Fake marksheet racket busted, kingpin arrested

Fake marksheet racket busted, kingpin arrested

Indore:14.09.2021

Crime branch and Tilak Nagar police arrested prime accused of a gang involved in making fake marksheets and certificates.

The accused had made Rs1.5crore by making fake 554 marksheets.

Acting on a tip off, Satish Goswami, 32, a resident of Juni Indore, was arrested during a search.

A case under section 420, 467, 468 of IPC for fraud, and forgery of documents was registered against him, the police said. The police also recovered seven monitors, two computers along with two printers, 14 fake marksheets, blank papers and one mobile phone from him.

Police said that a special crime branch team got input of a man involved in making fake marksheet and certificates in Tilak Nagar area. Based on it, the police raided the spot and arrested Goswami. Police also recovered two registers with 554 names of people, whose fake certificates were made by the accused. The accused, during inquiry, said that he had been involved in making fake marksheet and certificates for the last five years and made certificates of standard tenth, twelfth, and graduation.

The marksheets were of Maharashtra board of higher secondary education, Rajasthan board, William Kerry University, Mewar University, Sunrise University, Shanghai university, DRCB Raman University, police said. TNN

Put up details of nursing colleges on website: HC

Put up details of nursing colleges on website: HC

Bengaluru:14.09.2021

To clear the position vis-a-vis nursing institutions, the Indian Nursing Council (INC) has to WebHost the full order of the Supreme Court in Civil Appeals No.12759-12761/2017 and the link to the website hosted by the state government, containing the list of recognized institutions.

The high court passed this order recently while disposing of a petition filed by Karnataka State Association of the Management of Nursing and Allied Health Science Institutions and four nursing colleges.

Justice PS Dinesh Kumar said in the Civil Appeals the SC held INC has no authority to grant recognition to institutions imparting nursing courses and it has been restrained from publishing the material indicated therein on its website. The judge, however, added that in view of the admitted position that inspection can be conducted by INC, its right, to be placed in public domain, the institutions inspected by it, can’t be curtailed.

“It would be appropriate for the INC to web-host the clear position emerging from the order passed by the Supreme Court. This can be achieved by directing the INC to first show the entire list of institutions recognised by the government on its website,” the judge added. The petitioners had moved court seeking removal of a list from INC website depicting as ‘recognised Institutions by the Karnataka State Nursing Council’ for 2019-20 and 2020-21. TNN

Pay via UPI in 10 more countries

Pay via UPI in 10 more countries

Mumbai:14.09.2021

The international arm of National Payments Corporation of India has partnered with Liquid Group to enable QR-based UPI payments’ acceptance in 10 countries across north and southeast Asia. Singapore-headquartered Liquid Group brings together payments companies that enrol merchants in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Its technology will allow merchants who accept QR payments to accept UPI payments as well. TNN

Stalin, EPS engage in verbal battle over NEET

Stalin, EPS engage in verbal battle over NEET

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:14.09.2021

Holding the previous AIADMK regime responsible for introducing NEET in Tamil Nadu, chief minister M K Stalin on Monday said 15 students, including Dhanush of Salem, had ended their lives apprehensive about the entrance test.

The state government had kept this in mind while introducing the bill to provide admissions based on class 12 board examinations. Later, Leader of opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami told reporters that DMK was responsible for the suicide of the NEET aspirant in Salem.

The assembly saw heated exchanges between Stalin and Palaniswami before the bill was introduced.

EPS pointed out that NEET exemption was DMK’s poll promise and the party had promised to fulfill it soon after assuming charge. “The students could not prepare for the competitive exam with DMK leaders making continuous assertions about NEET exemption,” the former CM said, before walking out in protest along with AIADMK legislators. Certain remarks by EPS on the Salem student’s suicide were expunged by the speaker.

Stalin said many students, including Anitha, had ended their lives during the AIADMK regime. A bill passed unanimously under the previous regime to exempt the state from NEET was rejected too. “The AIADMK government hid the rejection of the bills by the President. The leader of opposition was the CM then. The student, Dhanush, could not pass NEET twice when you (EPS) were the CM,” Stalin said.

The CM said the AIADMK was an ally of the NDA government at the Centre and could have laid down a condition to its ally that it would support the CAA and farm laws only if the state was exempted from NEET. The AIADMK did not have the courage to do it. “Had it been done; the state could have been exempted. But the AIADMK maintained a stony silence when students were coming suicide,” Stalin said.

In the afternoon, when the bill was taken up for consideration and passage, Palaniswami said the party welcomed the legislation. The present bill only additionally mentioned justice A K Rajan committee’s recommendations and the minister should explain whether the state could pass a bill against the Centre’s legislation, EPS said. The Supreme Court already passed judgments against NEET, he added.

NEET abolition: State can demand, Centre can reject

NEET abolition: State can demand, Centre can reject

TN Can Enact Law As Edu On Concurrent List

A.Subramani@timesgroup.com

Chennai:14.09.2021

Tamil Nadu’s renewed battle to scrap NEET is neither impossible nor easy, for it is as much political as constitutional.

Political, because it would need the Union government’s consent and presidential assent. Constitutional, because education, after the 42nd amendment, is on the concurrent list where the Centre and the states have equal power to enact laws.

“As long as education is on the concurrent list, the state government can enact a law,” said Justice D Hariparanthaman, who retired as a Madras high court judge. He, however, added that the law will not come into force till the Centre gives its nod. In 2017, the AIADMK government made a similar attempt, but it did not pursue it. The President rejected it. There are several state-specific laws concerning concurrent list subjects that Tamil Nadu enacted and got the presidential assent.

For example, in 2006 Tamil Nadu did away with the entrance examination for professional courses. Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act, 2006, received presidential assent in March 2007, and in March 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the state law. Similarly, it was a Tamil Nadu-specific amendment to the Hindu Marriages Act which enabled a Hindu in the state to marry without following the rituals. Section 7(A) was inserted in the act by the C N Annadurai government. No other state has this provision.

In 1977, the MGR government inserted Section 2(A)(2) in the Industrial Disputes Act, enabling an individual workman to raise a dispute without the government’s reference. Though the subject is jointly occupied by the Union and state governments, and when even Left bastions like Bengal and Kerala did not have such a law, the Centre gave its assent for the Tamil Naduspecific amendment.

Jallikattu is the most recent Tamil Nadu law which got the presidential assent though it differed from the Centre’s stand. In January 2017, by amending the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (a subject on the concurrent list), Tamil Nadu ensured that jallikattu was exempted from the list of banned performances by animals.

In 1994, the Jayalalithaa government did a Houdini act when Tamil Nadu, with just 39 MPs, mustered a two-thirds majority in the 534-member parliament to include its 69% reservation law in the Ninth Schedule, thereby insulating the state law from judicial review. “Just as now, even then the issue was as political as constitutional. It was a quid pro quo by the Jayalalithaa government for its support to the PV Narasimha Rao government to pass the Panchayati Raj Act in Parliament,” said Justice Hariparanthaman.

The possibility of the law being rejected by the Union government does not mean Tamil Nadu should not demand its right guaranteed by the Constitution. “It is a limited constitutional power, but if Tamil Nadu does not enact a law as per its stated policy, it will amount to giving up its right,” he said.

IN THE PAST: In 1977, the MGR government inserted Section 2(A)(2) in the Industrial Disputes Act, enabling an individual workman to raise a dispute without the government’s reference; Jallikattu is the most recent Tamil Nadu law which got the presidential assent though it differed from the Centre’s stand

Udhayanidhi nominated member of AU syndicate

Udhayanidhi nominated member of AU syndicate

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:14.09.2021

Anna University's Syndicate on Monday got a high profile member as the assembly nominated the DMK MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin to the highest decision making body of the university. The Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni MLA will replace R Nataraj, retired IPS officer and former Mylapore MLA at the syndicate.

While releasing the names of MLAs appointed as members of syndicates of various state universities on Monday, speaker M Appavu said the election was not needed as the applications and number of vacancies were equal. Egmore MLA N Ezhilan and Maduravoyal MLA K Ganapathy appointed as members of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University. Villivakkam MLA A Vetriyazhagan, Tiruvallur MLA VG Rajendran, Ambattur MLA Joseph Samuel were appointed as the members of Madras University Senate.

TN to release 700 life convicts on Sept 15

TN to release 700 life convicts on Sept 15

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:14.09.2021

The state government has decided to release 700 life convicts on September 15 to mark the birth anniversary of former chief minister C N Annadurai.

Making the announcement in the state assembly, chief minister M K Stalin said the convicts, who have been serving sentences for many years, were being released on humanitarian grounds.

Meanwhile, Stalin on Monday said the government would set up a new police commission to find out the demands and needs of police personnel. “A police commission will be constituted again to recommend ways to strengthen the relationship between police and public, to initiate some essential schemes and roll out new training programmes for police personnel,” the chief minister said, while replying to the demand on grants for the home department.

The Madras high court had recently directed the government to reconstitute the commission set up by the AIADMK regime in 2019, headed by retired bureaucrat Sheela Priya, with a retired judge of the high court as head and a social worker, a public representative, retired and serving police officials and civil servants as members.