79% students write CLAT; no glitches

79% students write CLAT; no glitches

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bengaluru:29.09.2020

About 79% (59,000) of students who had applied for the Common Law Admission Test appeared for it at around 300 centres in the country on Monday.

The consortium of national law universities said the low number could be because of Covid-19, with students who weren’t well prepared deciding to avoid the risk.

Students said the exam was lengthy and was moderate to difficult in nature. No technical glitches were reported. The exam followed a new format, with fewer questions compared to last year but more of those based on passages. “I found logical reasoning easy and the other sections moderate to difficult,” said a candidate. Students said social distancing was maintained at centres. All centres had isolation rooms for students with symptoms.

Graduates flay NLSIU for ₹2k convocation fee

Graduating students took to social media to slam NLSIU for collecting Rs 2,000 as convocation fee for the virtual function on Sunday. “NLSIU deducting Rs 2,000 from graduating students deposits for an absentia convocation. Another example of how the university is trying to extract funds unreasonably in times of financial difficulties,” said a student, who added the batch has written to University Grants Commission, education ministry and the PMO.

NLSIU said: “Convocation charge of Rs 2,000 is not new to this year. It’s applied every year and includes printing of certificates and transcripts and despatch of the same to students. All fees relating to convocation/degrees whether being conferred in person or in absentia apply to all students, including those pursuing distance education.”

CET candidates can upload papers

Candidates who are unable to upload documents for CET 2020 can do so from September 28 to October 1. Those who uploaded them but failed to declare the same can finish the process. Those who got spot ranks due to non-submission of class 12 markscards can also make use of this.

50% fee to be paid during admission

The consortium has resolved that only 50% of the fee shall be paid at the time of admission in national law universities in view of Covid-19 hardships. It has constituted a grievance committee under the chairmanship of Justice Rajendra Babu. CLAT results will be out on October 5.

Medicos to be assessed on Covid duty

INTERNAL EXAMINATION

Medicos to be assessed on Covid duty

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:29.09.2020

Medical students in Gujarat University-affiliated colleges will not be graded in internal exams based on their performance in written test. In fact, this year there will be no written test, as per the decision taken by the varsity authorities at a meeting on Monday.

Medicos will be assessed for the internal exams based on their performance in Covid-19 duty. Former dean of medical faculty, Gujarat University, Dr Mahesh Patel, said a meeting of college principals was held on Monday where this decision was taken.

The move is seen as a token of appreciation by the university authorities for the medical college students who are on Covid-19 duty. The move is likely to be replicated by other medical colleges in the state in the near future, said sources. Presently, a large number of medical students have joined as Covid warriors and are entrusted with the task of treatment of Covid-19 patients.

“To conduct written exams, the university will have to call back the students from their duties. This could lead to chaos and risk the treatment of patients,” said GU sources. As a result, GU has decided not to conduct written test this year, they added. Earlier this month, the state government had issued a circular calling all medical and paramedical students in Gujarat to join Covid-19 duty.

‘Growing confidence of criminals’

‘Growing confidence of criminals’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

29.09.2020

Ahmedabad: Dr Prakash Darji, one of the top nephrologists of the city, was unnerved that the safety of his younger son, Bhavya, was put at stake even at home.

The doctor said that the value of the jewellery robbed on Monday afternoon was of little consequence, but the daring daylight robbery in a plush neighbourhood underscores the growing confidence of criminals in the city.

“This robber has to be arrested. Because if he goes scot-free, he will carry out more such daring attempts which is not good for the society,” said Dr Darji.

“In such cases, robbers can inflict damage on a person or endanger life. Such acts have to be stopped as unlawful elements cannot be allowed to take citizens to ransom,” said Dr Darji.

The nephrologist at Zydus Hospital said that he had come home around 1.15pm and left around 1.30pm after a quick lunch. His driver took his wife to the house of his elder son who has recently become a parent.

“My younger son was reading on the sofa. He must have dozed off. Meanwhile, this man wearing a helmet entered the house from the rear door. Our maid who was working in the backyard had gone to the washroom. He locked her up and went inside. He went straight up. The noise woke my son who followed the robber,” said Dr Darji.

Daylight robbery in doctor’s home

THALTEJ HORROR

Daylight robbery in doctor’s home

Man Walks Into Gated Society, Ties Up Doc’s Son

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:29.09.2020

Law and order is at stake in the city’s tony Thaltej area. This time, a robber barged into a doctor’s house in a residential society behind Zydus Hospital, tied his son — an MBBS student, robbed valuables worth Rs 52,000 and fled on his motorcycle on Monday afternoon.

The incident happened at a time when the area had routine traffic movement and police were deployed at almost all the crossroads on SG Road from where the accused fled from the crime scene. Inspector J P Jadeja of Sola police said the robbery took place at the house in Somvilla Society owned by Dr Prakash Darji, a nephrologist with a private hospital.

“Dr Prakash’s son Bhavya, a final year MBBS student in GCS Medical College in Naroda, was alone at home when the robber, who wore a helmet, tied his hands with a laptop cable and his legs with cellotape, robbed his bracelet and other valuables worth Rs 52,000 from the house and fled,” said Jadeja.

He said that the accused was captured in CCTV cameras installed in the residential society and attempts are on to nab him.

Bhavya told police that he was sleeping on the sofa at around 2.15pm on Monday. At that time, he woke up and went to close the main door of the house and found an unknown person on the first floor of his house.

Before Bhavya could respond, the man, who was around 5 feet 7 inches tall and wearing denim jeans and black Tshirt, pushed him and put a knife to his neck. He robbed him of his bracelet and told him to give other valuables.

Bhavya told cops that the robber took him to a room on first floor where he tied Bhavya’s hands with a laptop cable and his legs with cellotape which the robber had brought with himself.

He sought keys of a cupboard for money but as Bhavya said that he did not have the keys, he tried to break the cupboard. When he was unable to break it, he picked up some silver utensils and fled.

Somvilla Society The doctor’s house where the robbery took place on Monday

The robber caught on camera entering and leaving the society

Insider’s job?

Police officials probing into the robbery case at Dr Prakash Darji’s house suspect that this might be the job of some insider. “The robber struck at a time when Dr Prakash Darji and his wife were not at home and their younger son was sleeping in the house. The robber was well aware of the movements of the house’s residents and he was seen in CCTV footage comfortably entering and leaving the society. His movement indicated that he was familiar with the road and also knew that Dr Darji and his wife were not at home,” said a police officer.

PLUSH AREAS ON TARGET OF ROBBERS:

Just three days after a motorcycle-borne duo robbed two persons at two different locations in Thaltej and Vastrapur, a man carried out the robbery at the doctor’s house. Security is constantly being compromised in the plush areas of the city which were considered safest.

State bound to protect runaway couple even if in live-in, says HC ‘Seeking One’s Protection Is Basic Right’

State bound to protect runaway couple even if in live-in, says HC

‘Seeking One’s Protection Is Basic Right’

Ajay.Sura@timesgroup.com

Chandigarh:29.09.2020

The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it plain that a runaway couple is entitled to protection from the court even if one of them is minor and they are in a “live-in” relationship.

"Issue in hand is not marriage or their live-in relationship, but the deprivation of fundamental right of seeking protection of life and liberty. Fundamental Right under Article 21 of constitution of India stands on a much higher pedestal. Being sacrosanct under the constitutional scheme it must be protected, regardless of the solemnization of an invalid or void marriage or even the absence of any marriage between the parties," the HC has held.

Justice Arun Monga of the HC has passed these orders while disposing of a petition filed by Hisar based couple--- the man is aged 24 and the girl 16 years and nine months old.

They claim that had to live together due to circumstances triggered by the parents of the girl, who want to marry her off to a person of their choice. They claim that they are mature enough to know what is good or bad.

Conflict raised in the case was that the enforcement of fundamental rights of the petitioners to seek protection of their "life and liberty" as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India viza-viz a non-marriageable girl as per Section 5 (iii) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 deciding to be in a live-in relationship.

Hearing the petitioners, the HC observed that the mere fact that one of the petitioners is not of marriageable age in the present case would not deprive them of their fundamental right as envisaged in Constitution of India, being citizens of India.

According to HC the couple is entitled to seek protection of their life and liberty, even if it were a case of a marriage in violation of section 5 of the Hindu Marriage Act or merely a consensual relationship.

Without commenting on the legitimacy of the relationship between the petitioners, the HC has directed the SP Hisar to verify the contents of the petition, particularly the threat perception of the petitioners and complaints/representation, and if deemed fit, to take appropriate steps to provide necessary protection of their life and liberty.

HC OBSERVES

It is the bounden duty of the state as per the Constitutional obligations cast upon it to protect the life and liberty of every citizen. Right to human life is to be treated on much higher pedestal, regardless of a citizen being minor or a major

SC clears man held for rape after 4-yr live-in

SC clears man held for rape after 4-yr live-in

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:29.09.2020

No woman, after being sexually assaulted at knife-point, would write amorous love letters to the accused and share a live-in relationship for four years, the Supreme Court said on Monday while acquitting a man of 20-year-old charges of rape and cheating, for which he was convicted by the trial court and the Jharkhand High Court.

The first point of doubt for the bench of Justices R F Nariman, Navin Sinha and Indira Banerjee was the woman’s version of her age at the time of the alleged sexual assault in 1995.

Though she claimed to be 13 years, it was found that at the time of lodging the FIR in 1999, before the man was getting married she was 25 years old.

‘Lived like husband-wife’ but later filed rape case

Though she claimed to be 13 years, it was found that at the time of lodging the FIR in 1999, a few days before the man was getting married to another woman, she was 25 years as per medical opinion.

The complainant claimed that she kept quiet for four years from the date of sexual assault as the man promised to marry her and their families had got them engaged. She also said they lived like “husband and wife” and that on coming to know that he was getting married to another woman, she had filed the FIR accusing him of rape and cheating.

The bench sifted through the evidence and found the two belonged to different religions and that was the main constraint for solemnising the marriage — while the girl’s family wanted the wedding in a church, the boy’s family insisted on a temple ceremony.

Writing the judgment, Justice Sinha said, “The man belonged to the Scheduled Tribe while the woman belonged to the Christian community. They professed different religious beliefs in a traditional society. They resided in the same village Basjadi and were known to each other. The nature and manner of allegations, coupled with the letters exchanged between them, make it apparent that their love for each other grew and matured over a sufficient period of time.

“They were both smitten by each other and passions of youth ruled over their minds and emotions. The physical relations that followed were not isolated or sporadic in nature, but regular over the years. The woman had even gone and resided in the man’s house. In our opinion, the delay of four years in lodging the FIR, at an opportune time of seven days prior to the man solemnising his marriage with another girl, on the pretext of a promise to the prosecutrix raises serious doubts about the truth and veracity of the allegations levelled by the complainant.”

The bench further said, “She was conscious of this (religious) obstacle all along, even while she continued to establish physical relations with the man. If he had married her, she would not have lodged the case. She denied having written any letters to him, contrary to the evidence placed on record by the defence. The amorous language used by both in the letters exchanged reflects that the man was serious about the relationship...”

WORLD HEART DAY

WORLD HEART DAY

Have heart condition? Don’t delay check-up even during pandemic

A Central Registry On Heart Failure Needed To Save Lives: Doctors

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

29.09.2020

In the last six months, since the Covid-19 lockdown in the country, non-Covid illnesses have taken a back seat. Even many heart patients have delayed routine check-ups. There have also been instances of patients delaying hospital visits despite complications, leading to exacerbation of the existing condition and even death.

On the eve of World Heart Day, cardiologists say, it is important to make patients aware not to neglect non-Covid illnesses. “I am regularly seeing patients who have delayed their treatment till they are forced to come to hospital at an advanced stage. Some of them may even have succumbed to it,” said Dr Ashok Seth, chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.

The fear of going to hospital despite worsening of a disease is not the right way because timely treatment saves lives, he pointed out. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), World Health Organization (WHO) says, are the number one cause of deaths globally. It has many causes — from smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity to air pollution, and rare and neglected conditions such as Chagas disease and cardiac amyloidosis.

During Covid-19, WHO adds, CVD patients are faced with a double-edged threat. “Not only are they more at risk of developing severe forms of the virus, but they may also be afraid to seek ongoing care for their hearts,” the UN body states.

Disruption in travel and transport have prevented many people from smaller towns and rural areas from reaching hospitals. While there is no data or analysis to understand what is happening to these patients, Dr D K Jhamb, director and head of the cardiology department at Paras Hospitals in Gurgaon, said it was clear that many of them had not been able to receive medical care and treatment on time.

“Patients with cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes, among others, are experiencing delay in diagnosis and treatment, which, in turn, will significantly increase the burden of heart disease and preventable deaths,” he added.

Heart failure is the end result of many conditions of the organ, for example, heart attack, valve disease and viral infections of heart, Dr Seth said. “There is no centralised registry for heart failure patients in India. It is needed to make a fair assessment of the burden of the disease and save lives.”

The Times of India has launched Beat Heart Failure in partnership with Novartis to create awareness about timely diagnosis and management of heart failure and the need to create an effective national heart failure registry.

 

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