Government will pay education fee of girls: Minister Krishna Byre Gowda
3.70 lakh girls to get benefit
Bengaluru, December 5: “From the current academic year, the government would pay tuition fee of all girl students who have taken admission into pre-university, graduation and post graduation courses in government colleges”, said Law Minister Krishna Byre Gowda.
After the Cabinet meeting at the Vidhana Soudha here on Wednesday, the Minister said that the girls studying in the government colleges would get the benefit from this academic year. For this purpose, the state government has to invest Rs 95 crore and total 3.70 lakh students would get the benefit, he said.
Major decisions
The Cabinet also approved the “Film Tourism Policy” to promote tourist spots and attract tourists by showing the tourism places in films. The Tourism Department has decided to give maximum Rs 1 crore incentives to the films to be shot in tourist places in the state and in mega projects, up to Rs 2.5 crore would be given, for which the department has prepared guidelines and the Cabinet today approved the proposal, he said.
Simplification
The Cabinet also approved proposal to simplify the norms under the Land Revenue Act 1964 Column 95(2) to converting the agriculture land for non-agriculture purpose. As per this proposal, an applicant has to produce Affidavit in Form-A along with the land conversion requisition application which will be transferred to all departments through online for taking the opinion. If there is no opinion or report from the concerned departments or authorities within one month, then it would be deemed that they do not have any objections for land conversion, he said.
As Bidar Cooperative Sugar Mill was under loss, it has suspended crushing of sugarcane. In order to help the farmers, the Cabinet has decided to give Rs 20 crore loan to the factory to resume crushing of sugarcane. The Cabinet also agreed to sanction Rs 15 crore to lift water from Cauvery river near Haadya village in KR Taluk in Mysuru district and to feed 12 tanks in the taluk, he said.
The Cabinet also approved the proposal of increasing the commission of retail traders profit of fair price shop owners from Rs 80 to Rs 100 per quintal. It was also decided to revise the allowances of state government employees as per the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission, due to which, the government has to pay Rs 400 crore additional amount, he said.
It was also decided to open a government first grade women’s college at Yadahalli in Mudhol taluk in Bagalkot district. The Cabinet also decided to establish a 300-bed medical college and hospital in Kanakapura taluk at a cost of Rs 450 crore. The Cabinet has decided to give Rs 30 crore to develop connecting roads to the venue of Air Show in Bengaluru, the Minister said.
“The Cabinet has decided not to allow the private schools to give admissions to the children under RTE where there are government schools. The norms of the Act are clear and if there are no government schools for certain distance, then admission can be taken in private schools under RTE and the government will reimburse the fee. But since the norm was not followed properly, though there are government schools, admissions were given in private schools. As a result, the government schools are running short of strength. So in future, the students will get admissions in private schools under RTE where there are no government schools”.
- Krishna Byre Gowda, Law Minister
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Broken relationships don't automatically amount to abetment of suicide: SC
New Delhi (PTI): Broken relationships, while emotionally distressing, do not automatically amount to abetment of suicide in the absence of intention leading to the criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Friday said.
The observations came from a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ujjal Bhuyan in a judgement, which overturned the conviction of one Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi by the Karnataka High Court for the offences of cheating and abetment of suicide under the IPC.
"This is a case of a broken relationship, not criminal conduct," the judgment said.
Sanadi was initially charged under Sections 417 (cheating), 306 (abetment of suicide), and 376 (rape) of the IPC.
While the trial court acquitted him of all the charges, the Karnataka High Court, on the state's appeal, convicted him of cheating and abetment of suicide, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and imposing Rs 25,000 in fine.
According to the FIR registered at the mother's instance, her 21-year-old daughter was in love with the accused for the past eight years and died by suicide in August, 2007, after he refused to keep his promise to marry.
Writing a 17-page judgement, Justice Mithal analysed the two dying declarations of the woman and noted that neither was there any allegation of a physical relationship between the couple nor there was any intentional act leading to the suicide.
The judgement therefore underlined broken relationships were emotionally distressing, but did not automatically amount to criminal offences.
"Even in cases where the victim dies by suicide, which may be as a result of cruelty meted out to her, the courts have always held that discord and differences in domestic life are quite common in society and that the commission of such an offence largely depends upon the mental state of the victim," said the apex court.
The court further said, "Surely, until and unless some guilty intention on the part of the accused is established, it is ordinarily not possible to convict him for an offence under Section 306 IPC.”
The judgement said there was no evidence to suggest that the man instigated or provoked the woman to die by suicide and underscored a mere refusal to marry, even after a long relationship, did not constitute abetment.
