KM Nataraj from Puttur appointed as SC Additional Solicitor General
Bengaluru, Jan 15: Senior Karnataka Advocate K.M Nataraj was appointed as the Additional Solicitor General of the Supreme Court on Monday.
Union Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs issued an order on Monday and said the order would come into force with immediate effect. With this appointment, Karnataka has got the post after 28 years.
Earlier, former Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde had worked as the Additional Solicitor General of the Supreme Court between 1989 and 1990. Currently, Nataraj was working as the Additional Solicitor General of South Zone and now, the central government has appointed him as the Supreme Court Additional Solicitor General.
He was appointed as the South Zone Additional Solicitor General on April 8, 2015.
Hailed from Ishwaramangala in Puttur taluk in Dakshina Kannada district, Nataraj has done his graduation from the SDM Law College and started his profession as an advocate under former Advocate General B.V Acharya in 1992.
Later, he started his profession independently in 1995. He has served as the Additional Advocate General of state government from 2009 to 2013. In 2012, he was appointed as the High Court senior advocate.
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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.
