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Statue of BR Ambedkar vandalised in UP, FIR filed
Statue of BR Ambedkar vandalised in UP, FIR filed
PRAYAGRAJ: A statue of BR Ambedkar was found vandalized in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district Sunday, sparking tension in the area as the nation celebrated Constitution Day.
Scores of angry locals gathered at the spot in Chitta Harayapur village, demanding the culprits be tracked down and punished. Senior officials repaired the statue to pacify the locals. An FIR has been registered, two investigation teams have been formed, and a manhunt has begun on the basis of CCTV footage, a senior cop said.
The incident sparked tension in the area as the nation celebrated Constitution Day.
Courtesy: TOI
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First arrest in Morbi Dalit assault case
Apart from Vibhuti and Rabari, the other accused in the case are Om Patel, Raj Patel, Parikshit and an unidentified person. While Vibhuti is at large, a Morbi court on Saturday rejected her anticipatory bail plea, Zala said.
The police on Sunday made the first arrest in the case in which a Dalit man was allegedly threatened, beaten up and forced a footwear in his mouth as an apology for seeking his salary of 16 days of work done at a businesswoman’s office in Morbi town. The police identified the arrested accused as Mayur alias D D Rabari.
The businesswoman, identified as Vibhuti Patel alias Raniba – one of the six accused in the case registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) – was also booked in a fresh case of “creating public nuisance” under IPC on Saturday, based on a complaint filed by a police officer after videos of her purportedly cutting multiple cakes with an object resembling a sword emerged.
Morbi Deputy Superintendent of Police (SC/ST Cell) Pratipalsinh Zala said, “We have arrested one accused in the case.”
On November 23, an FIR was registered with Morbi A Division police station based on a complaint filed by Dalit man Nilesh Dalsaniya. He had alleged that Vibhuti – who runs Raniba Industries Private Limited (RIPL) – and her staff allegedly threatened him, beat him up, made him put Vibhuti’s footwear in his mouth and apologise for demanding his salary for the work he did at the company in October. The alleged incident happened at Vibhuti’s office.
According to the FIR, Nilesh had joined the company on October 2 and was promised a monthly salary of Rs 12,000. However, on October 18, he was told that his services were no longer required. Following this, he joined another firm.
The FIR added that RIPL credited salaries in the bank accounts of its staff on the 5th of every month. But no salary was credited to Nilesh’s account for the 16 days he had worked at the firm. When he called Vibhuti for his salary, Vibhuti allegedly told him that she will look into it but later stopped answering his phone calls.
Meanwhile, based on a complaint filed by Morbi A Division police Sub-Inspector Ashok Singh Jadeja, Vibhuti was booked for uploading on her social media account videos where she is seen cutting multiple cakes with a sword-like object. Morbi district SP Rahul Tripathi said, “During probe, video of Vibhuti (cutting cakes) was found online, following which the FIR was registered.”
Mumbai News / Caste scrutiny committees cannot review past validity certificates, says HCCaste scrutiny committees cannot review past validity certificates, says HC
The Bombay High Court has struck down orders passed by scheduled tribe certificate scrutiny committees in Nashik and Pune, stating that the committees cannot review past orders on their own. The court said that the committees can only review orders pursuant to high court decisions. The court was hearing petitions challenging the cancellation of validity certificates issued to 14 individuals by the committees. The court ruled that the committees do not have the jurisdiction to reopen past decisions and invalidate caste validity certificates already granted.
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court recently struck down orders passed by the scheduled tribe certificate scrutiny committees in Nashik and Pune, which had cancelled validity certificates issued to 14 individuals’ years earlier, on grounds that a committee could not on its own review the past orders.
A division bench of justice Girish Kulkarni and justice Jitendra Jain said the Supreme Court had in Madhuri Patil’s case, said that the caste scrutiny committees shall only be subject to the jurisdiction of high courts, and therefore, they can review earlier orders only pursuant to high court decisions.
“There cannot be a free hand or a licence to the caste scrutiny committees to reopen concluded cases of validity conferred by its earlier orders on a complaint or otherwise (suo motu) and review past orders,” the bench said in its order on Thursday.
The bench said the committees, being statutory bodies exercising quasi-judicial authority, do not have any jurisdiction to suo motu verify the past records and initiate action to reopen past decisions and invalidate the caste validity certificates already granted.
The court was hearing 14 petitions, seven of which challenged the order issued by the scheduled tribe certificate scrutiny committee in May last year in Nashik, cancelling the validity certificates issued to seven persons from the Koli Mahadev Scheduled Tribe.
The other seven petitioners had moved the high court after the ST committee for Pune district issued them notices for reviewing their tribe’s validity certificates.
The petitioners said that the scrutiny committees do not have the power to review their own orders under the Maharashtra Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis), Nomadic Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Special Backward Category (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of) Caste Certificate Act, 2000.
On the other hand, the committees and the state claimed that though there is no specific provision in the 2000 Act, the committees had inherent powers to review past orders.
The bench, however, rejected the argument and said if an inherent power of review is to be read in the provisions of the 2000 Act, it will lead to “a monumental uncertainty and absurdity,” as it could be done at the whims and fancies of the committees and will lead to patent arbitrariness, which happened in at least two of the cases before the bench – in which the orders cancelling validity came around 16 years after the certificates were issued.
In this backdrop, the court struck down the orders and notices issued by the scheduled tribes’ certificates scrutiny committees at Nashik and Pune and restored the original orders validating the petitioner’s tribe’s claims.
