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Salman spends one more night in jail

Raj Court To Hear His Bail Plea Today

Bhanupratap.Singh@timesgroup.com  06.04.2018

Jodhpur: Bollywood actor Salman Khan, who was hoping to get bail on Friday, will have to spend at least one more night in jail as the sessions court adjourned the hearing on his appeal for suspension of sentence.

The sessions court has called for the records of the trial court, which convicted Salman a day earlier for poaching two blackbuck at Jodhpur’s Kankani village in 1998, to decide on his appeal. If the court rejects the appeal on Saturday for suspension of sentence, Salman will have to approach the high court for bail on Monday. In such an event, he will have to spend at least two more nights in Jodhpur central jail, where he is lodged.

His lawyers, however, said they are hopeful of getting relief from the sessions court as the trial court’s judgment, which relied on just one eyewitness account while convicting Salman on Thursday, was “full of loopholes”.

They pointed out that the trial court also relied on corroborative evidence that had already been rejected by the Rajasthan HC on July 25, 2016, while acquitting him in two other poaching cases of 1998.

Seeking suspension of sentence, Salman’s lawyer Mahesh Bora argued that the trial court relied on eyewitness Poonam Chand Bishnoi, whose statements were not reliable because he said that at 1.30am on the night of October 1-2, 1998, a Maruti Gypsy passed by his house and he simply started following it. “The eyewitness told the court he did not know if the vehicles’ occupants were going for hunting. Still he started following it. Now, who would follow someone without any reason, especially so late at night,” asked Bora.

“Also, the trial court acquitted the co-accused of the charge that they accompanied Salman and instigated him to open fire and kill the blackbuck. When the charge of instigation has been disbelieved by the trial court, how could it rely on the charge that Salman shot the blackbucks?” Bora said.

The defence argued that the Gypsy said to be involved in the crime was searched by the forest department on October 7, 1998, and no evidence of hunting/poaching was found from it. “Yet, police searched the Gypsy again on October 12, 1998, and claimed to have found gun pellets and blackbuck hair. The vehicle was in possession of the forest department all this while, so there is possibility that it was tampered with and the so-called evidence was planted,” said another lawyer of Salman, Sushma Thara.

However, public prosecutor Pokar Ram Bishnoi opposed the suspension of sentence and requested sessions court judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi to first call the trial court’s records. “There is strong evidence against the convict and he should not be released on bail without going through the trial court’s judgment,” Bishnoi said.



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Bollywood actor Preity Zinta arrives at Jodhpur central jail on Friday

Tiger skips dinner, but not workout

Qaidi no 106 at Jodhpur central jail skipped his dinner on Thursday and refused to eat porridge and gram which was served to inmates on Friday morning. But Salman Khan did not miss out on his daily workout which he is passionate about. A jail officer said the Bollywood actor worked out for at least three hours on Friday evening inside his ward no. 2 – doing crunches, push-ups, skipping, jumping and other exercises. Salman was restless late Thursday evening when a senior jail officer visited him and asked if he required a doctor. Salman politely said no and lay down on a mat on the floor.

“He went off to sleep around 12 midnight and got up for a few minutes at 6.30 am when the jail siren was sounded. He went back to sleep and got up at 8.30 am,” said jail superintendent Vikram Singh. TNN

Min’s name left out, function delayed

Shanmughasundaram.J@timesgroup.com  06.04.2018

Vellore: Drama prevailed at the maiden graduation ceremony of a constituent college of Thiruvalluvar University at Gajalnaickanpatti in Tirupattur in Vellore district on Friday.

The ceremony was to begin at 11am, but was delayed by more than three hours as the chief guest and vice-chancellor K Murugan was allegedly forced to wait for over two hours to get the green light from commercial taxes minister K C Veeramani to go ahead with the programme.

Sources in the university said the minister was upset his name was not on the list of invitatees for the programme which was delayed as the VC went to meet the minister.

Illegal abortions: Quacks will now be charged with murder

Health Dept Lays Down Law To End The Menace

TIMES NEWS NETWORK  06.04.2018

Chennai: In a stern message to quacks, the health department is increasingly prodding police into slapping murder and attempt to murder charges against quacks carrying out illegal abortions in the state.

In the latest instance, a quack in Salem was booked under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the IPC after a 19-year-old bled to death following an illegal abortion done by her last month. Officials said the accused, Sulthana, 43, who had trained as a nursing assistant in an unrecognised institute, had been carrying out abortions for the last 20 years at villages in Salem.

Another case of murder was filed six months ago against a Villupuram-based nurse Vijayalakshmi who adopted crude procedures to abort the fetus of a disabled woman who was pregnant for the fourth time. The woman, who started bleeding profusely, was referred to the Villupuram GH, where she died three days later.

The health department said more stringent sections of the IPC will be invoked to nail quacks. “Any kind of invasive treatment, including insertion of intravenous fluid, will invite murder and attempt to murder charges if there has been a death,” said Dr M P Enbasekaran, director of medical and rural health services.

In the third case, police slapped an attempt to murder case on Anandi Tamilselvan, who ran an illegal ‘abortion clinic’ from her house in Tiruvannamalai. In 2016, the police arrested her for the second time on charges feticide, besides quackery, a cognisable offence.

When a team of DMS officials raided her three-storey house near Somavarakulam, there were six pregnant women, including a teenager, hiding inside a toilet on the terrace. All of them had taken abortion pills, and scan reports showed they were carrying a female child. Investigations revealed she carried out crude invasive procedures to expel the fetus in an unsterile environment. She spent 45 days in jail and is now back again doing the same practice.

Since 2014, the department had caught 1,472 quacks – the highest in districts like Tiruvannamalai, Salem and Tiruvallur. However, almost all of them are out on bail owing to weak anti-quackery laws.

Fake practitioners are usually booked for cheating and impersonation and they get away by paying a fine of Rs 1,000. Quacks are also booked under more lenient and bailable Sections of the Indian Medical Council Act, which prohibit non-medical people from practising medicine, and the Drugs and Cosmetics Act if they are found doling out prescriptions.

Officials say once the Tamil Nadu Private Clinical Establishments (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2018, passed in the assembly last month, comes into force, it will be easier to nail these quacks. Provisions in the bill make it mandatory that every clinical establishment, corporate and small, should get licence after registration with the Directorate of Medical Services. At present, anyone can establish a clinic or a corporate hospital in the state.

Railways to launch paperless tickets for commuters today

times of india 6.4.2018

Chennai: The Southern Railway will launch the BAAT (Book Activate and Travel) mode of paperless mobile tickets for Chennai suburban passengers on Saturday. It will help passengers overcome the difficulties they face due to ‘geo fencing’ while booking tickets on a railway ticket booking mobile app.

Railway is launching the BAAT at Chennai Central on a trial basis. The passenger can booktheticketfrom anywhere without worrying about the distance restriction due to geofencing . They can come to the station to an area earmarked as ‘BAAT Activation Zone’ and can ‘activate’ the ticket. No internet or GPS is required. TNN

Ex-director of IIT-Ropar is new Anna University VC

TNN | Apr 6, 2018, 06:14 IST

M K Surappa

CHENNAI: After a gap of nearly two years, Anna University finally got a vicechancellor on Thursday. Former director of IIT-Ropar, M K Surappa, was appointed vicechancellor of the university for a period of three years by governor Banwarilal Purohit. The university has remained headless after the exit of former VC Rajaram in May 2016.

Surappa, a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, was director of IIT-Ropar from 2009 to 2015. A doctorate in metallurgical engineering, he has more than 30 years of teaching experience of which 24 years were spent in the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, a statement issued by Raj Bhavan said.

A fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Surappa has 150 research publications and four patents to his credit. He was also secretary, Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology from 2004 to 2009.

Surappa’s appointment comes after three search committees were constituted to nominate potential candidates for the VC’s post. Former Supreme Court judge Justice V S Sirpurkar was appointed chairperson of the third search committee toward the end of last year.

‘Set up panel before VC’s term ends’

A notification sent out over a week ago had extended the term of the VC search panel till April 30 from the original March 31 deadline. The committee had ex-IAS officer N Sundaradevan as the government nominee and IIT-Madras professor R Gnanamoorthy as Anna University syndicate’s nominee.

Two search committees formed earlier were unable to appoint a suitable candidate to the VC post and previously shortlisted candidates were rejected. Academicans said such a long gap between appointments could be avoided, especially with a university that is known as a nodal centre for engineering admissions. Former VCs of the varsity including M Anandakrishnan and E Balagurusamy opined that search committees must be set up much before the VC’s term ends. The new VC is stepping in as the varsity is gearing up to carry out the single window counselling for engineering admissions which has gone online for the first time.