Cheating allegation against MEP founder Nowhera Shaik
Bengaluru, June 22: Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Swabhimani Pade president Krishnappa alleged that Mahila Empowerment Party (EMP) founder Nowhera Shaik cheated the candidates contested in the Assembly elections.
Speaking to reporters at the Press Club here on Friday, he said that Nowhera Shaik cheated the people of the state in the name of MEP. She has got cheques, bonds and money from the people of the state and absconding. Many people have contested the election believing her words and lost their money. So, she should be arrested immediately, he demanded.
Heena Kousar who contested from Maddur constituency said that MEP leaders have convinced the people who made name and fame in the society to contest the election and asked them to spend their own money for the campaigning. They also promised to transfer the amount to their accounts, she said.
They demanded Rs 2-3 lakh from each candidate to give B form to contest the election, got blank cheques and bonds and promised of transferring Rs 28 lakh to the accounts of the candidates. Thus they made the people to believe and cheated, she said.
“Now, Nowhera Shaik is believed to be in Hyderabad or Dubai. But being the common people, how should we contact her? For the last 38 days, we have been protesting in front of the party office at Shivaji Nagar. But none has turned up and contacted us”, he said.
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SC directs President's secretary to place before her Beant assassination convict's mercy plea
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday directed President Droupadi Murmu's secretary to place before her the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, for consideration.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan requested the President to consider the plea within two weeks.
"Inspite of the matter being specifically kept today none appeared for Union of India. The bench assembled only for this case," the bench said.
"On the last date the matter was adjourned to enable the Union to take instructions from the office of the President as to by when will mercy plea be decided. Taking into consideration that the petitioner is on a death row, we direct the secretary to the President of India to place the matter before the President with a request to consider the same within two weeks from today," the bench said.
The matter will now be heard on December 5.
On September 25, the top court had sought responses from the Centre, the Punjab government and the administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh on Rajoana's plea.
The then Punjab chief minister and 16 others were killed in a blast at the entrance of the civil secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995.
A special court sentenced Rajoana to death in July 2007.
Rajoana has said that a mercy petition under Article 72 of the Constitution was moved by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on his behalf in March 2012.
On May 3 last year, the apex court had refused to commute his death sentence and said the competent authority could deal with his mercy plea.
