What’s ailing SN Medical College? Aditya Dev,TNN | May 6, 2015, 10.46 PM IST..TIMESS OF INDIA ,,AGRA

Agra: The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is meant to treat critically ill patients, and is supposed to be the highly sanitized area of the hospital. But it is not the case with SN Medical College, where the ICU in the medicine department looks nothing better than any general ward. There is no restriction on people's movement and even attendants of critically ill patients are often seen sitting on their beds.

Moreover, the critical care ward lacks many important facilities like ventilators, monitors for keeping a constant tab on heart beat and other vital body functions.

A senior doctor on condition of anonymity said that critical ill patients, with low immunity are admitted to this ward and such an unhygienic condition increases the chances of contacting chest infection. "Other water and air borne infections are also very common among them which further complicate the matter. Unfortunately, even the doors of ICU are never closed and anyone can enter anytime inside the ICU," the doctor added.

The ICU is not air conditioned and one can even see rats roaming, the doctor further said. Such is the dilapidated condition of the ward that two ICU cabins have been closed due to plaster falling from the ceiling. At present, 10 beds are available for patients.

Unfortunately, this is not only the story of the ICU ward of the medicine department. The building that houses the medicine department is likely to crumble in the event of an earthquake.

The Public Works Department (PWD) blacklisted the building as a 'condemned' one in 2012. A building once termed 'condemned' by the PWD is not suitable for any use and should be demolished immediately.

The department of medicine treats 5,000 patients in its in-patient department annually, whereas 500 are seen every day in its OPDs.

The department blames the security guards, who are supposed to man the doors and control movements for never being present to do their job.

When contacted, college principal Ajay Agarwal accepted the prevailing condition of the department and said more critical patients are admitted to the ICU of surgery department. He added that the hospital is in the process of hiring guards on contract basis.

He informed that the medicine department would be shifted in the building where surgery department is located. "A new building has been built for the surgery department. Once they are vacated, the department of medicine will move into that building," he said.

College withholds certificates of 7 Nigerians

BENGALURU: Seven Nigerian students of St George College of Management and Science in HRBR Layout are scrambling to get their visas renewed as their institution allegedly demanded they pay their fees for one year if they wanted a bona fide certificate. This documents is a must for visa renewal. The students then said they would like to quit the college but the management allegedly asked them to cough up $12,400, the fee for four years, if they wanted bona fide and discharge certificates.

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, to which the college claims to be affiliated, has washed its hands of the issue, forcing students to seek police help. Their ordeal began soon after they reached Bengaluru last September and joined the BSc (Nursing) course. "We learnt about this college through a former student who spoke highly of its world-class infrastructure and excellent faculty. The principal said we could pay our annual fees in installments," said Talabi Elizabeth Poeyemi, an affected student. This February, students asked for a bona fide certificate and May 19 is the last day to get their visas renewed.

The students approached RGUHS for help. The university sent a notice to the college asking the students be discharged and sought a written explanation on April 24. The college management didn't show up. The students were supposed to meet the management on Tuesday evening. "They refused to give us the certificates, saying they didn't really care what RGUHS said," Poyemi said. On Wednesday morning, the students returned to RGUHS but were told the University couldn't do anything more about this issue. Police called for a meeting between the students and the management on Thursday.

Late introduction of Salman Khan's driver in case backfired for defence, say experts

MUMBAI: Ashok Singh took the witness stand on March 30, 2015, almost 13 years since the fateful night when his employer's car had rammed into a Bandra bakery, killing one person and injuring four others. As the judgment copy is awaited, legal minds say the driver's sudden presence at the trial was the twist that swerved the case towards conviction.

Singh, Salman Khan's driver, told the court that he was driving the Land Cruiser when it crashed into the bakery's shutters on the night of September 27-28, 2002. His deposition was contrary to what deceased witness and Khan's former police bodyguard Ravindra Patil, who was present in the vehicle at the time of the incident, had said. Patil had given two statements to the police and stood by his second statement that he had warned the actor, who was allegedly drunk, to slow down, but to no avail. Patil died in 2007 after deposing before the magistrate in Bandra, where the actor was earlier facing the less serious charge of causing death due to rash driving, which attracts up to two years in jail.


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A senior lawyer from the prosecution said the introduction of the driver at a belated stage may have been an adverse turning point for the actor. "Which logical or prudent mind would believe the driver's claims?" special public prosecutor Pradip Gharat had asked in court while making his closing submissions in the trial as he called Singh a "self-condemned liar deposing falsely on oath.'' Singh said Salman's father Salim Khan asked him to finally depose, although he had wanted to do so even earlier. Gharat had asked, "Can it be accepted that Salman's father waited with a calm mind and tolerated the sufferings his son was put through by the driver all these years, till the turn of the defence witness came in the trial, even as the driver continued to serve with the family?''


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The case boiled down to who was at the wheel, the prosecutor had said. Gharat called the driver 'unbelievable' as a witness and said thus the prosecution's claim that Salman was at the wheel should be believed, given the lack of any other plausible alternatives. Lawyers outside the court on Wednesday also said the driver's statement ought to have been made much earlier, in 2002, both when Salman was arrested and later when he was tried for rash driving in the Bandra magistrate's court.

Senior counsel Nitin Pradhan said to prove his case, perhaps Salman could have first sought to depose as a witness, placed himself for cross examination, which he didn't, before bringing the driver as a defence witness.

The judge held that the prosecution proved its case against the actor, but did not bother with Gharat's submission to initiate perjury proceedings against Singh in the case.

Salman Khan's hit-and-run case: What is culpable homicide?

Actor Salman Khan has been convicted for culpable homicide on Wednesday in 2002 hit-and-run case.

The word 'homicide' came from the Latin terms, meaning killing of a human being by a human being is homicide.

Culpable Homicide is defined by section 299 of the Indian Penal Code. According to the section 299 of IPC whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide.

The essential elements of the offence of culpable homicide are as follows -

i) that death of a human being was caused ;
ii) by an act with the intention of causing death ; or
iii) by an act with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death ; or
iv) by an act with the knowledge that the act was likely to cause death . Without one or other of these elements an act , though it may be in it's nature criminal and may occasion death , will not amount to the offence of culpable homicide .

Section 299 defined Culpable Homicide in simple way. Culpable homicide are of two kinds:
I. Culpable homicide amounting to murder.
II. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Culpable homicide is the Genus, and murder is the Species.

All murder are culpable homicide but not vice-versa. Section 299 cannot be taken to be definition of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Culpable homicide is the genus, section 300 defines murder which means murder is the species of culpable homicide.

It is to be noted here that culpable homicide not amounting to murder is not defined separately in IPC, it is defined as part of Murder in the section 300 of IPC.

Section 300 - Except in the cases hereinafter excepted, culpable homicide is murder, if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death, or

Culpable Homicide is not amounting to murder: Exception 1 to 5 of s300 of IPC defines conditions when culpable Homicide is not amounting to murder:
I. Provocation.
II. Right of private defense.
III. Public servant exceeding his power.
IV. Sudden fight.
V. Consent.

Exception-
1-culpable homicide is not amounting to murder if the offender, whilst deprive of self control by grave and sudden provocation, caused the death of the person who gave the provocation or causes the death of any person by mistake or accident.

The above exception is subject to the following provisions:- The provocation is not sought or voluntarily provoked by the offender as an excuse for killing or doing harm to any person.

2.The provocation is not given by anything done in obedience to the law, or by a public servant in the lawful exercise of the powers of such public servant.

3. The provocation is not given by anything done in the lawful exercise of the right of private defense.

Copying: Syndicate to decide on further action

The Syndicate of Mahatma Gandhi University that is scheduled to meet on Thursday will decide on the future course of action of the university in the issue of examination malpractice allegations against Inspector General of Police (Thrissur Range) T.J. Jose.

University authorities said a high-level meeting here on Wednesday discussed all issues involved in the matter.

The discussions were based on a report of a one-man commission appointed for inquiry into the allegation. The details of the discussions would be placed before the Syndicate.

Second chance

Since the Syndicate called on May 2 could not complete its business, it was decided to continue it on May 7, and as such the Syndicate was now, technically, in session, university authorities said. Hence, the decision to place the report and other details before the Syndicate for further action.

The Syndicate was expected to form a larger body to look into the matter.

Whether the accused would be given a chance to explain his side to the authorities, if yes, when, and so on would also be decided by the Syndicate.

Vice Chancellor Babu Sebastian; Pro Vice Chancellor Sheena Shukkur; Examination Convener N. Vijayakumar; Registrar M.R. Unni; Controller of Examinations Thomas John Mambara; standing counsel of the university at Kerala High Court Varghese M. Easo; deputy registrar (examinations) A.C. Babu and others participated in Wednesday’s deliberations.

Panel findings

Meanwhile, the report submitted by the inquiry commission into the misconduct of the IG in the examination has said that he ran out of the hall with the pieces of paper on which he had brought the answers for copying. The report was prepared by A.C. Babu.

According to the report, when the invigilator tried to confiscate the pieces of paper Mr. Jose had brought for copying, he forcibly took them and his hall ticket and ran out of the hall.




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M.G. University spares 75 alleged ‘copycats’...KERALA HINDU NEWS

: Mahatma Gandhi University had exonerated nearly 75 B. Tech students involved in a case of suspected examination malpractice in May last year despite a report by an inquiry commission that the candidates received external help.

The commission, which consisted of faculty members of engineering colleges under the varsity, had ratified the finding by the Chairman of the centralised valuation camp (zone III at SCMS here) that the answers given by these students were identical.

The students had appeared for the Engineering Graphics paper (SI, S2 semesters B. Tech exam, May, 2014) and belonged to Gurudeva Institute of Science and Technology, Payyappady in Kottayam.

Curiously, an enquiry commission consisting of syndicate members Dr. N. Jayakumar, and Prof. B. Suseelan rejected the findings of the chairman of the centralised valuation camp and the committee of engineering teachers. They also acquitted the 75 candidates of all charges.

The syndicate resolution on the case, a copy of which is available with The Hindu , said that the students of EEE and ECE branches wrote the examinations along with other students of Civil Engineering and supplementary students. As they sat in different buildings, the alleged external help is not possible, it said.

The syndicate committee report also said that the “students might have answered in same sequence omitting the calculation and completing the drawing by simply transferring the approximate dimension using compass for question no. 7.

But the reports filed by the chief examiner and the expert committee of engineering teachers clearly mentioned that the students had attempted the same series of questions.

Interestingly, the committee members found that the answers were strikingly similar and all the 75 students also made the same mistakes, especially when it came to writing a value or a data in their answer sheets.








Engineering college teachers told The Hindu that the engineering graphics paper was one paper where many students used to fail as it mainly consisted of drawings. The pass percentage was below 50 per cent in several colleges, they said.

12 nursing students seek to leave college soon after admission

A nursing college in Banaswadi here finds itself in the middle of a controversy after a group of 12 students, seven of them from Nigeria, want to leave the institution barely six months after enrolling for the course. They have approached the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), the affiliating university, to come to their rescue.

“These students from St. George College of Management, Science and Nursing complained to us that they want to leave the college as it does not have any facilities. We instructed the college to relieve the students as per their demand,” said S. Sacchidananda, Registrar (Evaluation), RGUHS. “They want their original certificates back which we will hand over to the college to be returned to the students,” Dr. Sacchidananda said.

Though the college claims it is affiliated to the RGUHS and approved by Indian Nursing Council, New Delhi, the Registrar said this will be verified.

As the institution does not have needed facilities, students have approached RGUHS to help them