திருடனை தனியாக விரட்டினேன்; எல்லோரும் வேடிக்கைதான் பார்த்தார்கள், போட்டோ பிடித்தார்கள்: காவல் ஆணையர் முன் சிறுவன் வேதனை

Published : 19 Apr 2018 15:28 IST



காவல் ஆணையர் ஏ.கே.விஸ்வநாதன், கூடுதல் ஆணையர்கள் சாரங்கன் , ஜெயராமனுடன் சிறுவன் சூர்யா படம்: சென்னை காவல்துறை

தான் செயின் பறிப்பு திருடனை விரட்டிப் பிடித்துப் பாராட்டு பெறுவது, சென்னையில் உள்ள இளைஞர்களுக்கு உதாரண சம்பவம் என செயின்பறிப்பு திருடனை தீரத்துடன் விரட்டிப்பிடித்த சிறுவன் சூர்யா தெரிவித்தார்.

இது தொடர்பாக சென்னையில் செய்தியாளர்கள் எழுப்பிய கேள்விகளுக்கு சூர்யா பதிலளித்தார்.


செயினைப் பறித்தவர் உங்களை விட வலுவான ஆள். எப்படி துணிச்சலாக பிடிக்கத் தோன்றியது?

அவர் புதிதாக திருடும் நபர் போலிருக்கு. செயின் பறிப்பில் பல துண்டுகள் கீழே விழுந்ததை பொறுக்கி எடுத்துக்கொண்டே துரத்திச்சென்றேன். துரத்திச்செல்லும்போதே பொதுமக்களையும் உதவிக்கு அழைத்துக்கொண்டே ஓடினேன்.

பொதுமக்கள் வேடிக்கை பார்க்கிறார்களே தவிர உதவிக்கு யாரும் வரவில்லை, பின்னர் காலரைப் பிடித்து காலை தட்டிவிட்டு முகத்தில் இரண்டு குத்து விட்டவுடன் அவர் தடுமாறிவிட்டார். பின்னர் மடக்கிப் பிடித்து தண்ணீர் பாக்கெட் வாங்கிக் கொடுத்து அவரை ஆசுவாசப்படுத்தினேன்.

பின்னர் போலீஸுக்கு புகார் அளித்தேன். போலீஸார் வந்தவுடன் அவரை ஒப்படைத்தேன்.

மற்றவர்களை உதவிக்கு அழைத்தீர்களா?

எல்லோரையும் உதவிக்கு அழைத்தேன், யாருமே வரவில்லை. துணிந்துதான் வேறு வழியில்லாமல் விரட்டிப் பிடித்தேன். எல்லோரும் வேடிக்கைதான் பார்த்தார்களேயொழிய யாரும் உதவ முன்வரவில்லை.

போலீஸ் வந்தபின்னர் சுற்றி நின்றவர்கள் போட்டோ எடுக்கத்தான் ஆர்வம் காட்டினார்ர்களே தவிர நான் போராடியபோது பிடிக்க வரவில்லை.

இதுபோன்ற சமயங்களில் பொதுமக்கள் என்ன செய்யவேண்டும் என சொல்ல வருகிறீர்கள்?

இதுபோன்ற சந்தர்ப்பங்களில் குற்றவாளிகளைப் பிடிக்க பொதுமக்கள் முயல வேண்டும். யாராக இருந்தாலும் பிடித்துவிட வேண்டும். சென்னை பசங்களுக்கு இது ஒரு உதாரண சம்பவம்.

இவ்வாறு காவல் ஆணையரால் பாரட்டப்பட்ட சிறுவன் சூர்யா தெரிவித்தார்.

அப்போது காவல் ஆணையர் விஸ்வநாதன், கூடுதல் ஆணையர்கள் ஜெயராமன், சாரங்கன், இணை ஆணையர் அன்பு போன்றோர் உடன் இருந்தனர்.

100 PGI doctors told to return allowance 

Shimona Kanwar | TNN | Updated: Apr 19, 2018, 14:13 IST


CHANDIGARH: For the first time, 100 professors, including the director and dean, in PGI have been served a show-cause notice to implement the orders of the Union ministry of health and family welfare. 

All those with a pay grade of Rs 10,500 had been allowed transport allowance of Rs 7,000 per month in 2015 by the government. However, this was withdrawn within a year. Now, the notice has asked the professors to return the entire amount paid as transport allowance to the government. Back of the envelope calculations estimate that a total of Rs 84 lakh has to be returned.

“We got notices a week ago and the reply was sent today. The show-cause notice was first served at JIPMER, Puducherry, and as the same rules are applicable to us, we also got the notice,” confirmed Dr Rajesh Kumar, dean academics and officiating director.

The PGI Faculty Association has written to the director that they are not in a position to return the amount.

“We have asked why such a short notice has been served. And moreover, the allowance was approved as per our grades. We got our dues. How someone can be asked to return that amount after three years?” said Dr Rajesh Chabbra, president, PGI Faculty Association.

Sources said PGI and JIPMER have been served notices, but not AIIMS, which also is under the Act of Parliament and governed by the same rules as PGI and JIPMER. “If the AIIMS has not been asked, it is unjustified to serve notice on us,” said a faculty member.

A professor earns around Rs 2.1 lakh a month. There are monthly allowances, including learning resource allowance of Rs 60,000 per year, conveyance of Rs 3,300 plus dearness allowance per month. Bag allowance of Rs 8,500 once in three years. Those professors who are entitled a staff car in lieu of transport allowance have also been served the notice. This includes the director and the dean.

The transport allowance was approved in 2015 and soon dismissed by the health ministry in the same year. The ministry had clarified that the allowance shall be paid according to the nature of the job and not the play grade.

Previously, the faculty association had expressed their resentment on not getting 7th pay commission salaries as per their grades.

CA to renounce fortune worth crores, become a Jain monk

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
20.04.2018
 
Ahmedabad: Renouncing a fortune worth crores is never too easy for anyone, but this 24-year-old chartered account has certainly proved that wrong! Mokshesh Sheth, who hails from a prosperous Mumbai-based business family, has decided to renounce the world and seek salvation by dedicating himself to the Jain community.

Mokshesh, who is part of JK Corporation that has interests in diamonds, metals and sugar industries, will enter the Jain monkhood at an elaborate ceremony to be held at Tapovan Circle on Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad road on Friday morning. He will be given diksha by Hemchandrasurishwar Maharaj in front of thousands of Jain devotees from across the country.

Mokshesh, who has an enviable academic record, says he wants to “audit” the religion as a humble student instead of sifting through accounts books. Mokshesh was upbeat on eve of the big day of his life. “I was about 15 when I first got inclined to become a Jain monk. I craved for internal peace which the material world would not have provided. As a CA, I would have audited the books of accounts but as a monk, I want to audit the religion as a humble student,” he said, adding that he wants happiness for all, instead of only himself.

His family originally hails from Deesa in north Gujarat and has made Mumbai its home for over 60 years now. His father Sandeep and uncle Girish Sheth still live in a joint family in Mumbai.

Mokshesh, the eldest of the three brothers, went to Manav Mandir School in Walkeshwar and scored 93.38% in Class X and 85% in Class XII examinations. He later went to HR College for graduation in commerce, simultaneously pursuing chartered accountancy too. He cracked the exam in his first attempt and joined the family’s metal business at Sangli.

“Mokshesh was always spiritually inclined and first expressed his wish to become a monk some eight years ago. However, we convinced him to first complete his education and experience the world before taking the leap of faith. In 200-year old history of our family, Mokshesh would be the first man to embrace monkhood from the family while five women have become Jain sadhvis,” said Girish Sheth.

Mokshesh said that after much deliberation, the decision to allow him to become a monk was taken in January this year. Since then, the family has organised shobha yatras for Mokshesh at 15 locations in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka. His 85-year-old grandfather was also inspired to join him but the senior monks asked him to serve the community while remaining in society.


SEEKING INNER PEACE:
Mokshesh Sheth

Madras HC orders ₹25L compensation to student who lost eyesight in fight at school 

TIMES OF INDIA 20.04.2018

Madurai: The Madurai bench of Madras HC on Thursday ordered ₹25 lakh compensation to a boy who lost his eyesight when a classmate threw a stone at him in the school, holding that the authorities had the duty to look after children in schools.

Rejecting the private school’s argument that fights among students in the class was a thing beyond its control, the court said it was the duty of the authorities to take care of children after parents leave them in school. Passing orders on a petition filed by the boy’s mother, K Ranjees Mary, Justice M V Muralidharan said but for the negligence in the discharge of duty, the boy would not have lost his eyesight.

The student, R Remish Fedlin, of the school in Kanyakumari district, was injured in the eye when his classmate threw a stone at him during special class in May 2010. The Tamil Nadu government too has failed to take action against the school authorities after the incident was reported, the judge said.

Justice Muralidharan of the Madurai bench also rejected the contention that the petition was filed to extort money and said the FIR itself was filed 18 months after the incident. PTI

Salem doc arrested for revealing sex of fetus

Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com 20.04.2018

Chennai: The police on Thursday arrested a government doctor working in a primary health centre in Thalaivasal in Salem after health department officials caught her revealing the gender of fetuses to pregnant women in violation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994.

The directorate of medical services used a decoy to trap the doctor.

DrDhamayanthiRajkumar is the first person to be arrested for sex-determination under the PCPNDT Act, enforced to prevent female foeticide and stop the declining sex ratio.

“She has been booked under various sections of the act and her clinic and ultrasound machines sealed. She was operating from a secret room with a portable imported device,” said director of medical services Dr M R Enbasekaran. The health department is also considering disciplinary action against her.

Although 127 cases have been filed under the Act, no one has been arrested yet. Most people – doctors and quacks – booked under the act were released on bail. In June 2017, Dr Arun Dhandapani, an assistant surgeon at Sivagangai Medical College was caught revealing the sex of fetus to pregnant women. Another doctor from Neyveli has been debarred from practice. “But no one was sent to prison. We thought stringent punishment will send out a strong message,” Dr Enbasekaran said.

On Thursday, a team of officials from the directorate sent a woman, who was four months pregnant, to Madhura Clinic in Athur where Dr Dhamayanthi has been practising.

The woman was accompanied by two health department staff including a joint director.

“There were seven other patients inside the room. She was using an ultrasound that was smaller than a laptop, which was connected to a monitor. We caught her when she revealed the sex of the baby to our decoy,” said a senior health department official, who was a part of the raid.

Although she acted tough in the beginning, she told officials that she had imported the machine from China and has been screening pregnant women for a while. The women in her room were from different districts. She charged them ₹6,000 each but did not give them any bills or reports.

Earlier this month, the department received a tip that Dr Dhamayanthi did sex-determination at her private clinic after duty hours.

On Wednesday, officials called her to fix an appointment for ultrasound.

“We used a sim card from Perambalur. She told us it would cost ₹6,000 and offered to pick us up from the Athur busstand,” the official said.

The team took a woman from Perambalur at 6am and reached Athur busstand by around 11.30pm.

Two health officials posed as her attenders. She was caught red handed when she revealed the sex. The equipment has been seized.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Rajkumar used a portable ultrasound (in blue) connected to a laptop to screened pregnant women with the help of the probe (in white)

Pondy private med colleges yet to start PG admission

Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com 20.04.2018

Puducherry: A day before the admission deadline (3.30pm on April 20), three private medical colleges in the Union territory of Puducherry have not admitted any students allotted seats by the centralized admission committee (Centac) under government or management quota.

Centac, which released the merit lists on April 9, allotted seats for the students under government and management quotas in the lone government college and three private medical colleges on April 11 directing them to join the respective colleges before 3.30pm on April 20.

The committee allotted 83 seats under government quota and 43 of 81 seats under management quota for postgraduate medical programs at Indira Gandhi government medical college and research institute, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College, Pondicherry institute of medical science and Sri Venkateshwaraa medical college. But, no student could join as on Thursday as the three private colleges have been denying admission since April 11.

Sacked principal can’t guide research scholars: Varsity

Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com 20.04.2018

Chennai: The syndicate of University of Madras on Thursday decided that professor T Santhanam, the former principal of city-based DGVaishnav college,cannot guide research students anymore.

Santhanam was found to have plagiarised his research thesis ‘The validation of a computer simulation model using spectral analysis’, from the research publication of an American scholar. The university disapproved his principal post in December after a subjectexpert confirmed the plagiarism. The complaint was given by one Regina Vincent, a resident of Korattur.

Now, the university stripped him of his guideship. “All students working under him willbewithdrawn.They will have to find another guide. However, this will not affectstudentswhohavecompleted research under him,” said a top university official. The college, an affiliate of the university, had indicated that they would act as per the university’s directions.

University sources said Santhanam was asked for an explanation before the syndicate meeting. He had sought details regarding the complaint and the subject expert who established the plagiarism.

Some syndicate members said there was no need to reveal such details to Santhanam once the charge was proved. “The subject expert found a high level of plagiarism,” a syndicate member said.

The syndicate has also decided to remove professor Palanisamy as principal of the university’s constituent college in Thiruvottiyur. Audit reports objected to Palanisamy’s appointment made in July 2014-during vicechancellor R Thandavan’s term, for not complying with UGC norms.

He did not have15 years of teaching experience andwas working in assistant professor cadre. “He will be shifted back to a department at the same cadre level,” the official said.

The syndicate has also decided to roll back the hike in examination fee by around 50% after reconsidering representations. For instance, the fee for a theory paper, which was hiked from ₹65 to ₹100, will be ₹85.