Deadline for removing the Farangipete Fish Market ends today
Temporary market alongside the national highway has been constructed
# Traders demand to identify a location and set up a permanent market
Bantwala, Jan 15: The deadline given by the Railway Department to clear the fish market that was in operation on the land belonging to the Railway Department near Farangipete national highway in the limits of Pudu gram panchayat will end on January 15.
The fish market was operating in the Pudu gram panchayat area on the old road of Farangpete for few years. However, the panchayat, on the pretext of constructing a new panchayat building, shifted the fish market near bus stand on the highway side.
The market was again shifted to a vacant land of the Railway Department on the other side of the road while clearing the highway side shops by the Deputy Commissioner. The life of fish traders is hit as the railway department has now issued a deadline to remove the market from its land.
Site inspection near the tenth milestone: Deputy Commissioner Sasikant Senthil, who had recently visited Farangipet to identify a location for constructing the fish market, inspected a place near the tenth milestone here. However, due to unavailability of a permanent land for the fish market, the Deputy Commissioner instructed to temporarily shift the fish market on the area near the existing one. However, it is not appropriate for fish sellers. Moreover, the land belongs to the highway. Gram panchayat president Ramlan says that a temporary market is now being built near the highway.
The fish traders, who were hoping for a permanent fish market, have once again disappointed as a temporary market is being constructed as of now.
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Snake venom case: SC quashes FIR, proceedings against YouTuber Elvish Yadav
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed an FIR and subsequent proceedings against YouTuber Elvish Yadav under the Wildlife (Protection) Act in the snake venom case registered by Uttar Pradesh Police in 2023.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh said the case cannot be sustained in law as the complaint under the Wildlife (Protection) Act was not filed by an authorised person.
It said that offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) invoked in the FIR against Yadav were based on an earlier FIR registered in Gurugram, in which a closure report has been filed.
Referring to the provisions of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substance Act (NDPS) Act invoked in the FIR against Yadav, the bench said these cannot be invoked as the liquid substance (anti-venom) recovered from the co-accused was not a prescribed substance under the schedule.
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It referred to the earlier decisions of the court and said that the case against Yadav cannot be sustained in law, quashing the FIR and subsequent proceedings, including filing of the chargesheet and cognisance order of the trial court.
The case against Yadav was registered on November 22, 2023, and he was arrested on March 17, 2024, for the alleged use of snake venom at a rave party in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
The controversial YouTuber challenged an Allahabad High Court order refusing to quash the chargesheet and the cognisance order of the trial court, terming it a serious offence.
On August 6 last year, the apex court stayed proceedings in the trial court against Yadav in the case.
The chargesheet alleged the consumption of snake venom as a recreational drug at "rave" parties by people, including foreigners.
Yadav's counsel had argued in the high court that no snakes, narcotics or psychotropic substances were recovered from him and no causal link was established between the applicant and the co-accused.
Though the informant was no longer an animal welfare officer, he filed the FIR showing himself to be one, the counsel had added.
Calling Yadav a "well-known influencer" and someone who appears in multiple reality shows on television, the counsel had said his involvement in the FIR garnered "much media attention".
