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NCM Says It Lacks Role In Granting Hindus A Minority Status In Jk

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SRINAGAR: Clearing its stand on declaring Hindus a minority community in Jammu and Kashmir, The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Monday said that the commission has nothing to do with the granting of minority status to any community in the country.
The Indian Express reported that member NCM, Syed Shahezadi on Monday said that if Government wants to grant minority status to Hindus, including Kashmiri Pandits, in Jammu and Kashmir and parliament wants to enact a law for the same, let them do it.
She said that the decision is out of the commission’s bounds and Supreme Court is the absolute authority to take the final call.
“The commission has categorically made it clear that they are not the law makers and it is for Parliament and the Supreme Court to take a decision on this matter,’’ Shahezadi said.
The NCM member earlier in the day held discussions with UT Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta on implementation of centrally funded welfare schemes for minorities in Jammu and Kashmir.
She further said the NCM aims at setting up minority commissions in every state and UT of the country and the Commission will write to the government for setting up one in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir as well.
Pertinently, Supreme Court in November last year had asked the Centre for completing consultations with states on the demand to grant minority status to Hindus in states where their numbers are below other communities.
This followed the government submission before court that it had received comments from 14 states and UTs and has sent reminders to others to send in their views at the earliest.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 18, 2023
Kuwait considers granting expat wife citizenship after 18 years

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Kuwait: Kuwait is considering granting the citizenship to expat wife of a Kuwaiti after 18 years of marriage, local media reported.
In this regard, the government of Kuwait submitted a draft law amending Article 8 of Amiri Decree No. 15/1959.
Under the proposed amendments, an ex-pat woman who married a Kuwaiti man will not automatically become a Kuwaiti citizen unless she declares her desire to do so to the minister of the interior and maintains legal residency in Kuwait for a period of 18 years from the date of marriage.
The minister of interior may also prevent her from obtaining Kuwaiti nationality if he deems it necessary.
As per a report by Arab Times, if a woman’s marriage ends due to death or divorce and she has a son or children, she can declare her desire to acquire Kuwaiti nationality, provided she has maintained her legal and normal residence in Kuwait and takes care of her children until one of them reaches the age of 10.
The amendments also state that the minister of interior can grant a expat woman, the wife of a Kuwaiti, the treatment of a Kuwaiti individual after she has announced her desire and the marriage for a period of three years maintained.
According to the Arabic daily Al Rai, the draft law aims to address concerns that the current provision allows expat women married to Kuwaiti nationals to acquire Kuwaiti citizenship only after five years of marriage without having children.
This led to expat women obtaining Kuwaiti nationality and then divorcing them from their Kuwaiti husbands without any ties to Kuwait.

The proposed amendments aim to address this issue by extending the period to 18 years and requiring proof of loyalty and integration into Kuwaiti society.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 20, 2023
‘Tiger Zinda Hai’: Jairam Ramesh on SC granting relief to Khera

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Raipur: Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh thanked the Supreme Court for granting relief to party leader Pawan Khera and said that apex court has shown that “tiger zinda hai”.
Claiming that there are multiple FIRs against Khera in Uttar Pradesh and Assam, Ramesh said that this has also happened with Jignesh Mewani. The Congress party will not be detered by FIRs and will keep raising the issue of Adani, he added.
Multiple FIRs were registered against senior Congress leader Khera after he made “disparaging comments” about Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a press briefing on the Adani-Hindenburg row on February 17.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Khera to be released on interim bail. However, the apex court noted that the plea filed by Khera was not for quashing of FIR, but was pressed for “clubbing of FIRs since gravamen of all FIR is same”. The court also ordered the transfer and clubbing of all FIRs registered against Khera.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 23, 2023
‘No reasons to interfere’: SC on HC order granting bail to NSE’s ex-MD Ramkrishna

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea by the CBI challenging a Delhi High Court order granting bail to Chitra Ramkrishna, a former managing director of the National Stock Exchange, in the co-location scam case.
A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M. Trivedi refused to allow an appeal by the CBI challenging the high court order. “We find no reasons to interfere with the bail order,” said the bench, adding that all questions of law are left open.
It clarified that the observations made in the high court’s order will be construed only for default bail and not affect the merits of the trial.
Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, appearing for the CBI, submitted that the high court’s order was absolutely misconceived and the law on default bail is very clear. He added that bail can be granted if the charge sheet is not filed within 60 days of arrest.
On February 9, the high court granted bail to Ramkrishna in a money laundering case related to the alleged illegal phone tapping of employees, saying that, prima facie, there are reasonable grounds to believe she is not guilty.
In March last year, the CBI had arrested Ramkrishna and she was granted bail by the high court in the co-location case on September 28 last year. She was arrested in the ED case on July 14 last year.
On February 9, the high court said: “Prima facie there are reasonable grounds to believe that the applicant is not guilty of the offence and she is not likely to commit any offence while on bail.”
The Enforcement Directorate in September last year, had filed a charge sheet in the Rouse Avenue courts in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case pertaining to phone tapping of NSE employees between 2009 and 2017.

The charge sheet was filed against NSE’s Ramkrishna – who was in custody for almost seven months in the matter, her predecessor Ravi Narain, and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey.
Ramkrishna, who is already on bail in the CBI’s case, was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs one lakh and two sureties of the like amount and certain conditions like joining the investigation and not leaving the country.
The high court also observed: “In the present case there is no allegation that the applicant has derived or obtained any property or proceeds of crime. Additionally, there is no allegation or evidence produced before me to suggest that the applicant has concealed, possessed, used, projected or claimed any proceeds of crime as untainted property.”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 13, 2023