You’re misusing law by making judges as respondents: HC
HC warns accused in Gauri Lankesh murder case
Bengaluru, September 4: The High Court became furious against the accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case for making the judges as respondents to misuse the law.
Single Bench Judge Justice BV Nagarathna was hearing the petition filed by the accused who alleged that the judges of the trial courts have neglected their plea to appoint advocates in favour of them, on Tuesday. The Judge took advocates of the accused to task saying that ‘don’t you have minimum knowledge of law?’ The court would not tolerate such attitudes, the Judge warned.
The judge asked the court to remove the names of 5th ACMM court magistrate Somashekar, 3rd ACMM court magistrate V Prakash, 1st ACMM court magistrate Jagadeesh, 4th ACMM court magistrate Mala from the list respondents.
Sujith Kumar of Kappanahalli in Shivamogga district, Manohar Yadave of Ratnapura in Vijayapura district, Amol Kale from Chinchwad in Pune and Amith Ramachandra Degwekar of Karani village in Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra have filed the writ petition against this.
What is there in application?
“The police have been torturing us mentally and physically. They also warned against disclosing anything about the torture before the judges. So, we were unable to get the assistance from advocates. Four magistrates who heard our case have clipped their constitutional rights”, they said in their petition.
The accused also demanded departmental enquiry into the magistrates who made a mistake and slap them Rs 1 lakh compensation for each of the four magistrates. Contempt of court cases should be filed against those four judges and all the records in the lower courts should be brought to the High Court and verified, they demanded.
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Congress’ downfall will start from Baramati if it doesn’t let Sunetra Pawar win unopposed: Bawankule
Nagpur (PTI): The Congress will have to face consequences if it doesn't allow NCP president and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar to win the Baramati assembly bypoll unopposed, said minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday.
The party’s “downfall” will start from Baramati, he said, stressing that the people of Baramati and Maharashtra wish that she is elected unopposed, said the BJP leader.
The April 23 bye election was necessitated after the tragic death of deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who headed the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in a plane crash in Baramati on January 28. After his death, his wife Sunetra became the party president.
The NCP, BJP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are partners in the ruling Mahayuti alliance in the state.
“The Congress will face consequences if it doesn’t let Sunetra win unopposed from Baramati. Its downfall will start from Baramati if it doesn’t withdraw its candidate,” Bawankule told reporters in Nagpur.
Amid efforts to ensure an unopposed contest, the Congress has fielded advocate Akash More for the bypoll.
The party had said that it would withdraw from the contest only if an FIR were registered in Ajit Pawar’s death in the Baramati plane crash.
Replying to another question, Bawankule said the BJP’s performance will be more robust in Assam and Kerala elections compared to the last assembly polls in these states. Assembly polls are being held in a single phase in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday.
“These elections will once again show Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership commanding support among the people,” he said.
