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Cash-for-vote scam
Amar moves HC for bail
Swamy booked for ‘communal’ article
Telangana: PM tries to soothe Congress leaders
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Illegal mining: CBI raids offices of Reddy’s wife, JSW Steel
Bhatt’s wife seeks PC help
Chemists to be trained to prescribe antibiotics
Anna’s no to Mahatma title
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Cash-for-vote scam
New Delhi, October 3 The fresh developments come three days after Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar gave her nod to the Delhi police which had sought her permission to prosecute Argal. The chargesheet was filed this afternoon before the court of special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal. Delhi police has booked Argal under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act (7, 31D etc). Taking cognizance of the chargesheet, Judge today issued notice to Argal to appear before it on October 14. Argal was one of the three BJP MPs who waved wads of currency note inside the Parliament on July 22, 2008, alleging that they were paid the money to abstain from voting during the no-confidence motion against the then Congress-led government. While two of former MPs - Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora - have been arrested and are in judicial custody, action against Argal was pending. The permission to prosecute Argal was given by the Lok Sabha Speaker on September 30. Six persons, including, former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and Sudheendra Kulkarni, former aide of senior BJP leader LK Advani, have been arrested in the case so far. After an SC rap for shoddy probe, police July 17 made the first arrest in the case. They took into custody Sanjeev Saxena, former aide of Amar Singh. Later, middleman Suhail Hindustani was arrested. On September 6, Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh and former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh Bhagora were after the court rejected their pleas for interim bail. The sixth person to be arrested in the case was Kulkarni who appeared before the court September 27. (With inputs from agencies)
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Amar moves HC for bail
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, arrested for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam, on Monday approached the Delhi High Court for bail after which the court asked Delhi police to respond within three days.
Issuing a notice to the police, Justice Ajit Bharihoke sought its status report on Singh’s case within three days while slating his bail plea for hearing on October 12. The court also asked AIIMS, where Singh is now under treatment of his kidney-related ailments, to submit its latest report on Singh’s health by October 12. —
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Swamy booked for ‘communal’ article
New Delhi, October 3 According to the police, the case has been registered under Section 153A of the IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony). Confirming the FIR, DCP (Crime) Ashok Chand said senior advocate RK Anand had filed a complaint against Swamy in the matter. — TNS
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Telangana: PM tries to soothe Congress leaders
New Delhi, October 3 In an action-packed day, Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrashekhar Rao, who is seen as the vocal supporter of a separate Telangana, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this evening to press for quick resolution to this problem while the Centre has ruled out an early settlement on the plea that it needs more time for further consultations. Not to be left out, Congress MPs from Telangana preempted the TRS by meeting the Prime Minister in the afternoon. They urged him to announce a “time frame” for the formation of the new state as people’s patience was fast running out. Petroleum Minister S.Jaipal Reddy, who is from Telangana, also met the PM at night. Rao, who is accompanied by members of the Telangana Joint Action Committee, has also met BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and CPI head AB Bardhan to canvass support on the statehood issue. Bardhan is learnt to have agreed with the TRS chief that there should be no further delay in the formation of Telangana and said he will write to the Prime Minister and urge him to resolve this issue at the earliest. With TRS taking the lead and Telugu Desam Party legislators from the region submitting their resignation, Congress leaders from the region are under intense public pressure to do the same, which is threatening the very surivival of the Kiran Reddy government. The PM told the Congress MPs that he was well aware of the public sentiment and that the Centre would make all efforts to find a solution to this festering issue. PTI adds: Rejecting the PM’s appeal, Telangana protesters on Monday threatened to intensify their agitation if the Centre does not immediately announce the formation of the state even as TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao declared he may go on a fast-unto-death.
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Illegal mining: CBI raids offices of Reddy’s wife, JSW Steel
Bangalore, October 3 The authorities brought under scanner bank accounts of Muthaiah, who has been facing allegations of aiding of illegal mining by Reddy brothers. Muthaiah is one of the key officials indicted by Lokayukta report on illegal mining. The Vijaynagar unit of JSW Steel Works, officially headed by Hisar MLA Savitri Jindal, was raided by the CBI today in connection with its investigations into illegal mining of iron ore in Andhra Pradesh’s Ananthpur district and Bellary district of Karnataka. The searches in Bangalore, Bellary, Dharwad, Davangere and Chitradurga took place nearly a week after the Supreme Court sought the CBI’s response with regard to its probe into alleged links between mining activities in the state’s Bellary district and Ananthpur in Andhra Pradesh. Sources said the 25-member CBI team, led by its Karnataka wing SP Subramanya Rao, conducted searches at the office of Associated Mining Company (AMC) owned by arrested former minister G Janardhana Reddy's wife Aruna Lakshmi at Parvathinga and seized documents. JSW Steel said, “JSW Steel has and will fully co-operate and provide all information that may be sought by the authorities concerned in this regard.” It added that JSW Steel has been procuring iron ore from various sources for its steel production requirements and every tonne procured is accounted for and paid for in compliance with rules.
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Bhatt’s wife seeks PC help
Ahmedabad, October 3 "Sanjiv has strong apprehension of being physically ill-treated and danger to his life. We are in potential danger from a vindictive administration," Bhatt's wife Shweta said in the letter to Chidambaram. "My husband has been victimised and arrested merely because a few politicians apprehended serious action against them because of the evidence Sanjiv is likely to give in the pending criminal cases," Shweta further said in the letter. "I want the central government to ensure safety of my husband and his dignity should also be restored," She told reporters after writing the letter. "I request you to initiate appropriate steps to safeguard right and liberty of my husband and also keep an eye on the victimisation meted out to him. I fear that he may be embroiled in a series of false cases that have no basis to simply harass and intimidate him," she said in the letter. "All that my husband has done (that has upset the state administration) is that he has done his duty as he is an officer of Indian Police Service" she said. — PTI
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Chemists to be trained to prescribe antibiotics
New Delhi, October 3 The plan is to develop standard guidelines on treatment regimen for diseases and training locally personnel - chemists, RMPs or even NRHM personnel like ANMs - to prescribe antibiotics. The government has put on hold the notification of the National Antibiotic Policy till the time it evolves such guidelines to guarantee drug access to the poor in the peripheral areas. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad indicated this today after inaugurating the first Global Forum on Bacterial Infections organised in the capital by the Centre for Disease Dynamics Economics and Policy (CDDEP) and the Public Health Foundation of India. He said although the antibiotic policy had been created to restrict people’s access to powerful antibiotics over the counter, the same hadn’t been notified for want of balance between the need to restrict drug access and the need to ensure availability of affordable medicines in villages. “We received several representations from public who are concerned over the availability of antibiotics in villages. There are hardly any doctors in our primary health centres. Who will prescribe medicines to villagers? If we totally ban access to antibiotics, villagers will have to go to district hospitals to get medicines. How will they go? We have to consider all this,” Azad said. The National Antibiotic Policy recommends curtailment of the availability of fixed dose combinations of antibiotics in the market and colour-coding of third generation antibiotics whose access is also sought to be restricted. Secretary, Health Research, and Director, Indian Council for Medical Research, VM Katoch, clarified, “Although rampant use of drugs cannot be allowed, but at the same time some drugs will have to be made available across the country. Standard guidelines will have to be developed for peripheral areas to save lives and provide open access to some drugs. These guidelines would be for registered medical practitioners, besides chemists.”
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Anna’s no to Mahatma title
Mumbai, October 3 "I am not a Mahatma, but simply a follower of great people like Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and Dr BR Ambedkar," Hazare told the gram sabha in Ahmednagar district.
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The Delhi Police today filed a two-page second supplementary chargesheet in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam making BJP MP from Bhind (MP) Ashok Argal as an accused in the case.
As the ongoing agitation in Andhra’s Telangana region showed no signs of abating, political parties and leaders competed with each other in mounting pressure on the Centre.
