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HC to hear plea against job to Rohith Vemula’s brother by AAP
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Tuesday posted for May 17 a PIL against Delhi government decision to offer a job on compassionate grounds to the brother of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, who had committed suicide in January.
A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath posted for May 17 the hearing of petition seeking quashing of government decision on the ground that it’s “illegal, arbitrary, motivated, discriminatory, unjustifiable and unfair exercise of discretion without any mandate of law, statute, policy and guidelines”.
The plea questioned the wisdom of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in giving a clerical job to Raja Vemula, the brother of Hyderabad University research scholar Rohith Vemula.
Rohith’s suicide on January 17 caused a prolonged political uproar and accusations against the BJP-led central government of nurturing systemic bias against Dalit communities.
The PIL filed by advocate Awadh Kaushik said the student “died at Hyderabad University by committing suicide, having no connection with Delhi and admittedly, he was not a government servant in Delhi and thus, the impugned decision is nothing but purely politically motivated, biased and illegal and thus the same cannot be allowed to sustain”.
The case is neither of a special category nor any kind of “martyrdom or sacrificing the life for any good cause but it is a simple case of suicide by the deceased at Hyderabad and thus there is no rationality or public welfare in the AAP government decision,” said the plea.
The plea challenged the appointment process, saying that if allowed to proceed the decision of the Delhi cabinet will set a wrong precedent.
The petition said that the government’s decision is a “clear violation of law of the land and public policy thereby infringing the fundamental rights of the public at large in general and Delhi’s youth in particular who are trying to get the job on their own merits but are deprived by the Delhi government” because of the decision.
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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story
The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.
In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).
The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.
The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.
Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.
In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.
The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.