p></ins></span><br />
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<h1>
Complaint registered against Rakhi Sawant</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/complaint-registered-against-rakhi-sawant/1012722/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/complaint-registered-against-rakhi-sawant/1012722/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express
news service</a> : Sat Oct 06 2012, 01:40 hrs</div>
The Oshiwara police registered a non-cognizable offence against actor Rakhi
Sawant. A 31-year-old fashion designer approached the police alleging that
Sawant had verbally abused her when she called asking about her payment on
Friday. <br />
Pooja Shukla, in her complaint, claimed that she had been designing clothes
for Sawant for the past two years. She said that three months ago, she made 40
dresses for the actor, costing Rs 1.2 lakh, for which Sawant had not paid. <br />
“We have registered a non-cognizable complaint under Sections 504 for
intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace and 506 for criminal
intimidation under the Indian Penal Code based on Shukla’s claim,” said senior
police inspector D Rupawate.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Call Suresh Kalmadi as a witness, Sanjay Nirupam tells
PAC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_call-suresh-kalmadi-as-a-witness-sanjay-nirupam-tells-pac_1749290">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_call-suresh-kalmadi-as-a-witness-sanjay-nirupam-tells-pac_1749290</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">Published: Friday, Oct 5, 2012, 19:45 IST <br />
Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>A Congress
member in Public Accounts Committee today said former Chairman of Commonwealth
Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi should be called before the
Parliamentary panel to hear him out while discussing the CAG report on the
games irregularities.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Sanjay
Nirupam made this "suggestion" when the PAC was discussing the CAG
report on Commonwealth Games scam today.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He said when
the panel is discussing the issue, it should also summon him as a witness.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>PAC Chairman
Murli Manohar Joshi, while refusing to take a call on the demand immediately,
is learnt to have said that if Kalmadi is called, some others may also have to
summoned as witnesses, including the CBI which has probed him.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He also said
that calling Kalmadi may also lead to "many other situations", a
member said quoting Joshi.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He said the
Committee was looking into the financial aspects and not the criminal
culpability as it was not its mandate.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Nirupam, B Mahtab (Biju Janata Dal) said it was necessary to call Kalmadi as a
witness as he was the one who took several decisions with regard to the
preparations of the Games held in October, 2010 in Delhi.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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2011 after being questioned over alleged irregularities in the conduct of
Queen's Baton Relay (QBR) held in London in 2009, CBI arrested Kalmadi under
Sections 120 B and 420 (criminal conspiracy and cheating) of the Indian Penal
Code in the alleged Time Scoring Equipment scam.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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18, 2012 Suresh Kalmadi was granted bail by the Delhi High Court after being in
jail for 10 months.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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Secretary R K Singh also appeared before PAC today on the issue of installation
and purchase of equipment by ECIL, which comes under the Department of Atomic
Energy.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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of the 'integrated security system.'</ins></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The families of those arrested for the August 11 south
Mumbai riots will receive help from Supreme Court advocate R K Anand to take up
their cases at the highest level.<br />
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Anand, a controversial figure, was found guilty of contempt of court in
September, for trying to influence Sunil Kulkarni, a key witness in a 1999
hit-and-run case.<br />
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Anand was defending arms dealer Suresh Nanda's son Sanjeev, who was facing the
trial for running over six people in his speeding BMW on January 10, 1999,
while drunk.<br />
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Anand filed an affidavit in the court, saying he would donate Rs 21 lakh to the
Bar Council of <a href="http://cms.mumbaimirror.com/ads.aspx?adid=4" target="_blank">India</a>, and take on only pro bono legal work and provide
free legal aid for one year to avoid a six-month jail term for his offence.<br />
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At a meeting organised by an Urdu newspaper, Anand advised the August 11
families to arrange for joint legal representation of all their accused
relatives.<br />
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Anand expressed surprise that all the accused were booked under Sections 302
(murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code.<br />
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Following his conviction, Anand had sought permission from the Supreme Court to
get back to practising law, pleading that he had already tendered an
unqualified apology and had been providing free legal aid since his conviction.<br />
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The bench of justices GS Singhvi, Aftab Alam and CK Prasad directed him to
choose between the prescribed six months of imprisonment, or to donate Rs 20
lakh to the BCI and provide free legal services for one year.<br />
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Two people were killed and at least 52 injured on August 11 when thousands of
people who had gathered at Azad Maidan to protest against alleged violence
against Muslims in Assam and Myanmar, turned violent.<br />
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The mob damaged public and private properties, torched vehicles and assaulted
policemen. Around 30 police personnel were seriously injured while three
civilians sustained bullet injuries.</div>
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Nande's custody extended by a day</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>PUNE: The police custody
of former Congress corporator <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay-Nande">Sanjay
Nande</a>, arrested in connection with the death of 11 people in a
building collapse at Taljai Pathar on September 24, was extended by a day on
Friday. Nande was arrested on September 25.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Senior inspector Kamlakar
Takawale, in-charge of the Sahakarnagar police, produced Nande before judicial
magistrate first class S S Patil, following expiry of his remand on Friday.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Arguing that his police
custody be extended, assistant public prosecutor M G Poul submitted before the
court that investigations had revealed that Nande was not the owner of the land
at Taljai Pathar, but he had grabbed the land and constructed the building
illegally.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Nande's custodial
interrogation was essential for the arrest of absconding suspect Lahuji alias
Dhirendra Bapu Sawant, he added.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The case against Nande
and Lahuji alias Dhirendra Bapu Sawant was filed under sections 304 (culpable
homicide not amounting to murder) and 337 and 338 (causing hurt and endangering
the lives of others) of the Indian Penal Code and section 52 (penalty for
unauthorised development) of the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pune-Municipal-Corporation">Pune
Municipal Corporation</a> (PMC) had on September 24 registered a
complaint against Nande and Sawant as they partly owned the land at
Saiduttanagar Colony where the building had come up. The three-storey building
was among 2,300 illegal properties identified by the PMC to which notices had
been issued. In the case of this building, a notice was issued to Nande and
Sawant on September 1.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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3 youth convicted for stabbing a man, let off with fine</h1>
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: New Delhi, Fri Oct 05 2012, 18:02 hrs</div>
Showing leniency in view of their age, a Delhi court has imposed a fine of
Rs 40,000 on three youth for stabbing a man in 2009 instead of sending them to
jail. <br />
The court ordered North-East Delhi resident Amit, who assaulted the victim
Subhash with a knife, to pay a fine of Rs 20,000, while his two associates
Mangal Sain and Dinesh Kumar were told to cough up a fine of Rs 10,000 each. <br />
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) J R Aryan convicted the three youths for the
offence punishable under section 324 (causing hurt using dangerous weapon) of
the Indian Penal Code which entails a maximum jail term of three years for
inflicting knife wounds on victim Subhash on a petty issue. <br />
The court, however, did not award jail term to them saying the fathers of
two convicts have already expired and they do not have any previous involvement
in any crime. <br />
“... considering that the fathers of two accused persons have expired and
accused persons appeared to be young boys and had been in jail for two months
and had no previous involvement...substantive sentence for offence may not
serve the purpose but at the same time a fine which pinches the skin of the
accused with default sentence will meet the ends of justice,” the ASJ said. <br />
The judge also ordered a compensation of Rs 20,000 to be paid to the victim
from the fine imposed on the convicts.<br />
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In SC, state to fall back on US court’s water-sharing order</h1>
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Karnataka’s reply to the Supreme Court cites a US Supreme
Court judgment on what is considered the ‘most controlled, controversial and
litigated river in the world’</div>
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Posted On Saturday, October 06, 2012 at 06:15:03 AM <br />
Karnataka is taking a cue from what was once considered the “longest, most
complicated and most costly litigation” in the history of the US. The dispute
about sharing the waters of the Colorado river between the states of Arizona
and California went on for 40 years before the US Supreme Court passed an order
in June 1963 recommending the nature of water-sharing between the two
states.<br />
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In its reply to the interim application 5 of Tamil Nadu
before the Supreme Court, Karnataka has cited a famous line from the US
judgement: “While pro-rata sharing of water shortages seems equitable on its
face, more considered judgement may demonstrate quite the contrary.” This looks
like a valid point for Karnataka in its dispute with Tamil Nadu over the
sharing of Cauvery water.</div>
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The Colorado judgement is being used to counter Tamil Nadu's
claim that Karnataka cannot use surplus water (if it were available) in the
Cauvery river for summer irrigation. TN had claimed an alleged distress formula
of sharing water for what it felt was shortage of flow into the Mettur dam.
Karnataka has said that since 2007 onwards, TN had agreed that Karnataka can
use surplus water as it deemed fit.</div>
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While the first plan for utilisation of Cauvery water was
drawn up by the then Mysore kingdom in 1881, (which also saw the beginning of
the dispute), it was nine years later in 1890 that the water of the Colorado
was harnessed with the Great Ditch project. In 1892, Mysore and the British
Madras Presidency signed an agreement on sharing the river water. For Colorado,
such an agreement happened in 1922 between the upper and lower basin states.
But while the dispute between Arizona and California more or less ended in
1962, that between Karnataka and TN continues. For the record, the US case went
in favour of the upper riparian state of Arizona. California's claim that
waters of other contributing rivers should be added for calculation of sharing
was rejected. Most importantly, the US Supreme Court said that during times of
distress, water sharing in the same proportion as in times of normalcy was not
actually just. Both these points seem to favour Karnataka in its dispute with
TN.</div>
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A legal expert working for the state says, “The US Supreme
Court judgement is a good precedent. There is no bar on citing judgements from
the US or any other country. But there is a very basic difference here. Article
262 of the Constitution of India makes it clear that the Union government has
the adjudicating role in inter-state river water disputes. The Indian Supreme
Court has only corrective jurisdiction in river water disputes and not an
original jurisdiction, not even an appellate jurisdiction. The US Supreme Court
has original jurisdiction in river water disputes. So, we cannot expect the SC
to solve the problem. It is for the politicians to do it.”</div>
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State, it has lost the plot in fighting the dispute this time. A legal expert
who wished not to be named said, “The CRA which has the PM as its chairperson
is established for the purpose of implementing the judgment of the Cauvery
River Water Tribunal. Unhappy with the order of the CRA, Karnataka filed a
review petition with the CRA, and that was the proper thing to do. But then,
Tamil Nadu approached the Supreme Court. The Karnataka government was served
with an advance copy of Tamil Nadu's application to the Supreme Court. Karnataka
could have informed the Supreme Court that if it were to issue notice on Tamil
Nadu's application, the CRA would be less inclined to take the review petition
seriously as the dispute stood effectively transferred to the Supreme Court.
Karnataka could have sought a direction from the Supreme Court to the CRA to
expeditiously dispose of Karnataka's review petition. With such a direction,
Karnataka could have focused its attention on one forum -- the CRA -- and
pressured it to take into account the practical difficulties it is facing on
the spot.”</div>
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Another major mistake legal experts cite is that of chief
minister Jagadish Shettar leaving the CRA proceedings half-way. “If a lawyer is
unhappy with a judge and walks out of the proceedings, the proceedings won’t
stop and the other side will find it much more convenient to say all it wants
to and there would be nobody to counter those claims,” an advocate said.</div>
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The pro rata argument in the US Supreme Court comes in
handy for one more reason. Karnataka contributes 53.7 per cent, TN 31.8 per
cent, Kerala 14.3 per cent water in the Cauvery river basin. However, the water
allotted to the states in the final award of the tribunal is 37 per cent for
Karnataka, 58 per cent for Tamil Nadu, 4 per cent for Kerala and 1 per cent for
Pondicherry.<br />
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In criminal matters, even the Indian Penal Code provides for the right of
self-defence. Similarly, in jurisprudence, an act otherwise considered a crime
could be seen as an act of self-preservation. For example, two people are
travelling on a boat and encounter a life-threatening situation and it becomes
clear that the boat can carry only one person. One of the two has to sacrifice
his life so that the other survives. If you are one of those and end up
throwing the other person overboard and drowning him, jurisprudence law
supports you and finds no fault in your act, said an advocate.<br />
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Sources wondered whether there was any sense in the Central inspection team
coming after water was directed to be released. Whether there was enough water
to release was the essential question and it was necessary for the Central team
to have ascertained the extent of water before the CRA directed Karnataka to
release water, the sources said.</div>
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India yet to sign treaty with other countries on Cyber crime, says CBI
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A CBI judge on Friday said India is yet to sign a treaty with
other countries to extradite accused involved in cyber crimes. </div>
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“Till date, we do not have a single treaty with any other country
to extradite a cyber criminal to be brought to India,” CBI Special Judge, New
Delhi, Talwant Singh said at a seminar. </div>
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He said the Indian Penal Code is applicable for a crime committed
in India. “Our Cyber law simply says that if there is an incident in India and
whether it was committed from any other country, he (the accused) is still a
criminal in the eyes of the (Indian) law,” he said. </div>
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He said India has physical boundaries in terms of its geographic
location with other countries, but there was no such ‘boundary’ in cyber world.
“Our cyber boundary is not (yet) defined. We have to protect our cyber
boundaries also.” </div>
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He said at the time of 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, there was
no proper definition of cyber terrorism in India. </div>
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Terming cyber terrorism a “heinous crime”, he said, notification
(from government) was still awaited for setting up an infrastructure to protect
vital information on national security. </div>
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Referring to the Delhi Metro Rail project, he said it was run by
computers and if it comes under cyber attack, who would be authorised to “turn
it off? </div>
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“It remains unclear if response to cyber attack includes
authority to shut down a computer network, even if it’s been taken over by a
malicious cyber attacker with an intention to destroy it,” he said. </div>
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Laws, both at national and international level, were still
struggling to catch up with cyber activities worldwide. “In most cases, laws
have not kept pace with the technical ability of an adversary to move rapidly
through national, academic, commercial and private internet service providers.”
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In conventional military terms questions such as how strongly a
country can respond to a cyber attack when one does not know who did it, from
where they did it and their intention, are easier to answer “but not so in the
cyber world,” he said. </div>
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Delhi court lets off 3 alleged LeT operatives</h1>
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: New Delhi, Fri Oct 05 2012, 22:24 hrs</div>
A Delhi court today acquitted three alleged LeT terrorists, including a
Pakistani national, facing trial on charges of planning to disrupt celebrations
being held here in 2007 to mark the 150th anniversary of the First War of
Independence. <br />
Additional Sessions Judge Savita Rao acquitted Mohammad Hasan alias Abu Qasim
of Pakistan and Shafqat Iqbal Mir and Shabbir Ahmed of Doda in Jammu and
Kashmir, saying the prosecution has failed to prove its charges against them. <br />
The court, however, held Pakistani national guilty of enetring and staying
in India illegally. He is to be sentenced next week. <br />
The trio had been arrested in 2007 from outside a tourist destination here. <br />
The police had claimed it had arrested them in April 2007 from outside Dilli
Haat in south Delhi while they were exchanging bags of explosives. <br />
All the three had been booked for waging war against the country under the
Indian Penal Code and also under the Explosive Substances Act. <br />
The prosecution had claimed the three had been asked to target the
celebrations organised in the Capital to mark the 150th anniversary of the
First War of Independence. <br />
Their counsel M S Khan had argued the police could not prove that they were
LeT operatives and were here to carry out strikes. <br />
The court also noted that the investigating agency had failed to produce
before it the hand grenades alleged to have been recovered from the trio. <br />
Khan had also argued that the police had failed to prove its case that the
trio were in touch with Abu Alqama, the LeT chief of operations in India.<br />
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High Court raps politicians for criticising it </h1>
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News Service</a></div>
Irked by the statements by politicians criticising the Kerala High Court
over the toddy ban issue, the HC on Thursday came down heavily on political
attacks on the court. Flaying Excise Minister K Babu for his comments, the
court asked, “if people can decide what they should do, why should there
be laws?”<br />
Following an HC order, the Excise Minister had reportedly stated that the
people will decide what they should drink and not the court. “If people can
decide what they should do, why should there be laws like compulsory wearing of
helmets by two-wheeler riders? Why should there be licensing of sale of liquor
if people can decide what they should drink?” the court observed.<br />
Issuing the order, Justice Sirijagan said that even if the sale of
toddy cannot be prohibited, the least the governments can do is to ensure that
only natural toddy tapped from the palm trees is sold by licensees. Instead of
finding ways to remedy the situation, most politicians, irrespective of the
colour of their flag, come out with a scathing attack on the court.<br />
The court made the observation while issuing an order acquitting Raju of
Mavelikkara, who is convicted in abkari cases by Mavelikkara sessions
court.<br />
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Girl blames correspondent for injuries suffered in Kumbakonam school fire</h1>
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sustained injuries during the Kumbakonam fire tragedy in 2004, has blamed the school
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/correspondent">correspondent</a>
for her situation in the accident. She told this while deposing before the
judge G Saravanan at the Thanjavur district sessions court here on Friday.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The girl, Divya, studying
class 10, has been included as one of the 488 witnesses in the case. She was
one of the 18 students injured in the fire accident. She was the second injured
student who has blamed the school correspondent <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Palanisamy">Palanisamy</a>
for her burn injuries.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>During the hearing on
Thursday, another student, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rahul-Raghavan">Rahul
Raghavan</a> pointed fingers at the correspondent for forcing him and
other students into a classroom where the fire engulfed on July 16, 2004 in
Kumbakonam. In the accident, 94 children were killed and 18 students sustained
burn injuries. However, the trial began on September 24 and will be held daily
to complete the case in six months, as per a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme
Court</a> direction.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>She was cross-examined by
the government appointed special public prosecutor R Madhusudhanan as well as
the counsels of all the 21 accused in the case on Friday. The girl was studying
third standard in English medium when the accident occurred eight years ago.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"During the
cross-examination, she said that the school correspondent forced her and other
students to sit with the Tamil medium students in a congested classroom in the
school, ahead of an inspection from the education department. As the fire broke
out, the students could not escape due to a stampede. So, she sustained severe
injuries," R Madhusudhanan, public prosecutor told TOI.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Meanwhile, the
cross-examination with Rahul Raghavan continued on Friday also. The counsels of
all the accused interrogated him. The case has been adjourned for hearing to
October 8, he added.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Madhusudhanan also said
that A Kowsalya and B Vijay, who sustained severe burn injuries were summoned
to appear in the court on Monday. He would conduct cross-examination with
students.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>It may be recalled that
on a petition filed by the counsels of the Kowsalya and Vijay, the Madras high
court on Wednesday directed the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/apollo-hospitals-enterprise-ltd/stocks/companyid-62.cms" target="_blank">Apollo Hospitals</a> in Chennai to
perform plastic surgery for them and also directed the government to reimburse
the medical expenses to the students.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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SC notice to state home secretary</h1>
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Ganjapure</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 5, 2012, 10.46PM IST</span></div>
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NAGPUR: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court-of-India">Supreme
Court of India</a> served notices to Maharashtra Home Secretary and
Sachin Sardeshpande of PS Lubricants in Chandrapur, in response to the Special
Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Naushad Contractor, partner of the firm <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nam-International">Nam
International</a> here. The petitioner had challenged the reduction in
sentence by Nagpur Bench of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-High-Court">Bombay
High Court</a> to Sardeshpande in a cheque bouncing case. The SLP was
listed before a division bench comprising justices KS Radhakrishnan and Dipak
Misra.</div>
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The sessions court had awarded him simple
imprisonment for three months and slapped fine of Rs 20,000. But high court
turned it into "till the rising of the court" while maintaining fine
of Rs 20,000 along with additional fine of Rs 3,000. The amount of cheque
bounced is Rs 10,000.</div>
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The petitioner sought restoration of
Sardeshpande's sentence as awarded by the session court. He pointed out that
the high court's order do not serve as deterrent to the accused and are the
root cause of pendency of such cases under Section 138 of the Negotiable
Instruments Act.</div>
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He argued that all this sends a wrong signal that
even if the accused face trial and remain burden on the judiciary for a number
of years -- 12 years in this case, they manage to escape lightly by only paying
fine even if convicted. Sudhir Voditel appeared for the petitioner.</div>
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Terror accused’s trial adjourned to October 17</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>NASHIK:
The sessions court on Friday adjourned the trials of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lalbaba-Farid">Lalbaba Farid</a>
alias Bilal and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Himayat-Baig">Himayat
Baig</a>, to October 17 for further examination of the chief complainant, PI
Sukhlal Varpe.<br />
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Special public prosecutor Ajay Misar said that 19 articles were produced before
the court on Friday, which includes a four-page information brochure of the
banned outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), 22 pages of information on making
improvised explosive devises, information on chemicals used for explosive
materials, apart from a pen drive, memory card, a photograph of the entrance of
the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Maharashtra-Police-Academy">Maharashtra
Police Academy</a>. Misar added that during the past three days of the trial,
PI Varpe told the court how he got information about Bilal and Baig on
September 7, 2010, when he and his team were in Nashik for another case. He
also gave details about the subsequent arrest of Bilal from the Ashok Nagar
area of Satpur.<br />
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While in Nashik, PI Varpe got a call from additional commissioner of police
Sukhwinder Singh informing him about the confidential information of LeT
members Bilal and Baig, who had training in explosives as well as weapon
handling.On the same day, Varpe contacted the Nashik ATS and launched a hunt
for the two in Satpur and arrested Bilal by laying a trap near a cyber-cafe
there.<br />
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When Bilal was intercepted, he asked the ATS officers to reveal their identity
and after he was shown the same, he attempted to flee but was nabbed in front
of two witnesses. While frisking him the police found a pan card on him with
the name Sutar Munir Iqbal, three passport size photographs of him, a
photograph of another person, a muster card with the name Amir Parikh of a
company and other things. Meanwhile during Friday's trial, Misar also produced
two CDs received from the forensic science laboratory.<br />
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Misar said he has a list of as many as 165 witnesses who would be examined
during the hearing.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Court grants anticipatory bail to promoter</h1>
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2012, 09.21PM IST</span></div>
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MUMBAI: A sessions court on Thursday granted
anticipatory bail to one of the chief promoters of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Swami-Samarth-Developers">Swami
Samarth Developers</a>, Vinod Mahajan(62) in an environment related
case.<br />
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The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Oshiwara-police">Oshiwara
police</a> had registered a case against Mahajan for allegedly
destroying the natural habitat during the redevelopment of a land.<br />
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The bail was granted on the cash surety of Rs 20,000. In the anticipatory bail
application Mahajan said that he had sought all the necessary permissions from
the concerned departments including the Ministry of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Environment-and-Forest-Department">Environment
and Forest Department</a> (MoEF). The complaint was lodged by an officer
of the Tehisildar office, Marol.<br />
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In his complaint, the officer stated that he had received orders from the
Tehisildar's office to inspect a plot in Oshiwara, measuring 7747.1 sq meters.
He alleged that during the inspection he found that if the development
continued in the area, mangroves would be destroyed. The Tehisildar's office
then lodged a complaint against the developers and the chief promoter of the
land.</div>
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Death for five of a family for “honour killing”</h1>
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Five members of a family were sentenced to death by a sessions
court here on Friday for the June 2010 “honour killing” of a young couple
belonging to different castes. Yogesh, 20, a Dalit, and the girl, Asha, 19,
were planning to get married when they were mercilessly beaten up and
electrocuted. </div>
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Additional Sessions Judge Ramesh Kumar said the “savage nature”
of the crime fell in the category of “rarest of rare cases.” Those convicted
were Asha’s parents, Suraj and Maya, uncle Om Prakash, his wife Khushboo and
Asha’s cousin Sanjeev. </div>
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This is the third case in which the death penalty has been
awarded by a sessions court in Delhi since May last year when the Supreme Court
said that “honour killings” fell in the “rarest of rare” category deserving
capital punishment. </div>
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“Keeping in view the medical evidence and the state in which the
bodies of the deceased were found, it is obvious that the most heinous type of
murders were committed…. Both the deceased were electrocuted…. The offence was
not only inhuman and barbaric but the savage nature of the crime has shocked
the judicial conscience…. Coldblooded, brutal murders through electrocution
have been committed even as there was no provocation on behalf of the victims,
making it the rarest of rare cases which calls for no punishment other than
capital punishment,” said the Judge. </div>
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The court rejected the leniency plea of the convicts, who said
they belonged to a poor family and had minor children to look after. </div>
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The manner in which the offence was committed could not be
overlooked, said the Judge. </div>
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“Just like a flower has got its own unique fragrance, colour and
appearance, both victims had their own plans for life that lay ahead. </div>
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It is clear from the evidence that both victims intended to marry
but all the convicts snatched their lives prior to fulfilment of their dreams,”
the judgment said. </div>
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According to the prosecution, a few days before the incident,
Asha had told her mother of her love for Yogesh and their wish to get married. </div>
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Court awards 4 months jail term for assaulting a man</h1>
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: New Delhi, Fri Oct 05 2012, 16:23 hrs</div>
A Delhi court has sentenced a man to four months in jail for assaulting a
person due to which he lost his front upper teeth permanently. <br />
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Anju Bajaj Chandna jailed convict Lokesh
Kumar, upholding a magisterial court's order which had held him guilty of
inflicting grievous and “permanent” injury to the victim. <br />
“I do not find any illegality or infirmity with the order of the magistrate
and therefore find no ground to interfere with the same. The conviction of
accused is upheld. <br />
“I am of the opinion that the magistrate has already taken lenient view by
sending the appellant to imprisonment for only four months. I find no justification
as permanent injury had resulted to the complainant due to the act of the
appellant. The sentence is also upheld,” the court said. <br />
“Appellant (Kumar) is taken into custody to serve the sentence period,” it
said. <br />
Kumar had moved the sessions court against a July 2012 order of the
magisterial court which had sentenced him for voluntarily causing grievous hurt
to complainant Deena Nath. It had also imposed a cost of Rs 2,000 on the
convict. <br />
Kumar was arrested on Nath's complaint to the police that he was assaulted
by Kumar in a North Delhi area while he was returning home with his family in a
car in May last year. <br />
The ASJ also noted that no material is brought on record to show that the
accused and complainant were involved in any kind of previous enmity with each
other. <br />
“The complainant being the most important witness has not been challenged
and rebutted with respect to his testimony,” the judge observed while upholding
the jail term awarded to Kumar.<br />
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Amravati Municipal Corporation not to open abattoir till next week</h1>
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NAGPUR: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Amravati-Municipal-Corporation">The
Amravati Municipal Corporation</a> ( <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AMC">AMC</a>) on
Friday informed the high court that it will not open its modern <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Slaughter">slaughter</a>
house till next Wednesday.</div>
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AMC's reply came during the hearing on a petition
filed by Gorakshan Sanstha and ten other religious organizations which
vehemently opposed the opening of the abattoir on Walgaon Road in the city.</div>
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A division bench comprising justices <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pratap-Hardas">Pratap
Hardas</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ashok-Bhangale">Ashok
Bhangale</a> admitted the PIL for final hearing which is scheduled on
Wednesday. According to the petitioners, Amravati city has got many religious
places and temples including famous Amba Devi and therefore opening of an
abattoir shouldn't be permitted at the place.</div>
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HC orders status quo on BG works </h1>
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News Service</a></div>
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday ordered status quo in connection with
the works on broad gauge track between Bangalore and Hassan, and adjourned the
case for a week.<br />
Justice Anand Byra Reddy passed the order after hearing a PIL filed by one
Srinivas and others, alleging that the state government altered the original
plan, allegedly to avoid acquisition of businessman Vijay Mallya’s land.<br />
The petitioners said the government initiated steps in 2008 to give
compensation based on a notification issued in 2007, but it changed the
original plan in August 2011. As per the original plan, 12 acres would have been
acquired from a stud farm near Kunigal owned by Mallya, they said.<br />
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The apex court directive<br />
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: October 06, 2012 – </div>
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On Wednesday, Supreme Court of India directed the Centre and the State
Governments to ensure basic infrastructures including sufficient classrooms,
appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff and facilities for drinking
water and separate toilets for boys and girls in all schools, whether
State-owned or private, aided or unaided, minority or non-minority, located
across the country within six months. <br />
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Issuing the directive, a bench of the apex court comprising Justice KS
Radhakrishan and Justice Dipak Misra also asked the State Governments to honour
all its previous directives pertaining to providing necessary infrastructure in
schools within the timeframe fixed by it. <br />
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The latest directive of the apex court has come while disposing of a Public
Interest Litigation (PIL) dating back to 2004. <br />
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In 2004, Environmental and Consumer Protection Foundation, an NGO, had filed a
PIL seeking basic facilities in schools and improvement of school conditions. <br />
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Consequently, on October 11, 2011, the Supreme Court issued a similar directive
to all the States and Union Territories. <br />
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But most of the States and the Union Territories sought further time for
implementation of the directive. <br />
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So, in a way, the latest directive of the Supreme Court is like a reminder over
what the Centre and the State Governments are expected to do towards ensuring
success of the goal of 'universalization of education' to all in the state. <br />
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Nonetheless, the latest directive has scored a point when the apex court made
it clear that in case of failure to comply with the directive, the petitioner
could file contempt petition and invite court contempt. <br />
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The significant of the court directive is such that although the Government of
India has enacted the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or
simply Right to Education (RTE) Act, in 2009, to ensure free and compulsory
education as a fundamental right to all children in the age group of 6 to 14,
enjoyment of this right could not be possible unless the required basic
infrastructure is provided in all schools. <br />
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During the hearing of the petition, the apex court had sought a report from the
National University of Education Planning and Administration which conducted a
survey in 2010. <br />
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Predictably, the report revealed a grim picture of the education scenario in
the country, more particularly in the aided and government run-schools. <br />
<br />
Without going into the details of the report with reference to education
scenario in Manipur, the news report on the existing condition of the
government schools in Jiribam sub-division of Imphal East district, which we
carried on the front page of this paper with a 'disturbing' photograph of a
dilapidated building that passes off as school building on the same day the
Supreme Court came up with its directive would suffice to give an idea about
how far the fundamental right of the children to free and compulsory education
has been able to ensure in Manipur. <br />
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Even though the news report was related to Jiribam sub-division, the condition
of other government schools in rest of the state is just the same without any
degree of difference. <br />
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One may have to just change the name of the school and it would fit the bill
exactly. <br />
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Thus, the state government has a daunting task ahead towards ensuring free and
compulsory education to all its children and the time to act is now. Or wait
for six months to face the court contempt. The government has to make the
choice. </div>
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Probe foreign funding to 2 associations, demands activist</h1>
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BHOPAL: Ajay Dubey— the Supreme
Court petitioner behind the ban on tourism in core areas of tiger reserves, has
filed a complaint with the state police, chief secretary and enforcement
directorate (ED) seeking investigation into alleged <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/foreign-funding">foreign funding</a>
to the two MP based <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/associations">associations</a> -
Guide Association of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a>
and the Kanha Lodge Association - that has made interventions against his PIL. <br />
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According to the complaint, these two associations have received funds from
Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT), which had collected funds from 20
international tour operators based in UK and Netherland. <br />
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Dubey has enclosed an alleged screen shot of TOFT's webpage with his complaint
which reads "A request from TOFT to help fund legal counsels to advocate
for a lifting of the Tiger tourism ban and more participatory Ecotourism
Guidelines, engendered an instant response from over 20 of the world best known
Tour Operators, all contributing funds to the target, which was almost achieved
in 24 hours. Chairman, Julian Matthews, was staggered by the response and said
the funds would be used to support the interventions of the Guide Association
of Madhya Pradesh and the Kanha Lodge Association on the next sitting of the
Supreme Court on the 22nd August 2012 and any subsequent legal needs". <br />
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"Why are so much of funds being put up against my petition by foreign
operators? I want the police to investigate appropriate source of funding and
check if legal norms for foreign transactions were followed," says Dubey.
Isn't it surprising that 20 companies transferred funds to TOFT - as it claims
on its portal - within 24 hours? he asked. <br />
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The list of funding agencies was posted on TOFT's portal three days ago and
today it suddenly disappeared, said Dubey adding, this act itself creates
doubt. <br />
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According to Dubey, the companies which donated funds to TOFT includes Thika
Travel (Netherlands), Far Frontiers (UK), Original Travel (UK), Scott Dunn
(UK), Natural World Safaris (UK), Ultimate Travel Company (UK), Classic
Journeys ( UK), Explore Worldwide (UK), Greaves Travel (UK), Cox and Kings UK
and India, Taj & Tigers (UK), SNP ( Netherlands), Nature Encounters -
Canada, Transindus (UK), Wildlands (USA), Luxury trips (USA), On the Go Tours
(UK), Fox Vakanties (Netherlands), Aventyrsresor (Sweden), Audley Travel (UK),
Steppes Discovery (UK), Polar Quest ( Sweden), Nature Focus Safaris (Australia)
and Abercrombie & Kent - UK. <br />
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The TOFT official remained unavailable for his comment. Next hearing of PIL in
Supreme Court will be on October 9. </div>
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Plea to remove Sitabuldi encroachments dismissed</h1>
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NAGPUR: The high court dismissed a plea by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sitabuldi-residents">Sitabuldi
residents</a> seeking action against the encroachments on the footpath
in the busy market area, especially around Regal talkies.</div>
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The residents had filed a letter before the court
highlighting the issue. The court then took cognisance of the letter and
treated it as public interest litigation (PIL). The PIL was listed for hearing
on Friday before a division bench comprising Justices <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pratap-Hardas">Pratap
Hardas</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ashok-Bhangale">Ashok
Bhangale</a>. However, it was dismissed as petitioners - <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chandrakant-Jumle">Chandrakant
Jumle</a> and others - failed to appear as directed during the last
hearing. Interestingly, some petitioners turned up but they told the court that
the signatures on the letter were not theirs. The court then dismissed the plea
on this ground.</div>
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The petitioners, all residents of Ward No. 80,
informed in their letter posted on January 10 last year, that the footpath
meant for pedestrians in front of Regal gate has been encroached by goggle and
belt sellers. They alleged that the police, NMC officials, traffic cops and
even the local corporators are hand in glove with them.</div>
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They stated that these footpaths were made for
the pedestrians in 2001 during T Chandrashekhar's tenure but the encroachers
from Variety Square to Loha Pul have grabbed it completely and have set up
shops and placed generators or mannequins on them. They had sought removal of
encroachments from the entire area for the convenience of visitors and those in
the nearby residences.</div>
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The case of Sirsi<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">�</span>Agara
signal-free corridor: lessons and sign of hope</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">Published: Saturday, Oct 6, 2012, 9:30 IST <br />
By </span><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/merlin-francis"><b><span style="color: #731643; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Merlin Francis</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"> | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> <span class="msoIns"><ins>Although residents cried foul over the BDA’s attempts to
divide Koramangala with a signal free corridor, despite the obvious lack of
scientific planning in the project, most of their cries fell on deaf ears. But
they protested, filed a PIL, met the CM, kept watch over the few trees that
remained standing on Sarjapur Road and made sure their voices were heeded.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>A year after the
residents protested, the court mandated committee has seen sense in what they
said in September 2011. In its opening sentence, the report said, “The
committee noticed that the previous proposals emanated from very little or
without any public consultation.” The committee, therefore held a meeting with
as many stakeholders to finally come to the conclusion that there were better
alternatives to the Sirsi-Agara signal free corridor.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The case of the
Sirsi-Agara signal free corridor is a lesson for both civic authorities as well
as citizens, according to those involved in the developments and those watching
it closely too.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>As Vijayan Menon, a
resident of Koramangala and a front runner in the protests puts it, “A lot of
bad blood, expenditure and the loss of trees could have been avoided if there
was public consultation at the beginning.”<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He believes that while
there is a lot of talk about citizen participation, the case of Sirsi-Agara SFC
will be one that citizens can directly relate to.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Nithin Sheshadri,
another resident of the Kormangala, petitioner in the PIL who also acted as one
of the voices of the citizens says, “The Sirsi-Agara signal free corridor shows
that citizens voices can be heard and we should forget the apathy and get
involved in issues that affect us.” He adds that the work put over the last one
year was completely worth the effort. “The community would have been badly
affected by the project,” he adds.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“It is time that the
civic authorities realised that they can no longer do whatever they want to,”
says Ashwin Mahesh, member ABIDe.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“Authorities will have
to design systems that work on the ground and can also give value to the
citizens,” he says. He predicts that soon there will be a change in the
dealings of civic authorities when it comes to development projects as more of
those in governance realise this.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The committee report
is a welcome change to the approach that government has towards the city, says
Rajeev Chandrashekar, MP and founder of Namma Bengaluru Foundation that
supported the petitioners in their PIL.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“There is hope that
this more approach of involving citizens in decisions about their
neighbourhoods will usher in more transparency in how public money is spent on
urban infrastructure projects. The real duty of the government is to resolve
the problems of citizens through a citizen-oriented approach that includes
citizen participation which will also usher in more transparency with regard to
how public money is utilised,” he says, adding that the report reflected a
significant and positive change in this direction.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Vijayan Menon adds
that civic authorities should learn to see the development as a win-win
situation. “It is always a win win situation when there is public participation,”
he says, as it brings out effective solutions and alternatives to a single
problem, which in turn, raises the question of BBMP’s competency when it came
to infrastructure projects. “Not all in the BDA and BBMP are capable of
planning infrastructure projects for the city. In these cases, both citizen
participation as well as getting expert opinion during the ideation stages of
the project will be of help,” he says.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>What now?</ins></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins><br />
The report, which is currently with the UDD will be submitted to the chief
minister who will take a call on whether to accept or reject the committee’s
recommendations. If it is not accepted, the citizen will file a fresh PIL.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“We are not going to
wash our hands saying the problem is now on Hosur Road,” says Vijayan Menon.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>“Our first priority is
to restore Sarjapur Road to what it was before and this includes the trees. But
we will also be working with the BBMP on the changes on Hosur Road and make
sure these are done scientifically. We believe that we can do something without
land acquisition. Land acquisition and cutting trees should be the last
option,” he says.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Implement
existing laws, pass pending bills, follow committee reports the Kasturirangan
report, the Bangalore Metropolitan Regional Governance Bill and the Community
Participation Act- if they had been accepted,</ins></span> <span class="msoIns"><ins>passed
and implemented in the right earnest- could have prevented scenes of the last
one year. It is time that the government and civic authorities do so, believing
in the power or citizen participation and not because JnNURM mandates it, says
Ashwin Mahesh.</ins></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Form cell to check snatching cases, court directs DGP</h1>
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ALLAHABAD: On a PIL seeking
direction of the court in respect of snatching of valuable articles from the
passengers in buses and trains by thugs, the Allahabad High Court has directed
Uttar Pradesh DGP to constitute a cell of police to prevent such incidents. <br />
<br />
The order was passed by acting Chief Justice Amitava Lala and Justice PKS
Baghel on a PIL filed by Krishna Prabhakar Upadhaya. <br />
<br />
Passing the order, the bench directed to identify places where such incidents
are committed and submit a report to the court by October 11. <br />
<br />
The court also directed that cell would take into account the places of such
type of activities and further that railway authority may also send its
representatives. In the report, it has to be explained about action taken
against such persons and for protection of passengers in trains and buses. </div>
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Court raps Ghaziabad administration for water bodies</h1>
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By IANS,<br />
Ghaziabad : Acting on large-scale encroachment of ponds and water bodies, the
Allahabad High Court has directed the Ghaziabad administration to submit a
report on the status of water bodies in the district.<br />
The high court directed the district magistrate to present facts about the
number of ponds that have been filled up or have been consumed under
construction and also ponds that are remaining.<br />
The court, on a PIL, has also directed the administration to stop land
grabbing of ponds and has stayed any further construction on them.<br />
The court passed the interim order on a PIL filed by social activist
Rajendra Tyagi, who claimed that the water bodies of the district were fast
vanishing due to uncontrolled construction and grabbing of ponds by land sharks
in connivance with officials.<br />
According to Tyagi, 82 of the 123 ponds in the Ghaziabad Development
Authority (GDA) Master Plan 2021 area have completely vanished.<br />
Tyagi claimed before the court that of the 20 lakh square yards of ponds in
the district, 15 lank square yards has been usurped. The market value of this
land is about Rs.1,500 crore.<br />
"The Nagar Nigam area has 123 ponds whereas the revenue records of 1952
show more than 147 water bodies. Even the remaining ones are facing high
degrees of pollution ," Tyagi, a four-time municipal councillor, said.<br />
"Several villages like Kaila, Bonjha, Jatwara, Rajapur, Sadarpur,
Sihani, Morta, Nayfal and Bamheta had ponds which have been entirely consumed
by the GDA in its own schemes whereas they have been enumerated in the revenue
records," he said.<br />
"Several SC orders in this context have been brazenly ignored by the
administration... The administration even prepared forged reports and submitted
fake compliance reports about the status of water bodies to the state
government," Tyagi claimed.<br />
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Death on trek: Show us government policy, says court</h1>
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Sequeira</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6, 2012, 02.27AM IST</span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>MUMBAI: The Bombay high
court, while hearing a public interest litigation on Friday, directed the state
government to reply whether it has a policy to regulate holiday camps.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>A division bench of
Justices A M Khanwilkar and V K Tahilramani was hearing a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/PIL">PIL</a> filed by
Mulund couple Anil and Sunita Mahajan, whose son Harshal died on May 30, 2006
while he was on a trek-cum-adventure trip to Kulu-Manali conducted by a private
operator. Harshal had just given his Class X exams.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>According to the
petition, the tour was conducted by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sahyadri-Adventure-Foundation">Sahyadri
Adventure Foundation</a>, which distributed pamphlets for a trek to the
Mantalai Lake, located at an altitude of 4,047 m above sea level. Harshal
joined other participants in Pune on May 23, 2006 and from there reached Delhi
the following day.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>After reaching Delhi, in
less than 24 hours the group left for the Manikaran base camp and arrived there
on May 25, 2006. The trek began on May 26, 2006. The petition said the group
got no time to adjust to the atmosphere before the trek. On May 30, 2006 the
Mahajans received a message around 5.30pm that Harshal was serious and within a
few hours were informed that he had died. The group leader said Harshal died
due to scarcity of oxygen.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The consumer court in
November 2009 awarded the family Rs 2 lakh as compensation. The Mahajans have
appealed against the order before the state commission.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The Mahajans' advocate
Uday Warunjikar argued that there is no control over hobby and adventure camps
organized during the vacations. He said the parents were making representations
to the authorities to look for government policies regulating or controlling
such camps and activities but had received no response.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"We unfortunately
lost our only son. We want to save other children," Warunjikar said on
behalf of the couple.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Additional government
pleader Nitin Deshpande submitted that if the Mahajans want the policy, they
"must approach the concerned department under the Right to Information
(Act)".<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The judges reminded him
that this is a PIL and not an "adversarial" litigation. Directing the
government to file its reply, the judges posted the next hearing to November
30.<o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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PIL against movement of heavy vehicles in Bandipur Tiger reserve</h1>
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BANGALORE: A public interest litigation (PIL) has
been filed before the Karnataka high court seeking for a direction to the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/State-and-Central-Government">State
and Central Government</a> for banning movement of heavy vehicles along
National Highway 212 in Bandipur forest which is a tiger reserve.<br />
<br />
Bangalore based advocate G R Mohan has filed this PIL citing reports about
death of animals in Bandipur Forest due to speeding vehicles travelling on this
route. "Bandipur is also <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Centre-for-Tiger-Reserve">Centre
for Tiger Reserve</a> and at present there are about 85 tigers in
reserve forest .The authorities have failed to check illegal movement of
vehicles.<br />
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In the recent past over 100 animals have been killed in the 17 Kilometre
stretch of Bandipur Forest on National Highway 212 by speeding vehicles. There
are several endangered species of animals have been killed like Elephants (Six
), Tigers (Two), Leopards (Two )and more than 20 spotted deers" the
petitioner has said.<br />
<br />
He has further claimed that despite various orders passed by the high court as
well as the Supreme Court the authorities are not showing any concern towards
the safety of these animals in the forests that may be killed either by the
speeding vehicles, poaching etc.<br />
<br />
He had also cited the earlier order passed by the high court in the same issue
wherein NHAI was directed to take all measures to bring down traffic density
and speed and the State Government to ban movement of vehicles between 8pm to
6am.<br />
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"That order is being violated by the trucks who use the Mysore Route to go
to Kerala have started taking short cut route through the Bandipur
Forest/National Park " he has said. The PIL will be taken up for hearing
by a division bench headed by the Chief Justice of Karnataka high court later
this month.</div>
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<a href="http://dailypioneer.com/nation/99418-pil-seeks-probe-coal-blocks-deallocation.html">PIL
seeks probe, coal blocks deallocation </a></h1>
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<strong>A host of eminent citizens on Thursday filed a PIL in the
Supreme Court seeking an independent probe into the allocation of coal blocks
since 1993 and demanding the quashing of the allocations.</strong><br />
With the court already seized of another petition in this regard, the fresh
plea highlighted the need for a court-monitored probe as the present CBI
investigation was a sham.<br />
The petition filed by NGO Common Cause has among other petitioners former
CEC N Gopalaswami, former Naval chief Admiral L Ramdas and former Cabinet
Secretary TSR Subramanian.<br />
The petition filed by advocate Prashant Bhushan stated, “The instant petition
seeks a cancellation of the entire allocation of captive coal blocks to private
companies from 1993 and also seeks a thorough investigation by a special
investigation team.”<br />
Commenting on the investigation so far, it said, “The show-cause notices
issued by the Government (just as in the 2G case) to a few companies are a sham
since they obfuscate the real issue that the allocation was per-se illegal. The
current CBI investigation only focuses on the misrepresentations made by a
select few companies rather than the allocation process itself.”<br />
According to the petitioners, the involvement of senior Ministers, public
servants, different departments of the Centre and concerned State Governments,
alleged corruption and bribery by beneficiary companies required a high-level
probe. “Considering the magnitude of investigation and possibility of
involvement of high public offices, including PMO, and the fact that the CBI
functions under the same very Government it is supposed to investigate, a
court-monitored investigation by an SIT is required to ensure proper
investigation into the matter,” the petition said.<br />
Making the CBI as even the CVC and Enforcement Directorate as party in the
petition, the petitioners noted the earlier order of September 14 when an apex
bench while dealing with a PIL filed by advocate ML Sharma directed the Centre
to file its response on a set of seven questions.<br />
The court wished to know whether the Centre had framed any guidelines for
allocation of the 194 coal blocks, what was the procedure adopted for
allocation, did the guidelines contain in-built mechanism to ensure allocation
does not yield to largesse getting unfairly distributed to a few private
companies alone, and whether the guidelines so framed were followed and if so,
the procedure adopted was such that aided in realisation of the objectives of
the allocation policy.<br />
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Court halts noisy work on neighbour’s plea</h1>
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Singh</a><span class="byline">, TNN </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 6, 2012, 05.39AM IST</span></div>
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NEW DELHI: The next time you
think of getting some construction done in your house, you might just need to
check with your neighbour about the "noise pollution" it can cause. <br />
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In an unprecedented order, a trial <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/court">court</a> recently
restrained a woman from carrying out any construction work inside her house
that would cause probable "noise pollution" in the area after her
neighbour moved the court alleging that the constant hammering caused her
"mental agony". <br />
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In an interim order, metropolitan magistrate Dinesh Kumar directed the owner of
the house at Prithviraj road to stop using the construction equipment which
cause <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/noise-pollution">noise
pollution</a> till the next date of the hearing in the case. <br />
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"The defandants are hereby restrained from using the construction
equipments which are causing noise pollution to disturb the plaintiff
(complainant) till the next date of hearing," the court said. <br />
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The court also asked the owner of the house, where the construction is going
on, to appear on October 19, 2012 while noting that a "prima facie case"
was made in favour of the woman, who has complained of serious noise pollution
and granted her an interim injunction. <br />
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"On the basis of the material on record, I am of the opinion that in the
present case prima facie it appears that the plaintiff is suffering severely
because of the alleged noise pollution. Prima facie case is made out in her
favour. I am also of the opinion that the object of granting the injunction
would be defeated by the delay, if at this stage, ad-interim ex parte
injunction is not granted," the court said. <br />
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The complainant had moved the court seeking an end to the construction work
that was going on in the neighbouring house. In her complaint, she alleged that
she had developed illness due to the noise and the wall of her house was
developing cracks due to the construction work. <br />
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The woman also alleged that her neighbour carried out the work without taking
adequate precautions to control noise pollution. She claimed the constant
hammering caused her extreme mental agony and physical pain. "The
complainant has several illnesses due to the continuous noise pollution and she
made several complaints but nothing stopped the defandants to stop carrying out
the work," the woman's counsel told the court. <br />
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Despite several complaints to the police, no action was taken to stop the work,
she claimed. The woman also submitted her medical diagnosis report to prove
that she had developed illness due to the construction work. After going
through the documents, the court said that on the face of the complaint, a case
was made out and asked the house owner to appear. </div>
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lea in HC against bus fare hike </h1>
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News Service</a></div>
A petition has been filed before the Kerala High Court requesting the court
to issue a direction to the state government not to revise the bus fare, based
on the recommendations by the fare revision committee.<br />
The writ petition was filed by C R Damodaran Nair of Muvattupuzha,
under Article 226 of the Constitution, against the state of Kerala, the
Secretary of the Transport Department, the Transport Commissioner and the
chairman of the fare revision committee.<br />
The petitioner, pointed out that the government has already announced that
fare revision will come into effect effective from October 10.<br />
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Supreme Court rejects Kerala's plea on Mullaperiyar</h1>
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DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme
Court</a> on Friday rejected the Kerala government's plea to bring on record
new data to counter an expert's committee report that the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mullaperiyar-dam">Mullaperiyar
dam</a> structure was safe. <br />
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An apex court constitution bench headed by Justice DK Jain, while disallowing
Kerala's plea, said that this would make it an endless exercise. <br />
<br />
"It becomes an endless process. This is not an exercise done by an ad hoc
committee sitting in a drawing room," said Justice RM Lodha. <br />
<br />
He further said the members of expert committee visited the Mullaperiyar dam
site and a former chief justice of India had represented Kerala. <br />
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"The committee had your nominee and experts from both sides. Tomorrow you
will say to call experts from UK, Spain or Japan. We cannot permit this." <br />
<br />
"It could be that the expert committee letter may not be perfect. But
issue of data could not be reopened as things cannot move that way," the
court said. <br />
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While directing the matter be listed November 5, the court permitted both
Kerala and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu">Tamil
Nadu</a> to exchange their responses to the Justice Anand committee report on
the basis of documents already on record. <br />
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The court barred both the states from bringing on record any new material. <br />
<br />
The Justice Anand committee, set up in February 2010, was mandated to study all
aspects of the 119-year-old dam including its safety. The committee submitted
its report to the apex court in April. <br />
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Both Tamil Nadu and Kerala are at loggerhead over the dam. Kerala had in 2010
had advocated dismantling of the dam, holding that its structure was not safe,
while Tamil Nadu opposed it. <br />
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The Tamil Nadu government is managing the dam ever since its inception. Tamil
Nadu, while holding that there was no threat to the structure of the dam, is
seeking to increase its water level from the existing 132 ft to 136 ft <br />
<br />
It was to resolve this imbroglio between Kerala and Tamil Nadu that the Justice
Anand committee was set up to go into the safety aspect of the dam. <o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Kin of road mishap victim gets Rs 13.32 lakh compensation</div>
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The family of a 35-year-old man, who was killed in a road mishap, has been
awarded Rs 13.32 lakhs as compensation by a motor accident claims tribunal
(MACT) here. <br />
MACT Presiding Officer Arun Bhardwaj ordered United India Insurance Co Ltd,
with which the offending vehicle was insured, to pay the sum. <br />
"Total compensation payable to the petitioners would be Rs 13,32,672...
Insurance company has not proved any defence. Therefore, compensation is to be
paid by insurance company within 30 days," the tribunal said. <br />
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the wife, children and parents of the late Pandian Raj Kumar, an electronic
shop owner. </div>
Kumar's kin had told the tribunal that on March 1, 2010, a rashly driven
Jeep had hit the victim's car on a road near Kothari in Uttarakhand. <br />
They had said that as a result of the accident the victim had died while
several other fellow passengers in the car were seriously injured. <br />
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The court awarded the compensation by relying on an eye-witness'
testimony, which remained unquestioned as the driver and the owner of the
vehicle had not appeared before the court.</div>
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SAT asks Sebi to complete probe</h1>
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: New Delhi, Sat Oct 06 2012, 20:42 hrs</div>
The Securities Appellate Tribunal on Friday asked Sebi to complete its probe
related to alleged irregularities committed by merchant banker D&A
Financial Services and its director related to Brooks Laboratories IPO by
November 30, the date given by the market regulator. <br />
In its order, the tribunal said Sebi's interim-order restraining the two
entities from securities market would be vacated if the regulator does not
complete the investigation by November 30. <br />
"... we dispose of the appeal with a direction to the Board (Sebi) to
complete the investigation, qua the appellants (D&A Financial Services and
Dinesh R Kaushik), by November 30, 2012," SAT said. <br />
"In case the investigation is not completed by that date, interim order
qua the appellants shall stand vacated," it added. <br />
According to the tribunal, the Sebi's senior counsel had "very fairly
stated before us that the board will complete its investigation qua the
appellants by November 30, 2012 and if need be, take further action within a
month thereafter". <br />
The tribunal also observed that as the case was still under investigation it
was not inclined to intervene in the matter at this stage. <br />
Sebi, in December 2011, had restrained D&A Financial Services and its
director Dinesh R Kaushik from taking up any new assignment or involve
themselves in any new public offer in the securities market till further
directions. <br />
The two entities allegedly did not comply with disclosure norms in the case
of initial public offering of Brooks Laboratories. <br />
Following the interim order by Sebi, the two entities were granted a
personal hearing in February 2012. <br />
Later, the two entities approached the tribunal alleging that Sebi has not
passed any order subsequent to the final hearing and were been deprived of
continuing their business although no evidence was found against them to prove
the charges. <br />
Sebi had confirmed the interim order against the two entities on September
5.<br />
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Reporter / Chennai Oct 06, 2012, 00:30 IST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), Mumbai, has dismissed an
appeal by four directors of Pyramid Saimira Theatre against the order of
Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) restricting their market access and
imposing penalities for violation of Sebi laws.</div>
The appeal was filed by N Narayanan, K Natarajan, K S Kashiraman and G
Ramakrishanan, who were directors of Pyramid Saimira Theatre, which engaged in
the business of film distribution and running of cinema theatres.<br />
Sebi said the parties were found
guilty of violating regulations three and four of the Sebi(Prohibition of
Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Relating to Securities Market)
Regulations, 2003.<br />
It was alleged the annual financial results of the company for 2007-08
reported to the stock exchanges contained inflated figures of revenue, profits,
security deposits and receivables, all relied upon by investors for making
investment decisions.<br />
While the appellants argued they were either providing their expertise in
one field, or were independent directors, SAT said: “With the changing scenario
in the corporate world, the concept of corporate responsibilities is also
rapidly changing. The director of a company cannot confine himself to lending
his name to the company but taking light responsibility for its day-to-day
management.”<br />
It added, “While functions may be delegated to professionals, the duty of
care, diligence, verification of critical points by directors cannot be
abdicated. The directors are expected to have a hands-on approach in the
running of the company, and take up responsibility not only for the
achievements of the company but also the failings thereto.”<br />
Commenting the appellants have employed a device to defraud investors
dealing in securities, and have also perpetrated fraud, the SAT order said: “In
view of the discussion above, we uphold the impugned orders by which restraint
orders have been passed against the appellants, and also monetary penalty has
been imposed. Appeals dismissed. No costs.”<br />
Earlier, Sebi had restrained N Narayanan and V Natarajan for two years and
three years, respectively, from buying, selling or dealing in securities, or
accessing the securities market directly or indirectly, and from being a
director of any listed company. K Natarahjan, KS Kashiraman and G Ramakrishanan
were restrained from being an independent director or member of an audit
committee of any listed company for two years from the date of the order.<br />
Monetary penalties were also imposed on them by the regulator.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-88989055665655299212012-10-05T19:38:00.000+05:302012-10-05T19:38:05.025+05:30Legal News 05.10.2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Man in soup for filming in court </h1>
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The HC has asked A Venkatesan, working as an Assistant Section Officer in Home (P&amp;E) department, Secretariat, as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for recording court proceedings on his mobile phone on Thursday. During the course of arguments on a habeas corpus writ plea,Venkatesan was seen recording the proceedings in the court hall of Justice KN Basha and N Paul Vasanthakumar and was caught red handed. During enquiry, he told the judges that he had just come to the hall for watching the proceedings and he was not summoned. “Hence, he is called upon to explain as to why action for contempt of court proceedings could not be initiated against him,’’ the bench said and posted the matter to Oct 5.<br />
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TNPSC allowed to publish results </h1>
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Vacating the interim stay granted earlier, the Madras High Court has paved the way for the TN Public Service Commission (TNPSC) to publish the results of the examinations conducted in July this year for Group IV services.<br />
While passing interim orders on the writ petitions from K Murugan of Dharmapuri district and another, Justice S Nagamuthu on August 17 this year had restrained the TNPSC from publishing the results. The other process including valuation of the papers could, however, go on, the judge had said.<br />
According to petitioners, the question papers furnished to them for selection to the 10,780 posts in various departments did not carry all the questions. There were in total 200 questions. But the question paper contained only questions 1 to 59 and 154 to 200, with the remaining questions (from 60 to 153) missing.<br />
When the matter came up, TNPSC counsel told the judge that in all 13 candidates were affected by the supply of defective question papers. The TNPSC decided to afford an opportunity to all of them by holding a fresh exam and accordingly the exam was conducted on September 27. Of the 13 candidates, nine, including the petitioners, had participated in the exam. Counsel for petitioners told the judge he had no further grievance.<br />
Disposing the pleas, the judge vacated the interim stay.<br />
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Selection of PG assistants quashed </h1>
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The selection of 2,395 post-graduate assistants and physical education directors (PEDs) for government schools in the State was set aside by the Madras High Court on the ground that more than half of the key answers set by the Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) were wrong and the reservation formula also had not been properly applied, on Monday (October 1).<br />
Passing orders on a batch of writ petitions from the teacher-aspirants, Justice S Nagamuthu quashed the mark list and the selection list for all posts.<br />
The judge said that a number of key answers had been set wrongly and so the valuation conducted based on the answers was invalid. The selection of candidates had not been done properly by strictly applying the rules of reservation, the judge said.<br />
TRB advertised for the 2,395 posts on February 28 last and the three-hour objective type exam was held for the main subject, educational methodology and general knowledge carrying 110 marks, 30 marks and 10 marks, respectively.<br />
The present batch of writ pleas were filed challenging the key answers to many questions and the faulty application of the reservation formula by the authorities. By an interim order, the court had formed an expert committee to go into the correctness of the key answers.<br />
The panel’s report revealed that more than 50 key answers were wrong and hence evaluation based on these keys had adversely affected the prospects of thousands of aspirants. As for the reservation regime, Justice Nagamuthu said that several reserved category candidates selected under open quota on merit had been adjusted against the reserved quota.<br />
Explaining the illegal application of quota regime, the judge pointed out that one S Selvi, a top scorer with 127 marks, had been shown as having been selected under the backward class (women) quota while the second rank-holder J Kumar with 118 marks had been ‘selected’ against the backward class (general) category, instead of being included in the open category. One Prabakaran who scored 114 marks was shown as a reserved category candidate instead of being listed as an open category candidate selected under merit/open category. In Zoology, G Jagan with 130 marks and J Mohan with 129 marks too had been selected under ‘reserved’ category’ instead of open category, the judge pointed out.<br />
Describing the selection as ‘strange and shocking’, the judge said that it was clear that the TRB had not understood the method to be followed for selection as against open quota, vertical reservations for BCs, MBCs, SCs and STs and the horizontal reservations for women, disabled persons and Tamil medium candidates. The judge directed the TRB to redo the whole exercise and said that the lists of selected candidates already published were liable to be withdrawn. Hence, the entire selection lists, including the selected lists for the posts for which there was no challenge, were liable to be set aside.<br />
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No one from Alagiri’s family called for enquiry without summons: police </h1>
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The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday recorded the submission of the Madurai District Police that no family member of Union Minister M.K. Alagiri had been or would be called for enquiry without a summons being issued in connection with a case registered against his son Durai alias Dayanithi Alagiri.</div>
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Justice M.M. Sundresh recorded the submission made by Additional Advocate General K. Chellapandian during the hearing of a petition filed by Dayanithi to quash the First Information Report registered by the Keezhavalavu police near here last month for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore granite quarry scam in the district. However, he refused to pass interim orders restraining the police from proceeding with the investigation until the next hearing of the case.</div>
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Earlier, the petitioner’s advocate Veera Kathiravan alleged that the police were harassing the Minister’s family members in the guise of enquiry. Stating that so far Dayanithi's friends as well as brother-in-law had been called to the police station for enquiry, the counsel sought for a court order permitting family members to be accompanied by their lawyers in future. Rebutting such a request, the AAG said all those enquired so far were accompanied by their lawyers and the police had no objection to that. </div>
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“Even he (petitioner’s counsel) is well aware of that. We have also never asked anyone to appear for an enquiry without issuing proper summons in accordance with law,” he added.</div>
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He also denied political motives behind the action taken against the petitioner and said the case was registered only on the basis of prima facie evidence available. He claimed that the petitioner had quarried granite illicitly from lands belonging to the Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited, a State government undertaking, since 2006.</div>
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Justifying the registration of the case based on a complaint by Keezhavalavu Village Administrative Officer and not TAMIN officials who ought to have been the aggrieved party, the AAG said some of the TAMIN officials were hand-in-glove with the accused and hence they had also been arrested and put behind bars in connection with the same case.</div>
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The judge adjourned the hearing to October 11 in order to enable the prosecution to file a written objection to the petitioner’s plea of quashing the FIR. </div>
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Petitioner fined Rs 50,000 for flimsy PIL against flyover </h1>
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Coming down heavily on the trend of litigants moving the High Court by filing petitions to get personal gains, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that misuse of the right given to citizens to initiate public interest litigation could not be allowed.<br />
The court also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 50,000 on A Subair of Muttom in Thiruvananthapuram, who repeatedly filed petitions on ‘flimsy’ grounds against the construction of Thakaraparambu flyover in the capital city. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice A M Shaffique passed the order while dismissing his plea seeking a directive to halt the construction.<br />
He had submitted that the construction was unscientific and dangerous to the archaeological monuments of the city. The Archaeological Survey Department, however, had submitted that the construction of the flyover from the Power House Road to Thakaraparambil was not detrimental to the forts and monuments. The department had taken all efforts to protect those structures, it said. State Attorney P Vijayaraghvan submitted that the move of the petitioner was a malafide attempt and there was no public interest behind it. The petitioner was ventilating the grievances of certain individuals, the State’s Attorney said.<br />
The Bench observed that not being satisfied by its previous directives, the petitioner had repeatedly filed pleas and his main intention was to stall the construction on the flyover.<br />
“The flyover is being constructed to ease the heavy traffic congestion in the city. The Thiruvananthapuram City, especially East Fort, Thampanoor, Pazhavangad and Over Bridge roads, is always congested with traffic where the railway station, bus stand, Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple and other commercial centres are situated,” the court said. The intention of the petitioner was either to gain popularity or act at the whims of some persons who are against the flyover, it said.<br />
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Army forcing us to withdraw case against Gen Bikram Singh: NGO</div>
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The army has been accused of putting pressure on the civil society in Kashmir to withdraw a PIL against its chief, General Bikram Singh.<br />
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YES Kashmir, an NGO, had approached the Jammu and Kashmir high court in October last year to raise the issue of an encounter that occurred <span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>According to the police, an alleged militant dressed as a beggar had approached Singh and opened fire. In the battle that ensued, the militant was killed.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The PIL, however, questions the police theory. A family had come forward in October 2011, claiming that it was their son Abdullah Bhat, an innocent bystander, who had been killed. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The timing of the PIL was questioned in military circles, with many seeing it as an attempt to narrow down Singh’s chances of becoming the army chief. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Soon after Singh took over as the chief of army staff, NGO head Khurshid Ahmed Mir approached the court once again and — in a sworn affidavit — claimed that the force was pressurising him.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Mir has now alleged in the affidavit that “officers of Sector–1 RR are pressurising me to help them withdraw the case by influencing relatives and the counsel for the petitioners… Since the case has turned out to be a high-profile one, I feel insecure in the hands of the army. They are repeatedly putting pressure on me, and can harm me and my family.”</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The police had then closed the case, saying the beggar was actually Mateen Chacha — a Pakistan-trained Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>They are now refusing to produce a photograph of the ‘beggar’ or identify his grave, demands that the family has made through the PIL.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The board of officers inquiring into the funding of the controversial intelligence unit, constituted by former army chief Gen VK Singh, is now probing possible links between the ‘snoop unit’ and the NGO. </ins></span><br />
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The inquiry notwithstanding, the petition can be embarrassing for the chief as well as the government, particularly if the court orders an investigation into the ‘fake encounter.’ The army declined to comment on the grounds that the inquiry was still on.<br />
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Cite guidelines for withdrawing cases against SP men: HC to govt</h1>
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The Allahabad High Court on Thursday asked the state government to apprise it about the guidelines it was likely to follow in its proposed attempt to withdraw criminal cases registered against the workers of the Samajwadi Party (SP) during the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) regime. <br />
The court passed the order while hearing a PIL, based on media reports, seeking directions to restrain the state government from taking any such steps. The court has fixed October 10 as the next date of hearing in the matter. <br />
Hearing the PIL filed by an advocate, Satya Prakash Rai, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Amitava Lala and Justice P K S Baghel directed the state government to file a detailed affidavit on the matter in the next hearing. <br />
Sanjeev Singh, counsel for the petitioner, said: “Our main contention is that it would be unconstitutional and violative of Section 321 (which says that the public prosecutor can initiate withdrawal of prosecution process as per prescribed norms) of the Criminal Procedure Code if the state government is planning to pass any directions regarding withdrawal of criminal cases registered against SP workers during the BSP regime. Our main prayer is that the state government be restrained from passing any direction in this regard.”<br />
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Comfortably dumb, says Bombay high court</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">By </span><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/mustafa-plumber"><b><span style="color: #731643; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Mustafa Plumber</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Making a note of it, the Bombay high court on Thursday came down heavily on the state government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“Don’t you apply your mind before preparing the list?” a division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and justice NM Jamdar asked.<br />
Advocate Chetan Agrawal representing one Nilima Surve, who had filed a PIL, submitted to the court a letter written by the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The letter asked JJ hospital doctors to determine whether a candidate from Nashik, who was partially visually disabled, was fit for the post of a security guard in a company.Agrawal said, “Such a post cannot be held by someone with a visual disability.It’s a farce that such posts are being identified.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Advocate GW Mattos appearing for the state sought time for finding out if the state had adopted guidelines framed by the Centre with regard to recruitment of disabled people or if it had prepared its own. Mattos, however, said petitioners should first approach the commissioner for persons with disabilities before moving court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The bench has directed the local office of the commissioner to publicise its address, and has directed the petitioners to plead their cases before them.</span></div>
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4-week relief for cell towers on hospitals</h1>
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JAIPUR: A division bench of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajasthan-high-court">Rajasthan high court</a>, while hearing a plea of the state government seeking an extension of the deadline for removal of mobile towers from hospitals , has extended it for another four weeks. The bench, however, declined to extend the time limit for removal of those structures from which the batteries and communication equipment have already been removed. The time limit fixed for the removal of these towers will expire on October 7. <br />
The case camp up before the court on a PIL filed by Justice I Israni (retd). Senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for Cellular Operators Association of India told the high court that the Union government had on Wednesday night issued certain guidelines containing do's and don'ts for the cellular operators including installation of towers which he sought to be placed on record on Monday. </div>
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Task force moots three elephant zones</h1>
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BANGALORE: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Karnataka-Elephant-Task-Force">Karnataka Elephant Task Force</a> set up by the high court to look into <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/elephant-human-conflict">elephant-human conflict</a> has made several recommendations, including establishing a Karnataka Elephant Expert Group (KEEG), within the state wildlife board, with a broad mandate to plan, advise, and assist in elephant conservation and management in the state.<br />
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The task force headed by IISc scientist Raman Sukumar suggested a three-zone approach -- elephant conservation zone, elephant-human co-existence zone and elephant removal zone.<br />
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The report was submitted a couple of days ago and filed in response to a court directive in a sou motu PIL in 2008 following deaths of elephants in the state. The PIL came up before a bench headed by Justice K Sreedhara Rao on Monday. With regard to loss and fragmentation of elephant habitats due to ill-planned commercial infrastructure projects and natural resource extraction, the committee recommended a time-bound review of clearances granted or pending in areas within the distribution range of the elephant.<br />
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It also suggested prosecution of officials who misrepresented facts about presence of elephants and other wildlife while recommending project proposals.<br />
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KETF suggested the 750-kg golden howdah carried by the lead elephant in Dasara procession be replaced with a lighter replica or carried in a chariot drawn by the elephant. KETF feels such a symbolic gesture could make the state a national and international leader in elephant conservation.</div>
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PIL filed for deployment of women force in trains</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/pti/">Press Trust of India</a> : Lucknow, Fri Oct 05 2012, 05:41 hrs</div>
A PIL was today filed in the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court seeking direction for deployment of women commandos in trains and an inquiry by an independent agency against an IAS officer, who was arrested on charges of alleged attempt to rape in a moving train. <br />
Citing incidents of misbehaviour with women passengers in moving trains, the petitioner, a local lawyer, Moti Lal Yadav, in his PIL has requested the court to issue direction to Chairman Railway Board to appoint Railway Women Commando Force in every running train. <br />
Yadav has requested the court to issue directive to the state government to appoint ladies force as per the ratio of the population of the women. <br />
He claimed that the Railway Board had in past decided to deploy women commando force, but nothing has been done yet. <br />
The petitioner has also sought the direction to UP government for a detailed inquiry against IAS officer Shahsi Bhushan Sushil by an independent agency. Shushil, who was special secretary in the Technical Education Department, was arrested on Monday last for allegedly molesting a woman in Lucknow Mail. <br />
A local court granted him interim bail on Wednesday.<br />
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Coalgate: PIL seeks fines, SC-monitored investigation</h1>
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NEW DELHI: Three weeks after the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a> entertained a public interest litigation on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Coalgate">Coalgate</a>, an NGO moved another <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/PIL">PIL</a> on Thursday seeking a court-monitored probe by a special investigation team and recovery of punitive damages from private players who allegedly made huge gains. <br />
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The PIL, filed by NGO 'Common Cause' and six prominent citizens, including ex-Cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian, ex-chief election commissioner N Gopalaswami and former Navy chiefs R H Tahiliani and L Ramdas, said, "The investigation of the CBI at the instance of the Central Vigilance Commission is partial and does not cover the full magnitude of the scam." <br />
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It said that the ongoing CBI probe may not be impartial. "Considering the magnitude of the investigation and possibility of involvement of high public offices, including PMO, and the fact that CBI functions under the same very government it is supposed to investigate, a court monitored probe by an SIT is required," it said. <br />
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Seeking cancellation of all coal blocks to private companies since 1993, the NGO requested the court to direct the "SIT or the CBI and Enforcement Directorate to probe all allocation of coal blocks by Centre between 1993 to 2012". <br />
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It also wanted a probe into the manner in which states send recommendations as well as "an investigation into how coal block allocated for captive use of ultra mega power projects were allowed to be diverted for non-captive use to permit private players to indulge in undue profiteering". <br />
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The NGO also said those UMPP owners who indulged in illegal diversion of coal from captive blocks must lose their licences. It said the government must also recover windfall profits made by private players from the illegal exploitation of blocks. </div>
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Horse, mule journey banned for Kedarnath</div>
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Press Trust of India / Dehra Dun October 04, 2012, 17:59 <br />
Following directions from Uttarakhand High Court to maintain sanitation on pedestrian route to Kedarnath from Gaurikund, movement of horses and mules has been temporarily suspended. <br />
The decision came in the wake of the High Court expressing dissatisfaction over sanitation on the 14 km-long pilgrimage route, additional chief officer of Rudraprayag district panchayat, Yashwant Rawat said. <br />
Hearing a PIL, the court had recently directed the Panchayat to ensure sanitation for pilgrims and present a working plan before it on October 6 in this regard, he said. <br />
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Karnataka moves SC for stay on CRA directive</h1>
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BANGALORE/MANDYA/MYSORE: As farmers took centre stage by sidelining politicians, Karnataka filed a petition in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Supreme Court</span></a> on Thursday seeking a stay on the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CRA-directive"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">CRA directive</span></a> to release 9,000 cusecs daily to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Tamil Nadu</span></a> until October 15.</div>
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A week after the apex court directed Karnataka to abide by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Cauvery-River-Authority"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Cauvery River Authority</span></a> (CRA) directive, Bangalore will face the heat of the protests on Friday with a spate of demonstrations and dharnas planned by all parties separately ahead of the Karnataka bandh on Saturday. The Bangalore-Mysore highway continued to be blocked.</div>
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Farmers' representative <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kodihalli-Chandrashekhar"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Kodihalli Chandrashekhar</span></a> has threatened to block all highways in the state on Friday.</div>
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The two teams from the Centre reached Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on Thursday to assess the water levels and the agricultural operations in both states. The team led by chief engineer Jacob will start touring the Cauvery basin projects in Karnataka from Friday.</div>
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The Jacob team, comprising three experts, will tour the areas till Sunday. It will reach Maddur, where it will get down to business at 11am, and arrive at the KRS dam at 2.30pm. Along with Jacob, BP Pandey from the Central Water Commission, P K Saha, deputy commissioner in the ministry of agriculture and D Ranga Reddy will tour the areas. According to an official communication from the Cauvery Neeravari Nigam, the team will inspect KR Pet, Pandavapura, Mysore, Nanjangud, T Narasipur, Hunsur, KR Nagar, Holenarsipura and Channarayapatna.</div>
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In Mandya, a day-long hunger strike was observed by the Cauvery Protection Committee led by former MP G Made Gowda. After virtually laying siege to the KRS dam in the district, the farmers vented their ire on politicians. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Congress"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Congress</span></a> leader Siddaramaiah had to bear the brunt; he was heckled by the crowd, which accused him of letting them down. Siddaramaiah had to leave the venue amid police escort.</div>
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Karnataka's petition in the court described the September 19 directive of CRA as "arbitrary and ad hoc''.</div>
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"We have cited drought, no distress formula regarding water sharing in place and receding storage level as the reasons for seeking a stay on the directive,'' water resources minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Basavaraj-Bommai"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Basavaraj Bommai</span></a> told TOI. Another petition filed by Mandya farmers seeking same relief is slated for hearing by the apex court on Friday.</div>
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While the farmers protested and the government moved court, priests at Mysore's Chamundeswari temple sought divine intervention to rescue Karnataka.</div>
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SC gives six months to states to improve school facilities</h1>
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By IANS,<br />
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has asked state governments to provide educational, sanitation and drinking water infrastructure in the schools including separate toilet facilities for boys and girls, drinking water facilities, sufficient class rooms and the appointment of teaching and no-teaching staff within six months.<br />
There are 1,096,064 government schools. Out of these, 624,074 schools have girl toilets and 824,605 schools have common toilets for boys and girls.<br />
An apex court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishanan and Justice Dipak Misra Wednesday asked the state governments to give effect to various directions already given by it for "providing toilet facilities for boys and girls, drinking water facilities, sufficient class rooms, appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff etc., if not already provided, within six months from today".<br />
Justice Radhakrishnan said: "We make it clear that these directions are applicable to all the schools, whether state-owned or private, aided or unaided, minority or non-minority."<br />
Disposing of a petition moved by NGO Environment and Consumer Protection Foundation, the court said: "We make it clear that if the directions are not fully implemented, it is open to the aggrieved parties to move this court for appropriate orders."<br />
The NGO moved the apex court seeking directions to improve the conditions in schools.<br />
Referring to its April 12 verdict, upholding the constitutional validity of the right to education law providing for free and compulsory education to students up to the age of 14 years, the court said that it gave some directions so that the mandate of the law could be carried out.<br />
The court in its April judgment highlighted the necessity of constituting a regulatory authority for effective functioning of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br />
The judgment said that on the basis of the directions issued by the apex court in the instant matter some States submitted the details of the infrastructure facilities in the schools in their respective states.<br />
"This court noticed that some of the schools have not provided proper toilet facilities for boys and girls and, in some of the schools, it was noticed that there is no provision for drinking water as well," the judgment said.<br />
Under the the "Total Sanitation Campaign" a school sanitation hygiene education programme is operational in 607 districts spread across 30 states and union territories and a total of 1,199,117 school toilets have been financially assisted under the TSC.<br />
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Fresh SC look at Mayawati's disproportionate assets case likely</h1>
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to hear in open court a petition seeking review its July 6 judgment quashing the CBI's FIR accusing former UP CM <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mayawati">Mayawati</a> of amassing disproportionate wealth, raising the prospect of a fresh judicial look at the politically sensitive case. <br />
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The decision by a bench of Justices P Sathasivam and Dipak Misra is significant given that an overwhelming majority of such petitions are dismissed in chamber without lawyers for the parties getting an opportunity to argue their stand. <br />
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But the bench's decision to hear Kamlesh Verma's petition in open court will provide him the opportunity to cite facts and try to convince the court to reconsider the decision to quash the FIR against Mayawati. After the CBI went back on its initial resolve to seek review of the apex court's judgment quashing the DA case FIR against Mayawati, Verma had on August 4 filed the petition requesting the court to permit the agency to take the investigation already done in the case to its logical conclusion. <br />
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Verma had intervened in the proceedings before the apex court in the petition filed by Mayawati seeking quashing of the FIR. He had alleged that the July 6 order of the apex court quashing the CBI investigation was based on wrong facts pleaded by the former UP CM. <br />
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The SC said it had on July 16, 2003, directed the CBI to probe the alleged illegality and irregularity committed by officials and other persons in the release of Rs 17 crore for the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Taj-Heritage-Corridor-scam">Taj Heritage Corridor scam</a>, but it had not directed the agency to register an FIR on the alleged disproportionate assets of Mayawati. <br />
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In its July 6 judgment, the court had objected to the CBI registering an FIR in the DA case showing a Supreme Court official as complainant when there was no specific direction for lodging an FIR to probe her alleged disproportionate wealth. <br />
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During the hearings on Mayawati's petition which came to be filed in 2008, the court had permitted the CBI to submit probe status report. The agency, in its affidavits, repeatedly said that it had got enough material to file charge sheet against the former CM. <br />
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Verma's review petition filed through advocate Kamini Jaiswal said more than a year after the direction to probe the Taj Heritage Corridor scam, the apex court on October 25, 2004, had de-linked the DA case FIR from the scam and said, "In any event, CBI will be entitled to take action on the basis of the investigation as it may think fit." <br />
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Verma's review petition said Mayawati had filed the writ petition in SC to thwart CBI from filing the chargesheet. "The judgment under review belies the requirement of public policy that cases of corruption by public servants cannot be dealt by courts with a technical approach," he said. <br />
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"Rather, public policy required that even if there was some technical flaw in the investigation, same could not have been given precedence over the overwhelming evidence collected by the CBI against Mayawati," he said. </div>
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Court clears Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief’s Europe trip</h1>
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CHENNAI: A sessions court on Thursday allowed a plea of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Marumalarchi-Dravida-Munnetra-Kazhagam">Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a> (MDMK) chief <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vaiko">Vaiko</a> for a holiday to Europe and ordered his diplomatic and ordinary passports to be returned to him. Vaiko is to leave for Europe with his wife on October 10.<br />
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Giving his order, Justice K Kaliyamurthy, Additional Court-VI judge, said the MDMK leader would have to return his passports within three days of his return to the country. "Considering the attitude of the petitioner in attending the case hearing and that fact that he had obtained the same permission on an earlier occasion, the petitioner is allowed," Justice Kaliyamurthy said. Special public prosecutor N Vijayaraj, who was asked to file a counter on Thursday, endorsed no objection for the return of passports to Vaiko.<br />
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Vaiko is facing charges under the anti-terror law, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/POTA">POTA</a> for allegedly speaking in support of the LTTE in June 2002.</div>
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Delhi court sends alleged 26/11 plotter Abu Jundal to judicial custody till Oct.8</h1>
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<img align="right" height="32" src="file:///C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" width="32" />New Delhi/Mumbai, Oct.4 (ANI): The suspected key plotter of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008, Sayeed Zabiuddin Ansari, was sent to judicial custody till October 8.</div>
A Sessions Court in New Delhi, before which he was produced, pronounced this on Thursday.<br />
The court also directed that after the current judicial custody expires, Ansari would have to be produced before a Special Court of National Investigation Agency (NIA).<br />
Ansari, also known as Abu Hamza and Abu Jindal, was arrested at Delhi airport on June 21 on his arrival from Saudi Arabia.<br />
The police revealed his arrest only on Monday, after interrogating him for five days about the three-day rampage in Mumbai that killed 166 people.<br />
According to prosecution, Ansari helped coordinate the attack by 10 members of Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group from a 'control room' in the Pakistani city of Karachi and also helped to train the gunmen who laid siege on prime spots in Mumbai for three days.<br />
Until his arrest, Ansari had been living in Saudi Arabia on a Pakistani passport. An official of New Delhi's anti-terrorist police unit had revealed this to Reuters on condition of anonymity.<br />
Speaking to media after Ansari was produced before the Sessions Judge in New Delhi on Thursday, the lawyer for the NIA, Ahmed Khan, said that Mumbai's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had transferred the case to the NIA.<br />
"We asked for him to be produced in the court for a hearing on October 08 and the court has given that date. He will be produced before the Special Court of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 8 at 2 p.m.<br />
Ansari's arrest has cast a fresh spotlight on Pakistan's history of backing militant groups as a tool of its foreign policy.<br />
Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the ISI, nurtured the emergence of the LeT in the early 1990s to serve as a proxy to fight Indian forces in Kashmir.<br />
Pakistan denies backing militant groups, but experts believe the security establishment maintains a relationship with LeT. Pakistan's government has not commented on Ansari's arrest.<br />
The Mumbai attacks heightened tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since 1947, and have continued to cast a pall over fragile relations ever since.<br />
Ten militants arrived on the Mumbai shoreline in a dinghy on November 26, 2008, before splitting into four groups and embarking on a killing spree.<br />
They held off elite commandos for up to 60 hours in two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre in the city. The only attacker to survive was sentenced to death in 2010.<br />
A voice believed to belong to Ansari was recorded talking to the gunmen attacking the Jewish centre.<br />
He is reported to have told the attackers to convey to the media that the "attack was a trailer and the entire movie was yet to come". (ANI)<br />
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Court denies criminal bail for skipping hearing</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>PUNE: The court of additional sessions judge <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/S-D-Darne">S D Darne</a> on Thursday rejected the bail plea of a criminal on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/police">police</a> record Prakash alias Haribhau Londhe from Loni Kalbhor for not attending a hearing in a criminal appeal filed by him in a theft case. </ins></span><br />
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In 2006, a magisterial court here had sentenced Londhe to three years of rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 5,000. His wife, Vijaya Londhe, was acquitted due to lack of evidence. <br />
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Londhe had challenged his conviction by filing a criminal appeal before the district and sessions court here. The appeal came up for hearing before judge Darne on July 24, but he did not turn up before the court. A non-bailable warrant for <span class="ads">arresting</span> him was issued on August 10 after he again failed to turn up before the court. <br />
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A police team headed by inspector Suhas Garud, in-charge of the Loni Kalbhor police station, arrested Londhe on Wednesday. He was produced before the court on Thursday afternoon. Londhe's lawyer filed a plea to release him on bail. <br />
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However, public prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar pleaded that the bail be rejected since Londhe had 51 cases registered against him. She said that Londhe had challenged his convictions before the district court in three cases and complained that the hearing had to be deferred repeatedly because of his frequent absenteeism. She feared it would be difficult to secure his presence at the time of the hearing, since he may go absconding if he was given bail. Also, the accused had committed a murder at Yevat in 2011 while on bail. <br />
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After hearing both sides, the court rejected Londhe's bail and sent him to the Yerawada central jail. </div>
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The Laxmipeta Dalit Struggle Solidarity Committee has demanded that the state government immediately set up a special court at Laxmipeta and begin the trial of the persons accused for massacring five dalits at there on June 12. They also demanded that the trial be completed within three months.<br />
The committee’s convener Bojja Tharakam accused the state government of dawdling in bringing the guilty to the book and criticised it for issuing GO no 103 for setting up of a special sessions court at Srikakulam town instead of at Laxmipeta.<br />
Addressing mediapersons at a half-day protest here on Wednesday against the delay of setting up of the court, Bojja Tarakam demanded that the state government should immediately withdraw GO No 103 and set up the court there.<br />
State convenor of the Dalit Stree Shakti Geddam Jhansi demanded that the state government distribute 250 acres of land among the landless Dalits in Laxmipeta village and alleged that the state government was shielding the upper-caste culprits.<br />
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Kush's friends bravely testify in court against Ayush</h1>
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NAGPUR: Two children, aged eight and nine, showed <span class="ads">amazing</span> poise in the witness box of the packed court during the hearing in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kush-Kataria"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Kush Kataria</span></a> kidnapping and murder case on Thursday to get their slain friend justice at a time of their life when they were merely expected to pass school's unit tests with flying colours.</div>
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The two children endured the ordeal for around an hour each in the trial before district and additional sessions judge GJ Akarte.</div>
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Shubham Vaid (9) and Ridham Puria (8) appeared as prosecution witnesses 4 and 5 respectively. They recalled the chain of incidents of October 11 last year, replying confidently to questions from special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. Later, the children also remained undaunted when defence counsel Amrish Sonak tried to drag them out of the prosecution's chain of events and establish contrary facts.</div>
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Judge Akarte also took pains to patiently explain the defence questions to the children, make them comfortable, offered time for a break and ensured the proceedings did not overwhelm the minors. He also pulled up the defence a couple of times for cross examining the minors for omission in testimony, instead, suggesting such questions be kept for the investigation officer.</div>
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Young Ridham's calm demeanour drew praise from all those in the court, including the family members of eight-year-old Kush, who was abducted and killed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ayush-Pugaliya"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Ayush Pugaliya</span></a>.</div>
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Shubham and Ridham, with negligible variations, said they were enjoying chips in the balcony of Kush's residence. They narrated how Kush was called by their neighbour 'Ayush bhaiyya', who took him away on his scooter. They both claimed to have seen Ayush speeding away with Kush. The children convincingly faced the defence questions and negated their argument that their vision was blocked from the balcony and there were others in the lane in front of Kush's residence apart from Ayush.</div>
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The Pugaliya brothers remained nonchalant through the proceedings. Eldest Navin and younger Nitin, charged with destruction of evidence, seemed to be more attentive than their youngest brother Ayush, who is the main accused. Ayush's look was more of indifference. Both children identified him in the court in front of judge Akarte.</div>
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On Friday, the court is slated to examine Kush's aunt Hema, cousin Priya, and Sneha Karnani. The two panch witnesses at the discovery of blood stained clothes would also be examined.</div>
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Man sentenced till rising of the court for stealing power</h1>
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A man was sent to day-long detention till rising of the court for stealing electricity and directed to pay Rs three lakh as civil liability to the power company by a court here. <br />
Additional Sessions Judge Sukhdev Singh sentenced East Delhi resident Jasvir Choudhary on a complaint by BSES Yamuna Power Limited that he had been stealing electricity through illegal wires, without installing a meter in his house. <br />
The court awarded him milder sentence under the provisions of the Electricity Act which entails imprisonment of a term which may not extend to three years or with fine, saying he is the sole earning member in the family comprising three children, wife and aged parents. <br />
"Keeping in view the fact that he (Choudhary) is willing to make settlement, he is the sole earning sole earning member in his family having responsibility of three children, wife and old parents, I am of the view that sentence of till rising of the court (TRC) under the provisions of the Electricity Act, 2003, shall be appropriate and meet the ends of justice," the judge said. <br />
"..It is ordered that accused shall make the payment of Rs three lakh towards civil liability. This shall include any amount paid by the accused to the company on account of his case ID. The amount of Rs three lakh shall be paid in three equal monthly instalments commencing from October 15, 2012," the court said. <br />
The prosecution had submitted that on December 13, 2006, a joint inspection team had raided the house of the accused in Khichripur village here and had found that he was using electricity directly by tapping into the main power supply of the discom through illegal wires and no meter was found to be installed at the premises. <br />
The discom, subsequently served Choudhary with a bill of Rs 5,34,169 for the theft of electricity. As he failed to pay the bill, the company had filed the complaint.<br />
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Malegaon blast: SC refuses interim bail to Purohit, others</h1>
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The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant interim bail to ex-Army officer Shrikant Prasad Purohit, Pragya Thakur and other accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.</div>
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A bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad refused to grant any interim relief after senior advocate U R Lalit appearing for the accused contended they have been behind bars for four years and their petitions are not being heard by the apex court.</div>
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“We will not give interim bail at this stage,” the bench said.</div>
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The bench further said that “it’s not our fault” that the petitions are not being heard on a regular basis, after the State government sought adjournment of the case.</div>
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The court adjourned the case for three weeks.</div>
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The bench also extended its interim order restraining the National Investigation Agency from interrogating the accused.</div>
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On January 4 this year, the apex court had extended its stay of the Bombay High Court order allowing the agency to interrogate him and had also impleaded the NIA on the bail plea of Mr Purohit.</div>
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On December 16 last year, the bench had stayed the operation of the High Court’s order.</div>
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Mr Purohit had approached the apex court challenging the High Court’s October 20, 2011 order allowing NIA to take him from judicial custody to interrogate him.</div>
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Mr Purohit was arrested and issued a charge sheet in connection with the Malegaon bomb blast that took place on September 29, 2008 leaving seven persons dead.</div>
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According to the prosecution, the accused had formed an organisation Abhinav Bharat Trust at Pune in 2006 with headquarters at the address of co-accused Ajay Rahirkar. It was registered on February 9, 2007. They had allegedly taken an oath to strive to turn India into a Hindu rashtra called Aryawart.</div>
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It was alleged that the members met from time to time to discuss various aspects for achieving their goal. Accused Shankaracharya is stated to have recorded conversations at the meetings and these recordings are the foundation of the case against the blast accused.</div>
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Approval for applying provisions of MCOCA in this case was granted on November 20, 2008, and the applicants were booked for offences under this stringent act.</div>
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Mr Purohit and Mr Rahirkar along with others were issued charge sheet for offences under various enactments including MCOCA.</div>
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On July 31, 2009, the special judge had held that charges against them under MCOCA did not survive and discharged them.</div>
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He had directed that the case be placed before a regular sessions court to try them for other offences and therefore rejected their applications for bail.</div>
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The state had challenged the order discharging the accused from offences under MCOCA before the high court.</div>
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Tutor gets 5 yrs' jail term for trying to kill wife</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A 44-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in jail by a Delhi court for trying to kill his wife for her failure to bring sufficient dowry.<br />
Additional Sessions Judge Yashwant Kumar held Vishav Kumar Aggarwal, a private tutor by profession, guilty of attempting to murder his <span class="msoIns"><ins>wife as he remained a "mute spectator" to his mother's attempt to burn his wife to death.</ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>"Convict Vishav Kumar Aggarwal is sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment under section 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the IPC with fine of <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>5,000.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>"The convict is further sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC with fine of <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>35,000," the court said.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The judge also directed that "out of the total fine amount of <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>40,000, a sum of <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>35,000 shall be given to the wife as compensation for her sufferings and trauma."</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court did not hold the convict's parents, also accused in the case, guilty as they had died during the pendency of the trial.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The court refused to release the accused on probation saying "the convict Vishav no doubt was standing nearby the victim as a silent spectator while his mother (since dead) was pouring kerosene oil upon her."</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>"Therefore, Vishav cannot be given benefit under the Probation of Offenders Act in such offence."</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>According to the prosecution, the couple were married in February 2000. The bride lived with Vishav in his parental home in North West Delhi.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The prosecution added that despite four years of marriage, Vishav and his parents used to pester her to bring more money and house holds goods from her parents and as she failed to bring in more dowry, she was set ablaze one day by her mother-in-law in 2004.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The counsel for the convict had sought a lenient view in the sentencing saying he was supporting himself and paying maintenance to his wife and daughter, living separately from him after the incident.</ins></span><br />
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Bhanwari Devi murder case: Court upholds murder, conspiracy charges against key accused</h1>
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<b>Jodhpur: </b>A Jodhpur court has charged former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi for kidnap, murder and conspiracy in the Bhanwari Devi case, paving way for the trial.<br />
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Charges were framed against 16 accused by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court which retained all the sections against 13 of them that were mentioned in the CBI chargesheet, including kidnapping and murder.<br />
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Magistrate Girish Kumar Sharma, however, dropped the charges of murder and conspiracy against Paras Ram Bishnoi, brother of Malkhan Singh, and Om Prakash Bisnoi and granted them bail. </div>
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While Paras was charged under section 202 (intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), Om Prakash was charged with section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of IPC.<br />
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The murder charge was also dropped against Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchand, who would be tried for offences under sections 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) and 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder) of IPC.<br />
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"The court will now read out the charges against Maderna and Malkhan on October 15 on account of their absence from the court on Thursday and that will be followed by the trial, in which the court will call the evidence," Special Senior Counsel for CBI Ashok Joshi said.<br />
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Maderna is currently out from jail till October 6 following the death of his mother.<br />
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Sunil Joshi, the counsel of Paras Ram, argued in the court that his client had no role in the crime and had been framed by the CBI only as he was brother of Malkhan The court discharged him from all the charges like 120 (B), 302 (murder), 364 and SC/ST Act.<br />
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Immediately, his counsel moved an application for his bail and admitting the application, the court granted him bail on a bond of <span class="rupee">Rs.</span> 25,000.<br />
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Bhanwari Devi was killed on September 1, 2011, allegedly at the behest of then state minister Maderna and Congress legislator Malkhan Singh. The CBI, which had taken over the investigation a year ago, had alleged that Bhanwari Devi was blackmailing both of them on the basis of some CDs featuring her in a compromising position with the two politicians.<br />
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She was abducted from Jodhpur's Bilara area on September 1, 2011 and killed. Her body was then handed over to another gang which burnt and dumped it in a canal.</div>
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Anti-Corruption Branch files status report on complaint against Delhi CM, others </h1>
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The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Thursday told a court here that the contract for a crucial test of commercial vehicles for granting them fitness certificate was awarded to private firm without any tender, with the approval of Delhi Government’s Council of Ministers. </div>
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The ACB made this submission to Special Judge, Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, in a probe status report on a complaint against Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, and others of alleged corruption in grant of fitness certificate to commercial vehicles. </div>
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“The work (of lane test of commercial vehicles) was awarded to ESP India Ltd on nomination basis without calling any tender with the approval of the council of ministers of the government of NCT of Delhi,” said the ACB in its report. </div>
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The report was filed in response to a complaint by RTI activist, Vivek Garg, who had alleged that the Delhi Government gave the contract for lane test of commercial vehicles before grant of fitness certificates to them to ESP India without inviting any tender. </div>
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Besides Dikshit, the complaint also names Transport Minister, Arvinder Singh Lovely, former Transport Commissioner, R K Verma and ESP India. </div>
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The ACB said scrutiny of documents received from the Transport Department revealed that the Supreme Court had in 1998 directed the Department to introduce automated inspection and certification system, after which Automotive Research Association of India was hired for lane tests. </div>
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ARAI hired ESP as consultant and in 2004 awarded it the work for installation of test lanes. </div>
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The report said it was after the departure of ARAI that the Transport Department gave the work of operation and maintenance of test lanes to ESP India on nomination basis on February 27, 2008 for five years and also allowed it to charge the vehicle test fee directly from the owners of the vehicles. </div>
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The ACB, however, told the court that “certain documents sought from the Transport Department regarding allotment of the work for arriving at the concrete conclusion are still awaited and the documents received by it so far are not enough to unearth the said conspiracy.” </div>
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The court asked it to file a conclusive report in the matter by November 9. </div>
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Complainant’s counsel, Ajay Geol, had alleged that “due to corrupt and malafide intentions of the said Ministers (Dikshit and Lovely), officer (R K Verma) and company (ESP India), no tender was called for and the contract was given in contravention of the law.” </div>
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The complainant had said, “I&amp;C lane test is annually done for all commercial vehicles registered in Delhi. Vehicles which clear this test are given fitness certificates. Earlier the whole process was being done by the Transport Department but now the lane test is done by the said private company for Rs 400 per vehicle, which is not shared with the government. </div>
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“After the vehicle clears the test, Transport Department issues a fitness certificate for which a separate fees of Rs 100 is charged from each commercial vehicle.” </div>
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The complainant had sought the court’s direction to lodge an FIR against Dikshit, Lovely, Verma and the owner of ESP India for cheating, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code. </div>
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He had alleged the company “is not having adequate and qualified engineers, keeping lives of innocent citizen at high risk and is also causing massive accidents.” </div>
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34 MNREGA employees sacked for financial irregularities</div>
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Press Trust of India / Patna October 04, 2012, 20:15<br />
The Bihar government has sacked 34 MNREGA employees and booked 43 others for their complicity in irregularities in implementation of the premier centrally-sponsored schemes in Bihar, a minister said today. <br />
The tainted 34 MNREGA employees entrusted with task to implement the scheme in 1512 panchayats have been terminated from service and 43 others booked under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) after charges of irregularities committed by them were found correct during probe, RuralDevelopment Minister Nitish Mishra told PTI. <br />
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Most of the sacked MNREGA employees were panchayat 'rojgar sevaks' and technical persons, he said.</div>
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Abhi Verma murder case: HC okays hanging, but defers execution to give time for appeal</div>
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Chandigarh, October 03, 2012</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday cleared the way for hanging two convicts, Vikram Singh and Jasbir Singh, for kidnapping for ransom and later committing a "cold-blooded murder" of a 16-year-old Hoshiarpur (Punjab) boy Abhi Verma "in inhuman, diabolic and dastard manner" in 2005. </div>
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However, the division bench comprising justice Surya Kant and justice RP Nagrath directed the Patiala central jail superintendent to keep the death warrants, issued for October 5 by the Hoshiarpur district and sessions judge, in abeyance till October 12, so as to enable the convicts to avail their remedy of filing appeal in the Supreme Court.<br /><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Finding no merit in the petition filed by Vikram Singh and Jasbir Singh, the bench said petitioners' submission has "no legs to stand and must fall flat" adding that the decision "to hang the petitioners to death has been unarguably taken following the procedure established by law."</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Court had found Vikram, Jasbir and Jasbir's wife Sonia of kidnapping and later committing murder of a Hoshiarpur goldsmith Ravi Verma's son Abhi for a ransom of <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>50 lakhs in February 2005 in a preplanned manner by injecting Chloroform and Fortwin in heavy doses to the victim after tying both his hands and legs and sealing his mouth with a tape to prevent the detection of offence. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The trial court had on September 3, 2005 convicted the trio under sections 302 (murder), 364-A (kidnapping for ransom), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) Indian Penal Code and sentenced all of them to death.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Later the high court had on May 30, 2008 confirmed the death sentence awarded to the three accused. The convicts filed an appeal in the Supreme Court, which on January 25, 2010 upheld death sentence in case of Vikram and Jasbir. However, Sonia's death sentence was commuted to life sentence.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>With an intention to linger on the death sentence awarded to them, Vikram and Jasbir had approached the high court challenging the legality of convicting them under section 364-A of IPC and had sought directions to strike down the section from IPC stating it against articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioners had informed that the legislative object of 'death' as one of the sentences for the offence under section 364-A was to curb the menace of cross-border terrorism in kidnapping cases against 'the government or any foreign state or international intergovernmental organization' and not to punish any individual. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, the bench said that the petitioners' counsel's "contention completely overlooks the fact that the phrase "any other person" was inserted in section 364-A at the onset only to punish a private individual's kidnapping for ransom."</ins></span><br />
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Battered baby Ahuti case: After 3 days Mumbai cops register murder case </h1>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7162120247129608325" name="poll"></a><b>Mumbai:</b> Three days after battered baby Ahuti succumbed to injuries, Mumbai police finally woke up to register an FIR in the case on Thursday. </div>
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The FIR was registered two days after the Borivli police ruled out foul play in the suspected baby battering case and registered a case of accidental death.</div>
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The mumbai police filed an FIR under section 302 of Indian Penal Code. The cops gave in to the pressure by KEM doctors who kept claiming injuries were not consistent with fall. </div>
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Three-month-old Ahuti, who was hospitalised at a civic-run hospital with multiple injuries a week ago, has succumbed to injuries on Monday morning, raising suspicion that her parents might have battered her. </div>
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However, reports said that her parents, who had admitted Ahuti to central Mumbai's KEM hospital with a skull fracture last week, left the city for their hometown in Gujarat on Tuesday. A garments businessman, Kalpesh stays with his wife, their eldest daughter Devahuti (2) and his sister in a chawl at Sector-II, Gorai. The Borivli police had on Tuesday recorded the statement of Aahuti's mother, Dharmishta, before she left Mumbai with her husband, Kalpesh.</div>
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The preliminary findings of the post-mortem confirmed that Aahuti had injuries on both sides of the skull, which were unlikely to be caused by an accidental fall. The autopsy also found rib fracture and vertebrae dislocation. The paediatric department, however, found that she had multiple fractures on the skull and also suffered from internal bleeding, police said. </div>
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Ahuti's parents are under suspicion for battering their baby. Her twin sister had died under mysterious conditions 12 days after her birth.</div>
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The Mumbai shocker comes six months after a brutally battered baby, Falak, lost her life in a Delhi hospital. </div>
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Rape cases touch century mark in Rohtak range</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The police in Rohtak range - comprising Panipat, Jhajjar, Rohtak and Sonepat districts - have claimed that despite a spike in reports of rape, the number of such heinous crimes has come down as compared to last year. </div>
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Ever since the rape of a 16-year-old Dalit girl at Dabra village of <span class="msoIns"><ins>Hisar district grabbed headlines on September 9, followed by at least two more similar incidents in Rohtak, the police have been under attack for allegedly not doing enough.</ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>But senior police officials in Rohtak range don't see anything unusual in six rape cases in less than one month. "There is a decline in the number of cases registered under section 376 (rape) of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) till October 3 this year, compared to the corresponding period last year," said Alok Mittal, inspector general of police (IGP), Rohtak range, adding, "We had registered 130 rape cases by this time last year, while we have barely 100 cases this year." </ins></span><br />
In Rohtak district specifically, according to superintendent of police (SP) Vivek Sharma, there were 49 rape cases by October 3 last year, while there have been only 33 such cases this time." <br />
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>From Jhajjar, the data is 32 rape cases till October 3 last year, as compared to 12 by now this year. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Panipat SP KK Rao said, "There are nine cases less this year, compared to 39 rape cases in the corresponding time last year." </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>And Sonepat police, too, have data to prove that they have registered 25 cases this year so far, compared 30 till this time in 2011. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>A senior police official said, "Rape is a heinous crime which should be stopped at any. And figures show that there is a decline." </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>It is pertinent to mention that Karnal district was also part of the Rohtak range before being taken out in October 2011. Hence the comparative data excludes the number of rape cases registered in Karnal. </ins></span><br />
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Finally, UT starts process to set up education tribunal</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Fri Oct 05 2012, 00:42 hrs</div>
Finally, after drawing flak from the Punjab and Haryana High Court for not setting up an education tribunal despite a Supreme Court judgment, the Chandigarh Administration has “started the process” in this regard. <br />
This was conveyed to the High Court by advocate Sanjay Kaushal, senior standing counsel for the Chandigarh Administration. <br />
The tribunal, as per the Supreme Court’s judgment, will decide on all disputes pertaining to appointment/removal of teaching staff and other administrative decisions. <br />
Earlier, a communication from the office of the Director Public Instructions (DPI), Chandigarh, was communicated to the High Court which read that the administration was “considering” setting up of the tribunal. <br />
The senior standing counsel told Justice Rajesh Bindal that “modalities are being worked out” and that the file concerned was with the Legal Remembrancer. <br />
The statement was made during the resumed hearing of a petition filed by the managing committee, S D High School, Sector 24. Advocate Puneet Gupta, counsel for the petitioner, had challenged an order passed by the DPI wherein he had set aside the removal orders of a head mistress of the school. The High Court had later stayed the said orders by the DPI. <br />
Advocate Gupta had contended that the administration had not set up an education tribunal, as directed by the apex court, while the Punjab government had established such a tribunal. Taking note, Justice Bindal had, on a previous hearing, slammed the administration for its lackadaisical attitude. <br />
The Supreme Court had held that “in the matter of day-to-day management, like appointment of staff, teaching and non-teaching and administrative control over them, the management should have the freedom and there should not be any external controlling agency... For redressing the grievances of such employees who are subjected to punishment or termination from service, a mechanism will have to be evolved and, in our opinion, appropriate tribunals could be constituted, and till then, such tribunal could be presided over by a judicial officer of the rank of District Judge”.<br />
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HC notice to EC, State on no-trust move at Eloor </h1>
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The Kerala High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the State Election Commission (EC) and the state government on a petition filed by the former Eloor municipal chairperson seeking a directive not to proceed with convening of council meeting to select a new chairperson.<br />
Jusice K Surendra Mohan issued the directive and posted the hearing of the case to Monday.<br />
Chairperson Lissy George was ousted in a no-confidence motion moved by council members on September 17.<br />
In the 31-member council, 13 LDF councillors - eight CPM and five CPI - backed by three BJP members. Independent councillor Subaida Hamsa voted in favour of the ouster of Lissy as 13 Congress councillors stayed away from the session following a whip issued by the district congress committee. Counsel for the petitioner Sivan Madathil also sought a directive to declare the no-confidence motion as illegal and violative of constitutional norms.<br />
He said that five members of the Eloor municipal council have been directed to appear before the State Election Commission on Wednesday, based on a petition filed by Lissy.<br />
So the special council meeting to be held under the monitoring of Legal Metrology Department assistant controller to select a new chairperson should be stayed since the issue is pending before the Election Commission.<br />
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Crack down on littering, defacement: HC to UT</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Fri Oct 05 2012, 01:38 hrs</div>
During June and July, the Chandigarh Police and health authorities issued 217 challans to people for throwing garbage and littering. The police registered 32 cases against various individuals on account of defacing public property. Of the 32 cases, the court convicted people in 15 cases. This information was furnished to the Punjab and Haryana High Court by the Chandigarh Administration on Thursday during the resumed hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL). <br />
The PIL arises of a suo motu notice taken by Justice Rajesh Bindal over the menace of throwing garbage at public places and defacement of public property. During the resumed hearing of the PIL, a division bench asked counsel for Chandigarh Administration, Punjab and Haryana to take strict action against those defacing public property and impose heavy penalty on the offenders. <br />
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1,983 Hry PTIs to remain in service till final decision of the appeal: HC</div>
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Chandigarh, October 04, 2012</div>
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The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered that 1,983 physical training instructors (PTIs) in Haryana whose selection was quashed by the high court's single judge bench last month, would continue to remain in service till the final decision of the appeals filed by the state government and <span class="msoIns"><ins>around 300 aggrieved PTIs on Thursday.</ins></span></div>
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The PTIs were selected by Haryana staff selection commission (SSC) between 2006 and 2010 and the high court's single judge bench had quashed the selection process on September 11 directing the commission to hold a fresh selection within a period of five months.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The appeals came up for hearing before the division comprising chief justice Arjan Kumar Sikri and justice Rakesh Kumar Jain on Thursday which issued notices of motion to the petitioners who had filed the petition before the single judge resulting in quashing the selection.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Appearing for the state government, advocate general Hawa Singh Hooda assured the bench that till pendency of appeal, the state was not going to remove PTIs as the government also needed them. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Many of these PTIs were present in the court during the hearing of the case on Thursday.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The bench also said that till the appeals are pending, the respondents would not exercise the option to petition the high court for implementation of the single judge order for starting fresh selection process. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Allowing the prayer made in a bunch of 68 petitions, the single judge bench had observed that all decisions for selection were solely taken by chairman of commission without involving other members and the selection criteria was changed many times after advertisement of the posts on July 20, 2006 till the interviews held in September and October, 2008. The result was finally declared after a gap of one year and six months on April 10, 2010.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, the state government filed the appeal before the division bench on the grounds that criteria of selection was decided by the commission members and not solely by the chairman. However, it was also informed that the criteria made by the chairman was never implemented and the last decision for selection was taken by the commission and not alone by the chairman. The division bench was informed that the unsuccessful candidates could not have challenged the selection process, as per law, as they all had been called and also participated in the interview.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, in their appeals, the serving PTIs also mentioned that they were not given the opportunity by the single judge to submit their reply on the date of argument. It was also informed that the state government had followed the same selection criteria in 2003.</ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The case would now come up for arguments on October 9.</ins></span><br />
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Jailed man can’t be a petitioner in PIL: HC</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Fri Oct 05 2012, 03:17 hrs</div>
The Bombay High Court on Thursday questioned the ability of a person in jail to continue as a petitioner in a PIL. The court was hearing PILs filed by activist Nitin Deshpande and former journalist Ketan Tirodkar challenging the allotment of land to two housing societies for judges in Bandra (East). <br />
Tiordkar, who is currently in jail, was arrested last month in connection with the 2003 Sadiq Jamal encounter case in Gujarat. <br />
The court said a person in jail is not fit to carry on with a PIL. The court asked Advocate General D J Khambata whether a person in custody for an offence can continue as a petitioner in a PIL. Khambata said such person would cease to be a “correct petitioner” even if there is a cause for the petition. <br />
Meanwhile, Deshpande’s lawyer V P Patil sought discharge from the case citing personal reasons. The court, however, told Patil that the hearing would not take more than an hour and asked him to continue. Patil, however, told the court that Deshpande would make necessary arrangements for a lawyer. <br />
Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice R V More said this was the last chance for the PILs to be heard and adjourned the case till October 9. <br />
The PILs had challenged the government’s decision to de-reserve plots to build residential societies for judges of the higher and subordinate judiciary. <br />
“The government has extended illegal and undue favours to Nyay Sagar and Siddhant Housing Societies formed by sitting judges of the Bombay HC. The plot was reserved for dishoused (sic) persons but the revenue department illegally issued a resolution changing the reservation,” Deshpande’s PIL alleged.<br />
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Stay on VTI nominations absolute: HC </h1>
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The Madras High Court on Thursday made absolute its interim order restraining the government from implementing its various orders nominating five government officials as members of the committee of Victoria Technical Institute (VTI), on Anna Salai in the city.<br />
Justice D Hariparanthaman dismissed the petition seeking to vacate the stay from the State and made the stay absolute and posted the hearing on the main petition filed by VTI honorary secretary A Nageswaran to October 29.<br />
Nageswaran sought to quash the GOs appointing the Handlooms Secretary, the Director of Industries and Commerce, the Chairman and Managing Director of TN Handicrafts, the Deputy Secretary of Handlooms, Handicrafts, Textiles and Khadi Department and the Joint Secretary of Finance Department as nominated members of the VTI’s governing council.<br />
The judge said that the VTI was a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. After the TN Societies Registration Act, 1975 came into force, the latter Act governed the VTI society. Section 15 (3) of the Act stated that the members of the committee should be appointed at a meeting of the society by a resolution of a majority of the members present and entitled to vote.<br />
Admittedly, the five government officials were not appointed to the committee at the meeting of the society by a resolution of a majority of the members present and entitled to vote therein.<br />
They were nominated by the State government by way of various orders based on the by-laws of the society.<br />
Section 53 of the TN Societies Registration Act made it clear that the by-laws, which were inconsistent with the provisions of the Act, should not operate.<br />
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The bench directed the institute to comply with an earlier court order and start demolishing the unauthorised part of the building by Friday morning.<br />
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The appeal was made by Thirumala Education Trust (TET) at Chikka Adugodi against the demolition of a five-storeyed structure, which was originally made by Justice Ram Mohan Reddy in the last week of September.<br />
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TET sought a stay on the demolition order for a couple of months, arguing that it would not occupy unauthorised portions of the building. When the court refused, the appellant sought time till Dasara festival so that students who are appearing for examinations are not be disturbed.<br />
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The Bench lashed out at the appellants and said: “You have no love for law. You have no love for children. If we stay the order it we will be sending a wrong message to the public.”<br />
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“Let the public around be aware that they cannot get away with such things. People approach the court when authorities don’t act. You have come here when the authority has acted stating that you do not want them to act,” said the court.<br />
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When the bench asked whether TET would demolish the structure on their own or authorities should be entrusted with the job, the appellants said they preferred the former. <br />
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Check fitness of horses pulling Victoria carriages every 3 months: HC</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Fri Oct 05 2012, 03:01 hrs</div>
Bombay High Court (HC) suggested on Thursday the state government renew on a quarterly basis fitness certificates issued to horses used to pull Victoria carriages. It was hearing a PIL by NGO Animals and Birds Charitable Trust highlighting that the carriages did not have licences and the horses were subjected to physical cruelty. <br />
When government lawyer Benny Chatterjee told the court BMC was renewing the fitness certificates once a year, a bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar said: “You (corporation) can consider renewing them every three months.” <br />
The court also directed BMC to start by October-end the process of taking decisions on whether to issue licences to individual stables. <br />
At the previous hearing, the corporation had told HC it had taken a policy decision in 1973 to not grant licences to stables for horses that pull Victoria carriages owing to health concerns. The court, however, asked it to decide on granting licences in accordance with law. It said BMC could insist on the “highest standards”. The matter has now been posted for hearing on November 1.<br />
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Delhi HC relief to Airtel: Ban on 3G roaming pacts stayed</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 24.0pt;">I</span>n a major relief to 3G subscribers of Bharti Airtel [ <a href="http://money.rediff.com/quotes/bharti+airtel+ltd" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Get Quote</span></span></a> ], the Delhi [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=delhi" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ] High Court on Wednesday granted a stay on a government order asking the telecom major to stop offering 3G mobile services outside their licensed areas through roaming pacts.<br />
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The Delhi HC has asked the department of telecommunications to not take any coercive action until the next hearing of the case. <br />
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This effectively means that Bharti Airtel can continue to offer 3G services in the seven circles-Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=madhya+pradesh" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ], Kolkata [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=kolkata" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ], Uttar Pradesh [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=uttar+pradesh" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ] East, Gujarat, Kerala [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=kerala" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ] and Haryana -- where it does not have 3G spectrum, but offers 3G services through roaming pacts.<br />
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The date for next hearing has not been decided. <br />
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However, the court has asked Bharti Airtel to respond to the show cause notice issued to them by DoT within 60 days.<br />
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Country's largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Monday had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging an advisory by DoT which asked the operator to stop intra-circle 3G roaming services within three days.<br />
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In its plea, Bharti Airtel had sought quashing of the government's September 28, 2012 decision directing the service provider to stop providing intra-circle roaming services and alleged that the decision is contrary to the interim orders passed by the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal.<br />
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When contacted Bharti Airtel spokesperson declined to comment as the matter is sub judice. <br />
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However, industry association representing GSM players, COAI welcomed the High Court's decision. According to COAI (Cellular operators Association of India [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=india" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ]) Director-General Rajan Mathews "This (stay on DoT notice) is a good move. <br />
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"Intra circle roaming is for consumers as it increases competition and reduces tariff, it is good for the government as well as through intra circle roaming as it leads to maximum utilization of spectrum." <br />
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On September 28, DoT had issued a notice to Bharti Airtel, asking the telecom operators to stop providing third-generation mobile services through roaming pacts outside its licensed circles. <br />
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DoT had also indicated that similar notices would be sent to Vodafone and Idea Cellular [ <a href="http://money.rediff.com/quotes/idea+cellular+ltd" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Get Quote</span></span></a> ]. <br />
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Though, both Vodafone and Idea are yet to receive notices from the DoT, the Delhi HC stay order augurs well for them. <br />
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In the auction of 3G airwaves in a 2010, no single company managed to get spectrum in all of the country's 22 zones. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea had entered into mutual agreements to offer 3G services in circles where they could not bag 3G spectrum. <br />
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Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, are currently, offering 3G roaming services through such intracircle roaming pacts. <br />
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Airtel has 3G spectrum in 13 circles but offers 3G services in 20 circles. <br />
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Idea Cellular has 3G spectrum in 11 circles but offers 3G services in 19 circles.<br />
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While Vodafone has spectrum in only nine circles, it offers 3G services to its customers in 20 circles.<br />
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The number of circles where 3G spectrum was auctioned is 22.<br />
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Over one fifth of the 30 million 3G customers across the country would be affected if the three operators suspend the intra circle roaming pact. <br />
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DoT had ruled such pacts illegal in December 2011 and asked the operators to stop offering 3G services beyond their licensed circles through roaming agreements.<br />
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The operators had filed a petition challenging DoT's verdict in the Telecom Disputes Settlement &amp; Appellate Tribunal.<br />
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A two-member bench of TDSAT in July gave a spilt verdict on the matter. <br />
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While member P K Rastogi said the operators could not provide roaming services, as they were not allowed to provide 3G services with 2G licences, Chairman Justice S B Sinha ordered DoT to start the procedure afresh, as the department had not followed proper procedure and the operators were not given enough time to present their views.<br />
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Following the spilt verdict, the operators were maintaining "status-quo" and continuing with their 3G roaming pacts.<br />
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Though the operators paid higher prices for bagging 3G airwaves, but the uptake of the service remained, slow among the subscribers partly due to the high cost of such services.<br />
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Shares of Bharti Airtel closed at Rs 265.65, up by 0.15 per cent at the Bombay Stock Exchange [ <a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=bombay+stock+exchange" target="_blank"><span class="sm1"><span style="color: blue;">Images</span></span></a> ].<br />
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Mathura stampede: HC issues contempt notices to judge, SSP</div>
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Press Trust of India / Allahabad October 04, 2012, 22:25 <br />
The Allahabad High Court has issued contempt notices to the District Judge, Senior Superintendent of Police of Mathura among others on a petition which alleged that court norms were violated in the Vrindavan temple, which led to the stampede. <br />
Single judge bench of Justice Vikram Nath passed the order on October 1, on a contempt petition filed by one Rasik Raj Goswami of Vrindavan. <br />
Goswami had said that a High Court order dated December 8, 2004 had approved "a map showing details of the temple and arrangements of darshan etc" with variations being allowed "only on festivals" after which barricading was to be restored as per the map. <br />
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However, the petitioner alleged that barricading arrangements were changed by the district police with the approval of District Judge Ram Avtar Kaushik who was assisted by Civil Judge Amarjeet Singh. </div>
This violation of the court order inconvenienced devotees visiting the temple and was also responsible for the stampede of September 16, Goswami alleged in his petition. <br />
The court issued contempt notices to the aforesaid judicial officers, besides Mathura SSP N Padmaja, the Station House Officer concerned Ved Singh Yadav and manager of the temple Abhilash Singh for having facilitated the changes in arrangements despite the court order. <br />
The court directed them to comply with the December 8, 2004 order within a month. <br />
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An HC division bench, comprising Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque, passed the order in the afternoon as the accused surrendered before it seeking bail.<br />
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Those granted the interim bail include Swechchhasebak Dal president Habibunnabi Khan Sohel, general secretary Mir Sharafat Ali, Jubo Dal general secretary Saiful Alam Nirab, former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president Azizul Bari Helal, incumbent JCD president Abdul Quader Bhuiyan Jewel, general secretary Habibur Rashid Habib, organising secretary Rajib Ahsan and JCD Dhaka University unit president Mohidul Hasan Hiru.<br />
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Meanwhile, the HC bench also asked police not to arrest and harass BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas.<br />
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Advocate Zainul Abedin appeared for the accused.<br />
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The police filed two cases early Wednesday against about four dozen of leaders and activists of BNP in connection with Tuesday's police-BNP clash and damaging of vehicles in the capital.<br />
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The police have already arrested 24 opposition activists during the clash.<br />
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Paltan thana sub-inspector (SI) Sazzad Karim filed one case against 49 leaders and workers of BNP for assaulting the police.<br />
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SI Idris Ali filed another case against the same 49 leaders and activists, including the arrested 24, under the Speedy Trial Act.<br />
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Most of the accused BNP leaders were besieged inside the party's Nayapaltan headquarters since Tuesday evening. They took shelter there to avoid police arrest following the clash.<br />
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At least 20 people, including four cops, were injured and two vehicles torched and four others vandalised, during the clash in front of BNP's Nayapaltan central office and nearby areas.</div>
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HC orders immediate release of innocent youth</div>
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Press Trust of India / Cuttack October 04, 2012, 21:35</div>
The Orissa High Court today ordered that a innocent youth, having shared the same name with a history sheeter, should be immediately released from jail after incaceration for over a month. <br />
A single-judge bench of Justice Indrajit Mahanty ordered the Cuttack rural police to immediately release the 35-year- old Bijay Guin alias Bula who had been taken into custody in August this year for sharing the same name and surname of an accused against whom an NBW was issued. <br />
Bula of Niali village was taken into custody by the police on August 28 in the wake of an execution of an NBW issued by the local court. <br />
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Babula is absconding from the village since 1997 after he secured a bail from the same lower court following his arrest in a theft case. <br />
When police refused to buy the argument that they have actually arrested the wrong person, the family members of Bula approached the Odisha High Court in a writ petition. <br />
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The court adjudicated over the matter and asked the police to immediately release Bula after quashing the NBW issued against him by the lower court.</div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>HYDERABAD: HC on Thursday directed the NTR University of Health Sciences to conduct an enquiry into the allegations of a student that <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shadan-Institute-of-Medical-Sciences"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences</span></a> and Dr VRK Women's Medical College were flouting norms in management quota admissions. The bench comprising Justice V Eswaraiah and Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Noushad-Ali"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Noushad Ali</span></a> directed the university to submit a report in this regard and posted the matter to October 10 for hearing.</ins></span><br />
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Petitioner Farha Sultana of the city complained that the colleges concerned had refused to admit her under the management quota despite her securing 97.3% marks in intermediate.tnn She requested the court to direct the colleges to give her admission in any one of these colleges as per merit under the management quota.</div>
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Telenor seeks HC's nod for assets sales of JV Uninor</h1>
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NEW DELHI: Norwegian company Telenor, which controls joint venture (JV) Uninor, today told the Delhi High Court that auction of its assets be allowed to save the venture in which real estate major <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/unitech-ltd/stocks/companyid-12874.cms">Unitech</a><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/unitech-ltd/stocks/companyid-12874.cms" target="_blank">BSE -0.97 %</a> Ltd has got minority stake. <br />
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"Can I be forced to to do business with 'cheat' managing director of Unitech Ltd, facing prosecution in a criminal case and moreover, he has also been castigated by the Supreme Court...I cannot be forced to get along with a man who cannot be trusted," senior advocate Sandeep Sethi, appearing for the Norwegian telecom major, told Justice Indermeet Kaur. <br />
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The multinational partner to the Indian real estate major in their JV <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Uninor">Uninor</a> is seeking setting aside of the judgement of the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Company-Law-Board">Company Law Board</a> (CLB) by which it was stopped from auctioning the assets of Uninor. <br />
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The CLB had said that the auction notice issued by Uninor was "under the garb of transparency is an attempt by <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Telenor">Telenor</a> to dissuade any prospective bidder from participating in the auction and to be bid in the auction itself". <br />
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The panel had also said that it was an attempt to oust the Indian firm from the JV. Uninor is a 67:33 joint venture telecom company between Telenor and Unitech. <br />
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During the nearly four-hour-long arguments, Sethi referred to the agreement entered into by Sanjay Chandra, on behalf of Unitech Ltd and other group firms with the Norwegian firm for constituting the JV for doing business in telecom sector here. <br />
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"I was made to understand that the Unified Access Services Licenses (UASL) for 22 circles were validly and legally obtained. However, the facts are contrary. These licenses obtained by Unitech Ltd were used to entice us to make huge investment," Sethi said. <br />
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The counsel for Telenor also referred to the charge sheet to drive home his point and said "the MD of the real estate major entered into a conspiracy with then Telecom Minister A Raja for obtaining the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/UAS-licenses">UAS licenses</a>." He also cited the Supreme Court judgement on the issue. <br />
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Seeking court's nod to proceed with the auction sale of the assets, the counsel said "The business has come to an end. The company is going to lose Rs 3,000 crore if the sales of the asset is not undertaken." <br />
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He also alleged that Unitech Ltd did not come forward to bid for the assets of the JV and in fact, it was acting as a "spoiler" by opposing every move to save the company. <br />
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The arguments on the petition remained inconclusive and would continue tomorrow. <br />
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The JV partners are at loggerheads and pursuing various litigations against each other, besides the arbitration proceedings being held at Singapore following the cancellation <br />
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Uninor had on August 1 invited potential bidders to express interest by August 6 to buy the joint venture and said its majority owner, Norway's Telenor, was willing to pay Rs 4,190 crore for its 30 million customers and assets in case no other bidder turns up. The move was opposed by Unitech, which had moved the CLB. </div>
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HC direction to TN on GAIL project</div>
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Press Trust of India / Chennai October 04, 2012, 21:15</div>
The Madras High Court today directed Tamil Nadu government to convene a meeting of district collectors, Gas Authority of India Limited officials and land owners to arrive at a "workable solution" and facilitate laying of pipelines for the Kochi-Kuttanad-Mangalore-Bangalore Gas Pipeline Project in seven districts of the state. <br />
The court, however, upheld a single judge order who earlier declined to grant police protection for GAIL employees, involved in the project. <br />
A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam, in their order, directed Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary to convene a meeting for each of the seven districts on the matter. <br />
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They said land owners "should also bear in mind" that the project was of national importance and in public interest and therefore, they "should endeavour to make the project successful," so that it would be completed within the scheduled time. </div>
The bench also said suggestions given by the land owners proposing an alternate route may be discussed at the meetings. <br />
GAIL had submitted that it was executing the Kochi-Kuttanad-Mangalore-Bangalore Pipeline Project for the Central Government and was involved in laying of underground transmission lines through Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for supply and distribution of natural gas to various sectors for over 600 km. <br />
One of the farmers, whose objection to the pipeline passing through his land was rejected by the competent authority, filed a petition, challenging the order. <br />
Later, on a Central government notification declaring the right of user in the lands specified in the schedule of notifications, GAIL began preliminary work, when certain land owners and farmers prevented it. <br />
GAIL lodged a complaint with Rayakottai police on June 16 last and followed it with a representation to state government for adequate protection to enable them execute the project. <br />
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The High Court on Wednesday stayed the investigation against the self-styled godman, Nithyananda’s former disciple Arathi Rao following a petition filed by her to quash the complaint against her and sought the interim stay of the investigation.<br />
Ranjitha and some other followers of Nithyananda had filed a complaint alleging that Arathi had morphed a sleaze CD purportedly showing the actress and the godman in a compromising position and had extorted over Rs 25 lakh from her. A case of criminal intimidation, blackmail and extortion had been registered against Arathi Rao in this regard.<br />
Arathi is the second accused in the case in which Lenin, Nityananda’s former driver is the prime accused. Hearing the petition, Justice Nagamohan Das stayed the investigation and directed the police to file objections and adjourned the case for further hearing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bangalore: Karnataka High Court Thursday adjourned to October 10 the bail petition filed by Abdul Nasser Madani, Kerala-based PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani, an accused in 2008 Bangalore serial bomb blasts, on health grounds. <br />
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Justice H N Nagamohan Das adjourned the petition to October 10 after Special Public Prosecutor H S Chandramouli sought time to file objections to the bail plea and submit medical report on Madani's health. <br />
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On September 26, the Court had ordered issue of notice to the government in the bail petition and directed the Superintendent of Parappana Agrahara Jail, where Madani is lodged, to submit a medical report on his health condition by October 3. <br />
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Madani, who was arrested in Kerala on August 17, 2010, and remanded to judicial custody, has been lodged in the ail since then. Madani submitted he was a chronic diabetic, wheelchair dependent with one of his legs having been amputated. He also suffered from cardiac problems, disc prolapse, cervical spondylosis and has been diagnosed with "diabetic retinopathy" (eye ailment). <br />
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He pointed out that ever since he was arrested and remanded to judicial custody, no proper medical treatment was given to him for the any of the above ailments. <br />
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He submitted that he had already lost vision in his right eye and has only 30 per cent vision in the left eye. <br />
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He also said that inspite of directions by the High Court and the Supreme Court, no serious attempt was made to treat him, as a result of which his condition aggravated and he had lost his vision. </span></div>
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TV channel in TRS HQ: HC calls for action </h1>
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The High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to take action in accordance with law against those responsible for airing programmes of a television news channel in ‘Telangana Bhavan’ in violation of the government order.<br />
A division bench of the High Court comprising acting chief justice P C Ghose and justice Vilas V Afzulpurkar while disposing a public interest petition seeking the cancellation of government land allotted to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party headed by Mahabubnagar MP K Chandrasekhar Rao. The bench directed the government to act lawfully against the concerned if ‘T’ news channel is being aired from Telangana Bhavan in violation of the prescribed guidelines.<br />
After perusing the government’s counter affidavit wherein it has stated that violation took place on the land meant for TRS party office and that it would take necessary action against the concerned, the bench directed the government to take action as per law.<br />
The bench, however, refused to agree with the petitioner’s counsel request to fix six months’ time frame for the said action. It has directed the government to serve notices to the respondents concerned before initiating any action on the issue. In April 2012, a public interest petition by KCR’s nephew Ch Umesh Rao was filed in the HC seeking cancellation of allotment of one acre land to the TRS and to take the possession of the land on which T Bhavan is located.<br />
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For ‘third degree torture’, HC issues notices to Patiala SSP, other police officers</h1>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chandigarh</span></b> For allegedly giving electric shocks on private parts of a 40-year-old and use of third degree torture in police custody, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notices to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Patiala. <span class="msoIns"><ins>Notices were also issued to Davinder Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police; Karnail Singh, Station House Officer, and Gurmeet Singh, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Police Station, Ghanaur, Patiala. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Contending on behalf of petitioner Balwinder Singh, a resident of Patiala, advocate Navkiran Singh demanded a judicial probe into the “custodial torture”, and sought initiation of criminal action against the errant police officers. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Significantly, an order passed by a lower court of Rajpura clearly states that the police officers had used “third degree torture” on Balwinder. Taking serious note of the multiple injuries on his private parts, a Judicial Magistrate (first class) had on August 24 reprimanded the policemen. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The magistrate was deciding a request of Patiala Police seeking police remand of Balwinder, who was booked on charges of attempt to murder and attack on a public servant on duty. Shocked over the medico legal report (MLR) furnished by the Patiala Police, the magistrate had observed that “all these injuries are fresh in nature which were not present at the time of arrest nor when the accused was remanded to police custody. This clearly shows that police has used third degree torture against accused”. The magistrate had summoned senior police officers to explain the torture. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Significantly, the day Balwinder was taken into police custody (August 22), his first MLR report had read only three minor injuries including abrasion on back and bruise on left shoulder. After the police remand of one day had expired, the second MLR report had read serious and multiple injuries on Balwinder. The magistrate had declined his further police remand. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>The counsel for Balwinder had told the magistrate that the accused was taken to police station, Ganda Kheri, and thereafter to CIA Staff, Patiala, where he was subjected to all the third degree torture. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Advocate Navkiran told the High Court that on August 22, Balwinder was going to his village and was carrying Rs 2 lakh. He was stopped at a naka by the police officials who allegedly “snatched” the cash from him. Balwinder entered into an altercation with the police officials following which an FIR was registered against him, alleging that he attacked a police official. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>Navkiran requested the court to “mark an enquiry to the Sessions Judge (Vigilance), Haryana, or any other Judicial Authority outside Patiala District”. </ins></span><br />
<span class="msoIns"><ins>He also said that the petitioner should be suitably compensated for the injuries suffered by him in police custody. </ins></span><br />
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Amending a schedule doesn't require President nod: HC</h1>
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NAGPUR: In an important order, Bombay High Court's Aurangabad bench has ruled that amending a schedule for making variation in tax levied on vehicles doesn't require President of India's nod. "As the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bombay-Motor-Vehicles-Tax-Act"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax Act</span></a> has been duly enacted with President assent on August 23, 1958, the variation in the rate of tax by amending a schedule does not require his fresh consent. The amendment in schedule cannot be assailed as ultra vires on this ground," a division bench comprising justices Ambadas Joshi and AV Nirgude ruled before dismissing a PIL filed by Jalna-based Maharashtra Tour and Travels and Bus Owners Association.</div>
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Its secretary Rakesh Agrawal has challenged taxation of buses owned by their members, which were "kept for use" and classifying the same in the category of first schedule attached to Bombay Motor Vehicles Tax Act, 1958. He argued that the President's assent was not secured to carry out amendments for levying additional tax.</div>
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"While the basic legislative action of passing the enactment has already received the assent of the President, the amendment in the schedule as to levy is left to subordinate legislation within the power of executive. It would be too imaginative and strange to urge that the power of the executive to vary rate of tax prescribed in the schedule would every time require assent of the President," the judges said.</div>
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They added that buying the vehicle, registering it, and keeping it for use awaiting a contract carriage is a business eventuality. "For any owner to be eligible to apply for permit for contract carriage, the vehicle has to be roadworthy and ready to be "kept for use". Therefore, taxing such a vehicle is as natural as a postulate. There is no element of violation of fundamental right creeping therein."</div>
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The judges stated it was a contingency that the petitioner did not have business and was unable to have business and hence had not applied for permit and, therefore, they could not run the buses. "This contingency does not bring the vehicles outside sphere of the term "kept for use in State," the judges said while rejecting petitioner's prayers.</div>
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2002 Gujarat riots: Dipda Darwaza convicts move HC</h1>
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The 22 accused convicted in the 2002 Dipda Darwaza riot case moved the Gujarat High Court Thursday challenging their sentence awarded by a trial court. <br />
The designated fast-track court in Mehsana had in July sentenced 21 accused to life imprisonment while then Visnagar police inspector M K Patel was convicted of dereliction of duty and was sentenced to one-year imprisonment. <br />
“There are numerous grounds for challenging the lower court’s order. The basis of conviction found by the court is largely based on IPC section 307 (attempt to murder) and not IPC 302 (murder) and 120B (conspiracy). The Special Investigation Team, which investigated the case, couldn’t find evidence of the people supposed to have been killed. Therefore, life imprisonment is not reasonable,” said lawyer Ashish Dagli, who is representing the convicts. <br />
Dagli said the HC has admitted their appeal and the matter is likely to be heard within a week. <br />
The trial court had acquitted 61 accused in the case, giving them benefit of doubt while 10 others were set free as there were no evidence against them. Among those acquitted were Prahalad Gosa, the then BJP MLA from Visnagar, and MT Patel, the then president of Visnagar Municipality. <br />
As many as 11 members of a family were killed in the massacre on February 28, 2002. <br />
Absconding Naroda Patiya convict in net <br />
AHMEDABAD: THE Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the post-Godhra riots on Thursday arrested Suresh Netalkar alias Suresh Langda, who had been absconding after being convicted in the Naroda Patiya massacre case. <br />
An SIT team nabbed Langda from Nadurbar in Maharashtra, sources said. <br />
Langda was convicted for murder, attempt to murder, rape and conspiracy. <br />
ACP (crime) Nirlipt Rai, who led the SIT team that nabbed Langda, said he was arrested on the orders of the special court, which had issued a non-bailable warrant against him. <br />
Earlier, on August 31, the police had picked up Bhikha Parmar, who had furnished the surety for Langda.<br />
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Admit blind students, HC tells hostel</h1>
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NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court's intervention has led to admission of two visually impaired girl students getting hostel facility in a government-aided school. <br />
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A division bench comprising Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw on Wednesday disposed of a petition by the girls asking the school to extend hostel facilities to them after completion of formalities. <br />
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HC was hearing a petition by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/NGO-Social-Jurist">NGO Social Jurist</a> highlighting lack of hostel to the two girls in Class XI with hostel facility. NGO's lawyer Ashok Agarwal highlighted that the school had arbitrarily denied admission to the visually impaired students Sita and Ranjana in Class XI with hostel facility in the academic year 2012-13. "The two girls had been studying in the school and also availing of hostel facility in the school since class VI but the school has refused to admit them to Class XI after they completed Class X in violation of their fundamental and human right to education as guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India", Agarwal had argued. <br />
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When HC had earlier issued notice on the petition the school had agreed to admit the girls but without hostel facility, expressing reservations regarding local guardianship of one of the girls, namely Ranjana, as she had no relatives residing in Delhi. HC then asked the school to allow the girls to attend classes as an interim measure, which the school complied with. <br />
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On Wednesday once the mothers of both the girls appeared in court and assured their guardianship the bench disposed of the petition saying the school can now provide hostel since its apprehensions were taken care of. </div>
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HC asks Jamia to admit girl under sports quota</h1>
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NEW DELHI: Coming to the rescue of a girl who was denied admission under the sports quota, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-high-court">Delhi high court</a> has directed <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jamia-Millia-Islamia">Jamia Millia Islamia</a> to induct her in their postgraduate degree in mass communication for the academic year 2012-13. <br />
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Justice G S Sistani allowed the plea of Bhawana Singh, a state-level rifle shooter, saying she "will be considered eligible in the sports quota, as per notice dated August 3, 2012, published by JMI in which name of the petitioner finds mention". <br />
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HC, however, made it clear that Singh would adhere to the attendance norms of the university and participate in the sports events. It accepted Singh's plea that as per the prospectus for 2012-13, she had applied under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/sports-quota">sports quota</a> but was denied admission on the ground that the course is no longer available under the quota. </div>
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HC allows Wardha water for power plant</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">Published: Friday, Oct 5, 2012, 8:42 IST <br />
By </span><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/dna-correspondent"><b><span style="color: #731643; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">DNA Correspondent</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"> | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The thermal power plant in Vidarbha got a major reprieve on Thursday.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Bombay high court refused to stop the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) from diverting 87.6 million cubic metres (MCM) of water from Upper Wardha Irrigation Project for the thermal project.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The project of Sophia Power, a subsidiary of Indiabulls Limited, is in Amravati district. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and justice Niteen Jamdar refused to issue restraining orders after the state assured the court that 328 MCM water will be supplied for irrigation and construction of distribution channels will continue unabated.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The reprieve will only be for the current year because the state informed the court that the distribution was possible due to sufficient rainfall.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The orders were passed while hearing a bunch of petitions filed opposing the project. Additional government pleader PG Lad told the court that the state government was willing to make a statement that 200 MCM water will be supplied for irrigation in Vidarbha.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The quantity, according to the Central Water Commission, will be required to irrigate 75,000 hectare of agricultural land in the region.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Madhav Jamdar, who represented Vidarbha Development Board, however, said that last year VIDC has supplied 328 MCM water from Upper Wardha project for irrigation and if that is reduced to 200 MCM, the situation in the region will only worsen.</ins></span></span><br />
He added that 373 farmers from Vidarbha have committed suicide in the the last one year. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>In May, the department of industries signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indiabulls Limited, agreeing to supply 87.6 MCM water for the thermal po wer project from Upper Wardha Irrigation Project.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The decision not only faced steep opposition from the local farming community and political leadership but also raked the old issue of backlog of development in the region, where more than 1,000 farmers have committed suicide in the last decade.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Society for Backlog Removal and Development, Amravati, an organisation of locals and some other individuals have filed petitions challenging the decision to allocate 87.6 MCM water from the irrigation project for the upcoming thermal power plant.</ins></span></span><br />
The society comprises social and political activists and claims to represent the farming community in Vidharbha region.<br />
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HC notice to govt on land allotment</h1>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt;">Published: Friday, Oct 5, 2012, 9:41 IST <br />
By </span><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/dna-correspondent"><b><span style="color: #731643; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">DNA Correspondent</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"> | Place: Bangalore</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The high court on Thursday restrained the state government and the BBMP from making any construction or allotment at survey number 7 in Hosakerehalli village in Uttarahalli South taluk. It also issued notices to Rajarajeshwarinagar MLA M Srinivas and the state government in this regard.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>YH Srinivas filed a public interest litigation in the high court, alleging that on June 10, 2010, MLA M Srinivas sent an application to the chief minister asking for allotment of land in survey number 7 measuring 7 acres in Hosakerehalli village in Uttarahalli South taluk, stating that citizens in his ward wanted to build a park and a bus stand in the government land.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>On November 28, 2011, Srinivas asked DC, Bangalore urban, to release Rs50 lakh from MLA’s quota towards the development of the land and to get the work done through BBMP. </ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>On February 3, 2012, the assistant revenue officer issued a letter to Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development to utilise Rs50 lakh from the MLA fund for the development of survey number 7 into a residential layout for allotment of sites without the sanction plan from the authorities concerned. On September 21, 2012 construction started after naming the land as Srinivas Nagar. Construction of the residential layout using tax payers money is illegal, the petitioner contended.</ins></span></span><br />
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The high court on Thursday directed the state government to make Rajeev Chawla, principal secretary, department of public enterprises, to be part of a project to design and install a software to prevent registration of sites in unauthorised layouts in Bangalore and surrounding areas.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Chawla, who was formerly with the revenue department as principal secretary, Bhoomi and Urban Property Ownership Records, was present in the court during hearing on September 27, 2012. He said the state government can use IT infrastructure to end formation of unauthorised layouts around the city and alienation of sites in such layouts already formed. The court then directed Chawla to prepare a report. Chawla filed his report in the high court on Thursday.</ins></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span class="msoIns"><ins>In the report Chawla said the legal framework that can be used to control illegal layouts is already in place as per the circular issued by the revenue department on April 6, 2009. “An appropriate software has to be designed and installed in civic bodies like the BBMP, gram panchayats and sub-registrar offices to implement the circular. The software has to be used by offices for the generation of khata certificates. Khata certificates should get uploaded on the internet thought official websites. The software would then be able to check the legality of the site. After registration, khata certificates should be electronically made available to the town planning authority and tahsildar to confirm the content of the certificate. The development of the software will not take more than a month. No additional hardware would be required at the offices as these offices already have the required IT infrastructure,” he stated in the report. </ins></span></span><br />
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HC makes guv respondent in PIL on BNMU</h1>
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PATNA: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Patna-high-court"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Patna high court</span></a> on Thursday issued directive to make the chancellor of the universities respondent in a PIL challenging his order to stay the senate meeting of B N Mandal University, Madhepura, which was scheduled to elect two senate members from teachers' constituency to the university syndicate.</div>
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A division bench comprising Justice T <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Meena-Kumari"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Meena Kumari</span></a> and Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh passed the order on a PIL of Sachchidanand Yadav.</div>
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The petitioner's counsel, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajendra-Prasad"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Rajendra Prasad</span></a> Singh, submitted that under provisions of Bihar State Universities Act, the chancellor had no jurisdiction to stay the meeting to elect syndicate members from a senate-teacher constituency.</div>
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PIL on waterlogging: The same bench directed the Danapur Nagar Parishad to solve the waterlogging problem in the colonies located on both sides of Bailey Road, from Rupaspur Mor to Saguna Mor, in Patna and file an action-taken report. The order was passed on a PIL of Nawal Kishore Upadhyaya. The judges observed that if waterlogging problem was not solved in the area, a lawyers' committee would be constituted to monitor the work to clear the water accumulated in these areas.</div>
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HC quashes FIR against director Sanjay Gupta</h1>
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<span class="byline">VICKEY LALWANI, Mumbai Mirror </span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%;">|</span> Oct 5, 2012, 09.40AM IST</span><i><span style="color: #757575; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></div>
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Gupta, who is busy wielding the megaphone for Ekta Kapoor's <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shootout-At-Wadala"><i>Shootout At Wadala</i></a>, had been booked by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Versova-police">Versova police</a> for misusing the office of the Mumbai Police Commissioner on an invitation card promoting his film.<br />
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The card bore the rubber stamp of the Mumbai Police Commissioner's office and said he would be present at the film's launch and would speak about the city's crime record.<br />
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At the time, Gupta had been booked under various sections of the IPC for forging the letterhead of the Mumbai Police Commissioner in media invites sent out for a press conference. He had been issued summons, asking him to present himself within 48 hours to explain his side of the story and find out how people had been involved in making and distribution of the invite.<br />
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After the Sessions Court had rejected Gupta's plea for anticipatory bail on March 5, the filmmaker had approached the Bombay High Court which then granted him anticipatory bail, observing the police had shown 'over enthusiasm' in registering the case.<br />
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Gupta had claimed his creative team designed the invite but it wasn't the Police Commissioner's name on it; rather that of the man playing the commissioner in the film. The filmmaker had also maintained there had been a disclaimer on the card.<br />
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When contacted yesterday, Gupta sounded relieved. He said, "The bother is over." His lawyer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ameet-Naik">Ameet Naik</a> told us,"Gupta had not committed a criminal offence. Which is why the FIR in question was quashed. What more can I say?" <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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HC moved for stopping state from joining National Eligibility cum Entrance Test</h1>
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NAGPUR: A social worker has knocked the judiciary's doors seeking cancellation of Maharashtra government's notifications for joining National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET 2013), the overarching premedical entrance replacing the state-level examinations. Shrikant Khandalkar is the counsel for the petitioner.</div>
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Mohan Karemore, who had filed several PILs, stated that junior colleges in Maharashtra are conducting education primarily in English, Marathi and Urdu mediums. He contended that till this year, the state Directorate of Medical Education and Research ( <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/DMER"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">DMER</span></a>) used to conduct <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/MHT-CET"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">MHT-CET</span></a> for admission to medical and engineering courses in three languages - English, Hindi Marathi and Urdu. However, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided to conduct <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/NEET"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">NEET</span></a> on May 12 next year in English and Hindi languages only.</div>
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He argued that candidates from states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and West Bengal were allowed to opt for question paper in their respective state languages but same facility was not allowed for those in Maharashtra. He further that it will result in a big loss to the students pursuing education in Marathi and Urdu mediums. He termed the state government's attitude towards medical students as discriminatory and its depriving the minority students.</div>
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Karemore demanded setting aside of state government's notifications of September 12 and 17 to join NEET for the admissions to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ayurveda"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">ayurveda</span></a>, unani, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Homeopathy"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">homeopathy</span></a>, nursing and other courses. He further insisted on allowing the medical aspirants from Maharashtra to opt for question paper in Marathi and Urdu like allowed for other states. He further sought fulfilling 70% quota for the Vidarbha region in colleges in this area.</div>
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HC awards man life term for murder</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>SHIMLA: Turning down the plea of insanity that had led to acquittal of a murder accused by the trial court, the Himachal Pradesh high court on Thursday awarded <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/life-sentence"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">life sentence</span></a> after holding the accused guilty of murder.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Sessions court, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shimla"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Shimla</span></a>, in its May 29, 2004 judgment had acquitted Rajinder Singh for the murder of Madan Singh, whose naked body with head and face smashed with a stone was found near a shop in Deed village of Theog division on May 7, 2003.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The shopkeeper, Balak Ram, a key prosecution witness, had informed the court that Rajinder Singh and Madan had entered into a drunken brawl. He then rushed to his home to call up the victim's family about the fight. However, when he came back, he found Madan's naked body in a pool of blood.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The accused was caught hiding at some distance from his residence, the following day. On being medically examined, Madan was charged with murder.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>However, the "Trial court acquitted the accused, mainly on the grounds, that there was no eye-witness and this was a case of circumstantial evidence, the circumstances had not been proved and linked in such a fashion that it would lead to irresistible conclusion that it was the accused alone who had committed the murder."</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The accused was married, had children, worked with other family. Only on one occasion was the accused treated by a doctor, who had not made a clear cut diagnosis.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>"In view of these circumstances, we are of the considered opinion that the trial court gravely erred in giving the accused benefit of Section 84 of IPC," the judges observed before convicting the accused in a judgment delivered on September 17.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>On Thursday, the convict was produced before the court for quantum of sentence and the judges pronounced a rigorous imprisonment for life.</ins></span></div>
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HC’s stay order halts Noida housing projects</h1>
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NOIDA: Construction work in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/residential-projects">residential projects</a> spread over six hectares of land in Sectors 75 and 120 of Noida have come to a standstill following a stay order imposed by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Allahabad-high-court">Allahabad high court</a>. The stay order was granted upon a petition filed by more than 50 farmers from the neighbouring Sarfabad village. The farmers have alleged that their land was allotted to real estate developers by Noida Authority without duly completing the acquisition process. <br />
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The high court has granted two weeks for the Noida Authority to submit its reply. The next date of hearing has not yet been fixed, but the court said that it would be indicated within three weeks. <br />
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The petition filed by the farmers states that 6.7260 hectares land had been notified for acquisition by Noida Authority under Sections 4 and 17 of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Land-Acquisition-Act">Land Acquisition Act</a> on April 7, 2011, but even before the process was completed, the Authority leased the land to various developers who have begun construction activities. The land comprises 11 khasras in Sarfabad village. <br />
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Farmers have demanded cancellation of lease deeds of private developers with the Authority and have also sought their land back. They have also demanded quashing of the acquisition procedure by revoking Section 4 of the acquisition Act. "As per law, the final award should have been completed within a year of imposing Section 4, failing which the notification stands suspended," said Amrita Rai, counsel for the farmers. <br />
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Prominent builders developing housing projects remained tight-lipped about the extent to which to the order would affect their projects. Meanwhile, the counsel for the petitioners said that even though the court has ordered halt of construction activity only across the land belonging to the petitioners, the order would affect "nearly 120 hectares of land, which is currently in the possession of more than six builders". <br />
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As per sources in the real estate industry, nearly 10,000 dwelling units are under construction in several projects estimated to be worth more than Rs 5,000 crore, which could be at stake due to the court order. The Authority said that land on which the order has been passed pertains to no more than 500 sqm. Officials said they had not yet received a copy of the court order and would "study its implications in detail" once it reaches them. </div>
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HC asks state govt to take final call on retrenchment of teachers</h1>
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The Bombay High Court on Thursday asked the state government to take the final decision in three weeks on the issue of retrenchment of teachers from government-aided private special schools across the state. <br />
The staffing pattern in special schools across the state that enforced in 1997 was changed through a government resolution (GR) of August 18, 2004. This led to many teachers becoming surplus. In 2006, aggrieved teachers moved the High Court against the GR. The case was referred to a high-power committee. The committee had recommended that the surplus staff be retrenched and kept on a waiting list to be employed when posts are available. <br />
Assistant Government Pleader V S Gokhale, however, said the recommendation of the committee was not implemented by the government and no teacher retrenched. <br />
In all, 3,961 teachers of various special schools in the state had moved court against the government decision. Gokhale said their action was propelled by apprehensions that the government may retrench them. <br />
The court was told that after the high-power committee’s decision on June 15, 2011, no decision has been taken by the state government. <br />
Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice V K Tahilramani told the state government that the earlier order of the High Court did not restrain the government from taking the final decision in the case. The court said that the government should not have wasted so much time. It could have sought the court’s permission if it wanted to implement its decision. <br />
“We want you to take the final decision,” the court told the government and adjourned the case by three weeks.<br />
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Debts Recovery Tribunal directs DCHL not to alienate assets</h1>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The Debts Recovery Tribunal (DRT) here on Thursday directed <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/deccan-chronicle-holdings-ltd/stocks/companyid-1052.cms" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd</span></a> (DCHL) not to alienate its immovable assets until further orders. This was in response to the petition filed by <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/kotak-mahindra-bank-ltd/stocks/companyid-12161.cms" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Kotak Mahindra bank</span></a> which wanted the tribunal to ensure the recovery of the Rs 100 crore loan it gave to DCHL. When the repayment was not made even after the due date and when it came to know that some of the key assets of the group were being sold, the bank knocked the doors of DRT.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The tribunal in its order also directed DCHL promoters T Venkattram Reddy, Vinayak <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ravi-Reddy"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Ravi Reddy</span></a> and P K Iyer, who stood as guarantors, not to alienate the properties mortgaged for the loan. Similarly, Nagarjuna <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Hotels-%28musician%29"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Hotels</span></a> and Travels, another company which stood as the guarantor, too was directed not to sell the properties under mortgage. tnn</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>The presiding officer K Sai Mohan also directed the DCHL to maintain status quo in respect of the movable assets of the company until further orders.</ins></span></div>
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<span class="msoIns"><ins>Earlier, the DCHL promoters gave written undertaking to the tribunal that they will not alienate their properties mentioned in the Kotak Mahindra petition till the matter is settled.</ins></span></div>
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Over 43L cases pending before high courts</h1>
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NEW DELHI: The wait for justice is likely to be longest if you file a court case in Uttar Pradesh or Tamil Nadu. There are 10 lakh cases pending before the Allahabad high court followed by 4.7 lakh cases in Madras HC. <br />
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The Allahabad HC suffers from the double whammy of having the highest number of vacancies of judges as well. Of the 262 judges required in the Supreme Court and HCs across the country, 74 vacancies are in Allahabad. <br />
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Data given in response to an RTI application filed by Uttar Pradesh resident Kush Kalra showed that 43.22 lakh cases were pending before the country's <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/high-courts">high courts</a> as on December 2011. Incidentally, the government in a Parliament reply had admitted that there were 3.2 crore cases pending before HCs and subordinate courts across the country last year. <br />
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The law ministry said the total approved strength of 21 high courts and the Supreme Court was 895. <br />
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There were 262 vacancies, led by Allahabad HC with 74 followed by 27 in Punjab and Haryana HC and 18 in Bombay HC. The SC has four vacancies for judges against an approved strength of 31 positions as on July 2012. Other states with high vacancies include <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Andhra-Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a> (16), <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Himachal-Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a> (13) and Delhi (12). <br />
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Incidentally, the US has a total vacancy of 77 positions in all its courts including the courts of appeal, district courts and courts of international trade. <br />
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According to information given by the law ministry as on December 2011, of the 43.22 lakh cases pending before all high courts, 33.69 lakh were civil cases. High courts with the highest number of cases before them were Allahabad with 10 lakh cases, Madras with 4.6 lakh, Bombay with 3.6 lakh and Calcutta with 3.4 lakh cases. <br />
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The government recently approved setting up of 'National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms' that is aimed at increasing access by reducing delays and arrears in the system and enhancing accountability through structural changes and by setting performance standards and capacities. However, the impact of this project is still to be effectively felt. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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"Karnataka should release 48 tmcft of water" </h1>
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The release will meet shortfall suffered by the State during this year’s southwest monsoon (June-September) <br />
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Tamil Nadu on Thursday presented a forceful case to the visiting Central team that it should immediately be provided at least 48 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) of Cauvery water by Karnataka under a distress sharing formula evolved by the Central Water Commission (CWC). </div>
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The release will meet the shortfall suffered by the State during this year’s southwest monsoon (June-September), say sources. </div>
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This point was made at a meeting at the Secretariat between the officials of the Central government, led by Union Water Resources Secretary Dhruv Vijai Singh, and a group of State government officials, including Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi and Public Works Secretary M. Saikumar. </div>
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Another point raised by the Tamil Nadu team was that Karnataka should release water hereafter as per the interim order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. If this were to be fulfilled, Karnataka has to release 68 tmc ft more. </div>
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Of the total quantity of 205 tmc ft prescribed by the Tribunal for a water year (June-May), the period of southwest monsoon (June-September) accounts for 137 tmc ft; northeast monsoon (October-December) – 56.59 tmc ft; winter (January-February) – 4.68 tmc ft and summer (March-May) – 6.73 tmc ft. </div>
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The demand of Tamil Nadu for not sticking to the distress sharing formula in the coming months is based on the premise that this year’s northeast monsoon is expected to be normal. </div>
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The State also briefed the Centre regarding requirements of farmers in the Cauvery delta. Even as per a conservative estimate, the quantity of water required would be around 150 tmc ft. </div>
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Mr. Singh, who later left for Bangalore, told reporters that though he would not be visiting the delta, some of his colleagues would go there. A report would be ready in four days. The sources said the sub-group of the Centre would begin its trip with a visit to the Mettur dam on Friday. A chief engineer of the CWC is part of the team. </div>
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On Thursday morning, the water level at Mettur stood at 71.47 ft (full level: 120 ft) with a storage of 34.33 tmc ft (capacity: 93.47 tmc ft). The inflow was 10,019 cubic feet per second (cusecs) and the discharge 14,706 cusecs. </div>
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The Cauvery Monitoring Committee, headed by Mr Singh, would hold its meeting on October 11 instead of the originally scheduled date of October 8, the sources added. The Committee, consisting of Chief Secretaries and Chief Engineers of the basin States and CWC Chairman as members, is meant to assist the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) in decision making. </div>
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<b>Bid to block trains</b> </div>
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Hundreds of members of political parties and farmers’ organisations were taken into custody on Thursday when they attempted to block trains at various railway stations in delta districts demanding release of two tmcft of water in Cauvery daily by Karnataka. The protest was held under the banner of ‘Cauvery Urimai Meetpu Kuzhu’ (Cauvery Rights Retrieval Committee) </div>
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The agitators demanded gazetting of the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal’s final award. According to the farmers, Karnataka must be compelled to release water under a distress sharing formula for the period up to September 15. </div>
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The committee was formed by Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Nam Thamizhar Katchi, Thamizh Desa Poduvudamaikatchi, Thamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam and Puthiya Thamizhagam, among others. </div>
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A total of 513 persons, including six women were arrested in Thanjavur district when they tried to stop trains at 18 centres. </div>
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At Ayanavaram near Thanjavur, nearly 120 persons including women tried to stop the Mayiladuthurai-Tiruchi passenger in the morning. They were taken into custody. At Budalur railway station, members of these parties tried to stop the same train and arrested by the police. </div>
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Rail roko was held at Thanjavur, Kumbakonam and 14 other centres in the district. </div>
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A total of 398 people were arrested by the police when they tried to stop trains at various places in the district. The members tried to stop the trains at Tiruvarur, Thiruthuraipoondi and Needamangalam railway stations too and were arrested. </div>
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At Nagapattinam, cadres of MDMK and Naam Tamizhar Iyyakkam staged blockades in front of the Tiruchi-Karaikal passenger and Nagapattinam-Velankanni passenger. </div>
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Ernakulam-Karaikal express faced the brunt after a prolonged delay caused by blockade in Thanjavur followed by its blockade yet again here at the Nagapattinam station. Similarly, farmers blocked trains in Sirkazhi and Mayiladuthurai stations. </div>
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In Mayiladuturai, the protesters called for conferring larger powers on the CRA, and demanded that linguistic jingoism be marginalised from the discourse. According to Arupathy Kalyanam, all political outfits in Karnataka had called for a bandh on October 6, vitiating the atmosphere. </div>
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More than 100 members of various political parties and farmers associations were taken into custody at Srirangam railway station when they tried to block the Chennai — Guruvayur express. They were led by A. Malarmannan, Tiruchi urban district secretary of the MDMK. </div>
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Aarupathi P. Kalyanam, general secretary of the Federation of the Farmers Associations of the Delta Districts, lamented that Karnataka had been violating constitutional propriety by refusing to release water to Tamil Nadu despite the directions of the Cauvery River Authority and also the Supreme Court. “It is behaving as if it is an independent nation forgetting that we are in a federal set-up in which international conventions should be applied in case of riparian rights.” </div>
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Mr. Kalyanam said that it had become the “monotonous practice” of Karnataka to treat Tamil Nadu only as “drainage”. </div>
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“It is unfortunate it is not ready for any distress sharing”, he said. He has urged the Central Government to deploy the Army to release water to Tamil Nadu. </div>
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Tamil movie restores lost son to family </h1>
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Such scripts are written only for Kollywood. Believe it or not, critically acclaimed movie Vazhakku Enn 18/9, telecast on a TV channel as a Vinayaga Chaturdhi special, stunned a Tiruppur family as the kid acting as the heroine’s retarded neighbour turned out to be their mentally challenged boy missing for six years.<br />
Knitwear mill worker Loganathan and wife Manjula rushed to Chennai and traced the movie’s director Balaji Sakthivel, who led them to a government home for mentally challenged kids, where the tearful reunion happened on Thursday. <br />
“Anbu is leaving our home now, restored to his parents who brought his childhood pictures, birth certificate and the ration card to prove he is their child”, state child welfare committee (CWC) chairperson Agnes Shanthi said.<br />
The boy, now 12, had been living at the government Balavihar home in Egmore since 2006 after volunteers found him crying at some Chennai roadside. <br />
The family was on a holiday in Chennai and the kid strayed away. After a fruitless search, they returned broken-hearted.<br />
“He was barely six and mentally retarded. The fear that he might have been picked up by some beggars’ mafia traumatised us. Pillaiyar on his birthday (Chaturdi) brought our kid’s film before our eyes. <br />
Our daughter Kavitha is taking big efforts to welcome her kid brother”, Loganathan told DC. He said he would try to admit Anbu in a school for special kids and ensure his happiness.<br />
CWC member Sheila Charles is doubly happy because she was on the censor panel that had cleared Vazhakku Enn 18/9. <br />
“Anbu’s was a touching role in the film. I felt it would inspire positive response from the audience but never imagined it would reunite the kid with his family”, she said. <br />
Film director Balaji said he felt as if he had received an Oscar when the parents approached him for help to locate Anbu. Over 500 children are rescued by the CWC in a year and about half of them get restored to families.<br />
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Gadkari sought central funds</h1>
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BJP president Nitin Gadkari wrote to Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Bansal in July this year to push for the release of central funds for contractors of an irrigation project declared as seriously flawed by India’s premier water resources technical organisation. <br />
The Gosikhurd project, the biggest in drought-prone Vidarbha, is at the centre of the irrigation controversy that resulted in the resignation of Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar last week. The BJP has been part of the loud chorus against the alleged irrigation “scam”. <br />
On July 30, four months after an inspection by Central Water Commission (CWC) chairman R C Jha detected several major construction flaws in the dam, Gadkari wrote to Bansal saying all objections had been clarified, no issues were pending, and central funds should, therefore, be released to the contractors. <br />
“The report (of Special Audit, AG II, Maharashtra) was discussed in the meeting of high-powered committee where the state officers gave clarifications to all objections and stated that allegations made in the complaints carried no basis,” Gadkari wrote. “The project was sanctioned Rs 777.61 crore as second installment for 2010-11. The continuation proposal of Rs 1,295 for 2011-12 was submitted to CWC. As all actions were taken by state government, no new issues are now pending... CWC and Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources have also strongly recommended the continuation proposal. Chairman CWC also carried inspection. If any rectification is needed due to bad quality of work, it will be carried out at the risk and cost of the contractor, not using the national fund. <br />
“All issues were discussed in a meeting of the steering committee on May 14 and it was decided to release Central assistance... (But) It is learnt that some persons again approached Joint Secretary (Finance) and made fresh complaints. Therefore, even after... two and half months, the Finance Department hasn’t released funds. <br />
“Due to non-payment of these dues, the contractors stop their works. This may delay the programme and creation of irrigation potential. Presently, a liability of about Rs 400 crore is pending. It is requested to recommend the project to receive funds for 2011-12 as proposed by state government... at the earliest,” Gadkari wrote. <br />
On Thursday, Gadkari stood by his letter to Bansal. “I did write a letter to Bansal and will write 10 more... It was done in the interest of the farmers of Maharashtra, to prevent farmer suicides in Vidarbha.” <br />
BJP spokesperson Prakash Javedekar said “it is clear that no contractor’s name is mentioned in the letter”, and that “the issue is that a central government project is pending and it should be completed”. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh described the BJP chief as “more of a businessman than a politician”. “It is clear that he (Gadkari) was interested in contractors getting their money which they don’t deserve,” Singh said. <br />
Minister Bansal said Gadkari had written “two to three letters” saying the project was important for the region. <i>with PTI</i><br />
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Tribunal sets aside SEBI’s Rs 14-cr penalty order on 2</h1>
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The Securities Appellate Tribunal has set aside the order passed against Dushyant Natwarlal Dalal and Puloma Dalal in the IPO scam and sent the case back to the adjudicating officer for fresh consideration. </div>
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India had slapped a fine of Rs 14 crore on the two chartered accountants in June last year for alleged unlawful gains made during the IPO scam of 2003-05. </div>
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The two had been accused of making unlawful gains of over Rs 4.94 crore by cornering shares of various companies meant for retail individual investors and the penalty is three times of the amount. </div>
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The SAT order said that the adjudicating officer to consider the relevance of certain new documents that the appellants — Dushyant Natwarlal Dalal and Puloma Dalal — said was necessary to inspect. </div>
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12 yrs after father died in mishap, woman gets compensation</h1>
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THANE: Twelve years after a road accident orphaned Dakshati Jain, the Dombivli girl was awarded a Rs 12 lakh compensation by the Thane Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal after a long battle with the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Insurance"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">insurance</span></a> firm and the proprietor of the truck which killed her father.</div>
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Jain was nine-year-old in April 2000 when her father, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajkumar-Jain"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Rajkumar Jain</span></a> (35) died in an accident on Mhape-Turbhe Road. His vehicle reportedly collided head-on with a speeding truck. The police had registered an accident case against the truck driver and charged him for rash and negligent driving.</div>
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The girl had lost her mother in 1999 and was left in the care of her maternal grandparents, who were dependent. Relatives and well-wishers extended support and decided to seek justice.</div>
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Advocate DB Mhatre, representing Jain, filed a case against National Insurance Company and truck proprietor M Sagar. Mhatre said the deceased earned Rs 10,000 monthly from his chemical business. He sought Rs 15 lakh compensation collectively from the insurance firm and the transporter</div>
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said the truck driver was responsible for the death and calculated the deceased's annul income at Rs 56,000 to decide on the compensation for the girl.</div>
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As he was young at the time of his death, the tribunal calculated his annual income for the next 15 years and arrived at a figure of Rs 8.40 lakh to be given as compensation</div>
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However, the orders were passed ex parte as the firm and the transporter were not present. The orders were not complied by either of the parties. Jain's relatives sought attachment of the offices of the insurance firm and the transporter.</div>
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The insurance firm then deposited the money and said it be locked up with the court. Advocate S C Bodulla, representing Jain, argued against itand pointed out that it was mere harassment as the insurance firm had no intentions to make the payments even after the girl had suffered worst tragedy.</div>
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Judge S Kulkarni ordered immediate release of funds, of which 10% will go to her guardians and remaining in a fixed deposit in Dakshati Jain's name.</div>
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Info panel resumes work today</h1>
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MUMBAI: The full bench of the state information commission, presided over by its chief Ratnakar Gaikwad, on Thursday decided to resume work with immediate effect.</div>
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"Following the apex court verdict on September 14, we stopped work. On Thursday, all the commissioners met to discuss the pros and cons of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Supreme Court</span></a> order. We unanimously decided to resume work with immediate effect. Accordingly, most of the information commissioners in the state will start hearing appeals from Friday," Gaikwad told TOI.</div>
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On September 14, the apex court observed that as the commission's work was judicial and quasi-judicial in nature, it should be headed either by a retired chief justice of the high court or that of Supreme Court and the panel bench should have two members, one from the judiciary and the other an expert member. Further, the apex court had also stated that the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Information-Commissioner"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Chief Information Commissioner</span></a> (CIC) and the information commissioners required legal acumen and expertise in law. to meet the ends of justice, as such the CIC should have a judicial back ground and the commissioner should be an expert.</div>
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The SC asked the Centre to suitably amend the RTI Act for the purpose.</div>
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Ever since the SC order was passed, confusion reigned not only in Maharashtra but also in most of the other states on the legal validity of the existing information commissions and if they could continue disposing of appeals. Questions were raised on the possibility of appointing retired SC judges to head the commission, since the retirement age of such a judge was 65, same as that of the CIC. In view of the order, the CIC took up the issue with the state government and the department of personnel and training.</div>
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"We sought advice from the government and DoPT on whether we should continue hearing appeals or wait for instructions from the Centre. Since neither the state nor the department</div>
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"We decided to wait since neither the state nor the Maharashtra CIC was party to the litigation before the apex court," he said.</div>
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We have been told that the Centre is filing a review petition before the apex court and we should wait for the outcome," he said.</div>
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Cine association opposes Central Circuit Cine Association's decision</h1>
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INDORE: The Central Circuit Cine Association (CCCA) has gone to the appellate authority of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Competition-Commission-of-India"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Competition Commission of India</span></a> against its decision saying that the association should not compel any producer, distributor or exhibitor to become its member as a pre-condition for exhibition of their films in the territories under their control and modify their rules accordingly. The hearing will take place on October 17.</div>
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CCCA feels that the CCI's decision would favour the interests of corporate houses like <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Eros-International"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Eros International</span></a> and Reliance Entertainment, marring the interest of various associations in the industry that are active in different parts of the country, including CCCA which covers states like Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Vidarbha &amp; Khandesh regions in Maharashtra.</div>
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While Reliance Entertainment's film, 'Makkhi' will be hitting the silver screen on October 12, Eros is releasing Prakash Jha's 'Chakravyuh' on 25 October.</div>
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Talking to ToI, president of CCCA, Santosh Singh Jain said, "CCCA is committed to work for rational and integrated growth of the film industry in our central circuit and in the country. Making them (associations) a party and issuing the orders is not their (CCI's) part of job. All the remaining seven associations in the industry are with us on the issue."</div>
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"In fact, the association has imposed pre-mature telecasting penalty on a few of the corporate houses for their alleged violation of self regulation Act, which was reached between producers and film distribution associations and they have paid the amount, which comes to Rs 2.5 lakh in each case, in time. As per the act, film producers will not telecast any film before 12 months of its release, so that distributor can cover his investment from theatrical release", said Jain, who turns 92 on Friday and who has been elected as CCCA president for record 43 years.</div>
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Jitendra Jain, general secretary, CCCI, said, "They (CCI) want to weaken the associations by such act. By not making registration of pictures mandatory with associations before their release will hit the interest of the distributors and exhibitors too."</div>
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Interestingly, both the corporate houses, Eros and Reliance, have renewed their membership with the relevant association even after the CCI's order became effective, said a person familiar with the development.</div>
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And, therefore, we hope that more debt funds will be available for infra projects," Chidambaram said.<br />
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Rating agency Crisil said the immediate opportunity for IDF-NBFCs to be nearly Rs 20,000 crore.<br />
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The fund would try to garner resources from domestic and off-shore institutional investors, especially insurance and pension funds. Banks and financial institutions would be allowed to sponsor IDFs.<br />
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An NBFCs with a minimum capital of Rs 150 crore can set up an IDF. Such a fund would be allowed to raise resources through rupee or dollar denominated bonds of minimum five-year maturity. These bonds could be traded among the domestic and foreign investors.<br />
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Company based IDFs would be allowed to fund projects in public-private partnership (PPP) which have completed one year of commercial operations.<br />
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COMPAT gives CCI time to modify sale agreement in DLF case</h1>
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Fair trade regulator CCI today sought more time from the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) to complete draft modifications in the sale agreement between realty major DLF and flat owners of two of its housing projects at Gurgaon -- DLF Park Palace and The Belaire. <br />
Accepting the request, a COMPAT bench -- headed by Chairman Justice V S Sirpurkar -- adjourned the matter to November 21. <br />
On July 18, COMPAT had directed the CCI to complete the process of modifying draft sale agreement by the end of September by giving "top priority to this matter". The tribunal had also asked DLF to file one draft agreement before the commission, while fixing the hearing for today. <br />
The buyers' association had filed their draft before the CCI as per tribunal's order. <br />
The COMPAT was hearing a petition filed by DLF against the CCI order imposing Rs 630 crore penalty on the company. <br />
On August 12 last year, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed a penalty of Rs 630 crore on DLF after finding the realty major guilty of abuse of the dominant market position. <br />
The orders were passed following inquiries into complaints filed by the flat buyer associations' of two separate DLF projects in Gurgaon, DLF Park Palace and The Belaire, alleging delays in the project and increase in the number of floors than planned earlier, among other things.<br />
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Blackstone gets CCI approval for Embassy realty deal</h1>
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NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Competition-Commission-of-India">Competition Commission of India</a> (CCI) today approved a <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/real-estate">real estate</a> deal between global <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/private-equity">private equity</a> giant <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Blackstone-group">Blackstone group</a> and Pune-based realty firm Embassy Group. <br />
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The proposed deal involves Blackstone and <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Embassy-group">Embassy group</a> having joint control over an entity engaged in the business of development and management of commercial and office space and related activities. <br />
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In an order released today, CCI said the deal is unlikely to have any "appreciable adverse impact on competition in India and therefore the Commission hereby approves the proposed transaction." <br />
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While the exact size of the deal has not been disclosed, it has been billed as one of the biggest realty deals in the country's commercial and office space real estate business. <br />
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As per the proposed deal, certain Singapore-based entities of Blackstone would get compulsorily convertible debentures of Pune Dynasty Projects Private Ltd -- currently 51 per cent owned by Embasy Property Developments Ltd (EPDL). <br />
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Upon conversion of these debentures, Blackstone Group would get 50 per cent stake in Pune Dynasty Projects Private Ltd (PDPPL) and would have joint control with Embassy group firm EPDL over the assets, business and affairs of PDPPL. <br />
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Mauritius based financial investor Alta Vista currently owns the remaining 49 per cent stake in PDPPL, which is proposed to be acquired by Embassy before the Blackstone deal. <br />
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Accordingly, PDPPL would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Embassy group prior to the deal with Blackstone group. <br />
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The concerned parties had approached CCI on August 24 to seek the fair trade regulator's approval for the deal, after execution of their investment agreement dated August 14. <br />
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Later, CCI had asked the entities involved in the deal to remove certain "defects" and furnish additional details. <br />
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Giving its clearance, CCI said Blackstone is engaged in businesses like asset management, financial advisory, private equity funds, realty funds, hedge funds and mutual funds. <br />
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EPDL is primarily engaged in the business of real estate development and related consulting services, property leasing, among others. It mostly provides construction development and property management services in Bangalore and Pune. <br />
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Blackstone also holds certain investments in enterprises engaged in the business of development and management of commercial and office space in Pune and Bangalore. <br />
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However, the combined market share of Blackstone-invested companies and Embassy group in eight major cities of India, including Pune and Bangalore, is in single digits and the proposed combination would not be "significant enough to give rise to any adverse competitive concern," CCI said. <br />
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The regulator further said that "there are no significant entry barriers in the market for development and management of commercial and office space in India" and therefore no adverse impact was likely on the market competition. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the government has made it clear that no sector will be exempted from the Act, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters that there can be a few exceptions. For example, merger of an ailing bank with another bank may be exempted from CCI’s purview and banking regulator Reserve Bank of India can take a call in public interest.“Voluntary mergers will come under the CCI, but involuntary mergers will be outside its purview. We have sought exemption under section 45 of Banking Act and 37 (A) of Insurance Act,” Chidambaram said.<br />
The move will empower the CCI, which was hitherto struggling to regulate anti-competitive activities related to mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As) in the absence of absolute powers. Once these amendments get Parliament nod, M&amp;As across sectors will need to get a clearance from the CCI.<br />
Initially, various sectors and ministries were opposed to CCI’s jurisdiction cutting across sectors. Their argument was that some sectors such as finance and telecom already have regulators on their own and there could be a conflict if CCI also starts looking into them.<br />
However, putting an end to the debate, Chidambaram said: “The CCI will have over-arching powers to judge on all anti-competitive issues despite sectoral regulations.”<br />
The competition watchdog has a mandate to ensure that M&amp;A deals between various companies do not lead to monopolistic situation that affect fair competition in the marketplace.<br />
Among the amendments approved by the Cabinet include changing the definition of “turnover” and “group”, reducing the overall time limit of finalisation of transaction from 210 days to 180 days, and introduction of Section 5A.<br />
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Forces tribunal bench gets judge after 6 months</h1>
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CHENNAI: Six months of uncertainty for litigants fighting cases related to service in the armed forces are set to end on Friday when Justice V Periya Karuppiah, who retired as Madras high court judge on Thursday, is sworn in as judicial member of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Armed-Forces-Tribunal">Armed Forces Tribunal</a> (ART) Chennai bench.<br />
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Established in August 2009 for swift resolution of grievances of members of the armed forces, the tribunal, which has a jurisdiction over Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, has not been functioning since April when judicial member Justice A C Arumugaperumal Adityan retired. Lt Gen (retired) Anand Mohan Verma is the administrative member of the tribunal.<br />
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"It will bring cheer to hundreds of litigants from different parts of TN and Andhra Pradesh," said M K Sikdar, an advocate who practises at the tribunal and is also chief editor of the Armed Forces Tribunal Law Journal.<br />
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Since its inception, the Chennai bench has cleared around 600 cases mainly related to compensation to dependents of armed forces personnel. Every year, on an average, the tribunal handles more than 100 cases. Currently, around 90 cases are pending before it.<br />
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The Armed Forces Tribunal Act, passed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Parliament">Parliament</a> in 2007, came into effect in June last year. It provides for adjudication by the tribunal of disputes and complaints about commission, appointments, enrolment and service conditions in respect of those covered by the Three Services Act, and hearing of appeals arising out of orders, findings or sentences of court martial. The tribunal will have original jurisdiction in service matters and appellate jurisdiction in court martial matters.<br />
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Though the Chennai bench reopened after vacation on June 1, it remain non-functional because no direct appointment can be done by the principal AFT bench in New Delhi. It can only be done with the consent of the defence ministry. As a result, cases were merely adjourned. Representations by the Armed Forces Tribunal Advocates' Association from Chennai were made to the ministry of defence and to chairperson A K Mathur in May, but the vacancy remained.</div>
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CAT asks state to give pension to retired IFS officer</h1>
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CHENNAI: The Central Administrative Tribunal ( <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CAT">CAT</a>) on Thursday came to the rescue of a retired Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer, directing the state government to give him all <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/retirement-benefits">retirement benefits</a>, including pension, within three months of the date of receipt of the order and a compensation of 10,000.<br />
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The judicial member of the two-member tribunal, G Shanthappa, said V Pasupathiraj had established his case for grant of relief and quashed the impugned disciplinary proceedings against the petitioner. The respondents include principal secretary to the state environment and forests department, principal chief conservator of forests and conservator of forests (Tirunelveli circle).<br />
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Pasupathiraj, who retired as ECO development officer for Project Tiger in Tirunelveli on October 31, 2007, was denied commuted value pension, surrendered earned leave and salary along with interest on delayed payments by the state government on the ground that he failed to furnish correct particulars to the conservator of forests (Tirunelveli circle) about the actual number of missing dead trees in Vellambikani area. He also failed to furnish the measurement of such trees, it was alleged. The government also said the petitioner failed to exhibit absolute integrity and devotion to duty. For these lapses, a charge memo was issued on September 18, 2006. "The incident took place between 1995 and 1997, disciplinary proceedings were initiated in 2006 and charge memo issued in 2006. There is no explanation for the delay in framing the charges and in initiating disciplinary proceedings," said M Ravi, counsel for the petitioner.<br />
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The order said there was no specific charge in respect of dereliction of duty as alleged by the respondents. Further, it was not clear when the trees were declared dead and it "is very difficult to give the measurement or length of the dead trees if asked after a lapse of nine years".</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162120247129608325.post-88564986435719177032012-10-05T01:09:00.000+05:302012-10-05T01:09:49.121+05:30LEGAL NEWS 04.10.2012<div class="entry">
<strong>M’rashtra gets notice on farmers’ suicides</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282863/mrashtra-gets-notice-farmers-suicides.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282863/mrashtra-gets-notice-farmers-suicides.html</a><br />
Mumbai, Oct 3, 2012, DHNS:<br />
565 cultivators took their lives since January 2012<br />
<strong>The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has slapped a
notice on the Maharashtra government seeking explanation on farmers
committing suicide in Vidarbha region “as it is tantamount to the
violation of human rights”.</strong><br />
Last month, there were reports that seven farmers took their lives
in a span of three days due to the worsening agrarian crisis in the
region.<br />
Speaking to Deccan Herald from Nagpur on phone, Vidarbha Jan Andolan
Samiti (VJAS) leader Kishore Tiwari said: “The National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) has asked the state chief secretary to file a report
within six weeks not just on the death of seven farmers but has also
asked for a detailed analysis of the agrarian and socio-economic
problems that are forcing farmers in the region to take their own
lives.”<br />
Tiwari said the human rights commission has also taken cognisance of the petition moved by the VJAS. <br />
The petition states that the entire cotton belt of Vidarbha has
become a ribbon of death for farmers due to the state government’s
lop-sided policies. The data compiled by VJAS indicates that from
January, around 565 farmers have committed suicide to escape the dire
economic straits arising out of agrarian policies.<br />
According to Tiwari, one of the key issues haunting the farmers in
the region is the use of genetically modified (BT) cotton seeds. <br />
“While they (seed manufacturers) may be painting a rosy picture of
Vidarbha cotton cultivation, the seven farmers who killed themselves
last week in a span of 72 hours did so because BT cotton is vulnerable
to a particular pest attack and despite heavy pesticide spraying, damage
to the crop could not be stopped.<br />
“And this is not all…the pesticide spraying has resulted in rampant
poisoning. Reports from Yavatmal hint that the administration in
Yavatmal admitted that at least 28 farm labourers involved in pesticide
spraying succumbed to ‘food poisoning’ and 150 others were admitted in
various government hospitals in the last 30 days,” Tiwari said.<br />
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Kerala to pay Rs. 10 lakh to former ISRO scientist as compensation</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/kerala-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-to-former-isro-scientist-as-compensation/article3961760.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/kerala-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-to-former-isro-scientist-as-compensation/article3961760.ece</a><br />
Roy Mathew<br />
Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday directed payment of Rs. 10 lakh to ISRO
scientist Nambi Narayanan as damages for being falsely implicated in the
ISRO espionage case in 1994.<br />
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the media after the Cabinet meeting
that the government was ordering immediate release of the interim
compensation awarded by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
against background of criticism that the government was delaying the
payment.<br />
Replying to a question, the Chief Minister said that the government
would examine the circumstances under which the government had withdrawn
action, recommended by the CBI, against police officers who had
implicated Mr. Narayanan.<br />
It may be recalled that the State government had challenged the award
of compensation ordered by the NHRC in 2001 before the High Court; but
the Court upheld the award in an order last month. The espionage case
was first investigated by the Kerala police and then handed over to the
CBI. The CBI found that no espionage had taken place as alleged.
Following his acquittal in the case, Mr. Narayanan moved the NHRC for
compensation.<br />
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Qasab deserves legal aid to draft mercy plea</h1>
<a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2012100420121004020503161a2c1a95e/Qasab-deserves-legal-aid-to-draft-mercy-plea.html">http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2012100420121004020503161a2c1a95e/Qasab-deserves-legal-aid-to-draft-mercy-plea.html</a><br />
Advocate Yug Chaudhry on why due process must be followed even in this rarest of rare cases<br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 02:04:36 AM<br />
A week after Ajmal Qasab was sentenced to death, advocate Yug
Chaudhry wrote to the Home Minister and the NHRC, pointing out that
Qasab was entitled to legal aid in drafting his mercy petition.<br />
Dismayed at the news that the mercy petition, drafted without legal help, has been rejected, Chaudhry tells <strong>Jyoti Punwani </strong>why it is necessary to follow the spirit and letter of the law - even in Qasab’s case.<br />
<strong>Why are you so concerned with Qasab getting legal aid at
this stage? Haven’t we given him a fair trial, despite his obvious
guilt?</strong><br />
Yes we have given him due process thus far, and that is why we must
continue to do so. Qasab has a right to file mercy petitions before the
governor and the President, but he lacks the wherewithal to so. He is
illiterate, a stranger to our laws, and a foreigner abandoned by his
countrymen.<br />
Since he is clearly ill-equipped to make a mercy petition which it
is his right to make, he must be given the necessary assistance. He also
has a right under our constitution to legal aid at every stage of the
judicial and post-judicial proceedings. For rights to be meaningful,
they must be accompanied by facilities that render those rights
accessible. If we believe in our Constitution and the rule of law, we
cannot make an exception in his case.<br />
<strong>Can a legally drafted mercy petition make any difference to Qasab’s fate? He cannot plead innocence or lack of a fair trial.</strong><br />
Neither would a fair trial have made any difference to his fate, but
would that have been a reason to deny him one? The question is not
whether a mercy petition would make a difference, but whether he is
entitled to make one and to receive the necessary assistance.<br />
The moment we allow ourselves, through sheer majoritarian sentiment,
to decide outcomes without due process, we put all our liberties in
jeopardy and negate the very essence of rights, which is to protect each
of us from ad-hoc, majoritarian caprice. The scope of a mercy petition
encompasses more than innocence and a fair trial, and few lay persons,
let alone an illiterate person, would be competent to draft one unaided.<br />
<strong>Given that the death penalty exists in <a href="http://cms.mumbaimirror.com/ads.aspx?adid=4" target="_blank">India</a>, doesn’t Qasab deserve it?</strong><br />
An illiterate boy of 13 sold by his family to the LeT, brainwashed
into jihad, transformed into a killing machine and sent as a footsoldier
to <a href="http://cms.mumbaimirror.com/ads.aspx?adid=4" target="_blank">India</a>
are mitigating factors that entitle him to the lesser penalty. Qasab’s
crime should be contexualised without minimising it, and then we should
ask ourselves why are we clamouring for Qasab’s execution while content
with life sentences for Babu Bajrangi and Maya Kodnani who perpetrated
the Narodya Patya massacres. They killed more or less the same number of
people in an equally gruesome manner. Maya Kodnani held public office,
and turned on those she was charged to look after and protect. If she
doesn’t deserve the death sentence, why does he?<br />
<strong>How else can Qasab be punished, given the enormity of his crime?</strong><br />
Keep him in prison for the rest of his life. Treat him like a human
being so that he becomes human again and realises the enormity of his
crime. Allow for the possibility of repentance and reformation.<br />
<strong>Do you feel Qasab deserves mercy?</strong><br />
I think all of us - the best and the worst - are in need of mercy,
and it is only by showing mercy that, morally, we ourselves become
entitled to receiving it. Bereft of mercy, our society would be
impoverished and inhuman, for mercy is quintessentially a human quality,
not found elsewhere in the natural world. In classical thought and in
many faiths, mercy is the manifestation of divinity within us, of a god
who is the ultimate bestower of mercy.<br />
As for “deserving”, give each man his deserts and who shall escape a
whipping? Justice and mercy operate in mutually exclusive realms. It is
only when justice demands that punishment be inflicted that mercy comes
into play. Mercy tempers justice, makes it less exacting, more humane.
Excluding a fellow human being from entitlement to mercy has nothing to
recommend it except a very base blood lust that we encourage at our
peril. If we have to become a more humane and compassionate society, and
leave a better, less blood-thirsty world behind for our children, we
have to curb our instinct for bloody retribution.<br />
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Asergis moves Tribunal against Airtel</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3962020.ece">http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3962020.ece</a><br />
Our Bureau<br />
New Delhi, Oct. 3:<br />
Asergis Telecom Services Pvt Ltd., a fully-owned subsidiary of
UK-based Asergis Global Services Ltd, has filed a petition in Telecom
Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal for restraining Bharti
Airtel, from allegedly blocking its subscribers to access Asergis’
toll-free numbers.<br />
Asergis has taken toll-free numbers on lease from Tata Teleservices
to avail itself of the facility of audio conferencing. Bharti Airtel and
Tata Teleservices have an interconnection agreement between themselves.<br />
One of Asergis’ European customers wanted to use its conferencing
services in India through toll-free numbers. Asergis ordered 71
toll-free numbers to Tata Teleservices. Asergis’ European customer has
put up one number on a trial basis as a pilot project to check the
quality and other technical parameters.<br />
Within a week of operations, the revenue on this toll-free number
shot up to Rs 6 lakh. However, before the actual project could take off
Bharti Airtel allegedly blocked the traffic originating from its network
to Asergis’ toll-free numbers.<br />
The company claimed that Bharti Airtel has blocked access of its
subscribers to Asergis’ toll-free numbers purportedly on the ground that
Asergis is offering the facility of ‘international’ toll free service
in guise of ‘domestic’ toll free service. Asergis in its petition to the
Tribunal has mentioned that all calls are inbound and hit Tata
Teleservices platform, i.e. conferencing bridge, at Delhi only.<br />
<a href="mailto:thomas.thomas@thehindu.co.in"><em>thomas.thomas@thehindu.co.in</em></a><br />
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Centre plans one tribunal for all inter-state water disputes<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/centre-plans-one-tribunal-for-all-inter-state-water-disputes/64014/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/centre-plans-one-tribunal-for-all-inter-state-water-disputes/64014/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 03, 2012, 20:05<br />
Unhappy with the slow progress made by various tribunals dealing with
sensitive inter-state water disputes, government is contemplating
having a single permanent body to tackle such cases.<br />
The Centre today informed the states that it is in the process of intra-ministry consultations on the issue.<br />
“We could have a ‘standing tribunal’ for the purpose. All the members
could be there under one tribunal and there could be benches…One bench
of three members could deal with more than one dispute,” Union Water
Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said.<br />
He was talking to reporters here after the 14th National Conference of State Water Resources and Irrigation ministers.<br />
Bansal said the Ministry proposes to amend the Inter-state River Water Disputes Act, 1956, for the purpose.<br />
He said the Centre’s experience has been that the tribunals continue
for an “inordinately long time and for one reason or the other,
decisions are not taken.”<br />
Bansal pointed out that in most of the cases even after the tribunal
gives its award, one of the affected states moves the Supreme Court
through a Special Leave Petition.<br />
The Water Resources Ministry had approached the Law Ministry in 2010
on the issue and one of the ideas which came out was to abolish the
inter-state Water Disputes Act and ask states to directly approach the
Supreme Court — and not the High Courts — with their cases.<br />
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<strong>SAT sets aside Sebi order against JP Associates’ Chairman</strong></h1>
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<em>The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) today set aside the
penalties imposed by market regulator Sebi on infrastructure major
Jaiprakash Associates’ Chairman Manoj Gaur and his two family members in
a case of alleged insider trading in the company’s shares.</em></h3>
Source: PTI<br />
<strong>T</strong>he Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) today set aside the penalties imposed by market regulator Sebi on infrastructure major <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/constructioncontracting-civil/jaiprakash-associates/JA02">Jaiprakash Associates</a> ‘ chairman Manoj Gaur and his two family members in a case of alleged insider trading in the company’s shares.<br />
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After hearing the appeals by Jaiprakash Associates executive chairman
Manoj Gaur, his wife Urvashi Gaur and brother Sameer Gaur against a
Sebi order imposing penalties of Rs 10 lakh each, SAT today said that
there were not enough evidences to prove the charges.<br />
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After a probe into the dealings of shares during the period September
29, 2008 to October 27, 2008, Sebi had found them guilty of norms
related to insider trading, as it charged Urvashi and Sameer Gaur of
trading in the stock on the basis of ‘unpublished price sensitive
information’ relating to financial results of the company shared by
Manoj Gaur.<br />
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However, SAT upheld the penalties of Rs 10 lakh each against three
other entities — the company’s whole time director S D Nailwal, company
secretary and compliance officer Harish K Vaid, and Vaid-headed HUF
(Hindu Undivided Family).<br /> <br /> Sebi had alleged that these
entities had also traded in the company’s shares on the basis of
Unpublished Price Sensitive Information (UPSI) relating to financial
results for the quarter ending September 30, 2008.<br /> <br /> All the entities, on whom Sebi had imposed penalties, had approached the tribunal to appeal against the order.<br /> <br />
“The Board (Sebi) has not brought any evidence on record, direct or
circumstantial, to show that he (Manoj Gaur) had passed on this
information to either Urvashi Gaur or Sameer Gaur or that the trading
done by Urvashi Gaur on October 13, 2008 or Sameer Gaur on October 13,
14 and 16, 2008 was based on UPSI,” SAT said in its order.<br /> <br />
The SAT further observed that the quantity of shares traded by Sameer
Gaur and Urvashi Gaur was too small and they were regularly trading in
the shares of Jaiprakash Associates as well as some other companies.<br /> <br />
“Looking at the trading pattern, the number of shares purchased and
going by their status, it seems highly improbable that trading was done
by them on the basis of UPSI.<br /> <br /> “On the other hand, it is
more probable that they traded in the normal course of business. If the
intention of Urvashi Gaur and Sameer Gaur had been to capitalise on the
UPSI allegedly communicated by Manoj Gaur, the quantum of purchase would
not have been so small,” SAT said.<br /> <br /> “We, therefore, set
aside the impugned order and allow in its order on appeals by Vaid, his
HUF and Nailwal, the tribunal observed that the entities have not been
able to prove that the trading was not done on the basis of USPI.<br /> <br /> “We, therefore, cannot find any fault with the findings arrived at by the adjudicating officer,” SAT noted.<br />
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Rs 30.58 Lakh for accident victims’ family<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Rs-30-58-Lakh-for-accident-victims-family/Article1-939462.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Rs-30-58-Lakh-for-accident-victims-family/Article1-939462.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong>PTI</strong><br /> New Delhi, October 03, 2012<br />
The wife and children of an NDMC employee who lost his life in a road
mishap involving a speeding car, have been awarded Rs. 30.58 lakh as
compensation by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here. MACT
presiding officer Arun Bhardwaj directed Oriental Insurance Co Ltd with
which the<br />
vehicle was insured to pay the compensation to the widow and children of 51-year-old Gaj Ram, a resident of West Delhi.<br />
“Total compensation payable to the petitioners (family of deceased)
would be R 30,58,884… Insurance company has not put up any defence.
Therefore, compensation is to be paid by insurance company,” the
tribunal said.<br />
According to eyewitnesses’ testimonies, victim Gaj Ram was riding his
motorcycle near sector one red light at Dwarka here at 6.15 am on July
10, 2011, when a speeding WagonR hit his two-wheeler from behind due to
which he fell down and came under the car’s wheels.<br />
He was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in the offending vehicle
itself, but after getting to the hospital the driver had fled away, the
prosecution had said. Gaj Ram succumbed to his injuries suffered in the
accident, it had added.<br />
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Compensation for girl after 12 years</h1>
<a href="http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/compensation-girl-after-12-years-250">http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/compensation-girl-after-12-years-250</a><br />
Oct 04, 2012 |<br />
The Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal awarded compensation worth
`12 lakh to a girl, 12 years after she lost her father in a road
accident. The girl was nine years old at the time.<br /> Dakshati Jain’s
father, Rajkumar Jain, who ran a private business, was killed when a
truck hit his car on the Mhape-Turbhe road in April 2000.<br /> Citing
that Rajkumar was the sole bread earner of the family, the girl filed a
compensation claim of `15 lakh. Dakshati had lost her mother only a year
prior to her father’s death. After hearing the petition, the court
stated that the owner of the truck and the insurance company, National
Insurance, were jointly liable to pay the compensation. The court held
that the truck driver was culpable for rash and negligent driving.<br />
The court relied on the submissions made by the tax consultant of the
deceased and assessed his income to be `56,000 per annum. On the basis
of this figure, it arrived at a compensation of `8.40 lakh with a
multiplier of 15, after considering the age of the deceased and the
claimant. The court also allowed `2,000 towards funeral expenses and an
additional `5,000 for loss of life. On the total compensation, the court
ordered payment of interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum
till the date of realisation.<br />
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Tea factories in need of natural gas supply<br /> <a href="http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct0412/at09">http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct0412/at09</a><br />
AJIT PATOWARY<br /> GUWAHATI, Oct 3 – Tea industry is in an urgent
need to connect the tea factories located inside the non-development
zone (NDZ) around the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) with a natural gas
supply network.<br />
The September 7, 2012 order of the National Green Tribunal to close
the tea factories that run on fossil fuel on the ground of pollution,
has made the tea industry wary as to the fate of such factories. There
are 25 tea factories in the NDZ and within its 500 metres’ distance. The
NDZ was created to save the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) from further
pollution after the establishment of the Numaligarh Refinery in its
vicinity.<br />
North Eastern Tea Association (NETA) and Assam Tea Planters’
Association (ATPA) have already made an appeal to State’s Industry
Minister Pradyut Bordoloi to direct the Assam Gas Company Limited (AGCL)
to supply natural gas to these factories.<br />
“Natural Gas is considered as an eco-friendly fuel. AGCL is already
supplying natural gas to some tea factories of Golaghat district in
addition to the tea factories of Upper Assam. Therefore, if AGCL expands
its network and supplies natural gas to the factories under NDZ, then
the tea industry will be able to fulfill all the requirements of the
National Green Tribunal Judgement”, says Bidyananda Barkakoty, Chairman
NETA.<br />
On July 5, 1996, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests
declared an area of 15km radius around NRL as an NDZ. The notification
had specifically directed that on and from the date of its publication,
the extension of the industrial area, township, infrastructural
facilities and such other activities which could lead to pollution and
congestion, shall not be allowed within the prohibited zone, except with
the prior approval of the Central Government.<br />
On September 27 last, the Assam State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
also issued a notification. It said: “The factories located within and
up to a distance of 500 metre beyond the limit of the Co-ordinates of
“No Development Zone” around the Numaligarh Refinery and having boiler
run on fossil fuel are directed to switchover to alternative source of
energy like LPG, electricity, solar heating etc, within 06/12/2012 else
stop their operation.”<br />
The Green Tribunal had directed the SPCB and other authorities to
ensure that no tea processing units having boiler using fossil fuel
operates within the NDZ and take immediate steps to stop their
operation.<br />
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Two women working for Rs. 15 a month for 42 years</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/two-women-working-for-rs-15-a-month-for-42-years/article3962218.ece?homepage=true">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/two-women-working-for-rs-15-a-month-for-42-years/article3962218.ece?homepage=true</a><br />
Special Correspondent<br />
Here is a classic case that will reveal how the “high-handedness” of a
few officials has affected the lives of two Dalit women in Udupi.<br />
The two women, Akku and Leela, have put in about four decades of
service at the Government Women Teachers’ Training Institute on a
monthly salary of Rs. 15. Although they were promised that their
services would be regularised, they did not get any benefits even after
42 years of service.<br />
After the women approached the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal
(KAT) seeking relief in 2001, the Education Department stopped paying
them even that meagre salary of Rs. 15.<br />
Their plight came to light after Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of
Udupi-based Human Rights Protection Foundation, took up the matter and
followed up the case right up to the Supreme Court.<br />
Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Mr. Shanbhag said that
although the Supreme Court, the High Court of Karnataka and the
Karnataka Administrative Tribunal ruled in favour of the women and
directed the government to regularise their services, the order is yet
to be implemented by the government.<br />
Meanwhile, the women continue to clean the 21 toilets in the institute all through the year without any payment, he said.<br />
“The Karnataka Administrative Tribunal asked the government in 2003
to regularise them in 90 days and the Karnataka High Court ordered the
government to pay their salaries in 2004. Notices were also issued for
contempt of court when the directions were not implemented. Instead of
paying them salaries, the government filed a special leave petition
before the Supreme Court in 2005.<br />
“The Supreme Court ruled in the women’s favour in 2010. Despite all
this, the women are still waiting to get their benefits,” Mr. Shanbhag
said. “Now, the authorities say that the women were not employable
because they had reached the retirement age. I am surprised that the
government spent lakhs of rupees on fighting the cases against the
hapless women rather than pay what is due to them.<br />
Is there any other court above the Supreme Court that can give
justice to these women?” Mr. Shanbhag asked and urged the government to
pay what is due to the women.<br />
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Sharan appointed NCW Member Secretary<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/sharan-appointed-ncw-member-secretary/63811/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/sharan-appointed-ncw-member-secretary/63811/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 03, 2012, 15:05<br />
Senior IAS officer Ajit M Sharan has been appointed as Member Secretary in National Commission for Women (NCW).<br />
Sharan, a 1979 batch officer of Haryana cadre, will be in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.<br />
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has also appointed Rajiv
Mehrishi, an IAS officer of 1978 batch of the Rajasthan cadre, as
Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in the vacancy of Parvez
Dewan, a 1977 batch IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre<br />
Mehrishi is presently Special Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture.<br />
He will also hold additional charge of the post of Secretary,
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises for a period of three
months with immediate effect or until further orders whichever is
earlier.<br />
The ACC has also approved the repatriation of T S Randhawa, 1979
batch IAS officer, to his Gujarat cadre with effect from September 28,
2012 along with the option to allow the officer to stay on and retire
from the Government of India should he so wish, a release from the
Department of Personnel and Training said today.<br />
Pankaj Jain, 1978 batch IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre, as
Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will hold
additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Land
Resources, Ministry of Rural Development with effect from October 1,
2012 for a period of three months or until further orders..<br />
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Judge blasts government for harming education</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Judge-blasts-government-for-harming-education/articleshow/16661649.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Judge-blasts-government-for-harming-education/articleshow/16661649.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.10AM IST<br />
<ins>HYDERABAD: Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/L-Narasimha-Reddy">L Narasimha Reddy</a> of high court has criticised the attitude of the state government and the board of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/intermediate-education">intermediate education</a>
for virtually functioning like front offices of some powerful corporate
houses at a time when government and aided junior colleges were being
closed down. The judge asked the director and commissioner of
intermediate education to ensure that no private junior college runs in
accommodation other than the one approved by the competent authority.</ins><br />
<ins>The judge was dealing with a writ petition filed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vidyaranya-Junior-College">Vidyaranya Junior College</a>,
Warangal. The petitioner contended that the regional inspection officer
had submitted a report against it to the secretary of the board of
intermediate education following which the college had now been directed
to close its gates without being given an opportunity of defending
itself. The judge heard the matter and, by way of interim orders,
wondered how the 10+2 education had been commercialised.</ins><br />
<ins>The judge said that private educational societies had stepped in
which have “virtually reduced the activity of education to that of
commerce of the worst order”. He referred to reports alleged how bright
students studying in aided and government junior colleges were being
‘purchased’ by private coporate colleges who then presented them as
examples of merit to attract more students.</ins><br />
<ins>He said that some corporate groups had become so strong that
even examination centres were selected in keeping with their whims and
fancies. The judge wondered how many government-aided junior colleges
have been closed down on the grounds that there is no playground even as
officials ignore flagrant violations by private junior colleges.</ins><br />
<ins>Referring to the present case, the judge commended the official
who inspected the petitioner college and documented the sad state of
affairs. Right in the middle of a residential area in a multi-storied
complex, the Warangal college was being run sans authorization with open
air toilets on the top floor having been constructed for students.</ins><br />
<ins>The judge said that, at the present stage, no interim orders may
be passed. The secretary to the board of intermediate education, the
director and commissioner of intermediate education have been asked to
provide the list of institutions found to have resorted to unauthorized
use of buildings, indicating the nature of violations, by October 15.</ins><br />
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Amicus Raju declines fee in Kasab case</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/amicus-raju-declines-fee-in-kasab-case/article3962549.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/amicus-raju-declines-fee-in-kasab-case/article3962549.ece</a><br />
Legal Correspondent<br />
Honororium for him and Gaurav Agrawal will go to kin of slain policemen<br />
The Supreme Court has appreciated the gesture of amicus curiae Raju
Ramachandran and his junior Gaurav Agrawal in not accepting their legal
fee in the Kasab case — Rs. 14. 5 lakh — and directed the Maharashtra
government to distribute this amount equally in six weeks to the kin of
18 policemen and other security personnel killed in the 26/11 Mumbai
carnage.<br />
A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and C.K. Prasad, while upholding the
death sentence awarded to Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab, had asked the
Maharashtra government to pay Mr. Ramachandran and Mr. Agrawal Rs. 11
lakh and 3.50 lakh respectively as token remuneration for their valuable
assistance to the court.<br />
(Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, who appeared for Maharashtra, accepted Re. 1 as token remuneration.)<br />
After the judgment, Mr. Ramachandran and Mr. Agrawal filed a joint
application requesting the court that their remuneration be given to the
Supreme Court or Maharashtra legal services authority or any other body
which could help poor and needy litigants. Accordingly, the Bench on
Wednesday modified the earlier direction. It said, “We appreciate the
high standards of professional ethics set by Mr. Raju Ramachandran and
Mr. Agrawal.”<br />
<strong>It’s Judicial Academy</strong><br />
The Bench also pointed out that what was referred to as ‘National
Judicial Authority’ in its earlier judgment should read as the National
Judicial Academy.<br />
The relevant paragraph should read: “From the records of the case, he
[trial judge M.L. Tahiliani] appears to be a stern, no-nonsense person.
But he is a true flag-bearer of the rule of law in this country. The
manner in which he conducted the trial proceedings and maintained the
record is exemplary. We seriously recommend that the trial court records
of this case be included in the curriculum of the National Judicial
Academy and the judicial academies of the different States as a model
for criminal trial proceedings.”<br />
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PIL to remove anti-Islam clips from YouTube filed in HC</h1>
<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-03/internet/34238313_1_anti-islam-google-india-pil">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-03/internet/34238313_1_anti-islam-google-india-pil</a><br />
PTI Oct 3, 2012, 07.20PM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: A group of lawyers today moved the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to Centre to ensure that <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Google-India">Google India</a>
removes from YouTube trailers of a controversial film deemed offensive
to Islam that has sparked protests in several parts of the world.<br />
Responding to the plea, government’s counsel Additional Solicitor
General (ASG) Rajeev Mehra submitted that various courts in India have
also passed orders on the same issue and the government has taken action
against the websites.<br />
“The government has already blocked 157 URLs and let the petitioner
give the link, we would take action,” the senior law officer said.<br />
A division bench of chief justice D Murugesan and justice Rajiv Shakdher reserved the order after hearing the parties.<br />
Alleging that the film was “anti-Islam”, the PIL said “direction
against the respondents (Centre, Google India and You Tube) to
completely remove and blocks the links of the entire movie/trailers….
and all the clips emanating from the movie up-loaded on You Tube owned
by Google and shown in India.”<br />
The petitioners sought removal of 13 minutes video clip/trailer from You Tube.<br />
Appearing for the petitioners, senior advocate Kirti Uppal assisted
by Sarfraz Khan argued that countries like Brazil, Argentina and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Russia">Russia</a> have banned the film and removed the video clips from the site.<br />
According to petitioners, the internet companies should have taken a
proactive approach in disbanding such content and alleged that such
sites “have no code of conduct and behave irresponsibly.<br />
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<ins>Spy funds used in PIL against army chief?</ins><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/JAndK/Spy-funds-used-in-PIL-against-army-chief/Article1-939541.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/JAndK/Spy-funds-used-in-PIL-against-army-chief/Article1-939541.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><ins><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Harinder%20Baweja&op=Story">Harinder Baweja</a>, Hindustan Times</ins></strong><ins><br /> Srinagar, October 04, 2012</ins><br />
<ins>New army chief General Bikram Singh (R) inspects a guard of honour at the defence ministry in New Delhi. AFP/Prakash Singh</ins><br />
<ins>A probe is on to find if the army’s secret funds were used to
‘sponsor’ the October 2011 Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against army
chief General Bikram Singh over an alleged fake encounter in the
Kashmir valley. The board of officers set up to probe the funding of the
Technical </ins><br />
<ins>Services Division (TSD) — a controversial military intelligence
unit formed during former chief Gen VK Singh’s tenure — is investigating
if there’s a link between the TSD and the PIL.</ins><br />
<ins>The PIL was filed by YES Kashmir, a lesser known NGO, in the
Jammu and Kashmir high court and alleges that Abdullah Bhat, a civilian,
was killed in a fake encounter in 2001 in Anantnag. </ins><br />
<ins>Gen Bikram Singh – then a brigadier in the Kashmir valley – was
injured in the encounter. The PIL claims Bhat was branded a militant by
the police.</ins><br />
<ins>Sources said the board, headed by DG Infantry Lt Gen Vinod
Bhatia, is focusing on the PIL, which if admitted by the high court
could embarrass Gen Singh and the government. </ins><br />
<ins>Asked for a response, an army spokesperson said: “The board of officers is on, we aren’t in a position to comment.”</ins><br />
<ins>During a recent visit to the Kashmir valley, the board of
officers met sources of the TSD and asked them pointed questions about
the origin of the PIL. </ins><br />
<ins>The board is probing if YES Kashmir, which filed the PIL, was in
any way linked to J and K Humanitarian Services, an NGO learnt to have
been funded by TSD for ‘psychological operations’.</ins><br />
<ins>The operations include cricket matches and social work like
blood donation camps, particularly during the 2010 stone-pelting
protests in the valley.</ins><br />
<ins>Sources said the operations were known only to then chief VK
Singh and the director general of military intelligence, and J and K
Humanitarian Services was paid Rs. 2.40 crore for the purpose.</ins><br />
<ins>Documents show the TSD to be behind anti-Hurriyat protests in several Kashmir towns. </ins><br />
<ins>The inquiry into the TDS’s functioning is likely to have a
bearing on such intelligence operations aimed at countering militant
groups.</ins><br />
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Mayor inspects roadside shops in Civil Lines area</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Mayor-inspects-roadside-shops-in-Civil-Lines-area/articleshow/16664093.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Mayor-inspects-roadside-shops-in-Civil-Lines-area/articleshow/16664093.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.46AM IST<br />
<ins>ALLAHABAD: Mayor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Abhilasha-Gupta">Abhilasha Gupta</a> on Wednesday inspected the roadside shops in Civil Lines which the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Allahabad-Municipal-Corporation">Allahabad Municipal Corporation</a> wants vacated. The AMC had rented out these shops in 1970.</ins><br />
President, Azaad Hawker and Street Vendors Union, Ravi Shankar
Dwivedi said these shopkeepers have been running restaurants and grocery
outlets since 1970.<br />
On September 26 last, the AMC asked them to vacate the citing a
court order on a PIL seeking shifting of illegal vegetable market at Ram
Narain Lal road. However the court order nowhere mentions pucca shops
on Civil Lines pavements.<br />
He said the above decision has been taken without taking the Nagar
Nigam into confidence. In this connection, the shopkeepers sought the
intervention of mayor Abhilasha Gupta who visited the area and listened
to their grievances. The mayor assured to look into the matter, said
Dwivedi.<br />
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<strong>Tiger numbers have risen, insists Centre</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282881/tiger-numbers-have-risen-insists.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282881/tiger-numbers-have-risen-insists.html</a><br />
New Delhi, Oct 3, 2012, DHNS:<br />
<strong> The Centre on Wednesday reiterated before the Supreme Court
that the number of tigers has risen in the country, a claim disputed by
conservationists.</strong><br />
Additional Solicitor General Indira Jai Singh told a bench of
Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar that the population of tigers
was 1,411 according to the 2006 survey, and their number had gone up to
1,706 in the 2010 survey.<br />
Senior advocate Chander Uday Singh, appearing for Tehelka, a PIL petitioner, claimed that the government position was wrong.<br />
He said the rise in the number of the big cats between the two
census was only because the tigers of Sundarbans were not counted during
the 2006 census. Singh submitted that she had reliable statistics on
the subject and would present relevant records before the court.<br />
Other advocates also said that the variation in number of tigers was due to different methods of counting the big cats.<br />
During the hearing, the bench extended the ban on tourism in core
areas of tiger reserves. The court said that it would first hear all the
parties in the case and then pass its order on the Centre’s September
26 submission of fresh guidelines seeking the court’s permission to
allow tourism up to 20 per cent of the core tiger reserve areas across
the country.<br />
This was opposed to its previous stand seeking a total ban on
tourism in the core areas of tiger reserves. The apex court, as an
interim measure on July 24, said that till further orders, no tourists
should venture into core zones of 41 tigers reserves.<br />
“Current tourism zones where only tourist visits are permitted and
there are no consumptive uses, tiger density and recruitment does not
seem to be impacted. For this reason, permitting up to 20 per cent of
the core/critical tiger habitat as a tourism zone should not have an
adverse effect on the tiger biology needs,” the Ministry of Environment
and Forest (MoEF) said, showing a change of heart.<br />
“It is recommended that a maximum 20 per cent of the core/critical
tiger habitat usage (not exceeding the present usage) for regulated,
low-impact tourist visitation may be permitted,” it said.<br />
However, the new guidelines said that no new tourism infrastructure
should be created in the core areas while existing residential
infrastructure should be strictly regulated to ensure low ecological
impacts.<br />
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KNPP Stir: TN Govt Rejects Charges of Police Excesses<br />
<a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777157">http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777157</a><br />
Madurai | <a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=10/3/2012">Oct 03, 2012</a><br />
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Tamil Nadu government today rejected in Madras High Court Bench here
charges of police excesses against anti-nuclear protestors and said they
had exercised ‘maximum restraint’ while dealing with them during their
bid to lay a siege to Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant.<br />
It also denied having blocked essential commodities reaching the anti-nuclear protestors.<br />
Responding to a PIL, seeking a judicial probe into the Sep 10 police
action, Additional Advocate General Chellapandian told Justices Sukuna
and Mala that the activists had tried to reach KNPP through the rear by
the sea, but were stopped 500 metres away.<br />
They then resorted to violence and attacked policemen, injuring some
of them. Police had to resort to “mild action” to disperse them, he
said.<br />
He said police had exercised extreme restraint and had not arrested
anyone, though it was an unlawful assembly of people, as prohibitory
orders were in force.<br />
The petitioner Vanchanathan also sought action against a Coast Guard
pilot for allegedly causing the death of an anti-nuclear protestor by
flying an aircraft very low while keeping vigil during the subsequent
Jal Satyagraha in the sea.<br />
Pressing for a judicial probe, he alleged police had trespassed into houses and a church.<br />
The petitioner claimed that the man had fallen down in shock after
the CG pilot flew a sortie below 1,000 feet, got injured and later died
and that many others had fainted after the aircraft went very low.<br />
He said a fact-finding committee which toured the areas had also
reported of ‘excesses’ by police. People had been protesting for long
and had never indulged in violence.<br />
Another counsel for the petitioner cited various Supreme Court
rulings and said a judicial probe should be ordered if police had acted
in excess to what the situation warranted.<br />
The judges after hearing counsels, posted the case for hearing tomorrow.<br />
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Finally, UP to ban gutkha from April next year</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/finally-up-to-ban-gutkha-from-april-next-year/1011783/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/finally-up-to-ban-gutkha-from-april-next-year/1011783/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Lucknow, Thu Oct 04 2012, 06:08 hrs<br />
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A day after the expiry of the 14-day deadline set by the Allahabad
High Court, the UP government on Wednesday decided to ban the
manufacture, sale and consumption of gutkha with effect from April 1,
2013.<br />
Justifying its decision to give six months’ time to gutkha
manufacturers, the government said this was necessary to help those
engaged in the industry to find alternative occupation and employment. A
division bench of Allahabad High Court, comprising Justices Amar Saran
and Anurag Kumar, had given 14 days time to the state government to ban
gutkha on September 18. The deadline ended on October 2, which was a
holiday. On Wednesday, the state government issued the necessary order.
The ban has been imposed keeping in view the Food Safety and Standards
Act, passed by Parliament, an official statement said. Like other states
which have followed the Act, UP is also imposing a ban on gutkha
industry which had been operating for a long time in the state, it
added. Among the states which have already banned gutkha are Delhi,
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana. The
next hearing of the PIL, which was filed by Indian Dental Association
and Dr A K Mehrotra, an activist working for the prevention of cancer,
is scheduled for October 10.<br />
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Kerala high court frowns at serial public interest litigations</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-high-court-frowns-at-serial-public-interest-litigations/articleshow/16661738.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-high-court-frowns-at-serial-public-interest-litigations/articleshow/16661738.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.24AM IST<br />
<ins>KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Wednesday slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on a litigant who persisted with <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/public-interest-litigation">public interest litigation</a>
(PIL) despite the court’s earlier ruling that there was no public
interest involved. A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and
Justice A M Shaffique pointed out that the PIL filed by A Subair
against building a flyover in Thiruvananthapuram was itself against
public interest.</ins><br />
<ins>The court imposed a fine on Subair after noticing that he had
filed a total of five PILs. Subair had alleged in his PIL that
unscientific construction carried out for the flyover at Thakaraparambu
would cause damage to Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple. This was disproved by
the archaeological department.</ins><br />
<ins>In State of Uttaranchal vs Balwant Singh Chaufal, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a>
had clarified that PIL is aimed at redressing serious public harm or
grievance. The SC also asked courts to ensure that there was no personal
gain or private motive behind filing of PILs.</ins><br />
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Oshiwara residents move court to save open space<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Oshiwara-residents-move-court-to-save-open-space/Article1-939563.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Oshiwara-residents-move-court-to-save-open-space/Article1-939563.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=HT%20Correspondent&op=Story">HT Correspondent</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Mumbai, October 04, 2012<br />
An organisation of Oshiwara residents has approached the Bombay high
court challenging allotment of two plots – one of which is the only open
space in the area – to an educational institute for setting up an
international school. <br /> One of the plots has been reserved for a playground, <ins>and the other for a municipal school. </ins><br />
<ins>The division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and </ins><ins>justice</ins><ins>
Niteen Jamdar has directed the state government to file affidavits in
response to the PIL filed by the Oshiwara Lokhandwala Citizens
Association. </ins><br />
<ins>The association has contended that the 3,850 sq m plot reserved
for the playground was the only open space for thousands of citizens in
the area. The other plot, admeasuring 2,160 sq m, is shown in the
Development Plan of the city as sanctioned for a municipal school. </ins><br />
<ins>They have also challenged the allotment stating it is contrary
to the provisions of the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act. The
allotment is also contrary to the law laid down by the Supreme Court in
various rulings – that public land cannot be given away through any
methods except public tenders and for the best price. </ins><br />
<ins>In January 2002, Maharashtra Government had ordered Maharashtra
Housing and Development Authority (Mhada) to allot both plots to the
Janata Education Society. </ins><br />
<ins>In August 2008, a Lease Deed was executed by Mhada, leasing both
the plots for 30 years, after the educational institution paid premium
of Rs. 6.11 crore and nominal lease rent of Rs. 31 per annum for the
plots.</ins><br />
<ins>The PIL states in February and March 2012, residents were told
that a playground and garden would be developed on the larger plot and
the amenities would be available for residents once the construction of
an international school on the adjoining plot is complete.</ins><br />
<ins>However, the association alleged that the ground is open to
residents only for an hour in the morning and two hours in the evening. </ins><br />
<ins>Apprehending that the only open space available may be lost, the
association has sought cancellation of the allotment and direction to
the authorities to take back possession of both the plots and hand over
the plot meant for the playground to the residents.</ins><br />
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Government cannot touch pricing mechanism of essential drugs: Supreme Court</h1>
<a href="http://profit.ndtv.com/news/nation/article-dont-touch-pricing-mechanism-for-essential-drugs-supreme-court-tells-government-311594">http://profit.ndtv.com/news/nation/article-dont-touch-pricing-mechanism-for-essential-drugs-supreme-court-tells-government-311594</a><br />
NDTV | Reported By: A Vaidyanathan | Updated On: October 04, 2012 08:15 (IST)<br />
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to inform the court within a
week when it would notify the new list of essential medicines under the
drug control mechanism.<br />
The court said the Centre can’t touch the pricing mechanism for these essential drugs on the list.<br />
The court was hearing a PIL filed by the All India Drug Action Network, which wanted the price of essential drugs lowered.<br />
Under the 1999 mechanism, the prices of essential drugs were based on the prices set by the market leader.<br />
Under the new drug policy, this is sought to be changed to the
average price of drugs sold in the market, which activists say will push
up the prices.<br />
The Centre informed the court that the empowered group of ministers
has submitted its recommendations, and the Cabinet will now have to take
a decision.<br />
“Inform us within a week otherwise we will pass interim orders,” the Supreme Court said.<br />
The court observed: “We are gravely concerned. It has been going on
for nine years. It is engaging the attention only when court puts a
ceiling. The court will step in only when there is a failure. Court
doesn’t run the government.”<br />
The court also said: “One of us face the brunt of this (high
medicine prices). The cost of medicine came to Rs 50,000 in two months.”<br />
The case will now be taken up on 9 October.<br />
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Remove squatters in 30 days, HC tells goverment</h1>
<a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/RAJ-JPR-remove-squatters-in-30-days-hc-tells-goverment-3877617-NOR.html">http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/RAJ-JPR-remove-squatters-in-30-days-hc-tells-goverment-3877617-NOR.html</a><br />
DNA | Oct 04, 2012, 04:09AM IST<br />
<strong>Jaipur:</strong> The Rajasthan high court on Wednesday
expressed its dissatisfaction over the demolition drive at Amanishah
Nullah. The court has given one-month time to demolish the existing
squatters and bring the nullah in its original form. Meanwhile, the
court sought a list of the officers responsible for the squatters in a
period of a fortnight.<br />
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Chief justice Arun Mishra and justice Meena V Gomber made these
strict directions while hearing the public interest litigation (PIL)
filed by PN Mandola.<br />
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During the hearing, the JDA produced its compliance report over the
court order and informed that 170 encroachments have been razed and 54
sued with notices. The report also said that FIRs have been lodged
against the five encroachments and an allotment of 23,176 sq yard
cancelled permitted in the flowing area of the nullah. Meantime, the JDA
reasoned the law and order situation since the drive was not
satisfactory. The authority informed the court that squatters were not
receiving the notices which led a confrontation between JDA officials
and the encroachers.<br />
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However, the bench rejected the arguments and stated that JDA should
give public notice by flashing in the newspapers. It contended that
failing to remove encroachment is a contempt of the court. Also, the
list of the officers, who permitted construction and allottment of land
in the nullah area, had been sought with a deadline of 15 days.<br />
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Notably, the court has directed the JDA to demolish the encroachments
in the flowing area of nullah from 150 ft to 210 ft. The court had
given a 20-day time that ended on Wednesday.<br />
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SC gives six months to government for toilets, water in schools</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-gives-six-months-to-government-for-toilets-water-in-schools/articleshow/16662901.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-gives-six-months-to-government-for-toilets-water-in-schools/articleshow/16662901.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Dhananjay-Mahapatra.cms">Dhananjay Mahapatra</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 05.06AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: Six months after upholding the constitutional validity of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Right-to-Education-Act">Right to Education Act</a>, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a>
on Wednesday directed the Centre and the state governments to ensure
drinking water, separate toilets for boys and girls and teachers in
every school. <br />
A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra directed the
governments to provide within six months “toilet facilities for boys and
girls, drinking water facilities, sufficient classrooms, appointment of
teaching and non-teaching staff” in all schools. <br />
“We make it clear that these directions are applicable to all the
schools, whether state opened or privately owned, aided or unaided,
minority or non-minority,” said Justice Radhakrishnan, who authored the
judgment for the bench. <br />
The order came on a petition filed by NGO ‘Environment and0 Consumer
Protection Foundation’ which through advocate Ravindra Bana has been
litigating for the last eight years for a direction to the governments
to provide basic infrastructure in government-run schools. <br />
The court had been issuing interim orders over the years and a bench
headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari, now a judge of the International
Court of Justice, had been monitoring the performance of states in
providing drinking water and toilets in state-run schools. <br />
Though the bench of Justices Radhakrishnan and Misra disposed of the
PIL giving a six-month deadline to the government to comply with the
direction, it gave permission to the petitioner to move court for
initiation of appropriate proceedings after six months against
defaulting states. <br />
The bench recalled that in its April 12 judgment, the apex court had
upheld the RTE Act and ordered full implementation of the provisions
enacted by Parliament to make Right to Education meaningful for children
in the age group of 6-14 years. <br />
In its April judgment, the apex court had quoted 2007-08 statistics
to note that of the 12,50,755 schools imparting elementary education in
India, 80.2% were government run, 5.8% private aided and 13.1% were
private unaided. Of these, 87.2% of schools were located in rural areas.
<br />
In its interim order of October 18, 2011 in the NGO’s PIL, the SC
had said, “It is imperative that all schools must provide toilet
facilities. Empirical researches have indicated that wherever toilet
facilities are not provided in schools, parents do not send their
children (particularly girls) to schools. It clearly violates the right
to free and compulsory education of children guaranteed under Article
21A of the Constitution.” <br />
The bench said since the apex court had in April this year ordered
full implementation of RTE Act, provisions of which mandated governments
to ensure that schools took all necessary steps to uphold children’s
right to education, there was no need for keeping the PIL pending. <br />
The court noticed that statutory authorities under RTE Act as well
as the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights had been
empowered to examine implementation of the law relating to right to
education by schools. <br />
It said, “We are confident that the statutory authorities will
examine and review the safeguards for the child’s rights and recommend
measures for their effective implementation.”<br />
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SC seeks govt reply on new drug pricing policy</h2>
<a href="http://www.livemint.com/Politics/nO0pgggqrWXmNQcVI1nXNK/SC-seeks-govt-reply-on-new-drug-pricing-policy.html">http://www.livemint.com/Politics/nO0pgggqrWXmNQcVI1nXNK/SC-seeks-govt-reply-on-new-drug-pricing-policy.html</a><br />
Failure to comply would lead to an interim ruling placing all the 348 drugs within current price-cap regime<br />
<a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Author/Vidya%20Krishnan">Vidya Krishnan</a><br />
First Published: Wed, Oct 03 2012. 11 16 PM IST<br />
Ministerial nod to market-based pricing may increase prices of life-saving drugs, says apex court. Photo: Mint<br />
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<strong>New Delhi: </strong>The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the
government a week to come up with a timeline for implementing its new
drug-pricing policy, which proposes a national list of 348 essential
medicines, the prices of which will be regulated.<br />
Failure to comply with the order would lead to an interim ruling
placing all the 348 medicines within the ambit of a current price-cap
regime based on a product’s manufacturing cost, according to a bench
headed by judge <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/G.S.%20Singhvi">G.S. Singhvi</a>.
According to the Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) of 1995, retail prices
of so-called National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) are based on
the cost of manufacturing the product. Currently, only 74 molecules come
under price regulation.<br />
The apex court’s observation comes a week after a ministerial panel
had, on 27 September, approved market-based pricing of 348 NLEM drugs.
This involved deciding the price of drugs on the basis of the weighted
average price (WAP) of brands with more than 1% market share in each
segment. The panel’s recommendations are yet to be approved by the
cabinet.<br />
The court has expressed concern that the formula suggested by the GoM
could lead to increase in prices of life-saving drugs. “We are directly
concerned about it. The court does not run the government, but it steps
in only when required,” the bench observed.<br />
Claiming that the court’s concerns were well-founded, <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Colin%20Gonsalvez">Colin Gonsalvez</a>,
lawyer for the petitioner, activist group All India Drugs Action
Network (AIDAN), said market-based pricing of drugs would dilute the
pricing policy in the industry’s favour.<br />
“In the guise of imposing price control, what the government is
actually doing is lifting price control completely and
institutionalizing profit maximization. This whole exercise is designed
to mislead the nation. The government must go by the 1995 order, expand
the list of NLEM drugs without change the pricing policy,” he said. In
addition to challenging the ministerial panel’s formula on pricing, the
petitioners will be drugs, which according arguing for further expansion
of the list of NLEM to the panel’s recommendation, includes drugs made
of a single chemical compound while the majority of drugs are
combinations of multiple ingredients. The next hearing is scheduled for 9
October.<br />
According to Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA), market-based
pricing will lead to a revenue loss of nearly 17% annually. “Getting
NLEM drugs under pricing will hurt the industry but it is better than
the cost-based approach suggested by civil society organization. The
formula sets us back by at least one year in terms of earning, so the
question of profit maximization does not arise,” said <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/D.G.%20Shah">D.G. Shah</a>, IPA secretary general.<br />
“We have been asked to come with a detailed timetable for the next
hearing. The timeline must state clearly by when the pricing policy will
be implemented after factoring in the time taken by cabinet and law
department to vet the policy,” said a senior official in the department
of pharmaceuticals (DoP).<br />
Last month, the court had reprimanded the government for sitting on
the pricing policy for nearly 10 years, setting 27 September as the
final date for the ministerial group to come to a decision on the
pricing formula.<br />
“Two things have to be considered while deciding what can be excluded from NLEM,” said <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Sakthivel%20Selvaraj">Sakthivel Selvaraj</a>,
health activist with AIDAN. “In the current form, the policy does not
address combination drugs. This just leaves room for companies to
wriggle out of price control by simply switching to manufacturing
combination of NLEM and non-NLEM drugs. Further, within each essential
medicines, there are therapeutically equivalent drugs available. There
is no way to regulate companies if they decide to manufacture variants
of NLEM drugs,” he added.<br />
“As it exists, without price regulation, the industry is charging
reasonable costs on NLEM and non-NLEM drugs. These are conjectures of
worst case scenarios. The DoP and DPCO will regulate the prices as well
as sales and distribution patterns of companies currently producing NLEM
drugs will be monitored. This policy will be modified every 2-3 years
to ensure newer, more efficacious drugs are included in NLEM,” said a
senior official in the DoP.<br />
The court was hearing a public interest litigation plea filed in 2003
by and others which had complained that currently only around 74 AIDAN
drugs are placed under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995 putting
most medicines beyond the reach of the common man.<br />
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Bapunagar stadium to be converted into a lake</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Bapunagar-stadium-to-be-converted-into-a-lake/articleshow/16661608.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Bapunagar-stadium-to-be-converted-into-a-lake/articleshow/16661608.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.05AM IST<br />
<ins>AHMEDABAD: After watching the dilapidated stadium for years fill
up with rain and gutter waters during every monsoon, it has finally
dawned upon <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ahmedabad-Municipal-Corporation">Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation</a> (AMC) to turn the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lal-Bahadur-Shastri">Lal Bahadur Shastri</a> (LBS) Stadium in Bapunagar into a lake front.</ins><br />
<ins>Thanks to Gujarat high court (HC)’s intervention on August 13 this year, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AMC">AMC</a>
was forced to take immediate step as water logging and drainage in the
vicinity had caused a public outcry among thousands of local residents.</ins><br />
<ins>The stagnant rainwater in the stadium was becoming a breeding
ground for mosquitoes which was a concern for public health. Though the
lake front plans for LBS stadium are not as grand as Kankaria, the AMC
plans to spend Rs 12.5 crore on the refurbishment of the area around the
lake.</ins><br />
<ins>It was a PIL filed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Consumer-Protection-Analytic-Committee">Consumer Protection Analytic Committee</a>
that had led HC to take a suo motu action. The PIL claimed that there
was heavy rain on August 13 which left the area of LBS Stadium and the
surrounding Maleksaban Stadium water logged. Later, a contractor
negligently released rain water into the stadium, filling it with a
mixture of rain and drainage water.</ins><br />
<ins>The LBS stadium lake front project will be completed in two
phases. The first phase will involve leveling of the earth around the
stadium for a walkway. A retaining wall will be built to strengthen the
lake. Also, a boundary wall with grill and open space for the public for
exercise and a jogging track will come up around the lake.</ins><br />
<ins>“We are a planning to install a musical fountain at the lake so
that people enjoy the open environ. The second major challenge is the
encroachment around the lake which needs to be removed. There are slums
and we’ve to take a call whether slum dwellers should be rehabilitated,”
said a senior AMC official.</ins><br />
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Supreme Court verdict on CAG mandate: A step in the right direction<br />
<a href="http://www.moneylife.in/article/supreme-court-verdict-on-cag-mandate-a-step-in-the-right-direction/28800.html">http://www.moneylife.in/article/supreme-court-verdict-on-cag-mandate-a-step-in-the-right-direction/28800.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.moneylife.in/author/mg-warrier.html" title="MG Warrier">MG Warrier</a> | 03/10/2012 12:15 PM |<br />
<strong>The Supreme Court has minced no words in clarifying that the
CAG is not a mere account-keeper. Now Central and state governments
should join hands with the CAG to ensure that the country’s assets,
irrespective of the nature of ownership, are not plundered by
unscrupulous elements</strong><br />
The observations of the Supreme Court while dismissing the PIL
(public interest litigation) which argued that the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India’s (CAG) reports on Coalgate, airport
privatisation and power sector went beyond the Auditor’s constitutional
mandate would not have attracted the attention the ruling did, but for
the celebration of the apex court ruling on the Presidential reference
on allocation of natural resources.<br />
<br />
On the Presidential reference as it was duty-bound, given the Court’s
view upholding the supremacy of Parliament on policy issues and in
fact, it did not give any adverse view against any statutory body
including the CAG. While dismissing the PIL, the apex court only
reemphasized the statutory mandate of the CAG and explaining the
processes which the CAG reports go through, clarified that if the CAG
exceeded his brief, Parliament will surely correct him and tell him that
the methodology adopted by him for the preparation of the report was
not correct.<br />
<br />
For quite sometime now, the CAG is being harassed and criticized for
performing normal duties expected of him, by a government caged by the
rich and the powerful. Performance audit has been a tool used by the CAG
since the 1960s. What Vinod Rai and his predecessor have done is just
to sharpen the tool by infusing expertise into the audit team. By
training and educating cadres down below and bringing professionalism in
the performance of audit function, they improved the functional
efficiency of the office. If similar initiatives had come from his
counterparts heading several government departments and public sector or
statutory organizations, the agony the present United Progressive
Alliance – II (UPA II) government is now suffering would have been much
less.<br />
<br />
The apex court has now minced no words in clarifying that the CAG is
not a mere account-keeper. The critiques who are saying that accountant
and auditor should bother only about the accuracy of figures are, for
reasons best known to them, pleading ignorance of the changes that have
happened in the law and practice of accounting and audit and the reforms
in the CAG’s office brought about by Vinod Rai and his predecessor, who
understood the post-LPG (Liberalisation-Privatisation- Globalisation)
scenario better.<br />
<br />
The present political leadership is the “who’s who” of the rich and
influential class which has its own constituency interests to protect.
We are heavily dependent on the government’s other arms like the CAG and
judiciary to come to rescue when extraneous compulsions force
government departments and public sector organizations to misappropriate
or divert public funds to the advantage of their masters or greedy
corporates and individuals. The differentiation between public funds and
private resources is getting diluted, as either public resources are
freely flowing to private sector or the exchequer is becoming
responsible to make good the losses incurred by greedy individuals by
mismanagement of businesses they own and operate.<br />
<br />
The initial response from government spokespersons to any revelations
in reports of the CAG is on dotted lines these days. First, the CAG has
exceeded his brief. Then, all his presumptions are not right. Third,
even if some findings have some basis, losses are not as huge as are
made out. Fourth and that is the icing (as in Coalgate), in the given
circumstances, there were not many options as several
departments/ministries were slow in decision-taking. To the total
discomfort of the government, this time around, even the mainstream
media which usually shows some eagerness to protect governments from
disgrace refused to buy the government story without riders (remember
the zero-loss 2G spectrum story of Kapil Sibal which was initially
swallowed by a section of the media!).<br /> <br />
The shock to some in the context of the report after a report from
the CAG with more and more revelations about corrupt practices can be
traced to the refusal of the government and media in publicizing the
evolution of the institution of the CAG which has been silently moulding
itself in recent times to meet the challenges of changing times.
Destiny has put Vinod Rai as CAG at a time when the country needed a
person of his stature in that position. His having gone through the
thick and thin of finance ministry and certain other tough assignments
gave him the analytical mind and investigative skill needed to expose
mega scams.<br />
<br />
The remarkable achievements of the CAG during the tenure of the
present incumbent are more attributable to the interest shown by an
individual in protecting public funds. To ensure that the same thrust on
“conscience keeping” continues, the present approach of the CAG will
have to be institutionalized by providing necessary legislative and
administrative support. The CAG’s role in protecting the interest of the
country in regard to public funds is similar to the role of the
judiciary in protecting life and property. This emphasises the need to
empower the CAG to cause audit of any transaction involving national
resources and more importantly, to equip CAG’s office for the purpose.<br />
<br />
A large number of the people’s representatives in legislatures
continuing to be those who are rich and powerful in their own way and
capable of managing politics and vote banks and not necessarily
interested in the sound management of nation’s resources, we are
dependent on the government’s other arms like the CAG and judiciary to
come to rescue when extraneous compulsions force public sector
organizations to misappropriate or divert public funds.<br />
<br />
As the CAG’s audit is mostly a post-event affair and the judiciary
will take a view only when issues reach them after due process, the
media has a major role to play. With the exception of some financial
newspapers and a few national dailies, the media generally show interest
in the sensation value of issues and refuse to take on itself the
burden of working like a watchdog and educating their readers/viewers
about how the drain on country’s resources affect their pockets and
living conditions.<br />
<br />
The changes brought about in the vision and mission of the office of
the Comptroller and Auditor General in recent years are worth accepting
as a model for adapting with appropriate modifications by other arms of
governance at the Centre and states. These changes in the approach of
the CAG’s audit are consistent with the vanishing line between public
and private funds as both originate from the nation’s ‘sovereign’
resources and the hard work of its people. We should sooner than later
come out of the legacy of British rule inherited by us, which has drawn a
clear distinction between the assets owned by the rulers (read public
funds in the present context) and wealth with the private sector or
individuals, individual families or trusts/companies formed outside
government ownership. This distinction is causing several unethical
practices in our country. Sometime back while talking to media, Vinod
Rai has gone on record saying that he was open to guidance and expert
advice from eminent statesmen.<br />
<br />
Central and state governments should join hands with the CAG’s
efforts to ensure that the country’s assets, irrespective of the nature
of ownership, are not plundered by unscrupulous elements. When the CAG’s
reports bring out glaringly corrupt practices or make suggestions for
incorporating better practices to avoid earlier mistakes, looking at
them from mere legal or accounting angle or defending individuals and
organizations instead of learning from past mistakes, correcting them
before further proceeding are not in the best interests of the country.<br />
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Court relief to Saudi navy captain</h1>
<a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/20121004201210040204459585ddcb997/Court-relief-to-Saudi-navy-captain.html">http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/20121004201210040204459585ddcb997/Court-relief-to-Saudi-navy-captain.html</a><br />
Mumbai Mirror Bureau<br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 02:04:36 AM<br />
In a minor relief to a Saudi Arabian navy captain booked for
carrying fake Indian currency, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked
Additional Commissioner of Customs to complete probe against the officer
and pass an appropriate order within two weeks.<br />
A division bench of Justices A S Oka and S S Jadhav was hearing a
petition filed by Bandar Hurayb, who said he has been wrongly prosecuted
as he was unaware that the currency which he procured from an
authorised forex agency outside the Jeddah Airport was fakes.<br />
Hurayb landed in Mumbai on April 25, and has been stranded here ever
since, when he was caught with fake Indian currency worth Rs 45,500 (91
notes of Rs 500 denomination) at the airport.<br />
Advocate Rizwan Merchant, appearing for Hurayb, told the court that
his application waiver of show cause notice before the Additional
Commissioner of Customs is pending since June.<br />
To prove his claim, Hurayb submitted the receipt handed over to him
by the exchange at Jeddah. The petition further said that Hurayb’s
father had initiated prosecution against the forex agency. Hurayb’s
petition claims he voluntarily disclosed he was carrying Rs 45,500 in Rs
500 notes. All the notes found in his possession were found to be fake.<br />
He was granted bail on May 14 by the sessions court, where the judge
observed that “prima facie any knowledge or reasonable belief cannot be
attributed to Hurayb”.<br />
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Let operative Abu Jundal handed over to ATS in Mumbai</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/Let-operative-Abu-Jundal-handed-over-to-ATS-in-Mumbai/articleshow/16661600.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/Let-operative-Abu-Jundal-handed-over-to-ATS-in-Mumbai/articleshow/16661600.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Santosh-Sonawane.cms">Santosh Sonawane</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.04AM IST<br />
NASHIK: Chief judicial magistrate A D Sawant of Nashik had remanded alleged <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/LeT-operative">LeT operative</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Abu-Jundal">Abu Jundal</a>
to 14 days magisterial custody, even as the anti terrorism squad (ATS)
took him to Mumbai on Wednesday afternoon to present him at the second
session of a Mumbai court for further orders.<br />
Jundal who has been in ATS custody since September 11, to probe his
connection with Sheikh Lalbaba Farid, alias Bilal, who carried out a
recce of the Nashik police commissionerate, Maharashtra Police Academy
(MPA) and Deolali army area in 2010, was produced in the court of AD
Sawant, Nashik, after his extended seven-day custody period ended on
Wednesday.<br />
Special public prosecutor Ajay Misar said that as per the Unlawful
Activities Prevention (UAP) Act, the investigation agency has the right
of custodial interrogation of an accused for 30 days. However, in
Jundal’s case they have completed the interrogation in 24 days and kept
the remaining seven days reserved.<br />
He further said that on the request of the ATS, Jundal was remanded
in magisterial custody until October 17. However, according to orders of
the Delhi and Mumbai courts, he was handed over to ACP Suresh Desphande
of the ATS to be produced in a Mumbai court during its second session
on Wednesday.<br />
Misar added that during the interrogation of Jundal, the ATS had
unearthed several pieces of evidence against the LeT member. and the
picture would become more clear after forensic reports arrived,
following which the reserved seven days could be sought as and when
required.<br />
Meanwhile, the trial of Bilal and Himayat Baig got underway at the
session’s court in the city. On September 11, the two accused had given
an application to the court to stay the proceedings saying that they had
filed a writ petition in the Bombay high court, challenging the
jurisdiction of the hearing in Nashik.<br />
While there were still no orders from the Bombay HC on their writ
petition, the trial began at the sessions court in Nashik on Wednesday.<br />
During the recording of evidence on the first day of the trial, MG
Joshi advocate for the defence, said ATS police inspector Varpe informed
the court of how his team kept an eye on Bilal after being informed of
possible terror activity in Nashik. , said M G Joshi, advocate for the
defence.<br />
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Students get life term for murder</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/161418">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/161418</a><br />
October 4, 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/category/place/trichy">Trichy</a><br />
<ins>A local court sentenced two college students to life imprisonment for murdering a youth over eve-teasing on Wednesday. </ins><br />
<ins>According to the prosecution, Muthumani, 22, and Ramasamy, 20,
eve-teased women at the sub-urban Ariyamangalam bus stand on January 14,
2012. </ins><br />
<ins>The victim, T. Venkatesan, 27, who was also standing at the bus
stand noticed the misbehavior of the students, reprimanded them for
their immoral act in a public place. </ins><br />
<ins>In the ensuing wordy quarrel, the students indiscriminately
stabbed Venkatesan with a knife. Venkatesan sustained multiple stab
injuries and died on the spot. </ins><br />
<ins>Ariyamangalam police registered a murder case and arrested the
culprits. The trial of the case was held at the principal district and
sessions court at Tiruchy.</ins><br />
<ins>When the case came up for final hearing, the trial court found them guilty of committing the murder of Venkatesan. </ins><br />
<ins>Principal district and sessions judge P. Velmurugan observed
that the crime against the two accused was proved beyond any doubt and
sentenced them to undergo life imprisonment. </ins><br />
<ins>The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 each, failing which they should undergo six months further imprisonment.</ins><br />
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With no confidence on management, most Delhi staff shun meeting with CEO</h1>
<a href="http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-kingfisher-airlines-ceo-to-meet-staff-at-different-bases-ball-in-airlines-court-says-Ajit-Singh-311609">http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-kingfisher-airlines-ceo-to-meet-staff-at-different-bases-ball-in-airlines-court-says-Ajit-Singh-311609</a><br />
NDTV | Updated On: October 04, 2012 10:53 (IST)<br />
The Kingfisher Airlines management’s meeting with its Delhi staff was
a low point after only eight to 10 employees turned up to meet CEO
Sanjay Aggarwal with most engineers boycotting the meeting.<br />
Although an email intimation was sent out to all staff, employees said they had lost confidence in the management.<br />
Mr Aggarwal is dashing across the country today and tomorrow to meet
employees in an attempt to defuse the crisis at the beleaguered
airline. The partial lockout at the airline was scheduled to end today,
but talks between the management and striking employees in Mumbai
yesterday failed.<br />
The government needs concrete plans from Kingfisher Airlines on how
it will operate, maintain schedule and if its aircraft are safe to fly,
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said. The ball is in Kingfisher’s
court, he added.<br />
Mr Singh said he has yet to see the interim report of aviation
regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, on the airline
submitted yesterday.<br />
In its interim report to the Civil Aviation Ministry on the crisis
facing Kingfisher Airlines, the DGCA is understood to have referred to
the six-day strike by engineers and pilots over non-payment of salaries,
followed by the partial lockout, and said that safety of operations has
been seriously jeopardised.<br />
The regulator is also believed to have said that non-payment of
salaries was a matter of serious concern, not only for the employees but
also affected safety as those seriously affected were manning flight
operations.<br />
“DGCA’s job is to ensure that Kingfisher has followed all safety
parameters before it flies… it should satisfy DGCA that it will maintain
its schedule,” Mr Singh added.<br />
The whole winter schedule, including routes and landing spots, need
to be looked at by the end of October and landing spots have to be
considered afresh, he added.<br />
Kingfisher’s lenders expressed hope that the management will not let
the airline go belly up, and said banks would be a bigger casualty if
it were to go bust, according to an agency report.<br />
When asked about whether banks are looking at recovery measures by
monetising the collaterals, an official at a public sector bank said by
doing that lenders will not be able to recover even 10 per cent of their
outstanding loans to the airline.<br />
The Vijay Mallya-owned airline and its promoters have most of their
shares and assets pledged with banks, including the brand Kingfisher
(pledged for a value of Rs. 4,100 crore) and two of its properties — the
Kingfisher Villa in Goa and the Kingfisher House in Mumbai, together
valued at around Rs. 200 crore.<br />
When asked about the amount that banks are looking at as fresh
capital infusion by the airline for a fresh lifeline, he said normally a
corporate debt restructuring (CDR) involves the promoters bringing in
at least 25-30 per cent of the overall CDR package in fresh equity. At
25 per cent, this works out to be around Rs. 1,750 crore as the
airline’s outstanding principal alone is over Rs. 7,000 crore.<br />
In Mumbai yesterday, talks between the airline’s management and
striking employees hit a cul de sac after Mr Aggarwal told the staff
that the airline could pay only a month’s salaries in the next 10 days,
but that the payment of future salaries was uncertain as the airline did
not have money. In an email sent out later in the night, he said he
would meet employees in Delhi at 9 a.m. and the Bangalore staff at 4
p.m. today. He is scheduled to meet Chennai employees tomorrow morning.<br />
Kingfisher’s 270 engineers went on strike on Sunday and were joined
by the airline’s pilots on Monday. The pilots and engineers have formed
two separate associations to protest against non-payment of salary since
April this year. The company has had to ground its 10 operational
planes and no Kingfisher flight has taken off since Monday. The
debt-laden airline declared a partial lockout late that day. <br />
Mr Aggarwal, along with executive vice-president Hitesh Patel, met
Arun Mishra, the chief of aviation regulator Directorate General of
Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday and was told that the airline could fly
only after it had paid its employees and got clearance from the DGCA.
The regulator said the company would have to show it a viable recovery
and operations plan before it could be given a green signal to fly.<br />
Security has been cited as the main concern both by the DGCA and
Civil Aviation Minster Ajit Singh, who said yesterday: “Passenger safety
cannot be compromised,” adding, “If engineers don’t give approval
before takeoff, the aircraft cannot fly. So, we cannot allow Kingfisher
to fly while engineers are on strike.”<br />
The CEO has blamed a small section of employees for the stand-off,
saying they were preventing others from coming to work. “We are hopeful
that we will resolve the situation in the next few days. We will take a
call on October 4 on resumption of our operations,” Mr Aggarwal had said
after his meeting with the DGCA.<br />
In a letter announcing flight cancellations on Monday, the CEO said:
“A series of protracted and unabated incidents of violence, criminal
intimidation, assault, wrongful restraint and other illegal acts by a
section of non-management engineering staff and illegally refraining
from attending work by a section of non-management engineering staff and
pilots which were all unnecessary and unprovoked commenced yesterday
morning and continued today.”<br />
If salaries are not paid in the next few days, the airline faces a
potentially prolonged shutdown. Its salary backlog goes back to April.
The government is taking a tougher stance now after allowing the airline
to operate for months without paying salaries, although it has stopped
short of forcing a closure of the heavily indebted carrier. The airline
has debt of about Rs. 7,000 crore, owed mostly to government-controlled
banks, including State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender.<br />
Shares in Kingfisher Airlines dropped sharply on Wednesday, after
slumping nearly 5 per cent in each of the previous two sessions. The
shares traded 4.9 per cent lower at Rs. 14.60, down almost by its daily
limit move of 5 per cent. Last week, the Bombay Stock Exchange had
halved its circuit limits on the stock, capping the maximum movement in a
day at 5 per cent following a sharp rally in the share prices in the
past few days.<br />
<em>With inputs from agencies</em><br />
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3 witnesses depose in Kush murder case</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/3-witnesses-depose-in-Kush-murder-case/articleshow/16661580.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/3-witnesses-depose-in-Kush-murder-case/articleshow/16661580.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.01AM IST<br />
<ins>NAGPUR: Three witnesses have identified the main accused in the
Kush Katariya murder trials which began its daily hearings from
Wednesday at the court of district and additional sessions judge GJ
Akarte. Special public prosecutor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ujwal-Nikam">Ujwal Nikam</a> was present during the hearing.</ins><br />
<ins>The three witnesses who deposed before the judge included Kush’s parents – Chaya and Prashant, and PCO operator Sheikh <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shahid-Sheikh-Ahmed">Shahid Sheikh Ahmed</a>. All of them charged the accused <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ayush-Pugaliya">Ayush Pugaliya</a> for mercilessly killing the eight-year-old.</ins><br />
<ins>The PCO operator informed the court that Ayush had called on
Kush’s parents from his PCO for demanding ransom in exchange of their
kidnapped son and he had overheard the conversation. Additional public
prosecutor Jyoti Vajani represented the prosecution, while <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajendra-Daga">Rajendra Daga</a> held brief for the Katariya family.</ins><br />
<ins>Kush was kidnapped on October 11 last year for a ransom of Rs2
crore. Ayush then took the child to an under-construction building at
Surya Nagar and intentionally committed the gruesome act. A case was
registered at <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nandanvan-police">Nandanvan police</a> station after which Ayush was arrested within a couple of days.</ins><br />
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Cash for bail: Former CIA inspector shifted out of Panchkula<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Cash-for-bail-Former-CIA-inspector-shifted-out-of-Panchkula/SP-Article1-939480.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Cash-for-bail-Former-CIA-inspector-shifted-out-of-Panchkula/SP-Article1-939480.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=HT%20Live%20Correspondent%20&op=Story">HT Live Correspondent </a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Panchkula, October 03, 2012<br />
Former Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) inspector Karamveer Singh,
who was sent to police lines after allegations of Rs. 37 lakh for bail
of a drug peddler Parveen Kumar surfaced, has now been shifted to a
police training centre at Sunaria in Rohtak. <br /> In its order on September 18, the <ins>Punjab
and Haryana high court had handed over the investigations into cash for
bail allegations to CBI and cancelled the bail of Parveen Kumar. Singh
was the investigating officer in the drug peddling case against Parveen.
</ins><br />
<ins>Hakam Rai, resident of Sector 26 here, complained to DCP on
September 11 that Parveen, who was arrested on January 26 with 4kg opium
along with his accomplices Harvinder Singh and Jora Singh, got bail
from the high court on July 27 after police misrepresented facts in the
court. </ins><br />
<ins>As per the FIR, on the day of arrest, 9kg opium milk (which can
be converted into 36kg opium) was also recovered from the rented
accommodation of accused in Sector 15 on the disclosure of the accused. </ins><br />
<ins>Rai submitted that Parveen claimed having procured the bail
order by spending Rs. 37 lakh and was now alluring other persons to pay
money to get relief from various courts with the help of police
officials, who would give false information to the court. </ins><br />
<ins>On May 23, the court of additional district and sessions judge
Sanjay Sandhir had dismissed the bail application of Praveen on the
ground that huge quantity of opium was recovered; he was stated to
procure opium milk from Madhya Pradesh to churn it into opium and
another case for drug peddling was also registered against him in
Panchkula. </ins><br />
<ins>But in the high court on July 27, the court was informed that
the challan was not filed even though it was filed in the lower court.
It was not contested that the quantity of opium was commercial and there
was no other conviction of the accused. ASI Surjeet Singh, then posted
with CIA, and head constable Yog Bhyan were present in the court. They
have also been shifted out of Panchkula to Sunaria. </ins><br />
<ins>“The DGP has ordered the transfers,” said DCP Parul Jain. On the
pending arrest of drug peddler Parveen, she said the police were making
every effort to nab him. </ins><br />
Meanwhile, the CBI is yet to start investigations in the case. <br />
<strong><ins>Case history</ins></strong><strong><ins><br /> </ins></strong><ins>January 26: Parveen Kumar and accomplices Harvinder Singh and Jora Singh arrested with 4kg opium</ins><br />
<ins>January 26: Nine-kg opium milk recovered from the Sector-15 rented accommodation of accused </ins><br />
<ins>May 23: Additional district and sessions judge Sanjay Sandhir rejects Praveen Kumar’s bail application</ins><br />
<ins>July 27: High court informed challan not filed, paving way for bail for Parveen Kumar</ins><br />
<ins>September 18: High Court cancels Parveen Kumar’s bail, accused missing</ins><br />
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Pervez Tak planned to kill Laila, kin 3 months before murders: Cops</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Pervez-Tak-planned-to-kill-Laila-kin-3-months-before-murders-Cops/articleshow/16663548.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Pervez-Tak-planned-to-kill-Laila-kin-3-months-before-murders-Cops/articleshow/16663548.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-S-Ahmed-Ali.cms">S Ahmed Ali</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 06.29AM IST<br />
MUMBAI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/murders">murders</a> of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/starlet-Laila-Khan">starlet Laila Khan</a> and five of her family members were planned at least three months in advance, says the chargesheet. <br />
The crime branch on Wednesday filed the 984-page <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chargesheet">chargesheet</a>
in the sessions court, stating that prime accused Parvez Tak killed the
six family members with the help of his wanted aide, Shakir Hussain.
Tak is the third husband of the starlet’s mother, Saleena. <br />
A junior engineer, a surveyor of the Igatpuri Nagarpalika, a JCB
owner, a butcher and two car drivers are among the nine witnesses who
have testified against Tak. <br />
In his statement, Tak said he got a pit dug up at Laila’s Igatpuri
farmhouse in December 2010 and waited for a few months for her family
members to gather there. The six victims were eventually killed in
February 2011, days after they went <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Missing">missing</a> from Mumbai. The police have added the statement of Gufran Choudhary, the JCB owner, to the chargesheet to support the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Theory-%28designer%29">theory</a>
that the murders were planned and not committed in a fit of rage.
Choudhary said Tak hired his JCB in December 2010 and paid him Rs 2,800
to dig the pit. Incidentally, three days after the crime branch
recovered the six skeletons from the farmhouse on July 10 this year, TOI
had reported how police officials suspected that it was a well-planned
murder. <br />
The police are awaiting the DNA reports of the six bodies recovered
from the pit. Two knives, an iron rod, two spades, the torn clothes of
the deceased, the post-mortem reports and some <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/gold">gold</a> ornaments—including four rings—have been annexed to the chargesheet. <br />
Laila’s body was identified with the help of a diamond ring gifted
by her boyfriend, who could recognize the jewellery during his
testimony, said investigating officer Deepak Patangre. He added that
they will add the DNA reports once they get them from the FSL. <br />
Junior engineer Yashwant Tathe, water surveyor Mohan Shirshat and
butcher Shamsher Khan told the police that they hadseen Tak and Saleena
hours before the murders on February 8. Tak had taken Saleena to the
nagarpalika office to file an application for a water connection. On the
same day, the duo went to the butcher to buy 3kg of mutton. <br />
“Tak felt that Saleena lived an ‘un-Islamic’ life and also suspected
her to be indulging in adultery. When Tak learned about Laila and her
family’s plans to migrate to Dubai and give the powerof-attorney of her
properties to Saleena’s second husband, Asif Shaikh, he felt frustrated
and humiliated. He then decided to put an end to the chapter,” said
Himanshu Roy, JCP (crime ). <br />
The police suspect that Hussain is in Doda. <br />
<strong>Starlet case chargesheet </strong><br />
<strong>Who is Laila Khan? </strong><br />
Laila, whose original name was Reshma Patel, was born to Saleena and
Nadir Patel in Malad. She is best known for her role opposite <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajesh-Khanna">Rajesh Khanna</a> in Wafa: A Deadly Love Story <br />
<strong>The disappearance </strong><br />
Laila, her mother Saleena, siblings Azmina, Imran & Zara, and
another relative, Reshma Khan, went missing from Mumbai in February
2011, after which her father filed a missing complaint with the Oshiwara
police <br />
The recovery of two MUVs belonging to the starlet—a <a href="http://www.zigwheels.com/newcars/Mahindra/Scorpio" target="_blank">Mahindra Scorpio</a> and a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mitsubishi">Mitsubishi</a> Outlander—from Jammu & Kashmir this year triggered speculation that she could be in that state <br />
Another theory that did the rounds said she was in Dubai with her ‘husband’, Sonu <br />
<strong>Tak and the revelations </strong><br />
Parvez Iqbal Tak (inset), a road contractor from Kishtwar in J&K
and the third husband of Laila’s mother, emerged as the prime suspect
in the case after the seizure of the two MUVs <br />
Tak told interrogators that he killed Laila and her five family members at her farmhouse (pic above) in Igatpuri on February 8 <br />
Shakir Hussain, an accompliceof Tak’s, was also involved in the
murders. He was made caretaker of the farmhouse in December 2010 <br />
Tak and Hussain go to the family’s Oshiwara flat to fetch Laila’s
six pet cats. They also remove photographs from an album before
returning to Igatpuri. They then hire two drivers, Mahboob Shaikh and
Johny Girdar, and leave for Kishtwar in Laila’s Scorpio and Outlander <br />
<strong>What led to the killings? </strong><br />
The police said Tak felt Saleena lived an “un-Islamlic” life and
suspected her to be indulging in adultery When he learned about the
family’s plans to migrate to Dubai and give the power-of-attorney of her
properties to Saleena’s second husband, Asif Shaikh, Tak plotted the
murders <br />
<strong>The evidence and witnesses </strong><br />
The Scorpio and the Outlander, which have been brought back to
Mumbai Two knives, an iron rod, two spades, the torn clothes of the
deceased, mobile records, post-mortem reports and some gold ornaments
Laila’s body was identified with the help of a diamond ring gifted by
her boyfriend, who could recognize the jewellery during his testimony<br />
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IAS officer granted bail in molestation case</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ias-officer-granted-bail-in-molestation-case/1011463/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ias-officer-granted-bail-in-molestation-case/1011463/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : Lucknow, Wed Oct 03 2012, 21:08 hrs<br />
A senior IAS officer in the Uttar Pradesh government, who was
arrested on charges of attempt to rape and molesting a Delhi-based woman
in a train, was today granted interim bail by a local court here.<br />
Sessions judge K K Sharma granted interim bail to IAS officer Shashi
Bhushan Sushil up to October 6 on an application moved on his behalf,
court sources said here.<br />
Sushil, Special Secretary in the Technical Education Department, was
arrested on Monday and a case under IPC section 354 (assault or criminal
force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) was lodged against
him following a complaint by the woman, a senior IT executive,
Government Railway Police (GRP) officials said.<br />
The 2001-batch officer was also booked under IPC sections 376 (rape),
511 (attempt to commit offence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) under
which he can be imprisoned for life.<br />
According to the FIR lodged by the mother of the woman travelling
with her, the officer, who boarded the second AC coach from Ghaziabad,
indulged in obscene acts and the conductor and train escorts were duly
informed.<br />
The FIR was lodged with the GRP by the woman.<br />
Bhushan was detained after the train reached Charbhagh railway
station and police interrogated him for four hours before arresting him.<br />
Refuting the molestation charge, the officer claimed that he had got
into a verbal duel with the woman after she made a casteist remark
against him.<br />
The officer was later suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government.<br />
The government has also removed inspector GRP Anil Rai who allegedly
tried to delay the matter and impose less stringent sections in the FIR
though the home department refuted the charges.<br />
Sushil was later produced before a local Railway court which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days.<br />
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had said no one would be spared and
strict action would be taken against those showing disrespect to women.<br />
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<strong>Delhi Police officer ‘forges’ court record, let off</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282920/delhi-police-officer-forges-court.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282920/delhi-police-officer-forges-court.html</a><br />
New Delhi:Oct 4, 2012 PTI<br />
<strong> A sessions court has discharged a Delhi Police inspector in a
complaint initiated by a magisterial court for allegedly forging the
court record of a case. </strong><br />
Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar discharged H S Chauhan, an
inspector in Delhi Police, who was summoned as accused along with ASI
Puran Chand by court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate on a
complaint made by the chief metropolitan magistrate for allegedly
forging court record in a 2006 case under the Prize Chit Money
Circulation (Banning) Act.<br />
“The impugned order dated May 19 vide which the accused – petitioner
(Chauhan) has been summoned as an accused is without basis and suffers
from illegality and the same deserves to be set aside qua the
petitioner. The petitioner is discharged,” the ASJ said.<br />
The ASJ added that the CMM did not conduct any inquiry before filing the complaint against Chauhan.<br />
The complaint accused Chauhan and Chand of fraudulently entering
forensic (FSL) report in the court record of a case after a delay of
three years only when the issue came before the CMM.<br />
Chauhan had moved the court of ASJ against the ACMM’s order. On
January 1, 2006, an FIR was registered with Prasad Nagar police station
under the Prize Chits Act on the complaint of a widow named Durga Devi,
who had invested in a committee. <br />
The accused Luid Fernandez and Josphin Fernandez run the committee
which did not pay any returns to the woman on maturity of the
investment. A chargesheet in the matter was filed on April 13, 2006
before the then concerned area magistrate. <br />
A supplementary charge-sheet was filed on July 11, 2006 mentioning
that the FSL report on specimen handwriting of the accused will be filed
as and when received. <br /> <strong><br /> Official let off in graft case</strong><br />
DRI officer, facing trial for allegedly taking bribe from a
businessman for bailing him out of an excise evasion case, has been
discharged by a Delhi court for want of proper sanction for his
prosecution, reported PTI from Delhi.<br />
Special Central Bureau of Investigation Judge Kanwaljeet Arora
discharged Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Y S Verma saying
the sanction to prosecute him was bad in the eyes of law as it was given
by an officer, junior to the one competent to grant it.<br />
It is admitted position that accused at the relevant point of time
was working as senior intelligence officer with DRI, which is a Group
‘B’ post. <br />
Having been appointed to the post of Group ‘B’ cadre, by orders of
DRI director general, a right has accrued in favour of the accused by
virtue of Article 311(1) of the Constitution that he cannot be removed
from his office by an officer subordinate to the rank of director
general,” the court said.<br />
Additional director general who had passed the sanction order on
December 29, 2006 was subordinate to director general, therefore, she
could not have passed the sanction order. The said sanction therefore is
bad in the eyes of law,” the court said, discharging Verma.<br />
The corruption case against Verma was lodged by the CBI on complaint
of Delhi-based exporter A K Aggarwal, who had alleged that Verma had
lodged a false excise duty evasion case against him and had raided his
house in September 2005. <br /> He said Verma subsequently had demanded a bribe of Rs 50 lakh from him to bail him out of the case. <br />
On Aggarwal’s complaint, the CBI laid a trap and allegedly caught
Verma red-handed while accepting Rs 5 lakh as the first instalment of
the bribe from Aggarwal at the South Delhi house of another co-accused
Mahender Kumar. <br />
In his complaint to the CBI, Aggarwal had also said Verma and his
senior had asked him for Rs 50 lakh bribe and had threatened that if
failed to pay the sum, his son would face untoward consequences.<br />
The judge, however, granted liberty to the agency to file fresh
charge sheet against Verma with proper sanction to prosecute him.<br />
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Court sends youth to 10 yrs in jail, pulls up police</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : New Delhi, Wed Oct 03 2012, 20:55 hrs<br />
A youth who raped a minor girl last year in a factory here has been
sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Delhi court which also directed the
city government to pay a compensation of Rs one lakh to the victim.<br />
The court expressed anguish and displeasure that the two factory
workers who saw the accused, instead of “objecting to the conduct”, ran
away from the premises leaving the 14-year-old victim at his mercy and
the Delhi police also did not prefer to inquire about their “indifferent
approach”.<br />
“Of late crime against women generally and rape in particular is on
the increase and ironically society appears to be unconcerned, showing
little or no concern for honour of women. It is this kind of a public
apathy and indifference which is grossly criminal,” Additional Sessions
Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau said.<br />
The court said it was “shocking” that the two factory workers ran
away from the spot and informed their owner about the incident much
later to evade their culpability.<br />
“Public alertness with a suitable timely response can go a long way
to save the life and honour of young girls which unfortunately did not
happen in the present case,” the judge said.<br />
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 52,000 on convict Aditya, 20, a
resident of Pitampura Village in North-West Delhi, saying that on
recovery of the amount, it shall be given to the victim.<br />
The judge said the amount of compensation will be used for
rehabilitation of the victim and directed the Delhi government to take
steps to ensure that she is admitted in some school to continue her
studies.<br />
According to the police, Aditya caught hold of the girl when she was
returning from her school and forcibly took her inside an adjoining
plastic factory.<br />
The accused threatened the two workers, who were present in the
factory, and asked them to leave. He took the girl to a room in the
factory and when she tried to raise an alarm, he threatened to
electrocute her after which he raped her and ran away, police said.<br />
The two workers, later on, called their employer and informed him
about the incident.After reaching home, the girl informed her family
about the incident and a case was lodged against the accused.<br />
The court also pulled up the police for not inquiring the reason from
the two workers as to why they did not raise an alarm when they saw the
accused bringing the girl in school uniform into the factory.<br />
It rejected Aditya’s plea for leniency saying that he had committed
the offence without any fear of law in the factory after threatening the
two workers working there and compelling them to leave.<br />
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Justice delayed is justice denied…</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/times-view/Justice-delayed-is-justice-denied--/articleshow/16663248.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/times-view/Justice-delayed-is-justice-denied–/articleshow/16663248.cms</a><br />
Oct 4, 2012, 05.51AM IST<br />
If ever there was a case of justice delayed being justice denied,
this is it. The fact that the court had ordered the actor to pay
compensation even before framing of charges and he had done so
immediately, makes it clear how urgent the need for compensation was
judged to be. <br />
Yet, the victims have not received the compensation even a decade
later. Exactly who is to blame for this situation appears to be unclear
as of now, but responsibility must be fixed and action taken. Also, the
victims must now be paid—even if it rather late—not just the amount
originally ordered, but interest for 10 years on it.<br />
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Law Commission of India proposes toning down anti-dowry legislation</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Law-Commission-of-India-proposes-toning-down-anti-dowry-legislation/articleshow/16659773.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Law-Commission-of-India-proposes-toning-down-anti-dowry-legislation/articleshow/16659773.cms</a><br />
Oct 4, 2012, 12.00AM IST<br />
<strong>TIMES VIEW</strong> <br />
<strong>Will safeguard against misuse</strong> <br />
The Law Commission of India’s recommendation that the anti-dowry law
be suitably amended to dilute the provision of immediate arrest of the
accused is sensible. The suggestion comes in light of the fact that an
increasing number of dowry complaints have been found to be false. That
Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code — dealing with physical and mental
cruelty by husbands and their relatives over dowry — empowers the
complainant to have the accused arrested even before a proper
investigation into the case only incentivises misuse of the law. Not
only does this amount to gross injustice but also significantly damages
to the anti-dowry movement. <br />
It`s arguable that tough anti-dowry legislations are a product of
the 1980s, where they arose out of a specific context: a seemingly
uncontrollable spate of dowry deaths in the country. However, the
socio-economic conditions of women today have significantly changed.
This empowerment is precisely why the anti-dowry law needs to be
suitably updated. Besides, the provision of immediate arrest flies in
the face of Indian jurisprudence that treats every accused as innocent
until proven guilty. Subverting this principle has done more harm than
good. <br />
In this respect, the law panel`s proposal to introduce a 30-day
reconciliation period before the police arrest an accused under the
anti-dowry law makes eminent sense. To prevent misuse, the law should
also be amended to allow for arrests only after a proper investigation,
not before. The Supreme Court has already des-cribed false dowry cases
as legal terrorism. Using the anti-dowry law as a tool for extortion is
tantamount to human rights violation. Hence, in the interest of justice,
diluting draconian provisions of the anti-dowry law without taking away
the essence of the legislation is a step in the right direction.<br />
<strong>COUNTERVIEW</strong> <br />
<strong>A change for the worse</strong><strong></strong><br />
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</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Anil Thakkar</strong> <br />
The expert panel’s recommendation on amending and toning down the
anti-dowry law is a classic example of missing the wood for the trees.
As matters stand, is the anti-dowry law misused on occasion? Yes, it is —
just like every other law. That is the nature of the beast; there will
always be people who find and exploit loopholes in any system of rules.
This is particularly true in India where the judicial system is
hopelessly clogged and the police prone to corruption. These things will
not change if the law is watered down. All that will happen is that the
fight against dowry — a far more insidious and widespread evil than
misuse of the anti-dowry law — will be compromised. <br />
A simple look at the statistics will show how far we still have to
go in stamping out the system of dowry and the subjugation of — and
violence against — women it engenders. According to the National Crime
Records Bureau, 6,995 dowry deaths were reported in 2000 — which climbed
to 8,093 in 2007 and 8,391 in 2010. And that is just the reported
cases; it is a safe assumption that the actual number of dowry deaths is
significantly higher. This more than half-a-century after dowry was
made illegal. What possible sense does it make to defang the anti-dowry
law at a time when dowry deaths are actually on the rise? <br />
On the face of it, certainly, the amended changes seem sensible. But
given how rigidly patriarchal much of Indian society is — particularly
in rural areas where the dowry system is even harder to uproot — all
they will do is leave the perpetrators at large and give them enough
time to pressure or coerce the woman and her family into withdrawing
their complaint. And that would be a far greater injustice than anything
that is currently done under the aegis of the anti-dowry law.<br />
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Victims of accident by Salman Khan’s vehicle not compensated<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Victims-of-accident-by-Salman-Khan-s-vehicle-not-compensated/Article1-939564.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Victims-of-accident-by-Salman-Khan-s-vehicle-not-compensated/Article1-939564.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=HT%20Correspondent&op=Story">HT Correspondent</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Mumbai, October 04, 2012<br />
A decade after actor Salman Khan killed a pavement dweller and
injured four others in a highly-publicised car accident in Bandra, the
victims are yet to receive the compensation amount due to them from him,
according to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a senior
journalist before the <ins>Bombay high court.</ins><br />
<ins>A division bench headed by justice AM Khanwilkar was hearing the
PIL filed Nikhil Wagle, seeking enhancement of the punishment that was
awarded under section 304 A of the Indian Penal Code for causing death
by rash and negligent driving, and an increase in compensation awarded
under the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act.</ins><br />
<ins>Wagle had filed the PIL soon after the accident. </ins><br />
<ins>While hearing the PIL, the high court had on October 7, 2002
directed Salman to deposit Rs17 lakh as interim compensation for the
four injured victims and the family of the deceased victim. The court
had then also directed the Union and state government to file
affidavits.</ins><br />
<ins>Wagle’s lawyer Subhada Khot informed the court on Wednesday that
the compensation amount has not been disbursed to the victims and the
government has not filed affidavits either.</ins><br />
<ins>The court has now issued a notice to the additional solicitor
general to appear before the court and directed the Union and state
governments to file their affidavits by October 8.</ins><br />
<ins>On September 29, 2002, an inebriated Khan had run over five persons sleeping on a Bandra pavement with his Toyota Land Cruiser. </ins><br />
<ins>He was arrested the next day and booked under sections 304 A,
337 and 338 of the IPC. He was released on bail of Rs.950 immediately at
the Bandra police station. The trial against him is pending before a
magistrate’s court.</ins><br />
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Kidnapping for ransom: Death punishment valid</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Thu Oct 04 2012, 02:01 hrs<br />
<em>HC says killers of Abhi Verma to hang, puts execution on hold till October 12</em><br />
There is nothing legally invalid in awarding death sentence to those
held guilty of kidnapping for ransom. Statin this, the Punjab and
Haryana High Court on Wednesday upheld the hanging of two youths who had
abducted and later killed Abhi Verma, a 16-year-old boy from Hoshiarpur
for ransom.<br />
However, giving them time to challenge the order in the Supreme
Court, the court directed Patiala Jail Superintendent not to execute the
“death warrants in abeyance” till October 12. The accused, Vikram Singh
Walia and Jasvir Singh, were to be hanged at 9 am on October 5 in
Central Jail, Patiala.<br />
The judgment assumes significance as the duo had challenged the legal
validity of the capital punishment awarded under Section 364-A of the
Indian Penal Code (IPC) saying that under the said law death can be
awarded only to those who are involved in international terrorism and
not to “private individuals”.<br />
Holding their challenge as “ill founded, deceptive and misleading”, a
division bench headed by Justice Surya Kant in a 26-page judgment
dismissed the petition for “beating around the bush”.<br />
“No meaningful argument was advanced except reminding us the pious
object behind Article 21 of the Constitution. The decision to hang the
petitioners to death has been taken following the procedure established
by law,” the judgment reads<br />
Making it clear that death sentence cannot be abolished from Section
364-A of IPC, the court ruled ruled that “death was one of the sentences
prescribed for the offence of a private individual’s kidnapping for
ransom from the very inception of Section 364-A IPC in the year 1993.”
“It has neither been omitted nor diluted by the subsequent amendment.
The challenge to the `retrospectivity’ of the provision is totally
deceptive and misleading”.<br />
The petitioners had taken the ground that death sentence cannot be
awarded in “a simpliciter case of kidnapping for ransom of a private
individual”.<br />
They had averred that the phrase “person” occurring in Section 364-A
IPC “excludes an individual and is meant for a juristic person, company
or association, or body of persons only.” The very object of amending
Section 364-A IPC was to tackle international terrorism,” they had said.<br />
They had argued that the death sentence awarded to them was “in utter
disregard to the International Convention against the Taking of
Hostages, 1979 (`Hostages Convention’), adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly on June 3, 1983 “. The said contention found no favour
with the court.<br />
Earlier, Assistant Solicitor General of India and counsels for Punjab
and Haryana too had countered the submissions. The counsels had averred
that the petition was “merely a cloak to delay the execution of death
warrants, for even if the challenge to death sentence under Section
364-A succeeds, the same awarded for the offence under Section 302 IPC
(murder) still sustains and is final”.<br />
The argument found favour with the court as Justice Surya Kant held
that the two have been guilty of murder and even if their petition
succeeds, the same will “not change their fate”.<br />
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Former SIMI Functionary Booked Under MCOCA<br />
<a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777190">http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777190</a><br />
Thane | <a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=10/3/2012">Oct 03, 2012</a><br />
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The Thane police on Wednesday booked former Students’ Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI) functionary Saquib Nachan and four others under
the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).<br />
The Bhiwandi crime branch produced Nachan and four others in the MCOCA court on Wednesday.<br />
Saquib Nachan and his son Ismail and nephew Aquib are facing charges
for the murderous assault on Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader from
Bhiwandi, Manoj Raicha. Two others Guddu Khan and Tanvir Abdul Zabdir
were also arrested in this case.<br />
SIMI activist Saqib Nachan, an accused in Mulund bomb blast of 2003,
was arrested by police for allegedly firing at an advocate in Bhiwandi
on August 3, this year.<br />
It was around 11.45pm, advocate Manoj Ratilal Raicha (48) was on his
way home in his car along with bodyguards, when he was shot at and
injured.<br />
In his complaint, the lawyer, who is a Bajrang Dal office bearer,
named Saqib Nachan as the suspect or his associate as the person who
fired at him with an intention to kill him.<br />
The Nizampura police later registered a case under Sections 307,
120(b) of the Indian Penal Code and also under Sections 3, 25 and 27 of
the Arms Act against the accused.<br />
FILED ON: <a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=10/3/2012">Oct 03, 2012 23:40 IST</a><br />
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Muslim rage is not about Islam</h2>
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<a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/52576-muslim-rage-is-not-about-islam.html">http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/52576-muslim-rage-is-not-about-islam.html</a><br />
<strong>Author: <em>Mayuri Mukherjee</em></strong><br />
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<strong>The outrage and the violent protests organised by Islamists
across the world have nothing to do with the supposed desecration of
religion. Instead, these incidents are calibrated attempts by so-called
religious leaders to firm up their politics, even at the cost of
people’s lives</strong><br />
Even before the crowd from the previous protest had returned home, a
new mob had gathered on the streets. It had been gaining strength
throughout the day as hundreds arrived loaded in trucks and buses, and
more people from the outside kept pouring in. Over the next couple of
hours, the crowd swelled in numbers and a few local leaders gradually
took their position at the helm — soon, they were whipping up outrage
against some vaguely defined but provocatively conveyed threat to their
religion, their Prophet or their holy book. Timing was the key, so one
waited cautiously for the crowd to be sufficiently riled and then, just
when the passions peaked, it was let loose like a pack of blood thirsty
wolves. What followed was hours, even days, of looting, raiding,
pillaging, plundering and killing. Until finally, the security forces
showed up and brought the situation somewhat under control.<br />
This is a fairly accurate description of the events as they unfolded
in the little Upazila of Ramu, located in the coastal Cox’s Bazar
district in Bangladesh’s southern division of Chittagong on September 29
and 30, when Islamists went on the rampage in the area and attacked
Buddhist temples and homes, after they discovered a picture of a burnt
Quran on Facebook that was alleged ‘tagged’ to a local Buddhist boy.<br />
According to the latest reports available, at least 12 temples were
desecrated and nearly 50 Buddhist homes systematically destroyed. But
the moot point here lies not in the details of this heinous incident
that has deeply scarred Bangladesh’s socio-religious fabric but in the
fact that the description applies to almost any ‘Muslim protest’ that
has erupted in recent times in response to a supposed act of religious
outrage.<br />
Indeed, instead of Ramu Upazila, the narrative can just as easily be
placed in Masuri village in Uttar Pradesh here in India, where a similar
crowd went berserk and brutally attacked the local police station after
someone found pages torn out of the Quran by the railway tracks last
month. The narrative also fits well in many other places — from Mumbai’s
Azad Maidan where a crowd protesting atrocities against Muslims in
Burma and elsewhere went on a rampage to the US Embassy compound in
Benghazi where an armed mob protesting a shoddily-made, obscure
anti-Islamic film killed the American Ambassador to Libya.<br />
Look closely and a clear pattern of pre-meditated violence that
emerges through each of these cases is unmistakable. The cause of the
violence and the outrage here is inconsequential. It can be anything — a
book that nobody has heard of, a movie that nobody has seen because it
was never publicly released, a photograph that is quite possibly
doctored, a quote that remains unattributed, a conspiracy theory or even
a cartoon. It doesn’t matter. What matters is how, and of course with
what result, that singular instance of outrage (real or imagined) is
perverted so as to make it look like it is a universal insult to Islam
and its 1.7 billion followers around the world.<br />
First, the Islamists go all out to introduce that supposed object of
religious insult — almost always an obscure one — to their local
audience. Then, they systemically manufacture outrage against that same
object. The campaign is almost always framed within the narrative of a
victim-community; a community that has been and continues to be wronged
by the world. Ridiculous as it may sound, the idea of being at the
receiving end of a global conspiracy is particularly tempting and as we
know from past experience, hugely effective. Finally, what serves as an
icing on the cake is the fact that Islamists, almost everywhere in the
world, are an especially well-organised group. This automatically allows
them mobilise large sections of the population and mount an effective
campaign.<br />
In other words, the bottomline here is that the protests may be
hinged around an Islamic (or more specifically, anti-Islamic) subject,
but in reality they have little to do with religion. Instead, the issue
is of politics and power-play. Religion is merely an excuse used by the
Islamists to whip up passion and mobilise social groups so that they can
ultimately implement the latter’s agenda. Indeed, this is an argument
that even Muslims political observers themselves have made. For
instance, Mr Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the US, in
his recently published article on ‘Muslim rage’ minces no words when he
says, “The phenomenon of outrage over insults to Islam and its final
Prophet is a function of modern-era politics. It started during Western
colonial rule, with Muslim politicians seeking issues to mobilize their
constituents… and Islamists emerged to claim that Islam is not merely a
religion but also a political ideology.”<br />
Indeed, Mr Haqqani traces back an early prototype of this kind of
mass mobilisation within the Muslim world to a book published in British
India back in 1927. Titled Rangeela Rasool (Playboy Prophet), it was a
“salacious version of Muhammad’s life”, says Mr Haqqani, but “hardly a
bestseller”. In fact, much the like anti-Islamic film that today is all
the rage, so to say, this book too went largely unnoticed until two
years after its publication when some Muslim politicians raised a hue
and cry over it. The British Government of the day even arrested and
tried the publisher but he was acquitted — only to be later stabbed to
death by one Ilmuddin, an illiterate carpenter known only by his first
name, in Lahore. Ilmuddin soon became a local hero of sorts. Islamist
groups nicknamed him Ghazi (warrior) and he was defended in court by a
man no less than Mohamed Ali Jinnnah (although on purely technical
grounds, as Mr Haqqani points out in his essay). The book continued to
be a polarising point between the Hindus and Muslims of undivided India
and exacted its price in blood during Partition as well.<br />
It is interesting to note that it was after this case of Ilmuddin
that the British amended the Indian Penal Code to include punishment for
blasphemy and incitement of religious hatred. It is equally ironical
that a little less than a century later, another young man would once
again share Ilmuddin’s fate and how! In January 2011, Mumtaz Qadri would
also be celebrated as a national hero for killing Salman Taseer, the
powerful Pakistani Governor of Punjab would had dared to opposed his
country’s draconian blasphemy laws.<br />
The lessons to be learnt from the past and the present are clear.
These protests, wherever they may erupt, are not just a product of
politics disguised as religion, but that they must be exposed as such.<br />
The moment the state begins to legitimise such violence as being a
genuine case of religious grievance; it loses the plot and half the
battle. The Bangladeshi Government realises this, which is why the whole
deal about the Facebook picture was underplayed. The Pakistani
Government on the other hand doesn’t get it at all and so, it had the
Ishq-e-Rasool day, during which several persons where killed. India must
learn its lessons from all this and stop pampering hardliners.<br />
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Civil society urges govt to remove accused under the PNDT Act from committee<br />
<a href="http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ws031012PNDT.asp">http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ws031012PNDT.asp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ws031012PNDT.asp"><em>Dr Harsh Mahajan is an accused in a case filed by Mitu Khurana who was forced to undergo sex determination test </em></a><br />
<strong>Shonali Ghosal </strong><strong><br /> </strong>New Delhi<br />
Eighteen years after the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Techniques Act (PC & PNDT Act) was passed for the “regulation and
prevention of misuse of diagnostic techniques,” the government’s
intention on curbing sex determination remains unclear.<br />
Dr Harsh Mahajan, an accused under the PC & PNDT Act and
president of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA), had
been appointed as a member of a committee, which is set to examine and
possibly amend the format of Form F (the mandatory form to be filled and
recorded by all sonography centres when conducting an ultrasound
sonography).<br />
“They might have gone by his post as president of the IRIA. But the
government should’ve checked his track record,” says Rizwan Parwez, a
member of the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee (NIMC) and
the Centre for Advocacy and Research. The court has taken cognizance of
Mahajan as an accused (among others) after Mitu Khurana filed a case
against her husband and in-laws for allegedly forcing her to undergo a
sex determination test in 2005. She further states that they put
pressure on her to undergo an abortion on learning that she was carrying
twin girls. “This is a violation of the Act. The government never
supported me in my case and now there’s this to add insult to injury,”
says Mitu, who was told by a PC & PNDT official to stop wasting her
life and give her husband a son if he wanted one.<br />
“Even though Mahajan is not the doctor who performed the sex
determination test, he is an accused because he holds approximately 80
per cent of the shares in Mahajan Imaging Centre where the test was
conducted and is also a board member of the centre,” Mitu clarifies. The
PC & PNDT law clearly states: “No person who, in the opinion of the
Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, has
been associated with the use or promotion of pre-natal diagnostic
technique for determination of sex shall be appointed as a member of the
Advisory Committee.” “It’s like inviting a murderer undergoing trial to
amend a law on Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code,” adds Parwez.<br />
But all is not lost. In a meeting of the committee held last week (28
September), activists protested Mahajan’s presence and asked him to
leave. Donna Fernandes, the head of Vimochana (an NGO on women’s rights)
and a member of the same committee was present at the meeting. She
recounts that it was Kiran Moghe, the Maharashtra president of the All
India Democratic Women’s Organisation who raised the issue. “He
(Mahajan) made some weak noise about being innocent and that he had a
lot of suggestions, but other members said that he may be innocent, but,
if he has a case in court, it isn’t right that he should be attending
this meeting,” she says. Finally, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Joint Secretary,
Women & Child Development (who was also chairing the meeting) told
him that he had said something else at registration and asked Mahajan to
leave. “The government should’ve sent a strong message that you can’t
be part of such an important committee before the civil society brought
it up,” says Parwez.<br />
Mahajan had to leave that meeting but whether any action has been
taken to permanently remove him from the committee is not known.
Incidentally, he is also a member of another similar committee, which
has to examine, and perhaps, amend the provisions of the Act itself.
“People like him aren’t worried about implementation, they’re just
concerned with making money,” says health activist Dr Sabu Geore, who is
a member of the other committee. Both Anuradha Vemuri, director of the
PNDT Division, and Dr Harsh Mahajan remained unavailable for comment.<br />
<em>Shonali Ghosal is a Correspondent with Tehelka. </em><br /> <a href="mailto:shonali@tehelka.com">shonali@tehelka.com </a><br />
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<strong>Another plaint against Bangalore Urban DC</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282872/another-plaint-against-bangalore-urban.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282872/another-plaint-against-bangalore-urban.html</a><br />
Bangalore:Oct 4, 2012 DH News Service<br />
<strong> A new private complaint was filed in the Special Lokayukta
Court on Wednesday against Bangalore Urban Deputy Commissioner M K
Aiyappa and others. Judge N K Sudhindra Rao has posted the case to
October 17 for orders.</strong><br />
The case filed by Markandeya, a software engineer, pertains to land
acquired in Nagarbhavi village in Vijayanagar for the development of the
Vinayaka Housing Board Co-operative Society in 1985.<br />
The complainant stated that the land had been handed over to the
Society and all formalities including obtaining work order and khatas
from the Bangalore Development Authority were completed. <br />
From 1986, sites were registered in favour of the members. In 1996,
the BDA also issued khatas and started collecting property tax. <br />
Later, the land came under Pattanagere City Municipal Council and was transferred to BBMP, who issued khatas.<br />
The complaint alleges that one Gali Hanumamma filed a case against
Malliappa, the original landowner under the Karnataka Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands)
(PTCL) Act with the Assistant Commissioner (AC) who ordered the
restoration of the property. <br /> <strong><br /> Order challenged</strong><br />
The Society members challenged the order before the then Deputy
Commissioner Ramegowda who allowed the appeal, after seeking a spot
inspection from the Assistant Commissioner.<br /> <strong><br /> Permission from DC</strong><br />
Gali Hanumamma then sold one acre of land to one Mirle Varadaraj for Rs
three crore, after obtaining permission from the DC. She later filed an
application seeking conversion of two acres of land for residential
purpose, including the one acre she had sold. <br />
The complainant who had purchased the land from the Society filed objections before the Deputy Commissioner. <br />
The complainant stated that the DC told him that the land would be
taken over and handed back. The complaint has been lodged for commission
of offences under Prevention of Corruption Act and Indian Penal Code. <br />
The complaint also names Assistant Commissioner Kantharaju,
Tahsildar Suma, Village Accountant Manjunath, Gali Hanumma, her daughter
Huchamma, Mirle Varadaraju and others.<br />
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K’taka HC stays probe against former disciple of Nithyananda</h1>
<a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/karnataka/ktaka-hc-stays-probe-against-former-disciple-of-n_803566.html">http://zeenews.india.com/news/karnataka/ktaka-hc-stays-probe-against-former-disciple-of-n_803566.html</a><br />
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 03, 2012, 22:07<br />
Bangalore: Karnataka High Court Wednesday stayed further proceedings
before a local court against a former disciple of self-proclaimed
controversial godman Nityananda and two others in a criminal case filed
against them by an actress <br />
Justice H N Nagamohan Das stayed further proceedings in the case
before the court at Ramanagara on a criminal petition filed by Ranjitha,
seeking quashing of the case. <br />
In June, the court had issued a non-bailable warrant to Lenin
Karuppan and third summons to co-accused Aarti Rao and advocate Sridhar
in the case filed by the actress.<br />
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Ranjitha had filed a private complaint on Dec 30 2010 at Ramnagara
Magistrate Court in Bangalore against the three, charging them with
criminal intimidation, criminal conspiracy and outraging her modesty in
connection with attempting to link her through a morphed video with
Nithyananda. <br />
The Magistrate took cognizance and issued summons to all three on June 4 2011.<br />
Lenin failed to appear before the court, following which a NBW was
issued against him, while the other two were issued a second summons on
August 2 2011. <br />
Arathi Rao is a resident of Detroit, USA. <br />
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Will appoint commissioners within 3 weeks: Govt assures HC</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Will-appoint-commissioners-within-3-weeks-Govt-assures-HC/articleshow/16661714.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Will-appoint-commissioners-within-3-weeks-Govt-assures-HC/articleshow/16661714.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.20AM IST<br />
JAIPUR: The state government assured the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajasthan-high-court">Rajasthan high court</a>
on Wednesday that it would comply with the recent Supreme Court
judgment on appointing at least minimum number of information
commissioners (ICs) required under the right to information (RTI) Act
within the next three weeks.<br />
At present, the Rajasthan Information Commission (RIC) has just a chief <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/information-commissioner">information commissioner</a> but not a single IC. The Act underlines a minimum two and maximum 10 ICs in a state.<br />
In its September 13 ruling, the apex court made it mandatory that appeals under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RTI">RTI</a> Act can be heard at the state information commissions only by benches comprising at least two ICs.<br />
The judgment has resulted in the work at information commissions
coming to a standstill in several states, including Rajasthan where
around 8000 appeals under the RTI are already pending.<br />
The government assurance came on a reply to high court’s query on a
public interest litigation (PIL) on the subject pending since last year.<br />
A division bench headed by chief justice Arun Kumar Mishra had
directed the state government on Monday to apprise the court of the
steps it had taken to comply with the SC verdict.<br />
Additional advocate general <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sushil-Kumar-Sharma">Sushil Kumar Sharma</a>
told the division bench that the government was all set to appoint the
ICs and the process would be completed within the next three weeks.<br />
Under the RTI Act, the chief information commissioner and the ICs are
appointed by a committee comprising the chief minister, the leader of
opposition and a cabinet minister.<br />
While the PIL filed by advocate Prakash Shukla has been pending in
court since September 2011, Aruna Roy, of the leading forces behind the
RTI movement in the country, recently moved an application before the
state administrative reforms department to know what steps had so far
been initiated to appoint the ICs. The government department, however,
failed to answer Roy’s query.<br />
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Conman lures 5 with HC jobs</h1>
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<li>By Praveen Kumar</li>
<li>DC</li>
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<ins>A data entry operator managed to take the police, social welfare
and other departments concerned for a ride in his effort to get jobs in
the Karnataka High Court for five aspirants from Bijapur and other
northern districts of the state. He had allegedly taken money from each
candidate. </ins><br />
<ins>The accused, along with his associates, had created a fake
letterhead of the Karnataka High Court and allegedly forged the
signature and seal of the High Court Registrar (Administration)
directing the officials to submit character/antecedents certificate,
caste and income certificates and medical fitness certificate which are
mandatory for applicants to government job.</ins><br />
<ins>Police have identified the suspect as B.G. Gopal, who was
working as a data entry operator at a business solutions firm on Old
Airport Road in Kodihalli. He had promised government jobs to family
members of his colleagues and others, mainly from Bijapur. All the
aspirants, who he had lured, had applied for the 2008 Karnataka Public
Service Commission (KPSC) exams for various posts. The aspirants were
assured that they would be given jobs as typist and first and second
division assistants in the Karnataka High Court. </ins><br />
<ins>With the help of the fake letterheads, signature and seal, Gopal
had asked the respective departments to issue the necessary
certificates. The character, antecedents, caste, income and medical
certificates of the five candidates were sent directly to the High Court
by the respective departments. Strangely, the High Court had not sought
any documents from any of the departments pertaining to the five
candidates and the officials were surprised when they got them.
Following this, Karnataka High Court Registrar (Vigilance) on June 26,
instructed the city police to conduct an inquiry. </ins><br />
<ins>The High Court Vigilance Cell officials, who conducted an
inquiry, found out that Nagappa, a resident of Bijapur, had applied for
the post of second division assistant, Aravind Gangaram Rathod,
Basavaraj Mullur and Banadevi Shanmukhappa of Bijapur district for the
post of first division assistant and Anasuya of Yadgir district for the
post of typist, and were promised jobs by Gopal. Of the five candidates,
Anusuya’s husband Mr Srinivas V. Joshi, was also working as a data
entry operator at a business solutions firm on Old Airport Road since
2006. Three years ago, Joshi’s colleague Gopal is alleged to have
promised a typist’s post in the Karnataka High Court for Anusuya and had
taken money. </ins><br />
<ins>Later, Mr Joshi along with his associates Shekarappa Sangappa
Hosahalli and Prakash Patil Rudre Gowda, met the four other job
aspirants with the promise of jobs. The report has been submitted to the
High Court Vigilance Registrar. Cases against B.G. Gopal, Srinivas V.
Joshi, Shekarappa Sangappa Hosahalli, Prakash Patil Rudre Gowda and the
five job aspirants have been registered. “We are in the process of
arresting them”, an officer of the High Court Vigilance Cell added.</ins><br />
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PIL against Bharti Walmart for FDI violation withdrawn in HC<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/pil-against-bharti-walmart-for-fdi-violation-withdrawn-in-hc/64044/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/pil-against-bharti-walmart-for-fdi-violation-withdrawn-in-hc/64044/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 03, 2012, 20:55<br />
Environmental activist Vandana Shiva today withdrew her PIL from the
Delhi High Court filed against Bharti Walmart Private Limited and Bharti
Retail Limited for alleged violation of FDI policy in retail sector.<br />
“I am withdrawing the petition,” the counsel for Shiva told a bench
headed by Chief Justice D Murugesan. The court allowed the plea.<br />
Earlier, the counsel for Shiva and Additional Solicitor General (ASG)
Rajeeve Mehra had said the PIL against the private joint venture firms
have been rendered infructious in the wake of new central policy on FDI
in retail sector.<br />
The ASG had told the bench, also comprising Justice Rajiv Sahai
Endlaw, that in the changed scenario, when the FDI in retail has been
allowed, the petition loses its relevance.<br />
Earlier, the court had issued notices to the Centre, Bharti Walmart
Private Limited and Bharti Retail Limited on the plea seeking a probe
against the firms for allegedly carrying out retail trading in
multi-brand sector in violation of India’s existing FDI policy.<br />
The PIL had alleged Bharti Walmart was illegally carrying out
multi-brand retail trade despite being permitted only to carry out
wholesale cash-and-carry trade here.<br />
Cash and carry is a form of trade in which goods are sold from a
wholesale warehouse and customers settle the invoice on the spot.<br />
The PIL also alleged that many established Indian firms are acting as
“front” for foreign firms to give their offshore partners a “majority
control and economic interest” in retail sector here.<br />
Walmart entered in a joint venture with Bharti Enterprises in 2007 for carrying out cash and carry wholesale trade in India.<br />
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Club’s resolution amounts to character assassination: HC</h1>
<a href="http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20121004201210040621521765fd8f2bc/Club%E2%80%99s-resolution-amounts-to-character-assassination-HC.html">http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20121004201210040621521765fd8f2bc/Club%E2%80%99s-resolution-amounts-to-character-assassination-HC.html</a><br />
Court suggests that Bangalore Club withdraw the resolution passed to oust former president<br />
S Shyam Prasad<br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 06:21:27 AM<br />
A former president of Bangalore Club, arguably the city’s most
prestigious club, has approached the high court against a resolution
passed by an extraordinary general body meeting of the club which
terminated his presidency.<br />
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MK Marattukalam petitioned the High Court that he was not an invitee
to the general body meeting at which he was ousted from the post of
president and even the car parking slot reserved for him was denied. It
is a tradition at the club to invite the president to general body
meetings.<br />
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In the previous hearing of the case by Justice N Ananda on September
10, the respondents, including the current president Feroze Sattar Sait,
had filed their objections.<br />
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During hearing of the case on Wednesday, the judge said, “You should
not have attacked him personally in the resolution. These resolutions
are public records. It is defamatory in nature and you are castigating a
person before you hear him. How can a resolution be character
assassination?”<br />
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Marattukalam’s advocate also told the court that on an earlier
occasion, another member, Gagan Chandy, had his membership suspended for
a period of two years for speaking up at a general body meeting. Chandy
too had approached court and the club had sought leave to withdraw the
resolution.<br />
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When the judge perused the submission, he found that in Chandy’s
case, Marattukalam was the president when the resolution suspending his
membership was passed.<br />
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The judge then commented, “So it has boomeranged on him (Marattukalam).”<br />
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Senior advocate Ashok Haranahalli, who was representing the
respondents, revealed that Marattukalam had not answered the notices
issued to him. But the judge replied, “A person’s character cannot be
assassinated without him being heard. If you reverse the process it can
put an end to all the problems. Call a general body meeting.”<br />
The case was posted for October 10.<br />
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Donor kin veto alone can’t stop organ gift to unrelated patient: Bombay high court</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Donor-kin-veto-alone-cant-stop-organ-gift-to-unrelated-patient-Bombay-high-court/articleshow/16662915.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Donor-kin-veto-alone-cant-stop-organ-gift-to-unrelated-patient-Bombay-high-court/articleshow/16662915.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Swati-Deshpande.cms">Swati Deshpande</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 05.07AM IST<br />
MUMBAI: In a landmark judgment, the Bombay HC has set aside a
government panel’s decision to prevent a Madhya Pradesh flour mill owner
from donating a kidney to his cousin, a goods loader, who is undergoing
treatment at Jaslok Hospital. The government panel—the state
authorization committee had rejected the cousin’s plea to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/donate">donate</a>
because his own brother and minor daughters were opposed to his
decision. The court has asked it to consider the man’s request again. <br />
India’s <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/transplantation">transplantation</a>
law allows only close family comprising spouse, parents and children to
donate organs. Unrelated donors require permission to give. <br />
Bombay HC has clarified that the law on transplantation of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/human-organs">human organs</a> “does not confer an overriding <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/veto">veto</a> on the next of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/kin">kin</a> of the donor” when the donor and donee are not close relatives. <br />
The bond of love and affection even when not ‘near’ relatives is key
to becoming a donor, it said. The court set aside the orders passed by
the authorization committee. <br />
A fact that was highlighted was that both men hail from a humble
background—one is a flour mill operator earning Rs 150 a day and another
a goods loader making Rs 6,000. <br />
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Amjad Sayed held that the
authorisation committee wrongly concluded that there was no bond of love
and affection between the donor and donee after the brother and
children of the donor, a single parent of two minor daughters, did not
consent to the donation and the near relatives of the patient did not
offer to donate. The Jaslok Hospital committee had approved the
donation. The HC ruled that “views of the next of kin are entitled to
deference but this is not to suggest that the committee, once a
disagreement is expressed would have no power to take an independent
decision based on the best interest of donor and recipient.” The judges
said, “Ultimately, the committee has to take a judicious decision after
considering all facts and aspects of law.” The court directed the
committee to consider the case “afresh, expeditiously and to hold a fair
inquiry into all facets of the law and facts.” <br />
“There is always a risk involved in a transplantation procedure,”
the HC said, adding, “But the degree of risk may vary from case to case
based on medical condition of donor. The impact of a donation on the
donor’s quality of life must be assessed and must be balanced with his
desire to save a life.” It added that need to save a life is also
significant from a public health perspective and directed that the
“committee must realistically look at at our societal milieu to
understand why a married daughter of a recipient may not be in a
position to donate a her kidney to her father. These are indeed
difficult question” The judges said, “The judge canot perform the role
of God or an expert” and left the decision-making to the committee. <br />
The HC pronounced the order on September 27, but the text of the
judgment was made available only on Wednesday. It declared that the
Transplantation of the Human Organs Act of 1994 which governs organ
donation in India “balances the autonomy of an individual as decision
maker with the societal interest in protecting family concerns. The Act
seeks to bring a health balance between need for organ transplantations
to save lives on one hand and public interest in ensuring that it does
not become a facade for exploitation or organ trafficking.” <br />
The case before the court, the judges said, “traverses medicine,
social ethics and law and has profound human implications.” It gave rise
to a delicate and sensitive issue of whether a single parent of two
minor daughters Vijaykumar Sahu could be permitted to donate one kidney
to Balmukund Sahu, his cousin—their fathers were brothers—on the grounds
that they were bound by affection arising from their family dwellings
in MP. Both lead modest lives. The patient is a goods-loader onto
vehicles and earns less than Rs 6,000 per month. <br />
The law in India, the court said, is aimed at saving lives and at
preventing exploitation of people’s poverty, illiteracy and ignorance.
The law thus allows “near relatives” defined as parents, husband or
wife, children and grandparents to donate organs while alive. But it
also allows a person who is “not a near relative” to donate organs out
of affection or attachment or any special reason” but only after prior
nod from a state-level committee. The committee is governed by certain
rules and must make an inquiry to rule out commercial transactions
between donor and donee and seek reasons why the donor wishes to donate.
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The law requires the committee to apply its mind, said the judges,
that affection is motivating factor. The HC said that the committee thus
had to consider the explanation for the link between the donor and
donee and can even rely on old photographs to prove the link. It has to
ascertain that no tout is involved. The views of the donor’s kin is to
ascertain that they are aware of the donor’s intentions. <br />
The court held that in the present case the fact that the donee’s
own relatives did not come forward to donate would not displace the
affection between the donor and donee.<br />
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Rape victim critical after suicide bid at HC premises</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Rape-victim-critical-after-suicide-bid-at-HC-premises/articleshow/16664438.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Rape-victim-critical-after-suicide-bid-at-HC-premises/articleshow/16664438.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 08.32AM IST<br />
New Delhi: A 35-year-old rape victim who allegedly tried to commit
suicide inside Delhi high court premises on October 1 is battling for
life at a private hospital in the Rohini area of northwest Delhi.<br />
Police said the woman had collapsed after consuming an insecticide
and was rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital. Later, she was shifted to
the ICU unit of another hospital.<br />
Family members of the accused had allegedly threatened to kill the woman and her family if she didn’t withdraw the case.<br />
One of her relatives said, “She had gone into depression after the
incident. When she came to the high court for the hearing, she was
threatened to take the case back. She went back to Sonepat but her
husband disowned her. When she appeared for hearing on October 1, the
brother of the accused asked her to turn hostile before the court.
Unable to think of a way out, she thought of ending her life.”<br />
A police source said that the victim, who belongs to Haryana, had
received an interview call in 2011. The victim alleged that she was
offered a cold drink laced with sedatives after consuming which she
collpsed on the floor. The accused then raped herand threatened her with
dire consequences if she disclosed the incident to anyone.<br />
The man was arrested the same year after a case was lodged at Vijay Vihar police station.<br />
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Sportsperson too can be nominated to Rajya Sabha: Centre to HC<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Sportsperson-too-can-be-nominated-to-Rajya-Sabha-Centre-to-HC/Article1-939377.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Sportsperson-too-can-be-nominated-to-Rajya-Sabha-Centre-to-HC/Article1-939377.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong>PTI</strong><br /> New Delhi, October 03, 2012<br />
Sachin Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha as per the
constitutional provision which also allows induction of experts from the
field of sports, government told the Delhi high court on Wednesday.<br />
Additional Solicitor General Rajeev Mehra said the provision under Article 80 <ins>of
the Constitution does not confine to inducting experts only from the
fields of science, arts, literature and social services but also those
from sports, education and other areas.</ins><br />
<ins>Mehra placed a copy of the affidavit, which was earlier filed in
the Allahabad High Court on a similar plea against Tendulkar’s
nomination to the Upper House, before the bench of Chief Justice D
Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw.</ins><br />
<ins>The senior counsel had told the bench earlier that the
government has already taken a stand before the Allahabad High Court on
the same issue and the copy of the affidavit would be produced for the
court’s perusal.</ins><br />
<ins>The centre was responding to a PIL filed by Ram Gopal Singh
Sisodia, a former Delhi MLA, challenging Sachin’s nomination alleging
that he does not possess any of the qualifications prescribed under
Article 80 of the Constitution for being nominated to the Rajya Sabha.</ins><br />
<ins>“A bare reading of the Article makes it clear that the person to
be nominated should have special knowledge or practical experience in
matters like literature, science, arts and social service, but the
expertise so required for nomination is not confined to the specific
illustrations given in the Article,” he said.</ins><br />
<ins>“The special knowledge and practical experience required for the
purpose is not confined to the said four categories only but would also
include categories like sports, education, law, history, academics
attainments, Indology, economics, journalism, parliamentary practice and
procedure, public administration, agriculture, sports (wrestling) or
other similar fields of human endeavour,” the affidavit said. </ins><br />
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<strong>Setback for ATS as Bombay HC grants bail to alleged Maoists</strong><br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 08:58:24 AM<br />
The two, among seven members who were arrested in Pune last year for
spreading the ideology of the banned organisation, have to report to the
police every Sunday<br />
Sunil Baghel In a setback to the Anti Terrorism Squad, the Bombay
High Court (HC) on Wednesday granted bail to two alleged Maoists, who
were among seven arrested from various parts of the State in April last
year. <br />
Justice Abhay Thipsay granted bail to Jyoti Chorge and Sushma
Ramtekke for Rs 30,000 each and one or two sureties of the like amount.
To ensure that they do not abscond, the court also directed them to
attend their local police station every Sunday. <br />
The ATS had accused Chorge and Ramtekke of being members of the
banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), and of spreading its ideology
as part of the Golden Corridor Committee, a panel formed to propagate
its doctrine in urban centres. Both of them were held in Pune, after the
arrest of Anjali Sontakke, alias Angela Teltumbde, who is alleged to be
the secretary of the Golden Corridor Committee. <br />
Apart from Chorge and Ramtekke taking a common defence stand that
their names never reflected in the original FIR, Ramtekke’s main defence
was that she was arrested simply because she was the roommate of Anjali
Sontakke, and that she was found to be using aliases. <br />
According to ATS, however, Ramtekke was a ‘dedicated member’ of the
outfit and had used at least two false names — Shraddha Gurav and
Madhavi More — while spreading the activities of the banned group. She
has also been accused of providing logistical support to Anjali and
attending group meetings. <br />
Chorge’s bail application contended that the pro-Maoist material she
was allegedly caught with did not belong to her, and that she had been
and the friend are also accused in the case. <br />
Chorge further said that she was arrested when she was about to hand
over the bags to the other accused whom she was meeting for the first
time. She was less than 19 years of age at the time of her arrest. <br />
The ATS defended their case by citing statements from the
chargesheet filed in May last year, and emphasising that the material
recovered from both of them showed that they were active members of the
banned organisation. However, the HC declined to accept their
submissions.<br />
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School inferno: HC orders plastic surgeries for two children<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/school-inferno-hc-orders-plastic-surgeries-for-two-children/64084/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/school-inferno-hc-orders-plastic-surgeries-for-two-children/64084/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Chennai October 03, 2012, 22:25<br />
Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu Government to bear
the expenses of proposed plastic surgeries on two children, who received
serious burns in the 2004 Kumbakonam school inferno.<br />
Passing interim orders on a miscellaneous petition, the court
directed private Apollo Hospitals to perform plastic surgeries on
Kausalya and Vijay “as soon as possible” and ordered Tamil Nadu
Government to bear the treatment expenses.<br />
Petitioner K Inbaraj, Secretary, Kumbakonam Fire Tragedy Victims
Association, submitted that the consultant plastic surgeon of the
hospital had said that the two children required plastic surgery and the
entire cost of the procedures would be around 1.25 lakh each.<br />
In its counter, the government said it had already paid an ex-gratia amount and also issued home pattas to families of victims.<br />
Justice D Hariparanthaman, in his order said, “The payment of
ex-gratia and issue of home pattas to families of the victims cannot
absolve the government from granting medical aid to children, who
received burn injuries.”<br />
Pointing out that the counter has not stated anything on the
treatment given to the children, the Judge said, “The 18 children
received severe burn injuries at eight years of age. Denying medical
treatment to children by the state is violation of Article 14 and 21 of
the Constitution.”<br />
“In these circumstances, Apollo Hospital is directed to admit these
two children for surgery as opined by its consultant plastic surgeon and
perform the surgery as suggested by doctor,” he said and posted the
matter for October 8.<br />
94 children were killed when a major fire swept through a private school in Kumbakonam on July 16, 2004.<br />
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HC stays LU students’ union polls</h1>
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<a href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/hc-stays-lu-students-union-polls/1011764/">http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/hc-stays-lu-students-union-polls/1011764/</a></h2>
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Express news service</h2>
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 at 0452 hrs IST<br />
<strong><ins>Lucknow</ins></strong><ins> <em>A student challenged the
rule which says that the permissible age limit to contest elections
shall be calculated as on the date of nomination. Otherwise, the age as
on the date of commencement of academic session is taken into
consideration for all purposes, he said</em> </ins><br />
<ins>The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court today stayed the
elections of Lucknow University Students Union (LUSU), which were
scheduled for October 15. </ins><br />
<ins>A bench comprising Justices Uma Nath Singh and Virendra Kumar
Dixit passed the order on a petition of Hemant Singh, a student, who
challenged the rule which says that the permissible age limit to contest
elections shall be calculated as on the date of nomination. </ins><br />
<ins>His counsel Prashant Singh Atal said ordinarily, the age as on
the date of commencement of academic session is taken into consideration
for all purposes. But, as a result of this rule, the petitioner had
become overage to contest the election. </ins><br />
<ins>The petitioner sought a direction to Lucknow University to
consider his candidature for contesting the students union election by
calculating his age as on the date of commencement of academic session. </ins><br />
<ins>“Other universities, including Delhi University and Hemvati
Nandan Bahuguna University, Dehradun, have considered the age of the
candidate as on the beginning of the academic session,” Hemant said. </ins><br />
<ins>The Lyngodh committee had recommended that elections should be
held within 6 to 8 weeks from the date of beginning of the academic
session. LU’s academic session started on July 16 but the election
notification was issued on September 25, nine days after the recommended
eight weeks’ time. “On September 27, I gave a memorandum to returning
officer N K Pandey and others, but no action was taken,” said Hemant. </ins><br />
<ins>“The notification for election has been issued after eight
weeks, and thus, the petitioner has stood disqualified to contest the
election only on the ground of being overaged which should ordinarily be
calculated as on the date of commencement of academic session,” said
the bench. </ins><br />
<ins>“In the interest of justice the LUSU polls scheduled for October
15 as notified on September 25 needs to be stayed till the next date of
hearing,” the court stated. </ins><br />
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Abhi Verma murder case: HC okays hanging, but defers execution to give time for appeal<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Hoshiarpur-murder-case-HC-clears-way-for-hanging-two-convicts/SP-Article1-939350.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Hoshiarpur-murder-case-HC-clears-way-for-hanging-two-convicts/SP-Article1-939350.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Sanjeev%20Verma&op=Story">Sanjeev Verma</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Chandigarh, October 03, 2012<br />
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday cleared the way for
hanging two convicts, Vikram Singh and Jasbir Singh, for kidnapping for
ransom and later committing a “cold-blooded murder” of a 16-year-old
Hoshiarpur (Punjab) boy Abhi Verma “in inhuman, diabolic and dastard
manner” in 2005.<br />
<ins> <br /> However, the division bench comprising justice Surya Kant
and justice RP Nagrath directed the Patiala central jail superintendent
to keep the death warrants, issued for October 5 by the Hoshiarpur
district and sessions judge, in abeyance till October 12, so as to
enable the convicts to avail their remedy of filing appeal in the
Supreme Court.</ins><br />
<ins>Finding no merit in the petition filed by Vikram Singh and
Jasbir Singh, the bench said petitioners’ submission has “no legs to
stand and must fall flat” adding that the decision “to hang the
petitioners to death has been unarguably taken following the procedure
established by law.”</ins><br />
<ins>Court had found Vikram, Jasbir and Jasbir’s wife Sonia of
kidnapping and later committing murder of a Hoshiarpur goldsmith Ravi
Verma’s son Abhi for a ransom of Rs. 50 lakhs in February 2005 in a
preplanned manner by injecting Chloroform and Fortwin in heavy doses to
the victim after tying both his hands and legs and sealing his mouth
with a tape to prevent the detection of offence. </ins><br />
<ins>The trial court had on September 3, 2005 convicted the trio
under sections 302 (murder), 364-A (kidnapping for ransom), 201 (causing
disappearance of evidence of offence) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy)
Indian Penal Code and sentenced all of them to death.</ins><br />
<ins>Later the high court had on May 30, 2008 confirmed the death
sentence awarded to the three accused. The convicts filed an appeal in
the Supreme Court, which on January 25, 2010 upheld death sentence in
case of Vikram and Jasbir. However, Sonia’s death sentence was commuted
to life sentence.</ins><br />
<ins>With an intention to linger on the death sentence awarded to
them, Vikram and Jasbir had approached the high court challenging the
legality of convicting them under section 364-A of IPC and had sought
directions to strike down the section from IPC stating it against
articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.</ins><br />
<ins>The petitioners had informed that the legislative object of
‘death’ as one of the sentences for the offence under section 364-A was
to curb the menace of cross-border terrorism in kidnapping cases against
‘the government or any foreign state or international intergovernmental
organization’ and not to punish any individual. </ins><br />
<ins>However, the bench said that the petitioners’ counsel’s
“contention completely overlooks the fact that the phrase “any other
person” was inserted in section 364-A at the onset only to punish a
private individual’s kidnapping for ransom.”</ins><br />
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HIV tests: HC seeks opinion of national body</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/HIV-tests-HC-seeks-opinion-of-national-body/articleshow/16661472.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/HIV-tests-HC-seeks-opinion-of-national-body/articleshow/16661472.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 01.50AM IST<br />
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Institute-of-Biologicals">National Institute of Biologicals</a> to give its opinion on whether Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test should be adopted instead of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Elisa-%28musician%29">ELISA</a> for reduction of window period in HIV check up during blood transfusion.<br />
The division bench of Chief Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhaskar-Bhattacharya">Bhaskar Bhattacharya</a>
and Justice J B Pardiwala has roped in the national institute after it
obtained response from the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) and
the controller of drugs.<br />
The court has been making inquiry in this issue on the basis of a PIL
filed by one Babulal Thakkar, who sought HC directions to authorities
with claims that with adoption of PCR test instead of ELISA, the window
period for check up could be reduced drastically.<br />
The national institute has been asked to throw light on this aspect
by October 19. Meanwhile, the high court has deleted Thakkar’s name from
the PILs he filed in this regard after it was brought to court’s notice
that he had sought registration of FIR against prime minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh">Manmohan Singh</a>, UPA chairperson <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sonia-Gandhi">Sonia Gandhi</a> and NACO director Satyen Chatterji for alleged corrupt practices.<br />
The court has decided to continue with the PILs sans Thakker, who
used to appear as party-in-person. The court has held that the issue
raised by the petitioner was of very serious nature and concerns public
interest.<br />
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HC seeks AG views on contempt proceedings against officials<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-seeks-ag-viewscontempt-proceedings-against-officials/64087/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-seeks-ag-viewscontempt-proceedings-against-officials/64087/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Jaipur October 03, 2012, 22:45<br />
Rajasthan High Court today sought the Advocate General’s opinion on
possible action it can take after finding state officials guilty of
committing contempt of court during 2008 gurjar agitation for quota.<br />
The Court was hearing the contempt petition filed by the government against Gurjar leader K S Bainsla who had led the stir.<br />
The single bench of Justice M C Sharma had earlier issued contempt
notice to former Chief Secretary D C Samant for his failure to comply
with the court’s 2008 order asking the gurjar leaders not to disrupt law
and order and the government to ensure its strict compliance.<br />
Following this, government had filed the contempt petition against Bainsla and other Gurjar leaders.<br />
The bench was of the view that while the gujjar leaders are guilty of
flouting court’s order, at the same time the state government had also
miserably failed to see compliance of court’s order and the entire chaos
was outcome of failure of state machinery.<br />
The bench had also asked the state government to withdraw the proceedings but the state government refused to do so.<br />
The court today asked Advocate General G S Bapnah to frame opinion
and inform it on November 5 as to what should be done by the court as it
finds the officials guilty of contempt and also what were the reasons
for the chaos that took place during gurjar agitation despite court’s
order of peaceful demonstrations.<br />
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Residents move HC against school construction</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/residents-move-hc-against-school-construction/1011672/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/residents-move-hc-against-school-construction/1011672/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Thu Oct 04 2012, 02:00 hrs<br />
A group of residents of Oshiwara and Lokhandwala have approached the
Bombay High Court against the setting up of an international school in
the area.<br />
The petitioners, the Oshiwara Lokhandwala Residents’ Association
(OLCA), have a filed a petition which was heard before a Division Bench
of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar.<br />
According to them, the construction of the school premises is being
carried out on two adjoining Maharashtra Housing and Area Development
Authority (MHADA) plots measuring 2,160 sq m and 3,850 sq m. They claim
that these two plots were reserved for a municipal school, a common
playground respectively and were open spaces.<br />
Their petition further states that in response to their query, they
received a MHADA response stating that both plots, though reserved, were
leased to one Janata Education Society for 30 years in August 2008.<br />
In July this year, the residents had taken out a protest march to
voice their concerns on the issue. They claim that they have written
several letters to authorities on the issue, but did not get any
response.<br />
The petitioners demand that the trust should be restrained from
carrying out any further construction on the plot and restore the area
to its original condition.<br />
The court has now asked the state government and the trust to file
their affidavits in response to the petition within three weeks.<br />
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HC grants pre-arrest bail to Karunanidhi’s relative<br />
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-grants-pre-arrest-bail-to-karunanidhis-relative/64099/<br />
Press Trust of India / Chennai October 03, 2012, 23:25<br />
Madras High Court today granted anticipatory bail to V M Jyothimani,
son-in-law of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s daughter
Selvi, in a land fraud case with stringent conditions including Rs 50
lakh deposit in the lower court.<br />
Passing orders on Jyothimani’s plea, Justice G M Akbar Ali ordered
that he be released on bail in the event of arrest or on his appearance
before the XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, within 15 days from the
date of receipt of the copy of the order.<br />
He should also execute a bond for Rs one lakh with two sureties each
for the like sum, the court said, Jyothimani shall deposit a sum of Rs
50,00,000 before XI Metropolitan Magistrate within a period of two weeks
from the date of receipt of the order, it said.<br />
He shall produce property security to the value of Rs 1.25 crore
standing either in the name of the petitioner or his close relatives and
also execute security bond to that effect, it said.<br />
The petitioner shall appear before the police daily at 10 AM for a
period of two weeks, the Judge said, adding he should produce all
necessary documents, including bank statements, and cooperate with the
investigation.<br />
In his complainant to police, V Nedumaran of Valasarawakkam alleged
that Jyothimani had promised to sell him 2.94 acre of land in Thalambur
village for Rs 5.14 crore, after claiming to be the property’s power
agent in 2007 but did not execute the sale.<br />
Though Jyothimani received a cheque for Rs 3.5 crore as advance, he
“did not come forward to execute the sale nor did he return the money,”
the petitioner alleged, adding that instead the said property was sold
to another person.<br />
He further alleged that Jyothimani did not entertain phone calls made by him.<br />
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<strong>HC extends stay on felling of trees</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282930/hc-extends-stay-felling-trees.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282930/hc-extends-stay-felling-trees.html</a><br />
Bangalore, Oct 3, 2012, DHNS:<br />
<strong>The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday extended the stay on
felling of trees for road widening within BBMP area and questioned the
significance of the Tree Authority and the Karnataka Preservation of
Trees Act.</strong><br />
The court was hearing a petition filed by the Environment Support
Group (ESG) and a suo motu PIL initiated by the High Court, following a
letter by Justice D V Shylendrakumar to the erstwhile chief justice in
2011. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and
Justice B V Nagarathna extended the stay and clubbed the petition with
another suo motu petition, where the High Court, on September 4, 2012,
had told the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) that no trees
shall be felled for road construction or widening on NH-218 passing
through Bijapur, Humnabad and Gulbarga.<br />
The petitioners cited BBMP’s claim that it had planted over eight
lakh trees and contended that the Palike did not state where it planted
the trees. They submitted that status of the planted trees was not known
and the Tree Authority “was indiscriminately permitting the felling.”
The Bench also questioned the Tree Authority’s significance. “Prima
facie, we feel that the public must be made aware of a proposal for
removal of trees by issuing a public notice so that objections can be
invited. The Act does not provide any machinery in this regard,” the
Bench noted.<br />
“So far as the availability of an appeal is concerned, it seems to
us that it may be futile in those instances where the tree officer
grants permission to fell a tree. The public perception is that such
orders are executed instantly and at night.”<br />
Upholding the submission of the petitioners that members of the Tree
Authority were “not satisfactory,” the Bench observed: “The Act does
not seem to cater for such an eventuality. Further more, so far as the
constitution of the feller body is concerned, it comprises three members
such as mayor or president of the Municipal Corporation, the municipal
commissioner or the chief executive etc, who are in effect the persons
proposing the felling or keeping of a particular tree. This may amount
to a person being a judge in his own cause and is an anathema in law.” <br /> The matter has been adjourned.<br />
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No U-turn near mall on e-way: HC</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/No-U-turn-near-mall-on-e-way-HC/articleshow/16663202.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/No-U-turn-near-mall-on-e-way-HC/articleshow/16663202.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 05.45AM IST<br />
CHANDIGARH: Taking up the issue of vehicular congestion on the
Delhi-Gurgaon expressway, Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday
issued orders prohibiting U-turn near Ambience mall in Gurgaon during
rush hours.<br />
As per the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/HC">HC</a>
directions, no U-turn will be allowed near Ambience mall between 8 am
and 11 am in the morning hours and from 5 pm to 8 pm during evening
hours. The HC has asked Haryana Police to block the U-turn.<br />
When the matter came up for hearing before the high court, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gurgaon-police">Gurgaon police</a>
informed the court that the situation has not improved at the toll
plaza and traffic jams and chaos are back. Gurgaon police has also
reiterated it earlier stand that the location of the toll plaza is not
appropriate and its design is also faulty. Police also alleged that
underpasses/bridge at the expressway are not maintained and due to
faults around 200 persons have lost their lives while around 306 has
been injured in the past two years.<br />
The issue of payment to the police was also raised, following which
the concessionaires submitted that they would agree on the amount
settled by the court. Assistant commissioner of police Ravinder Kumar,
who was also present in the court, pleaded the court for implementation
of the rule that if waiting time of vehicles in queue in any lane
exceeds 10 minutes the barrier of that lane should be lifted to reduce
the waiting time.<br />
During the hearing of the case, one Attar Singh, claiming to be
representative of Toll Hatao Samiti, tried to intervene in the matter
but the court refused to entertain his pleas and adjourned the matter
for October 8.<br />
During the last hearing on September 28, the Punjab and Haryana high
court had ordered that no toll should be collected from private vehicles
during peak office hours in the morning and evening. As per the orders,
there will be no collection of toll from 8.30am to 10am and again from
5.30pm to 7pm. Now the same orders would continue till October 8.<br />
Earlier on September 4, after pulling up the expressway operator for
failing to put an end to chaos at the toll plaza, the HC had barred toll
collection from all private as well as commercial vehicles on the
stretch. The direction to stop toll fee collection came after the
Gurgaon traffic police informed the court that the concessionaire was
responsible for the chaos at the expressway because it had not hired
enough staff to deal with traffic.<br />
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Raze 3,000 houses in a month: HC</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Raze-3000-houses-in-a-month-HC/articleshow/16664169.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Raze-3000-houses-in-a-month-HC/articleshow/16664169.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.59AM IST<br />
<ins> JAIPUR: An HC division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Meena V Gomber came down heavily on the JDA, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JMC">JMC</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RHB">RHB</a> for their failure in complying the order of the bench to remove <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/encroachments">encroachments</a>
falling in the Amanishah Nullah. The court ordered demolition of more
than 3,000 dwelling units said to be encroaching on the 13km stretch of
the nullaha falling in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JDA">JDA</a> and JMC region with some segregated constuctions in Mansarovar Housing Board area.</ins><br />
The bench also initiated contempt proceedings against former CEO of JMC, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Loknath-Soni">Loknath Soni</a>
for not taking any action in the last one month despite court’s order
to remove encroachments. The bench has also directed the state
government to taken action within 10 days against guilty officials who
allowed illegal constructions or granted permission for construction and
the land conversions in the catchment area and inform the court during
next hearing after 15 days.<br />
The court however, refused to extend time limit for compliance to 6
months as sought by JDA and asked that all the 3,000 or more houses that
have been built in the water flow area of the original nullaha should
be razed in one month.<br />
The court also asked JDA, JMC and RHB to issue notices to the
encroachers to remove their dwelling units and make paper publication of
the proposed action of demolition of their houses in newspapers.<br />
The bench recorded statements of Arvind Arya, superintending
engineer of JDA, J S Yadav, CEO of JMC and A A Khan, deputy housing
commissioner and expressed displeasure over the slow pace of removal of
encroachments. It was submitted by JDA officials and senior advocate R N
Mathur appearing for JDA that due to public resentment officials were
stopped from taking any steps.<br />
The court was told that out of a total 48km stretch of the nullah
only 39km falls in JDA region and out of this 170 encroachments have
been removed and only a 6km thickly populated stretch remains. On a
query raised by court it admitted that around 800-1,000 houses are there
in this region.<br />
Similary, JMC said that only 7km area of the nullah is in its
purview where more than 2,000 houses are within or near the catchment
area of the nullah but no single house was served with the notice in the
last one month owing to JDA not demarcating the central line. The
housing board said there is no encroachment in the 6.5km stretch of
nullah passing from Pratap Nagar and Mansarovar except that of Neerja
Modi School which has already been demolished by JDAJDA. There is hardly
any requirement of a central line except in a small stretch. The body
language of officials speaks volume in itself showing they are under
tremendous pressure and they do not seems willing to follow our orders.
We know how to get the orders complied with,”observed Justice
Mishra.JDA, Justice Mishra observed, “You are yourself responsible for
this situation. You have allowed them to erect illegal constructions.
You are trustee of this public land and now you say we cannot remove
encroachments. Can this be a sensible statement? We record our strong
displeasure over the fact that a large number of encroachments are still
holding ground.”<br />
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HC orders status quo on memorial of spiritual leader</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-orders-status-quo-on-memorial-of-spiritual-leader/1011751/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-orders-status-quo-on-memorial-of-spiritual-leader/1011751/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/pti/">Press Trust of India</a> : Mumbai, Thu Oct 04 2012, 04:26 hrs<br />
The Bombay High Court has granted a status quo on the memorial of
Maharashtra’s spiritual leader Dr Nanasaheb alias Narayan Vishnu
Dharmadhikari, proposed to come up in Alibag taluka of Raigad district
at a cost of Rs 20 crore.<br />
The status quo was granted last week by a Bench headed by Justice A M
Khanvilkar who heard a petition filed by some villagers of Bamangaon
group gram panchayat in Alibag taluka alleging unlawful acquisition of a
12-acre land by the state government without following procedures.<br />
Dharmadhikari, who died in Pune in 2008, has a huge following in the
state. He had devoted 60 years of his life in public service in Raigad
district on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra.<br />
On March 28, 2011, the urban development department had directed the
Raigad collector to take possession of the land. On the same day, the
collector took possession of the land and made entries in the land
record, the petition filed by Ashok Raut and Prabhakar Raut alleged.<br />
The petition has taken objection to the acquisition of land for
erecting memorial for the spiritual leader, saying the land is currently
used for grazing cattle and this practice has been going on for ages.<br />
Also, proper procedures were not followed in land acquisition, it alleged.<br />
The petition argued that the collector had not given a hearing to the
villagers on the acquisition of land, against the principle of natural
justice, adding that the decision violated their fundamental rights.<br />
They cited a rule that if the possession of land is with gram
panchayat, the government can acquire it only if the land is needed for a
national or state development project, provided the gram panchayat does
not require the land.<br />
The petitioners had urged the court to quash the urban development department’s order and grant a status quo on the project.<br />
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HC stays construction of residential projects in Noida</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-stays-construction-of-residential-projects-in-noida/1011770/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-stays-construction-of-residential-projects-in-noida/1011770/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Allahabad, Thu Oct 04 2012, 04:57 hrs<br />
The Allahabad High Court today stayed the construction of
multi-storey residential projects of nearly half-a-dozen private
developers in sectors 75 and 120 of Noida, while hearing a petition
alleging that the Noida Authority allotted land to private builders
without formally acquiring it from the farmers.<br />
The court has given two weeks time to the respondents to file their
replies. The matter will come up for further hearing after three weeks. A
division bench of Acting Chief Justice Amitava Lala and Justice PKS
Baghel said that the allegations made in the petition raised a question
of law as to whether any public authority had the power to allot land to
a third party without first acquiring it from the land owner.<br />
The petition filed by Kalu, a farmer of Sarsabad village, through
counsels Shiv Kant Tripathi and Amrita Rai, said that on April 7, 2011, a
notification under Section 4 (indicating the intention of the Authority
concerned to acquire land) of the Land Acquisition Act for 120 hectares
in Sectors 75 and 120, falling in Sarsabad village, was issued.<br />
Nearly six lakh square metres of land, which is roughly half of the
total area for which the notification was issued, was allotted to
different builders between 2010 and 2012 without the acquisition process
being complete, said the petition.<br />
“Our contention is that 17 months after the notice under Section 4
was issued, the acquisition process has not moved forward. Under the
norms, the notice under Section 6 (pertaining to finalising the plots to
be acquired) of the Act should have been issued within a year. Also,
our main objection is land could not be allotted to private builders
before it was acquired from farmers,” said Mishra. He added that all the
private developers involved have begun construction on the allotted
land.<br />
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HC to hear plea against land acquisition on Oct 15</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/HC-to-hear-plea-against-land-acquisition-on-Oct-15/articleshow/16663326.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/HC-to-hear-plea-against-land-acquisition-on-Oct-15/articleshow/16663326.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Vishwas-Kothari.cms">Vishwas Kothari</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 06.00AM IST<br />
PUNE: The Bombay high court is likely to hear on October 15 a couple
of writ petitions challenging the acquisition of the 20-acre private
land at survey no 245 in Lohegaon by the Pune district administration to
facilitate the extension of runway at the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lohegaon-airfield">Lohegaon airfield</a>.<br />
The acquisition process was completed on March 5, 2011 by way of invoking the urgency clause under section 17 of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Land-Acquisition">Land Acquisition</a> Act, 1894 and the land has since been handed over to the Defence Estate Officer (DEO), Pune.<br />
However, the runway project, which was sanctioned by the Union
government almost a decade ago, has since been bogged down by a spate of
litigations in the high court as well as in the civil court in the
city.<br />
K M Talera, owner of a private resort that owns the acquired land,
has filed the writ petition challenging the legal validity of the
acquisition process. The petitioner has sought the high court directives
to quash and set aside the acquisition and hand the land back to him.
Another writ petition, filed by the Ex-servicemen Association of
Lohegaon has been clubbed with this matter.<br />
At the last hearing on July 31, the high court division bench of
justices S A Bobde and Mrudula Bhatkar had granted time to either
parties for conveying their willingness for mediation to resolve the
issue.<br />
Speaking to TOI, Talera said, “We have challenged the land
acquisition on the grounds that the process was not effected by a
competent authority, as laid down under the Land Acquisition (LA) Act,
1894 that is applicable to the central government. The acquisition has
been done under the LA Act, 1894 that is applicable to the state
government. This should not have been the case as the acquisition
purpose is for a central government establishment. It is also our case
that the purpose of acquisition of our land is malafide and the land
comes nowhere near the runway.”<br />
T S Arockianathan, the then DEO, Pune, has filed an affidavit in
reply maintaining that the acquisition of land was completed under the
LA Act, 1894 as applicable to Union of India, in due compliance with all
the legal procedures and following due process of law. “It is a normal
practice that when the land, which is subject matter of a particular
state, is to be acquired by the central government for a public purpose,
a requisition / demand is raised to the concerned state government
machineries. Accordingly, Pune Divisional Commissioner and the special
land acquisition officer has the authority and jurisdiction for the
acquisition of the land,” the affidavit states.<br />
On December 3, 2003, the Union government had sanctioned acquisition
of the 20 acre private land at survey no 245 in village Lohegaon for
extension of runway and construction of a soft ground arrester at a cost
of Rs 7.54 crore. A demand for land acquisition was placed before the
Pune district’s land acquisition officer by the DEO, Pune on March 10,
2004. However, the acquisition proceedings could not go further till
early 2007, prompting the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ministry-of-Defence">Ministry of Defence</a>
to write to the then state chief secretary, B K Sankaran, to speed up
the acquisition process. Subsequently, the Pune divisional commissioner
had issued a couple of notifications on February 13, 2007 and on
September 28, 2007, the latter invoking the urgency clause, to
facilitate the acquisition.<br />
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<strong>Delhi HC relief to Bharti Airtel: Ban on 3G roaming pacts stayed</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-to-appoint-more-mcoca-judges/1011687/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-to-appoint-more-mcoca-judges/1011687/0</a><br />
<strong>However, the court has asked Bharti Airtel to respond to the show cause notice issued to them by DoT within 60 days</strong><br />
<strong>BS Reporter / Oct 04, 2012, 01:00 IST</strong><br />
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In a major relief to 3G subscribers of Bharti Airtel, the Delhi High
Court on Wednesday granted a stay on a government order asking the
telecom major to stop offering 3G mobile services outside their licensed
areas through roaming pacts.<br />
The Delhi HC has asked the department of telecommunications (DoT) to
not take any coercive action until the next hearing of the case. This
effectively means that Bharti Airtel can continue to offer 3G services
in the seven circles-Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kolkata, Uttar Pradesh
East, Gujarat, Kerala and Haryana- where it does not have 3G spectrum,
but offers 3G services through roaming pacts. The date for next hearing
has not been decided.<br />
However, the court has asked Bharti Airtel to respond to the show cause notice issued to them by DoT within 60 days.<br />
Country’s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Monday had filed a
petition in the Delhi High Court challenging an advisory by DoT which
asked the operator to stop intra-circle 3G roaming services within three
days.<br />
In its plea, Bharti Airtel had sought quashing of the government’s
September 28, 2012 decision directing the service provider to stop
providing intra-circle roaming (ICR) services and alleged that the
decision is contrary to the interim orders passed by the Telecom
Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT).<br />
When contacted Bharti Airtel spokesperson declined to comment as the matter is sub judice.<br />
However, industry association representing GSM players, COAI welcomed
the High Court’s decision. According to COAI (Cellular operators
Association of India) Director-General Rajan Mathews “This (stay on DoT
notice) is a good move. Intra circle roaming is for consumers as it
increases competition and reduces tariff, it is good for the government
as well as through intra circle roaming as it leads to maximum
utilization of spectrum.” On September 28, DoT had issued a notice to
Bharti Airtel, asking the telecom operators to stop providing
third-generation (3G) mobile services through roaming pacts outside its
licensed circles.<br />
DoT had also indicated that similar notices would be sent to Vodafone and Idea Cellular.<br />
Though, both Vodafone and Idea are yet to receive notices from the DoT, the Delhi HC stay order augurs well for them.<br />
In the auction of 3G airwaves in a 2010, no single company managed to
get spectrum in all of the country’s 22 zones. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone
and Idea had entered into mutual agreements to offer 3G services in
circles where they could not bag 3G spectrum. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone,
Idea Cellular, are currently, offering 3G roaming services through such
intracircle roaming pacts.<br />
Airtel has 3G spectrum in 13 circles but offers 3G services in 20
circles. Idea Cellular has 3G spectrum in 11 circles but offers 3G
services in 19 circles. While Vodafone has spectrum in only nine
circles, it offers 3G services to its customers in 20 circles. The
number of circles where 3G spectrum was auctioned is 22.<br />
Over one fifth of the 30 million 3G customers across the country
would be affected if the three operators suspend the intra circle
roaming pact.<br />
DoT had ruled such pacts illegal in December 2011 and asked the
operators to stop offering 3G services beyond their licensed circles
through roaming agreements. The operators had filed a petition
challenging DoT’s verdict in the Telecom Disputes Settlement &
Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT). Tata Teleservices and Aircel was also party
in the petition filed by the telcos.<br />
A two-member bench of TDSAT in July gave a spilt verdict on the
matter. While member P K Rastogi said the operators could not provide
roaming services, as they were not allowed to provide 3G services with
2G licences, Chairman Justice S B Sinha ordered DoT to start the
procedure afresh, as the department had not followed proper procedure
and the operators were not given enough time to present their views.<br />
Following the spilt verdict, the operators were maintaining “status-quo” and continuing with their 3G roaming pacts.<br />
Though the operators paid higher prices for bagging 3G airwaves, but
the uptake of the service remained, slow among the subscribers partly
due to the high cost of such services.<br />
Shares of Bharti Airtel closed at Rs 265.65, up by 0.15 per cent at the Bombay Stock Exchange.<br />
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High Court seeks details ofposts for JPNAIIMS</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/High-Court-seeks-details-ofposts-for-JPNAIIMS/articleshow/16661827.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/High-Court-seeks-details-ofposts-for-JPNAIIMS/articleshow/16661827.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.35AM IST<br />
PATNA: Patna high court on Wednesday directed the central government
to submit details of the posts of doctors, teachers and paramedical
staff for the Jaya Prakash Narain All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (JPNAIIMS). The Centre also has to give the particulars of the
doctors already appointed for the JPNAIIMS.<br />
A division bench comprising Justice P C Verma and Justice A K Trivedi
also directed the Centre to give particulars of the outpatient
departments (OPDs) to be opened at the JPNAIIMS. The order was passed on
a PIL of Council for Protection of Public Rights and Welfare.<br />
Unhappy with the submission made by the counsel of the contractor
firm, M/s B L Kashyap and Company that the construction of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JPNAIIMS">JPNAIIMS</a>
hospital would be completed by May next year, the division bench
directed the contractor to give undertaking that it would complete the
hospital building by December 31, 2012, and hand over the building to
JPNAIIMS functionaries to make the hospital functional from that day.<br />
The contractor claimed that 90% of the hospital building had been
constructed. The court, however, directed the advocates’ committee
comprising the standing counsel <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shashi-Bhusan-Kumar">Shashi Bhusan Kumar</a>, petitioner’s counsel Brajesh Kumar and central government counsel <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vinay-Kumar">Vinay Kumar</a> Pandey, to inspect the site and submit the progress report.<br />
The court directed the principal secretary, state building
construction department, Bihar to start construction of the boundary
wall of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Guru-Gobind-Singh">Guru Gobind Singh</a>
Hospital, Patna City. Standing counsel Shashi Bhushan Kumar submitted
that the government had released Rs 1.87 crore for construction of its
boundary wall.<br />
The court directed the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bihar-State-Electricity-Board">Bihar State Electricity Board</a>
(BSEB) to ensure uninterrupted power supply to Guru Gobind Singh
Hospital. The court also directed the principal secretary, road
construction department, and SSP, Patna, to take appropriate action for
smooth flow of traffic on the road leading to the hospital.<br />
PIL for doctors’ appointment: A division bench comprising Justice T <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Meena-Kumari">Meena Kumari</a> and Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chakradhari-Sharan-Singh">Chakradhari Sharan Singh</a> recently directed the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-government">state government</a>
to file counter affidavit to a PIL giving details of the number of
vacant posts of doctors in government hospitals right from the medical
colleges and hospitals down to the additional primary health centres
(APHCs). The court also directed the government to give details of
availability of medicines in the government hospitals down to APHCs.<br />
The court gave eight weeks time to the government to give details of
the vacant posts of doctors in government hospitals. Petitioner
Dhirendra Kumar has made the health department officials and all the
district magistrates and civil surgeons of the state respondents seeking
from them the details of the number of vacant posts in the medical
colleges and hospitals, sadar and subdivisional hospitals, primary
health centres (PHCs) and APHCs.<br />
Petitioner’s counsel Sunil Kumar submitted that 60% posts of doctors
in the government hospitals, PHCs and APHCs were lying vacant and due to
this the existing doctors and paramedical staff were unable to cope
with the workload.<br />
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11 child labourers rescued in Gumla</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/11-child-labourers-rescued-in-Gumla/articleshow/16663760.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/11-child-labourers-rescued-in-Gumla/articleshow/16663760.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.01AM IST<br />
GUMLA: A team of government officials here rescued as many as 11 child labourers from different places here on Wednesday.<br />
Seven people, who had employed the children in their trade will be
prosecuted and a fine of Rs 20,000 will also be slapped on them, said
labour superintendent Ramesh Prasad Singh.<br />
All these children hailing from different localities of the township were handed over to the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Child-Welfsare-Committee">Child Welfsare Committee</a> (CWC), Gumla.<br />
Some of these children showed their willingness to go back to school
before district social welfare officer (DSO) Gumla- Girija Shankar
Prasad who led the raid team soon after they were recovered.<br />
Prasad took these children to his office where the children asked him, “Sir, will you teach us?”.<br />
“We raided seven places from where 11 children engaged in different
menial jobs were recovered. They were working in a hotel, two hand carts
and four garages. Now we will hand them over to Child Welfare Committee
(CWC).” Prasad said.<br />
These children will be under protection of the CWC Gumla and those
who are willing to study will be enrolled under formal schooling, said
its chairman Shambhu Singh.<br />
Presently these children will be lodged in a school for hearing and speech impaired here.<br />
After verification from their parents, further action for their rehabilitation will be taken, he added.<br />
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<strong>Govt proposes national centre to regulate chemical industry</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/govt-proposes-national-centre-to-regulate-chemical-industry/488428/">http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/govt-proposes-national-centre-to-regulate-chemical-industry/488428/</a><br />
<strong>Anindita Dey / Mumbai Oct 04, 2012, 00:36 IST</strong><br />
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The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers had proposed to set up a
national chemical centre to formulate environment and human-friendly
policies and contain risks posed by chemicals.<br />
This is aimed at streamlining legislation governing the industry and
making entities concerned responsible for their acts. The industry, at
present, is governed by multiple legislations under several ministries —
the Environment Protection Act, 1986; Factories Act, 1948; Motor
Vehicles Act, 1988; Explosives Act, 1884; Disaster Management Act, 2005;
CWC Act, 2000 and Land Acquisition Act, 1894.<br />
“What we need is a REACH (registration, evaluation, authorisation and
restriction of chemicals) legislation enacted in the European Union for
protecting human health and environment. The Sustainable Policy and
Chemical Act could replace 40 different environment-related
legislations. Besides, there are no specific legislations for
registration, ban and classification of substances,” said an official
source.<br />
For this, the proposed centre would provide necessary regulatory
framework, trade practices, duty structure and maintain an inventory of
the chemical sector containing data on production, consumption, imports,
exports and toxicological properties.<br />
It also envisages setting up of the Chemical Standard Development
Organisation under its jurisdiction to facilitate the industry to comply
with international standards. The objective of these changes are
primarily to increase exports and position India as the research and
development hub for the sub-continent.<br />
Exports have been affected by different guidelines across countries,
specifically in Europe. Though chemical exports (drug and pharma,
dye/intermediates/inorganic/organic and cosmetic/toiletries) grew by 34
per cent year over the year, much of the increase in CY12 has been due
to rupee depreciation rather than actual volume because quantity-wise
there has been only marginal increase in exports across categories.
Also, there is need to diversify into speciality chemicals rather than
focus on organic chemicals to exploit export opportunities.<br />
For this, consolidation is necessary.<br />
The government proposes to provide financial assistance for chemical
companies for consolidation of smaller capacities and establish clusters
by shifting downstream capacities closer to mother plants .<br />
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CCI set to get search and seizure powers</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/CCI-set-to-get-search-and-seizure-powers/articleshow/16663755.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/CCI-set-to-get-search-and-seizure-powers/articleshow/16663755.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Surojit-Gupta.cms">Surojit Gupta</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.00AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: The government is set to give search and seizure powers to
the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to help it investigate
companies indulging in unfair trade practices.<br />
Sources said it is one of the most significant elements in the amendments being proposed to the Competition Act, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/2007">2007</a>
that would be discussed by the Union Cabinet on Thursday. The move will
help the director general (investigation), who is attached to the CCI,
to get information from companies that are not cooperating.<br />
A probe by the DG is at the heart of most orders passed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CCI">CCI</a>
as it helps establish if a firm or an industry is indulging in unfair
practices. Often, in the absence of data from companies investigation is
hampered, officials said. As a result, the DG is now being given powers
under the Code of Criminal Procedure with the safeguard that search and
seizure can be done after getting a nod from the CCI chairman.<br />
If the move on search and seizure is aimed at improving the quality
of investigation by the fairplay watchdog, the government is also
looking to provide protection to intellectual property systems of
companies and other entities that deal with CCI.<br />
In addition, in a move to help hasten mergers and acquisitions, the
government is proposing in that a proposal would be deemed to be
approved within 180 days, instead of 210 days prescribed at present.
Currently, all M&As over a specified value have to be approved by
CCI to check against creation of mega enterprises that dictate market
terms. In fact, the law empowers CCI to seek an investigation to find
out if a proposed combination is against the interests of consumers or
not.<br />
Similarly, companies can now hope to get an extension of 180 days,
instead of 90 days, provided in the law at present as there is a
proposal to amend the law to give more time if an extension is sought.
Although the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Competition-Act">Competition Act</a>
has been in place since 2007, CCI decided to use the powers to clear
M&As only last year. The law also empowers the regulator to ask
companies to divide their business into multiple units in case it is
felt that the entity has assumed a dominant position in the market.<br />
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Rent act a damp squib, doesn’t cover existing tenancies</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rent-act-a-damp-squib-doesn-t-cover-existing-tenancies/1011668/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rent-act-a-damp-squib-doesn-t-cover-existing-tenancies/1011668/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/chitleenksethi/">Chitleen K Sethi </a>: Chandigarh, Thu Oct 04 2012, 01:58 hrs<br />
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Seventeen years after it was passed by the Assembly, the Punjab Rent
Control Act-1995, which is now going to be finally implemented, brings
no cheer to those looking forward to it the most. The Act is going to be
implemented prospectively — from the date of notification — and will
protect the interests of only those landlords and tenants who sign rent
agreements and deeds after the date of notification.<br />
Thousands of landlords and tenants who are embroiled in protracted
litigation for decades over the payment of ludicrously low rents in old
city markets will not get any relief under this Act. Sources said the
move comes in wake of immense pressure on the SAD leadership by the BJP,
which has a major vote bank among shopkeepers in towns.<br />
Though the cabinet on Tuesday had adopted the 1995 Act per se, which
extends to existing tenancies, it has been decided that the Act be
amended the day it is notified to state that it will not be applicable
to existing tenancies. The amendment will then be passed as an ordinance
and only then will the Act be implemented.<br />
Parts of Section 3, 6, 7 and 9, which allowed existing landlords to
demand a certain minimum revised rent from the tenant will removed from
the 1995 Act. Existing landlords cannot move the rent authority, which
will be constituted under the Act for relief in older cases. They would
continue to be governed by the Eastern Punjab Rent Restriction Act-1949.<br />
While this renders the Act useless for those landlords who are
already stuck with low rents, it is expected to make the tenancy laws
stricter for the future. The new Act provides for a compulsory
registration of the tenancy agreement between the landlord and the
tenant.<br />
Also, the implementation of the Act will help the state get its share
of JNNURM funds. Existence of rent control laws is one of the several
reforms to be carried out by the states to be eligible for JNNURM funds.<br />
Since the Act is going to be implemented from the day it is notified,
the cabinet has also done away with the limit of Rs 2,000, which had
earlier been set as the cut-off rent amount for the implementation of
the Act. The 1995 Act had laid down this limit as Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,000
depending on the area where the property is located. However, the Act
will be amended to exclude any such limit.<br />
The Punjab Rent Control Bill was passed by the Assembly in April 1995
and got the President’s assent in 1998. However, the Act was never
notified.<br />
The Act arms the landlord with legal teeth to evict tenants. The
strong tenant lobby, however, has been opposing Act for years on the
grounds that it will lead to an increase in rents. The BJP has been
airing the cause of the tenants and objecting to the notification of the
Act.<br />
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<strong>M’rashtra gets notice on farmers’ suicides</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282863/mrashtra-gets-notice-farmers-suicides.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282863/mrashtra-gets-notice-farmers-suicides.html</a><br />
Mumbai, Oct 3, 2012, DHNS:<br />
565 cultivators took their lives since January 2012<br />
<strong>The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has slapped a
notice on the Maharashtra government seeking explanation on farmers
committing suicide in Vidarbha region “as it is tantamount to the
violation of human rights”.</strong><br />
Last month, there were reports that seven farmers took their lives
in a span of three days due to the worsening agrarian crisis in the
region.<br />
Speaking to Deccan Herald from Nagpur on phone, Vidarbha Jan Andolan
Samiti (VJAS) leader Kishore Tiwari said: “The National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) has asked the state chief secretary to file a report
within six weeks not just on the death of seven farmers but has also
asked for a detailed analysis of the agrarian and socio-economic
problems that are forcing farmers in the region to take their own
lives.”<br />
Tiwari said the human rights commission has also taken cognisance of the petition moved by the VJAS. <br />
The petition states that the entire cotton belt of Vidarbha has
become a ribbon of death for farmers due to the state government’s
lop-sided policies. The data compiled by VJAS indicates that from
January, around 565 farmers have committed suicide to escape the dire
economic straits arising out of agrarian policies.<br />
According to Tiwari, one of the key issues haunting the farmers in
the region is the use of genetically modified (BT) cotton seeds. <br />
“While they (seed manufacturers) may be painting a rosy picture of
Vidarbha cotton cultivation, the seven farmers who killed themselves
last week in a span of 72 hours did so because BT cotton is vulnerable
to a particular pest attack and despite heavy pesticide spraying, damage
to the crop could not be stopped.<br />
“And this is not all…the pesticide spraying has resulted in rampant
poisoning. Reports from Yavatmal hint that the administration in
Yavatmal admitted that at least 28 farm labourers involved in pesticide
spraying succumbed to ‘food poisoning’ and 150 others were admitted in
various government hospitals in the last 30 days,” Tiwari said.<br />
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Kerala to pay Rs. 10 lakh to former ISRO scientist as compensation</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/kerala-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-to-former-isro-scientist-as-compensation/article3961760.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/kerala-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-to-former-isro-scientist-as-compensation/article3961760.ece</a><br />
Roy Mathew<br />
Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday directed payment of Rs. 10 lakh to ISRO
scientist Nambi Narayanan as damages for being falsely implicated in the
ISRO espionage case in 1994.<br />
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the media after the Cabinet meeting
that the government was ordering immediate release of the interim
compensation awarded by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
against background of criticism that the government was delaying the
payment.<br />
Replying to a question, the Chief Minister said that the government
would examine the circumstances under which the government had withdrawn
action, recommended by the CBI, against police officers who had
implicated Mr. Narayanan.<br />
It may be recalled that the State government had challenged the award
of compensation ordered by the NHRC in 2001 before the High Court; but
the Court upheld the award in an order last month. The espionage case
was first investigated by the Kerala police and then handed over to the
CBI. The CBI found that no espionage had taken place as alleged.
Following his acquittal in the case, Mr. Narayanan moved the NHRC for
compensation.<br />
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Qasab deserves legal aid to draft mercy plea</h1>
<a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2012100420121004020503161a2c1a95e/Qasab-deserves-legal-aid-to-draft-mercy-plea.html">http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2012100420121004020503161a2c1a95e/Qasab-deserves-legal-aid-to-draft-mercy-plea.html</a><br />
Advocate Yug Chaudhry on why due process must be followed even in this rarest of rare cases<br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 02:04:36 AM<br />
A week after Ajmal Qasab was sentenced to death, advocate Yug
Chaudhry wrote to the Home Minister and the NHRC, pointing out that
Qasab was entitled to legal aid in drafting his mercy petition.<br />
Dismayed at the news that the mercy petition, drafted without legal help, has been rejected, Chaudhry tells <strong>Jyoti Punwani </strong>why it is necessary to follow the spirit and letter of the law - even in Qasab’s case.<br />
<strong>Why are you so concerned with Qasab getting legal aid at
this stage? Haven’t we given him a fair trial, despite his obvious
guilt?</strong><br />
Yes we have given him due process thus far, and that is why we must
continue to do so. Qasab has a right to file mercy petitions before the
governor and the President, but he lacks the wherewithal to so. He is
illiterate, a stranger to our laws, and a foreigner abandoned by his
countrymen.<br />
Since he is clearly ill-equipped to make a mercy petition which it
is his right to make, he must be given the necessary assistance. He also
has a right under our constitution to legal aid at every stage of the
judicial and post-judicial proceedings. For rights to be meaningful,
they must be accompanied by facilities that render those rights
accessible. If we believe in our Constitution and the rule of law, we
cannot make an exception in his case.<br />
<strong>Can a legally drafted mercy petition make any difference to Qasab’s fate? He cannot plead innocence or lack of a fair trial.</strong><br />
Neither would a fair trial have made any difference to his fate, but
would that have been a reason to deny him one? The question is not
whether a mercy petition would make a difference, but whether he is
entitled to make one and to receive the necessary assistance.<br />
The moment we allow ourselves, through sheer majoritarian sentiment,
to decide outcomes without due process, we put all our liberties in
jeopardy and negate the very essence of rights, which is to protect each
of us from ad-hoc, majoritarian caprice. The scope of a mercy petition
encompasses more than innocence and a fair trial, and few lay persons,
let alone an illiterate person, would be competent to draft one unaided.<br />
<strong>Given that the death penalty exists in <a href="http://cms.mumbaimirror.com/ads.aspx?adid=4" target="_blank">India</a>, doesn’t Qasab deserve it?</strong><br />
An illiterate boy of 13 sold by his family to the LeT, brainwashed
into jihad, transformed into a killing machine and sent as a footsoldier
to <a href="http://cms.mumbaimirror.com/ads.aspx?adid=4" target="_blank">India</a>
are mitigating factors that entitle him to the lesser penalty. Qasab’s
crime should be contexualised without minimising it, and then we should
ask ourselves why are we clamouring for Qasab’s execution while content
with life sentences for Babu Bajrangi and Maya Kodnani who perpetrated
the Narodya Patya massacres. They killed more or less the same number of
people in an equally gruesome manner. Maya Kodnani held public office,
and turned on those she was charged to look after and protect. If she
doesn’t deserve the death sentence, why does he?<br />
<strong>How else can Qasab be punished, given the enormity of his crime?</strong><br />
Keep him in prison for the rest of his life. Treat him like a human
being so that he becomes human again and realises the enormity of his
crime. Allow for the possibility of repentance and reformation.<br />
<strong>Do you feel Qasab deserves mercy?</strong><br />
I think all of us - the best and the worst - are in need of mercy,
and it is only by showing mercy that, morally, we ourselves become
entitled to receiving it. Bereft of mercy, our society would be
impoverished and inhuman, for mercy is quintessentially a human quality,
not found elsewhere in the natural world. In classical thought and in
many faiths, mercy is the manifestation of divinity within us, of a god
who is the ultimate bestower of mercy.<br />
As for “deserving”, give each man his deserts and who shall escape a
whipping? Justice and mercy operate in mutually exclusive realms. It is
only when justice demands that punishment be inflicted that mercy comes
into play. Mercy tempers justice, makes it less exacting, more humane.
Excluding a fellow human being from entitlement to mercy has nothing to
recommend it except a very base blood lust that we encourage at our
peril. If we have to become a more humane and compassionate society, and
leave a better, less blood-thirsty world behind for our children, we
have to curb our instinct for bloody retribution.<br />
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Asergis moves Tribunal against Airtel</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3962020.ece">http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3962020.ece</a><br />
Our Bureau<br />
New Delhi, Oct. 3:<br />
Asergis Telecom Services Pvt Ltd., a fully-owned subsidiary of
UK-based Asergis Global Services Ltd, has filed a petition in Telecom
Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal for restraining Bharti
Airtel, from allegedly blocking its subscribers to access Asergis’
toll-free numbers.<br />
Asergis has taken toll-free numbers on lease from Tata Teleservices
to avail itself of the facility of audio conferencing. Bharti Airtel and
Tata Teleservices have an interconnection agreement between themselves.<br />
One of Asergis’ European customers wanted to use its conferencing
services in India through toll-free numbers. Asergis ordered 71
toll-free numbers to Tata Teleservices. Asergis’ European customer has
put up one number on a trial basis as a pilot project to check the
quality and other technical parameters.<br />
Within a week of operations, the revenue on this toll-free number
shot up to Rs 6 lakh. However, before the actual project could take off
Bharti Airtel allegedly blocked the traffic originating from its network
to Asergis’ toll-free numbers.<br />
The company claimed that Bharti Airtel has blocked access of its
subscribers to Asergis’ toll-free numbers purportedly on the ground that
Asergis is offering the facility of ‘international’ toll free service
in guise of ‘domestic’ toll free service. Asergis in its petition to the
Tribunal has mentioned that all calls are inbound and hit Tata
Teleservices platform, i.e. conferencing bridge, at Delhi only.<br />
<a href="mailto:thomas.thomas@thehindu.co.in"><em>thomas.thomas@thehindu.co.in</em></a><br />
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Centre plans one tribunal for all inter-state water disputes<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/centre-plans-one-tribunal-for-all-inter-state-water-disputes/64014/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/centre-plans-one-tribunal-for-all-inter-state-water-disputes/64014/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 03, 2012, 20:05<br />
Unhappy with the slow progress made by various tribunals dealing with
sensitive inter-state water disputes, government is contemplating
having a single permanent body to tackle such cases.<br />
The Centre today informed the states that it is in the process of intra-ministry consultations on the issue.<br />
“We could have a ‘standing tribunal’ for the purpose. All the members
could be there under one tribunal and there could be benches…One bench
of three members could deal with more than one dispute,” Union Water
Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said.<br />
He was talking to reporters here after the 14th National Conference of State Water Resources and Irrigation ministers.<br />
Bansal said the Ministry proposes to amend the Inter-state River Water Disputes Act, 1956, for the purpose.<br />
He said the Centre’s experience has been that the tribunals continue
for an “inordinately long time and for one reason or the other,
decisions are not taken.”<br />
Bansal pointed out that in most of the cases even after the tribunal
gives its award, one of the affected states moves the Supreme Court
through a Special Leave Petition.<br />
The Water Resources Ministry had approached the Law Ministry in 2010
on the issue and one of the ideas which came out was to abolish the
inter-state Water Disputes Act and ask states to directly approach the
Supreme Court — and not the High Courts — with their cases.<br />
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<strong>SAT sets aside Sebi order against JP Associates’ Chairman</strong></h1>
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<em>The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) today set aside the
penalties imposed by market regulator Sebi on infrastructure major
Jaiprakash Associates’ Chairman Manoj Gaur and his two family members in
a case of alleged insider trading in the company’s shares.</em></h3>
Source: PTI<br />
<strong>T</strong>he Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) today set aside the penalties imposed by market regulator Sebi on infrastructure major <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/constructioncontracting-civil/jaiprakash-associates/JA02">Jaiprakash Associates</a> ‘ chairman Manoj Gaur and his two family members in a case of alleged insider trading in the company’s shares.<br />
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After hearing the appeals by Jaiprakash Associates executive chairman
Manoj Gaur, his wife Urvashi Gaur and brother Sameer Gaur against a
Sebi order imposing penalties of Rs 10 lakh each, SAT today said that
there were not enough evidences to prove the charges.<br />
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After a probe into the dealings of shares during the period September
29, 2008 to October 27, 2008, Sebi had found them guilty of norms
related to insider trading, as it charged Urvashi and Sameer Gaur of
trading in the stock on the basis of ‘unpublished price sensitive
information’ relating to financial results of the company shared by
Manoj Gaur.<br />
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However, SAT upheld the penalties of Rs 10 lakh each against three
other entities — the company’s whole time director S D Nailwal, company
secretary and compliance officer Harish K Vaid, and Vaid-headed HUF
(Hindu Undivided Family).<br /> <br /> Sebi had alleged that these
entities had also traded in the company’s shares on the basis of
Unpublished Price Sensitive Information (UPSI) relating to financial
results for the quarter ending September 30, 2008.<br /> <br /> All the entities, on whom Sebi had imposed penalties, had approached the tribunal to appeal against the order.<br /> <br />
“The Board (Sebi) has not brought any evidence on record, direct or
circumstantial, to show that he (Manoj Gaur) had passed on this
information to either Urvashi Gaur or Sameer Gaur or that the trading
done by Urvashi Gaur on October 13, 2008 or Sameer Gaur on October 13,
14 and 16, 2008 was based on UPSI,” SAT said in its order.<br /> <br />
The SAT further observed that the quantity of shares traded by Sameer
Gaur and Urvashi Gaur was too small and they were regularly trading in
the shares of Jaiprakash Associates as well as some other companies.<br /> <br />
“Looking at the trading pattern, the number of shares purchased and
going by their status, it seems highly improbable that trading was done
by them on the basis of UPSI.<br /> <br /> “On the other hand, it is
more probable that they traded in the normal course of business. If the
intention of Urvashi Gaur and Sameer Gaur had been to capitalise on the
UPSI allegedly communicated by Manoj Gaur, the quantum of purchase would
not have been so small,” SAT said.<br /> <br /> “We, therefore, set
aside the impugned order and allow in its order on appeals by Vaid, his
HUF and Nailwal, the tribunal observed that the entities have not been
able to prove that the trading was not done on the basis of USPI.<br /> <br /> “We, therefore, cannot find any fault with the findings arrived at by the adjudicating officer,” SAT noted.<br />
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Rs 30.58 Lakh for accident victims’ family<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Rs-30-58-Lakh-for-accident-victims-family/Article1-939462.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Rs-30-58-Lakh-for-accident-victims-family/Article1-939462.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong>PTI</strong><br /> New Delhi, October 03, 2012<br />
The wife and children of an NDMC employee who lost his life in a road
mishap involving a speeding car, have been awarded Rs. 30.58 lakh as
compensation by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here. MACT
presiding officer Arun Bhardwaj directed Oriental Insurance Co Ltd with
which the<br />
vehicle was insured to pay the compensation to the widow and children of 51-year-old Gaj Ram, a resident of West Delhi.<br />
“Total compensation payable to the petitioners (family of deceased)
would be R 30,58,884… Insurance company has not put up any defence.
Therefore, compensation is to be paid by insurance company,” the
tribunal said.<br />
According to eyewitnesses’ testimonies, victim Gaj Ram was riding his
motorcycle near sector one red light at Dwarka here at 6.15 am on July
10, 2011, when a speeding WagonR hit his two-wheeler from behind due to
which he fell down and came under the car’s wheels.<br />
He was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in the offending vehicle
itself, but after getting to the hospital the driver had fled away, the
prosecution had said. Gaj Ram succumbed to his injuries suffered in the
accident, it had added.<br />
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Compensation for girl after 12 years</h1>
<a href="http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/compensation-girl-after-12-years-250">http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/compensation-girl-after-12-years-250</a><br />
Oct 04, 2012 |<br />
The Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal awarded compensation worth
`12 lakh to a girl, 12 years after she lost her father in a road
accident. The girl was nine years old at the time.<br /> Dakshati Jain’s
father, Rajkumar Jain, who ran a private business, was killed when a
truck hit his car on the Mhape-Turbhe road in April 2000.<br /> Citing
that Rajkumar was the sole bread earner of the family, the girl filed a
compensation claim of `15 lakh. Dakshati had lost her mother only a year
prior to her father’s death. After hearing the petition, the court
stated that the owner of the truck and the insurance company, National
Insurance, were jointly liable to pay the compensation. The court held
that the truck driver was culpable for rash and negligent driving.<br />
The court relied on the submissions made by the tax consultant of the
deceased and assessed his income to be `56,000 per annum. On the basis
of this figure, it arrived at a compensation of `8.40 lakh with a
multiplier of 15, after considering the age of the deceased and the
claimant. The court also allowed `2,000 towards funeral expenses and an
additional `5,000 for loss of life. On the total compensation, the court
ordered payment of interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum
till the date of realisation.<br />
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Tea factories in need of natural gas supply<br /> <a href="http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct0412/at09">http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct0412/at09</a><br />
AJIT PATOWARY<br /> GUWAHATI, Oct 3 – Tea industry is in an urgent
need to connect the tea factories located inside the non-development
zone (NDZ) around the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) with a natural gas
supply network.<br />
The September 7, 2012 order of the National Green Tribunal to close
the tea factories that run on fossil fuel on the ground of pollution,
has made the tea industry wary as to the fate of such factories. There
are 25 tea factories in the NDZ and within its 500 metres’ distance. The
NDZ was created to save the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) from further
pollution after the establishment of the Numaligarh Refinery in its
vicinity.<br />
North Eastern Tea Association (NETA) and Assam Tea Planters’
Association (ATPA) have already made an appeal to State’s Industry
Minister Pradyut Bordoloi to direct the Assam Gas Company Limited (AGCL)
to supply natural gas to these factories.<br />
“Natural Gas is considered as an eco-friendly fuel. AGCL is already
supplying natural gas to some tea factories of Golaghat district in
addition to the tea factories of Upper Assam. Therefore, if AGCL expands
its network and supplies natural gas to the factories under NDZ, then
the tea industry will be able to fulfill all the requirements of the
National Green Tribunal Judgement”, says Bidyananda Barkakoty, Chairman
NETA.<br />
On July 5, 1996, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests
declared an area of 15km radius around NRL as an NDZ. The notification
had specifically directed that on and from the date of its publication,
the extension of the industrial area, township, infrastructural
facilities and such other activities which could lead to pollution and
congestion, shall not be allowed within the prohibited zone, except with
the prior approval of the Central Government.<br />
On September 27 last, the Assam State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
also issued a notification. It said: “The factories located within and
up to a distance of 500 metre beyond the limit of the Co-ordinates of
“No Development Zone” around the Numaligarh Refinery and having boiler
run on fossil fuel are directed to switchover to alternative source of
energy like LPG, electricity, solar heating etc, within 06/12/2012 else
stop their operation.”<br />
The Green Tribunal had directed the SPCB and other authorities to
ensure that no tea processing units having boiler using fossil fuel
operates within the NDZ and take immediate steps to stop their
operation.<br />
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Two women working for Rs. 15 a month for 42 years</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/two-women-working-for-rs-15-a-month-for-42-years/article3962218.ece?homepage=true">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/two-women-working-for-rs-15-a-month-for-42-years/article3962218.ece?homepage=true</a><br />
Special Correspondent<br />
Here is a classic case that will reveal how the “high-handedness” of a
few officials has affected the lives of two Dalit women in Udupi.<br />
The two women, Akku and Leela, have put in about four decades of
service at the Government Women Teachers’ Training Institute on a
monthly salary of Rs. 15. Although they were promised that their
services would be regularised, they did not get any benefits even after
42 years of service.<br />
After the women approached the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal
(KAT) seeking relief in 2001, the Education Department stopped paying
them even that meagre salary of Rs. 15.<br />
Their plight came to light after Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of
Udupi-based Human Rights Protection Foundation, took up the matter and
followed up the case right up to the Supreme Court.<br />
Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Mr. Shanbhag said that
although the Supreme Court, the High Court of Karnataka and the
Karnataka Administrative Tribunal ruled in favour of the women and
directed the government to regularise their services, the order is yet
to be implemented by the government.<br />
Meanwhile, the women continue to clean the 21 toilets in the institute all through the year without any payment, he said.<br />
“The Karnataka Administrative Tribunal asked the government in 2003
to regularise them in 90 days and the Karnataka High Court ordered the
government to pay their salaries in 2004. Notices were also issued for
contempt of court when the directions were not implemented. Instead of
paying them salaries, the government filed a special leave petition
before the Supreme Court in 2005.<br />
“The Supreme Court ruled in the women’s favour in 2010. Despite all
this, the women are still waiting to get their benefits,” Mr. Shanbhag
said. “Now, the authorities say that the women were not employable
because they had reached the retirement age. I am surprised that the
government spent lakhs of rupees on fighting the cases against the
hapless women rather than pay what is due to them.<br />
Is there any other court above the Supreme Court that can give
justice to these women?” Mr. Shanbhag asked and urged the government to
pay what is due to the women.<br />
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Sharan appointed NCW Member Secretary<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/sharan-appointed-ncw-member-secretary/63811/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/sharan-appointed-ncw-member-secretary/63811/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 03, 2012, 15:05<br />
Senior IAS officer Ajit M Sharan has been appointed as Member Secretary in National Commission for Women (NCW).<br />
Sharan, a 1979 batch officer of Haryana cadre, will be in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary.<br />
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has also appointed Rajiv
Mehrishi, an IAS officer of 1978 batch of the Rajasthan cadre, as
Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in the vacancy of Parvez
Dewan, a 1977 batch IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre<br />
Mehrishi is presently Special Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture.<br />
He will also hold additional charge of the post of Secretary,
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises for a period of three
months with immediate effect or until further orders whichever is
earlier.<br />
The ACC has also approved the repatriation of T S Randhawa, 1979
batch IAS officer, to his Gujarat cadre with effect from September 28,
2012 along with the option to allow the officer to stay on and retire
from the Government of India should he so wish, a release from the
Department of Personnel and Training said today.<br />
Pankaj Jain, 1978 batch IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre, as
Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will hold
additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Land
Resources, Ministry of Rural Development with effect from October 1,
2012 for a period of three months or until further orders..<br />
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Judge blasts government for harming education</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Judge-blasts-government-for-harming-education/articleshow/16661649.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Judge-blasts-government-for-harming-education/articleshow/16661649.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.10AM IST<br />
<ins>HYDERABAD: Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/L-Narasimha-Reddy">L Narasimha Reddy</a> of high court has criticised the attitude of the state government and the board of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/intermediate-education">intermediate education</a>
for virtually functioning like front offices of some powerful corporate
houses at a time when government and aided junior colleges were being
closed down. The judge asked the director and commissioner of
intermediate education to ensure that no private junior college runs in
accommodation other than the one approved by the competent authority.</ins><br />
<ins>The judge was dealing with a writ petition filed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vidyaranya-Junior-College">Vidyaranya Junior College</a>,
Warangal. The petitioner contended that the regional inspection officer
had submitted a report against it to the secretary of the board of
intermediate education following which the college had now been directed
to close its gates without being given an opportunity of defending
itself. The judge heard the matter and, by way of interim orders,
wondered how the 10+2 education had been commercialised.</ins><br />
<ins>The judge said that private educational societies had stepped in
which have “virtually reduced the activity of education to that of
commerce of the worst order”. He referred to reports alleged how bright
students studying in aided and government junior colleges were being
‘purchased’ by private coporate colleges who then presented them as
examples of merit to attract more students.</ins><br />
<ins>He said that some corporate groups had become so strong that
even examination centres were selected in keeping with their whims and
fancies. The judge wondered how many government-aided junior colleges
have been closed down on the grounds that there is no playground even as
officials ignore flagrant violations by private junior colleges.</ins><br />
<ins>Referring to the present case, the judge commended the official
who inspected the petitioner college and documented the sad state of
affairs. Right in the middle of a residential area in a multi-storied
complex, the Warangal college was being run sans authorization with open
air toilets on the top floor having been constructed for students.</ins><br />
<ins>The judge said that, at the present stage, no interim orders may
be passed. The secretary to the board of intermediate education, the
director and commissioner of intermediate education have been asked to
provide the list of institutions found to have resorted to unauthorized
use of buildings, indicating the nature of violations, by October 15.</ins><br />
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Amicus Raju declines fee in Kasab case</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/amicus-raju-declines-fee-in-kasab-case/article3962549.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/amicus-raju-declines-fee-in-kasab-case/article3962549.ece</a><br />
Legal Correspondent<br />
Honororium for him and Gaurav Agrawal will go to kin of slain policemen<br />
The Supreme Court has appreciated the gesture of amicus curiae Raju
Ramachandran and his junior Gaurav Agrawal in not accepting their legal
fee in the Kasab case — Rs. 14. 5 lakh — and directed the Maharashtra
government to distribute this amount equally in six weeks to the kin of
18 policemen and other security personnel killed in the 26/11 Mumbai
carnage.<br />
A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and C.K. Prasad, while upholding the
death sentence awarded to Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab, had asked the
Maharashtra government to pay Mr. Ramachandran and Mr. Agrawal Rs. 11
lakh and 3.50 lakh respectively as token remuneration for their valuable
assistance to the court.<br />
(Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, who appeared for Maharashtra, accepted Re. 1 as token remuneration.)<br />
After the judgment, Mr. Ramachandran and Mr. Agrawal filed a joint
application requesting the court that their remuneration be given to the
Supreme Court or Maharashtra legal services authority or any other body
which could help poor and needy litigants. Accordingly, the Bench on
Wednesday modified the earlier direction. It said, “We appreciate the
high standards of professional ethics set by Mr. Raju Ramachandran and
Mr. Agrawal.”<br />
<strong>It’s Judicial Academy</strong><br />
The Bench also pointed out that what was referred to as ‘National
Judicial Authority’ in its earlier judgment should read as the National
Judicial Academy.<br />
The relevant paragraph should read: “From the records of the case, he
[trial judge M.L. Tahiliani] appears to be a stern, no-nonsense person.
But he is a true flag-bearer of the rule of law in this country. The
manner in which he conducted the trial proceedings and maintained the
record is exemplary. We seriously recommend that the trial court records
of this case be included in the curriculum of the National Judicial
Academy and the judicial academies of the different States as a model
for criminal trial proceedings.”<br />
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PIL to remove anti-Islam clips from YouTube filed in HC</h1>
<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-03/internet/34238313_1_anti-islam-google-india-pil">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-03/internet/34238313_1_anti-islam-google-india-pil</a><br />
PTI Oct 3, 2012, 07.20PM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: A group of lawyers today moved the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to Centre to ensure that <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Google-India">Google India</a>
removes from YouTube trailers of a controversial film deemed offensive
to Islam that has sparked protests in several parts of the world.<br />
Responding to the plea, government’s counsel Additional Solicitor
General (ASG) Rajeev Mehra submitted that various courts in India have
also passed orders on the same issue and the government has taken action
against the websites.<br />
“The government has already blocked 157 URLs and let the petitioner
give the link, we would take action,” the senior law officer said.<br />
A division bench of chief justice D Murugesan and justice Rajiv Shakdher reserved the order after hearing the parties.<br />
Alleging that the film was “anti-Islam”, the PIL said “direction
against the respondents (Centre, Google India and You Tube) to
completely remove and blocks the links of the entire movie/trailers….
and all the clips emanating from the movie up-loaded on You Tube owned
by Google and shown in India.”<br />
The petitioners sought removal of 13 minutes video clip/trailer from You Tube.<br />
Appearing for the petitioners, senior advocate Kirti Uppal assisted
by Sarfraz Khan argued that countries like Brazil, Argentina and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Russia">Russia</a> have banned the film and removed the video clips from the site.<br />
According to petitioners, the internet companies should have taken a
proactive approach in disbanding such content and alleged that such
sites “have no code of conduct and behave irresponsibly.<br />
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<ins>Spy funds used in PIL against army chief?</ins><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/JAndK/Spy-funds-used-in-PIL-against-army-chief/Article1-939541.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/JAndK/Spy-funds-used-in-PIL-against-army-chief/Article1-939541.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><ins><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Harinder%20Baweja&op=Story">Harinder Baweja</a>, Hindustan Times</ins></strong><ins><br /> Srinagar, October 04, 2012</ins><br />
<ins>New army chief General Bikram Singh (R) inspects a guard of honour at the defence ministry in New Delhi. AFP/Prakash Singh</ins><br />
<ins>A probe is on to find if the army’s secret funds were used to
‘sponsor’ the October 2011 Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against army
chief General Bikram Singh over an alleged fake encounter in the
Kashmir valley. The board of officers set up to probe the funding of the
Technical </ins><br />
<ins>Services Division (TSD) — a controversial military intelligence
unit formed during former chief Gen VK Singh’s tenure — is investigating
if there’s a link between the TSD and the PIL.</ins><br />
<ins>The PIL was filed by YES Kashmir, a lesser known NGO, in the
Jammu and Kashmir high court and alleges that Abdullah Bhat, a civilian,
was killed in a fake encounter in 2001 in Anantnag. </ins><br />
<ins>Gen Bikram Singh – then a brigadier in the Kashmir valley – was
injured in the encounter. The PIL claims Bhat was branded a militant by
the police.</ins><br />
<ins>Sources said the board, headed by DG Infantry Lt Gen Vinod
Bhatia, is focusing on the PIL, which if admitted by the high court
could embarrass Gen Singh and the government. </ins><br />
<ins>Asked for a response, an army spokesperson said: “The board of officers is on, we aren’t in a position to comment.”</ins><br />
<ins>During a recent visit to the Kashmir valley, the board of
officers met sources of the TSD and asked them pointed questions about
the origin of the PIL. </ins><br />
<ins>The board is probing if YES Kashmir, which filed the PIL, was in
any way linked to J and K Humanitarian Services, an NGO learnt to have
been funded by TSD for ‘psychological operations’.</ins><br />
<ins>The operations include cricket matches and social work like
blood donation camps, particularly during the 2010 stone-pelting
protests in the valley.</ins><br />
<ins>Sources said the operations were known only to then chief VK
Singh and the director general of military intelligence, and J and K
Humanitarian Services was paid Rs. 2.40 crore for the purpose.</ins><br />
<ins>Documents show the TSD to be behind anti-Hurriyat protests in several Kashmir towns. </ins><br />
<ins>The inquiry into the TDS’s functioning is likely to have a
bearing on such intelligence operations aimed at countering militant
groups.</ins><br />
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Mayor inspects roadside shops in Civil Lines area</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Mayor-inspects-roadside-shops-in-Civil-Lines-area/articleshow/16664093.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Mayor-inspects-roadside-shops-in-Civil-Lines-area/articleshow/16664093.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.46AM IST<br />
<ins>ALLAHABAD: Mayor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Abhilasha-Gupta">Abhilasha Gupta</a> on Wednesday inspected the roadside shops in Civil Lines which the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Allahabad-Municipal-Corporation">Allahabad Municipal Corporation</a> wants vacated. The AMC had rented out these shops in 1970.</ins><br />
President, Azaad Hawker and Street Vendors Union, Ravi Shankar
Dwivedi said these shopkeepers have been running restaurants and grocery
outlets since 1970.<br />
On September 26 last, the AMC asked them to vacate the citing a
court order on a PIL seeking shifting of illegal vegetable market at Ram
Narain Lal road. However the court order nowhere mentions pucca shops
on Civil Lines pavements.<br />
He said the above decision has been taken without taking the Nagar
Nigam into confidence. In this connection, the shopkeepers sought the
intervention of mayor Abhilasha Gupta who visited the area and listened
to their grievances. The mayor assured to look into the matter, said
Dwivedi.<br />
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<strong>Tiger numbers have risen, insists Centre</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282881/tiger-numbers-have-risen-insists.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282881/tiger-numbers-have-risen-insists.html</a><br />
New Delhi, Oct 3, 2012, DHNS:<br />
<strong> The Centre on Wednesday reiterated before the Supreme Court
that the number of tigers has risen in the country, a claim disputed by
conservationists.</strong><br />
Additional Solicitor General Indira Jai Singh told a bench of
Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar that the population of tigers
was 1,411 according to the 2006 survey, and their number had gone up to
1,706 in the 2010 survey.<br />
Senior advocate Chander Uday Singh, appearing for Tehelka, a PIL petitioner, claimed that the government position was wrong.<br />
He said the rise in the number of the big cats between the two
census was only because the tigers of Sundarbans were not counted during
the 2006 census. Singh submitted that she had reliable statistics on
the subject and would present relevant records before the court.<br />
Other advocates also said that the variation in number of tigers was due to different methods of counting the big cats.<br />
During the hearing, the bench extended the ban on tourism in core
areas of tiger reserves. The court said that it would first hear all the
parties in the case and then pass its order on the Centre’s September
26 submission of fresh guidelines seeking the court’s permission to
allow tourism up to 20 per cent of the core tiger reserve areas across
the country.<br />
This was opposed to its previous stand seeking a total ban on
tourism in the core areas of tiger reserves. The apex court, as an
interim measure on July 24, said that till further orders, no tourists
should venture into core zones of 41 tigers reserves.<br />
“Current tourism zones where only tourist visits are permitted and
there are no consumptive uses, tiger density and recruitment does not
seem to be impacted. For this reason, permitting up to 20 per cent of
the core/critical tiger habitat as a tourism zone should not have an
adverse effect on the tiger biology needs,” the Ministry of Environment
and Forest (MoEF) said, showing a change of heart.<br />
“It is recommended that a maximum 20 per cent of the core/critical
tiger habitat usage (not exceeding the present usage) for regulated,
low-impact tourist visitation may be permitted,” it said.<br />
However, the new guidelines said that no new tourism infrastructure
should be created in the core areas while existing residential
infrastructure should be strictly regulated to ensure low ecological
impacts.<br />
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KNPP Stir: TN Govt Rejects Charges of Police Excesses<br />
<a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777157">http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777157</a><br />
Madurai | <a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=10/3/2012">Oct 03, 2012</a><br />
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Tamil Nadu government today rejected in Madras High Court Bench here
charges of police excesses against anti-nuclear protestors and said they
had exercised ‘maximum restraint’ while dealing with them during their
bid to lay a siege to Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant.<br />
It also denied having blocked essential commodities reaching the anti-nuclear protestors.<br />
Responding to a PIL, seeking a judicial probe into the Sep 10 police
action, Additional Advocate General Chellapandian told Justices Sukuna
and Mala that the activists had tried to reach KNPP through the rear by
the sea, but were stopped 500 metres away.<br />
They then resorted to violence and attacked policemen, injuring some
of them. Police had to resort to “mild action” to disperse them, he
said.<br />
He said police had exercised extreme restraint and had not arrested
anyone, though it was an unlawful assembly of people, as prohibitory
orders were in force.<br />
The petitioner Vanchanathan also sought action against a Coast Guard
pilot for allegedly causing the death of an anti-nuclear protestor by
flying an aircraft very low while keeping vigil during the subsequent
Jal Satyagraha in the sea.<br />
Pressing for a judicial probe, he alleged police had trespassed into houses and a church.<br />
The petitioner claimed that the man had fallen down in shock after
the CG pilot flew a sortie below 1,000 feet, got injured and later died
and that many others had fainted after the aircraft went very low.<br />
He said a fact-finding committee which toured the areas had also
reported of ‘excesses’ by police. People had been protesting for long
and had never indulged in violence.<br />
Another counsel for the petitioner cited various Supreme Court
rulings and said a judicial probe should be ordered if police had acted
in excess to what the situation warranted.<br />
The judges after hearing counsels, posted the case for hearing tomorrow.<br />
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Finally, UP to ban gutkha from April next year</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/finally-up-to-ban-gutkha-from-april-next-year/1011783/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/finally-up-to-ban-gutkha-from-april-next-year/1011783/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Lucknow, Thu Oct 04 2012, 06:08 hrs<br />
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A day after the expiry of the 14-day deadline set by the Allahabad
High Court, the UP government on Wednesday decided to ban the
manufacture, sale and consumption of gutkha with effect from April 1,
2013.<br />
Justifying its decision to give six months’ time to gutkha
manufacturers, the government said this was necessary to help those
engaged in the industry to find alternative occupation and employment. A
division bench of Allahabad High Court, comprising Justices Amar Saran
and Anurag Kumar, had given 14 days time to the state government to ban
gutkha on September 18. The deadline ended on October 2, which was a
holiday. On Wednesday, the state government issued the necessary order.
The ban has been imposed keeping in view the Food Safety and Standards
Act, passed by Parliament, an official statement said. Like other states
which have followed the Act, UP is also imposing a ban on gutkha
industry which had been operating for a long time in the state, it
added. Among the states which have already banned gutkha are Delhi,
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana. The
next hearing of the PIL, which was filed by Indian Dental Association
and Dr A K Mehrotra, an activist working for the prevention of cancer,
is scheduled for October 10.<br />
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Kerala high court frowns at serial public interest litigations</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-high-court-frowns-at-serial-public-interest-litigations/articleshow/16661738.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-high-court-frowns-at-serial-public-interest-litigations/articleshow/16661738.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.24AM IST<br />
<ins>KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Wednesday slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on a litigant who persisted with <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/public-interest-litigation">public interest litigation</a>
(PIL) despite the court’s earlier ruling that there was no public
interest involved. A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and
Justice A M Shaffique pointed out that the PIL filed by A Subair
against building a flyover in Thiruvananthapuram was itself against
public interest.</ins><br />
<ins>The court imposed a fine on Subair after noticing that he had
filed a total of five PILs. Subair had alleged in his PIL that
unscientific construction carried out for the flyover at Thakaraparambu
would cause damage to Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple. This was disproved by
the archaeological department.</ins><br />
<ins>In State of Uttaranchal vs Balwant Singh Chaufal, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a>
had clarified that PIL is aimed at redressing serious public harm or
grievance. The SC also asked courts to ensure that there was no personal
gain or private motive behind filing of PILs.</ins><br />
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Oshiwara residents move court to save open space<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Oshiwara-residents-move-court-to-save-open-space/Article1-939563.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Oshiwara-residents-move-court-to-save-open-space/Article1-939563.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=HT%20Correspondent&op=Story">HT Correspondent</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Mumbai, October 04, 2012<br />
An organisation of Oshiwara residents has approached the Bombay high
court challenging allotment of two plots – one of which is the only open
space in the area – to an educational institute for setting up an
international school. <br /> One of the plots has been reserved for a playground, <ins>and the other for a municipal school. </ins><br />
<ins>The division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and </ins><ins>justice</ins><ins>
Niteen Jamdar has directed the state government to file affidavits in
response to the PIL filed by the Oshiwara Lokhandwala Citizens
Association. </ins><br />
<ins>The association has contended that the 3,850 sq m plot reserved
for the playground was the only open space for thousands of citizens in
the area. The other plot, admeasuring 2,160 sq m, is shown in the
Development Plan of the city as sanctioned for a municipal school. </ins><br />
<ins>They have also challenged the allotment stating it is contrary
to the provisions of the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act. The
allotment is also contrary to the law laid down by the Supreme Court in
various rulings – that public land cannot be given away through any
methods except public tenders and for the best price. </ins><br />
<ins>In January 2002, Maharashtra Government had ordered Maharashtra
Housing and Development Authority (Mhada) to allot both plots to the
Janata Education Society. </ins><br />
<ins>In August 2008, a Lease Deed was executed by Mhada, leasing both
the plots for 30 years, after the educational institution paid premium
of Rs. 6.11 crore and nominal lease rent of Rs. 31 per annum for the
plots.</ins><br />
<ins>The PIL states in February and March 2012, residents were told
that a playground and garden would be developed on the larger plot and
the amenities would be available for residents once the construction of
an international school on the adjoining plot is complete.</ins><br />
<ins>However, the association alleged that the ground is open to
residents only for an hour in the morning and two hours in the evening. </ins><br />
<ins>Apprehending that the only open space available may be lost, the
association has sought cancellation of the allotment and direction to
the authorities to take back possession of both the plots and hand over
the plot meant for the playground to the residents.</ins><br />
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Government cannot touch pricing mechanism of essential drugs: Supreme Court</h1>
<a href="http://profit.ndtv.com/news/nation/article-dont-touch-pricing-mechanism-for-essential-drugs-supreme-court-tells-government-311594">http://profit.ndtv.com/news/nation/article-dont-touch-pricing-mechanism-for-essential-drugs-supreme-court-tells-government-311594</a><br />
NDTV | Reported By: A Vaidyanathan | Updated On: October 04, 2012 08:15 (IST)<br />
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to inform the court within a
week when it would notify the new list of essential medicines under the
drug control mechanism.<br />
The court said the Centre can’t touch the pricing mechanism for these essential drugs on the list.<br />
The court was hearing a PIL filed by the All India Drug Action Network, which wanted the price of essential drugs lowered.<br />
Under the 1999 mechanism, the prices of essential drugs were based on the prices set by the market leader.<br />
Under the new drug policy, this is sought to be changed to the
average price of drugs sold in the market, which activists say will push
up the prices.<br />
The Centre informed the court that the empowered group of ministers
has submitted its recommendations, and the Cabinet will now have to take
a decision.<br />
“Inform us within a week otherwise we will pass interim orders,” the Supreme Court said.<br />
The court observed: “We are gravely concerned. It has been going on
for nine years. It is engaging the attention only when court puts a
ceiling. The court will step in only when there is a failure. Court
doesn’t run the government.”<br />
The court also said: “One of us face the brunt of this (high
medicine prices). The cost of medicine came to Rs 50,000 in two months.”<br />
The case will now be taken up on 9 October.<br />
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Remove squatters in 30 days, HC tells goverment</h1>
<a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/RAJ-JPR-remove-squatters-in-30-days-hc-tells-goverment-3877617-NOR.html">http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/RAJ-JPR-remove-squatters-in-30-days-hc-tells-goverment-3877617-NOR.html</a><br />
DNA | Oct 04, 2012, 04:09AM IST<br />
<strong>Jaipur:</strong> The Rajasthan high court on Wednesday
expressed its dissatisfaction over the demolition drive at Amanishah
Nullah. The court has given one-month time to demolish the existing
squatters and bring the nullah in its original form. Meanwhile, the
court sought a list of the officers responsible for the squatters in a
period of a fortnight.<br />
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Chief justice Arun Mishra and justice Meena V Gomber made these
strict directions while hearing the public interest litigation (PIL)
filed by PN Mandola.<br />
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During the hearing, the JDA produced its compliance report over the
court order and informed that 170 encroachments have been razed and 54
sued with notices. The report also said that FIRs have been lodged
against the five encroachments and an allotment of 23,176 sq yard
cancelled permitted in the flowing area of the nullah. Meantime, the JDA
reasoned the law and order situation since the drive was not
satisfactory. The authority informed the court that squatters were not
receiving the notices which led a confrontation between JDA officials
and the encroachers.<br />
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However, the bench rejected the arguments and stated that JDA should
give public notice by flashing in the newspapers. It contended that
failing to remove encroachment is a contempt of the court. Also, the
list of the officers, who permitted construction and allottment of land
in the nullah area, had been sought with a deadline of 15 days.<br />
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Notably, the court has directed the JDA to demolish the encroachments
in the flowing area of nullah from 150 ft to 210 ft. The court had
given a 20-day time that ended on Wednesday.<br />
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SC gives six months to government for toilets, water in schools</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-gives-six-months-to-government-for-toilets-water-in-schools/articleshow/16662901.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-gives-six-months-to-government-for-toilets-water-in-schools/articleshow/16662901.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Dhananjay-Mahapatra.cms">Dhananjay Mahapatra</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 05.06AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: Six months after upholding the constitutional validity of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Right-to-Education-Act">Right to Education Act</a>, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a>
on Wednesday directed the Centre and the state governments to ensure
drinking water, separate toilets for boys and girls and teachers in
every school. <br />
A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra directed the
governments to provide within six months “toilet facilities for boys and
girls, drinking water facilities, sufficient classrooms, appointment of
teaching and non-teaching staff” in all schools. <br />
“We make it clear that these directions are applicable to all the
schools, whether state opened or privately owned, aided or unaided,
minority or non-minority,” said Justice Radhakrishnan, who authored the
judgment for the bench. <br />
The order came on a petition filed by NGO ‘Environment and0 Consumer
Protection Foundation’ which through advocate Ravindra Bana has been
litigating for the last eight years for a direction to the governments
to provide basic infrastructure in government-run schools. <br />
The court had been issuing interim orders over the years and a bench
headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari, now a judge of the International
Court of Justice, had been monitoring the performance of states in
providing drinking water and toilets in state-run schools. <br />
Though the bench of Justices Radhakrishnan and Misra disposed of the
PIL giving a six-month deadline to the government to comply with the
direction, it gave permission to the petitioner to move court for
initiation of appropriate proceedings after six months against
defaulting states. <br />
The bench recalled that in its April 12 judgment, the apex court had
upheld the RTE Act and ordered full implementation of the provisions
enacted by Parliament to make Right to Education meaningful for children
in the age group of 6-14 years. <br />
In its April judgment, the apex court had quoted 2007-08 statistics
to note that of the 12,50,755 schools imparting elementary education in
India, 80.2% were government run, 5.8% private aided and 13.1% were
private unaided. Of these, 87.2% of schools were located in rural areas.
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In its interim order of October 18, 2011 in the NGO’s PIL, the SC
had said, “It is imperative that all schools must provide toilet
facilities. Empirical researches have indicated that wherever toilet
facilities are not provided in schools, parents do not send their
children (particularly girls) to schools. It clearly violates the right
to free and compulsory education of children guaranteed under Article
21A of the Constitution.” <br />
The bench said since the apex court had in April this year ordered
full implementation of RTE Act, provisions of which mandated governments
to ensure that schools took all necessary steps to uphold children’s
right to education, there was no need for keeping the PIL pending. <br />
The court noticed that statutory authorities under RTE Act as well
as the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights had been
empowered to examine implementation of the law relating to right to
education by schools. <br />
It said, “We are confident that the statutory authorities will
examine and review the safeguards for the child’s rights and recommend
measures for their effective implementation.”<br />
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SC seeks govt reply on new drug pricing policy</h2>
<a href="http://www.livemint.com/Politics/nO0pgggqrWXmNQcVI1nXNK/SC-seeks-govt-reply-on-new-drug-pricing-policy.html">http://www.livemint.com/Politics/nO0pgggqrWXmNQcVI1nXNK/SC-seeks-govt-reply-on-new-drug-pricing-policy.html</a><br />
Failure to comply would lead to an interim ruling placing all the 348 drugs within current price-cap regime<br />
<a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Author/Vidya%20Krishnan">Vidya Krishnan</a><br />
First Published: Wed, Oct 03 2012. 11 16 PM IST<br />
Ministerial nod to market-based pricing may increase prices of life-saving drugs, says apex court. Photo: Mint<br />
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<strong>New Delhi: </strong>The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the
government a week to come up with a timeline for implementing its new
drug-pricing policy, which proposes a national list of 348 essential
medicines, the prices of which will be regulated.<br />
Failure to comply with the order would lead to an interim ruling
placing all the 348 medicines within the ambit of a current price-cap
regime based on a product’s manufacturing cost, according to a bench
headed by judge <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/G.S.%20Singhvi">G.S. Singhvi</a>.
According to the Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) of 1995, retail prices
of so-called National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) are based on
the cost of manufacturing the product. Currently, only 74 molecules come
under price regulation.<br />
The apex court’s observation comes a week after a ministerial panel
had, on 27 September, approved market-based pricing of 348 NLEM drugs.
This involved deciding the price of drugs on the basis of the weighted
average price (WAP) of brands with more than 1% market share in each
segment. The panel’s recommendations are yet to be approved by the
cabinet.<br />
The court has expressed concern that the formula suggested by the GoM
could lead to increase in prices of life-saving drugs. “We are directly
concerned about it. The court does not run the government, but it steps
in only when required,” the bench observed.<br />
Claiming that the court’s concerns were well-founded, <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Colin%20Gonsalvez">Colin Gonsalvez</a>,
lawyer for the petitioner, activist group All India Drugs Action
Network (AIDAN), said market-based pricing of drugs would dilute the
pricing policy in the industry’s favour.<br />
“In the guise of imposing price control, what the government is
actually doing is lifting price control completely and
institutionalizing profit maximization. This whole exercise is designed
to mislead the nation. The government must go by the 1995 order, expand
the list of NLEM drugs without change the pricing policy,” he said. In
addition to challenging the ministerial panel’s formula on pricing, the
petitioners will be drugs, which according arguing for further expansion
of the list of NLEM to the panel’s recommendation, includes drugs made
of a single chemical compound while the majority of drugs are
combinations of multiple ingredients. The next hearing is scheduled for 9
October.<br />
According to Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA), market-based
pricing will lead to a revenue loss of nearly 17% annually. “Getting
NLEM drugs under pricing will hurt the industry but it is better than
the cost-based approach suggested by civil society organization. The
formula sets us back by at least one year in terms of earning, so the
question of profit maximization does not arise,” said <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/D.G.%20Shah">D.G. Shah</a>, IPA secretary general.<br />
“We have been asked to come with a detailed timetable for the next
hearing. The timeline must state clearly by when the pricing policy will
be implemented after factoring in the time taken by cabinet and law
department to vet the policy,” said a senior official in the department
of pharmaceuticals (DoP).<br />
Last month, the court had reprimanded the government for sitting on
the pricing policy for nearly 10 years, setting 27 September as the
final date for the ministerial group to come to a decision on the
pricing formula.<br />
“Two things have to be considered while deciding what can be excluded from NLEM,” said <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Keyword/Sakthivel%20Selvaraj">Sakthivel Selvaraj</a>,
health activist with AIDAN. “In the current form, the policy does not
address combination drugs. This just leaves room for companies to
wriggle out of price control by simply switching to manufacturing
combination of NLEM and non-NLEM drugs. Further, within each essential
medicines, there are therapeutically equivalent drugs available. There
is no way to regulate companies if they decide to manufacture variants
of NLEM drugs,” he added.<br />
“As it exists, without price regulation, the industry is charging
reasonable costs on NLEM and non-NLEM drugs. These are conjectures of
worst case scenarios. The DoP and DPCO will regulate the prices as well
as sales and distribution patterns of companies currently producing NLEM
drugs will be monitored. This policy will be modified every 2-3 years
to ensure newer, more efficacious drugs are included in NLEM,” said a
senior official in the DoP.<br />
The court was hearing a public interest litigation plea filed in 2003
by and others which had complained that currently only around 74 AIDAN
drugs are placed under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995 putting
most medicines beyond the reach of the common man.<br />
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Bapunagar stadium to be converted into a lake</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Bapunagar-stadium-to-be-converted-into-a-lake/articleshow/16661608.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Bapunagar-stadium-to-be-converted-into-a-lake/articleshow/16661608.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.05AM IST<br />
<ins>AHMEDABAD: After watching the dilapidated stadium for years fill
up with rain and gutter waters during every monsoon, it has finally
dawned upon <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ahmedabad-Municipal-Corporation">Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation</a> (AMC) to turn the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lal-Bahadur-Shastri">Lal Bahadur Shastri</a> (LBS) Stadium in Bapunagar into a lake front.</ins><br />
<ins>Thanks to Gujarat high court (HC)’s intervention on August 13 this year, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AMC">AMC</a>
was forced to take immediate step as water logging and drainage in the
vicinity had caused a public outcry among thousands of local residents.</ins><br />
<ins>The stagnant rainwater in the stadium was becoming a breeding
ground for mosquitoes which was a concern for public health. Though the
lake front plans for LBS stadium are not as grand as Kankaria, the AMC
plans to spend Rs 12.5 crore on the refurbishment of the area around the
lake.</ins><br />
<ins>It was a PIL filed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Consumer-Protection-Analytic-Committee">Consumer Protection Analytic Committee</a>
that had led HC to take a suo motu action. The PIL claimed that there
was heavy rain on August 13 which left the area of LBS Stadium and the
surrounding Maleksaban Stadium water logged. Later, a contractor
negligently released rain water into the stadium, filling it with a
mixture of rain and drainage water.</ins><br />
<ins>The LBS stadium lake front project will be completed in two
phases. The first phase will involve leveling of the earth around the
stadium for a walkway. A retaining wall will be built to strengthen the
lake. Also, a boundary wall with grill and open space for the public for
exercise and a jogging track will come up around the lake.</ins><br />
<ins>“We are a planning to install a musical fountain at the lake so
that people enjoy the open environ. The second major challenge is the
encroachment around the lake which needs to be removed. There are slums
and we’ve to take a call whether slum dwellers should be rehabilitated,”
said a senior AMC official.</ins><br />
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Supreme Court verdict on CAG mandate: A step in the right direction<br />
<a href="http://www.moneylife.in/article/supreme-court-verdict-on-cag-mandate-a-step-in-the-right-direction/28800.html">http://www.moneylife.in/article/supreme-court-verdict-on-cag-mandate-a-step-in-the-right-direction/28800.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.moneylife.in/author/mg-warrier.html" title="MG Warrier">MG Warrier</a> | 03/10/2012 12:15 PM |<br />
<strong>The Supreme Court has minced no words in clarifying that the
CAG is not a mere account-keeper. Now Central and state governments
should join hands with the CAG to ensure that the country’s assets,
irrespective of the nature of ownership, are not plundered by
unscrupulous elements</strong><br />
The observations of the Supreme Court while dismissing the PIL
(public interest litigation) which argued that the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India’s (CAG) reports on Coalgate, airport
privatisation and power sector went beyond the Auditor’s constitutional
mandate would not have attracted the attention the ruling did, but for
the celebration of the apex court ruling on the Presidential reference
on allocation of natural resources.<br />
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On the Presidential reference as it was duty-bound, given the Court’s
view upholding the supremacy of Parliament on policy issues and in
fact, it did not give any adverse view against any statutory body
including the CAG. While dismissing the PIL, the apex court only
reemphasized the statutory mandate of the CAG and explaining the
processes which the CAG reports go through, clarified that if the CAG
exceeded his brief, Parliament will surely correct him and tell him that
the methodology adopted by him for the preparation of the report was
not correct.<br />
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For quite sometime now, the CAG is being harassed and criticized for
performing normal duties expected of him, by a government caged by the
rich and the powerful. Performance audit has been a tool used by the CAG
since the 1960s. What Vinod Rai and his predecessor have done is just
to sharpen the tool by infusing expertise into the audit team. By
training and educating cadres down below and bringing professionalism in
the performance of audit function, they improved the functional
efficiency of the office. If similar initiatives had come from his
counterparts heading several government departments and public sector or
statutory organizations, the agony the present United Progressive
Alliance – II (UPA II) government is now suffering would have been much
less.<br />
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The apex court has now minced no words in clarifying that the CAG is
not a mere account-keeper. The critiques who are saying that accountant
and auditor should bother only about the accuracy of figures are, for
reasons best known to them, pleading ignorance of the changes that have
happened in the law and practice of accounting and audit and the reforms
in the CAG’s office brought about by Vinod Rai and his predecessor, who
understood the post-LPG (Liberalisation-Privatisation- Globalisation)
scenario better.<br />
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The present political leadership is the “who’s who” of the rich and
influential class which has its own constituency interests to protect.
We are heavily dependent on the government’s other arms like the CAG and
judiciary to come to rescue when extraneous compulsions force
government departments and public sector organizations to misappropriate
or divert public funds to the advantage of their masters or greedy
corporates and individuals. The differentiation between public funds and
private resources is getting diluted, as either public resources are
freely flowing to private sector or the exchequer is becoming
responsible to make good the losses incurred by greedy individuals by
mismanagement of businesses they own and operate.<br />
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The initial response from government spokespersons to any revelations
in reports of the CAG is on dotted lines these days. First, the CAG has
exceeded his brief. Then, all his presumptions are not right. Third,
even if some findings have some basis, losses are not as huge as are
made out. Fourth and that is the icing (as in Coalgate), in the given
circumstances, there were not many options as several
departments/ministries were slow in decision-taking. To the total
discomfort of the government, this time around, even the mainstream
media which usually shows some eagerness to protect governments from
disgrace refused to buy the government story without riders (remember
the zero-loss 2G spectrum story of Kapil Sibal which was initially
swallowed by a section of the media!).<br /> <br />
The shock to some in the context of the report after a report from
the CAG with more and more revelations about corrupt practices can be
traced to the refusal of the government and media in publicizing the
evolution of the institution of the CAG which has been silently moulding
itself in recent times to meet the challenges of changing times.
Destiny has put Vinod Rai as CAG at a time when the country needed a
person of his stature in that position. His having gone through the
thick and thin of finance ministry and certain other tough assignments
gave him the analytical mind and investigative skill needed to expose
mega scams.<br />
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The remarkable achievements of the CAG during the tenure of the
present incumbent are more attributable to the interest shown by an
individual in protecting public funds. To ensure that the same thrust on
“conscience keeping” continues, the present approach of the CAG will
have to be institutionalized by providing necessary legislative and
administrative support. The CAG’s role in protecting the interest of the
country in regard to public funds is similar to the role of the
judiciary in protecting life and property. This emphasises the need to
empower the CAG to cause audit of any transaction involving national
resources and more importantly, to equip CAG’s office for the purpose.<br />
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A large number of the people’s representatives in legislatures
continuing to be those who are rich and powerful in their own way and
capable of managing politics and vote banks and not necessarily
interested in the sound management of nation’s resources, we are
dependent on the government’s other arms like the CAG and judiciary to
come to rescue when extraneous compulsions force public sector
organizations to misappropriate or divert public funds.<br />
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As the CAG’s audit is mostly a post-event affair and the judiciary
will take a view only when issues reach them after due process, the
media has a major role to play. With the exception of some financial
newspapers and a few national dailies, the media generally show interest
in the sensation value of issues and refuse to take on itself the
burden of working like a watchdog and educating their readers/viewers
about how the drain on country’s resources affect their pockets and
living conditions.<br />
<br />
The changes brought about in the vision and mission of the office of
the Comptroller and Auditor General in recent years are worth accepting
as a model for adapting with appropriate modifications by other arms of
governance at the Centre and states. These changes in the approach of
the CAG’s audit are consistent with the vanishing line between public
and private funds as both originate from the nation’s ‘sovereign’
resources and the hard work of its people. We should sooner than later
come out of the legacy of British rule inherited by us, which has drawn a
clear distinction between the assets owned by the rulers (read public
funds in the present context) and wealth with the private sector or
individuals, individual families or trusts/companies formed outside
government ownership. This distinction is causing several unethical
practices in our country. Sometime back while talking to media, Vinod
Rai has gone on record saying that he was open to guidance and expert
advice from eminent statesmen.<br />
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Central and state governments should join hands with the CAG’s
efforts to ensure that the country’s assets, irrespective of the nature
of ownership, are not plundered by unscrupulous elements. When the CAG’s
reports bring out glaringly corrupt practices or make suggestions for
incorporating better practices to avoid earlier mistakes, looking at
them from mere legal or accounting angle or defending individuals and
organizations instead of learning from past mistakes, correcting them
before further proceeding are not in the best interests of the country.<br />
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Court relief to Saudi navy captain</h1>
<a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/20121004201210040204459585ddcb997/Court-relief-to-Saudi-navy-captain.html">http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/20121004201210040204459585ddcb997/Court-relief-to-Saudi-navy-captain.html</a><br />
Mumbai Mirror Bureau<br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 02:04:36 AM<br />
In a minor relief to a Saudi Arabian navy captain booked for
carrying fake Indian currency, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked
Additional Commissioner of Customs to complete probe against the officer
and pass an appropriate order within two weeks.<br />
A division bench of Justices A S Oka and S S Jadhav was hearing a
petition filed by Bandar Hurayb, who said he has been wrongly prosecuted
as he was unaware that the currency which he procured from an
authorised forex agency outside the Jeddah Airport was fakes.<br />
Hurayb landed in Mumbai on April 25, and has been stranded here ever
since, when he was caught with fake Indian currency worth Rs 45,500 (91
notes of Rs 500 denomination) at the airport.<br />
Advocate Rizwan Merchant, appearing for Hurayb, told the court that
his application waiver of show cause notice before the Additional
Commissioner of Customs is pending since June.<br />
To prove his claim, Hurayb submitted the receipt handed over to him
by the exchange at Jeddah. The petition further said that Hurayb’s
father had initiated prosecution against the forex agency. Hurayb’s
petition claims he voluntarily disclosed he was carrying Rs 45,500 in Rs
500 notes. All the notes found in his possession were found to be fake.<br />
He was granted bail on May 14 by the sessions court, where the judge
observed that “prima facie any knowledge or reasonable belief cannot be
attributed to Hurayb”.<br />
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Let operative Abu Jundal handed over to ATS in Mumbai</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/Let-operative-Abu-Jundal-handed-over-to-ATS-in-Mumbai/articleshow/16661600.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/Let-operative-Abu-Jundal-handed-over-to-ATS-in-Mumbai/articleshow/16661600.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Santosh-Sonawane.cms">Santosh Sonawane</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.04AM IST<br />
NASHIK: Chief judicial magistrate A D Sawant of Nashik had remanded alleged <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/LeT-operative">LeT operative</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Abu-Jundal">Abu Jundal</a>
to 14 days magisterial custody, even as the anti terrorism squad (ATS)
took him to Mumbai on Wednesday afternoon to present him at the second
session of a Mumbai court for further orders.<br />
Jundal who has been in ATS custody since September 11, to probe his
connection with Sheikh Lalbaba Farid, alias Bilal, who carried out a
recce of the Nashik police commissionerate, Maharashtra Police Academy
(MPA) and Deolali army area in 2010, was produced in the court of AD
Sawant, Nashik, after his extended seven-day custody period ended on
Wednesday.<br />
Special public prosecutor Ajay Misar said that as per the Unlawful
Activities Prevention (UAP) Act, the investigation agency has the right
of custodial interrogation of an accused for 30 days. However, in
Jundal’s case they have completed the interrogation in 24 days and kept
the remaining seven days reserved.<br />
He further said that on the request of the ATS, Jundal was remanded
in magisterial custody until October 17. However, according to orders of
the Delhi and Mumbai courts, he was handed over to ACP Suresh Desphande
of the ATS to be produced in a Mumbai court during its second session
on Wednesday.<br />
Misar added that during the interrogation of Jundal, the ATS had
unearthed several pieces of evidence against the LeT member. and the
picture would become more clear after forensic reports arrived,
following which the reserved seven days could be sought as and when
required.<br />
Meanwhile, the trial of Bilal and Himayat Baig got underway at the
session’s court in the city. On September 11, the two accused had given
an application to the court to stay the proceedings saying that they had
filed a writ petition in the Bombay high court, challenging the
jurisdiction of the hearing in Nashik.<br />
While there were still no orders from the Bombay HC on their writ
petition, the trial began at the sessions court in Nashik on Wednesday.<br />
During the recording of evidence on the first day of the trial, MG
Joshi advocate for the defence, said ATS police inspector Varpe informed
the court of how his team kept an eye on Bilal after being informed of
possible terror activity in Nashik. , said M G Joshi, advocate for the
defence.<br />
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<h1>
Students get life term for murder</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/161418">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/161418</a><br />
October 4, 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/category/place/trichy">Trichy</a><br />
<ins>A local court sentenced two college students to life imprisonment for murdering a youth over eve-teasing on Wednesday. </ins><br />
<ins>According to the prosecution, Muthumani, 22, and Ramasamy, 20,
eve-teased women at the sub-urban Ariyamangalam bus stand on January 14,
2012. </ins><br />
<ins>The victim, T. Venkatesan, 27, who was also standing at the bus
stand noticed the misbehavior of the students, reprimanded them for
their immoral act in a public place. </ins><br />
<ins>In the ensuing wordy quarrel, the students indiscriminately
stabbed Venkatesan with a knife. Venkatesan sustained multiple stab
injuries and died on the spot. </ins><br />
<ins>Ariyamangalam police registered a murder case and arrested the
culprits. The trial of the case was held at the principal district and
sessions court at Tiruchy.</ins><br />
<ins>When the case came up for final hearing, the trial court found them guilty of committing the murder of Venkatesan. </ins><br />
<ins>Principal district and sessions judge P. Velmurugan observed
that the crime against the two accused was proved beyond any doubt and
sentenced them to undergo life imprisonment. </ins><br />
<ins>The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 each, failing which they should undergo six months further imprisonment.</ins><br />
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With no confidence on management, most Delhi staff shun meeting with CEO</h1>
<a href="http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-kingfisher-airlines-ceo-to-meet-staff-at-different-bases-ball-in-airlines-court-says-Ajit-Singh-311609">http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-kingfisher-airlines-ceo-to-meet-staff-at-different-bases-ball-in-airlines-court-says-Ajit-Singh-311609</a><br />
NDTV | Updated On: October 04, 2012 10:53 (IST)<br />
The Kingfisher Airlines management’s meeting with its Delhi staff was
a low point after only eight to 10 employees turned up to meet CEO
Sanjay Aggarwal with most engineers boycotting the meeting.<br />
Although an email intimation was sent out to all staff, employees said they had lost confidence in the management.<br />
Mr Aggarwal is dashing across the country today and tomorrow to meet
employees in an attempt to defuse the crisis at the beleaguered
airline. The partial lockout at the airline was scheduled to end today,
but talks between the management and striking employees in Mumbai
yesterday failed.<br />
The government needs concrete plans from Kingfisher Airlines on how
it will operate, maintain schedule and if its aircraft are safe to fly,
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said. The ball is in Kingfisher’s
court, he added.<br />
Mr Singh said he has yet to see the interim report of aviation
regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, on the airline
submitted yesterday.<br />
In its interim report to the Civil Aviation Ministry on the crisis
facing Kingfisher Airlines, the DGCA is understood to have referred to
the six-day strike by engineers and pilots over non-payment of salaries,
followed by the partial lockout, and said that safety of operations has
been seriously jeopardised.<br />
The regulator is also believed to have said that non-payment of
salaries was a matter of serious concern, not only for the employees but
also affected safety as those seriously affected were manning flight
operations.<br />
“DGCA’s job is to ensure that Kingfisher has followed all safety
parameters before it flies… it should satisfy DGCA that it will maintain
its schedule,” Mr Singh added.<br />
The whole winter schedule, including routes and landing spots, need
to be looked at by the end of October and landing spots have to be
considered afresh, he added.<br />
Kingfisher’s lenders expressed hope that the management will not let
the airline go belly up, and said banks would be a bigger casualty if
it were to go bust, according to an agency report.<br />
When asked about whether banks are looking at recovery measures by
monetising the collaterals, an official at a public sector bank said by
doing that lenders will not be able to recover even 10 per cent of their
outstanding loans to the airline.<br />
The Vijay Mallya-owned airline and its promoters have most of their
shares and assets pledged with banks, including the brand Kingfisher
(pledged for a value of Rs. 4,100 crore) and two of its properties — the
Kingfisher Villa in Goa and the Kingfisher House in Mumbai, together
valued at around Rs. 200 crore.<br />
When asked about the amount that banks are looking at as fresh
capital infusion by the airline for a fresh lifeline, he said normally a
corporate debt restructuring (CDR) involves the promoters bringing in
at least 25-30 per cent of the overall CDR package in fresh equity. At
25 per cent, this works out to be around Rs. 1,750 crore as the
airline’s outstanding principal alone is over Rs. 7,000 crore.<br />
In Mumbai yesterday, talks between the airline’s management and
striking employees hit a cul de sac after Mr Aggarwal told the staff
that the airline could pay only a month’s salaries in the next 10 days,
but that the payment of future salaries was uncertain as the airline did
not have money. In an email sent out later in the night, he said he
would meet employees in Delhi at 9 a.m. and the Bangalore staff at 4
p.m. today. He is scheduled to meet Chennai employees tomorrow morning.<br />
Kingfisher’s 270 engineers went on strike on Sunday and were joined
by the airline’s pilots on Monday. The pilots and engineers have formed
two separate associations to protest against non-payment of salary since
April this year. The company has had to ground its 10 operational
planes and no Kingfisher flight has taken off since Monday. The
debt-laden airline declared a partial lockout late that day. <br />
Mr Aggarwal, along with executive vice-president Hitesh Patel, met
Arun Mishra, the chief of aviation regulator Directorate General of
Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday and was told that the airline could fly
only after it had paid its employees and got clearance from the DGCA.
The regulator said the company would have to show it a viable recovery
and operations plan before it could be given a green signal to fly.<br />
Security has been cited as the main concern both by the DGCA and
Civil Aviation Minster Ajit Singh, who said yesterday: “Passenger safety
cannot be compromised,” adding, “If engineers don’t give approval
before takeoff, the aircraft cannot fly. So, we cannot allow Kingfisher
to fly while engineers are on strike.”<br />
The CEO has blamed a small section of employees for the stand-off,
saying they were preventing others from coming to work. “We are hopeful
that we will resolve the situation in the next few days. We will take a
call on October 4 on resumption of our operations,” Mr Aggarwal had said
after his meeting with the DGCA.<br />
In a letter announcing flight cancellations on Monday, the CEO said:
“A series of protracted and unabated incidents of violence, criminal
intimidation, assault, wrongful restraint and other illegal acts by a
section of non-management engineering staff and illegally refraining
from attending work by a section of non-management engineering staff and
pilots which were all unnecessary and unprovoked commenced yesterday
morning and continued today.”<br />
If salaries are not paid in the next few days, the airline faces a
potentially prolonged shutdown. Its salary backlog goes back to April.
The government is taking a tougher stance now after allowing the airline
to operate for months without paying salaries, although it has stopped
short of forcing a closure of the heavily indebted carrier. The airline
has debt of about Rs. 7,000 crore, owed mostly to government-controlled
banks, including State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender.<br />
Shares in Kingfisher Airlines dropped sharply on Wednesday, after
slumping nearly 5 per cent in each of the previous two sessions. The
shares traded 4.9 per cent lower at Rs. 14.60, down almost by its daily
limit move of 5 per cent. Last week, the Bombay Stock Exchange had
halved its circuit limits on the stock, capping the maximum movement in a
day at 5 per cent following a sharp rally in the share prices in the
past few days.<br />
<em>With inputs from agencies</em><br />
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3 witnesses depose in Kush murder case</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/3-witnesses-depose-in-Kush-murder-case/articleshow/16661580.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/3-witnesses-depose-in-Kush-murder-case/articleshow/16661580.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.01AM IST<br />
<ins>NAGPUR: Three witnesses have identified the main accused in the
Kush Katariya murder trials which began its daily hearings from
Wednesday at the court of district and additional sessions judge GJ
Akarte. Special public prosecutor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ujwal-Nikam">Ujwal Nikam</a> was present during the hearing.</ins><br />
<ins>The three witnesses who deposed before the judge included Kush’s parents – Chaya and Prashant, and PCO operator Sheikh <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shahid-Sheikh-Ahmed">Shahid Sheikh Ahmed</a>. All of them charged the accused <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ayush-Pugaliya">Ayush Pugaliya</a> for mercilessly killing the eight-year-old.</ins><br />
<ins>The PCO operator informed the court that Ayush had called on
Kush’s parents from his PCO for demanding ransom in exchange of their
kidnapped son and he had overheard the conversation. Additional public
prosecutor Jyoti Vajani represented the prosecution, while <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajendra-Daga">Rajendra Daga</a> held brief for the Katariya family.</ins><br />
<ins>Kush was kidnapped on October 11 last year for a ransom of Rs2
crore. Ayush then took the child to an under-construction building at
Surya Nagar and intentionally committed the gruesome act. A case was
registered at <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nandanvan-police">Nandanvan police</a> station after which Ayush was arrested within a couple of days.</ins><br />
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Cash for bail: Former CIA inspector shifted out of Panchkula<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Cash-for-bail-Former-CIA-inspector-shifted-out-of-Panchkula/SP-Article1-939480.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Cash-for-bail-Former-CIA-inspector-shifted-out-of-Panchkula/SP-Article1-939480.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=HT%20Live%20Correspondent%20&op=Story">HT Live Correspondent </a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Panchkula, October 03, 2012<br />
Former Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) inspector Karamveer Singh,
who was sent to police lines after allegations of Rs. 37 lakh for bail
of a drug peddler Parveen Kumar surfaced, has now been shifted to a
police training centre at Sunaria in Rohtak. <br /> In its order on September 18, the <ins>Punjab
and Haryana high court had handed over the investigations into cash for
bail allegations to CBI and cancelled the bail of Parveen Kumar. Singh
was the investigating officer in the drug peddling case against Parveen.
</ins><br />
<ins>Hakam Rai, resident of Sector 26 here, complained to DCP on
September 11 that Parveen, who was arrested on January 26 with 4kg opium
along with his accomplices Harvinder Singh and Jora Singh, got bail
from the high court on July 27 after police misrepresented facts in the
court. </ins><br />
<ins>As per the FIR, on the day of arrest, 9kg opium milk (which can
be converted into 36kg opium) was also recovered from the rented
accommodation of accused in Sector 15 on the disclosure of the accused. </ins><br />
<ins>Rai submitted that Parveen claimed having procured the bail
order by spending Rs. 37 lakh and was now alluring other persons to pay
money to get relief from various courts with the help of police
officials, who would give false information to the court. </ins><br />
<ins>On May 23, the court of additional district and sessions judge
Sanjay Sandhir had dismissed the bail application of Praveen on the
ground that huge quantity of opium was recovered; he was stated to
procure opium milk from Madhya Pradesh to churn it into opium and
another case for drug peddling was also registered against him in
Panchkula. </ins><br />
<ins>But in the high court on July 27, the court was informed that
the challan was not filed even though it was filed in the lower court.
It was not contested that the quantity of opium was commercial and there
was no other conviction of the accused. ASI Surjeet Singh, then posted
with CIA, and head constable Yog Bhyan were present in the court. They
have also been shifted out of Panchkula to Sunaria. </ins><br />
<ins>“The DGP has ordered the transfers,” said DCP Parul Jain. On the
pending arrest of drug peddler Parveen, she said the police were making
every effort to nab him. </ins><br />
Meanwhile, the CBI is yet to start investigations in the case. <br />
<strong><ins>Case history</ins></strong><strong><ins><br /> </ins></strong><ins>January 26: Parveen Kumar and accomplices Harvinder Singh and Jora Singh arrested with 4kg opium</ins><br />
<ins>January 26: Nine-kg opium milk recovered from the Sector-15 rented accommodation of accused </ins><br />
<ins>May 23: Additional district and sessions judge Sanjay Sandhir rejects Praveen Kumar’s bail application</ins><br />
<ins>July 27: High court informed challan not filed, paving way for bail for Parveen Kumar</ins><br />
<ins>September 18: High Court cancels Parveen Kumar’s bail, accused missing</ins><br />
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Pervez Tak planned to kill Laila, kin 3 months before murders: Cops</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Pervez-Tak-planned-to-kill-Laila-kin-3-months-before-murders-Cops/articleshow/16663548.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Pervez-Tak-planned-to-kill-Laila-kin-3-months-before-murders-Cops/articleshow/16663548.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-S-Ahmed-Ali.cms">S Ahmed Ali</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 06.29AM IST<br />
MUMBAI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/murders">murders</a> of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/starlet-Laila-Khan">starlet Laila Khan</a> and five of her family members were planned at least three months in advance, says the chargesheet. <br />
The crime branch on Wednesday filed the 984-page <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chargesheet">chargesheet</a>
in the sessions court, stating that prime accused Parvez Tak killed the
six family members with the help of his wanted aide, Shakir Hussain.
Tak is the third husband of the starlet’s mother, Saleena. <br />
A junior engineer, a surveyor of the Igatpuri Nagarpalika, a JCB
owner, a butcher and two car drivers are among the nine witnesses who
have testified against Tak. <br />
In his statement, Tak said he got a pit dug up at Laila’s Igatpuri
farmhouse in December 2010 and waited for a few months for her family
members to gather there. The six victims were eventually killed in
February 2011, days after they went <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Missing">missing</a> from Mumbai. The police have added the statement of Gufran Choudhary, the JCB owner, to the chargesheet to support the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Theory-%28designer%29">theory</a>
that the murders were planned and not committed in a fit of rage.
Choudhary said Tak hired his JCB in December 2010 and paid him Rs 2,800
to dig the pit. Incidentally, three days after the crime branch
recovered the six skeletons from the farmhouse on July 10 this year, TOI
had reported how police officials suspected that it was a well-planned
murder. <br />
The police are awaiting the DNA reports of the six bodies recovered
from the pit. Two knives, an iron rod, two spades, the torn clothes of
the deceased, the post-mortem reports and some <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/gold">gold</a> ornaments—including four rings—have been annexed to the chargesheet. <br />
Laila’s body was identified with the help of a diamond ring gifted
by her boyfriend, who could recognize the jewellery during his
testimony, said investigating officer Deepak Patangre. He added that
they will add the DNA reports once they get them from the FSL. <br />
Junior engineer Yashwant Tathe, water surveyor Mohan Shirshat and
butcher Shamsher Khan told the police that they hadseen Tak and Saleena
hours before the murders on February 8. Tak had taken Saleena to the
nagarpalika office to file an application for a water connection. On the
same day, the duo went to the butcher to buy 3kg of mutton. <br />
“Tak felt that Saleena lived an ‘un-Islamic’ life and also suspected
her to be indulging in adultery. When Tak learned about Laila and her
family’s plans to migrate to Dubai and give the powerof-attorney of her
properties to Saleena’s second husband, Asif Shaikh, he felt frustrated
and humiliated. He then decided to put an end to the chapter,” said
Himanshu Roy, JCP (crime ). <br />
The police suspect that Hussain is in Doda. <br />
<strong>Starlet case chargesheet </strong><br />
<strong>Who is Laila Khan? </strong><br />
Laila, whose original name was Reshma Patel, was born to Saleena and
Nadir Patel in Malad. She is best known for her role opposite <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajesh-Khanna">Rajesh Khanna</a> in Wafa: A Deadly Love Story <br />
<strong>The disappearance </strong><br />
Laila, her mother Saleena, siblings Azmina, Imran & Zara, and
another relative, Reshma Khan, went missing from Mumbai in February
2011, after which her father filed a missing complaint with the Oshiwara
police <br />
The recovery of two MUVs belonging to the starlet—a <a href="http://www.zigwheels.com/newcars/Mahindra/Scorpio" target="_blank">Mahindra Scorpio</a> and a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mitsubishi">Mitsubishi</a> Outlander—from Jammu & Kashmir this year triggered speculation that she could be in that state <br />
Another theory that did the rounds said she was in Dubai with her ‘husband’, Sonu <br />
<strong>Tak and the revelations </strong><br />
Parvez Iqbal Tak (inset), a road contractor from Kishtwar in J&K
and the third husband of Laila’s mother, emerged as the prime suspect
in the case after the seizure of the two MUVs <br />
Tak told interrogators that he killed Laila and her five family members at her farmhouse (pic above) in Igatpuri on February 8 <br />
Shakir Hussain, an accompliceof Tak’s, was also involved in the
murders. He was made caretaker of the farmhouse in December 2010 <br />
Tak and Hussain go to the family’s Oshiwara flat to fetch Laila’s
six pet cats. They also remove photographs from an album before
returning to Igatpuri. They then hire two drivers, Mahboob Shaikh and
Johny Girdar, and leave for Kishtwar in Laila’s Scorpio and Outlander <br />
<strong>What led to the killings? </strong><br />
The police said Tak felt Saleena lived an “un-Islamlic” life and
suspected her to be indulging in adultery When he learned about the
family’s plans to migrate to Dubai and give the power-of-attorney of her
properties to Saleena’s second husband, Asif Shaikh, Tak plotted the
murders <br />
<strong>The evidence and witnesses </strong><br />
The Scorpio and the Outlander, which have been brought back to
Mumbai Two knives, an iron rod, two spades, the torn clothes of the
deceased, mobile records, post-mortem reports and some gold ornaments
Laila’s body was identified with the help of a diamond ring gifted by
her boyfriend, who could recognize the jewellery during his testimony<br />
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IAS officer granted bail in molestation case</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : Lucknow, Wed Oct 03 2012, 21:08 hrs<br />
A senior IAS officer in the Uttar Pradesh government, who was
arrested on charges of attempt to rape and molesting a Delhi-based woman
in a train, was today granted interim bail by a local court here.<br />
Sessions judge K K Sharma granted interim bail to IAS officer Shashi
Bhushan Sushil up to October 6 on an application moved on his behalf,
court sources said here.<br />
Sushil, Special Secretary in the Technical Education Department, was
arrested on Monday and a case under IPC section 354 (assault or criminal
force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) was lodged against
him following a complaint by the woman, a senior IT executive,
Government Railway Police (GRP) officials said.<br />
The 2001-batch officer was also booked under IPC sections 376 (rape),
511 (attempt to commit offence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) under
which he can be imprisoned for life.<br />
According to the FIR lodged by the mother of the woman travelling
with her, the officer, who boarded the second AC coach from Ghaziabad,
indulged in obscene acts and the conductor and train escorts were duly
informed.<br />
The FIR was lodged with the GRP by the woman.<br />
Bhushan was detained after the train reached Charbhagh railway
station and police interrogated him for four hours before arresting him.<br />
Refuting the molestation charge, the officer claimed that he had got
into a verbal duel with the woman after she made a casteist remark
against him.<br />
The officer was later suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government.<br />
The government has also removed inspector GRP Anil Rai who allegedly
tried to delay the matter and impose less stringent sections in the FIR
though the home department refuted the charges.<br />
Sushil was later produced before a local Railway court which remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days.<br />
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav had said no one would be spared and
strict action would be taken against those showing disrespect to women.<br />
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<strong>Delhi Police officer ‘forges’ court record, let off</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282920/delhi-police-officer-forges-court.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282920/delhi-police-officer-forges-court.html</a><br />
New Delhi:Oct 4, 2012 PTI<br />
<strong> A sessions court has discharged a Delhi Police inspector in a
complaint initiated by a magisterial court for allegedly forging the
court record of a case. </strong><br />
Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar discharged H S Chauhan, an
inspector in Delhi Police, who was summoned as accused along with ASI
Puran Chand by court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate on a
complaint made by the chief metropolitan magistrate for allegedly
forging court record in a 2006 case under the Prize Chit Money
Circulation (Banning) Act.<br />
“The impugned order dated May 19 vide which the accused – petitioner
(Chauhan) has been summoned as an accused is without basis and suffers
from illegality and the same deserves to be set aside qua the
petitioner. The petitioner is discharged,” the ASJ said.<br />
The ASJ added that the CMM did not conduct any inquiry before filing the complaint against Chauhan.<br />
The complaint accused Chauhan and Chand of fraudulently entering
forensic (FSL) report in the court record of a case after a delay of
three years only when the issue came before the CMM.<br />
Chauhan had moved the court of ASJ against the ACMM’s order. On
January 1, 2006, an FIR was registered with Prasad Nagar police station
under the Prize Chits Act on the complaint of a widow named Durga Devi,
who had invested in a committee. <br />
The accused Luid Fernandez and Josphin Fernandez run the committee
which did not pay any returns to the woman on maturity of the
investment. A chargesheet in the matter was filed on April 13, 2006
before the then concerned area magistrate. <br />
A supplementary charge-sheet was filed on July 11, 2006 mentioning
that the FSL report on specimen handwriting of the accused will be filed
as and when received. <br /> <strong><br /> Official let off in graft case</strong><br />
DRI officer, facing trial for allegedly taking bribe from a
businessman for bailing him out of an excise evasion case, has been
discharged by a Delhi court for want of proper sanction for his
prosecution, reported PTI from Delhi.<br />
Special Central Bureau of Investigation Judge Kanwaljeet Arora
discharged Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Y S Verma saying
the sanction to prosecute him was bad in the eyes of law as it was given
by an officer, junior to the one competent to grant it.<br />
It is admitted position that accused at the relevant point of time
was working as senior intelligence officer with DRI, which is a Group
‘B’ post. <br />
Having been appointed to the post of Group ‘B’ cadre, by orders of
DRI director general, a right has accrued in favour of the accused by
virtue of Article 311(1) of the Constitution that he cannot be removed
from his office by an officer subordinate to the rank of director
general,” the court said.<br />
Additional director general who had passed the sanction order on
December 29, 2006 was subordinate to director general, therefore, she
could not have passed the sanction order. The said sanction therefore is
bad in the eyes of law,” the court said, discharging Verma.<br />
The corruption case against Verma was lodged by the CBI on complaint
of Delhi-based exporter A K Aggarwal, who had alleged that Verma had
lodged a false excise duty evasion case against him and had raided his
house in September 2005. <br /> He said Verma subsequently had demanded a bribe of Rs 50 lakh from him to bail him out of the case. <br />
On Aggarwal’s complaint, the CBI laid a trap and allegedly caught
Verma red-handed while accepting Rs 5 lakh as the first instalment of
the bribe from Aggarwal at the South Delhi house of another co-accused
Mahender Kumar. <br />
In his complaint to the CBI, Aggarwal had also said Verma and his
senior had asked him for Rs 50 lakh bribe and had threatened that if
failed to pay the sum, his son would face untoward consequences.<br />
The judge, however, granted liberty to the agency to file fresh
charge sheet against Verma with proper sanction to prosecute him.<br />
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Court sends youth to 10 yrs in jail, pulls up police</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : New Delhi, Wed Oct 03 2012, 20:55 hrs<br />
A youth who raped a minor girl last year in a factory here has been
sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Delhi court which also directed the
city government to pay a compensation of Rs one lakh to the victim.<br />
The court expressed anguish and displeasure that the two factory
workers who saw the accused, instead of “objecting to the conduct”, ran
away from the premises leaving the 14-year-old victim at his mercy and
the Delhi police also did not prefer to inquire about their “indifferent
approach”.<br />
“Of late crime against women generally and rape in particular is on
the increase and ironically society appears to be unconcerned, showing
little or no concern for honour of women. It is this kind of a public
apathy and indifference which is grossly criminal,” Additional Sessions
Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau said.<br />
The court said it was “shocking” that the two factory workers ran
away from the spot and informed their owner about the incident much
later to evade their culpability.<br />
“Public alertness with a suitable timely response can go a long way
to save the life and honour of young girls which unfortunately did not
happen in the present case,” the judge said.<br />
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 52,000 on convict Aditya, 20, a
resident of Pitampura Village in North-West Delhi, saying that on
recovery of the amount, it shall be given to the victim.<br />
The judge said the amount of compensation will be used for
rehabilitation of the victim and directed the Delhi government to take
steps to ensure that she is admitted in some school to continue her
studies.<br />
According to the police, Aditya caught hold of the girl when she was
returning from her school and forcibly took her inside an adjoining
plastic factory.<br />
The accused threatened the two workers, who were present in the
factory, and asked them to leave. He took the girl to a room in the
factory and when she tried to raise an alarm, he threatened to
electrocute her after which he raped her and ran away, police said.<br />
The two workers, later on, called their employer and informed him
about the incident.After reaching home, the girl informed her family
about the incident and a case was lodged against the accused.<br />
The court also pulled up the police for not inquiring the reason from
the two workers as to why they did not raise an alarm when they saw the
accused bringing the girl in school uniform into the factory.<br />
It rejected Aditya’s plea for leniency saying that he had committed
the offence without any fear of law in the factory after threatening the
two workers working there and compelling them to leave.<br />
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Justice delayed is justice denied…</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/times-view/Justice-delayed-is-justice-denied--/articleshow/16663248.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/times-view/Justice-delayed-is-justice-denied–/articleshow/16663248.cms</a><br />
Oct 4, 2012, 05.51AM IST<br />
If ever there was a case of justice delayed being justice denied,
this is it. The fact that the court had ordered the actor to pay
compensation even before framing of charges and he had done so
immediately, makes it clear how urgent the need for compensation was
judged to be. <br />
Yet, the victims have not received the compensation even a decade
later. Exactly who is to blame for this situation appears to be unclear
as of now, but responsibility must be fixed and action taken. Also, the
victims must now be paid—even if it rather late—not just the amount
originally ordered, but interest for 10 years on it.<br />
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Law Commission of India proposes toning down anti-dowry legislation</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Law-Commission-of-India-proposes-toning-down-anti-dowry-legislation/articleshow/16659773.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Law-Commission-of-India-proposes-toning-down-anti-dowry-legislation/articleshow/16659773.cms</a><br />
Oct 4, 2012, 12.00AM IST<br />
<strong>TIMES VIEW</strong> <br />
<strong>Will safeguard against misuse</strong> <br />
The Law Commission of India’s recommendation that the anti-dowry law
be suitably amended to dilute the provision of immediate arrest of the
accused is sensible. The suggestion comes in light of the fact that an
increasing number of dowry complaints have been found to be false. That
Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code — dealing with physical and mental
cruelty by husbands and their relatives over dowry — empowers the
complainant to have the accused arrested even before a proper
investigation into the case only incentivises misuse of the law. Not
only does this amount to gross injustice but also significantly damages
to the anti-dowry movement. <br />
It`s arguable that tough anti-dowry legislations are a product of
the 1980s, where they arose out of a specific context: a seemingly
uncontrollable spate of dowry deaths in the country. However, the
socio-economic conditions of women today have significantly changed.
This empowerment is precisely why the anti-dowry law needs to be
suitably updated. Besides, the provision of immediate arrest flies in
the face of Indian jurisprudence that treats every accused as innocent
until proven guilty. Subverting this principle has done more harm than
good. <br />
In this respect, the law panel`s proposal to introduce a 30-day
reconciliation period before the police arrest an accused under the
anti-dowry law makes eminent sense. To prevent misuse, the law should
also be amended to allow for arrests only after a proper investigation,
not before. The Supreme Court has already des-cribed false dowry cases
as legal terrorism. Using the anti-dowry law as a tool for extortion is
tantamount to human rights violation. Hence, in the interest of justice,
diluting draconian provisions of the anti-dowry law without taking away
the essence of the legislation is a step in the right direction.<br />
<strong>COUNTERVIEW</strong> <br />
<strong>A change for the worse</strong><strong></strong><br />
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</strong><strong> </strong><strong>Anil Thakkar</strong> <br />
The expert panel’s recommendation on amending and toning down the
anti-dowry law is a classic example of missing the wood for the trees.
As matters stand, is the anti-dowry law misused on occasion? Yes, it is —
just like every other law. That is the nature of the beast; there will
always be people who find and exploit loopholes in any system of rules.
This is particularly true in India where the judicial system is
hopelessly clogged and the police prone to corruption. These things will
not change if the law is watered down. All that will happen is that the
fight against dowry — a far more insidious and widespread evil than
misuse of the anti-dowry law — will be compromised. <br />
A simple look at the statistics will show how far we still have to
go in stamping out the system of dowry and the subjugation of — and
violence against — women it engenders. According to the National Crime
Records Bureau, 6,995 dowry deaths were reported in 2000 — which climbed
to 8,093 in 2007 and 8,391 in 2010. And that is just the reported
cases; it is a safe assumption that the actual number of dowry deaths is
significantly higher. This more than half-a-century after dowry was
made illegal. What possible sense does it make to defang the anti-dowry
law at a time when dowry deaths are actually on the rise? <br />
On the face of it, certainly, the amended changes seem sensible. But
given how rigidly patriarchal much of Indian society is — particularly
in rural areas where the dowry system is even harder to uproot — all
they will do is leave the perpetrators at large and give them enough
time to pressure or coerce the woman and her family into withdrawing
their complaint. And that would be a far greater injustice than anything
that is currently done under the aegis of the anti-dowry law.<br />
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Victims of accident by Salman Khan’s vehicle not compensated<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Victims-of-accident-by-Salman-Khan-s-vehicle-not-compensated/Article1-939564.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Victims-of-accident-by-Salman-Khan-s-vehicle-not-compensated/Article1-939564.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=HT%20Correspondent&op=Story">HT Correspondent</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Mumbai, October 04, 2012<br />
A decade after actor Salman Khan killed a pavement dweller and
injured four others in a highly-publicised car accident in Bandra, the
victims are yet to receive the compensation amount due to them from him,
according to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a senior
journalist before the <ins>Bombay high court.</ins><br />
<ins>A division bench headed by justice AM Khanwilkar was hearing the
PIL filed Nikhil Wagle, seeking enhancement of the punishment that was
awarded under section 304 A of the Indian Penal Code for causing death
by rash and negligent driving, and an increase in compensation awarded
under the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act.</ins><br />
<ins>Wagle had filed the PIL soon after the accident. </ins><br />
<ins>While hearing the PIL, the high court had on October 7, 2002
directed Salman to deposit Rs17 lakh as interim compensation for the
four injured victims and the family of the deceased victim. The court
had then also directed the Union and state government to file
affidavits.</ins><br />
<ins>Wagle’s lawyer Subhada Khot informed the court on Wednesday that
the compensation amount has not been disbursed to the victims and the
government has not filed affidavits either.</ins><br />
<ins>The court has now issued a notice to the additional solicitor
general to appear before the court and directed the Union and state
governments to file their affidavits by October 8.</ins><br />
<ins>On September 29, 2002, an inebriated Khan had run over five persons sleeping on a Bandra pavement with his Toyota Land Cruiser. </ins><br />
<ins>He was arrested the next day and booked under sections 304 A,
337 and 338 of the IPC. He was released on bail of Rs.950 immediately at
the Bandra police station. The trial against him is pending before a
magistrate’s court.</ins><br />
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Kidnapping for ransom: Death punishment valid</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/kidnapping-for-ransom-death-punishment-valid/1011673/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/kidnapping-for-ransom-death-punishment-valid/1011673/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Thu Oct 04 2012, 02:01 hrs<br />
<em>HC says killers of Abhi Verma to hang, puts execution on hold till October 12</em><br />
There is nothing legally invalid in awarding death sentence to those
held guilty of kidnapping for ransom. Statin this, the Punjab and
Haryana High Court on Wednesday upheld the hanging of two youths who had
abducted and later killed Abhi Verma, a 16-year-old boy from Hoshiarpur
for ransom.<br />
However, giving them time to challenge the order in the Supreme
Court, the court directed Patiala Jail Superintendent not to execute the
“death warrants in abeyance” till October 12. The accused, Vikram Singh
Walia and Jasvir Singh, were to be hanged at 9 am on October 5 in
Central Jail, Patiala.<br />
The judgment assumes significance as the duo had challenged the legal
validity of the capital punishment awarded under Section 364-A of the
Indian Penal Code (IPC) saying that under the said law death can be
awarded only to those who are involved in international terrorism and
not to “private individuals”.<br />
Holding their challenge as “ill founded, deceptive and misleading”, a
division bench headed by Justice Surya Kant in a 26-page judgment
dismissed the petition for “beating around the bush”.<br />
“No meaningful argument was advanced except reminding us the pious
object behind Article 21 of the Constitution. The decision to hang the
petitioners to death has been taken following the procedure established
by law,” the judgment reads<br />
Making it clear that death sentence cannot be abolished from Section
364-A of IPC, the court ruled ruled that “death was one of the sentences
prescribed for the offence of a private individual’s kidnapping for
ransom from the very inception of Section 364-A IPC in the year 1993.”
“It has neither been omitted nor diluted by the subsequent amendment.
The challenge to the `retrospectivity’ of the provision is totally
deceptive and misleading”.<br />
The petitioners had taken the ground that death sentence cannot be
awarded in “a simpliciter case of kidnapping for ransom of a private
individual”.<br />
They had averred that the phrase “person” occurring in Section 364-A
IPC “excludes an individual and is meant for a juristic person, company
or association, or body of persons only.” The very object of amending
Section 364-A IPC was to tackle international terrorism,” they had said.<br />
They had argued that the death sentence awarded to them was “in utter
disregard to the International Convention against the Taking of
Hostages, 1979 (`Hostages Convention’), adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly on June 3, 1983 “. The said contention found no favour
with the court.<br />
Earlier, Assistant Solicitor General of India and counsels for Punjab
and Haryana too had countered the submissions. The counsels had averred
that the petition was “merely a cloak to delay the execution of death
warrants, for even if the challenge to death sentence under Section
364-A succeeds, the same awarded for the offence under Section 302 IPC
(murder) still sustains and is final”.<br />
The argument found favour with the court as Justice Surya Kant held
that the two have been guilty of murder and even if their petition
succeeds, the same will “not change their fate”.<br />
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Former SIMI Functionary Booked Under MCOCA<br />
<a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777190">http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=777190</a><br />
Thane | <a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=10/3/2012">Oct 03, 2012</a><br />
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The Thane police on Wednesday booked former Students’ Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI) functionary Saquib Nachan and four others under
the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).<br />
The Bhiwandi crime branch produced Nachan and four others in the MCOCA court on Wednesday.<br />
Saquib Nachan and his son Ismail and nephew Aquib are facing charges
for the murderous assault on Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader from
Bhiwandi, Manoj Raicha. Two others Guddu Khan and Tanvir Abdul Zabdir
were also arrested in this case.<br />
SIMI activist Saqib Nachan, an accused in Mulund bomb blast of 2003,
was arrested by police for allegedly firing at an advocate in Bhiwandi
on August 3, this year.<br />
It was around 11.45pm, advocate Manoj Ratilal Raicha (48) was on his
way home in his car along with bodyguards, when he was shot at and
injured.<br />
In his complaint, the lawyer, who is a Bajrang Dal office bearer,
named Saqib Nachan as the suspect or his associate as the person who
fired at him with an intention to kill him.<br />
The Nizampura police later registered a case under Sections 307,
120(b) of the Indian Penal Code and also under Sections 3, 25 and 27 of
the Arms Act against the accused.<br />
FILED ON: <a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=10/3/2012">Oct 03, 2012 23:40 IST</a><br />
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<h2>
Muslim rage is not about Islam</h2>
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<a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/52576-muslim-rage-is-not-about-islam.html">http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/52576-muslim-rage-is-not-about-islam.html</a><br />
<strong>Author: <em>Mayuri Mukherjee</em></strong><br />
</div>
<strong>The outrage and the violent protests organised by Islamists
across the world have nothing to do with the supposed desecration of
religion. Instead, these incidents are calibrated attempts by so-called
religious leaders to firm up their politics, even at the cost of
people’s lives</strong><br />
Even before the crowd from the previous protest had returned home, a
new mob had gathered on the streets. It had been gaining strength
throughout the day as hundreds arrived loaded in trucks and buses, and
more people from the outside kept pouring in. Over the next couple of
hours, the crowd swelled in numbers and a few local leaders gradually
took their position at the helm — soon, they were whipping up outrage
against some vaguely defined but provocatively conveyed threat to their
religion, their Prophet or their holy book. Timing was the key, so one
waited cautiously for the crowd to be sufficiently riled and then, just
when the passions peaked, it was let loose like a pack of blood thirsty
wolves. What followed was hours, even days, of looting, raiding,
pillaging, plundering and killing. Until finally, the security forces
showed up and brought the situation somewhat under control.<br />
This is a fairly accurate description of the events as they unfolded
in the little Upazila of Ramu, located in the coastal Cox’s Bazar
district in Bangladesh’s southern division of Chittagong on September 29
and 30, when Islamists went on the rampage in the area and attacked
Buddhist temples and homes, after they discovered a picture of a burnt
Quran on Facebook that was alleged ‘tagged’ to a local Buddhist boy.<br />
According to the latest reports available, at least 12 temples were
desecrated and nearly 50 Buddhist homes systematically destroyed. But
the moot point here lies not in the details of this heinous incident
that has deeply scarred Bangladesh’s socio-religious fabric but in the
fact that the description applies to almost any ‘Muslim protest’ that
has erupted in recent times in response to a supposed act of religious
outrage.<br />
Indeed, instead of Ramu Upazila, the narrative can just as easily be
placed in Masuri village in Uttar Pradesh here in India, where a similar
crowd went berserk and brutally attacked the local police station after
someone found pages torn out of the Quran by the railway tracks last
month. The narrative also fits well in many other places — from Mumbai’s
Azad Maidan where a crowd protesting atrocities against Muslims in
Burma and elsewhere went on a rampage to the US Embassy compound in
Benghazi where an armed mob protesting a shoddily-made, obscure
anti-Islamic film killed the American Ambassador to Libya.<br />
Look closely and a clear pattern of pre-meditated violence that
emerges through each of these cases is unmistakable. The cause of the
violence and the outrage here is inconsequential. It can be anything — a
book that nobody has heard of, a movie that nobody has seen because it
was never publicly released, a photograph that is quite possibly
doctored, a quote that remains unattributed, a conspiracy theory or even
a cartoon. It doesn’t matter. What matters is how, and of course with
what result, that singular instance of outrage (real or imagined) is
perverted so as to make it look like it is a universal insult to Islam
and its 1.7 billion followers around the world.<br />
First, the Islamists go all out to introduce that supposed object of
religious insult — almost always an obscure one — to their local
audience. Then, they systemically manufacture outrage against that same
object. The campaign is almost always framed within the narrative of a
victim-community; a community that has been and continues to be wronged
by the world. Ridiculous as it may sound, the idea of being at the
receiving end of a global conspiracy is particularly tempting and as we
know from past experience, hugely effective. Finally, what serves as an
icing on the cake is the fact that Islamists, almost everywhere in the
world, are an especially well-organised group. This automatically allows
them mobilise large sections of the population and mount an effective
campaign.<br />
In other words, the bottomline here is that the protests may be
hinged around an Islamic (or more specifically, anti-Islamic) subject,
but in reality they have little to do with religion. Instead, the issue
is of politics and power-play. Religion is merely an excuse used by the
Islamists to whip up passion and mobilise social groups so that they can
ultimately implement the latter’s agenda. Indeed, this is an argument
that even Muslims political observers themselves have made. For
instance, Mr Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the US, in
his recently published article on ‘Muslim rage’ minces no words when he
says, “The phenomenon of outrage over insults to Islam and its final
Prophet is a function of modern-era politics. It started during Western
colonial rule, with Muslim politicians seeking issues to mobilize their
constituents… and Islamists emerged to claim that Islam is not merely a
religion but also a political ideology.”<br />
Indeed, Mr Haqqani traces back an early prototype of this kind of
mass mobilisation within the Muslim world to a book published in British
India back in 1927. Titled Rangeela Rasool (Playboy Prophet), it was a
“salacious version of Muhammad’s life”, says Mr Haqqani, but “hardly a
bestseller”. In fact, much the like anti-Islamic film that today is all
the rage, so to say, this book too went largely unnoticed until two
years after its publication when some Muslim politicians raised a hue
and cry over it. The British Government of the day even arrested and
tried the publisher but he was acquitted — only to be later stabbed to
death by one Ilmuddin, an illiterate carpenter known only by his first
name, in Lahore. Ilmuddin soon became a local hero of sorts. Islamist
groups nicknamed him Ghazi (warrior) and he was defended in court by a
man no less than Mohamed Ali Jinnnah (although on purely technical
grounds, as Mr Haqqani points out in his essay). The book continued to
be a polarising point between the Hindus and Muslims of undivided India
and exacted its price in blood during Partition as well.<br />
It is interesting to note that it was after this case of Ilmuddin
that the British amended the Indian Penal Code to include punishment for
blasphemy and incitement of religious hatred. It is equally ironical
that a little less than a century later, another young man would once
again share Ilmuddin’s fate and how! In January 2011, Mumtaz Qadri would
also be celebrated as a national hero for killing Salman Taseer, the
powerful Pakistani Governor of Punjab would had dared to opposed his
country’s draconian blasphemy laws.<br />
The lessons to be learnt from the past and the present are clear.
These protests, wherever they may erupt, are not just a product of
politics disguised as religion, but that they must be exposed as such.<br />
The moment the state begins to legitimise such violence as being a
genuine case of religious grievance; it loses the plot and half the
battle. The Bangladeshi Government realises this, which is why the whole
deal about the Facebook picture was underplayed. The Pakistani
Government on the other hand doesn’t get it at all and so, it had the
Ishq-e-Rasool day, during which several persons where killed. India must
learn its lessons from all this and stop pampering hardliners.<br />
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Civil society urges govt to remove accused under the PNDT Act from committee<br />
<a href="http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ws031012PNDT.asp">http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ws031012PNDT.asp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=Ws031012PNDT.asp"><em>Dr Harsh Mahajan is an accused in a case filed by Mitu Khurana who was forced to undergo sex determination test </em></a><br />
<strong>Shonali Ghosal </strong><strong><br /> </strong>New Delhi<br />
Eighteen years after the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Techniques Act (PC & PNDT Act) was passed for the “regulation and
prevention of misuse of diagnostic techniques,” the government’s
intention on curbing sex determination remains unclear.<br />
Dr Harsh Mahajan, an accused under the PC & PNDT Act and
president of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA), had
been appointed as a member of a committee, which is set to examine and
possibly amend the format of Form F (the mandatory form to be filled and
recorded by all sonography centres when conducting an ultrasound
sonography).<br />
“They might have gone by his post as president of the IRIA. But the
government should’ve checked his track record,” says Rizwan Parwez, a
member of the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee (NIMC) and
the Centre for Advocacy and Research. The court has taken cognizance of
Mahajan as an accused (among others) after Mitu Khurana filed a case
against her husband and in-laws for allegedly forcing her to undergo a
sex determination test in 2005. She further states that they put
pressure on her to undergo an abortion on learning that she was carrying
twin girls. “This is a violation of the Act. The government never
supported me in my case and now there’s this to add insult to injury,”
says Mitu, who was told by a PC & PNDT official to stop wasting her
life and give her husband a son if he wanted one.<br />
“Even though Mahajan is not the doctor who performed the sex
determination test, he is an accused because he holds approximately 80
per cent of the shares in Mahajan Imaging Centre where the test was
conducted and is also a board member of the centre,” Mitu clarifies. The
PC & PNDT law clearly states: “No person who, in the opinion of the
Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, has
been associated with the use or promotion of pre-natal diagnostic
technique for determination of sex shall be appointed as a member of the
Advisory Committee.” “It’s like inviting a murderer undergoing trial to
amend a law on Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code,” adds Parwez.<br />
But all is not lost. In a meeting of the committee held last week (28
September), activists protested Mahajan’s presence and asked him to
leave. Donna Fernandes, the head of Vimochana (an NGO on women’s rights)
and a member of the same committee was present at the meeting. She
recounts that it was Kiran Moghe, the Maharashtra president of the All
India Democratic Women’s Organisation who raised the issue. “He
(Mahajan) made some weak noise about being innocent and that he had a
lot of suggestions, but other members said that he may be innocent, but,
if he has a case in court, it isn’t right that he should be attending
this meeting,” she says. Finally, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Joint Secretary,
Women & Child Development (who was also chairing the meeting) told
him that he had said something else at registration and asked Mahajan to
leave. “The government should’ve sent a strong message that you can’t
be part of such an important committee before the civil society brought
it up,” says Parwez.<br />
Mahajan had to leave that meeting but whether any action has been
taken to permanently remove him from the committee is not known.
Incidentally, he is also a member of another similar committee, which
has to examine, and perhaps, amend the provisions of the Act itself.
“People like him aren’t worried about implementation, they’re just
concerned with making money,” says health activist Dr Sabu Geore, who is
a member of the other committee. Both Anuradha Vemuri, director of the
PNDT Division, and Dr Harsh Mahajan remained unavailable for comment.<br />
<em>Shonali Ghosal is a Correspondent with Tehelka. </em><br /> <a href="mailto:shonali@tehelka.com">shonali@tehelka.com </a><br />
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<strong>Another plaint against Bangalore Urban DC</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282872/another-plaint-against-bangalore-urban.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282872/another-plaint-against-bangalore-urban.html</a><br />
Bangalore:Oct 4, 2012 DH News Service<br />
<strong> A new private complaint was filed in the Special Lokayukta
Court on Wednesday against Bangalore Urban Deputy Commissioner M K
Aiyappa and others. Judge N K Sudhindra Rao has posted the case to
October 17 for orders.</strong><br />
The case filed by Markandeya, a software engineer, pertains to land
acquired in Nagarbhavi village in Vijayanagar for the development of the
Vinayaka Housing Board Co-operative Society in 1985.<br />
The complainant stated that the land had been handed over to the
Society and all formalities including obtaining work order and khatas
from the Bangalore Development Authority were completed. <br />
From 1986, sites were registered in favour of the members. In 1996,
the BDA also issued khatas and started collecting property tax. <br />
Later, the land came under Pattanagere City Municipal Council and was transferred to BBMP, who issued khatas.<br />
The complaint alleges that one Gali Hanumamma filed a case against
Malliappa, the original landowner under the Karnataka Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands)
(PTCL) Act with the Assistant Commissioner (AC) who ordered the
restoration of the property. <br /> <strong><br /> Order challenged</strong><br />
The Society members challenged the order before the then Deputy
Commissioner Ramegowda who allowed the appeal, after seeking a spot
inspection from the Assistant Commissioner.<br /> <strong><br /> Permission from DC</strong><br />
Gali Hanumamma then sold one acre of land to one Mirle Varadaraj for Rs
three crore, after obtaining permission from the DC. She later filed an
application seeking conversion of two acres of land for residential
purpose, including the one acre she had sold. <br />
The complainant who had purchased the land from the Society filed objections before the Deputy Commissioner. <br />
The complainant stated that the DC told him that the land would be
taken over and handed back. The complaint has been lodged for commission
of offences under Prevention of Corruption Act and Indian Penal Code. <br />
The complaint also names Assistant Commissioner Kantharaju,
Tahsildar Suma, Village Accountant Manjunath, Gali Hanumma, her daughter
Huchamma, Mirle Varadaraju and others.<br />
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K’taka HC stays probe against former disciple of Nithyananda</h1>
<a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/karnataka/ktaka-hc-stays-probe-against-former-disciple-of-n_803566.html">http://zeenews.india.com/news/karnataka/ktaka-hc-stays-probe-against-former-disciple-of-n_803566.html</a><br />
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 03, 2012, 22:07<br />
Bangalore: Karnataka High Court Wednesday stayed further proceedings
before a local court against a former disciple of self-proclaimed
controversial godman Nityananda and two others in a criminal case filed
against them by an actress <br />
Justice H N Nagamohan Das stayed further proceedings in the case
before the court at Ramanagara on a criminal petition filed by Ranjitha,
seeking quashing of the case. <br />
In June, the court had issued a non-bailable warrant to Lenin
Karuppan and third summons to co-accused Aarti Rao and advocate Sridhar
in the case filed by the actress.<br />
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Ranjitha had filed a private complaint on Dec 30 2010 at Ramnagara
Magistrate Court in Bangalore against the three, charging them with
criminal intimidation, criminal conspiracy and outraging her modesty in
connection with attempting to link her through a morphed video with
Nithyananda. <br />
The Magistrate took cognizance and issued summons to all three on June 4 2011.<br />
Lenin failed to appear before the court, following which a NBW was
issued against him, while the other two were issued a second summons on
August 2 2011. <br />
Arathi Rao is a resident of Detroit, USA. <br />
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Will appoint commissioners within 3 weeks: Govt assures HC</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Will-appoint-commissioners-within-3-weeks-Govt-assures-HC/articleshow/16661714.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Will-appoint-commissioners-within-3-weeks-Govt-assures-HC/articleshow/16661714.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.20AM IST<br />
JAIPUR: The state government assured the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajasthan-high-court">Rajasthan high court</a>
on Wednesday that it would comply with the recent Supreme Court
judgment on appointing at least minimum number of information
commissioners (ICs) required under the right to information (RTI) Act
within the next three weeks.<br />
At present, the Rajasthan Information Commission (RIC) has just a chief <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/information-commissioner">information commissioner</a> but not a single IC. The Act underlines a minimum two and maximum 10 ICs in a state.<br />
In its September 13 ruling, the apex court made it mandatory that appeals under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RTI">RTI</a> Act can be heard at the state information commissions only by benches comprising at least two ICs.<br />
The judgment has resulted in the work at information commissions
coming to a standstill in several states, including Rajasthan where
around 8000 appeals under the RTI are already pending.<br />
The government assurance came on a reply to high court’s query on a
public interest litigation (PIL) on the subject pending since last year.<br />
A division bench headed by chief justice Arun Kumar Mishra had
directed the state government on Monday to apprise the court of the
steps it had taken to comply with the SC verdict.<br />
Additional advocate general <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sushil-Kumar-Sharma">Sushil Kumar Sharma</a>
told the division bench that the government was all set to appoint the
ICs and the process would be completed within the next three weeks.<br />
Under the RTI Act, the chief information commissioner and the ICs are
appointed by a committee comprising the chief minister, the leader of
opposition and a cabinet minister.<br />
While the PIL filed by advocate Prakash Shukla has been pending in
court since September 2011, Aruna Roy, of the leading forces behind the
RTI movement in the country, recently moved an application before the
state administrative reforms department to know what steps had so far
been initiated to appoint the ICs. The government department, however,
failed to answer Roy’s query.<br />
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Conman lures 5 with HC jobs</h1>
<ul>
<li>October 4, 2012</li>
<li>By Praveen Kumar</li>
<li>DC</li>
<li><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4621">Bengaluru</a></li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/161341">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/161341</a><br />
<ins>A data entry operator managed to take the police, social welfare
and other departments concerned for a ride in his effort to get jobs in
the Karnataka High Court for five aspirants from Bijapur and other
northern districts of the state. He had allegedly taken money from each
candidate. </ins><br />
<ins>The accused, along with his associates, had created a fake
letterhead of the Karnataka High Court and allegedly forged the
signature and seal of the High Court Registrar (Administration)
directing the officials to submit character/antecedents certificate,
caste and income certificates and medical fitness certificate which are
mandatory for applicants to government job.</ins><br />
<ins>Police have identified the suspect as B.G. Gopal, who was
working as a data entry operator at a business solutions firm on Old
Airport Road in Kodihalli. He had promised government jobs to family
members of his colleagues and others, mainly from Bijapur. All the
aspirants, who he had lured, had applied for the 2008 Karnataka Public
Service Commission (KPSC) exams for various posts. The aspirants were
assured that they would be given jobs as typist and first and second
division assistants in the Karnataka High Court. </ins><br />
<ins>With the help of the fake letterheads, signature and seal, Gopal
had asked the respective departments to issue the necessary
certificates. The character, antecedents, caste, income and medical
certificates of the five candidates were sent directly to the High Court
by the respective departments. Strangely, the High Court had not sought
any documents from any of the departments pertaining to the five
candidates and the officials were surprised when they got them.
Following this, Karnataka High Court Registrar (Vigilance) on June 26,
instructed the city police to conduct an inquiry. </ins><br />
<ins>The High Court Vigilance Cell officials, who conducted an
inquiry, found out that Nagappa, a resident of Bijapur, had applied for
the post of second division assistant, Aravind Gangaram Rathod,
Basavaraj Mullur and Banadevi Shanmukhappa of Bijapur district for the
post of first division assistant and Anasuya of Yadgir district for the
post of typist, and were promised jobs by Gopal. Of the five candidates,
Anusuya’s husband Mr Srinivas V. Joshi, was also working as a data
entry operator at a business solutions firm on Old Airport Road since
2006. Three years ago, Joshi’s colleague Gopal is alleged to have
promised a typist’s post in the Karnataka High Court for Anusuya and had
taken money. </ins><br />
<ins>Later, Mr Joshi along with his associates Shekarappa Sangappa
Hosahalli and Prakash Patil Rudre Gowda, met the four other job
aspirants with the promise of jobs. The report has been submitted to the
High Court Vigilance Registrar. Cases against B.G. Gopal, Srinivas V.
Joshi, Shekarappa Sangappa Hosahalli, Prakash Patil Rudre Gowda and the
five job aspirants have been registered. “We are in the process of
arresting them”, an officer of the High Court Vigilance Cell added.</ins><br />
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PIL against Bharti Walmart for FDI violation withdrawn in HC<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/pil-against-bharti-walmart-for-fdi-violation-withdrawn-in-hc/64044/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/pil-against-bharti-walmart-for-fdi-violation-withdrawn-in-hc/64044/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 03, 2012, 20:55<br />
Environmental activist Vandana Shiva today withdrew her PIL from the
Delhi High Court filed against Bharti Walmart Private Limited and Bharti
Retail Limited for alleged violation of FDI policy in retail sector.<br />
“I am withdrawing the petition,” the counsel for Shiva told a bench
headed by Chief Justice D Murugesan. The court allowed the plea.<br />
Earlier, the counsel for Shiva and Additional Solicitor General (ASG)
Rajeeve Mehra had said the PIL against the private joint venture firms
have been rendered infructious in the wake of new central policy on FDI
in retail sector.<br />
The ASG had told the bench, also comprising Justice Rajiv Sahai
Endlaw, that in the changed scenario, when the FDI in retail has been
allowed, the petition loses its relevance.<br />
Earlier, the court had issued notices to the Centre, Bharti Walmart
Private Limited and Bharti Retail Limited on the plea seeking a probe
against the firms for allegedly carrying out retail trading in
multi-brand sector in violation of India’s existing FDI policy.<br />
The PIL had alleged Bharti Walmart was illegally carrying out
multi-brand retail trade despite being permitted only to carry out
wholesale cash-and-carry trade here.<br />
Cash and carry is a form of trade in which goods are sold from a
wholesale warehouse and customers settle the invoice on the spot.<br />
The PIL also alleged that many established Indian firms are acting as
“front” for foreign firms to give their offshore partners a “majority
control and economic interest” in retail sector here.<br />
Walmart entered in a joint venture with Bharti Enterprises in 2007 for carrying out cash and carry wholesale trade in India.<br />
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Club’s resolution amounts to character assassination: HC</h1>
<a href="http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20121004201210040621521765fd8f2bc/Club%E2%80%99s-resolution-amounts-to-character-assassination-HC.html">http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/10/20121004201210040621521765fd8f2bc/Club%E2%80%99s-resolution-amounts-to-character-assassination-HC.html</a><br />
Court suggests that Bangalore Club withdraw the resolution passed to oust former president<br />
S Shyam Prasad<br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 06:21:27 AM<br />
A former president of Bangalore Club, arguably the city’s most
prestigious club, has approached the high court against a resolution
passed by an extraordinary general body meeting of the club which
terminated his presidency.<br />
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MK Marattukalam petitioned the High Court that he was not an invitee
to the general body meeting at which he was ousted from the post of
president and even the car parking slot reserved for him was denied. It
is a tradition at the club to invite the president to general body
meetings.<br />
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In the previous hearing of the case by Justice N Ananda on September
10, the respondents, including the current president Feroze Sattar Sait,
had filed their objections.<br />
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During hearing of the case on Wednesday, the judge said, “You should
not have attacked him personally in the resolution. These resolutions
are public records. It is defamatory in nature and you are castigating a
person before you hear him. How can a resolution be character
assassination?”<br />
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Marattukalam’s advocate also told the court that on an earlier
occasion, another member, Gagan Chandy, had his membership suspended for
a period of two years for speaking up at a general body meeting. Chandy
too had approached court and the club had sought leave to withdraw the
resolution.<br />
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When the judge perused the submission, he found that in Chandy’s
case, Marattukalam was the president when the resolution suspending his
membership was passed.<br />
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The judge then commented, “So it has boomeranged on him (Marattukalam).”<br />
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Senior advocate Ashok Haranahalli, who was representing the
respondents, revealed that Marattukalam had not answered the notices
issued to him. But the judge replied, “A person’s character cannot be
assassinated without him being heard. If you reverse the process it can
put an end to all the problems. Call a general body meeting.”<br />
The case was posted for October 10.<br />
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Donor kin veto alone can’t stop organ gift to unrelated patient: Bombay high court</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Donor-kin-veto-alone-cant-stop-organ-gift-to-unrelated-patient-Bombay-high-court/articleshow/16662915.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Donor-kin-veto-alone-cant-stop-organ-gift-to-unrelated-patient-Bombay-high-court/articleshow/16662915.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Swati-Deshpande.cms">Swati Deshpande</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 05.07AM IST<br />
MUMBAI: In a landmark judgment, the Bombay HC has set aside a
government panel’s decision to prevent a Madhya Pradesh flour mill owner
from donating a kidney to his cousin, a goods loader, who is undergoing
treatment at Jaslok Hospital. The government panel—the state
authorization committee had rejected the cousin’s plea to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/donate">donate</a>
because his own brother and minor daughters were opposed to his
decision. The court has asked it to consider the man’s request again. <br />
India’s <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/transplantation">transplantation</a>
law allows only close family comprising spouse, parents and children to
donate organs. Unrelated donors require permission to give. <br />
Bombay HC has clarified that the law on transplantation of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/human-organs">human organs</a> “does not confer an overriding <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/veto">veto</a> on the next of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/kin">kin</a> of the donor” when the donor and donee are not close relatives. <br />
The bond of love and affection even when not ‘near’ relatives is key
to becoming a donor, it said. The court set aside the orders passed by
the authorization committee. <br />
A fact that was highlighted was that both men hail from a humble
background—one is a flour mill operator earning Rs 150 a day and another
a goods loader making Rs 6,000. <br />
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Amjad Sayed held that the
authorisation committee wrongly concluded that there was no bond of love
and affection between the donor and donee after the brother and
children of the donor, a single parent of two minor daughters, did not
consent to the donation and the near relatives of the patient did not
offer to donate. The Jaslok Hospital committee had approved the
donation. The HC ruled that “views of the next of kin are entitled to
deference but this is not to suggest that the committee, once a
disagreement is expressed would have no power to take an independent
decision based on the best interest of donor and recipient.” The judges
said, “Ultimately, the committee has to take a judicious decision after
considering all facts and aspects of law.” The court directed the
committee to consider the case “afresh, expeditiously and to hold a fair
inquiry into all facets of the law and facts.” <br />
“There is always a risk involved in a transplantation procedure,”
the HC said, adding, “But the degree of risk may vary from case to case
based on medical condition of donor. The impact of a donation on the
donor’s quality of life must be assessed and must be balanced with his
desire to save a life.” It added that need to save a life is also
significant from a public health perspective and directed that the
“committee must realistically look at at our societal milieu to
understand why a married daughter of a recipient may not be in a
position to donate a her kidney to her father. These are indeed
difficult question” The judges said, “The judge canot perform the role
of God or an expert” and left the decision-making to the committee. <br />
The HC pronounced the order on September 27, but the text of the
judgment was made available only on Wednesday. It declared that the
Transplantation of the Human Organs Act of 1994 which governs organ
donation in India “balances the autonomy of an individual as decision
maker with the societal interest in protecting family concerns. The Act
seeks to bring a health balance between need for organ transplantations
to save lives on one hand and public interest in ensuring that it does
not become a facade for exploitation or organ trafficking.” <br />
The case before the court, the judges said, “traverses medicine,
social ethics and law and has profound human implications.” It gave rise
to a delicate and sensitive issue of whether a single parent of two
minor daughters Vijaykumar Sahu could be permitted to donate one kidney
to Balmukund Sahu, his cousin—their fathers were brothers—on the grounds
that they were bound by affection arising from their family dwellings
in MP. Both lead modest lives. The patient is a goods-loader onto
vehicles and earns less than Rs 6,000 per month. <br />
The law in India, the court said, is aimed at saving lives and at
preventing exploitation of people’s poverty, illiteracy and ignorance.
The law thus allows “near relatives” defined as parents, husband or
wife, children and grandparents to donate organs while alive. But it
also allows a person who is “not a near relative” to donate organs out
of affection or attachment or any special reason” but only after prior
nod from a state-level committee. The committee is governed by certain
rules and must make an inquiry to rule out commercial transactions
between donor and donee and seek reasons why the donor wishes to donate.
<br />
The law requires the committee to apply its mind, said the judges,
that affection is motivating factor. The HC said that the committee thus
had to consider the explanation for the link between the donor and
donee and can even rely on old photographs to prove the link. It has to
ascertain that no tout is involved. The views of the donor’s kin is to
ascertain that they are aware of the donor’s intentions. <br />
The court held that in the present case the fact that the donee’s
own relatives did not come forward to donate would not displace the
affection between the donor and donee.<br />
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Rape victim critical after suicide bid at HC premises</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Rape-victim-critical-after-suicide-bid-at-HC-premises/articleshow/16664438.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Rape-victim-critical-after-suicide-bid-at-HC-premises/articleshow/16664438.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 08.32AM IST<br />
New Delhi: A 35-year-old rape victim who allegedly tried to commit
suicide inside Delhi high court premises on October 1 is battling for
life at a private hospital in the Rohini area of northwest Delhi.<br />
Police said the woman had collapsed after consuming an insecticide
and was rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital. Later, she was shifted to
the ICU unit of another hospital.<br />
Family members of the accused had allegedly threatened to kill the woman and her family if she didn’t withdraw the case.<br />
One of her relatives said, “She had gone into depression after the
incident. When she came to the high court for the hearing, she was
threatened to take the case back. She went back to Sonepat but her
husband disowned her. When she appeared for hearing on October 1, the
brother of the accused asked her to turn hostile before the court.
Unable to think of a way out, she thought of ending her life.”<br />
A police source said that the victim, who belongs to Haryana, had
received an interview call in 2011. The victim alleged that she was
offered a cold drink laced with sedatives after consuming which she
collpsed on the floor. The accused then raped herand threatened her with
dire consequences if she disclosed the incident to anyone.<br />
The man was arrested the same year after a case was lodged at Vijay Vihar police station.<br />
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Sportsperson too can be nominated to Rajya Sabha: Centre to HC<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Sportsperson-too-can-be-nominated-to-Rajya-Sabha-Centre-to-HC/Article1-939377.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Sportsperson-too-can-be-nominated-to-Rajya-Sabha-Centre-to-HC/Article1-939377.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong>PTI</strong><br /> New Delhi, October 03, 2012<br />
Sachin Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha as per the
constitutional provision which also allows induction of experts from the
field of sports, government told the Delhi high court on Wednesday.<br />
Additional Solicitor General Rajeev Mehra said the provision under Article 80 <ins>of
the Constitution does not confine to inducting experts only from the
fields of science, arts, literature and social services but also those
from sports, education and other areas.</ins><br />
<ins>Mehra placed a copy of the affidavit, which was earlier filed in
the Allahabad High Court on a similar plea against Tendulkar’s
nomination to the Upper House, before the bench of Chief Justice D
Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw.</ins><br />
<ins>The senior counsel had told the bench earlier that the
government has already taken a stand before the Allahabad High Court on
the same issue and the copy of the affidavit would be produced for the
court’s perusal.</ins><br />
<ins>The centre was responding to a PIL filed by Ram Gopal Singh
Sisodia, a former Delhi MLA, challenging Sachin’s nomination alleging
that he does not possess any of the qualifications prescribed under
Article 80 of the Constitution for being nominated to the Rajya Sabha.</ins><br />
<ins>“A bare reading of the Article makes it clear that the person to
be nominated should have special knowledge or practical experience in
matters like literature, science, arts and social service, but the
expertise so required for nomination is not confined to the specific
illustrations given in the Article,” he said.</ins><br />
<ins>“The special knowledge and practical experience required for the
purpose is not confined to the said four categories only but would also
include categories like sports, education, law, history, academics
attainments, Indology, economics, journalism, parliamentary practice and
procedure, public administration, agriculture, sports (wrestling) or
other similar fields of human endeavour,” the affidavit said. </ins><br />
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<strong>Setback for ATS as Bombay HC grants bail to alleged Maoists</strong><br />
Posted On Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 08:58:24 AM<br />
The two, among seven members who were arrested in Pune last year for
spreading the ideology of the banned organisation, have to report to the
police every Sunday<br />
Sunil Baghel In a setback to the Anti Terrorism Squad, the Bombay
High Court (HC) on Wednesday granted bail to two alleged Maoists, who
were among seven arrested from various parts of the State in April last
year. <br />
Justice Abhay Thipsay granted bail to Jyoti Chorge and Sushma
Ramtekke for Rs 30,000 each and one or two sureties of the like amount.
To ensure that they do not abscond, the court also directed them to
attend their local police station every Sunday. <br />
The ATS had accused Chorge and Ramtekke of being members of the
banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), and of spreading its ideology
as part of the Golden Corridor Committee, a panel formed to propagate
its doctrine in urban centres. Both of them were held in Pune, after the
arrest of Anjali Sontakke, alias Angela Teltumbde, who is alleged to be
the secretary of the Golden Corridor Committee. <br />
Apart from Chorge and Ramtekke taking a common defence stand that
their names never reflected in the original FIR, Ramtekke’s main defence
was that she was arrested simply because she was the roommate of Anjali
Sontakke, and that she was found to be using aliases. <br />
According to ATS, however, Ramtekke was a ‘dedicated member’ of the
outfit and had used at least two false names — Shraddha Gurav and
Madhavi More — while spreading the activities of the banned group. She
has also been accused of providing logistical support to Anjali and
attending group meetings. <br />
Chorge’s bail application contended that the pro-Maoist material she
was allegedly caught with did not belong to her, and that she had been
and the friend are also accused in the case. <br />
Chorge further said that she was arrested when she was about to hand
over the bags to the other accused whom she was meeting for the first
time. She was less than 19 years of age at the time of her arrest. <br />
The ATS defended their case by citing statements from the
chargesheet filed in May last year, and emphasising that the material
recovered from both of them showed that they were active members of the
banned organisation. However, the HC declined to accept their
submissions.<br />
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School inferno: HC orders plastic surgeries for two children<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/school-inferno-hc-orders-plastic-surgeries-for-two-children/64084/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/school-inferno-hc-orders-plastic-surgeries-for-two-children/64084/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Chennai October 03, 2012, 22:25<br />
Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu Government to bear
the expenses of proposed plastic surgeries on two children, who received
serious burns in the 2004 Kumbakonam school inferno.<br />
Passing interim orders on a miscellaneous petition, the court
directed private Apollo Hospitals to perform plastic surgeries on
Kausalya and Vijay “as soon as possible” and ordered Tamil Nadu
Government to bear the treatment expenses.<br />
Petitioner K Inbaraj, Secretary, Kumbakonam Fire Tragedy Victims
Association, submitted that the consultant plastic surgeon of the
hospital had said that the two children required plastic surgery and the
entire cost of the procedures would be around 1.25 lakh each.<br />
In its counter, the government said it had already paid an ex-gratia amount and also issued home pattas to families of victims.<br />
Justice D Hariparanthaman, in his order said, “The payment of
ex-gratia and issue of home pattas to families of the victims cannot
absolve the government from granting medical aid to children, who
received burn injuries.”<br />
Pointing out that the counter has not stated anything on the
treatment given to the children, the Judge said, “The 18 children
received severe burn injuries at eight years of age. Denying medical
treatment to children by the state is violation of Article 14 and 21 of
the Constitution.”<br />
“In these circumstances, Apollo Hospital is directed to admit these
two children for surgery as opined by its consultant plastic surgeon and
perform the surgery as suggested by doctor,” he said and posted the
matter for October 8.<br />
94 children were killed when a major fire swept through a private school in Kumbakonam on July 16, 2004.<br />
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HC stays LU students’ union polls</h1>
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<a href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/hc-stays-lu-students-union-polls/1011764/">http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/hc-stays-lu-students-union-polls/1011764/</a></h2>
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Express news service</h2>
Posted: Oct 04, 2012 at 0452 hrs IST<br />
<strong><ins>Lucknow</ins></strong><ins> <em>A student challenged the
rule which says that the permissible age limit to contest elections
shall be calculated as on the date of nomination. Otherwise, the age as
on the date of commencement of academic session is taken into
consideration for all purposes, he said</em> </ins><br />
<ins>The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court today stayed the
elections of Lucknow University Students Union (LUSU), which were
scheduled for October 15. </ins><br />
<ins>A bench comprising Justices Uma Nath Singh and Virendra Kumar
Dixit passed the order on a petition of Hemant Singh, a student, who
challenged the rule which says that the permissible age limit to contest
elections shall be calculated as on the date of nomination. </ins><br />
<ins>His counsel Prashant Singh Atal said ordinarily, the age as on
the date of commencement of academic session is taken into consideration
for all purposes. But, as a result of this rule, the petitioner had
become overage to contest the election. </ins><br />
<ins>The petitioner sought a direction to Lucknow University to
consider his candidature for contesting the students union election by
calculating his age as on the date of commencement of academic session. </ins><br />
<ins>“Other universities, including Delhi University and Hemvati
Nandan Bahuguna University, Dehradun, have considered the age of the
candidate as on the beginning of the academic session,” Hemant said. </ins><br />
<ins>The Lyngodh committee had recommended that elections should be
held within 6 to 8 weeks from the date of beginning of the academic
session. LU’s academic session started on July 16 but the election
notification was issued on September 25, nine days after the recommended
eight weeks’ time. “On September 27, I gave a memorandum to returning
officer N K Pandey and others, but no action was taken,” said Hemant. </ins><br />
<ins>“The notification for election has been issued after eight
weeks, and thus, the petitioner has stood disqualified to contest the
election only on the ground of being overaged which should ordinarily be
calculated as on the date of commencement of academic session,” said
the bench. </ins><br />
<ins>“In the interest of justice the LUSU polls scheduled for October
15 as notified on September 25 needs to be stayed till the next date of
hearing,” the court stated. </ins><br />
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Abhi Verma murder case: HC okays hanging, but defers execution to give time for appeal<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Hoshiarpur-murder-case-HC-clears-way-for-hanging-two-convicts/SP-Article1-939350.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Hoshiarpur-murder-case-HC-clears-way-for-hanging-two-convicts/SP-Article1-939350.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Sanjeev%20Verma&op=Story">Sanjeev Verma</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br /> Chandigarh, October 03, 2012<br />
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday cleared the way for
hanging two convicts, Vikram Singh and Jasbir Singh, for kidnapping for
ransom and later committing a “cold-blooded murder” of a 16-year-old
Hoshiarpur (Punjab) boy Abhi Verma “in inhuman, diabolic and dastard
manner” in 2005.<br />
<ins> <br /> However, the division bench comprising justice Surya Kant
and justice RP Nagrath directed the Patiala central jail superintendent
to keep the death warrants, issued for October 5 by the Hoshiarpur
district and sessions judge, in abeyance till October 12, so as to
enable the convicts to avail their remedy of filing appeal in the
Supreme Court.</ins><br />
<ins>Finding no merit in the petition filed by Vikram Singh and
Jasbir Singh, the bench said petitioners’ submission has “no legs to
stand and must fall flat” adding that the decision “to hang the
petitioners to death has been unarguably taken following the procedure
established by law.”</ins><br />
<ins>Court had found Vikram, Jasbir and Jasbir’s wife Sonia of
kidnapping and later committing murder of a Hoshiarpur goldsmith Ravi
Verma’s son Abhi for a ransom of Rs. 50 lakhs in February 2005 in a
preplanned manner by injecting Chloroform and Fortwin in heavy doses to
the victim after tying both his hands and legs and sealing his mouth
with a tape to prevent the detection of offence. </ins><br />
<ins>The trial court had on September 3, 2005 convicted the trio
under sections 302 (murder), 364-A (kidnapping for ransom), 201 (causing
disappearance of evidence of offence) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy)
Indian Penal Code and sentenced all of them to death.</ins><br />
<ins>Later the high court had on May 30, 2008 confirmed the death
sentence awarded to the three accused. The convicts filed an appeal in
the Supreme Court, which on January 25, 2010 upheld death sentence in
case of Vikram and Jasbir. However, Sonia’s death sentence was commuted
to life sentence.</ins><br />
<ins>With an intention to linger on the death sentence awarded to
them, Vikram and Jasbir had approached the high court challenging the
legality of convicting them under section 364-A of IPC and had sought
directions to strike down the section from IPC stating it against
articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.</ins><br />
<ins>The petitioners had informed that the legislative object of
‘death’ as one of the sentences for the offence under section 364-A was
to curb the menace of cross-border terrorism in kidnapping cases against
‘the government or any foreign state or international intergovernmental
organization’ and not to punish any individual. </ins><br />
<ins>However, the bench said that the petitioners’ counsel’s
“contention completely overlooks the fact that the phrase “any other
person” was inserted in section 364-A at the onset only to punish a
private individual’s kidnapping for ransom.”</ins><br />
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HIV tests: HC seeks opinion of national body</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/HIV-tests-HC-seeks-opinion-of-national-body/articleshow/16661472.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/HIV-tests-HC-seeks-opinion-of-national-body/articleshow/16661472.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 01.50AM IST<br />
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Institute-of-Biologicals">National Institute of Biologicals</a> to give its opinion on whether Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test should be adopted instead of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Elisa-%28musician%29">ELISA</a> for reduction of window period in HIV check up during blood transfusion.<br />
The division bench of Chief Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhaskar-Bhattacharya">Bhaskar Bhattacharya</a>
and Justice J B Pardiwala has roped in the national institute after it
obtained response from the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) and
the controller of drugs.<br />
The court has been making inquiry in this issue on the basis of a PIL
filed by one Babulal Thakkar, who sought HC directions to authorities
with claims that with adoption of PCR test instead of ELISA, the window
period for check up could be reduced drastically.<br />
The national institute has been asked to throw light on this aspect
by October 19. Meanwhile, the high court has deleted Thakkar’s name from
the PILs he filed in this regard after it was brought to court’s notice
that he had sought registration of FIR against prime minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh">Manmohan Singh</a>, UPA chairperson <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sonia-Gandhi">Sonia Gandhi</a> and NACO director Satyen Chatterji for alleged corrupt practices.<br />
The court has decided to continue with the PILs sans Thakker, who
used to appear as party-in-person. The court has held that the issue
raised by the petitioner was of very serious nature and concerns public
interest.<br />
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HC seeks AG views on contempt proceedings against officials<br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-seeks-ag-viewscontempt-proceedings-against-officials/64087/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-seeks-ag-viewscontempt-proceedings-against-officials/64087/</a><br />
Press Trust of India / Jaipur October 03, 2012, 22:45<br />
Rajasthan High Court today sought the Advocate General’s opinion on
possible action it can take after finding state officials guilty of
committing contempt of court during 2008 gurjar agitation for quota.<br />
The Court was hearing the contempt petition filed by the government against Gurjar leader K S Bainsla who had led the stir.<br />
The single bench of Justice M C Sharma had earlier issued contempt
notice to former Chief Secretary D C Samant for his failure to comply
with the court’s 2008 order asking the gurjar leaders not to disrupt law
and order and the government to ensure its strict compliance.<br />
Following this, government had filed the contempt petition against Bainsla and other Gurjar leaders.<br />
The bench was of the view that while the gujjar leaders are guilty of
flouting court’s order, at the same time the state government had also
miserably failed to see compliance of court’s order and the entire chaos
was outcome of failure of state machinery.<br />
The bench had also asked the state government to withdraw the proceedings but the state government refused to do so.<br />
The court today asked Advocate General G S Bapnah to frame opinion
and inform it on November 5 as to what should be done by the court as it
finds the officials guilty of contempt and also what were the reasons
for the chaos that took place during gurjar agitation despite court’s
order of peaceful demonstrations.<br />
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Residents move HC against school construction</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/residents-move-hc-against-school-construction/1011672/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/residents-move-hc-against-school-construction/1011672/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Thu Oct 04 2012, 02:00 hrs<br />
A group of residents of Oshiwara and Lokhandwala have approached the
Bombay High Court against the setting up of an international school in
the area.<br />
The petitioners, the Oshiwara Lokhandwala Residents’ Association
(OLCA), have a filed a petition which was heard before a Division Bench
of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar.<br />
According to them, the construction of the school premises is being
carried out on two adjoining Maharashtra Housing and Area Development
Authority (MHADA) plots measuring 2,160 sq m and 3,850 sq m. They claim
that these two plots were reserved for a municipal school, a common
playground respectively and were open spaces.<br />
Their petition further states that in response to their query, they
received a MHADA response stating that both plots, though reserved, were
leased to one Janata Education Society for 30 years in August 2008.<br />
In July this year, the residents had taken out a protest march to
voice their concerns on the issue. They claim that they have written
several letters to authorities on the issue, but did not get any
response.<br />
The petitioners demand that the trust should be restrained from
carrying out any further construction on the plot and restore the area
to its original condition.<br />
The court has now asked the state government and the trust to file
their affidavits in response to the petition within three weeks.<br />
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HC grants pre-arrest bail to Karunanidhi’s relative<br />
http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-grants-pre-arrest-bail-to-karunanidhis-relative/64099/<br />
Press Trust of India / Chennai October 03, 2012, 23:25<br />
Madras High Court today granted anticipatory bail to V M Jyothimani,
son-in-law of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s daughter
Selvi, in a land fraud case with stringent conditions including Rs 50
lakh deposit in the lower court.<br />
Passing orders on Jyothimani’s plea, Justice G M Akbar Ali ordered
that he be released on bail in the event of arrest or on his appearance
before the XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, within 15 days from the
date of receipt of the copy of the order.<br />
He should also execute a bond for Rs one lakh with two sureties each
for the like sum, the court said, Jyothimani shall deposit a sum of Rs
50,00,000 before XI Metropolitan Magistrate within a period of two weeks
from the date of receipt of the order, it said.<br />
He shall produce property security to the value of Rs 1.25 crore
standing either in the name of the petitioner or his close relatives and
also execute security bond to that effect, it said.<br />
The petitioner shall appear before the police daily at 10 AM for a
period of two weeks, the Judge said, adding he should produce all
necessary documents, including bank statements, and cooperate with the
investigation.<br />
In his complainant to police, V Nedumaran of Valasarawakkam alleged
that Jyothimani had promised to sell him 2.94 acre of land in Thalambur
village for Rs 5.14 crore, after claiming to be the property’s power
agent in 2007 but did not execute the sale.<br />
Though Jyothimani received a cheque for Rs 3.5 crore as advance, he
“did not come forward to execute the sale nor did he return the money,”
the petitioner alleged, adding that instead the said property was sold
to another person.<br />
He further alleged that Jyothimani did not entertain phone calls made by him.<br />
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<strong>HC extends stay on felling of trees</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282930/hc-extends-stay-felling-trees.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/282930/hc-extends-stay-felling-trees.html</a><br />
Bangalore, Oct 3, 2012, DHNS:<br />
<strong>The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday extended the stay on
felling of trees for road widening within BBMP area and questioned the
significance of the Tree Authority and the Karnataka Preservation of
Trees Act.</strong><br />
The court was hearing a petition filed by the Environment Support
Group (ESG) and a suo motu PIL initiated by the High Court, following a
letter by Justice D V Shylendrakumar to the erstwhile chief justice in
2011. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and
Justice B V Nagarathna extended the stay and clubbed the petition with
another suo motu petition, where the High Court, on September 4, 2012,
had told the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) that no trees
shall be felled for road construction or widening on NH-218 passing
through Bijapur, Humnabad and Gulbarga.<br />
The petitioners cited BBMP’s claim that it had planted over eight
lakh trees and contended that the Palike did not state where it planted
the trees. They submitted that status of the planted trees was not known
and the Tree Authority “was indiscriminately permitting the felling.”
The Bench also questioned the Tree Authority’s significance. “Prima
facie, we feel that the public must be made aware of a proposal for
removal of trees by issuing a public notice so that objections can be
invited. The Act does not provide any machinery in this regard,” the
Bench noted.<br />
“So far as the availability of an appeal is concerned, it seems to
us that it may be futile in those instances where the tree officer
grants permission to fell a tree. The public perception is that such
orders are executed instantly and at night.”<br />
Upholding the submission of the petitioners that members of the Tree
Authority were “not satisfactory,” the Bench observed: “The Act does
not seem to cater for such an eventuality. Further more, so far as the
constitution of the feller body is concerned, it comprises three members
such as mayor or president of the Municipal Corporation, the municipal
commissioner or the chief executive etc, who are in effect the persons
proposing the felling or keeping of a particular tree. This may amount
to a person being a judge in his own cause and is an anathema in law.” <br /> The matter has been adjourned.<br />
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<h1>
No U-turn near mall on e-way: HC</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/No-U-turn-near-mall-on-e-way-HC/articleshow/16663202.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/No-U-turn-near-mall-on-e-way-HC/articleshow/16663202.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 05.45AM IST<br />
CHANDIGARH: Taking up the issue of vehicular congestion on the
Delhi-Gurgaon expressway, Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday
issued orders prohibiting U-turn near Ambience mall in Gurgaon during
rush hours.<br />
As per the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/HC">HC</a>
directions, no U-turn will be allowed near Ambience mall between 8 am
and 11 am in the morning hours and from 5 pm to 8 pm during evening
hours. The HC has asked Haryana Police to block the U-turn.<br />
When the matter came up for hearing before the high court, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gurgaon-police">Gurgaon police</a>
informed the court that the situation has not improved at the toll
plaza and traffic jams and chaos are back. Gurgaon police has also
reiterated it earlier stand that the location of the toll plaza is not
appropriate and its design is also faulty. Police also alleged that
underpasses/bridge at the expressway are not maintained and due to
faults around 200 persons have lost their lives while around 306 has
been injured in the past two years.<br />
The issue of payment to the police was also raised, following which
the concessionaires submitted that they would agree on the amount
settled by the court. Assistant commissioner of police Ravinder Kumar,
who was also present in the court, pleaded the court for implementation
of the rule that if waiting time of vehicles in queue in any lane
exceeds 10 minutes the barrier of that lane should be lifted to reduce
the waiting time.<br />
During the hearing of the case, one Attar Singh, claiming to be
representative of Toll Hatao Samiti, tried to intervene in the matter
but the court refused to entertain his pleas and adjourned the matter
for October 8.<br />
During the last hearing on September 28, the Punjab and Haryana high
court had ordered that no toll should be collected from private vehicles
during peak office hours in the morning and evening. As per the orders,
there will be no collection of toll from 8.30am to 10am and again from
5.30pm to 7pm. Now the same orders would continue till October 8.<br />
Earlier on September 4, after pulling up the expressway operator for
failing to put an end to chaos at the toll plaza, the HC had barred toll
collection from all private as well as commercial vehicles on the
stretch. The direction to stop toll fee collection came after the
Gurgaon traffic police informed the court that the concessionaire was
responsible for the chaos at the expressway because it had not hired
enough staff to deal with traffic.<br />
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Raze 3,000 houses in a month: HC</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Raze-3000-houses-in-a-month-HC/articleshow/16664169.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Raze-3000-houses-in-a-month-HC/articleshow/16664169.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.59AM IST<br />
<ins> JAIPUR: An HC division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Meena V Gomber came down heavily on the JDA, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JMC">JMC</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RHB">RHB</a> for their failure in complying the order of the bench to remove <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/encroachments">encroachments</a>
falling in the Amanishah Nullah. The court ordered demolition of more
than 3,000 dwelling units said to be encroaching on the 13km stretch of
the nullaha falling in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JDA">JDA</a> and JMC region with some segregated constuctions in Mansarovar Housing Board area.</ins><br />
The bench also initiated contempt proceedings against former CEO of JMC, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Loknath-Soni">Loknath Soni</a>
for not taking any action in the last one month despite court’s order
to remove encroachments. The bench has also directed the state
government to taken action within 10 days against guilty officials who
allowed illegal constructions or granted permission for construction and
the land conversions in the catchment area and inform the court during
next hearing after 15 days.<br />
The court however, refused to extend time limit for compliance to 6
months as sought by JDA and asked that all the 3,000 or more houses that
have been built in the water flow area of the original nullaha should
be razed in one month.<br />
The court also asked JDA, JMC and RHB to issue notices to the
encroachers to remove their dwelling units and make paper publication of
the proposed action of demolition of their houses in newspapers.<br />
The bench recorded statements of Arvind Arya, superintending
engineer of JDA, J S Yadav, CEO of JMC and A A Khan, deputy housing
commissioner and expressed displeasure over the slow pace of removal of
encroachments. It was submitted by JDA officials and senior advocate R N
Mathur appearing for JDA that due to public resentment officials were
stopped from taking any steps.<br />
The court was told that out of a total 48km stretch of the nullah
only 39km falls in JDA region and out of this 170 encroachments have
been removed and only a 6km thickly populated stretch remains. On a
query raised by court it admitted that around 800-1,000 houses are there
in this region.<br />
Similary, JMC said that only 7km area of the nullah is in its
purview where more than 2,000 houses are within or near the catchment
area of the nullah but no single house was served with the notice in the
last one month owing to JDA not demarcating the central line. The
housing board said there is no encroachment in the 6.5km stretch of
nullah passing from Pratap Nagar and Mansarovar except that of Neerja
Modi School which has already been demolished by JDAJDA. There is hardly
any requirement of a central line except in a small stretch. The body
language of officials speaks volume in itself showing they are under
tremendous pressure and they do not seems willing to follow our orders.
We know how to get the orders complied with,”observed Justice
Mishra.JDA, Justice Mishra observed, “You are yourself responsible for
this situation. You have allowed them to erect illegal constructions.
You are trustee of this public land and now you say we cannot remove
encroachments. Can this be a sensible statement? We record our strong
displeasure over the fact that a large number of encroachments are still
holding ground.”<br />
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<h1>
HC orders status quo on memorial of spiritual leader</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-orders-status-quo-on-memorial-of-spiritual-leader/1011751/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-orders-status-quo-on-memorial-of-spiritual-leader/1011751/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/pti/">Press Trust of India</a> : Mumbai, Thu Oct 04 2012, 04:26 hrs<br />
The Bombay High Court has granted a status quo on the memorial of
Maharashtra’s spiritual leader Dr Nanasaheb alias Narayan Vishnu
Dharmadhikari, proposed to come up in Alibag taluka of Raigad district
at a cost of Rs 20 crore.<br />
The status quo was granted last week by a Bench headed by Justice A M
Khanvilkar who heard a petition filed by some villagers of Bamangaon
group gram panchayat in Alibag taluka alleging unlawful acquisition of a
12-acre land by the state government without following procedures.<br />
Dharmadhikari, who died in Pune in 2008, has a huge following in the
state. He had devoted 60 years of his life in public service in Raigad
district on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra.<br />
On March 28, 2011, the urban development department had directed the
Raigad collector to take possession of the land. On the same day, the
collector took possession of the land and made entries in the land
record, the petition filed by Ashok Raut and Prabhakar Raut alleged.<br />
The petition has taken objection to the acquisition of land for
erecting memorial for the spiritual leader, saying the land is currently
used for grazing cattle and this practice has been going on for ages.<br />
Also, proper procedures were not followed in land acquisition, it alleged.<br />
The petition argued that the collector had not given a hearing to the
villagers on the acquisition of land, against the principle of natural
justice, adding that the decision violated their fundamental rights.<br />
They cited a rule that if the possession of land is with gram
panchayat, the government can acquire it only if the land is needed for a
national or state development project, provided the gram panchayat does
not require the land.<br />
The petitioners had urged the court to quash the urban development department’s order and grant a status quo on the project.<br />
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HC stays construction of residential projects in Noida</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-stays-construction-of-residential-projects-in-noida/1011770/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-stays-construction-of-residential-projects-in-noida/1011770/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Allahabad, Thu Oct 04 2012, 04:57 hrs<br />
The Allahabad High Court today stayed the construction of
multi-storey residential projects of nearly half-a-dozen private
developers in sectors 75 and 120 of Noida, while hearing a petition
alleging that the Noida Authority allotted land to private builders
without formally acquiring it from the farmers.<br />
The court has given two weeks time to the respondents to file their
replies. The matter will come up for further hearing after three weeks. A
division bench of Acting Chief Justice Amitava Lala and Justice PKS
Baghel said that the allegations made in the petition raised a question
of law as to whether any public authority had the power to allot land to
a third party without first acquiring it from the land owner.<br />
The petition filed by Kalu, a farmer of Sarsabad village, through
counsels Shiv Kant Tripathi and Amrita Rai, said that on April 7, 2011, a
notification under Section 4 (indicating the intention of the Authority
concerned to acquire land) of the Land Acquisition Act for 120 hectares
in Sectors 75 and 120, falling in Sarsabad village, was issued.<br />
Nearly six lakh square metres of land, which is roughly half of the
total area for which the notification was issued, was allotted to
different builders between 2010 and 2012 without the acquisition process
being complete, said the petition.<br />
“Our contention is that 17 months after the notice under Section 4
was issued, the acquisition process has not moved forward. Under the
norms, the notice under Section 6 (pertaining to finalising the plots to
be acquired) of the Act should have been issued within a year. Also,
our main objection is land could not be allotted to private builders
before it was acquired from farmers,” said Mishra. He added that all the
private developers involved have begun construction on the allotted
land.<br />
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HC to hear plea against land acquisition on Oct 15</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/HC-to-hear-plea-against-land-acquisition-on-Oct-15/articleshow/16663326.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/HC-to-hear-plea-against-land-acquisition-on-Oct-15/articleshow/16663326.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Vishwas-Kothari.cms">Vishwas Kothari</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 06.00AM IST<br />
PUNE: The Bombay high court is likely to hear on October 15 a couple
of writ petitions challenging the acquisition of the 20-acre private
land at survey no 245 in Lohegaon by the Pune district administration to
facilitate the extension of runway at the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lohegaon-airfield">Lohegaon airfield</a>.<br />
The acquisition process was completed on March 5, 2011 by way of invoking the urgency clause under section 17 of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Land-Acquisition">Land Acquisition</a> Act, 1894 and the land has since been handed over to the Defence Estate Officer (DEO), Pune.<br />
However, the runway project, which was sanctioned by the Union
government almost a decade ago, has since been bogged down by a spate of
litigations in the high court as well as in the civil court in the
city.<br />
K M Talera, owner of a private resort that owns the acquired land,
has filed the writ petition challenging the legal validity of the
acquisition process. The petitioner has sought the high court directives
to quash and set aside the acquisition and hand the land back to him.
Another writ petition, filed by the Ex-servicemen Association of
Lohegaon has been clubbed with this matter.<br />
At the last hearing on July 31, the high court division bench of
justices S A Bobde and Mrudula Bhatkar had granted time to either
parties for conveying their willingness for mediation to resolve the
issue.<br />
Speaking to TOI, Talera said, “We have challenged the land
acquisition on the grounds that the process was not effected by a
competent authority, as laid down under the Land Acquisition (LA) Act,
1894 that is applicable to the central government. The acquisition has
been done under the LA Act, 1894 that is applicable to the state
government. This should not have been the case as the acquisition
purpose is for a central government establishment. It is also our case
that the purpose of acquisition of our land is malafide and the land
comes nowhere near the runway.”<br />
T S Arockianathan, the then DEO, Pune, has filed an affidavit in
reply maintaining that the acquisition of land was completed under the
LA Act, 1894 as applicable to Union of India, in due compliance with all
the legal procedures and following due process of law. “It is a normal
practice that when the land, which is subject matter of a particular
state, is to be acquired by the central government for a public purpose,
a requisition / demand is raised to the concerned state government
machineries. Accordingly, Pune Divisional Commissioner and the special
land acquisition officer has the authority and jurisdiction for the
acquisition of the land,” the affidavit states.<br />
On December 3, 2003, the Union government had sanctioned acquisition
of the 20 acre private land at survey no 245 in village Lohegaon for
extension of runway and construction of a soft ground arrester at a cost
of Rs 7.54 crore. A demand for land acquisition was placed before the
Pune district’s land acquisition officer by the DEO, Pune on March 10,
2004. However, the acquisition proceedings could not go further till
early 2007, prompting the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ministry-of-Defence">Ministry of Defence</a>
to write to the then state chief secretary, B K Sankaran, to speed up
the acquisition process. Subsequently, the Pune divisional commissioner
had issued a couple of notifications on February 13, 2007 and on
September 28, 2007, the latter invoking the urgency clause, to
facilitate the acquisition.<br />
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<strong>Delhi HC relief to Bharti Airtel: Ban on 3G roaming pacts stayed</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-to-appoint-more-mcoca-judges/1011687/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-to-appoint-more-mcoca-judges/1011687/0</a><br />
<strong>However, the court has asked Bharti Airtel to respond to the show cause notice issued to them by DoT within 60 days</strong><br />
<strong>BS Reporter / Oct 04, 2012, 01:00 IST</strong><br />
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In a major relief to 3G subscribers of Bharti Airtel, the Delhi High
Court on Wednesday granted a stay on a government order asking the
telecom major to stop offering 3G mobile services outside their licensed
areas through roaming pacts.<br />
The Delhi HC has asked the department of telecommunications (DoT) to
not take any coercive action until the next hearing of the case. This
effectively means that Bharti Airtel can continue to offer 3G services
in the seven circles-Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kolkata, Uttar Pradesh
East, Gujarat, Kerala and Haryana- where it does not have 3G spectrum,
but offers 3G services through roaming pacts. The date for next hearing
has not been decided.<br />
However, the court has asked Bharti Airtel to respond to the show cause notice issued to them by DoT within 60 days.<br />
Country’s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Monday had filed a
petition in the Delhi High Court challenging an advisory by DoT which
asked the operator to stop intra-circle 3G roaming services within three
days.<br />
In its plea, Bharti Airtel had sought quashing of the government’s
September 28, 2012 decision directing the service provider to stop
providing intra-circle roaming (ICR) services and alleged that the
decision is contrary to the interim orders passed by the Telecom
Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT).<br />
When contacted Bharti Airtel spokesperson declined to comment as the matter is sub judice.<br />
However, industry association representing GSM players, COAI welcomed
the High Court’s decision. According to COAI (Cellular operators
Association of India) Director-General Rajan Mathews “This (stay on DoT
notice) is a good move. Intra circle roaming is for consumers as it
increases competition and reduces tariff, it is good for the government
as well as through intra circle roaming as it leads to maximum
utilization of spectrum.” On September 28, DoT had issued a notice to
Bharti Airtel, asking the telecom operators to stop providing
third-generation (3G) mobile services through roaming pacts outside its
licensed circles.<br />
DoT had also indicated that similar notices would be sent to Vodafone and Idea Cellular.<br />
Though, both Vodafone and Idea are yet to receive notices from the DoT, the Delhi HC stay order augurs well for them.<br />
In the auction of 3G airwaves in a 2010, no single company managed to
get spectrum in all of the country’s 22 zones. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone
and Idea had entered into mutual agreements to offer 3G services in
circles where they could not bag 3G spectrum. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone,
Idea Cellular, are currently, offering 3G roaming services through such
intracircle roaming pacts.<br />
Airtel has 3G spectrum in 13 circles but offers 3G services in 20
circles. Idea Cellular has 3G spectrum in 11 circles but offers 3G
services in 19 circles. While Vodafone has spectrum in only nine
circles, it offers 3G services to its customers in 20 circles. The
number of circles where 3G spectrum was auctioned is 22.<br />
Over one fifth of the 30 million 3G customers across the country
would be affected if the three operators suspend the intra circle
roaming pact.<br />
DoT had ruled such pacts illegal in December 2011 and asked the
operators to stop offering 3G services beyond their licensed circles
through roaming agreements. The operators had filed a petition
challenging DoT’s verdict in the Telecom Disputes Settlement &
Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT). Tata Teleservices and Aircel was also party
in the petition filed by the telcos.<br />
A two-member bench of TDSAT in July gave a spilt verdict on the
matter. While member P K Rastogi said the operators could not provide
roaming services, as they were not allowed to provide 3G services with
2G licences, Chairman Justice S B Sinha ordered DoT to start the
procedure afresh, as the department had not followed proper procedure
and the operators were not given enough time to present their views.<br />
Following the spilt verdict, the operators were maintaining “status-quo” and continuing with their 3G roaming pacts.<br />
Though the operators paid higher prices for bagging 3G airwaves, but
the uptake of the service remained, slow among the subscribers partly
due to the high cost of such services.<br />
Shares of Bharti Airtel closed at Rs 265.65, up by 0.15 per cent at the Bombay Stock Exchange.<br />
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<h1>
High Court seeks details ofposts for JPNAIIMS</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/High-Court-seeks-details-ofposts-for-JPNAIIMS/articleshow/16661827.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/High-Court-seeks-details-ofposts-for-JPNAIIMS/articleshow/16661827.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 02.35AM IST<br />
PATNA: Patna high court on Wednesday directed the central government
to submit details of the posts of doctors, teachers and paramedical
staff for the Jaya Prakash Narain All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (JPNAIIMS). The Centre also has to give the particulars of the
doctors already appointed for the JPNAIIMS.<br />
A division bench comprising Justice P C Verma and Justice A K Trivedi
also directed the Centre to give particulars of the outpatient
departments (OPDs) to be opened at the JPNAIIMS. The order was passed on
a PIL of Council for Protection of Public Rights and Welfare.<br />
Unhappy with the submission made by the counsel of the contractor
firm, M/s B L Kashyap and Company that the construction of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JPNAIIMS">JPNAIIMS</a>
hospital would be completed by May next year, the division bench
directed the contractor to give undertaking that it would complete the
hospital building by December 31, 2012, and hand over the building to
JPNAIIMS functionaries to make the hospital functional from that day.<br />
The contractor claimed that 90% of the hospital building had been
constructed. The court, however, directed the advocates’ committee
comprising the standing counsel <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shashi-Bhusan-Kumar">Shashi Bhusan Kumar</a>, petitioner’s counsel Brajesh Kumar and central government counsel <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vinay-Kumar">Vinay Kumar</a> Pandey, to inspect the site and submit the progress report.<br />
The court directed the principal secretary, state building
construction department, Bihar to start construction of the boundary
wall of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Guru-Gobind-Singh">Guru Gobind Singh</a>
Hospital, Patna City. Standing counsel Shashi Bhushan Kumar submitted
that the government had released Rs 1.87 crore for construction of its
boundary wall.<br />
The court directed the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bihar-State-Electricity-Board">Bihar State Electricity Board</a>
(BSEB) to ensure uninterrupted power supply to Guru Gobind Singh
Hospital. The court also directed the principal secretary, road
construction department, and SSP, Patna, to take appropriate action for
smooth flow of traffic on the road leading to the hospital.<br />
PIL for doctors’ appointment: A division bench comprising Justice T <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Meena-Kumari">Meena Kumari</a> and Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chakradhari-Sharan-Singh">Chakradhari Sharan Singh</a> recently directed the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-government">state government</a>
to file counter affidavit to a PIL giving details of the number of
vacant posts of doctors in government hospitals right from the medical
colleges and hospitals down to the additional primary health centres
(APHCs). The court also directed the government to give details of
availability of medicines in the government hospitals down to APHCs.<br />
The court gave eight weeks time to the government to give details of
the vacant posts of doctors in government hospitals. Petitioner
Dhirendra Kumar has made the health department officials and all the
district magistrates and civil surgeons of the state respondents seeking
from them the details of the number of vacant posts in the medical
colleges and hospitals, sadar and subdivisional hospitals, primary
health centres (PHCs) and APHCs.<br />
Petitioner’s counsel Sunil Kumar submitted that 60% posts of doctors
in the government hospitals, PHCs and APHCs were lying vacant and due to
this the existing doctors and paramedical staff were unable to cope
with the workload.<br />
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11 child labourers rescued in Gumla</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/11-child-labourers-rescued-in-Gumla/articleshow/16663760.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/11-child-labourers-rescued-in-Gumla/articleshow/16663760.cms</a><br />
TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.01AM IST<br />
GUMLA: A team of government officials here rescued as many as 11 child labourers from different places here on Wednesday.<br />
Seven people, who had employed the children in their trade will be
prosecuted and a fine of Rs 20,000 will also be slapped on them, said
labour superintendent Ramesh Prasad Singh.<br />
All these children hailing from different localities of the township were handed over to the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Child-Welfsare-Committee">Child Welfsare Committee</a> (CWC), Gumla.<br />
Some of these children showed their willingness to go back to school
before district social welfare officer (DSO) Gumla- Girija Shankar
Prasad who led the raid team soon after they were recovered.<br />
Prasad took these children to his office where the children asked him, “Sir, will you teach us?”.<br />
“We raided seven places from where 11 children engaged in different
menial jobs were recovered. They were working in a hotel, two hand carts
and four garages. Now we will hand them over to Child Welfare Committee
(CWC).” Prasad said.<br />
These children will be under protection of the CWC Gumla and those
who are willing to study will be enrolled under formal schooling, said
its chairman Shambhu Singh.<br />
Presently these children will be lodged in a school for hearing and speech impaired here.<br />
After verification from their parents, further action for their rehabilitation will be taken, he added.<br />
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<strong>Govt proposes national centre to regulate chemical industry</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/govt-proposes-national-centre-to-regulate-chemical-industry/488428/">http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/govt-proposes-national-centre-to-regulate-chemical-industry/488428/</a><br />
<strong>Anindita Dey / Mumbai Oct 04, 2012, 00:36 IST</strong><br />
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The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers had proposed to set up a
national chemical centre to formulate environment and human-friendly
policies and contain risks posed by chemicals.<br />
This is aimed at streamlining legislation governing the industry and
making entities concerned responsible for their acts. The industry, at
present, is governed by multiple legislations under several ministries —
the Environment Protection Act, 1986; Factories Act, 1948; Motor
Vehicles Act, 1988; Explosives Act, 1884; Disaster Management Act, 2005;
CWC Act, 2000 and Land Acquisition Act, 1894.<br />
“What we need is a REACH (registration, evaluation, authorisation and
restriction of chemicals) legislation enacted in the European Union for
protecting human health and environment. The Sustainable Policy and
Chemical Act could replace 40 different environment-related
legislations. Besides, there are no specific legislations for
registration, ban and classification of substances,” said an official
source.<br />
For this, the proposed centre would provide necessary regulatory
framework, trade practices, duty structure and maintain an inventory of
the chemical sector containing data on production, consumption, imports,
exports and toxicological properties.<br />
It also envisages setting up of the Chemical Standard Development
Organisation under its jurisdiction to facilitate the industry to comply
with international standards. The objective of these changes are
primarily to increase exports and position India as the research and
development hub for the sub-continent.<br />
Exports have been affected by different guidelines across countries,
specifically in Europe. Though chemical exports (drug and pharma,
dye/intermediates/inorganic/organic and cosmetic/toiletries) grew by 34
per cent year over the year, much of the increase in CY12 has been due
to rupee depreciation rather than actual volume because quantity-wise
there has been only marginal increase in exports across categories.
Also, there is need to diversify into speciality chemicals rather than
focus on organic chemicals to exploit export opportunities.<br />
For this, consolidation is necessary.<br />
The government proposes to provide financial assistance for chemical
companies for consolidation of smaller capacities and establish clusters
by shifting downstream capacities closer to mother plants .<br />
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CCI set to get search and seizure powers</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/CCI-set-to-get-search-and-seizure-powers/articleshow/16663755.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/CCI-set-to-get-search-and-seizure-powers/articleshow/16663755.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Surojit-Gupta.cms">Surojit Gupta</a>, TNN | Oct 4, 2012, 07.00AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: The government is set to give search and seizure powers to
the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to help it investigate
companies indulging in unfair trade practices.<br />
Sources said it is one of the most significant elements in the amendments being proposed to the Competition Act, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/2007">2007</a>
that would be discussed by the Union Cabinet on Thursday. The move will
help the director general (investigation), who is attached to the CCI,
to get information from companies that are not cooperating.<br />
A probe by the DG is at the heart of most orders passed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CCI">CCI</a>
as it helps establish if a firm or an industry is indulging in unfair
practices. Often, in the absence of data from companies investigation is
hampered, officials said. As a result, the DG is now being given powers
under the Code of Criminal Procedure with the safeguard that search and
seizure can be done after getting a nod from the CCI chairman.<br />
If the move on search and seizure is aimed at improving the quality
of investigation by the fairplay watchdog, the government is also
looking to provide protection to intellectual property systems of
companies and other entities that deal with CCI.<br />
In addition, in a move to help hasten mergers and acquisitions, the
government is proposing in that a proposal would be deemed to be
approved within 180 days, instead of 210 days prescribed at present.
Currently, all M&As over a specified value have to be approved by
CCI to check against creation of mega enterprises that dictate market
terms. In fact, the law empowers CCI to seek an investigation to find
out if a proposed combination is against the interests of consumers or
not.<br />
Similarly, companies can now hope to get an extension of 180 days,
instead of 90 days, provided in the law at present as there is a
proposal to amend the law to give more time if an extension is sought.
Although the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Competition-Act">Competition Act</a>
has been in place since 2007, CCI decided to use the powers to clear
M&As only last year. The law also empowers the regulator to ask
companies to divide their business into multiple units in case it is
felt that the entity has assumed a dominant position in the market.<br />
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Rent act a damp squib, doesn’t cover existing tenancies</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rent-act-a-damp-squib-doesn-t-cover-existing-tenancies/1011668/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rent-act-a-damp-squib-doesn-t-cover-existing-tenancies/1011668/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/chitleenksethi/">Chitleen K Sethi </a>: Chandigarh, Thu Oct 04 2012, 01:58 hrs<br />
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Seventeen years after it was passed by the Assembly, the Punjab Rent
Control Act-1995, which is now going to be finally implemented, brings
no cheer to those looking forward to it the most. The Act is going to be
implemented prospectively — from the date of notification — and will
protect the interests of only those landlords and tenants who sign rent
agreements and deeds after the date of notification.<br />
Thousands of landlords and tenants who are embroiled in protracted
litigation for decades over the payment of ludicrously low rents in old
city markets will not get any relief under this Act. Sources said the
move comes in wake of immense pressure on the SAD leadership by the BJP,
which has a major vote bank among shopkeepers in towns.<br />
Though the cabinet on Tuesday had adopted the 1995 Act per se, which
extends to existing tenancies, it has been decided that the Act be
amended the day it is notified to state that it will not be applicable
to existing tenancies. The amendment will then be passed as an ordinance
and only then will the Act be implemented.<br />
Parts of Section 3, 6, 7 and 9, which allowed existing landlords to
demand a certain minimum revised rent from the tenant will removed from
the 1995 Act. Existing landlords cannot move the rent authority, which
will be constituted under the Act for relief in older cases. They would
continue to be governed by the Eastern Punjab Rent Restriction Act-1949.<br />
While this renders the Act useless for those landlords who are
already stuck with low rents, it is expected to make the tenancy laws
stricter for the future. The new Act provides for a compulsory
registration of the tenancy agreement between the landlord and the
tenant.<br />
Also, the implementation of the Act will help the state get its share
of JNNURM funds. Existence of rent control laws is one of the several
reforms to be carried out by the states to be eligible for JNNURM funds.<br />
Since the Act is going to be implemented from the day it is notified,
the cabinet has also done away with the limit of Rs 2,000, which had
earlier been set as the cut-off rent amount for the implementation of
the Act. The 1995 Act had laid down this limit as Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,000
depending on the area where the property is located. However, the Act
will be amended to exclude any such limit.<br />
The Punjab Rent Control Bill was passed by the Assembly in April 1995
and got the President’s assent in 1998. However, the Act was never
notified.<br />
The Act arms the landlord with legal teeth to evict tenants. The
strong tenant lobby, however, has been opposing Act for years on the
grounds that it will lead to an increase in rents. The BJP has been
airing the cause of the tenants and objecting to the notification of the
Act.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=132027&date=2012-06-06" target="_blank"><strong>List of 20 victims handed over to Home Minister</strong></a><br />
<a href="http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=132027&date=2012-06-06">http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=132027&date=2012-06-06</a><br />
<ins>Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dr Mizanur
Rahman on Tuesday handed over to the Home Minister Sahara Khatun a list
of 20 people who had fallen victims to either ‘enforced disappearances
or secret killings,’ reports UNB.</ins><br />
During a brief meeting with Home Minister at her ministry, the NHRC
chief also wanted to know whether there is any step to trace those who
have gone missing.<br />
Talking to journalists after the meeting, Mizan voiced his grave
concern over some recent incidents, including the disappearance of BNP
leader Ilias Ali, journalists Sagar, Runi murder, worker Aminul Islam
killing and torture on journalists by the police.<br />
Dr Mizan requested the Home Minister to inform the NHRC of the steps
taken by the government about those incidents. “The minister informed me
about the progress in the investigation into those incidents and said
there will be positive results.”<br />
Replying to a question, the NHRC chairman said a section of
overenthusiastic police officers violate human rights while performing
their duties.<br />
Dr Mizan urged the Home Minister to promote police officers on the
basis of recommendations from the NHRC to be sure whether the police
officials were involved in any act of human rights violation.<br />
The minister agreed in principle with the NHRC chairman on the proposal.<br />
All the NHRC members were present during the meeting with the Home Minister. <br />
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Family refuses to encash cheque even after 2 months</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Family-refuses-to-encash-cheque-even-after-2-months/articleshow/13859895.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Family-refuses-to-encash-cheque-even-after-2-months/articleshow/13859895.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 05.19AM IST<br />
CHANDIGARH: In the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/kidnapping">kidnapping</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/murder-case-of-Khushpreet-Singh">murder case of Khushpreet Singh</a>, 5, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chandigarh-administration">Chandigarh administration</a>
had handed over a cheque of Rs 3 lakh as compensation money to the kin
of the deceased in April 2012, but they still have not got the cheque
encashed in protest.<br />
The father of deceased child, Lakhwinder Singh, said, “We refuse to
encash the compensation cheque as seeking money was never our motive. We
want strict punishment for the cops responsible for the death of my
child.”<br />
Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Delhi, issued
detailed orders in this regard on Tuesday. Counsel for the victim
family, Arvind Thakur, said the NHRC has also instructed the Chandigarh
administration to take strict action against the guilty cops and issued
orders in this regard on Tuesday.<br />
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35-lakhs for a block of toilets, not two, says Planning Commission</h1>
<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/planning-commission-spends-rs-35-lakh-to-renovate-2-toilets-in-delhi-227824">http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/planning-commission-spends-rs-35-lakh-to-renovate-2-toilets-in-delhi-227824</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/search?q=NDTV+Correspondent">NDTV Correspondent</a> | Updated: June 06, 2012 18:16 IST<br />
<strong>New Delhi: </strong>The morning began with two toilets
occupying national mindspace. A Right to Information application
revealed that the Planning Commission has spent 35 lakhs on renovating
two toilets at its offices in Delhi. Five lakhs had been invested on
installing a system that would limit entry to the toilets to electronic
card holders.<br />
Online and elsewhere, there was fierce criticism of what was seen as
lavish expenditure by a body that designs India’s economic blueprint –
its five year plans – and which had controversially said that Indians
who spend more than Rs. 32 a day in cities are above the poverty line.
“The Planning Commission’s toilets should be protected as the eighth
wonder of the world,” said the BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.<br />
The Planning Commission used a detailed statement to clear the air. A
press release said that the money had been spent on two toilet blocks
that could accommodate 20 users at a time, and that they include
facilities for differently-abled users, which can be expensive.<br />
The Commission also said that the smart card system had been
introduced to avoid “pilferage” of sanitation equipment and that it had
been discontinued because it was not practical. The toilets were for
public use, it emphasized, while pointing out that the upgrade followed
many complaints made by ministers and foreign dignitaries who had
visited the building.<br />
“The plan to renovate the toilets was in the budget and we thought
the public toilets is used by everyone and it’s not one or two it’s an
entire block which is being renovated. these toilets were 50 years old
and the pipelines was very old and it was leaking which could cause
health issues as well. That’s why the entire toilet block is being
renovated here,” said Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the
Planning Commission.<br />
Though the explanation presented the rationale for the expenditure,
stressing that it had been accounted for in the Commission’s annual
budget, critics remained unconvinced.<br />
“There is almost everything that is wrong with what was done and with
the justification for it. The Planning Commission represents planning
for whom, the poor of the country. And there has been a dispute with
their figures because there has been a perception with everyone that
within the planning commission they have one standard for the poor and
another for the rich,” said Nikhil Dey, an activist.<br />
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Khushpreet case: UT files compliance report to NHRC</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/khushpreet-case-ut-files-compliance-report-to-nhrc/958434/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/khushpreet-case-ut-files-compliance-report-to-nhrc/958434/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Wed Jun 06 2012, 02:36 hrs<br />
The UT Administration has submitted a compliance report to the
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) along with the proof of payment
of Rs 3 lakh compensation which was paid to the family of Khushpreet.
The administration made the payment to Lakhbir Singh, the father of
Khushpreet, on April 4.<br />
Five-year-old Khushpreet Singh, son of a dairy owner, was kidnapped
and subsequently murdered by his neighbour on December 21, 2010 near his
house in Burail. His body was recovered from Mohali. Khushpreet was not
released despite his family paying Rs 4 lakh in ransom. The police had
arrested Sukhdev Singh, Gurvinder Singh and Nand Kishore in connection
with the case.<br />
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<strong>Tribunal rejects IL&FS’ plea to allow work on Cuddalore plant</strong><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tribunal-rejects-ilfs-plea-to-allow-work-on-cuddalore-plant/1007813.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tribunal-rejects-ilfs-plea-to-allow-work-on-cuddalore-plant/1007813.html</a><br />
PTI | 04:06 PM,Jun 05,2012<br />
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal has refused to
stay its order suspending the environment clearance granted to IL&FS
Tamil Nadu Power Company Ltd for its 3,600 MW thermal power plant in
the state’s Cuddalore district. The Tribunal rejected IL&FS’ fresh
plea for keeping its May 23 order for suspension of the environment
clearance (EC) in abeyance and to allow it to carry out construction
works for the project. The tribunal had suspended the May 31, 2010 EC on
May 23, this year and had directed the Ministry of Environment and
Forests (MoEF) to review its decision based on a cumulative impact
assessment study and stipulate additional environmental conditions, if
required. Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd
(IL&FS) had sought a stay on the Tribunal’s May 23 order contending
that preparatory civil works like construction of storm water drainage
and levelling of the site must be completed before the onset of monsoon
in mid September 2012. The tribunal rejected its plea saying a rapid
cumulative impact assessment study can be completed before the onset of
monsoon and “civil works referred to by IL&FS may not take very long
to complete if planned and executed properly”. “In view of the
importance of cumulative impact study in decision making, in the case on
hand and the logistic reasons with regard to completing the civil
works, we see no reason to provide relief as sought in the application,”
a bench headed by Tribunal Acting Chairperson Justice A S Naidu said.<br />
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<strong>Allahabad ‘kripa’ on Nirmal Baba: HC stays arrest</strong><br />
<a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-allahabad-kripa-on-nirmal-baba-hc-stays-arrest-3370892.html">http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-allahabad-kripa-on-nirmal-baba-hc-stays-arrest-3370892.html</a><br />
Source: Dailybhaskar.com | Last Updated 11:52(05/06/12)<br />
<strong>New Delhi:</strong> In a much-needed relief for the self-proclaimed godman, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court stayed Nirmal Baba’s arrest.<br />
According to reports, Nirmaljeet Singh Narula aka Nirmal Baba got
relief after the court put a stay on his arrest until chargesheet is
filed.<br />
Nirmal Baba had filed a writ petition seeking quashing of FIR against
him and staying his arrest. The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM’s) had
ordered filing of an FIR against Nirmal Baba on charges of fraud.<br />
The CJM order came on a petition filed by two students Tanya Thakur
(16) and her brother Aditya (13) in Lucknow. In his petition, Baba has
said that he is among renowned religious persons and denied all
allegations against him. He has described CJM’s order as ‘legally
incorrect’.<br />
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MBA student’s encounter case: 11 cops surrender</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/MBA-students-encounter-case-11-cops-surrender/articleshow/13857937.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/MBA-students-encounter-case-11-cops-surrender/articleshow/13857937.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 01.40AM IST<br />
<ins> NEW DELHI: Three years after the alleged fake encounter case of MBA student Ranbir Singh in Dehradun, 11 of the 18 <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a> police personnel accused in the case surrendered before a trial court on Tuesday.</ins><br />
<ins>The policemen, who surrendered before Special CBI judge V K
Maheshwari after non-bailable warrants were issued against them this
May, have been sent to judicial custody.</ins><br />
<ins>The cops who surrendered include Satbir Singh, Sunil Saini,
Chander Pal, Saurabh Nautiyal, Nagendra Nath, Vikas Chandra Baluni,
Sanjay Rawat, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mohan-Singh">Mohan Singh</a> Rana, Inder Bhan Singh and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manoj-Kumar">Manoj Kumar</a> – all constables during the incident – and head operator at the city control room Jaspal Singh Gosain.</ins><br />
<ins>The constables were chargesheeted by CBI in connection with the
encounter case that rocked the hill state in July 2009. The other
accused are lodged in Tihar Jail. They include then inspector Santosh
Jaiswal, sub-inspectors Gopal Dutt Bhatt, Rajesh Bisht, Neeraj Kumar,
Nitin Chauhan and Chandra Mohan and constable Ajeet Singh.</ins><br />
<ins>While fixing July 4 as the next date of hearing, the court
allowed the plea of these 11 accused that they be kept together in jail
as they are police personnel and apprehend fear from other inmates.</ins><br />
<ins>The court asked CBI to file its reply on the regular bail pleas
of the 11 accused by July 14, the next date of hearing. The court will
hear the arguments on bail on July 4, the next date of hearing.</ins><br />
<ins>The accused policemen had earlier moved the Delhi high court for
bail but their plea was dismissed. The Supreme Court also upheld the
high court’s decision on May 29. The CBI judge noted that the Supreme
Court had observed that the trial court should conclude the trial
expeditiously, preferably within six months.</ins><br />
<ins>The court said CBI must examine Ram Kumar, one of the two
persons who were seen with the victim on the day he was killed. Kumar
has been partly examined by CBI.</ins><br />
<ins>Singh, an 22-year-old MBA student from Ghaziabad, was allegedly
gunned down by Uttarakhand police after being caught on Mohini Road
where he and his companions were allegedly trying to commit some crime
on July 3, 2009. The case was transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court
on the plea of Ranbir’s father Ravindra Singh.</ins><br />
<ins>Ranbir’s father had alleged that his son had gone to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dehradun">Dehradun</a> in search of a job where he was arrested by the police on July 3, 2009 on pretext of being involved in some robbery.</ins><br />
<ins>He had alleged that on the same day, 29 bullets were pumped into his body and the incident was passed off as an encounter.</ins><br />
<ins>All the 18 policemen have been charged for various offences such
as murder, kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and
public servant framing incorrect record.</ins><br />
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Government seeks Special Task Force to reclaim forest</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Government-seeks-Special-Task-Force-to-reclaim-forest/articleshow/13858465.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Government-seeks-Special-Task-Force-to-reclaim-forest/articleshow/13858465.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 02.33AM IST<br />
<ins> BANGALORE: The state government which was once described as the
No.1 enemy of forests by the high court during a hearing, on Tuesday
put up a “green plea” before a division bench headed by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Justice">Chief Justice</a>.</ins><br />
It has sought for setting up of a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/special-task-force">special task force</a> for reclaiming the 68,000 hectares of reserved forest which is still under occupation/encroachment.<br />
“Today is World Environment Day. We had 1.1 lakh hectares of forest land under encroachment.<br />
“Of this, 42,000 hectares have been reclaimed by evicting 40,000-od
families. But to reclaim the remaining 68,000 hectares is a mammoth
task. Many of these lands fall under the Western Ghats area in five
districts -Shimoga, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chikmagalur">Chikmagalur</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttara-Kannada">Uttara Kannada</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dakshina-Kannada">Dakshina Kannada</a>
and Kodagu. The occupants also need to be heard before being evicted.
We need a special force-type mechanism for this task,” Ravindra G Kolle,
government advocate, requested the high court bench.<br />
The court, which was hearing a PIL related to encroachment of forest land in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shimoga">Shimoga</a> district, observed that forming a committee may sometimes delay the process itself. <br />
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Censor says yes to Shanghai song, no to abuses</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Censor-says-yes-to-Shanghai-song-no-to-abuses/articleshow/13861999.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Censor-says-yes-to-Shanghai-song-no-to-abuses/articleshow/13861999.cms</a><br />
Subhash K Jha, Mumbai Mirror | Jun 6, 2012, 09.46AM IST<em></em><br />
<em> The decks have been cleared for Dibakar Banerjee’s eagerly awaited political thriller <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shanghai">Shanghai</a>
which hits theatres this Friday. The Censor Board of Film Certification
(CBFC) has accorded the film a UA certification, which means it is
suitable for under-age viewing under parental guidance, albeit with one
major cut.</em><br />
CBFC CEO <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pankaja-Thakur">Pankaja Thakur</a> refused to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dwell">dwell</a>
on the cut, adding, “Beyond that one scene, we saw nothing
objectionable in the content.” And while no one is willing to divulge
any details, we hear the censored scene originally had an abusive term
addressed to a politician.<br />
Explaining the censor board’s stand on the controversial song <em>Bharat mata ki jai</em> against which a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhagat-Singh">Bhagat Singh</a>
Kranti Sena, Thakur said, “The matter is subjudice, so I can’t comment
on whether the song stays or goes from the film. It was cleared by our
Revising Committee when submitted to the board members earlier. As far
as the censor board is concerned, the song has been cleared.”<br />
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<strong>TN to continue 3 per cent reservation for differently abled</strong><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tn-to-continue-3-per-cent-reservation-for-differently-abled/1008153.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tn-to-continue-3-per-cent-reservation-for-differently-abled/1008153.html</a><br />
PTI | 01:06 AM,Jun 06,2012<br />
Chennai, Jun 5 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government today informed the
Madras High Court that it would continue to provide three per cent
reservation for the differently abled in the posts of nutritious noon
meal organisers. While appointing the organisers, three per cent
reservation would be provided for partially deaf persons and those with
lesser degree of locomotor disability, Advocate General A
Navaneethakrishnan said. The Advocate General informed this to a bench
comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam when a PIL
seeking three per cent reservation as per the Persons with Disabilities
(Equal opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act
came up for hearing. However, the posts of cook and assistants had been
exempted from the specified reservation as the differently abled would
have to handle large cooking vessels and also be entrusted with the task
of feeding children, the Advocate General said. copy of the May 25
government order issued by state Principal Secretary for Social Welfare
and Nutritious Meal Programme was produced before the bench. The PIL
sought quashing of the August 18, 2010 government order and issuance of a
fresh order by incorporating the statutory three per cent reservation
for the differently abled while filling up 28,500 posts under the Noon
Meal Programme and in the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme.
Disposing of the petition, the bench observed that it was fully
satisfied with the reservation provided for the persons concerned.<br />
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Made Snana ritual case hearing adjourned</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Made-Snana-ritual-case-hearing-adjourned/articleshow/13858494.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Made-Snana-ritual-case-hearing-adjourned/articleshow/13858494.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 02.35AM IST<br />
<ins> BANGALORE: A high court division bench headed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Justice">Chief Justice</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vikramajit-Sen">Vikramajit Sen</a>
on Tuesday adjourned by a month hearing on a PIL seeking ban on the
Made Snana ritual at the Subramanya shrine in Dakshina Kannada district.
The court will await the state government’s decision as the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chief-minister">chief minister</a>
had promised to discontinue the practice. The government advocate
informed the court that though the CM had made the statement, no formal
order has been passed yet.</ins><br />
The petitioners have described the practice as pernicious and against
the spirit enunciated in the Constitution which speaks about imbibing
the scientific spirit. Made Snana is a ritual in which people roll on
plantain leaves off which Brahmins have had a meal. <br />
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<strong>Five officers get bail in firemen death case</strong><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/five-officers-get-bail-in-firemen-death-case/1008001.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/five-officers-get-bail-in-firemen-death-case/1008001.html</a><br />
PTI | 08:06 PM,Jun 05,2012<br />
Thane, Jun 5 (PTI) Five officials of Thane Municipal Fire Services
including the chief fire officer who were booked following the death of
six firemen in the infamous ‘Punarvasu’ building fire have been granted
bail by a court here. All the five, who were given anticipatory bail
were booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Thane
Assistant Sessions Judge, N B Dhaitadak, ordered that in event of their
arrest by Vartak Nagar police with whom the offence under Section 304 RW
34 of the IPC is registered, they be released on each one of them
executing a bond for Rs 15,000 and furnishing surety in like amount. The
applicants were: Munir Shaikh Usman Mulla, station in-charge of Mumbra
Fire station, Pundalik Ladku Patil, sub-Fire Officer, Samadhan Vitthal
Devre, sub station officer, Arvind Prabhakar Mandke, Chief Fire Officer
and Girish Murlidhar Zhalke, sub-station Officer. On the ill-fated day
October 18, 2009 and when they received a call following a fire in
Punarvasu Building, they went to the site at about 4.30 am, the court
was told. They further said in their application that firemen G C Singh,
A S Thanekar, K G Patil, S R Jamadar, T G Kale and S K Shinde rushed
into the lift in presence of the officers of Vartak Nagar police station
to douse the fire on 14th floor of the Society. But the lift stopped
and the firemen died due to suffocation. Kavita R Sangrulkar, a social
worker and trustee of Abhay Abhiyan Trust made an application in the
court in 2010 in which they stated that the firemen died due to
carelessness and negligence of the applicant. Based on the directions of
the court, police carried out investigations and filed offences under
sections 304 rw 34 of the IPC against the applicants following which
they approached the court for anticipatory bail. In their application,
the officers said they were innocent and have been falsely implicated in
the case. On perusing the FIR as it the ingredients offence u/sec 304
rw 34 of IPC are not attracted, at the most the provisions of section
304 (a) will be applicable. Therefore, there is no hindrance in
releasing the applicants/accused on anticipatory bail. The documents on
record shows that the heirs of the victims are already compensated by
the various institutions including the government, the court said. The
judge further noted the investigation is practically completed and
nothing incriminating is to be recovered or discovered at the instance
of the present applicants/accused. Therefore the physical custody of the
present applicants is not required for the interrogation.<br />
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Online counselling for MBBS: SC seeks MCI take</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Online-counselling-for-MBBS-SC-seeks-MCI-take/articleshow/13859372.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Online-counselling-for-MBBS-SC-seeks-MCI-take/articleshow/13859372.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Dhananjay-Mahapatra.cms">Dhananjay Mahapatra</a>, TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 04.16AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a>
on Tuesday sought Medical Council of India’s response within two days
to a proposal from Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) for
maiden online counseling for allotment of over 2,000 MBBS and BDS seats
in medical colleges from this academic session.<br />
A bench of Justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar sought medical
education regulator MCI’s response by Thursday, when it would examine
the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/DGHS">DGHS</a> proposal for doing away with existing mode of counseling that require candidates to appear in person.<br />
Delhi used to be the main centre from where allotment of 15%
all-India quota of MBBS and BDS seats in various medical colleges used
to take place, with candidates participating in counseling through video
conferencing from other centres like Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. In
2011, DGHS conducted counseling for 4,150 candidates for 2,194 seats in
MBBS and BDS courses.<br />
Till now, the candidates used to take long journeys up to six times
from their home towns to the metros within a short period of time to
attend counseling sessions. “The expenditure for candidates during
online counseling will be almost nil and much less for the government.
The online counseling process will be faceless yet fully transparent and
fair,” the DGHS promised.<br />
The proposal for online counseling was recommended by an expert
committee headed by Director General of Health Services, which was
tasked by ministry of health and family welfare to find out ways and
means to address the problem of seats remaining vacant even after two
rounds of counseling every year.<br />
In its application before the apex court, the DGHS said: “The
committee has recommended that by changing the method of allotment from
existing counseling by personal appearance to online counseling and by
increasing the number of candidates eligible to take part in counseling
both in undergraduate and post-graduate courses may significantly reduce
the number of seats that remain unfilled at the end of All India quota
counseling.”<br />
The salient features of the proposal for online counseling are:<br />
* All candidates who qualify All India Undergraduate Entrance
Examination or five times number of seats available under the all-India
quota, whichever is less, will be allowed to take part in online
counseling.<br />
* Qualified candidates will give option of course and college online.
There will be a total of three rounds of online allotment instead of
existing two.<br />
* After the first round, candidates will be given provisional
allotment letter online and will be required to report to the allotted
medical/dental college within 10 days. The respective colleges would
check the documents of eligibility of candidates.<br />
* Candidates, who fail to take admission in 10 days, would forfeit
their claim for admission and would not be considered for allotment of
seats during subsequent rounds of counseling.<br />
* Candidates who join the course after the first round may give their
option for upgrade of h/his choice of course or college to be
considered during subsequent rounds of counseling subject to
availability of seats.<br />
* Arrangement for online counseling process will be made by the
National Informatics Centre, which conducts the online counseling for
allotment of seats under All India Engineering Entrance Examination.<br />
<em><a href="mailto:dhananjay.mahapatra@timesgroup.com">dhananjay.mahapatra@timesgroup.com</a></em><br />
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Fresh case registered against M.M. Mani</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3492741.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3492741.ece</a><br />
Anand Haridas<br />
The police registered a fresh case against M.M. Mani, Idukki district
secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M], for
conspiring to commit a murder.<br />
The police had initiated an inquiry into the statements by the
accused that the party had prepared a hit list. The new case pertained
to the murder of Ancheri Baby, who was shot dead on November 13, 1982.
Though the case was tried then, all suspects were acquitted. During the
new inquiry, the second accused in the original case, Mohandas, gave a
statement about the role played by Mr. Mani in conspiring to execute the
murder, it is learnt.<br />
Following this, the Rajakkad police registered a case under Section
120(b) (murder conspiracy) and section 118 (concealing the design to
commit the crime) of the Indian Penal Code against M.M. Mani and K.K.
Jayachandran, the then area committee secretary of the party;
Lambodaran, M.M. Mani’s brother; and two others.<br />
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Bengal lists ‘corrupt’ cops in gazette</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bengal-lists-corrupt-cops-in-gazette/958316/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bengal-lists-corrupt-cops-in-gazette/958316/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/rajibchatterjee/">RAJIB CHATTERJEE</a> : Kolkata, Wed Jun 06 2012, 00:40 hrs<br />
In an unusual move, the police have published a gazette containing
tale of two “corrupt officers” and the action taken against them. It
also ordered wide publicity of the “nefarious act” of the officers among
their colleagues in order to send a clear message that any violation of
the government’s policy of “zero tolerance against corruption” would be
firmly dealt with.<br />
The order to put the misconduct of the two officers in the police
gazette, published in mid-May, had come from DGP Naparajit Mukherjee.<br />
The two “corrupt” officers — Inspector Kishore Ghosh and Assistant
Sub-Inspector Prabir Bal — along with two civilians, allegedly tried to
“extort money” from one Madan Ghatak of Berhampore, Murshidabad on May
1.<br />
They were arrested and charged under Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code.<br />
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<strong>Man kills wife for dowry, gets life term</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Man-kills-wife-for-dowry-gets-life-term/Article1-866557.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Man-kills-wife-for-dowry-gets-life-term/Article1-866557.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Upasana%20Mukherjee%20&op=Story">Upasana Mukherjee </a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br />
Calling dowry a “customary extortion”, a Delhi court has sentenced a
man to life imprisonment for setting his wife on fire in 2006, three
years into their marriage.<br />
Taking a strict view of the crime, additional sessions judge Anju Bajaj Chandna said, “Taking one’s life for dowry<br />
<ins> is so heinous and grave that leniency has no place to stand
with it.” The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 20,000 on Anand Sharma,
the victim’s husband.</ins><br />
<ins>The incident occurred on August 3, 2006, when the victim
sustained burns all over her body after being doused with kerosene oil
while she was asleep and set on fire. The victim in her dying
declaration to the police named her husband and in-laws for setting her
on fire. She categorically mentions being harassed and beaten up by her
in-laws for not bringing enough cash and gifts from her maternal home as
dowry. </ins><br />
<ins>Advocate Kush Sharma, appearing on behalf of the victim’s
parents, said the dying declaration of the victim is categorical about
the incident and it can be the sole basis of the conviction of the
accused persons.</ins><br />
<ins>The court also pronounced the mother-in-law of the victim guilty
of the offence of dowry death and sentenced her to 10 years in prison,
together with a fine of R15,000, adding that dowry disgraces the sacred
institution of marriage.</ins><br />
<ins>The prosecution also alleged that the victim was ill treated
after she gave birth to a daughter in 2004. “In the present case, a
young woman has lost her life and her little daughter is left to live
without motherly care,” the Judge said, adding that Anand was
responsible for the victim’s safety and security at her matrimonial
home.</ins><br />
<ins>The duo has been charged with offence of dowry death (Section
304-B) and cruelty by husband and relative of husband (Section 498-A) of
the Indian Penal Code.</ins><br />
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<strong>Court refuses to summon John Abraham, says picture not obscene</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_court-refuses-to-summon-john-abraham-says-picture-not-obscene_1698463">http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_court-refuses-to-summon-john-abraham-says-picture-not-obscene_1698463</a><br />
Published: Tuesday, Jun 5, 2012, 17:19 IST<br />
Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI<br />
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<td><ins>Refusing to hold a nude picture of Bollywood actor John
Abraham, published in a news daily as “obscene,” a Delhi court has
dismissed a plea to summon him and the newspaper’s editor to answer
charges of spreading vulgarity in society.</ins>
<ins>Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Rajneesh Kumar Gupta dismissed
the plea saying that the actor’s alleged photographs were not likely to
“corrupt the mind” of the readers and its purpose was merely to give the
latest news about Bollywood.</ins><br />
<ins>“After going through the photograph of John Abraham and contents
of the news item, I am of the opinion that the alleged picture of John
Abraham is not obscene which is likely to deprave and corrupt the mind
of its readers and its purpose is only to give information to the news
readers as to what is the latest happenings in the Bollywood,”
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Rajneesh Kumar Gupta said.</ins><br />
<ins>The court dismissed the revision petition of Kirti Nagar
resident Chander Mohan Dua, who had sought summoning of John Abraham and
the editor and publisher of the daily which had published the picture
in June 2009.</ins><br />
<ins>“I do not find sufficient material on record to summon the
accused persons. Accordingly, there is no infirmity or illegality in the
order passed by the trial court and it is upheld. The revision petition
is dismissed,” ASJ Gupta said. </ins><br />
<ins>Dua had sought prosecution of John Abraham and the daily’s
editor and publisher for allegedly violating sections 292 and 294 of the
Indian Penal Code (relating to sale, circulation or publication of
obscene pictures and indulging in obscene acts), besides various other
statutory provisions.</ins><br />
<ins>Dua had filed the complaint saying that on June 11, 2009, a
“vulgar photograph” of Abraham was published in the daily which was
viewed by his children and lakhs of people including the young and
adolescent ones who may easily be depraved and corrupted by such acts of
obscenity and vulgarity.</ins><br />
<ins>He said he had filed a complaint in this regard in the Moti Nagar police station here but no action was taken on his complaint.</ins><br />
<ins>Dua had then approached the court but the magistrate had refused to summon Abraham as an accused and had dismissed his plea. </ins></td>
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‘We are sick of illegal parties’</h1>
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_we-are-sick-of-illegal-parties_1698303">http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_we-are-sick-of-illegal-parties_1698303</a><br />
Published: Tuesday, Jun 5, 2012, 10:27 IST<br />
By <strong><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/dna-correspondent">DNA Correspondent</a></strong> | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA<br />
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<td><ins> The high court has issued notices to the BBMP regarding a
public interest litigation, which alleges that loud parties are being
held in a community hall in the city without licence, creating a lot of
nuisance for people living around it.</ins>
<ins>Two people have filed the PIL, alleging that the community hall
in Central Public Works Department (CPWD) quarters premises in
Vijayanagar is hosting parties almost every day without permission.</ins><br />
<ins>The petitioners contend that non-veg food is served in these
parties. Animals are butchered in the wee hours of the day, which
creates an unpleasant scene, what with the cries of the animals.</ins><br />
<ins>Stray dogs keep roaming around the hall for raw meat and the surplus food that is thrown after the parties are over.</ins><br />
<ins>The PIL says that the area around community hall has become a
mess. Residents have to put up with foul smell all the time. The place
has become home to rodents and flies.</ins><br />
<ins>Further, many people who come to the community hall for the
parties urinate on the boundary walls, which just adds to the trouble.
The situation is so bad that reaching health clinic on the first floor
of the community hall has become an arduous task.</ins><br />
<ins>Further, the petitioners have contended that utensils for the
parties are loaded and unloaded early in the morning, which creates a
lot of noise and disturbs sleep of the people living near the community
hall. The visitors park their vehicles in a haphazard manner, which
aggravates the traffic problem posed by the construction work for Namma
Metro.</ins><br />
<ins>The petitioners contended that these parties are not cultural or
social functions, but private parties, that too held without
permission. They alleged that the BBMP and the deputy health officer are
aware of this problem but have not taken any action.</ins><br />
<ins>The case came up for hearing before the division bench headed by
Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen. Taking note of the matter, the high court
issued notices to the BBMP, deputy health officer of Govindarajanagar
range, and the organisers of the community hall—Griha Kalyana Kendra
Samaja Sadana.</ins></td>
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<h1>
Do new Irda rules on health cover benefit policy holders?</h1>
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Following the Bombay High Court order in December last year, the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Insurance-Regulatory-and-Development-Authority">Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority</a> (Irda) had promised to release draft guidelines to protect <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/health-insurance">health insurance</a> policy holders’ interest and bring more transparency into the system.<br />
Last week, the insurance regulator proposed certain norms, which
could bring about the much-needed standardisation in the health
insurance space. While some of the norms are already in place, there are
also several fresh proposals. Here’s a look at the newer ones:<br />
<strong>Measure: 30-day deadline for claim settlement</strong><br />
<strong>Impact:</strong> You can take <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/insurers">insurers</a> to task if the claim is not processed within 30 days of submitting the required documents. “While it was part of <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Irda">Irda</a> (Protection of Policyholders’ Interest) Regulations, 2002, it never found a mention in insurance policy documents.<br />
Henceforth, it will have to be included in the policy documents,”
explains civic activist Gaurang Damani, who had filed the public
interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court demanding that
regulations be framed for the health insurance sector. Irda’s
undertaking to devise draft guidelines was a fallout from this case.<br />
<strong>Measure: Specific reason required for claim denial</strong><br />
<strong>Impact:</strong> Since the insurance company has to give the
reason for rejecting a claim in writing, it could bring down the
instances of claim repudiation on flimsy grounds.<br />
<strong>Measure: Insurers to pay hospitals directly</strong><br />
<strong>Impact:</strong> Payments will become smooth. “In cases where
the cheques for claim settlement were issued by the third-party
administrators (TPA), payments used to be often delayed. Besides, it was
difficult to ascertain whether the TPA had passed on the entire claim
amount approved by the insurer to the claimant,” says Damani.<br />
<strong>Measure: Contribution clause will not come into play in the case of multiple policies</strong><br />
<strong>Impact: </strong>Policyholders with two or more
indemnity-based policies can make optimum use of their total coverage.
Until now, claim made on two policies was split between the two insurers
in the ratio of the sum insured. “The policyholder will have the option
of choosing the insurer with whom the claim is to be settled,” says
Amarnath Ananthanarayanan, CEO, Bharti-AXA General Insurance.<br />
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<strong>Allegations against Deshmukh, Shinde being probed:CBI tells HC</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Allegations-against-Deshmukh-Shinde-being-probed-CBI-tells-HC/Article1-866523.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Allegations-against-Deshmukh-Shinde-being-probed-CBI-tells-HC/Article1-866523.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong>PTI</strong><br />
Mumbai, June 05, 2012The CBI probing the Adarsh housing society scam has
informed the Bombay High Court that it is thoroughly investigating the
allegations made against Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil
Kumar Shinde by a social activist based on the report of the Comptroller
and Auditor General of India <ins>(CAG).</ins><br />
<ins>This was stated by the CBI in an affidavit filed by it in the High Court on June 1.</ins><br />
<ins>Social activist Pravin Wategaonkar had in April this year filed
an affidavit before the High Court based on the CAG report alleging that
Deshmukh, former Maharashtra Chief minister, own two proxy flats in the
scam tainted Adarsh society in south Mumbai.</ins><br />
<ins>Wategaonkar, in his affidavit, had sought that the CBI and
Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the role of Deshmukh, Shinde
and other politicians and bureaucrats for alleged irregularities
committed by them while showing favour to Adarsh Society.</ins><br />
<ins>The High Court on April 30 directed the CBI and ED to file their
reply affidavits to Wategaonkar’s allegations. The CBI in its affidavit
filed on June 1 has said it was investigating the allegations made by
Wategaonkar based on the CAG report.</ins><br />
<ins>“I say that the reference made by the petitioner (Wategaonkar)
about the report of CAG on Adarsh society, which has brought out certain
acts of commission and omission on the part of public servants are
being thoroughly investigated by CBI”, states the affidavit filed by
Ravindra Singh, CBI Superintendent of Police (SP).</ins><br />
<ins>“I say that the allegations made by the petitioner against
Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Sunil Tatkare (cabinet minister)
and others are being thoroughly investigated by CBI”, the affidavit
stated.</ins><br />
<ins>It further said that the agency has examined all relevant witnesses, including two former chief ministers as part of the probe.</ins><br />
<ins>“Whatever evidence has come on record are being ascertained.
Investigations are at a crucial stage and efforts are being made to
finalise the same at the earliest after which CBI shall file its final
report”, the affidavit states. </ins><br />
<ins>The High Court had on the last hearing posted the matter on June
18 after CBI informed the Court that it would file its chargesheet in
the case by June 15.</ins><br />
<ins>“It was noticed in the audit that in most cases decisions that
were taken resulted in undue favour to the Society. Many of the
officials who were involved in such decisions were direct beneficiaries.
Either they or their relatives already were or later became members of
the Society”, Wategaonkar said in his affidavit quoting the CAG report.</ins><br />
<ins>According to Wategaonkar, Vilasrao has procured two proxy flats
in the 31-storeyed plush society as quid pro quo for the clearances
given to the Society in his official capacity as Chief Minister and
minister-in-charge of the Urban Development department.</ins><br />
<ins>The activist had sought the CBI and ED probe these irregularities.</ins><br />
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Emaar: HC okays plot registration</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/128938">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/128938</a><br />
June 6, 2012 <ins></ins><br />
<ins>A High Court Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice V.
Eswaraiah and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar on Tuesday granted stay on an
order issued by a single judge, who had stayed a government order
restraining the authorities from registering the plots in Emaar project.</ins><br />
<ins>The single judge had directed owners of plots and villas in
Emaar project to deposit Rs 15,000 per sq. yd. to the APIIC before their
documents are presented for registration. The interim direction was
granted on a petition by the plot owners. The state government
subsequently filed an appeal.</ins><br />
<ins>BIE: No scope for inter re-exam<br />
The BIE on Tuesday told the High Court that there was no provision under
to hold re-examination for second-year students who failed to appear on
May 16 due to a delay in receiving their hall tickets. A Division Bench
was dealing with the appeal, challenging a single-judge Bench’s order
to conduct a re-examination. Additional A-G K.G. Krishna Murthy
contended that details of the students were uploaded after the due date,
and 777 students failed to take the exam. The Board, he argued, did not
delay in issuing of hall tickets. Students’ counsels said they paid the
fee on time and their colleges remitted it before the due date, but
there was a 24-hour delay in uploading their details. </ins><br />
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<td>The Delhi High Court has rejected a plea of R Vasudevan, former
member of Company Law Board (CLB), seeking to club two graft cases
lodged separately against him for allegedly taking bribe of Rs seven
lakh and amassing assets more than his known sources of income.
“I find no infirmity with the order of the learned Special Judge.
Hence, (the petition is) dismissed,” Justice M L Mehta said, adding that
“both the offences for which the petitioner has been charged are
distinct offences and not parts of same transaction…”.<br />
Vasudevan, then acting chairperson of CLB, is accused of taking Rs
seven lakh bribe from co-accused Manoj Banthia, company secretary of a
vernacular news daily, for assuring him a favourable order in 2009 in a
case being decided by him.<br />
Except Vasudevan and Banthia, four others were also named as accused
in the graft case lodged by the CBI which filed the charge sheet in 2010
in the case.<br />
However, CBI, which also conducted raids at Vasudevan’s premises in
Delhi and Chennai during probe, later lodged another FIR against him for
amassing disproportionate assets.<br />
The former CLB member, whose plea seeking to club the cases was
rejected by the lower court, moved the High Court which upheld the
decision saying the offences were “distinct and separate” and their
trial cannot be clubbed.<br />
Citing a Supreme Court judgement, Justice Mehta said in a
disproportionate assets case, the onus to prove the genuineness of
income lies with the accused.<br />
However, in a bribery case, the duty to prove allegations shifts to
the prosecuting agency (CBI) and hence, both FIRs are separate and the
trials cannot be clubbed, the court said. (More)</td>
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<strong>Delhi HC rules, Muslim girl can marry at 15 if she attains puberty</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_delhi-hc-rules-muslim-girl-can-marry-at-15-if-she-attains-puberty_1698473">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_delhi-hc-rules-muslim-girl-can-marry-at-15-if-she-attains-puberty_1698473</a><br />
Published: Tuesday, Jun 5, 2012, 17:39 IST<br />
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<td><ins>Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the
age of 15 years if she has attained puberty, the Delhi High Court has
held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in her
matrimonial house.</ins>
<ins>“This Court notes that according to Mohammedan Law a girl can
marry without the consent of her parents once she attains the age of
puberty and she has the right to reside with her husband even if she is
below the age of 18….,” a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg
said.</ins><br />
<ins>Citing various Supreme Court judgements on the issue of minor
Muslim girls’ marriage, the bench said “In view of the above judgments,
it is clear that a Muslim girl who has attained puberty i.e. 15 years
can marry and such a marriage would not be a void marriage. However, she
has the option of treating the marriage as voidable, at the time of her
attaining the age of majority, i.e 18 years.”</ins><br />
<ins>Accepting the 16-year-old girl’s plea to allow her to stay in
her matrimonial home, the bench has disposed of a habeas corpus petition
filed by the girl’s mother alleging that her daughter was kidnapped by a
youth and forced into marriage in April last year.</ins><br />
<ins>The bench accepted the girl’s statement she had left her
parental home of her own will to marry the man of her choice and her
husband should not be booked on the charge of kidnapping.</ins><br />
<ins>Meanwhile, to ascertain the girl’s well being, the court has
directed the couple and in-laws to appear before the Child Welfare
Committee once in every six months till the girl attains majority.</ins><br />
<ins>“The Committee shall take necessary steps, including obtaining
the necessary undertaking from the man(husband) in this regard. Subject
to completion of these steps, the girl be allowed to live in her
matrimonial home,” the bench said.</ins><br />
<ins>The girl has been currently residing in Nirmal Chhaya, a government sponsored home for rehabilitation of poor and elderly women.</ins></td>
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city anchor: HC sets aside 38-yr-old UT resumption order on ‘oversized window’</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/city-anchor-hc-sets-aside-38yrold-ut-resumption-order-on-oversized-window/958454/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/city-anchor-hc-sets-aside-38yrold-ut-resumption-order-on-oversized-window/958454/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/raghavohri/">RAGHAV OHRI</a> : Chandigarh, Wed Jun 06 2012, 02:58 hrs<br />
Unhappy over a “major” violation, the Chandigarh Administration
ordered resumption of a house located in Sector 10 in 1974. The
violation was of an “oversized window” on the ground floor of the house.
Refusing to relent from its stand, the Administration declined to
withdraw the resumption proceedings against the owner, Harkishan Singh,
for nearly four decades. Finally, the Punjab and Haryana High Court put
an end to the dispute last week.<br />
Terming the resumption orders issued and the consequent dismissal of
appeals of the owner by the UT Administration “not justified”, the High
Court has expressed shock that the dispute was allowed to linger on for
nearly four decades. “We are unable to hold that the building continues
to be resumed after the year 1974,” a division bench comprising Justice
Hemant Gupta and Justice A N Jindal has ruled.<br />
Consider this: Battling with the Administration to withdraw the
resumption proceedings, the allottee Harkishan Singh died on March 9,
2007. When his son applied for transfer of the property on the basis of a
will dated March 27, 2001, he (son) was informed that the property
“stands resumed”. To his dismay, he was told that the property can be
got resumed only from the higher authority in the UT Administration.<br />
Another bout of litigation, this time to get ownership transferred,
began in 2007. The son’s demand for transfer of ownership was declined
by the UT Administrator’s Advisor on the ground that the petitioner “had
slept over the matter for more than 36 years and as such they
(petitioner & family) are not entitled to any relief”.<br />
Senior lawyer Puneet Bali, counsel for the petitioner, vehemently
contended that the only violation noticed by the building branch and
communicated to the Architect of the Administration is about the size of
a window on the ground floor.<br />
Bali argued that the allottee had communicated in 1974 that minor
changes be ignored or compounded. Aggrieved with the attitude of the
Administration, the petitioner moved the High Court seeking quashing of
the resumption orders and the order dismissing demand for transfer of
ownership passed by the Advisor to the Administrator on December 2,
2010.<br />
Setting aside the orders passed by UT, the High Court ruled “the fact
remains that after communication dated March 30, 1974, the allottee has
not been informed by the Administration of any continuing violations or
that the request for compounding the violations has been rejected. Once
the allottee has informed the Administration within the time granted
that he has completed the construction as per the revised plan and that
the minor changes be either ignored or compounded, the inference that
the building stands resumed is not justified. Still further, the only
objection was regarding oversized window. It was admitted by the UT
Administration that the same is compoundable as per regulations”.<br />
The Administration has been directed to decide the claim of the
petitioner for transfer of ownership in accordance with law
expeditiously.<br />
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<strong>HC orders probe into ‘honour killing’</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254877/hc-orders-probe-honour-killing.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254877/hc-orders-probe-honour-killing.html</a><br />
Bangalore, June 5, 2012, DHNS:<br />
<strong>The Karnataka High Court has ordered an inquiry into the
death of Bhramarambika, a fourth semester LLB student of Seshadripuram
Law College here, after some students of the college wrote to the court
seeking a probe into what they see as a case of ‘honour killing’.</strong><br />
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</strong><strong></strong>In a letter to Justice D V Shylendra Kumar,
Bhramarambika’s classmates said the girl student’s death in her home
village of Badi Maralur in Gowribidanur taluk in Chickaballapur district
was shrouded in mystery.<br />
According to the students, Bhrarambika went to her home town to
prepare for her fourth semester examinations. She had appeared for the
viva voce on May 10, 2012. The semester examinations were scheduled in
June. On the morning of May 20, her classmates received a message
stating that she was dead. Shocked, they rushed to her village. But by
the time they reached, her body had already been cremated.<br />
<strong>Conflicting versions<br />
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When the students inquired about the cause of death, the family members
reportedly came up with conflicting versions. While some family members
claimed she had committed suicide by slitting her throat, another said
she had consumed poison. Yet another version was that she suffered a
heart attack while seated on chair and had fallen down and died.<br />
The classmates were perplexed when some family members blurted out
that severe vomiting and food poisoning led to her death. Deepening the
mystery, residents of the village too were in the dark about the cause
of the death.<br />
It was then the students decided to write a letter to the High Court.
In their letter dated May 28, 2012, the students wrote to Justice
Shylendra Kumar, narrating the entire episode, and expressing their
suspicion that it was a case of honour killing. The judge forwarded the
letter to the Chief Justice.<br />
The division bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and
Justice B V Nagarathna has now directed the State government to look
into the matter and report in three weeks.<br />
The court has also appointed an amicus curiae to assist the court and
issued notices to State government, the Director General and Inspector
General of Police and Superintendent of Police, Chikkaballapur.<br />
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HC directs probe in allegations against Indian Institute of Management Indore director</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/HC-directs-probe-in-allegations-against-Indian-Institute-of-Management-Indore-director/articleshow/13858988.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/HC-directs-probe-in-allegations-against-Indian-Institute-of-Management-Indore-director/articleshow/13858988.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Ashish-Gaur.cms">Ashish Gaur</a>, TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 03.29AM IST<br />
<ins> INDORE: The Indore bench of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> High Court has directed the ministry of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/human-resources-development">human resources development</a> (HRD) and the Chairman and board of governors of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Institute-of-Management">Indian Institute of Management</a> (IIM) Indore to inquire into allegations of financial irregularities leveled against the director of IIM-I, N Ravichandran.</ins><br />
<ins>The court issued the directives after hearing a writ petition
that was filed by Dr P.K Singh and six others on May 28, 2012. Justice
U.C Maheshwari disposed of the matter saying that the complaints maybe
inquired in to and a report be submitted within six months. Advocate
Vivek Dalal is representing Singh in the court.</ins><br />
<ins>Nearly six months back, eight professors of IIM-I had registered
their complaints with the former chairman of IIM-I L N Jhunjhunwala
alleging financial irregularities and corruption by the director of the
institute.</ins><br />
<ins>According to sources, Jhunjhunwala had asked the professors to
report to him personally on April 9 but director did not allow them
following which former chairman resigned from the post. The complaints
were also sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) but
no action was taken.</ins><br />
<ins>After receiving cold shoulder response from various quarters on
their complaints the faculty members moved court. The faculty members
have submitted a 20-page complaint against the director of the institute
alleging financial irregularities. A separate petition was filed in the
Indore bench of MP High Court against Ravichandran alleging plagiarism
in research papers.</ins><br />
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Madras HC judges set example, remove sun films from their cars</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-judges-set-example-remove-sun-films-from-their-cars/articleshow/13849855.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-judges-set-example-remove-sun-films-from-their-cars/articleshow/13849855.cms</a><br />
A Subramani, TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 05.34PM IST<br />
<ins> CHENNAI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madras-high-court">Madras high court</a>
has become the first high court in the country to follow the recent
Supreme Court order banning the use of black sun control films in cars. A
decision to remove the film from the cars of 53 judges of the chartered
high court was taken by the court’s vehicle committee headed by Justice
D Murugesan, and it has since been approved by the high court.</ins><br />
<ins>“We have asked the local <a href="http://www.zigwheels.com/newcars/Toyota" target="_blank">Toyota</a> car dealers to send their men to remove the films our Toyota Altis cars on Wednesday,” said an official.</ins><br />
Explaining the rationale behind the move, a senior judicial officer
told The Times of India that the judicial officers hearing the cases
related to the implementation of the ban did not want to be accused of
adopting double standards.<br />
“We do not need any special treatment in the matter. Though it will
cause some minor inconvenience to us, we wanted to set an example for
other citizens to follow. The apex court’s ban on the sun control films
has strong security and safety reasons. We believe our decision will
bring moral pressure on others to follow suit and voluntarily remove the
dark films,” he said.<br />
Another judicial officer said: “We are already living in a glass
house, as we are under constant public attention. Now we will travel in
glass cars. At times when you happen to pass through known areas and
people, we may feel vulnerable. We may have to be careful about what we
read on the move too.”<br />
In its recent judgment, the Supreme Court banned the use of sun
control films of all shades and colours in cars. People can now use only
tinted glasses that come along with the vehicle. While the visibility
cannot be less than 30% on side glasses, it can be up to 50% in front
and rear glasses. Though the apex court has said VIPs in specific cases
could be exempted from the requirement, it has not defined the term VIP.<br />
Several states, including Delhi and Tamil Nadu, have already started
implementing the Supreme Court ruling, which came into effect from May
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<td>The bail plea of a city based developer, arrested for allegedly
duping thousands of investors worth crores of rupees in a township
project, has been rejected by the Delhi High Court.
Dismissing the plea of Sanjay Gambhir, the Director of M/s D D
Infrastructure, for regular bail, Justice M L Mehta noted that the
offences he had been accused of were of “high magnitude of mass public
fraud and cheating” and such offences were on a rise in the city.<br />
It also observed that his bona fides were “extremely dishonest and deceitful”.<br />
“…The number of complainants/investors rising on every following day
and the amount of their investments considerably rising and the fact
that all the complainants/investors have been raising hue and cry for
having been duped of their hard earned money.<br />
“And the prosecutor as also the investigating agency pressing for
custodial interrogation for the investigation of the FDI amount of about
230 crores, which had been received by the petitioner and his
co-accused persons as valuable consideration towards the transfer of
their rights in the projects, and the bona fides of the petitioner not
being honest, but extremely dishonest and deceitful, the petitioner is
not entitled to be enlarged on bail,” the court said.<br />
Taking serious note of Gambhir’s conduct, it said the accused was
granted interim bail by this court with certain conditions including
refunding of money to some complainants but he had failed to comply with
the conditions.<br />
“The offences which have been committed by the petitioner (Gambhir)
with other co-accused (wife and son) are of high magnitude of mass
public fraud and cheating and such offences being on high rise in the
city, the petitioner does not deserve any indulgence of this court. In
view of all this, the petition has no merit and is hereby dismissed,”
the court said.<br />
Gambhir was on interim bail till December 22 last year but after he
failed to comply with the conditions including refund of money with
interest to the investors, the court cancelled the interim protection
given to him in December last year and since then he has been in
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<strong>HC guidelines for police probe in girls’ cases</strong><strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=4..060612.jun12">http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=4..060612.jun12</a><br />
Source: The Sangai Express / Press Trust of India<br />
Guwahati, June 05 2012: The Gauhati High Court has issued a set of
guidelines for investigation of all cases in which minor or adolescent
girls are involved and directed the Assam Director General of Police to
ensure scientific investigation of all such cases.<br />
Justice B D Agarwal issued the guidelines while delivering judgement
in the case of a 13-year old girl, who was allegedly kidnapped under the
garb of elopement.<br />
The judge, who delivered the verdict yesterday, came down heavily on
investigating agencies for conducting probe in a casual manner.<br />
The court held that while recording statements of minor girls,
judicial magistrates should cause a preliminary enquiry to ascertain the
correct age of the victims.<br />
Due to their immaturity, minor and adolescent girls are easy prey and
are brain-washed to such an extent that they speak in favour of the
accused and suppress their actual age.<br />
He also directed the magistrates to record their statements after
giving them sufficient time for reflection to neutralise the emotional
bonding with the accused.<br />
Justice Agarwal observed that kidnapping or procuring adolescent
girls for marriage or sexual acts not only affects the girls’ health but
also shatters their dreams in life.<br />
On the particular case, the judge rejected the bail plea of the
accused and directed that the statement of the victim be recorded afresh
after keeping her in an Observation Home for at least five days.<br />
The court ordered that as the accused had claimed that they had
married before a qazi, administrative action should be taken against the
doctors and the qazi for issuing incorrect age certificate and
registering the marriage, without proper proof of age.<br />
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<strong>HC seeks action plan to promote mango sale</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254847/hc-seeks-action-plan-promote.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254847/hc-seeks-action-plan-promote.html</a><br />
Bangalore, June 5, 2012, DHNS:<br />
<strong>The High Court on Tuesday, directed the State government to
submit an action plan to promote the sale and procurement of mangoes
across State and warned that it would have to summon the chief secretary
if the government failed to act.<br />
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Hearing a petition filed by the Kolar District Mango Growers and Sellers
Association, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen
and Justice B V Nagarathna asked the government to submit a detailed
report on the implementation of the programmes vis-a-vis mango sale and
procurement.<br />
During the hearing, the State government submitted that following the
High Court directions, it had set up two HOPCOMS stalls, while the
Karnataka Agriculture Marketing Board had released Rs 10 lakh to
HOPCOMS to procure mangoes.<br />
They also submitted that two persons of the cadre equal to the
Additional Director, Agriculture Marketing Board, and Joint Director,
the Department of Horticulture, have been appointed personally to
oversee the procurement of mangoes.<br />
However, when the petitioner pointed out that there was no action
taken by the State government, other than the submissions before the
court, the Chief Justice lashed out at the government saying, “We do not
want your submissions just on papers. We want what has been submitted
(before the court) to be implemented. If there is no action taken, we
will be forced to summon the chief secretary.”<br />
S S Naganand, senior counsel and amicus curiae, said many
improvements introduced in the recent past in HOPCOMS had been undone
because of political interference, and its turnover had reduced
drastically in the last two years.<br />
He pointed out that facilities at mango melas were not sufficient as
no assistance was given to the growers, which includes space for
marketing produce and amenities.<br />
Though the horticulture department states that it has provided
cultivators subsidy for cold storage facilities and packing, more needs
to be done, he said. No effort is made to produce value-added products
like pulp, concentrate, juice, essence flavours and packaging of ripe
fruits.<br />
The amicus curiae suggested that the court consider and appoint a
monitoring committee chaired by the chief secretary and a representative
from the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, the Department
of Horticulture, the Department of Agriculture Marketing and a
representative of the growers. He also sought a time-bound plan of
action for short-term and long-term measures to improve the plight of
mango growers.<br />
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Defamation case: Delhi HC to summon VK Singh</h1>
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/defamation-case-delhi-hc-to-summon-vk-singh/264532-3.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/defamation-case-delhi-hc-to-summon-vk-singh/264532-3.html</a><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/CNN-IBN.html">CNN-IBN</a><br />
<strong>New Delhi:</strong> The Delhi Court on Wednesday will decide
whether or not to summon former Army Chief VK Singh in Lt General
Tejinder Singh’s defamation case. The court had earlier noted that it
cannot draw any conclusions based on Tejinder’s witnesses.<br />
The Delhi High Court earlier refused to direct the Centre to take
back a press release of the Army alleging that Tejinder Singh offered a
bribe to the Army chief in connection with a defence deal.<br />
“The Union of India cannot be directed to disown or retract the
aforesaid press release,” Justice Mukta Gupta said while disposing off a
petition by Tejinder Singh seeking withdrawal of the alleged defamatory
press release.<br />
The court also considered the reply of the Ministry of Defence that
it had no role in the issuance of March 5 press release as it was given
out by the Army Headquarters.<br />
The court, however, said that Tejinder Singh could make a
representation before the authorities concerned seeking initiation of
disciplinary proceedings against five Army officials including Chief of
Army Staff Gen VK Singh.<br />
In the criminal writ petition filed through his counsel Anil K
Aggarwal, Tejinder Singh had contended that the press release issued by
senior Army officials, including the Army chief, was “defamatory” and
had sought its withdrawal.<br />
The Army chief had earlier claimed that a lobbyist, who had “just”
retired, offered him a bribe of Rs 14 crore for clearing a file relating
to purchase of a tranche of 600 “sub-standard” TATRA trucks and that he
had immediately informed Defence Minister AK Antony about it.<br />
<em>With additional information from PTI</em><br />
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<h1>
HC slams red-tape over death records</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-slams-red-tape-over-death-records/articleshow/13859333.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-slams-red-tape-over-death-records/articleshow/13859333.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 04.11AM IST<br />
<ins> CHENNAI: Once a death is brought to the notice of authorities
by a competent person, then it must be registered and certificate given
without going into questions such as cause of death and place of
occurrence, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madras-high-court">Madras high court</a> said recently.</ins><br />
A division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice M
Venugopal, passing orders on an appeal filed by the Perungalathur town
panchayat, said: “When an information is furnished by the head of the
family or the nearest relative or the oldest adult male person in the
house within the jurisdiction of the registering authority, the
registrar is duty-bound to register it.”<br />
The matter relates to a petition filed by N Vedantam, who said his
wife died on May 3, 2010 while travelling from New Delhi to Patna by
train. The couple hailed from Perungalathur, a Chennai suburb, and the
woman’s body was brought here and cremated.<br />
Later, when Vedantam applied for registration of the death and sought
death certificate, the Perungalathur town panchayat officials said they
could not issue the certificate as she died beyond their jurisdiction.
They asked Vedantam to approach officials in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Vedantam approached the high court and a single judge directed the
authorities to issue the certificate. Challenging it, the town panchayat
filed an appeal.<br />
Justice Elipe Dharma Rao, writing the judgment for the bench, flayed
the panchayat authorities for driving Vedantam from pillar to post, and
said there was no justification in the denial of death certificate.<br />
As per the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, the foremost
duty of the registering officer was to register the information, as the
rules do not provide for refusal to register the information, said
Justice Elipe Dharma Rao.<br />
“When the government is propagating and trying to educate the
citizens to register marriages, births and deaths on the one hand, it is
not proper on their part to take a contra stand and drive persons from
pillar to post for registration of the same,” the order read.<br />
The town panchayat was then directed to register the details without probing into the nature or circumstances of the death.<br />
When the government is propagating and trying to educate the citizens
to register marriages, births and deaths on the one hand, it is not
proper on their part to take a contra stand and drive persons from
pillar to post for registration of the same. <br />
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<h1>
UP lawyer who ducked HC fine ‘pays’ at last for PIL against Guv</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/up-lawyer-who-ducked-hc-fine-pays-at-last-for-pil-against-guv/958490/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/up-lawyer-who-ducked-hc-fine-pays-at-last-for-pil-against-guv/958490/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Ahmedabad, Wed Jun 06 2012, 03:40 hrs<br />
Lucknow-based lawyer Ashok Pande, who was recently arrested by UP
Police on the basis of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued by the
Gujarat High Court (HC), has deposited Rs 25,000 with the HC registry as
fine for moving a frivolous public interest litigation (PIL) seeking
removal of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal.<br />
A division bench of HC had issued the NBW against Pande after he did
not pay the fine and repeatedly ignored court notices in that regard.<br />
A team of UP Police arrested Pande on June 3 and produced him before
Justice Akil Kureshi of the Gujarat HC at the latter’s residence in
Ahmedabad on Tuesday.<br />
Additional Public Prosecutor J K Shah said Pande deposited Rs 25,000
with HC registry and gave an undertaking that he would remain present
before the Chief Court of HC on June 11. “Following this, the court
suspended the NBW and released Pande,” Shah said.<br />
According to Shah, Pande complained that he was arrested on June 3
and was kept in custody by police till his production before the court
without obtaining even a transit warrant. “Justice Kureshi has ordered
that he may raise his grievances at appropriate time before appropriate
forum,” Shah said.<br />
Last year, Pande had moved a PIL stating that the appointment of
Kamla Beniwal as Governor of Gujarat was unconstitutional because the
President had not obtained consent of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for
the same.<br />
Pande, introducing himself as a president of Hindu Personal Law
Board, a non-government organisation, had moved the PIL arguing that
under the constitutional provisions if a person is not acceptable as
Governor to the elected government of a province, he/she should not be
posted in that state.<br />
Pande also argued that before appointing a person as Governor in a state, the state government’s acceptance must be obtained.<br />
A division bench of HC comprising the then acting Chief Justice A L
Dave and Justice J B Pardiwala had, in October last year, dismissed the
PIL while asking if it was a publicity interest litigation or personal
interest litigation.<br />
Pande had earlier hit headlines in 2006 when he had announced a Rs
51-crore “reward” to kill late M F Hussain for allegedly making
“obscene” paintings of Hindu goddesses.<br />
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<h1>
Kerala governor clears state information commission appointments</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-governor-clears-state-information-commission-appointments/articleshow/13859948.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-governor-clears-state-information-commission-appointments/articleshow/13859948.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-T-Ramavarman.cms">T Ramavarman</a>, TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 05.25AM IST<br />
<ins> KOCHI: Acting governor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Hansraj-Bhardwaj">H R Bharadwaj</a>
has cleared the appointment of two new members to the State Information
Commission, despite criticisms that they are political nominees. The
new members – Vithura Sasi and Kuriyas Kumbalakuzhi – are likely to be
sworn in on June 13, according to commission sources.</ins><br />
<ins>Sources told TOI here that Bharadwaj, who is also the governor
of Karnataka, had informed the commission of his inability to attend the
swearing-in ceremony of the new members.</ins><br />
<ins>He has asked <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Information-Commissioner">Chief Information Commissioner</a> (CIC) Siby Mathews to go ahead with the swearing-in in consultation with the new member-designates.</ins><br />
<ins>With this the number of members in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/State-Information-Commission">State Information Commission</a> (SIC) will go up to six, including the CIC.</ins><br />
<ins>Civil society groups in the state had earlier objected to the
appointment of new members alleging that the government had not followed
any selection process in appointing them and that both of them had
political links.</ins><br />
<ins>General secretary of Human Rights Defence Forum D B Binu had
urged the governor to return the recommendation for appointment of the
two politicians as State Information Commissioners.</ins><br />
<ins>The selection committee which made the recommendation is headed by chief minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Oommen-Chandy">Oommen Chandy</a> while leader of the opposition V S Achuthanandan is a member.</ins><br />
<ins>The forum had filed a writ petition before the high court,
seeking a fair and reasonable procedure affording opportunity to all
qualified and interested persons in the state to apply for the posts of
information commissioners.</ins><br />
<ins>The case is still pending before the high court.</ins><br />
<ins>Interestingly, the previous LDF government had also faced
criticisms when it appointed Soni B Thengamom, to the commission –
though he had resigned all his <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Communist-Party">Communist Party</a> of India party positions just before the nomination.</ins><br />
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<strong>Parties can seek info under RTI: CIC</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Parties-can-seek-info-under-RTI-CIC/Article1-866561.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Parties-can-seek-info-under-RTI-CIC/Article1-866561.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Nivedita%20Khandekar&op=Story">Nivedita Khandekar</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br />
New Delhi, June 06, 2012<br />
Supreme Court (SC) registry can no longer avoid parting with
information about petitions filed, saying it does not come under the
purview of RTI Act. The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled
that the parties involved in the case/s can seek information related to
their case/s under RTI <ins>Act.</ins><br />
<ins>When T Jhansi Lakshmi’s special leave petition was not listed
for hearing even after more than 75 days, she filed an RTI query with
the SC registry.</ins><br />
<ins>She sought to know from the Public Information Officer (PIO) the
genuine reason as to why her SLP was not listed. However, both the PIO
and the Appellate Authority (AA) denied it, stating that the inspection
or search of judicial records can be undertaken only by following
prescribed rules and orders of the apex court and not under RTI.</ins><br />
<ins>When chief information commissioner Satyananda Mishra upheld the
right to demand information about a petition under Act, the registry’s
PIO and the AA pointed out that she was not a party to the litigation,
instead her husband was.</ins><br />
<ins>The decision has come as a ray of hope for several RTI
applicants filing queries with the SC registry as most of them have
faced similar situation.</ins><br />
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<h1>
New bench may fast-track hearing on DLF row over CCI fine</h1>
<a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/new-bench-may-fast-track-hearingdlf-row-over-cci-fine_713778.html">http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/new-bench-may-fast-track-hearingdlf-row-over-cci-fine_713778.html</a><br />
Published on Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 17:00 | Source : CNBC-TV18<br />
The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) is considering fast-tracking the hearing into <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/constructioncontracting-real-estate/dlf/D04">DLF</a> ‘s appeal against the CCI order. The Compat has decided to bring forward the dates of the case to June 27 from July 18.<br />
As one would recall following the retirement of former Compat
chairman Justice Arijit Pasayat last month, it was decided that a new
bench would re-hear the case led by the newly appointed chairman Justice
VS Sirpurkar. This meant that the final Compat order on the
much-awaited case would be delayed.<br />
Sources say that the DLF case would now be among the first to be
heard when Compat reopens on June 25 after the short summer break.<br />
On 12 August last year, the Competition Commission of India slapped
DLF with a penalty of Rs 630 crore for alleged abuse of its dominant
position and passed a ‘cease and desist’ order over unfair conditions
imposed by DLF on buyers of its flats. Then late August,CCI passed
another separate order in which it again cautioned DLF not to misuse its
dominant position but did not impose any penalty.<br />
DLF, in turn, challenged the CCI directive on various grounds to
Compat, including the jurisdiction of the case, the basis for
determining relevant market and dominant position, as well as not being
served with show-cause notices before the CCI penalty was announced.<br />
The penalty was imposed following an inquiry based on complaints
filed by the flat buyer associations’ of two separate DLF projects in
Gurgaon, DLF Park Palace and The Belaire. The associations complained
that there were delays in the projects and that DLF had increased the
number of floors from what was initially planned, among other things.<br />
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Rajasthan Government reinstates suspended Bharatpur Collector</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3463562.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3463562.ece</a><br />
Special Correspondent<br />
Following a stay granted by Central Administrative Tribunal<br />
In a quiet move following a stay granted by the Central
Administrative Tribunal (CAT), the Congress-led Government in Rajasthan
has reinstated former Bharatpur Collector Krishna Kunal who was
suspended for his failure to control communal violence at Gopalgarh on
September 14 last year. Mr. Kunal had ordered police firing on a mosque
in the town in which 10 people were killed.<br />
A Division Bench of the CAT here earlier this week granted an interim
stay on Mr. Kunal’s suspension on the technical ground of the
suspension orders not being accompanied by the departmental or
disciplinary inquiry. The suspended Collector had contended that no
probe was contemplated or pending against him.<br />
The State Government issued orders for Mr. Kunal’s reinstatement over
the week-end reportedly after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot reviewed the
matter and gave a green signal for withdrawal of suspension. Mr. Kunal
has been asked to wait for his new posting orders and register his
presence in the Personnel Department as of now.<br />
Ten people praying inside the Jama Masjid at Gopalgarh were killed
and 38 injured on September 14, 2011, when the police resorted to
indiscriminate firing on the mosque amid tension between Gujjars and Meo
Muslims. Some of the policemen allegedly joined the armed Gujjar mob
which stormed into the mosque and lynched the worshippers.<br />
The CAT’s directive staying the operation of the September 28, 2011
suspension order and the December 22, 2011 order by which the suspension
was extended for 180 days was an interim in nature. The CAT issued
notices in the case and posted it for hearing on June 13.<br />
The State Government’s decision to revoke Mr. Kunal’s suspension on
the basis of the CAT’s interim stay has led to shock and outrage among
the social activists and Muslim groups here. The “hushed manner” in
which a legal loophole was left for the benefit of the suspended
Collector has especially caused indignation among the informed circles.<br />
<strong>Investigation</strong><br />
The Rajasthan Muslim Forum and Rajasthan unit of the Jamiat
Ulema-i-Hind have accused Mr. Gehlot of denying justice to the victims
of police firing. They said the ruling Congress’ decisions after the
firing to hand over investigation to the CBI and suspend the Collector
and Superintendent of Police were meant to “deceive the people”.<br />
JUH State general secretary Abdul Wahid Khatri pointed out that the
next of kin of those killed in the firing had lodged as many as 12 FIRs
against Mr. Kunal and the then SP, Hinglaj Dan, with the charges of
murder. Strangely, the CBI has neither taken up any of these FIRs for
probe nor arrested any of the policemen who sprayed bullets on the
mosque.<br />
Mr. Khatri said the Collector’s reinstatement went against the principle of rule of law.<br />
“The State Government should have sought a legal opinion for an
appeal against the CAT’s interim stay or corrected the lapse on [the
basis of] which the order was passed. On the contrary, it has used the
stay as a ploy to revoke the guilty officer’s suspension.”<br />
Rajasthan Muslim Forum convenor Qari Moinuddin wondered as to what
prevented Mr. Gehlot from ordering a departmental inquiry against the
accused Collector when he believed that he had ineptly handled the
Gopalgarh incident: “From Mr. Gehlot’s conduct, it is clear that he does
not want to punish those guilty of carrying out one of the most
horrific massacres in Rajasthan.”<br />
The Muslim groups alleged that Mr. Kunal had been reinstated to
defeat the spirit of this past week’s order of the Rajasthan High Court
instructing the CBI Director to monitor the probe into the Gopalgarh
violence and submit the progress report in the court. “The way the
ruling Congress is resorting to various tactics to obstruct justice is
outrageous. The [State] Government is acting against the constitutional
mandate to uphold the rule of law,” said Mr. Moinuddin.<br />
Muslim groups, which have been demanding Mr. Gehlot’s removal ever
since the Gopalgarh violence, have sought an appointment with Governor
Margaret Alva to draw her attention to the State Government’s conduct
and seek action in accordance with the constitutional provisions.<br />
Independent investigations carried out by civil rights groups,
including the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, had pointed to
“collusion” between the local police, an aggressive section of the
Gujjar community and some local RSS, Bajrang Dal and VHP leaders during
the violence. The PUCL report stated that some self-styled Hindu leaders
had “pressured Mr. Kunal into ordering the firing.”<br />
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<h2>
HC To Rule On SAC’s Suo Moto Powers Today</h2>
<strong>Srinagar, June 05:</strong> The Jammu and Kashmir High Court
is to outline the jurisdiction of the State Accountability Commission
(SAC) on Wednesday in a simultaneous hearing of around 35 high-profile
cases involving former ministers, bureaucrats and businessmen.<br />
The cases challenging the authority of the SAC to take suo moto
action have been pending in the High Court for over five years, with a
large number of lawyers defending petitioners targeted by the
Commission.<br />
In one of the petitions – pertaining to minister for co-operatives
Manohar Lal Sharma – Justice JP Singh had directed that all cases
involving the SAC would be heard by Justice Hasnain Masoodi.<br />
According to sources, with the assistance lawyers, Justice Masoodi
has sorted and classified the cases according to their nature, noting
that most involved the authority of the SAC to take suo moto action.<br />
Justice Masoodi has decided to take this category of cases up first in an en masse hearing tomorrow.<br />
Observers feel that the High Court ruling would delineate the
jurisdiction of the State Accountability Commission to initiate action
on its own.<br />
The high-profile names figuring in the cases include former deputy
chief minister Mangat Ram Sharma, former health minister Suman Lata
Bhagat, her PRO Vikas Bahl, former education minister Peerzada Muhammad
Sayeed, cooperatives minister Manohar Lal Sharma, former DIG Satvir
Gupta, commissioner secretary Atul Duloo, former minister and MLA Doda
Abdul Majeed Wani, former district development commissioner for Rajouri
Sheikh Rafiq Ahmad, former commissioner secretary for the animal
husbandry department Dr. Deen Muhammad, former vice chairman of the
Jammu Development Authority Ashok Parmar, PWD executive engineer
Dharamveer Koul, police inspector Jhumroo Singh, and the former
secretary of the J and K housing board Farhat Qureshi. Observer News
Service<br />
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<td>Except for Mizoram and Nagaland, none of the states have submitted
the mandatory reports sought by the National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) on safeguards they have put in place relating to exposure to
asbestos, forcing it to extend the deadline for the second time.
The Commission has now asked the states and other concerned
authorities to submit the report within six weeks, a release issued by
the NHRC said today. The NHRC has issued this order on May 21.<br />
“Most of the authorities in Centre and states/Union Territories have
failed to submit requisite reports to the NHRC on safeguards they have
put in place relating to exposure to asbestos. Only the states of
Mizoram, Nagaland and the National Institute of Occupational Health
Ahmedabad have submitted the reports,” it said.<br />
The NHRC had given six months time for submitting reports and on
March 5 this year, they were given another six weeks’ extension when
most of them failed to give the requisite reports.<br />
The Commission had asked them to share with it the information on the
action taken by them with regard to the Supreme Court judgment on
exposure to asbestos.<br />
The Supreme Court had asked the central and state governments to
review safeguards in relation to primary as well as secondary exposure
to asbestos.<br />
The Commission had taken cognisance of a complaint in July 2011
alleging that about 50,000 people die every year in the country due to
asbestos related cancer.<br />
The complainant had sought Commission’s intervention for a ban on the
use of chrysotile asbestos (white asbestos), which is hazardous to
health of people and causes various incurable diseases.<br />
The white asbestos is a fibrous material used for building roofs and walls, among others.</td>
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<strong>NHRC public hearing in Chennai to deal with grievances of SCs</strong><br />
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PTI | 03:06 PM,Jun 05,2012<br />
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will
hold a three-day public hearing in Chennai to deal with grievances of
Schedules Castes on August 7. Those belonging to SC category who have a
complaint of atrocity committed by a public servant or of negligence by a
public servant in prevention of atrocity can send their complaints to
the Commission by June 25. The complaints deemed fit for enquiry shall
be taken up at the public hearing, the Commission said. PTI CORR SJY SCY<br />
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HC advocate petitions NHRC against CBI in Jagan’s case</h1>
<a href="http://www.siasat.com/english/news/hc-advocate-petitions-nhrc-against-cbi-jagans-case">http://www.siasat.com/english/news/hc-advocate-petitions-nhrc-against-cbi-jagans-case</a><br />
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<td><ins>Hyderabad, June 04:</ins>
<ins>An advocate of Andhra Pradesh High Court has petitioned National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI)<br />
for violating all constitutional rights and also discretionary power
conferred by CrPC by arresting YSR Congress Party president Y S Jagan
Mohan Reddy in connection with the the disproportionate assets case,
here on May 27.<br />
Advocate P Sai Krishna Azad told UNI here today that the NHRC had
admitted his petition filed on June 1 and said Jagan was a law abiding
person who always cooperated<br />
with the CBI. Mr Azad contended in his petition that the investigating
agency did not have the powers to kill the freedom of expression and it
acted as ultra vires in this case.<br />
The Indian Constitution has guaranteed the fundamental rights under
Article 19 and 21, he said, and alleged that the CBI was acting with
malafide intention influenced by<br />
the state and union government. He prayed the commission to issue a direction to the<br />
Centre to take action against the CBI and also direct the Centre and
Andhra Pradesh Government to take up the matter seriously as a president
of a particular party was arrested before election which prevented him
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Shah Commission starts hearing corruption charges against Modi</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/shah-commission-starts-hearing-corruption-charges-against-modi/958101/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/shah-commission-starts-hearing-corruption-charges-against-modi/958101/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : Ahmedabad, Tue Jun 05 2012, 11:29 hrs<br />
The inquiry commission set up by the Gujarat government to probe
charges of corruption levelled by Opposition parties against Chief
Minister Narendra Modi began its hearing yesterday.<br />
Retired Supreme Court Judge M B Shah is the chairman of the
one-member Commission appointed by the state government on August 17,
2011.<br />
Making its case against Modi, People’s Union for Civic Liberties
demanded that the state government should furnish details about the land
given to various industrial houses and also sought to know whether
rules were followed while allotting the plots.<br />
Special public prosecutor appointed by the Gujarat government,
Bhaskar Tanna, argued that the charges made against the chief minister
were baseless as the state government allotted land as per the rules.<br />
Media was not allowed inside the court room.<br />
Further hearing would be held by the Commission next Monday.<br />
The Modi government had set up the Commission in the wake of
Opposition Congress submitting a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil
in June 2011 alleging that the state government under Modi had indulged
in large scale corruption and favouritism to industrial houses.<br />
The terms of reference of the Commission include inquiry into the
allegations of Congress regarding favouritism toward certain industrial
houses, state government’s negligence in this regard, if any, and any
other allegation that the Commission deems fit to inquire.<br />
The Commission has also to study the manner in which land had been
allocated to industry and analyse all tax concessions given vis-à-vis
other states with Gujarat.<br />
The Commission will also look into post-1980 role of successive
Gujarat governments in giving special relaxations to industrial houses.<br />
The terms of the Inquiry Commission are comprehensive and include all
points raised by the Congress party in its memorandum to the President.<br />
The 15-point charter of allegations handed over to the Inquiry
Commission includes conducting inquiry in allegation that land had been
given to industries near the state capital at Gandhinagar at very low
prices; that Rs 33,000 crore concession given to the Tata’s Nano car
project for relocation from Singur in West Bengal to Sanand.<br />
It also includes allegations over the land allotment to Adani Industrial House for Mundra Port and Mundra SEZ.<br />
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Green nod for Chettinadu power project suspended</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3490910.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3490910.ece</a><br />
P. V. Srividya<br />
Ministry told to commission study of all proposed thermal power plants along coast<br />
Suspending the environmental clearance (EC) given to the Chettinadu
Power Corporation’s 1200-MW power project in Tharangambadi taluk of
Nagapattinam district, the National Green Tribunal has directed the
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to commission a Cumulative
Impact Assessment study of all proposed thermal power plants along the
district coastline here within one year.<br />
In its May 30 order, the Tribunal has also asked the MoEF to consider
all related clearances for any project under the Environment Protection
Act simultaneously to avoid piecemeal evaluation of its impact on
ecology and environment.<br />
Disposing of an appeal against the Environmental Clearance given for
the 1200 (2×600) MW thermal power plant, the NGT censured MoEF and its
Experts Appraisal Committee (EAC) for blatant oversights during the
grant of the EC.<br />
The Principal Bench’s order came on an appeal filed by Ossie
Fernandes of Coastal Action Network, Vangakadal Meen Thozhilalar Sangam,
and fishermen S. Chitravel and T. Kumar.<br />
The Bench criticised the terrestrial ecology study that denied the
existence of Olive Ridley Turtles in the area as opposed to the data
given by the Forest Department and two other study reports.<br />
The MoEF, it said, had not verified the claims and simply relied on
the presentations by the project proponent that did not even cite
sources of study. Further, EIA’s denial of turtle sightings also raised
doubts, the Bench observed.<br />
Flaying the vast discrepancies between the draft EIA and final EIA,
the Bench termed it “highly deplorable” practice that “needs to be
checked critically by MoEF.”<br />
“If such practice is allowed to continue, there is no need for
holding public consultation because the very purpose of having
transparency in the decision making process gets defeated,” read the
judgment.<br />
On the contention of cumulative impact of multitude of projects with
captive ports proposed within a 10 km radius here, the Bench frowned
upon the MoEF and its EAC for making only a cursory suggestion of common
port/jetty, without adequately looking into environmental safeguards at
the time of appraisal for EC.<br />
Stating that the cumulative impact of discharge from the various
projects was bound to adversely affect the carrying capacity of the
environment and ecology, the Bench suggested a carrying capacity study
“invariably in all cases where more than one project of similar or
different nature” was involved.<br />
The Bench also faulted the MoEF for adopting separate procedures for
EC and CRZ clearance. Except for a generic summary on marine ecology, no
comprehensive report was given by the project proponent at the time of
appraisal, despite the requirements under Terms Of Reference (TOR).<br />
However, a comprehensive report was given for CRZ clearance that was
obtained subsequent to EC. This gave an impression that impact on marine
ecology was not of concern for the EC while it mattered for CRZ
clearance, observed the Bench.<br />
All clearances, including EC, CRZ and others mandated under the EIA
notification, 2006, and the Environment Protection Act should be
considered simultaneously. Otherwise it would lead to “piecemeal
analysis of environmental impact,” the Bench said.<br />
However dismissing the appellants’ plea for scrapping the EC, the
Bench stated that there was no clear case made out that the deficiencies
resulted in clear and present ecological threat.<br />
It disposed of the appeal with a direction that the project proponent
shall update the EIA report on terrestrial and marine ecology and the
MoEF shall appraise the project in the light of objections/suggestions
received within six months.<br />
The EC for the thermal plant shall stand suspended till a final
decision was taken by the MoEF. The MoEF shall verify the compliance of
the draft EIA with the TOR before it is uploaded on the Ministry’s
website prior to the public hearing. Also, the final EIA will be
evaluated with respect to TOR, draft EIA, and the objections raised
during the public hearing by the EAC.<br />
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SC defines chargesheet quashing</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/sc-defines-chargesheet-quashing-737">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/sc-defines-chargesheet-quashing-737</a><br />
June 5, 2012<br />
PTI<br />
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4612">New Delhi</a><br />
<ins>A chargesheet filed in departmental proceeding cannot be quashed
by courts unless it adversely affects the rights of the aggrieved
employee, the Supreme Court has held.<br />
“In fact, chargesheet does not infringe the right of a party. It is only
when a final order imposing the punishment or otherwise adversely
affecting a party is passed, it may have a grievance and cause of
action.<br />
“Thus, a chargesheet or show cause notice in disciplinary proceedings
should not ordinarily be quashed by the court,” said a bench of justices
B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra, in an order.<br />
The bench passed the order while disposing of an appeal by the ministry
of defence challenging a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order
quashing the chargesheet against one Prabhash Chandra Mirdha in a
two-decade old bribery case.<br />
“Law does not permit quashing of chargesheet in a routine manner. In
case the delinquent employee has any grievance in respect of the
chargesheet, he must raise the issue by filing a representation and wait
for the decision of the disciplinary authority thereon.<br />
“In case the chargesheet is challenged before a court/tribunal on the
ground of delay in initiation of disciplinary proceedings or delay in
concluding the proceedings, the court/tribunal may quash the chargesheet
after considering the gravity of the charge and all relevant factors
involved in the case after weighing all the facts, both for and against
the delinquent employee, and must reach the conclusion which is just and
proper in the circumstance,” the bench said.<br />
The bench said chargesheet cannot generally be a subject matter of
challenge as it does not adversely affect the rights of the delinquent
unless it is established that the same has been issued by an authority
not competent to initiate the disciplinary proceedings. </ins><br />
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Get off drain, court tells hotel</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Get-off-drain-court-tells-hotel/articleshow/13832792.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Get-off-drain-court-tells-hotel/articleshow/13832792.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 05.47AM IST<br />
<ins>BANGALORE: The high court on Monday allowed a writ appeal filed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gstaad-Hotels-Pvt-Ltd">Gstaad Hotels Pvt Ltd</a>, which is constructing a 17-storey star hotel in UB City, with regard to the khata controversy with the BBMP.</ins><br />
A division bench headed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Justice-Vikramajit-Sen">Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen</a>
directed the hotel not to appropriate the storm water drain running
beside its property, without the Palike’s permission . The bench,
however, permitted landscaping on the other side of the segregated
parcel of land, which is separated by the SWD. The hotel management, in
its appeal, challenged the April 19, 2012 order of the single bench,
dismissing their petition.<br />
The single bench had held that bifurcation of khata with respect to
two pieces of land separated by the SWD doesn’t affect the right of the
hotel, as the khata is only a fiscal entry enabling payment of property
tax, and the SWD continues to be the property of the BBMP.<br />
However, the hotel management, which claims to have invested Rs 500crore in the project , said the segregation reduces <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/floor-area-ratio">floor area ratio</a> (FAR).<br />
<strong>Sampangi moves HC </strong><br />
BJP MLA from Kolar Gold Fields Y Sampangi, who was sentenced to
three-and-a-half years RI by a special Lokayukta court, moved a criminal
revision petition in the HC. The plea will be taken up by Justice V
Jagannathan on Tuesday.<br />
He was jailed for allegedly accepting Rs 5-lakh bribe. <br />
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Nirmal baba seeks relief against CJM’s order</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nirmal-baba-seeks-relief-against-CJMs-order/articleshow/13829556.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nirmal-baba-seeks-relief-against-CJMs-order/articleshow/13829556.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 02.54AM IST<br />
LUCKNOW: The Delhi-based self proclaimed godman <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nirmaljeet-Singh-Narula">Nirmaljeet Singh Narula</a> alias Nirmal Baba, filed a writ petition in the Lucknow bench of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Allahabad-high-court">Allahabad high court</a>
seeking relief against the order of the chief judicial magistrate (CJM)
through which an FIR was registered against him on charges of fraud.<br />
The CJM order came on a petition filed by two students <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tanya-Thakur">Tanya Thakur</a>
(16) and her brother Aditya (13) in Lucknow. In his petition, Baba has
said that he is among renowned religious persons and denied all
allegations against him. He has described CJM’s order as ‘legally
incorrect’.<br />
He has requested the High Court to quash the FIR and stay the arrest.
The case will be heard on Tuesday by the bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar
Singh and Justice SUZ Siddiqui.<br />
Baba moved High Court after police investigating officer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajesh-Kumar-Singh">Rajesh Kumar Singh</a> sent him a notice under Section 160 CrPC on May 16, 2012, asking him to present facts before May 24. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Neeraj-Jain">Neeraj Jain</a> is the counsel for Nirmal Baba while Neeraj Kumar and Tripurari Tripathi are counsel for Tanaya and Aditya.<br />
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Gulbarg Society massacre case: Special court pulls up special investigation team</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gulbarg-Society-massacre-case-Special-court-pulls-up-special-investigation-team/articleshow/13830325.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gulbarg-Society-massacre-case-Special-court-pulls-up-special-investigation-team/articleshow/13830325.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 03.55AM IST<br />
<ins>AHMEDABAD: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/special-court">special court</a> hearing the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gulbarg-Society-massacre-case">Gulbarg Society massacre case</a> pulled up the Supreme Court-appointed <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Special-Investigation-Team">Special Investigation Team</a>
(SIT) over its reluctance in submitting its final report on Zakia
Jafri’s complaint against chief minister Narendra Modi and others in
connection with the 2002 riots.</ins><br />
Asking it to submit the report, designated judge B J Dhandha
commented on the SIT’s approach, “What is there for the investigation
agency to hide about its investigation?”<br />
The SIT had earlier told the court to defer submission of its report
before the trial court after the magisterial court, where the report was
placed at the SC’s instance in February, took a final view regarding
the closure summary. The SIT’s contention was rebutted by witnesses’
lawyer Salim Shaikh, who filed an affidavit in rejoinder stating that
the proceeding over SIT’s final report may go on for years together
before a magisterial court. Hence the process before the magistrate must
not hinder the trial proceedings before the special court in connection
with the Gulbarg Society case.<br />
The witnesses have contended that they had been seeking arraignment
of some police officers, including the then JCP M K Tandon and DCP P B
Gondia and former investigator S S Chudasama.<br />
Till date, the SIT was deferring the issue on the ground that further
probe on SC’s direction was underway. Once the probe is over and
evidence has been placed before the magisterial court, the SIT should
place concerned document before trial court also, their counsel argued.
Further proceeding on these issues will take place on June 18. And
hearing on plea filed by witnesses seeking arraignment of cops has also
been kept on the same day. <br />
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Notice to Gupta in libel case</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-Gupta-in-libel-case/articleshow/13829241.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-Gupta-in-libel-case/articleshow/13829241.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 02.22AM IST<br />
<ins>NEW DELHI: A trial court on Monday summoned Delhi BJP president <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vijender-Gupta">Vijender Gupta</a> on the complaint of chief minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sheila-Dikshit">Sheila Dikshit</a> seeking his prosecution for allegedly defaming her in the recent MCD elections.</ins><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Metropolitan-magistrate">Metropolitan magistrate</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Saumya-Chauhan">Saumya Chauhan</a>
directed Gupta to appear in the court on June 22 to respond to
Dikshit’s allegation. “I find it a fit case to call the respondent
(Gupta) under Section 499/500 (criminal defamation) of the IPC. So the
respondent is summoned for June 22,” the magistrate said.<br />
Dikshit’s lawyer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mehmood-Paracha">Mehmood Paracha</a>,
who was allowed to go through the order, told reporters that the court
in its order has said that reputation is the most important thing for a
person. The counsel had earlier told the court that the BJP leader is
required to be summoned to ascertain if his defamatory remarks before
the April 15 civil polls were to gain political mileage by maligning the
chief minister. Dikshit had recorded her statement before the
magistrate in the case on May 30.<br />
She had filed the criminal defamation case alleging that the BJP
leader used “uncivilised” language before MCD polls. The chief minister
had also filed a civil suit in the Delhi High Court against Gupta for
erecting hoardings across the city, accusing her government of conniving
with private discoms and indulging in corruption in determining power
tariff. <br />
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PIL filed against ‘Bharat Mata ki’ song from ‘Shanghai’</h1>
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pil-against-bharat-mata-ki-song-from-shanghai/264280-8.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pil-against-bharat-mata-ki-song-from-shanghai/264280-8.html</a><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/byline/Subhajit-Sengupta.html">Subhajit Sengupta</a>, <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/byline/Rohit-Vats.html">Rohit Vats</a>, <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/IBNLive.com.html">IBNLive.com</a><br />
<strong>New Delhi:</strong> A petition has been filed in the Delhi
High Court for an interim stay on the release of forthcoming Bollywood
film ‘Shanghai’ until its controversial song ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ is
removed from the film. Tejinder Bagga of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, has
filed the petition, “We have problems with the words used in the song.
Sone ki chidiya, dengue, malaria, gud bhi hai, gobar bhi, Bharat Mata ki
jai. Bharat Mata is not a person, it’s not a political party, it’s not a
system either. She is like a goddess to every Indian. In our national
song Vande Mataram, she is compared to the goddess Durga. And, here she
is told to be the home of such diseases, so, we have a strong objection
to it.”<br />
Tejinder Bagga also had a conversation with the singer-composer of
the song Vishal Dadlani on micro blogging site Twitter, “I had a
conversation with Vishal Dadlani, around a month ago, where I pleaded
him to take out the objectionable words from the song. This doesn’t seem
to be a mistake, it’s deliberate. Then he tweeted that Tejinder Bagga
is threatening him. Then we thought probably he is seeking some cheap
publicity, so we kept silence for one month before filing a police case.
We want punishment for such people.”<br />
“Vishal said you remove dengue, malaria from the country and I will
remove these words from the song, then I asked him ‘is there any country
in this world which is devoid of diseases, but is it fair to make any
disease the identity of that country,’” asks Tejinder Singh Bagga.<br />
Bagga further says, “We filed one FIR against the song. When a
prominent media house asked Dibakar Banerjee about it, he said that he
will follow whatever the Indian constitution says, but he should have
the freedom of expression. This statement shows that Dibakar clearly
knows that the song is hurting the people’s sentiments, but probably he
is waiting for a controversy to evolve.”<br />
This is not the first time when Tejinder Singh Bagga is in the news.
Earlier, his name had featured in the Prashant Bhushan assault case. The
court has still not given any decision on the controversy. ‘Shanghai’
is scheduled to hit the screens on June 8.<br />
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PCA: PIL wants more teeth for police body</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pca-pil-wants-more-teeth-for-police-body/958037/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pca-pil-wants-more-teeth-for-police-body/958037/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Tue Jun 05 2012, 03:19 hrs<br />
Seeking more teeth for the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), a
public interest litigation was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High
Court on Monday. The petitioner, Advocate Arvind Thakur, has demanded
that the authority should be given powers to pass directions to the
Chandigarh Police so that its (authority) orders are implemented.<br />
The petitioner contended that the Chandigarh Police is not complying
with the recommendations of the complaints authority. Stating that the
authority should not be reduced to a “complaint box”, the petitioner has
sought directions in this regard.<br />
The petitioner has also annexed various orders of PCA, ordering
suspension against police officers, which have not been complied by the
Chandigarh Police. The UT Home Secretary and PCA have been made
respondents in the petition.<br />
The vacation bench of the High Court adjourned the case to July to let it come up for hearing before a regular bench.<br />
<strong>‘Issue recorded warning to SI’</strong><br />
CHANDIGARH: The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) has requested the
UT Inspector General of Police to issue a recorded warning to a
Sub-Inspector for helping a violator.<br />
The complainant, Chander Singh, a first-floor resident of a house in
Sector 47, had alleged that Usha Rani, who had been allotted the ground
floor in the same building, encroached upon and covered the courtyard
and constructed a room. Chander filed a civil suit as the illegal
construction affected his privacy, and the court ordered demolition in
December 1999. Usha left the house and the new owner, Upinder Gupta,
again raised the construction.<br />
Chander again filed a civil suit and a complaint with police alleging
that Gupta raised the unauthorised construction in connivance with and
in the presence of SI Charanjit Singh, posted at Sector 31 Police
Station. Chander even showed court orders to the Sub-Inspector, but he
did not listen to him. However, a case under section 107/150 of the CrPc
was registered against the complainant and a neighbour.<br />
It was alleged that Gupta then started creating nuisance and his
family members starting throwing stones and hurled filthy abuses. They
also used the house for commercial purposes by placing a wood cutter.
The cutter was removed after some residents complained to the SSP.<br />
The PCA order reads, “It is found that SI Charanjit Singh has not
acted fairly. He has abused his position by helping the violator in
encroachment and in creating nuisance and quarrel.”<br />
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IT capital is also a killer of lakes</h1>
<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/developmental-issues/it-capital-is-also-a-killer-of-lakes/articleshow/13835895.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/developmental-issues/it-capital-is-also-a-killer-of-lakes/articleshow/13835895.cms</a><br />
<ins>BANGALORE: There was a time when unfiltered, clear water from
the 625 lakes of Bangalore used to be supplied to homes for drinking.
Bangalore was then a pensioners’ town. One huge lake for instance,
Dharmambudhi, supplied a major share of the drinking water. Today this
lake lies buried under Bangalore’s biggest bus terminus Kempegowda.</ins><br />
Most of the lakes, some dating back to the 16th century, died a slow
death. Many were poisoned by discharge of sewage and effluents and some
were buried by landsharks. The Lake Development Authority (LDA) says
around 100 water bodies have gone totally dry. More than 265 acres of
lake area has been encroached. The remaining are in various stages of
deterioration.<br />
Only recently, a court order took note of the destruction and
directed government agencies to mend things. But as things stand, this
intervention might have come a bit late in the day.<br />
Now, Bangalore’s drinking water needs are met by pumping about
900-925 million litres per day (MLD) from the Cauvery, 100 km away.
Greater Bangalore has no water. High-rises, where most techies live,
depend on watertankers that suck water out of illegal bore-wells.
Tippegondanahally lake used to pump 143 MLD but supply is down to 25 MLD
now, because upstream inlets are blocked by encroachments. Water lost
in distribution to Bangalore is 30% , nearly 270 MLD.<br />
Bangalore reached this sorry state after encroachments, especially
from real-estate giants, killed the water bodies. No agency stopped
this. One problem was that there were too many agencies involved. There
was the forest department, the municipality ( <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/BBMP">BBMP</a>),
the water supply and sewage board (BWSSB) and the LDA. Even if
residents wanted to complain, chances were that they wouldn’t know who
to approach.<br />
An Institute for Social and Economic Change research report last year
said data on lakes is missing from important government agencies. This
points to corruption in these departments.<br />
Among those that remain, most are classified ‘dead’. There’s barely
any oxygen and dead fish can often float on the surface. Residential
areas discharge their untreated sewage in these lakes. In the 1980s, the
state made efforts to protect lakes, crucial as they were to
Bangalore’s growing needs. They served as home to migratory birds. But
unplanned urbanization led to dislocation of lake communities (agrarian,
fishing and grazing) that protected and maintained these commons. It
had a debilitating effect on surface and groundwater.<br />
In 2004, the LDA invited private companies to develop and maintain
the water bodies for 15 years. They’d help desilt and dredge the water
bodies, ensure sewage diversion, build treatment plants and landscaping.
But in 2008, the Environmental Support Group filed a PIL in Karnataka
High Court. They contended that leasing out of the lakes (four had been
leased out) was against norms. The water bodies, they said, were in
prime areas and their privatisation benefiited only hoteliers and
builders.<br />
The court disposed of the PIL on April 11, 2012 with a list of
directions. It ordered removal of unauthorized constructions within 30
metres of a lake’s periphery. Officers were made incharge and directed
to hold regular meetings with LDA and take effective steps to protect
Bangalore’s lakes.<br />
<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/BWSSB">BWSSB</a>
chairman Gaurav Gupta said, “BBMP and BDA send proposals on lake
maintenance to LDA, which focuses on an approach to keep them in good
condition. There are issues of sewage disposal and recharging of
channels, which we have to respond to. This process is taking place.” <br />
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Madras high court sets June 20 for final hearing on secretariat</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-high-court-sets-June-20-for-final-hearing-on-secretariat/articleshow/13832407.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-high-court-sets-June-20-for-final-hearing-on-secretariat/articleshow/13832407.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 05.33AM IST<br />
<ins>CHENNAI: The case concerning the new assembly-cum-secretariat
project will be taken up for final hearing by the Madras high court on
June 20.</ins><br />
A decision was taken by a division bench comprising Justices <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/D-Murugesan">D Murugesan</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/K-K-Sasidharan">K K Sasidharan</a> on Monday, after advocate-general <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/A-Navaneethakrishnan">A Navaneethakrishnan</a>
informed the court that the present government’s plan to convert the
facility into a hospital and medical college had been given
environmental clearance by the State Environmental Impact Assessment
Authority. Now that the clearance had been given, the interim order
restraining authorities from doing any alteration on the building should
be vacated, he said.<br />
P Wilson, senior counsel for the petitioner submitted that the PIL
had raised several issues other than the environmental clearance. The
bench, noting that the matter needed detailed deliberations, posted the
matter to June 20 for final hearing. <br />
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Notice to CM for delay in framing of water meter rules</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-CM-for-delay-in-framing-of-water-meter-rules/articleshow/13829328.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-CM-for-delay-in-framing-of-water-meter-rules/articleshow/13829328.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 02.31AM IST<br />
<ins>NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has sought to know the stands of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chief-minister">chief minister</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sheila-Dikshit">Sheila Dikshit</a>, as <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-Jal-Board">Delhi Jal Board</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chairperson">chairperson</a>,
and DJB’s CEO on a plea for launch of contempt of court proceedings
against them for their alleged failure to frame rules on installation of
water meters. Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vipin-Sanghi">Vipin Sanghi</a>
also issued show-cause notices to DJB member (finance) and member
(water), seeking their replies by November 9 on the contempt plea, made
by an association of water meter manufacturers.</ins><br />
According to the association, the single bench on January 25 had
directed DJB to frame rules relating to installation fee and rent to be
paid for use, maintenance and testing of water meters, but no rules have
been framed so far.<br />
“Initiate contempt proceedings against contemnors for deliberate and
intentional breach of the judgment dated January 25 and punish them in
accordance with the provisions of the Contempt of Courts Act,” the
petitioners said, claiming the Board has deliberately ignored a court
order. Earlier, the single judge had asked the DJB to place before it
the rules and regulations and in case the DJB hasn’t made the rules, to
frame the same in eight weeks and inform the court.<br />
The water meter manufacturers had said in their plea that the
consumers were allowed by a division bench of HC to purchase water
meters from the open market but DJB had no comprehensive guidelines
relating to the usage and installation of the same.<br />
“On a PIL by the RWA of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajendra-Nagar">Rajendra Nagar</a>,
the division bench had allowed consumers to purchase water meters from
the open market and had asked DJB to frame comprehensive guidelines
relating to the usage and installation fee…” the meter manufacturers
said. <br />
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<h1>
CBI files closure report in horse trading case against Ajit Jogi</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CBI-files-closure-report-in-horse-trading-case-against-Ajit-Jogi/articleshow/13830437.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CBI-files-closure-report-in-horse-trading-case-against-Ajit-Jogi/articleshow/13830437.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 04.08AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a closure
report in the case of alleged horse trading against Congress leader Ajit
Jogi where it was claimed that he and his son attempted to bribe BJP
MLAs after the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh in 2003.<br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI">CBI</a>
sources said the agency took the step after obtaining the opinion of the
attorney general and had filed the closure report some time back. The
sources, however, did not give details of the report or when it was
filed.<br />
In 2008, the CBI had written to the law ministry that there was no provision either under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Penal-Code">Indian Penal Code</a> or <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Prevention-of-Corruption-Act">Prevention of Corruption Act</a> under which the Congress MP could be prosecuted.<br />
On December 9, 2003, the CBI had registered a case under Prevention
of Corruption Act against Jogi, his son Amit and defected BJP MP P R
Khunte for allegedly trying to bribe BJP MLAs after the assembly
elections in the state. Jogi is alleged to have bribed BJP leaders to
prevent the saffron party from forming the government after the assembly
polls.<br />
However, after scrutinizing the statements of Jogi and the available
provisions under the law, the CBI came to the conclusion that no case
could be registered against him as he was a “caretaker” chief minister
at the time of the alleged crime and he, therefore, could not come under
the category of public servant, the sources said.<br />
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<strong>Khalil Ahmed, Dawood’s alleged aide, refused bail</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Khalil-Ahmed-Dawood-s-alleged-aide-refused-bail/Article1-865964.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Khalil-Ahmed-Dawood-s-alleged-aide-refused-bail/Article1-865964.aspx</a></strong><br />
New Delhi, June 04, 2012<br />
Khalil Ahmed, an alleged aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was
on Monday refused bail by a Delhi court in a 2009 case of alleged
attempt to extort money from a businessman in New Delhi. Chief
metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav denied bail to Ahmed. Khalil had
sought bail on <ins>the ground that the Indian Penal Code provides a
maximum punishment of seven years for the offence of extortion and he
has spent a substantial period in judicial custody, pending trial.</ins><br />
<ins>His counsel also said argued all the prosecution witnesses in
the case have already been examined and there is no likelihood of Ahmed
threatening any witness.</ins><br />
<ins>The court, however, noted the argument of the prosecution that
Khalil was not given bail in December, 2011, by a sessions court which
had considered the merits of the case, his conduct and the societal
impact that is going to be caused if he is granted bail.</ins><br />
<ins>“I find substance in arguments of the prosecution that although
the accused has undergone substantial sentence as an undertrial, his
bail was dismissed by the sessions court on merits,” the CMM said.</ins><br />
<ins>The court also noted the submission of the prosecution that
Khalil’s conduct inside the jail was not acceptable and it could only be
imagined what he may resort to if he is granted bail.</ins><br />
<ins>Businessman Qmar Ahmed had alleged that on February 16, 2009,
when he was in his shop with his partner, two persons came and handed
over a mobile phone to him forcing him to speak to Khalil. Khalil
allegedly demanded Rs. 10 lakh as extortion money and threatened to kill
him and his family if his demand was not met.</ins><br />
<ins>Khalil was booked under stringent MCOCA on the charge of running
an organised crime syndicate but was absolved of the charge by the
sessions court and the Delhi high court.</ins><br />
<ins>The police had accused him of being involved in 34 cases of
extortion, dacoity, kidnapping, murder, intimidation and attempt to
murder from 1985 to 2009.</ins><br />
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Aarushi case: Hearing adjourned till June 8</h1>
<a href="http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/06/04/317--Aarushi-case-Hearing-adjourned-till-June-8-.html">http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/06/04/317–Aarushi-case-Hearing-adjourned-till-June-8-.html</a><br />
Uttar Pradesh,Crime/Disaster/Accident,Immigration/Law/Rights, Mon, 04 Jun 2012 IANS<br />
Ghaziabad, June 4 (IANS) A special Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) court in Ghaziabad Monday adjourned the hearing in the
Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case till June 8.<br />
Central Bureau of Investigation Special Judge S. Lal put off the
hearing after the Bar Association of Ghaziabad decided to suspend work
following the death of a lawyer.<br />
Aarushi’s parents, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, are being tried for the 2008 murders.<br />
Aarushi, 14, was found murdered at her parents’ Noida residence May
16, 2008. The body of her domestic help Hemraj was found the next day on
the terrace of the house.<br />
The CBI court had May 25 formally framed charges against the Talwars.<br />
The court charged the Talwars under sections 302/34 (murder with
common intention) and 201 (destruction of evidence with common
intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In addition to these, the
court charged Rajesh Talwar under section 203 (giving false information
respecting an offence committed) of IPC.<br />
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Watch out for cyber bullies</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/eworld/article3489576.ece?ref=wl_features">http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/eworld/article3489576.ece?ref=wl_features</a><br />
K V KURMANATH<br />
It’s time to take a closer look at this form of cyber crime in India<br />
The suicide of Tyler Clementi, the 18-year-old New Jersey student in
2010, had triggered a strong debate on invasion of privacy in the cyber
age.<br />
His roommate, an Indian student, captured the boy kissing another man in their hostel using his web camera.<br />
The boy jumped into a river unable to take the humiliation, when the
former tried to circulate the clip. Though the court refused to link the
recording with the death, it sentenced the Indian youth to 30 days in
prison last month.<br />
What Clementi was subjected to is cyber bullying, argued those who campaigned for the Indian student’s deportation.<br />
Along with other cyber crimes, cyber bullying is on the rise in India
too. The fledgling cyber police wings in different states are being
flooded with complaints of invasion of privacy, blackmail and
circulating electronic messages that cause annoyance.<br />
· Ms Aparna (name changed) was aghast when a close friend called her
up about a nude picture of her being circulated on the web. A quick
check pointed the needle of suspicion at a friend who she had just
spurned. Angered by her rejection, the boy morphed her picture, checked
into her email account and sent it to all the people in the contact
list.<br />
After finding Facebook not so amusing, Sujatha (name changed) decided
to close her account and discussed this with a few friends too. A few
days later, she found both her FB and gmail accounts compromised. She
also found obscene pictures posted on the same.<br />
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Legal issues</h3>
Incidents like these are growing sharply with poor knowledge among
users abut how to protect accounts. Sharing one’s passwords with others
too is proving dangerous.<br />
Prof. Madabhushi Sridhar, a cyber laws expert at NALSAR University,
says the crimes cited above come under the bracket of invasion of
privacy.<br />
He says Section 66A in the amended IT Act deals with these crimes.
Sending any message (through a computer or a communication device) that
is grossly offensive or has menacing character; any communication which
he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing insult, annoyance,
criminal intimidation comes under this section. This crime, he says, is
punishable up to three years with a fine.<br />
Prof. Sridhar, who has just completed a book on cyber laws, feels
that punishments under the IT Act are insufficient. “They should be read
with the Indian Penal Code. This will be an effective method to check
cyber crimes,” he says.<br />
Prof. Sridhar also represents the Institute of Global Internet
Governance and Advocacy (GIGA) at the Law University. GIGA conducts
research on the Internet and takes up advocacy and training programmes
on Internet Governance.<br />
“We already have anti-voyeurism provisions in the IT Act under Sec.
66E,” Mr Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of Centre for Internet and
Security, says.<br />
This offence is punishable with ‘imprisonment which may extend to
three years or with fine not exceeding two lakh rupees, or with both.’<br />
Repeated harassment aka cyber bullying can be addressed using the
already over-broad provisions under Sec. 66A. Unfortunately this Section
goes too far and can be used to censor legitimate speech.<br />
“Security and privacy awareness in India is very poor. It would be
very useful if both the government and civil society was more aggressive
in awareness raising and triggering change in behaviour. Unfortunately
this is a bit like smoking – even though people are aware of the issues –
they engage in risky behaviour online,” he says.<br />
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Lack of data</h3>
MR Pavan Duggal, Chairman of Cyber Law Committee and Cyber laws
expert, said there is no specific data on cyber crime in India and the
data available with the NCRB (National Crimes Records Bureau) of around
900 cases for overall cybercrime is also doubtful.<br />
“The solution is to make cyber laws more strict as current law under
IT Act 2000 is a bailable offence with three years imprisonment and a
fine,” he points out.<br />
“IT Act 2000 has to be re-amended to specific provisions pertaining
to cyber bullying. Further, cyber bullying needs to be made a serious
offence with minimum five years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10 lakh.
Unless you have deterrence in law it will be a continuing offence,” he
observes.<br />
Fortunately, there are some safeguards which can help prevent such
acts of cyber offences. In most cases, the acts of bullying or
blackmailing are done by someone close to the victims. People should
make it a point to keep their Internet identities very safe.<br />
One should not disclose their identities such as passwords or hint
questions to anyone – no matter how close they are. Parents should keep
an eye on their children who are addicted to the Internet. They should
inform and educate their children on the clear and present dangers that
lurk on the Net.<br />
They should also teach the importance of respecting others’ privacy
apart from taking precautions to keep their private space very safe.<br />
(with inputs from Ronendra Singh)<br />
<a href="mailto:kurmanath@thehindu.co.in">kurmanath@thehindu.co.in</a><br />
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Adarsh scam: CBI fails to file chargesheet, Jairaj Phatak & Ramanand Tiwari seek bail</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Adarsh-scam-CBI-fails-to-file-chargesheet-Jairaj-Phatak-Ramanand-Tiwari-seek-bail/articleshow/13828947.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Adarsh-scam-CBI-fails-to-file-chargesheet-Jairaj-Phatak-Ramanand-Tiwari-seek-bail/articleshow/13828947.cms</a><br />
Rebecca Samervel, TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 02.09AM IST<br />
<ins>MUMBAI: Former civic chief Jairaj Phatak and ex-state information commissioner <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ramanand-Tiwari">Ramanand Tiwari</a>, arrested in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Adarsh-housing-society-scam">Adarsh housing society scam</a>, filed for bail in the special <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI-court">CBI court</a>
on Monday after the investigating agency failed to file the chargesheet
within the stipulated 60-day period. Phatak and Tiwari have been in
custody since their arrest on April 3. The matter will be heard on
Wednesday.</ins><br />
<ins>The bail application filed by Pathak’s lawyer Swapna Kode states
that he is entitled to be released the chargesheet was not filed within
60 days and the stipulated period came to an end on Monday at 3pm, he
is entitled to be released on bail.</ins><br />
“All the said offences are punishable for less than 10 years and…
therefore the CBI ought to have filed the chargesheet within 60 days
from the date of his production before this court,” states the bail
application filed by Pathak’s lawyer Swapna Kode. All accused have been
charged with criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code and various
sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Benami
Transactions (Prohibition) Act.<br />
<ins>Last week, the court granted bail to seven of the other accused
on same grounds. Special CBI judge M V Kulkarni granted bail to Maj Gen
(retd) A R Kumar, Maj Gen (retd) T K Kaul, Brig (retd) M M Wanchu,
former collector Pradeep Vyas, former sub-divisional superintendent of
the defence estate office R C Thakur (one of the main promoters of the
Adarsh housing society), former deputy secretary of the state urban
development department P V Deshmukh and former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal
Gidwani (the chief promoter of Adarsh). Their sixty day period ended
earlier as they were arrested on March 20 and 21.</ins><br />
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Second defence counsel withdraws in siblings’ murder case</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3492616.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3492616.ece</a><br />
V. S. Palaniappan<br />
Rajendran, defence counsel for Manoharan, the second accused in the
siblings’ murder case has withdrawn from the case citing personal
reasons. He was the second defence counsel to withdraw from the case.<br />
On October 30, 2010, a 10-year-old girl and her seven-year-old
brother, children of a textile merchant from the city, were abducted by a
van driver, who used to transport the children to the school.
Originally, the abduction was planned for ransom, subsequently the
accused Mohanakrishnan along with his accomplice Manoharan, sexually
abused the girl and drowned both the girl and her brother in the PAP
contour canal. The bodies were recovered subsequently and the accused
were secured by the police. Cases were registered against both of them
under sections 120 B (Conspiracy), 364 A (kidnap for ransom), 376
(sexual assault) and 302 (murder) and 201 (concealment of evidence) of
Indian Penal Code. On November 8, 2010, the City Police took custody of
the accused.<br />
On November 9, 2010 morning, while being taken to the scene of crime
to record statements, the police shot the first accused to death. Police
said that the encounter was reportedly in a bid to foil his attempt to
kill the police officials and escape to Kerala.<br />
With the death of the first accused, charges abated against him and
the trial was on against the second accused Manoharan. The lawyers in
Coimbatore resolved not to appear for the accused in the trial.
Meanwhile, nearly 121 prosecution witnesses were listed and 60 documents
marked as material evidences besides filing of a 500-page charge sheet
in the case.<br />
However, according to the legal requirements, the District Aid Legal
Services Authority appointed a counsel for Manoharan. The lawyer
withdrew from the case, following difference of opinion between the
defended accused and his counsel, sources said.<br />
Legal Aid Services Authority then appointed another counsel
Rajendran, who has also now withdrawn from the case citing personal
reasons. The State had appointed a Special Public Prosecutor in the case
to ensure undivided attention to bring about a logical conclusion to
the case. Investigating Officer in the case, Inspector M.
Kanagasabapathy said that prosecution side had completed its work and
after appointment of another counsel by the legal services authority to
defend the accused, the trial was likely to resume. Now, the trial
before the Mahila Court Judge M.N. Subramanian has almost reached mid
way and a verdict was expected within the next 40 to 60 days, sources
expressed confidence.<br />
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Child Welfare Committee orders cops to book child’s employer</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Child-Welfare-Committee-orders-cops-to-book-childs-employer/articleshow/13829208.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Child-Welfare-Committee-orders-cops-to-book-childs-employer/articleshow/13829208.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 02.20AM IST<br />
<ins>NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Child-Welfare-Committee">Child Welfare Committee</a>
(CWC) on Monday ordered the police to register a case against the
employers of a minor boy who had engaged him as a domestic servant for
the past two months.</ins><br />
The bench directed police officials of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhu-Vihar-police">Madhu Vihar police</a>
station in east Delhi to register a case against the employers, who are
property dealers and residents of IP Extension in east Delhi. The minor
had been rescued on Saturday after he was discovered locked inside the
employer’s house and crying.<br />
The CWC has asked the police to register a case against the employers under section 23 and 26 of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Juvenile-%28musician%29">Juvenile</a> Justice Act, section 16 of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bonded-Labour-act">Bonded Labour act</a>
and section 344 (confinement for more than 10 days) and 374 (unlawful
compulsory labour) under the Indian Penal Code. The child was produced
at a CWC court on Monday and a written order was passed on the matter
after the minor gave his statement. <br />
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<strong>Nothing is official here </strong><br />
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Story Dated: Monday, June 4, 2012 10:17 hrs IST<br />
The ease with which Dr Sudam Munde and Dr Saraswati Munde have
repeatedly escaped the law suggests the nexus between authorities and
doctors in Beed. Nationalist Congress Party legislator Vidya Chavan has a
letter written by Parli Police Inspector Ramrao Gadekar on May 19 to
the judicial magistrate first class of Parli Vaijnath requesting him to
withdraw the charges filed against the doctors under the Pre-Conception
and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act and the Medical Termination of
Pregnancy Act.<br />
Gadekar in his letter claimed, “There has been no written proof from the
civil surgeon about framing the doctors under the Acts, and so it is
requested that these charges be withdrawn.” A strange request, when the
doctors were practising even after their clinic’s licence was cancelled.
Accordingly, the couple was charged under section 304A of the Indian
Penal Code and then released on bail.<br />
Chavan alleged that support from Gopinath Munde, deputy leader of the
BJP in the Lok Sabha, had shielded the doctors. “Saraswati considers
Gopinath Munde as her brother. He inaugurated her hospital and Saraswati
was a director of Vaijnath Bank founded by Gopinath Munde,” she wrote
in a letter to the chief minister.<br />
Activists said even the state health department had not been proactively
pursuing the matter. “Why didn’t the health department take any action
when social activist Varsha Deshpande has been pursuing the case for the
last three years?” asked women’s rights activist Vidya Bal. Deshpande
recalled how the doctor couple managed to get bail from the session
court. “The public prosecutor remained absent and the couple was
released on bail,” she said.<br />
The Mundes’ sonography clinic is said to be registered under the name of
a radiologist at a government hospital. “Sudam registered it under the
name of Dr Anand Gitte, who is working at the sub district rural
hospital in Parli. Gitte is the first accused in the case against the
doctors in 2010. He has also signed consent letters for 12 other clinics
in Parli. But, Gitte claimed he did not go to any of these places,”
said lawyer Atul Tandale.<br />
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<strong>Justice Lokur sworn in as Supreme Court judge</strong><br />
<a href="http://post.jagran.com/justice-lokur-sworn-in-as-supreme-court-judge-1338804972">http://post.jagran.com/justice-lokur-sworn-in-as-supreme-court-judge-1338804972</a><br />
Posted on: 04 Jun 2012, 03:46 PM<br />
Justice Lokur now a Supreme Court judge<br />
<strong>New Delhi: </strong>Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High
Court Madan B. Lokur was Monday sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court
by Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.H. Kapadia.<br />
Prior to his elevation, Justice Lokur was the chief justice of the
Andhra Pradesh High Court. With his elevation to the Supreme Court, the
strength of the apex court has gone up to 26, five short of the
sanctioned strength of 31 judges.<br />
Interestingly, this is the first time that a judge, on his elevation
to the apex court, was administered the oath of office during the summer
vacation.<br />
Justice Lokur, as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court,
had headed the bench that recently quashed the 4.5 percent reservation
in educational institutions and government jobs for Muslims within the
existing reservation quota.<br />
<strong>JPN</strong><br />
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NBT can’t escape judicial writ: HC</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/nbt-can%E2%80%99t-escape-judicial-writ-hc-736">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/nbt-can%E2%80%99t-escape-judicial-writ-hc-736</a><br />
June 5, 2012<br />
PTI<br />
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4612">New Delhi</a><br />
<ins>The Delhi high court has held that the National Book Trust (NBT)
is an “alter ego” of the government and is amenable to judicial reviews
for its actions concerning fundamental rights as the state has all
“pervasive control” on the publication body.<br />
The National Book Trust, a registered society which is working for the
last 50 years in the field of publication, took the plea that it does
not fall under the definition of state under the Constitution and hence,
no petition, for enforcing fundamental rights against it, was
maintainable. A three-judge bench of acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri,
Justices Hima Kohli and Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said “we, thus, conclude that
National Book Trust is ‘other authority’ and thus, ‘State’ within the
meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution.”<br />
“No doubt, every autonomous body with some kind of government
involvement cannot be construed to be ‘State’ within the meaning of
Article 12 of the Constitution.<br />
“However, when we find that NBT is within the tight grip of the
government and the control of the government runs through at every stage
right from the creation of NBT to the appointment of the members, to
the fundings, to the appointment of various functionaries, to the
controlling of the functioning through those appointed members and also
through means of audit, etc.<br />
“Further that the parameters within which NBT is to function and even
when the amendments are to be carried out, there cannot be any other
conclusion but to say that it is an alter ego of the government’s
instrumentality,” Justice Sikri, writing the verdict, said.<br />
The court judgment came on the petition which was referred to a larger
bench by a single judge who took the view that NBT was not ‘State’ under
the Constitution and hence, it was not amneable to writ jurisdiction. </ins><br />
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<strong>Sampangi moves HC seeking bail</strong><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/sampangi-moves-hc-seeking-bail/1007289.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/sampangi-moves-hc-seeking-bail/1007289.html</a><br />
PTI | 02:06 PM,Jun 04,2012<br />
Bangalore, Jun 4 (PTI) Jailed in a corruption case, BJP MLA Sampangi
today moved the Karnataka High Court seeking bail and review of the
Lokayukta court verdict. The matter will come up for hearing tomorrow
before Justice Jagannathan. In the first-ever conviction of an elected
representative of the people in Karnataka, Lokayukta court Judge N K
Sudhindra Rao had on June 2 convicted and sentenced Sampangi to undergo
more than three years rigorous imprisonment and slapped Rs 1 lakh fine,
besides ordering extension of imprisonment by six more months in case he
failed to pay up. Sampangi, who represents KGF assembly constituency,
was caught by Lokayukta Police on January 29, 2009 while accepting Rs
50,000 in cash and Rs 4.5 lakh by cheque from Farooq, a businessman, to
settle a civil dispute. Sampangi is lodged at Parappana Agrahara central
prison on city outskirts.<br />
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<strong>J&K HC quashes detention of four persons</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/J-amp-K-HC-quashes-detention-of-four-persons/SP-Article1-865693.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/J-amp-K-HC-quashes-detention-of-four-persons/SP-Article1-865693.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong>UNI</strong><br />
Srinagar, June 04, 2012<br />
Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the detention of four
people, including senior leader of breakaway Hurriyat Conference (HC)
Masarat Alam, detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for their
alleged role in 2010 unrest in the valley.<br />
A single bench of the high court <ins>comprising Justice Hasnain Masoodi
directed the government to release all the detenues if they were not
involved in any other offence.</ins><br />
<ins>The court gave the order on Saturday after hearing arguments
from both sides on separate petitions filed the detenues, challenging
their detention under the PSA.</ins><br />
<ins>Alam, considered a confidant of Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani, was alleged to have provoked people to take to the streets and
observe strikes in 2010, when more than 120 people, mostly youths, were
killed in alleged firing by security forces.</ins><br />
<ins>The state government had slapped another detention order under
the PSA against Alam in January this year after his earlier detention
was quashed by the court.</ins><br />
<ins>The petitioner through his counsel, Mian Abdul Qayoom, had
challenged his detention on several grounds, including the one that the
latest detention order had the same grounds under which Alam was booked
earlier which was quashed by the court.</ins><br />
<ins>The counsel for the petitioner said, “It is a well-settled law
that after a detention order is quashed against a detainee, he cannot be
detained again on the same grounds on which he was booked earlier.”</ins><br />
<ins>He pleaded before the court that the detention order passed
against Alam in January 2012 was illegal, improper and unconstitutional
and required to be quashed.</ins><br />
<ins>The court also quashed the detention orders of Ameer-e-Hamza, Nazir Ahmad Ganie and Waqar Ahmad Morkah.</ins><br />
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Madras HC asks government to amend town planning act</h1>
<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-04/chennai/32030229_1_unauthorised-high-court-grant-exemptions">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-04/chennai/32030229_1_unauthorised-high-court-grant-exemptions</a><br />
A Subramani, TNN Jun 4, 2012, 02.03PM IST<br />
CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Monday directed the Tamil Nadu
government to make necessary amendments in the Town and Country Planning
Act, to exempt hundreds of unauthorised buildings from demolition,
within a period of two weeks.<br />
The first bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S
Sivagnanam, declined advocate general A Navaneethakrishnan’s request to
grant the government six months to bring about the amendment. The court
asked the government to amend the Act by July 24.<br />
The vexed issued of unauthorised constructions relates to hundreds of
multi-storied commercial as well as residential buildings in Chennai
and other parts of the state. There have been several attempts by the
successive state governments to grant exemptions through the ordinance
route. When the ordinances and acts were set aside by the high court,
the state government approached the Supreme Court. After several rounds
of litigation, the apex court had asked the high court to take a
decision on the issue. The matter being remanded back to it, the high
court had asked the government to come out with a policy on the subject.<br />
On Friday, the Tamil Nadu government filed a counter-affidavit
stating that it had decided to accept Justice S Mohan committee’s
recommendations. As per the recommendations, all buildings constructed
on or before July 1, 2007 would be eligible for exemption from
demolition, subject to a set of guidelines which included fire service
clearance and provision for parking facilities within 250 metres of the
respective unauthorised building.<br />
On Monday, the government filed a counter-affidavit disclosing its
steps and policy decisions. It also wanted the court to grant six months
to enable the government to table the matter before the assembly during
the winter session and bring about the necessary amendment. However,
granting only two months for the government to amend the Act, the high
court posted the matter to July 24 for further hearing.<br />
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Kerala HC pulls up govt on cop-criminal nexus</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-HC-pulls-up-govt-on-cop-criminal-nexus/articleshow/13832890.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-HC-pulls-up-govt-on-cop-criminal-nexus/articleshow/13832890.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 05.52AM IST<br />
<ins>KOCHI: The state government was sharply criticized by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kerala-high-court">Kerala high court</a> on Monday for sitting on former additional DGP Sibi Mathews’ report on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/police-criminal-nexus">police-criminal nexus</a> for more than four years.</ins><br />
Considering a petition filed by former MLA <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Joseph-M-Puthussery">Joseph M Puthussery</a>,
division bench of acting chief justice Manjula Chellur and justice A M
Shaffique directed the government to file an affidavit explaining the
action taken by the government on Mathews’ report highlighting nexus
between police officials and criminals.<br />
The court asked the government to tender an explanation about
inaction after Joseph’s counsel Santhosh Mathew argued that not
publishing the report was against public interest.<br />
Government pleader P I Davis submitted to the court that government
will take action in accordance with law and vigilance enquiry would be
initiated against those police officials found guilty. <br />
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HC: Rs 29.26L for tree-fall deaths</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/hc-rs-2926l-tree-fall-deaths-687">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/hc-rs-2926l-tree-fall-deaths-687</a><br />
June 5, 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4756">chennai</a><br />
<ins>The Madras high court on Monday directed the Chennai corporation
to pay Rs 29.26 lakh as compensation to a youth for the death of his
parents as a tree fell on their car while travelling on a public road in
Purasawalkam in 2005.</ins><br />
<ins>Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar allowed the petition filed by K.
Karthik, seeking compensation for the death of his father C.
Krishnamoorthy, assistant director at the office of the Director,
Highways Research Station, and mother K. Chithra, a school teacher.</ins><br />
<ins>According to the petitioner, while travelling in a Maruti car,
an old big tree fell on the car on Alagappa Road at Purasawalkam on
October 12, 2005, causing the instant death of his father and mother.
The petitioner aged about 14 years escaped with minor injuries. </ins><br />
<ins>The fatal accident would not have taken place if the Chennai
corporation had exercised proper care and caution and taken
precautionary measures to cut and remove the old trees standing on both
sides of the road, he added.</ins><br />
<ins>The judge said it was not in dispute that the petitioner’s
father and mother died due to the falling of the tree. The postmortem
report confirmed the nature of the death and an FIR was registered by
the Kilpauk police. </ins><br />
<ins>An amount of Rs 50,000 each was sanctioned from the chief
minister’s relief fund to kin of victims. If there was any dispute over
the death, the chief minister’s relief fund could not have been
sanctioned by the government. </ins><br />
<ins>It was well settled principle of law decided by the Supreme
Court that if the facts were not in dispute, the legal heirs of the
victims of riot, custodial killing or death due to negligence on the
part of the state authorities can claim compensation. The trees standing
on public streets vest with the corporation as per section 203 of the
Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act. </ins><br />
<ins>As per Section 204, it was the duty of the corporation to
maintain, repair and make all improvements, which were necessary for
public safety and convenience. Hence, the corporation was responsible
for not removing the dangerous trees for public safety. </ins><br />
<ins>The judge said during the corporation enumeration conducted
immediately after the death of petitioner’s parents, it was found that
877 trees were to be cut and removed and 85 tress had fallen already
including the one that fell on the car driven by petitioner’s father. </ins><br />
<ins>If the enumeration was conducted prior to the accident, the lives of the petitioner’s father and mother could have been saved. </ins><br />
<ins>Thus, there was negligence on the part of the officials of the
corporation in not cutting and removing the dangerous trees and two
precious lives were lost. </ins><br />
<ins>Therefore, the corporation was liable to pay compensation for
the loss sustained by the petitioner on the basis of ‘vicarious
liability’, the judge said and directed the corporation to pay Rs 29.26
lakh (Rs 22 lakh as compensation and Rs 7.26 lakh as interest).</ins><br />
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999-year lease surprises CM Nitish Kumar</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/999-year-lease-surprises-CM-Nitish-Kumar/articleshow/13833837.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/999-year-lease-surprises-CM-Nitish-Kumar/articleshow/13833837.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Bhuvaneshwar-Prasad.cms">Bhuvaneshwar Prasad</a>, TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 06.31AM IST<br />
<ins> KISHANGANJ: The festering problems of forcible grabbing of
Bhoodan and government land, serious glitches in teachers’ appointments
and the nagging ‘Bijli, Sadak and Pani” which has lately rankled the
district authorities surfaced at chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata
Durbar at Khagra Stadium on Monday on the second day of his three-day
Seva Yatra to Kishanganj district.</ins><br />
<ins>“Land lease for 999 years?” exclaimed CM <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nitish-Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a>
and asked how it was that such a land lease for 999 years was granted
and, to cap it all, even registered. This question came up when <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aarif-Mohammad-Abdullah">Aarif Mohammad Abdullah</a> of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rahmani-Foundation">Rahmani Foundation</a>
urged the CM to ask the district authorities to lift the embargo over
the use of their 285 acre plot of land at Shitalpur under Pothia police
station in Kishanganj district which was imposed on May 6. The district
authorities had imposed the embargo after armed tribals had upped their
ante and threatened to forcibly enter the plot of land at Shitalpur.</ins><br />
<ins>The aforesaid plot of land, which reportedly includes 70 acres of Bhoodan land, belonged to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Afzal-Hussain">Afzal Hussain</a>
who leased it out to Rahmani Foundation for the purpose of
establishment of medical and engineering colleges when his bid to offer
the same to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aligarh-Muslim-University">Aligarh Muslim University</a>
(AMU) came a cropper. The CM was caught in a pincer. Many discordant
voices were raised at the Janata Durbar where complainants insisted on
release of Bhoodan and government land from the clutches of land mafia
and tea gardeners.</ins><br />
<ins>A dismissed health department employee, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mohammad-Badiduzzama">Mohammad Badiduzzama</a>
caught the CM’s attention when he pointed how, despite Patna High
Court’s order for his re-instatement and payment of arrears, the health
authorities were dragging their feet. The Patna HC had ordered for his
re-instatement on July 29, 2011. A ruckus was created when a number of
aspirants for teachers’ jobs, both male and female, said they were
running from pillar to post and even went on hunger strike but to no
avail. They are awaiting their appointments since 2006.</ins><br />
<ins>A number of callers were summoned to a corner of the spacious
Janata Durbar by the CM himself. They had a litany of complaints against
the power officials’ shenanigans. The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bihar-State-Electricity-Board">Bihar State Electricity Board</a> (BSEB) chairman and other top brass have promised to address their grievances in the CM’s presence.</ins><br />
<ins>The complainants, contrary to public perception, were not
overpacked here on Monday. In all, 955 complaints were collected at the
Janata Durbar, according to executive magistrate <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Kumar">Ajay Kumar</a>. The complaints related to land, power, appointment of teachers and BPL list. Ministers <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vijay-Kumar">Vijay Kumar</a>
Chowdhury, Brijendra Yadav and P K Sahi and principal secretaries were
on their toes as the CM interacted with people and listened to their
grievances.</ins><br />
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Ordinance reins in rogue policemen</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Ordinance-reins-in-rogue-policemen/articleshow/13831874.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Ordinance-reins-in-rogue-policemen/articleshow/13831874.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-M-K-Madhusoodan.cms">M K Madhusoodan</a>, TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 05.11AM IST<br />
<ins> BANGALORE: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Police-in-Karnataka">Police in Karnataka</a> will stop being a law unto themselves if a new <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/ordinance">ordinance</a>
is enforced strictly. The ordinance amends the Karnataka Police Act,
1963, to introduce a host of measures to ensure that the guardians of
law don’t become its violators.<br />
The ordinance, gazetted on June 1, empowers the state government to set
up a security commission and complaints authorities at the state and
district levels.<br />
While the state security commission will ensure the police function
within the framework of law, the complaints authorities will look into
allegations of human rights abuses against police officers of all ranks.<br />
The complaints authorities will work at two levels. While the state
police complaints authority will look into complaints against officers
of the rank of additional superintendent of police , superintendent of
police and above, the district police complaints authorities will look
into complaints against <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/policemen">policemen</a> and officers up to the rank of deputy superintendent.</ins><br />
<strong>Who will be on panels </strong><br />
The state complaints authority will have three members: a chairman
selected from a panel of three retired HC judges set up on the
recommendation of the high court chief justice; a retired public servant
not below the rank of principal secretary; and a civil-society
representative.<br />
A district authority will comprise the regional commissioner, a retired
civil service official and a civilsociety representative.<br />
<strong>Complaints bodies can act suo motu </strong><br />
Bangalore: The allegations that will be looked into by complaints
authorities pertain to serious misconduct including incidents involving
death, grievous hurt or rape in police custody, and arrest or detention
without following the due process of law. The complaints can also
pertain to officers willfully breaching or neglecting any law, adversely
affecting the rights of any member of the public.<br />
The authorities can act suo motu or look into complaints received from a
victim or any person action on his or her behalf, the NHRC, the SHRC or
any other body. The complaints authorities will forward their findings
to the competent disciplinary authorities for appropriate action. They
will have the power of civil courts in summoning any person for
examination. <br />
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Priest told to vacate Purana Qila premises</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Priest-told-to-vacate-Purana-Qila-premises/articleshow/13829362.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Priest-told-to-vacate-Purana-Qila-premises/articleshow/13829362.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Garg.cms">Abhinav Garg</a>, TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 02.34AM IST<br />
<ins> NEW DELHI: A mahant who had been living inside the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Purana-Qila">Purana Qila</a>
for three decades was on Monday asked by Delhi high court to vacate the
premises. A special bench dismissed Mange Ram Bharadwaj’s appeal and
asked him to leave the premises as it is a centrally protected monument.</ins><br />
Bharadwaj had challenged the eviction notice of the estate officer, claiming he is the mahant of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sri-Kunti-Devi-Mandir">Sri Kunti Devi Mandir</a>
inside the Purana Qila area. He asserted that the government had no
right to dispossess him of the temple. The petitioner claimed the temple
on the land mentioned was 5,500 years old and was being maintained
since 1880, the time of his great grandfather. He urged HC to rule in
his favour, arguing he is performing puja in the temple since 1976.<br />
Bharadwaj cited medieval-era revenue records to buttress his claim
that the temple existed even then, and with the passage of time small
rooms came up near the temple to serve as a guesthouse and for the
priest. Though Purana Qila is a declared ancient monument, the temple in
question hasn’t been declared so, nor has any attempt been made by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Archaeological-Survey-of-India">Archaeological Survey of India</a> to acquire it, the priest further argued. He said his family owned the temple and the land it was built on.<br />
On its part, the Centre argued that for some strange reason the
priest escaped being evicted in 1962 when the Purana Qila area was
vacated of refugees. This, however, didn’t give him the right to live in
a centrally protected monument. More so, when he could not produce a
single documentary proof to justify his claim.<br />
The bench agreed with the Centre and concluded that Bharadwaj is an
unauthorized occupant of a public premises. It, however, allowed the
priest to offer prayers at the temple during public visiting hours, so
that he may continue with the tradition. <br />
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A chargesheet filed in departmental proceeding cannot be quashed by
courts unless it adversely affects the rights of the aggrieved employee,
the Supreme Court has held.<br />
“In fact, chargesheet does not infringe the right of a party. It is
only when a final order imposing the punishment or otherwise adversely
affecting a party is passed, it may have a grievance and cause of
action.<br />
“Thus, a charge sheet or show cause notice in disciplinary
proceedings should not ordinarily be quashed by the court,” said a bench
of justices B S Chauhan and Dipak Misra, in an order.<br />
The bench passed the order while disposing of an appeal by the
Ministry of Defence challenging a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)
order quashing the chargesheet against one Prabhash Chandra Mirdha in a
two-decade old bribery case.<br />
“Law does not permit quashing of chargesheet in a routine manner. In
case the delinquent employee has any grievance in respect of the charge
sheet, he must raise the issue by filing a representation and wait for
the decision of the disciplinary authority thereon.<br />
“In case the charge sheet is challenged before a court/ tribunal on
the ground of delay in initiation of disciplinary proceedings or delay
in concluding the proceedings, the court/ tribunal may quash the charge
sheet after considering the gravity of the charge and all relevant
factors involved in the case after weighing all the facts, both for and
against the delinquent employee, and must reach the conclusion which is
just and proper in the circumstance,” the bench said.<br />
The bench said charge sheet cannot generally be a subject matter of
challenge as it does not adversely affect the rights of the delinquent
unless it is established that the same has been issued by an authority
not competent to initiate the disciplinary proceedings.<br />
The court said that “neither the disciplinary proceedings nor the
chargesheet be quashed at an initial stage as it would be a premature
stage to deal with the issues.<br />
“Proceedings are not liable to be quashed on the grounds that
proceedings had been initiated at a belated stage or could not be
concluded in a reasonable period unless the delay creates prejudice to
the delinquent employee,” it added.<br />
The court also rejected the argument that disciplinary proceedings
cannot be initiated by an authority lower than the appointing authority,
though it agreed that the removal must be done by an authority above
him or her<br />
“It is permissible for an authority, higher than appointing authority
to initiate the proceedings and impose punishment, in case he is not
the appellate authority so that the delinquent may not loose the right
of appeal.<br />
“In other case, the delinquent has to prove as to what prejudice has been caused to him,” the bench said.<br />
The apex court however, refused to interfere with the CAT’s order as
affirmed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, as certain material were not
placed before it.<br />
The bench also wondered as to why the Defence Ministry did not
consider a fresh disciplinary proceedings against the delinquent
employee and allowed the case to linger on for 20 years instead.<br />
Mirdha while working as assistant foreman in the ordnance factory,
Yeddumailaram, Andhra Pradesh was accused of accepting a bribe of Rs
4,150 out of the total alleged demand of Rs. 37,000 on August 3 1991
from M/s Teela International Limited, Hosur, Bangalore.<br />
“There is nothing on record to show that the respondent delinquent is
still in service and that even if the appellants are permitted to
proceed with the inquiry, the evidence which was available 21 years ago
would be available today,” the bench said.<br />
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2-year tenure for DGP</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/2-year-tenure-for-DGP/articleshow/13832562.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/2-year-tenure-for-DGP/articleshow/13832562.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-M-K-Madhusoodan.cms">M K Madhusoodan</a>, TNN | Jun 5, 2012, 05.38AM IST<br />
<ins> BANGALORE: In a bid to avert recurrence of embarrassment at the time of appointing the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/head-of-police-force">head of police force</a>, the government has issued an ordinance amending certain provisions of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Karnataka-Police">Karnataka Police</a> Act, 1963.</ins><br />
The ordinance dated June 1, titled Karnataka Police (Amendment)
Ordinance of 2012, categorically lays down that those appointed as
director general and inspector general of police shall have a tenure of
not less than two years subject to superannuation. The chief shall be
chosen from among three seniormost officers empanelled for promotion to
that rank by the Union Public Service Commission on the basis of their
duration of service, record and range of experience.<br />
The ordinance also gives ample powers to the state government to
transfer the chief before completion of tenure on the following grounds:
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<li><ins>Conviction in criminal case or framing of charges by a court for corruption or moral turpitude </ins></li>
<li><ins>Incapacitation by physical or mental illness or unable to discharge his functions </ins></li>
<li><ins>Appointment to another post with his consent </ins></li>
<li><ins>Suspension, dismissal, removal , or compulsory retirement under service rules </ins></li>
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<ins>Preliminary inquiry establishes prima facie case of misconduct or gross negligence.</ins><br />
The ordinance empowers the government to delegate powers or give
directions as it deems necessary to the DG & IGP. It comes in the
backdrop of a recent legal battle between two former DGPs, AR Infant and
Shankar Bidari, both claiming they had the seniority and merit to head
the force. Infant’s claim was upheld by the HC, while Bidari has now
taken the battle to the SC.<br />
<strong>Minimum tenure of a year </strong><br />
Transfers may no longer be the Damocles’ sword hanging above upright
police officers. A new amendment has mandated that all police officers
in charge of stations, circles and sub-divisions will enjoy a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/minimum-tenure">minimum tenure</a>
of one year in their posting. They can be transferred only under
exceptional circumstances like conviction, incapacitation or on request.
The ordinance also empowers the state government to notify the
establishment of the Police Establishment Board for overseeing
transfers, postings, promotions and other service-related matters of the
officer of and below the rank of deputy superintendent of police.<br />
<strong>Security commission </strong><br />
The state <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/security-commission">security commission</a>
will be headed by the chief minister as its chairman, home minister as
vicechairman and leader of opposition in the assembly, a retired high
court judge, the chief secretary and additional chief secretary of the
home department as members. The DGP shall be the commission’s
member-secretary. <br />
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Adidas asked us to manipulate Reeboks’s accounts: Subhinder Singh Prem & Vishnu Bhagat</h1>
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NEW DELHI: The two former executives of Reebok India, at the centre of an alleged 870-crore alleged fraud, have accused German <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/sports">sports</a> goods maker <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Adidas">Adidas</a>
of attempting to hammer down the valuation of the Indian unit, as part
of its strategy to reduce its payout to the minority shareholder in the
company.<br />
Former Reebok India chief executive <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Subhinder-Singh-Prem">Subhinder Singh Prem</a>
and former COO Vishnu Bhagat have in separate suits filed last month in
the Delhi High Court said they were asked to ‘carry out certain illegal
and unethical actions’ by the Adidas Group, such as manipulating
accounts, booking irrelevant expenses and cancelling large
distributorships, to ensure that the market value of Reebok India fell
significantly ‘so that a significantly lower amount becomes payable to
the exiting Indian joint venture partner’. Reebok India is a subsidiary
of Adidas.<br />
While the petitions do not mention the names of the joint venture partner, <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Focus-Energy-Ltd">Focus Energy Ltd</a>, a group company of Ajay Kalsi’s <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/phoenix-international-ltd/stocks/companyid-10441.cms">Phoenix International</a> owns 6.85% in Reebok India.<br />
According to the shareholder’s agreement, Adidas has a ‘call option’
or the right to purchase the shares of the Indian partner but the two
have been locked in a legal dispute over the price at which Focus Energy
will sell its shares. The matter is currently pending before the Delhi
High Court.<br />
A person familiar with the development said while Adidas does not
want to pay more than 25 crore for Focus Energy’s 6.85% stake while the
Indian partner was demanding as much as 550 crore. Both Adidas and Focus
Energy declined to comment on these figures.<br />
According to an internal e-mail of July 2010, reviewed by ET, Adidas
and Reebok India executives have discussed several strategies to keep
their payout to a minimum. One of the options considered then was to “to
wind down the operation of Reebok India and remove the distribution
rights to reduce market valuation.”<br />
Adidas AG had also explored the option to transfer its stake in Reebok India to Adidas India based on <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Controller-of-Capital-Issues">Controller of Capital Issues</a> (CCI) valuation that values a company based on past performance. The valuation based on this method is usually conservative.<br />
In April 2010, the RBI changed this guideline and said the transfer value of the shares should be decided only through <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/discounted-cash-flow">discounted cash flow</a>
(DCF) method, which takes into account the projected cash flow in the
next five years and not on past performance. Under the present
guideline, the valuation of Reebok India would be much more than what it
would have been under the Controller of Capital Issues method.<br />
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Basic rights denied at Kudankulam: Report</h1>
<a href="http://twocircles.net/2012jun04/basic_rights_denied_kudankulam_report.html">http://twocircles.net/2012jun04/basic_rights_denied_kudankulam_report.html</a><br />
Submitted by <a href="http://twocircles.net/user/admin4" title="View user profile.">admin4</a> on 4 June 2012 – 9:00pm<br />
By IANS,<br />
Chennai : The central and Tamil Nadu governments should stop
harassing people protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project
(KNPP) and withdraw cases registered against them, a report said
Monday.<br />
The report was prepared by a committee comprising retired Chief
Justice of Delhi High Court A.P. Shah, lawyer Geeta Ramaseshan and
Prabha Kalvimani of the Irular Tribes Protection Association.<br />
The report was prepared based on a public hearing held by the
committee at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district, around 650 km from
here.<br />
Releasing the report here Monday, Ramaseshan told reporters that
freedom of speech and movement of people in the area was restricted.<br />
She said people were denied basic information on matters related to their safety arising from the nuclear project.<br />
According to the report, the central government should release
information on safety issues as per the orders of the Central
Information Commission (CIC).<br />
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Advocate who sought removal of Gujarat Guv held</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/advocate-who-sought-removal-of-gujarat-guv-held/957608/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/advocate-who-sought-removal-of-gujarat-guv-held/957608/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Lucknow, Mon Jun 04 2012, 03:29 hrs<br />
Lucknow police have arrested a lawyer who was fined by the Supreme
Court and Gujarat High Court for lodging a PIL seeking removal of
Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal. Advocate Ashok Pande, who had filed the
PIL in Gujarat High Court and later in the Supreme Court, was sent to
Gujarat on Sunday by the Lucknow police.<br />
Pande was arrested from his Gomti Nagar residence on Saturday night. A
non-bailable warrant was issued against Pande by the Gujarat High Court
for not depositing the cost imposed on him by the Supreme Court and
high court, police said.<br />
A bench of Supreme Court justices H L Dattu and A K Dave had imposed a
cost of Rs 1 lakh on Pande in March for filing the “misconceived” and
“misleading” petition. Pande had sought removal of the governor after
Gujarat CM Narendra Modi wrote a letter to the PM seeking to recall her
for appointing Justice (retired) R A Mehta as Lokayukta without his
consent.<br />
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<td>The National Human Rights Commission has asked Delhi government to
pay a compensation of Rs 1.80 lakh to six persons injured after being
run over by a PCR van in October last year.
The NHRC has asked the government to pay Rs 50,000 each to three
persons who were grievouly injured and Rs 10,000 each to three others
who had sustained minor injuries and also called for compliance report
along with the proof of payment made to the victims, a statement from
the rights body said today.<br />
They were injured in October, 2011, when a speeding PCR van, driven
by head constable Murari Lal, climbed up the footpath near Barapullah
flyover on which they were sleeping.<br />
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revealed that the head constable had been arrested for rash and
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<strong>Minority commission backs Islamic banking</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.livemint.com/2012/06/03215712/Minority-commission-backs-Isla.html">http://www.livemint.com/2012/06/03215712/Minority-commission-backs-Isla.html</a><br />
Commission seeks amendment to the banking regulations to open the doors for interest-free banking<br />
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Dinesh Unnikrishnan</h3>
Mumbai: The long-standing debate on whether India should allow
Islamic banking has taken a twist with the National Commission for
Minorities, or NCM, stepping into the picture and strongly supporting
the model in Asia’s third-largest economy.<br />
Following a proposal from NCM to permit interest-free banking—a
variant of Islamic banking—the finance ministry has asked the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) to take a fresh look at the matter.<br />
Seeing benefits: National Commission for Minorities chairperson
Wajahat Habibullah says the interest-free model will help the country to
channelize more funds from the Muslim business community abroad. (Mint)<br />
Until now, the central bank has maintained Islamic banking is not
feasible in India as existing regulations do not permit interest-free
transactions.<br />
The minority commission, a constitutional body headed by the former
chief information commissioner of India, Wajahat Habibullah, has sought
an amendment to the banking regulations to open the doors for
interest-free banking in the country.<br />
This is the first time the commission has got itself directly
involved in the matter. The commission recently met top finance ministry
officials including Sunil Soni, additional secretary, financial
services, and Alok Nigam, joint secretary, on the matter.<br />
Since Islamic banking is not allowed in India under current norms,
“there should, therefore, be a possibility of permitting interest-free
banking by amending the regulations,” Habibullah said, according to a
recorded note of the meeting, reviewed by <em>Mint</em>.<br />
According to the note, the finance ministry is open to the
possibility of allowing some nationalized banks and non-banking
financial companies (NBFCs) to open accounts that will offer
interest-free products. “Interest-free banking should not be associated
with the religion. It is not in violations of any rules, though the
current regulations have to be amended to make this model available in
India,” Habibullah said. “The conventional form of banking is not stable
as is evident from the collapse of the banking systems across the
world. Implementation of interest-free model will provide that
stability. This will also help the country to channelize more funds from
the Muslim business community abroad,” he said.<br />
Islamic banking is prevalent in countries such as Hong Kong, the UK, the US, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh and Pakistan.<br />
Under Islamic, or Sharia, law any payment or acceptance of interest
is prohibited in banking transactions. Islamic banking operates on the
theory that the return on investment is a compensation for the risk
taken by the investor by providing a fund for commercial activity. As
per this, the money can be lent on a profit-sharing or a fee-based
model.<br />
In 2007, an RBI-appointed working group under the then executive
director, Anand Sinha, which was examining the financial instruments
used in Islamic banking, said that under existing regulations, it was
not feasible for banks in India to undertake Islamic banking or to allow
their branches to carry out Islamic banking operations abroad.<br />
The finance ministry has now referred the NCM proposal to Anand
Sinha, currently a deputy governor of RBI, to re-look the matter.<br />
Though there have been several attempts by private groups to
introduce Islamic banking in india, none of those succeeded due to
regulatory constraints and opposition from some of political factions.<br />
In 2009, Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy filed a public
interest litigation in the Kerala high court against the inception of a
financial institution that was to run on the principles of Islamic
banking, backed by the state government-owned Kerala State Industrial
Development Corporation.<br />
In September 2010, the Indian Centre for Islamic Finance, a
non-profit organization spearheading the call for Islamic banking in
India, approached RBI to allow a few banks in Mumbai to open
interest-free windows on a pilot basis without amending any of the
regulations.<br />
It is yet to receive any response from RBI, according to H. Abdur
Raqeeb, convenor, National Committee on Islamic Banking, and general
secretary, Indian Centre for Islamic Finance.<br />
In 2008, the Raghuram Rajan committee of financial sector reforms
suggested implementing interest-free banking in the country. “The
committee recommends that measures be taken to permit the delivery of
interest-free finance on a larger scale, including through the banking
system… it would be possible, through appropriate measures, to create a
framework for such products without any adverse systemic risk impact,”
the report said.<br />
According to the report, since certain faiths prohibit financial
instruments that pay interest, a section of Indians are unable to access
banking products and services. “This non-availability also denies India
access to substantial sources of savings from other countries in the
region,” the report said.<br />
In May, a Kerala-based NBFC that operates in accordance with Sharia
principles moved a petition in the Bombay high court against an RBI
order cancelling its licence. The firm, <strong>Alternative Investments and Credits Ltd</strong>,
sought legal recourse after RBI took action against it, charging the
company with not complying with its fair practice code for NBFCs, which
stipulates that NBFCs should declare the rate of interest at which they
lend to borrowers. The court is likely to hear the petition on 11 June.<br />
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Jilted lover awarded life term for setting girl ablaze</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : Faridkot (Punjab), Sun Jun 03 2012, 14:54 hrs<br />
A local court here has awarded life term to a jilted lover who set a teenage girl ablaze at Kotsukhila village of the district.<br />
District and Sessions Judge Fatehdeep Singh yesterday sentenced
Hoshiar Singh (22) to life imprisonment for setting Veerpal Kaur ablaze
in October last year.<br />
Singh wanted to marry the girl, but when she refused, he poured kerosene and set her on fire when she was alone at home.<br />
Kaur, who suffered 80 per cent burn injuries, was rushed to a hospital, where she succumbed later.<br />
In her statement to the police before she died, Kaur said that Singh
wanted to marry her forcibly despite the fact that she was engaged to
someone else.<br />
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Death for man who raped, murdered 8-year-old</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3486483.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3486483.ece</a><br />
Jiby Kattakayam<br />
“There is one and only one sentence which a person charged with raping a child and killing her deserves…”<br />
On July last year when temperatures peaked, a desperately thirsty
eight-year-old child living in a park went in search of water, leaving
her younger siblings behind, after her poverty-struck mother left for
work. The child found what she was looking for, but never returned. She
was raped, bludgeoned 15 times with a steel rod and killed behind an
NDPL office near Maurya Enclave in North-West Delhi where she had
chanced upon a water cooler, but then encountered a sex-crazed accused
Sanjay Kumar Valmiki.<br />
This Thursday, a Sessions court at Rohini awarded the death penalty
to 21-year-old Valmiki for murder. For the charge of rape, he was
sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for the rest of his life. For
kidnapping, he was given a five-year prison term.<br />
Concluding that this was a “rarest of rare” case, Additional Sessions
Judge Kamini Lau said: “Let those who mess with children know that the
justice system in India has zero tolerance for it and a single moment of
madness can lead them to gallows.”<br />
Dr. Lau further added: “There is one and only one sentence which a
person charged with raping a child and killing her deserves. It is death
and the only place where such a person deserves to go is straight to
the gallows, where he is hanged by neck till he is dead.”<br />
In the poignant words of the judge, the rapist “after fulfilling his
hunger for sex, does not stop at that and uses brutal force by
repeatedly hammering and clobbering the child with a Y-shaped steel rod
and smashing her head in order to hide his reprehensible and disgraceful
act and cause disappearance of the identity. The injuries on the body
of the child, as many as 15 in number, speak volumes of the brutality
and force with which the innocent child had been battered to death. The
convict then dumps the badly-mutilated body of the child in a trench”.<br />
In her order, the Additional Sessions Judge also recalled the scene
outside the NDPL office when the girl’s body was recovered two days
later, in a mutilated and decomposed condition.<br />
“The discovery of the mutilated/ decomposed body of the child in the
NDPL office resulted in a huge public outcry, where people’s anger
spilled on the streets and there was large-scale stone pelting outside
the office of NDPL resulting in damage to public property. Had the
convict fallen into the hands of the angry mob, he surely would have
been lynched and killed. Such was the public wrath.”<br />
The defence plea for a lighter sentence on account of him being a
young man was not accepted. “The convict was not a boy in his teens,
rather a mature young man of 21 years of age and the victim a child of
seven years-eight years. I am of the view that Valmiki is not of such a
young age that he could not fully comprehend his actions. He was not a
person in his teens but a matured robust young man of 21 years and had
not acted on sudden provocation or on being suddenly emotionally
disturbed,” Dr. Lau said.<br />
Thirty-one witnesses were examined in the case with the most material
being a 10-year-old child, who not only saw Valmiki, a contract sweeper
at the NDPL office, talk to the victim, but later also heard her cries
and screams from the switch-gear room where she was taken. When
10-year-old witness inquired as to who was inside, she was told by the
rapist that it was his brother.<br />
The evidence which conclusively nailed the convict was the DNA
fingerprint report. “Thanks to the latest scientific technology and
forensics which made it possible to identify the offender despite an
attempt by him [offender] to destroy all evidence against him by
mutilation of the body of the victim. It is the use of this technology
[DNA fingerprinting] which has helped in conclusively establishing the
guilt of the offender beyond doubt,” the court observed.<br />
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<strong>Honour killing accused will lose right to contest polls’</strong><br />
<a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-honour-killing-accused-will-lose-right-to-contest-polls-3365291.html">http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-honour-killing-accused-will-lose-right-to-contest-polls-3365291.html</a><br />
Source: Rakesh Bhatnagar, DNA | Last Updated 09:16(04/06/12)<br />
<strong>New Delhi:</strong> Concerned with the regressive mindset of a
section of the male-dominated society that uses the term “honour” to
justify killing of young couples who marry outside their castes, the
Centre is contemplating amendment to the election law to outcast those
involved in the dastardly crime.<br />
If this gets approval of Parliament, an accused involved in “honour
killing” would lose the right to vote or contest any election.<br />
However, the government doesn’t want to burden the Indian Penal Code
with any additional provision to deal with an individual or members of a
pachayat or `khap’ panchayats responsible for such brutal murdering
couples in love. So, the Centre plans to amend the Representation of the
People Act, 1951.<br />
Following a spate of caste-based killings of young men and women with
the support of the victims’ families and the despotic local community,
the government set up a group of ministers (GoM) for considering the
menace of what’s been termed by the Supreme Court as the “barbaric and
brutal murders by bigoted, persons with feudal minds”.<br />
Though no serious thought had been given to this burning issue during
the past two years, it’s learnt that the Law Commission has given its
report on the issue to the GoM.<br />
The Commission recommends amendment to the electoral law with a view
to disqualifying all those found guilty of “dishonour killing”. Thus, an
amendment in section 8 has been suggested so that these criminals are
given the same treatment provided for other persons involved in equally
barbarous acts such as dowry death and Sati.<br />
Informed sources say the new enactment is titled the Prevention of Crimes in the name of Honour and Tradition’.<br />
If the Act were in place now, a senior DIG of Uttar Pradesh, SK
Mathur, could have been arrested for propagating the dastardly killing
by telling the parents of a girl, who was suspected to have eloped with
the man of her choice, that if his daughter had run away with a boy of
another caste, he would have killed her.<br />
Later chief minister Akhilesh Yadav only transferred the officer.<br />
It may be pointed out that a section of Indian communities isn’t alone in executing or masterminding inhuman killings.<br />
A recent report submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights shows that “honour” killings have occurred in Bangladesh, Great
Britain, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Pakistan,
Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and Uganda.<br />
But dowry deaths and so-called crimes of passion have a similar
dynamic in that the women are killed by male family members and the
crimes are perceived as excusable or understandable, the report said.<br />
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Man granted divorce on grounds of cruelty</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487275.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487275.ece</a><br />
K. T. Sangameswaran<br />
Acts of commission by a woman in filing a criminal complaint against
her husband and his relatives resulting in the husband being in distress
in jail constitute mental cruelty to him and, therefore, he is entitled
to get the relief of divorce, the Madras High Court has held.<br />
A Division Bench of Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M. Venugopal said
this in its judgment while allowing appeals by a person challenging a
common order of the Principal Family Court here of April 24, 2008
dismissing his petition praying for divorce and allowing his wife’s
petition seeking restitution of conjugal rights.<br />
He had married the daughter of a former Tamil Nadu MLA here in April 2000 as per Hindu custom.<br />
The appellant’s senior counsel, P. Wilson, contended that his
client’s wife after initiating criminal proceedings against her husband
and nine others was not entitled to obtain the relief of restitution of
conjugal rights because of the inconsistency in her case.<br />
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Defining cruelty</h3>
The judges said what conduct would amount to cruelty was a question
of fact to be decided on the facts and particulars of each case. When a
divorce was being sought on grounds of cruelty, the acts complained
should be so grave and weighty to enable a court to conclude that one
party could not reasonably be expected to live with the other.<br />
The Bench said that in its considered opinion, on grounds of cruelty, the whole matrimonial relations should be considered.<br />
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SC judgment</h3>
Citing a Supreme Court judgment, the Judges observed that cruelty
would normally consist not of harmful acts but of injurious reproaches,
complaints, accusations or taunts.<br />
It should be established that one party in the marriage, ignoring
consequences, had misbehaved, which the other party could not be called
upon to endure, and that misconduct had caused injury to health or a
reasonable apprehension of such injury.<br />
The Bench pointed out that in the present case, the husband had been
put in jail for 22 days for alleged offences of dowry harassment and
attempt to murder. Further, the woman had gone to the extent of filing
intervening application opposing the bail sought by her husband. The
case later ended in acquittal.<br />
Filing of a criminal complaint by the wife against the husband and
his relatives, instituting cases based on it and the same ending in
acquittal and before that the husband being in distress for 22 days in
jail, all these acts of commissions by the wife clearly constituted
mental cruelty to the husband who admittedly would have undergone a
traumatic experience and suffered humiliation in social circles.<br />
In the present case, the marriage had become emotionally dead. It had
irretrievably broken down. Moreover, the element of separation between
the parties unerringly point out that there was an intention to bring
cohabitation permanently to an end. The differences of opinion should
not be considered as temporary passions.<br />
The Bench ruled that the husband was entitled to get divorce.<br />
His wife was not entitled to get the relief of restitution of conjugal rights. It said the marriage would stand dissolved.<br />
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HC refuses to interfere in transfer of civil suit</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-interfere-in-transfer-of-civil-suit/957575/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-interfere-in-transfer-of-civil-suit/957575/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Ahmedabad, Mon Jun 04 2012, 02:30 hrs<br />
THE Gujarat High Court has refused to interfere with an order of the
Rajkot principal district judge to transfer a civil suit from one
magistrate to the other after the first magistrate wrote a confidential
letter to him after reserving pronouncement of judgment on the suit.<br />
The court also held that if a party is aggrieved by the transfer order it may approach the HC on the administrative side.<br />
A petition in this regard was moved before by Sai Developers and one Doli Patel.<br />
According to the petitioners, the civil suit in question was going on
in the court of 14th Additional Senior Civil Judge. This magistrate
after conducting hearing and dictating half of the judgment wrote a
confidential letter to the Principal District Judge on May 11, following
which the suit was transferred to the court of another magistrate.<br />
The petitioners challenged the transfer before the HC contending that
the arguments were heard, judgment was even part dictated and was kept
for pronouncement of the remaining judgment.<br />
Since vacation was there, both sides had given purshis that they do
not have any objection if judgment is pronounced in vacation. And at
that stage, the transfer order was passed, which was not only without
any provisions under the Code of Civil Procedure, but also against
settled position of law, they argued.<br />
They also contended that the exercise of administrative powers by the
principal district judge to transfer the suit to another court was
unjust and illegal.<br />
However, the HC turned down the petition while observing,
“…discretion exercised by the learned Principal District Judge on
administrative side, that too by referring to the confidential letter of
the Judge from whose court the matter is transferred, does not call for
any interference… it is open to the petitioner to move the High Court
on administrative side, if he so desires.”<br />
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HC upholds DTC’s levy of Re 1 surcharge</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/HC-upholds-DTCs-levy-of-Re-1-surcharge/articleshow/13789068.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/HC-upholds-DTCs-levy-of-Re-1-surcharge/articleshow/13789068.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 4, 2012, 01.40AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has upheld the decision of the Delhi
Transport Corporation to levy a surcharge of Re 1 on passengers
travelling in its buses.<br />
A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw upheld the corporation’s decision pointing
out that the surcharge is collected to reduce the cost incurred by DTC
when it pays toll tax/toll charges while crossing through municipal toll
or at DND flyover or other toll bridges.<br />
“Though the amount to be paid per DTC trip is fixed, if the burden is
to be shared by the passengers, in every trip, the amount to be
collected from passengers may vary depending upon the number of
passengers travelling in a particular trip,” the bench observed. To
“obviate such an onerous task” <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/HC">HC</a>
added, the corporation is justified in charging a fixed amount which in
any case is much less than the actual amount paid by the DTC.<br />
HC also brushed aside the argument that by collecting an extra amount
DTC is determining the fare of buses, concluding that the Re 1
surcharge is not part of any fare.<br />
The court was hearing a PIL filed by one <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ramesh-Chhabra">Ramesh Chhabra</a> claiming that DTC charges Re 1 as surcharge on the actual fare from each passenger travelling from Delhi to Faridabad.<br />
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HC nixes union’s plea for Binny Mill’s office</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-nixes-unions-plea-for-Binny-Mills-office/articleshow/13790920.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-nixes-unions-plea-for-Binny-Mills-office/articleshow/13790920.cms</a><br />
A Subramani, TNN | Jun 4, 2012, 03.09AM IST<br />
CHENNAI: A labour union’s attempt to get possession of the Binny
Mill’s 94-year-old Madras Labour Union (MLU) premises failed after the
Madras high court turned down the request of the new set of
‘office-bearers’ recently.<br />
MLU, the first labour union in the state to espouse the cause of
textile workers, was formed in April 1918 by a Parsi lawyer from Mumbai,
B P Wadia.<br />
Pointing out that the mill had been wound up in 1996 and its premises
sold to a real estate promoter, Justice K Chandru said, “It is not
clear how the union is still functioning, especially when the B&C
Mills have been irrevocably closed. Even as per bylaws of the union,
only persons who are working in the B&C Mills are entitled to become
members of MLU. Only existing workers can get elected to various
committees through department-wise allotments. The petitioner has not
disclosed as to who are the workers who will continue to be <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/MLU">MLU</a> members in the absence of employment for the workers.”<br />
A general secretary of the MLU preferred the present writ petition seeking possession of the union office located on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Strahans-Road">Strahans Road</a>
at Pattalam in Chennai. In 2003, there was a dispute between two rival
groups of unions over the property. In October 2003, the jurisdictional
tahsildar passed an order stating that they should first prove their
title right over the union’s property.<br />
Though no party approached an appropriate civil court to establish
their title over the property, the present petition was filed in 2008,
stating that the union had been ‘revived’ and that 2,060 ‘employees’ of
the union had elected new office-bearers and authorized them to claim
the union’s property.<br />
Justice Chandru, pointing out that no one had approached a civil
court to establish their right and take control over the property, said
the union was allegedly ‘revived’ five years after the tahsildar’s
order. He said such rights cannot be proved and granted in the high
court under Article 226 of the Constitution.<br />
Tracing the rich history of the union, the judge said the bylaws
clearly state that in the event of dissolution of the trade union, the
property should be entrusted only to the Pachaiyappa Trust Board, which
would utilize the fund derived from it to provide free scholarship to
the children of textile workers in Chennai. Citing the Supreme Court
rulings, he said dissolution of the union will not vest the property
with the members of the union.<br />
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Cops open Parel school gate after HC order</h1>
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_cops-open-parel-school-gate-after-hc-oder_1697776">http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_cops-open-parel-school-gate-after-hc-oder_1697776</a><br />
Published: Monday, Jun 4, 2012, 9:48 IST<br />
By <strong><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/mustafa-plumber">Mustafa Plumber</a></strong> | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA<br />
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<td><ins> After verbal directives by the Bombay high court, the Bhoiwada
police have opened the main gate of a school in Parel and handed over
the keys to the trust running the school. The trust was fighting a legal
battle with two alleged illegal tenants staying on the terrace of the
school building.</ins>
<ins>On April 27, the Bhoiwada police had locked the Kranti Veer Nana
Singh Patil School at Naigaum in Parel, which is run by the Naigaum
Education Trust, after complaints from the tenants against the school
staff. </ins><br />
<ins>Division bench of Justice S J Kathawalla and Justice P D Kode
asked the police to open the gates of the school and allow the teachers
and other staff to enter the school. </ins><br />
<ins>The trust moved the high court seeking directions to the police
to unseal the premise. They also wanted the unauthorized occupants
staying on the terrace to be vacated, who they claimed were miscreants.</ins><br />
<ins>The trust got into an agreement with two people-Rajendra and
Devendra Patil. As per the agreement, the trust gave them three rooms on
the terrace of the building for setting up a computer lab to impart
computer education.</ins><br />
<ins>However, the school authorities started getting complaints from girl students of alleged misbehavior by the Patils.</ins><br />
<ins>Last year, the trust terminated the contract and the Patils were
supposed to leave. However, they moved the small causes court claiming
that they were tenants and were being forcibly evicted from the
premises. The suit is still pending before the court. </ins></td>
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Allahabad high court orders probe into lapses in Ayodhya case judges security</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Allahabad-high-court-orders-probe-into-lapses-in-Ayodhya-case-judges-security/articleshow/13795502.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Allahabad-high-court-orders-probe-into-lapses-in-Ayodhya-case-judges-security/articleshow/13795502.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Ashish-Tripathi.cms">Ashish Tripathi</a>, TNN | Jun 4, 2012, 06.16AM IST<br />
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ordered an
inquiry into lapses in the security of three judges who delivered the
verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit case on September
30 2010. The court has also directed the Centre and governments of
Uttar Pradesh and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a> to take immediate steps to provide adequate security to the judges. The next date of hearing in this case is July 18.<br />
The court issued order after UP’s anti-terror squad (ATS) informed
court that activists associated with the Student Islamic Movement of
India (SIMI) may attack the three Judges. In the statement submitted
before the court by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajiv-Sabbarwal">Rajiv Sabbarwal</a>,
deputy inspector general (DIG), ATS, submitted that during the course
of investigation, even in the months of March and April, 2012, it was
found that the judges who decided <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ram-Janamabhoomi">Ram Janamabhoomi</a>
case are still under continuous threat and the SIMI activists are in
process to constitute a fresh module to assault the judges. The
statement given by Sabarwal also revealed that there was an imminent
threat to the life of the judges.<br />
The ATS submitted the statement in response to the previous order of a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Devi-Prasad-Singh">Devi Prasad Singh</a> and Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Devendra-Kumar-Upadhyaya">Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya</a>.
The bench had issued order on a petition filed by advocate Ranjana
Agnihotri in connection with the threat preception to the judges and
advocates associated with the case. The three judges who delivered the
Ayodhya verdict are Justice Sudhir Agarwal, Justice SU Khan and Justice
DV Sharma.<br />
Justice Agarwal, in fact, was stopped by anti-social elements in
Ghaziabad in July 2011. The judge, who was in his car, escaped a
possible assault and had revealed that he had no police escort with him
during the incident. The judge informed in writing to the authorities
concerned about the incident.<br />
Justice Sharma, who is now in Uttarakhand for an assignment, had also
made a written complaint to the UP high court registrar that he was not
being provided adequate security by the Uttarakhand government .
Justice Khan, however, has refused any security cover.<br />
It was also revealed during the hearing that for the past one year,
the Registrar General of the High Court has been continuously informing
state government officials about the developments.<br />
However, on behalf of the state government, HP Srivastava, additional
chief standing counsel, informed the court that the letter of Justice
Sudhir Agarwal was received by the state government on May 23, 2012
along with the letter dated May 19, 2012 sent by the Registrar General.<br />
On the other hand, Balwant Rai, additional superintendent of police,
security, has informed the court that after filing of the present writ
petition and keeping in view the threat precept, the state government
had decided to provide Z-category security to all the three judges,
provided them with two gunners along with an escort round the clock.<br />
After hearing the statements, the high court directed UP government
to hold an inquiry keeping in view the contents of the letter on
security lapse of Justice Agarwal and submit a report to this court.
Further, the court directed that the DIG, ATS, UP and the UP <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/home-secretary">home secretary</a>
would review the security requirement of the judges in view of an
enhanced threat perception. Also, the court said that keeping in view
the incident happened with Justice Agarwal and after discussing the
matter DIG, ATS, UP, and other officers present, it would be appropriate
to provide two escorts to the judges concerned.<br />
The court also directed that though Justice Khan had declined to
accept any security, the additional director general of police,
security, UP, should meet the judge personally and apprise him about the
threat perception to take future course of action. The bench directed
the state of Uttarakhand to provide Z category security to Justice
Sharma immediately.<br />
The government of India was also directed by the court to issue
appropriate order or circular to all the states in the country to
provide Z category security to the three judges during their movement
outside UP. The security provided to the three Judges would not be
withdrawn except with prior permission of chief justice of Allahabad
high court.<br />
The officials have also been asked by the court to personally meet
the three judges and find out whereabouts of their residences and that
of their family members for security arrangements. Officials have also
been directed to hold a meeting to find out if more security, other then
what was discussed in the court, was required in view of threat
precept.<br />
The court also directed the registrar general to consult chief
justice/senior judge and strengthen the security arrangement on court
campus and implead government of Uttarakhand through its home secretary
and government of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> through secretary, home, and inspector general of police, ATS, as respondents.<br />
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High court quashes criminal case against man</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/High-court-quashes-criminal-case-against-man/articleshow/13790804.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/High-court-quashes-criminal-case-against-man/articleshow/13790804.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 4, 2012, 02.58AM IST<br />
CHENNAI: The Madras <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/high-court">high court</a> has quashed a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/criminal-case">criminal case</a>
against a man, who was detained under Goondas Act, after it came to
light that the Vellore police had obtained signatures of another man in
blank papers and created a false criminal complaint to arrest him.<br />
Justice T Mathivanan quashed the case against <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/G-G-Ramesh">G G Ramesh</a>,
after the original ‘complainant’ Mohamed Shareef appeared before the
judge and filed an affidavit stating that he had merely signed some
blank papers given to him by the police and that he was no way
responsible for the arrest and detention of Ramesh.<br />
Quashing the complaint against Ramesh, the judge said: “Shareef has
submitted that he was just called to the police station and asked to
sign a paper. Later, his signature was utilised to fabricate a complaint
against Ramesh, for which he (Shareef) may not be held responsible.”
Shareef also clarified that he was not under any pressure to file such
an affidavit dissociating himself from the criminal proceedings against
Ramesh. The state government, however, objected to the quashing of the
complaint stating that Ramesh was a Goondas Act detenue and even the
quashing of the present complaint would not result in his immediate
release.<br />
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High court rules in favour of hotels in waste management row</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/High-court-rules-in-favour-of-hotels-in-waste-management-row/articleshow/13792905.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/High-court-rules-in-favour-of-hotels-in-waste-management-row/articleshow/13792905.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Aswin-J-Kumar.cms">Aswin J Kumar</a>, TNN | Jun 4, 2012, 04.51AM IST<br />
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The city corporation that has been issuing
closure notices to hotels functioning without waste treatment plants in
the city has been pulled up by a high court order.<br />
Following a petition filed by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kerala-Hotel-and-Restaurant-Association">Kerala Hotel and Restaurant Association</a>,
the court has held that if a hotel did not have space or if there was
an objection from the neighbouring shop owners for setting up the
treatment plant, it was for the corporation to make arrangement to
collect waste and treat it at the cost of the hotel.<br />
The ruling that has come in favour of the hotel owners, dismayed the
corporation officials. The health standing committee has been slamming
notices on all the hotels that function without a waste treatment plant,
ever since the garbage crisis has started bugging the city.<br />
A deadline was also set for the hotels and it was pointed out that
their licences would not be renewed if the owner fails to comply with
the conditions mentioned in the notice.<br />
“The order has come at a bad time. We had asked the hotel owners to
set up plants in plots far away from their hotels. With this order there
is no way corporation can ask them to get on with the project,” said a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/health-inspector">health inspector</a> of the corporation.<br />
The association members had claimed that the time span allotted for
them to set up the plants was too short which the court upheld in its
ruling. The court also maintained that section 334 of the Kerala
Municipalities Amendment ordinance visualizes waste management by
corporation which had to be maintained in a centralized manner.<br />
The court has also directed the corporation to help the hotels in
setting up the waste plant. A health official said that it would be very
hard to maintain the waste from hotels with the court terming it as the
corporation’s responsibility.<br />
“In a way it has made us helpless. We could have persuaded the hotels
into processing the waste themselves. Now the corporation cannot do so
that as it would be against the court order,” he said.<br />
The ruling also said that no hotel should be closed down and no fine
should be charged unless the hotels fail to either process the waste to
the satisfaction of the corporation or fail to pay the fees fixed by the
corporation to collect the waste and treat the same. “Paying fees to
collect the waste from the hotels is not all the issue. The question is
what to do with the collected waste,” the official said.<br />
We had asked the hotel owners to set up plants in plots far away from
their hotels. With this order there is no way corporation can ask them
to get on with the project.<br />
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Information hidden despite rulings</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Information-hidden-despite-rulings/articleshow/13790505.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Information-hidden-despite-rulings/articleshow/13790505.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Paul-John.cms">Paul John</a>, TNN | Jun 4, 2012, 02.32AM IST<br />
AHMEDABAD: Central Information Commission (CIC) and Gujarat
Information Commission (GIC) rulings have deemed that facts pertaining
to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/salaries">salaries</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/qualification">qualification</a> of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/government-personnel">government personnel</a> belong to the public domain – yet, people are still being denied access.<br />
In several cases in the state, public information officers (PIOs)
have interpreted such details as being ‘third-party information’.<br />
The latest victim happens to be a middle-aged woman, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhavna-Patel">Bhavna Patel</a> of Shahibaug, who has been demanding for four years – under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RTI-Act">RTI Act</a>
– the salary slip of her husband who serves with the Indian Railways.
Bhavna is fighting for a revision in maintenance compensation in the
family court and needs the salary slip to make that claim. “I receive Rs
600 and my 18-year-old son receives Rs 1,900 from his father as
maintenance,” Bhavna said. “My husband earns between Rs 25,000 and Rs
30,000 and the court fixes a specific maintenance amount based on the
salary.” She and her son <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Yash-Diwakar">Yash Diwakar</a> were shocked when the public information officer M R A Mirza replied that the information pertained to a ‘third party’.<br />
“After we appealed to central information commissioner <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Annapurna-Dixit">Annapurna Dixit</a>,
the railways sent a letter which claimed to have an annexure consisting
of my father’s salary slip,” Diwakar said. “The letter had no such
thing. We have already filed a complaint with the CIC. It’s a cruel
joke.”<br />
Public agencies are under obligation to reveal their employees’ salaries, CIC has ruled in a case involving <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/punjab-national-bank/stocks/companyid-11585.cms" target="_blank">Punjab National Bank</a>
zonal office in Uttaranchal. “Under section 4 of the RTI Act, the
public authority must not only provide a directory of its officials to
public but also the amount of remuneration given to them,” central
information commissioner M M Ansari had ruled. “The information should
be published and put on the departmental website.”<br />
In Gujarat, there have been five instances of PIOs denying salary
details of government functionaries, said Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pehel
co-ordinator Pankti Jog. “These functionaries are paid from public
coffers. Not only salaries but qualification of officers too is public
information,” Jog said. For instance, in the Dinesh Anajwala versus
Surat Municipal Corporation case of October 2008, former Gujarat chief
information commissioner R N Das ruled, “Before the selection and
assumption of charge of the government post, the person is a private
person and copies of his marksheets and any information furnished by him
to the selection committee is personal information. However, once the
person has become a public servant, the nature of that information can
no longer be treated as entirely and purely personal.”<br />
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Explanation on RTI Act issue sought from HC official</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487493.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487493.ece</a><br />
R. Sivaraman<br />
The State Information Commission has called for an explanation from
the Public Information Officer of the Madras High Court on why he should
not be penalised for not furnishing within the prescribed timeframe,
information sought by a person under the Right to Information Act.<br />
In 2009, P. Kalyanasundaram of Pattalam, in his application before
the Public Information Officer of the High Court of Madras, had sought
to know the list of registers, forms, ledgers and records maintained by
the office of High Court registry.<br />
Contending that the Public Information Officer had not provided the
information even after two years, he filed an appeal before the State
Information Commission. He also sought compensation for the loss.<br />
However, the Public Information Officer in his counter said it was
confusing as to what kind of information the applicant was seeking. He
had sought information in a casual, indiscriminate and haphazard manner.
Such an attitude would defeat the purpose of the Act. The information
sought was already published on the website of High Court. Hence, he
sought dismissal of the application.<br />
After hearing both sides, the State Chief Information Commissioner K.
S. Sripathy in his order said the public authority should have
understood at the first instance itself what kind of information had
been sought and the correct details could have been provided. The public
authority should have provided some concrete answer whether the
information could be given or not within the timeframe. Nearly two and
half years had passed since the information was sought and refusal to
provide information was violative of the provisions of the RTI Act.<br />
The order said, “Since it failed to respond in time on whether the
information could be given or not to the applicant, there is room to
believe that the public authority was adopting delaying tactics by not
providing information. In the circumstances, under section 20(1) of RTI
Act, the Public Information Officer should explain within 15 days why a
penalty of Rs.25,000 should not be imposed.”<br />
However, the commission dismissed the applicant’s prayer seeking
compensation, stating that the denial of information would not be
detrimental to his interests.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/70440-advani-wants-collegium-for-cec-cag-selection.html">Advani wants collegium for CEC, CAG selection </a></h1>
<a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/70440-advani-wants-collegium-for-cec-cag-selection.html">http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/70440-advani-wants-collegium-for-cec-cag-selection.html</a><br />
Monday, 04 June 2012 00:12<br />
PNS | New Delhi<br />
<strong>Senior BJP leader LK Advani has suggested Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to set up a collegium to appoint the Chief Election
Commissioner (CEC), as the present system of President appointing the
head of Election Commission solely on the advice of the Prime Minister,
“does not evoke confidence among the people”. </strong><br />
He has recommended a similar committee for appointment of the
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) as well. While the tenure of
serving CEC SY Qureshi ends later this month, the CAG will retire next
year.<br />
In a letter to Singh on Saturday, Advani suggested that the collegium
could include the PM as its chairman and Chief Justice of India, Law
Minister, and Leaders of Opposition in both the Houses as members.<br />
“There is a rapidly growing opinion in the country which holds that
appointments to constitutional bodies such the Election Commission
should be done on a bipartisan basis in order to remove any impression
of bias or lack of transparency and fairness,” Advani said in his letter
to the PM.<br />
Underlining that the CVC and the CIC were also appointed through such
a collegium, Advani asserted that keeping the appointment of CEC as an
exclusive preserve of the ruling party rendered the selection process
vulnerable to manipulation and partisanship.<br />
“Indeed, the credibility of this system was severely dented when a
dubious appointment to the crucial office of CEC was made a few years
ago. The time has, therefore, come to reform the selection process for
the EC and other Constitutional bodies, as has indeed been done in the
case of the CVC and the CIC,” Advani wrote to the PM.<br />
Incidentally, the BJP had objected to appointment of Navin Chawla,
Qureshi’s immediate predecessor, as the CEC for his alleged proximity to
the Congress and its chief Sonia Gandhi. The 2009 Lok Sabha election
were held under Chawla as the CEC and widespread allegations on rigging
of EVMs were made during that time. Even, Chawla’s predecessor N
Gopalaswami had recommended to the Government to remove Chawla’s from
the panel for his “partisan” role.<br />
The senior BJP leader pointed out to the PM that the Second
Administrative Reforms Commission, set up by the Singh Government, had
recommended in 2009 that the CEC and other members of the Election
Commission be appointed by a collegium.<br />
“In respect of the CVC and the CIC, the change has come about because
of the intervention of the Supreme Court. Let the wholesome change
come this time as a result of an initiative taken by the Executive,”
Advani said, requesting the PM to suitably amend the Article 324 of the
Constitution that deals with the Election Commission.<br />
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8,023 cases settled in Lok Adalat</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/8023-cases-settled-in-Lok-Adalat/articleshow/13751135.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/8023-cases-settled-in-Lok-Adalat/articleshow/13751135.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 02.20AM IST<br />
CHANDIGARH: 8,023 cases of different categories were disposed of in a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lok-Adalat">Lok Adalat</a> that was held inside the premises of the district court on Saturday.<br />
Out of the total cases, 502 were settled under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Negotiable-Instrument-Act">Negotiable Instrument Act</a>.
In MACT cases, compensation of Rs 16,85,000 was awarded. In execution
petitions, Rs 24,14,278 was disbursed to the petitioners. In 7,231
traffic challans, Rs 18,10,450 were imposed and realized as fine.
Besides this, about 290 civil, rent, labour and other categories of
cases were also disposed off.<br />
20 benches were constituted in which cases of different categories like <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/motor-accident-claim">motor accident claim</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/matrimonial">matrimonial</a>, civil, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/civil-appeals">civil appeals</a>, compoundable criminal and rent cases were taken up for settlement in Lok Adalat.<br />
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<strong>Naquee was in touch with Yasin via social networking site: ATS</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254193/naquee-touch-yasin-via-social.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254193/naquee-touch-yasin-via-social.html</a><br />
Mumbai, Jun 3, 2012, (PTI) :<br />
<strong>Naquee Ahmed, one of the jailed 13/7 blasts accused, who had
claimed to be an informer of Delhi police, was in contact with Indian
Mujahideen’s (IM) elusive chief operative Yasin Bhatkal through a
popular social networking site since 2008, Maharashtra ATS claimed
today.</strong><br />
Naquee, who hails from Darbhanga district of Bihar, was initially
arrested on January 10 this year on charges of forgery for allegedly
procuring mobile phone SIM cards using fake documents.<br />
According to the Maharashtra ATS, these SIM cards had been used by
the IM module that executed the terror strikes at Dadar, Zaveri Bazaar
and Opera House on July 13, 2011 leaving 27 dead and 127 injured. Later,
Naquee was held in the blasts case, the ATS said.<br />
“Naquee, who claimed to be a police informer and had been helping
police solve the 13/7 blasts case, had actually been in touch with
Imran, who in reality is Yasin Bhatkal, since 2008 through the
Facebook”, an ATS official told PTI.<br />
Naquee knew the antecedents of Yasin and he had helped the latter
throughout the conspiracy hatched to execute the blasts, the officer
claimed.<br />
“Not only Naquee, even Nadeem and Waqas (two other accused) were in
touch with each other through the Facebook”, the official said, adding
that the terror suspects communicated with each other using code
language.<br />
“We have taken the printouts of their Facebook accounts to prove
their communication with each other since a long time. It is a crucial
piece of evidence”, the officer added.<br />
However, the officer declined to divulge details when asked if the
accused maintained real names or used fictitious names on the site.<br />
The officer also parried a question if the terror suspects’ Facebook accounts still existed.<br />
Naquee’s brother Taqi Ahmed had in January approached the National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Commission for Minorities,
Delhi Police Commissioner and Union Home Minister P Chidambaram claiming
that his brother was a police informer and had been wrongfully framed
by the ATS in the serial blasts case.<br />
Maharashtra ATS had filed a 4,788-page charge sheet recently in a
special court against ten IM members, including its top operative Riyaz
Bhatkal believed to be hiding in neighbouring Pakistan.<br />
ATS has so far arrested five accused – Naquee, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija Haroon Naik and Mohammed Qafeel Ansari.<br />
Mohammed Qafeel’s name was not mentioned in the charge sheet filed
against ten accused as he was recently arrested. A supplementary charge
sheet would be filed soon in which his name and other wanted accused
names would be mentioned.<br />
According to the ATS, Yasin, Waqas and Tarbez had rented a third
floor flat at Byculla’s Habib building in south Mumbai where they
allegedly assembled explosives.<br />
As per Yasin’s instructions, Naquee and Nadeem had stolen
two-wheelers a day before the blasts and explosives were fitted in them
to carry out explosions in Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House.<br />
Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik were involved in providing financial
aide through the hawala (informal money transfer system) route. Mohammed
Qafeel was involved in providing logistics support.<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/ngt-asks-gujarat-govt-not-to-take-coercive-action-against-opg/16401/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/ngt-asks-gujarat-govt-not-to-take-coercive-action-against-opg/16401/</a>
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<td>The National Green Tribunal has directed Gujarat authorities not to
take any “coercive action” without its permission against OPG Power
Gujarat Pvt Ltd for alleged violation of conditions on which the
environmental clearance was granted for its 300 MW Bhadreshwar thermal
power plant at Mundra.
The Tribunal passed the orders on an application by OPG expressing
apprehension that “taking advantage of the summer vacation of the
Tribunal, the authorities may take coercive action against it (OPG)”.<br />
A bench headed by Tribunal’s Acting Chairperson Justice A S Naidu
said the authorities should not take any coercive action against OPG
without its prior permission and directed the MoEF to file an action
taken report on July 17, the next date of hearing.<br />
“Though we are satisfied that no emergent urgency is there, still we
feel the ends of justice and equity would be better served if we direct
the authorities to complete the exercise as per our order, but not to
take any coercive action without obtaining prior permission from this
Tribunal.<br />
“The MoEF is directed to file the report on the action taken by the
authorities on the next date of hearing. List this matter on July 17,
2012,” the bench said.<br />
The Tribunal had on May 10 directed Gujarat government to initiate
proceedings against OPG for allegedly starting the construction work on
the project before forest clearance was accorded to it on April 26.<br />
The June 11, 2010 clearance for the 2×150 MW thermal power plant at
village Bhadreshwar, Mundra, District Kutch, Gujarat had stipulated that
OPG shall not start the work without “all requisite prior permissions”.<br />
In the May 10 judgement, the Tribunal had directed the state
government and the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA)
to initiate proceedings against OPG, issue show cause to them and “on
perusal of the cause shown, if satisfied that the project proponent has
violated the terms and conditions of the environment clearance or had
committed any other omission or commission and/or encroached upon Khari
river unauthorisedly, take such action as deemed just proper and in
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TDSAT pulls up govt for imposing fresh penalty on Idea</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tdsat-pulls-up-govt-for-imposing-fresh-penalty-on-idea/957315/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tdsat-pulls-up-govt-for-imposing-fresh-penalty-on-idea/957315/0</a><br />
Telecom tribunal TDSAT has pulled up the government for imposing
fresh penalties on Idea Cellular despite an earlier order setting aside a
similar fine due to the operator’s alleged delay in service roll-out
obligations in five circles.<br />
A TDSAT bench headed by its Chairman Justice S B Sinha said it has
already set aside the penalty on Idea Cellular on December last year
observing that “principles of natural justice” were not followed by
Department of Telecommunications while imposing the aforesaid liquidated
damages.<br />
“We fail to see any reason as to why despite our judgement dated
December 5, 2011 the impugned demands have been raised without complying
with the principles of natural justice; the core issue between the
parties remaining the same.<br />
“We, therefore, are of the opinion that the impugned demands cannot
be sustained. They are set aside, accordingly,” said the tribunal and
asked DoT to pay Rs 50,000 to Idea Cellular as cost of litigation.<br />
However, it also said that the DoT may raise fresh demand against
Idea Cellular “upon complying with the principles of natural justice”.<br />
The matter relates to roll-out obligation in five circles – Punjab,
Haryana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. These circles came
to Idea’s fold after its merger with Spice Communications.<br />
Earlier, DoT had imposed a penalty of Rs 4.55 crore for each circle
for delay in meeting the roll-out obligations after 39 weeks of spectrum
allotment.<br />
This was subsequently challenged by Idea before the tribunal, which
set aside the penalty after observing that DoT did not gave a proper
chance to the operator to represent its case and was in violation of
principles of natural justice.<br />
TDSAT had asked DoT to rework on the issue.<br />
However, DoT imposed additional liquidated damages of Rs 1.8 crore
per circle on Idea Cellular for the same circles again on December 23,
2011.<br />
This was again challenged by Idea Cellular before the TDSAT, terming
the fresh demands as “ex-facie illegal and without jurisdiction”.<br />
DoT contended the demands were raised as Idea had failed to meet its
roll-out obligations for a period of 52 weeks as is provided for in the
clauses of its license agreement.<br />
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Notices under BIPA worries govt</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notices-under-bipa-worries-govt/957144/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notices-under-bipa-worries-govt/957144/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/anilsasi/">Anil Sasi</a> : New Delhi, Sun Jun 03 2012, 01:06 hrs<br />
At a time when the Centre is working overtime to build bridges with
aggrieved global investors, the growing list of notices — at six and
counting — served by international investors invoking provisions of
the numerous bilateral investment protection pacts signed by India could
put the Government is a spot of bother.<br />
The fact that India has, in the past, lost the only such dispute that
went on to the arbitration stage is among the reasons for the mounting
worries.<br />
In its award dated September 30, 2011 of the International Tribunal
in the case between Australia’s White Industries Ltd and the Government
of India (Ministry of Coal), under the Bilateral Investment Promotion
and Protection Agreement (BIPA) between India and Australia, had gone
against the Government of India.<br />
This is a case that dates back to a decade, when White Industries won
a foreign arbitration against Coal India but was unsuccessful in
enforcing the award till last year when it used the Indo-Australian
bilateral investment protection treaty.<br />
“Six notices have been served. Each of these (cases where notices
have been served) is being looked at on a case-to-case basis,” an
official involved in the exercise said.<br />
The official added that BIPAs were intended to provide fair and
equitable treatment to the investors of either country in the territory
of the other country and include provisions for settlement of disputes
between an investor and a contracting party shall, as far as possible,
be settled amicably through negotiations between the parties to
the dispute. “In case a dispute is not settled amicably, a provision
exists for arbitration,” the official said.<br />
In case of Vodafone’s notice under the BIPA, the government, in its
reply, has told the British telecom major that there is no cause of
action for the company in the ongoing tax dispute with the Indian income
tax authorities.<br />
According to foreign trade analysts, the fact that India’s gone on to
sign bilateral pacts with a large number of countries, combined with
the Government resorting to flawed policy measures and retrograde steps
to shore up revenues, is a recipe for disaster.<br />
Till date, India has signed BIPAs with 82 countries, starting with
the United Kingdom in 1994. Of these 82 countries, BIPAs with 72
countries have been enforced.<br />
Besides, India has signed 17 Free Trade Agreements, Comprehensive
Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), Comprehensive Economic
Cooperation Agreement (CECA) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs).<br />
<strong>BILATERAL WORRIES</strong><br />
Notices served by foreign investors against India under BIPAs and CECA<br />
* Devas Employees Mauritius Pvt Ltd, Mauritius under BIPA with Mauritius<br />
* Sistema Joint Stock Financial Corporation, Russia under BIPA between India and Russia<br />
* Telenor Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore under CECA between India and Singapore<br />
* Capital Global Limited and Kaif Investment Limited, both Mauritius
based-investors in Loop Telecom Limited under BIPA with Mauritius<br />
* Vodafone International Holdings BV, the Netherlands, under BIPA with the Netherlands<br />
* The Children’s Investment Fund Management, United Kingdom under BIPA with the UK and Cyprus<br />
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NCW chief seeks one-time payment for ex-women Test cricketers</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/women-cricket/news/NCW-chief-seeks-one-time-payment-for-ex-women-Test-cricketers/articleshow/13752436.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/women-cricket/news/NCW-chief-seeks-one-time-payment-for-ex-women-Test-cricketers/articleshow/13752436.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Rakhi-Chakrabarty.cms">Rakhi Chakrabarty</a>, TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 03.05AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Commission-for-Women">National Commission for Women</a> (NCW) on Saturday asked <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BCCI">BCCI</a>
for one-time payment for former women Test cricketers from the profits
of the Indian Premier League as was done for their male counterparts.<br />
NCW chairperson <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mamta-Sharma">Mamta Sharma</a> said, “Like the men, women, too, have contributed to the country’s cricket. Then why should they be discriminated against?”<br />
In a letter to union sports minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Maken">Ajay Maken</a>, she argued if former male players are entitled to the payment, women should also get it.<br />
“I have sought the minister’s intervention. Why should a woman’s
efforts on the field be ignored?” Sharma said. She will also write to
BCCI chief <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/N-Srinivasan">N Srinivasan</a> to press for the demand.<br />
Last week, the BCCI paid about Rs 70 crore obtained as profits from the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IPL">IPL</a> to 20 former international and domestic players who had retired before 2004.<br />
She also suggested an IPL for women cricketers. “Why shouldn’t women
play in the IPL?” she asked. The NCW will discuss it at a meeting and
raise this with the BCCI soon.<br />
Besides women cricketers, Sharma plans to rope in actor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aamir-Khan">Aamir Khan</a>
for creating awareness about women’s issues. The idea struck her after
she watched the actor take up social issues on the TV serial Satyameva
Jayate.<br />
While talking about rising crimes against women, Sharma slammed Uttar
Pradesh. “Don’t ask me what kind of crimes occur there, instead ask
what crimes don’t happen in UP. It’s very bad in UP. But there is a new
government in the state. So, we should give it some time,” she said.<br />
The NCW chief said a large number of cases are reported from areas of UP adjacent to Delhi, including Noida and Ghaziabad.<br />
The NCW has launched a 24-hour helpline for women in Gujarat. “Within
about one and a half months of its launch, 1,000 cases were reported,”
she said. Similar helplines would be launched in Haryana and Rajasthan
soon.<br />
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<strong>NCW to launch 24-hour helpline in Haryana</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/NCW-to-launch-24-hour-helpline-in-Haryana/SP-Article1-864965.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/NCW-to-launch-24-hour-helpline-in-Haryana/SP-Article1-864965.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong>PTI</strong><br />
New Delhi, June 02, 2012<br />
The National Commission for Women will soon start on a pilot basis a
24-hour helpline exclusively for women in distress in Haryana, months
after it launched a similar project in Gujarat.<br />
Announcing this here today, NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma said the project would take off in July <ins>and the statutory body was also mulling over launching similar round-the-clock helplines across the country by October-end.</ins><br />
<ins>“The helpline we launched in Gujarat was a huge success. Within a
span of two months we received over 1000 complaints. The NCW is now
thinking of launching similar projects in all the states by the end of
October,” Sharma said.</ins><br />
<ins>“The helpline would not only provide useful advice to the
depressed complainant but would also make sure that she is given instant
shelter, legal aid, medical treatment and police help,” she said.</ins><br />
<ins>To a question on the shortage of hands in NCW, Sharma said she
had written to the ministry of women and child development on the
matter. </ins><br />
<ins>“To address the shortage, the NCW recommended making the
temporary staff permanent. The ministry has given its approval and we
are working in this direction,” she said.</ins><br />
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CLAT confusion</h1>
<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/news/31983265_1_legal-aptitude-section-clat-current-affairs-section">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/news/31983265_1_legal-aptitude-section-clat-current-affairs-section</a><br />
Jun 2, 2012, 10.12AM IST<br />
The Common Law Admission Test, popularly known as CLAT, is the
entrance examination for admission to 14 National Law Universities
(NLUs) in India. Every year, thousands of students from all over the
country take this exam.<br />
CLAT results were announced on May 28, it led to confusion over
supposedly incorrect declaration of ranks and wrongful allotment of
institutions to students. The declared results were taken down by the
National Law University, Jodhpur (NLUJ), CLAT 2012 organising
institution, on the evening of May 28 itself, creating further
confusion. The CLAT convener admitted these errors and mentioned that he
is trying to resolve them judiciously (source: Legally India:
www.legallyindia.com/201205312859/Pre-law-student/clat-2012-university-list-may-contain-errors-that-will-be-fixed-judiciously-in-june-says-nlu-j-vc).<br />
CLAT 2012, comprised a number of questions being allegedly outside
the declared CLAT syllabus for the year. Aspiring candidates found that
about 70% of the Legal Aptitude section of the paper featured questions
that required prior knowledge of legal provisions, while the syllabus
had clearly stated that “candidates will not be tested on any prior
knowledge of law or legal concepts. If a technical/legal term is used in
the question, that term will be explained in the question itself.” In
addition, the general knowledge/current affairs section of the paper,
which was supposed to test candidates only on their knowledge of
‘current affairs,’ “broadly defined as matters featuring in the
mainstream media between March 2011 and March 2012,” allegedly had
‘static General Knowledge’ questions on architect Le Corbusier’s
citizenship and shapes of oceans, to name a few.<br />
A writ petition was filed before a single judge at the Delhi High
Court abut a week ago (prior to the publication of results), against the
organisers of CLAT 2012 for posing questions that were allegedly out of
syllabus {Writ Petition (Civil) No 3208 of 2012}. However, the petition
was dismissed, in limine, or without going into the merits of the case.
The judge held that the petition was premature as the results had not
been declared then, and suggested that the petitioners could approach
the courts once the results were declared. A similar writ petition was
also filed before the Allahabad High Court and is pending.<br />
<a href="http://www.myeducationtimes.com/educationTimes/"><strong>Courtesy: Myeducationtimes.com</strong></a><br />
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<strong>PG medical quota for differently-abled</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254081/pg-medical-quota-differently-abled.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254081/pg-medical-quota-differently-abled.html</a><br />
Gulbarga, June 2, 2012, DHNS:<br />
<strong>In a bid to further empower differently-abled persons, the
State government has reserved some seats for them in select branches of
post-graduate medicine.<br />
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Under the new ruling, the differently-abled will have a three per cent
reservation in select branches of the medical PG through the revised
matrix at the time of the Post Graduate Entrance Test – due to be
effective from this academic year.<br />
This initiative was taken only after offical intervention by the
judiciary. Previously, a differently-abled candidate, Dr Veeresh Hallur
and others had filed a writ petition in the High Court seeking
directions to ensure that there is reservation for those in his category
with regard to PG medical seats. Based on the petition, the court has
instructed the State to evolve guidelines.<br />
In a recent meeting chaired by the medical education principal
secretary, department heads at the Bangalore Medical College examined
the ways to implement the HC ruling.<br />
Within the framework of the High Court ruling, a three percent
reservation will be opened up in dermatology, radiotherapy, pediatrics,
general medicine, radio diagnosis, psychiatry and pulmonary medicine.<br />
In addition, the differently-abled will be entitled for admission in
anatomy, physiology and bio-chemistry, and in all the branches of
para-medical courses namely pharmacology, pathology, micro-biology,
community medicine and forensic medicine.<br />
But other medical branches, such as surgery, ophthalmology,
orthopedics, ENT, anaesthesia, and obstetrics and gynaecology will
continue to be barred as it is felt that the differently-abled will not
be able to perform satisfactorily in such branches<br />
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Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik appeals to governor for probe into BHEL work order</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Jharkhand-Vikas-Morcha-Prajatantrik-appeals-to-governor-for-probe-into-BHEL-work-order/articleshow/13749502.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Jharkhand-Vikas-Morcha-Prajatantrik-appeals-to-governor-for-probe-into-BHEL-work-order/articleshow/13749502.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 12.59AM IST<br />
RANCHI: A delegation of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik, led
by former chief minister Babulal Marandi, on Saturday met governor Syed
Ahmed and demanded a probe into the alleged irregularity in allotment of
work to the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bharat-Heavy-Electrical-Limited">Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited</a> (BHEL) by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jharkhand-State-Electricity-Board">Jharkhand State Electricity Board</a> (JSEB).<br />
The delegation alleged that the JSEB allotted the renovation and
maintenance work of Sikidri Hydel Power Project to the BHEL at an
exponential rate and also violated guidelines of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Central-Vigilance-Commission">Central Vigilance Commission</a>
(CVC). All senior leaders of the party were present in the delegation
which demanded probe by a high-powered committee consisting of at least
three secretaries excluding <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-energy-secretary">state energy secretary</a>.<br />
Coming out of the Raj Bhawan, Marandi said recently the JSEB awarded
the maintenance work of the hydel power plant to the BHEL 10 times the
estimate prepared by engineers of the board. “We have documentary
evidence that the JSEB engineers had prepared project report according
to which the total cost of renovation for both the units would have been
around Rs 2.6 crore. The JSEB management turned down the project report
and gave the work to the BHEL which would cost the state exchequer
around Rs 24 crore,” said Marandi.<br />
“We informed the governor that the JSEB had allotted the same work to
the BHEL in 2005 for Rs 65 lakh,” he said adding that the JSEB
management violated the guidelines set by the CVC which permit 10%
advance and that too after taking a bank guarantee of 110%. The JSEB did
not take any bank guarantee from the BHEL.<br />
“The governor accepted our memorandum and patiently heard the matter.
He assured us that he would ensure a proper inquiry in the matter,”
said Marandi.<br />
Party’s general Pradeep Yadav said if the government fails to come
clear on the matter, he would then file a writ in the high court.<br />
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Bribery case: Court awards jail term to BJP MLA in K’taka</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/"> Agencies</a> : Bangalore, Sat Jun 02 2012, 15:11 hrs<br />
In the first ever conviction of a Legislator in Karnataka under the
Prevention of Corruption Act, a ruling BJP MLA was onSaturday sentenced
to three-and-a half year rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case by the
Lokayukta Special Court.<br />
Judge N K Sudheendra Rao also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on Y
Sampangi failing which he has to undergo imprisonment for another six
months.<br />
The judge directed the Lokayukta DSP to issue arrest warrant on Sampangi and take him into custody.<br />
Sampangi, who represents Kolar Gold Fields Assembly constituency, was
trapped by Lokayukta police on January 29, 2009 while accepting Rs
50,000 and a cheque for Rs 4.5 lakh from a person to settle a civil
dispute.<br />
He was found guilty under section 13 (1) d of the Prevention of Corruption Act in the trial that lasted more than three years.<br />
Sampangi’s conviction has come as an added embarrassment to the
ruling BJP in the state where several of its leaders, including former
chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, are battling cases of corruption in
courts.<br />
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1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Court rejects Sajjan Kumar’s plea</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1984-antisikh-riots-case-court-rejects-sajjan-kumars-plea/957065/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1984-antisikh-riots-case-court-rejects-sajjan-kumars-plea/957065/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : New Delhi, Sat Jun 02 2012, 17:56 hrs<br />
A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s
plea to use in his defence a 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim’s statements to
judicial commissions, allegedly contradicting her testimony to trial
court.<br />
The witness’ statements to judicial commissions cannot be used for
any purpose, including that for discrediting her or to impeach her,
District Judge J R Aryan said.<br />
The Congress leader, in his application, had said the earlier
affidavits and statements of complainant and key witness Jagdish Kaur to
the judicial commission be allowed to be used to confront her with her
recent testimony in the ongoing trial.<br />
“It is clear that without going into the wider questions, even a
plain reading of section 6 of the Commissions of Inquiry Act will
prohibits the use of the previous statements at the trial either for the
purposes of cross examination to contradict the witness or to impeach
his credit,” the court said.<br />
The former Outer Delhi MP had filed an application saying that CBI
prosecutor R S Cheema on July 12, 2010 had told the court that
affidavits and statement of complainant and key witness Jagdish Kaur,
recorded by G T Nanavati and Ranganath Mishra Commissions, cannot be
used because of contradictions.<br />
The CBI had said as per the provisions of the Commission of Inquiry
Act, the affidavits and statements of a witness given before any
Commission cannot be used against her for the purpose of questioning her
testimony.<br />
Sajjan Kumar, Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav,
Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal are facing trial in the killings of six
people in Delhi Cantonment area during the 1984 carnage which had
broken out after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi on October 31, 1984.<br />
They are accused of instigating a mob to attack and kill the Sikhs.<br />
In his application, Sajjan Kumar had said the CBI had earlier brought
on record and even examined Kaur’s affidavit and statement to the
judicial commissions but it now says it is not relying on them.<br />
He had said prosecutor Cheema had on July 12, 2010, made a statement
in the court that affidavits of the witness in the case cannot be used
due to contradictions.<br />
Earlier, Sajjan Kumar’s counsel had said law and justice dwell
together and law does not permit this situation and “now the prosecution
cannot claim protection of the provisions of the Commission of Inquiry
Act as no such protection could be given in respect of evidence given in
the court.”<br />
Advocate Anil Kumar, appearing for other accused, had said if the
prosecution and the witness would use the affidavits filed before
Ranganath Commission and Nanavati Commission, then there is no law which
forbids the defence from confronting them.<br />
The case against Sajjan Kumar was registered on the recommendation by
Nanavati Commission. The CBI had filed two chargesheets against him and
others in January 2010.<br />
The trial court had framed charges against Sajjan Kumar and five
others in 2010 under Sections 302 (murder), 395 (dacoity), 427 (mischief
to cause damage to property), 153A (promoting enmity between different
communities) and other provisions of IPC.<br />
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Radiation case: Bail to DU teachers</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Radiation-case-Bail-to-DU-teachers/articleshow/13750579.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Radiation-case-Bail-to-DU-teachers/articleshow/13750579.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 02.01AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: A <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/trial-court">trial court</a> on Saturday granted bail to five Delhi University professors chargesheeted in a case relating to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/radiation-leak-in-Mayapuri">radiation leak in Mayapuri</a> in which one person died due to exposure to radioactive substance at a scrap market in 2010.<br />
The court had summoned six professors after police had filed the
chargesheet accusing them of endangering the lives by auctioning a
radioactive Cobalt-60 gamma irradiator without mandatory precautions.
While five of them were granted bail, one was allowed exemption from
personal appearance in the case till further order.<br />
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<td>Minor inconsistencies in witnesses’ testimony can be overlooked if
the principal part of the oral and ocular evidence is in conformity with
the medical evidence, the Supreme Court has ruled.
A bench of justices H L Dattu and Anil Dave gave the ruling,
upholding the life sentences of two convicts Kathi Bharat Vajsur and
Kathi Ramku Vajsur in a 1984 murder case relating to Gujarat’s Amreli
district.<br />
Kathi Fakira Vajsur, the prime accused in the case had died during the pendency of the trial.<br />
The apex court concurred with the Gujarat High Court’s decision to
reverse the acquittal by the trial court which had disbelieved the
prosecution’s evidence.<br />
“Perhaps the trial court took a hyper-technical view by primarily
concentrating on minor contradictions to hold that the prosecution has
failed to prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt.<br />
“We are not in agreement with the findings and conclusions reached by
the trial court. When the medical evidence is in consonance with the
principal part of the oral /ocular evidence, supporting the prosecution
story, there is no question of ruling out the ocular evidence merely on
the ground that there are some inconsistencies or contradictions in the
oral evidence,” observed Justice Dattu, who wrote the judgement.<br />
Citing an earlier ruling of the apex court that there is no fixed
pattern of reaction of an eyewitness to a crime, the bench said, “When
faced with what is termed as “an unusual reaction” of an eyewitness, the
Court must only examine whether the prosecution story is in anyway
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<h1>
Facebook face-offs pepper divorce cases across India</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Facebook-face-offs-pepper-divorce-cases-across-India/articleshow/13748175.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Facebook-face-offs-pepper-divorce-cases-across-India/articleshow/13748175.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Swati-Deshpande.cms">Swati Deshpande</a>, TNN | Jun 2, 2012, 11.48PM IST<em></em><br />
MUMBAI: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Facebook">Facebook</a> CEO <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mark-Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a> has not marked his relationship status as “married”. His wife <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Priscilla-Chan">Priscilla Chan</a>
has. He has no picture of them as newly-weds on his page, she does.
It’s fine for the couple after the billionaire-founder of the world’s
most popular social networking site tied the knot about a couple of
weeks ago, but in a small town in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, a similar “failure” by a man to update his “basic info” on Facebook is being cited by his wife as grounds for cruelty.<br />
In Mumbai, a young couple stood in front of a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/family-court">family court</a>
judge last week. Their complaint against each other was that the other
was always glued to Facebook. The judge reprimanded them, then
counselled them. They finally admitted that they still did like each
other, resolved to not “unfriend” and to give their marriage another
shot.<br />
Some marriages may get saved, but Facebook, which a recent survey in
UK blamed for nearly a third of all divorces, is leading to a rise in
face-offs in family courts across India too. “Facebook is fast becoming a
reason why many marriages are faltering,” said celebrity divorce lawyer
Mrinalini Deshmukh.<br />
As divorce petitions get peppered with the mention of Facebook and
printouts of web pages, the reason is not merely because couples spend
more hours individually on the site, Deshmukh said. “Spending more time,
especially at night before bedtime, with <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Friends">friends</a>
on Facebook or merely playing games on the site is no doubt eating into
couples’ together-time or intimacy. More pertinently, if someone wants
to have an affair or flirt, then FB is an easy place to do it. People
also use the ‘friend finder’ to re-unite with school or college friends
and some really unite. One couple opted for mutual consent divorce when
her husband found his former love on FB,” the lawyer explained.<br />
<strong>Facebook posts, photos now court evidence</strong><br />
“There are now FB widows and ‘spending time on Facebook’ is replacing
‘spending time online watching porn’ as grounds for cruelty,” said
Deshmukh.<br />
Neela Gokhale, a divorce advocate, recounts that in Pune, a woman found her husband “obsessed with FB and ‘adding’ <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Women">women</a> friends. She has filed for divorce”. Facebook posts and pictures are being used as evidence in courts.<br />
Facebook actually throws up proof of infidelity through pictures
posted on friends’ pages, said Arthi P S, a Chennai-based divorce
lawyer, who believes that distraction in a marriage is endemic, it is
just that the mode has changed for most with Facebook.<br />
In Chennai, a woman dragged her husband to court after she found a
picture of him in a “compromising” position with another girl on the
page of a friend of her friend. “It was a recent picture,” she claimed,
citing it as evidence. He is denying the charges in court.<br />
Senior lawyer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sunil-Mittal">Sunil Mittal</a>
from Delhi said: “Photographs posted by friends or even husbands and
wives are finding their way into divorce battles in a big way.”<br />
Families frown at “inappropriate status updates, comments and
photographs”, said veteran family court lawyer Tara Hegde. In an ongoing
case, a man moved court after he found out what his wife was really up
to from her FB status updates. “People tell the court one thing, but
post the truth online. Facebook exposes a person for what he or she
really is,” Hegde said.<br />
A lawyer said Facebook has opened avenues to help reinforce
suspicions. In Mumbai, a woman, newly married, refused to consummate her
marriage. Her husband was patient, said advocate Hegde, till he
stumbled on to her FB profile page — it had pictures of her with many
male friends. Now, he has filed for annulment with FB pictures as
evidence.<br />
The Bandra family court right now is struggling to figure out where
to even send summons to a “wife” who a man says he married after meeting
on Facebook.<br />
“I am trying to make the world a more open place,” says FB founder
Zuckerberg. Millions like him for it, but some are now clicking
“unlike.”<br />
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Ruchika Girhotra case: Family gives up fight against ex-Haryana DGP</h1>
<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/chandigarh/31983548_1_ruchika-girhotra-ruchika-case-suicide-and-doctoring">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/chandigarh/31983548_1_ruchika-girhotra-ruchika-case-suicide-and-doctoring</a><br />
Ajay Sura, TNN Jun 2, 2012, 04.09PM IST<br />
CHANDIGARH: The family of Ruchika Girhotra, a minor girl who
allegedly committed suicide after molestation by former Haryana director
general of police (DGP) SPS Rathore, has given up its fight for justice
in the court of law after 22 years.<br />
The special CBI court Panchkula on Friday accepted the closure report
submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in two cases –
attempt to murder and forgery of documents- filed against former Haryana
DGP SPS Rathore.<br />
Ruchika’s father Subhash and brother Ashu raised no objection to the closure report.<br />
Admitting that he was not in a position to pursue the matter further,
Subhash said, “I do not see any hope now. We feel cheated. My family is
vulnerable. The circumstances have pushed us back by 20 years.”<br />
“When Rathore was convicted in 2009, I met union home minister P C
Chidambaram who assured me of justice. I thought time and system had
changed and dared to move fresh complaints against Rathore.” On January
12, 2010 the CBI registered three fresh FIRs against Rathore – attempt
to murder, abetment to suicide and doctoring of documents. However, in
November 2010, the CBI submitted the closure report in two cases. The
closure report was accepted by the court on Friday.<br />
“But now after finding that the system cannot be changed, we decided not to pursue it further,” Girhotra said.<br />
Ruchika’s disillusioned father said that he had presented a lot of
material and some witnesses related to the fresh cases before the
agency. “But the agency was adamant on closing the case.”<br />
Subhash forced his son and family into exile after Ruchika’s death,
fearing further harassment at the hands of the former DGP. During this
period, the family shifted between several cities and returned to
Panchkula many years later only to lead an inconspicuous life.<br />
The third case against Rathore- abetment to suicide – is still
pending. The CBI could not file any report as the Punjab and Haryana
high court has ordered status quo on it. Besides Rathore, former Ambala
SP KP Singh, sub-inspector Prem Dutt and assistant sub-inspectors Jai
Narayan and Sewa Singh were also named in the FIR.<br />
In its closure report, the CBI has said that the allegations levelled
by Subhash Girhotra and his son Ashu against Rathore were unfounded.
The CBI also claimed that the allegations could not be substantiated “as
per the documentary evidence and oral testimony of witnesses.”<br />
<strong>Ruchika Case—Timeline</strong><br />
August 12, 1990– SPS Rathore, then IG and President, Haryana Lawn Tennis Association (HLTA) molested Ruchika<br />
September 1990–Ruchika expelled from school for ‘indiscipline’ following her allegations against Rathore<br />
September 3, 1990– An Inquiry report indicts Rathore<br />
October 23, 1993– Ruchika’s brother arrested in several theft cases<br />
December 28, 1993– Ruchika consumed poisonous substance<br />
December 29, 1993– Ruchika died<br />
August 21, 1998– High Court directs CBI to conduct inquiry<br />
December 21, 2009– CBI court sentenced six months’ rigorous imprisonment to Rathore<br />
January 12, 2010– CBI registered three fresh FIRs leveling charges of
attempt to murder, abetment to suicide and doctoring documents<br />
November 10, 2010– CBI filed closure<br />
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<strong>Civic polls to be held within six months in Puducherry</strong><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/civic-polls-to-be-held-within-six-months-in-puducherry/1006728.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/civic-polls-to-be-held-within-six-months-in-puducherry/1006728.html</a><br />
PTI | 06:06 PM,Jun 02,2012<br />
Puducherry, Jun 2 (PTI) The State Election Commission in Puducherry
has launched steps to conduct civic polls in six months in keeping with
the directives of Madras High court. The term of office of all the civic
bodies ended in July last year and have since been officially
administered. The High court gave the directive to Puducherry
administration in March this year to hold civic polls within six months
in a PIL filed by CPI-M’s Puducherry unit seeking posting of the State
Election Commissioner and holding of polls. The SEC had since been
appointed and former Secretary to Lt Governor R.Udipta Ray has taken
charge as SEC. Officer on Special duty (Civic elections) K.Uthaman said
in a release that the electoral rolls for the civic polls would be
prepared on the basis of the voters list published by the Election
Department for the last Assembly polls here. The Union Territory had the
first civic polls in June/July 2006 after 38 years under the Puducherry
Municipalities and Village and Commune Panchayat Act of 1973.
N.Rangasamy, the present Chief Minister heading the AINRC government,
had headed the Congress ministry in 2006 when the last civic polls were
held here.<br />
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<td>A woman along with her paramour and one of his accomplice were today
convicted by a sessions court here for killing her husband six year
ago.
Additional District and Sessions Judge, Rajinder Singh Rai, held Neki
Nalwa, her alleged paramour Himmat Singh Brandy and accomplice
Paramveer Singh guilty of the murder.<br />
Quantum of sentence will be announced on Monday.<br />
It was on December 4, 2005, when Sukhwinderjit Singh, an engineer in
his late 20s, was shot dead while he was taking a walk with his wife
near their residence in Sector 69.<br />
Victim’s aged parents had registered the case and fought a sustained battle for justice.<br />
Ever since they were arrested on December 7, 2005, Neki along with
Brandy, both in their early 30s, had been lodged in Patiala Central
Jail.<br />
However, Paramveer, who was accused of providing cartridge used in the crime, was out on bail.<br />
Though she had been claiming innocence, Neki had been denied bail repeatedly by the High Court as well as the sessions court.</td>
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Court orders inquiry against cop for helping relatives</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Court-orders-inquiry-against-cop-for-helping-relatives/articleshow/13758700.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Court-orders-inquiry-against-cop-for-helping-relatives/articleshow/13758700.cms</a><br />
Soumittra S Bose, TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 06.20AM IST<br />
NAGPUR: Ad hoc district and additional sessions judge KL Vyas has come down heavily on a sub-inspector of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nandanvan-police">Nandanvan police</a>
station for falsely implicating three youths in a case of kidnapping to
help his relatives who were upset over one of them proposing to a girl
of the family. The cop also got help from a woman prosecutor who was a
relative.<br />
The court has asked the city police chief to conduct an enquiry
against PSI CT Maske within three months of the judgment which was
passed on April 30. Interestingly, Maske was promoted as assistant
police inspector (API) and transferred to Bhandara a couple of months
ago.<br />
The court was shocked to learn that in the chargesheet Maske had shown that the accused Sachin and his brother <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nitin-Bhagwat">Nitin Bhagwat</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pawan-Naik">Pawan Naik</a> were produced before the judicial <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/magistrate">magistrate</a>
first class (JMFC) on December 4 in 2009 even before they were
arrested. The court observed that as per the arrest panchanama the three
were produced before JMFC at 3pm while they were taken into the custody
at 4pm later that day.<br />
The case was about a teenager who was forcibly married after being
kidnapped in November 2009. The court trashed the case after discovering
that the incident of alleged kidnapping and subsequent marriage took
place with the consent of the victim who was studying engineering at a
private college at Wanadongri in Hingna.<br />
It was after Sonali (name changed) returned after spending a month
with Sachin that her family took Maske’s help to book the boy and the
other two on trumped up charges.<br />
Sonali’s family is a distant relative of Maske who got help from Nandini Thete, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/advocate">advocate</a>
who assisted prosecution. Thate was the cop’s cousin. The court also
observed that the five witnesses in the case were all from the same
family, which included the teenager who was supposedly kidnapped, her
uncle and parents.<br />
The court pulled up Maske for conducting a shoddy investigation and
sending the three to jail where they spent more than 10 days. While
Maske recorded in his FIR that Sonali was kidnapped from Nandanvan while
on way to college, her mother stated that her daughter was picked up
from Kelvad while she was taking a walk. In her statement, Sonali had
claimed that she was taken away from college.<br />
The court criticized Maske for not verifying the place of kidnapping
or where the girl was kept and the marriage solemnized. ‘Bogus and false
case prepared in collusion with the family of the complainant with the
help of their relatives and authorities concerned’ is what the court
observed. The court also pointed out that the girl’s age was 19 years on
the day of kidnapping and not 17 years as what Maske had mentioned.<br />
The court also underlined the fact that the case was not only false
and malicious but was also investigated in contrary to the provisions
laid in law.<br />
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Man gets death penalty for rape, murder of 7-year-old</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Man-gets-death-penalty-for-rape-murder-of-7-year-old/articleshow/13750510.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Man-gets-death-penalty-for-rape-murder-of-7-year-old/articleshow/13750510.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 01.54AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: A <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/trial-court">trial court</a>
has sentenced a person to death for raping a seven-year-old girl before
killing her, as it stressed the need for courts to have <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/zero-tolerance">zero tolerance</a> for crimes against children.<br />
Additional sessions judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau handed out the death penalty to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay-Kumar">Sanjay Kumar</a>
Valmiki, a resident of Haiderpur in north Delhi, saying there was only
one sentence for a person convicted of raping and killing a child. The
court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,61,000 on the convict stipulating
that, if recovered, Rs 1 lakh should be given as compensation to the
victim’s family.<br />
Valmiki had raped and murdered the minor last year at the NDPL office
in the capital when the girl had gone there in search of water. The
matter came to light when the victim’s decomposed body was found from
the NDPL office’s switch gear room after two days.<br />
The court said there was a public outcry after the incident, and that
if Valmiki had fallen into the hands of the mob, he would have been
lynched. “This court cannot ignore the loud cry for justice by society
in this case involving a heinous crime of rape on an innocent child and
her grotesque killing, and will respond by imposition of proper sentence
lest people loose faith in the judicial system and take law into their
hands,” the judge said.<br />
While expressing anguish over such heinous crime, Lau said a message
should be sent to society that the judicial system in the country has
“zero tolerance” for those “who mess with children” and “a single moment
of madness can lead them to gallows”.<br />
“In a country of Gautam Buddha and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mahatma-Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>,
governed by faith believing in sacredness of all living creatures,
urging the avoidance of harm and violence and practicing ahimsa, the
convict without a moment of remorse and regret even for once murdered
the child and it is hence that the case falls in the category of rarest
of rare cases,” the judge said.<br />
The court said the convict committed an unthinkable act of ravaging
the child’s body, which even an animal won’t do. “The injures on the
body of the child, as many as 15 in number, speak volumes of the
brutality and force with which the innocent child had been battered to
death,” Lau said.<br />
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Conjugal rights cant be claimed after plaint</h1>
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/conjugal-rights-cant-be-claimed-after-plaint/263816-60-118.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/conjugal-rights-cant-be-claimed-after-plaint/263816-60-118.html</a><br />
<a href="http://newindianexpress.com/" target="_blank">T S Sekaran</a><br />
CHENNAI: A woman, who has lodged a police complaint against her
husband and in-laws alleging that they have subjected her to cruelty,
cannot expect restitution of her conjugal rights, the Madras High Court
has observed.<br />
A division bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal
made the observation on May 30 last, while granting divorce to K Ramesh
from his wife, daughter of a former MLA.<br />
Based on the complaint for offences under two sections of the IPC and
the Dowry Harassment Act, Ramesh and his parents were incarcerated in
prison for 22 days. When they applied for advance bail before the
arrest, the wife had also gone to the extent of filing an intervening
petition opposing grant of any relief to them. They were, however,
acquitted of the charges by the Sessions Court/Mahila Court after 22
days of detention in prison, the bench noted.<br />
“All these acts by the wife clearly constituted mental cruelty meted
out to the husband and his parents, who admittedly would have undergone a
traumatic experience and humiliating affairs in the social circle.�
Certainly it would amount to causing cruelty to the husband and fall
within the ambit and purview of cruelty and therefore, the husband is
entitled to get the relief of divorce,” the bench said after listening
to the arguments of senior advocate P Wilson.<br />
When there was a love lost between the husband, his parents and the
wife, it was not the prudent course of action for the wife to file a
petition seeking restitution of conjugal rights nearly two years after
Ramesh filed the petition for divorce and on that basis it was
inequitable for the court of law to grant her relief, the bench
observed.<br />
The bench added that the marriage between the parties had become
emotionally dead and the marriage tie betwen them had irretrievably
broken down. Moreover, the element of separation between the parties
unerringly pointed out that there was an intention to bring cohabitation
parmanently to an end and the differences of opinion between the
spouses were not to be considered as temporary passions or the normal
wear and tear troubles/problems in family life.<br />
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Man awarded 6 years’ jail term</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Man-awarded-6-years-jail-term/articleshow/13753167.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Man-awarded-6-years-jail-term/articleshow/13753167.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 03.29AM IST<br />
DARBHANGA: The court of the adhoc additional district and sessions
judge (ADJ)-4, Darbhanga, Sunil Kumar Singh on Thursday sentenced one,
Md Munna, of Harlakhi village in Madhubani district to six years
imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for drugging a train passenger, Md
Rizwan, at Darbhanga railway station on May 1,2008, making him
unconscious and robbing him of all his belongings.<br />
According to Darbhanga PP B K Singh, when Rizwan of Bisfi village in
Madhubani district got down from the train at Darbhanga station for
going onwards to his village, Munna befriended him and offered tea mixed
with an intoxicating drug. The accused hired a rickshaw and he, along
with the victim, sat on it and reached Ahilapur Ghat under Bahadurpur PS
in Darbhanga district. By that time Rizwan became unconscious, all his
belongings had been looted by the accused.<br />
Meanwhile, the rickshaw-puller had raised a hue and cry. The accused
was caught by the people. Chowkidar Bishwanath Paswan lodged a case
against Munna with Bahadurpur police station. On March 31, 2009, the
court framed charges against him.<br />
The prosecution presented 12 persons as witnesses in this case during
trial. The court held Munna guilty on May 29 and announced the quantum
of punishment on Thursday. Munna has been in judicial custody since May
1, 2008.<br />
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Custody extended for Kazmi; Delhi Police get 90 days more for probe</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3483945.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3483945.ece</a><br />
Staff Reporter<br />
Investigation will now extend to foreign countries, say police<br />
A court here on Saturday allowed a police plea seeking extension of
the custody of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi, who is suspected of
involvement in the February bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat here.<br />
Mr. Kazmi, who was arrested on March 6, would have completed 90 days in custody on June 3.<br />
The application of the Delhi Police Special Cell was moved under the
stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, which allows a suspect
to be kept in custody for 180 days from the date of arrest, during which
time a charge sheet has to be filed. Otherwise, the suspect will become
automatically eligible for bail.<br />
<strong>Remand till June 22</strong><br />
Extending judicial remand till June 22, the court also allowed the
Special Cell to continue its probe for another 90 days, while Mr. Kazmi
is kept in judicial custody. Police sources said the investigation would
now extend to some foreign countries too.<br />
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav passed the order
after stating he would have to go through the entire investigation
record to satisfy himself that investigation was progressing properly
and that a “specific reason for detention of the accused beyond 90 days
is made out.”<br />
The public prosecutor sought in-camera proceedings on the ground that
the Special Cell findings had to be protected at this stage of the
case.<br />
A police source said a Letter Rogatory was being sent to Georgia and
Israel and LRs were also being sent to Iran, Malaysia and Thailand
seeking information on the suspects, their movements and records of
mobile phone call details. A special team, besides seeking information
on mobile phone call detail records of the suspects from Georgia,
Thailand, Malaysia and Iran, will, if necessary, visit these countries.
The Delhi Police suspect that the series of blasts in India, Georgia,
and Thailand in February were targeted at Israeli diplomats and that
there was a common conspiracy.<br />
<strong>Notice to Delhi Police</strong><br />
In another development, the CMM issued notice to the police asking
them to reply to an application, filed on behalf of Mr. Kazmi, seeking a
detailed inquiry, and initiation of legal action and registering of a
criminal case against the persons responsible for “illegal
removal/possession and production of the remand papers” in the case.<br />
The application requested the court to pass an order to get the
remand papers, including original remand applications and original
orders, verified and scientifically examined by the Forensic Sciences
Laboratory to rule out forgery/manipulation.<br />
Mr. Kazmi also demanded that he be unconditionally released, saying
he was “illegally detained under the force of unsustainable orders.” He
said the remand orders could not be taken as “legal/sustainable” until
they were “examined and established upon examination by the FSL and/or
any other expert in this field”.<br />
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) S. S. Rathi had on May 25 set aside
the CMM’s May 1 order declining certified copies of the judicial/police
custody remand applications to Mr. Kazmi’s counsel, Mehmood Pracha.
After perusing the remand applications/orders, the ASJ said the CMM’s
order of March 7, granting the Special Cell 20 days’ police custody for
Mr. Kazmi, was “handwritten so poorly, that it is almost illegible.” The
remand applications/orders were initially missing, but were produced
before the ASJ, a few hours after the proceedings began, by the staff of
the CMM’s court who said the papers were misplaced in another file.<br />
<em>(With inputs from Devesh K. Pandey)</em><br />
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Indian Council for Cultural Relations ex-DG, three others face trial for trafficking</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Indian-Council-for-Cultural-Relations-ex-DG-three-others-face-trial-for-trafficking/articleshow/13750313.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Indian-Council-for-Cultural-Relations-ex-DG-three-others-face-trial-for-trafficking/articleshow/13750313.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Smriti-Singh.cms">Smriti Singh</a>, TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 01.36AM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: A former director general of Indian Council for Cultural
Relations (ICCR), along with three others, is all set to face trial with
a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/special-CBI-court">special CBI court</a> ordering the framing of charges against them for their alleged involvement in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/trafficking">trafficking</a> nine people to Germany in 2005.<br />
Special CBI judge Kanwaljeet Arora said there was “prima facie”
evidence that the accused, including Rakesh Kumar, the then DG ICCR,
misused his official position and collected ill-gotten money from the
persons who defected in Germany for including them in the “so-called
cultural group” so as to facilitate their entry into a foreign land.<br />
The court ordered framing of charges against Rakesh Kumar, Shiv Kumar
Sharma — the then Punjab Agriculture University employee, Balwinder
Bawa — a Punjabi singer, and Gurbhej Singh — constable of Punjab Armed
Police, for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy under the Indian
Penal Code.<br />
“Rakesh Kumar used his official position.. to ensure empanelment of
the group on the basis of forged documents for extraneous consideration
in cash and kind. It is further apparent.. the accused persons had
included such persons in this group, who were not the Bhangra artists
with the knowledge that they would defect as and when sent abroad for
extraneous considerations, which infact they did,” the court said while
fixing June 8 for framing of charges.<br />
A bogus cultural group ‘Mehak Punjab Di’ was formed in 2005 after
Harghulab contacted Sharma for sending his son Randeep abroad, it said.
Harghulab Singh, a Punjab-based farmer, however later turned approver
and was granted pardon.<br />
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Innocent until proven guilty</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/360-degree/innocent-until-proven-guilty-012">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/360-degree/innocent-until-proven-guilty-012</a><br />
June 3, 2012<br />
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<li>By S. Ramachandra Rao</li>
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<ins>The various charges and cases against Jagan Mohan Reddy almost
have an unknown flavour in Indian Constitutionalism. The allegations
leveled against him are that of abusing the power of office, which his
father had held for a period of six years. He allegedly benefited
enormously to the tune of several crores, the modus operandi being that
his father showed enormous favours to certain persons or concerns and
they in turn, through proxies or by themselves, made heavy investments
in the firms that were either owned or controlled by him.</ins><br />
<ins>This may or may not be true depending upon the final
adjudication by competent courts. As of today, several people may
suspect him of illegal enrichment, but there are three stages in any
case which require attention. As long as it is suspicion or as long as
such issues are raised in the media, they do not establish anything.</ins><br />
<ins>At the second stage, when a reputed investigating agency is
entrusted by the High Court to probe the allegations, several
considerations are involved and are implicit in both Constitutional law
and criminal law. Any citizen, for legal purposes, is presumed innocent
till the competent courts declare him guilty. Secondly, every citizen is
entitled, whether guilty or not, to be properly and fairly investigated
and is entitled to two things i.e. equality before law and equal
protection of laws.</ins><br />
<ins>In all the cases against Jagan, without going into the truth of
the charges levelled against him, two basic infirmities stare at us:
whether the premier investigating agency i.e. the CBI, is acting fairly
and impartially or whether it is being remotely controlled by the
Central or state governments. Secondly, whether the proceedings in court
against him by the CBI are uniform in accordance with law or whether
special procedures are being adopted for extraneous or political
considerations. </ins><br />
<ins>Suspicions apart, where cases are launched for violating the
penal provisions of the law either by way of breach of trust, conspiracy
or misappropriation of public funds, it is not for the accused to
establish that he is innocent. The presumption in law is that he is
innocent till proved guilty. That is an essential procedural safeguard
provided in criminal law and constitutional law expects fair and
non-discriminative investigation. </ins><br />
<ins>When the state or its agencies act differently, the citizen is
entitled to be protected by the principle of constitutional equality. </ins><br />
<ins>The other important aspect in these cases is that Jagan was not a
public servant till 2009, when he became an MP, which is not an office
of profit. Criminal misconduct, as defined under the Prevention of
Corruption Act, is applicable only for public servants when they hold
posts in public services. Under the Indian Penal Code, having properties
of any magnitude by any citizen is not an offence by itself; though one
is answerable under financial laws including Income Tax. There can be
no question of a citizen holding any properties, huge or small, being
charged under Criminal Misconduct of Disproportionate Assets under
Section 13 E of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, which is applicable
only to public servants. </ins><br />
<ins>If he is to be treated as a public servant, then sanction by the
appointing authority is mandatory under Section 19 of the Prevention of
Corruption Act, 1988. The Lok Sabha Speaker never gave any sanction to
proceed against Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy. As far as he is concerned, unless
the links are established, the money or properties he allegedly
possesses cannot be presumed to be tainted till established by the
courts.</ins><br />
<ins>There can be no trial and conviction of any person, either by opposing politicians or by a motivated media.</ins><br />
<ins>S. Ramachandra Rao is a senior advocate and ex-advocate general</ins><br />
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Engineer gets 10 years in jail for wife’s suicide</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3480762.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3480762.ece</a><br />
R. Sivaraman<br />
Victim agonised over his extra-marital affair<br />
A Mahila Court on Friday sentenced a software engineer to 10 years’
rigorous imprisonment (RI) for abetting his wife’s suicide, five months
after their marriage.<br />
Meena Satheesh, Judge of Mahila Court said, “Since the accused is
responsible for his wife’s suicide, merely five months into their
marriage, no leniency should be shown to him.”<br />
The Judge held S. Veeraraju alias Savakula Veeraraju (30), a software
engineer, guilty for offences under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide)
and 498 A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to
cruelty) of the Indian Penal code.<br />
She sentenced him to three years’ RI and imposed a fine of Rs. 5,000
under section 498 A, and ten years’ RI and a fine of Rs. 20,000 under
section 306.<br />
He will have to serve the maximum term of 10 years.<br />
According to the prosecution, Veeraraju tied the knot with Durgambika
in Andhra Pradesh on June 15, 2006 even though he was in a relationship
with another woman. Three days after the wedding, he left for
Bangalore, where he worked as a software engineer.<br />
From there, he contacted his wife and informed her about his
intention to continue his extra-marital relationship. Following this,
Durgambika left for her parents’ home. A few months later, when
Veeraraju was transferred to Chennai, Durgambika’s father brought her
back but the couple failed to make their marriage work.<br />
Unable to bear the agony, Durgambika consumed poison on November 2,
2006, and died the next day, the prosecution said. Her father then
lodged a complaint with the police.<br />
In her order, the Judge said it was clear that the deceased was
mentally harassed by the accused and hence, deserving of the punishment.<br />
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Acharya to go on trial</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/acharya-go-trial-001">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/acharya-go-trial-001</a><br />
June 3, 2012<br />
<ins> Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday gave the
go-ahead for prosecuting senior IAS official B.P. Acharya while denying
the same for Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Executive Officer L.V.
Subramanyam. The Chief Minister met advocate-general A. Sudarshan Reddy
on Saturday morning and held a detailed discussion on the matter before
taking the decision. </ins><br />
<ins>Mr Acharya, who is already in jail and is facing charges under
various sections of the Indian Penal Code, would now have to face
charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Sources said that the
Chief Minister, after careful and extensive examination of the material
furnished by the CBI and the response from the concerned officer (Mr
Acharya), decided to recommend to the Governm-ent of India for
prosecution of the IAS officer under the Prevention of Corruption Act.</ins><br />
<ins>Regarding Mr L.V. Subramanyam, the Chief Minister, after perusal
of relevant records, decided not to recommend permission for
prosecution. The CBI had also sought permission to initiate prosecution
proceedings against Mr Subramanyam. According to Section 197 (1) of the
CrPC, permission is must before the investigating agency proceeds to
prosecute an official under the Prevention of Corruption Act.</ins><br />
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<strong>Man sentenced to 3 years imprisonment</strong><br />
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/man-sentenced-to-3-years-imprisonment/1006681.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/man-sentenced-to-3-years-imprisonment/1006681.html</a><br />
PTI | 04:06 PM,Jun 02,2012<br />
Madurai, Jun 2 (PTI) A Magistrate court here has sentenced a person
to three years imprisonment for issuing fake documents to enable some
accused get bail. Judicial Magistrate Umamaheshwari said the accused had
helped anti-social elements and had made the entire judiciary a
laughing stock. The Magistrate sentenced him to three years imprisonment
under five IPC sections including cheating, forgery and cheating the
judiciary and said the sentences would run concurrently. Ravichandran
was arrested on December 21,2004,when he was moving around suspiciously
at Koodalnagar.Seals of village administrative officers and that of the
panchayat President and other officials were seized. He had issued fake
property tax receipt, patta and ration card to enable some accused get
bail.<br />
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AP HC dismisses Jagan petition against arrest</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/ap-hc-dismisses-jagan-petition-against-arrest-032">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/ap-hc-dismisses-jagan-petition-against-arrest-032</a><br />
June 3, 2012 <ins></ins><br />
<ins>The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Saturday justified the arrest
of YSR Congress party president and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy in
the illegal investments case by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
While dismissing a writ and also a criminal petition by Jagan seeking
declaration of his arrest as illegal, Justice B. Chandra Kumar said that
there was nothing mala fide in the arrest of the petitioner.</ins><br />
<ins>Jagan Mohan Reddy had alleged that the CBI had arrested him
under political pressure from Delhi to prevent him from taking part in
the election campaign in the ensuing by-polls. The judge said that the
CBI had arrested the accused fearing that he would influence witnesses
and tamper with evidence by misusing his position as MP and party
president. The judge said that there was evidence for the apprehension
of the CBI as some of the witnesses who were prepared to depose against
the accused in the case, had refused to give their statement before the
magistrate. The CBI has shown the case dairies to the court in this
regard, the judge added. </ins><br />
<ins>The judge dismissed the pleas of Jagathi Publication, V. Vijaya
Sai Reddy and Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy seeking a direction from the court
to declare the action of the CBI court as illegal, by taking cognisance
of the CBI chargesheets in the case. The judge also dismissed the pleas
by Jagathi Publications by issuing a summons in the case.</ins><br />
<strong><ins>HC: No interim bail plea from Jagan pending </ins></strong><ins><br />
Justice B. Chandra Kumar of AP High Court on Saturday made it clear that
no application is pending before the court to grant interim bail to YSR
Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and let him participate in
the election campaign. While allowing a plea by the CBI, seeking a
direction to set aside the CBI court’s order in remanding Jagan Reddy
under Section 309 of CrPC, Justice Kumar observed that the question of
granting interim bail dose not arise since there was no application from
the petitioner. </ins><br />
<ins>Section 309 of CrPC specifies that a trial court should remand
an accused after completion of probe and taking cognizance of offence,
while Section 167(2) CrPC stipulates a trial court to remand an accused
till the probe is over. Setting aside the CBI court’s order, Justice
Kumar remanded Jagan under Section 167(2) of CrPC.</ins><br />
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<h1>
HC seeks reply on tiger task force delay</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/HC-seeks-reply-on-tiger-task-force-delay/articleshow/13753339.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/HC-seeks-reply-on-tiger-task-force-delay/articleshow/13753339.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 03.34AM IST<br />
LUCKNOW: Taking cognizance of three tiger deaths in UP within a week,
the high court has asked the Central and state governments to explain
why the proposed <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Special-Task-Force">Special Task Force</a> for protection of tigers in the national parks not been constituted yet.<br />
The court has also directed state government to set up the task force before July first week.<br />
The court will hear the case in July first week.<br />
The order was passed by a division bench of Justice Uma Nath Singh
and Justice VK Dixit on a PIL seeking directions to the government for
constitution of the force.<br />
The Central government’s counsel told the court that the Centre has
released the funds and now the onus is on the state to set up the task
force.<br />
The idea of setting up a dedicated tiger protection force was mooted by Prime Minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh">Manmohan Singh</a> on November 5, 2007. Dudhwa, along with 16 tiger reserves in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a>, Karnataka, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a>,
Assam, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Bihar was nominated to be manned by the
special task force to accord protection to the dwindling population of
big cats against rampant poaching.<br />
The task force will comprise forest guards and locals. Besides
shortage of forest guards, most of them are old too, said sources.<br />
Dudhwa, in 2008, was sanctioned one company of 120 trained personnel
for STF. The company was to be headed by an assistant commandant, deemed
to be at par with an assistant superintendent of police.<br />
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was expected to bear
the expenses for arms and vehicles for patrolling and other logistics
involved.<br />
The specialised force was to be recruited by the state home
department as per the rules and regulation finalised by the state
government and the Centre. Its recruitment and deployment was meant to
be confined to man the tiger belt alone. The state government was to
make arrangements for training of the personnel and setting up the
infrastructural support required.<br />
Meanwhile, additional advocate general, UP, Zafaryab Jilani said he
would seek instructions from the state government on the issue.<br />
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Finally, Italian naval guards out of jail on bail</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Finally-Italian-naval-guards-out-of-jail-on-bail/articleshow/13755043.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Finally-Italian-naval-guards-out-of-jail-on-bail/articleshow/13755043.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 3, 2012, 04.34AM IST<em></em><br />
KOCHI: Two <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Italian-naval-guards">Italian naval guards</a> arrested in connection with the February 15 high-sea killing of two Indian fishermen were released on bail on Saturday.<br />
The naval guards — <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Massimiliano-Latorre">Massimiliano Latorre</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Salvatore-Girone">Salvatore Girone</a>
— left the borstal school, where they had been lodged since May 25.
They were shifted from the central prison in Poojappura,
Thiruvananthapuram, to the school following Italy’s request. The
Italians, who left the school around 9.30pm on Saturday, would be
staying at Trident Hotel in Willington until the completion of the
trial.<br />
The marines of Italian navy’s San Marco regiment, who were taken to a
judicial first class magistrate court in Kollam, were returned to the
borstal school in the evening. Later a team of officials, including
consul general Giampalo Cuttilo, followed them to Kochi with the bail
bond.<br />
They were released after Italy, on behalf of the naval guards,
furnished a surety of Rs 1 crore. While pronouncing the bail conditions,
the HC had directed them to reside within 10km from <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Office">the office</a>
of the Kochi police commissioner. They were also ordered to report to
the police commissioner’s office daily. The Italians were part of the
security personnel on board the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Enrica-Lexie">Enrica Lexie</a>.
The naval guards had opened fire at St Antony, an Indian boat,
reportedly mistaking its crew for pirates. Fishermen Ajesh Pink and
Valentine were killed in the incident.<br />
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<strong>Reserve 25 pc for poor in every class: HC</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254118/reserve-25-pc-poor-every.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254118/reserve-25-pc-poor-every.html</a><br />
Ashish Tripathi, June 2, 2012, New Delhi:<br />
<strong>Schools admitting new students to any class will have to
reserve 25 per cent of their seats for children belonging to weaker
sections and disadvantaged group following the mandate of the Right to
Education (RTE) Act, the Delhi High Court has held.</strong><br />
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</strong><strong></strong>A bench comprising acting Chief Justice A K
Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw passed the order after a PIL
(public interest litigation) was filed by an NGO apprehending that
schools making admissions were not following the reservation criterion
set by the RTE Act. The court had also sought clarification from the
Department of Education (DoE) regarding reservation of seats in schools.<br />
The bench further explained that the schools, which are imparting
pre-school education, would have to provide 25 per cent reservation to
children belonging to EWS and disadvantaged groups at the pre-school
level.<br />
The schools, which do not have pre-school education and are admitting
children in class I, should provide 25 per cent reservation to children
belonging to weaker section and dis-advantaged groups.The bench also
pointed that the interpretation given by it was in consonance with the
historic judgment the Supreme Court upholding the Constitutional
validity of the RTE Act. The Act is to be applied from the academic year
2012-13.<br />
NGO Social Jurist approached the court seeking direction for enforcement of certain facets of the RTE Act.<br />
It referred to an order issued by Delhi government’s Director of
Education (DOE) on May 18, which had deferred the direction to schools
for filling vacant seats under the EWS and disadvantaged category in
classes other than pre-school and pre-primary, till receipt of
clarifications from the Union government’s Ministry of Human Resource
Development.<br />
The NGO contended such a deferment would delay the admission to other
classes, till beyond the beginning of the academic session, and would
lead to the seats remaining vacant for the current academic year.<br />
The DOE submitted that the unaided schools were interpreting the
provision of the Act to mean that they are obliged to admit students
belonging to EWS and disadvantaged group at entry level only and not at
any other level, even if they were making admission at any other levell.<br />
The court clarified the position making it mandatory for the schools
to follow the Act by directing them to admit students from that group at
each level and not confine it to only at entry level.<br />
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Truthful in mosque, not in court: HC calls it sin</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/truthful-in-mosque-not-in-court-hc-calls-it-sin/957188/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/truthful-in-mosque-not-in-court-hc-calls-it-sin/957188/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/utkarshanand/">Utkarsh Anand</a> : New Delhi, Sun Jun 03 2012, 01:56 hrs<br />
HE was a ‘truthful’ man who never lied when in a mosque, but in a court of law he withheld the truth — on two occasions.<br />
The Delhi High Court has held Mohd Shamim guilty of contempt of court and called his lying in court a “sin”.<br />
“For those who believe in God, God is omnipresent in whatever form
and it is the inevitable truth. Thus, for the believers of God, He is
present in every form, all pervasive and ubiquitous — in the mosque as
well as in court and more importantly in our hearts,” said Justice
Kailash Gambhir.<br />
The judge noted that courts are often referred to as “temples of
justice” and asked “how one can be untruthful before the temple of
justice, and be truthful at the place of worship,” said Justice Gambhir.<br />
Shamim and his brother have been embroiled in a dispute, which was
resolved with the latter agreeing to pay Rs 5 lakh in settlement. While
the brother claimed that he had made a payment of Rs 1 lakh in March
this year, Shamim refused to acknowledge the receipt and moved the
court. In the court, both the brothers stuck to their claims and swore
by the Quran.<br />
Perplexed, the court by an unusual order on May 21 sent both of them
to a nearby mosque to record their statements. A senior advocate and a
Delhi Police DCP were appointed as court commissioners. While his
brother reiterated about the compromise and having given Rs 1 lakh,
Shamim took a U-turn and agreed in the mosque that he had received the
money.<br />
But once back in court, Shamim went back on his statement again and said no compromise was reached between him and his brother.<br />
Incensed by his lies, the court issued to him a show-cause notice for
contempt of court. Even though Shamim tendered an apology, the judge
refused to let his act go unpunished, wondering how a litigant could lie
in the court after swearing in the name of the God and speak otherwise
in a place of worship.<br />
“What is lamentable and pricks the conscience of this court is that
the decree holder (Shamim) differentiated between the court and the
mosque as if God is present only in the mosque and not in the courts,”
said Justice Gambhir.<br />
“The decree holder while swearing in the name of God in the courtroom
not once but twice spoke untruth. But while in mosque he spoke the
truth, which has not only perverted the course of justice but also
questioned the sanctity of the oath administered in the court. The
importance of the virtue of truthfulness is intrinsic in all religions
and there can be no religion or scripture that does not tell us to speak
the truth at all times,” said the court, putting the matter in July for
pronouncing the punishment against Shamim.<br />
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HC suspends judge dealing with CBI cases</h1>
<a href="http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250102130">http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250102130</a><br />
Hyderabad, Jun 1 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh High Court has placed First
Additional Special Judge for CBI cases– T Pattabhirama Rao under
suspension after considering some information it received against the
judge.<br />
Incidentally, the judge had granted bail to former Karnataka Minister
Gali Janardhan Reddy in the OMC illegal mining case last month, while
he had rejected bail to IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, another accused in the
OMC scam.<br />
Though, following an appeal by the CBI, the High Court had kept under
suspension till June 5 the orders on granting bail to Gali.<br />
Registrar General (Vigilance), who issued the order in this regard
last night, said after considering the information received against the
judge, the High Court decided that it was necessary to place him under
suspension in public interest, with immediate effect.<br />
While suspending Pattabhirama, the order further said he shall
continue to be under suspension till the conclusion of the disciplinary
proceedings proposed to be initiated.<br />
Suspending the judge under Rule 8(1) of the AP Civil Services
(CC&A) Rules, 1991, the HC further directed that Pattabhirama shall
not leave Hyderabad without obtaining prior permission from it during
the period the order remains in force.<br />
Pattabhirama was appointed CBI court judge in April this year after
three Additional Special CBI courts were opened at Gagan Vihar here.<br />
In view of the development, Principal Judge for CBI cases, A
Pullaiah, has been placed in full additional charge of the post of the
First Additional Special Judge for CBI cases, the order said.<br />
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<strong>Appointment in commissions arbitrary, politically motivated: Shailesh Gandhi</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Appointment-in-commissions-arbitrary-politically-motivated-Shailesh-Gandhi/Article1-865051.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Appointment-in-commissions-arbitrary-politically-motivated-Shailesh-Gandhi/Article1-865051.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Chetan%20Chauhan&op=Story">Chetan Chauhan</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br />
New Delhi, June 02, 2012<br />
<a href="mailto:chetan@hindustantimes.com?Subject=Appointment%20in%20commissions%20arbitrary,%20politically%20motivated:%20Shailesh%20Gandhi">Email to Author</a><br />
Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has taken a dig at the
government for the way commissioners are appointed and his own
organization — the Central Information Commission — for slow disposal of
cases.<br />
Gandhi an IIT Mumbai Alumuni and the only non-bureaucrat in the CIC will <ins>retire
on July 6. In his five years in the CIC, Gandhi had taken several
initiatives in the commission including prescribing minimum limit of
3,500 for each commissioner to dispose cases in a year and citizen
charter.</ins><br />
Before parting ways, Gandhi had questioned the way government
appoints commissioners in commissions including CIC are appointed and
parameters to evaluate their performance. “The way commissioners are
appointed is totally arbitrary, politically motivated and non
productive,” he told Hindustan Times in an interview.<br />
While there is a process to appoint lower rank officials in these
commissions, there is no such system for commissioners. “If there is no
accountability these commissions will fail the citizens,” he said.<br />
It truly holds for the CIC, which is mandated to ensure that citizens
get information from the government in time. But, Gandhi feels that the
present pace of disposal of cases the information commissions will fail
to meet expectations of citizens.<br />
“As per my calculation, there will be a backlog of around 80,000
cases in next four to five years. It will mean an appeal is heard after
three years and by that time the information would have lost value for
the citizen. There is a need to ensure that the citizen gets information
fast or else the RTI will die,” he said.<br />
To prevent death of the transparency law, Gandhi suggested that an
information commissioner should dispose off 6,000 cases a year — as
compared to existing CIC criteria of 3,200 per year —- and have people
interested in their job to be appointed as commissioners.<br />
He, however, refused to blame retired bureaucrats in the information
commissions for slow pace of disposal of cases. “Even journalists in
many states have a poor track record,” he said, that information
commissions having journalists in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh is
taking years to dispose off the cases.<br />
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Apex court stays order in Karnataka cop’s case</h1>
<a href="http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/06/01/308--Apex-court-stays-order-in-Karnataka-cop-s-case-.html">http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/06/01/308–Apex-court-stays-order-in-Karnataka-cop-s-case-.html</a><br />
Nd,Crime/Disaster/Accident,Immigration/Law/Rights, Fri, 01 Jun 2012 IANS<br />
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) In a relief to former Karnataka police chief
Shankar Mahadev Bidari, the Supreme Court Friday stayed the high court
order of May 28 holding as illegal his appointment to the top post.<br />
Bidari had moved the high court challenging the March 16 order of the
Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) quashing his appointment as head
of the state police.<br />
Bidari moved the high court for a second time after the apex court April 24 sent the matter back to it.<br />
CAT had quashed the appointment of Bidari, holding that the entire
material about him was not placed before the Union Public Service
commission when it prepared a penal of three senior most officials for
the appointment of state DGP and IGP.<br />
The high court had dismissed the plea by Bidari challenging the high court order.<br />
An apex court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice C.K.
Prasad, while staying the May 28 order of the high court, left it to the
state government to appoint anyone as state police chief.<br />
The court stayed the high court order after it was told by senior
counsel Gopal Subramanium that there was nothing adverse against Bidari
during his service career.<br />
This included alleged atrocities committed by some personnel of the
Special Task Force on tribals during a joint operation against
sandalwood smuggler Veerappan.<br />
Subramanium told the court that the entire question involved “far reaching question of law”.<br />
He told the court that Indian Police Service officers were governed
by the All India Service rules and the high court had held that there
was new jurisprudence to deal such cases following an apex court
judgment.<br />
Subramanium told the court that both in the report of Justice
Sadasivam and that of NHRC there was no prima facie adverse comments
against Bidari.<br />
The counsel said that after ordering compensation to the tribal
victims, the NHRC closed the case as there was nothing to proceed
against Bidari.<br />
When the court inquired if there was anything against Bidari in the
Justice Sadasivam report, Subramanium said: “Not even a word.”<br />
Subramanium told the court that the joint task force of Tamil Nadu
and Karnataka police was headed by Tamil Nadu’s Walter I. Dawaram and
Bidari was his deputy.<br />
Subramanium told the court that Bidari was appointed the state DGP
and IGP in November 2011. Under the apex court guidelines in Prakash
Singh case he has two years tenure that would end in November 2013.<br />
The senior counsel told the court that reinstatementof Bidari as DGP
of the state police would not unsettle anyone as the earlier officiating
DGP A.R. Infant retired May 31.<br />
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Sakshi Ads: Hearing of Govts plea on June 11</h1>
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sakshi-ads-hearing-of-govts-plea-on-june-11/263215-60-121.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sakshi-ads-hearing-of-govts-plea-on-june-11/263215-60-121.html</a><br />
<a href="http://newindianexpress.com/" target="_blank">Express News Service</a><br />
HYDERABAD: The High Court on Wednesday adjourned to June 11 hearing
on the writ appeal filed by the state government questioning the single
judge’s order suspending ban on release of advertisements to Jagati
Publications and Indira Television which run Sakshi newspaper and TV
channel.<br />
When the appeal came up for hearing an adjournment was sought on
behalf of the petitioner’s counsel and the vacation bench comprising
justices B Chandra Kumar and KG Shankar adjourned the case.<br />
<em>�Ex-journalist’s appeal admitted</em><br />
HYDERABAD: A vacation bench of the HC comprising justices B
Seshasayana Reddy and KG Shankar on Wednesday admitted a writ appeal
filed by former journalist Sunil Reddy questioning the order of a single
judge who had set aside the pardon granted in his favour in a criminal
case of forgery.<br />
�The appellant is accused of forging the signature of an MP and for
making allegations against DGP V Dinesh Reddy. The prosecution said he
had done it at the instance of senior IPS officer Umesh Kumar.<br />
<em>Grant bail to Tara, HC tells Lower Court</em><br />
HYDERABAD: Justice B Chandra Kumar of the High Court directed the
criminal court dealing with the case of Tara Chowdary alias Rajeshwari,
arrested in a prostitution case, to grant her bail as the prosecution
had failed to file a chargesheet within the prescribed period (60 days).
Tara was arrested in a prostitution case last month.<br />
The Criminal Procedure Code provides for grant of bail when a chargesheet is not filed within the prescribed period.<br />
The judge, however, made it clear that the lower court, while granting bail, would be free to impose such terms.<br />
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Court stays food safety norms</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/court-stays-food-safety-norms-436">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/court-stays-food-safety-norms-436</a><br />
May 31, 2012<br />
<ins> The Madras high court has stayed the operation of the newly
prescribed regulations of the Food Safety and Standards Authority
(FSSAI) pertaining to licensing and registration of food business on
Thursday.</ins><br />
<ins>Vacation judge K. Venkataraman granted the stay, while passing
interim orders on writ petitions filed by the Tamil Nadu Hotels
Association in Egmore and others. </ins><br />
<ins>The regulations among other things, defined petty food
manufacturer by prescribing an annual turnover and imposed certain other
restrictions and the petitioners contended the new regulations were
impracticable.</ins><br />
<ins>Advocate G. Sankaran, appearing for them said when section 31(2)
of the FSSAI’s licensing and registration of food business act of 2011
defined petty manufacturer only with reference to the nature and scale
of business, the regulation could not put restrictions in the name of
annual turnover. </ins><br />
<ins>“Therefore, the regulation was inconsistent with the provisions of the main Act 34 of 2006.<br />
The judge said since an interim stay had already been granted by the
Madurai bench of the Madras high court, there should be an order of
interim stay on these petitions too. </ins><br />
<ins>On admission of the petitions, the judge ordered notice to the
Union ministry of health and family welfare and the commissioner of food
safety of Tamil Nadu, returnable in three weeks. </ins><br />
<ins>The petitioners prayed that the court declare as
unconstitutional, unreasonable and arbitrary, the provisions and the
regulations framed by the FSSAI under Sec. </ins><br />
<ins>92 of Article 34 of 2006 in 2001 with regard to licensing and registration of food business and food additives.</ins><br />
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No need for fresh PG dental counselling, says HC bench</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/No-need-for-fresh-PG-dental-counselling-says-HC-bench/articleshow/13696205.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/No-need-for-fresh-PG-dental-counselling-says-HC-bench/articleshow/13696205.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 04.50AM IST<br />
BANGALORE: The division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen
on Thu8rsda y set aside the single be8nch order asking the Con8sortium
of Medical, Engin8eering and Dental Colleges in Karnataka (ComedK) to go
in for fresh counselling for post-graduate dental courses.<br />
“When an overwhelming majority of candidates have already
meticulously complied with all the stipulations, the single bench has
re-written the conditions and this is impermissible,” the bench has
observed while allowing the writ appeal challenging the May 25 order.<br />
The division bench said that the petitioners, who were educated, knew
that there would be multiple aspirants for each seat and hence should
have complied with all the stipulations.<br />
It said that it was debatable that the examination system determined
the students’ merit. “There is always an element of luck. The CBSE %is
presently considering not placing total reliance on one exam and instead
take into account the students’ record in the previous academic year.
The petitioners may %understandably be disappointed, but to think that
their rights have been infringed upon is a misnomer. Courts cannot
always ensure the redressal of every nuance of grievance,” the bench has
observed.<br />
Dr.Amritha Chakroborty and 11 others, all top rankers, had moved the
high court after ComedK disallowed them from participating in
counselling on the ground that the counterfoils they had produced did
not carry the seals / signatures of the bank, and in some cases the
demand drafts produced were not that of nationalised banks.<br />
The single bench while allowing their petition had directed ComedK to
hold re-counseling to all the 200-odd seat s citing that merit cannot
be overlooked as petitioners we8re ranked between 4 and 200.<br />
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High court to hear on authority of Lokayukta on July 10</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/High-court-to-hear-on-authority-of-Lokayukta-on-July-10/articleshow/13695449.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/High-court-to-hear-on-authority-of-Lokayukta-on-July-10/articleshow/13695449.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 03.08AM IST<br />
ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday has posted a petition questioning the authority of UP <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lokayukta">Lokayukta</a>
in continuing in the office on July 10. A division bench of Justice
Sunil Ambwani and Justice Aditya Nath Mittal has also asked the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-government">state government</a> to furnish the details before the court in this regard.<br />
The petition filed by Mukul Upadhyaya, Member of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Legislative-Council">Legislative Council</a>
sought issuance of a writ of quo warranto as to under which authority
Justice NK Mehrotra was holding the post, who had approached to the High
Court, seeking quo-warranto, directing NK Mehrotra, Lokayukta Uttar
Pradesh to show cause as to under which authority of law he is
continuing to hold the office and drawing salary and allowances.<br />
The petitioner has also challenged the new ordinance number 1 of 2012
whereby Justice Mehrotra’s term has been extended. The petitioner
contended that the ordinance was issued in contravention of the
constitutional provisions and hence Justice Mehrotra should be
restrained forthwith from his functioning as Lokayukta.<br />
Additional advocate general, CB Yadav assisted by Ramanand Pandey,
standing counsel contested the petitioner’s plea stating that the
petition was not maintainable because the petitioner has bias against
Justice Mehrotra.<br />
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Set up panel to monitor city traffic, says HC</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/set-up-panel-to-monitor-city-traffic-says-hc/956357/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/set-up-panel-to-monitor-city-traffic-says-hc/956357/0</a><br />
: Fri Jun 01 2012, 00:52 hrs<br />
The Bombay High Court recently directed the appointment of a
ten-member high-power committee (HPC) headed by the Additional Chief
Secretary (Home) to monitor the city’s traffic and suggest ways to
improve its management.<br />
“ …it appears to the court that it would be in the fitness of things
to appoint a high-power committee to monitor the traffic situation in
Mumbai and suggest the required corrective and remedial measures for
ensuring smooth and disciplined vehicular as well as pedestrian
traffic,” Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar observed.<br />
The state government has been asked to appoint the committee by June
7. The committee will also include the principal secretaries of the
Urban Development and Transport departments, the transport commissioner
of Maharashtra, Joint Commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Development Authority (MMRDA), Additional Municipal Commissioner
(Roads), Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), an office-bearer of the
Western India Automobile Association and two citizens of Mumbai. The
committee has been asked to submit its report to the court within three
months.<br />
Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Vivek Phansalkar had informed
the High Court that the police department would fill up the 676 vacant
posts for constables and head constables within two months. He added
that the technology used for traffic signals and CCTV cameras installed
across the city would also be upgraded.<br />
The court was hearing a PIL filed by the Bombay Bar Association (BBA)
and the Western India Automobile Association seeking greater traffic
safety and strict adherence of traffic norms in the city. The case has
been adjourned till August 2.<br />
In an affidavit submitted by the state government in February, the
High Court was told, “After a delegation of officers visited London to
study the operation of CCTV cameras for traffic management there, a
proposal regarding the installation of more than 5,000 cameras is on the
anvil. It is expected that these cameras will be operational within a
year,” the affidavit stated.<br />
According to the state government, 1,27,969 traffic offences were
registered in January this year and fines amounting to Rs 1.59 crore
were collected.<br />
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The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has revised the relisting norms for
companies, which were recently challenged by a public interest
litigation (PIL) at the Delhi High Court. According to the new norms,
which the exchange’s board approved on April 27, suspended companies are
not required to comply with requirements, such as minimum paid-up
capital, minimum networth and profitability track record.<br />
However, it has increased the lock-in on promoter group shareholding
to one year after commencement of trading, up from the earlier six
months. Further, promoters are also barred from selling their shares up
to six months before the revocation of suspension.<br />
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Earlier, BSE had aligned the relisting norms in line with the
conditions for fresh listing, which came into effect in July 2011.
According to these rules, companies which have remained suspended for
over a period of one year had to have a minimum paid-up capital of Rs 10
crore and a minimum networth of Rs 50 crore.<br />
Further, it needed a profit-making track record. Accordingly, the
company should have “distributable profits in terms of Section 205 of
the Companies Act, 1956 for at least three out of five immediately
preceding financial years based on audited financial results with the
last financial year reporting profit. Provided that extraordinary income
shall not be considered for calculating distributable profit. Provided
further that latest three financial years should comprise a period of at
least 12 months.”<br />
According to several investor associations, these conditions made it
practically impossible for suspended companies to relist and trade on
the bourses again. According to the PIL, over Rs 1.8 lakh crore was
stuck in such suspended firms. The petition alleged that by making
relisting difficult with these conditions, BSE and Sebi were playing
into the hands of the promoters. It further alleged that they did not
make any efforts to protect the interests of the investors.<br />
BSE, in its submission to the Delhi High Court, said it had
reconsidered the norms “suo motu” in the interest of investors even
before the petition was filed. The relaxed norms are likely to take
effect after the minutes of the board meeting are approved by the board.<br />
Other conditions that do not figure in the new norms submitted by BSE
to the court include the minimum requirement of 500 public shareholders
and at least 50 per cent of public shareholding to be in demat shares.<br />
Ajay Veer Singh, advocate for Atul Agarwal, who filed the PIL, said:
“The change in rules offers a ray of hope for investors. But this is a
minor issue, if one looks at the larger issue of inaction on large
number of suspended companies. Our goal is that there should not be a
single dead share.”<br />
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<h1>
Govt rules transparent’</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Govt-rules-transparent/articleshow/13695444.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Govt-rules-transparent/articleshow/13695444.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 03.07AM IST<br />
JAIPUR: A PIL was filed by one <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jago-Janata-Society">Jago Janata Society</a> through <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/advocate-Poonam-Chand-Bhandari">advocate Poonam Chand Bhandari</a>
challenging the validity of the regularizations made after June 17,
1999 as it was contended that it was a one time scheme to regularize
only those illegal constructions in the state which have been made prior
to June 1999.<br />
It was also given out that there is no scheme for conversion of
agricultural land for commercial, residential, or other non-agricultural
use as such and all the allotments made after the date notifying
Section 90-B should be declared illegal. On Thursday, additional
advocate general SN Kumawat, appearing for state government, told a
division bench that government has framed detailed rules which are quite
transparent and therefore, there is no grievance pertaining to 90-B as
the same is no more a part of statute books. As such, the PIL has become
infructuous.<br />
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Notice to Haryana on PIL seeking approval to run schools on one-acre land</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notice-to-haryana-on-pil-seeking-approval-to-run-schools-on-oneacre-land/956361/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notice-to-haryana-on-pil-seeking-approval-to-run-schools-on-oneacre-land/956361/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Fri Jun 01 2012, 01:23 hrs<br />
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the
Haryana government on a public interest litigation (PIL) demanding
change in rules of the Haryana School Education Board wherein no
organisation or body is permitted to set up a school if it
(organisation) does not have two acres of land.<br />
This, the petitioner, contended was contrary to the guidelines laid
down by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)/Indian
Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE). The PIL has demanded that the
rules should be changed and the minimum land required for construction
of a school should be reduced to one acre.<br />
The petitioner has also sought directions to Haryana Urban
Development Authority to frame an appropriate policy for allotment of
school sites in terms of CBSE and ICSE.<br />
The petitioner submitted that all recent auctions in Panchkula for
school sites failed miserably as no auction was conducted in less than
four acre.<br />
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Torture’ of kids in observation home: HC notices to IG, UT</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/torture-of-kids-in-observation-home-hc-notices-to-ig-ut/956396/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/torture-of-kids-in-observation-home-hc-notices-to-ig-ut/956396/0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Fri Jun 01 2012, 01:46 hrs<br />
Taking note of serious allegations of brutal torture, harassment and
thrashing of poor children in Observation Home, Sector 25, the Punjab
and Haryana High court on Thursday issued notices to the Inspector
General of Police, Chandigarh, and the UT Administration.<br />
The notices have been issued by a division bench comprising acting
Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Alok Singh on a public interest
litigation (PIL) filed by advocate Utsav Singh Bains, a resident of
Sector 2, Chandigarh.<br />
The petitioner has sought directions for detailed guidelines to be issued to the police on how to deal with poor children.<br />
The petitioner has also sought guidelines to be issued to the
Juvenile Justice Boards to record statements of children, when presented
before them regarding police abuse and order registration of an FIR in
case the child states police abuse.<br />
Also, the PIL has demanded setting up of a Special Investigation Team
to investigate the abuse of children by the police and review cases of
children lodged in the Chandigarh Observation Home by any independent
agency.<br />
The agency, the petitioner has said, should submit a periodical
report regarding police abuse and other grievances to the court for
appropriate action. Directions to the Inspector General of Police have
also been sought to initiate criminal and disciplinary proceedings
against the police officers for the brutal torture and abuse of children
in police custody.<br />
It is for the first time that the court has taken cognisance of audio
recording to set the law in motion. In April-May, 2011, the petitioner
interviewed children inside the Observation Home. The petitioner was
then in the final year at law school. The interviewed children disclosed
to the petitioner that they had been illegally detained, stripped naked
and tortured with electric shocks by police officers inside police
stations in Chandigarh.<br />
Bains has annexed statements of the victims and their audio
recordings with the petition. One of the children told the petitioner
that he had committed a theft in Sector 38 last year. After the arrest,
he was thrashed by policemen. Another child, an inmate, told the
petitioner that he was given electric shocks by the Chandigarh Police
officers.<br />
The High Court has given the IG and Chandigarh Administration six
weeks to file their replies. The case will now come up for resumed
hearing on August 16.<br />
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Aarushi-Hemraj murder case: Allahabad HC rejects Nupur’s bail plea</h1>
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<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/CNN-IBN.html">CNN-IBN</a><br />
<strong>New Delhi:</strong> Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar’s mother
Nupur failed to convince the Allahabad High Court on Thursday to grant
her bail in the double murder case of her daughter and domestic help
Hemraj. The High Court rejected Nupur Talwar’s bail application and said
that the trial in the sensational murder case would continue.<br />
Nupur had applied for bail after the sessions court rejected her
plea. She has been lodged in Ghaziabad’s Dasna Jail since April 30.<br />
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had opposed Nupur’s bail
saying that she may try to scuttle the legal process if she was set
free. The agency also said that the court should consider her conduct
since the time she was made accused and not grant her bail.<br />
Nupur and her husband Rajesh Talwar have been charged with murder,
destruction of evidence and conspiracy in the double murder case that
took place in May 2008. Rajesh Talwar has also been charged with
misleading the investigation in the double murder case.<br />
The CBI has claimed the Talwars’ maid, the guard and driver
corroborate their ‘last scene theory’ according to which there were four
people living in the house – Rajesh Talwar, Nupur Talwar, Aarushi
Talwar and Hemraj – and there was no sign of a fifth person’s entry at
the time of the murders. “Four people were there, two died and two were
left. When a murder takes place in a closed house and two are dead, then
the onus shifts on those who are alive,” the CBI had argued.<br />
The CBI also claims that Aarushi and Hemraj’s injuries were
identical. “The golf stick recovered from the house matches the injury.
The Talwars refused to identify Hemraj’s body and gave false information
regarding the crime scene,” according to the CBI.<br />
Aarushi was found murdered in her Jalvayu Vihar residence in Noida on
May 16, 2008. The body of Hemraj, who was initially suspected to have
killed the teenager, was found on the terrace of Talwar’s home on May
17.<br />
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Raising age of consent for sex to 18 regressive, undemocratic: Court</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Raising-age-of-consent-for-sex-to-18-regressive-undemocratic-Court/articleshow/13694982.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Raising-age-of-consent-for-sex-to-18-regressive-undemocratic-Court/articleshow/13694982.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Smriti-Singh.cms">Smriti Singh</a>, TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 02.13AM IST<em></em><br />
NEW DELHI: Terming a new law that raises the age of consent for sex
from 16 to 18 years “undemocratic” and “regressive”, a trial <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/court">court</a> feared it would act as a “tool for the police to harass minors”.<br />
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act ( <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/PCSOA">PCSOA</a>), passed by Parliament in the recently concluded session, criminalizes all sex by teenagers.<br />
“Such a move would open the floodgates for prosecution of boys for
offences of rape on the basis of complaints by girls’ parents
irrespective of whether the girl was a consenting party,” said
additional sessions judge Virender Bhat, in an order passed earlier this
week.<br />
While the court made it clear that it was against teenage sex and
shared the concern of parents and the government, it said raising the
age bar was not a solution. Imparting sex education in schools was a
better option, it said.<br />
“Good virtues cannot be inculcated and good conscience cannot be
imbibed in a child by legal provisions. It would be better and wiser to
leave this job to parents and school teachers… Children need to be
imparted sex education in the schools,” the judge said while sending a
copy of the order to the secretary, law department and chairman of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-National">the National</a> Law Commission as a suggestion from the court.<br />
The observations were made while acquitting one Sandeep Paswan,
facing trial for kidnapping and raping a minor girl who had eloped with
him. The two had married at an Arya Samaj Mandir in Lucknow.<br />
According to the police, the 15-year-old girl had gone missing from
her house in January 2011. Her father then reported the matter to the
police on February 17, 2011 and an FIR was registered. The girl was
found in August 2011 from a village in Uttar Pradesh where she was
living with Sandeep as his wife.<br />
While absolving Sandeep of the charges, the court noted that it was
clear from the girl’s testimony that she eloped with him as they were in
love.<br />
The court said, with the advent of cable television, internet and
rapid changes in biological factors, children were getting exposed to
knowledge about sex and marital relations at an early age. “With the
result, cupid strikes them at an early age, before they attain
majority…. Since parents are always opposed to such an alliance, may be
rightly so, the loving couple elope,” the judge observed.<br />
The court said even boys in some cases become victims as they do not
understand the consequences of their actions and are sometimes lured by
the girl.<br />
“Such cases should be an eye opener for the worthy lawmakers of our
country, who, I understand, are contemplating raising the age limit for <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/consensual-sex">consensual sex</a>
from 16 to 18 years. Gone are the days when a child of 16 or 17 years
of age was ignorant about sex and the desire to have sex,” the judge
said.<br />
The order comes on the heels of another judge, additional sessions judge Kamini Lau raising similar concerns.<br />
Times View<br />
We are in complete agreement with the observation of this trial court
that the new law is likely to become a tool to harass teenagers rather
than one that protects them. Unfortunately, the law has already been
passed by Parliament and given presidential assent. We would still urge
our lawmakers to reconsider what they have done and amend the law to
ensure that consensual teenage sex is not criminalized. Neither
Parliament nor the government should see this as a matter of their
prestige. What is important is what is good for our young and that
should remain the prime consideration. Sticking to a bad law does not
enhance the authority of the state, it diminishes it.<br />
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Youth gets death for rape, murder</h1>
<a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/south/youth-gets-death-rape-murder-421">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/south/youth-gets-death-rape-murder-421</a><br />
May 31, 2012<br />
Viswarajan, 22, accused in the raping and killing of 34-year-old R.
Smitha, a native of Koippallykarayma near Kayamkulam, was awarded the
death penalty by the Mavelikkara additional district and sessions
court-II on Thursday.<br />
The verdict was pronounced by judge A. Badharudheen after a nearly
two-month-long trial. The trial started on April 9. Hearing the verdict,
Vishwarajan who had a hint of a smile on his face, bowed his head
without any signs of remorse.<br />
Additional public prosecutor S. Ramanan Pillai who was appointed by
the government for the victim said that apart from the death penalty for
murder, Vishwarajan had been awarded six months rigorous imprisonment
for illegal detention and a Rs1 lakh fine as well.<br />
“If the fine is not remitted, he would have to bear an additional six
months of rigorous imprisonment. The court has observed the case as
being the rarest of rare. The verdict will help to spread the message
about the consequences of an assault against women,” he said.<br />
The incident relating to the case happened on October 24, 2011, at 7
p.m while Smitha was on her way home from work. She was working with a
private shop in Kayamkulam as a saleswoman.<br />
Vishwarajan who was in an inebriated condition, hid near Smitha’s
home and raped her. He then abandoned an unconscious Smitha in a marshy
area. The incident took place just 200 m away from Smitha’s home.
Viswarajan, a native of Oachira was living with his relatives whose home
was near Smitha’s.<br />
Following the incident, the investigation team led by the then
Kayamkulam circle inspector A.N. Shanihan submitted a report before the
court.<br />
As many as 38 witnesses appeared before the court during the course
of the trial. Shanihan told dc there was no hurdle in the way of the
investigation. The mobile phone which was found at the spot of the
incident was the turning point in the investigation, he recalled.<br />
“The main significance of this case was that the majority of
witnesses who appea-red before the court were women,” he pointed out.<br />
A police officer who accompanied Vishwarajan from Poojappura central
prison said that he had tried to break out of jail by jumping out of the
prison building. This resulted in Vishwaraj-an fracturing his leg.
Vishwarajan was brought to court from the Poojappura central prison at
10 am and returned to Poojappura at 2.30pm in a police van. The court
pronounced the verdict by 11.15 am.<br />
Security was tightened in the court premises. Advoca-te G. Madhu who
appeared for Vishwarajan said to media persons that the verdict would be
challenged in a higher court.<br />
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Motive has ceased to exist: Experts</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Motive-has-ceased-to-exist-Experts/articleshow/13695330.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Motive-has-ceased-to-exist-Experts/articleshow/13695330.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 02.55AM IST<br />
JAIPUR: The findings recorded by the district and sessions court that
absolved BJP legislator Rajendra Rathore in the Dara Singh fake
encounter case have dealt a heavy blow to the CBI.<br />
Legal <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/experts">experts</a>
believe that even if the investigating agency appeals against the
release of Rathore in the HC, the prosecution’s case appears to have
been weakened. “The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI">CBI</a> arrested Rathore on the charge that he was the key conspirator in the fake encounter, as only he had a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/motive">motive</a>
for eliminating Dara Singh. Now that the court has absolved the main
accused of the conspiracy charge, the motive has ceased to exist and the
entire investigation has come under question,” said Deepak Chauhan, who
practices criminal law at the sessions court. “In a criminal case,
establishing the motive is of utmost importance,” he added.<br />
CBI lawyer Sarfaraz Haider Khan, however, said the court ought not to
have gone into the merits of the case at the stage of framing charges.
“The merits of charges are decided when the witnesses are questioned and
cross-examined before the court once the trial begins. If the case’s
merit were to be decided at the charge framing stage, where was the need
to have the provision of trial under law,” Khan said.<br />
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Rajendra Rathore absolved of charges in Dara fake encounter case</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Rajendra-Rathore-absolved-of-charges-in-Dara-fake-encounter-case/articleshow/13695173.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Rajendra-Rathore-absolved-of-charges-in-Dara-fake-encounter-case/articleshow/13695173.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 02.36AM IST<br />
JAIPUR: A district and sessions court here on Thursday absolved BJP legislator and former minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajendra-Rathore">Rajendra Rathore</a> of all criminal <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/charges">charges</a> against him in the Dara Singh fake encounter case even before he faced a trial.<br />
About an hour after the court order, a relieved Rathore walked out of
the Jaipur Central Jail around 1:15 pm. In the first statement after
his release, the BJP’s senior leader accused the Ashok Gehlot government
of a carrying out a political vendetta against him and said that he
would be seeking “retribution for every single day spent in the jail”
since his arrest 55 days ago.<br />
Reacting on the development, leader of opposition Vasundhara Raje
said, “We reiterated that we have full faith in judiciary and the court
decision is a victory of the justice. This decision has exposed the
ulterior motives of the Congress. The court verdict has confirmed that
the Congress misuses the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI">CBI</a> for its political ends.”<br />
BJP leaders, including legislator Digambar Singh received Rathore
outside the jail and drove him first to Moti Doongri temple and later to
the party headquarters. Party president Arun Chaturvedi, Digambar Singh
and Rathore again hit out at the Gehlot government while addressing the
BJP workers there.<br />
While discharging Rathore of the charges against him, district judge
PC Jain listed out several loopholes in the case. Experts opined that
the order was likely to have a negative bearing on the prosecution
against other accused also, including suspended additional director
general of police AK Jain and inspector general A Ponnuchami.<br />
“The accused is discharged as the criminal conspiracy charges of
stage managing Dara Singh’s encounter is not made out against him going
by the loopholes in the evidence,” the court said in its order. One of
Rathore’s lawyers, Hemant Nahta said that the court found that the
evidences did not prove the criminal conspiracy claimed by the CBI in
its chargesheet.<br />
“The court said that the CBI has failed to prove that Rathore met
Dara’s rival Virendra Nyangli in the jail after the latter’s arrest in
April 2003. Similarly, the court observed that the only evidence against
Rathore in the case were the phone call details between him and ADG
Jain. The court was of the opinion that Rathore could not be framed
under Section 120-B of IPC (criminal conspiracy) simply on the basis of
the call details,” said Nahta.<br />
Rathore’s another lawyer AK Jain said that the CBI has also failed to
prove the motive behind the killing on the basis of the statements of
prosecution witnesses. The court stated that the details of four phone
calls made between Rathore and Jain were prior to October 19, almost
four days before Dara was killed. The court observed that neither Dara
nor a contractor Vijay Singh were in the custody of Rajasthan police’s
SOG at that time. “There is nothing to prove that Rathore and Jain had
personal relations which could have prompted the policemen to kill Dara
Singh in a fake encounter,” the court observed. It stated that Rathore’s
name did not come up in the case for four years after the encounter.<br />
The CBI arrested Rathore on April 5, charging him with criminal
conspiracy to kill Dara Singh on Jaipur’s outskirts on October 23, 2006.<br />
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ATC Telecom Tower Corp approaches TDSAT to recover dues from Etisalat DB</h1>
<a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-22/news/31815905_1_etisalat-db-telecom-disputes-settlement-tdsat">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-22/news/31815905_1_etisalat-db-telecom-disputes-settlement-tdsat</a><br />
PTI May 22, 2012, 10.45PM IST<br />
NEW DELHI: Telecom infra firm <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/ATC%20Telecom">ATC Telecom</a> Tower Corporation has approached the sectoral tribunal <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/TDSAT">TDSAT</a> to recover its dues from mobile operator Etisalat DB, which has closed operations after cancellation of its license.<br />
In its petition, the Kerala-based firm has requested the Telecom
Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal to direct Etisalat to pay Rs
70 lakh in dues.<br />
The TDSAT has listed the matter for hearing on Friday. ATC Telecom
Tower was providing telecommunications infrastructure services to
Etisalat DB, a joint venture between UAE-based telecom giant Etisalat
and <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Dyanmix%20Balwa%20group">Dyanmix Balwa group</a>.<br />
Earlier, on May 4, TDSAT had restrained <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Etisalat%20DB">Etisalat DB</a> from transferring its equipments lying with the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Anil%20Ambani">Anil Ambani</a> group company, <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/RInfra">RInfra</a>.<br />
The RCom subsidiary is claiming over Rs 1,200 crore as dues from
Etisalat DB for using its telecom towers and other infrastructure.<br />
Presently, Etisalat DB also is facing recovery suits on various forums including TDSAT, High Courts and Debt Recovery Tribunal.<br />
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<strong>CWG street-lighting scam: Three accused granted bail</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_cwg-street-lighting-scam-three-accused-granted-bail_1696425">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_cwg-street-lighting-scam-three-accused-granted-bail_1696425</a><br />
Published: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 19:13 IST<br />
Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI<br />
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<td><ins>A Delhi court today granted bail to three MCD officials,
arrested for their alleged roles in a corruption case involving award of
a contract to a firm for upgrading the city’s street lighting before
the Commonwealth Games in 2010.</ins>
<ins>Special CBI Judge Pradeep Chaddah released on bail MCD
Superintendent Engineer DK Sugan, Executive Engineer O P Mahla and civic
body’s tender clerk Gurcharan Singh on a personal bond of Rs one lakh
each along with one surety of the same amount.</ins><br />
<ins>The three along with others have been accused of causing a loss
of nearly Rs 1.43 crore to the exchequer in illegal award of the
contract to Delhi-based firm, Sweka Powertech Engineers Pvt Ltd.</ins><br />
<ins>“Keeping in mind the fact that the two co-accused have been
enlarged on bail and the present accused are in custody for nearly a
year, it would be in fitness of the things to enlarge the accused on
bail.</ins><br />
<ins>“Let accused D K Sugan, O P Mahla and Gurcharan Singh be
released on bail on furnishing personal bond in sum of Rs 1 lakh with
one surety each in the like amount,” the court said.</ins><br />
<ins>The trio were granted bail on ground of parity as the promoters
of Sweka, T P Singh and J P Singh, have already been granted bail by the
Delhi High Court on May 21.</ins><br />
<ins>The special court also noted that the accused have been in
judicial custody for nearly a year and the material witnesses in the
case have already been examined, which was a reasonable ground for
granting bail. (MORE) PTI SKV AKI RAX 05311833 NNNN</ins><br />
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<ins>The CBI had opposed the trio’s bail on the ground that they
cannot claim parity with other co-accused as they were MCD officials and
were in a position to influence witnesses belonging to their
department.</ins><br />
<ins>The court, however, granted them bail saying, “I questioned the
investigating officer and what has emerged is that the witnesses are
merely to depose from the record and they will not be able to do much to
save the skin of the accused.”</ins><br />
<ins>Those named as accused in the case are Sugan, Mahla, Gurcharan
Singh, T P Singh, J P Singh and MCD Accountant V Raju, who was earlier
released on bail. M/s Sweka Powertech Engineers Pvt Ltd is also an
accused in the case.</ins><br />
<ins>The trial court had on March 12 framed charges against the six
persons and the firm for criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery under
the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and various provisions of the Prevention of
Corruption Act. PTI SKV AKI RAX 05311837 NNNN</ins></td>
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<strong>7 months on, Citi scam accused walks out of jail</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Gurgaon/17-months-on-Citi-scam-accused-walks-out-of-jail/Article1-864203.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Gurgaon/17-months-on-Citi-scam-accused-walks-out-of-jail/Article1-864203.aspx</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Deevakar%20Anand%20&%20Leena%20Dhankhar&op=Story">Deevakar Anand & Leena Dhankhar</a>, Hindustan Times</strong><br />
Former bank executive Shivraj Puri, the prime accused in the Rs.
400-crore Citibank fraud case, was released on bail on Thursday from the
Bhondsi jail near Gurgaon, where he had been lodged for the last 17
months. He and his father Raghuraj Puri, a co-accused in the case, were
granted <ins>bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday.</ins><br />
<ins>While Raghuraj was released on Wednesday, Shivraj’s release came
after his lawyers submitted his passport and furnished bail sureties of
Rs. 2 lakh each for two separate FIRs under which he was booked for
forgery and cheating in December 2010.</ins><br />
<ins>The surety amount was decided by Gurgaon chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Rajesh Sharma on Thursday.</ins><br />
<ins>The high court, while granting them bail, had fixed Rs. 5 lakh
bail surety for Raghuraj while it had left it to the discretion of the
CJM to decide his son’s bail amount. </ins><br />
<ins>The court had, however, said that he should be released on a “heavy bond” amount.</ins><br />
<ins>The Puri family is believed to be in financial crisis due to the ongoing litigation.</ins><br />
<ins>After being released, Shivraj told Hindustan Times, “Being in
jail has taught me to value freedom. I always had faith in the
judiciary. However, this is only a temporary relief.”</ins><br />
<ins>Puri’s uncle had come to pick him up from jail and reportedly dropped him at his (Shivraj’s) house in DLF Phase 4.</ins><br />
<ins>The high court had earlier granted anticipatory bail to Shivraj’s mother Deeksha. </ins><br />
<ins>The only co-accused still behind bars is Sanjay Gupta, former vice-president of Hero Corporate Services.</ins><br />
<ins>Shivraj, a former relationship manager with Citibank, had
allegedly siphoned off around Rs. 400 crore of various customers to some
fictitious accounts.</ins><br />
<ins>Puri was booked under sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of
the Indian Penal Code (IPC) early this year along with his parents and
Gupta on a complaint filed by Citibank officials and a high net worth
account holder.</ins><br />
<ins>Raghuraj was the managing director of a Kolkata-based firm,
Normans Martin Brokers Pvt Ltd, through which Shivraj allegedly used to
divert money into stock markets.</ins><br />
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Criminal complaint filed against Bhushan for ‘defa</h1>
<a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/criminal-complaint-filed-against-bhushan-for-defa_779021.html">http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/criminal-complaint-filed-against-bhushan-for-defa_779021.html</a><br />
Last Updated: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 22:32<br />
New Delhi: A lawyer has approached a local court here with a criminal
complaint against Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan accusing him of
“abusing and defaming” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.<br />
Lawyer D D Sharma filed the complaint in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Patiala House.<br />
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“The accused is in the habit of defaming and maligning top
personalities of the country” and Bhushan should be prosecuted under
section 500 (defamation) of Indian Penal Code, Sharma said in his
complaint.<br />
Bhushan was in the eye of a controversy for using a particular word
against Singh. However, he had claimed that what he said was that
Singh’s honesty was used as a shield by Congress.<br />
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NRHM: Chargesheet filed against Kushwaha</h1>
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nrhm-chargesheet-filed-against-kushwaha/956328/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nrhm-chargesheet-filed-against-kushwaha/956328/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/pti/">Press Trust of India</a> : Ghaziabad, Fri Jun 01 2012, 00:26 hrs<br />
The CBI on Thursday filed its supplementary chargesheet in the NRHM
scam, accusing former family welfare minister Babu Singh Kushwaha of
abusing his official position to favour private companies while
allotting contracts for upgradation of 134 hospitals in Uttar Pradesh.<br />
In its chargesheet filed before a special CBI court here, the agency
accused the former BSP minister and his close aide, former MLA R P
Jaiswal, of misusing their official position to benefit local company
Surgicoin Medequip Pvt Ltd, sources said.<br />
“The matter pertained to upgradation of 134 district hospitals for an
amount of Rs 13.4 crore under NRHM. It was alleged that the said work
was given to Ghaziabad and Lucknow-based private firms without following
any codal formalities and on the basis of bogus and forged documents.<br />
“An approximate loss of Rs 5.46 crore was found to have been caused
to the government exchequer in the said case,” the CBI said in a
statement.<br />
Both Kushwaha and Jaiswal are already in judicial custody and lodged in Dasna Jail.<br />
The CBI slapped Indian Penal Code sections related to criminal
conspiracy, criminal breach of trust by public servant, cheating and
forgery, besides relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.<br />
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Veerappa Moily warns Reebok India against holding back information</h1>
<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/retailing/veerappa-moily-warns-reebok-india-against-holding-back-information/articleshow/13695176.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/retailing/veerappa-moily-warns-reebok-india-against-holding-back-information/articleshow/13695176.cms</a><br />
NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/corporate-affairs-ministry">corporate affairs ministry</a> has said it will get to the bottom of the alleged Rs 870-crore fraud at <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Reebok">Reebok</a> India, and warned the company against holding back information.<br />
The government has enough ways and means to launch a holistic
investigation to examine all aspects of the case, Corporate Affairs
Minister <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Veerappa-Moily">Veerappa Moily</a> told ET.<br />
Reebok India, part of the Germany-based <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Adidas">Adidas</a> group, has been holding out on the government’s demand of handing over its books.<br />
Adidas had last week filed an FIR with the Gurgaon police station,
accusing former CEO Subhinder Singh Prem and COO Vishnu Bhagat at its <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Reebok-India">Reebok India</a>
unit of commercial irregularities of 870 crore. “We cannot provide any
further details since the matter now rests with the Indian law
enforcement authorities,” Adidas India spokesman had said on Wednesday,
ruling out furnishing of further details to the registrar of companies.<br />
The government had asked the registrar of companies to look into the
accounts of Reebok India when reports of the alleged fraud came out, but
it was forced to refer the matter to the Serious Fraud Investigation
Office after the company refused to cooperate.<br />
“As far as IPC (Indian Penal Code) is concerned, maybe they are
right. But what about the fraud committed on the company? And the fraud
committed on shareholders?” asked Moily. “This causes economic offence.
It needs to be dealt either by Sebi (market regulator) or the corporate
affairs ministry,” he added, dismissing the clarification given by
Adidas.<br />
The minister also said that he would not hesitate to go after the
global auditors of the company if concrete evidence was found against
them. “In the process of investigation, if we find the auditors have
also joined in supporting the fraud, then we will investigate. But it is
too early to draw any inference,” Moily said. <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/KPMG">KPMG</a>,
the global auditor of Adidas AG, had earlier clarified to ET that it
had no role in the auditing of the Indian arm of the sports brand.<br />
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After eight tiger deaths in Maharashtra, no action taken to prevent poaching</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/After-eight-tiger-deaths-in-Maharashtra-no-action-taken-to-prevent-poaching/articleshow/13695491.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/After-eight-tiger-deaths-in-Maharashtra-no-action-taken-to-prevent-poaching/articleshow/13695491.cms</a><br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Prafulla-Marapakwar.cms">Prafulla Marapakwar</a>, TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 03.11AM IST<br />
MUMBAI: Despite eight tigers having been killed in the last six months in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tadoba-tiger-reserve">Tadoba tiger reserve</a> and elsewhere in the state, it has been found that the state government has not initiated stringent measures to halt poaching.<br />
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Forest-minister-Patangrao-Kadam">Forest minister Patangrao Kadam</a> visited the Tadoba Andhari reserve in Chandrapur district on Wednesday.<br />
“There were specific reports from %wildlife activists, saying
poachers from Madhya Pradesh would enter the state as they had taken
supari for killing tigers. However, no steps were taken to halt the
poaching,” said a senior Indian Forest Service official.<br />
He said that in view of the stepped up <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/poaching">poaching</a>
activities, the state forest department, in collaboration with the
state police, should have set up special squads to curb poaching.
However, the cabinet member woke up only after the Centre sought details
from the state on increased poaching in Maharashtra, he added.<br />
Slamming the Centre for not amending the more than century-old Indian
Forest Act, the official said that under section 66 of the Act, a
forest or police officer has powers to prevent commission of an offence.
“The Act is very weak, no forest officer can take direct action against
the poachers. If the government is serious about curbing poaching
activities, besides amending the Indian Forest Act, 1927, it should set
up special forest police stations and grant powers under the Indian
Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code to the forest officials. In that
event, forest officers will be able to arrest the poachers,” he said.<br />
It also appears that the state government has completely ignored the
concept of protection of wildlife and stringent implementation of the
wildlife protection act. Nearly 50 officials, specially-trained in
wildlife, have been given insignificant assignments. Either they have
been deployed in social forestry or planning section. “The government
has been told on several occasions about the need to set up a secret
service fund and intelligence unit to gather information on illegal
activities,” he said.<br />
After the tiger killings, the state forest department had deployed 90
armed forest guards in and around the Tadoba tiger reserve, said
another IFS officer.<br />
He added that besides taking corrective measures to halt poaching,
Kadam should order a high-level probe into the killings. “Kadam must fix
the responsibility and take action against erring forest officials,” he
said.<br />
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<strong>India continues to violate Italian jurisdiction over trial: FM 1 Jun 2012, 0916 hrs</strong> <a href="http://www.timesnow.tv/India-continues-to-violate-Italian-jurisdiction-over-trial-Italy/articleshow/4403351.cms">http://www.timesnow.tv/India-continues-to-violate-Italian-jurisdiction-over-trial-Italy/articleshow/4403351.cms</a><br />
IST, AGENCIES<br />
Italy has said it sees no reason to sing a “victory” song over the
bail granted to two of its marines charged with the killing of two
Indian fishermen as India continues to “violate Italian jurisdiction”
over the trial.<br />
Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi hinted the bail decision would do little to end the diplomatic row with India.<br />
“There’s no reason to sing a victory song because the Indians
continue to violate Italian jurisdiction,” Terzi told the Italian Senate
on Wednesday (May 30) after the Kerala High Court granted conditional
bail to marines Latore Massimilliano and Salvatore Girone.<br />
“Together with Defence Minister Giampaolo di Paola we will examine
the concrete meaning of the decision and more specifically the
conditions that will be imposed,” Terzi said.<br />
The marines, who were arrested from the merchant vessel ‘Enrica
Lexie’ on February 19 from which they fired at the fishermen off Kerala
coast on February 15, are at present lodged at the Borstal prison in
Kochi.<br />
After being in jail for nearly 15 weeks, the two Italian marines were
granted bail by the court yesterday with some stringent conditions.<br />
The Court also directed the Kerala government to ensure abundant
caution and inform the seaport or other authorities to prevent the two
accused from leaving the country.<br />
The Court order in the case which sparked a diplomatic standoff
between India and Italy came a day after it turned down that country’s
plea for quashing an FIR against the marines.<br />
The court had held that the two accused were liable to penal
jurisdiction of Indian courts. While Italy claims that the marines
should be prosecuted in their home country as the incident occurred on
an Italian-flagged vessel in international waters.<br />
Earlier this month, Italy had recalled its ambassador for consultations after the marines were charged with murder.<br />
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Three ‘journalists’ arrested on charge of intimidation</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3476356.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3476356.ece</a><br />
Special Correspondent<br />
Race Course Police on Wednesday arrested three persons on charges of
intimidating a journalist and demanding illegal gratification for
publishing a correction in respect of defamatory article against him.<br />
According to police, Nandakumar working with a Tamil television news
channel preferred a complaint stating that he was intimidated by a group
of people claiming to be journalists, when he questioned them for
publishing a defamatory article about him.<br />
Mr. Nandakumar saw them near a bakery in front of the Collectorate
and questioned them the basis the for the article. Purnami Nilavan (45),
his wife Kalaiselvi both acting as Editor and Sub-Editor the magazine
and another person claiming to be a journalist representing another
magazine reportedly intimidated him.<br />
They reportedly used obscene and abusive language and demanded Rs. 1 lakh for publishing a correction, the police said.<br />
Based on the complaint, police registered a case against the three
under sections 294 b (using obscene and abusive language), 384
(extortion) and 506 (i) (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code.<br />
They have been remanded to custody.<br />
Journalists in Coimbatore had already represented the City Police
Commissioner about persons claiming themselves as journalists indulging
in extortion.<br />
District Collector M. Karunagaran had said that stringent action would be initiated against such persons.<br />
The use of stickers such as PRESS and MEDIA should be used only by
those involved in gathering news or in videographing or photographing.
Indiscriminate use of these stickers would be severely dealt with.<br />
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HC reserves orders on comed-K counselling</h1>
<a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-reserves-orders-on-comedk-counselling/263272-60-115.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-reserves-orders-on-comedk-counselling/263272-60-115.html</a><br />
<a href="http://newindianexpress.com/" target="_blank">Express News Service</a><br />
BANGALORE: The High Court on Wednesday reserved its orders on a
petition pertaining to re-counselling of postgraduate dental courses of
Comed-K (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges –
Karnataka), which challenged an interim order on the re-counselling.<br />
During hearing, counsel for Comed-K stated that seats are still
available for these students and that they will be given priority in a
second round of counselling, which will be held on May 31.<br />
However, the students rejected the offer and sought re-counselling.<br />
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice B V Nagarathna reserved its judgement on the case.<br />
12 students had filed a petition before the HC alleging the Comed-K
of barring them from counselling on grounds that they had not produced
demand drafts from nationalised banks and a few failed to produce the
original counterfoil.<br />
<em>Status Quo on PG Medical admissions</em><br />
The HC on Wednesday directed the Consortium of Medical, Engineering
and Dental Colleges and Karnataka Religious & Linguistic Minority
Professional Colleges Association to maintain status quo on the
admission process of post-graduate medical courses until the matter is
settled in court.<br />
�Hearing a petition, Justice Ashok B Hinchigeri said that as per
Supreme Court’s direction, counselling should be completed on May 31 and
if any merit seats remain, they should be transferred to the management
quota.<br />
<em>Teachers’ appointment stayed</em><br />
The HC on Wednesday stayed a government notification on the
appointment of 3,407 teachers over a petition alleging irregularities in
appointing physically challenged candidates.<br />
The court directed the government to issue the notification again
providing reservation to physically challenged candidates receiving
special education in BEd.<br />
<em>Ravi case posted for orders</em><br />
Lokayukta Court on Wednesday posted for orders a case against BJP MLA
C T Ravi in which the complainant had challenged the ‘B’ report filed
by Lokayukta Police giving him a clean chit to June 8.<br />
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<strong>HC opens justice doors for jailed tribals</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120601/jsp/frontpage/story_15556428.jsp#.T8jph5hcib4">http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120601/jsp/frontpage/story_15556428.jsp#.T8jph5hcib4</a><br />
SUMAN K. SHRIVASTAVA<br />
<strong>Ranchi, May 31: </strong>Prisoners of Jharkhand — a majority
of them tribals — who are facing charges of waging war against the state
may have reason to believe that they are no less equal before the law
than the free man.<br />
Jharkhand High Court has constituted a committee headed by Justice
D.N. Patel to monitor the trial of persons alleged to be members of
banned outfits such as CPI(Maoist) and PLFI and speed up the legal
process to deliver justice to them.<br />
It will bring ongoing trial in the lower judiciary in cases slapped
under stringent legislation like Prevention of Terrorism Act, Criminal
Law Amendment Act, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and Explosives and
Arms Act, besides murder and extortion charges, under the high court’s
scanner.<br />
Chief Justice Prakash Tatia formed the panel on May 18, the day the
high court closed on account of summer vacation, swinging into action
after a report of then Ranchi judicial commissioner A.V. Singh in
January painted a grim picture of trial of prisoners in Khunti
sub-divisional jail.<br />
Justice Tatia’s action came days before Union rural development
minister Jairam Ramesh wrote to chief minister Arjun Munda saying that
many innocent tribal people in Maoist-hit areas were being implicated in
false cases and put behind bars.<br />
The high court has also asked the lower courts to send detailed reports on the status of trials in such cases by June 6.<br />
The lower courts have been asked to explain the status on the number
of cases pending and disposed of in the last quarter, the number of
accused chargesheeted and reasons for delay.<br />
Newly appointed court managers who are MBAs will analyse the data, following which the court will take corrective measures.<br />
Singh, who had undertaken a study in response to a petition filed by
prisoners, observed in his report that 546 sessions cases involving
serious offences in which jail terms can be more than seven years were
pending in Khunti sub-divisional court for years.<br />
Along with district officials, he interviewed around 100 undertrials,
whose main demand was speedy trial of their cases and to ensure the
presence of witnesses in the court.<br />
Ironically, the number of sessions cases pending for trial was only
marginally less than petty offences, which were pegged at 591.<br />
This implied that police were booking most of the arrested persons in
the tribal-dominated district, including ordinary men, under provisions
meant to bring extremists to justice.<br />
Singh’s report also said that summons were not being served as Khunti was in a Naxalite-hit zone.<br />
Khunti has seven police stations while improvised explosive devices
are planted across the entire area. As a result, police officers are
directed to move in a bunch not less than 20.<br />
“Also, there is paucity of security forces, as only 242 policemen,
right from constable to the rank of officer, are posted and most of the
time they are engaged in anti-Maoist operations. So, there is difficulty
in execution of the summons, warrants and processes of the court
leading to delay in the court trial,” the report said.<br />
Ninety per cent of the 320 undertrials lodged in Khunti sub-division jail are said to be tribals, the report said.<br />
Justice Patel, who also heads the committee on using IT in judiciary,
said the high court’s main focus was on monitoring old cases.<br />
“After successfully putting in place the online trial system at
Madhupur, we are working on connecting the central jails with various
courts,” he told <strong>The Telegraph</strong>.<br />
“The persons facing serious charges are supposed to be lodged in
high-security central jails. They can face trial from one jail even if
the cases are registered against him in various districts,” he pointed
out.<br />
Incidentally, the undertrials facing extremism charges in Ghaghidih
Central Jail went on hunger strike on May 28 seeking speedy trial of
senior rebel leaders languishing in prisons across the state.<br />
Meanwhile, Ramesh had shot off letters Munda as well as the chief
ministers of Odisha and Chhattisgarh on May 23 taking up cudgels on
behalf of tribals languishing in jails.<br />
The Union minister, who is keen on expediting development initiatives
in Saranda after security forces reclaimed the liberated zone, wrote in
his letter to Munda that “a large number of tribals are in jail, for no
reason whatsoever, and that, in reality, they should be freed at the
earliest”.<br />
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HC reserve orders on anticipatory bail plea of H.D. Kumaraswamy</h1>
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article3476973.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article3476973.ece</a><br />
PTI<br />
Karnataka High Court on Thursday reserved orders on the anticipatory
bail petition filed by former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in a case
relating to alleged irregularities in denotification of government land
in 2007.<br />
Justice K N Keshavanarayana reserved the verdict after conclusion of
final arguments and also extended the interim bail granted to Mr.
Kumaraswamy till pronouncement of order on anticipatory bail plea.<br />
Earlier Mr. Kumaraswamy appeared in the Lokayukta court in pursuant
with the summons issued to him earlier this month to appear before it on
or before May 31 and the matter was adjourned to June 2.<br />
On April 16, the High Court had granted six-week interim bail to him in connection with the case.<br />
The Lokayukta court last month ordered issue of summons to Mr.
Kumaraswamy and others in a private complaint filed by Mahadevaswamy
alleging violation of rules in ordering denotification of 3.8 acres in
Thanisandra which had been acquired for formation of Arkavathy layout.<br />
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HC suspends CBI court judge</h1>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-suspends-CBI-court-judge/articleshow/13694666.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-suspends-CBI-court-judge/articleshow/13694666.cms</a><br />
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 01.35AM IST<br />
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday night placed T
Pattabhirama Rao, the first additional special judge for CBI cases under
suspension after duly considering some secret information it received
against the judge. <br /> <br /> It was felt necessary to keep
him under suspension in public interest with immediate effect, the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/HC%E2%80%9D">HC</a>
registrar general said in an order that was released. <br />
<br /> Pattabhirama Rao was appointed <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI-court-judge%E2%80%9D">CBI
court judge</a> a few weeks ago. He had dealt with only a few
cases. <br /> <br /> While he rejected bail to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IAS-officer-Y-Srilakshmi%E2%80%9D">IAS
officer Y Srilakshmi</a>, an accused in the illegal mining scam,
he granted the relief to Gali Janardhan Reddy, the key accused in the
case. <br /> <br /> The HC, however, stayed his decision later
following an appeal by the CBI. <br /> <br /> While suspending
Pattabhi, the HC which launched disciplinary proceedings against him
under Rule 8(1) of the AP civil services (CC&A) Rules, 1991,
ordered him not to leave Hyderabad without obtaining prior permission
from it. <br /> <br /> A Pullaiah, the principal special judge
of the CBI court, was given the full additional charge of the court.
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HC refuses to entertain BSP MLC’s plea against Lokayukta</h1>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-entertain-bsp-mlcs-plea-against-lokayukta/956538/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-entertain-bsp-mlcs-plea-against-lokayukta/956538/</a></p>
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<a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Lucknow, Fri Jun 01 2012, 04:27 hrs</p>
<p>
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday refused to give any interim
relief to BSP MLC Mukul Upadhyay, who had filed a petition questioning
the authority under which state Lokayukta Justice N K Mehrotra was
continuing in office. The court has fixed July 10 as the next date of
hearing on which it will decide the maintainability of the petition.</p>
<p>
In his petition, which had come up for hearing before a division
bench of Justices Sunil Ambwani and Aditya Nath Mittal, Upadhyay had
prayed to the court to issue a show cause notice against Justice
Mehrotra to explain how he was continuing in office and drawing salary
and other allowances. He had also questioned the validity of the
ordinance under which the tenure of Justice Mehrotra was extended by the
govenrment. He had further prayed that all the recommendations made by
Justice Mehrotra post-extension of tenure should be stayed.</p>
<p>
However, government counsels C B Yadav and Ramanand Pandey argued
that the relief sought by Upadhyay could not be granted because “he is
facing inquiry by the vigilance department for various irregularities.”</p>
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Madras HC stays trial against boy who murdered teacher</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-stays-trial-against-boy-who-murdered-teacher/articleshow/13696876.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-stays-trial-against-boy-who-murdered-teacher/articleshow/13696876.cms</a></p>
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A Subramani, TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 06.24AM IST</p>
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CHENNAI: The trial in the sensational murder of school teacher <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/uma-maheshwari-mills-ltd/stocks/companyid-12276.cms" target="_blank">Uma Maheshwari</a>,
who was stabbed by a class 10 student inside the classroom on February
9, was stayed by the Madras high court on Thursday after the boy’s
father alleged lapses in the juvenile justice board (JJB) proceedings.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vacation-judge">Vacation judge</a> Justice Aruna Jagadeesan granted the interim stay till June 8 after the boy’s father sought transfer of trial to some other <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JJB-Sports">JJB</a> or before some other presiding officer. The trial commenced at the JJB here on May 28. The murder took place at St Mary’s <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Anglo-Indian-Higher-Secondary-School">Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School</a> at Broadway.</p>
<p>
Senior counsel R Shanmugasundaram, representing the boy’s father,
told the court that the trial commenced without the boy being furnished
the full set of chargesheet and other documents. Alleging serious
procedural lapses at the JJB, Shanmugasundaram submitted that mandatory
requirements stipulated under Sections 207 and 208 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure had been violated. Though the two sections made it
clear that the boy shall be furnished a copy of the police report,
statements and other documents, the board furnished only portions of the
chargesheet and other documents in two instalments, he said.</p>
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HC directs Haryana to pay Rs 5L each to acid attack victims</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/HC-directs-Haryana-to-pay-Rs-5L-each-to-acid-attack-victims/articleshow/13696293.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/HC-directs-Haryana-to-pay-Rs-5L-each-to-acid-attack-victims/articleshow/13696293.cms</a></p>
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TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 05.03AM IST</p>
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CHANDIGARH: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Punjab-and-Haryana-high-court">Punjab and Haryana high court</a> on Thursday directed the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Haryana-government">Haryana government</a>
to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to three girls injured in an
acid attack in Rohtak in 2011. While issuing directions, Justice Rajan
Gupta ordered the state government to pay the amount within two weeks.</p>
<p>
On May 22, the high court had told the CBI to probe the incident
within six months and to look into the victims’ allegations against the
cops of exonerating the culprits.</p>
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On June 18, 2011, three minor girls had suffered burns when two
youths threw acid on them in Sector 3, Rohtak. The girls, two of them
class X students and the third studying in class XII, were returning
after attending tuition classes when the accused attacked them. An FIR
was registered under various sections of the IPC for attempt to murder
and criminal conspiracy. In her statement before the judicial
magistrate, one of the victims had identified Rohan as the main accused.
However, despite her statement, police had exonerated him from the
charges.</p>
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Unable to contest their case because of poverty, the victims had then approached the state legal services authority.</p>
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HC seeks report from govt on compliance of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagjostic Techniques Act</h1>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-seeks-report-from-govt-on-compliance-of-Pre-Conception-and-Pre-Natal-Diagjostic-Techniques-Act/articleshow/13695470.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-seeks-report-from-govt-on-compliance-of-Pre-Conception-and-Pre-Natal-Diagjostic-Techniques-Act/articleshow/13695470.cms</a></p>
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<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 03.10AM IST</p>
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JAIPUR: A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has called for a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/report">report</a>
from the state government following allegations of non-compliance of
the provisions of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagjostic Techniques
(PCPNDT) Act and also cautioned that its provisions are not violated.</p>
<p>
The order came on a PIL filed by Centre For Public Grievances, an organization, which alleged that the various provisions of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/PCPNDT-Act">PCPNDT Act</a>
are not being followed. “It was also given out in the PIL that in a
survey conducted in 2009, it was highlighted by government officials
themselves that as many as 350 fake licences were issued in the name of
‘genetic clinics’ but when an effort was made to search those clinics,
not a single <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Clinic-%28musician%29">clinic</a>
was found working. It also came up that six licenses were issued to one
doctor alone and there were 15 fake licences in Jodhpur,” said the
counsel for petitioner.</p>
<p>
The petitioner contended that the Act was amended by the Union
government and even the Supreme Court in 2009 asked the state government
to take measures for compliance of the Act but no single step has been
taken. Highlighting the non-compliance, the petitioner alleged that as
per the provisions of the Act, there has to be a state supervisory board
with minister in-charge of health and family welfare as its chairperson
but the state government has assigned the job to a minister of state.
Further, the board has not been properly constituted.</p>
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It has also been given out that as per provisions of Section 16A, the
meeting of the state board is mandatory to be held once in four months.
But the board meeting have not been held after April 1, 2011 and only
one meeting has been held in the past two years.</p>
<p>
It has also been given out that the advisory committee as per
Section-17(6) is required to be constituted at the state level, district
level and sub divisional level with eight members each. “The state
government constituted an advisory committee at the state-level by a
notification dated 25.7.01 and according to this notification, four
members will be nominated by the state government. But these four
members have not been nominated by the government till today. The act is
very powerful but the same has been made toothless with no effective
machinery of which the court has taken cognizance,” said Naina Saraf,
advocate.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
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</p>
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</p>
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</p>
<h1>
HC lifts ban on land use conversion, okays 90A</h1>
<p>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-lifts-ban-on-land-use-conversion-okays-90A/articleshow/13695189.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-lifts-ban-on-land-use-conversion-okays-90A/articleshow/13695189.cms</a></p>
<p>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 02.38AM IST</p>
<p>
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court has lifted its stay on land use
change and conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural
purposes. The court also okayed the newly introduced Section <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/90A">90A</a>
which will now replace the old Section 90B of Land Revenue Act. The
order was issued by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun
Mishra and Justice Mahesh Bhagwati on Thursday.</p>
<p>
The provisions of 90-B, which was stayed by the court last year, so
far provided for conversion of agricultural land that has been put to
non-agricultural use. The regularizations were being made ever since its
inception in 1999. The state government in response to a PIL on
Thursday clarified the position of new law, Section 90A, to be
introduced for regularization of illegal colonies and plots in the
state.</p>
<p>
A PIL was filed by one Jago Janata Society through advocate Poonam
Chand Bhandari challenging the validity of the regularizations made
after June 17, 1999 as it was contended that it was a one time scheme to
regularize only those illegal constructions in the state which have
been made prior to June 1999.</p>
<p>
It was also given out that there is no scheme for conversion of
agricultural land for commercial, residential, or other non-agricultural
use as such and all the allotments made after the date notifying
Section 90-B should be declared illegal.</p>
<p>
On Thursday, additional advocate general SN Kumawat, appearing for
state government, told a division bench that government has framed
detailed rules which are quite transparent and therefore, there is no
grievance pertaining to 90-B as the same is no more a part of statute
books. As such, the PIL has become infructuous.</p>
<p>
The court than granted liberty to the petitioner NGO to withdraw the
same and file a fresh petition in case the new provision appears to be
non-productive and resultantly the stay order granted in the PIL has
also come to an end allowing various local self governing bodies to go
ahead with the land use change under the newly framed rules.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<h1>
HC questions cops’ role in tax evasion cases</h1>
<p>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-questions-cops-role-in-tax-evasion-cases/articleshow/13694639.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-questions-cops-role-in-tax-evasion-cases/articleshow/13694639.cms</a></p>
<p>
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 01.31AM IS T</p>
<p>
HYDERABAD: Wondering what the civil police had got to do with the
issue of tax evasion, justice B Chandra Kumar of the high court on
Thursday granted bail to jewellers T Venkata Naga Jayasri and Rachapudi
Sudheer, the owners of the city’s RSR Jewellers.</p>
<p>
The owners had lodged a complaint with the police after a burglary on May 7 at their jewellery shop at Chikadpally.</p>
<p>
In the course of the investigation, the police proceeded against the
owners of the shop for alleged evasion of Value Added Tax. They were
arrested on May 23 and lodged at Chanchalguda jail. They said that their
prosecution by police lacked sanction of law in the absence of
permission from the commissioner.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<h1>
Scrap dealer says kept boy as his own</h1>
<p>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Scrap-dealer-says-kept-boy-as-his-own/articleshow/13695881.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Scrap-dealer-says-kept-boy-as-his-own/articleshow/13695881.cms</a></p>
<p>
Shreya Roy Chowdhury & Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 04.04AM IST</p>
<p>
NEW DELHI: A fortnight ago, the boy who was restored to his parents by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/scrap-dealer">scrap dealer</a>
Azad Hussain had sold a water-cooler stand from his scrapyard for Rs
300 and bought a model earthmover — bright yellow, battery-operated.
Everyone in and around the scrapyard, on the edge of South City I,
Gurgaon, knows how central earthmovers are in the boy’s life. One had
brought him to them.</p>
<p>
Whenever he went missing — which was often, says Azad — they had to
track earthmover movements in the area. “We’d find him by one – he’d be
riding it or just sitting in it,” says Azad’s mother, Munni. “He didn’t
even tell us he’d bought the model,” says Azad laughing. They still have
his clothes, his school uniform — he had been admitted to the same
school as Azad’s sisters last year — and his toys. He misses the kid. He
called several times the day he dropped him off. “I kept thinking
they’d call back but they didn’t.”</p>
<p>
Along with the boy, Azad left a piece of advice at Savitri Nagar —
“Don’t let him out of your sight for the next seven-eight years.”
Originally from Bareilly, UP, and living at Indira Vikas Colony for
about a decade, Azad’s family — parents and six siblings — didn’t know <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chirag-Dilli">Chirag Dilli</a>
existed till the 12-year-old recognized the name. As they approached
his home, the kid seemed to recall landmarks. A number of locals helped
them along. A helmet-wala Azad stopped at to get his visor fixed led
them to a kachoriwala, who sent them toward Savitri Nagar. “The boy knew
the nala. He next recognized a dumpyard — he must have played there
once — and then said his house is white,” recalls Azad, “When he
correctly identified a shopkeeper as ‘Sandeep’, we knew we were on the
right track. His dadi saw him first and fainted.”</p>
<p>
During the first few months after Azad spotted the boy (then 10) at a
street vendor near Kataria Chowk and brought him home, the two covered
all the bridges and nalas in the area. “If only he had told us he’s from
Delhi. He never told us. We spent so much time looking in Gurgaon,”
says Azad. In fact, the boy didn’t say much at all. He said his mother
had passed away, that he had a brother and a sister and that his father
was Iqbal. He didn’t say where they could be found.</p>
<p>
“All I’ve ever wanted is for him to be restored to his family,” says
Azad. Acquaintances wanted to adopt him; he rebuffed the offer. But
after the first round of frantic search was over, the boy got restless
and rather difficult to handle. He’d take off several times in a month,
sometimes returning after days. “The longest he’s stayed away is for
three days. He’d never tell us clearly what he did on these tours —
where he slept, what he ate. When he was done, he’d call us,” says Azad.</p>
<p>
He got mad, he admits openly; he even slapped the kid a few times
just as he would chastise his younger sister. “I wanted him to behave,
to fit in, the way I would a younger brother. How else would he learn?”
he asks and asserts that the other allegation — that he made the boy
work without paying — is untrue. He wants the matter settled and regrets
not having kept a copy of the complaint his family had filed at the
Sector 40 police station when they first found the boy.</p>
<p>
“Will I be put behind bars? Is this what I deserve for doing
something good,” he asks. “The CWC can summon me any time so I am
skipping a family wedding in Bareilly. I wish all this confusion could
have been avoided.”</p>
<p>
(With inputs from Joel Joseph)</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<h1>
Maid abuse: CWC wants girl’s statement under CrPC 164</h1>
<p>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Maid-abuse-CWC-wants-girls-statement-under-CrPC-164/articleshow/13694492.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Maid-abuse-CWC-wants-girls-statement-under-CrPC-164/articleshow/13694492.cms</a></p>
<p>
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 01.15AM IST</p>
<p>
NOIDA: With two separate cases of domestic help abuse being reported
in Noida within three days, the child welfare committee has instructed
police to record the statement of a 13-year-old domestic help under
Section 164 of CrPC. She was allegedly abused by her employers in their
Sector 44 residence. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CWC">CWC</a> officials said this move would strengthen the girl’s case and aid in her receiving swift justice.</p>
<p>
CWC said that in the FIR, police had applied all sections relevant to
child labour, involuntary confinement and bonded labour, but for the
girl’s rehabilitation, her statement should be recorded by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/ACJM">ACJM</a>
under Section 164 of CrPC. “Once the statement has been recorded by the
ACJM under this section, the rehabilitation process for the girl can
begin and she can be released from judicial custody,” said a CWC
official.</p>
<p>
In the other case – in which another girl had been allegedly abused by her <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/software-engineer">software engineer</a> employer for almost a year – police said they were awaiting the medical report to verify the exact age of the girl.</p>
<p>
The first case was reported to police on March 24 following which the
girl, aged between 13 and 14 years, was rescued from the Sector 44
house in Noida. “The girl was employed by a couple, Jagdeep and Shilpa
Relan. The husband didn’t live in Noida. When we rescued the girl, her
body was riddled with injuries,” said the police. The parents of the
girl arrived in Noida from their village in Jharkhand on Sunday.</p>
<p>
In the second case, police are waiting for the health department to
submit the age proof of the girl. “In this case, the girl is around 14
years old and we need to be sure about her age because if she’s older
than 14, the child labour act doesn’t apply to her,” said a police
official. Police also said they had traced the girl’s family in
Jharkhand with the aid of the state police.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<h1>
Experts differ on CWC action</h1>
<p>
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Experts-differ-on-CWC-action/articleshow/13695838.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Experts-differ-on-CWC-action/articleshow/13695838.cms</a></p>
<p>
TNN | Jun 1, 2012, 03.59AM IST</p>
<p>
NEW DELHI: The curious story of Azad Hussain — the good Samaritan who is now under the police scanner because of a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CWC">CWC</a>
order — has drawn a mixed response from independent observers and legal
experts. While some feel that a probe into the allegations by the child
Hussain restored to his family about being beaten up by the
kabadiwallah or being asked to work is needed, others say there is no
conclusive evidence against Azad and any proceedings against the man
would amount to unnecessary harassment.</p>
<p>
“This is a peculiar case. The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Child-Welfare-Committee">Child Welfare Committee</a>
(CWC) is well within its right to order a police inquiry if the rescued
child has made certain allegations against the person. But, on the
other hand, if the version of the man who brought up him for two years
is correct — that he treated him like his own children, sent him to
school and always tried to unite the child with his biological parents —
is correct, it’s serious harassment. It is great injustice to him,”
said A P Shah, former Chief Justice of Delhi H C.</p>
<p>
A CWC official said that whenever any child is rescued or recovered, a
medical examination is conducted to rule out any foul play and then the
child is produced before a magistrate for recording his or her
statement. “Missing children are produced before CWC because they are in
need of care and protection and in order to decide on the custody of
the child. The child, in this case, told the magistrate that he was
beaten by the man and was made to work. The case was forwarded to us and
we asked the police to investigate the matter as per law,” the official
said, pointing out that the person had not been pronounced guilty yet.</p>
<p>
The well-known retired judge of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-High-Court">Delhi High Court</a>
S N Dhingra was, however, critical of the CWC. “The CWC should have
assessed the seriousness of the charges levelled by the child against
the rescuer rather than ordering a police inquiry immediately. It is
insensitive on the part of the child rights body,” he said.</p>
<p>
“Today, when an accident takes place, few people come forward to help
the victim, fearing that police may question them for suspected
involvement. Nobody wants to get harassed like this. Azad’s case just
proves them right.”</p>
<p>
Delhi’s women and child development minister Kiran Walia said going
by circumstantial evidence, there was no reason to doubt the intention
of the rescuer. “The fact that Azad brought up this child for two years,
sent him to school and made extra efforts to look for his biological
parents shows his intentions were right. I feel that ordering a police
inquiry without any conclusive proof of continuous abuse or harassment
is unwarranted. We will look into the case,” she said.</p>
<p>
The Malviya Nagar police have said they will be following the CWC
order and record statements of neighbours of both the boy’s father, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Muhammad-Iqbal">Iqbal</a>,
who stays in Delhi’s Savitri Nagar, and Azad. “We are now studying the
statement of the child recorded before the magistrate. We are trying to
find out if there was any malafide intention in the conduct of Azad. As
of now, we have found that he truly wanted to reunite the child with his
family. We will contact Gurgaon police and find out if the recovery of
the child was conveyed to them by Azad and his family and whether these
policemen have often restored the child back to the family whenever he
ran off. We will register a case of were are convinced of any evil
intention,” said a senior cop.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
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</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<h1>
Sports Ministry appeals to CIC to bring BCCI under RTI</h1>
<p>
<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-31/others/31920211_1_bcci-indian-cricket-board-national-sports-federation">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-31/others/31920211_1_bcci-indian-cricket-board-national-sports-federation</a></p>
<p>
PTI May 31, 2012, 06.56PM IST</p>
<p>
NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry is pinning its hope on the Central
Information Commission to bring the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) under
the purview of the Right to Information Act.</p>
<p>
Sports Minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Maken">Ajay Maken</a> said he has appealed to the CIC to bring <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BCCI">BCCI</a> under RTI for varied reasons.</p>
<p>
“We have appealed to the CIC (to bring BCCI under RTI). Our appeal is
based on a number of valid reasons,” he told reporters after unveiling
the Draft National Youth Policy on Thursday.</p>
<p>
“The first reason why the BCCI should come under RTI is that the
lands on which the state federations have built their stadiums and other
facilities have been provided by the state governments.</p>
<p>
“Moreover, from 1996 to 2006, the government has given a tax exemption of Rs 365 crore to the BCCI,” he said.</p>
<p>
“And the most important thing is that the biggest public function
they are performing is by selecting the team for India. Any team or
institution which plays under the Indian flag should come under RTI,”
Maken added.</p>
<p>
The proposed National Sports Bill, which was prepared after receiving
comments and suggestions from various stakeholders and the public,
seeks to have BCCI as National Sports Federation (NSF) and wants it to
function as a public authority and comply with the requirements
specified in the RTI Act.</p>
<p>
If the BCCI becomes an NSF, it would be bound to provide information
under the RTI and would also be forced to follow the anti-doping rules
as specified by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/World-Anti-Doping-Agency">World Anti-Doping Agency</a> (WADA).</p>
<p>
These proposals of the Bill have been vehemently opposed by the BCCI
and some other sports bodies, including the Indian Olympic Association
(IOA), which want to continue functioning in an autonomous manner, free
from public scrutiny and accountability.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
<strong>Supreme Court judge recuses himself from Bidari case</strong></p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/253568/apex-court-judge-recuses-bidaris.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/253568/apex-court-judge-recuses-bidaris.html</a></p>
<p>
New Delhi, May 31, 2012, DHNS:</p>
<p>
<strong>A Supreme Court judge on Thursday recused himself from
hearing a plea of Shankar M Bidari seeking his reinstatement as the
police chief of Karnataka.</strong></p>
<p>
As the case came up for hearing, Justice J S Khehar, sitting
alongside Justice K S Radhakrishnan in the Vacation Bench, expressed his
unwillingness to hear the appeal filed by Bidari against the Karnataka
High Court’s order. The matter is now listed for hearing for Friday
before a Bench comprising Justice Radhakrishnan and Justice C K Prasad.</p>
<p>
In a setback to Bidari, the High Court had on May 29 held that his
empanelment for the post of State police chief was vitiated as the State
government had failed to produce the Justice Sadashiva panel report and
the NHRC order indicting him for alleged atrocities committed during
the manhunt for forest brigand Veerappan.</p>
<p>
“There is a specific reference to Bidari in the panel report in three
paragraphs, which is in the nature of an adverse comment with respect
to his functioning as a commandant of the Special Task Force. The
Sadashiva panel report and the NHRC order which upheld the findings of
the report and recommended payment of compensation, constitutes material
information which ought to have been placed before the UPSC by the
State government,” the High Court had said.</p>
<p>
Bidari had challenged the order of the Central Administrative
Tribunal (CAT) quashing his appointment as the DG&IGP on November 30
last year. The apex court had earlier set aside a Karnataka High Court
order directing removal of Bidari and appointment of A R Infant as the
DGP & IGP.</p>
<p>
</p>
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Advocate Supreme Court of India
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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=132027&date=2012-06-06" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;line-height:115%">List of 20 victims handed over to Home Minister</span></b></a><br /><a href="http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=132027&date=2012-06-06">http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=132027&date=2012-06-06</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dr Mizanur Rahman on Tuesday handed over to the Home Minister Sahara Khatun a list of 20 people who had fallen victims to either 'enforced disappearances or secret killings,' reports UNB.<br /><br />During a brief meeting with Home Minister at her ministry, the NHRC chief also wanted to know whether there is any step to trace those who have gone missing.<br /><br />Talking to journalists after the meeting, Mizan voiced his grave concern over some recent incidents, including the disappearance of BNP leader Ilias Ali, journalists Sagar, Runi murder, worker Aminul Islam killing and torture on journalists by the police.<br /><br />Dr Mizan requested the Home Minister to inform the NHRC of the steps taken by the government about those incidents. "The minister informed me about the progress in the investigation into those incidents and said there will be positive results."<br /><br />Replying to a question, the NHRC chairman said a section of overenthusiastic police officers violate human rights while performing their duties.<br /><br />Dr Mizan urged the Home Minister to promote police officers on the basis of recommendations from the NHRC to be sure whether the police officials were involved in any act of human rights violation.<br /><br />The minister agreed in principle with the NHRC chairman on the proposal.<br /><br />All the NHRC members were present during the meeting with the Home Minister. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Family refuses to encash cheque even after 2 months</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Family-refuses-to-encash-cheque-even-after-2-months/articleshow/13859895.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Family-refuses-to-encash-cheque-even-after-2-months/articleshow/13859895.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 05.19AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> CHANDIGARH: In the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/kidnapping">kidnapping</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/murder-case-of-Khushpreet-Singh">murder case of Khushpreet Singh</a>, 5, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chandigarh-administration">Chandigarh administration</a> had handed over a cheque of Rs 3 lakh as compensation money to the kin of the deceased in April 2012, but they still have not got the cheque encashed in protest.<br /><br />The father of deceased child, Lakhwinder Singh, said, "We refuse to encash the compensation cheque as seeking money was never our motive. We want strict punishment for the cops responsible for the death of my child."<br /><br />Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Delhi, issued detailed orders in this regard on Tuesday. Counsel for the victim family, Arvind Thakur, said the NHRC has also instructed the Chandigarh administration to take strict action against the guilty cops and issued orders in this regard on Tuesday. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>35-lakhs for a block of toilets, not two, says Planning Commission</h1> <p class="insdateline"><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/planning-commission-spends-rs-35-lakh-to-renovate-2-toilets-in-delhi-227824">http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/planning-commission-spends-rs-35-lakh-to-renovate-2-toilets-in-delhi-227824</a></p> <p class="insdateline"><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/search?q=NDTV+Correspondent">NDTV Correspondent</a> | Updated: June 06, 2012 18:16 IST </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>New Delhi: </b>The morning began with two toilets occupying national mindspace. A Right to Information application revealed that the Planning Commission has spent 35 lakhs on renovating two toilets at its offices in Delhi. Five lakhs had been invested on installing a system that would limit entry to the toilets to electronic card holders.<br /><br />Online and elsewhere, there was fierce criticism of what was seen as lavish expenditure by a body that designs India's economic blueprint - its five year plans - and which had controversially said that Indians who spend more than <span class="rupee"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Rs.</span></span> 32 a day in cities are above the poverty line. "The Planning Commission's toilets should be protected as the eighth wonder of the world," said the BJP's Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.<br /><br />The Planning Commission used a detailed statement to clear the air. A press release said that the money had been spent on two toilet blocks that could accommodate 20 users at a time, and that they include facilities for differently-abled users, which can be expensive. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Commission also said that the smart card system had been introduced to avoid "pilferage" of sanitation equipment and that it had been discontinued because it was not practical. The toilets were for public use, it emphasized, while pointing out that the upgrade followed many complaints made by ministers and foreign dignitaries who had visited the building.<br /><br />"The plan to renovate the toilets was in the budget and we thought the public toilets is used by everyone and it's not one or two it's an entire block which is being renovated. these toilets were 50 years old and the pipelines was very old and it was leaking which could cause health issues as well. That's why the entire toilet block is being renovated here," said Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.<br /><br />Though the explanation presented the rationale for the expenditure, stressing that it had been accounted for in the Commission's annual budget, critics remained unconvinced. <br /><br />"There is almost everything that is wrong with what was done and with the justification for it. The Planning Commission represents planning for whom, the poor of the country. And there has been a dispute with their figures because there has been a perception with everyone that within the planning commission they have one standard for the poor and another for the rich," said Nikhil Dey, an activist. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Khushpreet case: UT files compliance report to NHRC</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/khushpreet-case-ut-files-compliance-report-to-nhrc/958434/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/khushpreet-case-ut-files-compliance-report-to-nhrc/958434/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Wed Jun 06 2012, 02:36 hrs</p> <p> The UT Administration has submitted a compliance report to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) along with the proof of payment of Rs 3 lakh compensation which was paid to the family of Khushpreet. The administration made the payment to Lakhbir Singh, the father of Khushpreet, on April 4. </p> <p>Five-year-old Khushpreet Singh, son of a dairy owner, was kidnapped and subsequently murdered by his neighbour on December 21, 2010 near his house in Burail. His body was recovered from Mohali. Khushpreet was not released despite his family paying Rs 4 lakh in ransom. The police had arrested Sukhdev Singh, Gurvinder Singh and Nand Kishore in connection with the case.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Tribunal rejects IL&FS' plea to allow work on Cuddalore plant</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tribunal-rejects-ilfs-plea-to-allow-work-on-cuddalore-plant/1007813.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tribunal-rejects-ilfs-plea-to-allow-work-on-cuddalore-plant/1007813.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04">PTI | 04:06 PM,Jun 05,2012</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal has refused to stay its order suspending the environment clearance granted to IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Company Ltd for its 3,600 MW thermal power plant in the state's Cuddalore district. The Tribunal rejected IL&FS' fresh plea for keeping its May 23 order for suspension of the environment clearance (EC) in abeyance and to allow it to carry out construction works for the project. The tribunal had suspended the May 31, 2010 EC on May 23, this year and had directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to review its decision based on a cumulative impact assessment study and stipulate additional environmental conditions, if required. Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) had sought a stay on the Tribunal's May 23 order contending that preparatory civil works like construction of storm water drainage and levelling of the site must be completed before the onset of monsoon in mid September 2012. The tribunal rejected its plea saying a rapid cumulative impact assessment study can be completed before the onset of monsoon and "civil works referred to by IL&FS may not take very long to complete if planned and executed properly". "In view of the importance of cumulative impact study in decision making, in the case on hand and the logistic reasons with regard to completing the civil works, we see no reason to provide relief as sought in the application," a bench headed by Tribunal Acting Chairperson Justice A S Naidu said.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#252525">Allahabad 'kripa' on Nirmal Baba: HC stays arrest</span></b><span style="color:#252525"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-allahabad-kripa-on-nirmal-baba-hc-stays-arrest-3370892.html">http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-allahabad-kripa-on-nirmal-baba-hc-stays-arrest-3370892.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Source: Dailybhaskar.com | Last Updated 11:52(05/06/12) </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <b><span style="color:#414141">New Delhi:</span></b><span style="color:#414141"> In a much-needed relief for the self-proclaimed godman, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court stayed Nirmal Baba's arrest. </span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">According to reports, Nirmaljeet Singh Narula aka Nirmal Baba got relief after the court put a stay on his arrest until chargesheet is filed. </span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">Nirmal Baba had filed a writ petition seeking quashing of FIR against him and staying his arrest. The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM's) had ordered filing of an FIR against Nirmal Baba on charges of fraud. </span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">The CJM order came on a petition filed by two students Tanya Thakur (16) and her brother Aditya (13) in Lucknow. In his petition, Baba has said that he is among renowned religious persons and denied all allegations against him. He has described CJM's order as 'legally incorrect'.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>MBA student's encounter case: 11 cops surrender</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/MBA-students-encounter-case-11-cops-surrender/articleshow/13857937.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/MBA-students-encounter-case-11-cops-surrender/articleshow/13857937.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 01.40AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> NEW DELHI: Three years after the alleged fake encounter case of MBA student Ranbir Singh in Dehradun, 11 of the 18 <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a> police personnel accused in the case surrendered before a trial court on Tuesday.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The policemen, who surrendered before Special CBI judge V K Maheshwari after non-bailable warrants were issued against them this May, have been sent to judicial custody.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The cops who surrendered include Satbir Singh, Sunil Saini, Chander Pal, Saurabh Nautiyal, Nagendra Nath, Vikas Chandra Baluni, Sanjay Rawat, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mohan-Singh">Mohan Singh</a> Rana, Inder Bhan Singh and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manoj-Kumar">Manoj Kumar</a> - all constables during the incident - and head operator at the city control room Jaspal Singh Gosain.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The constables were chargesheeted by CBI in connection with the encounter case that rocked the hill state in July 2009. The other accused are lodged in Tihar Jail. They include then inspector Santosh Jaiswal, sub-inspectors Gopal Dutt Bhatt, Rajesh Bisht, Neeraj Kumar, Nitin Chauhan and Chandra Mohan and constable Ajeet Singh.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>While fixing July 4 as the next date of hearing, the court allowed the plea of these 11 accused that they be kept together in jail as they are police personnel and apprehend fear from other inmates.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court asked CBI to file its reply on the regular bail pleas of the 11 accused by July 14, the next date of hearing. The court will hear the arguments on bail on July 4, the next date of hearing.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The accused policemen had earlier moved the Delhi high court for bail but their plea was dismissed. The Supreme Court also upheld the high court's decision on May 29. The CBI judge noted that the Supreme Court had observed that the trial court should conclude the trial expeditiously, preferably within six months.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court said CBI must examine Ram Kumar, one of the two persons who were seen with the victim on the day he was killed. Kumar has been partly examined by CBI.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Singh, an 22-year-old MBA student from Ghaziabad, was allegedly gunned down by Uttarakhand police after being caught on Mohini Road where he and his companions were allegedly trying to commit some crime on July 3, 2009. The case was transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court on the plea of Ranbir's father Ravindra Singh.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Ranbir's father had alleged that his son had gone to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dehradun">Dehradun</a> in search of a job where he was arrested by the police on July 3, 2009 on pretext of being involved in some robbery.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He had alleged that on the same day, 29 bullets were pumped into his body and the incident was passed off as an encounter.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>All the 18 policemen have been charged for various offences such as murder, kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and public servant framing incorrect record.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Government seeks Special Task Force to reclaim forest</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Government-seeks-Special-Task-Force-to-reclaim-forest/articleshow/13858465.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Government-seeks-Special-Task-Force-to-reclaim-forest/articleshow/13858465.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 02.33AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> BANGALORE: The state government which was once described as the No.1 enemy of forests by the high court during a hearing, on Tuesday put up a "green plea" before a division bench headed by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Justice">Chief Justice</a>.<br /><br />It has sought for setting up of a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/special-task-force">special task force</a> for reclaiming the 68,000 hectares of reserved forest which is still under occupation/encroachment.<br /><br />"Today is World Environment Day. We had 1.1 lakh hectares of forest land under encroachment.<br /><br />"Of this, 42,000 hectares have been reclaimed by evicting 40,000-od families. But to reclaim the remaining 68,000 hectares is a mammoth task. Many of these lands fall under the Western Ghats area in five districts -Shimoga, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chikmagalur">Chikmagalur</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttara-Kannada">Uttara Kannada</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dakshina-Kannada">Dakshina Kannada</a> and Kodagu. The occupants also need to be heard before being evicted. We need a special force-type mechanism for this task,'' Ravindra G Kolle, government advocate, requested the high court bench.<br /><br />The court, which was hearing a PIL related to encroachment of forest land in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shimoga">Shimoga</a> district, observed that forming a committee may sometimes delay the process itself. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Censor says yes to Shanghai song, no to abuses</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Censor-says-yes-to-Shanghai-song-no-to-abuses/articleshow/13861999.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Censor-says-yes-to-Shanghai-song-no-to-abuses/articleshow/13861999.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Subhash K Jha, Mumbai Mirror </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 09.46AM IST</span></span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%;color:#757575"></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> The decks have been cleared for Dibakar Banerjee's eagerly awaited political thriller <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shanghai">Shanghai</a> which hits theatres this Friday. The Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has accorded the film a UA certification, which means it is suitable for under-age viewing under parental guidance, albeit with one major cut.</span></em><br /><br />CBFC CEO <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pankaja-Thakur">Pankaja Thakur</a> refused to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dwell">dwell</a> on the cut, adding, "Beyond that one scene, we saw nothing objectionable in the content." And while no one is willing to divulge any details, we hear the censored scene originally had an abusive term addressed to a politician.<br /><br />Explaining the censor board's stand on the controversial song <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Bharat mata ki jai</span></em> against which a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhagat-Singh">Bhagat Singh</a> Kranti Sena, Thakur said, "The matter is subjudice, so I can't comment on whether the song stays or goes from the film. It was cleared by our Revising Committee when submitted to the board members earlier. As far as the censor board is concerned, the song has been cleared." <span style="font-size: 12.0pt"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">TN to continue 3 per cent reservation for differently abled</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tn-to-continue-3-per-cent-reservation-for-differently-abled/1008153.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/tn-to-continue-3-per-cent-reservation-for-differently-abled/1008153.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04">PTI | 01:06 AM,Jun 06,2012</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chennai, Jun 5 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government today informed the Madras High Court that it would continue to provide three per cent reservation for the differently abled in the posts of nutritious noon meal organisers. While appointing the organisers, three per cent reservation would be provided for partially deaf persons and those with lesser degree of locomotor disability, Advocate General A Navaneethakrishnan said. The Advocate General informed this to a bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam when a PIL seeking three per cent reservation as per the Persons with Disabilities (Equal opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act came up for hearing. However, the posts of cook and assistants had been exempted from the specified reservation as the differently abled would have to handle large cooking vessels and also be entrusted with the task of feeding children, the Advocate General said. copy of the May 25 government order issued by state Principal Secretary for Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme was produced before the bench. The PIL sought quashing of the August 18, 2010 government order and issuance of a fresh order by incorporating the statutory three per cent reservation for the differently abled while filling up 28,500 posts under the Noon Meal Programme and in the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme. Disposing of the petition, the bench observed that it was fully satisfied with the reservation provided for the persons concerned. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Made Snana ritual case hearing adjourned</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Made-Snana-ritual-case-hearing-adjourned/articleshow/13858494.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Made-Snana-ritual-case-hearing-adjourned/articleshow/13858494.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 02.35AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> BANGALORE: A high court division bench headed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Justice">Chief Justice</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vikramajit-Sen">Vikramajit Sen</a> on Tuesday adjourned by a month hearing on a PIL seeking ban on the Made Snana ritual at the Subramanya shrine in Dakshina Kannada district. The court will await the state government's decision as the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chief-minister">chief minister</a> had promised to discontinue the practice. The government advocate informed the court that though the CM had made the statement, no formal order has been passed yet.<br /><br />The petitioners have described the practice as pernicious and against the spirit enunciated in the Constitution which speaks about imbibing the scientific spirit. Made Snana is a ritual in which people roll on plantain leaves off which Brahmins have had a meal. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Five officers get bail in firemen death case</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/five-officers-get-bail-in-firemen-death-case/1008001.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/five-officers-get-bail-in-firemen-death-case/1008001.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04">PTI | 08:06 PM,Jun 05,2012</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thane, Jun 5 (PTI) Five officials of Thane Municipal Fire Services including the chief fire officer who were booked following the death of six firemen in the infamous 'Punarvasu' building fire have been granted bail by a court here. All the five, who were given anticipatory bail were booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Thane Assistant Sessions Judge, N B Dhaitadak, ordered that in event of their arrest by Vartak Nagar police with whom the offence under Section 304 RW 34 of the IPC is registered, they be released on each one of them executing a bond for Rs 15,000 and furnishing surety in like amount. The applicants were: Munir Shaikh Usman Mulla, station in-charge of Mumbra Fire station, Pundalik Ladku Patil, sub-Fire Officer, Samadhan Vitthal Devre, sub station officer, Arvind Prabhakar Mandke, Chief Fire Officer and Girish Murlidhar Zhalke, sub-station Officer. On the ill-fated day October 18, 2009 and when they received a call following a fire in Punarvasu Building, they went to the site at about 4.30 am, the court was told. They further said in their application that firemen G C Singh, A S Thanekar, K G Patil, S R Jamadar, T G Kale and S K Shinde rushed into the lift in presence of the officers of Vartak Nagar police station to douse the fire on 14th floor of the Society. But the lift stopped and the firemen died due to suffocation. Kavita R Sangrulkar, a social worker and trustee of Abhay Abhiyan Trust made an application in the court in 2010 in which they stated that the firemen died due to carelessness and negligence of the applicant. Based on the directions of the court, police carried out investigations and filed offences under sections 304 rw 34 of the IPC against the applicants following which they approached the court for anticipatory bail. In their application, the officers said they were innocent and have been falsely implicated in the case. On perusing the FIR as it the ingredients offence u/sec 304 rw 34 of IPC are not attracted, at the most the provisions of section 304 (a) will be applicable. Therefore, there is no hindrance in releasing the applicants/accused on anticipatory bail. The documents on record shows that the heirs of the victims are already compensated by the various institutions including the government, the court said. The judge further noted the investigation is practically completed and nothing incriminating is to be recovered or discovered at the instance of the present applicants/accused. Therefore the physical custody of the present applicants is not required for the interrogation. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Online counselling for MBBS: SC seeks MCI take</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Online-counselling-for-MBBS-SC-seeks-MCI-take/articleshow/13859372.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Online-counselling-for-MBBS-SC-seeks-MCI-take/articleshow/13859372.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Dhananjay-Mahapatra.cms">Dhananjay Mahapatra</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 04.16AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</a> on Tuesday sought Medical Council of India's response within two days to a proposal from Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) for maiden online counseling for allotment of over 2,000 MBBS and BDS seats in medical colleges from this academic session.<br /><br />A bench of Justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar sought medical education regulator MCI's response by Thursday, when it would examine the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/DGHS">DGHS</a> proposal for doing away with existing mode of counseling that require candidates to appear in person.<br /><br />Delhi used to be the main centre from where allotment of 15% all-India quota of MBBS and BDS seats in various medical colleges used to take place, with candidates participating in counseling through video conferencing from other centres like Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. In 2011, DGHS conducted counseling for 4,150 candidates for 2,194 seats in MBBS and BDS courses.<br /><br />Till now, the candidates used to take long journeys up to six times from their home towns to the metros within a short period of time to attend counseling sessions. "The expenditure for candidates during online counseling will be almost nil and much less for the government. The online counseling process will be faceless yet fully transparent and fair," the DGHS promised.<br /><br />The proposal for online counseling was recommended by an expert committee headed by Director General of Health Services, which was tasked by ministry of health and family welfare to find out ways and means to address the problem of seats remaining vacant even after two rounds of counseling every year.<br /><br />In its application before the apex court, the DGHS said: "The committee has recommended that by changing the method of allotment from existing counseling by personal appearance to online counseling and by increasing the number of candidates eligible to take part in counseling both in undergraduate and post-graduate courses may significantly reduce the number of seats that remain unfilled at the end of All India quota counseling."<br /><br />The salient features of the proposal for online counseling are:<br /><br />* All candidates who qualify All India Undergraduate Entrance Examination or five times number of seats available under the all-India quota, whichever is less, will be allowed to take part in online counseling.<br /><br />* Qualified candidates will give option of course and college online. There will be a total of three rounds of online allotment instead of existing two.<br /><br />* After the first round, candidates will be given provisional allotment letter online and will be required to report to the allotted medical/dental college within 10 days. The respective colleges would check the documents of eligibility of candidates.<br /><br />* Candidates, who fail to take admission in 10 days, would forfeit their claim for admission and would not be considered for allotment of seats during subsequent rounds of counseling.<br /><br />* Candidates who join the course after the first round may give their option for upgrade of h/his choice of course or college to be considered during subsequent rounds of counseling subject to availability of seats.<br /><br />* Arrangement for online counseling process will be made by the National Informatics Centre, which conducts the online counseling for allotment of seats under All India Engineering Entrance Examination.<br /><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="mailto:dhananjay.mahapatra@timesgroup.com"><span style="font-style:normal">dhananjay.mahapatra@timesgroup.com</span></a></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></em></p> <h1>Fresh case registered against M.M. Mani </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3492741.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3492741.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Anand Haridas</span></span> </p> <p class="body">The police registered a fresh case against M.M. Mani, Idukki district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M], for conspiring to commit a murder. </p> <p class="body">The police had initiated an inquiry into the statements by the accused that the party had prepared a hit list. The new case pertained to the murder of Ancheri Baby, who was shot dead on November 13, 1982. Though the case was tried then, all suspects were acquitted. During the new inquiry, the second accused in the original case, Mohandas, gave a statement about the role played by Mr. Mani in conspiring to execute the murder, it is learnt. </p> <p class="body">Following this, the Rajakkad police registered a case under Section 120(b) (murder conspiracy) and section 118 (concealing the design to commit the crime) of the Indian Penal Code against M.M. Mani and K.K. Jayachandran, the then area committee secretary of the party; Lambodaran, M.M. Mani's brother; and two others. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Bengal lists ‘corrupt’ cops in gazette</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bengal-lists-corrupt-cops-in-gazette/958316/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bengal-lists-corrupt-cops-in-gazette/958316/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/rajibchatterjee/">RAJIB CHATTERJEE</a> : Kolkata, Wed Jun 06 2012, 00:40 hrs</p> <p> In an unusual move, the police have published a gazette containing tale of two “corrupt officers” and the action taken against them. It also ordered wide publicity of the “nefarious act” of the officers among their colleagues in order to send a clear message that any violation of the government’s policy of “zero tolerance against corruption” would be firmly dealt with. </p> <p>The order to put the misconduct of the two officers in the police gazette, published in mid-May, had come from DGP Naparajit Mukherjee. </p> <p>The two “corrupt” officers — Inspector Kishore Ghosh and Assistant Sub-Inspector Prabir Bal — along with two civilians, allegedly tried to “extort money” from one Madan Ghatak of Berhampore, Murshidabad on May 1. </p> <p>They were arrested and charged under Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Man kills wife for dowry, gets life term</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Man-kills-wife-for-dowry-gets-life-term/Article1-866557.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Man-kills-wife-for-dowry-gets-life-term/Article1-866557.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Upasana%20Mukherjee%20&op=Story">Upasana Mukherjee </a>, Hindustan Times</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Calling dowry a "customary extortion", a Delhi court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for setting his wife on fire in 2006, three years into their marriage.<br /><br />Taking a strict view of the crime, additional sessions judge Anju Bajaj Chandna said, "Taking one's life for dowry </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="msoIns"><ins style="display:inline-table"> is so heinous and grave that leniency has no place to stand with it." The court also imposed a fine of <span class="webrupee"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Rs. </span></span>20,000 on Anand Sharma, the victim's husband.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The incident occurred on August 3, 2006, when the victim sustained burns all over her body after being doused with kerosene oil while she was asleep and set on fire. The victim in her dying declaration to the police named her husband and in-laws for setting her on fire. She categorically mentions being harassed and beaten up by her in-laws for not bringing enough cash and gifts from her maternal home as dowry. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Advocate Kush Sharma, appearing on behalf of the victim's parents, said the dying declaration of the victim is categorical about the incident and it can be the sole basis of the conviction of the accused persons.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court also pronounced the mother-in-law of the victim guilty of the offence of dowry death and sentenced her to 10 years in prison, together with a fine of R15,000, adding that dowry disgraces the sacred institution of marriage.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The prosecution also alleged that the victim was ill treated after she gave birth to a daughter in 2004. "In the present case, a young woman has lost her life and her little daughter is left to live without motherly care," the Judge said, adding that Anand was responsible for the victim's safety and security at her matrimonial home.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The duo has been charged with offence of dowry death (Section 304-B) and cruelty by husband and relative of husband (Section 498-A) of the Indian Penal Code.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Court refuses to summon John Abraham, says picture not obscene</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_court-refuses-to-summon-john-abraham-says-picture-not-obscene_1698463">http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_court-refuses-to-summon-john-abraham-says-picture-not-obscene_1698463</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Published: Tuesday, Jun 5, 2012, 17:19 IST<br />Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:7.4pt 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Refusing to hold a nude picture of Bollywood actor John Abraham, published in a news daily as "obscene," a Delhi court has dismissed a plea to summon him and the newspaper's editor to answer charges of spreading vulgarity in society.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Rajneesh Kumar Gupta dismissed the plea saying that the actor's alleged photographs were not likely to "corrupt the mind" of the readers and its purpose was merely to give the latest news about Bollywood.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>"After going through the photograph of John Abraham and contents of the news item, I am of the opinion that the alleged picture of John Abraham is not obscene which is likely to deprave and corrupt the mind of its readers and its purpose is only to give information to the news readers as to what is the latest happenings in the Bollywood," Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Rajneesh Kumar Gupta said.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court dismissed the revision petition of Kirti Nagar resident Chander Mohan Dua, who had sought summoning of John Abraham and the editor and publisher of the daily which had published the picture in June 2009.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>"I do not find sufficient material on record to summon the accused persons. Accordingly, there is no infirmity or illegality in the order passed by the trial court and it is upheld. The revision petition is dismissed," ASJ Gupta said. </ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Dua had sought prosecution of John Abraham and the daily's editor and publisher for allegedly violating sections 292 and 294 of the Indian Penal Code (relating to sale, circulation or publication of obscene pictures and indulging in obscene acts), besides various other statutory provisions.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Dua had filed the complaint saying that on June 11, 2009, a "vulgar photograph" of Abraham was published in the daily which was viewed by his children and lakhs of people including the young and adolescent ones who may easily be depraved and corrupted by such acts of obscenity and vulgarity.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>He said he had filed a complaint in this regard in the Moti Nagar police station here but no action was taken on his complaint.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Dua had then approached the court but the magistrate had refused to summon Abraham as an accused and had dismissed his plea. </ins></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>‘We are sick of illegal parties’</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_we-are-sick-of-illegal-parties_1698303">http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_we-are-sick-of-illegal-parties_1698303</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%">Published: Tuesday, Jun 5, 2012, 10:27 IST<br />By <b><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/dna-correspondent" style="#000"><span style="color:#731643">DNA Correspondent</span></a></b> | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:7.4pt 0in 0in 0in"> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins style="display:inline-table"> The high court has issued notices to the BBMP regarding a public interest litigation, which alleges that loud parties are being held in a community hall in the city without licence, creating a lot of nuisance for people living around it.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Two people have filed the PIL, alleging that the community hall in Central Public Works Department (CPWD) quarters premises in Vijayanagar is hosting parties almost every day without permission.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioners contend that non-veg food is served in these parties. Animals are butchered in the wee hours of the day, which creates an unpleasant scene, what with the cries of the animals.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Stray dogs keep roaming around the hall for raw meat and the surplus food that is thrown after the parties are over.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The PIL says that the area around community hall has become a mess. Residents have to put up with foul smell all the time. The place has become home to rodents and flies.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Further, many people who come to the community hall for the parties urinate on the boundary walls, which just adds to the trouble. The situation is so bad that reaching health clinic on the first floor of the community hall has become an arduous task.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Further, the petitioners have contended that utensils for the parties are loaded and unloaded early in the morning, which creates a lot of noise and disturbs sleep of the people living near the community hall. The visitors park their vehicles in a haphazard manner, which aggravates the traffic problem posed by the construction work for Namma Metro.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioners contended that these parties are not cultural or social functions, but private parties, that too held without permission. They alleged that the BBMP and the deputy health officer are aware of this problem but have not taken any action.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The case came up for hearing before the division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen. Taking note of the matter, the high court issued notices to the BBMP, deputy health officer of Govindarajanagar range, and the organisers of the community hall—Griha Kalyana Kendra Samaja Sadana.</ins></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Do new Irda rules on health cover benefit policy holders?</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/personal-finance/insurance/analysis/do-new-irda-rules-on-health-cover-benefit-policy-holders/articleshow/13860111.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/personal-finance/insurance/analysis/do-new-irda-rules-on-health-cover-benefit-policy-holders/articleshow/13860111.cms</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Following the Bombay High Court order in December last year, the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Insurance-Regulatory-and-Development-Authority">Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority</a> (Irda) had promised to release draft guidelines to protect <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/health-insurance">health insurance</a> policy holders' interest and bring more transparency into the system.<br /><br />Last week, the insurance regulator proposed certain norms, which could bring about the much-needed standardisation in the health insurance space. While some of the norms are already in place, there are also several fresh proposals. Here's a look at the newer ones:<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Measure: 30-day deadline for claim settlement</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Impact:</span></strong> You can take <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/insurers">insurers</a> to task if the claim is not processed within 30 days of submitting the required documents. "While it was part of <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Irda">Irda</a> (Protection of Policyholders' Interest) Regulations, 2002, it never found a mention in insurance policy documents.<br /><br />Henceforth, it will have to be included in the policy documents," explains civic activist Gaurang Damani, who had filed the public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court demanding that regulations be framed for the health insurance sector. Irda's undertaking to devise draft guidelines was a fallout from this case.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Measure: Specific reason required for claim denial</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Impact:</span></strong> Since the insurance company has to give the reason for rejecting a claim in writing, it could bring down the instances of claim repudiation on flimsy grounds.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Measure: Insurers to pay hospitals directly</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Impact:</span></strong> Payments will become smooth. "In cases where the cheques for claim settlement were issued by the third-party administrators (TPA), payments used to be often delayed. Besides, it was difficult to ascertain whether the TPA had passed on the entire claim amount approved by the insurer to the claimant," says Damani.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Measure: Contribution clause will not come into play in the case of multiple policies</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Impact: </span></strong>Policyholders with two or more indemnity-based policies can make optimum use of their total coverage. Until now, claim made on two policies was split between the two insurers in the ratio of the sum insured. "The policyholder will have the option of choosing the insurer with whom the claim is to be settled," says Amarnath Ananthanarayanan, CEO, Bharti-AXA General Insurance.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Allegations against Deshmukh, Shinde being probed:CBI tells HC</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Allegations-against-Deshmukh-Shinde-being-probed-CBI-tells-HC/Article1-866523.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Allegations-against-Deshmukh-Shinde-being-probed-CBI-tells-HC/Article1-866523.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>PTI</b><br />Mumbai, June 05, 2012The CBI probing the Adarsh housing society scam has informed the Bombay High Court that it is thoroughly investigating the allegations made against Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde by a social activist based on the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India <span class="msoIns"><ins>(CAG).</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>This was stated by the CBI in an affidavit filed by it in the High Court on June 1.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Social activist Pravin Wategaonkar had in April this year filed an affidavit before the High Court based on the CAG report alleging that Deshmukh, former Maharashtra Chief minister, own two proxy flats in the scam tainted Adarsh society in south Mumbai.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Wategaonkar, in his affidavit, had sought that the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the role of Deshmukh, Shinde and other politicians and bureaucrats for alleged irregularities committed by them while showing favour to Adarsh Society.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The High Court on April 30 directed the CBI and ED to file their reply affidavits to Wategaonkar's allegations. The CBI in its affidavit filed on June 1 has said it was investigating the allegations made by Wategaonkar based on the CAG report.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"I say that the reference made by the petitioner (Wategaonkar) about the report of CAG on Adarsh society, which has brought out certain acts of commission and omission on the part of public servants are being thoroughly investigated by CBI", states the affidavit filed by Ravindra Singh, CBI Superintendent of Police (SP).</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"I say that the allegations made by the petitioner against Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Sunil Tatkare (cabinet minister) and others are being thoroughly investigated by CBI", the affidavit stated.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>It further said that the agency has examined all relevant witnesses, including two former chief ministers as part of the probe.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"Whatever evidence has come on record are being ascertained. Investigations are at a crucial stage and efforts are being made to finalise the same at the earliest after which CBI shall file its final report", the affidavit states. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The High Court had on the last hearing posted the matter on June 18 after CBI informed the Court that it would file its chargesheet in the case by June 15.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"It was noticed in the audit that in most cases decisions that were taken resulted in undue favour to the Society. Many of the officials who were involved in such decisions were direct beneficiaries. Either they or their relatives already were or later became members of the Society", Wategaonkar said in his affidavit quoting the CAG report.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>According to Wategaonkar, Vilasrao has procured two proxy flats in the 31-storeyed plush society as quid pro quo for the clearances given to the Society in his official capacity as Chief Minister and minister-in-charge of the Urban Development department.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The activist had sought the CBI and ED probe these irregularities.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Emaar: HC okays plot registration</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/128938">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/128938</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">June 6, 2012 </span><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>A High Court Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice V. Eswaraiah and Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar on Tuesday granted stay on an order issued by a single judge, who had stayed a government order restraining the authorities from registering the plots in Emaar project.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The single judge had directed owners of plots and villas in Emaar project to deposit Rs 15,000 per sq. yd. to the APIIC before their documents are presented for registration. The interim direction was granted on a petition by the plot owners. The state government subsequently filed an appeal.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>BIE: No scope for inter re-exam<br />The BIE on Tuesday told the High Court that there was no provision under to hold re-examination for second-year students who failed to appear on May 16 due to a delay in receiving their hall tickets. A Division Bench was dealing with the appeal, challenging a single-judge Bench’s order to conduct a re-examination. Additional A-G K.G. Krishna Murthy contended that details of the students were uploaded after the due date, and 777 students failed to take the exam. The Board, he argued, did not delay in issuing of hall tickets. Students’ counsels said they paid the fee on time and their colleges remitted it before the due date, but there was a 24-hour delay in uploading their details. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">HC rejects ex-CLB member's plea for joint trial in graft cases </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:8.25pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:8.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-rejects-ex-clb-members-plea-for-joint-trial-in-graft-cases/17246/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-rejects-ex-clb-members-plea-for-joint-trial-in-graft-cases/17246/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Press Trust of India / New Delhi June 05, 2012, 17:45<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:3.0pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.0pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:6.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:6.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p>The Delhi High Court has rejected a plea of R Vasudevan, former member of Company Law Board (CLB), seeking to club two graft cases lodged separately against him for allegedly taking bribe of Rs seven lakh and amassing assets more than his known sources of income. </p> <p>"I find no infirmity with the order of the learned Special Judge. Hence, (the petition is) dismissed," Justice M L Mehta said, adding that "both the offences for which the petitioner has been charged are distinct offences and not parts of same transaction...". </p> <p>Vasudevan, then acting chairperson of CLB, is accused of taking Rs seven lakh bribe from co-accused Manoj Banthia, company secretary of a vernacular news daily, for assuring him a favourable order in 2009 in a case being decided by him. </p> <p>Except Vasudevan and Banthia, four others were also named as accused in the graft case lodged by the CBI which filed the charge sheet in 2010 in the case. </p> <p>However, CBI, which also conducted raids at Vasudevan's premises in Delhi and Chennai during probe, later lodged another FIR against him for amassing disproportionate assets. </p> <p>The former CLB member, whose plea seeking to club the cases was rejected by the lower court, moved the High Court which upheld the decision saying the offences were "distinct and separate" and their trial cannot be clubbed. </p> <p>Citing a Supreme Court judgement, Justice Mehta said in a disproportionate assets case, the onus to prove the genuineness of income lies with the accused. </p> <p>However, in a bribery case, the duty to prove allegations shifts to the prosecuting agency (CBI) and hence, both FIRs are separate and the trials cannot be clubbed, the court said. (More) </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Delhi HC rules, Muslim girl can marry at 15 if she attains puberty</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_delhi-hc-rules-muslim-girl-can-marry-at-15-if-she-attains-puberty_1698473">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_delhi-hc-rules-muslim-girl-can-marry-at-15-if-she-attains-puberty_1698473</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Published: Tuesday, Jun 5, 2012, 17:39 IST<br />Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:7.4pt 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty, the Delhi High Court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in her matrimonial house.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>"This Court notes that according to Mohammedan Law a girl can marry without the consent of her parents once she attains the age of puberty and she has the right to reside with her husband even if she is below the age of 18....," a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg said.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Citing various Supreme Court judgements on the issue of minor Muslim girls' marriage, the bench said "In view of the above judgments, it is clear that a Muslim girl who has attained puberty i.e. 15 years can marry and such a marriage would not be a void marriage. However, she has the option of treating the marriage as voidable, at the time of her attaining the age of majority, i.e 18 years."</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Accepting the 16-year-old girl's plea to allow her to stay in her matrimonial home, the bench has disposed of a habeas corpus petition filed by the girl's mother alleging that her daughter was kidnapped by a youth and forced into marriage in April last year.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The bench accepted the girl's statement she had left her parental home of her own will to marry the man of her choice and her husband should not be booked on the charge of kidnapping.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Meanwhile, to ascertain the girl's well being, the court has directed the couple and in-laws to appear before the Child Welfare Committee once in every six months till the girl attains majority.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>"The Committee shall take necessary steps, including obtaining the necessary undertaking from the man(husband) in this regard. Subject to completion of these steps, the girl be allowed to live in her matrimonial home," the bench said.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The girl has been currently residing in Nirmal Chhaya, a government sponsored home for rehabilitation of poor and elderly women.</ins></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>city anchor: HC sets aside 38-yr-old UT resumption order on ‘oversized window’</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/city-anchor-hc-sets-aside-38yrold-ut-resumption-order-on-oversized-window/958454/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/city-anchor-hc-sets-aside-38yrold-ut-resumption-order-on-oversized-window/958454/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/raghavohri/">RAGHAV OHRI</a> : Chandigarh, Wed Jun 06 2012, 02:58 hrs</p> <p> Unhappy over a “major” violation, the Chandigarh Administration ordered resumption of a house located in Sector 10 in 1974. The violation was of an “oversized window” on the ground floor of the house. Refusing to relent from its stand, the Administration declined to withdraw the resumption proceedings against the owner, Harkishan Singh, for nearly four decades. Finally, the Punjab and Haryana High Court put an end to the dispute last week. </p> <p>Terming the resumption orders issued and the consequent dismissal of appeals of the owner by the UT Administration “not justified”, the High Court has expressed shock that the dispute was allowed to linger on for nearly four decades. “We are unable to hold that the building continues to be resumed after the year 1974,” a division bench comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice A N Jindal has ruled. </p> <p>Consider this: Battling with the Administration to withdraw the resumption proceedings, the allottee Harkishan Singh died on March 9, 2007. When his son applied for transfer of the property on the basis of a will dated March 27, 2001, he (son) was informed that the property “stands resumed”. To his dismay, he was told that the property can be got resumed only from the higher authority in the UT Administration. </p> <p>Another bout of litigation, this time to get ownership transferred, began in 2007. The son’s demand for transfer of ownership was declined by the UT Administrator’s Advisor on the ground that the petitioner “had slept over the matter for more than 36 years and as such they (petitioner & family) are not entitled to any relief”. </p> <p>Senior lawyer Puneet Bali, counsel for the petitioner, vehemently contended that the only violation noticed by the building branch and communicated to the Architect of the Administration is about the size of a window on the ground floor. </p> <p>Bali argued that the allottee had communicated in 1974 that minor changes be ignored or compounded. Aggrieved with the attitude of the Administration, the petitioner moved the High Court seeking quashing of the resumption orders and the order dismissing demand for transfer of ownership passed by the Advisor to the Administrator on December 2, 2010. </p> <p>Setting aside the orders passed by UT, the High Court ruled “the fact remains that after communication dated March 30, 1974, the allottee has not been informed by the Administration of any continuing violations or that the request for compounding the violations has been rejected. Once the allottee has informed the Administration within the time granted that he has completed the construction as per the revised plan and that the minor changes be either ignored or compounded, the inference that the building stands resumed is not justified. Still further, the only objection was regarding oversized window. It was admitted by the UT Administration that the same is compoundable as per regulations”. </p> <p>The Administration has been directed to decide the claim of the petitioner for transfer of ownership in accordance with law expeditiously.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">HC orders probe into ‘honour killing’</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254877/hc-orders-probe-honour-killing.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254877/hc-orders-probe-honour-killing.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bangalore, June 5, 2012, DHNS: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Karnataka High Court has ordered an inquiry into the death of Bhramarambika, a fourth semester LLB student of Seshadripuram Law College here, after some students of the college wrote to the court seeking a probe into what they see as a case of ‘honour killing’.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In a letter to Justice D V Shylendra Kumar, Bhramarambika’s classmates said the girl student’s death in her home village of Badi Maralur in Gowribidanur taluk in Chickaballapur district was shrouded in mystery.<br /><br />According to the students, Bhrarambika went to her home town to prepare for her fourth semester examinations. She had appeared for the viva voce on May 10, 2012. The semester examinations were scheduled in June. On the morning of May 20, her classmates received a message stating that she was dead. Shocked, they rushed to her village. But by the time they reached, her body had already been cremated.<br /><br /><b>Conflicting versions<br /></b><br />When the students inquired about the cause of death, the family members reportedly came up with conflicting versions. While some family members claimed she had committed suicide by slitting her throat, another said she had consumed poison. Yet another version was that she suffered a heart attack while seated on chair and had fallen down and died.<br /><br />The classmates were perplexed when some family members blurted out that severe vomiting and food poisoning led to her death. Deepening the mystery, residents of the village too were in the dark about the cause of the death.<br /><br />It was then the students decided to write a letter to the High Court. In their letter dated May 28, 2012, the students wrote to Justice Shylendra Kumar, narrating the entire episode, and expressing their suspicion that it was a case of honour killing. The judge forwarded the letter to the Chief Justice.<br /><br />The division bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice B V Nagarathna has now directed the State government to look into the matter and report in three weeks.<br />The court has also appointed an amicus curiae to assist the court and issued notices to State government, the Director General and Inspector General of Police and Superintendent of Police, Chikkaballapur.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC directs probe in allegations against Indian Institute of Management Indore director</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/HC-directs-probe-in-allegations-against-Indian-Institute-of-Management-Indore-director/articleshow/13858988.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/HC-directs-probe-in-allegations-against-Indian-Institute-of-Management-Indore-director/articleshow/13858988.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Ashish-Gaur.cms">Ashish Gaur</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 03.29AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> INDORE: The Indore bench of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> High Court has directed the ministry of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/human-resources-development">human resources development</a> (HRD) and the Chairman and board of governors of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Institute-of-Management">Indian Institute of Management</a> (IIM) Indore to inquire into allegations of financial irregularities leveled against the director of IIM-I, N Ravichandran.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court issued the directives after hearing a writ petition that was filed by Dr P.K Singh and six others on May 28, 2012. Justice U.C Maheshwari disposed of the matter saying that the complaints maybe inquired in to and a report be submitted within six months. Advocate Vivek Dalal is representing Singh in the court.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Nearly six months back, eight professors of IIM-I had registered their complaints with the former chairman of IIM-I L N Jhunjhunwala alleging financial irregularities and corruption by the director of the institute.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>According to sources, Jhunjhunwala had asked the professors to report to him personally on April 9 but director did not allow them following which former chairman resigned from the post. The complaints were also sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) but no action was taken.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>After receiving cold shoulder response from various quarters on their complaints the faculty members moved court. The faculty members have submitted a 20-page complaint against the director of the institute alleging financial irregularities. A separate petition was filed in the Indore bench of MP High Court against Ravichandran alleging plagiarism in research papers.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Madras HC judges set example, remove sun films from their cars</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-judges-set-example-remove-sun-films-from-their-cars/articleshow/13849855.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-judges-set-example-remove-sun-films-from-their-cars/articleshow/13849855.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A Subramani, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 05.34PM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> CHENNAI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madras-high-court">Madras high court</a> has become the first high court in the country to follow the recent Supreme Court order banning the use of black sun control films in cars. A decision to remove the film from the cars of 53 judges of the chartered high court was taken by the court's vehicle committee headed by Justice D Murugesan, and it has since been approved by the high court.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>"We have asked the local <a href="http://www.zigwheels.com/newcars/Toyota" target="_blank">Toyota</a> car dealers to send their men to remove the films our Toyota Altis cars on Wednesday," said an official.<br /><br />Explaining the rationale behind the move, a senior judicial officer told The Times of India that the judicial officers hearing the cases related to the implementation of the ban did not want to be accused of adopting double standards.<br /><br />"We do not need any special treatment in the matter. Though it will cause some minor inconvenience to us, we wanted to set an example for other citizens to follow. The apex court's ban on the sun control films has strong security and safety reasons. We believe our decision will bring moral pressure on others to follow suit and voluntarily remove the dark films," he said.<br /><br />Another judicial officer said: "We are already living in a glass house, as we are under constant public attention. Now we will travel in glass cars. At times when you happen to pass through known areas and people, we may feel vulnerable. We may have to be careful about what we read on the move too."<br /><br />In its recent judgment, the Supreme Court banned the use of sun control films of all shades and colours in cars. People can now use only tinted glasses that come along with the vehicle. While the visibility cannot be less than 30% on side glasses, it can be up to 50% in front and rear glasses. Though the apex court has said VIPs in specific cases could be exempted from the requirement, it has not defined the term VIP.<br /><br />Several states, including Delhi and Tamil Nadu, have already started implementing the Supreme Court ruling, which came into effect from May 1.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">HC rejects bail plea of developer who duped investors </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:8.25pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:8.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-rejects-bail-pleadeveloper-who-duped-investors/17380/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/hc-rejects-bail-pleadeveloper-who-duped-investors/17380/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Press Trust of India / New Delhi June 05, 2012, 21:05<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:3.0pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.0pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:6.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:6.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p>The bail plea of a city based developer, arrested for allegedly duping thousands of investors worth crores of rupees in a township project, has been rejected by the Delhi High Court. </p> <p>Dismissing the plea of Sanjay Gambhir, the Director of M/s D D Infrastructure, for regular bail, Justice M L Mehta noted that the offences he had been accused of were of "high magnitude of mass public fraud and cheating" and such offences were on a rise in the city. </p> <p>It also observed that his bona fides were "extremely dishonest and deceitful". </p> <p>"...The number of complainants/investors rising on every following day and the amount of their investments considerably rising and the fact that all the complainants/investors have been raising hue and cry for having been duped of their hard earned money. </p> <p>"And the prosecutor as also the investigating agency pressing for custodial interrogation for the investigation of the FDI amount of about 230 crores, which had been received by the petitioner and his co-accused persons as valuable consideration towards the transfer of their rights in the projects, and the bona fides of the petitioner not being honest, but extremely dishonest and deceitful, the petitioner is not entitled to be enlarged on bail," the court said. </p> <p>Taking serious note of Gambhir's conduct, it said the accused was granted interim bail by this court with certain conditions including refunding of money to some complainants but he had failed to comply with the conditions. </p> <p>"The offences which have been committed by the petitioner (Gambhir) with other co-accused (wife and son) are of high magnitude of mass public fraud and cheating and such offences being on high rise in the city, the petitioner does not deserve any indulgence of this court. In view of all this, the petition has no merit and is hereby dismissed," the court said. </p> <p>Gambhir was on interim bail till December 22 last year but after he failed to comply with the conditions including refund of money with interest to the investors, the court cancelled the interim protection given to him in December last year and since then he has been in custody. MORE </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p><span class="newsheader"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">HC guidelines for police probe in girls' cases</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b><a href="http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=4..060612.jun12">http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=4..060612.jun12</a></p> <p>Source: <span class="bodybold">The Sangai Express / Press Trust of India</span></p> <p><span class="bodybold">Guwahati, June 05 2012:</span> The Gauhati High Court has issued a set of guidelines for investigation of all cases in which minor or adolescent girls are involved and directed the Assam Director General of Police to ensure scientific investigation of all such cases.<br /><br />Justice B D Agarwal issued the guidelines while delivering judgement in the case of a 13-year old girl, who was allegedly kidnapped under the garb of elopement.<br /><br />The judge, who delivered the verdict yesterday, came down heavily on investigating agencies for conducting probe in a casual manner.<br /><br />The court held that while recording statements of minor girls, judicial magistrates should cause a preliminary enquiry to ascertain the correct age of the victims.<br /><br />Due to their immaturity, minor and adolescent girls are easy prey and are brain-washed to such an extent that they speak in favour of the accused and suppress their actual age.<br /><br />He also directed the magistrates to record their statements after giving them sufficient time for reflection to neutralise the emotional bonding with the accused.<br /><br />Justice Agarwal observed that kidnapping or procuring adolescent girls for marriage or sexual acts not only affects the girls' health but also shatters their dreams in life.<br /><br />On the particular case, the judge rejected the bail plea of the accused and directed that the statement of the victim be recorded afresh after keeping her in an Observation Home for at least five days.<br /><br />The court ordered that as the accused had claimed that they had married before a qazi, administrative action should be taken against the doctors and the qazi for issuing incorrect age certificate and registering the marriage, without proper proof of age.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">HC seeks action plan to promote mango sale</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254847/hc-seeks-action-plan-promote.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254847/hc-seeks-action-plan-promote.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bangalore, June 5, 2012, DHNS:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><a name="top"></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The High Court on Tuesday, directed the State government to submit an action plan to promote the sale and procurement of mangoes across State and warned that it would have to summon the chief secretary if the government failed to act.<br /></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br />Hearing a petition filed by the Kolar District Mango Growers and Sellers Association, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice B V Nagarathna asked the government to submit a detailed report on the implementation of the programmes vis-a-vis mango sale and procurement.<br /><br />During the hearing, the State government submitted that following the High Court directions, it had set up two HOPCOMS stalls, while the Karnataka Agriculture Marketing Board had released Rs 10 lakh to HOPCOMS to procure mangoes.<br /><br />They also submitted that two persons of the cadre equal to the Additional Director, Agriculture Marketing Board, and Joint Director, the Department of Horticulture, have been appointed personally to oversee the procurement of mangoes.<br /><br />However, when the petitioner pointed out that there was no action taken by the State government, other than the submissions before the court, the Chief Justice lashed out at the government saying, “We do not want your submissions just on papers. We want what has been submitted (before the court) to be implemented. If there is no action taken, we will be forced to summon the chief secretary.”<br /><br />S S Naganand, senior counsel and amicus curiae, said many improvements introduced in the recent past in HOPCOMS had been undone because of political interference, and its turnover had reduced drastically in the last two years.<br /><br />He pointed out that facilities at mango melas were not sufficient as no assistance was given to the growers, which includes space for marketing produce and amenities.<br /><br />Though the horticulture department states that it has provided cultivators subsidy for cold storage facilities and packing, more needs to be done, he said. No effort is made to produce value-added products like pulp, concentrate, juice, essence flavours and packaging of ripe fruits.<br /><br />The amicus curiae suggested that the court consider and appoint a monitoring committee chaired by the chief secretary and a representative from the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, the Department of Horticulture, the Department of Agriculture Marketing and a representative of the growers. He also sought a time-bound plan of action for short-term and long-term measures to improve the plight of mango growers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Defamation case: Delhi HC to summon VK Singh </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/defamation-case-delhi-hc-to-summon-vk-singh/264532-3.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/defamation-case-delhi-hc-to-summon-vk-singh/264532-3.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/CNN-IBN.html">CNN-IBN</a></p> <p><b>New Delhi:</b> The Delhi Court on Wednesday will decide whether or not to summon former Army Chief VK Singh in Lt General Tejinder Singh's defamation case. The court had earlier noted that it cannot draw any conclusions based on Tejinder's witnesses. </p> <p>The Delhi High Court earlier refused to direct the Centre to take back a press release of the Army alleging that Tejinder Singh offered a bribe to the Army chief in connection with a defence deal. </p> <p>"The Union of India cannot be directed to disown or retract the aforesaid press release," Justice Mukta Gupta said while disposing off a petition by Tejinder Singh seeking withdrawal of the alleged defamatory press release. </p> <p>The court also considered the reply of the Ministry of Defence that it had no role in the issuance of March 5 press release as it was given out by the Army Headquarters. </p> <p>The court, however, said that Tejinder Singh could make a representation before the authorities concerned seeking initiation of disciplinary proceedings against five Army officials including Chief of Army Staff Gen VK Singh. </p> <p>In the criminal writ petition filed through his counsel Anil K Aggarwal, Tejinder Singh had contended that the press release issued by senior Army officials, including the Army chief, was "defamatory" and had sought its withdrawal. </p> <p>The Army chief had earlier claimed that a lobbyist, who had "just" retired, offered him a bribe of Rs 14 crore for clearing a file relating to purchase of a tranche of 600 "sub-standard" TATRA trucks and that he had immediately informed Defence Minister AK Antony about it. </p> <p><i>With additional information from PTI</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC slams red-tape over death records</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-slams-red-tape-over-death-records/articleshow/13859333.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-slams-red-tape-over-death-records/articleshow/13859333.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 04.11AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> CHENNAI: Once a death is brought to the notice of authorities by a competent person, then it must be registered and certificate given without going into questions such as cause of death and place of occurrence, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madras-high-court">Madras high court</a> said recently.<br /><br />A division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice M Venugopal, passing orders on an appeal filed by the Perungalathur town panchayat, said: "When an information is furnished by the head of the family or the nearest relative or the oldest adult male person in the house within the jurisdiction of the registering authority, the registrar is duty-bound to register it."<br /><br />The matter relates to a petition filed by N Vedantam, who said his wife died on May 3, 2010 while travelling from New Delhi to Patna by train. The couple hailed from Perungalathur, a Chennai suburb, and the woman's body was brought here and cremated.<br /><br />Later, when Vedantam applied for registration of the death and sought death certificate, the Perungalathur town panchayat officials said they could not issue the certificate as she died beyond their jurisdiction. They asked Vedantam to approach officials in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Vedantam approached the high court and a single judge directed the authorities to issue the certificate. Challenging it, the town panchayat filed an appeal.<br /><br />Justice Elipe Dharma Rao, writing the judgment for the bench, flayed the panchayat authorities for driving Vedantam from pillar to post, and said there was no justification in the denial of death certificate.<br /><br />As per the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, the foremost duty of the registering officer was to register the information, as the rules do not provide for refusal to register the information, said Justice Elipe Dharma Rao.<br /><br />"When the government is propagating and trying to educate the citizens to register marriages, births and deaths on the one hand, it is not proper on their part to take a contra stand and drive persons from pillar to post for registration of the same," the order read.<br /><br />The town panchayat was then directed to register the details without probing into the nature or circumstances of the death.<br /><br />When the government is propagating and trying to educate the citizens to register marriages, births and deaths on the one hand, it is not proper on their part to take a contra stand and drive persons from pillar to post for registration of the same. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>UP lawyer who ducked HC fine ‘pays’ at last for PIL against Guv</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/up-lawyer-who-ducked-hc-fine-pays-at-last-for-pil-against-guv/958490/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/up-lawyer-who-ducked-hc-fine-pays-at-last-for-pil-against-guv/958490/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Ahmedabad, Wed Jun 06 2012, 03:40 hrs</p> <p> Lucknow-based lawyer Ashok Pande, who was recently arrested by UP Police on the basis of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued by the Gujarat High Court (HC), has deposited Rs 25,000 with the HC registry as fine for moving a frivolous public interest litigation (PIL) seeking removal of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal. </p> <p>A division bench of HC had issued the NBW against Pande after he did not pay the fine and repeatedly ignored court notices in that regard. </p> <p>A team of UP Police arrested Pande on June 3 and produced him before Justice Akil Kureshi of the Gujarat HC at the latter’s residence in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. </p> <p>Additional Public Prosecutor J K Shah said Pande deposited Rs 25,000 with HC registry and gave an undertaking that he would remain present before the Chief Court of HC on June 11. “Following this, the court suspended the NBW and released Pande,” Shah said. </p> <p>According to Shah, Pande complained that he was arrested on June 3 and was kept in custody by police till his production before the court without obtaining even a transit warrant. “Justice Kureshi has ordered that he may raise his grievances at appropriate time before appropriate forum,” Shah said. </p> <p>Last year, Pande had moved a PIL stating that the appointment of Kamla Beniwal as Governor of Gujarat was unconstitutional because the President had not obtained consent of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the same. </p> <p>Pande, introducing himself as a president of Hindu Personal Law Board, a non-government organisation, had moved the PIL arguing that under the constitutional provisions if a person is not acceptable as Governor to the elected government of a province, he/she should not be posted in that state. </p> <p>Pande also argued that before appointing a person as Governor in a state, the state government’s acceptance must be obtained. </p> <p>A division bench of HC comprising the then acting Chief Justice A L Dave and Justice J B Pardiwala had, in October last year, dismissed the PIL while asking if it was a publicity interest litigation or personal interest litigation. </p> <p>Pande had earlier hit headlines in 2006 when he had announced a Rs 51-crore “reward” to kill late M F Hussain for allegedly making “obscene” paintings of Hindu goddesses.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Kerala governor clears state information commission appointments</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-governor-clears-state-information-commission-appointments/articleshow/13859948.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-governor-clears-state-information-commission-appointments/articleshow/13859948.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-T-Ramavarman.cms">T Ramavarman</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 6, 2012, 05.25AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> KOCHI: Acting governor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Hansraj-Bhardwaj">H R Bharadwaj</a> has cleared the appointment of two new members to the State Information Commission, despite criticisms that they are political nominees. The new members - Vithura Sasi and Kuriyas Kumbalakuzhi - are likely to be sworn in on June 13, according to commission sources.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Sources told TOI here that Bharadwaj, who is also the governor of Karnataka, had informed the commission of his inability to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new members.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>He has asked <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Information-Commissioner">Chief Information Commissioner</a> (CIC) Siby Mathews to go ahead with the swearing-in in consultation with the new member-designates.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>With this the number of members in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/State-Information-Commission">State Information Commission</a> (SIC) will go up to six, including the CIC.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Civil society groups in the state had earlier objected to the appointment of new members alleging that the government had not followed any selection process in appointing them and that both of them had political links.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>General secretary of Human Rights Defence Forum D B Binu had urged the governor to return the recommendation for appointment of the two politicians as State Information Commissioners.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The selection committee which made the recommendation is headed by chief minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Oommen-Chandy">Oommen Chandy</a> while leader of the opposition V S Achuthanandan is a member.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The forum had filed a writ petition before the high court, seeking a fair and reasonable procedure affording opportunity to all qualified and interested persons in the state to apply for the posts of information commissioners.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The case is still pending before the high court.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Interestingly, the previous LDF government had also faced criticisms when it appointed Soni B Thengamom, to the commission - though he had resigned all his <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Communist-Party">Communist Party</a> of India party positions just before the nomination.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Parties can seek info under RTI: CIC</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Parties-can-seek-info-under-RTI-CIC/Article1-866561.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Parties-can-seek-info-under-RTI-CIC/Article1-866561.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Nivedita%20Khandekar&op=Story">Nivedita Khandekar</a>, Hindustan Times</b><br />New Delhi, June 06, 2012</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Supreme Court (SC) registry can no longer avoid parting with information about petitions filed, saying it does not come under the purview of RTI Act. The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that the parties involved in the case/s can seek information related to their case/s under RTI <span class="msoIns"><ins>Act.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>When T Jhansi Lakshmi’s special leave petition was not listed for hearing even after more than 75 days, she filed an RTI query with the SC registry.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>She sought to know from the Public Information Officer (PIO) the genuine reason as to why her SLP was not listed. However, both the PIO and the Appellate Authority (AA) denied it, stating that the inspection or search of judicial records can be undertaken only by following prescribed rules and orders of the apex court and not under RTI.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>When chief information commissioner Satyananda Mishra upheld the right to demand information about a petition under Act, the registry’s PIO and the AA pointed out that she was not a party to the litigation, instead her husband was.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The decision has come as a ray of hope for several RTI applicants filing queries with the SC registry as most of them have faced similar situation.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>New bench may fast-track hearing on DLF row over CCI fine</h1> <p class="mt5"><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/new-bench-may-fast-track-hearingdlf-row-over-cci-fine_713778.html">http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/new-bench-may-fast-track-hearingdlf-row-over-cci-fine_713778.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Published on <span class="b10">Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 17:00 | Source : </span><span class="bl10">CNBC-TV18</span> </p> <form> </form> <p>The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) is considering fast-tracking the hearing into <a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/constructioncontracting-real-estate/dlf/D04">DLF</a> 's appeal against the CCI order. The Compat has decided to bring forward the dates of the case to June 27 from July 18. </p> <p>As one would recall following the retirement of former Compat chairman Justice Arijit Pasayat last month, it was decided that a new bench would re-hear the case led by the newly appointed chairman Justice VS Sirpurkar. This meant that the final Compat order on the much-awaited case would be delayed. </p> <p>Sources say that the DLF case would now be among the first to be heard when Compat reopens on June 25 after the short summer break. </p> <p>On 12 August last year, the Competition Commission of India slapped DLF with a penalty of Rs 630 crore for alleged abuse of its dominant position and passed a 'cease and desist' order over unfair conditions imposed by DLF on buyers of its flats. Then late August,CCI passed another separate order in which it again cautioned DLF not to misuse its dominant position but did not impose any penalty.</p> <p>DLF, in turn, challenged the CCI directive on various grounds to Compat, including the jurisdiction of the case, the basis for determining relevant market and dominant position, as well as not being served with show-cause notices before the CCI penalty was announced.</p> <p>The penalty was imposed following an inquiry based on complaints filed by the flat buyer associations' of two separate DLF projects in Gurgaon, DLF Park Palace and The Belaire. The associations complained that there were delays in the projects and that DLF had increased the number of floors from what was initially planned, among other things.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Rajasthan Government reinstates suspended Bharatpur Collector</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3463562.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3463562.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Special Correspondent</span></span> </p> <p>Following a stay granted by Central Administrative Tribunal</p> <p class="body">In a quiet move following a stay granted by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), the Congress-led Government in Rajasthan has reinstated former Bharatpur Collector Krishna Kunal who was suspended for his failure to control communal violence at Gopalgarh on September 14 last year. Mr. Kunal had ordered police firing on a mosque in the town in which 10 people were killed.</p> <p class="body">A Division Bench of the CAT here earlier this week granted an interim stay on Mr. Kunal's suspension on the technical ground of the suspension orders not being accompanied by the departmental or disciplinary inquiry. The suspended Collector had contended that no probe was contemplated or pending against him.</p> <p class="body">The State Government issued orders for Mr. Kunal's reinstatement over the week-end reportedly after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot reviewed the matter and gave a green signal for withdrawal of suspension. Mr. Kunal has been asked to wait for his new posting orders and register his presence in the Personnel Department as of now.</p> <p class="body">Ten people praying inside the Jama Masjid at Gopalgarh were killed and 38 injured on September 14, 2011, when the police resorted to indiscriminate firing on the mosque amid tension between Gujjars and Meo Muslims. Some of the policemen allegedly joined the armed Gujjar mob which stormed into the mosque and lynched the worshippers.</p> <p class="body">The CAT's directive staying the operation of the September 28, 2011 suspension order and the December 22, 2011 order by which the suspension was extended for 180 days was an interim in nature. The CAT issued notices in the case and posted it for hearing on June 13.</p> <p class="body">The State Government's decision to revoke Mr. Kunal's suspension on the basis of the CAT's interim stay has led to shock and outrage among the social activists and Muslim groups here. The “hushed manner” in which a legal loophole was left for the benefit of the suspended Collector has especially caused indignation among the informed circles.</p> <p class="body"><b>Investigation</b></p> <p class="body">The Rajasthan Muslim Forum and Rajasthan unit of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind have accused Mr. Gehlot of denying justice to the victims of police firing. They said the ruling Congress' decisions after the firing to hand over investigation to the CBI and suspend the Collector and Superintendent of Police were meant to “deceive the people”.</p> <p class="body">JUH State general secretary Abdul Wahid Khatri pointed out that the next of kin of those killed in the firing had lodged as many as 12 FIRs against Mr. Kunal and the then SP, Hinglaj Dan, with the charges of murder. Strangely, the CBI has neither taken up any of these FIRs for probe nor arrested any of the policemen who sprayed bullets on the mosque.</p> <p class="body">Mr. Khatri said the Collector's reinstatement went against the principle of rule of law.</p> <p class="body">“The State Government should have sought a legal opinion for an appeal against the CAT's interim stay or corrected the lapse on [the basis of] which the order was passed. On the contrary, it has used the stay as a ploy to revoke the guilty officer's suspension.”</p> <p class="body">Rajasthan Muslim Forum convenor Qari Moinuddin wondered as to what prevented Mr. Gehlot from ordering a departmental inquiry against the accused Collector when he believed that he had ineptly handled the Gopalgarh incident: “From Mr. Gehlot's conduct, it is clear that he does not want to punish those guilty of carrying out one of the most horrific massacres in Rajasthan.”</p> <p class="body">The Muslim groups alleged that Mr. Kunal had been reinstated to defeat the spirit of this past week's order of the Rajasthan High Court instructing the CBI Director to monitor the probe into the Gopalgarh violence and submit the progress report in the court. “The way the ruling Congress is resorting to various tactics to obstruct justice is outrageous. The [State] Government is acting against the constitutional mandate to uphold the rule of law,” said Mr. Moinuddin.</p> <p class="body">Muslim groups, which have been demanding Mr. Gehlot's removal ever since the Gopalgarh violence, have sought an appointment with Governor Margaret Alva to draw her attention to the State Government's conduct and seek action in accordance with the constitutional provisions.</p> <p class="body">Independent investigations carried out by civil rights groups, including the People's Union for Civil Liberties, had pointed to “collusion” between the local police, an aggressive section of the Gujjar community and some local RSS, Bajrang Dal and VHP leaders during the violence. The PUCL report stated that some self-styled Hindu leaders had “pressured Mr. Kunal into ordering the firing.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h2>HC To Rule On SAC’s Suo Moto Powers Today </h2> <form> <p><strong>Srinagar, June 05:</strong> The Jammu and Kashmir High Court is to outline the jurisdiction of the State Accountability Commission (SAC) on Wednesday in a simultaneous hearing of around 35 high-profile cases involving former ministers, bureaucrats and businessmen.</p> <p>The cases challenging the authority of the SAC to take suo moto action have been pending in the High Court for over five years, with a large number of lawyers defending petitioners targeted by the Commission.</p> <p>In one of the petitions – pertaining to minister for co-operatives Manohar Lal Sharma – Justice JP Singh had directed that all cases involving the SAC would be heard by Justice Hasnain Masoodi.</p> <p>According to sources, with the assistance lawyers, Justice Masoodi has sorted and classified the cases according to their nature, noting that most involved the authority of the SAC to take suo moto action.</p> <p>Justice Masoodi has decided to take this category of cases up first in an en masse hearing tomorrow.</p> <p>Observers feel that the High Court ruling would delineate the jurisdiction of the State Accountability Commission to initiate action on its own.</p> <p>The high-profile names figuring in the cases include former deputy chief minister Mangat Ram Sharma, former health minister Suman Lata Bhagat, her PRO Vikas Bahl, former education minister Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed, cooperatives minister Manohar Lal Sharma, former DIG Satvir Gupta, commissioner secretary Atul Duloo, former minister and MLA Doda Abdul Majeed Wani, former district development commissioner for Rajouri Sheikh Rafiq Ahmad, former commissioner secretary for the animal husbandry department Dr. Deen Muhammad, former vice chairman of the Jammu Development Authority Ashok Parmar, PWD executive engineer Dharamveer Koul, police inspector Jhumroo Singh, and the former secretary of the J and K housing board Farhat Qureshi. Observer News Service</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:87.6pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> </form><div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
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mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults ext="edit" spidmax="1027"> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout ext="edit"> <o:idmap ext="edit" data="1"> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">States fail to submit report on asbestos safeguards to NHRC </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:8.25pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:8.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/states-fail-to-submit-reportasbestos-safeguards-to-nhrc/17312/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/states-fail-to-submit-reportasbestos-safeguards-to-nhrc/17312/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Press Trust of India / New Delhi June 05, 2012, 19:05<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:3.0pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.0pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:6.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:6.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p>Except for Mizoram and Nagaland, none of the states have submitted the mandatory reports sought by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on safeguards they have put in place relating to exposure to asbestos, forcing it to extend the deadline for the second time. </p> <p>The Commission has now asked the states and other concerned authorities to submit the report within six weeks, a release issued by the NHRC said today. The NHRC has issued this order on May 21. </p> <p>"Most of the authorities in Centre and states/Union Territories have failed to submit requisite reports to the NHRC on safeguards they have put in place relating to exposure to asbestos. Only the states of Mizoram, Nagaland and the National Institute of Occupational Health Ahmedabad have submitted the reports," it said. </p> <p>The NHRC had given six months time for submitting reports and on March 5 this year, they were given another six weeks' extension when most of them failed to give the requisite reports. </p> <p>The Commission had asked them to share with it the information on the action taken by them with regard to the Supreme Court judgment on exposure to asbestos. </p> <p>The Supreme Court had asked the central and state governments to review safeguards in relation to primary as well as secondary exposure to asbestos. </p> <p>The Commission had taken cognisance of a complaint in July 2011 alleging that about 50,000 people die every year in the country due to asbestos related cancer. </p> <p>The complainant had sought Commission's intervention for a ban on the use of chrysotile asbestos (white asbestos), which is hazardous to health of people and causes various incurable diseases. </p> <p>The white asbestos is a fibrous material used for building roofs and walls, among others. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">NHRC public hearing in Chennai to deal with grievances of SCs</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/nhrc-public-hearing-in-chennai-to-deal-with-grievances-of-scs/1007795.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/nhrc-public-hearing-in-chennai-to-deal-with-grievances-of-scs/1007795.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04">PTI | 03:06 PM,Jun 05,2012</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will hold a three-day public hearing in Chennai to deal with grievances of Schedules Castes on August 7. Those belonging to SC category who have a complaint of atrocity committed by a public servant or of negligence by a public servant in prevention of atrocity can send their complaints to the Commission by June 25. The complaints deemed fit for enquiry shall be taken up at the public hearing, the Commission said. PTI CORR SJY SCY </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC advocate petitions NHRC against CBI in Jagan's case</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.siasat.com/english/news/hc-advocate-petitions-nhrc-against-cbi-jagans-case">http://www.siasat.com/english/news/hc-advocate-petitions-nhrc-against-cbi-jagans-case</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Monday, 4 June 2012 <span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"></span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:1184" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Hyderabad, June 04:</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>An advocate of Andhra Pradesh High Court has petitioned National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)<br /> for violating all constitutional rights and also discretionary power conferred by CrPC by arresting YSR Congress Party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in connection with the the disproportionate assets case, here on May 27.<br /> Advocate P Sai Krishna Azad told UNI here today that the NHRC had admitted his petition filed on June 1 and said Jagan was a law abiding person who always cooperated<br /> with the CBI. Mr Azad contended in his petition that the investigating agency did not have the powers to kill the freedom of expression and it acted as ultra vires in this case.<br /> The Indian Constitution has guaranteed the fundamental rights under Article 19 and 21, he said, and alleged that the CBI was acting with malafide intention influenced by<br /> the state and union government. He prayed the commission to issue a direction to the<br /> Centre to take action against the CBI and also direct the Centre and Andhra Pradesh Government to take up the matter seriously as a president of a particular party was arrested before election which prevented him from campaign.</ins></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Shah Commission starts hearing corruption charges against Modi</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/shah-commission-starts-hearing-corruption-charges-against-modi/958101/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/shah-commission-starts-hearing-corruption-charges-against-modi/958101/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : Ahmedabad, Tue Jun 05 2012, 11:29 hrs</p> <p>The inquiry commission set up by the Gujarat government to probe charges of corruption levelled by Opposition parties against Chief Minister Narendra Modi began its hearing yesterday. </p> <p>Retired Supreme Court Judge M B Shah is the chairman of the one-member Commission appointed by the state government on August 17, 2011. </p> <p>Making its case against Modi, People's Union for Civic Liberties demanded that the state government should furnish details about the land given to various industrial houses and also sought to know whether rules were followed while allotting the plots. </p> <p>Special public prosecutor appointed by the Gujarat government, Bhaskar Tanna, argued that the charges made against the chief minister were baseless as the state government allotted land as per the rules. </p> <p>Media was not allowed inside the court room. </p> <p>Further hearing would be held by the Commission next Monday. </p> <p>The Modi government had set up the Commission in the wake of Opposition Congress submitting a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil in June 2011 alleging that the state government under Modi had indulged in large scale corruption and favouritism to industrial houses. </p> <p>The terms of reference of the Commission include inquiry into the allegations of Congress regarding favouritism toward certain industrial houses, state government's negligence in this regard, if any, and any other allegation that the Commission deems fit to inquire. </p> <p>The Commission has also to study the manner in which land had been allocated to industry and analyse all tax concessions given vis-à-vis other states with Gujarat. </p> <p>The Commission will also look into post-1980 role of successive Gujarat governments in giving special relaxations to industrial houses. </p> <p>The terms of the Inquiry Commission are comprehensive and include all points raised by the Congress party in its memorandum to the President. </p> <p>The 15-point charter of allegations handed over to the Inquiry Commission includes conducting inquiry in allegation that land had been given to industries near the state capital at Gandhinagar at very low prices; that Rs 33,000 crore concession given to the Tata's Nano car project for relocation from Singur in West Bengal to Sanand. </p> <p>It also includes allegations over the land allotment to Adani Industrial House for Mundra Port and Mundra SEZ.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Green nod for Chettinadu power project suspended </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3490910.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3490910.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">P. V. Srividya</span></span> </p> <p>Ministry told to commission study of all proposed thermal power plants along coast </p> <p class="body">Suspending the environmental clearance (EC) given to the Chettinadu Power Corporation's 1200-MW power project in Tharangambadi taluk of Nagapattinam district, the National Green Tribunal has directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to commission a Cumulative Impact Assessment study of all proposed thermal power plants along the district coastline here within one year. </p> <p class="body">In its May 30 order, the Tribunal has also asked the MoEF to consider all related clearances for any project under the Environment Protection Act simultaneously to avoid piecemeal evaluation of its impact on ecology and environment. </p> <p class="body">Disposing of an appeal against the Environmental Clearance given for the 1200 (2x600) MW thermal power plant, the NGT censured MoEF and its Experts Appraisal Committee (EAC) for blatant oversights during the grant of the EC. </p> <p class="body">The Principal Bench's order came on an appeal filed by Ossie Fernandes of Coastal Action Network, Vangakadal Meen Thozhilalar Sangam, and fishermen S. Chitravel and T. Kumar.</p> <p class="body">The Bench criticised the terrestrial ecology study that denied the existence of Olive Ridley Turtles in the area as opposed to the data given by the Forest Department and two other study reports. </p> <p class="body">The MoEF, it said, had not verified the claims and simply relied on the presentations by the project proponent that did not even cite sources of study. Further, EIA's denial of turtle sightings also raised doubts, the Bench observed.</p> <p class="body">Flaying the vast discrepancies between the draft EIA and final EIA, the Bench termed it “highly deplorable” practice that “needs to be checked critically by MoEF.”</p> <p class="body">“If such practice is allowed to continue, there is no need for holding public consultation because the very purpose of having transparency in the decision making process gets defeated,” read the judgment. </p> <p class="body">On the contention of cumulative impact of multitude of projects with captive ports proposed within a 10 km radius here, the Bench frowned upon the MoEF and its EAC for making only a cursory suggestion of common port/jetty, without adequately looking into environmental safeguards at the time of appraisal for EC. </p> <p class="body">Stating that the cumulative impact of discharge from the various projects was bound to adversely affect the carrying capacity of the environment and ecology, the Bench suggested a carrying capacity study “invariably in all cases where more than one project of similar or different nature” was involved. </p> <p class="body">The Bench also faulted the MoEF for adopting separate procedures for EC and CRZ clearance. Except for a generic summary on marine ecology, no comprehensive report was given by the project proponent at the time of appraisal, despite the requirements under Terms Of Reference (TOR). </p> <p class="body">However, a comprehensive report was given for CRZ clearance that was obtained subsequent to EC. This gave an impression that impact on marine ecology was not of concern for the EC while it mattered for CRZ clearance, observed the Bench. </p> <p class="body">All clearances, including EC, CRZ and others mandated under the EIA notification, 2006, and the Environment Protection Act should be considered simultaneously. Otherwise it would lead to “piecemeal analysis of environmental impact,” the Bench said.</p> <p class="body">However dismissing the appellants' plea for scrapping the EC, the Bench stated that there was no clear case made out that the deficiencies resulted in clear and present ecological threat. </p> <p class="body">It disposed of the appeal with a direction that the project proponent shall update the EIA report on terrestrial and marine ecology and the MoEF shall appraise the project in the light of objections/suggestions received within six months. </p> <p class="body">The EC for the thermal plant shall stand suspended till a final decision was taken by the MoEF. The MoEF shall verify the compliance of the draft EIA with the TOR before it is uploaded on the Ministry's website prior to the public hearing. Also, the final EIA will be evaluated with respect to TOR, draft EIA, and the objections raised during the public hearing by the EAC. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>SC defines chargesheet quashing</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/sc-defines-chargesheet-quashing-737">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/sc-defines-chargesheet-quashing-737</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">June 5, 2012 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="source">PTI</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="source"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4612">New Delhi</a></span> </p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>A chargesheet filed in departmental proceeding cannot be quashed by courts unless it adversely affects the rights of the aggrieved employee, the Supreme Court has held.<br />“In fact, chargesheet does not infringe the right of a party. It is only when a final order imposing the punishment or otherwise adversely affecting a party is passed, it may have a grievance and cause of action.<br />“Thus, a chargesheet or show cause notice in disciplinary proceedings should not ordinarily be quashed by the court,” said a bench of justices B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra, in an order.<br />The bench passed the order while disposing of an appeal by the ministry of defence challenging a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order quashing the chargesheet against one Prabhash Chandra Mirdha in a two-decade old bribery case.<br />“Law does not permit quashing of chargesheet in a routine manner. In case the delinquent employee has any grievance in respect of the chargesheet, he must raise the issue by filing a representation and wait for the decision of the disciplinary authority thereon.<br />“In case the chargesheet is challenged before a court/tribunal on the ground of delay in initiation of disciplinary proceedings or delay in concluding the proceedings, the court/tribunal may quash the chargesheet after considering the gravity of the charge and all relevant factors involved in the case after weighing all the facts, both for and against the delinquent employee, and must reach the conclusion which is just and proper in the circumstance,” the bench said.<br />The bench said chargesheet cannot generally be a subject matter of challenge as it does not adversely affect the rights of the delinquent unless it is established that the same has been issued by an authority not competent to initiate the disciplinary proceedings. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Get off drain, court tells hotel</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Get-off-drain-court-tells-hotel/articleshow/13832792.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Get-off-drain-court-tells-hotel/articleshow/13832792.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 05.47AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>BANGALORE: The high court on Monday allowed a writ appeal filed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gstaad-Hotels-Pvt-Ltd">Gstaad Hotels Pvt Ltd</a>, which is constructing a 17-storey star hotel in UB City, with regard to the khata controversy with the BBMP.<br /><br />A division bench headed by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chief-Justice-Vikramajit-Sen">Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen</a> directed the hotel not to appropriate the storm water drain running beside its property, without the Palike's permission . The bench, however, permitted landscaping on the other side of the segregated parcel of land, which is separated by the SWD. The hotel management, in its appeal, challenged the April 19, 2012 order of the single bench, dismissing their petition.<br /><br />The single bench had held that bifurcation of khata with respect to two pieces of land separated by the SWD doesn't affect the right of the hotel, as the khata is only a fiscal entry enabling payment of property tax, and the SWD continues to be the property of the BBMP.<br /><br />However, the hotel management, which claims to have invested Rs 500crore in the project , said the segregation reduces <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/floor-area-ratio">floor area ratio</a> (FAR).<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Sampangi moves HC </span></strong><br /><br />BJP MLA from Kolar Gold Fields Y Sampangi, who was sentenced to three-and-a-half years RI by a special Lokayukta court, moved a criminal revision petition in the HC. The plea will be taken up by Justice V Jagannathan on Tuesday.<br /><br />He was jailed for allegedly accepting Rs 5-lakh bribe. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Nirmal baba seeks relief against CJM's order</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nirmal-baba-seeks-relief-against-CJMs-order/articleshow/13829556.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nirmal-baba-seeks-relief-against-CJMs-order/articleshow/13829556.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 02.54AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">LUCKNOW: The Delhi-based self proclaimed godman <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nirmaljeet-Singh-Narula">Nirmaljeet Singh Narula</a> alias Nirmal Baba, filed a writ petition in the Lucknow bench of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Allahabad-high-court">Allahabad high court</a> seeking relief against the order of the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) through which an FIR was registered against him on charges of fraud.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The CJM order came on a petition filed by two students <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tanya-Thakur">Tanya Thakur</a> (16) and her brother Aditya (13) in Lucknow. In his petition, Baba has said that he is among renowned religious persons and denied all allegations against him. He has described CJM's order as 'legally incorrect'.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">He has requested the High Court to quash the FIR and stay the arrest. The case will be heard on Tuesday by the bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Singh and Justice SUZ Siddiqui.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Baba moved High Court after police investigating officer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajesh-Kumar-Singh">Rajesh Kumar Singh</a> sent him a notice under Section 160 CrPC on May 16, 2012, asking him to present facts before May 24. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Neeraj-Jain">Neeraj Jain</a> is the counsel for Nirmal Baba while Neeraj Kumar and Tripurari Tripathi are counsel for Tanaya and Aditya.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Gulbarg Society massacre case: Special court pulls up special investigation team</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gulbarg-Society-massacre-case-Special-court-pulls-up-special-investigation-team/articleshow/13830325.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gulbarg-Society-massacre-case-Special-court-pulls-up-special-investigation-team/articleshow/13830325.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 03.55AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>AHMEDABAD: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/special-court">special court</a> hearing the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Gulbarg-Society-massacre-case">Gulbarg Society massacre case</a> pulled up the Supreme Court-appointed <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Special-Investigation-Team">Special Investigation Team</a> (SIT) over its reluctance in submitting its final report on Zakia Jafri's complaint against chief minister Narendra Modi and others in connection with the 2002 riots.<br /><br />Asking it to submit the report, designated judge B J Dhandha commented on the SIT's approach, "What is there for the investigation agency to hide about its investigation?"<br /><br />The SIT had earlier told the court to defer submission of its report before the trial court after the magisterial court, where the report was placed at the SC's instance in February, took a final view regarding the closure summary. The SIT's contention was rebutted by witnesses' lawyer Salim Shaikh, who filed an affidavit in rejoinder stating that the proceeding over SIT's final report may go on for years together before a magisterial court. Hence the process before the magistrate must not hinder the trial proceedings before the special court in connection with the Gulbarg Society case.<br /><br />The witnesses have contended that they had been seeking arraignment of some police officers, including the then JCP M K Tandon and DCP P B Gondia and former investigator S S Chudasama.<br /><br />Till date, the SIT was deferring the issue on the ground that further probe on SC's direction was underway. Once the probe is over and evidence has been placed before the magisterial court, the SIT should place concerned document before trial court also, their counsel argued. Further proceeding on these issues will take place on June 18. And hearing on plea filed by witnesses seeking arraignment of cops has also been kept on the same day. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Notice to Gupta in libel case</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-Gupta-in-libel-case/articleshow/13829241.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-Gupta-in-libel-case/articleshow/13829241.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 02.22AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>NEW DELHI: A trial court on Monday summoned Delhi BJP president <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vijender-Gupta">Vijender Gupta</a> on the complaint of chief minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sheila-Dikshit">Sheila Dikshit</a> seeking his prosecution for allegedly defaming her in the recent MCD elections.<br /><br /><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Metropolitan-magistrate">Metropolitan magistrate</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Saumya-Chauhan">Saumya Chauhan</a> directed Gupta to appear in the court on June 22 to respond to Dikshit's allegation. "I find it a fit case to call the respondent (Gupta) under Section 499/500 (criminal defamation) of the IPC. So the respondent is summoned for June 22," the magistrate said.<br /><br />Dikshit's lawyer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mehmood-Paracha">Mehmood Paracha</a>, who was allowed to go through the order, told reporters that the court in its order has said that reputation is the most important thing for a person. The counsel had earlier told the court that the BJP leader is required to be summoned to ascertain if his defamatory remarks before the April 15 civil polls were to gain political mileage by maligning the chief minister. Dikshit had recorded her statement before the magistrate in the case on May 30.<br /><br />She had filed the criminal defamation case alleging that the BJP leader used "uncivilised" language before MCD polls. The chief minister had also filed a civil suit in the Delhi High Court against Gupta for erecting hoardings across the city, accusing her government of conniving with private discoms and indulging in corruption in determining power tariff. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>PIL filed against 'Bharat Mata ki' song from 'Shanghai' </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pil-against-bharat-mata-ki-song-from-shanghai/264280-8.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pil-against-bharat-mata-ki-song-from-shanghai/264280-8.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/byline/Subhajit-Sengupta.html">Subhajit Sengupta</a>, <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/byline/Rohit-Vats.html">Rohit Vats</a>, <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/IBNLive.com.html">IBNLive.com</a></p> <p><b>New Delhi:</b> A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court for an interim stay on the release of forthcoming Bollywood film 'Shanghai' until its controversial song 'Bharat Mata ki jai' is removed from the film. Tejinder Bagga of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, has filed the petition, "We have problems with the words used in the song. Sone ki chidiya, dengue, malaria, gud bhi hai, gobar bhi, Bharat Mata ki jai. Bharat Mata is not a person, it's not a political party, it's not a system either. She is like a goddess to every Indian. In our national song Vande Mataram, she is compared to the goddess Durga. And, here she is told to be the home of such diseases, so, we have a strong objection to it." </p> <p>Tejinder Bagga also had a conversation with the singer-composer of the song Vishal Dadlani on micro blogging site Twitter, "I had a conversation with Vishal Dadlani, around a month ago, where I pleaded him to take out the objectionable words from the song. This doesn't seem to be a mistake, it's deliberate. Then he tweeted that Tejinder Bagga is threatening him. Then we thought probably he is seeking some cheap publicity, so we kept silence for one month before filing a police case. We want punishment for such people." </p> <p>"Vishal said you remove dengue, malaria from the country and I will remove these words from the song, then I asked him 'is there any country in this world which is devoid of diseases, but is it fair to make any disease the identity of that country,'" asks Tejinder Singh Bagga. <span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#535353"></span></p> <p>Bagga further says, "We filed one FIR against the song. When a prominent media house asked Dibakar Banerjee about it, he said that he will follow whatever the Indian constitution says, but he should have the freedom of expression. This statement shows that Dibakar clearly knows that the song is hurting the people's sentiments, but probably he is waiting for a controversy to evolve." </p> <p>This is not the first time when Tejinder Singh Bagga is in the news. Earlier, his name had featured in the Prashant Bhushan assault case. The court has still not given any decision on the controversy. 'Shanghai' is scheduled to hit the screens on June 8. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>PCA: PIL wants more teeth for police body</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pca-pil-wants-more-teeth-for-police-body/958037/0">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pca-pil-wants-more-teeth-for-police-body/958037/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Tue Jun 05 2012, 03:19 hrs</p> <p>Seeking more teeth for the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), a public interest litigation was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday. The petitioner, Advocate Arvind Thakur, has demanded that the authority should be given powers to pass directions to the Chandigarh Police so that its (authority) orders are implemented. </p> <p>The petitioner contended that the Chandigarh Police is not complying with the recommendations of the complaints authority. Stating that the authority should not be reduced to a “complaint box”, the petitioner has sought directions in this regard. </p> <p>The petitioner has also annexed various orders of PCA, ordering suspension against police officers, which have not been complied by the Chandigarh Police. The UT Home Secretary and PCA have been made respondents in the petition. </p> <p>The vacation bench of the High Court adjourned the case to July to let it come up for hearing before a regular bench. </p> <p><b>‘Issue recorded warning to SI’</b> </p> <p>CHANDIGARH: The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) has requested the UT Inspector General of Police to issue a recorded warning to a Sub-Inspector for helping a violator. </p> <p>The complainant, Chander Singh, a first-floor resident of a house in Sector 47, had alleged that Usha Rani, who had been allotted the ground floor in the same building, encroached upon and covered the courtyard and constructed a room. Chander filed a civil suit as the illegal construction affected his privacy, and the court ordered demolition in December 1999. Usha left the house and the new owner, Upinder Gupta, again raised the construction. </p> <p>Chander again filed a civil suit and a complaint with police alleging that Gupta raised the unauthorised construction in connivance with and in the presence of SI Charanjit Singh, posted at Sector 31 Police Station. Chander even showed court orders to the Sub-Inspector, but he did not listen to him. However, a case under section 107/150 of the CrPc was registered against the complainant and a neighbour. </p> <p>It was alleged that Gupta then started creating nuisance and his family members starting throwing stones and hurled filthy abuses. They also used the house for commercial purposes by placing a wood cutter. The cutter was removed after some residents complained to the SSP. </p> <p>The PCA order reads, “It is found that SI Charanjit Singh has not acted fairly. He has abused his position by helping the violator in encroachment and in creating nuisance and quarrel.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>IT capital is also a killer of lakes</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/developmental-issues/it-capital-is-also-a-killer-of-lakes/articleshow/13835895.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/developmental-issues/it-capital-is-also-a-killer-of-lakes/articleshow/13835895.cms</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="msoIns"><ins>BANGALORE: There was a time when unfiltered, clear water from the 625 lakes of Bangalore used to be supplied to homes for drinking. Bangalore was then a pensioners' town. One huge lake for instance, Dharmambudhi, supplied a major share of the drinking water. Today this lake lies buried under Bangalore's biggest bus terminus Kempegowda.<br /><br />Most of the lakes, some dating back to the 16th century, died a slow death. Many were poisoned by discharge of sewage and effluents and some were buried by landsharks. The Lake Development Authority (LDA) says around 100 water bodies have gone totally dry. More than 265 acres of lake area has been encroached. The remaining are in various stages of deterioration.<br /><br />Only recently, a court order took note of the destruction and directed government agencies to mend things. But as things stand, this intervention might have come a bit late in the day.<br /><br />Now, Bangalore's drinking water needs are met by pumping about 900-925 million litres per day (MLD) from the Cauvery, 100 km away. Greater Bangalore has no water. High-rises, where most techies live, depend on watertankers that suck water out of illegal bore-wells. Tippegondanahally lake used to pump 143 MLD but supply is down to 25 MLD now, because upstream inlets are blocked by encroachments. Water lost in distribution to Bangalore is 30% , nearly 270 MLD.<br /><br />Bangalore reached this sorry state after encroachments, especially from real-estate giants, killed the water bodies. No agency stopped this. One problem was that there were too many agencies involved. There was the forest department, the municipality ( <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/BBMP">BBMP</a>), the water supply and sewage board (BWSSB) and the LDA. Even if residents wanted to complain, chances were that they wouldn't know who to approach.<br /><br />An Institute for Social and Economic Change research report last year said data on lakes is missing from important government agencies. This points to corruption in these departments.<br /><br />Among those that remain, most are classified 'dead'. There's barely any oxygen and dead fish can often float on the surface. Residential areas discharge their untreated sewage in these lakes. In the 1980s, the state made efforts to protect lakes, crucial as they were to Bangalore's growing needs. They served as home to migratory birds. But unplanned urbanization led to dislocation of lake communities (agrarian, fishing and grazing) that protected and maintained these commons. It had a debilitating effect on surface and groundwater.<br /><br />In 2004, the LDA invited private companies to develop and maintain the water bodies for 15 years. They'd help desilt and dredge the water bodies, ensure sewage diversion, build treatment plants and landscaping. But in 2008, the Environmental Support Group filed a PIL in Karnataka High Court. They contended that leasing out of the lakes (four had been leased out) was against norms. The water bodies, they said, were in prime areas and their privatisation benefiited only hoteliers and builders.<br /><br />The court disposed of the PIL on April 11, 2012 with a list of directions. It ordered removal of unauthorized constructions within 30 metres of a lake's periphery. Officers were made incharge and directed to hold regular meetings with LDA and take effective steps to protect Bangalore's lakes.<br /><br /><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/BWSSB">BWSSB</a> chairman Gaurav Gupta said, "BBMP and BDA send proposals on lake maintenance to LDA, which focuses on an approach to keep them in good condition. There are issues of sewage disposal and recharging of channels, which we have to respond to. This process is taking place." </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Madras high court sets June 20 for final hearing on secretariat</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-high-court-sets-June-20-for-final-hearing-on-secretariat/articleshow/13832407.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-high-court-sets-June-20-for-final-hearing-on-secretariat/articleshow/13832407.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 05.33AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>CHENNAI: The case concerning the new assembly-cum-secretariat project will be taken up for final hearing by the Madras high court on June 20.<br /><br />A decision was taken by a division bench comprising Justices <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/D-Murugesan">D Murugesan</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/K-K-Sasidharan">K K Sasidharan</a> on Monday, after advocate-general <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/A-Navaneethakrishnan">A Navaneethakrishnan</a> informed the court that the present government's plan to convert the facility into a hospital and medical college had been given environmental clearance by the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority. Now that the clearance had been given, the interim order restraining authorities from doing any alteration on the building should be vacated, he said.<br /><br />P Wilson, senior counsel for the petitioner submitted that the PIL had raised several issues other than the environmental clearance. The bench, noting that the matter needed detailed deliberations, posted the matter to June 20 for final hearing. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Notice to CM for delay in framing of water meter rules</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-CM-for-delay-in-framing-of-water-meter-rules/articleshow/13829328.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Notice-to-CM-for-delay-in-framing-of-water-meter-rules/articleshow/13829328.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 02.31AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has sought to know the stands of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chief-minister">chief minister</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sheila-Dikshit">Sheila Dikshit</a>, as <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-Jal-Board">Delhi Jal Board</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/chairperson">chairperson</a>, and DJB's CEO on a plea for launch of contempt of court proceedings against them for their alleged failure to frame rules on installation of water meters. Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vipin-Sanghi">Vipin Sanghi</a> also issued show-cause notices to DJB member (finance) and member (water), seeking their replies by November 9 on the contempt plea, made by an association of water meter manufacturers.<br /><br />According to the association, the single bench on January 25 had directed DJB to frame rules relating to installation fee and rent to be paid for use, maintenance and testing of water meters, but no rules have been framed so far.<br /><br />"Initiate contempt proceedings against contemnors for deliberate and intentional breach of the judgment dated January 25 and punish them in accordance with the provisions of the Contempt of Courts Act," the petitioners said, claiming the Board has deliberately ignored a court order. Earlier, the single judge had asked the DJB to place before it the rules and regulations and in case the DJB hasn't made the rules, to frame the same in eight weeks and inform the court.<br /><br />The water meter manufacturers had said in their plea that the consumers were allowed by a division bench of HC to purchase water meters from the open market but DJB had no comprehensive guidelines relating to the usage and installation of the same.<br /><br />"On a PIL by the RWA of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajendra-Nagar">Rajendra Nagar</a>, the division bench had allowed consumers to purchase water meters from the open market and had asked DJB to frame comprehensive guidelines relating to the usage and installation fee..." the meter manufacturers said. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>CBI files closure report in horse trading case against Ajit Jogi</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CBI-files-closure-report-in-horse-trading-case-against-Ajit-Jogi/articleshow/13830437.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CBI-files-closure-report-in-horse-trading-case-against-Ajit-Jogi/articleshow/13830437.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 04.08AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt">NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a closure report in the case of alleged horse trading against Congress leader Ajit Jogi where it was claimed that he and his son attempted to bribe BJP MLAs after the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh in 2003.<br /><br /><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI">CBI</a> sources said the agency took the step after obtaining the opinion of the attorney general and had filed the closure report some time back. The sources, however, did not give details of the report or when it was filed.<br /><br />In 2008, the CBI had written to the law ministry that there was no provision either under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-Penal-Code">Indian Penal Code</a> or <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Prevention-of-Corruption-Act">Prevention of Corruption Act</a> under which the Congress MP could be prosecuted.<br /><br />On December 9, 2003, the CBI had registered a case under Prevention of Corruption Act against Jogi, his son Amit and defected BJP MP P R Khunte for allegedly trying to bribe BJP MLAs after the assembly elections in the state. Jogi is alleged to have bribed BJP leaders to prevent the saffron party from forming the government after the assembly polls.<br /><br />However, after scrutinizing the statements of Jogi and the available provisions under the law, the CBI came to the conclusion that no case could be registered against him as he was a "caretaker" chief minister at the time of the alleged crime and he, therefore, could not come under the category of public servant, the sources said. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Khalil Ahmed, Dawood's alleged aide, refused bail</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Khalil-Ahmed-Dawood-s-alleged-aide-refused-bail/Article1-865964.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Khalil-Ahmed-Dawood-s-alleged-aide-refused-bail/Article1-865964.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">New Delhi, June 04, 2012</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Khalil Ahmed, an alleged aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was on Monday refused bail by a Delhi court in a 2009 case of alleged attempt to extort money from a businessman in New Delhi. Chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav denied bail to Ahmed. Khalil had sought bail on <span class="msoIns"><ins>the ground that the Indian Penal Code provides a maximum punishment of seven years for the offence of extortion and he has spent a substantial period in judicial custody, pending trial.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>His counsel also said argued all the prosecution witnesses in the case have already been examined and there is no likelihood of Ahmed threatening any witness.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court, however, noted the argument of the prosecution that Khalil was not given bail in December, 2011, by a sessions court which had considered the merits of the case, his conduct and the societal impact that is going to be caused if he is granted bail.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"I find substance in arguments of the prosecution that although the accused has undergone substantial sentence as an undertrial, his bail was dismissed by the sessions court on merits," the CMM said.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court also noted the submission of the prosecution that Khalil's conduct inside the jail was not acceptable and it could only be imagined what he may resort to if he is granted bail.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Businessman Qmar Ahmed had alleged that on February 16, 2009, when he was in his shop with his partner, two persons came and handed over a mobile phone to him forcing him to speak to Khalil. Khalil allegedly demanded <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>10 lakh as extortion money and threatened to kill him and his family if his demand was not met.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Khalil was booked under stringent MCOCA on the charge of running an organised crime syndicate but was absolved of the charge by the sessions court and the Delhi high court.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The police had accused him of being involved in 34 cases of extortion, dacoity, kidnapping, murder, intimidation and attempt to murder from 1985 to 2009.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Aarushi case: Hearing adjourned till June 8 </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/06/04/317--Aarushi-case-Hearing-adjourned-till-June-8-.html">http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/06/04/317--Aarushi-case-Hearing-adjourned-till-June-8-.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Uttar Pradesh,Crime/Disaster/Accident,Immigration/Law/Rights, Mon, 04 Jun 2012 IANS </p> <p><img src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CKAMALP%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.gif" id="click" align="right" height="32" width="32" />Ghaziabad, June 4 (IANS) A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad Monday adjourned the hearing in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case till June 8.</p> <p>Central Bureau of Investigation Special Judge S. Lal put off the hearing after the Bar Association of Ghaziabad decided to suspend work following the death of a lawyer.</p> <p>Aarushi's parents, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, are being tried for the 2008 murders.</p> <p>Aarushi, 14, was found murdered at her parents' Noida residence May 16, 2008. The body of her domestic help Hemraj was found the next day on the terrace of the house.</p> <p>The CBI court had May 25 formally framed charges against the Talwars.</p> <p>The court charged the Talwars under sections 302/34 (murder with common intention) and 201 (destruction of evidence with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In addition to these, the court charged Rajesh Talwar under section 203 (giving false information respecting an offence committed) of IPC.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Watch out for cyber bullies</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/eworld/article3489576.ece?ref=wl_features">http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/eworld/article3489576.ece?ref=wl_features</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">K V KURMANATH</span></span> </p> <p>It's time to take a closer look at this form of cyber crime in India </p> <p class="body">The suicide of Tyler Clementi, the 18-year-old New Jersey student in 2010, had triggered a strong debate on invasion of privacy in the cyber age. </p> <p class="body">His roommate, an Indian student, captured the boy kissing another man in their hostel using his web camera. </p> <p class="body">The boy jumped into a river unable to take the humiliation, when the former tried to circulate the clip. Though the court refused to link the recording with the death, it sentenced the Indian youth to 30 days in prison last month. </p> <p class="body">What Clementi was subjected to is cyber bullying, argued those who campaigned for the Indian student's deportation. </p> <p class="body">Along with other cyber crimes, cyber bullying is on the rise in India too. The fledgling cyber police wings in different states are being flooded with complaints of invasion of privacy, blackmail and circulating electronic messages that cause annoyance. </p> <p class="body">· Ms Aparna (name changed) was aghast when a close friend called her up about a nude picture of her being circulated on the web. A quick check pointed the needle of suspicion at a friend who she had just spurned. Angered by her rejection, the boy morphed her picture, checked into her email account and sent it to all the people in the contact list. </p> <p class="body">After finding Facebook not so amusing, Sujatha (name changed) decided to close her account and discussed this with a few friends too. A few days later, she found both her FB and gmail accounts compromised. She also found obscene pictures posted on the same. </p> <h3>Legal issues </h3> <p class="body">Incidents like these are growing sharply with poor knowledge among users abut how to protect accounts. Sharing one's passwords with others too is proving dangerous. </p> <p class="body">Prof. Madabhushi Sridhar, a cyber laws expert at NALSAR University, says the crimes cited above come under the bracket of invasion of privacy. </p> <p class="body">He says Section 66A in the amended IT Act deals with these crimes. Sending any message (through a computer or a communication device) that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; any communication which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing insult, annoyance, criminal intimidation comes under this section. This crime, he says, is punishable up to three years with a fine. </p> <p class="body">Prof. Sridhar, who has just completed a book on cyber laws, feels that punishments under the IT Act are insufficient. “They should be read with the Indian Penal Code. This will be an effective method to check cyber crimes,” he says. </p> <p class="body">Prof. Sridhar also represents the Institute of Global Internet Governance and Advocacy (GIGA) at the Law University. GIGA conducts research on the Internet and takes up advocacy and training programmes on Internet Governance. </p> <p class="body">“We already have anti-voyeurism provisions in the IT Act under Sec. 66E,” Mr Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of Centre for Internet and Security, says. </p> <p class="body">This offence is punishable with ‘imprisonment which may extend to three years or with fine not exceeding two lakh rupees, or with both.' </p> <p class="body">Repeated harassment aka cyber bullying can be addressed using the already over-broad provisions under Sec. 66A. Unfortunately this Section goes too far and can be used to censor legitimate speech. </p> <p class="body">“Security and privacy awareness in India is very poor. It would be very useful if both the government and civil society was more aggressive in awareness raising and triggering change in behaviour. Unfortunately this is a bit like smoking - even though people are aware of the issues - they engage in risky behaviour online,” he says. </p> <h3>Lack of data </h3> <p class="body">MR Pavan Duggal, Chairman of Cyber Law Committee and Cyber laws expert, said there is no specific data on cyber crime in India and the data available with the NCRB (National Crimes Records Bureau) of around 900 cases for overall cybercrime is also doubtful. </p> <p class="body">“The solution is to make cyber laws more strict as current law under IT Act 2000 is a bailable offence with three years imprisonment and a fine,” he points out. </p> <p class="body">"IT Act 2000 has to be re-amended to specific provisions pertaining to cyber bullying. Further, cyber bullying needs to be made a serious offence with minimum five years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10 lakh. Unless you have deterrence in law it will be a continuing offence,” he observes. </p> <p class="body">Fortunately, there are some safeguards which can help prevent such acts of cyber offences. In most cases, the acts of bullying or blackmailing are done by someone close to the victims. People should make it a point to keep their Internet identities very safe. </p> <p class="body">One should not disclose their identities such as passwords or hint questions to anyone – no matter how close they are. Parents should keep an eye on their children who are addicted to the Internet. They should inform and educate their children on the clear and present dangers that lurk on the Net. </p> <p class="body">They should also teach the importance of respecting others' privacy apart from taking precautions to keep their private space very safe. </p> <p class="body">(with inputs from Ronendra Singh) </p> <p class="body"><a href="mailto:kurmanath@thehindu.co.in">kurmanath@thehindu.co.in</a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Adarsh scam: CBI fails to file chargesheet, Jairaj Phatak & Ramanand Tiwari seek bail</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Adarsh-scam-CBI-fails-to-file-chargesheet-Jairaj-Phatak-Ramanand-Tiwari-seek-bail/articleshow/13828947.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Adarsh-scam-CBI-fails-to-file-chargesheet-Jairaj-Phatak-Ramanand-Tiwari-seek-bail/articleshow/13828947.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Rebecca Samervel, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 02.09AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>MUMBAI: Former civic chief Jairaj Phatak and ex-state information commissioner <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ramanand-Tiwari">Ramanand Tiwari</a>, arrested in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Adarsh-housing-society-scam">Adarsh housing society scam</a>, filed for bail in the special <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI-court">CBI court</a> on Monday after the investigating agency failed to file the chargesheet within the stipulated 60-day period. Phatak and Tiwari have been in custody since their arrest on April 3. The matter will be heard on Wednesday.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The bail application filed by Pathak's lawyer Swapna Kode states that he is entitled to be released the chargesheet was not filed within 60 days and the stipulated period came to an end on Monday at 3pm, he is entitled to be released on bail.<br /><br />"All the said offences are punishable for less than 10 years and... therefore the CBI ought to have filed the chargesheet within 60 days from the date of his production before this court," states the bail application filed by Pathak's lawyer Swapna Kode. All accused have been charged with criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code and various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Last week, the court granted bail to seven of the other accused on same grounds. Special CBI judge M V Kulkarni granted bail to Maj Gen (retd) A R Kumar, Maj Gen (retd) T K Kaul, Brig (retd) M M Wanchu, former collector Pradeep Vyas, former sub-divisional superintendent of the defence estate office R C Thakur (one of the main promoters of the Adarsh housing society), former deputy secretary of the state urban development department P V Deshmukh and former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani (the chief promoter of Adarsh). Their sixty day period ended earlier as they were arrested on March 20 and 21.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Second defence counsel withdraws in siblings' murder case</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3492616.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3492616.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">V. S. Palaniappan</span></span> </p> <p class="body">Rajendran, defence counsel for Manoharan, the second accused in the siblings' murder case has withdrawn from the case citing personal reasons. He was the second defence counsel to withdraw from the case.</p> <p class="body">On October 30, 2010, a 10-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother, children of a textile merchant from the city, were abducted by a van driver, who used to transport the children to the school. Originally, the abduction was planned for ransom, subsequently the accused Mohanakrishnan along with his accomplice Manoharan, sexually abused the girl and drowned both the girl and her brother in the PAP contour canal. The bodies were recovered subsequently and the accused were secured by the police. Cases were registered against both of them under sections 120 B (Conspiracy), 364 A (kidnap for ransom), 376 (sexual assault) and 302 (murder) and 201 (concealment of evidence) of Indian Penal Code. On November 8, 2010, the City Police took custody of the accused. </p> <p class="body">On November 9, 2010 morning, while being taken to the scene of crime to record statements, the police shot the first accused to death. Police said that the encounter was reportedly in a bid to foil his attempt to kill the police officials and escape to Kerala.</p> <p class="body">With the death of the first accused, charges abated against him and the trial was on against the second accused Manoharan. The lawyers in Coimbatore resolved not to appear for the accused in the trial. Meanwhile, nearly 121 prosecution witnesses were listed and 60 documents marked as material evidences besides filing of a 500-page charge sheet in the case. </p> <p class="body">However, according to the legal requirements, the District Aid Legal Services Authority appointed a counsel for Manoharan. The lawyer withdrew from the case, following difference of opinion between the defended accused and his counsel, sources said. </p> <p class="body">Legal Aid Services Authority then appointed another counsel Rajendran, who has also now withdrawn from the case citing personal reasons. The State had appointed a Special Public Prosecutor in the case to ensure undivided attention to bring about a logical conclusion to the case. Investigating Officer in the case, Inspector M. Kanagasabapathy said that prosecution side had completed its work and after appointment of another counsel by the legal services authority to defend the accused, the trial was likely to resume. Now, the trial before the Mahila Court Judge M.N. Subramanian has almost reached mid way and a verdict was expected within the next 40 to 60 days, sources expressed confidence.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Child Welfare Committee orders cops to book child's employer</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Child-Welfare-Committee-orders-cops-to-book-childs-employer/articleshow/13829208.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Child-Welfare-Committee-orders-cops-to-book-childs-employer/articleshow/13829208.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 02.20AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Child-Welfare-Committee">Child Welfare Committee</a> (CWC) on Monday ordered the police to register a case against the employers of a minor boy who had engaged him as a domestic servant for the past two months.<br /><br />The bench directed police officials of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhu-Vihar-police">Madhu Vihar police</a> station in east Delhi to register a case against the employers, who are property dealers and residents of IP Extension in east Delhi. The minor had been rescued on Saturday after he was discovered locked inside the employer's house and crying.<br /><br />The CWC has asked the police to register a case against the employers under section 23 and 26 of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Juvenile-%28musician%29">Juvenile</a> Justice Act, section 16 of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bonded-Labour-act">Bonded Labour act</a> and section 344 (confinement for more than 10 days) and 374 (unlawful compulsory labour) under the Indian Penal Code. The child was produced at a CWC court on Monday and a written order was passed on the matter after the minor gave his statement. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Nothing is official here </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?contentId=11717818&programId=1073755753&tabId=13&categoryId=-177921">http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?contentId=11717818&programId=1073755753&tabId=13&categoryId=-177921</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Story Dated: Monday, June 4, 2012 10:17 hrs IST </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The ease with which Dr Sudam Munde and Dr Saraswati Munde have repeatedly escaped the law suggests the nexus between authorities and doctors in Beed. Nationalist Congress Party legislator Vidya Chavan has a letter written by Parli Police Inspector Ramrao Gadekar on May 19 to the judicial magistrate first class of Parli Vaijnath requesting him to withdraw the charges filed against the doctors under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.<br />Gadekar in his letter claimed, “There has been no written proof from the civil surgeon about framing the doctors under the Acts, and so it is requested that these charges be withdrawn.” A strange request, when the doctors were practising even after their clinic's licence was cancelled. Accordingly, the couple was charged under section 304A of the Indian Penal Code and then released on bail.<br />Chavan alleged that support from Gopinath Munde, deputy leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha, had shielded the doctors. “Saraswati considers Gopinath Munde as her brother. He inaugurated her hospital and Saraswati was a director of Vaijnath Bank founded by Gopinath Munde,” she wrote in a letter to the chief minister.<br />Activists said even the state health department had not been proactively pursuing the matter. “Why didn't the health department take any action when social activist Varsha Deshpande has been pursuing the case for the last three years?” asked women's rights activist Vidya Bal. Deshpande recalled how the doctor couple managed to get bail from the session court. “The public prosecutor remained absent and the couple was released on bail,” she said.<br />The Mundes' sonography clinic is said to be registered under the name of a radiologist at a government hospital. “Sudam registered it under the name of Dr Anand Gitte, who is working at the sub district rural hospital in Parli. Gitte is the first accused in the case against the doctors in 2010. He has also signed consent letters for 12 other clinics in Parli. But, Gitte claimed he did not go to any of these places,” said lawyer Atul Tandale.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Justice Lokur sworn in as Supreme Court judge</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://post.jagran.com/justice-lokur-sworn-in-as-supreme-court-judge-1338804972">http://post.jagran.com/justice-lokur-sworn-in-as-supreme-court-judge-1338804972</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Posted on: 04 Jun 2012, 03:46 PM</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Justice Lokur now a Supreme Court judge</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New Delhi: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court Madan B. Lokur was Monday sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.H. Kapadia.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prior to his elevation, Justice Lokur was the chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. With his elevation to the Supreme Court, the strength of the apex court has gone up to 26, five short of the sanctioned strength of 31 judges.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Interestingly, this is the first time that a judge, on his elevation to the apex court, was administered the oath of office during the summer vacation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Justice Lokur, as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, had headed the bench that recently quashed the 4.5 percent reservation in educational institutions and government jobs for Muslims within the existing reservation quota.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">JPN</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>NBT can’t escape judicial writ: HC </h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/nbt-can%E2%80%99t-escape-judicial-writ-hc-736">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/nbt-can%E2%80%99t-escape-judicial-writ-hc-736</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">June 5, 2012 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="source">PTI</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="source"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4612">New Delhi</a></span> </p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Delhi high court has held that the National Book Trust (NBT) is an “alter ego” of the government and is amenable to judicial reviews for its actions concerning fundamental rights as the state has all “pervasive control” on the publication body.<br />The National Book Trust, a registered society which is working for the last 50 years in the field of publication, took the plea that it does not fall under the definition of state under the Constitution and hence, no petition, for enforcing fundamental rights against it, was maintainable. A three-judge bench of acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri, Justices Hima Kohli and Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said “we, thus, conclude that National Book Trust is ‘other authority’ and thus, ‘State’ within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution.”<br />“No doubt, every autonomous body with some kind of government involvement cannot be construed to be ‘State’ within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution.<br />“However, when we find that NBT is within the tight grip of the government and the control of the government runs through at every stage right from the creation of NBT to the appointment of the members, to the fundings, to the appointment of various functionaries, to the controlling of the functioning through those appointed members and also through means of audit, etc.<br />“Further that the parameters within which NBT is to function and even when the amendments are to be carried out, there cannot be any other conclusion but to say that it is an alter ego of the government’s instrumentality,” Justice Sikri, writing the verdict, said.<br />The court judgment came on the petition which was referred to a larger bench by a single judge who took the view that NBT was not ‘State’ under the Constitution and hence, it was not amneable to writ jurisdiction. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Sampangi moves HC seeking bail</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/sampangi-moves-hc-seeking-bail/1007289.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/sampangi-moves-hc-seeking-bail/1007289.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04">PTI | 02:06 PM,Jun 04,2012</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bangalore, Jun 4 (PTI) Jailed in a corruption case, BJP MLA Sampangi today moved the Karnataka High Court seeking bail and review of the Lokayukta court verdict. The matter will come up for hearing tomorrow before Justice Jagannathan. In the first-ever conviction of an elected representative of the people in Karnataka, Lokayukta court Judge N K Sudhindra Rao had on June 2 convicted and sentenced Sampangi to undergo more than three years rigorous imprisonment and slapped Rs 1 lakh fine, besides ordering extension of imprisonment by six more months in case he failed to pay up. Sampangi, who represents KGF assembly constituency, was caught by Lokayukta Police on January 29, 2009 while accepting Rs 50,000 in cash and Rs 4.5 lakh by cheque from Farooq, a businessman, to settle a civil dispute. Sampangi is lodged at Parappana Agrahara central prison on city outskirts. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">J&K HC quashes detention of four persons</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/J-amp-K-HC-quashes-detention-of-four-persons/SP-Article1-865693.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/J-amp-K-HC-quashes-detention-of-four-persons/SP-Article1-865693.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>UNI</b><br />Srinagar, June 04, 2012</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the detention of four people, including senior leader of breakaway Hurriyat Conference (HC) Masarat Alam, detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for their alleged role in 2010 unrest in the valley.<br />A single bench of the high court <span class="msoIns"><ins>comprising Justice Hasnain Masoodi directed the government to release all the detenues if they were not involved in any other offence.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court gave the order on Saturday after hearing arguments from both sides on separate petitions filed the detenues, challenging their detention under the PSA.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Alam, considered a confidant of Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was alleged to have provoked people to take to the streets and observe strikes in 2010, when more than 120 people, mostly youths, were killed in alleged firing by security forces.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The state government had slapped another detention order under the PSA against Alam in January this year after his earlier detention was quashed by the court.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioner through his counsel, Mian Abdul Qayoom, had challenged his detention on several grounds, including the one that the latest detention order had the same grounds under which Alam was booked earlier which was quashed by the court.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The counsel for the petitioner said, "It is a well-settled law that after a detention order is quashed against a detainee, he cannot be detained again on the same grounds on which he was booked earlier."</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>He pleaded before the court that the detention order passed against Alam in January 2012 was illegal, improper and unconstitutional and required to be quashed.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court also quashed the detention orders of Ameer-e-Hamza, Nazir Ahmad Ganie and Waqar Ahmad Morkah.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Madras HC asks government to amend town planning act</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-04/chennai/32030229_1_unauthorised-high-court-grant-exemptions">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-04/chennai/32030229_1_unauthorised-high-court-grant-exemptions</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A Subramani, TNN</span></span><span class="separator"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Jun 4, 2012, 02.03PM IST </p> <p>CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Monday directed the Tamil Nadu government to make necessary amendments in the Town and Country Planning Act, to exempt hundreds of unauthorised buildings from demolition, within a period of two weeks.</p> <p>The first bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam, declined advocate general A Navaneethakrishnan's request to grant the government six months to bring about the amendment. The court asked the government to amend the Act by July 24. </p> <p>The vexed issued of unauthorised constructions relates to hundreds of multi-storied commercial as well as residential buildings in Chennai and other parts of the state. There have been several attempts by the successive state governments to grant exemptions through the ordinance route. When the ordinances and acts were set aside by the high court, the state government approached the Supreme Court. After several rounds of litigation, the apex court had asked the high court to take a decision on the issue. The matter being remanded back to it, the high court had asked the government to come out with a policy on the subject.</p> <p>On Friday, the Tamil Nadu government filed a counter-affidavit stating that it had decided to accept Justice S Mohan committee's recommendations. As per the recommendations, all buildings constructed on or before July 1, 2007 would be eligible for exemption from demolition, subject to a set of guidelines which included fire service clearance and provision for parking facilities within 250 metres of the respective unauthorised building.</p> <p>On Monday, the government filed a counter-affidavit disclosing its steps and policy decisions. It also wanted the court to grant six months to enable the government to table the matter before the assembly during the winter session and bring about the necessary amendment. However, granting only two months for the government to amend the Act, the high court posted the matter to July 24 for further hearing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Kerala HC pulls up govt on cop-criminal nexus</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-HC-pulls-up-govt-on-cop-criminal-nexus/articleshow/13832890.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Kerala-HC-pulls-up-govt-on-cop-criminal-nexus/articleshow/13832890.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 05.52AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>KOCHI: The state government was sharply criticized by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kerala-high-court">Kerala high court</a> on Monday for sitting on former additional DGP Sibi Mathews' report on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/police-criminal-nexus">police-criminal nexus</a> for more than four years.<br /><br />Considering a petition filed by former MLA <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Joseph-M-Puthussery">Joseph M Puthussery</a>, division bench of acting chief justice Manjula Chellur and justice A M Shaffique directed the government to file an affidavit explaining the action taken by the government on Mathews' report highlighting nexus between police officials and criminals.<br /><br />The court asked the government to tender an explanation about inaction after Joseph's counsel Santhosh Mathew argued that not publishing the report was against public interest.<br /><br />Government pleader P I Davis submitted to the court that government will take action in accordance with law and vigilance enquiry would be initiated against those police officials found guilty. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC: Rs 29.26L for tree-fall deaths</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/hc-rs-2926l-tree-fall-deaths-687">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/hc-rs-2926l-tree-fall-deaths-687</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">June 5, 2012 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="source"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/taxonomy/term/4756">chennai</a></span> </p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Madras high court on Monday directed the Chennai corporation to pay Rs 29.26 lakh as compensation to a youth for the death of his parents as a tree fell on their car while travelling on a public road in Purasawalkam in 2005.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar allowed the petition filed by K. Karthik, seeking compensation for the death of his father C. Krishnamoorthy, assistant director at the office of the Director, Highways Research Station, and mother K. Chithra, a school teacher.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>According to the petitioner, while travelling in a Maruti car, an old big tree fell on the car on Alagappa Road at Purasawalkam on October 12, 2005, causing the instant death of his father and mother. The petitioner aged about 14 years escaped with minor injuries. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The fatal accident would not have taken place if the Chennai corporation had exercised proper care and caution and taken precautionary measures to cut and remove the old trees standing on both sides of the road, he added.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The judge said it was not in dispute that the petitioner’s father and mother died due to the falling of the tree. The postmortem report confirmed the nature of the death and an FIR was registered by the Kilpauk police. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>An amount of Rs 50,000 each was sanctioned from the chief minister’s relief fund to kin of victims. If there was any dispute over the death, the chief minister’s relief fund could not have been sanctioned by the government. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>It was well settled principle of law decided by the Supreme Court that if the facts were not in dispute, the legal heirs of the victims of riot, custodial killing or death due to negligence on the part of the state authorities can claim compensation. The trees standing on public streets vest with the corporation as per section 203 of the Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>As per Section 204, it was the duty of the corporation to maintain, repair and make all improvements, which were necessary for public safety and convenience. Hence, the corporation was responsible for not removing the dangerous trees for public safety. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The judge said during the corporation enumeration conducted immediately after the death of petitioner’s parents, it was found that 877 trees were to be cut and removed and 85 tress had fallen already including the one that fell on the car driven by petitioner’s father. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>If the enumeration was conducted prior to the accident, the lives of the petitioner’s father and mother could have been saved. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Thus, there was negligence on the part of the officials of the corporation in not cutting and removing the dangerous trees and two precious lives were lost. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Therefore, the corporation was liable to pay compensation for the loss sustained by the petitioner on the basis of ‘vicarious liability’, the judge said and directed the corporation to pay Rs 29.26 lakh (Rs 22 lakh as compensation and Rs 7.26 lakh as interest).</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>999-year lease surprises CM Nitish Kumar</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/999-year-lease-surprises-CM-Nitish-Kumar/articleshow/13833837.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/999-year-lease-surprises-CM-Nitish-Kumar/articleshow/13833837.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Bhuvaneshwar-Prasad.cms">Bhuvaneshwar Prasad</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 06.31AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> KISHANGANJ: The festering problems of forcible grabbing of Bhoodan and government land, serious glitches in teachers' appointments and the nagging 'Bijli, Sadak and Pani" which has lately rankled the district authorities surfaced at chief minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Durbar at Khagra Stadium on Monday on the second day of his three-day Seva Yatra to Kishanganj district.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>"Land lease for 999 years?" exclaimed CM <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nitish-Kumar">Nitish Kumar</a> and asked how it was that such a land lease for 999 years was granted and, to cap it all, even registered. This question came up when <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aarif-Mohammad-Abdullah">Aarif Mohammad Abdullah</a> of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rahmani-Foundation">Rahmani Foundation</a> urged the CM to ask the district authorities to lift the embargo over the use of their 285 acre plot of land at Shitalpur under Pothia police station in Kishanganj district which was imposed on May 6. The district authorities had imposed the embargo after armed tribals had upped their ante and threatened to forcibly enter the plot of land at Shitalpur.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The aforesaid plot of land, which reportedly includes 70 acres of Bhoodan land, belonged to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Afzal-Hussain">Afzal Hussain</a> who leased it out to Rahmani Foundation for the purpose of establishment of medical and engineering colleges when his bid to offer the same to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aligarh-Muslim-University">Aligarh Muslim University</a> (AMU) came a cropper. The CM was caught in a pincer. Many discordant voices were raised at the Janata Durbar where complainants insisted on release of Bhoodan and government land from the clutches of land mafia and tea gardeners.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>A dismissed health department employee, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mohammad-Badiduzzama">Mohammad Badiduzzama</a> caught the CM's attention when he pointed how, despite Patna High Court's order for his re-instatement and payment of arrears, the health authorities were dragging their feet. The Patna HC had ordered for his re-instatement on July 29, 2011. A ruckus was created when a number of aspirants for teachers' jobs, both male and female, said they were running from pillar to post and even went on hunger strike but to no avail. They are awaiting their appointments since 2006.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>A number of callers were summoned to a corner of the spacious Janata Durbar by the CM himself. They had a litany of complaints against the power officials' shenanigans. The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bihar-State-Electricity-Board">Bihar State Electricity Board</a> (BSEB) chairman and other top brass have promised to address their grievances in the CM's presence.</ins></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The complainants, contrary to public perception, were not overpacked here on Monday. In all, 955 complaints were collected at the Janata Durbar, according to executive magistrate <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Kumar">Ajay Kumar</a>. The complaints related to land, power, appointment of teachers and BPL list. Ministers <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vijay-Kumar">Vijay Kumar</a> Chowdhury, Brijendra Yadav and P K Sahi and principal secretaries were on their toes as the CM interacted with people and listened to their grievances.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Ordinance reins in rogue policemen</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Ordinance-reins-in-rogue-policemen/articleshow/13831874.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Ordinance-reins-in-rogue-policemen/articleshow/13831874.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-M-K-Madhusoodan.cms">M K Madhusoodan</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 05.11AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> BANGALORE: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Police-in-Karnataka">Police in Karnataka</a> will stop being a law unto themselves if a new <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/ordinance">ordinance</a> is enforced strictly. The ordinance amends the Karnataka Police Act, 1963, to introduce a host of measures to ensure that the guardians of law don't become its violators.<br />The ordinance, gazetted on June 1, empowers the state government to set up a security commission and complaints authorities at the state and district levels.<br />While the state security commission will ensure the police function within the framework of law, the complaints authorities will look into allegations of human rights abuses against police officers of all ranks.<br />The complaints authorities will work at two levels. While the state police complaints authority will look into complaints against officers of the rank of additional superintendent of police , superintendent of police and above, the district police complaints authorities will look into complaints against <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/policemen">policemen</a> and officers up to the rank of deputy superintendent.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Who will be on panels </span></strong><br /><br />The state complaints authority will have three members: a chairman selected from a panel of three retired HC judges set up on the recommendation of the high court chief justice; a retired public servant not below the rank of principal secretary; and a civil-society representative.<br />A district authority will comprise the regional commissioner, a retired civil service official and a civilsociety representative.<br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Complaints bodies can act suo motu </span></strong><br /><br />Bangalore: The allegations that will be looked into by complaints authorities pertain to serious misconduct including incidents involving death, grievous hurt or rape in police custody, and arrest or detention without following the due process of law. The complaints can also pertain to officers willfully breaching or neglecting any law, adversely affecting the rights of any member of the public.<br />The authorities can act suo motu or look into complaints received from a victim or any person action on his or her behalf, the NHRC, the SHRC or any other body. The complaints authorities will forward their findings to the competent disciplinary authorities for appropriate action. They will have the power of civil courts in summoning any person for examination. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Priest told to vacate Purana Qila premises</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Priest-told-to-vacate-Purana-Qila-premises/articleshow/13829362.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Priest-told-to-vacate-Purana-Qila-premises/articleshow/13829362.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Garg.cms">Abhinav Garg</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 02.34AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> NEW DELHI: A mahant who had been living inside the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Purana-Qila">Purana Qila</a> for three decades was on Monday asked by Delhi high court to vacate the premises. A special bench dismissed Mange Ram Bharadwaj's appeal and asked him to leave the premises as it is a centrally protected monument.<br /><br />Bharadwaj had challenged the eviction notice of the estate officer, claiming he is the mahant of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sri-Kunti-Devi-Mandir">Sri Kunti Devi Mandir</a> inside the Purana Qila area. He asserted that the government had no right to dispossess him of the temple. The petitioner claimed the temple on the land mentioned was 5,500 years old and was being maintained since 1880, the time of his great grandfather. He urged HC to rule in his favour, arguing he is performing puja in the temple since 1976.<br /><br />Bharadwaj cited medieval-era revenue records to buttress his claim that the temple existed even then, and with the passage of time small rooms came up near the temple to serve as a guesthouse and for the priest. Though Purana Qila is a declared ancient monument, the temple in question hasn't been declared so, nor has any attempt been made by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Archaeological-Survey-of-India">Archaeological Survey of India</a> to acquire it, the priest further argued. He said his family owned the temple and the land it was built on.<br /><br />On its part, the Centre argued that for some strange reason the priest escaped being evicted in 1962 when the Purana Qila area was vacated of refugees. This, however, didn't give him the right to live in a centrally protected monument. More so, when he could not produce a single documentary proof to justify his claim.<br /><br />The bench agreed with the Centre and concluded that Bharadwaj is an unauthorized occupant of a public premises. It, however, allowed the priest to offer prayers at the temple during public visiting hours, so that he may continue with the tradition. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Chargesheet Cannot be Quashed Ordinarily: SC</b></p> <div align="center"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:412.5pt;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="550"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td colspan="10" style="padding:0in 11.15pt 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=764727">http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=764727</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">PTI | New Delhi | <a href="http://news.outlookindia.com/itemindate.aspx?date=6/4/2012">Jun 04, 2012</a> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:.75pt"> <td colspan="10" style="background:#CCCCCC;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2;height:2.25pt"> <td colspan="10" style="background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:2.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3"> <td style="width:187.5pt;padding:0in 11.15pt 0in 0in" width="250"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> </span><br /></td> <td style="width:15.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="21"><br /></td> <td style="width:3.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="5"><br /></td> <td style="width:21.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="29"><br /></td> <td style="width:3.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="5"><br /></td> <td style="width:130.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="174"><br /></td> <td style="width:1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="2"><br /></td> <td style="width:.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="1"><br /></td> <td style="width:1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="2"><br /></td> <td style="width:45.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="61"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4;height:7.4pt"> <td colspan="10" style="background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:7.4pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;mso-row-margin-right:61.5pt"> <td colspan="9" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> <td style="mso-cell-special:placeholder;border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" width="82"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A chargesheet filed in departmental proceeding cannot be quashed by courts unless it adversely affects the rights of the aggrieved employee, the Supreme Court has held.<br /><br />"In fact, chargesheet does not infringe the right of a party. It is only when a final order imposing the punishment or otherwise adversely affecting a party is passed, it may have a grievance and cause of action.<br /><br />"Thus, a charge sheet or show cause notice in disciplinary proceedings should not ordinarily be quashed by the court," said a bench of justices B S Chauhan and Dipak Misra, in an order.<br /><br />The bench passed the order while disposing of an appeal by the Ministry of Defence challenging a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order quashing the chargesheet against one Prabhash Chandra Mirdha in a two-decade old bribery case.<br /><br />"Law does not permit quashing of chargesheet in a routine manner. In case the delinquent employee has any grievance in respect of the charge sheet, he must raise the issue by filing a representation and wait for the decision of the disciplinary authority thereon.<br /><br />"In case the charge sheet is challenged before a court/ tribunal on the ground of delay in initiation of disciplinary proceedings or delay in concluding the proceedings, the court/ tribunal may quash the charge sheet after considering the gravity of the charge and all relevant factors involved in the case after weighing all the facts, both for and against the delinquent employee, and must reach the conclusion which is just and proper in the circumstance," the bench said.<br /><br />The bench said charge sheet cannot generally be a subject matter of challenge as it does not adversely affect the rights of the delinquent unless it is established that the same has been issued by an authority not competent to initiate the disciplinary proceedings.<br /><br />The court said that "neither the disciplinary proceedings nor the chargesheet be quashed at an initial stage as it would be a premature stage to deal with the issues.<br /><br />"Proceedings are not liable to be quashed on the grounds that proceedings had been initiated at a belated stage or could not be concluded in a reasonable period unless the delay creates prejudice to the delinquent employee," it added.<br /><br />The court also rejected the argument that disciplinary proceedings cannot be initiated by an authority lower than the appointing authority, though it agreed that the removal must be done by an authority above him or her<br /><br />"It is permissible for an authority, higher than appointing authority to initiate the proceedings and impose punishment, in case he is not the appellate authority so that the delinquent may not loose the right of appeal.<br /><br />"In other case, the delinquent has to prove as to what prejudice has been caused to him," the bench said.<br /><br />The apex court however, refused to interfere with the CAT's order as affirmed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, as certain material were not placed before it.<br /><br />The bench also wondered as to why the Defence Ministry did not consider a fresh disciplinary proceedings against the delinquent employee and allowed the case to linger on for 20 years instead.<br /><br />Mirdha while working as assistant foreman in the ordnance factory, Yeddumailaram, Andhra Pradesh was accused of accepting a bribe of Rs 4,150 out of the total alleged demand of Rs. 37,000 on August 3 1991 from M/s Teela International Limited, Hosur, Bangalore.<br /><br />"There is nothing on record to show that the respondent delinquent is still in service and that even if the appellants are permitted to proceed with the inquiry, the evidence which was available 21 years ago would be available today," the bench said. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Filed On: Jun 04, 2012 21:56 IST </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>2-year tenure for DGP</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/2-year-tenure-for-DGP/articleshow/13832562.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/2-year-tenure-for-DGP/articleshow/13832562.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-M-K-Madhusoodan.cms">M K Madhusoodan</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 5, 2012, 05.38AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"> <ins style="display:inline-table"> BANGALORE: In a bid to avert recurrence of embarrassment at the time of appointing the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/head-of-police-force">head of police force</a>, the government has issued an ordinance amending certain provisions of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Karnataka-Police">Karnataka Police</a> Act, 1963.<br /><br />The ordinance dated June 1, titled Karnataka Police (Amendment) Ordinance of 2012, categorically lays down that those appointed as director general and inspector general of police shall have a tenure of not less than two years subject to superannuation. The chief shall be chosen from among three seniormost officers empanelled for promotion to that rank by the Union Public Service Commission on the basis of their duration of service, record and range of experience.<br /><br />The ordinance also gives ample powers to the state government to transfer the chief before completion of tenure on the following grounds: </ins></span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Conviction in criminal case or framing of charges by a court for corruption or moral turpitude </ins></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Incapacitation by physical or mental illness or unable to discharge his functions </ins></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Appointment to another post with his consent </ins></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Suspension, dismissal, removal , or compulsory retirement under service rules </ins></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 12.6pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Preliminary inquiry establishes prima facie case of misconduct or gross negligence.<br /><br />The ordinance empowers the government to delegate powers or give directions as it deems necessary to the DG & IGP. It comes in the backdrop of a recent legal battle between two former DGPs, AR Infant and Shankar Bidari, both claiming they had the seniority and merit to head the force. Infant's claim was upheld by the HC, while Bidari has now taken the battle to the SC.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Minimum tenure of a year </span></strong><br /><br />Transfers may no longer be the Damocles' sword hanging above upright police officers. A new amendment has mandated that all police officers in charge of stations, circles and sub-divisions will enjoy a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/minimum-tenure">minimum tenure</a> of one year in their posting. They can be transferred only under exceptional circumstances like conviction, incapacitation or on request. The ordinance also empowers the state government to notify the establishment of the Police Establishment Board for overseeing transfers, postings, promotions and other service-related matters of the officer of and below the rank of deputy superintendent of police.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Security commission </span></strong><br /><br />The state <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/security-commission">security commission</a> will be headed by the chief minister as its chairman, home minister as vicechairman and leader of opposition in the assembly, a retired high court judge, the chief secretary and additional chief secretary of the home department as members. The DGP shall be the commission's member-secretary. </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Adidas asked us to manipulate Reeboks's accounts: Subhinder Singh Prem & Vishnu Bhagat</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/retailing/adidas-asked-us-to-manipulate-reebokss-accounts-subhinder-singh-prem-vishnu-bhagat/articleshow/13829520.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/retailing/adidas-asked-us-to-manipulate-reebokss-accounts-subhinder-singh-prem-vishnu-bhagat/articleshow/13829520.cms</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal">Story</p> <p>NEW DELHI: The two former executives of Reebok India, at the centre of an alleged 870-crore alleged fraud, have accused German <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/sports">sports</a> goods maker <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Adidas">Adidas</a> of attempting to hammer down the valuation of the Indian unit, as part of its strategy to reduce its payout to the minority shareholder in the company.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br />Former Reebok India chief executive <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Subhinder-Singh-Prem">Subhinder Singh Prem</a> and former COO Vishnu Bhagat have in separate suits filed last month in the Delhi High Court said they were asked to 'carry out certain illegal and unethical actions' by the Adidas Group, such as manipulating accounts, booking irrelevant expenses and cancelling large distributorships, to ensure that the market value of Reebok India fell significantly 'so that a significantly lower amount becomes payable to the exiting Indian joint venture partner'. Reebok India is a subsidiary of Adidas.<br /><br />While the petitions do not mention the names of the joint venture partner, <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Focus-Energy-Ltd">Focus Energy Ltd</a>, a group company of Ajay Kalsi's <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/phoenix-international-ltd/stocks/companyid-10441.cms">Phoenix International</a> owns 6.85% in Reebok India.<br /><br />According to the shareholder's agreement, Adidas has a 'call option' or the right to purchase the shares of the Indian partner but the two have been locked in a legal dispute over the price at which Focus Energy will sell its shares. The matter is currently pending before the Delhi High Court.<br /><br />A person familiar with the development said while Adidas does not want to pay more than 25 crore for Focus Energy's 6.85% stake while the Indian partner was demanding as much as 550 crore. Both Adidas and Focus Energy declined to comment on these figures.<br /><br />According to an internal e-mail of July 2010, reviewed by ET, Adidas and Reebok India executives have discussed several strategies to keep their payout to a minimum. One of the options considered then was to "to wind down the operation of Reebok India and remove the distribution rights to reduce market valuation."<br /><br />Adidas AG had also explored the option to transfer its stake in Reebok India to Adidas India based on <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Controller-of-Capital-Issues">Controller of Capital Issues</a> (CCI) valuation that values a company based on past performance. The valuation based on this method is usually conservative.<br /><br />In April 2010, the RBI changed this guideline and said the transfer value of the shares should be decided only through <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/discounted-cash-flow">discounted cash flow</a> (DCF) method, which takes into account the projected cash flow in the next five years and not on past performance. Under the present guideline, the valuation of Reebok India would be much more than what it would have been under the Controller of Capital Issues method.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break"> <br style="mso-special-character:line-break"> </p> <div align="center"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:2.2pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><img src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CKAMALP%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image002.jpg" class="gwt-Image" border="0" height="217" width="500" /><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Basic rights denied at Kudankulam: Report</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://twocircles.net/2012jun04/basic_rights_denied_kudankulam_report.html">http://twocircles.net/2012jun04/basic_rights_denied_kudankulam_report.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Submitted by <a href="http://twocircles.net/user/admin4" title="View user profile.">admin4</a> on 4 June 2012 - 9:00pm </p> <p>By IANS,</p> <p>Chennai : The central and Tamil Nadu governments should stop harassing people protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) and withdraw cases registered against them, a report said Monday.</p> <p>The report was prepared by a committee comprising retired Chief Justice of Delhi High Court A.P. Shah, lawyer Geeta Ramaseshan and Prabha Kalvimani of the Irular Tribes Protection Association.</p> <p>The report was prepared based on a public hearing held by the committee at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district, around 650 km from here.</p> <p>Releasing the report here Monday, Ramaseshan told reporters that freedom of speech and movement of people in the area was restricted.</p> <p>She said people were denied basic information on matters related to their safety arising from the nuclear project.</p> <p>According to the report, the central government should release information on safety issues as per the orders of the Central Information Commission (CIC).</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. 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mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <h1>Advocate who sought removal of Gujarat Guv held</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/advocate-who-sought-removal-of-gujarat-guv-held/957608/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/advocate-who-sought-removal-of-gujarat-guv-held/957608/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Lucknow, Mon Jun 04 2012, 03:29 hrs</p> <p>Lucknow police have arrested a lawyer who was fined by the Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court for lodging a PIL seeking removal of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal. Advocate Ashok Pande, who had filed the PIL in Gujarat High Court and later in the Supreme Court, was sent to Gujarat on Sunday by the Lucknow police. </p> <p>Pande was arrested from his Gomti Nagar residence on Saturday night. A non-bailable warrant was issued against Pande by the Gujarat High Court for not depositing the cost imposed on him by the Supreme Court and high court, police said. </p> <p>A bench of Supreme Court justices H L Dattu and A K Dave had imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on Pande in March for filing the “misconceived” and “misleading” petition. Pande had sought removal of the governor after Gujarat CM Narendra Modi wrote a letter to the PM seeking to recall her for appointing Justice (retired) R A Mehta as Lokayukta without his consent.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Pay Rs 1.80 lakh to 6 injured by PCR van: NHRC to Delhi govt </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:8.25pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:8.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/pay-rs-180-lakh-to-6-injured-by-pcr-van-nhrc-to-delhi-govt/16876/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/pay-rs-180-lakh-to-6-injured-by-pcr-van-nhrc-to-delhi-govt/16876/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Press Trust of India / New Delhi June 04, 2012, 18:25<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:3.0pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.0pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:6.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:6.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p>The National Human Rights Commission has asked Delhi government to pay a compensation of Rs 1.80 lakh to six persons injured after being run over by a PCR van in October last year. </p> <p>The NHRC has asked the government to pay Rs 50,000 each to three persons who were grievouly injured and Rs 10,000 each to three others who had sustained minor injuries and also called for compliance report along with the proof of payment made to the victims, a statement from the rights body said today. </p> <p>They were injured in October, 2011, when a speeding PCR van, driven by head constable Murari Lal, climbed up the footpath near Barapullah flyover on which they were sleeping. </p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;height:3.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2;height:3.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal">The reports sent by the Delhi police in response to NHRC notices revealed that the head constable had been arrested for rash and negligent driving following the incident, the statement said. <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Minority commission backs Islamic banking</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.livemint.com/2012/06/03215712/Minority-commission-backs-Isla.html">http://www.livemint.com/2012/06/03215712/Minority-commission-backs-Isla.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Commission seeks amendment to the banking regulations to open the doors for interest-free banking<span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p> <h3 id="ctl00_bodyplaceholdercontent_dvArtAuthor"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; line-height:115%">Dinesh Unnikrishnan </span></h3> <p> Mumbai: The long-standing debate on whether India should allow Islamic banking has taken a twist with the National Commission for Minorities, or NCM, stepping into the picture and strongly supporting the model in Asia’s third-largest economy.</p> <p>Following a proposal from NCM to permit interest-free banking—a variant of Islamic banking—the finance ministry has asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take a fresh look at the matter.</p> <p class="dvbximgcapt">Seeing benefits: National Commission for Minorities chairperson Wajahat Habibullah says the interest-free model will help the country to channelize more funds from the Muslim business community abroad. (Mint)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Until now, the central bank has maintained Islamic banking is not feasible in India as existing regulations do not permit interest-free transactions.</p> <p>The minority commission, a constitutional body headed by the former chief information commissioner of India, Wajahat Habibullah, has sought an amendment to the banking regulations to open the doors for interest-free banking in the country.</p> <p>This is the first time the commission has got itself directly involved in the matter. The commission recently met top finance ministry officials including Sunil Soni, additional secretary, financial services, and Alok Nigam, joint secretary, on the matter.</p> <p>Since Islamic banking is not allowed in India under current norms, “there should, therefore, be a possibility of permitting interest-free banking by amending the regulations,” Habibullah said, according to a recorded note of the meeting, reviewed by <i>Mint</i>.</p> <p>According to the note, the finance ministry is open to the possibility of allowing some nationalized banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to open accounts that will offer interest-free products. “Interest-free banking should not be associated with the religion. It is not in violations of any rules, though the current regulations have to be amended to make this model available in India,” Habibullah said. “The conventional form of banking is not stable as is evident from the collapse of the banking systems across the world. Implementation of interest-free model will provide that stability. This will also help the country to channelize more funds from the Muslim business community abroad,” he said.</p> <p>Islamic banking is prevalent in countries such as Hong Kong, the UK, the US, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh and Pakistan. </p> <p>Under Islamic, or Sharia, law any payment or acceptance of interest is prohibited in banking transactions. Islamic banking operates on the theory that the return on investment is a compensation for the risk taken by the investor by providing a fund for commercial activity. As per this, the money can be lent on a profit-sharing or a fee-based model.</p> <p>In 2007, an RBI-appointed working group under the then executive director, Anand Sinha, which was examining the financial instruments used in Islamic banking, said that under existing regulations, it was not feasible for banks in India to undertake Islamic banking or to allow their branches to carry out Islamic banking operations abroad.</p> <p>The finance ministry has now referred the NCM proposal to Anand Sinha, currently a deputy governor of RBI, to re-look the matter.</p> <p>Though there have been several attempts by private groups to introduce Islamic banking in india, none of those succeeded due to regulatory constraints and opposition from some of political factions.</p> <p>In 2009, Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy filed a public interest litigation in the Kerala high court against the inception of a financial institution that was to run on the principles of Islamic banking, backed by the state government-owned Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation.</p> <p>In September 2010, the Indian Centre for Islamic Finance, a non-profit organization spearheading the call for Islamic banking in India, approached RBI to allow a few banks in Mumbai to open interest-free windows on a pilot basis without amending any of the regulations.</p> <p>It is yet to receive any response from RBI, according to H. Abdur Raqeeb, convenor, National Committee on Islamic Banking, and general secretary, Indian Centre for Islamic Finance.</p> <p>In 2008, the Raghuram Rajan committee of financial sector reforms suggested implementing interest-free banking in the country. “The committee recommends that measures be taken to permit the delivery of interest-free finance on a larger scale, including through the banking system... it would be possible, through appropriate measures, to create a framework for such products without any adverse systemic risk impact,” the report said.</p> <p>According to the report, since certain faiths prohibit financial instruments that pay interest, a section of Indians are unable to access banking products and services. “This non-availability also denies India access to substantial sources of savings from other countries in the region,” the report said.</p> <p>In May, a Kerala-based NBFC that operates in accordance with Sharia principles moved a petition in the Bombay high court against an RBI order cancelling its licence. The firm, <b>Alternative Investments and Credits Ltd</b>, sought legal recourse after RBI took action against it, charging the company with not complying with its fair practice code for NBFCs, which stipulates that NBFCs should declare the rate of interest at which they lend to borrowers. The court is likely to hear the petition on 11 June.</p> <p><i>dinesh.n@livemint.com</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Jilted lover awarded life term for setting girl ablaze</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right" align="right"><a><span style="text-decoration:none; text-underline:none"><span style="mso-ignore:vglayout"><img src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CKAMALP%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg" border="0" height="13" width="11" /></span></span></a> <a><span style="text-decoration:none; text-underline:none"><span style="mso-ignore:vglayout"><img src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CKAMALP%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image002.jpg" border="0" height="13" width="14" /></span></span></a> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/jilted-lover-awarded-life-term-for-setting-girl-ablaze/957342/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/jilted-lover-awarded-life-term-for-setting-girl-ablaze/957342/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : Faridkot (Punjab), Sun Jun 03 2012, 14:54 hrs<img src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CKAMALP%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image003.jpg" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> <p> A local court here has awarded life term to a jilted lover who set a teenage girl ablaze at Kotsukhila village of the district. </p> <p>District and Sessions Judge Fatehdeep Singh yesterday sentenced Hoshiar Singh (22) to life imprisonment for setting Veerpal Kaur ablaze in October last year. </p> <p>Singh wanted to marry the girl, but when she refused, he poured kerosene and set her on fire when she was alone at home. </p> <p>Kaur, who suffered 80 per cent burn injuries, was rushed to a hospital, where she succumbed later. </p> <p>In her statement to the police before she died, Kaur said that Singh wanted to marry her forcibly despite the fact that she was engaged to someone else.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Death for man who raped, murdered 8-year-old </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3486483.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3486483.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Jiby Kattakayam</span></span> </p> <p>“There is one and only one sentence which a person charged with raping a child and killing her deserves…”</p> <p class="body">On July last year when temperatures peaked, a desperately thirsty eight-year-old child living in a park went in search of water, leaving her younger siblings behind, after her poverty-struck mother left for work. The child found what she was looking for, but never returned. She was raped, bludgeoned 15 times with a steel rod and killed behind an NDPL office near Maurya Enclave in North-West Delhi where she had chanced upon a water cooler, but then encountered a sex-crazed accused Sanjay Kumar Valmiki.</p> <p class="body">This Thursday, a Sessions court at Rohini awarded the death penalty to 21-year-old Valmiki for murder. For the charge of rape, he was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for the rest of his life. For kidnapping, he was given a five-year prison term.</p> <p class="body">Concluding that this was a “rarest of rare” case, Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau said: “Let those who mess with children know that the justice system in India has zero tolerance for it and a single moment of madness can lead them to gallows.” </p> <p class="body">Dr. Lau further added: “There is one and only one sentence which a person charged with raping a child and killing her deserves. It is death and the only place where such a person deserves to go is straight to the gallows, where he is hanged by neck till he is dead.”</p> <p class="body">In the poignant words of the judge, the rapist “after fulfilling his hunger for sex, does not stop at that and uses brutal force by repeatedly hammering and clobbering the child with a Y-shaped steel rod and smashing her head in order to hide his reprehensible and disgraceful act and cause disappearance of the identity. The injuries on the body of the child, as many as 15 in number, speak volumes of the brutality and force with which the innocent child had been battered to death. The convict then dumps the badly-mutilated body of the child in a trench”.</p> <p class="body">In her order, the Additional Sessions Judge also recalled the scene outside the NDPL office when the girl's body was recovered two days later, in a mutilated and decomposed condition. </p> <p class="body">“The discovery of the mutilated/ decomposed body of the child in the NDPL office resulted in a huge public outcry, where people's anger spilled on the streets and there was large-scale stone pelting outside the office of NDPL resulting in damage to public property. Had the convict fallen into the hands of the angry mob, he surely would have been lynched and killed. Such was the public wrath.”</p> <p class="body">The defence plea for a lighter sentence on account of him being a young man was not accepted. “The convict was not a boy in his teens, rather a mature young man of 21 years of age and the victim a child of seven years-eight years. I am of the view that Valmiki is not of such a young age that he could not fully comprehend his actions. He was not a person in his teens but a matured robust young man of 21 years and had not acted on sudden provocation or on being suddenly emotionally disturbed,” Dr. Lau said.</p> <p class="body">Thirty-one witnesses were examined in the case with the most material being a 10-year-old child, who not only saw Valmiki, a contract sweeper at the NDPL office, talk to the victim, but later also heard her cries and screams from the switch-gear room where she was taken. When 10-year-old witness inquired as to who was inside, she was told by the rapist that it was his brother. </p> <p class="body">The evidence which conclusively nailed the convict was the DNA fingerprint report. “Thanks to the latest scientific technology and forensics which made it possible to identify the offender despite an attempt by him [offender] to destroy all evidence against him by mutilation of the body of the victim. It is the use of this technology [DNA fingerprinting] which has helped in conclusively establishing the guilt of the offender beyond doubt,” the court observed.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#252525">Honour killing accused will lose right to contest polls'</span></b><span style="color:#252525"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height: 115%"><a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-honour-killing-accused-will-lose-right-to-contest-polls-3365291.html">http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/NAT-TOP-honour-killing-accused-will-lose-right-to-contest-polls-3365291.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Source: Rakesh Bhatnagar, DNA | Last Updated 09:16(04/06/12)</p> <p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#414141">New Delhi:</span></b><span style="color:#414141"> Concerned with the regressive mindset of a section of the male-dominated society that uses the term “honour” to justify killing of young couples who marry outside their castes, the Centre is contemplating amendment to the election law to outcast those involved in the dastardly crime.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">If this gets approval of Parliament, an accused involved in “honour killing” would lose the right to vote or contest any election.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">However, the government doesn’t want to burden the Indian Penal Code with any additional provision to deal with an individual or members of a pachayat or `khap’ panchayats responsible for such brutal murdering couples in love. So, the Centre plans to amend the Representation of the People Act, 1951.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">Following a spate of caste-based killings of young men and women with the support of the victims’ families and the despotic local community, the government set up a group of ministers (GoM) for considering the menace of what’s been termed by the Supreme Court as the “barbaric and brutal murders by bigoted, persons with feudal minds”.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">Though no serious thought had been given to this burning issue during the past two years, it’s learnt that the Law Commission has given its report on the issue to the GoM.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">The Commission recommends amendment to the electoral law with a view to disqualifying all those found guilty of “dishonour killing”. Thus, an amendment in section 8 has been suggested so that these criminals are given the same treatment provided for other persons involved in equally barbarous acts such as dowry death and Sati.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">Informed sources say the new enactment is titled the Prevention of Crimes in the name of Honour and Tradition’.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">If the Act were in place now, a senior DIG of Uttar Pradesh, SK Mathur, could have been arrested for propagating the dastardly killing by telling the parents of a girl, who was suspected to have eloped with the man of her choice, that if his daughter had run away with a boy of another caste, he would have killed her.<br />Later chief minister Akhilesh Yadav only transferred the officer.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">It may be pointed out that a section of Indian communities isn’t alone in executing or masterminding inhuman killings.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">A recent report submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights shows that “honour” killings have occurred in Bangladesh, Great Britain, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Pakistan, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and Uganda.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141">But dowry deaths and so-called crimes of passion have a similar dynamic in that the women are killed by male family members and the crimes are perceived as excusable or understandable, the report said.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#414141"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Man granted divorce on grounds of cruelty </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487275.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487275.ece</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">K. T. Sangameswaran</span></span> </p> <p class="body">Acts of commission by a woman in filing a criminal complaint against her husband and his relatives resulting in the husband being in distress in jail constitute mental cruelty to him and, therefore, he is entitled to get the relief of divorce, the Madras High Court has held. </p> <p class="body">A Division Bench of Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M. Venugopal said this in its judgment while allowing appeals by a person challenging a common order of the Principal Family Court here of April 24, 2008 dismissing his petition praying for divorce and allowing his wife's petition seeking restitution of conjugal rights. </p> <p class="body">He had married the daughter of a former Tamil Nadu MLA here in April 2000 as per Hindu custom.</p> <p class="body">The appellant's senior counsel, P. Wilson, contended that his client's wife after initiating criminal proceedings against her husband and nine others was not entitled to obtain the relief of restitution of conjugal rights because of the inconsistency in her case.</p> <h3>Defining cruelty</h3> <p class="body">The judges said what conduct would amount to cruelty was a question of fact to be decided on the facts and particulars of each case. When a divorce was being sought on grounds of cruelty, the acts complained should be so grave and weighty to enable a court to conclude that one party could not reasonably be expected to live with the other. </p> <p class="body">The Bench said that in its considered opinion, on grounds of cruelty, the whole matrimonial relations should be considered. </p> <h3>SC judgment</h3> <p class="body">Citing a Supreme Court judgment, the Judges observed that cruelty would normally consist not of harmful acts but of injurious reproaches, complaints, accusations or taunts. </p> <p class="body">It should be established that one party in the marriage, ignoring consequences, had misbehaved, which the other party could not be called upon to endure, and that misconduct had caused injury to health or a reasonable apprehension of such injury.</p> <p class="body">The Bench pointed out that in the present case, the husband had been put in jail for 22 days for alleged offences of dowry harassment and attempt to murder. Further, the woman had gone to the extent of filing intervening application opposing the bail sought by her husband. The case later ended in acquittal.</p> <p class="body">Filing of a criminal complaint by the wife against the husband and his relatives, instituting cases based on it and the same ending in acquittal and before that the husband being in distress for 22 days in jail, all these acts of commissions by the wife clearly constituted mental cruelty to the husband who admittedly would have undergone a traumatic experience and suffered humiliation in social circles. </p> <p class="body">In the present case, the marriage had become emotionally dead. It had irretrievably broken down. Moreover, the element of separation between the parties unerringly point out that there was an intention to bring cohabitation permanently to an end. The differences of opinion should not be considered as temporary passions. </p> <p class="body">The Bench ruled that the husband was entitled to get divorce. </p> <p class="body">His wife was not entitled to get the relief of restitution of conjugal rights. It said the marriage would stand dissolved. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC refuses to interfere in transfer of civil suit</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-interfere-in-transfer-of-civil-suit/957575/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-interfere-in-transfer-of-civil-suit/957575/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Ahmedabad, Mon Jun 04 2012, 02:30 hrs</p> <p> THE Gujarat High Court has refused to interfere with an order of the Rajkot principal district judge to transfer a civil suit from one magistrate to the other after the first magistrate wrote a confidential letter to him after reserving pronouncement of judgment on the suit. </p> <p>The court also held that if a party is aggrieved by the transfer order it may approach the HC on the administrative side. </p> <p>A petition in this regard was moved before by Sai Developers and one Doli Patel. </p> <p>According to the petitioners, the civil suit in question was going on in the court of 14th Additional Senior Civil Judge. This magistrate after conducting hearing and dictating half of the judgment wrote a confidential letter to the Principal District Judge on May 11, following which the suit was transferred to the court of another magistrate. </p> <p>The petitioners challenged the transfer before the HC contending that the arguments were heard, judgment was even part dictated and was kept for pronouncement of the remaining judgment. </p> <p>Since vacation was there, both sides had given purshis that they do not have any objection if judgment is pronounced in vacation. And at that stage, the transfer order was passed, which was not only without any provisions under the Code of Civil Procedure, but also against settled position of law, they argued. </p> <p>They also contended that the exercise of administrative powers by the principal district judge to transfer the suit to another court was unjust and illegal. </p> <p>However, the HC turned down the petition while observing, “...discretion exercised by the learned Principal District Judge on administrative side, that too by referring to the confidential letter of the Judge from whose court the matter is transferred, does not call for any interference... it is open to the petitioner to move the High Court on administrative side, if he so desires.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC upholds DTC’s levy of Re 1 surcharge</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/HC-upholds-DTCs-levy-of-Re-1-surcharge/articleshow/13789068.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/HC-upholds-DTCs-levy-of-Re-1-surcharge/articleshow/13789068.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 4, 2012, 01.40AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has upheld the decision of the Delhi Transport Corporation to levy a surcharge of Re 1 on passengers travelling in its buses.<br /><br />A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw upheld the corporation's decision pointing out that the surcharge is collected to reduce the cost incurred by DTC when it pays toll tax/toll charges while crossing through municipal toll or at DND flyover or other toll bridges.<br /><br />"Though the amount to be paid per DTC trip is fixed, if the burden is to be shared by the passengers, in every trip, the amount to be collected from passengers may vary depending upon the number of passengers travelling in a particular trip," the bench observed. To "obviate such an onerous task" <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/HC">HC</a> added, the corporation is justified in charging a fixed amount which in any case is much less than the actual amount paid by the DTC.<br /><br />HC also brushed aside the argument that by collecting an extra amount DTC is determining the fare of buses, concluding that the Re 1 surcharge is not part of any fare.<br /><br />The court was hearing a PIL filed by one <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ramesh-Chhabra">Ramesh Chhabra</a> claiming that DTC charges Re 1 as surcharge on the actual fare from each passenger travelling from Delhi to Faridabad. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC nixes union’s plea for Binny Mill’s office</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-nixes-unions-plea-for-Binny-Mills-office/articleshow/13790920.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/HC-nixes-unions-plea-for-Binny-Mills-office/articleshow/13790920.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A Subramani, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 4, 2012, 03.09AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> CHENNAI: A labour union's attempt to get possession of the Binny Mill's 94-year-old Madras Labour Union (MLU) premises failed after the Madras high court turned down the request of the new set of 'office-bearers' recently.<br /><br />MLU, the first labour union in the state to espouse the cause of textile workers, was formed in April 1918 by a Parsi lawyer from Mumbai, B P Wadia.<br /><br />Pointing out that the mill had been wound up in 1996 and its premises sold to a real estate promoter, Justice K Chandru said, "It is not clear how the union is still functioning, especially when the B&C Mills have been irrevocably closed. Even as per bylaws of the union, only persons who are working in the B&C Mills are entitled to become members of MLU. Only existing workers can get elected to various committees through department-wise allotments. The petitioner has not disclosed as to who are the workers who will continue to be <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/MLU">MLU</a> members in the absence of employment for the workers."<br /><br />A general secretary of the MLU preferred the present writ petition seeking possession of the union office located on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Strahans-Road">Strahans Road</a> at Pattalam in Chennai. In 2003, there was a dispute between two rival groups of unions over the property. In October 2003, the jurisdictional tahsildar passed an order stating that they should first prove their title right over the union's property.<br /><br />Though no party approached an appropriate civil court to establish their title over the property, the present petition was filed in 2008, stating that the union had been 'revived' and that 2,060 'employees' of the union had elected new office-bearers and authorized them to claim the union's property.<br /><br />Justice Chandru, pointing out that no one had approached a civil court to establish their right and take control over the property, said the union was allegedly 'revived' five years after the tahsildar's order. He said such rights cannot be proved and granted in the high court under Article 226 of the Constitution.<br /><br />Tracing the rich history of the union, the judge said the bylaws clearly state that in the event of dissolution of the trade union, the property should be entrusted only to the Pachaiyappa Trust Board, which would utilize the fund derived from it to provide free scholarship to the children of textile workers in Chennai. Citing the Supreme Court rulings, he said dissolution of the union will not vest the property with the members of the union. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="authorcmt" id="authorcmt"></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Cops open Parel school gate after HC order </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_cops-open-parel-school-gate-after-hc-oder_1697776">http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_cops-open-parel-school-gate-after-hc-oder_1697776</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%">Published: Monday, Jun 4, 2012, 9:48 IST<br />By <b><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/mustafa-plumber" style="#000"><span style="color:#731643">Mustafa Plumber</span></a></b> | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:7.4pt 0in 0in 0in"> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins style="display:inline-table"> After verbal directives by the Bombay high court, the Bhoiwada police have opened the main gate of a school in Parel and handed over the keys to the trust running the school. The trust was fighting a legal battle with two alleged illegal tenants staying on the terrace of the school building.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>On April 27, the Bhoiwada police had locked the Kranti Veer Nana Singh Patil School at Naigaum in Parel, which is run by the Naigaum Education Trust, after complaints from the tenants against the school staff. </ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Division bench of Justice S J Kathawalla and Justice P D Kode asked the police to open the gates of the school and allow the teachers and other staff to enter the school. </ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The trust moved the high court seeking directions to the police to unseal the premise. They also wanted the unauthorized occupants staying on the terrace to be vacated, who they claimed were miscreants.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The trust got into an agreement with two people-Rajendra and Devendra Patil. As per the agreement, the trust gave them three rooms on the terrace of the building for setting up a computer lab to impart computer education.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>However, the school authorities started getting complaints from girl students of alleged misbehavior by the Patils.</ins></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span class="msoIns"><ins>Last year, the trust terminated the contract and the Patils were supposed to leave. However, they moved the small causes court claiming that they were tenants and were being forcibly evicted from the premises. The suit is still pending before the court. </ins></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Allahabad high court orders probe into lapses in Ayodhya case judges security</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Allahabad-high-court-orders-probe-into-lapses-in-Ayodhya-case-judges-security/articleshow/13795502.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Allahabad-high-court-orders-probe-into-lapses-in-Ayodhya-case-judges-security/articleshow/13795502.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Ashish-Tripathi.cms">Ashish Tripathi</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 4, 2012, 06.16AM IST</span></span> </p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ordered an inquiry into lapses in the security of three judges who delivered the verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit case on September 30 2010. The court has also directed the Centre and governments of Uttar Pradesh and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a> to take immediate steps to provide adequate security to the judges. The next date of hearing in this case is July 18.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court issued order after UP's anti-terror squad (ATS) informed court that activists associated with the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) may attack the three Judges. In the statement submitted before the court by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajiv-Sabbarwal">Rajiv Sabbarwal</a>, deputy inspector general (DIG), ATS, submitted that during the course of investigation, even in the months of March and April, 2012, it was found that the judges who decided <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ram-Janamabhoomi">Ram Janamabhoomi</a> case are still under continuous threat and the SIMI activists are in process to constitute a fresh module to assault the judges. The statement given by Sabarwal also revealed that there was an imminent threat to the life of the judges.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The ATS submitted the statement in response to the previous order of a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Devi-Prasad-Singh">Devi Prasad Singh</a> and Justice <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Devendra-Kumar-Upadhyaya">Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya</a>. The bench had issued order on a petition filed by advocate Ranjana Agnihotri in connection with the threat preception to the judges and advocates associated with the case. The three judges who delivered the Ayodhya verdict are Justice Sudhir Agarwal, Justice SU Khan and Justice DV Sharma.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Justice Agarwal, in fact, was stopped by anti-social elements in Ghaziabad in July 2011. The judge, who was in his car, escaped a possible assault and had revealed that he had no police escort with him during the incident. The judge informed in writing to the authorities concerned about the incident.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Justice Sharma, who is now in Uttarakhand for an assignment, had also made a written complaint to the UP high court registrar that he was not being provided adequate security by the Uttarakhand government . Justice Khan, however, has refused any security cover.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">It was also revealed during the hearing that for the past one year, the Registrar General of the High Court has been continuously informing state government officials about the developments.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">However, on behalf of the state government, HP Srivastava, additional chief standing counsel, informed the court that the letter of Justice Sudhir Agarwal was received by the state government on May 23, 2012 along with the letter dated May 19, 2012 sent by the Registrar General.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">On the other hand, Balwant Rai, additional superintendent of police, security, has informed the court that after filing of the present writ petition and keeping in view the threat precept, the state government had decided to provide Z-category security to all the three judges, provided them with two gunners along with an escort round the clock.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">After hearing the statements, the high court directed UP government to hold an inquiry keeping in view the contents of the letter on security lapse of Justice Agarwal and submit a report to this court. Further, the court directed that the DIG, ATS, UP and the UP <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/home-secretary">home secretary</a> would review the security requirement of the judges in view of an enhanced threat perception. Also, the court said that keeping in view the incident happened with Justice Agarwal and after discussing the matter DIG, ATS, UP, and other officers present, it would be appropriate to provide two escorts to the judges concerned.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court also directed that though Justice Khan had declined to accept any security, the additional director general of police, security, UP, should meet the judge personally and apprise him about the threat perception to take future course of action. The bench directed the state of Uttarakhand to provide Z category security to Justice Sharma immediately.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The government of India was also directed by the court to issue appropriate order or circular to all the states in the country to provide Z category security to the three judges during their movement outside UP. The security provided to the three Judges would not be withdrawn except with prior permission of chief justice of Allahabad high court.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The officials have also been asked by the court to personally meet the three judges and find out whereabouts of their residences and that of their family members for security arrangements. Officials have also been directed to hold a meeting to find out if more security, other then what was discussed in the court, was required in view of threat precept.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court also directed the registrar general to consult chief justice/senior judge and strengthen the security arrangement on court campus and implead government of Uttarakhand through its home secretary and government of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> through secretary, home, and inspector general of police, ATS, as respondents.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>High court quashes criminal case against man</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/High-court-quashes-criminal-case-against-man/articleshow/13790804.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/High-court-quashes-criminal-case-against-man/articleshow/13790804.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 4, 2012, 02.58AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> CHENNAI: The Madras <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/high-court">high court</a> has quashed a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/criminal-case">criminal case</a> against a man, who was detained under Goondas Act, after it came to light that the Vellore police had obtained signatures of another man in blank papers and created a false criminal complaint to arrest him.<br /><br />Justice T Mathivanan quashed the case against <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/G-G-Ramesh">G G Ramesh</a>, after the original 'complainant' Mohamed Shareef appeared before the judge and filed an affidavit stating that he had merely signed some blank papers given to him by the police and that he was no way responsible for the arrest and detention of Ramesh.<br /><br />Quashing the complaint against Ramesh, the judge said: "Shareef has submitted that he was just called to the police station and asked to sign a paper. Later, his signature was utilised to fabricate a complaint against Ramesh, for which he (Shareef) may not be held responsible." Shareef also clarified that he was not under any pressure to file such an affidavit dissociating himself from the criminal proceedings against Ramesh. The state government, however, objected to the quashing of the complaint stating that Ramesh was a Goondas Act detenue and even the quashing of the present complaint would not result in his immediate release. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>High court rules in favour of hotels in waste management row</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/High-court-rules-in-favour-of-hotels-in-waste-management-row/articleshow/13792905.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/High-court-rules-in-favour-of-hotels-in-waste-management-row/articleshow/13792905.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Aswin-J-Kumar.cms">Aswin J Kumar</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 4, 2012, 04.51AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The city corporation that has been issuing closure notices to hotels functioning without waste treatment plants in the city has been pulled up by a high court order.<br /><br />Following a petition filed by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kerala-Hotel-and-Restaurant-Association">Kerala Hotel and Restaurant Association</a>, the court has held that if a hotel did not have space or if there was an objection from the neighbouring shop owners for setting up the treatment plant, it was for the corporation to make arrangement to collect waste and treat it at the cost of the hotel.<br /><br />The ruling that has come in favour of the hotel owners, dismayed the corporation officials. The health standing committee has been slamming notices on all the hotels that function without a waste treatment plant, ever since the garbage crisis has started bugging the city.<br /><br />A deadline was also set for the hotels and it was pointed out that their licences would not be renewed if the owner fails to comply with the conditions mentioned in the notice.<br /><br />"The order has come at a bad time. We had asked the hotel owners to set up plants in plots far away from their hotels. With this order there is no way corporation can ask them to get on with the project," said a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/health-inspector">health inspector</a> of the corporation.<br /><br />The association members had claimed that the time span allotted for them to set up the plants was too short which the court upheld in its ruling. The court also maintained that section 334 of the Kerala Municipalities Amendment ordinance visualizes waste management by corporation which had to be maintained in a centralized manner.<br /><br />The court has also directed the corporation to help the hotels in setting up the waste plant. A health official said that it would be very hard to maintain the waste from hotels with the court terming it as the corporation's responsibility.<br /><br />"In a way it has made us helpless. We could have persuaded the hotels into processing the waste themselves. Now the corporation cannot do so that as it would be against the court order," he said.<br /><br />The ruling also said that no hotel should be closed down and no fine should be charged unless the hotels fail to either process the waste to the satisfaction of the corporation or fail to pay the fees fixed by the corporation to collect the waste and treat the same. "Paying fees to collect the waste from the hotels is not all the issue. The question is what to do with the collected waste," the official said.<br /><br />We had asked the hotel owners to set up plants in plots far away from their hotels. With this order there is no way corporation can ask them to get on with the project. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Information hidden despite rulings</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Information-hidden-despite-rulings/articleshow/13790505.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Information-hidden-despite-rulings/articleshow/13790505.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Paul-John.cms">Paul John</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 4, 2012, 02.32AM IST</span></span> </p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> AHMEDABAD: Central Information Commission (CIC) and Gujarat Information Commission (GIC) rulings have deemed that facts pertaining to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/salaries">salaries</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/qualification">qualification</a> of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/government-personnel">government personnel</a> belong to the public domain - yet, people are still being denied access.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">In several cases in the state, public information officers (PIOs) have interpreted such details as being 'third-party information'.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The latest victim happens to be a middle-aged woman, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhavna-Patel">Bhavna Patel</a> of Shahibaug, who has been demanding for four years - under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/RTI-Act">RTI Act</a> - the salary slip of her husband who serves with the Indian Railways. Bhavna is fighting for a revision in maintenance compensation in the family court and needs the salary slip to make that claim. "I receive Rs 600 and my 18-year-old son receives Rs 1,900 from his father as maintenance," Bhavna said. "My husband earns between Rs 25,000 and Rs 30,000 and the court fixes a specific maintenance amount based on the salary." She and her son <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Yash-Diwakar">Yash Diwakar</a> were shocked when the public information officer M R A Mirza replied that the information pertained to a 'third party'.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">"After we appealed to central information commissioner <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Annapurna-Dixit">Annapurna Dixit</a>, the railways sent a letter which claimed to have an annexure consisting of my father's salary slip," Diwakar said. "The letter had no such thing. We have already filed a complaint with the CIC. It's a cruel joke."</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Public agencies are under obligation to reveal their employees' salaries, CIC has ruled in a case involving <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/punjab-national-bank/stocks/companyid-11585.cms" target="_blank">Punjab National Bank</a> zonal office in Uttaranchal. "Under section 4 of the RTI Act, the public authority must not only provide a directory of its officials to public but also the amount of remuneration given to them," central information commissioner M M Ansari had ruled. "The information should be published and put on the departmental website."</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">In Gujarat, there have been five instances of PIOs denying salary details of government functionaries, said Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pehel co-ordinator Pankti Jog. "These functionaries are paid from public coffers. Not only salaries but qualification of officers too is public information," Jog said. For instance, in the Dinesh Anajwala versus Surat Municipal Corporation case of October 2008, former Gujarat chief information commissioner R N Das ruled, "Before the selection and assumption of charge of the government post, the person is a private person and copies of his marksheets and any information furnished by him to the selection committee is personal information. However, once the person has become a public servant, the nature of that information can no longer be treated as entirely and purely personal."</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Explanation on RTI Act issue sought from HC official</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487493.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3487493.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">R. Sivaraman</span></span> </p> <p class="body">The State Information Commission has called for an explanation from the Public Information Officer of the Madras High Court on why he should not be penalised for not furnishing within the prescribed timeframe, information sought by a person under the Right to Information Act.</p> <p class="body">In 2009, P. Kalyanasundaram of Pattalam, in his application before the Public Information Officer of the High Court of Madras, had sought to know the list of registers, forms, ledgers and records maintained by the office of High Court registry.</p> <p class="body">Contending that the Public Information Officer had not provided the information even after two years, he filed an appeal before the State Information Commission. He also sought compensation for the loss. </p> <p class="body">However, the Public Information Officer in his counter said it was confusing as to what kind of information the applicant was seeking. He had sought information in a casual, indiscriminate and haphazard manner. Such an attitude would defeat the purpose of the Act. The information sought was already published on the website of High Court. Hence, he sought dismissal of the application. </p> <p class="body">After hearing both sides, the State Chief Information Commissioner K. S. Sripathy in his order said the public authority should have understood at the first instance itself what kind of information had been sought and the correct details could have been provided. The public authority should have provided some concrete answer whether the information could be given or not within the timeframe. Nearly two and half years had passed since the information was sought and refusal to provide information was violative of the provisions of the RTI Act. </p> <p class="body">The order said, “Since it failed to respond in time on whether the information could be given or not to the applicant, there is room to believe that the public authority was adopting delaying tactics by not providing information. In the circumstances, under section 20(1) of RTI Act, the Public Information Officer should explain within 15 days why a penalty of Rs.25,000 should not be imposed.”</p> <p class="body">However, the commission dismissed the applicant's prayer seeking compensation, stating that the denial of information would not be detrimental to his interests. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1><a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/70440-advani-wants-collegium-for-cec-cag-selection.html">Advani wants collegium for CEC, CAG selection </a></h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/70440-advani-wants-collegium-for-cec-cag-selection.html">http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/70440-advani-wants-collegium-for-cec-cag-selection.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Monday, 04 June 2012 00:12 </p> <p class="MsoNormal">PNS | New Delhi </p> <p><b>Senior BJP leader LK Advani has suggested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set up a collegium to appoint the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), as the present system of President appointing the head of Election Commission solely on the advice of the Prime Minister, “does not evoke confidence among the people”. </b></p> <p>He has recommended a similar committee for appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) as well. While the tenure of serving CEC SY Qureshi ends later this month, the CAG will retire next year.</p> <p>In a letter to Singh on Saturday, Advani suggested that the collegium could include the PM as its chairman and Chief Justice of India, Law Minister, and Leaders of Opposition in both the Houses as members.</p> <p>“There is a rapidly growing opinion in the country which holds that appointments to constitutional bodies such the Election Commission should be done on a bipartisan basis in order to remove any impression of bias or lack of transparency and fairness,” Advani said in his letter to the PM.</p> <p>Underlining that the CVC and the CIC were also appointed through such a collegium, Advani asserted that keeping the appointment of CEC as an exclusive preserve of the ruling party rendered the selection process vulnerable to manipulation and partisanship.</p> <p>“Indeed, the credibility of this system was severely dented when a dubious appointment to the crucial office of CEC was made a few years ago. The time has, therefore, come to reform the selection process for the EC and other Constitutional bodies, as has indeed been done in the case of the CVC and the CIC,” Advani wrote to the PM.</p> <p>Incidentally, the BJP had objected to appointment of Navin Chawla, Qureshi’s immediate predecessor, as the CEC for his alleged proximity to the Congress and its chief Sonia Gandhi. The 2009 Lok Sabha election were held under Chawla as the CEC and widespread allegations on rigging of EVMs were made during that time. Even, Chawla’s predecessor N Gopalaswami had recommended to the Government to remove Chawla’s from the panel for his “partisan” role.</p> <p>The senior BJP leader pointed out to the PM that the Second Administrative Reforms Commission, set up by the Singh Government, had recommended in 2009 that the CEC and other members of the Election Commission be appointed by a collegium.</p> <p>“In respect of the CVC and the CIC, the change has come about because of the intervention of the Supreme Court. Let the wholesome change come this time as a result of an initiative taken by the Executive,” Advani said, requesting the PM to suitably amend the Article 324 of the Constitution that deals with the Election Commission.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 02.20AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> CHANDIGARH: 8,023 cases of different categories were disposed of in a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lok-Adalat">Lok Adalat</a> that was held inside the premises of the district court on Saturday.<br /><br />Out of the total cases, 502 were settled under the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Negotiable-Instrument-Act">Negotiable Instrument Act</a>. In MACT cases, compensation of Rs 16,85,000 was awarded. In execution petitions, Rs 24,14,278 was disbursed to the petitioners. In 7,231 traffic challans, Rs 18,10,450 were imposed and realized as fine. Besides this, about 290 civil, rent, labour and other categories of cases were also disposed off.<br /><br />20 benches were constituted in which cases of different categories like <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/motor-accident-claim">motor accident claim</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/matrimonial">matrimonial</a>, civil, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/civil-appeals">civil appeals</a>, compoundable criminal and rent cases were taken up for settlement in Lok Adalat. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Naquee was in touch with Yasin via social networking site: ATS</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254193/naquee-touch-yasin-via-social.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254193/naquee-touch-yasin-via-social.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mumbai, Jun 3, 2012, (PTI) :</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><a name="top"></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Naquee Ahmed, one of the jailed 13/7 blasts accused, who had claimed to be an informer of Delhi police, was in contact with Indian Mujahideen's (IM) elusive chief operative Yasin Bhatkal through a popular social networking site since 2008, Maharashtra ATS claimed today.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br /><br />Naquee, who hails from Darbhanga district of Bihar, was initially arrested on January 10 this year on charges of forgery for allegedly procuring mobile phone SIM cards using fake documents.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">According to the Maharashtra ATS, these SIM cards had been used by the IM module that executed the terror strikes at Dadar, Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House on July 13, 2011 leaving 27 dead and 127 injured. Later, Naquee was held in the blasts case, the ATS said.<br /><br />"Naquee, who claimed to be a police informer and had been helping police solve the 13/7 blasts case, had actually been in touch with Imran, who in reality is Yasin Bhatkal, since 2008 through the Facebook", an ATS official told PTI.<br /><br />Naquee knew the antecedents of Yasin and he had helped the latter throughout the conspiracy hatched to execute the blasts, the officer claimed.<br /><br />"Not only Naquee, even Nadeem and Waqas (two other accused) were in touch with each other through the Facebook", the official said, adding that the terror suspects communicated with each other using code language.<br /><br />"We have taken the printouts of their Facebook accounts to prove their communication with each other since a long time. It is a crucial piece of evidence", the officer added.<br /><br />However, the officer declined to divulge details when asked if the accused maintained real names or used fictitious names on the site.<br /><br />The officer also parried a question if the terror suspects' Facebook accounts still existed.<br /><br />Naquee's brother Taqi Ahmed had in January approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Commission for Minorities, Delhi Police Commissioner and Union Home Minister P Chidambaram claiming that his brother was a police informer and had been wrongfully framed by the ATS in the serial blasts case.<br /><br />Maharashtra ATS had filed a 4,788-page charge sheet recently in a special court against ten IM members, including its top operative Riyaz Bhatkal believed to be hiding in neighbouring Pakistan.<br /><br />ATS has so far arrested five accused - Naquee, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija Haroon Naik and Mohammed Qafeel Ansari.<br /><br />Mohammed Qafeel's name was not mentioned in the charge sheet filed against ten accused as he was recently arrested. A supplementary charge sheet would be filed soon in which his name and other wanted accused names would be mentioned.<br /><br />According to the ATS, Yasin, Waqas and Tarbez had rented a third floor flat at Byculla's Habib building in south Mumbai where they allegedly assembled explosives.<br /><br />As per Yasin's instructions, Naquee and Nadeem had stolen two-wheelers a day before the blasts and explosives were fitted in them to carry out explosions in Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House.<br /><br />Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik were involved in providing financial aide through the hawala (informal money transfer system) route. Mohammed Qafeel was involved in providing logistics support. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">NGT asks Gujarat govt not to take coercive action against OPG </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:8.25pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:8.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/ngt-asks-gujarat-govt-not-to-take-coercive-action-against-opg/16401/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/ngt-asks-gujarat-govt-not-to-take-coercive-action-against-opg/16401/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Press Trust of India / New Delhi June 03, 2012, 10:25<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:3.0pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.0pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:6.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:6.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p>The National Green Tribunal has directed Gujarat authorities not to take any "coercive action" without its permission against OPG Power Gujarat Pvt Ltd for alleged violation of conditions on which the environmental clearance was granted for its 300 MW Bhadreshwar thermal power plant at Mundra. </p> <p>The Tribunal passed the orders on an application by OPG expressing apprehension that "taking advantage of the summer vacation of the Tribunal, the authorities may take coercive action against it (OPG)". </p> <p>A bench headed by Tribunal's Acting Chairperson Justice A S Naidu said the authorities should not take any coercive action against OPG without its prior permission and directed the MoEF to file an action taken report on July 17, the next date of hearing. </p> <p>"Though we are satisfied that no emergent urgency is there, still we feel the ends of justice and equity would be better served if we direct the authorities to complete the exercise as per our order, but not to take any coercive action without obtaining prior permission from this Tribunal. </p> <p>"The MoEF is directed to file the report on the action taken by the authorities on the next date of hearing. List this matter on July 17, 2012," the bench said. </p> <p>The Tribunal had on May 10 directed Gujarat government to initiate proceedings against OPG for allegedly starting the construction work on the project before forest clearance was accorded to it on April 26. </p> <p>The June 11, 2010 clearance for the 2x150 MW thermal power plant at village Bhadreshwar, Mundra, District Kutch, Gujarat had stipulated that OPG shall not start the work without "all requisite prior permissions". </p> <p>In the May 10 judgement, the Tribunal had directed the state government and the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to initiate proceedings against OPG, issue show cause to them and "on perusal of the cause shown, if satisfied that the project proponent has violated the terms and conditions of the environment clearance or had committed any other omission or commission and/or encroached upon Khari river unauthorisedly, take such action as deemed just proper and in accordance with the law". </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>TDSAT pulls up govt for imposing fresh penalty on Idea</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tdsat-pulls-up-govt-for-imposing-fresh-penalty-on-idea/957315/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tdsat-pulls-up-govt-for-imposing-fresh-penalty-on-idea/957315/0</a></p> <p>Telecom tribunal TDSAT has pulled up the government for imposing fresh penalties on Idea Cellular despite an earlier order setting aside a similar fine due to the operator's alleged delay in service roll-out obligations in five circles. </p> <p>A TDSAT bench headed by its Chairman Justice S B Sinha said it has already set aside the penalty on Idea Cellular on December last year observing that "principles of natural justice" were not followed by Department of Telecommunications while imposing the aforesaid liquidated damages. </p> <p>"We fail to see any reason as to why despite our judgement dated December 5, 2011 the impugned demands have been raised without complying with the principles of natural justice; the core issue between the parties remaining the same. </p> <p>"We, therefore, are of the opinion that the impugned demands cannot be sustained. They are set aside, accordingly," said the tribunal and asked DoT to pay Rs 50,000 to Idea Cellular as cost of litigation. </p> <p>However, it also said that the DoT may raise fresh demand against Idea Cellular "upon complying with the principles of natural justice". </p> <p>The matter relates to roll-out obligation in five circles – Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. These circles came to Idea's fold after its merger with Spice Communications. </p> <p>Earlier, DoT had imposed a penalty of Rs 4.55 crore for each circle for delay in meeting the roll-out obligations after 39 weeks of spectrum allotment. </p> <p>This was subsequently challenged by Idea before the tribunal, which set aside the penalty after observing that DoT did not gave a proper chance to the operator to represent its case and was in violation of principles of natural justice. </p> <p>TDSAT had asked DoT to rework on the issue. </p> <p>However, DoT imposed additional liquidated damages of Rs 1.8 crore per circle on Idea Cellular for the same circles again on December 23, 2011. </p> <p>This was again challenged by Idea Cellular before the TDSAT, terming the fresh demands as "ex-facie illegal and without jurisdiction". </p> <p>DoT contended the demands were raised as Idea had failed to meet its roll-out obligations for a period of 52 weeks as is provided for in the clauses of its license agreement.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Notices under BIPA worries govt</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notices-under-bipa-worries-govt/957144/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notices-under-bipa-worries-govt/957144/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/anilsasi/">Anil Sasi</a> : New Delhi, Sun Jun 03 2012, 01:06 hrs<img src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CKAMALP%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image001.jpg" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></p> <p> At a time when the Centre is working overtime to build bridges with aggrieved global investors, the growing list of notices — at six and counting — served by international investors invoking provisions of the numerous bilateral investment protection pacts signed by India could put the Government is a spot of bother. </p> <p>The fact that India has, in the past, lost the only such dispute that went on to the arbitration stage is among the reasons for the mounting worries. </p> <p>In its award dated September 30, 2011 of the International Tribunal in the case between Australia’s White Industries Ltd and the Government of India (Ministry of Coal), under the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) between India and Australia, had gone against the Government of India. </p> <p>This is a case that dates back to a decade, when White Industries won a foreign arbitration against Coal India but was unsuccessful in enforcing the award till last year when it used the Indo-Australian bilateral investment protection treaty. </p> <p>“Six notices have been served. Each of these (cases where notices have been served) is being looked at on a case-to-case basis,” an official involved in the exercise said. </p> <p>The official added that BIPAs were intended to provide fair and equitable treatment to the investors of either country in the territory of the other country and include provisions for settlement of disputes between an investor and a contracting party shall, as far as possible, be settled amicably through negotiations between the parties to the dispute. “In case a dispute is not settled amicably, a provision exists for arbitration,” the official said. </p> <p>In case of Vodafone’s notice under the BIPA, the government, in its reply, has told the British telecom major that there is no cause of action for the company in the ongoing tax dispute with the Indian income tax authorities. </p> <p>According to foreign trade analysts, the fact that India’s gone on to sign bilateral pacts with a large number of countries, combined with the Government resorting to flawed policy measures and retrograde steps to shore up revenues, is a recipe for disaster. </p> <p>Till date, India has signed BIPAs with 82 countries, starting with the United Kingdom in 1994. Of these 82 countries, BIPAs with 72 countries have been enforced. </p> <p>Besides, India has signed 17 Free Trade Agreements, Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). </p> <p><b>BILATERAL WORRIES</b> </p> <p>Notices served by foreign investors against India under BIPAs and CECA </p> <p>* Devas Employees Mauritius Pvt Ltd, Mauritius under BIPA with Mauritius </p> <p>* Sistema Joint Stock Financial Corporation, Russia under BIPA between India and Russia </p> <p>* Telenor Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore under CECA between India and Singapore </p> <p>* Capital Global Limited and Kaif Investment Limited, both Mauritius based-investors in Loop Telecom Limited under BIPA with Mauritius </p> <p>* Vodafone International Holdings BV, the Netherlands, under BIPA with the Netherlands </p> <p>* The Children’s Investment Fund Management, United Kingdom under BIPA with the UK and Cyprus</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>NCW chief seeks one-time payment for ex-women Test cricketers</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/women-cricket/news/NCW-chief-seeks-one-time-payment-for-ex-women-Test-cricketers/articleshow/13752436.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/women-cricket/news/NCW-chief-seeks-one-time-payment-for-ex-women-Test-cricketers/articleshow/13752436.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Rakhi-Chakrabarty.cms">Rakhi Chakrabarty</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 03.05AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Commission-for-Women">National Commission for Women</a> (NCW) on Saturday asked <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BCCI">BCCI</a> for one-time payment for former women Test cricketers from the profits of the Indian Premier League as was done for their male counterparts.<br /><br />NCW chairperson <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mamta-Sharma">Mamta Sharma</a> said, "Like the men, women, too, have contributed to the country's cricket. Then why should they be discriminated against?"<br /><br />In a letter to union sports minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Maken">Ajay Maken</a>, she argued if former male players are entitled to the payment, women should also get it.<br /><br />"I have sought the minister's intervention. Why should a woman's efforts on the field be ignored?" Sharma said. She will also write to BCCI chief <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/N-Srinivasan">N Srinivasan</a> to press for the demand.<br /><br />Last week, the BCCI paid about Rs 70 crore obtained as profits from the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IPL">IPL</a> to 20 former international and domestic players who had retired before 2004.<br /><br />She also suggested an IPL for women cricketers. "Why shouldn't women play in the IPL?" she asked. The NCW will discuss it at a meeting and raise this with the BCCI soon.<br /><br />Besides women cricketers, Sharma plans to rope in actor <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Aamir-Khan">Aamir Khan</a> for creating awareness about women's issues. The idea struck her after she watched the actor take up social issues on the TV serial Satyameva Jayate.<br /><br />While talking about rising crimes against women, Sharma slammed Uttar Pradesh. "Don't ask me what kind of crimes occur there, instead ask what crimes don't happen in UP. It's very bad in UP. But there is a new government in the state. So, we should give it some time," she said.<br /><br />The NCW chief said a large number of cases are reported from areas of UP adjacent to Delhi, including Noida and Ghaziabad.<br /><br />The NCW has launched a 24-hour helpline for women in Gujarat. "Within about one and a half months of its launch, 1,000 cases were reported," she said. Similar helplines would be launched in Haryana and Rajasthan soon.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">NCW to launch 24-hour helpline in Haryana</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/NCW-to-launch-24-hour-helpline-in-Haryana/SP-Article1-864965.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/NCW-to-launch-24-hour-helpline-in-Haryana/SP-Article1-864965.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>PTI</b><br />New Delhi, June 02, 2012</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> The National Commission for Women will soon start on a pilot basis a 24-hour helpline exclusively for women in distress in Haryana, months after it launched a similar project in Gujarat.<br />Announcing this here today, NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma said the project would take off in July <span class="msoIns"><ins>and the statutory body was also mulling over launching similar round-the-clock helplines across the country by October-end.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"The helpline we launched in Gujarat was a huge success. Within a span of two months we received over 1000 complaints. The NCW is now thinking of launching similar projects in all the states by the end of October," Sharma said.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"The helpline would not only provide useful advice to the depressed complainant but would also make sure that she is given instant shelter, legal aid, medical treatment and police help," she said.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>To a question on the shortage of hands in NCW, Sharma said she had written to the ministry of women and child development on the matter. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>"To address the shortage, the NCW recommended making the temporary staff permanent. The ministry has given its approval and we are working in this direction," she said.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>CLAT confusion</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/news/31983265_1_legal-aptitude-section-clat-current-affairs-section">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/news/31983265_1_legal-aptitude-section-clat-current-affairs-section</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Jun 2, 2012, 10.12AM IST </p> <p>The Common Law Admission Test, popularly known as CLAT, is the entrance examination for admission to 14 National Law Universities (NLUs) in India. Every year, thousands of students from all over the country take this exam.</p> <p>CLAT results were announced on May 28, it led to confusion over supposedly incorrect declaration of ranks and wrongful allotment of institutions to students. The declared results were taken down by the National Law University, Jodhpur (NLUJ), CLAT 2012 organising institution, on the evening of May 28 itself, creating further confusion. The CLAT convener admitted these errors and mentioned that he is trying to resolve them judiciously (source: Legally India: www.legallyindia.com/201205312859/Pre-law-student/clat-2012-university-list-may-contain-errors-that-will-be-fixed-judiciously-in-june-says-nlu-j-vc). </p> <p>CLAT 2012, comprised a number of questions being allegedly outside the declared CLAT syllabus for the year. Aspiring candidates found that about 70% of the Legal Aptitude section of the paper featured questions that required prior knowledge of legal provisions, while the syllabus had clearly stated that "candidates will not be tested on any prior knowledge of law or legal concepts. If a technical/legal term is used in the question, that term will be explained in the question itself." In addition, the general knowledge/current affairs section of the paper, which was supposed to test candidates only on their knowledge of 'current affairs,' "broadly defined as matters featuring in the mainstream media between March 2011 and March 2012," allegedly had 'static General Knowledge' questions on architect Le Corbusier's citizenship and shapes of oceans, to name a few.</p> <p>A writ petition was filed before a single judge at the Delhi High Court abut a week ago (prior to the publication of results), against the organisers of CLAT 2012 for posing questions that were allegedly out of syllabus {Writ Petition (Civil) No 3208 of 2012}. However, the petition was dismissed, in limine, or without going into the merits of the case. The judge held that the petition was premature as the results had not been declared then, and suggested that the petitioners could approach the courts once the results were declared. A similar writ petition was also filed before the Allahabad High Court and is pending.</p> <p><a href="http://www.myeducationtimes.com/educationTimes/"><strong>Courtesy: Myeducationtimes.com</strong></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">PG medical quota for differently-abled</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254081/pg-medical-quota-differently-abled.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254081/pg-medical-quota-differently-abled.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gulbarga, June 2, 2012, DHNS:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In a bid to further empower differently-abled persons, the State government has reserved some seats for them in select branches of post-graduate medicine.<br /></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br />Under the new ruling, the differently-abled will have a three per cent reservation in select branches of the medical PG through the revised matrix at the time of the Post Graduate Entrance Test - due to be effective from this academic year. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This initiative was taken only after offical intervention by the judiciary. Previously, a differently-abled candidate, Dr Veeresh Hallur and others had filed a writ petition in the High Court seeking directions to ensure that there is reservation for those in his category with regard to PG medical seats. Based on the petition, the court has instructed the State to evolve guidelines.<br /><br />In a recent meeting chaired by the medical education principal secretary, department heads at the Bangalore Medical College examined the ways to implement the HC ruling.<br /><br />Within the framework of the High Court ruling, a three percent reservation will be opened up in dermatology, radiotherapy, pediatrics, general medicine, radio diagnosis, psychiatry and pulmonary medicine. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In addition, the differently-abled will be entitled for admission in anatomy, physiology and bio-chemistry, and in all the branches of para-medical courses namely pharmacology, pathology, micro-biology, community medicine and forensic medicine. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">But other medical branches, such as surgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, ENT, anaesthesia, and obstetrics and gynaecology will continue to be barred as it is felt that the differently-abled will not be able to perform satisfactorily in such branches</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik appeals to governor for probe into BHEL work order</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Jharkhand-Vikas-Morcha-Prajatantrik-appeals-to-governor-for-probe-into-BHEL-work-order/articleshow/13749502.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Jharkhand-Vikas-Morcha-Prajatantrik-appeals-to-governor-for-probe-into-BHEL-work-order/articleshow/13749502.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 12.59AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> RANCHI: A delegation of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik, led by former chief minister Babulal Marandi, on Saturday met governor Syed Ahmed and demanded a probe into the alleged irregularity in allotment of work to the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bharat-Heavy-Electrical-Limited">Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited</a> (BHEL) by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jharkhand-State-Electricity-Board">Jharkhand State Electricity Board</a> (JSEB).</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The delegation alleged that the JSEB allotted the renovation and maintenance work of Sikidri Hydel Power Project to the BHEL at an exponential rate and also violated guidelines of the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Central-Vigilance-Commission">Central Vigilance Commission</a> (CVC). All senior leaders of the party were present in the delegation which demanded probe by a high-powered committee consisting of at least three secretaries excluding <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-energy-secretary">state energy secretary</a>.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Coming out of the Raj Bhawan, Marandi said recently the JSEB awarded the maintenance work of the hydel power plant to the BHEL 10 times the estimate prepared by engineers of the board. "We have documentary evidence that the JSEB engineers had prepared project report according to which the total cost of renovation for both the units would have been around Rs 2.6 crore. The JSEB management turned down the project report and gave the work to the BHEL which would cost the state exchequer around Rs 24 crore," said Marandi.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">"We informed the governor that the JSEB had allotted the same work to the BHEL in 2005 for Rs 65 lakh," he said adding that the JSEB management violated the guidelines set by the CVC which permit 10% advance and that too after taking a bank guarantee of 110%. The JSEB did not take any bank guarantee from the BHEL.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">"The governor accepted our memorandum and patiently heard the matter. He assured us that he would ensure a proper inquiry in the matter," said Marandi.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Party's general Pradeep Yadav said if the government fails to come clear on the matter, he would then file a writ in the high court.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Bribery case: Court awards jail term to BJP MLA in K'taka</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/"> Agencies</a> : Bangalore, Sat Jun 02 2012, 15:11 hrs</p> <p> In the first ever conviction of a Legislator in Karnataka under the Prevention of Corruption Act, a ruling BJP MLA was onSaturday sentenced to three-and-a half year rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case by the Lokayukta Special Court. </p> <p>Judge N K Sudheendra Rao also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on Y Sampangi failing which he has to undergo imprisonment for another six months. </p> <p>The judge directed the Lokayukta DSP to issue arrest warrant on Sampangi and take him into custody. </p> <p>Sampangi, who represents Kolar Gold Fields Assembly constituency, was trapped by Lokayukta police on January 29, 2009 while accepting Rs 50,000 and a cheque for Rs 4.5 lakh from a person to settle a civil dispute. </p> <p>He was found guilty under section 13 (1) d of the Prevention of Corruption Act in the trial that lasted more than three years. </p> <p>Sampangi's conviction has come as an added embarrassment to the ruling BJP in the state where several of its leaders, including former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, are battling cases of corruption in courts.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Court rejects Sajjan Kumar's plea</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1984-antisikh-riots-case-court-rejects-sajjan-kumars-plea/957065/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/1984-antisikh-riots-case-court-rejects-sajjan-kumars-plea/957065/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/agencies/">Agencies</a> : New Delhi, Sat Jun 02 2012, 17:56 hrs</p> <p> A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's plea to use in his defence a 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim's statements to judicial commissions, allegedly contradicting her testimony to trial court. </p> <p>The witness' statements to judicial commissions cannot be used for any purpose, including that for discrediting her or to impeach her, District Judge J R Aryan said. </p> <p>The Congress leader, in his application, had said the earlier affidavits and statements of complainant and key witness Jagdish Kaur to the judicial commission be allowed to be used to confront her with her recent testimony in the ongoing trial. </p> <p>“It is clear that without going into the wider questions, even a plain reading of section 6 of the Commissions of Inquiry Act will prohibits the use of the previous statements at the trial either for the purposes of cross examination to contradict the witness or to impeach his credit,” the court said. </p> <p>The former Outer Delhi MP had filed an application saying that CBI prosecutor R S Cheema on July 12, 2010 had told the court that affidavits and statement of complainant and key witness Jagdish Kaur, recorded by G T Nanavati and Ranganath Mishra Commissions, cannot be used because of contradictions. </p> <p>The CBI had said as per the provisions of the Commission of Inquiry Act, the affidavits and statements of a witness given before any Commission cannot be used against her for the purpose of questioning her testimony. </p> <p>Sajjan Kumar, Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal are facing trial in the killings of six people in Delhi Cantonment area during the 1984 carnage which had broken out after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. </p> <p>They are accused of instigating a mob to attack and kill the Sikhs. </p> <p>In his application, Sajjan Kumar had said the CBI had earlier brought on record and even examined Kaur's affidavit and statement to the judicial commissions but it now says it is not relying on them. </p> <p>He had said prosecutor Cheema had on July 12, 2010, made a statement in the court that affidavits of the witness in the case cannot be used due to contradictions. </p> <p>Earlier, Sajjan Kumar's counsel had said law and justice dwell together and law does not permit this situation and “now the prosecution cannot claim protection of the provisions of the Commission of Inquiry Act as no such protection could be given in respect of evidence given in the court.” </p> <p>Advocate Anil Kumar, appearing for other accused, had said if the prosecution and the witness would use the affidavits filed before Ranganath Commission and Nanavati Commission, then there is no law which forbids the defence from confronting them. </p> <p>The case against Sajjan Kumar was registered on the recommendation by Nanavati Commission. The CBI had filed two chargesheets against him and others in January 2010. </p> <p>The trial court had framed charges against Sajjan Kumar and five others in 2010 under Sections 302 (murder), 395 (dacoity), 427 (mischief to cause damage to property), 153A (promoting enmity between different communities) and other provisions of IPC.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Radiation case: Bail to DU teachers</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Radiation-case-Bail-to-DU-teachers/articleshow/13750579.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Radiation-case-Bail-to-DU-teachers/articleshow/13750579.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 02.01AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: A <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/trial-court">trial court</a> on Saturday granted bail to five Delhi University professors chargesheeted in a case relating to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/radiation-leak-in-Mayapuri">radiation leak in Mayapuri</a> in which one person died due to exposure to radioactive substance at a scrap market in 2010.<br /><br />The court had summoned six professors after police had filed the chargesheet accusing them of endangering the lives by auctioning a radioactive Cobalt-60 gamma irradiator without mandatory precautions. While five of them were granted bail, one was allowed exemption from personal appearance in the case till further order. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Minor inconsistencies in witnesses testimony irrelevant: SC </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:8.25pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:8.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/minor-inconsistencies-in-witnesses-testimony-irrelevant-sc/16399/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/minor-inconsistencies-in-witnesses-testimony-irrelevant-sc/16399/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Press Trust of India / New Delhi June 03, 2012, 10:05<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:3.0pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.0pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:6.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:6.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p>Minor inconsistencies in witnesses' testimony can be overlooked if the principal part of the oral and ocular evidence is in conformity with the medical evidence, the Supreme Court has ruled. </p> <p>A bench of justices H L Dattu and Anil Dave gave the ruling, upholding the life sentences of two convicts Kathi Bharat Vajsur and Kathi Ramku Vajsur in a 1984 murder case relating to Gujarat's Amreli district. </p> <p>Kathi Fakira Vajsur, the prime accused in the case had died during the pendency of the trial. </p> <p>The apex court concurred with the Gujarat High Court's decision to reverse the acquittal by the trial court which had disbelieved the prosecution's evidence. </p> <p>"Perhaps the trial court took a hyper-technical view by primarily concentrating on minor contradictions to hold that the prosecution has failed to prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt. </p> <p>"We are not in agreement with the findings and conclusions reached by the trial court. When the medical evidence is in consonance with the principal part of the oral /ocular evidence, supporting the prosecution story, there is no question of ruling out the ocular evidence merely on the ground that there are some inconsistencies or contradictions in the oral evidence," observed Justice Dattu, who wrote the judgement. </p> <p>Citing an earlier ruling of the apex court that there is no fixed pattern of reaction of an eyewitness to a crime, the bench said, "When faced with what is termed as "an unusual reaction" of an eyewitness, the Court must only examine whether the prosecution story is in anyway affected by such reaction. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Facebook face-offs pepper divorce cases across India</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Facebook-face-offs-pepper-divorce-cases-across-India/articleshow/13748175.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Facebook-face-offs-pepper-divorce-cases-across-India/articleshow/13748175.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Swati-Deshpande.cms">Swati Deshpande</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 2, 2012, 11.48PM IST</span></span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%; color:#757575"></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> MUMBAI: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Facebook">Facebook</a> CEO <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mark-Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a> has not marked his relationship status as "married". His wife <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Priscilla-Chan">Priscilla Chan</a> has. He has no picture of them as newly-weds on his page, she does. It's fine for the couple after the billionaire-founder of the world's most popular social networking site tied the knot about a couple of weeks ago, but in a small town in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tamil-Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, a similar "failure" by a man to update his "basic info" on Facebook is being cited by his wife as grounds for cruelty.<br /><br />In Mumbai, a young couple stood in front of a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/family-court">family court</a> judge last week. Their complaint against each other was that the other was always glued to Facebook. The judge reprimanded them, then counselled them. They finally admitted that they still did like each other, resolved to not "unfriend" and to give their marriage another shot.<br /><br />Some marriages may get saved, but Facebook, which a recent survey in UK blamed for nearly a third of all divorces, is leading to a rise in face-offs in family courts across India too. "Facebook is fast becoming a reason why many marriages are faltering," said celebrity divorce lawyer Mrinalini Deshmukh.<br /><br />As divorce petitions get peppered with the mention of Facebook and printouts of web pages, the reason is not merely because couples spend more hours individually on the site, Deshmukh said. "Spending more time, especially at night before bedtime, with <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Friends">friends</a> on Facebook or merely playing games on the site is no doubt eating into couples' together-time or intimacy. More pertinently, if someone wants to have an affair or flirt, then FB is an easy place to do it. People also use the 'friend finder' to re-unite with school or college friends and some really unite. One couple opted for mutual consent divorce when her husband found his former love on FB," the lawyer explained.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">Facebook posts, photos now court evidence</span></strong><br /><br />"There are now FB widows and 'spending time on Facebook' is replacing 'spending time online watching porn' as grounds for cruelty,'' said Deshmukh.<br /><br />Neela Gokhale, a divorce advocate, recounts that in Pune, a woman found her husband "obsessed with FB and 'adding' <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Women">women</a> friends. She has filed for divorce". Facebook posts and pictures are being used as evidence in courts.<br /><br />Facebook actually throws up proof of infidelity through pictures posted on friends' pages, said Arthi P S, a Chennai-based divorce lawyer, who believes that distraction in a marriage is endemic, it is just that the mode has changed for most with Facebook.<br /><br />In Chennai, a woman dragged her husband to court after she found a picture of him in a "compromising" position with another girl on the page of a friend of her friend. "It was a recent picture," she claimed, citing it as evidence. He is denying the charges in court.<br /><br />Senior lawyer <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sunil-Mittal">Sunil Mittal</a> from Delhi said: "Photographs posted by friends or even husbands and wives are finding their way into divorce battles in a big way."<br /><br />Families frown at "inappropriate status updates, comments and photographs", said veteran family court lawyer Tara Hegde. In an ongoing case, a man moved court after he found out what his wife was really up to from her FB status updates. "People tell the court one thing, but post the truth online. Facebook exposes a person for what he or she really is," Hegde said.<br /><br />A lawyer said Facebook has opened avenues to help reinforce suspicions. In Mumbai, a woman, newly married, refused to consummate her marriage. Her husband was patient, said advocate Hegde, till he stumbled on to her FB profile page — it had pictures of her with many male friends. Now, he has filed for annulment with FB pictures as evidence.<br /><br />The Bandra family court right now is struggling to figure out where to even send summons to a "wife" who a man says he married after meeting on Facebook.<br /><br />"I am trying to make the world a more open place," says FB founder Zuckerberg. Millions like him for it, but some are now clicking "unlike." <span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Ruchika Girhotra case: Family gives up fight against ex-Haryana DGP</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/chandigarh/31983548_1_ruchika-girhotra-ruchika-case-suicide-and-doctoring">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/chandigarh/31983548_1_ruchika-girhotra-ruchika-case-suicide-and-doctoring</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ajay Sura, TNN</span></span><span class="separator"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Jun 2, 2012, 04.09PM IST</p> <p>CHANDIGARH: The family of Ruchika Girhotra, a minor girl who allegedly committed suicide after molestation by former Haryana director general of police (DGP) SPS Rathore, has given up its fight for justice in the court of law after 22 years.</p> <p>The special CBI court Panchkula on Friday accepted the closure report submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in two cases - attempt to murder and forgery of documents- filed against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore. </p> <p>Ruchika's father Subhash and brother Ashu raised no objection to the closure report.</p> <p>Admitting that he was not in a position to pursue the matter further, Subhash said, "I do not see any hope now. We feel cheated. My family is vulnerable. The circumstances have pushed us back by 20 years."</p> <p>"When Rathore was convicted in 2009, I met union home minister P C Chidambaram who assured me of justice. I thought time and system had changed and dared to move fresh complaints against Rathore." On January 12, 2010 the CBI registered three fresh FIRs against Rathore - attempt to murder, abetment to suicide and doctoring of documents. However, in November 2010, the CBI submitted the closure report in two cases. The closure report was accepted by the court on Friday.</p> <p>"But now after finding that the system cannot be changed, we decided not to pursue it further," Girhotra said.</p> <p>Ruchika's disillusioned father said that he had presented a lot of material and some witnesses related to the fresh cases before the agency. "But the agency was adamant on closing the case."</p> <p>Subhash forced his son and family into exile after Ruchika's death, fearing further harassment at the hands of the former DGP. During this period, the family shifted between several cities and returned to Panchkula many years later only to lead an inconspicuous life.</p> <p>The third case against Rathore- abetment to suicide - is still pending. The CBI could not file any report as the Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered status quo on it. Besides Rathore, former Ambala SP KP Singh, sub-inspector Prem Dutt and assistant sub-inspectors Jai Narayan and Sewa Singh were also named in the FIR.</p> <p>In its closure report, the CBI has said that the allegations levelled by Subhash Girhotra and his son Ashu against Rathore were unfounded. The CBI also claimed that the allegations could not be substantiated "as per the documentary evidence and oral testimony of witnesses."</p> <p><strong>Ruchika Case---Timeline</strong></p> <p>August 12, 1990-- SPS Rathore, then IG and President, Haryana Lawn Tennis Association (HLTA) molested Ruchika</p> <p>September 1990--Ruchika expelled from school for 'indiscipline' following her allegations against Rathore</p> <p>September 3, 1990-- An Inquiry report indicts Rathore</p> <p>October 23, 1993-- Ruchika's brother arrested in several theft cases</p> <p>December 28, 1993-- Ruchika consumed poisonous substance</p> <p>December 29, 1993-- Ruchika died</p> <p>August 21, 1998-- High Court directs CBI to conduct inquiry</p> <p>December 21, 2009-- CBI court sentenced six months' rigorous imprisonment to Rathore</p> <p>January 12, 2010-- CBI registered three fresh FIRs leveling charges of attempt to murder, abetment to suicide and doctoring documents</p> <p>November 10, 2010-- CBI filed closure</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Civic polls to be held within six months in Puducherry</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/civic-polls-to-be-held-within-six-months-in-puducherry/1006728.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/civic-polls-to-be-held-within-six-months-in-puducherry/1006728.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04">PTI | 06:06 PM,Jun 02,2012</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Puducherry, Jun 2 (PTI) The State Election Commission in Puducherry has launched steps to conduct civic polls in six months in keeping with the directives of Madras High court. The term of office of all the civic bodies ended in July last year and have since been officially administered. The High court gave the directive to Puducherry administration in March this year to hold civic polls within six months in a PIL filed by CPI-M's Puducherry unit seeking posting of the State Election Commissioner and holding of polls. The SEC had since been appointed and former Secretary to Lt Governor R.Udipta Ray has taken charge as SEC. Officer on Special duty (Civic elections) K.Uthaman said in a release that the electoral rolls for the civic polls would be prepared on the basis of the voters list published by the Election Department for the last Assembly polls here. The Union Territory had the first civic polls in June/July 2006 after 38 years under the Puducherry Municipalities and Village and Commune Panchayat Act of 1973. N.Rangasamy, the present Chief Minister heading the AINRC government, had headed the Congress ministry in 2006 when the last civic polls were held here. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Woman along with two others convicted for murdering husband </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;height:8.25pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:8.25pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/woman-alongtwo-others-convicted-for-murdering-husband/16328/">http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/woman-alongtwo-others-convicted-for-murdering-husband/16328/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Press Trust of India / Mohali June 02, 2012, 21:55<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:3.0pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.0pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:6.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:6.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <p>A woman along with her paramour and one of his accomplice were today convicted by a sessions court here for killing her husband six year ago. </p> <p>Additional District and Sessions Judge, Rajinder Singh Rai, held Neki Nalwa, her alleged paramour Himmat Singh Brandy and accomplice Paramveer Singh guilty of the murder. </p> <p>Quantum of sentence will be announced on Monday. </p> <p>It was on December 4, 2005, when Sukhwinderjit Singh, an engineer in his late 20s, was shot dead while he was taking a walk with his wife near their residence in Sector 69. </p> <p>Victim's aged parents had registered the case and fought a sustained battle for justice. </p> <p>Ever since they were arrested on December 7, 2005, Neki along with Brandy, both in their early 30s, had been lodged in Patiala Central Jail. </p> <p>However, Paramveer, who was accused of providing cartridge used in the crime, was out on bail. </p> <p>Though she had been claiming innocence, Neki had been denied bail repeatedly by the High Court as well as the sessions court. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Court orders inquiry against cop for helping relatives</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Court-orders-inquiry-against-cop-for-helping-relatives/articleshow/13758700.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Court-orders-inquiry-against-cop-for-helping-relatives/articleshow/13758700.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Soumittra S Bose, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 06.20AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> NAGPUR: Ad hoc district and additional sessions judge KL Vyas has come down heavily on a sub-inspector of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nandanvan-police">Nandanvan police</a> station for falsely implicating three youths in a case of kidnapping to help his relatives who were upset over one of them proposing to a girl of the family. The cop also got help from a woman prosecutor who was a relative.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court has asked the city police chief to conduct an enquiry against PSI CT Maske within three months of the judgment which was passed on April 30. Interestingly, Maske was promoted as assistant police inspector (API) and transferred to Bhandara a couple of months ago.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court was shocked to learn that in the chargesheet Maske had shown that the accused Sachin and his brother <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Nitin-Bhagwat">Nitin Bhagwat</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pawan-Naik">Pawan Naik</a> were produced before the judicial <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/magistrate">magistrate</a> first class (JMFC) on December 4 in 2009 even before they were arrested. The court observed that as per the arrest panchanama the three were produced before JMFC at 3pm while they were taken into the custody at 4pm later that day.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The case was about a teenager who was forcibly married after being kidnapped in November 2009. The court trashed the case after discovering that the incident of alleged kidnapping and subsequent marriage took place with the consent of the victim who was studying engineering at a private college at Wanadongri in Hingna.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">It was after Sonali (name changed) returned after spending a month with Sachin that her family took Maske's help to book the boy and the other two on trumped up charges.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Sonali's family is a distant relative of Maske who got help from Nandini Thete, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/advocate">advocate</a> who assisted prosecution. Thate was the cop's cousin. The court also observed that the five witnesses in the case were all from the same family, which included the teenager who was supposedly kidnapped, her uncle and parents.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court pulled up Maske for conducting a shoddy investigation and sending the three to jail where they spent more than 10 days. While Maske recorded in his FIR that Sonali was kidnapped from Nandanvan while on way to college, her mother stated that her daughter was picked up from Kelvad while she was taking a walk. In her statement, Sonali had claimed that she was taken away from college.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court criticized Maske for not verifying the place of kidnapping or where the girl was kept and the marriage solemnized. 'Bogus and false case prepared in collusion with the family of the complainant with the help of their relatives and authorities concerned' is what the court observed. The court also pointed out that the girl's age was 19 years on the day of kidnapping and not 17 years as what Maske had mentioned.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court also underlined the fact that the case was not only false and malicious but was also investigated in contrary to the provisions laid in law.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Man gets death penalty for rape, murder of 7-year-old</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Man-gets-death-penalty-for-rape-murder-of-7-year-old/articleshow/13750510.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Man-gets-death-penalty-for-rape-murder-of-7-year-old/articleshow/13750510.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 01.54AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: A <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/trial-court">trial court</a> has sentenced a person to death for raping a seven-year-old girl before killing her, as it stressed the need for courts to have <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/zero-tolerance">zero tolerance</a> for crimes against children.<br /><br />Additional sessions judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau handed out the death penalty to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sanjay-Kumar">Sanjay Kumar</a> Valmiki, a resident of Haiderpur in north Delhi, saying there was only one sentence for a person convicted of raping and killing a child. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,61,000 on the convict stipulating that, if recovered, Rs 1 lakh should be given as compensation to the victim's family.<br /><br />Valmiki had raped and murdered the minor last year at the NDPL office in the capital when the girl had gone there in search of water. The matter came to light when the victim's decomposed body was found from the NDPL office's switch gear room after two days.<br /><br />The court said there was a public outcry after the incident, and that if Valmiki had fallen into the hands of the mob, he would have been lynched. "This court cannot ignore the loud cry for justice by society in this case involving a heinous crime of rape on an innocent child and her grotesque killing, and will respond by imposition of proper sentence lest people loose faith in the judicial system and take law into their hands," the judge said.<br /><br />While expressing anguish over such heinous crime, Lau said a message should be sent to society that the judicial system in the country has "zero tolerance" for those "who mess with children" and "a single moment of madness can lead them to gallows".<br /><br />"In a country of Gautam Buddha and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mahatma-Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>, governed by faith believing in sacredness of all living creatures, urging the avoidance of harm and violence and practicing ahimsa, the convict without a moment of remorse and regret even for once murdered the child and it is hence that the case falls in the category of rarest of rare cases," the judge said.<br /><br />The court said the convict committed an unthinkable act of ravaging the child's body, which even an animal won't do. "The injures on the body of the child, as many as 15 in number, speak volumes of the brutality and force with which the innocent child had been battered to death," Lau said. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Conjugal rights cant be claimed after plaint </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/conjugal-rights-cant-be-claimed-after-plaint/263816-60-118.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/conjugal-rights-cant-be-claimed-after-plaint/263816-60-118.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://newindianexpress.com" target="_blank">T S Sekaran</a></p> <p id="font_text">CHENNAI: A woman, who has lodged a police complaint against her husband and in-laws alleging that they have subjected her to cruelty, cannot expect restitution of her conjugal rights, the Madras High Court has observed.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">A division bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal made the observation on May 30 last, while granting divorce to K Ramesh from his wife, daughter of a former MLA.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">Based on the complaint for offences under two sections of the IPC and the Dowry Harassment Act, Ramesh and his parents were incarcerated in prison for 22 days. When they applied for advance bail before the arrest, the wife had also gone to the extent of filing an intervening petition opposing grant of any relief to them. They were, however, acquitted of the charges by the Sessions Court/Mahila Court after 22 days of detention in prison, the bench noted.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">“All these acts by the wife clearly constituted mental cruelty meted out to the husband and his parents, who admittedly would have undergone a traumatic experience and humiliating affairs in the social circle.<span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">�</span> Certainly it would amount to causing cruelty to the husband and fall within the ambit and purview of cruelty and therefore, the husband is entitled to get the relief of divorce,” the bench said after listening to the arguments of senior advocate P Wilson.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">When there was a love lost between the husband, his parents and the wife, it was not the prudent course of action for the wife to file a petition seeking restitution of conjugal rights nearly two years after Ramesh filed the petition for divorce and on that basis it was inequitable for the court of law to grant her relief, the bench observed.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">The bench added that the marriage between the parties had become emotionally dead and the marriage tie betwen them had irretrievably broken down. Moreover, the element of separation between the parties unerringly pointed out that there was an intention to bring cohabitation parmanently to an end and the differences of opinion between the spouses were not to be considered as temporary passions or the normal wear and tear troubles/problems in family life. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Man awarded 6 years’ jail term</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Man-awarded-6-years-jail-term/articleshow/13753167.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Man-awarded-6-years-jail-term/articleshow/13753167.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 03.29AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> DARBHANGA: The court of the adhoc additional district and sessions judge (ADJ)-4, Darbhanga, Sunil Kumar Singh on Thursday sentenced one, Md Munna, of Harlakhi village in Madhubani district to six years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 for drugging a train passenger, Md Rizwan, at Darbhanga railway station on May 1,2008, making him unconscious and robbing him of all his belongings.<br /><br />According to Darbhanga PP B K Singh, when Rizwan of Bisfi village in Madhubani district got down from the train at Darbhanga station for going onwards to his village, Munna befriended him and offered tea mixed with an intoxicating drug. The accused hired a rickshaw and he, along with the victim, sat on it and reached Ahilapur Ghat under Bahadurpur PS in Darbhanga district. By that time Rizwan became unconscious, all his belongings had been looted by the accused.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the rickshaw-puller had raised a hue and cry. The accused was caught by the people. Chowkidar Bishwanath Paswan lodged a case against Munna with Bahadurpur police station. On March 31, 2009, the court framed charges against him.<br /><br />The prosecution presented 12 persons as witnesses in this case during trial. The court held Munna guilty on May 29 and announced the quantum of punishment on Thursday. Munna has been in judicial custody since May 1, 2008. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Custody extended for Kazmi; Delhi Police get 90 days more for probe</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3483945.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3483945.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Staff Reporter</span></span> </p> <p>Investigation will now extend to foreign countries, say police </p> <p class="body">A court here on Saturday allowed a police plea seeking extension of the custody of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi, who is suspected of involvement in the February bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat here. </p> <p class="body">Mr. Kazmi, who was arrested on March 6, would have completed 90 days in custody on June 3. </p> <p class="body">The application of the Delhi Police Special Cell was moved under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, which allows a suspect to be kept in custody for 180 days from the date of arrest, during which time a charge sheet has to be filed. Otherwise, the suspect will become automatically eligible for bail. </p> <p class="body"><b>Remand till June 22</b> </p> <p class="body">Extending judicial remand till June 22, the court also allowed the Special Cell to continue its probe for another 90 days, while Mr. Kazmi is kept in judicial custody. Police sources said the investigation would now extend to some foreign countries too. </p> <p class="body">Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav passed the order after stating he would have to go through the entire investigation record to satisfy himself that investigation was progressing properly and that a “specific reason for detention of the accused beyond 90 days is made out.” </p> <p class="body">The public prosecutor sought in-camera proceedings on the ground that the Special Cell findings had to be protected at this stage of the case. </p> <p class="body">A police source said a Letter Rogatory was being sent to Georgia and Israel and LRs were also being sent to Iran, Malaysia and Thailand seeking information on the suspects, their movements and records of mobile phone call details. A special team, besides seeking information on mobile phone call detail records of the suspects from Georgia, Thailand, Malaysia and Iran, will, if necessary, visit these countries. The Delhi Police suspect that the series of blasts in India, Georgia, and Thailand in February were targeted at Israeli diplomats and that there was a common conspiracy. </p> <p class="body"><b>Notice to Delhi Police</b> </p> <p class="body">In another development, the CMM issued notice to the police asking them to reply to an application, filed on behalf of Mr. Kazmi, seeking a detailed inquiry, and initiation of legal action and registering of a criminal case against the persons responsible for “illegal removal/possession and production of the remand papers” in the case. </p> <p class="body">The application requested the court to pass an order to get the remand papers, including original remand applications and original orders, verified and scientifically examined by the Forensic Sciences Laboratory to rule out forgery/manipulation. </p> <p class="body">Mr. Kazmi also demanded that he be unconditionally released, saying he was “illegally detained under the force of unsustainable orders.” He said the remand orders could not be taken as “legal/sustainable” until they were “examined and established upon examination by the FSL and/or any other expert in this field”. </p> <p class="body">Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) S. S. Rathi had on May 25 set aside the CMM's May 1 order declining certified copies of the judicial/police custody remand applications to Mr. Kazmi's counsel, Mehmood Pracha. After perusing the remand applications/orders, the ASJ said the CMM's order of March 7, granting the Special Cell 20 days' police custody for Mr. Kazmi, was “handwritten so poorly, that it is almost illegible.” The remand applications/orders were initially missing, but were produced before the ASJ, a few hours after the proceedings began, by the staff of the CMM's court who said the papers were misplaced in another file. </p> <p class="body"><i>(With inputs from Devesh K. Pandey)</i> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Indian Council for Cultural Relations ex-DG, three others face trial for trafficking</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Indian-Council-for-Cultural-Relations-ex-DG-three-others-face-trial-for-trafficking/articleshow/13750313.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Indian-Council-for-Cultural-Relations-ex-DG-three-others-face-trial-for-trafficking/articleshow/13750313.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Smriti-Singh.cms">Smriti Singh</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 01.36AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: A former director general of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), along with three others, is all set to face trial with a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/special-CBI-court">special CBI court</a> ordering the framing of charges against them for their alleged involvement in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/trafficking">trafficking</a> nine people to Germany in 2005.<br /><br />Special CBI judge Kanwaljeet Arora said there was "prima facie" evidence that the accused, including Rakesh Kumar, the then DG ICCR, misused his official position and collected ill-gotten money from the persons who defected in Germany for including them in the "so-called cultural group" so as to facilitate their entry into a foreign land.<br /><br />The court ordered framing of charges against Rakesh Kumar, Shiv Kumar Sharma — the then Punjab Agriculture University employee, Balwinder Bawa — a Punjabi singer, and Gurbhej Singh — constable of Punjab Armed Police, for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy under the Indian Penal Code.<br /><br />"Rakesh Kumar used his official position.. to ensure empanelment of the group on the basis of forged documents for extraneous consideration in cash and kind. It is further apparent.. the accused persons had included such persons in this group, who were not the Bhangra artists with the knowledge that they would defect as and when sent abroad for extraneous considerations, which infact they did," the court said while fixing June 8 for framing of charges.<br /><br />A bogus cultural group 'Mehak Punjab Di' was formed in 2005 after Harghulab contacted Sharma for sending his son Randeep abroad, it said. Harghulab Singh, a Punjab-based farmer, however later turned approver and was granted pardon. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Innocent until proven guilty</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/360-degree/innocent-until-proven-guilty-012">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/360-degree/innocent-until-proven-guilty-012</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">June 3, 2012 </span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-list:l31 level1 lfo23;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="submitted">By </span><span class="aut-nam">S. Ramachandra Rao</span> </li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="msoIns"><ins>The various charges and cases against Jagan Mohan Reddy almost have an unknown flavour in Indian Constitutionalism. The allegations leveled against him are that of abusing the power of office, which his father had held for a period of six years. He allegedly benefited enormously to the tune of several crores, the modus operandi being that his father showed enormous favours to certain persons or concerns and they in turn, through proxies or by themselves, made heavy investments in the firms that were either owned or controlled by him.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>This may or may not be true depending upon the final adjudication by competent courts. As of today, several people may suspect him of illegal enrichment, but there are three stages in any case which require attention. As long as it is suspicion or as long as such issues are raised in the media, they do not establish anything.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>At the second stage, when a reputed investigating agency is entrusted by the High Court to probe the allegations, several considerations are involved and are implicit in both Constitutional law and criminal law. Any citizen, for legal purposes, is presumed innocent till the competent courts declare him guilty. Secondly, every citizen is entitled, whether guilty or not, to be properly and fairly investigated and is entitled to two things i.e. equality before law and equal protection of laws.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>In all the cases against Jagan, without going into the truth of the charges levelled against him, two basic infirmities stare at us: whether the premier investigating agency i.e. the CBI, is acting fairly and impartially or whether it is being remotely controlled by the Central or state governments. Secondly, whether the proceedings in court against him by the CBI are uniform in accordance with law or whether special procedures are being adopted for extraneous or political considerations. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Suspicions apart, where cases are launched for violating the penal provisions of the law either by way of breach of trust, conspiracy or misappropriation of public funds, it is not for the accused to establish that he is innocent. The presumption in law is that he is innocent till proved guilty. That is an essential procedural safeguard provided in criminal law and constitutional law expects fair and non-discriminative investigation. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>When the state or its agencies act differently, the citizen is entitled to be protected by the principle of constitutional equality. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The other important aspect in these cases is that Jagan was not a public servant till 2009, when he became an MP, which is not an office of profit. Criminal misconduct, as defined under the Prevention of Corruption Act, is applicable only for public servants when they hold posts in public services. Under the Indian Penal Code, having properties of any magnitude by any citizen is not an offence by itself; though one is answerable under financial laws including Income Tax. There can be no question of a citizen holding any properties, huge or small, being charged under Criminal Misconduct of Disproportionate Assets under Section 13 E of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, which is applicable only to public servants. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>If he is to be treated as a public servant, then sanction by the appointing authority is mandatory under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The Lok Sabha Speaker never gave any sanction to proceed against Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy. As far as he is concerned, unless the links are established, the money or properties he allegedly possesses cannot be presumed to be tainted till established by the courts.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>There can be no trial and conviction of any person, either by opposing politicians or by a motivated media.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>S. Ramachandra Rao is a senior advocate and ex-advocate general</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Engineer gets 10 years in jail for wife's suicide</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3480762.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3480762.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">R. Sivaraman</span></span> </p> <p>Victim agonised over his extra-marital affair</p> <p class="body">A Mahila Court on Friday sentenced a software engineer to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for abetting his wife's suicide, five months after their marriage. </p> <p class="body">Meena Satheesh, Judge of Mahila Court said, “Since the accused is responsible for his wife's suicide, merely five months into their marriage, no leniency should be shown to him.” </p> <p class="body">The Judge held S. Veeraraju alias Savakula Veeraraju (30), a software engineer, guilty for offences under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 498 A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the Indian Penal code. </p> <p class="body">She sentenced him to three years' RI and imposed a fine of Rs. 5,000 under section 498 A, and ten years' RI and a fine of Rs. 20,000 under section 306. </p> <p class="body">He will have to serve the maximum term of 10 years. </p> <p class="body">According to the prosecution, Veeraraju tied the knot with Durgambika in Andhra Pradesh on June 15, 2006 even though he was in a relationship with another woman. Three days after the wedding, he left for Bangalore, where he worked as a software engineer. </p> <p class="body">From there, he contacted his wife and informed her about his intention to continue his extra-marital relationship. Following this, Durgambika left for her parents' home. A few months later, when Veeraraju was transferred to Chennai, Durgambika's father brought her back but the couple failed to make their marriage work. </p> <p class="body">Unable to bear the agony, Durgambika consumed poison on November 2, 2006, and died the next day, the prosecution said. Her father then lodged a complaint with the police. </p> <p class="body">In her order, the Judge said it was clear that the deceased was mentally harassed by the accused and hence, deserving of the punishment. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Acharya to go on trial</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/acharya-go-trial-001">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/acharya-go-trial-001</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">June 3, 2012 </span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins style="display:inline-table"> Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday gave the go-ahead for prosecuting senior IAS official B.P. Acharya while denying the same for Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Executive Officer L.V. Subramanyam. The Chief Minister met advocate-general A. Sudarshan Reddy on Saturday morning and held a detailed discussion on the matter before taking the decision. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Mr Acharya, who is already in jail and is facing charges under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, would now have to face charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Sources said that the Chief Minister, after careful and extensive examination of the material furnished by the CBI and the response from the concerned officer (Mr Acharya), decided to recommend to the Governm-ent of India for prosecution of the IAS officer under the Prevention of Corruption Act.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Regarding Mr L.V. Subramanyam, the Chief Minister, after perusal of relevant records, decided not to recommend permission for prosecution. The CBI had also sought permission to initiate prosecution proceedings against Mr Subramanyam. According to Section 197 (1) of the CrPC, permission is must before the investigating agency proceeds to prosecute an official under the Prevention of Corruption Act.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Man sentenced to 3 years imprisonment</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/man-sentenced-to-3-years-imprisonment/1006681.html">http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/man-sentenced-to-3-years-imprisonment/1006681.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:#DB9A04">PTI | 04:06 PM,Jun 02,2012</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Madurai, Jun 2 (PTI) A Magistrate court here has sentenced a person to three years imprisonment for issuing fake documents to enable some accused get bail. Judicial Magistrate Umamaheshwari said the accused had helped anti-social elements and had made the entire judiciary a laughing stock. The Magistrate sentenced him to three years imprisonment under five IPC sections including cheating, forgery and cheating the judiciary and said the sentences would run concurrently. Ravichandran was arrested on December 21,2004,when he was moving around suspiciously at Koodalnagar.Seals of village administrative officers and that of the panchayat President and other officials were seized. He had issued fake property tax receipt, patta and ration card to enable some accused get bail. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>AP HC dismisses Jagan petition against arrest</h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/ap-hc-dismisses-jagan-petition-against-arrest-032">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/hyderabad/ap-hc-dismisses-jagan-petition-against-arrest-032</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">June 3, 2012 </span><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Saturday justified the arrest of YSR Congress party president and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy in the illegal investments case by the Central Bureau of Investigation. While dismissing a writ and also a criminal petition by Jagan seeking declaration of his arrest as illegal, Justice B. Chandra Kumar said that there was nothing mala fide in the arrest of the petitioner.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Jagan Mohan Reddy had alleged that the CBI had arrested him under political pressure from Delhi to prevent him from taking part in the election campaign in the ensuing by-polls. The judge said that the CBI had arrested the accused fearing that he would influence witnesses and tamper with evidence by misusing his position as MP and party president. The judge said that there was evidence for the apprehension of the CBI as some of the witnesses who were prepared to depose against the accused in the case, had refused to give their statement before the magistrate. The CBI has shown the case dairies to the court in this regard, the judge added. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The judge dismissed the pleas of Jagathi Publication, V. Vijaya Sai Reddy and Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy seeking a direction from the court to declare the action of the CBI court as illegal, by taking cognisance of the CBI chargesheets in the case. The judge also dismissed the pleas by Jagathi Publications by issuing a summons in the case.</ins></span></p> <p><b><span class="msoIns"><ins>HC: No interim bail plea from Jagan pending </ins></span></b><span class="msoIns"><ins><br />Justice B. Chandra Kumar of AP High Court on Saturday made it clear that no application is pending before the court to grant interim bail to YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and let him participate in the election campaign. While allowing a plea by the CBI, seeking a direction to set aside the CBI court’s order in remanding Jagan Reddy under Section 309 of CrPC, Justice Kumar observed that the question of granting interim bail dose not arise since there was no application from the petitioner. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Section 309 of CrPC specifies that a trial court should remand an accused after completion of probe and taking cognizance of offence, while Section 167(2) CrPC stipulates a trial court to remand an accused till the probe is over. Setting aside the CBI court’s order, Justice Kumar remanded Jagan under Section 167(2) of CrPC.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC seeks reply on tiger task force delay</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/HC-seeks-reply-on-tiger-task-force-delay/articleshow/13753339.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/HC-seeks-reply-on-tiger-task-force-delay/articleshow/13753339.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 03.34AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> LUCKNOW: Taking cognizance of three tiger deaths in UP within a week, the high court has asked the Central and state governments to explain why the proposed <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Special-Task-Force">Special Task Force</a> for protection of tigers in the national parks not been constituted yet.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court has also directed state government to set up the task force before July first week.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The court will hear the case in July first week.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The order was passed by a division bench of Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice VK Dixit on a PIL seeking directions to the government for constitution of the force.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The Central government's counsel told the court that the Centre has released the funds and now the onus is on the state to set up the task force.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The idea of setting up a dedicated tiger protection force was mooted by Prime Minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Manmohan-Singh">Manmohan Singh</a> on November 5, 2007. Dudhwa, along with 16 tiger reserves in <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a>, Karnataka, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a>, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Bihar was nominated to be manned by the special task force to accord protection to the dwindling population of big cats against rampant poaching.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The task force will comprise forest guards and locals. Besides shortage of forest guards, most of them are old too, said sources.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Dudhwa, in 2008, was sanctioned one company of 120 trained personnel for STF. The company was to be headed by an assistant commandant, deemed to be at par with an assistant superintendent of police.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was expected to bear the expenses for arms and vehicles for patrolling and other logistics involved.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The specialised force was to be recruited by the state home department as per the rules and regulation finalised by the state government and the Centre. Its recruitment and deployment was meant to be confined to man the tiger belt alone. The state government was to make arrangements for training of the personnel and setting up the infrastructural support required.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Meanwhile, additional advocate general, UP, Zafaryab Jilani said he would seek instructions from the state government on the issue.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Finally, Italian naval guards out of jail on bail</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Finally-Italian-naval-guards-out-of-jail-on-bail/articleshow/13755043.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Finally-Italian-naval-guards-out-of-jail-on-bail/articleshow/13755043.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 3, 2012, 04.34AM IST</span></span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%;color:#757575"></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> KOCHI: Two <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Italian-naval-guards">Italian naval guards</a> arrested in connection with the February 15 high-sea killing of two Indian fishermen were released on bail on Saturday.<br /><br />The naval guards — <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Massimiliano-Latorre">Massimiliano Latorre</a> and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Salvatore-Girone">Salvatore Girone</a> — left the borstal school, where they had been lodged since May 25. They were shifted from the central prison in Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram, to the school following Italy's request. The Italians, who left the school around 9.30pm on Saturday, would be staying at Trident Hotel in Willington until the completion of the trial.<br /><br />The marines of Italian navy's San Marco regiment, who were taken to a judicial first class magistrate court in Kollam, were returned to the borstal school in the evening. Later a team of officials, including consul general Giampalo Cuttilo, followed them to Kochi with the bail bond.<br /><br />They were released after Italy, on behalf of the naval guards, furnished a surety of Rs 1 crore. While pronouncing the bail conditions, the HC had directed them to reside within 10km from <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Office">the office</a> of the Kochi police commissioner. They were also ordered to report to the police commissioner's office daily. The Italians were part of the security personnel on board the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Enrica-Lexie">Enrica Lexie</a>. The naval guards had opened fire at St Antony, an Indian boat, reportedly mistaking its crew for pirates. Fishermen Ajesh Pink and Valentine were killed in the incident. <span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Reserve 25 pc for poor in every class: HC</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254118/reserve-25-pc-poor-every.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254118/reserve-25-pc-poor-every.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ashish Tripathi, June 2, 2012, New Delhi:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Schools admitting new students to any class will have to reserve 25 per cent of their seats for children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged group following the mandate of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the Delhi High Court has held.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A bench comprising acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw passed the order after a PIL (public interest litigation) was filed by an NGO apprehending that schools making admissions were not following the reservation criterion set by the RTE Act. The court had also sought clarification from the Department of Education (DoE) regarding reservation of seats in schools.<br /><br />The bench further explained that the schools, which are imparting pre-school education, would have to provide 25 per cent reservation to children belonging to EWS and disadvantaged groups at the pre-school level.<br /><br />The schools, which do not have pre-school education and are admitting children in class I, should provide 25 per cent reservation to children belonging to weaker section and dis-advantaged groups.The bench also pointed that the interpretation given by it was in consonance with the historic judgment the Supreme Court upholding the Constitutional validity of the RTE Act. The Act is to be applied from the academic year 2012-13.<br /><br />NGO Social Jurist approached the court seeking direction for enforcement of certain facets of the RTE Act.<br /><br />It referred to an order issued by Delhi government’s Director of Education (DOE) on May 18, which had deferred the direction to schools for filling vacant seats under the EWS and disadvantaged category in classes other than pre-school and pre-primary, till receipt of clarifications from the Union government’s Ministry of Human Resource Development.<br /><br />The NGO contended such a deferment would delay the admission to other classes, till beyond the beginning of the academic session, and would lead to the seats remaining vacant for the current academic year.<br /><br />The DOE submitted that the unaided schools were interpreting the provision of the Act to mean that they are obliged to admit students belonging to EWS and disadvantaged group at entry level only and not at any other level, even if they were making admission at any other levell.<br /><br />The court clarified the position making it mandatory for the schools to follow the Act by directing them to admit students from that group at each level and not confine it to only at entry level. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Truthful in mosque, not in court: HC calls it sin</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/truthful-in-mosque-not-in-court-hc-calls-it-sin/957188/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/truthful-in-mosque-not-in-court-hc-calls-it-sin/957188/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/utkarshanand/">Utkarsh Anand</a> : New Delhi, Sun Jun 03 2012, 01:56 hrs</p> <p> HE was a ‘truthful’ man who never lied when in a mosque, but in a court of law he withheld the truth — on two occasions. </p> <p>The Delhi High Court has held Mohd Shamim guilty of contempt of court and called his lying in court a “sin”. </p> <p>“For those who believe in God, God is omnipresent in whatever form and it is the inevitable truth. Thus, for the believers of God, He is present in every form, all pervasive and ubiquitous — in the mosque as well as in court and more importantly in our hearts,” said Justice Kailash Gambhir. </p> <p>The judge noted that courts are often referred to as “temples of justice” and asked “how one can be untruthful before the temple of justice, and be truthful at the place of worship,” said Justice Gambhir. </p> <p>Shamim and his brother have been embroiled in a dispute, which was resolved with the latter agreeing to pay Rs 5 lakh in settlement. While the brother claimed that he had made a payment of Rs 1 lakh in March this year, Shamim refused to acknowledge the receipt and moved the court. In the court, both the brothers stuck to their claims and swore by the Quran. </p> <p>Perplexed, the court by an unusual order on May 21 sent both of them to a nearby mosque to record their statements. A senior advocate and a Delhi Police DCP were appointed as court commissioners. While his brother reiterated about the compromise and having given Rs 1 lakh, Shamim took a U-turn and agreed in the mosque that he had received the money. </p> <p>But once back in court, Shamim went back on his statement again and said no compromise was reached between him and his brother. </p> <p>Incensed by his lies, the court issued to him a show-cause notice for contempt of court. Even though Shamim tendered an apology, the judge refused to let his act go unpunished, wondering how a litigant could lie in the court after swearing in the name of the God and speak otherwise in a place of worship. </p> <p>“What is lamentable and pricks the conscience of this court is that the decree holder (Shamim) differentiated between the court and the mosque as if God is present only in the mosque and not in the courts,” said Justice Gambhir. </p> <p>“The decree holder while swearing in the name of God in the courtroom not once but twice spoke untruth. But while in mosque he spoke the truth, which has not only perverted the course of justice but also questioned the sanctity of the oath administered in the court. The importance of the virtue of truthfulness is intrinsic in all religions and there can be no religion or scripture that does not tell us to speak the truth at all times,” said the court, putting the matter in July for pronouncing the punishment against Shamim.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC suspends judge dealing with CBI cases</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250102130">http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250102130</a></p> <p>Hyderabad, Jun 1 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh High Court has placed First Additional Special Judge for CBI cases-- T Pattabhirama Rao under suspension after considering some information it received against the judge.<br /><br />Incidentally, the judge had granted bail to former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in the OMC illegal mining case last month, while he had rejected bail to IAS officer Y Srilakshmi, another accused in the OMC scam.<br /><br />Though, following an appeal by the CBI, the High Court had kept under suspension till June 5 the orders on granting bail to Gali.<br /><br />Registrar General (Vigilance), who issued the order in this regard last night, said after considering the information received against the judge, the High Court decided that it was necessary to place him under suspension in public interest, with immediate effect.<br /><br />While suspending Pattabhirama, the order further said he shall continue to be under suspension till the conclusion of the disciplinary proceedings proposed to be initiated.<br /><br />Suspending the judge under Rule 8(1) of the AP Civil Services (CC&A) Rules, 1991, the HC further directed that Pattabhirama shall not leave Hyderabad without obtaining prior permission from it during the period the order remains in force.<br /><br />Pattabhirama was appointed CBI court judge in April this year after three Additional Special CBI courts were opened at Gagan Vihar here.<br /><br />In view of the development, Principal Judge for CBI cases, A Pullaiah, has been placed in full additional charge of the post of the First Additional Special Judge for CBI cases, the order said.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Appointment in commissions arbitrary, politically motivated: Shailesh Gandhi</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Appointment-in-commissions-arbitrary-politically-motivated-Shailesh-Gandhi/Article1-865051.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Appointment-in-commissions-arbitrary-politically-motivated-Shailesh-Gandhi/Article1-865051.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Chetan%20Chauhan&op=Story">Chetan Chauhan</a>, Hindustan Times</b><br />New Delhi, June 02, 2012</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <img src="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CKAMALP%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image002.gif" border="0" height="9" width="12" /> <a href="mailto:chetan@hindustantimes.com?Subject=Appointment%20in%20commissions%20arbitrary,%20politically%20motivated:%20Shailesh%20Gandhi">Email to Author</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has taken a dig at the government for the way commissioners are appointed and his own organization --- the Central Information Commission --- for slow disposal of cases.<br /><br />Gandhi an IIT Mumbai Alumuni and the only non-bureaucrat in the CIC will <span class="msoIns"><ins>retire on July 6. In his five years in the CIC, Gandhi had taken several initiatives in the commission including prescribing minimum limit of 3,500 for each commissioner to dispose cases in a year and citizen charter. <br /><br />Before parting ways, Gandhi had questioned the way government appoints commissioners in commissions including CIC are appointed and parameters to evaluate their performance. “The way commissioners are appointed is totally arbitrary, politically motivated and non productive,” he told Hindustan Times in an interview.<br /><br />While there is a process to appoint lower rank officials in these commissions, there is no such system for commissioners. “If there is no accountability these commissions will fail the citizens,” he said.<br /><br />It truly holds for the CIC, which is mandated to ensure that citizens get information from the government in time. But, Gandhi feels that the present pace of disposal of cases the information commissions will fail to meet expectations of citizens.<br /><br />“As per my calculation, there will be a backlog of around 80,000 cases in next four to five years. It will mean an appeal is heard after three years and by that time the information would have lost value for the citizen. There is a need to ensure that the citizen gets information fast or else the RTI will die,” he said.<br /><br />To prevent death of the transparency law, Gandhi suggested that an information commissioner should dispose off 6,000 cases a year --- as compared to existing CIC criteria of 3,200 per year ---- and have people interested in their job to be appointed as commissioners. <br /><br />He, however, refused to blame retired bureaucrats in the information commissions for slow pace of disposal of cases. “Even journalists in many states have a poor track record,” he said, that information commissions having journalists in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh is taking years to dispose off the cases.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
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class="MsoNormal">Nd,Crime/Disaster/Accident,Immigration/Law/Rights, Fri, 01 Jun 2012 IANS </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) In a relief to former Karnataka police chief Shankar Mahadev Bidari, the Supreme Court Friday stayed the high court order of May 28 holding as illegal his appointment to the top post.</p> <p>Bidari had moved the high court challenging the March 16 order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) quashing his appointment as head of the state police. </p> <p>Bidari moved the high court for a second time after the apex court April 24 sent the matter back to it. </p> <p>CAT had quashed the appointment of Bidari, holding that the entire material about him was not placed before the Union Public Service commission when it prepared a penal of three senior most officials for the appointment of state DGP and IGP.</p> <p>The high court had dismissed the plea by Bidari challenging the high court order.</p> <p>An apex court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice C.K. Prasad, while staying the May 28 order of the high court, left it to the state government to appoint anyone as state police chief.</p> <p>The court stayed the high court order after it was told by senior counsel Gopal Subramanium that there was nothing adverse against Bidari during his service career.</p> <p>This included alleged atrocities committed by some personnel of the Special Task Force on tribals during a joint operation against sandalwood smuggler Veerappan.</p> <p>Subramanium told the court that the entire question involved "far reaching question of law".</p> <p>He told the court that Indian Police Service officers were governed by the All India Service rules and the high court had held that there was new jurisprudence to deal such cases following an apex court judgment.</p> <p>Subramanium told the court that both in the report of Justice Sadasivam and that of NHRC there was no prima facie adverse comments against Bidari. </p> <p>The counsel said that after ordering compensation to the tribal victims, the NHRC closed the case as there was nothing to proceed against Bidari.</p> <p>When the court inquired if there was anything against Bidari in the Justice Sadasivam report, Subramanium said: "Not even a word."</p> <p>Subramanium told the court that the joint task force of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka police was headed by Tamil Nadu's Walter I. Dawaram and Bidari was his deputy.</p> <p>Subramanium told the court that Bidari was appointed the state DGP and IGP in November 2011. Under the apex court guidelines in Prakash Singh case he has two years tenure that would end in November 2013.</p> <p>The senior counsel told the court that reinstatementof Bidari as DGP of the state police would not unsettle anyone as the earlier officiating DGP A.R. Infant retired May 31. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Sakshi Ads: Hearing of Govts plea on June 11 </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sakshi-ads-hearing-of-govts-plea-on-june-11/263215-60-121.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sakshi-ads-hearing-of-govts-plea-on-june-11/263215-60-121.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://newindianexpress.com" target="_blank">Express News Service</a></p> <p id="font_text">HYDERABAD: The High Court on Wednesday adjourned to June 11 hearing on the writ appeal filed by the state government questioning the single judge's order suspending ban on release of advertisements to Jagati Publications and Indira Television which run Sakshi newspaper and TV channel.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">When the appeal came up for hearing an adjournment was sought on behalf of the petitioner's counsel and the vacation bench comprising justices B Chandra Kumar and KG Shankar adjourned the case.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">�</span>Ex-journalist's appeal admitted</i></p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">HYDERABAD: A vacation bench of the HC comprising justices B Seshasayana Reddy and KG Shankar on Wednesday admitted a writ appeal filed by former journalist Sunil Reddy questioning the order of a single judge who had set aside the pardon granted in his favour in a criminal case of forgery.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">�</span>The appellant is accused of forging the signature of an MP and for making allegations against DGP V Dinesh Reddy. The prosecution said he had done it at the instance of senior IPS officer Umesh Kumar.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text"><i>Grant bail to Tara, HC tells Lower Court</i></p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">HYDERABAD: Justice B Chandra Kumar of the High Court directed the criminal court dealing with the case of Tara Chowdary alias Rajeshwari, arrested in a prostitution case, to grant her bail as the prosecution had failed to file a chargesheet within the prescribed period (60 days). Tara was arrested in a prostitution case last month.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">The Criminal Procedure Code provides for grant of bail when a chargesheet is not filed within the prescribed period.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">The judge, however, made it clear that the lower court, while granting bail, would be free to impose such terms.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Court stays food safety norms </h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/court-stays-food-safety-norms-436">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/court-stays-food-safety-norms-436</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">May 31, 2012 </span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins style="display:inline-table"> The Madras high court has stayed the operation of the newly prescribed regulations of the Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) pertaining to licensing and registration of food business on Thursday.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Vacation judge K. Venkataraman granted the stay, while passing interim orders on writ petitions filed by the Tamil Nadu Hotels Association in Egmore and others. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The regulations among other things, defined petty food manufacturer by prescribing an annual turnover and imposed certain other restrictions and the petitioners contended the new regulations were impracticable.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Advocate G. Sankaran, appearing for them said when section 31(2) of the FSSAI’s licensing and registration of food business act of 2011 defined petty manufacturer only with reference to the nature and scale of business, the regulation could not put restrictions in the name of annual turnover. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>“Therefore, the regulation was inconsistent with the provisions of the main Act 34 of 2006.<br />The judge said since an interim stay had already been granted by the Madurai bench of the Madras high court, there should be an order of interim stay on these petitions too. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>On admission of the petitions, the judge ordered notice to the Union ministry of health and family welfare and the commissioner of food safety of Tamil Nadu, returnable in three weeks. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The petitioners prayed that the court declare as unconstitutional, unreasonable and arbitrary, the provisions and the regulations framed by the FSSAI under Sec. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>92 of Article 34 of 2006 in 2001 with regard to licensing and registration of food business and food additives.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>No need for fresh PG dental counselling, says HC bench</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/No-need-for-fresh-PG-dental-counselling-says-HC-bench/articleshow/13696205.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/No-need-for-fresh-PG-dental-counselling-says-HC-bench/articleshow/13696205.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 04.50AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> BANGALORE: The division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen on Thu8rsda y set aside the single be8nch order asking the Con8sortium of Medical, Engin8eering and Dental Colleges in Karnataka (ComedK) to go in for fresh counselling for post-graduate dental courses.<br /><br />"When an overwhelming majority of candidates have already meticulously complied with all the stipulations, the single bench has re-written the conditions and this is impermissible,'' the bench has observed while allowing the writ appeal challenging the May 25 order.<br /><br />The division bench said that the petitioners, who were educated, knew that there would be multiple aspirants for each seat and hence should have complied with all the stipulations.<br /><br />It said that it was debatable that the examination system determined the students' merit. "There is always an element of luck. The CBSE %is presently considering not placing total reliance on one exam and instead take into account the students' record in the previous academic year. The petitioners may %understandably be disappointed, but to think that their rights have been infringed upon is a misnomer. Courts cannot always ensure the redressal of every nuance of grievance," the bench has observed.<br /><br />Dr.Amritha Chakroborty and 11 others, all top rankers, had moved the high court after ComedK disallowed them from participating in counselling on the ground that the counterfoils they had produced did not carry the seals / signatures of the bank, and in some cases the demand drafts produced were not that of nationalised banks.<br /><br />The single bench while allowing their petition had directed ComedK to hold re-counseling to all the 200-odd seat s citing that merit cannot be overlooked as petitioners we8re ranked between 4 and 200. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>High court to hear on authority of Lokayukta on July 10</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/High-court-to-hear-on-authority-of-Lokayukta-on-July-10/articleshow/13695449.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/High-court-to-hear-on-authority-of-Lokayukta-on-July-10/articleshow/13695449.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 03.08AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday has posted a petition questioning the authority of UP <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Lokayukta">Lokayukta</a> in continuing in the office on July 10. A division bench of Justice Sunil Ambwani and Justice Aditya Nath Mittal has also asked the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/state-government">state government</a> to furnish the details before the court in this regard.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The petition filed by Mukul Upadhyaya, Member of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Legislative-Council">Legislative Council</a> sought issuance of a writ of quo warranto as to under which authority Justice NK Mehrotra was holding the post, who had approached to the High Court, seeking quo-warranto, directing NK Mehrotra, Lokayukta Uttar Pradesh to show cause as to under which authority of law he is continuing to hold the office and drawing salary and allowances.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The petitioner has also challenged the new ordinance number 1 of 2012 whereby Justice Mehrotra's term has been extended. The petitioner contended that the ordinance was issued in contravention of the constitutional provisions and hence Justice Mehrotra should be restrained forthwith from his functioning as Lokayukta.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Additional advocate general, CB Yadav assisted by Ramanand Pandey, standing counsel contested the petitioner's plea stating that the petition was not maintainable because the petitioner has bias against Justice Mehrotra.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Set up panel to monitor city traffic, says HC</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/set-up-panel-to-monitor-city-traffic-says-hc/956357/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/set-up-panel-to-monitor-city-traffic-says-hc/956357/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">: Fri Jun 01 2012, 00:52 hrs </p> <p> The Bombay High Court recently directed the appointment of a ten-member high-power committee (HPC) headed by the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to monitor the city’s traffic and suggest ways to improve its management. </p> <p>“ ...it appears to the court that it would be in the fitness of things to appoint a high-power committee to monitor the traffic situation in Mumbai and suggest the required corrective and remedial measures for ensuring smooth and disciplined vehicular as well as pedestrian traffic,” Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar observed. </p> <p>The state government has been asked to appoint the committee by June 7. The committee will also include the principal secretaries of the Urban Development and Transport departments, the transport commissioner of Maharashtra, Joint Commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), Additional Municipal Commissioner (Roads), Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), an office-bearer of the Western India Automobile Association and two citizens of Mumbai. The committee has been asked to submit its report to the court within three months. </p> <p>Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Vivek Phansalkar had informed the High Court that the police department would fill up the 676 vacant posts for constables and head constables within two months. He added that the technology used for traffic signals and CCTV cameras installed across the city would also be upgraded. </p> <p>The court was hearing a PIL filed by the Bombay Bar Association (BBA) and the Western India Automobile Association seeking greater traffic safety and strict adherence of traffic norms in the city. The case has been adjourned till August 2. </p> <p>In an affidavit submitted by the state government in February, the High Court was told, “After a delegation of officers visited London to study the operation of CCTV cameras for traffic management there, a proposal regarding the installation of more than 5,000 cameras is on the anvil. It is expected that these cameras will be operational within a year,” the affidavit stated. </p> <p>According to the state government, 1,27,969 traffic offences were registered in January this year and fines amounting to Rs 1.59 crore were collected. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0253B7">BSE eases relisting norms for suspended companies</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bse-eases-relisting-norms-for-suspended-companies/475952/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bse-eases-relisting-norms-for-suspended-companies/475952/</span></a></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Minimum paid-up capital, networth and profitability conditions done away with promoter lock-in post relisting increased to one year </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">N Sundaresha Subramanian / New Delhi Jun 01, 2012, 00:27 IST</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="display:none;mso-hide:all"> </span></p> <p>The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has revised the relisting norms for companies, which were recently challenged by a public interest litigation (PIL) at the Delhi High Court. According to the new norms, which the exchange’s board approved on April 27, suspended companies are not required to comply with requirements, such as minimum paid-up capital, minimum networth and profitability track record.</p> <p>However, it has increased the lock-in on promoter group shareholding to one year after commencement of trading, up from the earlier six months. Further, promoters are also barred from selling their shares up to six months before the revocation of suspension.</p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;height:3.75pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:3.75pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal">Earlier, BSE had aligned the relisting norms in line with the conditions for fresh listing, which came into effect in July 2011. According to these rules, companies which have remained suspended for over a period of one year had to have a minimum paid-up capital of Rs 10 crore and a minimum networth of Rs 50 crore.</p> <p>Further, it needed a profit-making track record. Accordingly, the company should have “distributable profits in terms of Section 205 of the Companies Act, 1956 for at least three out of five immediately preceding financial years based on audited financial results with the last financial year reporting profit. Provided that extraordinary income shall not be considered for calculating distributable profit. Provided further that latest three financial years should comprise a period of at least 12 months.”</p> <p>According to several investor associations, these conditions made it practically impossible for suspended companies to relist and trade on the bourses again. According to the PIL, over Rs 1.8 lakh crore was stuck in such suspended firms. The petition alleged that by making relisting difficult with these conditions, BSE and Sebi were playing into the hands of the promoters. It further alleged that they did not make any efforts to protect the interests of the investors.</p> <p>BSE, in its submission to the Delhi High Court, said it had reconsidered the norms “suo motu” in the interest of investors even before the petition was filed. The relaxed norms are likely to take effect after the minutes of the board meeting are approved by the board.</p> <p>Other conditions that do not figure in the new norms submitted by BSE to the court include the minimum requirement of 500 public shareholders and at least 50 per cent of public shareholding to be in demat shares.</p> <p>Ajay Veer Singh, advocate for Atul Agarwal, who filed the PIL, said: “The change in rules offers a ray of hope for investors. But this is a minor issue, if one looks at the larger issue of inaction on large number of suspended companies. Our goal is that there should not be a single dead share.”</p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;height:7.5pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:7.5pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;height:7.5pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:7.5pt"><br /></td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes; height:7.5pt"> <td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:7.5pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Govt rules transparent'</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Govt-rules-transparent/articleshow/13695444.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Govt-rules-transparent/articleshow/13695444.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 03.07AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> JAIPUR: A PIL was filed by one <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jago-Janata-Society">Jago Janata Society</a> through <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/advocate-Poonam-Chand-Bhandari">advocate Poonam Chand Bhandari</a> challenging the validity of the regularizations made after June 17, 1999 as it was contended that it was a one time scheme to regularize only those illegal constructions in the state which have been made prior to June 1999.<br /><br />It was also given out that there is no scheme for conversion of agricultural land for commercial, residential, or other non-agricultural use as such and all the allotments made after the date notifying Section 90-B should be declared illegal. On Thursday, additional advocate general SN Kumawat, appearing for state government, told a division bench that government has framed detailed rules which are quite transparent and therefore, there is no grievance pertaining to 90-B as the same is no more a part of statute books. As such, the PIL has become infructuous. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Notice to Haryana on PIL seeking approval to run schools on one-acre land</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notice-to-haryana-on-pil-seeking-approval-to-run-schools-on-oneacre-land/956361/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/notice-to-haryana-on-pil-seeking-approval-to-run-schools-on-oneacre-land/956361/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Fri Jun 01 2012, 01:23 hrs</p> <p> The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the Haryana government on a public interest litigation (PIL) demanding change in rules of the Haryana School Education Board wherein no organisation or body is permitted to set up a school if it (organisation) does not have two acres of land. </p> <p>This, the petitioner, contended was contrary to the guidelines laid down by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)/Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE). The PIL has demanded that the rules should be changed and the minimum land required for construction of a school should be reduced to one acre. </p> <p>The petitioner has also sought directions to Haryana Urban Development Authority to frame an appropriate policy for allotment of school sites in terms of CBSE and ICSE. </p> <p>The petitioner submitted that all recent auctions in Panchkula for school sites failed miserably as no auction was conducted in less than four acre.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Torture’ of kids in observation home: HC notices to IG, UT</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/torture-of-kids-in-observation-home-hc-notices-to-ig-ut/956396/0"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/torture-of-kids-in-observation-home-hc-notices-to-ig-ut/956396/0</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Chandigarh, Fri Jun 01 2012, 01:46 hrs </p> <p> Taking note of serious allegations of brutal torture, harassment and thrashing of poor children in Observation Home, Sector 25, the Punjab and Haryana High court on Thursday issued notices to the Inspector General of Police, Chandigarh, and the UT Administration. </p> <p>The notices have been issued by a division bench comprising acting Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Alok Singh on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by advocate Utsav Singh Bains, a resident of Sector 2, Chandigarh. </p> <p>The petitioner has sought directions for detailed guidelines to be issued to the police on how to deal with poor children. </p> <p>The petitioner has also sought guidelines to be issued to the Juvenile Justice Boards to record statements of children, when presented before them regarding police abuse and order registration of an FIR in case the child states police abuse. </p> <p>Also, the PIL has demanded setting up of a Special Investigation Team to investigate the abuse of children by the police and review cases of children lodged in the Chandigarh Observation Home by any independent agency. </p> <p>The agency, the petitioner has said, should submit a periodical report regarding police abuse and other grievances to the court for appropriate action. Directions to the Inspector General of Police have also been sought to initiate criminal and disciplinary proceedings against the police officers for the brutal torture and abuse of children in police custody. </p> <p>It is for the first time that the court has taken cognisance of audio recording to set the law in motion. In April-May, 2011, the petitioner interviewed children inside the Observation Home. The petitioner was then in the final year at law school. The interviewed children disclosed to the petitioner that they had been illegally detained, stripped naked and tortured with electric shocks by police officers inside police stations in Chandigarh. </p> <p>Bains has annexed statements of the victims and their audio recordings with the petition. One of the children told the petitioner that he had committed a theft in Sector 38 last year. After the arrest, he was thrashed by policemen. Another child, an inmate, told the petitioner that he was given electric shocks by the Chandigarh Police officers. </p> <p>The High Court has given the IG and Chandigarh Administration six weeks to file their replies. The case will now come up for resumed hearing on August 16.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Aarushi-Hemraj murder case: Allahabad HC rejects Nupur's bail plea </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/aarushihemraj-case-nupurs-bail-plea-rejected/263311-3.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/aarushihemraj-case-nupurs-bail-plea-rejected/263311-3.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/agency/CNN-IBN.html">CNN-IBN</a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p> <p><b>New Delhi:</b> Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar's mother Nupur failed to convince the Allahabad High Court on Thursday to grant her bail in the double murder case of her daughter and domestic help Hemraj. The High Court rejected Nupur Talwar's bail application and said that the trial in the sensational murder case would continue. </p> <p>Nupur had applied for bail after the sessions court rejected her plea. She has been lodged in Ghaziabad's Dasna Jail since April 30. </p> <p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had opposed Nupur's bail saying that she may try to scuttle the legal process if she was set free. The agency also said that the court should consider her conduct since the time she was made accused and not grant her bail. </p> <p>Nupur and her husband Rajesh Talwar have been charged with murder, destruction of evidence and conspiracy in the double murder case that took place in May 2008. Rajesh Talwar has also been charged with misleading the investigation in the double murder case. </p> <p>The CBI has claimed the Talwars' maid, the guard and driver corroborate their 'last scene theory' according to which there were four people living in the house - Rajesh Talwar, Nupur Talwar, Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj - and there was no sign of a fifth person's entry at the time of the murders. "Four people were there, two died and two were left. When a murder takes place in a closed house and two are dead, then the onus shifts on those who are alive," the CBI had argued. </p> <p>The CBI also claims that Aarushi and Hemraj's injuries were identical. "The golf stick recovered from the house matches the injury. The Talwars refused to identify Hemraj's body and gave false information regarding the crime scene," according to the CBI. </p> <p>Aarushi was found murdered in her Jalvayu Vihar residence in Noida on May 16, 2008. The body of Hemraj, who was initially suspected to have killed the teenager, was found on the terrace of Talwar's home on May 17.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Raising age of consent for sex to 18 regressive, undemocratic: Court</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Raising-age-of-consent-for-sex-to-18-regressive-undemocratic-Court/articleshow/13694982.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Raising-age-of-consent-for-sex-to-18-regressive-undemocratic-Court/articleshow/13694982.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Smriti-Singh.cms">Smriti Singh</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 02.13AM IST</span></span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#757575"></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: Terming a new law that raises the age of consent for sex from 16 to 18 years "undemocratic" and "regressive", a trial <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/court">court</a> feared it would act as a "tool for the police to harass minors".<br /><br />The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act ( <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/PCSOA">PCSOA</a>), passed by Parliament in the recently concluded session, criminalizes all sex by teenagers.<br /><br />"Such a move would open the floodgates for prosecution of boys for offences of rape on the basis of complaints by girls' parents irrespective of whether the girl was a consenting party," said additional sessions judge Virender Bhat, in an order passed earlier this week.<br /><br />While the court made it clear that it was against teenage sex and shared the concern of parents and the government, it said raising the age bar was not a solution. Imparting sex education in schools was a better option, it said.<br /><br />"Good virtues cannot be inculcated and good conscience cannot be imbibed in a child by legal provisions. It would be better and wiser to leave this job to parents and school teachers... Children need to be imparted sex education in the schools," the judge said while sending a copy of the order to the secretary, law department and chairman of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-National">the National</a> Law Commission as a suggestion from the court.<br /><br />The observations were made while acquitting one Sandeep Paswan, facing trial for kidnapping and raping a minor girl who had eloped with him. The two had married at an Arya Samaj Mandir in Lucknow.<br /><br />According to the police, the 15-year-old girl had gone missing from her house in January 2011. Her father then reported the matter to the police on February 17, 2011 and an FIR was registered. The girl was found in August 2011 from a village in Uttar Pradesh where she was living with Sandeep as his wife.<br /><br />While absolving Sandeep of the charges, the court noted that it was clear from the girl's testimony that she eloped with him as they were in love.<br /><br />The court said, with the advent of cable television, internet and rapid changes in biological factors, children were getting exposed to knowledge about sex and marital relations at an early age. "With the result, cupid strikes them at an early age, before they attain majority.... Since parents are always opposed to such an alliance, may be rightly so, the loving couple elope," the judge observed.<br /><br />The court said even boys in some cases become victims as they do not understand the consequences of their actions and are sometimes lured by the girl.<br /><br />"Such cases should be an eye opener for the worthy lawmakers of our country, who, I understand, are contemplating raising the age limit for <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/consensual-sex">consensual sex</a> from 16 to 18 years. Gone are the days when a child of 16 or 17 years of age was ignorant about sex and the desire to have sex," the judge said.<br /><br />The order comes on the heels of another judge, additional sessions judge Kamini Lau raising similar concerns.<br /><br /><span style="color:red">Times View</span><br /><br />We are in complete agreement with the observation of this trial court that the new law is likely to become a tool to harass teenagers rather than one that protects them. Unfortunately, the law has already been passed by Parliament and given presidential assent. We would still urge our lawmakers to reconsider what they have done and amend the law to ensure that consensual teenage sex is not criminalized. Neither Parliament nor the government should see this as a matter of their prestige. What is important is what is good for our young and that should remain the prime consideration. Sticking to a bad law does not enhance the authority of the state, it diminishes it.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Youth gets death for rape, murder </h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/south/youth-gets-death-rape-murder-421">http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/south/youth-gets-death-rape-murder-421</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span class="submitted">May 31, 2012 </span></p> <p>Viswarajan, 22, accused in the raping and killing of 34-year-old R. Smitha, a native of Koippallykarayma near Kayamkulam, was awarded the death penalty by the Mavelikkara additional district and sessions court-II on Thursday. </p> <p>The verdict was pronounced by judge A. Badharudheen after a nearly two-month-long trial. The trial started on April 9. Hearing the verdict, Vishwarajan who had a hint of a smile on his face, bowed his head without any signs of remorse. </p> <p>Additional public prosecutor S. Ramanan Pillai who was appointed by the government for the victim said that apart from the death penalty for murder, Vishwarajan had been awarded six months rigorous imprisonment for illegal detention and a Rs1 lakh fine as well. </p> <p>“If the fine is not remitted, he would have to bear an additional six months of rigorous imprisonment. The court has observed the case as being the rarest of rare. The verdict will help to spread the message about the consequences of an assault against women,” he said. </p> <p>The incident relating to the case happened on October 24, 2011, at 7 p.m while Smitha was on her way home from work. She was working with a private shop in Kayamkulam as a saleswoman.</p> <p>Vishwarajan who was in an inebriated condition, hid near Smitha’s home and raped her. He then abandoned an unconscious Smitha in a marshy area. The incident took place just 200 m away from Smitha’s home. Viswarajan, a native of Oachira was living with his relatives whose home was near Smitha’s. </p> <p>Following the incident, the investigation team led by the then Kayamkulam circle inspector A.N. Shanihan submitted a report before the court. </p> <p>As many as 38 witnesses appeared before the court during the course of the trial. Shanihan told dc there was no hurdle in the way of the investigation. The mobile phone which was found at the spot of the incident was the turning point in the investigation, he recalled.</p> <p>“The main significance of this case was that the majority of witnesses who appea-red before the court were women,” he pointed out. </p> <p>A police officer who accompanied Vishwarajan from Poojappura central prison said that he had tried to break out of jail by jumping out of the prison building. This resulted in Vishwaraj-an fracturing his leg. Vishwarajan was brought to court from the Poojappura central prison at 10 am and returned to Poojappura at 2.30pm in a police van. The court pronounced the verdict by 11.15 am.</p> <p>Security was tightened in the court premises. Advoca-te G. Madhu who appeared for Vishwarajan said to media persons that the verdict would be challenged in a higher court.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Motive has ceased to exist: Experts</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Motive-has-ceased-to-exist-Experts/articleshow/13695330.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Motive-has-ceased-to-exist-Experts/articleshow/13695330.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 02.55AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> JAIPUR: The findings recorded by the district and sessions court that absolved BJP legislator Rajendra Rathore in the Dara Singh fake encounter case have dealt a heavy blow to the CBI.<br /><br />Legal <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/experts">experts</a> believe that even if the investigating agency appeals against the release of Rathore in the HC, the prosecution's case appears to have been weakened. "The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI">CBI</a> arrested Rathore on the charge that he was the key conspirator in the fake encounter, as only he had a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/motive">motive</a> for eliminating Dara Singh. Now that the court has absolved the main accused of the conspiracy charge, the motive has ceased to exist and the entire investigation has come under question," said Deepak Chauhan, who practices criminal law at the sessions court. "In a criminal case, establishing the motive is of utmost importance," he added.<br /><br />CBI lawyer Sarfaraz Haider Khan, however, said the court ought not to have gone into the merits of the case at the stage of framing charges. "The merits of charges are decided when the witnesses are questioned and cross-examined before the court once the trial begins. If the case's merit were to be decided at the charge framing stage, where was the need to have the provision of trial under law," Khan said. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Rajendra Rathore absolved of charges in Dara fake encounter case</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Rajendra-Rathore-absolved-of-charges-in-Dara-fake-encounter-case/articleshow/13695173.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Rajendra-Rathore-absolved-of-charges-in-Dara-fake-encounter-case/articleshow/13695173.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 02.36AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> JAIPUR: A district and sessions court here on Thursday absolved BJP legislator and former minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Rajendra-Rathore">Rajendra Rathore</a> of all criminal <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/charges">charges</a> against him in the Dara Singh fake encounter case even before he faced a trial.<br /><br />About an hour after the court order, a relieved Rathore walked out of the Jaipur Central Jail around 1:15 pm. In the first statement after his release, the BJP's senior leader accused the Ashok Gehlot government of a carrying out a political vendetta against him and said that he would be seeking "retribution for every single day spent in the jail" since his arrest 55 days ago.<br /><br />Reacting on the development, leader of opposition Vasundhara Raje said, "We reiterated that we have full faith in judiciary and the court decision is a victory of the justice. This decision has exposed the ulterior motives of the Congress. The court verdict has confirmed that the Congress misuses the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI">CBI</a> for its political ends."<br /><br />BJP leaders, including legislator Digambar Singh received Rathore outside the jail and drove him first to Moti Doongri temple and later to the party headquarters. Party president Arun Chaturvedi, Digambar Singh and Rathore again hit out at the Gehlot government while addressing the BJP workers there.<br /><br />While discharging Rathore of the charges against him, district judge PC Jain listed out several loopholes in the case. Experts opined that the order was likely to have a negative bearing on the prosecution against other accused also, including suspended additional director general of police AK Jain and inspector general A Ponnuchami.<br /><br />"The accused is discharged as the criminal conspiracy charges of stage managing Dara Singh's encounter is not made out against him going by the loopholes in the evidence," the court said in its order. One of Rathore's lawyers, Hemant Nahta said that the court found that the evidences did not prove the criminal conspiracy claimed by the CBI in its chargesheet.<br /><br />"The court said that the CBI has failed to prove that Rathore met Dara's rival Virendra Nyangli in the jail after the latter's arrest in April 2003. Similarly, the court observed that the only evidence against Rathore in the case were the phone call details between him and ADG Jain. The court was of the opinion that Rathore could not be framed under Section 120-B of IPC (criminal conspiracy) simply on the basis of the call details," said Nahta.<br /><br />Rathore's another lawyer AK Jain said that the CBI has also failed to prove the motive behind the killing on the basis of the statements of prosecution witnesses. The court stated that the details of four phone calls made between Rathore and Jain were prior to October 19, almost four days before Dara was killed. The court observed that neither Dara nor a contractor Vijay Singh were in the custody of Rajasthan police's SOG at that time. "There is nothing to prove that Rathore and Jain had personal relations which could have prompted the policemen to kill Dara Singh in a fake encounter," the court observed. It stated that Rathore's name did not come up in the case for four years after the encounter.<br /><br />The CBI arrested Rathore on April 5, charging him with criminal conspiracy to kill Dara Singh on Jaipur's outskirts on October 23, 2006. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>ATC Telecom Tower Corp approaches TDSAT to recover dues from Etisalat DB</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-22/news/31815905_1_etisalat-db-telecom-disputes-settlement-tdsat">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-22/news/31815905_1_etisalat-db-telecom-disputes-settlement-tdsat</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">PTI</span></span><span class="separator"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span>May 22, 2012, 10.45PM IST </p> <p>NEW DELHI: Telecom infra firm <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/ATC%20Telecom">ATC Telecom</a> Tower Corporation has approached the sectoral tribunal <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/TDSAT">TDSAT</a> to recover its dues from mobile operator Etisalat DB, which has closed operations after cancellation of its license.</p> <p>In its petition, the Kerala-based firm has requested the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal to direct Etisalat to pay Rs 70 lakh in dues. </p> <p>The TDSAT has listed the matter for hearing on Friday. ATC Telecom Tower was providing telecommunications infrastructure services to Etisalat DB, a joint venture between UAE-based telecom giant Etisalat and <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Dyanmix%20Balwa%20group">Dyanmix Balwa group</a>.</p> <p>Earlier, on May 4, TDSAT had restrained <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Etisalat%20DB">Etisalat DB</a> from transferring its equipments lying with the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Anil%20Ambani">Anil Ambani</a> group company, <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/RInfra">RInfra</a>.</p> <p>The RCom subsidiary is claiming over Rs 1,200 crore as dues from Etisalat DB for using its telecom towers and other infrastructure.</p> <p>Presently, Etisalat DB also is facing recovery suits on various forums including TDSAT, High Courts and Debt Recovery Tribunal.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">CWG street-lighting scam: Three accused granted bail</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_cwg-street-lighting-scam-three-accused-granted-bail_1696425">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_cwg-street-lighting-scam-three-accused-granted-bail_1696425</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Published: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 19:13 IST<br />Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:7.4pt 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>A Delhi court today granted bail to three MCD officials, arrested for their alleged roles in a corruption case involving award of a contract to a firm for upgrading the city's street lighting before the Commonwealth Games in 2010.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Special CBI Judge Pradeep Chaddah released on bail MCD Superintendent Engineer DK Sugan, Executive Engineer O P Mahla and civic body's tender clerk Gurcharan Singh on a personal bond of Rs one lakh each along with one surety of the same amount.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The three along with others have been accused of causing a loss of nearly Rs 1.43 crore to the exchequer in illegal award of the contract to Delhi-based firm, Sweka Powertech Engineers Pvt Ltd.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>"Keeping in mind the fact that the two co-accused have been enlarged on bail and the present accused are in custody for nearly a year, it would be in fitness of the things to enlarge the accused on bail.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>"Let accused D K Sugan, O P Mahla and Gurcharan Singh be released on bail on furnishing personal bond in sum of Rs 1 lakh with one surety each in the like amount," the court said.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The trio were granted bail on ground of parity as the promoters of Sweka, T P Singh and J P Singh, have already been granted bail by the Delhi High Court on May 21.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The special court also noted that the accused have been in judicial custody for nearly a year and the material witnesses in the case have already been examined, which was a reasonable ground for granting bail. (MORE) PTI SKV AKI RAX 05311833 NNNN</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>COURT-CWG 2 LAST ZCZC PRI DSB ESPL LGL NAT .NEWDEL DES35 COURT-CWG 2 LAST</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The CBI had opposed the trio's bail on the ground that they cannot claim parity with other co-accused as they were MCD officials and were in a position to influence witnesses belonging to their department.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court, however, granted them bail saying, "I questioned the investigating officer and what has emerged is that the witnesses are merely to depose from the record and they will not be able to do much to save the skin of the accused."</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>Those named as accused in the case are Sugan, Mahla, Gurcharan Singh, T P Singh, J P Singh and MCD Accountant V Raju, who was earlier released on bail. M/s Sweka Powertech Engineers Pvt Ltd is also an accused in the case.</ins></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="msoIns"><ins>The trial court had on March 12 framed charges against the six persons and the firm for criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. PTI SKV AKI RAX 05311837 NNNN</ins></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">7 months on, Citi scam accused walks out of jail</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Gurgaon/17-months-on-Citi-scam-accused-walks-out-of-jail/Article1-864203.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Gurgaon/17-months-on-Citi-scam-accused-walks-out-of-jail/Article1-864203.aspx</a></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/search.aspx?q=Deevakar%20Anand%20&%20Leena%20Dhankhar&op=Story">Deevakar Anand & Leena Dhankhar</a>, Hindustan Times</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Former bank executive Shivraj Puri, the prime accused in the <span class="webrupee"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Rs. </span></span>400-crore Citibank fraud case, was released on bail on Thursday from the Bhondsi jail near Gurgaon, where he had been lodged for the last 17 months. He and his father Raghuraj Puri, a co-accused in the case, were granted <span class="msoIns"><ins>bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>While Raghuraj was released on Wednesday, Shivraj's release came after his lawyers submitted his passport and furnished bail sureties of <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>2 lakh each for two separate FIRs under which he was booked for forgery and cheating in December 2010.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The surety amount was decided by Gurgaon chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Rajesh Sharma on Thursday.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The high court, while granting them bail, had fixed <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>5 lakh bail surety for Raghuraj while it had left it to the discretion of the CJM to decide his son’s bail amount. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The court had, however, said that he should be released on a “heavy bond” amount.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The Puri family is believed to be in financial crisis due to the ongoing litigation.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>After being released, Shivraj told Hindustan Times, “Being in jail has taught me to value freedom. I always had faith in the judiciary. However, this is only a temporary relief.”</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Puri’s uncle had come to pick him up from jail and reportedly dropped him at his (Shivraj’s) house in DLF Phase 4.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The high court had earlier granted anticipatory bail to Shivraj’s mother Deeksha. </ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>The only co-accused still behind bars is Sanjay Gupta, former vice-president of Hero Corporate Services.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Shivraj, a former relationship manager with Citibank, had allegedly siphoned off around <span class="webrupee">Rs. </span>400 crore of various customers to some fictitious accounts.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Puri was booked under sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) early this year along with his parents and Gupta on a complaint filed by Citibank officials and a high net worth account holder.</ins></span></p> <p><span class="msoIns"><ins>Raghuraj was the managing director of a Kolkata-based firm, Normans Martin Brokers Pvt Ltd, through which Shivraj allegedly used to divert money into stock markets.</ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="msoIns"><ins> </ins></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Criminal complaint filed against Bhushan for 'defa</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/criminal-complaint-filed-against-bhushan-for-defa_779021.html">http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/criminal-complaint-filed-against-bhushan-for-defa_779021.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Last Updated: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 22:32 </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.35pt"><span name="advenueINTEXT" id="advenueINTEXT">New Delhi: A lawyer has approached a local court here with a criminal complaint against Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan accusing him of "abusing and defaming" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.<br /><br />Lawyer D D Sharma filed the complaint in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Patiala House. </span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing:1.5pt;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-table-lspace:2.25pt; mso-table-rspace:2.25pt;mso-table-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-table-anchor-horizontal: column;mso-table-left:right;mso-table-top:middle" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" height="260"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 16.35pt">"The accused is in the habit of defaming and maligning top personalities of the country" and Bhushan should be prosecuted under section 500 (defamation) of Indian Penal Code, Sharma said in his complaint.<br /><br />Bhushan was in the eye of a controversy for using a particular word against Singh. However, he had claimed that what he said was that Singh's honesty was used as a shield by Congress. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>NRHM: Chargesheet filed against Kushwaha</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nrhm-chargesheet-filed-against-kushwaha/956328/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nrhm-chargesheet-filed-against-kushwaha/956328/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/pti/">Press Trust of India</a> : Ghaziabad, Fri Jun 01 2012, 00:26 hrs </p> <p> The CBI on Thursday filed its supplementary chargesheet in the NRHM scam, accusing former family welfare minister Babu Singh Kushwaha of abusing his official position to favour private companies while allotting contracts for upgradation of 134 hospitals in Uttar Pradesh. </p> <p>In its chargesheet filed before a special CBI court here, the agency accused the former BSP minister and his close aide, former MLA R P Jaiswal, of misusing their official position to benefit local company Surgicoin Medequip Pvt Ltd, sources said. </p> <p>“The matter pertained to upgradation of 134 district hospitals for an amount of Rs 13.4 crore under NRHM. It was alleged that the said work was given to Ghaziabad and Lucknow-based private firms without following any codal formalities and on the basis of bogus and forged documents. </p> <p>“An approximate loss of Rs 5.46 crore was found to have been caused to the government exchequer in the said case,” the CBI said in a statement. </p> <p>Both Kushwaha and Jaiswal are already in judicial custody and lodged in Dasna Jail. </p> <p>The CBI slapped Indian Penal Code sections related to criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust by public servant, cheating and forgery, besides relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Veerappa Moily warns Reebok India against holding back information</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/retailing/veerappa-moily-warns-reebok-india-against-holding-back-information/articleshow/13695176.cms">http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/retailing/veerappa-moily-warns-reebok-india-against-holding-back-information/articleshow/13695176.cms</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">NEW DELHI: The <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/corporate-affairs-ministry">corporate affairs ministry</a> has said it will get to the bottom of the alleged Rs 870-crore fraud at <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Reebok">Reebok</a> India, and warned the company against holding back information.<br /><br />The government has enough ways and means to launch a holistic investigation to examine all aspects of the case, Corporate Affairs Minister <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Veerappa-Moily">Veerappa Moily</a> told ET.<br /><br />Reebok India, part of the Germany-based <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Adidas">Adidas</a> group, has been holding out on the government's demand of handing over its books.<br /><br />Adidas had last week filed an FIR with the Gurgaon police station, accusing former CEO Subhinder Singh Prem and COO Vishnu Bhagat at its <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Reebok-India">Reebok India</a> unit of commercial irregularities of 870 crore. "We cannot provide any further details since the matter now rests with the Indian law enforcement authorities," Adidas India spokesman had said on Wednesday, ruling out furnishing of further details to the registrar of companies.<br /><br />The government had asked the registrar of companies to look into the accounts of Reebok India when reports of the alleged fraud came out, but it was forced to refer the matter to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office after the company refused to cooperate.<br /><br />"As far as IPC (Indian Penal Code) is concerned, maybe they are right. But what about the fraud committed on the company? And the fraud committed on shareholders?" asked Moily. "This causes economic offence. It needs to be dealt either by Sebi (market regulator) or the corporate affairs ministry," he added, dismissing the clarification given by Adidas.<br /><br />The minister also said that he would not hesitate to go after the global auditors of the company if concrete evidence was found against them. "In the process of investigation, if we find the auditors have also joined in supporting the fraud, then we will investigate. But it is too early to draw any inference," Moily said. <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/KPMG">KPMG</a>, the global auditor of Adidas AG, had earlier clarified to ET that it had no role in the auditing of the Indian arm of the sports brand. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <h1>After eight tiger deaths in Maharashtra, no action taken to prevent poaching</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/After-eight-tiger-deaths-in-Maharashtra-no-action-taken-to-prevent-poaching/articleshow/13695491.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/After-eight-tiger-deaths-in-Maharashtra-no-action-taken-to-prevent-poaching/articleshow/13695491.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Prafulla-Marapakwar.cms">Prafulla Marapakwar</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: 6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 03.11AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> MUMBAI: Despite eight tigers having been killed in the last six months in the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tadoba-tiger-reserve">Tadoba tiger reserve</a> and elsewhere in the state, it has been found that the state government has not initiated stringent measures to halt poaching.<br /><br /><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Forest-minister-Patangrao-Kadam">Forest minister Patangrao Kadam</a> visited the Tadoba Andhari reserve in Chandrapur district on Wednesday.<br /><br />"There were specific reports from %wildlife activists, saying poachers from Madhya Pradesh would enter the state as they had taken supari for killing tigers. However, no steps were taken to halt the poaching," said a senior Indian Forest Service official.<br /><br />He said that in view of the stepped up <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/poaching">poaching</a> activities, the state forest department, in collaboration with the state police, should have set up special squads to curb poaching. However, the cabinet member woke up only after the Centre sought details from the state on increased poaching in Maharashtra, he added.<br /><br />Slamming the Centre for not amending the more than century-old Indian Forest Act, the official said that under section 66 of the Act, a forest or police officer has powers to prevent commission of an offence. "The Act is very weak, no forest officer can take direct action against the poachers. If the government is serious about curbing poaching activities, besides amending the Indian Forest Act, 1927, it should set up special forest police stations and grant powers under the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code to the forest officials. In that event, forest officers will be able to arrest the poachers," he said.<br /><br />It also appears that the state government has completely ignored the concept of protection of wildlife and stringent implementation of the wildlife protection act. Nearly 50 officials, specially-trained in wildlife, have been given insignificant assignments. Either they have been deployed in social forestry or planning section. "The government has been told on several occasions about the need to set up a secret service fund and intelligence unit to gather information on illegal activities," he said.<br /><br />After the tiger killings, the state forest department had deployed 90 armed forest guards in and around the Tadoba tiger reserve, said another IFS officer.<br /><br />He added that besides taking corrective measures to halt poaching, Kadam should order a high-level probe into the killings. "Kadam must fix the responsibility and take action against erring forest officials," he said.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/retailing/veerappa-moily-warns-reebok-india-against-holding-back-information/articleshow/13695176.cms#write" id="authorcmt"> </a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">India continues to violate Italian jurisdiction over trial: FM 1 Jun 2012, 0916 hrs</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <a href="http://www.timesnow.tv/India-continues-to-violate-Italian-jurisdiction-over-trial-Italy/articleshow/4403351.cms">http://www.timesnow.tv/India-continues-to-violate-Italian-jurisdiction-over-trial-Italy/articleshow/4403351.cms</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IST, AGENCIES </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Italy has said it sees no reason to sing a "victory" song over the bail granted to two of its marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen as India continues to "violate Italian jurisdiction" over the trial.<br /><br />Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi hinted the bail decision would do little to end the diplomatic row with India.<br /><br />"There's no reason to sing a victory song because the Indians continue to violate Italian jurisdiction," Terzi told the Italian Senate on Wednesday (May 30) after the Kerala High Court granted conditional bail to marines Latore Massimilliano and Salvatore Girone.<br /><br />"Together with Defence Minister Giampaolo di Paola we will examine the concrete meaning of the decision and more specifically the conditions that will be imposed," Terzi said.<br /><br />The marines, who were arrested from the merchant vessel 'Enrica Lexie' on February 19 from which they fired at the fishermen off Kerala coast on February 15, are at present lodged at the Borstal prison in Kochi.<br /><br />After being in jail for nearly 15 weeks, the two Italian marines were granted bail by the court yesterday with some stringent conditions.<br /><br />The Court also directed the Kerala government to ensure abundant caution and inform the seaport or other authorities to prevent the two accused from leaving the country.<br /><br />The Court order in the case which sparked a diplomatic standoff between India and Italy came a day after it turned down that country's plea for quashing an FIR against the marines.<br /><br />The court had held that the two accused were liable to penal jurisdiction of Indian courts. While Italy claims that the marines should be prosecuted in their home country as the incident occurred on an Italian-flagged vessel in international waters.<br /><br />Earlier this month, Italy had recalled its ambassador for consultations after the marines were charged with murder. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <h1>Three ‘journalists' arrested on charge of intimidation </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3476356.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3476356.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Special Correspondent</span></span> </p> <p class="body">Race Course Police on Wednesday arrested three persons on charges of intimidating a journalist and demanding illegal gratification for publishing a correction in respect of defamatory article against him. </p> <p class="body">According to police, Nandakumar working with a Tamil television news channel preferred a complaint stating that he was intimidated by a group of people claiming to be journalists, when he questioned them for publishing a defamatory article about him.</p> <p class="body">Mr. Nandakumar saw them near a bakery in front of the Collectorate and questioned them the basis the for the article. Purnami Nilavan (45), his wife Kalaiselvi both acting as Editor and Sub-Editor the magazine and another person claiming to be a journalist representing another magazine reportedly intimidated him. </p> <p class="body">They reportedly used obscene and abusive language and demanded Rs. 1 lakh for publishing a correction, the police said.</p> <p class="body">Based on the complaint, police registered a case against the three under sections 294 b (using obscene and abusive language), 384 (extortion) and 506 (i) (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code. </p> <p class="body">They have been remanded to custody.</p> <p class="body">Journalists in Coimbatore had already represented the City Police Commissioner about persons claiming themselves as journalists indulging in extortion. </p> <p class="body">District Collector M. Karunagaran had said that stringent action would be initiated against such persons. </p> <p class="body">The use of stickers such as PRESS and MEDIA should be used only by those involved in gathering news or in videographing or photographing. Indiscriminate use of these stickers would be severely dealt with. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <h1>HC reserves orders on comed-K counselling </h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-reserves-orders-on-comedk-counselling/263272-60-115.html"> http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-reserves-orders-on-comedk-counselling/263272-60-115.html</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://newindianexpress.com" target="_blank">Express News Service</a></p> <p id="font_text">BANGALORE: The High Court on Wednesday reserved its orders on a petition pertaining to re-counselling of postgraduate dental courses of Comed-K (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges - Karnataka), which challenged an interim order on the re-counselling.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">During hearing, counsel for Comed-K stated that seats are still available for these students and that they will be given priority in a second round of counselling, which will be held on May 31.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">However, the students rejected the offer and sought re-counselling.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">A division bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice B V Nagarathna reserved its judgement on the case.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">12 students had filed a petition before the HC alleging the Comed-K of barring them from counselling on grounds that they had not produced demand drafts from nationalised banks and a few failed to produce the original counterfoil.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text"><i>Status Quo on PG Medical admissions</i></p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">The HC on Wednesday directed the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges and Karnataka Religious & Linguistic Minority Professional Colleges Association to maintain status quo on the admission process of post-graduate medical courses until the matter is settled in court.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">�</span>Hearing a petition, Justice Ashok B Hinchigeri said that as per Supreme Court’s direction, counselling should be completed on May 31 and if any merit seats remain, they should be transferred to the management quota.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text"><i>Teachers’ appointment stayed</i></p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">The HC on Wednesday stayed a government notification on the appointment of 3,407 teachers over a petition alleging irregularities in appointing physically challenged candidates.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">The court directed the government to issue the notification again providing reservation to physically challenged candidates receiving special education in BEd.</p> <p class="txt" id="font_text"><i>Ravi case posted for orders</i></p> <p class="txt" id="font_text">Lokayukta Court on Wednesday posted for orders a case against BJP MLA C T Ravi in which the complainant had challenged the ‘B’ report filed by Lokayukta Police giving him a clean chit to June 8.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">HC opens justice doors for jailed tribals</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120601/jsp/frontpage/story_15556428.jsp#.T8jph5hcib4">http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120601/jsp/frontpage/story_15556428.jsp#.T8jph5hcib4</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SUMAN K. SHRIVASTAVA </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ranchi, May 31: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prisoners of Jharkhand — a majority of them tribals — who are facing charges of waging war against the state may have reason to believe that they are no less equal before the law than the free man.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jharkhand High Court has constituted a committee headed by Justice D.N. Patel to monitor the trial of persons alleged to be members of banned outfits such as CPI(Maoist) and PLFI and speed up the legal process to deliver justice to them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It will bring ongoing trial in the lower judiciary in cases slapped under stringent legislation like Prevention of Terrorism Act, Criminal Law Amendment Act, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and Explosives and Arms Act, besides murder and extortion charges, under the high court’s scanner.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Chief Justice Prakash Tatia formed the panel on May 18, the day the high court closed on account of summer vacation, swinging into action after a report of then Ranchi judicial commissioner A.V. Singh in January painted a grim picture of trial of prisoners in Khunti sub-divisional jail.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Justice Tatia’s action came days before Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh wrote to chief minister Arjun Munda saying that many innocent tribal people in Maoist-hit areas were being implicated in false cases and put behind bars.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The high court has also asked the lower courts to send detailed reports on the status of trials in such cases by June 6. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The lower courts have been asked to explain the status on the number of cases pending and disposed of in the last quarter, the number of accused chargesheeted and reasons for delay.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Newly appointed court managers who are MBAs will analyse the data, following which the court will take corrective measures.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Singh, who had undertaken a study in response to a petition filed by prisoners, observed in his report that 546 sessions cases involving serious offences in which jail terms can be more than seven years were pending in Khunti sub-divisional court for years.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Along with district officials, he interviewed around 100 undertrials, whose main demand was speedy trial of their cases and to ensure the presence of witnesses in the court.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ironically, the number of sessions cases pending for trial was only marginally less than petty offences, which were pegged at 591.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This implied that police were booking most of the arrested persons in the tribal-dominated district, including ordinary men, under provisions meant to bring extremists to justice.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Singh’s report also said that summons were not being served as Khunti was in a Naxalite-hit zone. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Khunti has seven police stations while improvised explosive devices are planted across the entire area. As a result, police officers are directed to move in a bunch not less than 20.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Also, there is paucity of security forces, as only 242 policemen, right from constable to the rank of officer, are posted and most of the time they are engaged in anti-Maoist operations. So, there is difficulty in execution of the summons, warrants and processes of the court leading to delay in the court trial,” the report said.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ninety per cent of the 320 undertrials lodged in Khunti sub-division jail are said to be tribals, the report said.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Justice Patel, who also heads the committee on using IT in judiciary, said the high court’s main focus was on monitoring old cases.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“After successfully putting in place the online trial system at Madhupur, we are working on connecting the central jails with various courts,” he told <b>The Telegraph</b>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“The persons facing serious charges are supposed to be lodged in high-security central jails. They can face trial from one jail even if the cases are registered against him in various districts,” he pointed out.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Incidentally, the undertrials facing extremism charges in Ghaghidih Central Jail went on hunger strike on May 28 seeking speedy trial of senior rebel leaders languishing in prisons across the state.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Meanwhile, Ramesh had shot off letters Munda as well as the chief ministers of Odisha and Chhattisgarh on May 23 taking up cudgels on behalf of tribals languishing in jails.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Union minister, who is keen on expediting development initiatives in Saranda after security forces reclaimed the liberated zone, wrote in his letter to Munda that “a large number of tribals are in jail, for no reason whatsoever, and that, in reality, they should be freed at the earliest”.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <h1>HC reserve orders on anticipatory bail plea of H.D. Kumaraswamy</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article3476973.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article3476973.ece</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">PTI</span></span> </p> <p class="body">Karnataka High Court on Thursday reserved orders on the anticipatory bail petition filed by former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in a case relating to alleged irregularities in denotification of government land in 2007. </p> <p class="body">Justice K N Keshavanarayana reserved the verdict after conclusion of final arguments and also extended the interim bail granted to Mr. Kumaraswamy till pronouncement of order on anticipatory bail plea. </p> <p class="body">Earlier Mr. Kumaraswamy appeared in the Lokayukta court in pursuant with the summons issued to him earlier this month to appear before it on or before May 31 and the matter was adjourned to June 2. </p> <p class="body">On April 16, the High Court had granted six-week interim bail to him in connection with the case. </p> <p class="body">The Lokayukta court last month ordered issue of summons to Mr. Kumaraswamy and others in a private complaint filed by Mahadevaswamy alleging violation of rules in ordering denotification of 3.8 acres in Thanisandra which had been acquired for formation of Arkavathy layout. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <h1>HC suspends CBI court judge</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-suspends-CBI-court-judge/articleshow/13694666.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-suspends-CBI-court-judge/articleshow/13694666.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> Jun 1, 2012, 01.35AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday night placed T Pattabhirama Rao, the first additional special judge for CBI cases under suspension after duly considering some secret information it received against the judge. <br /> <br /> It was felt necessary to keep him under suspension in public interest with immediate effect, the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/HC">HC</a> registrar general said in an order that was released. <br /> <br /> Pattabhirama Rao was appointed <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CBI-court-judge">CBI court judge</a> a few weeks ago. He had dealt with only a few cases. <br /> <br /> While he rejected bail to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/IAS-officer-Y-Srilakshmi">IAS officer Y Srilakshmi</a>, an accused in the illegal mining scam, he granted the relief to Gali Janardhan Reddy, the key accused in the case. <br /> <br /> The HC, however, stayed his decision later following an appeal by the CBI. <br /> <br /> While suspending Pattabhi, the HC which launched disciplinary proceedings against him under Rule 8(1) of the AP civil services (CC&A) Rules, 1991, ordered him not to leave Hyderabad without obtaining prior permission from it. <br /> <br /> A Pullaiah, the principal special judge of the CBI court, was given the full additional charge of the court. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="authorcmt" id="authorcmt"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> <iframe id="google_ad_bot" name="google_ad_bot" allowtransparency="true" title="Advertisement" vspace="0" hspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/configspace/ads/google_ad_bot_17feb2012.html" align="middle" frameborder="0" height="95" scrolling="no" width="660"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <h1>HC refuses to entertain BSP MLC’s plea against Lokayukta</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-entertain-bsp-mlcs-plea-against-lokayukta/956538/"> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hc-refuses-to-entertain-bsp-mlcs-plea-against-lokayukta/956538/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/">Express news service</a> : Lucknow, Fri Jun 01 2012, 04:27 hrs </p> <p> The Allahabad High Court on Thursday refused to give any interim relief to BSP MLC Mukul Upadhyay, who had filed a petition questioning the authority under which state Lokayukta Justice N K Mehrotra was continuing in office. The court has fixed July 10 as the next date of hearing on which it will decide the maintainability of the petition. </p> <p>In his petition, which had come up for hearing before a division bench of Justices Sunil Ambwani and Aditya Nath Mittal, Upadhyay had prayed to the court to issue a show cause notice against Justice Mehrotra to explain how he was continuing in office and drawing salary and other allowances. He had also questioned the validity of the ordinance under which the tenure of Justice Mehrotra was extended by the govenrment. He had further prayed that all the recommendations made by Justice Mehrotra post-extension of tenure should be stayed. </p> <p>However, government counsels C B Yadav and Ramanand Pandey argued that the relief sought by Upadhyay could not be granted because “he is facing inquiry by the vigilance department for various irregularities.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>Madras HC stays trial against boy who murdered teacher</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-stays-trial-against-boy-who-murdered-teacher/articleshow/13696876.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-HC-stays-trial-against-boy-who-murdered-teacher/articleshow/13696876.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">A Subramani, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 06.24AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> CHENNAI: The trial in the sensational murder of school teacher <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/uma-maheshwari-mills-ltd/stocks/companyid-12276.cms" target="_blank">Uma Maheshwari</a>, who was stabbed by a class 10 student inside the classroom on February 9, was stayed by the Madras high court on Thursday after the boy's father alleged lapses in the juvenile justice board (JJB) proceedings.<br /><br /><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vacation-judge">Vacation judge</a> Justice Aruna Jagadeesan granted the interim stay till June 8 after the boy's father sought transfer of trial to some other <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/JJB-Sports">JJB</a> or before some other presiding officer. The trial commenced at the JJB here on May 28. The murder took place at St Mary's <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Anglo-Indian-Higher-Secondary-School">Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School</a> at Broadway.<br /><br />Senior counsel R Shanmugasundaram, representing the boy's father, told the court that the trial commenced without the boy being furnished the full set of chargesheet and other documents. Alleging serious procedural lapses at the JJB, Shanmugasundaram submitted that mandatory requirements stipulated under Sections 207 and 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure had been violated. Though the two sections made it clear that the boy shall be furnished a copy of the police report, statements and other documents, the board furnished only portions of the chargesheet and other documents in two instalments, he said. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC directs Haryana to pay Rs 5L each to acid attack victims</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/HC-directs-Haryana-to-pay-Rs-5L-each-to-acid-attack-victims/articleshow/13696293.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/HC-directs-Haryana-to-pay-Rs-5L-each-to-acid-attack-victims/articleshow/13696293.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 05.03AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> CHANDIGARH: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Punjab-and-Haryana-high-court">Punjab and Haryana high court</a> on Thursday directed the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Haryana-government">Haryana government</a> to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to three girls injured in an acid attack in Rohtak in 2011. While issuing directions, Justice Rajan Gupta ordered the state government to pay the amount within two weeks.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">On May 22, the high court had told the CBI to probe the incident within six months and to look into the victims' allegations against the cops of exonerating the culprits.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">On June 18, 2011, three minor girls had suffered burns when two youths threw acid on them in Sector 3, Rohtak. The girls, two of them class X students and the third studying in class XII, were returning after attending tuition classes when the accused attacked them. An FIR was registered under various sections of the IPC for attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy. In her statement before the judicial magistrate, one of the victims had identified Rohan as the main accused. However, despite her statement, police had exonerated him from the charges.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">Unable to contest their case because of poverty, the victims had then approached the state legal services authority.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC seeks report from govt on compliance of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagjostic Techniques Act</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-seeks-report-from-govt-on-compliance-of-Pre-Conception-and-Pre-Natal-Diagjostic-Techniques-Act/articleshow/13695470.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-seeks-report-from-govt-on-compliance-of-Pre-Conception-and-Pre-Natal-Diagjostic-Techniques-Act/articleshow/13695470.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 03.10AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> JAIPUR: A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has called for a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/report">report</a> from the state government following allegations of non-compliance of the provisions of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagjostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and also cautioned that its provisions are not violated.<br /><br />The order came on a PIL filed by Centre For Public Grievances, an organization, which alleged that the various provisions of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/PCPNDT-Act">PCPNDT Act</a> are not being followed. "It was also given out in the PIL that in a survey conducted in 2009, it was highlighted by government officials themselves that as many as 350 fake licences were issued in the name of 'genetic clinics' but when an effort was made to search those clinics, not a single <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Clinic-%28musician%29">clinic</a> was found working. It also came up that six licenses were issued to one doctor alone and there were 15 fake licences in Jodhpur," said the counsel for petitioner.<br /><br />The petitioner contended that the Act was amended by the Union government and even the Supreme Court in 2009 asked the state government to take measures for compliance of the Act but no single step has been taken. Highlighting the non-compliance, the petitioner alleged that as per the provisions of the Act, there has to be a state supervisory board with minister in-charge of health and family welfare as its chairperson but the state government has assigned the job to a minister of state. Further, the board has not been properly constituted.<br /><br />It has also been given out that as per provisions of Section 16A, the meeting of the state board is mandatory to be held once in four months. But the board meeting have not been held after April 1, 2011 and only one meeting has been held in the past two years.<br /><br />It has also been given out that the advisory committee as per Section-17(6) is required to be constituted at the state level, district level and sub divisional level with eight members each. "The state government constituted an advisory committee at the state-level by a notification dated 25.7.01 and according to this notification, four members will be nominated by the state government. But these four members have not been nominated by the government till today. The act is very powerful but the same has been made toothless with no effective machinery of which the court has taken cognizance," said Naina Saraf, advocate. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC lifts ban on land use conversion, okays 90A</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-lifts-ban-on-land-use-conversion-okays-90A/articleshow/13695189.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/HC-lifts-ban-on-land-use-conversion-okays-90A/articleshow/13695189.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Abhinav-Sharma.cms">Abhinav Sharma</a>, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 02.38AM IST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court has lifted its stay on land use change and conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes. The court also okayed the newly introduced Section <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/90A">90A</a> which will now replace the old Section 90B of Land Revenue Act. The order was issued by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Mahesh Bhagwati on Thursday.<br /><br />The provisions of 90-B, which was stayed by the court last year, so far provided for conversion of agricultural land that has been put to non-agricultural use. The regularizations were being made ever since its inception in 1999. The state government in response to a PIL on Thursday clarified the position of new law, Section 90A, to be introduced for regularization of illegal colonies and plots in the state.<br /><br />A PIL was filed by one Jago Janata Society through advocate Poonam Chand Bhandari challenging the validity of the regularizations made after June 17, 1999 as it was contended that it was a one time scheme to regularize only those illegal constructions in the state which have been made prior to June 1999.<br /><br />It was also given out that there is no scheme for conversion of agricultural land for commercial, residential, or other non-agricultural use as such and all the allotments made after the date notifying Section 90-B should be declared illegal.<br /><br />On Thursday, additional advocate general SN Kumawat, appearing for state government, told a division bench that government has framed detailed rules which are quite transparent and therefore, there is no grievance pertaining to 90-B as the same is no more a part of statute books. As such, the PIL has become infructuous.<br /><br />The court than granted liberty to the petitioner NGO to withdraw the same and file a fresh petition in case the new provision appears to be non-productive and resultantly the stay order granted in the PIL has also come to an end allowing various local self governing bodies to go ahead with the land use change under the newly framed rules. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p> <h1>HC questions cops’ role in tax evasion cases</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-questions-cops-role-in-tax-evasion-cases/articleshow/13694639.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/HC-questions-cops-role-in-tax-evasion-cases/articleshow/13694639.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"> <span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%; font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 01.31AM IS T</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt">HYDERABAD: Wondering what the civil police had got to do with the issue of tax evasion, justice B Chandra Kumar of the high court on Thursday granted bail to jewellers T Venkata Naga Jayasri and Rachapudi Sudheer, the owners of the city's RSR Jewellers.<br /><br />The owners had lodged a complaint with the police after a burglary on May 7 at their jewellery shop at Chikadpally.<br /><br />In the course of the investigation, the police proceeded against the owners of the shop for alleged evasion of Value Added Tax. They were arrested on May 23 and lodged at Chanchalguda jail. They said that their prosecution by police lacked sanction of law in the absence of permission from the commissioner. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <h1>Scrap dealer says kept boy as his own</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Scrap-dealer-says-kept-boy-as-his-own/articleshow/13695881.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Scrap-dealer-says-kept-boy-as-his-own/articleshow/13695881.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Shreya Roy Chowdhury &amp; Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt; line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 04.04AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: A fortnight ago, the boy who was restored to his parents by <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/scrap-dealer">scrap dealer</a> Azad Hussain had sold a water-cooler stand from his scrapyard for Rs 300 and bought a model earthmover — bright yellow, battery-operated. Everyone in and around the scrapyard, on the edge of South City I, Gurgaon, knows how central earthmovers are in the boy's life. One had brought him to them.<br /><br />Whenever he went missing — which was often, says Azad — they had to track earthmover movements in the area. "We'd find him by one - he'd be riding it or just sitting in it," says Azad's mother, Munni. "He didn't even tell us he'd bought the model," says Azad laughing. They still have his clothes, his school uniform — he had been admitted to the same school as Azad's sisters last year — and his toys. He misses the kid. He called several times the day he dropped him off. "I kept thinking they'd call back but they didn't."<br /><br />Along with the boy, Azad left a piece of advice at Savitri Nagar — "Don't let him out of your sight for the next seven-eight years." Originally from Bareilly, UP, and living at Indira Vikas Colony for about a decade, Azad's family — parents and six siblings — didn't know <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Chirag-Dilli">Chirag Dilli</a> existed till the 12-year-old recognized the name. As they approached his home, the kid seemed to recall landmarks. A number of locals helped them along. A helmet-wala Azad stopped at to get his visor fixed led them to a kachoriwala, who sent them toward Savitri Nagar. "The boy knew the nala. He next recognized a dumpyard — he must have played there once — and then said his house is white," recalls Azad, "When he correctly identified a shopkeeper as 'Sandeep', we knew we were on the right track. His dadi saw him first and fainted."<br /><br />During the first few months after Azad spotted the boy (then 10) at a street vendor near Kataria Chowk and brought him home, the two covered all the bridges and nalas in the area. "If only he had told us he's from Delhi. He never told us. We spent so much time looking in Gurgaon," says Azad. In fact, the boy didn't say much at all. He said his mother had passed away, that he had a brother and a sister and that his father was Iqbal. He didn't say where they could be found.<br /><br />"All I've ever wanted is for him to be restored to his family," says Azad. Acquaintances wanted to adopt him; he rebuffed the offer. But after the first round of frantic search was over, the boy got restless and rather difficult to handle. He'd take off several times in a month, sometimes returning after days. "The longest he's stayed away is for three days. He'd never tell us clearly what he did on these tours -- where he slept, what he ate. When he was done, he'd call us," says Azad.<br /><br />He got mad, he admits openly; he even slapped the kid a few times just as he would chastise his younger sister. "I wanted him to behave, to fit in, the way I would a younger brother. How else would he learn?" he asks and asserts that the other allegation — that he made the boy work without paying — is untrue. He wants the matter settled and regrets not having kept a copy of the complaint his family had filed at the Sector 40 police station when they first found the boy.<br /><br />"Will I be put behind bars? Is this what I deserve for doing something good," he asks. "The CWC can summon me any time so I am skipping a family wedding in Bareilly. I wish all this confusion could have been avoided."<br /><br />(With inputs from Joel Joseph) </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <h1>Maid abuse: CWC wants girl's statement under CrPC 164</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Maid-abuse-CWC-wants-girls-statement-under-CrPC-164/articleshow/13694492.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Maid-abuse-CWC-wants-girls-statement-under-CrPC-164/articleshow/13694492.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 01.15AM IST</span></span></p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt"> NOIDA: With two separate cases of domestic help abuse being reported in Noida within three days, the child welfare committee has instructed police to record the statement of a 13-year-old domestic help under Section 164 of CrPC. She was allegedly abused by her employers in their Sector 44 residence. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CWC">CWC</a> officials said this move would strengthen the girl's case and aid in her receiving swift justice.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">CWC said that in the FIR, police had applied all sections relevant to child labour, involuntary confinement and bonded labour, but for the girl's rehabilitation, her statement should be recorded by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/ACJM">ACJM</a> under Section 164 of CrPC. "Once the statement has been recorded by the ACJM under this section, the rehabilitation process for the girl can begin and she can be released from judicial custody," said a CWC official.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">In the other case - in which another girl had been allegedly abused by her <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/software-engineer">software engineer</a> employer for almost a year - police said they were awaiting the medical report to verify the exact age of the girl.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">The first case was reported to police on March 24 following which the girl, aged between 13 and 14 years, was rescued from the Sector 44 house in Noida. "The girl was employed by a couple, Jagdeep and Shilpa Relan. The husband didn't live in Noida. When we rescued the girl, her body was riddled with injuries," said the police. The parents of the girl arrived in Noida from their village in Jharkhand on Sunday.</p> <p style="line-height:12.6pt">In the second case, police are waiting for the health department to submit the age proof of the girl. "In this case, the girl is around 14 years old and we need to be sure about her age because if she's older than 14, the child labour act doesn't apply to her," said a police official. Police also said they had traced the girl's family in Jharkhand with the aid of the state police.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <h1>Experts differ on CWC action</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span id="auim"><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"></span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Experts-differ-on-CWC-action/articleshow/13695838.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Experts-differ-on-CWC-action/articleshow/13695838.cms</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">TNN </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:6.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">|</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Jun 1, 2012, 03.59AM IST</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> NEW DELHI: The curious story of Azad Hussain — the good Samaritan who is now under the police scanner because of a <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CWC">CWC</a> order — has drawn a mixed response from independent observers and legal experts. While some feel that a probe into the allegations by the child Hussain restored to his family about being beaten up by the kabadiwallah or being asked to work is needed, others say there is no conclusive evidence against Azad and any proceedings against the man would amount to unnecessary harassment.<br /><br />"This is a peculiar case. The <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Child-Welfare-Committee">Child Welfare Committee</a> (CWC) is well within its right to order a police inquiry if the rescued child has made certain allegations against the person. But, on the other hand, if the version of the man who brought up him for two years is correct — that he treated him like his own children, sent him to school and always tried to unite the child with his biological parents — is correct, it's serious harassment. It is great injustice to him," said A P Shah, former Chief Justice of Delhi H C.<br /><br />A CWC official said that whenever any child is rescued or recovered, a medical examination is conducted to rule out any foul play and then the child is produced before a magistrate for recording his or her statement. "Missing children are produced before CWC because they are in need of care and protection and in order to decide on the custody of the child. The child, in this case, told the magistrate that he was beaten by the man and was made to work. The case was forwarded to us and we asked the police to investigate the matter as per law," the official said, pointing out that the person had not been pronounced guilty yet.<br /><br />The well-known retired judge of <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Delhi-High-Court">Delhi High Court</a> S N Dhingra was, however, critical of the CWC. "The CWC should have assessed the seriousness of the charges levelled by the child against the rescuer rather than ordering a police inquiry immediately. It is insensitive on the part of the child rights body," he said.<br /><br />"Today, when an accident takes place, few people come forward to help the victim, fearing that police may question them for suspected involvement. Nobody wants to get harassed like this. Azad's case just proves them right."<br /><br />Delhi's women and child development minister Kiran Walia said going by circumstantial evidence, there was no reason to doubt the intention of the rescuer. "The fact that Azad brought up this child for two years, sent him to school and made extra efforts to look for his biological parents shows his intentions were right. I feel that ordering a police inquiry without any conclusive proof of continuous abuse or harassment is unwarranted. We will look into the case," she said.<br /><br />The Malviya Nagar police have said they will be following the CWC order and record statements of neighbours of both the boy's father, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Muhammad-Iqbal">Iqbal</a>, who stays in Delhi's Savitri Nagar, and Azad. "We are now studying the statement of the child recorded before the magistrate. We are trying to find out if there was any malafide intention in the conduct of Azad. As of now, we have found that he truly wanted to reunite the child with his family. We will contact Gurgaon police and find out if the recovery of the child was conveyed to them by Azad and his family and whether these policemen have often restored the child back to the family whenever he ran off. We will register a case of were are convinced of any evil intention,'' said a senior cop. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <h1>Sports Ministry appeals to CIC to bring BCCI under RTI</h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-31/others/31920211_1_bcci-indian-cricket-board-national-sports-federation">http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-31/others/31920211_1_bcci-indian-cricket-board-national-sports-federation</a></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pubdate"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">PTI</span></span><span class="separator"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> </span></span>May 31, 2012, 06.56PM IST </p> <p>NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry is pinning its hope on the Central Information Commission to bring the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) under the purview of the Right to Information Act.</p> <p>Sports Minister <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ajay-Maken">Ajay Maken</a> said he has appealed to the CIC to bring <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BCCI">BCCI</a> under RTI for varied reasons.</p> <p>"We have appealed to the CIC (to bring BCCI under RTI). Our appeal is based on a number of valid reasons," he told reporters after unveiling the Draft National Youth Policy on Thursday.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> "The first reason why the BCCI should come under RTI is that the lands on which the state federations have built their stadiums and other facilities have been provided by the state governments.</p> <p>"Moreover, from 1996 to 2006, the government has given a tax exemption of Rs 365 crore to the BCCI," he said.</p> <p>"And the most important thing is that the biggest public function they are performing is by selecting the team for India. Any team or institution which plays under the Indian flag should come under RTI," Maken added.</p> <p>The proposed National Sports Bill, which was prepared after receiving comments and suggestions from various stakeholders and the public, seeks to have BCCI as National Sports Federation (NSF) and wants it to function as a public authority and comply with the requirements specified in the RTI Act.</p> <p>If the BCCI becomes an NSF, it would be bound to provide information under the RTI and would also be forced to follow the anti-doping rules as specified by the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/World-Anti-Doping-Agency">World Anti-Doping Agency</a> (WADA).</p> <p>These proposals of the Bill have been vehemently opposed by the BCCI and some other sports bodies, including the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), which want to continue functioning in an autonomous manner, free from public scrutiny and accountability.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt">Supreme Court judge recuses himself from Bidari case</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/253568/apex-court-judge-recuses-bidaris.html">http://www.deccanherald.com/content/253568/apex-court-judge-recuses-bidaris.html</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">New Delhi, May 31, 2012, DHNS:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><a name="top"></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">A Supreme Court judge on Thursday recused himself from hearing a plea of Shankar M Bidari seeking his reinstatement as the police chief of Karnataka.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">As the case came up for hearing, Justice J S Khehar, sitting alongside Justice K S Radhakrishnan in the Vacation Bench, expressed his unwillingness to hear the appeal filed by Bidari against the Karnataka High Court’s order. The matter is now listed for hearing for Friday before a Bench comprising Justice Radhakrishnan and Justice C K Prasad.<br /><br />In a setback to Bidari, the High Court had on May 29 held that his empanelment for the post of State police chief was vitiated as the State government had failed to produce the Justice Sadashiva panel report and the NHRC order indicting him for alleged atrocities committed during the manhunt for forest brigand Veerappan.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">“There is a specific reference to Bidari in the panel report in three paragraphs, which is in the nature of an adverse comment with respect to his functioning as a commandant of the Special Task Force. The Sadashiva panel report and the NHRC order which upheld the findings of the report and recommended payment of compensation, constitutes material information which ought to have been placed before the UPSC by the State government,” the High Court had said.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Bidari had challenged the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) quashing his appointment as the DG&amp;IGP on November 30 last year. The apex court had earlier set aside a Karnataka High Court order directing removal of Bidari and appointment of A R Infant as the DGP &amp; IGP.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.6pt"> </p> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Kamal Kumar Pandey
Advocate Supreme Court of India
adv.kamal.kr.pandey@gmail.com</div>Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16768694387395526204noreply@blogger.com0