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NHRC DG(I) to investigate Custodial Death in Odisha Jail

April 14, 2012 — IMC

Bhubaneswar: National Human Rights Commission has taken serious note of an under-trail prisoner death in Alipingal jail of Jagatsinghpur District. The Commission Order it’s Director General (Invetstigation) to inquiry into the matter and submit its report within eight weeks.

One Aravind Mallick, an under-trail prisoner was suspiciously dead in Alipingal Sub Jail under Jagatsingpur District on March 02. He is in Alipingal Jail from 9^th December, 2011 and found dead on March 02, 2012 in Jail. According to Jail official his body was found in the Latrine room of the Jail. He was brought dead to the District Headquarter Hospital in Jagatsingpur with Hand cupped. Managing Trustee of Pipili based Organization ‘India Media Centre’ and Human rights activist Mr. Akhand filed a petition in the case alleging that due to torture or negligence on part of jail officials or gang war among prisoners, Arvind is dead. This death case was reported to NHRC by Collector and District Magistrate of Jagatsinghpur. So the commission clubbed the petition of Akhand with first file and pass a order to DG(I) to investigate the matter by collecting the facts and requisite reports and submit the final report within eight weeks. One Siba Sankar Patro of Ganjam also filed third petition in this case. All the three cases are clubbed together and commission is waiting for the report from DG(I).

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Beant Singh assassin to be hanged on 31st March

March 27, 2012 — IMC

A Chandigarh sessions court today ordered that Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted for assassinating former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, be hanged on the 31st of this month in Patiala central jail. The Court returned the death warrant of Rajoana to the superintendent of Patiala jail for execution on 31st March.
Earlier, Patiala Jail Superintendent had returned these warrants twice to the Court, saying that it was not possible for him to execute the orders to hang Rajoana. The Jail Superintendent had filed a petition in this regard on which the Court had reserved its judgment on Monday.

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Baby Falak dies at AIIMS

March 16, 2012 — IMC

Two-year-old battered baby Falak, whose harrowing ordeal shocked the country, died at AIIMS last night following a cardiac arrest after fighting a grim 58-day battle for life.

The abandoned child, who was admitted to the AIIMS on 18^th January with severe head injuries, broken arms, bite marks all over her body and cheeks branded with hot iron, breathed her last at 9.40 PM, doctors said.

“It was unexpected. She was fit to be discharged. All of a sudden, she had a cardiac arrest at nine and we tried to revive her. But then she gave up at around 9.40 PM,” said Deepak Agrawal, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the AIIMS Trauma Centre who has been attending on her from the day she was admitted there.

During her treatment earlier, she had contracted meningitis and underwent five surgeries and had also suffered two heart attacks.

“But she had survived all this and had recovered well,” Agrawal said. “She was doing well. We removed her from the ICU and shifted her to the ward after we found that she had recovered well.

The whole day she used to spend time playing with the nurses at the hospital.

“All of a sudden she had a cardiac arrest. Since she is a medico-legal case, we will conduct a post-mortem tomorrow,” Agrawal said.

The child was brought to the hospital by a teenaged girl, who had falsely claimed to be her mother.

Investigations revealed the shocking story of Falak, her two siblings and their mother who were all separated after falling victim to human traffickers.

Falak’s mother Munni was tricked into a second marriage by three women out of whom two — Laxmi and Kanta Choudhry — were arrested.

The trio had promised that her three children will be taken care of but they were left to different people.

Ten people were arrested in the case, including the man who had abandoned the child with his teenaged girlfriend.

Police traced Falak’s five-year-old brother from the house of a vendor in West Delhi’s Uttam Nagar locality while her sister Sanobar was traced by Delhi Police to Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

On 15^th Februray, Falak was reunited with her 22-year-old mother Munni, who was married to a man in Rajasthan.

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Mayawati sacks four Ministers facing corruption charges

December 26, 2011 — IMC

Mayawati sacks four Ministers facing corruption charges

In Uttar Pradesh, the Chief Minister Mayawati has sacked four Ministers from her cabinet. Three of them were already denied renomination by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party for the next assembly elections.

Higher Education Minister Rakesh Dhar Tripathi, Agriculture, Education and Research Minister Rajpal Tyagi, Minister of State for Backward Welfare Awadesh Kumar Verma and Minister of State for Home Guards Hari Om Upadhyay have been removed from the state cabinet by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister.

All sacked four Ministers are facing several charges of corruption, land grabbing and involvement in criminal activities. Complaints against them are also pending at the Lokayukta.

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PIL seeks CBI probe into coal scam

July 17, 2010 — IMC

By Akhand in Bhubaneswar

While the multi-crore coal scam issue has rocked the State Assembly for the last two days, a lawyer of the Odisha High Court on Thursday filed a Public Interest Litigation in the court seeking a direction for a CBI probe into it.

Advocate Nisikanta Mishra filed the PIL implicating at least seven persons as opposite parties, including the director of state bigilance which is investigating into the case.

The Vigilance sleuths have earlier unearthed the scam registering at least 10 criminal cases, including one against IAS officer Srikant Prusty.

Two officials of the Odisha Small Industries Corporation (OSIC) have also been arrested in this scam.

Urban development minister Badri Narayan Patra and school and mass education minister Pratap Jena, who were on different occasions chairman the OSIC, are alleged to have perpetrated the corruption as the irregularities were detected when they were the head of the corporation.

Mishra, in his petition, has contended that while the economy of the state is in very poor state, a handful of politicians in connivance with bureaucrats and businessmen are looting the mineral resources of the State.

For the interest of general public, this PIL is filed seeking indulgence of the High Court for unraveling the scam and expose the persons who have been benefited at the cost of state’s economy, the petition said, adding that in the interest of justice, the scam should be investigated by an independent agency such as CBI.

The PIL has not been admitted, and it is expected that the matter is likely to come up next week, the petitioner said.