முன்னாள் எம்.பி, எம்.எல்.ஏ.க்களுக்கு சலுகையை நிறுத்த முடியுமா? மத்திய அரசுக்கு உச்சநீதிமன்றம் கேள்வி

முன்னாள் எம்.பி, எம்.எல்.ஏ.க்களுக்கான வாழ்நாள் சலுகையை நிறுத்த முடியுமா என மத்திய அரசுக்கு, உச்சநீதிமன்றம் கேள்வி எழுப்பியுள்ளது.

முன்னாள் எம்.பி, எம்.எல்.ஏ.க்களுக்கான ஓய்வூதியம் உள்ளிட்ட இதரச் சலுகைகளை முறைப்படுத்தக்கோரி உச்சநீதிமன்றத்தில் பொதுநல வழக்கு தொடரப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இந்த வழக்கு உச்சநீதிமன்றத்தில் இன்று விசாரணைக்கு வந்தது. அப்போது, முன்னாள் எம்.பி, எம்.எல்.ஏ.க்களுக்கு சலுகையை நிறுத்த முடியுமா என்று கேள்வி எழுப்பிய உச்சநீதிமன்றம், சலுகையை முறைப்படுத்த சில வழிமுறைகளை உருவாக்க வேண்டும் என்று மத்திய அரசுக்கு உத்தரவிட்டது.



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CMC’s Department of Endocrinology wins award

The award was for its work in advancing medical education

The Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore has won the Royal College of Physicians (London) Excellence in Patient Care Awards 2017 under the category of Medical Education and Training award.

Nihal Thomas, professor and head, unit-I of the department received the award recently. “We are the only medical team outside the United Kingdom to win such an award this year under any of the categories,” he said.

The award was in recognition for the department’s outstanding work in advancing medical education and training. The judges were impressed by “the multi-professional approach and use of blended learning, with some really innovative approaches”.

The department is a centre for diabetes patient care, training, education, basic science, clinical and epidemiological research. Since 2003, the department has developed a nation-wide training programme for doctors, nurse educators and foot-care technicians.

The award took note of the department’s efforts in training of healthcare professionals across the country and abroad, thereby increasing the number of trained professionals qualified to handle the diabetes epidemic. It also pointed out that the programme, since 2004, evolved into a distance education programme, training 736 doctors in secondary care diabetes so far.

The work done by the department in launching a local foot-care and footwear training programme that has evolved into an intensive training programme for doctors across India, and diabetes counsellor training programme has also found mention.

High Court rejects Muslim woman’s plea on her ‘marriage’

She wanted the court to declare that she was not legally wedded to a Hindu

The Madras High Court Bench here has rejected the plea of a 25-year-old Muslim woman from Tirunelveli to declare that she was not the legally wedded wife of a Hindu who reportedly married her in March 2012 and also registered the ‘marriage’ at a Sub-Registrar’s office at Thirunavalur in Villupuram district.

Dismissing a civil revision petition preferred by M. Rahmath Begum (name changed), Justice V.M. Velumani held that the Tirunelveli Family Court had rightly refused to entertain a suit filed by the woman seeking such a declaration and there was no irregularity or illegality in the lower court’s order warranting interference by the High Court.

The judge said the petitioner had conceded to have been in love with the man. She had also eloped with him to Kerala in 2011 forcing her father to lodge an abduction complaint with the local police, besides filing a habeas corpus petition in the High Court Bench.

On being produced before the Bench on April 3, 2012, the petitioner had told two judges of the High Court that she got married to the man with whom she eloped and wanted to live with him.

Habeas corpus petition

The judges closed the HCP with an observation that the woman was free to choose her own way of life since she was a major. However, after four years, the woman approached the Family Court in January last year seeking a declaration that she was not the legally wedded wife of the person.

In her petition filed before the lower court, she claimed that no valid marriage had taken place between them. She claimed that the marriage invitation and other documents were forged to save the man’s family from being tortured by the police in the guise of investigating the abduction complaint lodged by her father.

Further, pointing out that marriages between inter-religious couple could be registered only under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the woman claimed that the procedures contemplated under the legislation were not followed in her case.

On the other hand, the respondent’s counsel, C. Karthik, contended that there was indeed a valid marriage between the couple and they had even begotten a baby girl. He claimed that the woman had filed the suit for declaration due to a misunderstanding with her “husband.”

Refusing to even number her case, the Family Court on January 29 last held that no such declaration could be made when she herself had conceded to have married the man before two judges of the High Court in 2012.

Officials seize 720kg of chemically ripened mangoes

Fruits worth Rs. 40,000 destroyed

The District Food Safety Wing of the Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug Administration Department has seized 720 kg of chemically ripened mangoes from a godown here on Tuesday.

A team of food safety officials, led by Dr. M. J. C. Bose, District Designated Officer, made a surprise inspection at the godown and found that the mango merchant had used calcium carbide to speed up ripening of mangos.

Dr. Bose said the merchant, who procured the mangos in the pre-ripening stage from Madurai had stocked them in the godown. The officials seized the mangoes, worth about Rs. . 40,000 and destroyed them in the compost yard.

Dr. Bose said mangoes ripened with calcium carbide pose serious health hazards and consumers could easily identify chemically ripened mangoes. These mangoes would be abnormal in size and would have black spots on the skin. The skin would look fully ripened but the pulp inside would be white, he said.

Consumption of artificially-ripened fruits would cause ulcer, insomnia and lack of appetite and even cancer, he warned.

Notice served

The merchant had been served with warning notice, he added.

Natural ripening was possible if the mangoes were stored along with bananas and papaya, he added.