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Advocate General (AG) is the highest post,which an advocate can hold in any State Government.

Advocating extra burden
AHMEDABAD: Advocate General (AG) is the highest post,which an advocate can hold in any State Government. An AG is the law officer,who appears in a court of law very rarely and that too,to defend the State Government on important policy issues. In Gujarat,many among the legal fraternity believe that the State Government is over-exposing its present AG,Kamal Trivedi,in legal matters,which are not befitting to the post. On Monday,Trivedi is to appear before the Nanavati-Mehta Commission,where senior high court advocate Mukul Sinha has moved an application to call Chief Minister Narendra Modi for cross-examination in connection with his role after the Godhra train carnage and during the subsequent communal riots. Many believe that this again is not the kind of matter where the AG has to appear necessarily. Though,complimenting Trivedi for his skills as a lawyer,many legal personnel say that at present,he is the only competent law officer with the State Government to represent the State on important legal issues.

Report of a kind!
RECENTLY,a reputed educational institute in the State capital had reports of alleged ragging case on the campus. While initially,the entire incident remained a hush-hush affair with students keeping mum,the report of a complaint letter written to the Dean of the institute surfaced a little later. However,while talking to the administrative officials,it was the same universal quote that one heard: “We do not appreciate these kind of reports.” Well,who would?

No crimes during holy times!
THE city police,busy with preparations for the Rath Yatra on Wednesday,have kept aside all their work for the Lord to arrive. They have declared that all cases will stay put until Lord Jagannath arrives. The stay on investigations,interrogations and arrests is such that even calling up the cops for any information should also be avoided,they suggest. A certain police inspector from Ellisbridge advised during such a call,”These are pious times,times of spiritualism. These are not the times to discuss homicides and murders.” He went on adding,sarcastically,that during this time,”We assume even criminals seek the divine path”. Well,probably to support the idea for an absolute no-investigation time!

Teacher gets a lesson from minister
JUNAGADH: THE State Government-sponsored three-day educational awareness drive saw the entire State machinery,including ministers,being pressed into service. On the first day of the drive that concluded on Saturday,a minister visited a primary school at Sasan (Gir) village in Junagadh. However,the school authorities seemed to have taken the programme too lightly for when the minister,accompanied by other officers,went to the school,he found that the school administration had failed to make adequate arrangements for said programme. To top it all,there’re no loudspeakers even for the minister to address the gathering. This neglect raised the minister’s eyebows on the spot and at the end of the programme,the outcome was as expected. The school principal was transferred to an isolated village school in Una taluka and a senior teacher was asked to take over the charge of the principal. Now,that’s a lesson for principals and teachers.

On vigil 24×7!
VADODARA: A SENIOR police officer in Vadodara is increasingly becoming a butt of jokes among the residents. Among his latest exploits was removing the hoardings and posters from shops in Ellora Park. The reason: increase in the number of hoardings and posters,in turn,increases the chances of shops getting burgled. But the shopkeepers have a different take for one of them was heard saying later that police should clamp down the advertising stunts of malls in the city too. A fortnight later,after a rioting incident occurred in Kalyan Nagar of Fatehgunj,the police official was seen chasing a group of youth playing cricket in the night. He was seen chasing the children with a piece of bamboo in his hand,while cops at the opposite Kalyan Nagar police station were dozing off! The residents booed the official and challenged him to step inside the crime-ridden Kalyan Nagar area with the same bamboo stick. On the other hand,the police official defended his action saying that since the children were violating the Commissioner’s orders against gully cricket,he had to take the action.

 Contributed by Amrita Didyala,Anupam Chakravartty,Parimal Dabhi,Sibte Hussain Bukhari and Ujjwala Nayudu.

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