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Dubai Court denies early release for convicted killers after 15 years

The Dubai Criminal Court, in a 2007 ruling, sentenced the five men to 10 years for murder followed by deportation…reports Asian Lite News

 A Dubai court has turned down an appeal for early release by a group of five men from India and Pakistan, who were convicted of murdering a security guard more than 17 years ago.

The men were found guilty of killing the guard at a building site in Jebel Ali in January 2006, and were sentenced to 25 years of life imprisonment by a Dubai Court of Appeal in 2007, The National newspaper reported.

Having served 15 years in prison already, the men were unable to convince the judges at the Dubai Court of Appeal with the documents presented on Monday.

The court heard that the men were part of a 10-member gang who in January 2006 broke into the building site to steal 100 metres of cable worth Dh3,300.

The five broke into the site, stole the cables and assaulted and strangled the security guard.

Their other accomplices were identified as the driver, two who kept a lookout and two who helped to break into the building site.

The robbers then loaded the stolen cable into a vehicle and drove to Sharjah where they sold it and divided the money among themselves.

The guard, whose age and nationality was not revealed, had tried to confront the robbers.

His body was found the next morning by his brother who reported the matter to Dubai Police.

While eight men were apprehended locally, two had escaped to Oman.

They were arrested by Omani authorities and extradited to the UAE, The National reported.

The Dubai Criminal Court, in a 2007 ruling, sentenced the five men to 10 years for murder followed by deportation.

Their five accomplices received half of that sentence with deportation.

However, the Dubai Court of Appeal revised the sentences later that year, with the primary culprits receiving a life imprisonment sentence, which is 25 years.

Their accomplices had their sentences doubled to 10 years.

While a fresh appeal can be submitted in two years, Hassan Elhais of Al Rowaad Advocates told The National that request for an early release is examined by a dedicated committee as per the UAE laws.

Elhais said the committee evaluated the behaviour of each prisoner during their jail term and the potential threat they might pose upon release.

“The committee’s focus isn’t on the initial crime or the ensuing circumstances as that’s the purview of the sentencing judges,” he told The National.

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Court finds 6 guilty in 2010 Kerala palm chopping case

The attackers belonging to the now banned Popular Front of India  were upset on a Question Paper prepared by Joseph which they claimed was derogatory and in retaliation they cut off his palm and escaped…reports Asian Lite News

An NIA court here on Wednesday found six accused guilty in the case of cutting off the palm of Professor T.J. Joseph, and acquitted five others. In the second phase of the verdict in the case, the court said that the charge of terrorism against the accused was proved.

The trial started in 2013 when the first charge sheet was filed that had 38 accused, and two years later 13 were convicted.

On Wednesday, the NIA court gave its verdict on the second supplementary charge sheet. It let off five and the punishment for the six accused will be pronounced on Thursday.

The gruesome incident occurred on July 4, 2010, when Joseph, a professor of Malayalam at Newman College, Thodupuzha, a Christian minority institution affiliated with Mahatma Gandhi University, along with his family was returning after Sunday mass. He was waylaid by a group of armed men and his palm was cut off.

The attackers belonging to the now banned Popular Front of India  were upset on a Question Paper prepared by Joseph which they claimed was derogatory and in retaliation they cut off his palm and escaped.

Reacting to the verdict, Joseph said he doesn’t feel anything after hearing about the verdict as he is more worried that those who did the crime are victims of a crude belief.

“I don’t believe in the theory that the victim has got justice when the accused have been found guilty because those who have been named are only ‘weapons’ as those who planned this are still in hiding. especially the prime accused,” said Joseph.

T.K.Rajmohan a now retired NIA official said he was the first person who met the family of Joseph soon after the NIA took over the probe and he had assured Joseph, his wife and sister that they will crack the case and with two supplementary charge sheets now settled, the NIA probe will definitely continue.

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Prince Harry tells court press has blood on its hands

Prince Harry. (Photo: IANS)

The lawyer then forensically and with increasing hostility quizzed the prince over 33 newspaper articles, whose details Harry claims were obtained unlawfully…reports Asian Lite News

Prince Harry launched a fierce attack on the “vile” press on Tuesday, blaming tabloids for destroying his adolescence and later relationships, as he gave evidence for almost five hours in his lawsuit against a tabloid publisher.

As he became the first senior British royal to appear in a witness box in more than a century, Harry also said the thought of people unlawfully intruding into the private life of his late mother Princess Diana made him “feel physically sick”.

The prince, the fifth-in-line to the throne, and 100 others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, at the High Court in London over allegations of widespread unlawful information gathering between 1991 and 2011.

In his 50-page written witness statement and a day of cross-examination from MGN’s lawyer Andrew Green, the younger son of King Charles said he had been targeted since 1996 when he was a schoolboy.

Harry said the press would try to destroy his relationships with girlfriends, blaming them for his break-up with Chelsy Davy, for causing his circle of friends to shrink, and for bouts of depression and paranoia.

He said he had been labelled a “playboy prince”, a “thicko”, a “failure” and a “drop out”.

“Looking back on it now, such behaviour on their part is utterly vile,” he wrote, saying the tabloids had incited “hatred and harassment” into his and his wife Meghan’s private lives.

In another section he said: “How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness?”

Asked to whom he was referring, he said: “Some of the editors and journalists that are responsible for causing a lot of pain, upset and in some cases – perhaps inadvertently – death.”

Green began his questioning respectfully, personally apologising to Harry on MGN’s behalf over one instance in which it admitted unlawful information gathering, saying “it should never have happened and it will not happen again”.

The lawyer then forensically and with increasing hostility quizzed the prince over 33 newspaper articles, whose details Harry claims were obtained unlawfully.

Looking relaxed but serious, and speaking softly but firmly, Harry, the first senior British royal to give evidence for 130 years, said thousands if not millions of stories had been written about him, as Green pressed him on whether he had read the MGN articles in question at the time they were published.

The lawyer intimated that the distress he had suffered was caused by press coverage in general, not the specific MGN stories, and suggested they were based on details already in the public domain.

On a number of occasions, Green described his allegations as “total speculation”.

When asked about the source of information for articles at the centre of his lawsuit, Harry repeatedly said that question should be asked of the journalist who wrote them, saying they appeared suspicious.

Quizzed about one article, Harry said it was “as distressing looking at it now” as it was at the time it was published in 2004. He will be back on Wednesday to give more evidence.

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Court upholds Sarkozy’s 3-yr sentence in graft case

Right after the ruling, Sarkozy’s legal team announced that they would continue to appeal at the highest court…reports Asian Lite News

The Court of Appeal of Paris has upheld a prison sentence of three years, including two suspended, against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling.

According to the court ruling on Wednesday, Sarkozy will only need to serve one year of house arrest with an electronic bracelet, and his civil rights will be deprived for three years.

Right after the ruling, Sarkozy’s legal team announced that they would continue to appeal at the highest court.

Sarkozy served as French President from 2007 to 2012. He was sentenced in March 2021 to three years in prison for corruption and influence peddling. It was the first time that a former president has been convicted of corruption and sentenced to prison in France.

He was convicted of attempting to bribe, through his then-lawyer, a magistrate with a job offer in Monaco for information about an investigation of his 2007 presidential campaign.

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Court tells Nirav Modi not to pick holes in extradition treaty

Nirav Modi

“It is in your client’s interests to demonstrate the assurances aren’t good enough, but we should take a benign approach,” he said…reports Asian Lite News

India is a “friendly foreign power” and the UK must honour its extradition treaty obligations by not picking holes in the government’s assurances that Nirav Modi will be provided with adequate medical care at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai while on trial for fraud and money laundering, the High Court in London said on Wednesday.

On the second day of an appeal hearing being pursued by the 51-year-old diamond merchant against being extradited to face the Indian courts in the estimated USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan scam case, a two-judge panel continued to hear arguments that Nirav poses a high risk of suicide due to his depressive state.

His defence team claimed that his depression would worsen if sent to the “hostile environment” of India, where politicians have “demonised” him by pre-judging his guilt, the press has been “vitriolic” and the public has “burnt his effigies”.

“The government of India assurances should be read reasonably benignly and one should not pick every possible hole in them,” Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith told defence barrister Edward Fitzgerald.

“It is in your client’s interests to demonstrate the assurances aren’t good enough, but we should take a benign approach,” he said.

Justice Robert Jay further noted that India is a “friendly foreign power and we have to honour our treaty obligations”, with reference to the India-UK Extradition Treaty signed in 1992.

Fitzgerald said he adopted an “anxious scrutiny” of the assurances because while the judiciary in India is independent, the executive did not always abide by the rule of law.

“It’s not as if there has been an uncheckered history of utter cooperation… there have been numerous cases where the court found a respondent should not be extradited to India,” he said.

The court was taken through the detailed assurances offered by the Indian authorities, the cumulative effect of which would imply that the psychiatric diagnosis would be “more than adequately managed” in India.

“This is an extremely high profile case in India and there will be many eyes on the government of India and on Mr Modi’s care,” said Helen Malcolm, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) barrister, on behalf of the Indian government.

Besides, she pointed to several other safeguards including daily visits by Nirav’s lawyers, access by private medical practitioners and a multidisciplinary medical team agreeing a care plan within days of his arrival in India.

The extradition appeal now hinges on the judges’ ruling on whether it would be oppressive to extradite Nirav given his high risk of suicide, which is expected to be elevated on being extradited. The mental health and human rights grounds of the appeal are the only factors in play after permission to appeal against District Judge Sam Goozee’s extradition order from February last year was denied on all other aspects.

On Monday, the court heard from two psychiatric experts who had assessed Nirav while in Wandsworth prison in south-west London and confirmed that he suffers from “recurrent depressive disorder” and has suicidal thoughts, believing that he will die in prison – either by self-harm or be killed.

The experts, however, did not agree over whether the depression was mild or moderate and also the causative effect the extradition would have on any suicidal impulse.

As a former “darling jeweller with celebrities on his arm”, the CPS accepted that his mental health is expected to fluctuate, but pointed to the “very serious” nature of the charges involving the PNB’s missing billions.

Nirav is the subject of two sets of criminal proceedings, with the CBI case relating to a large-scale fraud upon PNB through the fraudulent obtaining of letters of undertaking (LoUs) or loan agreements, and the ED case relating to the laundering of the proceeds of that fraud. He also faces two additional charges of “causing the disappearance of evidence” and intimidating witnesses or “criminal intimidation to cause death”, which were added to the CBI case.

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Varanasi court adjourns Gyanvapi hearing till July 12

The hearing in the Gyanvapi case has been adjourned till July 12. The lawyer representing the Muslim side presented 51 arguments during the hearing today…reports Asian Lite News

The Varanasi district court on Monday heard arguments on the maintainability of a plea by five Hindu women seeking permission to worship the Shringar Gauri Sthal within the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi Masjid complex.

Earlier, claims were made by the Hindu side that a structure, resembling a Shivling was found in the mosque complex. The Masjid committee contested that it was a fountain and not a Shivling.

“Muslim side has given its arguments, the date for the next hearing is July 12 keeping in mind everyone’s convenience. Muslim side to keep its arguments on law-point in front of the court then,” said Advocate Vishnu Jain, representing the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi Masjid survey matter told to reporters.

The hearing in the Gyanvapi case has been adjourned till July 12. The lawyer representing the Muslim side presented 51 arguments during the hearing today.

The Supreme Court had on May 20 transferred the case from a civil judge (senior division) to a district judge, saying considering the “complexities and sensitivity” of the issue, it is better if a senior judicial officer having an experience of over 25-30 years handles this case. The bench also said that no manner of restriction should be imposed on Muslims entering the mosque to offer namaz or religious observances.

The matter had reached the Supreme Court on a petition filed by the Mosque Management Committee, which challenged the civil judge’s orders. The order permitted inspection, survey, and videography of the mosque’s complex to collect evidence about the alleged existence of idols of Hindu deities inside the mosque, which is adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. After the survey, the lawyers representing the Hindu side claimed that a shivling was found at the mosque premises.

They filed an application for the protection of the shivling, where upon the civil judge directed the district magistrate, Varanasi, to seal the area where the shivling was sighted. It also directed the deployment of the CRPF to protect the sealed area and prohibited people from entering it. (ANI)

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Two Britons sentenced to death by Russian court  

Robert Jenrick, the member of parliament for the district where Aslin’s family live, said the proceedings were akin to a “Soviet-era show trial”…reports Asian Lite News

Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine were sentenced to death on Thursday by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one of Russia’s proxies in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.

The court found the three men – Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun – guilty of “mercenary activities and committing actions aimed at seizing power and overthrowing the constitutional order of the DPR”, the Interfax news agency quoted a court official as saying.

The three men were captured while fighting for Ukraine against Russia and Russian-backed forces after Russia invaded on Feb. 24. Their lawyer said they would appeal against the decision.

Britain slammed the court’s decision as a “sham judgment.”

“I utterly condemn the sentencing of Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner held by Russian proxies in eastern Ukraine,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Twitter. “They are prisoners of war. This is a sham judgment with absolutely no legitimacy.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said that, under the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war were entitled to combatant immunity and they should not be prosecuted for participation in hostilities.

Robert Jenrick, the member of parliament for the district where Aslin’s family live, said the proceedings were akin to a “Soviet-era show trial”.

During the proceedings, the three men were held in a cage with black bars, guarded by soldiers with their faces covered and wearing arm-bands with the pro-Russian “Z” symbol, before being asked to stand while the verdict was read to them, a video from the courtroom published by the RIA Novosti news agency showed.

The hasty trial was held largely behind closed doors.

Less than 24 hours before the verdict was handed down, Pinner and Saadoun had pleaded guilty to actions aimed at the violent seizure of power, a video shared from the court by the RIA Novosti news agency showed. Aslin appeared to have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge involving weapons and explosives.

“The evidence presented by the prosecution in this case allowed the court to pass a guilty verdict, not to mention the fact that all the defendants, without exception, pleaded guilty to all charges,” judge Alexander Nikulin told reporters at the court after handing down the verdict.

“When passing the verdict, the court was guided not only by the prescribed norms and rules, but also by the most important, unshakable principle of justice. It was that which made it possible to take this complex and difficult decision to apply an exceptional measure of punishment in the form of the death penalty,” he added.

The DPR is one of two breakaway Russian-backed entities in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that Russia says it is fighting to liberate from Ukrainian forces.

Three days before launching its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russia recognised them as independent states in a move condemned by Ukraine and the West as illegal.

Britain does not recognise the DPR and Britain has not publicly engaged with local officials over the case.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier this week that should London raise the case directly with the DPR, this might amount to de facto recognition of the region’s independence.

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Centre notifies appointment of 8 new HC judges, transfers six

In 2018, the top court’s collegium recommended Nargal, which was one of the oldest recommendations pending with the government. In 2021, the collegium reiterated Nargal’s elevation as a judge…reports Asian Lite News

The Centre on Wednesday appointed advocate Wasim Sadiq Nargal as an additional judge of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court, four years after his name was recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium.

According to notifications issued by the Law Ministry, seven judicial officers were elevated as judges of the Patna High Court. Also, four additional judges of the Kerala High Court were also elevated as judges of the same high court. Besides these appointments, the ministry also notified transfers of six judges.

The judicial officers elevated as judges of the Patna High Court are: Jitendra Kumar, Sunil Dutta, Alok Kumar Pandey, Shailendra Singh, Arun Kumar Jha, Chandra Prakash Singh, and Chandra Shekhar Jha.

The additional judges of the Kerala High Court elevated as judges are: Ziyad Rahman Alevakkatt Abdul Rahiman, Murali Purushothaman, Karunakaran Babu, and Kauser Edappagath.

In 2018, the top court’s collegium recommended Nargal, which was one of the oldest recommendations pending with the government. In 2021, the collegium reiterated Nargal’s elevation as a judge.

Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash of Orissa High Court has been transferred to the Calcutta High Court and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has been transferred to the Patna High Court.

Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh has been sent to the Bombay High Court, while Justice Subhasis Talaptra of the Tripura High Court has been transferred to the Orissa High Court.

Also, Justice Lanusungkum Jamir of the Manipur High Court has been sent to the Gauhati High Court. Besides these transfers, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has been transferred to the Delhi High Court.

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Limited impact of courts seizing properties of corrupt officials  

Sharma is one of the many cases of government negligence in Rajasthan which has cost government officers their property…reports Asian Lite News

Maina Sharma, a resident of Teli Mohalla in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan had a problem. The public toilet in front of her house was in a very bad condition and the foul smell made life difficult for her. She complained to the city council, but it fell on deaf ears. Eventually, Sharma filed an application in the Permanent Lok Adalat (a dispute redressal mechanism) seeking relief.

The court summoned the city council commissioner and health officer but they did not appear. On July 25, 2019, the Lok Adalat ordered the city council to improve the condition of the toilet and pay a compensation of Rs 3,000 to the complainant, in addition to Rs 2,500 to cover complaint expenses. The court also directed the officers to solve the problem within a month, otherwise they would be fined Rs 100 per day.

“The authorities neither improved the condition of the public toilet nor paid the damages. Meanwhile, the amount of compensation, increasing at the rate of one hundred rupees per day, reached a total of Rs 74,800,” said Naresh Kathpal, Sharma’s lawyer.

“We presented a petition for the recovery of the amount in the court on September 22, 2021, after which the entire contents of the commissioner’s office –3 chairs, three fans, four cupboards, two computers, tables, sofas, coolers among others — have been seized for compensation. Now they will be auctioned and the money recovered.”

Sharma’s is one of the many cases of government negligence in Rajasthan which has cost government officers their property.

In the judgement given in Sharma’s case, the court said that the officers of the city council are careless and insensitive in their duty. “But it did not affect them,” said Kathpal adding, “They did not improve the condition of even a small toilet, even though their office belongings were seized.”

Government penalised

In fact, over the last few years, a large number of such cases have come to the fore in Rajasthan and the auctioning of government property is now becoming common practice.

In Sri Ganganagar alone, the goods of three government offices have been seized just in the month of September this year. Most recently in October, the Lok Adalat of Hanumangarh ordered the seizure of movable and immovable properties of the District Collector and the Municipal Council to cover a compensation of Rs 75,000 due to a victim of a stray bull attack in 2017.

Advocate Dinesh Dadhich, the son of the victim, said, “Such decisions will create awareness among the general public and they will be able to demand their due from the departments concerned.”

On September 29, Public Works Department’s (PWD) postal building was seized due to non-payment of dues to a farmer for land that was acquired in 1997. The court gave a verdict in December 2018 ordering the PWD to pay the farmer Premkumar a total amount of nearly Rs 22 lakh, with interest. When the department did not comply, the court gave orders to seize the department’s postal bungalow. Premkumar’s son, Sunil Saharan said that his 80-year-old father has fought this battle for 22 years. “Now that the court has ordered the seizure of the bungalow, we hope to get the remaining amount,” said Saharan.

Six days before this seizure, on September 23, furnishings in the office of Principal Medical Officer (PMO) of the Sri Ganganagar District Hospital were seized because the department had not yet complied with a 2015 court judgement to pay Rs 75,000 to a man injured in a collision with a government ambulance.

Similar incidents have been seen in other districts like Bikaner and Churu too. The PWD building in Bharatpur faced the same fate on September 20. The office has been auctioned on the order of the Bharatpur Sessions Court for Rs 1.1 crore because PWD had not yet compensated for the death of an employee in the line of duty. In August, the equipment of the Chief Engineer’s office of Bharatpur PWD was seized due to non-acceptance of the court’s decision in a case of land acquisition.

The office of the Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) in Bharatpur was also auctioned on April 1 this year. The CMHO office had initially not cared about the court order, but after the auction, officials immediately issued a cheque for Rs 1.5 lakh in the name of the complainant.

KMC Constructions Limited, Hyderabad, which completed the construction of the Udaipur-Chittorgarh highway, has not been paid in two decades despite them winning the case at the Udaipur District and Sessions court. Finally, on August 30 this year, on the orders of the court, the chair of the Udaipur District Collector was seized. The administration then hastily paid the company Rs 10.02 crore.

In February this year, the Civil Judge of Chittorgarh ordered the seizure of the car, residence and chair of the District Collector, Superintendent of Police and Tehsildar over non-payment of compensation; the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal issued a notice for the seizure of the chair and car of the District Collector of Bundi last year; in April 2019, goods in the Dholpur SDM’s (Sub Divisional Magistrate) office were seized; in January 2018 the Integrated Child Development Services Department of Jaipur was penalised in a similar manner; and in February 2016, the Sessions Court issued an order to seize the car of the District Collector of Sri Ganganagar for non-payment of compensation to a farmer in a 36-year-old case.

Dr SP Singh, a former officer of the Indian Administrative Service, who served as the District Collector several times across Rajasthan, said that such incidents were rampant because of “the negligent and irresponsible attitude of the officers. The arrogance of the officials is responsible for this. Many district collectors do not even like to talk to the SDM or the lower cadre officers. Whereas, for the sake of the public, they should talk directly even to the Patwari. Public interest is more important than hierarchy”.

No heed to court orders

Top officers claim that the government is serious about taking action on the public’s complaints and resolving their problems but people are still compelled to go to the courts to get their attention.

Harjiram Atal, Director (Public Service), Rajasthan’s Administrative Reforms and Coordination Department in Jaipur, said: “Anyone who has a grievance can take any route. If there are orders of the court in any matter, then the authorities should follow them. Regular monitoring should be done by the concerned District Collector and SDM about the complaints registered and they should be disposed of as per the rules. We have issued a circular in this regard. Such instructions are also given in the monthly meetings of the departments.”

Atal said that they regularly review complaints received from the public. “All the district collectors have been asked to hold weekly and fortnightly meetings and ensure quality disposal of complaints,” he stated.

But advocate Navrang Singh Choudhary described all the guidelines as a mere formality. He asked that if the government is serious, why doesn’t it take action against the officials responsible for the seizure and auction of government offices.

Singh, a former president of the Bar Council of Rajasthan, added, “While the general public is troubled due to careless and irresponsible officers, there is defamation of the administration. The officers responsible for the seizure-auction should be identified and punished. This will serve as a lesson to the other officers.”

The Rajasthan Guaranteed Delivery of Public Services Act, 2011 has been in force in the state since November 14, 2011. This act prescribes how many days a department can take to complete a certain public work, guaranteeing the provision of services within a time limit.

Advocate Sanjay Arya, Secretary, Social Common Cause and Evolutionary Education Society in Sangaria, said that there are many rules and regulations, but government officials do not take interest in dealing with the public’s work.

“The officers do not even want to comply with the orders of the court. Court orders are stuck or ignored through appeal. This trend has increased over the past decade,” said Arya. He added that judicial activism from the officers is not tolerated.

“The nexus between politicians and officials prevents them from listening to anyone. The problem is big. The court will have to find a solution for this.”

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Collegium clears 16 names for judges of Bombay, Madras HC

The top court collegium approved the proposal for appointment of Justice Ahanthem Bimol Singh, additional judge of the Manipur High Court, as permanent judge of that high court….reports Asian Lite News

The Supreme Court Collegium, headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, has recommended the appointment of 10 advocates as judges to the Bombay High Court and six advocates as judges to the Madras High Court.

A statement published on the website of the top court said: “The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on 16th February, 2022 has approved the proposal for elevation of the following advocates as judges in the Bombay High Court: Kishore Chandrakant Sant, Valmiki Menezes SA, Kamal Rashmi Khata, Sharmila Uttamrao Deshmukh, Arun Ramnath Pednekar, Sandeep Vishnupant Marne, Gauri Vinod Godse, Rajesh Shantaram Patil, Arif Saleh Doctor, and Somasekhar Sundaresan.”

In another statement, the top court said: “The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on 16th February, 2022 has approved the proposal for elevation of the following advocates as judges in the Madras High Court: Nidumolu Mala, Sunder Mohan, Kabali Kumaresh Babu, S. Sounthar, Abdul Ghani Abdul Hameed, and R. John Sathyan.”

The top court collegium approved the proposal for appointment of Justice Ahanthem Bimol Singh, additional judge of the Manipur High Court, as permanent judge of that high court.

Recently, the Centre had notified the appointment of Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.

The notification, published on the website of the Ministry of Law and Justice, said: “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari, Judge of the Madras High Court, to be the Chief Justice of Madras High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.”

In January, the Supreme Court Collegium, which is headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, in a statement, said: “The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on December 14, 2021/ January 29, 2022 has recommended elevation of Mr Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari, Judge, Madras High Court (PHC: Rajasthan) as Chief Justice of Madras High Court”.

In another decision, the Centre also notified the appointment of the seven advocates as judges in the Andhra Pradesh High Court: Konakanti Sreenivasa Reddy @Srinivasa Reddy, Gannamaneni Ramakrishna Prasad, Venkateswarlu Nimmagadda, Tarlada Rajasekhar Rao, Satti Subba Reddy, Ravi Cheemalapati, and Vaddiboyana Sujatha.

The Centre also notified the appointment of three advocates as judges in the Madhya Pradesh High Court: Maninder Singh Bhatti, Dwarka Dhish Bansal @ DD Bansal, and Milind Ramesh Phadke, as well as three judicial officers: Amar Nath Kesharwani, Prakash Chandra Gupta, and Dinesh Kumar Paliwal.

The Central government also notified the appointment of the following advocates as Judges in the Orissa High Court: V. Narasingh, Biraja Prasanna Satapathy, and Sri Raman Murahari @ M.S. Raman.

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