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Delhi HC reserves order on PIL against sealing of school on public land

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved its order on a petition seeking protection of the interests of kids enrolled in schools on public property that have been mortgaged and could be sold at auctions by banks due to debt default.
Filed in a form of Public Interest Litigation (PIL), it was listed before the division of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad.
The bench, after hearing the arguments on behalf of the petitioners and the respondents, reserved its order on the petition.

“We will pass appropriate orders. Arguments heard and order reserved,” the bench said.
In the PIL, NGO Justice for All has requested that the court to protect the fundamental right to education guaranteed to over 900 students attending Laxmi Public School in Karkardooma as well as other students attending similar schools whose land has been mortgaged and could one day be sold at auction or sealed due to loan default.
Additionally, it asks the court to issue directives for an investigation into the mortgaged status of Laxmi Public School’s leasehold property.
The land parcel belonged to the government and was given to Laxmi Educational Society under the Government Grants Act for the purpose of operating a school, according to standing counsel Santosh Kumar Tripathi and advocate Arun Panwar, who were representing the Delhi government.
The society was not permitted to deal with the land further under the Transfer of Property Act.

The Delhi government’s goal was to safeguard kids and advance education, and this land was never made accessible to the bank as any other land to be purchased from any institution, Tripathi submitted.
According to the petition, numerous institutions originally bought land for cheap before borrowing money from banks to build five-star facilities.
It claimed that this led to the commercialisation of education and increased competition for expensive education and that these institutions put children’s education at danger by mortgaging the property.
The petition was disputed by the legal counsel for the society and the school, who argued that it was a publicity stunt and that the petitioner had submitted the plea without any support or evidence, and that it should be dismissed with costs.
Things have advanced to the point where the school will be auctioned off to pay back a loan and business regulations are being implemented on school property, which is otherwise public land set aside for public institutions, the petition argues.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 1, 2023
Maha: 6L hectare land affected by unseasonal rains; farmers to get compensation

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Nagpur: Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar on Thursday said farmers will not face shortage of seeds or fertilisers and will get adequate compensation for crop loss due to unseasonal rains after ‘panchnamas’ (assessment) were completed.
He was addressing a press conference after chairing a review meeting of Kharif season preparation in Nagpur division.
“Farmers in the state will not face any shortage of seeds and fertilizers as these have been allocated as per district-wise demand. Compensation to the farmers affected by the recent rains will be given as soon as loss assessment surveys are completed,” a District Information Office release quoted him as saying.

“A total of 46 lakh hectares of land was affected by excessive and unseasonal rainfall between June last year and now. A total of 57 lakh farmers were affected. The state government will provide double the relief set as per National Disaster Relief Fund criteria,” he said.
Farmers in the state will get Rs 12,000 annually since the state government will pay Rs 6,000 over and above the Rs 6,000 paid by the Union government under the PM Kissan Samman Nidhi Yojana, Sattar said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 28, 2023
‘What I saw was terrifying’: Britons land in Cyprus after Sudan escape

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Terrifying, crazy, desperate, relieved. These were the words that instantly came to mind as British citizens caught in the crosshairs of the conflict engulfing Sudan described their elation at being brought to safety during a fragile 72-hour truce.
In Cyprus, on the first leg of their journey back home, the evacuees spoke of anger but also hope as they related the turmoil many had unwittingly been plunged into when war erupted in the country.
“What I saw there was crazy, terrifying,” said Sami Elhaj as he prepared to board a Stansted-bound charter plane at Larnaca airport with hundreds of other evacuees. “You never expect this sort of thing to happen to you.”
Raised in Birmingham, where he works in the car manufacturing industry, the 26-year-old got caught up in Sudan’s sudden descent into violence while visiting relatives. “I had gone to support my family after my father died,” he said. “We’re all just so happy and relieved but we know there are others there who want to be where we are, who want to be here.”
The ceasefire has enabled RAF crews in Cyprus, where the UK retains two military bases, to run rescue flights out of an airfield north of Khartoum.
By late Thursday, nine such airlifts were on course to have been conducted. By early on Thursday, the third and last day of a 72-hour truce that warring generals eventually decided to extend, well-placed sources said 760 people had reached the eastern Mediterranean island. In addition to British passport holders and their dependants, dozens of American citizens and close to 70 Australians had been allowed to board the military transport planes, according to diplomats. For all, the journeys have signified freedom but also life guaranteed after weeks in a war zone that has become increasingly brutal.
For Khadija Mohamed, a nursery school teacher who had flown to Khartoum on 7 April, before tensions between Sudan’s armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) spiralled into savagery, the last few weeks had given her a glimpse of living hell. By the time she touched down in Cyprus – the EU’s most easterly member state and a regional hub for the evacuation of non-combatants – on a C-130 Hercules, she had witnessed gun blasts and shootings, seen dead bodies strewn in the streets “if you can imagine that” and smelt the acrid stench of burnt-out, and burning, cars: a tableau of devastation she had never thought possible when she flew out to visit family.
Nursery school teacher Khadija Mohamed and her niece Rodina. Photograph: Helena Smith/The Guardian
“It was terrible,” said the soft-spoken 53-year-old as she stood in line with other relatives at a check-in counter in Larnaca. “We really appreciate what the British people have done for us.”

Mohamed, who has lived in Bristol since 2003 and has dual citizenship, recounted the perils of reaching the Wadi Seidna airbase without an escort.
“I was, we all were, very frightened,” she said putting a reassuring arm around her niece. “There were a lot of checkpoints manned by the Sudanese army along the way. Each time you had to show your passport and it was really scary. Your stomach was in your mouth.”
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The Foreign Office estimates that around 4,000 British passport holders are eligible for evacuation. Those who make it to Cyprus then board special charter flights, also commissioned by the UK government, to fly to Stansted airport.
But while feelings of gratitude and relief prevail there is also fury at the disorganisation that has plagued the operation. Mona Zanon, who has mobility issues, related the trauma of being forced to get to the RAF airbase without any aid. “I had emailed the [UK] authorities there to come and get me,” said the visibly exhausted 65-year-old clutching her British passport. “I got absolutely no answer. It made me quite angry.”
Mona Zanon, who lives in Manchester, at Larnaca airport in Cyprus with her British passport after being evacuated by the RAF from Sudan. Photograph: Helena Smith/The Guardian
Ultimately Zanon, who has lived in Manchester for decades, said her brother had driven her to the airfield. “It was very dangerous,” she said. “Very, very dangerous.”
For others the fear of uncertainty lurked even when they reached the airfield. “I left everything behind, my jewellery, my clothes, everything,” said Hadija, a mother of three who has lived in London for the past 30 years.
“There was no plane [for us] and for two days me and my son and daughter-in-law had to sleep on the ground. There was very little to eat and it was very hard, but I am, we all are, very happy now.”
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

April 27, 2023
HC Bans Proprietary Land Swap For Encroached Kahcharai Land In JK

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SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Tuesday prohibited the exchange of proprietary land for encroached kahcharai land. “The exchange of proprietary land for encroached kahcharai land is not permissible now and the Deputy Commissioner concerned has no power to accept any such offer,” said the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday.
Justice Sanjay Dhar ruled in a plea seeking to exchange proprietary land for khacharai land that “the claim of the petitioner for grant of sanction to exchange proprietary land in lieu of kahcharai land is no longer permissible under law” due to changes in Section 133(2) of the Land Revenue Act.
The court noted that the petitioner had not provided any legal basis or statutory framework for the exchange and could not seek a Writ of Mandamus against the respondents.
“Even if there is any such policy for protecting the rights of small landholders who are in possession of kahcharai land, it shall be open to the respondents to deal with the case of the petitioner in accordance with such policy,” the bench added.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 26, 2023
School Edu Deptt seeks list of Pvt schools functioning on Govt land for implementation of RTE to EWS students

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Srinagar, Apr 25: The School Education Department Tuesday sought list of all private schools functioning from government land and ordered its management to compulsorily admit 25 percent of students from weaker section from their catchment areas.
According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), in a communique to Chief Education Officers (CEOs) of the region has asked to implement the free and compulsory education to children from weaker and disadvantaged sections by private unaided schools under section 12 (1) C of RTE Act 2009.
DSEK said that RTE, Act Section 12 (1) C envisages that all private unaided schools have the responsibility to dispense and provide free education to children from weaker and disadvantaged sections and admit at least one-fourth that is 25 percent of the total strength of class-I or pre-school education.
It further said, “All those private schools which are functioning on state land shall compulsorily admit the 25 percent of students from weaker section of their catchment area by properly publicizing the admission.”
The director of the region in this regard has requested all the CEOs to immediately furnish the list of all Private Schools functioning on the state land immediately.
Pertinently, the section 12 (1) (c) of the RTE Act, 2009 fixes the responsibility of private unaided schools to provide free and compulsory education to children from weaker and disadvantaged sections by admitting at least one- fourth of the total strength of class I or pre-school education—(KNO)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

April 25, 2023
U.S. facilitating land evacuation of private citizens in Sudan

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Sullivan’s comments came as foreign governments have airlifted hundreds of their diplomats and other citizens to safety as the country has spiraled into chaos amid fierce fighting between Sudan’s two rival generals vying for control of the country.
In dramatic evacuation operations, convoys of foreign diplomats, civilian teachers, students, workers and families from dozens of countries wound past combatants at tense front lines in the capital of Khartoum to reach extraction points. Others drove hundreds of miles to the country’s east coast. A stream of European, Mideast, African and Asian military aircraft flew in all day Sunday and Monday to ferry them out.
U.S. special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour. No shots were fired and no major casualties were reported.
Sullivan reiterated that the administration continues to look at “every conceivable option” to help Americans get out of Sudan but is not considering peacekeeping troops.
“It is not standard practice for the United States to send in the U.S. military” into warzones to extract American citizens, Sullivan said “We didn’t do it in Libya. We didn’t do it in Syria. We didn’t do it in Yemen, and no we didn’t do it in Ukraine. Afghanistan was a unique case involving the end of the 20-year war that the United States was centrally involved in.”
An estimated 16,000 private U.S. citizens are registered with the embassy as being in Sudan. The figure is rough because not all Americans register with embassy or say when they depart.
Sullivan said the U.S. “will go to great lengths to support and facilitate” the departure of Americans but also noted that the State Department has been cautioning Americans in Sudan to leave the country for years.
He added, “Americans are free people. We cannot dictate where they travel, tell them they must go or not go to a particular place.”

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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 25, 2023
Jharkhand IAS officer grilled by ED for 10 hours in land deals case

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Ranchi: IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan, who appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Ranchi, was grilled for about 10 hours on Monday in connection with its investigation into alleged illegal land deals, an official said.
Ranjan, a 2011-batch officer of the Jharkhand cadre, reached the ED office around 10.30 am and left at 8.30 pm, he said.
He was briefly questioned by the agency on April 13 as well, when searches were carried out in the case at his premises and those of some others in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.

The ED arrested a total of seven people, including a Jharkhand government officer, after the raids.
An assistant registrar of assurances of West Bengal government based in Kolkata has also been asked to depose on May 2, ED sources had said.
The action was taken under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), and the agency is looking at more than a dozen land deals, including one pertaining to defence land, wherein a group, including land mafia, middlemen and bureaucrats, allegedly “connived” in forging deeds and documents from as early as 1932.
Lands of the poor and the downtrodden were “usurped” as part of this fraud, the sources had said.
To launch its investigation under the PMLA, the federal agency took cognisance of a police FIR of forgery of some personal identification documents registered by the civic authorities concerned.

The agency, according to ED sources, has recovered a number of fake seals, land deeds and registry documents during the searches.
This is the second case in which a Jharkhand-cadre IAS officer has come under the scanner of the ED. Last year, it had arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal in a money laundering case.
Meanwhile, Uday Shankar Singh, the personal private secretary of Abhishek Prasad Pintu, who is the media advisor to Chief Minister Hemant Soren, was also brought for questioning at the ED office on Monday evening.
A printer and some other documents, which were recovered from his home during a search operation on Monday, have been brought to the agency’s office, the sources added.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 24, 2023
24 Persons Fined Rs 25,000 For Encroaching On Evicted Govt Land

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SRINAGAR: Acting tough against encroachment, Tehsildar Wagoora in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district passed eviction orders and imposed a fine of Rs 25, 000 each on twenty-four identified persons (encroachers) who had again encroached upon the evicted state land within the tehsil.
Tehsildar Wagoora, Mubashir Amin (JKAS) said that the move was taken to send a stern message to the encroachers over grabbing the government land.
“During the anti-encroachment drives carried out time and again, at least 170 kanals of state/kahcharai land was retrieved from the encroachers at Kachwa Maqam area of the tehsil and was later handed over to the Rural Development Department for undertaking various kinds of development including developing playgrounds for the youth. However, the miscreants later again encroached upon the evicted land, forcing us to take this harsh step,” he said.
So far, 24 people have been identified, who have grabbed the state land again and are creating hurdles in the developmental activities undertaken by the government, Amin said, adding that the identified encroachers were also called in his chamber and cautioned against encroaching the land again, but despite warnings, they didn’t desist.
Meanwhile, warning the encroachers to desist from violating the government directives in the future and asking them to remove the encroachments immediately, the Tehsildar said they have decided to impose a fine of Rs 25,000 each on the 24 identified persons.
The government earlier took the step to retrieve the state land, including Roshni and Kahcharai land and had instructed all Deputy Commissioners to ensure that all encroachments are removed to the extent of 100 percent by January 31, 2023. (KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 19, 2023
ED summons Jharkhand IAS officer for questioning in forged land sale case

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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Jharkhand IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan for questioning later this week in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to alleged illegal land sale, official sources said Monday.
The 2011-batch officer has been asked to depose on April 21 at the federal agency’s office in state capital Ranchi. He was questioned briefly by the agency last week when searches were carried out in this case at his premises and those of some others in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
An assistant registrar of assurances of West Bengal government based in Kolkata has also been asked to depose on May 2, the sources said.

The agency had arrested a total of seven people, including a Jharkhand government officer, after these raids. The searches in this case were launched on April 14.
The action was taken under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the agency is looking at more than a dozen land deals, including one pertaining to defence land, wherein a group including land mafia, middlemen and bureaucrats allegedly “connived” in forging land deeds and documents from as early as 1932.
Lands of the poor and the downtrodden were “usurped” as part of this fraud, ED sources had said. To launch its investigation under the PMLA, the federal agency took cognisance of a police FIR of forgery of some personal identification documents registered by the civic authorities concerned.
The agency, according to the sources, has recovered a number of fake seals, land deeds and registry documents during the searches.
This is the second case in which a Jharkhand-cadre IAS officer has come under the scanner of the ED. Last year, the ED had raided and arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal in a money laundering case.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 17, 2023
Man Sentenced To Death For Killing Mother Over Land Dispute

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SRINAGAR: A local court in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur has awarded a death sentence to a man who brutally killed his mother for two kanals of land, and termed the crime as the gravest case of breach of trust.
As per case details), Principal Sessions Judge Udhampur Haq Nawaz Zargar awarded the death sentence to Jeet Singh, son of Krishan Singh, caste Thakur, resident of Rassain Tehsil Ramnagar, for killing his mother Vaishno Devi, in 2014.
The court observed that the convict was in full senses when he killed his mother with an axe for two kanals of land. “It was the gravest case of breach of trust where crime has been committed in a most brutal manner by the convict and the deceased was none other than the one who had given birth to the convict,” the judge said.
It is clear that the instant crime has been committed for the reason that the convict was demanding two kanals of land from the deceased besides asking her to reside with the other son Mulakh Raj, the court said, adding, “These crimes besides being antisocial shake the very conscience of society where the relation of mothers are taken on the highest pedestal on the moral as well as religious grounds,” the court observed.
The court observed, “Killing one’s own mother is the most sacrilegious act and it definitely hits the very existence of humanity where the mothers are being recognized none less than God for having been blessed with the capacity to conceive and to give birth to the young ones, symbolizing the power of God of creating this universe and furthermore, plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of her kids, who, being the first teacher of the child.”
It is to be noted here that the convict had also attempted to kill his wife when she intervened and tried to save the deceased from the brutal attacks of the convict.
The court further observed that in the instant case, the convict Jeet Singh has been convicted under section 302, 307 RPC and 4/25 Arms Act. “This court hardly finds any mitigating circumstance in favour of the convict. In view of the discussion made herein above and on the facts and circumstances of the case, the convict namely Jeet Singh has been awarded rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and a fine of Rs. 3000 for the commission of offence under section 307 RPC.”
“The convict (shall be) sentenced to death for the commission of offence under section 302 RPC and he shall be hanged by the neck till he is dead and for the commission of offence under section 4/25 Arms Act, the convict is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of 03 years and fine of Rs 2000),” the judgment reads. “In case of failure to pay the fine, he shall further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month. All the sentences shall run concurrently.”

As per the prosecution story, on December 7, 2014, at about 5:30, information was received at the Police Station from reliable sources that accused Jeet Singh murdered his mother Vaishno Devi at his house and when his wife Santosh Devi tried to rescue her, the accused also made a murderous assault upon her due to which she got seriously injured.
On the said information, police station Ramnagar registered a case vide FIR No.125/2014 for the commission of offences under sections 302/307 RPC and the investigation was ensued by SHO Deepak Pathania .(KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 16, 2023