Saket Gokhale files RTI asking SC number of pending interim bail applications and time for disposal
Move comes a day after SC listed Arnab Goswami’s interim bail plea for urgent hearing
New Delhi: Noted RTI Activist Saket Gokhale has filed an RTI Application to the Additional Registrar of the Supreme Court of India seeking data on the number of total pending interim bail applications and the average time taken for a listing of interim bail applications.
The move by Gokhale comes a day after the Apex Court listed Republic TV’s Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami’s interim bail plea for urgent hearing and granted him bail on Wednesday in 2018 abetment to suicide case. Goswami had sought relief from the Apex Court after the Bombay HC denied him interim bail.
The urgent listing of Goswami’s plea for hearing by the SC had grossed widespread criticism from several activists who claimed that various other similar pleas of others were pending before the SC, which had not even been listed for the first time.
In the application, Gokhale has sought information on the number of total pending interim bail applications and the average time taken for the listing of interim bail applications.
On Thursday, taking to his Twitter account Gokhale after filing the application and said “This is pertinent in the context of urgent listings for some people & protection of personal liberties”.
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
