Chief of Defence Staff, three Military Chiefs to address media at 6:00 pm
New Delhi: The Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat and the three serving military chiefs will reportedly address an unprecedented press conference on Friday evening here in the national capital.
The Chief of Defence Staff - a post created by the government to integrate the three wings of the armed forces and trim the weapons procurement process – will for the first address the media in a press conference along with three serving military chiefs.
The press conference comes at a time when the whole country is under the lockdown since March 25 to battle the pandemic of Novel Corona Virus.
Last week, General Rawat had said at a time when the nation is fighting COVID-19, the defence services "must operate beyond the mandate to support the people and government in whatever way we can.
He had also said that "discipline and patience" had helped the defence services in checking the spreading of virus, adding that the novel coronavirus has affected Army, Air Force and Navy in a "limited manner".
India has reported more than 35,000 COVID-19 positive cases till date and the virus has accounted 1147 deaths till the time of the posting of this report.
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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.
