Take care about controlling air pollution: DCM Parameshwar
Bengaluru, November 22: Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar on Thursday honoured the Hasiru Dala Innovation team which bagged the prize in ‘Design Bengaluru Challenge’ for preparing the best project on waste management.
Presenting the prizes to the winners at a programme at a hotel here, the DCM said that a few years ago, Bengaluru had just 30 lakh population and now, it has crossed more than one crore. With the increase of population, problems were also multiplied. Issues like garbage disposal, traffic control, water supply, power supply and others have created more problems. He has discussed with the corporate companies to tackle them scientifically. Some people have prepared some good projects. If efforts were not made to find solutions to those problems, the impact would be more in coming days, he said.
As the air pollution level has reached beyond control in New Delhi, it has planned to ban the movement of private vehicles. If the government took such a decision in Bengaluru, the people would revolt against it. So, instead of reaching to the level of banning the vehicles, efforts should be taken to control the air pollution immediately. In view of this, it was planned to stop the registration of new vehicles for next two years and it was being reviewed, he said.
There were some good projects in Design Bengaluru Challenge. The winning team has prepared the best waste disposal project and steps would be taken to implement it, he said.
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Broken relationships don't automatically amount to abetment of suicide: SC
New Delhi (PTI): Broken relationships, while emotionally distressing, do not automatically amount to abetment of suicide in the absence of intention leading to the criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Friday said.
The observations came from a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ujjal Bhuyan in a judgement, which overturned the conviction of one Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi by the Karnataka High Court for the offences of cheating and abetment of suicide under the IPC.
"This is a case of a broken relationship, not criminal conduct," the judgment said.
Sanadi was initially charged under Sections 417 (cheating), 306 (abetment of suicide), and 376 (rape) of the IPC.
While the trial court acquitted him of all the charges, the Karnataka High Court, on the state's appeal, convicted him of cheating and abetment of suicide, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and imposing Rs 25,000 in fine.
According to the FIR registered at the mother's instance, her 21-year-old daughter was in love with the accused for the past eight years and died by suicide in August, 2007, after he refused to keep his promise to marry.
Writing a 17-page judgement, Justice Mithal analysed the two dying declarations of the woman and noted that neither was there any allegation of a physical relationship between the couple nor there was any intentional act leading to the suicide.
The judgement therefore underlined broken relationships were emotionally distressing, but did not automatically amount to criminal offences.
"Even in cases where the victim dies by suicide, which may be as a result of cruelty meted out to her, the courts have always held that discord and differences in domestic life are quite common in society and that the commission of such an offence largely depends upon the mental state of the victim," said the apex court.
The court further said, "Surely, until and unless some guilty intention on the part of the accused is established, it is ordinarily not possible to convict him for an offence under Section 306 IPC.”
The judgement said there was no evidence to suggest that the man instigated or provoked the woman to die by suicide and underscored a mere refusal to marry, even after a long relationship, did not constitute abetment.
