Akhilesh Yadav slams BJP over fare hikes during festivals
Lucknow (PTI): Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday accused the BJP-led government of "regularising black marketing" in the name of surge pricing over steep rise in travel fares during the festive season.
In a post on X, Yadav said, "Under the name of ‘surge pricing’, the BJP government is working to regularise black marketing. The BJP takes a share in profiteering through donations and commissions. BJP’s corruption is the real reason behind inflation."
He alleged that the ruling party "does not want families to come together" during festivals.
"The BJP mindset is to keep people apart and maintain distance. Only families understand the importance of celebrating festivals together,” he said, adding that “if BJP goes, festivals can be celebrated freely."
Yadav also shared a news report claiming that the price of a Rs 600 ticket had risen to Rs 4,000 during Diwali due to surge pricing.
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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.
