Telangana: KCR picks up Mohammad Mahmood Ali as Home Minister
Hyderabad, Dec 14: In a surprising move, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao appointed Mohammad Mahmood Ali as the Home Minister in his newly constituted Cabinet.
The decision of the Chief Minister has created a surprise in the political circle as this is the first time that a Muslim minister was given the responsibility of Home portfolio. So far, the Home portfolio has allotted to the Reddy community in the state.
KCR has been taking various initiatives to appease the Muslim community which constitute 12.7 per cent of total population of Telangana. Though the Telangana Assembly has sent a proposal to the centre to give 12 per cent reservation, the centre has not cleared it. Now, the move of the Chief Minister is considered as a political strategy to concentrate on national politics. He has been wooing the farmers and minorities.
KCR selected only Mahmood Ali to be sworn in along with him in the first phase of the Cabinet formation on Thursday. It is said that the cabinet expansion is likely to take place on December 18. KCR has been sailing with the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party and Chandrashekar Rao and MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi have planned to tour the country to organize minorities and farmers.
Mahmood Ali, a loyalist of KCR, was the Deputy Chief Minister
holding important portfolios of Revenue and Minorities' Welfare in the previous
cabinet.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
