Udupi: Factory worker made to stand outside for an hour after being accused of causing loss
Udupi: In an inhuman incident reported from Wandaar in Brahmavar taluk, a factory worker was allegedly made to stand outside the gate for an hour by the owner, who accused him of causing damage to the factory.
Praveen (29), a resident of Shiroor village, was employed as an electrician at the Krishna Prasad Cashew Factory in Wandaar. On the night of June 16, he completed his shift and returned home. Around 12:30 AM, the factory supervisor, Suresh, called him and informed him that the factory had lost one-phase electricity.
The following morning (June 17), Suresh contacted Praveen again, saying that the power issue still had not been resolved. Concerned, Praveen called the lineman to inquire and then proceeded to the factory. However, upon arrival, the factory’s HR officer, Chandrashekar, stopped him at the gate, saying that owner Sampath Shetty had instructed not to let him enter.
Praveen’s bike and mobile phone were also confiscated, and he was made to wait near the gate. It is alleged that when Sampath Shetty arrived, he verbally abused Praveen and accused him of causing losses in diesel sales. He then forced Praveen to stand alone at the gate for an hour.
Praveen was later taken to the Shankaranarayana Primary Health Center by his uncle, where he received treatment.
A case has been registered at the Shankaranarayana Police Station in connection with the incident.
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Unemployed 'youngsters like cockroaches' become media, activists; attack system: CJI
New Delhi (PTI): Likening some unemployed youngsters to cockroaches, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday said they go on to "become" media, social media and RTI activists and start attacking the system.
The comments came while a bench of CJI Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was pulling up a lawyer for "pursuing" a senior advocate designation. It said there were already "parasites" in society who attack the system and asked the petitioner whether he wanted to join hands with them.
"The entire world may be eligible to become senior (advocate), but at least you are not entitled," the bench told the petitioner lawyer.
A visibly anguished CJI observed that if the Delhi High Court would confer senior advocate designation upon the petitioner, the apex court would set that aside seeing his professional conduct.
The CJI also referred to the kind of language used by the petitioner on Facebook.
"There are already parasites of society who attack the system and you want to join hands with them?" he said.
"There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment or have any place in profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists and they start attacking everyone," he said.
The bench also asked the petitioner whether he did not have any other litigation.
"Is this the conduct of a person who seeks to be designated as a senior advocate?" the bench asked.
It said senior advocate designation is something that is conferred on a person and is not to be pursued.
"You are pursuing it. Does it look proper?" the top court said, asking whether a senior advocate designation was a status symbol to be kept ornamentally.
It also observed that it wanted to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to verify the degrees of many of those who were wearing black robes as there were serious doubts over the genuineness of their degrees.
It said the Bar Council of India would never do anything on this issue as they "need their votes".
The petitioner apologised to the bench and sought permission to withdraw the petition. The bench allowed the withdrawal of the petition.
