NC Digest: Jayant Sinha Misleads On Jharkhand Lynching Case, Demonetisation Kills Another Man And More
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- Revolution, Not Reform, Needed For Judiciary To Service Commoners: Justice Gogoi
A “revolution, not reform” is needed to keep the institution of judiciary serviceable for the common man, senior Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjan Gogoi said today, asserting that the judiciary would have to be more “pro-active” and on the “front foot”. The assertions were made by Justice Gogoi, who is the senior-most judge and is likely to be recommended to succeed Chief Justice Dipak Misra on his retirement on October 2.
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- Jayant Sinha Deliberately Misleads On Jharkhand Lynching Case, Gets Schooled By A Lawyer
Lawyer Chitranshul Sinha on Friday, gave Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) minister Jayant Sinha a taste of his own medicine when he tried to mansplain actress Swara Bhasker on Twitter. BJP lawmaker Sinha wrongly claimed in a tweet that the case on Ramgarh lynching convicts is under IPC section 304 which is “culpable homicide not amounting to murder.” Talking to NewsCentral24x7.com, lawyer Chitranshul Sinha clarified that this case is in fact under IPC section 302 which is culpable homicide “amounting to murder.”
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- Setalvad Likens Tuticorin Police Firing To Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Likening the Tuticorin police firing in which 13 people were killed to the Jallianwalah Bagh massacre, civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad has said that courts should take cognisance of such incidents on their own to ensure that they do not recur. She said the High Courts and the Supreme Court very rarely use a powerful tool, the provision of ‘Suo Moto’ (on their or its own initiative, without external prompting or explicit demand). The last time that the Apex court used it was for the protection of the Himalayas, she said.
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- Left Parties To Organise Protest March Against Tripura, Bengal Govts
The CPI(M), CPI, CPIML, Forward Bloc and RSP will jointly organise protest marches across the country on July 24 against ‘murder’ of democracy and violation of human rights and political freedom in Tripura and West Bengal. The march will be led by senior Left leaders, including Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Manik Sarkar and others, in the national capital, the parties said in a statement today.
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- Rajasthan: 12 Juveniles Flee From Observation Home, 5 Nabbed Later
As many as 12 juvenile delinquents fled from a government-run observation home in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district after breaking a window grill, police said today. According to a police official, five of the juvenile delinquents were nabbed later. The caretaker of the observation home and two security guards were having dinner when the inmates broke the window grill and fled last night, SHO of Sewar Police Station Anil Dariya said.
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- Nitish Raj: 120 Children Fall Ill After Consuming Food At School Hostel
Altogether 120 children had fallen ill due to food poisoning at a government-run school in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district, police said today. The students at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, in Barahaiya area of the district, complained of nausea and stomach ache last evening after consuming dinner at the school hostel, Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said.
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- While BJP Minister Says There Is No Water Logging, Girl Falls Into Nullah, Dies In Maharashtra’s Yavatmal
A four-year-old girl today died after she fell into a nullah during heavy rains in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district, a senior official said. District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh said that Akansha Anil Gaikwad was playing on the road near a nullah, in Chikli Kanoba village of Ner tehsil, when she fell into it. The incident happened at around 1:30 pm and the villagers, who found the girl in the nullah some distance ahead, rushed her to the local hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival, he said.
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- We Will Go By Constitutional Morality Not Majority Morality, Says SC
The Supreme Court today rejected a demand for a referendum over the constitutional validity of section 377 of the IPC, saying it would not go by majority opinion but be governed by constitutional morality. “We do not decide constitutional issues by conducting a referendum. We follow the concept of constitutional morality and not majority morality. We don’t go by majority morality, rather we go by constitutional morality,” a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra told a lawyer favouring retention of section 377.
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- Swara Bhasker Shames Jayant Sinha, Calls His Love For Lynchers ‘Disgusting’
After the Opposition, now actress Swara Bhasker has called out Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) minister Jayant Sinha for garlanding eight lynching convicts at his residence in Jharkhand on June 5. Bhasker took to Twitter on Thursday and said that for a sitting minister to garland convicts is ” disgusting, shocking, horrifying and worrying.”
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- Demonetisation Is Still Killing: Man Kills Self Under Pressure From Retired IAS To Get Demonetised Notes Worth Rs 10 Cr Exchanged
A former sugar mill manager allegedly shot himself after being pressured by a retired IAS officer to get demonetised currency notes worth Rs 10 crore exchanged in a village in Shamli district, police said today. The incident occurred in Badhev village under the Adarsh Mandi police station area last evening, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shalok Kumar said.
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