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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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11 CRPF personnel killed in naxal attack in Maharashtra

March 27, 2012 — IMC

Eleven Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF personnel were today killed and 29 others injured when a bus they were travelling in, was blown up in a landmine blast trigerred by Naxalites in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. CRPF officials told our correspondent in New Delhi,the troops were going to Gatta for duty from Pushtola around noon when the blast took place killing them on-the-spot. They said that a helicopter and a reinforcement team have been rushed to-the-spot. The officials said the exact number of security personnel travelling in the bus was not immediately known and the toll could go up. The troops belonging to the 192nd battalion of the force were deployed in the area.

CRPF Chief K Vijay Kumar, who is on a tour of Maharashtra, was in Gadchiroli area after he started from Nagpur this morning. He would be visiting the blast site.

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Custodial death: HC directs govt to pay Rs 5 lakh to victim’s kin

March 16, 2012 — IMC

Bhubaneswar: n a significant judgment, the Odisha High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to give Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the families of Lalit Dehury, who died in the Chamakhandi police custody last year.
The court also directed the government to deposit 75 per cent of total money as fixed deposit in a bank and the rest 25 per cent to be given as cash.
It may be noted that on February 28 last year, the officials of Chamakhandi police station of Ganjam district had allegedly arrested Lalit for keeping weapons illegally in his possession, but on the very next day, he was found dead inside the police station.
Protesting the police behaviour and alleging the hand of the police in the custodial death, the family members of Lalit had appealed in the High Court.
In a similar judgment on the death of UTP Rajkishore Parida of Injana village under Mancheswar police station here, who had allegedly died of negligence in jail on November 5, 2003, the High Court on directed the state government to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the kin of Parida.

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Din in House over drought package

March 16, 2012 — IMC

Bhubaneswar: The State Assembly on Wednesday witnessed uproar by the Opposition Congress members who accused the state government of keeping the house in dark on the drought package.
The issue was raised during the Question Hour when revenue and disaster management minister Surya Narayan Patra was replying to a question on the government’s preparedness to tackle the heat wave conditions during the summer.

Accusing the state government of keeping the House in dark, Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh of Congress said that the Special Relief Commission (SRC) office had issued a notice on drought package for the farmers on February 29.

The state government is not taking the House into confidence. They could have make the announcement in the assembly before SRC issuing the notice. We came to know about the package from the media on March 2, Singh said, adding that he and some other members had wanted to know about the package on the last day of the session’s first phase.

Later Congress MLAs went to the well of the house and shouted slogans by holding placards.

As the angry opposition members attempted to climb onto the Speaker’s podium, the House was adjourned for the first time till 11.50 am.

They had a tussle with the security staff who prevented the MLAs in rushing to the Speaker’s dais.

The scene was repeated when the house reassembled.

Patra’s attempt to pacify the Opposition by giving a reply failed to yield any result.

Deputy Speaker Sadan Marandi’s repeated appeal to the Opposition members to vacate the well of the house also could not bring normalcy in the House.

Protesting the government’s claim that it did not dishonour the House by issuing notification on drought package, Congress members staged a walkout.

In his statement, the minister said that the package had nothing new, but repetition of facts earlier announced by the government in December, 2011.

The government could not make announcement on the drought package due to model code of conduct for the panchayat polls, the minister said.

BJP legislature party leader K V Singhdeo and NCP leader Amar Prasad Satpathy asked the minister to place the copy of the state election commissioner’s order preventing the government to make any announcement on drought package in the House.

How can the SEC prevent the government to make announcement during natural calamities. As the House is supreme, the SEC cannot put any restriction on the government, particularly during natural calamities, Satpathy said.

The minister, on the other hand, said that he had a telephonic conversation with the SEC regarding the model code of conduct before replying questions on the drought package.

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EC makes strong pitch for financial autonomy

March 16, 2012 — IMC

The Election Commission on Thursday made a strong pitch for financial autonomy on the lines granted to constitutional bodies like the Supreme Court and the CAG, saying the dependence on the government could lead to conflict of interest.

“We want the budget of the Election Commission to be charged through the Consolidated Fund of India and not voted through Parliament,” Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi said while speaking at a discussion on electoral reforms organised by the Aspen Institute.

He said, “Any dependence on the government for anything…and they may ask for a price and that is where the conflict (can) start because we will not pay any price because we value our independence and will guard it to the last drop of our blood.”

Quraishi’s remarks came in the backdrop of verbal skirmishes between ministers and the Commission in the run up to the UP assembly elections.

“We are going after politicians all the time and they will be then sitting in judgement and torpedo our proposals. It’s a happy thing that they have not damaged us so far”.

“The Supreme Court gets it directly from consolidated fund, the CAG’s funds come from consolidated fund, that of UPSC comes from consolidated fund. I don’t know why the Election Commission was kept out of this,” Quraishi said.

Apart from the funding, the CEC also sought an independent secretariat for the Commission.

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