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Court says no to shifting Anara to welfare home Shortage of power, LPG hits people in
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Court says no to shifting Anara to welfare home
Jammu, December 23 A Division Bench of the court pulled up the police for its casual nature of investigations into the matter and asked the force to get serious in the probe, failing which the court might refer the matter to an independent agency. The court order came a day after two police officials — Additional Superintendent of Police S.P. Deepal Salathia and Deputy Superintendent of Police Tanveer Geelani — were suspended for letting TV channels interview Anara while she was in their custody. The Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.N. Jha and Mr Justice S.K. Gupta, made its annoyance clear about the contents of the police investigation diary. The judges said the reports read like an introduction of the case rather than an investigation into the same. They said there was no need to shift Anara Gupta to Nari Niketan and dismissed the state government’s contention that the probe would be hampered if she was not sent there. “If you are not able to conduct investigations, the court may direct the case to an independent agency for investigations,” the Chief Justice told Advocate-General Altaf Naik who argued for shifting Anara to the welfare centre. Anara has filed a Rs 10 million suit against the Kashmir police for “coercing” her to make a confessional statement, which she has retracted. Gupta, crowned Miss Jammu in 2001, was arrested in October for appearing in pornographic films that, she said, she was forced into doing. She said in media interviews while in police custody that influential people had exploited her by playing on her ambition to become a movie star. The High Court had earlier questioned the mild action taken against police officers Salathia and Geelani, who had been attached to the office of the Inspector-General of Police. With Salathia and Geelani, a total of five policemen have been suspended in the case so far. Anara had also sought permission to visit Delhi to place her case before the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Women. Her plea to visit Delhi, granted by a lower court, was stayed by the High Court last week, but today’s dismissal of the government petition is regarded a big blow to the police. — IANS |
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Shortage of power, LPG hits people in
valley Srinagar, December 23 The problem began with the damage to the Shariefabad receiving station near here last month depriving the valley of over 350 MW of power every day. The damage was caused to the receiving station by demonstrators of the area following the death of two children and injuries to seven others when a high tension live wire fell into the school premises early last month. While part of the Shariefabad receiving station was made functional last month, it is expected to resume normally by the first week of the next month. It has already cost the state exchequer Rs14 crore, according to highly placed sources. The decline in the water level of the rivers, feeding three major hydroelectric projects, has already reduced the generation capacity to meagre 60 MW. The valley alone requires about 900 MW of power during peak hours in the morning and evening. There has also been a decline in the electric supply from the Northern Grid which has been making curtailments to avoid any possible damage due to bad weather conditions and hazy atmosphere during morning hours, according to a senior official of the Power Department. All these factors have led to an additional two-hour cut as the consumers were getting 14-hour supplies daily. In order to overcome the problem the government has started functioning of the high-price gas turbine unit at Pampore, near here, that generates about 50 MW of power during peak hours in the evening. Over 200 MW are also purchased from the NHPC’s Uri project in north Kashmir. About 220 to 280 MW of power are being supplied from the Northern Grid through the Kishenpur-Pampore transmission line. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma and the Power Minister have urged the Central Government to bail out the state from the power crisis. Various other measures like installation of electronic meters are being made to provide proper power supply to the consumers in the valley and other parts of the state. An uninterrupted power service is provided to those areas where installation of such meters has been completed. Despite tall claims by the government, the consumers here are also faced with the shortage of LPG, which is in much demand during winter months, both for cooking and heating purposes. |
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Medical college for Jammu Jammu, December 23 While presiding over the samagam, here today, Mahant Manjeet Singh said after establishing a well-equipped engineering college, he was engaged in setting up a medical college where patients could get treatment at reasonable charges. Those who addressed the congregation included Mr Rangil Singh, vice-president of the PDP, Mr Gurmukh Singh, former minister, Mr S.S. Wazir, former president, Gurdwara Parbandhak Board. All the speakers urged people to follow the path shown by Guru Gobind Singh, Baba Ajit Singh and Baba Jujhar Singh. They exhorted people that they should not shun fighting social evils and political injustice. |
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