You’re misusing law by making judges as respondents: HC
HC warns accused in Gauri Lankesh murder case
Bengaluru, September 4: The High Court became furious against the accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case for making the judges as respondents to misuse the law.
Single Bench Judge Justice BV Nagarathna was hearing the petition filed by the accused who alleged that the judges of the trial courts have neglected their plea to appoint advocates in favour of them, on Tuesday. The Judge took advocates of the accused to task saying that ‘don’t you have minimum knowledge of law?’ The court would not tolerate such attitudes, the Judge warned.
The judge asked the court to remove the names of 5th ACMM court magistrate Somashekar, 3rd ACMM court magistrate V Prakash, 1st ACMM court magistrate Jagadeesh, 4th ACMM court magistrate Mala from the list respondents.
Sujith Kumar of Kappanahalli in Shivamogga district, Manohar Yadave of Ratnapura in Vijayapura district, Amol Kale from Chinchwad in Pune and Amith Ramachandra Degwekar of Karani village in Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra have filed the writ petition against this.
What is there in application?
“The police have been torturing us mentally and physically. They also warned against disclosing anything about the torture before the judges. So, we were unable to get the assistance from advocates. Four magistrates who heard our case have clipped their constitutional rights”, they said in their petition.
The accused also demanded departmental enquiry into the magistrates who made a mistake and slap them Rs 1 lakh compensation for each of the four magistrates. Contempt of court cases should be filed against those four judges and all the records in the lower courts should be brought to the High Court and verified, they demanded.
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At least 17,000 security personnel to be deployed for Champions Trophy in Pakistan
Lahore, Jan 22 (PTI): At least 17,000 security personnel would be deployed for the ICC Champions Trophy matches in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi from February 19.
According to sources, the Punjab government has started preparations to provide security round the clock for the participating teams, covering the team hotel as well as the match venues in Lahore and Rawalpindi.
“The Punjab government will deploy some 12,500 officers and other security personnel for the matches and for the teams,” an official said.
He added that 7,600 police and security personnel including special commandos will be on duty for matches in Lahore, while 4,500 officers, including 411 from the Special Branch, will oversee security in Rawalpindi.
The official said that snipers and aerial monitoring will be carried out during the tournament with support from the Army if required.
He said the paramilitary Rangers personnel would be on active duty with the police.
In Karachi, a spokesperson for the Sindh police said that the commissioner had already held meetings to oversee security arrangements for the matches at the National Stadium.
“Plans are being drawn up and at least 5000 or more security personnel including units of the Sindh police would be deployed for the matches, on routes and at team hotels.”
Pakistan hosted the Asia Cup in 2023 but staged only four games with all the other matches held in Sri Lanka after India refused to send its team to Pakistan which they have also done for the Champions Trophy.
This time the PCB will be hosting a minimum of 11 Champions Trophy matches and perhaps even the final and before that it will host New Zealand and South Africa in a short tri-series in Lahore and Karachi. India will their games in Dubai.
Karachi will not only host the opening match of the Champions Trophy on February 19 but also two games of the tri-series on February 12 and 14.
