Couple forge own death certificates - The Times Of India

Couple forge own death certificates - The Times Of India

LIC Agent And Wife Got ₹40L In Payouts

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:11.10.2020

In a unique case of cheating registered at Karanj police station on Friday, an insurance agent of LIC, Parag Parekh and his wife Manisha Parekh, both residents of Maininagar East, were arrested for allegedly forging death certificates of each other and obtaining the insurance settlement claims of Rs 15 lakh and Rs 25 lakh.

Inspector D V Tadvi of Karanj police station said that they have arrested both accused after getting their Covid-19 tests done on Saturday evening.

According to the FIR lodged by senior manager Kaushik Shah of LIC at Jivan Prakash Building on Relief Road, Parekh had taken a term insurance policy in the name of his wife Manisha on January 1, 2012 for Rs 15 lakh and used to pay the premiums regularly.

On May 5, 2016, Parag produced a bogus death certificate of his wife and after primary investigation he was given the benefit of Rs 15 lakh.

Inspector Tadvi said that meanwhile Parag transferred his own policy of Rs 25 lakh to Gandhinagar branch in March 2017 and put his wife’s name as nominee.

“Here also his wife obtained a forged death certificate of his husband and produced the forged documents in the LIC office to obtain the benefits. According to our information his wife too has obtained the benefit of Rs 25 lakh,” added Inspector Tadvi.

According to the FIR, in the audit conducted in July 14, 2020 it came to light that after the faked death of his wife, Parag had put his wife’s name as nominee in his own LIC policy.

“Later an internal inquiry was ordered and the whole scam came to light. Based on the internal inquiry, LIC has registered a complaint with us. We have arrested the accused and produce them at the judge’s bungalow on Sunday,” said Inspector Tadvi.

Parag Parekh produced the bogus death certificate of his wife in 2016 and received Rs 15 lakh. He then transferred his policy to the Gandhinagar branch and named his wife as the nominee, and she submitted his ‘death certificate’

Doctors move HC for in-service quota in super-specialty courses -

Doctors move HC for in-service quota in super-specialty courses - 

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Chennai:11.10.2020

Citing a most recent constitution bench judgment of the Supreme Court, a group of Tamil Nadu government doctors has moved the Madras high court for notification of 50% of vacancies for in-service candidates for admission to super-speciality medical courses this year.

G Sankaran, counsel for assistant professors of Royapettah government hospital M Syed Fahrudeen and G Kumaravel, wanted the court to restrain the authorities from conducting first round online counselling for admission to DM/MCh courses in the academic session 2020-21 without earmarking 50% of seats for inservice candidates.

When the plea came up for hearing, advocate general Vijay Narayan submitted that a decision will be taken by the state government in this regard at the earliest. He further informed the court that the director general of health services has issued a circular dated October 8 postponing the online counselling till further orders.

Recording the submissions, Justice N Anand Venkatesh adjourned the plea to October 16 for the state to inform its stand.

Earlier, Sankaran contended that as per a Supreme Court order dated August 31, the state has legislative competence and authority to provide them a separate source of entry for in-service candidates seeking admission to PG degree courses. “Hence, the Tamil Nadu government is requested to revive the allotment of 50% seats in PG medical courses and superspeciality courses for in-service candidates to enable government doctors in the state to acquire higher qualification by getting admission under in-service quota,” Sankaran said.

According to the petitioners, in 2017 all the states including Tamil Nadu stopped providing in-service quota in PG medical courses in view of a Supreme Court order which held that states cannot provide such quota as the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 does not even remotely indicate that a separate channel for admission into in-service candidates must be provided and 50% of seats are earmarked for PG diploma courses for in-service candidates.

Subsequently, the issue was referred to a larger bench which has now held that the state has power to provide in-service quota.

HC imposes cost on officials

HC imposes cost on officials

11/10/2020

Staff Reporter Madurai

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has imposed a cost of ₹10,000 each on the incumbent Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine T. S. Selvavinayagam and the earlier incumbent K. Kulanthaisamy for filing misleading statements before the court.

Justice R. Suresh Kumar observed that the judicial time of the court was considerably consumed due to the misleading statements and if the Health Secretary had taken a decision to initiate disciplinary proceedings, the same shall be taken immediately.

The court was hearing the petition filed by B. Dinesh Kumar of Vadamadurai in Dindigul district. He sought appointment to a post of Health Officer that was lying vacant, through direct recruitment, following the resignation of an appointee.

The judge took cognisance of the fact that contradictory communications were made to the Health Secretary and the High Court. It was submitted before the court that the petitioner was not included in the list for consideration to the post, though he was on the list. The court directed the authorities to fill up the post of the Health Officer by issuing the order of appointment to the petitioner within two weeks. The Health Secretary shall inquire into why misleading statements were filed, the court said.

HC comes to rescue of Karnataka student

HC comes to rescue of Karnataka student

It tells CBSE to declare result; Board had asked her to reappear for Biology paper

11/10/2020

An extreme penalty violates the rule of proportionality, the High Court ruled.

Special Correspondent Bengaluru

Observing that “a tender age student, even when delinquency is established, cannot be treated as an offender of the war crime,” the Karnataka High Court has directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to immediately announce the result of a student of Class XII, who was asked to reappear for an exam in one of the subjects, without announcing the result, for carrying a mobile phone inside the examination hall on March 14.

Justice Krishna S. Dixit passed the order while allowing a petition filed by Shuchi Mishra, who had appeared for the CBSE Class XII main examinations in Bengaluru.

The court directed the CBSE to immediately announce the results for the Biology exam.

The court, from the records, found that the petitioner had inadvertently carried a mobile phone inside the exam hall and had handed it over to the invigilator just before commencement of the exam, but the CBSE had treated her case as “unfair means” for “using mobile phone during examination”.

“The student’s assertion that she had deposited the mobile at 9.55 a.m., that is prior to commencement of examination, to the centre invigilator becomes evident by the fact that it was sent to her school, which in turn delivered it back to her after examination and on the same day,” the court observed.

The court also noted that the CBSE committee had not made any effort to view video footage of the exam hall, with every hall under electronic surveillance, and had denied a personal hearing to the student.

Pointing out that there was no allegation that the petitioner had clandestinely stored the examination material in the said phone for making “unfair use” of the same, the court said, “though a student is expected not to carry such instrument into the exam hall but human fallibility, more particularly in case of children going to exam with associated anxiety, needs to be kept in mind, as an extreme penalty cancelling exam violates the rule of proportionality and it shakes the consciousness of the court, to say the least.”

Courts can’t meddle in food habits: SC

Courts can’t meddle in food habits: SC

13/10/2020

Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI

The Supreme Court on Monday said courts cannot meddle in the food habits of people.

A Bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was hearing a petition filed by Akhand Bharat Morcha for ban on halal form of slaughter. “Court cannot determine who can be a vegetarian or non-vegetarian. Those who want to eat halal meat can eat halal meat. Those who want to eat jhatka meat can eat jhatka meat,” the court said orally.

The petition raised a challenge against Section 28 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act which allows slaughter of animals in a manner consonant to one’s religion.

The petition argued that halal manner of slaughter is painful and amounts to cruelty. Whereas jhatka — which is a single fatal blow — is painless.

The court said the petition was filed with “mischievous” intention and dismissed it.

E-registration will replace e-pass, govt. tells court

E-registration will replace e-pass, govt. tells court

Passes will still be needed to visit hill stations

14/10/2020

Legal Correspondent CHENNAI

The State government has decided to replace the existing system of issuing e-passes to those travelling from other States or countries with e-registration, Advocate General Vijay Narayan told the Madras High Court on Tuesday.

The Advocate General told the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy that the restrictions on visits to hill stations alone would continue, since those places were short on medical infrastructure.

After hearing him, the judges directed the State government to write to the Centre seeking a clarification as to whether imposition of such restrictions could continue on visits to hill stations and then publicise the reply through the media.

‘Basic details’

According to the A-G, the e-registration would require travellers to provide only basic details for the purpose of contact tracing.

On the other hand, e-passes to hill stations would be issued only to those who have an address there and not to tourists.

Unlike the plains, the medical facilities in hill stations were very limited. Hence, permitting tourists might lead to a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases and they might not be able to cope with such a situation, he said.

Self-regulation

The A-G also said at present, the only way to contain the spread of the pandemic was through self-regulation. Yet, people did not seem to understand the importance of wearing masks and maintaining physical distance, he said.

He also brought it to the notice of the court that the number of new COVID-19 cases had been limited to 5,000 every day due to effective steps taken by the government, as against Kerala where the numbers had now risen to as high as 10,000 cases a day. Concurring with the A-G, the Chief Justice said people were indeed moving around in public places without masks as if the disease had vanished. He said people could feel safe only when a vaccine comes out.

Congress is a party without mental growth, says Kushboo

Congress is a party without mental growth, says Kushboo

The former Congress spokesperson had joined the BJP on Monday

14/10/2020

New role: Kushboo addressing the media in Chennai on Tuesday. R. Ragu

Special CorrespondentCHENNAI

The Congress is a party that has no thinking capacity and no mental development, former spokesperson of the party Kushboo Sundar, who joined the BJP, said on Tuesday.

Speaking to presspersons at the Chennai airport, Ms. Kushboo hit out at Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K.S. Alagiri for his statement that the Congress had seen her only as an actor and that she did not have any thinking capability.

“One leader [L. Murugan] is trying to build a party convincing people that the BJP alone can do good for the country. Another leader [Alagiri] says I don’t have intelligence. So they came to know after six years of my hard work for the Congress that I don’t have intelligence?” Ms. Kushboo asked.

‘No criticism allowed’

She also said no one could criticise anything within the Congress party. “That’s a party where no one can even make criticisms internally. How can such a party be good for the country?” she asked. When presspersons asked if she would be able to make internal criticisms in the BJP, she said she believed that it was possible. “I have confidence that the BJP will not be like that [the Congress]. I will answer when that sort of a situation [where internal criticism is not allowed] arises,” she said.

Ms. Kushboo also said that her job as the opposition spokesperson was to criticise the government and its schemes as, politically and democratically, having an opposition is good for the country. “But I supported the NEP [National Education Policy] and the abolition of triple talaq. You cannot criticise everything just for the sake of being the opposition,” she said.

She further added that she had carried out her job as opposition spokesperson to the best of her abilities when she was with the Congress. “I was loyal to that party till the last day I was there,” she said.

On Mr. Alagiri’s criticism that she joined the BJP at the behest of her husband, director Sundar C., reportedly due to financial problems, she asked whether people had ever seen him at any of the events with her. “There is no such issue. The fact that they are making all these allegations show how terrible they are,” she said.