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  • Hyderabad: ‘Manhandled’, YS Sharmila ‘slaps’ woman constable; detained

    Hyderabad: ‘Manhandled’, YS Sharmila ‘slaps’ woman constable; detained

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    Hyderabad: YSR Telangana Party chief YS Sharmila was prevented from leaving her house, by the city police on Monday, to submit a representation to the Special Investigation Team officials investigating the TSPSC paper leak.

    As she attempted to leave her home, police officials restricted her. However, Sharmila charged towards her vehicle but was prevented from entering it.

    Tension erupted at Lotus Pond as she sat on the road in front of her house.

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    Sharmila picked up a heated argument with the cops as she was allegedly being ‘manhandled’ and ‘restricted’ by women constables.

    Enraged, Sharmila was seen manhandling a policeman and pushing him after he stopped her from entering her car. She also allegedly ‘slaps’ a lady constable as she tries to grab her hand.

    She was then taken away by the police in their vehicle.

    Sahrmila’s hunger strike was scheduled on April 17 under the umbrella of ‘Telangana Students’ Action for Vacancies and Employment’ (T-SAVE), a platform mooted by YSRTP President Y.S. Sharmila but the police had denied permission for the same.

    Earlier, Sharmila had filed a petition in the High Court, seeking direction from the police to allow her protest against unemployment.

    The High Court, however, directed that not more than 500 people should participate in the hunger strike.

    After the police denied the permission, the YSRTP lashed out at chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for it calls his atrocious reign and dictatorial treatment of those who raised voices against his failures and fake promises.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Calcutta HC slaps penalty on headmistress for delaying transfer process

    Calcutta HC slaps penalty on headmistress for delaying transfer process

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    Kolkata: A single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday reprimanded the headmistress of a leading girls’ school in West Bengal on charges of contempt of court.

    A penalty of Rs 10,000 has been imposed on Nirupama Hazra, the headmistress of Harkirtinagar Balika Vidyalaya in East Burdwan district, on charges of contempt of court for not abiding by an earlier court order for initiating the process of transfer of a teacher of the same school on medical grounds.

    Pronouncing the order, the single judge bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed that either the headmistress concerned will have to pay the penalty within seven days, or the same amount will be deducted from her salary for the next month.

    Justice Mantha also gave clear instruction to the District Inspector of Schools on this count.

    The matter is related to a transfer petition filed by Hamida Khatun, who had been teaching in the school for the last five year. She is a resident of Gokarna in South 24 Parganas district.

    Last year, she had applied for transfer on medical grounds to any school in her home district near to her residence.

    “Failing to evoke any response, she made an appeal to the Calcutta High Court to grant her transfer plea. The court in August last year, after examining the relevant documents, had directed the school authorities to initiate the process of her transfer within six weeks. However, nothing was done in this regard since then, prompting Khatun to again approach the court with the contempt of court petition,” Khatun’s counsel Firdaus Shamim told mediapersons on Friday.

    Justice Mantha had issued a summon to the headmistress to be present at his court on Friday. As she appeared before the bench, Justice Mantha sought explanations from her about the delay in initiating the transfer process even after a clear order from the court.

    However, the headmistress was unable to give any satisfactory reply.

    Meanwhile, the District Inspector of Schools informed the court that his office received the necessary documents from the headmistress to initiate the transfer process just a few days back.

    Observing that the delay on the part of the headmistress in initiating the transfer process was a clear case of contempt of court, Justice Mantha imposed the penalty of Rs 10,000 on her.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Indian-American judge slaps $1 mn fine on Facebook

    Indian-American judge slaps $1 mn fine on Facebook

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    New York: Indian-American judge Vince Chhabria has slapped a fine of almost $1 million on Meta, Facebook’s parent company, and its law firm for creating obstacles for court and users in a data breach trial.

    According to a Bloomberg report, District Judge Chhabria wrote in an order that the fine is “loose change” for Facebook and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP for deceitfully denying that it shared users’ private information with third parties.

    The San Francisco judge said that Facebook relied on “delay, misdirection, and frivolous arguments” to make the litigation unfairly difficult and expensive. “Perhaps realising they had no real argument for withholding these documents, Facebook and Gibson Dunn contorted various statements” of opposing lawyers and the court acebeyond recognition,” Chhabria wrote, according to Bloomberg.

    “And again, after being told repeatedly that these arguments made no sense, Facebook and Gibson Dunn insisted on pressing them,” he said.

    The judge added that Facebook also attempted to push the users, who had filed a complaint against it, into settling for a lesser compensation.

    The lawsuit was filed in a California court on behalf of Facebook users impacted by Meta’s partnership with research firm Cambridge Analytica.

    The $925,078.51 penalty comes after Meta had agreed a $725 million settlement in December 2022 to resolve a class-action lawsuit, which claimed that Facebook illegally shared user data with Cambridge Analytica.

    In March 2018, whistleblower Christopher Wylie publicly revealed that Cambridge Analytica exfiltrated personal data of 87 million Facebook users in the US in order to influence the results of the 2016 US presidential election.

    This data trove included Facebook users’ ages, interests, pages they liked, groups they followed, physical locations, political and religious affiliations, relationships, and photos, as well as their full names, phone numbers, and email addresses.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )