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Central
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complaint against ministers, says PM Prostate
problem vaporised Court
fines M.J. Akbar, 3 others Modi to
launch poll campaign
in MP Quitting
of job not end to union membership: SC Notices
to Cong leaders soon in ’84 riots case Order
on interim bail to Hashmi murderers reserved
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Madhumita’s second ‘killer’ identified New Delhi, November 11 Pandey, arrested yesterday at Lucknow, was produced before Desraj at Unnao jail in Uttar Pradesh where he identified him during a test identification parade, CBI sources said. The sources said Pandey identified Desraj as the second person who had come along with Santosh Kumar Rai on May 9, the day she was shot dead. The servant had already identified Rai, a small-time political worker and arrested on November 6. They said after Desraj’s identification it was now clear that Rai and Pandey had come to the poetess’ residence at Paper Mill Colony, near Lucknow, on the day of the murder. The CBI was now trying to find out the weapon used by Pandey in killing her. Besides Rai, the CBI has also arrested Rohit Chaturvedi, cousin of Amarmani Tripathi, who is already in jail. Meanwhile, the CBI today filed a petition in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court challenging a lower court order allowing jailed former BSP minister Amarmani Tripathi to attend the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly session. The petition, filed after the designated CBI court yesterday allowed Tripathi to attend the session, is likely to be taken up tomorrow, agency sources said. In its petition, filed under Sections 482, 397 and 401 of the CrPC, the CBI sought an immediate stay on the lower court order and its subsequent quashing.
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Central forces sought to guard The Hindu office Chennai, November 11 A day after the Supreme Court stayed the arrests, he told reporters here that by posting
plainclothesmen in front of The Hindu office, the Tamil Nadu police was adopting intimidatory tactics. He said he would soon send a "factual report" of what happened in The Hindu office on November 7 and on the happenings at Bangalore on the next day. On November 7, the police had entered The Hindu office with warrants issued by Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker K. Kalimuthu to arrest five senior journalists of the paper. The next day, the car in which N. Ram and his brother N. Murali were travelling in Bangalore was intercepted allegedly by Tamil Nadu Police personnel. N. Ram said N. Murali, the Joint Managing Director of the paper, today telephonically complained to the Tamil Nadu Governor about the deployment of the state police in front of the office and residences of the five staffers. "I hope the response to the complaint will be positive and immediate”, Ram said.
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No complaint against ministers, says PM New Delhi, November 11 “No name of any minister figured during the meeting of the Central Vigilance Commissioner and the Cabinet Secretary with me,” the Prime Minister told newspersons at the airport before leaving for a six-day tour to Russia, Tajikistan and Syria. Stating that the Cabinet Secretary and other officers including vigilance officers, kept meeting on a regular basis, Mr Vajpayee said “it is not good to see ulterior motives in it.” “Moreover, after clarification from the Cabinet Secretariat, there is nothing more to be said,” he added. A prominent newspaper had reported that some ministers in the Vajpayee Cabinet had sought undue favours from the chiefs of public sector undertakings which were under their respective ministries. |
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Prostate
problem vaporised New Delhi,
November 11 The photo-selective vaporisation prostate (PVP) was done
successfully at the Army hospital by Dr Tim Larner from the UK and Dr
(Col) Rajiv Sood on November 4. Dr Larner has since returned to the
UK. The latter, who is the only certified surgeon in India currently
for the PVP laser, revealed that the laser had been imported by
Medical Point Urology Laser Institute in New Delhi, it was given as a
gesture of courtesy to the Army hospital for a day. The hospital,
which reportedly intended buying it, had selected five patients with
Brigadier Dhaliwal being the first who were operated upon using the
PVP laser. Sources disclosed that UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh
Yadav had also acquainted himself with this latest technology on that
day by visiting the hospital. Dr Sood said prostate surgery
constituted about 50 per cent of all urology practice. The standard
treatment for the management of enlarged prostate has been
transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). It involves resection
of the prostate using electrical energy. It also requires wearing a
catheter through the urethra for two to three days to allow for
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Court fines
M.J. Akbar, 3 others New Delhi, November 11 A Division Bench comprising Ms Justice Usha Mehra and Mr Justice Pradeep
Nandrajog convicted reporter Venkatesh Kesri, Editor Kaushik Mitter, “While upholding the right of the Press to report on court proceedings, the courts have cautioned that the Press has a duty of care and caution to investigate about the correctness of the news. The contemnors have violated this duty of care,’’ the judge said. The court observed that though unconditional
apologies have been tendered, which could only be a factor to mitigate the contempt, it did not wipe out the contempt. The court had taken suo motu notice of a story captioned “Plea in Court to name Judge as fraud accused” in the paper in May this year and held that the offending news item brought to disrepute, in the public eye, a sitting judge (Mr Justice
S.K. Kaul) of the High Court, undermining and subverting the dignity of the judge. The judges, however, said contempt proceedings
against main contemnor M.M. Shandilya, whose
allegations that Mr Kaul acting as Vijaya Bank’s counsel earlier had submitted in court a false document were reported in the paper, would continue.
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Modi to launch poll campaign in MP New Delhi, November 11 The Prime Minister is scheduled to launch the campaign in Rajasthan with two election meetings, one each in Bikaner and Udaipur on November 18. The next day, Mr Vajpayee will address election meetings in Jabalpur and Indore (in Madhya Pradesh) and on November 20, he will try to woo the voters in Delhi, where party’s chances are reportedly very low. There are 71 Assembly constituencies where there are sizeable Gujarati population and the party unit want to take advantage of that. Moreover, there is a thinking that Hindutva issue, with which Mr Modi got majority in Gujarat, will have considerable influence in Madhya Pradesh, sources said. |
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Quitting of job
not end to union membership: SC New Delhi, November 11 “In the absence of any provision in the constitution of the trade union for automatic cessation of membership as a result of cessation of employment, it cannot be held that an employee would cease to be a member of the trade union in such an eventuality,” a Bench comprising Mr Justice
Y.K. Sabharwal and Mr Justice K.G. Balakrishnan said. The order came on the
petition of the Bokajan Cement Corporation Employees Union against Cement Corporation of India Limited, the management of which had refused to recognise those members as union’s representatives who had ceased to be its employees. |
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Notices to Cong leaders soon in ’84 riots case New Delhi, November 11 Justice Nanavati has also directed Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Dharamdas Shastri, Vasant
Sathe, and Gautam Kaul to file their statement by December 12 in response to accusations of leading anti-Sikh mobs in 1984 in Central and New Delhi districts, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee counsel
H.S. Phoolka said today.
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Order on interim bail to Hashmi murderers reserved Allahabad, November 11 Mr Justice C.P. Mishra reserved the order after hearing counsels of both the sides. Fourth Additional District Judge C.D. Rai on November 2 had awarded life imprisonment to all accused after 14 years of the crime.
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Manu Sharma case New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Siddharth Vashisht, alias Manu Sharma, the prime accused in the Jessica Lal murder case, and directed him to surrender before the trial court on Thursday. Mr Justice J.D. Kapoor turned down Manu’s petition for regular bail and directed him to surrender before the trial court on November 13, when his interim bail is to expire.
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SIMI chief acquitted A Delhi court on Tuesday acquitted the All-India President of the banned SIMI, Shahid Badar, in a sedition case. Additional Sessions Judge D.S. Puniya acquitted the accused after the prosecution failed to prove the charges levelled against him. The alleged incident dates back to February 2000 when the Union Home Ministry received a calendar wrongly depicting the country’s northern boundaries. The
calendar also carried SIMI’s name on it.
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Sarabhai case Ahmedabad: A local court on Tuesday permitted danseuse Mallika Sarabhai, allegedly involved in an immigration racket, to leave the state in connection with a cultural programme in Mumbai from November 12 to 14. A petition in this regard was filed by Ms Sarabhai in the sessions court here. The court further directed the social activist to return to the state by November 15.
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