8 children drown in separate incidents in Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal (PTI): Eight children drowned in separate incidents in Seoni, Bhind and Umaria districts of Madhya Pradesh in the last 24 hours, police said on Monday.
In Seoni, four boys, in the age group of 5 to 10 years, drowned on Sunday evening when they went to take bath in a pond near their homes in Dhobisarra village, located 25 km from the district headquarters, Kurai police station in-charge Nandkishor Dhurve said.
When the children did not return home, their family members started searching for them, he said.
They found the children's clothes near the pond and the bodies floating in the water body at around 6.30 pm, the official said.
The bodies were handed over to the families after post-mortem, he said.
In Bhind, two cousin brothers, aged 11 and 14, drowned while taking bath in a pond in Kichol village on Sunday afternoon, Umri police station in-charge Ravindra Sharma said.
The villagers tried to save the boys and pulled them out of the water body. They rushed the boys to a nearby hospital where doctors declared them dead, he said.
In Umaria district, a 6-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister drowned in a rainwater-filled pit in Sehra village on Sunday afternoon, Kotwali police station in-charge Raghvendra Tiwari said.
The boy went to wash his hands in the pit located in an agricultural field and slipped into the water. When his sister saw him drowning, she entered the water pit to save him, but both of them drowned, the official said.
The police have registered cases of accidental death in connection with the incidents, as per the officials.
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Unemployed 'youngsters like cockroaches' become media, activists; attack system: CJI
New Delhi (PTI): Likening some unemployed youngsters to cockroaches, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday said they go on to "become" media, social media and RTI activists and start attacking the system.
The comments came while a bench of CJI Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was pulling up a lawyer for "pursuing" a senior advocate designation. It said there were already "parasites" in society who attack the system and asked the petitioner whether he wanted to join hands with them.
"The entire world may be eligible to become senior (advocate), but at least you are not entitled," the bench told the petitioner lawyer.
A visibly anguished CJI observed that if the Delhi High Court would confer senior advocate designation upon the petitioner, the apex court would set that aside seeing his professional conduct.
The CJI also referred to the kind of language used by the petitioner on Facebook.
"There are already parasites of society who attack the system and you want to join hands with them?" he said.
"There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment or have any place in profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists and they start attacking everyone," he said.
The bench also asked the petitioner whether he did not have any other litigation.
"Is this the conduct of a person who seeks to be designated as a senior advocate?" the bench asked.
It said senior advocate designation is something that is conferred on a person and is not to be pursued.
"You are pursuing it. Does it look proper?" the top court said, asking whether a senior advocate designation was a status symbol to be kept ornamentally.
It also observed that it wanted to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to verify the degrees of many of those who were wearing black robes as there were serious doubts over the genuineness of their degrees.
It said the Bar Council of India would never do anything on this issue as they "need their votes".
The petitioner apologised to the bench and sought permission to withdraw the petition. The bench allowed the withdrawal of the petition.
