THE GOOD WORD
May 17, 2021 - Week 22
Volume 7S-I | Pages 1
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Setback for MVA as High Court asks CBI to
probe Waze appointment, Police transfers
In a late night
hearing on
Wednesday, the
Bombay High Court
allowed CBI to widen
the probe against the
former state home
minister Anil
Deshmukh and
investigate why the
former Assistant
Police Inspector
Sachin Waze was
reinstated in Police
service and also the
allegations of
corruption charges in
Police transfers made
by IPS officer Rashmi
Shukla.
Earlier, on April 5,
the HC had directed
CBI to conduct a
preliminary enquiry
into former
Commissioner
Parambir Singh’s
corruption charges
against Anil
Deshmukh. . It was
hearing a petition
filed by lawyer Jayshri
Patil. Once the
preliminary inquiry
was complete, the
CBI was at discretion
to determine further
course of action, the
bench headed by
Chief Justice Dipankar
Datta had said.
Bombay High Court
May 20,2021 Mumbai
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Following that Anil
Deshmukh had
tendered his
resignation.
The state
government had
pleaded the probe
was being widened to
“destabilize” it.
More at Anju Pankaj,
OpIndia.
Calcutta HC sends TMC leaders to
Judicial Custody in Narada Scam
Tuesday, the Calcutta
High Court took
serious exception to
the chief minister
Mamata Banerjee’s
staging a sit-in
outside the 15th floor
CBI office for 6 hours
where the Bureau’s
officers were
preparing a charge
sheet against 4
arrested TMC leaders
to present in court.
Agitated CBI workers
besieged the Nizam
Palace, which houses
the CBI office, and
pelted stones.
On the day before,
the CBI had arrested
transport and
housing minister
Firhad Hakim,
panchayat minister
Subrata Mukherjee;
MLA and former
minister Madan Mitra
and former Kolkata
mayor Sovan
Chatterjee in the
May 18, 2021 Kolkata
Narada scam sting
case.
The division bench
comprising chief
justice (acting) Rajesh
Bindal and justice
Arijit Bhattacharya
also took exception
to the state law
minister agitating at
the CBI court with
over two thousand
supporters, where
the accused were to
be presented. CBI
produced the four
virtually before the
court and the court
granted the accused
interim bail.
The CBI then
approached the High
Court citing
intimidation from
TMC. The High Court
overturned the CBI
court decision and
sent the 4 leaders to
judicial custody
until further orders.
The CBI has
requested that the
case be transferred
outside West Bengal
to Bhubaneswar
citing a security
threat to its officers.
The CBI has also
added the names of
the Chief Minister
and two of her
loyalists, MP Kalyan
Banerjee and state
law minister Maloy
Ghatak, to the FIR
alleging that they
might threaten the
witnesses and the
system.
Ahead of 2016 Bengal
state elections,
Narada News founder
Mathew had
conducted a sting
operation for over 2
years showing 13
TMC leaders
accepting bribes.
More at Sushant
Sinha, OpIndia
The Centre has
objected to Twitter’s
addition of a
‘manipulated media’
tag on certain tweets
made by BJP leaders
about a toolkit
document that BJP
alleges is an internal
strategy document of
the Congress.
The treacherous
toolkit outlines
directives to demean
the nation, invite
international
condemnation and
show prime minister
Modi in bad light.
Congress has
countered the charge
stating that the
Congress letterhead
on which it is printed
is forged and has filed
an FIR against BJP
leaders for attributing
it to the Congress.
The Ministry of
Electronics and
Information
Technology has
condemned Twitter
for jumping to a
May 20,2021 Mumbai
Central Government acts against Twitter
conclusion on the
veracity of the toolkit
while an Indian law
enforcement agency
was still to establish
its authenticity.
Twitter’s action to tag
the tweet
‘manipulated media’
comes at the behest
of the Congress party
and the alacrity with
which Twitter has
acted has fueled
speculation that this
may be a part of a
‘regime change’
strategy that some
suspect the US of.
The government also
questioned Twitter’s
credibility as an
unbiased platform for
an exchange of views
asking if it was an
information
“Intermediary”
instead.
Twitter has since then
hardened its stance
and marked
additional tweets as
‘manipulated’.
More at Swarajya
Marg, OpIndia
Friday, 13 Naxals
were neutralised in
an encounter with
the Maharashtra
state police C-60
commandos in
Gadchiroli district. A
faceoff occurred early
morning in the dense
forest of Kotmi in
Etapalli where the
Naxals had gathered
for a meeting said
Sandeep Patil, deputy
inspector general.
Based on a tip off the
commandos were
conducting a search
operation when they
were spotted by the
ultras who opened
fire. The commandos
retaliated eliminating
13 ultras before the
remaining fled into
the forest. A search
operation is
underway.
More at Zee News
May 21,2021 Delhi
13 Naxals
neutralized in
Gadchiroli
encounter
SC to hear plea on exodus of people due to
post-poll violence in West Bengal
A bench of justices
Vineet Saran and B R
Gavai of the supreme
court has agreed to
hear a petition filed
by social worker Arun
Mukherjee and
others, to direct the
Centre to prevent an
alleged exodus of
over 1 lac people due
to state sponsored
violence in West
Bengal after the
announcement of the
Assembly election
results on May 2, and
restore the rule of
law, if need be by
exercising article 355.
More Deccan Herald
May 21,2021 Gadchiroli
The European
Parilament voted
overwhelmingly, with
599 out of 697
members, in favour
of halting the
ratification of a new
investment pact with
China until the latter
lifts sanctions
imposed on EU
politicians. This
signals the deepening
of a dispute in Sino-
European relations.
Beijing had imposed
sanctions in March in
response to Western
sanctions against
Chinese officials
accused of mass
detentions of Muslim
Uyghurs in China.
China denies any
wrongdoing and has
said the freeze would
impact both sides
aversely.
More at Reuters
EU Freezes
China Deal
May 20,2021 Brussels
Friday, a two judge
bench granted
Krishnam Raju, sitting
MP YSR Congress, bail
citing the fact that
the petitioner could
have been ill-treated
in custody and
consideration for his
health as he had
undergone a heart
surgery last year.
Raju was arrested by
the Andra Pradesh
police on May 14 on a
sedition charge. He
had accused the
Jagan government of
not tackling Covid in
earnest questioning
why the government
did not impose a full
lockdown like
neighbouring states.
He also accused Jagan
of trying to make
people alchohol
addicts and intending
to vaccinate only
Christians and Reddys
against Covid.
More at OpIndia
Krishnam
Raju Granted
Bail
May 21,2021 Delhi
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