2 MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 After Haripriya, Rega Karnataka releases We’ll meet Prez, Home Minister faces people’s wrath over exam results row: Dattatreya Villagers of Reddypalem obstruct the Pinkapaka MLA’s water to Telangana elec�on campaign and raise slogans against him A BJP delegation will meet and Rajnath opposing his defec�on to TRS party Singh in Delhi on Tuesday and Wednesday Kothagudem: After the bitter experience faced by the Yel- landu Congress MLA Haripriya Naik at the hands of her vot- ers, another defected MLA of Congress, Rega Kantha Rao Hyderabad: A delegation of trying to save all those involved said. He sought to know as to from Pinapaka, also faced the ire of people of his district. Telangana BJP leaders would in the alleged bungling of the why the Chief Minister was go- The incident took place during an election campaign in meet President Ram Nath results. ing back on initiating action Reddypalem village of Burgampahad on Sunday. The villagers Kovind and Union Home Min- About 9.74 lakh students had against those who committed not only obstructed Rega’s election campaign, but questioned ister in Delhi on appeared for the exam in the alleged goof-up. as to why he had left the Congress and came to their village May 7 and 8 and raise the issue March this year and 3.28 lakh Dattatreya further said the seeking votes. They raised slogans against the MLA and ques- of the alleged goof-up in the of them had failed, according BJP's struggle seeking justice tioned his decision to campaign for the TRS party candidates. declaration of results of inter- to o�cial sources. for the students would inten- Meanwhile, the supporters of the MLA came to his rescue HANS NEWS SERVICE bubnagar district is continuously in mediate examinations in the The BJP has claimed that sify. "A total of 26 students has and entered into an argument with the villagers. Sensing that touch with the Narayanpur dam au- State. over 25 students killed them- committed suicide, but the the situation was going out of control, the MLA left the village Hyderabad: Karnataka government thorities, according to Irrigation De- Announcing this to re- selves since the declaration of State government has not to protect himself from people’s wrath. has released water from Narayanpur partment officials. porters here on Sunday, senior results on April 18. The alleged taken the matter seriously. reservoir across Krishna river to The government of Karnataka was BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya bungling by BIE in the an- Hence, we have decided to take Telangana State so that the TS could requested to release water from said the Telangana Rashtra nouncement of results led to forward the issue with the cen- meet drinking water needs. Narayanpur reservoir across Krishna Samithi government has been widespread protests by stu- tral government," he said. Authorities stated that 3, 000 River to Telangana for meeting drink- trying to hush up the failure of dents, their parents, students A memorandum would also cusecs water was released from Al- ing water needs of people of Ma- the Board of Intermediate Ed- organisations and political par- be submitted to the National matti dam reached Narayanpur dam habubnagar district. ucation (BIE) and has dared ties. Some students claimed Human Rights Commission in Karnataka at 12 noon on Sunday. In view of the water levels steeply not to blacklist the private firm they secured poor marks de- (NHRC)seeking necessary ac- After attaining sufficient level in coming down in the reservoirs of which handled the examina- spite being meritorious. tion in this regard, Dattatraya Narayanpur, water will be released Mahbubnagar district, Telangana tion results. Moreover, Datta- "Telangana BJP president K said. Meanwhile, it was learned to Jurala through spillways. Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao treya said Education Minister Laxman had taken up five-day that the opposition parties in However, it is not clear when had requested his Karnataka coun- G Jagadeeshwar Reddy had not long indefinite fast seeking jus- the State - Congress, CPI and Narayanpur dam authorities will terpart HD Kumaraswamy for release been sacked over the alleged fi- tice for the intermediate stu- TJS - would stage a protest start this process. of water and accordingly steps were asco and accused Chief Minis- dents, but the government has here over the examination re- Chief Engineer, Irrigation, Mah- taken by Karnataka authorities. ter K Chandrashekar Rao of not responded," Dattatraya sults issue on May 11. Can’t justify torture by the martyred cop

DR H C UPADHYAY most heinous and inhuman crime of tor- plete sense.” In the said judgement, the nity. The court added that the costs are be- turing Sadhvi Pragya Thakur while in his court also observed that a mother cannot ing imposed so that in future they may not he nation-wide debate on creden- custody. For being a policeman does not give up the rights which vest in the daugh- mock at any head of a religion, just to gain tials of the contesting candidate get a person the licence to torture anybody, ter in so far as maintenance and other is- publicity on social media. The court fur- Tfrom Bhopal Parliamentary con- including the worst criminal. sues are concerned, during divorce by mu- ther added:” In recent years, the country stituency, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, in polit- Apart from Geneva Convention on hu- tual consent. has witnessed large scale violent protests ical circles and media has left the common man rights and custodial torture , there Therefore, while invoking its power un- on incitement made by using social media man ba�ed. Though most of the opposi- are several judicial diktats by our own der Article 142 of the Constitution of , platform, thereby causing extensive dam- tion parties have opposed her candidature courts which have condemned the practice the Court set aside the clause containing age to public property.” on the ground that she is an accused in of torturing the suspects or accused per- the waiver of maintenance to wife agreed Malegaon Blasts case and currently she is sons. Further, women, children ,old per- to by her mother. The bench, in the result, Former HC judge booked U/S.498A IPC on the bail, nobody so far has approached quashed the FIR registered against the Former judge of the , the Election Commission of India (ECI) husband and his relatives in this regard. Telangana and Chennai High Courts Jus- to cancel her candidature on this ground. LEGAL CIRCLES tice Nooty Ram Mohan Rao, his wife and The reason is obvious. A score of the op- Categorisa�on of workers son have been booked by the police under position leaders too are on bail and sill The apex court has declared as ultra various sections of criminal law including contesting election. vires the categorisation of unskilled work- one for the dowry harassment on a com- Going by the rule book, neither the Con- ers as semi-skilled and skilled on the basis plaint by Sindhu Sharma, wife of Vasistha, stitution of India nor the Representation of their experience in the notification for Ram Mohan Rao’s son. Ugly scenes were of the People Act, 1951 debars an accused fixing or revising the minimum wages by witnessed at the Bharosa Counselling Cen- person from contesting an election. Sec- the government. Delivering the judgement tre where the parties to the disputes were tions 8, 8A, 9, 9A and 10, 10A make the ‘con- in Hindistan Sanitaryware and Industries called for counselling over the issue of cus- victed’ persons of certain specified of- Ltd. Vs. State of Haryana, the bench com- tody of two children. fences under Indian Penal Code, prising Justice L Nageswara Rao and Jus- However, on May 3, a vacation bench, Prevention of Corruption Act, Customs tice M.R Shah said: acting upon the habeas corpus petition Act, Anti-Terrorism Act etc. disqualified sons, sick and disabled persons have to be H The prohibition of segregation of wages filed by the estranged lady, conditionally for certain periods. Therefore, mere charge spared from physical and mental torture, into components in the form of al- handed over the custody of the kids to of being a terrorist does not attract dis- according to the settled law on investiga- lowances in the said notification is im- Sindhu Sharma. qualification. Other charges levelled tion. In USA, there are strict laws to deal permissible; against Sadhvi are 1. She is a hardcore prac- with the erring o�cials. The relevant laws H The security inspector/security o�- Malaysia gets it first woman Chief Jus�ce titioner of ; and 2. She is insulting provide for punishment of jail term up to cer/security supervisor cannot be in- Malaysia now has a new Chief Justice. the former Joint Commissioner of Police, 20 years if death was not caused due to cluded in the notification’ But that is not the news. The news is that Mumbai, Late Hemant Karakare who at- custodial torture and life imprisonment or H Trainees who are employed without for the first time in the country’s history, tained martyrdom during the Mumbai death if the torture resulted into the death. payment of any reward cannot be cov- the Federal Court of Malaysia will have a blast incident. In short, there is no logic in clubbing ered by the notification; woman to occupy this highest post. The answers to these allegations are not both the facets of Karakare’s life and fo- H Categorisation of unskilled employees Ms Datuk Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, far to seek. The charge of her being a hard- cusing on the aspect of his martyrdom. as semi-skilled and semi-skilled as who is already a judge of the Federal Court, core Hindu, going by the definition of Hin- Sadhvi’s wrath is quite natural and those skilled on the basis of their experience has been elevated to the post of the Chief dutva provided by the Supreme Court, who belittle her must only envision by is beyond jurisdiction of the govern- Justice. means following way of life. placing themselves or their own wife, ment; and True, she being an ascetic would like to mother or sister in her place. Then only H Fixing the training period for one year Telangana HC gets first woman judge and in fact, she must , follow the prescribed they will realise the pain of torture and its is ultra vires. Justice Ghandikota Sri Devi, a judge of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ by scriptures. To brand natural reaction. the Allahabad High Court, has been trans- her, when the matter is sub judice as a ter- Costs imposed for hur�ng ferred to the Telangana High Court at Hy- rorist would be doing injustice to her. Compromise must be in toto: SC sen�ments of Jains derabad. Hailing from Vizianagaram in Further, in so far as Pragya’s anguish In a Judgement that would enable the Vishal Dadlani and Tehseen Poonawala Andhra Pradesh, Justice Sri Devi initially against the top cop Hemant Karakare is parties to marital discord to bring more have been directed to pay Rs 10 lakh each worked as the Additional District and Ses- concerned, there is nothing like ‘insulting’ clarity while compromising their disputes, for ‘insulting’ Jain Sant Tarun Sagar on sions judge at Jhansi in 2005 and later a martyr. True, in his subsequent avatar the bench of the apex court division bench Twitter and hurting the sentiments of the served as the principal judge and as a Hemant Karakare while dealing with the comprising Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and followers of Jain religion by the Punjab & judge of the Family Court at Jhansi. Pak terrorists who had triggered multiple Justice Indu Malhotra observed: “If the Haryana High Court on May 1. She was appointed as an additional bomb blasts in Mumbai killing more than parties had arrived at settlement and de- Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan in his Judge of the Allahabad High Court in No- two hundred people, laid down his life and cided to withdraw the cases filed by each judgement observed that the duo has not vember 2018. She becomes the first o�ered the supreme sacrifice for the coun- of the parties against the other, the com- only insulted the Jain Muni but have also woman Judge of the youngest High Court try. But this fact, cannot absolve him of the promise ought to be e�ectuated in com- hurt the sentiments of the Jain commu- of Telangana.