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Court granted bail to 85 CPI-M cadres and 14 PMK partymen
A court here today granted bail to 85 CPI-M cadres and 14 PMK partymen, arrested in connection with the last week attacks on the offices of a TV channel and the Marxist party here.
The office of Makkal TV, floated by PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss, was attacked on March 5 allegedly by CPI(M) workers, protesting a report on the recent death of Communist leader W R Varadarajan. In retaliation, the CPI(M) office here was also attacked.
Granting bail to K Balakrishnan, CPI-M state executive member and the other partymen and the 14 PMK cadres, Principal Sessions Judge P Devadoss directed them to furnish personal bonds for Rs 5000 with two sureities for like amounts each
While the CPI-M partymen were ordered to stay at Tiruchirappalli and report daily before the Judicial Magistrate there, The Judge directed the PMK members to stay at Vellore and report before the Judicial Magistrate until further orders.
They have been charged under various IPC sections including section 507 (attempt to murder) and rioting. – Agencies
Former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s killer Nalini Sriharan’s premature release
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Court, Information, Other, government, release on March 11th, 2010
The Madras High Court on Thursday would take up the case of former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s killer Nalini Sriharan’s premature release. The Tamil Nadu government is set to produce the Prison Advisory Board’s recommendations on the convict in court today, reports said.
The Prison Board, which was constituted Nalini’s premature release plea, has submitted its report to the state government. The 43-year old, who is serving a life term, has been in jail for the last 19 years.
Reports said the board has recommended Nalini’s release.
The assasinator had originally been sentenced to death. But that was reduced to a life sentence after Sonia Gandhi intervened and reasonsed that Nalini had a baby daughter.
The state government has indicated that it would consult the Centre before taking any decision on Nalini’s future.
DGP Nataraj’s application dismissed
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Court, Departments, Other, government, police on March 9th, 2010
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has rejected a petition by DGP (Director of Fire and Rescue Services) R Nataraj, challenging the appointment of Letika Saran as Director General of Tamil Nadu Police.
Dismissing Nataraj’s application, the Madras Bench of CAT, comprising K Elango and R Satapathy, held that Nataraj had not established any arbitrariness. Besides, he had not pointed out any specific violation of rules in appointment of Saran as DGP.
In its order, the Tribunal said though the applicant claimed he had been empanelled by the Union Government in the panel of DGP as per a May 2009 memo, a perusal of the same showed the panel was not drawn up to fill up the DGP post.
Subsequent to the memo, the Centre had equated the post Nataraj held in the DGP cadre to enable him to draw a higher pay and allowances. In as much as Nataraj had also been posted in the cadre of DGP, he could not have any grievance in the matter of appointment of Saran, it said.
The main relief claimed in the application, to quash the appointment of Saran and consequently to direct authorities to follow the rule of law in filling up the vacancy to the post of DGP was an omnibus prayer, which was not maintainable in the absence of any specific violation of rules in filling up the vacancy in the DGP’s post, the bench pointed out.
Nataraj, in his petition said Saran was junior to him and others and that she ought not to have been appointed as DGP. The process of selection and appointment was not followed by constituting the screening committee as per the rules, he said.
Saran was posted as DGP after K P Jain proceeded on leave.
Bomb threat to court turns out to be hoax
An anonymous call stating that two bagful of bombs would explode at the Alandur Judicial Magistrate court Complex, turned out to be hoax today.
Police said, the caller, a male, called up the Municipal Office at suburban Alandur and said a man, with two bags full of explosives, was inside the court premises and it would explode soon.
Acting on the information, officials from the suburban police commissionerate, along with bomb disposal and detection squad personnel rushed to the court premises and got it vacated.
The officials made a thorough search of the premises for more than an hour. However, no explosives were found.
Functioning of the court was affected for nearly an hour following the call.
Singamuthu fends off Vadivelu’s charges
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Court, Information, Other, businesses, competition, illegal, police on March 2nd, 2010
Professional rivalry has made actor Vadivelu to hurl baseless charges and allegations including murder threat and a cheating case against me, film comedian Singamuthu said today.
Vadivelu had accused his (former) friend and one-time associate Singamuthu, who used to appear with him in comedy tracks, of cheating him of several crores of rupees by forging property documents and threatening him with dire consequences recently.
Vadivelu personally lodged a complaint with Chennai police Commissioner T Rajendran seeking action against Singamuthu and others who had allegedly cheated him in connection with the purchase of land.
Singamuthu, who sought anticipatory bail fearing arrest in the case, gave an interview to a Tamil weekly, apparently as a riposte to Vadivelu’s allegations. In turn, Vadivelu sent a legal notice to Singamuthu seeking Rs 25 crore as compensation to the damage caused to his reputation.
Following orders from the Madras High Court, Singamuthu appeared in a court at Saidapet and obtained anticipatory bail. He was interrogated for two hours by Central Crime Branch sub inspector.
Emerging out of the court. Singamuthu said, ‘I have approached the court in the wake of wild allegations made against me by Vadivelu.
‘Fearing arrest following Vadivelu’s complaint, I went into hiding. Today I have appeared before the police and gave explanation to the charges against me and obtained anticipatory bail’.
Denying allegations that he cheated Vadivelu, Singamuthu said, ‘he (Vadivelu) has made charges against me due to professional rivalry. I will fight for justice and emerge victorious’.
‘I am a comedian and if a producer casts Vadivelu and me in a film, I don’t mind sharing the screen with him,’ he added.
Meanwhile, in a case relating to the attack on actor Jayaram’s house, film director and founder of Naam Thamizhar organisation, Seeman appeared before a court in Poonamallee.
Cases were filed against Seeman and 11 others for the attack on Jayaram’s house some days ago. He filed a petition seeking anticipatory bail in the High Court. Following court directions, he appeared at a court in Poonamallee and furnished a personal surety for Rs 25,000 and obtained bail.
HC directive to Pondy govt on job quota for women
Posted by ganesh in Court, Information, Other, Public, Puducherry, businesses on March 2nd, 2010
The Madras High Court has directed the Puducherry Government to take a policy decision on providing representation to women in government service in the Union Territory.
In their order on a petition by one M Muniammal, a Division Bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and N Paul Vasanthakumar said “we deem it appropriate to direct the (Puducherry) government to take a policy decision and show it on International Women’s Day for giving effective representation to the womenfolk in the government service in the Union territory of Puducherry.”
The Judges said that as the government would have to take a policy decision ‘the grievance of women aspirants for government jobs is bound to be considered by the first respondent (government).
During the course of arguments it was brought to the court’s notice that the Tamil Nadu government and other state government’s reserved certain percentage of posts in jobs in their respective governments as a welfare measure in keeping with Article 15(3A) of the Constitution.
However, noting that the Puducherry Government had appointed the woman, the Judges dismissed the petition as “infructuous”.
The woman had challenged an advertisement and notification issued by the Puducherry Government in November 2002 inviting applications for new recruitment posts of ‘construction helpers’ which did not contain any reservation for women.
Customs official hacked to death by an armed group
A 43-year-old Customs official, working at the Air Cargo Complex of Chennai Airport, was hacked to death by an armed group in his house in Adambakkam late on Sunday night.
His wife and two sons, seated in the car, were also targetted by the assailants, but had a narrow escape as the gang fled. Chennai Suburban Police said P. Samson, a Customs Examining Officer at the Air Cargo Complex, was a resident of Fifth Cross Street in the Officers’ Colony in Adambakkam. His wife, Daisy, was also with the Customs Department, working as a Preventive Officer at Chennai Port.
On Sunday morning, they left in their car along with their sons, Eric and Erwin, to Chengalpattu for the final rites of a relative. They returned home and went to Koyambedu to see off a relative travelling out of town. After dinner at Ashok Nagar, they reached home at 10.50 p.m.
Samson parked his car in the portico and returned to close the main gate of the house, when a man pounced on him and attacked him with a sickle. Shocked, Ms. Daisy and her two sons, remained in the car. Moments later, more men came to the spot and indiscriminately hacked Samson, killing him instantly.
The men also targetted Ms. Daisy and her sons, and attacked the car, breaking the glass of a window. However, the group fled from the spot. Meanwhile, Ms. Daisy called the police control from her mobile phone and a patrol vehicle of Adambakkam police station reached her house. However, they were unable to trace the assailants who had vanished by then.
The incident sent shockwaves in Officers’ Colony and the neighbouring area in Adambakkam. Samson’s body was taken to Tambaram Taluk Government Hospital in Chromepet for the post-mortem. A large number of relatives, friends and colleagues gathered at the hospital.
Adambakkam police said they had named 11 people, including Paulina, a woman living opposite Samson’s house, her sons Ilayaraja and Manikandan, as accused in the First Information Report. Nine of them – Ilayaraja and Manikandan, and their friends, Lakshmanan, Nagoor, Vinod, Gani, Prasanna Kumar, Gopinath and Rajesakar, 9 aqusted in Chengalpattu on Monday morning. They were searching for Pauline and another male accomplice.
Paulina, police said, built a small temple on a public road and Samson had donated towards its festivals. However, she had begun to shower abuses on Samson and his family members, picking up a quarrel with him at every given opportunity in the past two to three years.
His relatives at the Chromepet hospital told reporters that fearing for the life of his family members and property, Samson had installed a couple of cameras in his house. Visuals of the murder being carried out by the gang on Sunday night were obtained. Those who had gathered at the hospital were angry that though the police were aware of the existing animosity, they had failed to caution her against casuing harm to Samson or his family. One of them charged that policemen had even advised Samson to move out of the locality for his own safety and that of his family.
Jude, the victim’s brother-in-law, said Samson moved into the locality in 2005 and unable to put up with the harassment and intimation from Paulina any further, he had begun the construction of a new house on Hoppmen Street in Alandur, near his mother’s home. It was nearing completion and they were preparing to shift to the new house in April.
Police said Paulina, around 50 years old, was involved in several nefarious offences in the past, including drug peddling and the flesh trade. She had lodged a complaint with the State Human Rights Commission last year seeking action against Samson for allegedly abusing her by using her community name. However, the charges were established as being false, intensifying her anger against him, police added.
TN decision to boycott A S Anand committee ‘not proper’: CPI(M)
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Court, Information, Other, competition, dam reports, government, meeting on February 27th, 2010
CPI (M)’s Tamil Nadu unit today described as ‘not proper’ the DMK general council’s decision asking the state to boycott the five member Justice AS Anand Committee to look into the Mullaperiyar dam issue.
The state government should have rather convened an all-party meeting to decide the future course of action,or appealed against the Committee in the Supreme Court itself, CPI (M) state secretary G Ramakrishnan said in a statement.
‘Instead of doing these, adopting such a resolution in the general council is not proper,’ he said adding Tamil Nadu’s prospects would be affected if the state stayed away from the committee or did not appeal. – Agencies
Senior official NLC was arrested by the CBI in charges of graft.
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Court, Departments, Information, Other, illegal, police on February 26th, 2010
A senior official of the public sector Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) was arrested by the CBI in the city late last night on charges of graft.
Acting on information that the NLC official Kirubanandan had demanded a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a contractor for clearing a contract, sleuths from the Anti-Corruption wing of the CBI, laid a trap and arrested him.
Mr Kirubanandan was caught red-handed while he was receiving the bribe amount at his office in the city, CBI sources said.
Subsequent raids in his office and residence yielded several incriminating documents and cash.
He would be produced before a CBI court today and remanded in judicial custody.
Encounter death two rowdies,Madras HC bench issue of notice Home Secretary
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court bench today ordered issue of notice to Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, DGP,and Commissioner of Police returnable with in a week on a PIL seeking CBI probe into a encounter in which two rowdies were shot dead by police here on February 16.
The Petitioner I.Robert Chandrakumar, a lawyer, said according to the mother of Murugan alias Kalamandaiyan, one of the victims, he had surrendered to police before he was killed in the encounter. Police had blocked traffic on the road,before the “fake encounter” in which Murugan and Kaviyarasu were killed, the petitioner alleged.
They also detained and tortured Murugan’s relatives including his mother,to force him surrender,he alleged.His relatives were kept in police custody for a whole day on Feb14,and only after he surrendered were they released,the petition alleged.
The Petitioner also said National Human Rights Commission guidelines had been flouted.As per the guidelines if police personnel of the same station were involved in an encounter then the investigation regarding the incident should be handed over to Crime Branch-CID.But it had not been done,he contended
The petitioner prayed to the court to direct the Home Secretary to suspend the police personnel involved in the encounter.He also sought Rs 20 lakh compensation to the victims’ families,and wanted the probe to be done by a CBI SP.
A Division Bench, comprising Justice Prabha Sridevan and Justice B Rajendran then ordered issue of notice.
Police had said Kalamandaiyan and Kaviyarasu were shot dead when they attacked and injured two policemen during a vehicle check at a checkpost.
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