Delhi court allows Engineer Rashid to attend Budget Session in custody
New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court on Saturday granted custody parole to jailed Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid to attend the upcoming Budget Session of Parliament.
Custody parole entails a prisoner being escorted by armed police personnel to his place of visit.
Additional Sessions Judge Prashant Sharma passed the order, granting Rashid permission to attend the session that would begin on January 28, subject to conditions imposed earlier about travel costs and others.
Rashid's counsel Vikhyat Oberoi told the court that his client's appeal about travel costs is pending before the Delhi High Court.
In November last year, the court had granted Rashid custody parole to attend the Winter Session of Parliament on all dates.
It had also allowed him to attend the Monsoon Session between July 24 and August 4, 2025, in a similar manner.
In 2024, Rashid was granted interim bail to campaign for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls.
The Independent MP has been lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail since 2019, after he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a 2017 terror-funding case.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Rashid defeated National Conference's Omar Abdullah by over 2 lakh votes to win the Baramullah seat.
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SC notice to Maharashtra on plea challenging state govt resolution on teacher posts
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has sought Maharashtra's response on a plea challenging its March 2024 Government Resolution that modified the criteria for sanctioning teacher posts based on the number of students enrolled.
A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe issued notices to the state government, Commissioner of Education and others on the plea filed by Sindhudurg Zilla Shikshan Sanstha Chalak Mandal that claimed the Government Resolution (GR) was contrary to the policy and scheme of the Right to Education Act, 2009, with respect to the pupil-teacher ratio.
The GR of March 15, 2024, modified the criteria for sanctioning teachers' posts on the basis of the number of students in primary, upper primary, and secondary schools in the state of Maharashtra.
"The consequence of the said GR is that schools where students are not above a certain number, there would be only 1 sanctioned teacher for several classes," said the plea filed through advocate Ajit Pravin Wagh.
"This is on account of the fact that, unlike the RTE Act, 2009, this GR dated 15.03.2024, does not consider a class as a unit for measuring the pupil-teacher ratio but a section i.e. primary, upper primary, and secondary as a unit for measuring pupil- teacher ratio," the plea said.
The plea claimed that as a consequence, several schools/ neighbourhood schools having fewer students will be shut down, defeating the object of the RTE Act 2009.
