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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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
