Burning of Tree Leaves – Out side Vasant Kunj Police Station‏

Burning of Tree Leaves – Out side Vasant Kunj Police Station‏

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CHETNA is  actively working  on many issues including the problem very high decibel noise pollution by planes taking off and landing at night at Indira Gandhi International Airport,

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Delhi Police indicted for Framing innocents

4 policemen in the dock for denying justice

Relief For Fruit-Seller, 50-Yr-Old

Smriti Singh | TNN

New Delhi: The lackadaisical attitude of the Delhi Police has cost them dear. In separate cases, a total of 14 police officials have found themselves at the receiving end of the law. Two people — from different walks of life — looked for ways to get justice even as the cops refused to help them.
In one case, a fruit-seller moved the L-G office after the police failed to register an FIR as per his complaint and even threatened him to withdraw the complaint. The poor man’s efforts reaped results after a recent letter from the L-G allowed him to go ahead with criminal proceedings against two police personnel for not acting on his complaint.
The permission comes in the wake of inaction of the SHO, Shakarpur police station in east Delhi and a sub-inspector who, overlooking the complaint of Sohan Lal Gupta, did not register the FIR as per complaint. According to Lal, on February 22, 2009, his son, Rupak, was attacked by his neighbours after he demanded Rs 50 from them on the purchase of fruits. When Lal intervened, his neighbour, Monu Tyagi, along with other family members, began beating him and his family.
The police reached the spot and recorded the victims’ statement but did not register an FIR saying an inquiry was on. Lal was even threatened that if the inquiry report was against him, an FIR would be registered against his family. Following this, Rupak met the deputy commissioner of police (east) who heard his grievance and directed the assistant commissioner to take appropriate action in the matter.
After the direction of the ACP, the SHO registered an FIR under sections 323, 341 and 506 of the IPC. ‘‘But even after the registration of FIR, cops did not arrest the accused,’’ Lal alleged. Lal has also moved the Karkardooma courts seeking registration of FIR against the two police officers under various sections of IPC, Delhi Police Act and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
In another case, a trial court has ordered for the registration of FIR against 12 police officials, including two ASIs, after they allegedly connived with a woman to illegally occupy the house of her mother-in-law. Fifty-year-old Sheila Devi had
no clue that her daughter-inlaw would try to take her property after the death of the latter’s husband. While Devi was away, her daughter-in-law, along with 12 police officials and family members, broke into her house on May 2, 2008. Devi went to get a complaint registered at Narela police station but the cops refused to help her.
Devi, who had CCTV footage of people breaking into her house, moved the court seeking action against the accused. Metropolitan magistrate Sudhanshu Kaushik finally ordered the SHO of Narela police station to register an FIR against the 12 erring cops, along with Devi’s daughter-in-law. The court has also asked the area ACP to personally look into the probe in order to avoid further complications.

Framed by cops, mason to get apology, Rs 6 lakh

Abhinav Garg | TNN

New Delhi: After 19 years of battling false cases and spending more than six years in jail, there’s justice at last for a poor mason and his family. The Delhi high court on Thursday asked police commissioner Y S Dadwal to apologize to the victim on behalf of his force which had foisted 18 false cases on him, and ordered compensation of Rs 6 lakh to be paid to the man.
Justice S Muralidhar also castigated DCPs H M Meena and Mangesh Kashyap for ‘‘using impermissible language’’ while addressing the court in one of the cases. They were asked to mend their ways.
‘‘The court directs the commissioner of police to send within a period of two weeks a written apology to the victim, Prempal, and each of his family members, on behalf of the Delhi Police for the suffering they have had to undergo,’’ Justice Muralidhar ruled. “If confidence has to be restored among the citizenry that the police are meant to protect their rights, then such expression of contrition by those at the helm is imperative.’’
Prempal’s is a shocking story of the police abusing their powers. The mason apparently became a marked man because he chose to complain against harassment by some Sangam Vihar cops, who framed him for the first time. HC has now asked the police commissioner to review all criminal cases pending against Prempal.
19 Yrs of Trauma
Time spent in illegal detention by Prempal: 6 years, 5 months & 9 days
Total cases: 18, including a rape charge. Acquitted in 13, lost 5 since he couldn’t afford a lawyer
Came to HC seeking compensation after being acquitted in a child rape case Acquittals in 13 of 18 cases Cops Also Lodged Child Rape Case Against Mason
New Delhi: Prempal, who was allegedly framed for making complaints against Sangam Vihar police, has been acquitted after full trial in 13 of the 18 cases. He had approached the HC seeking compensation, alleging that the investigating agency had falsely registered 18 criminal cases, including a rape case, against him between 1991 and 2007.
The victim was even charged with raping a child and packed off to jail for the non-bailable offence. The court was perturbed to note that despite a lower court ruling against the police in the rape case, two DCPs — H M Meena and Mangesh Kashyap — chose to attack the additional sessions judge, claiming he was ‘‘swayed by the defence created by a known criminal which is illegal’’. Even though the DCPs slammed the judge for his verdict, they chose not to challenge it in HC.
Taking into account the fee given to lawyers for defending himself in the child rape case, loss of income after
b e i n g thrown in jail for 29 months, conveyance to and fro from court to his house, loss of reputation, mental agony and physical harassment, HC computed the compensation to be Rs 5,32,750 with interest. In addition the police have to pay Rs 30,000 towards cost of Prempal’s petition.
‘‘The Delhi Police has slapped Prempal with false charges for an offence in relation to which it would have been next to impossible for him to obtain bail and even more difficult to avoid trial. Since they were able to demonstrate his ‘criminal background’ nothwithstanding the number of acquittals… he is obviously a man broken in spirit and health. The police by their actions have caused irreparable damage to his reputation,’’ the court noted in its verdict. Incidentally, this will be the second time police commissioner YS Dadhwal will have to apologize on court orders to victims of police high-handedness. Last year, Justice Muralidhar had asked the police chief to say sorry to a couple harassed by the local cops for kissing near a Metro station.
abhinav.garg@timesgroup.com

Mumbai:Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission & Missing Files

White ants eat up consumer plaints

Swati Deshpande | TNN

Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission in Mumbai alone has about 8,000 cases pending—some dating back to mid-1990s. Across the state, the figure crosses 17,000. That means at least these many consumers are awaiting justice from poor service or defective products or plain high handedness usually by builders and developers. As if that was not enough, missing files became a recent scourge at the commission in Mumbai when sources said white ants had eaten away over thousands of papers.
When Justice S B Mhase took over last October after he retired from the HC as the president, he launched several enquiries and started talking tough with the staff.

In a recent order in a case of 2007 coming in appeal from the Thane consumer commission, Justice Mhase said, “This is a very shameful affair so far as the office of the registrar is concerned,’’ and directed the registrar to trace a missing file. He noted that the office of the registrar was not even following previous directions of tracing the file which was missing since December 2009.

“What is painful is that the office is not following directions in spite of being at the commission for the last 12 years,’’ said the president and directed the registrar at the commission to look for the file again and “fix liability’’. The repeated orders from him to trace missing files of appeals seems to finally have had an effect, said some at the Commission. “Fewer files are now reported as missing when the appeals come up for hearing,’’ said a lawyer on Friday.

The new President is insisting that original paperbooks of appeals or direct applications are first traced, unlike the earlier practice of allowing parties to “reconstruct’’ the documents and file them afresh. Sources said in most of the “missing’’ cases, the matter involves a developer against whom a district forum has passed unfavourable orders.

Advocate Sumedha Rao had just such a case. Last week, when her matter, involving Hill View Cooperative Housing Society versus Bhushan Enterprises, was called out, the case papers, which were missing since last month were suddenly found.

The builder has last April been directed by a district forum to pay the Borivli society Rs 16 lakh as compensaton and dues and also directed the builder to do the conveyance which was pending since 1992. The builder opposed saying the original complaint was time-barred and wrong. She moved in appeal last May but did not inform the society. It was only last December that the builder brought the matter for hearing after a warrant was issued against her by another court. In February the files went missing.

Sources said in many cases, files were ‘miraculously’ found when the court day ended. The problems faced by the commission are many. There are two judicial members, other members and two court rooms, one of which—at 50 sq ft—is smaller than a squatter’s room and a staff of 40 from the State Civil Supplies department.

Andher Nagari, UP : Lawless UP MLAs’ thrash-and-burn ways

Lawless UP MLAs’ thrash-and-burn ways

Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui | TNN

Lucknow: If evidence were needed of Uttar Pradesh’s lawless lawmakers, there were three available on a single day. Congress-supported MLA from Varanasi Ajay Rai and his goons thrashed a businessman and burnt him alive in public on Friday evening. He is critical. The MLA wanted the trader to vacate his shop despite his having obtained a stay order from the high court.

Barely a couple of hours before this shocker, Jhansi district police lodged an FIR against SP MLA Deep Narain Singh and his aides for allegedly torturing a local businessman for demanding Rs 10 lakh that the MLA owed him. The police were yet to make any arrest.

A little before these two lawless MLAs, another SP lawmaker from Maharajganj Sadar, Sripat Azad, landed in the police dragnet for torching a man alive. In the last one month, FIRs have been lodged against three more MLAs for operating gangs of auto thieves and kidnappers.

The Varanasi incident took place around 6 pm on Friday in Chetganj area of Varanasi. The shop in question is on a 2.5-acre prime land apart from other old buildings most of which have been vacated by their occupants at the instance of Ajay Rai. Bhanu Pratap, the shopkeeper, and some others in the same market got relief from the HC which ordered a stay.

When they refused to vacate, a dozen armed men arrived at Bhanu’s shop. ‘‘They included the local corporators Vijay Misra and Sanjay Singh apart from other known faces who are identified gangmen of the MLA,’’ Bhanu said.

Oklahoma: Indian Student killed

Student from Andhra Pradesh shot dead in Oklahoma

KV Ramana / DNA

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:39 IST

Hyderabad: An MBA student from Hyderabad was shot dead by two youths in Oklahoma city in the United States on Sunday evening. It was the seventh case of a student or techie from Andhra Pradesh being killed in the US in the past three years.

Prashanth Goinaka, 27, a resident of Santoshnagar in Hyderabad, went to the US on January 25 to pursue an MBA. He joined a food store as a part-time employee and started managing the cash counter a few days back. On March 21, the youths walked into the store and asked Prashanth to give them the cash.

They shot him dead when he refused.

A student at the International Technological University in California, Prashanth last week went to Oklahoma after the university permitted him to take up a part-time job. He had initially joined the merchant navy but could not cope with sea sickness. He was a good dancer and worked as a junior artiste in some Telugu movies, family members said.

Prashanth’s friends heard about his murder and informed his family after nearly 18 hours.

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Ahmedabad: The HCGMedisurge Hospital will offer cancer patients the facility of paying fee of cancer surgery in the form of equated monthly instalments (EMIs) from the month of April.
Expansion is also on the radar as the hospital will soon announce a dedicated advance cancer treatment facility off the SG Highway.

Chairman of HCG Group, Dr BS Ajaikumar said that advance robotic radio-surgery for cancer in critical organs costs Rs 4-5 lakh. To help patients afford the this surgery and other cancer treatments, which tend to put extreme financial burden of the family, a business model for every category has been worked out.

“For people who have a problem in arranging funds at one go, we have developed a business model where we will offer the option of paying the amount in EMIs. This model has been implemented in Bangalore, Delhi and will be implemented in Ahmedabad from April,” he said. Dr Ajaikumar said that most of the patients have paid up the EMIs. “We are encouraged as number of defaulters have been low,” he said.

Meanwhile, director HCG Medisurge, Dr Jagdish Kothari said that he was hopeful that the EMI option would benefit a big number of patients. “We intend to bring PET scan and even cyber-knife soon to Gujarat,” said Dr Ajaikumar. TNN

Police -Judicial System : Failure of

Cop rapped over blind woman’s arrest

HC Says Denial Of Bail Illegal, Summons Inspector, Asks District Judge To Explain

A Subramani | TNN

Chennai: On a day when chief minister M Karunanidhi took over the supervision and control of the welfare of disabled people, the Madras High Court expressed shock and disbelief at the sufferings of a blind woman, who was jailed and denied bail illegally.

Justice S Nagamuthu, describing the case of Selvamani, who is totally blind, as unfortunate, has summoned an inspector of police to the court to offer an explanation on March 29, and has directed the Namakkal principal sessions judge also to furnish a report. He also ordered the release of the blind woman on bail, on her own bond.

Selvamani was cited as second-accused in a case, and the charge against her was that she “intended to cause injury” and that she “created nuisance.” After registering the case in 2008, the Nallipalayam police in Namakkal district filed the chargesheet in November 2008. During the investigation Selvamani was never arrested, and the police had cited her as “absconding accused.”

For some strange reason, well after the chargesheet was filed, the judicial magistrate-I, Namakkal, issued a non-bailable warrant against Selvamani, and the police arrested her. Though she was completely blind, the magistrate remanded her in judicial custody and she was sent to the Salem prison.

But the worst was yet to come. Despite the fact that she faced only minor charges and that she was entitled to bail as a matter of right under Section 436 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the principal sessions judge dismissed it saying the investigation was still on. This, when the case diary submitted to the judge clearly showed that the investigation had been completed and chargesheet filed in November 2008.

Justice Nagamuthu, passing severe strictures against the district judge, said: “It is an unfortunate case where a blind woman has been denied bail in a mechanical fashion by the principal sessions judge, Namakkal. She is facing prosecution only for offences under Section 211 read with 109 IPC, which is a bailable offence.

The sessions judge has no option at all to deny bail to her. It is the right of the accused to come out on bail. This court, with pains, makes a remark that the order of the sessions judge has been made in a mechanical fashion, which reflects the total non-application of mind.”
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Justice Nagamuthu, concurring with the submissions of advocate PN Prakash and listing out the illegalities such as the bailable nature of the offence and the right of the accused to be granted bail in such cases, said: “It is the right of the accused to come out on bail. Denial of bail to her is illegal. It is crystal clear that the case diary was available in the hands of the sessions judge when the order was passed.”

DDA: 800 flats in Vasant Kunj: Bad Planning

DDA is coming up with another 800 dwelling units in Vasant Kunj.

For  half a million Delhites looking for a  decent living space, a place to call their own home, this is an ultra small micro carrot being dangled in front of them.

DDA has assured the The State Expert Appraisal Committee (SECA) that it will treat 500 kl of water. “In the first phase, the DDA has been instructed to create a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) of 300 KLD capacity and another STP in the second phase. The water is also to be recycled, with more than 370 KLD to be pumped to nearby parks and the Aravalli Biodiversity Park for horticulture.” (Indian Express)

Inadequate parking space

However what is not understandable is that DDA is providing for parking space for 546 cars only. Today it is obvious to all (except DDA) that every household in VK has at least one car. Parking in some sectors has become a bone of contention. Altercations over parking space is a regular affair in many of the Sectors like Sector A, and some pockets of Sectors  B and C.

Why does the DDA refuse to learn from past experience?

Water woes.

“While recommending the project to the assessment authority, the SEAC has asked the DDA to seek Delhi Jal Board’s permission for withdrawing groundwater and planting trees inside the premises of an MCD school adjoining the site.” (Indian Express)

Water supply has been a great problem in VK since 1990.

In Sector A Pockets B & C, water is pumped for hardly 30 minutes a day. Jal Board tankers never turn up and during summer months families shelling out Rs 300/- for every fill of their water tanks, to private operators is the norm.

Water table in VK has been going down year after year. The existing tube wells are not functional. To expect the 800 flats to be dependent on tube well water from a nearby MCD school is simply hare brained.

Why does DDA always embark on such projects without adequate planning?

Mayawati Mocks Middle Class Morality

Maya Mocks Middle Class Morality

There is a great deal of hoo haa generated by the media, on the mala of thousand rupees notes that Mayawati the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and the Boss of  Bahujan Samaj Party, was garlanded with.

The TV media ran the photographs of her being garlanded again and again spiced with caustic comments, especially by the English media. Soon the print media followed suit.

The ruckus in the parliament cowed the government in to agreeing for an enquiry by the I Tax department into the origin of funds.

However Mayawati is not one to be cowed down by the media and their ranting. The media is a creature of middle and upper classes and castes. She knows well that all this attention only increases her stature among dalits.

To them, a dalit is being feted ,even as kings of yore were greeted by their vassals with gems and necklaces. Here at last is one of their own being treated like royalty. She has brought all her opponents, upper caste oppressors who for ages have been tormenting them, to heel.

It is well known that politicians stash their ill gotten wealth in foreign banks and benami purchases.

She is the empress who has been chosen by the dalits, she  and has ruled and is ruling Uttar Pradesh with, and on their complete support. She is ruling a state wherein the majority are upper castes.

She has faced great odds to reach her position, she has stood up to the century old congress party, traded blow for blow and insult for insult with the Yadavs. She managed to fool the BJP twice into supporting her and ditched them mercilessly when her term was up.

She is a survivor, and has never wavered from her stand that she is a dalit and is working for the welfare of dalits only.

Even as attacks on her continue Behenji has ordered that in future she will be garlanded with rupee notes.

She knows full well that in the present scenario of coalition governments the government at the center or state cannot do without the support of BSP. She also knows fully well that all the verbal assault she is subjected to will only gather more support from her base ie dalits.

As Kancha Ilayah, a strong spokesman of dalits said during an interview,

‘all political parties collect funds through various means. What they do with the money collected is not known. Does it go to the party, or is used to fund election expenses etc, or simply in to the pockets of a few persons is not known. Here is Mayawati, a leader of a political party who openly displays in public  the funds collected by her party. So what is wrong in that?’

Well, What is wrong in that?

MONEY POWER

NOTE-WORTHY GIFT FOR ‘MALA’-WATI: After lavish birthday celebrations and giant statues, BSP supremo Mayawati landed in a fresh controversy over a garland made of currency notes of Rs 1,000. BSP sources said the garland was worth about Rs 5 crore. But even as other parties blasted this ‘‘ugly display of money power’’, BSP leaders maintained a studied silence |

MONEY POWER

Maya’s garland worth Rs 5 crore?

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Lucknow: It could well be the most expensive political felicitation. Politicians have been weighed in coins and garlanded with notes but UP chief minister Mayawati’s supporters took the cake on Monday by presenting her with a mammoth garland strung together with 1,000-rupee notes. Estimates of how much money was around the Dalit leader’s neck as she stood on the dais ranged from Rs 2 crore to Rs 5 crore.

Mayawati has been in controversy in the past for collecting public donations on her birthdays. An enthusiastic BSP worker from Kanpur had gifted a plot on the moon on her birthday this year.The BSP supremo’s diamond jewellery sets and her statues carrying a purse have been hot topics of discussion in political circles. But Monday’s extravaganza to celebrate 25 years of BSP’s existence and 76th birth anniversary of founder Kanshi Ram set a new bar.

The origin of the garland could not be immediately ascertained and BSP leaders remained tight-lipped. Intial reports sourced it to the Karnataka unit of the party but the coordinator of Karnataka unit VN Sharma denied his unit had gifted the garland. He, however, said the garland in the news could have made out of contributions from BSP workers across the country. The Karnataka’s BSP unit president N Mahesh could not be contacted for confirmation as his cellphone was switched off.

With enough cash in it to feed several thousand of UP’s poor for a while, tongues wagged in Lucknow on what she would do with the money. Some party sources said the garland would be kept at the museum at party headquarters.

While BSP leaders remained silent over the issue, the ‘currency garland’ gave the opposition yet another opportunity to attack Mayawati. Congress legislative party leader Pramod Tiwari described it an ugly display of money power.

BJP spokesman Hriday Narain Dixit said that it was ‘loot ka paisa’. Opposition has already been accusing the BSP for spending over Rs 300 crore of public money on the maharally.

Judiciary: Cause for Concern

Judiciary has been in the news recently for wrong reasons.

Unwillingness to part with  information, Lack of transparency and accountability  of the Collegium to select judges, delays and worst of all corruption.

Recently I had the opportunity to attend a forum discussing the ailments in judicial system. It was attended by venerable and senior members of the judiciary and the bar, a former law minister in adition to members from various civil society organisations.

It was terrible indictment on the judicial system, the judiciary and the bar. All the three appear to be  uncheckedwith little or no restraining influence from outside.

TNN

Ahmedabad: Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhyay expressed concern over the future of Gujarat judiciary when hearing the case of termination of ad hoc fasttrack court judges. The high court and the state government discontinued services of 56 judges last November.

Discussing charges of corruption in cases of some of judicial officers on Friday, Justice Mukhopadhaya said: ‘‘We are concerned about the future of Gujarat judiciary, where money has become the main source and where you can buy anybody with the power of money.’’

Justice Mukhopadhyay insisted on maintaining transparency in judiciary in order to uphold its credibility among people. He asked the lawyers representing the FCT judges how else the high court could have reacted to allegations of corruption levelled against the judicial officers.

The FCT judges were relieved from service last year with a remark in their termination letter that they were found ‘unsuitable’.

The judge was of the opinion that issuance of a show-cause notice to the judges concerned would have served no purpose. He also made it clear that he was discussing the issue in the context of the judiciary across the nation, and not strictly pertaining to Gujarat.