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JNUSU hails Verma panel report
IAS officer’s daughter held with fake visa
Dikshit gives Rs 15 L to gangrape victim’s kin |
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JNUSU hails Verma panel report
New Delhi, January 24 The JNUSU had actively participated in citywide protests demanding justice for the 23-year-old paramedical student who was brutally gangraped on December 16 in a moving bus and later died after batlling for life for 13 days. "We thank the Commission for appreciating the Gender Sensitization Committee against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH) in JNU which has democratic participation from all sections of the university community alongside recommendations for amending the faulty sexual harassment in the workplace bill. We also welcome the committee's suggestion that the JNU GSCASH should be a model for other universities," said JNUSU president Lenin V Kumar in a statement this evening. "However, we were expecting more comprehensive and categorical recommendations from the Commission for judicial reforms. The recommendations of the Commission need to be implemented without delay. The onus is now upon the government to stick to its commitment of ensuring implementation within one month," he added. The JNUSU applauded recommendations, including safeguarding and enhancing the rights of children and minors who are facing heinous crimes, especially the unaccounted missing children or juveniles who are abused in protection homes. Compulsory registration of FIRs on rape, action against police personnel for neglect or apathy that leads to inaction on crimes against women, firm action against khap panchayats and their attempts to exercise extra-constitutional authority, judicial reforms to change mindset and delivery of speedy justice by the judiciary were the other issues appreciated by the JNUSU. |
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IAS officer’s daughter held with fake visa
New Delhi, January 24 Shukla, a 1981 batch IAS officer, was arrested in May last year for his alleged involvement in the Rs 5,700 crore NHRM scam. His daughter named as Poulomi Pavini Shukla was scheduled to board an Air India flight to New York last morning. The immigration officer at the departure wing of the terminal-3 at the airport stopped her, as he suspected that the visa attached to her passport is fake. When he examined the passport, the visa was forged. She was, thereafter, arrested. According to the police, she was allegedly
carrying two passports. One had expired and the other one was issued in Lucknow on August
14, 2012. The forged US visa was dated January 9. A case under the Indian Penal Code and the
Passport Act has been lodged at the Indira Gandhi International
Airport. Poulomi said that she was a student of mathematics at University of Pennsylvania in US. She was granted bail after being produced before a duty magistrate at the Dwarka court in
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Dikshit gives Rs 15 L to gangrape victim’s kin
New Delhi, January 24 While assuring all possible help to the family in getting out of the big shock, Dikshit said that the government will explore possibility of providing a flat to the family. She also inaugurated an integrated skill training centre for girls at Freedom Fighters' Colony, Neb Sarai, which would help in making the girls well-trained and self-sufficient. The centre which has been made operational by the Sun Foundation under an ongoing scheme of Department of Women and Child Development would provide training in different trades, including sewing, embroidery, textile designing and computer programmes. |
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