The RTI activist organisations have taken their protest against the latest order of the UP government to move vigilance department out of the purview of the RTI Act a step ahead. A writ has been filed on Tuesday by the National RTI Forum in the Allahabad High Court, Lucknow bench. The writ is against the Notification dated September 22, 2010 issued by principal secretary, Vigilance, UP through which the vigilance department...
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HC stops land acquisitionin Gurgaon’s Ullahawas village by Raghav Ohri
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday ordered a status quo regarding acquisition of land in Gurgaon’s Ullahawas village where there had been allegations of arbitrary release of acquired land by the Haryana government. The Division Bench comprising Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Augustine George Masih issued a notice to the Haryana government asking it to respond to a petition filed by Arvind Katewa of Gurgaon Sector 5 and two...
More »6-month extension to panel probing Mirchpur attacks
The one-man inquiry commission constituted under Justice Iqbal Singh, a former Judge of the Punjab and Haryana HC, to probe the Mirchpur incident of April 1this year in which two Dalits were burnt alive and 18 houses of the community were torched, has got an extension of six months. Sources said the Notification pertaining to the extension of the commission’s tenure would be issued shortly. The commission, constituted on June...
More »Cash, liquor flow free in UP panchayat polls by Virendra Nath Bhatt
This time in Uttar Pradesh, panchayat elections — the first phase starts Monday — are being fought with an intensity never seen before. Eight persons have already died in poll-related violence over the past 15 days. All the trappings of a typical poll are there — hoardings; free flow of liquor, money and clothes for voters; and candidates moving about in SUVs. “So much money and violence was seen neither in the...
More »In UP panchayat polls, lure of NREGA money fuels contest by Virendra Nath Bhatt
Elsewhere, people may be obsessed with the Commonwealth Games, but games of a different kind are being played in UP villages these days. Panchayat elections in UP are round the corner and these are being fought with an intensity not seen before. The poll are still three days away and at least eight persons have lost their lives in the last 15 days in the polls-related violence. Hoardings dot countryside; feasts...
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