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  • Action will not be taken against the Deputy Collector at present, the High Court has stayed

    Action will not be taken against the Deputy Collector at present, the High Court has stayed

    Bilaspur. The High Court has stayed any adverse action against the Deputy Collector posted in the district. The High Court has issued a notice to the Commissioner of Durg and the Collector of Kawardha seeking their response. On May 16, the General Administration Department issued a notice to Deputy Collector Rekha Chandra, posted in Raigad district, asking her to produce a disability certificate issued by the District Medical Board as per the provisions of Section 91 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. He has challenged the notice issued by the General Administration Department in the High Court through Advocates Matin Siddiqui, Diksha Gaurah and Zainab Vanak.

    The petition states that the provisions of Section 91 of the Act are not applicable to the petitioner in this case. He is the Deputy Collector in Raigarh District since the year 2019. He had produced a certificate of 43 per cent disability. A complaint was made to the Chief Minister in August 2019 for obtaining the certificate illegally. After this, a physical examination was conducted at the Divisional Medical Board Rajnandgaon of Durg division. 57 percent disability has been mentioned in the certificate issued by the board. He has also been issued a certificate of Bilateral Moderately Severe Hearing Loss. After proper departmental inquiry into the complaint made against him, a detailed inquiry report had also been given to the commissioner.

    Even after this, the Under Secretary of the General Administration Department has issued a notice questioning the authenticity of the disability certificate. While hearing the matter, Justice PP Sahu’s bench has prohibited any adverse action against the Deputy Collector. Also issued a notice seeking reply.

  • Clever murderer sentenced to life imprisonment, murdered and donated the dead body to the medical college

    Clever murderer sentenced to life imprisonment, murdered and donated the dead body to the medical college

    Raipur. Four years ago, in February 2019, in Purani Basti, after strangulating an elderly mother to death, the adopted son, who cleverly donated her dead body to the Medical College, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Criminal Sudip Kumar Bose (26 years) killed the person who had adopted him for greed of money and property. To destroy the evidence, the dead body was donated to the Medical College. But the truth came out in the court.

    Special Judge (Atrocities) Hirendra Singh Tekam sentenced him to life imprisonment. Accused Sudeep was adopted by 68-year-old deceased Hemprabha. Both Parshuram Nagar lived near Gupta Kirana. On February 25, at 10 pm, the accused strangulated the old woman to death. To dispose of the dead body, he took the deceased to a private hospital on the pretext of deteriorating health. The doctor declared him dead after examination. The deceased had declared while alive that she would donate her body. Taking advantage of this, he handed over the dead body to the Medical College.

    He did not tell any relative about the deteriorating health of the deceased and about being taken to the hospital. He himself donated his body. Jagdish Bose, the brother of the deceased, got suspicious. On his complaint, the police came to know during investigation that Sudeep used to beat Hemprabha for money. The police conducted the post-mortem of the dead body. It was found that there were marks of beating and assault with blunt weapons on the body of the deceased. The police arrested the accused and the court has now sentenced him.

  • Narada sting operation: HC gives CBI four months to probe against TMC MP

    Narada sting operation: HC gives CBI four months to probe against TMC MP

    Kolkata (IANS) | Justice Rajasekhar of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted four months time to the CBI to complete its probe into the Narada sting operation against Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Aparupa Poddar alias Afreen Ali. On 18 April, Poddar approached the High Court with a plea to have his name removed from the FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Narada sting video case of 2016.

    Poddar, the Trinamool Congress MP from Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency in Hooghly district, said in her petition that several years have passed since the central agency started probing the case and nothing concrete has come to the fore in the matter. In such a situation, his image is being tarnished due to his name being included in the FIR.

    Passing the order on his plea, Justice Mantha set a time limit of four months to complete the probe against Poddar. However, Justice Mantha clearly mentioned that the four-month time limit is only for Poddar and not for other accused in the case. He also observed that if the central agency is unable to complete the investigation against Poddar in the case, then his name will be taken out of the purview of the investigation.

    The Narada video sting operation came to light just before the 2016 West Bengal assembly elections. It showed several Trinamool leaders and an IPS officer receiving money in return for favours.

    Although opposition forces such as the Left Front-Congress alliance and the BJP used the sting extensively in their campaign against the ruling Trinamool Congress, the people of the state brought back Mamata Banerjee and her party with a thumping majority in the assembly elections that year.

    Soon after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, the CBI has booked the state’s Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, the then State Panchayat Affairs and Rural Development Minister, late Subrata Mukherjee, Trinamool Congress MLAs Madan Mitra and Former Mayor of Kolkata Sovan Chatterjee arrested. All four are seen taking cash in the sting video.

    –IANS

  • No relief to Manish Sisodia as High Court denies interim bail in money laundering case

    No relief to Manish Sisodia as High Court denies interim bail in money laundering case

    The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to grant interim bail to AAP leader Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case arising from the alleged excise policy scam.

    Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma, however, allowed him to meet his ailing wife in custody for one day as per her convenience between 10 am and 5 pm.

    The former Delhi deputy chief minister had sought release on a temporary basis for six weeks on grounds that he was the sole caretaker of his ailing wife. His plea for regular bail in the matter is pending before the high court.

    Sisodia, who was arrested on March 9, is currently in judicial custody in the case lodged by the ED.

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had opposed the plea for interim bail on grounds of possibility of evidence tampering.

    The ED lawyer has also claimed that Sisodia’s wife has been suffering from such a medical condition for the last 20 years.

    The Delhi government implemented the policy on November 17, 2021 but scrapped it at the end of September 2022 amid allegations of corruption.

    On May 30, the court had dismissed the bail plea of Sisodia in the excise policy scam being probed by the CBI, saying he is an influential person and the allegations against him are very serious in nature.

    In the CBI case, the high court has kept the interim bail plea pending for July.  

  • Class XI admission subject to decision on writ petition: High Court

    Class XI admission subject to decision on writ petition: High Court

    Acting on a minor’s plea against reserving 85 per cent of the total seats in UT government senior secondary schools for Class X pass outs from government schools in Chandigarh, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (HC) has ruled that admissions to Class XI would be subject to the decision on the present writ petition.

    In the petition placed before Justice Vikas Bahl’s Bench, the minor was seeking quashing the press note and the prospectus issued by the Director School Education to the extent. This, the petitioner contended, was in violation of Article 14 and 15 of the Constitution of India.

    Petitioner Swiyyahdeep Kaur, through counsel Aalok Jagga, also prayed for the issuance of directions to the respondents to consider her candidature for admission to Class XI “from all available seats of government senior secondary schools in Chandigarh”.

    Directions were also sought for staying the operation of the impugned press note and the condition for reservation in the prospectus during the pendency of the plea. In alternative, directions were sought for reserving one seat for the petitioner or permitting her to be considered provisionally for admission process against all available seats of Class Xl.

  • The girl had eloped with her boyfriend with 1 lakh, now both are in police custody

    The girl had eloped with her boyfriend with 1 lakh, now both are in police custody

    Bilaspur. The missing girl from Lokhandi village in the district has been safely brought back from Tripura by the police after getting orders from the High Court. The youth who abducted him has also been arrested. The said girl had left the house on May 2 without informing anyone with Rs 1 lakh. When he could not be found from the neighbors and acquaintances, the relatives lodged a report at the Sakri police station. The police did not make any effort to find out after talking to some local people.

    Meanwhile, the family members came to know that a young man living here from outside is also missing. The relatives then gave sources to the police to search for the girl. Despite this, the police did not show readiness. Then he filed a habeas corpus petition through advocate Sandeep Srivastava before the vacation judge. The Division Bench of Justice Sachin Singh Rajput and Justice Sanjay Aggarwal directed the police to find the girl and produce her in the court. After the order of the High Court, the police became active and recovered the girl from Bangladesh border in Tripura along with a young man named Armaan. The girl was brought safely and produced in the court. Along with this, the youth Armaan was also taken into custody. The girl has been produced in the court where she has told that she was introduced to Armaan alias Abdul through social media and went with him. The next hearing of the matter in the High Court has been kept on June 12.

  • Thiruvidanthai temple land issue: HC issues notice to Govt

    Thiruvidanthai temple land issue: HC issues notice to Govt

    CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Chengalpattu district Collector and other authorities to respond to a petition seeking a stay on the allocation of Thiruvidanthai temple land to the Irula Snake Catchers Industrial and Cooperative Society and an order to protect the property associated with the temples of the Thiruvidanthai village in the interest of the public and worshipers.

    Hearing a Public Interest Litigation plea filed by Andi Rathinam and others from Thiruvidanthai village, the summer vacation bench comprising Justices CV Karthikeyan and SenthilKumar Ramamoorthy directed the Chengalpattu district administration, revenue authorities and the Irula Snake Catchers Industrial and Cooperative Society to respond to the petition within June 13 and adjourned the hearing.

    The petitioners claimed that the land belonging to the Varaha temple (Nithya Kalyana temple) was classified as temple land and at the same time, 3 acres and 20 cents of the land belonging to the Ponniyamman temple was wrongly classified as Punjai anatheenam land and therefore a petition has been submitted to the government seeking to change the wrong classification of the land and grant a patta.

    Subsequently, Tahsildar of Thiruporur taluk had issued a public notice regarding the allotment of the temple land to the Irula Snake Catchers Industrial and Cooperative Society.

    However, the expenses including temple pujas are carried out with the income generated from the land belonging to the temples, the petitioners demanded that the allotment of the temple land to a third party should be prohibited.

  • HC takes up PIL seeking ban on children doing ‘Thee Chamundi Theyyam’

    HC takes up PIL seeking ban on children doing ‘Thee Chamundi Theyyam’

    KOCHI: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been moved in the Kerala High Court seeking to prevent participation of children in the ‘Thee Chamundi Theyyam’ — a ritualistic dance in north Malabar region of the state — alleging that they are thrown on to embers 101 times as part of the performance tradition.

    A bench of Justices Anil K Narendran and Kauser Edappagath on Tuesday asked the petitioner NGO to implead the Malabar Devaswom Board and the trustees of the temple under which this dance performance is conducted.

    According to the plea by NGO Dhisha, the ‘Thee Chamundi Theyyam’, also known as ‘Ottakolam Theyyam’, is held by the Chirakkal Kovilakam and Chirakkal Temple Trust in connection with their annual function.

    The NGO has contended in its plea that this practice adversely affects the wellbeing of the children participating in the dance and also compromises their basic right to life.

    It also alleged that children selected to perform the dance belonged to the backward community and the performance was a ”relic of the feudal past”.

    The plea, filed through advocate A K Preetha, seeks a ban on the dance performance with children as participants. The court listed the matter for further hearing on May 22.

  • BJP Demands Resignation Of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Over HC Caste Survey Order

    BJP Demands Resignation Of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Over HC Caste Survey Order

    The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on Thursday came under fire from the opposition BJP, which also sought its resignation, over the Patna High Court’s stay on the caste survey.

    However, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav insisted that the court had given an “interim order” and a headcount of castes will, in due course, be conducted in all states of the country”.

    “We cannot comment much until having studied the order. As per the information we have, it is an interim, and not the final order. Upon a perusal of the order, the government will think of options like going in appeal”, said Yadav, who has been vocal in demanding a caste census, since his RJD was in the opposition.

    Soon after the court ordered a stay on the survey, fixing July 7 as the next date of hearing in the matter, state BJP president Samrat Choudhary told reporters “the entire government, headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, must resign as it failed to defend itself before the Patna High Court”.

    “The ruling Mahagathbandhan falsely accuses the BJP of being opposed to the survey. The survey was ordered when we were in power in the state. We had also voted in favour of a caste survey when resolutions were passed in the state legislature”, Choudhary pointed out.

    However, Yadav maintained, “had the BJP been truly in favour of the survey, the Centre would have agreed to undertake the same as part of the census. Or, at least, similar exercises would have been ordered in states ruled by it”.

    The CPI(ML) Liberation, which supports the Mahagathbandhan government from outside, called the High Court order “unfortunate”.

    The party’s state secretary Kunal said in a statement “the survey is much-needed since no caste census has been conducted after 1931 and a fresh estimate of the numbers of different social groups is required to make reservations and other schemes for weaker sections more effective”.

    “We hope the government will present its arguments better, and remove shortcomings, when the High Court takes up the matter for further hearing”, added Kunal.

    Meanwhile, former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha, who quit the JD(U) a couple of months ago, floated a new outfit and is likely to join the NDA, alleged that the High Court order has “exposed Nitish Kumar’s inability to carry forward the social justice movement”.

  • High court orders re-postmortem of BJP leader’s body

    High court orders re-postmortem of BJP leader’s body

    Kolkata (IANS) | A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered a second post-mortem on the body of Bijoy Krishna Bhunia, BJP booth president from Moyna in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district, at the army-run Command Hospital in Kolkata. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha passed the order after hearing a petition filed by the victim’s family members, seeking the post-mortem of the deceased leader’s body to be conducted at any hospital run by the central government. The family alleges that Bhunia was murdered by workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress.


    Bhunia’s body was recovered late on Monday night and his body was sent for post-mortem at a government hospital. Passing the order, Justice Mantha directed the command hospital authorities to form a team of experts to conduct the postmortem. He said that two forensic experts would be able to represent the state government at the time of autopsy. Justice Mantha said that the family members can also be present during the post-mortem, if they so desire.


    He directed the command hospital authorities to hand over the post-mortem report to the victim’s family members and Moyna police station. He ordered that the victim’s body be immediately brought to Kolkata from Tamluk Hospital in East Midnapore district.
    Ordering Central Armed Forces security cover for four weeks to the victim’s family members, Justice Mantha also directed the state government to submit a report in his court by May 8.


    On Wednesday, the counsel for the state government informed the court that Bhunia was killed by a bullet wound to the head. He said that the state government has no objection to conducting post-mortem of the victim’s body for the second time.
    Meanwhile, tension continues in Moyna. Sporadic clashes between the police and the agitators are being reported from the area.