Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s announcement claiming that the seven Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) who had been suspended by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on charges of dereliction of duty will be utilised in state administrative duties other than electoral assignments is being view by the poll panel as the partial and negligible implementation of that suspension.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Beng…
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Jaipur, Feb 3 (IANS) In a significant and reportable judgment, the Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday observed that consensual relationships between teenagers or young adults should not be treated as a criminal offence, warning against the misuse of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The court said that indiscriminate application of the law is destroying the future of young people and defeating the very purpose for which POCSO was enacted. A single bench of Justice Anil Ku…
Indore, Dec 27 (IANS) In a major judgment in the long-running Vyapam scam — one of India’s largest recruitment and examination frauds — a special Central Burau of Investigation (CBI) court in Indore on Saturday convicted 12 accused persons of impersonation in the 2011 Pre-Medical Test (PMT) conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (Vyapam). Each of the accused persons were sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 6,000.The convicts, sentenced for impe…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari on Friday criticised Uttar Pradesh Minister Daya Shankar Singh for his comments on the bail granted to former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case. Ansari questioned the minister’s statement, asking, “In the first place, he was convicted by the court. It is the judiciary that decides guilt or innocence. Has the minister become bigger than the court that he is making such a statement?”Speaking to the media, Ansari said the …