1. Minister Manish Tewari alleges acid attack attempt on him :-
Chandigarh/New Delhi: While the Punjab and Haryana High Court intended to fast track the all the acid attack cases, Information and Broadcasting Minister alleged on Saturday that there was an acid attack attempt on him. Four bottles of acid were recovered outside his Chandigarh residence on Friday night.
Media reports said that he had gone directly to his Ludhiana residence and that’s what might have saved him from the attack.
Reports say that a probe will be conducted into why the bottles were kept outside his house.
Expressing concern over increasing number of acid attacks, Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday stated that the court intends to fast-track all such cases pending before subordinate courts.
Meanwhile, acid attack cases on women had been increasing in the recent days - Laxmi, Sonali Mukherjee, Preeti Rathi, Arti Shrivastav, Rupa, Tuba Tabassam, Anu Mukherjee, Pragya Singh, Pratima Choudhary, Bhavna Choudhary and Archana Kumari - natives of places ranging from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra,
It was only after Justice Verma Committee’s Recommendations that acid attacks were made standalone offence. The Supreme Court recently ruled about the raise in compensation and also directed states to devise a policy to control the sale of acids.
2.Minister Manish Tewari alleges acid attack attempt on him:-
Arun Nehru, former union minister and powerful figure during the prime ministership of Rajiv Gandhi who died on Thursday, was cremated on Friday in the national capital.
Nehru, 69, a cousin of Rajiv Gandhi
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders LK Advani and Arun Jaitley, Union ministers Sachin Pilot and Anand Sharma were also present at the cremation.
Lucknow-born Nehru was a three-time Lok Sabha member. Nehru had a successful career in the corporate world before joining politics in the early 1980s.
3. Former Chief Justice Altmas Kabir denies 'NEET' judgment was leaked:-
Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India Altmas Kabir has denied that the judgment striking down the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to both MBBS and post-graduate course in medicine was leaked before he pronounced it.
When pointed out by Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's show Devil’s Advocate that an advocate's online article had given details of the judgement, Kabir said: "It was simply speculation. Even I did not know that Justice AR DAve was going to dissent. Whatever it is a coincidence or a leak, I don't know, but not from here."
He even disagreed with Dave’s contention that there wasn’t enough time to discuss the verdict. “The draft of the final judgment was given to him a week before it was to be pronounced,” he said.
Recently, the bench of Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir, Justices Vikramajeet Sen and Anil Dave gave a split verdict on the issue. Justices Kabir and Sen ruled against the MCI's single entrance exam, Justice Anil Dave was in favour of the examination.
Altamas Kabir on Friday demanded an apology from his successor P Sathasivam if he did indeed criticise the former in the terms attributed to him in a section of the media. Kabir, who left office on July 18, had given an interim order in favour of Jayprakash Associates in a case in which it had been directed to pay Rs. 100 crore as fine by the Himachal Pradesh high court.
A bench comprising Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi while hearing the same case on Tuesday had purportedly said the relief order should not have been passed.
“I have been wrongly indicted by the CJI,” he said.
But he added he had spoken to Sathasivam, who denied making the observations.
“I spoke to Chief Justice and he said, I had never said this. I also asked Justice Gogoi, who is a partner on this bench, he said certainly not, we have not said this at all,” Kabir said.
He added he had requested the two judges to put the denial in writing.
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