JAMMU, Mar 12: State High Court today passed strictures against the order of Trial Court whereby the latter had dropped proceedings against Dr Manohar Lal Sharma, Minister of State for Cooperatives in a case registered at Billawar Police Station. After hearing Advocate Varut Kumar Gupta appearing for the petitioner Labhu Ram and Advocate BS Salathia for Minister of State, Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir observed, “the proceedings against the MoS were dropped in an arbitrary and per-functionary manner”, adding “Trial Court has virtually passed an illegal order against the basic principle of law”
JAMMU, Mar 12: Entire PDP today staged a walk-out in the Legislative Assembly after Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone turned down their plea to speak on the grants of the Finance Ministry on the ground that the House was running short of time. NPP MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia also staged a walk-out for not being given time to speak on the grants. There was heated debate between some of the PDP members and Mr Lone on the rules, which the opposition party claimed, made it mandatory on the part of the Chair to allow movers of the amendments on the grant to take part in the debate
SRINAGAR, Mar 12: The Justice H S Bedi Commission probing the death of National Conference (NC) worker, Syed Yusuf, today granted permission to the counsel of his family to visit the Chief Minister’s residence, Crime Branch headquarters and Police hospital. Justice Bedi granted permission to Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, counsel for family of Syed Yusuf, who died in Crime Branch custody last year, to visit the Chief Minister’s office inside Omar Abdullah’s official residence, the police hospital at Police Control Room (PCR), Srinagar, and headquarters of the Crime Branch at Rajbagh, Srinagar
NEW DELHI, Mar 12: Government today expressed confidence that the country will soon be back on the high growth trajectory of 8-9 per cent as it unveiled measures to tackle the menace of generation and outflow of black money from the country.Outlining the Government’s action plan for the coming fiscal, President Pratibha Patil said in her address to the joint session of Parliament that efforts were underway to build political consensus on the Goods and Services Tax. In the address, which could be her last, she unveiled a blueprint for guaranteeing the country’s internal and external security and economic and livelihood security
Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather replying to debate on grants of
Finance Ministry in Legislative Assembly on Monday. (See more pic on ….)
JAMMU, Mar 12: Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today ruled out prohibition in Jammu and Kashmir saying it had not succeeded in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat and instead encouraged smuggling of liquor and illicit distillation but announced a series of measures to check the menace of liquor.Replying to debate on the grants of his Departments including Finance and Ladakh Affairs in the Legislative Assembly today, Mr Rather recalled that both Andhra Pradesh and Haryana, which had announced prohibition in 1990 and 1996 had to withdraw the decision within two years as it led to smuggling of liquor and illegal business of spurious distillation. “Even in Gujarat, where there was still prohibition, the liquor was delivered on demand in homes through different means. It was not possible for the police constables to raid each and every house’’, he said, adding besides encouraging menace of illicit liquor and smuggling the prohibition would also lead to immense revenue losses, which a smaller State like Jammu and Kashmir couldn’t afford.
JAMMU, Mar 12: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah today rejected as unfortunate the allegations of his involvement in the multi-crore J&K Cricket Association (JKCA) scam, an issue which rocked the Legislative Assembly today with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) disrupting Question Hour for about half an hour before staging a walk-out followed by a dharna outside the Legislature demanding registration of a FIR by the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) against Dr Abdullah like Suresh Kalmadi.”I have not taken a penny in any form from the JKCA. There is no question of any money being bungled. The tarnishing of my image is unfortunate,” Farooq, who heads the JKCA, told reporters in Delhi, breaking his silence on the allegations that there was bungling of funds received by the State cricket body from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
SRINAGAR, Mar 12:Enjoying the patronage of a Cabinet Minister, an inter-state drug mafia has been looting the UPA Government’s flagship programme in health sector, National Rural Health Mission, in Jammu & Kashmir even as the authorities claim to have put in place a “fool-proof” auditing and monitoring system for the ` 1,000 Crore ambitious project. State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) has completed investigation into the Drug Kits supply scam and established the involvement of Jammu and Pune-based pharmaceutical agents but, reportedly under pressure to spare the Minister’s coterie, it has not filed challan in the anti-corruption court in Jammu.According to highly placed sources in the State Government, SVO learned about large scale irregularities and embezzlements in NRHM funds over a year ago and launched a preliminary inquiry. Allegations made in a host of complaints were found true and subsequently case FIR No: 19 of 2011 under Sections 52, 51(c) Prevention of Corruption Act and 120-B Ranbir Penal Code was filed by Vigilance Organisation Jammu on 16-9-2011. It was substantiated with technical and documentary evidences that a coterie of agents, dealing in pharmaceutical business and having its network spread from Srinagar and Jammu to New Delhi and Pune, had been plundering NRHM funds with the patronage of certain politicians, including a Minister
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