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Stray incidents of
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Amend Punjab Rent Act: SC NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT Factory manager shot
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Presidential poll likely in mid-July Shastri addresses House amid
ruckus Rapist gets benefit of
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SC for caution in contempt
cases Rao consultant to George Agni okayed for Army AIATF protests Pak
support to ultras
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Stray incidents of
violence in Gujarat
Ahmedabad, May 15 A place of worship was burnt down in Sadarpur village near here yesterday, the police said. Meanwhile, the curfew was further relaxed in the Kagdapith, Dani Limda, Haveli, Kalupur, Shahpur, Karanj and Vejalpur police station areas, it said adding night curfew continued in these police station areas as a precautionary measure. Night curfew also continued in Sarkhej and Viramgam in Ahmedabad rural district, the police said.
In Ahmedabad city, police recovered arms and arrested some persons during the vehicle checking drive. Arrest of those persons allegedly involved in killings during violence and named in the FIR continued. Meanwhile the Gujarat
Government has sought further time from National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to file its “comprehensive” report on the communal riots in the state as the time given by the commission for filing of the same ended today, a report from Delhi said. “We have received the state governments’ plea seeking two to three days’ time to file their report to the commission,” the NHRC sources told PTI. NASIK: Curfew has been lifted from the riot-torn Nandurbar in north Maharashtra as the situation in the town was stated to be ‘well under control and peaceful’ today with no untoward incident reported during night curfew, police said here. The police has arrested 94 persons so far in connection with rioting that
errupted in the tribal-dominated town on Tuesday following a minor dispute over playing cards in which one Yogesh Rathod (17) was killed and nine others injured in police firing while an irate mob burnt alive a 30-year-old chilly trader Subhash Agarwal.
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NCM acknowledges Gujarat response New Delhi, May 15 NCM Vice-Chairman Tarlochan Singh who returned from a two-day visit to Gujarat late on Monday evening told TNS that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had responded favourably to the suggestions made by leaders belonging to the minority community. Mr Tarlochan Singh said the commission
succeeded in persuading the minority leadership to meet the Chief Secretary, Mr Subba Rao, the Home Secretary and the Additional Chief Secretary, Mr Ashok Naraynan, the Director-General of Police, Mr A.K. Bhattacharya, and the Special Security Adviser to the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr K.P.S. Gill. Mr Tarlochan Singh said their efforts bore fruits in the afternoon meeting at Gandhinagar where the Chief Minister, Mr Modi announced that no camps were being closed. He assured the gathering that the victims would be afforded another opportunity to register their complaints. Mr Tarlochan Singh expressed satisfaction over the government’s decision entrusting Cabinet Secretary T.R. Prasad to monitor relief measures from Delhi every Saturday. He said the government had also agreed to their suggestion to involve member Shamim Qazim and the Chairman of the National Minorities Financial Development Corporation, Mr Mohammad Mazhari, in supervising rehabilitation measures. |
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Amend Punjab Rent Act: SC New Delhi, May 15 The Act was enacted in 1949, in the wake of Partition and influx of people into India from Pakistan, to restrict the increase of rents of certain premises situated with in the limits of urban areas and to protect tenants against malafide attempts by their landlords to evict them. “There are several lacunae in the provisions of the Act creating bottlenecks in their smooth functioning highlighted in several judicial pronouncements and such deficiencies are proving paradise for unscrupulous litigants and also to some extent frustrating the very purpose sought to be achieved by the legislation,” Mr Justice Lahoti, writing for the Bench, said. Referring to Section 13 of the Act providing for eviction of tenants, Mr Justice Lahoti said it was high time that Punjab should have a fresh look at Section 13 and other relevant provisions of the Act learning lessons from the manner in which these provisions had so far worked and by reviewing how far the object of legislation had been achieved. These observations were recorded by the Bench while dealing with a landlord tenant case between Rakesh Wadhwan and others versus M/s Jagadamba Industrial Corporation and others.
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NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT New Delhi, May 15 The place of the encounter was about 21 km from Katra, the base town of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine. The killed terrorists were suspected to be of the Laskhar-e-Toiba outfit, the minister told the House. No pilgrim had been killed during the past one year in
the vicinity of the shrine. In reply to another question, the minister said that the government of Jammu and Kashmir had reported one incident of gang-rape involving security force personnel in the state during the past one year, which took place on April 18, 2002, in Kullar Nar village, Anantnag. The three accused personnel of the BSF had been placed under arrest. The police investigation had been completed and the challan produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate for judicial determination. As per information made available from the state government, the number of terrorists killed in the calendar years 2001 and 2002 (upto April) was 2020 and 601, respectively, the House was told. |
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Factory manager shot Kolkata, May 15 The victim was Suresh Prasad (50), Chief Personnel Manager of Dalhousie Jute Mill at Hooghly, some 50 km from here. He was shot dead point-blank in front of the factory gate while he was returning home after holding a meeting with the union leader last night. The police did not rule out that the assailants had been hired by the labour leaders. The leaders had some angry exchanges of words with Mr Prasad in the evening over suspension of five workers on the charges of criminal activities. CITU, however, denied that any labour leaders had been behind the killing of Mr Prasad. The factory, employing some 800 workers, had been closed on May 4, following labour unrest. But it was re-opened on May 10, following a meeting between the management and the union. |
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Presidential poll likely in mid-July New Delhi, May 15 According to commission sources, the election date could be any day between July 12 and 15. Meanwhile, top officials of the commission are involved in drafting the notification for the much-awaited election. The Election Commission is likely to make a formal announcement about the election in the fag end of May or early June, sources said.
New Delhi, May 15 “I can tell you that a Left leader has met him (Mr Narayanan) and he has not said no. I can only conclude that `Barkis is willing’,” CPI General Secretary A.B. Bardhan told reporters. In reply to questions he said Mr Narayanan was in “good health ... as good as a man of 80 can be” and added that he was suffering only from arthritis. “It will be good if Mr Narayanan is elected through a national consensus. Let the world know that on electing our President, we are one,” he said. |
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Shastri addresses House amid
ruckus Lucknow, May 15 The priority of the government, according to the Governor, was well-defined — to take care of the interests of such section of the society which had been socially and economically neglected for centuries. The focus of the government had returned to the Ambedkar village and it had set up a target to construct link roads in all Ambedkar villages by the end of the current fiscal year, he said. The government has promised to set up a state women commission and constitute “Dr Ambedkar Fund” for the wards of safai karamcharis and has decided to allocate funds for the development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the proportion to their population. There were red faces in the BJP over the omission of party’s issues, including offering sops to traders. Its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal members resented Governor’s silence over the Harit Pradesh issue. The BJP media-in charge, Mr Vijay Pathak, however, presented a brave face as he said:” It is not a Dalit-only speech. The Governor has clearly hinted that the government would take care of other sections of the society too.” The Governor’s speech was marred by vociferous protests by the Opposition members and was reduced to just one-minute speech. |
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Rapist gets benefit of doubt New Delhi, May 15 “Having regard to the features of the case, the probability of the accused having had sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix with her consent cannot be ruled out and we entertain serious doubts about the truthfulness of the prosecution case,” observed a bench of Mr Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Mr Justice B.P. Singh. According to the first information report lodged on December 9, 1985, with the Chheepa Barod police station accused Kishanlal had entered the house of the prosecutrix the previous night when her husband had gone out to watch Ram Lila and raped her. The trial court convicted him of the offence of rape and awarded him seven years’ rigorous imprisonment.
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SC for caution in contempt cases New Delhi, May 15 “The contempt power vested under the Constitution in the courts of record and also under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, should be used sparingly by the courts on being satisfied regarding the true effect of the contemptuous conduct,’’ the court observed. The ruling was given by a bench while allowing an appeal against a judgement of the Calcutta High Court. By the impugned judgement, the high court while declining to entertain a contempt against the Directorate of the Dairy Development of the West Bengal Government, for the non-compliance of a judgement of a Division Bench of the high court, granted substantive relief to 27 clerk-cum-cash collectors of the Directorate.
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Rao consultant to George New Delhi, May 15 Mr Rao, who served as Director, Public Relations, in the Ministry of Defence between 1981 and 1983, will have the rank of a Special Secretary. He took over the new post after relinquishing his job as adviser to Prasar Bharti on Kashmir. He would also oversee the implementation of recommendations of the working group that had been set up for reorganising and restructuring the media and public relation set up in the Ministry of Defence. |
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Agni okayed for Army New Delhi, May 15 With this decision, the government had apparently given nod for deploying the shorter range 700 km strike capability Agni-II with the Army, while keeping the option of fielding the intermediate range Agni-I to be approved soon by Indian Air Force’s Strategic Nuclear Command. |
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AIATF protests Pak
support to ultras New Delhi, May 15 In a memorandum to the Pakistan High Commission, the AIATF said the Pakistan government had not discouraged the ongoing proxy war carried out by militants in the name of “jehad” and the “hand-in-glove involvement” of militants and ISI agents had been “rendered transparent” by the Jammu killing. It said Punjabi and Kashmiri terrorists, who had been given shelter in Pakistan, should be handed over to India. |
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