Advocate found dead
New Delhi: Lawyers of all the six district courts in Delhi on Friday abstained from work protesting security lapses which, they claimed, led to death of a 38-year-old advocate in the Tis Hazari court complex. Coordination committees of all district bar associations decided to observe a day-long strike and demanded proper security in and around court complexes. Advocate Sanjeev Nasiar, President of Tis Hazari court bar association, said lawyers met the district judge and demanded that more CCTV cameras should be installed in court complexes and they should function properly. He said there was no CCTV camera in the area where the body of advocate Rajeev Sharma was found. “The lawyers have taken the decision to meet high court judges on the security issue. A young advocate’s body has been found in the court complex and he has been murdered. This is a serious issue. We are yet to know what he was doing here late night. All the lawyers have decided to abstain from work today. “Lawyers in all the six district courts in Delhi will not work today,” Nasiar said. The advocates said that police should also speed up the investigation. Sharma, a resident of Rohini in northwest Delhi, was found dead outside an eatery in the Tis Hazari court complex in the morning and police have arrested two men who worked at the eatery in this connection. (PTI)
Goa govt to shift 120 patients
Panaji: The Goa government has decided to shift 120 patients, who have recovered, from state-run Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour in order to pave way for new admissions. CM Laxmikant Parsekar on Friday said patients, who have recovered and have not been taken by family members or caretakers for a long time, will be shifted to a state-run asylum and that the step has been taken in view of facilitating rising number of patients at the institute. “There were frequent complaints about scarcity of beds in IPHB. We have also realised that there are several patients who have recovered but their family members have not taken them back,” Parsekar told reporters today. He said doctors have identified 120 such patients who have been living here even five years after their recovery. The state cabinet in a meeting on Friday decided to shift these patients to an asylum in Merces village near here. “In the first phase, we are shifting 40 patients. And then will shift the rest,” he said. Parsekar said state authorities have been trying to track the residential address of the patients, but in several cases it is difficult to get it. Though there was no breakup available with the government, the CM said many of these patients are from neighbouring states. (PTI)
Arms Act Case: Court summons Salman Khan
Jodhpur: Bollywood actor Salman Khan has been directed to appear in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate here on April 23 for recording of his statements in the Arms Act case in connection with the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident. Chief Judicial Magistrate Anupama Bijlani asked his counsel to ensure Khan’s presence in the court after the examination of four witnesses, associated with the FSL examination of the arms in question, was completed today. “The examination of the four prosecution witnesses, which had started on April 13 was completed today and now Khan will have to appear in the court on April 23 for recording of his statements,” Khan’s counsel H M Saraswat said. These four witnesses had been allowed to be called by the court on March 3, after it came up in the court that some pending applications moved by the then public prosecutor way back in 2006 were undecided. The court, which was on the verge of pronouncing the judgment in the case, then refused to proceed in the case and on plea of the prosecution, had allowed to summon and examine these witnesses. PTI