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  • Supreme Court asks Bihar government to produce records related to exemption of Anand Mohan

    Supreme Court asks Bihar government to produce records related to exemption of Anand Mohan

    New Delhi (IANS) | The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Bihar government to produce the original records with regard to the immunity granted to former MP Anand Mohan, who was arrested in 1994 by Golapganj District Magistrate G. In the case of Krishnaya’s murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Justices Suryakant and J.B. Pardiwala’s bench directed the counsel for the Bihar government to produce for perusal of the court the original records relating to the exemption granted to Mohan. The top court has fixed the matter for next hearing in August.

    On 8 May, the Supreme Court ordered IAS officer G. The notice was issued on a petition by the widow of Krishnaiah, who was lynched by a mob led by Singh in 1994, against the premature release of Anand Mohan from jail.

    The sentence of life imprisonment awarded to a convict as an alternative to death sentence has to be looked at differently and distinguishable from simple life imprisonment awarded as first choice punishment, states the petition filed by Umadevi Krishnaya. should go. An alternative to the death penalty, to be carried out strictly as directed by the court and would be beyond application of remission.

    Said, life imprisonment means whole life. Its 14 years cannot be explained. It means imprisonment till the last breath.

    Anand Mohan was released from Saharsa Jail after the amendment in Bihar’s jail rules.

    The petition states that Mohan is a politically influential person and he himself killed serving IAS officer G Krishnaiah when he was a Member of Parliament. He enjoys political support and has several criminal cases pending against him.

    The plea argued that the Bihar Prison Manual, provides that convicts whose death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment would be eligible for remission only after completion of 20 years of their sentence.

    In 1994 Krishnaiah, the then District Magistrate of Gopalganj, who hailed from Telangana, was lynched by a mob when his vehicle tried to overtake the funeral procession of gangster Chhotan Shukla. The mob was instigated by Anand Mohan.

    –IANS

  • Bihar government warns protesting teachers, teachers union flares up

    Bihar government warns protesting teachers, teachers union flares up

    Patna (IANS) | Protests have started in Bihar ever since the new recruitment rules for teachers were made. Meanwhile, the government has warned of strict disciplinary action if employed teachers participate in protest programs against the rules. Here, the teachers union has also ignored the warning.

    In a letter sent to the District Education Officers, Additional Chief Secretary, Education Department, Deepak Kumar Singh has said that all District Education Officers of the state should ensure that disciplinary action is initiated against teachers appointed through Panchayati Raj Institutions who Organizes or participates in any protest against the new rules made by the state government recently for the appointment of teachers in government schools.

    The letter said that there have been reports in the media that the teachers are planning to organize a protest against the new rules for the appointment of government teachers.

    It may be noted that the state cabinet had on May 2 approved the proposal to recruit 1.78 lakh teachers for primary, middle and high schools through the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC). A day after the cabinet cleared the proposal, protests broke out over the modalities of the appointments.

    Expressing objection to the manner of appointments, several unions of teachers had told it against the 3.5 lakh teachers appointed through Panchayati Raj Institutions.

    State General Secretary of Bihar State Secondary Teachers Association, Shatrughan Prasad Singh said that the letter issued by Deepak Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Education Department, violates the fundamental rights of the Constitution of India.

    He said that no citizen of India can follow any order which is anti-constitutional, Bihar Secondary Teachers Association. If the government makes a policy against us, then we have a fundamental right in a democracy to oppose it.

    He said that the government will have to be forced and rectify the mistakes. He said that the government wants to make those teachers who have been providing service for 20 years unemployed. Wants to lay off them. We will not give you this right at any cost.

    –IANS

  • Caste-based Survey: Patna HC Rejects Bihar Govt Plea For Early Hearing

    Caste-based Survey: Patna HC Rejects Bihar Govt Plea For Early Hearing

    The Patna High Court on Tuesday rejected the Bihar government’s plea, seeking early hearing of its interim stay on caste-based survey in the state. The court said the hearing will take place on July 3, the date fixed earlier, and the stay will remain in effect till then.

    It had on May 4 put a stay on the caste-based survey in its interim order, while hearing a batch of petitions. The division bench of Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad had fixed July 3 as the next date of hearing. Later, an interlocutory application was filed in the high court on behalf of the Bihar government, urging for an early hearing in the matter.

    In its May 4 order, the court had termed the caste-based survey as virtually a census by another name, and “prima facie unconstitutional” as it “impinges on the legislative powers of Parliament”. “The state government has no right to conduct such a caste census in Bihar,” the court said.

    The bench had held that the Bihar government’s “intention to share data of a caste survey with various political parties in the state assembly raises a larger question of the infringement of the fundamental right to privacy of the people in general”. There is also the question of data integrity and security, which has to be more elaborately addressed by the state, it said.

  • Bihar government ‘releases’ prisoner killed in November last year

    Bihar government ‘releases’ prisoner killed in November last year

    Patna (IANS) | The Bihar government had decided to release 27 prisoners including Anand Mohan. The list also includes the name of a prisoner who died in jail in November last year. Now the deceased prisoner has been released. Patiram Rai, a 93-year-old prisoner, died on 10 November 2022 in Buxar Jail. Yet the Law Ministry of Bihar included his (deceased Patiram Rai) name in the list of 27 persons to be released after serving 14 years in prison with good conduct.

    The Bihar government has issued a notification placing Anand Mohan at 11th position and Patiram Rai at 15th position.

    Superintendent of Buxar Open Jail, Rajeev Kumar said, Patiram Rai, who was serving life sentence, died on November 10, 2022 due to illness. Rai was a native of Simri village in the district. Apart from them, we have released 4 more prisoners from the list received from the Government of Bihar.

    One of the prisoners, Ramadhar Ram, has not been released, as the fine imposed on him was not deposited in the court. Ram’s family can pay the fine in the Arrah district court, after which he will be released.

    –IANS