Mangaluru, May.8: St Aloysius college management has issued notice to Mangaluru city corporation and Vijaya Bank workers' organisation over road controversy. 

In 2017 Corporation had decided to rename St Aloysius road from Catholic club at Hampankatta to Dr B R Ambedkar circle (Jyothi circle) after founder of Vijay bank Mulky Sundararama Shetty road. 

In its statement St Aloysious management has stated that the said road naming issue is pending  before the High Court of Karnataka. The Writ petition filed by the Vijaya Bank Workers’ Organization had been dismissed by the High Court of Karnataka. Later, when a Writ appeal was filed, the High Court of Karnataka, while admitting the appeal, has Ordered that during the pendency of Writ appeal, status-quo as regards the name of the road as on May, 24, 2017 shall continue. Interpreting this as the final Order of the Court is highly misleading and motivated. No organization can erect any name board, organize any inauguration function, etc  during the pendency of the appeal. 

St Aloysius College has filed an appeal to accept it as an impleader in the case. It has also said that Mangalore City Corporation cannot grant permission for any such move. 

The management also condemened the behaviour of some politicians for making irresponsible statements even when the matter is being sub-judice.

It has said that when the issue is pending for hearing in the High Court, any political statement or any provocative statement with an eye on election amounts to contempt of Court. St Aloysius management will bring all such public statements to the attention of the High Court for necessary action.

 

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ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.

“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.

The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.

Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.

There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.