Bhubaneswar, March 5 (IANS) Odisha Police will host a five-day ‘Nyaya Sanhita Exhibition’ in Bhubaneswar as part of an initiative aimed at raising public awareness about India’s revamped criminal justice system.The event will be organised at the Exhibition Ground in Unit-III of Bhubaneswar from March 6 to March 10.Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to inaugurate the exhibition on Friday, while Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will attend the inaugural programme as the chief guest….
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New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi President Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday said the party’s rally at Jantar Mantar was aimed at raising the voice of thousands of dismissed contractual workers and to expose what he termed as “vendetta politics” of the BJP, asserting that the event is “a rally, not a protest”.This will be AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s first public rally since he was discharged by the court in the liquor policy case.Police personnel were deployed in…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said that former CM Arvind Kejriwal of the AAP is guilty before the people of the city and the reprieve offered to him by the trial court in the liquor policy scam is not the final truth but merely a part of the legal process.“The truth will ultimately prevail and, therefore, Kejriwal should not shed crocodile tears,” the CM said, taking a swipe at the AAP National Convenor, who broke down before newspersons after the trial …
Vijayawada, Feb 28 (IANS) Authorities on Friday handed over the mortal remains of Ayesha Meera, a 17-year-old student raped and murdered in 2007, to her parents.The remains, which were exhumed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2019 for re-postmortem, were received by Shamshad Begum and Iqbal Basha at a court in Vijayawada.Last week, the court had directed that Ayesha Meera’s remains be handed over to her family for performing the last rites.The mortal remains will be buried in Te…
Quetta, Feb 26 (IANS) Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) on Thursday expressed grave concern over the continued imprisonment of its chief organiser, Mahrang Baloch, and other leaders under what it described as a systematic pattern of “legal and procedural manipulation” by the Pakistani authorities.According to the rights body, the detention of the BYC leaders began under the Maintenance of Public Order (3-MPO), for three months, a law that allows “preventative detention” b…
Jaipur, Feb 26 (IANS) The Rajasthan government has approached the Supreme Court seeking a postponement of elections to 113 municipal bodies, citing the need to redo the ward delimitation process after it was struck down by the High Court.A Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the state government states that the Rajasthan High Court had quashed the ward delimitation exercise carried out for 113 of the 309 urban local bodies.As a result, the Rajasthan government has sought additional time to com…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS): Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday approached the Calcutta High Court raising serious concerns regarding his personal security and alleging lack of adequate vigilance and protection by the state police authorities.His counsel mentioned the matter before a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, drawing the court’s attention to the alleged failure of the state police to ensure pr…
Kochi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction with the Centre’s stand on establishing an AIIMS in the state, rekindling a debate that resurfaces with clockwork regularity and renewed disappointment.Hearing a petition on the issue, the court questioned the delay in taking a decision and asked whether the Union government had, in principle, decided to set up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Kerala.The court had earlier directed the Centre …
Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) Actor Aditya Pancholi attended the hearing at the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. The court heard the petition for the 28th time filed by the actor to quash the FIR filed against him in the alleged rape case. The case was filed by a female actor in 2019. The actor said that he cannot say anything more on the legal procedure, and the outcome of the case will be on March 4. His lawyer Prashant Patil said that the FIR of rape (IPC 376 among other sections) registered at Versova …
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 23 (IANS) When the Kerala Legislative Assembly session on Monday resumed after a brief break, the Congress-led Opposition once again staged a protest, raising the issue of the alleged gold theft at Sabarimala.With Leader of the Opposition, V.D. Satheesan, away on a tour, Deputy Leader K. Babu initiated the protest.The Opposition pointed to the collective bail granted to the accused in the gold theft case and echoed the claims made by the temple’s Tantri (chief priest).T…