The Supreme Court's threat to award death penalty for fake encounters will make little difference to the impunity enjoyed by security forces. For, its own stay order in another case comes in the way of any murder case being booked against killers in uniform. The stay order, passed two years ago by a bench headed by the then Chief Justice of India, K G Balakrishnan, has rolled back an attempt made...
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Pune farmers held, cops go scot-free by Mihir Tanksale
PUNE: Far from taking exemplary action against the policemen who fired at protesting farmers killing four of them, the Pune rural police on Thursday turned the tables and arrested five farmers for attacking the police and damaging their property. They were also charged with criminal conspiracy. Worse, the two officers who were seen firing at farmers running away from the police in television clippings are now facing a routine government...
More »“Common syllabus, curriculum will help achieve RTE objectives”
-The Hindu A common syllabus and common curriculum is required to achieve the objectives of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, to provide free and compulsory education to every child of 6 to 14 years, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday. Dismissing a batch of appeals filed by the Tamil Nadu government and others against a Madras High Court judgment on implementation of the Uniform System of School Education, a Bench of...
More »HC orders CBI to probe private educational institutions
-The Times of India SHIMLA: Cracking down on private educational institutions offering courses by obtaining certification after making false representations, the high court ordered Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to inquire into such cases. Acting on a petition filed by V P Ahluwalia, a retired principal of a college, the division bench consisting of Chief Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Sanjay Karol has asked CBI to inquire into all cases where...
More »Court: allow students to inspect evaluated scripts under RTI by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the disclosure, under the Right to Information Act, of answer sheets of students of any examination conducted by any agency in India. A Bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik gave this ruling, upholding a Calcutta High Court order permitting students to inspect and photocopy their answer sheets in any educational or professional examination. The Bench held that evaluated scripts would come under the...
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