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Govt to SC: Plea to prosecute Justice Nirmal Yadav pending
K’taka IT Minister quits over land scam charges
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Centre moves SC, seeks 11-fold hike in relief
‘Rotten’ Remarks
Cong reminds BJP of Tehelka tapes
CBI website hacked Govt, CVC in war of nerves
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Govt to SC: Plea to prosecute Justice Nirmal Yadav pending
New Delhi, December 3 Justice Yadav’s name figures on a list of 320 people against whom permission is awaited for launching prosecution for corruption. Attorney General GE Vahanvati has provided the list to the apex court at the instance of a Bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly, which is hearing the 2G Spectrum case. According to details, the CBI sent a request for sanction to the Law Ministry which has forwarded it to Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia. Earlier, an FIR was lodged against Justice Yadav, now with the Uttarakhand High Court, in the infamous cash-at-door case when she was a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Chandigarh. A sum of Rs 15 lakh was delivered at the residence of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur on August 13, 2008. It was alleged that the money was meant for Justice Yadav but delivered at Justice Kaur’s residence because of their similar names. The judge had then been asked to go on long leave. Subsequently, the then Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan sought an explanation from Justice Yadav, who responded with at least three letters pleading her innocence. The matter was ultimately treated as closed on the advice of then Attorney General Milon K Banerjee, who died recently. Law Minister M Veerappa Moily had clarified to The Tribune that the decision had been taken before he assumed office on May 29, 2009. Justice Yadav was subsequently transferred to the Uttarakhand HC. No such request pending against CVC Thomas
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K’taka IT Minister quits over land scam charges
Bangalore, December 3 Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who is himself facing numerous land scam charges but has managed to escape the axe owing to his centrality in the survival of the BJP in the state, said he received Naidu’s resignation letter and forwarded it to the Governor for acceptance. “To facilitate an impartial probe by Lokayukta, Katta Subramanya Naidu has submitted his resignation today”, Yeddyurappa told reporters. Anti-corruption watchdog Lokayukta had yesterday registered an FIR against Naidu and nine others in connection with a Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) land scam. The FIR mentions irregularities in allotment of 385 acres to a software company floated by an aide of Naidu. For allotment of land and obtaining consent of farmers, most of whom were family members and associates of Naidu and his son Jagadish, illegal gratification of Rs 87 crore was allegedly paid to a benami company of Naidu and Jagadish, it said. Charges such as forgery, cheating, benami transactions, creating false documents, creating fictitious firms, among others, have been slapped against the accused in the FIR.
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Centre moves SC, seeks 11-fold hike in relief
In a curative petition finalised by Attorney General GE Vahanvati, the Centre has prayed for a compensation of Rs 7,844.92 crore, over 11 times the amount of $ 470 million (about Rs 705 crore) awarded by the Supreme Court in February 1989. The total number of death cases has finally turned out to be 5,295 whereas the Supreme Court had taken the fatal casualties at 3,000 while passing the verdict in 1989, the petition said. Similarly, the number of cases of minor injury is now placed at 5,27,894 against 50,000 estimated by the apex court earlier. The Centre is seeking the compensation from Dow Chemicals, which was known as Union Carbide at the time of the world’s worst industrial disaster. The accident had happened on December 3 in 1984. Earlier this year, the government had moved the SC seeking review of a 1996 verdict reducing the charge against Union Carbide officials from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to causing death by negligence. The move had followed a mere two-year sentence awarded to the six accused by the trial court in the criminal case relating to the tragedy. The convicts also got bail immediately thereafter. The Centre has sought a compensation of $1,241.38 million (Rs 5,786.07 crore) for the casualties, fatal or otherwise, Rs 1,743.15 crore for relief and rehabilitation incurred or committed by the Centre and the state government and Rs 315.7 crore on account of remedial measures to be undertaken for environmental degradation. “The present curative petition is an attempt by the Union of India to cure gross miscarriage of justice and perpetration of irremediable injustice being suffered by the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy.” The compensation determined by the SC was based on “certain factual assumptions which have been found to be completely incorrect and far removed from reality. This has vitiated the very basis of the compensation,” the petition said.
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‘Rotten’ Remarks
Lucknow, December 3 A full court meeting held in Allahabad and which was attended by a majority of the judges of both the Allahabad and Lucknow benches decided to move the Supreme Court, demanding that the damaging remarks against the entire court should be expunged. A resolution has been passed, authorising the Chief Justice of Allahabad HC to approach the Supreme Court for removal of the adverse observations, said sources.
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Cong reminds BJP of Tehelka tapes
New Delhi, December 3 Mukherjee questioned BJP’s right to speak about corruption after Tehelka exposed the then BJP president Bangaru Laxman accepting bribe on camera. He also protested "trial by media" in the Spectrum and CWG scams.
— TNS
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CBI website hacked
New Delhi, December 3 The hackers have made a mockery of the country's cyber security by infiltrating into the CBI website, supposed to be one of the most secure websites. The CBI is connected to the command centre of world police organisation - Interpol - 24x7. The message from the hackers also spoke about the filtering controls provided by the National Informatics Centre, a body which mans computer servers across the country. —
PTI
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New Delhi, December 3 Even as the government is ready to “dump” the CVC and come clean, there are no indications from his side of quitting. Sources in the government confirmed to the Tribune tonight that the CVC has so far not hinted that he will tender in his resignation and in return the government has not offered him an “escape route”. In case he does not resign, the option would be to seek his impeachment through Parliament, which in itself a torturous task and will be another embarrassment. — TNS
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The list provided by the Attorney General does not have the name of Central Vigilance Commissioner PJ Thomas, accused in a chargesheet pending in a Kerala court relating to an alleged scam in the import of palm oil in 2000. The Supreme Court had questioned how Thomas was continuing as CVC despite the palm oil case. It has also been alleged that Thomas as Telecom Secretary, the post he held before being appointed CVC, was impeding the CBI probe into the 2G scam. In fact, the Bench hearing the 2G scam had sought the details of pending sanctions only in the context of Thomas.
New Delhi, December 3