It does not look natural: Speaker Ramesh Kumar on MLA Shrimant Patil's health
Assembly adjourned till 4.30 pm following ruckus on floor
Bengaluru: Karnataka Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar on Thursday afternoon called on Karnataka Home Minister MB Patil to contact MLA Shrimant Patil’s family immediately.
“Give me detailed report by tomorrow. It does not look natural. If the Home Minister cannot ensure protection I will speak to the Director General of Police in this regard” Ramesh Kumar said.
Reacting to Congress-JD(S) claim that MLA Srimant Patil was abducted by the BJP, Speaker Ramesh Kumar added “What kind of a Speaker would I be if I proceed with a document (letter sent by Patil informing about his ill health) which has no date or letterhead”.
The Speaker has adjourned the Assembly for half an hour after ruckus on the floor of the House. The Assembly will resume proceedings at 4.30 pm.
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Court can reject anticipatory bail but cannot direct accused to surrender: SC
New Delhi (PTI): A court can reject anticipatory bail of an accused but it has no jurisdiction to direct him to surrender before the trial court, the Supreme Court has said.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observation while hearing a plea filed by a man accused of cheating and forgery.
"If the court wants to reject the anticipatory bail, it may do so, but the court has no jurisdiction to say that the petitioner should now surrender," the bench said.
The Jharkhand High Court had rejected anticipatory bail plea of the accused and asked him to surrender and seek regular bail.
In this case, a complaint had been filed before a magistrate alleging offences under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document) and 120B read with 34 of the IPC, in connection with a land dispute.
The high court had dismissed the second anticipatory bail application of the accused on the ground that no new circumstances were shown.
It had relied on its earlier order rejecting his first anticipatory bail plea, in which the court directed the petitioner to surrender before the trial court and seek regular bail in terms of the decision in Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI.
The top court said such a direction was wholly without jurisdiction and said that if a court chooses to reject anticipatory bail, it may do so, but it cannot compel the accused to surrender.
