Delhi underground

Poor knowledge
With the unfettered right to move the High Courts and the Supreme Court by filing Public Interest Litigations (PILs),such petitions usually cram up courts. Many of these petitioners,however,lack the requirement of basic legal knowledge despite approaching the courts numerous times. The judges are then forced to ask them to first study the relevant laws and the language before thronging the courts. One such incident occurred recently,when a petitioner approached the Delhi High Court for the third time with his request to “derecognise” Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). Even before the court could decide its jurisdiction,the judge told the petitioner that he,at one place in his plea,wanted “derecognisation” of the party while on the other sought for “deregistration” and the two were entirely different. “You are filing the petition for the third time. We expect you to at least read the relevant laws before coming to us,” the Bench said. The petitioner then apologised and sought a week’s time to read the law concerned. 

Upside down 
In what must have been a first at the airport,the Indira Gandhi International Airport hoisted the Tricolour upside down on Wednesday. It was after officials of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) noticed and informed the airport operator that the National Flag was turned right side up. A source at the airport said that it was only around 3 pm that DIAL was able to hoist the flag properly. CISF officials said that though the paramilitary force hoists the flag at the domestic terminal, it is DIAL that does the job at the international terminal.

Groom or goon?
A Saket-based woman decided to confront her “cheating lover” on the day he was getting married to another woman,but found that the groom was in no mood to relent. The bridegroom,with whom she reportedly was intimate for a few months,beat her up in full public view at the wedding venue in Saket’s Pushp Vihar area. The woman,stopped the baraat near the venue and confronted the groom. An argument ensued,following which he beat her up. After a medical examination confirmed assault,the police registered a case of assault and harassment against the groom. An undeterred groom,however,continued with his marriage vows at the venue as planned.      

No yen for investments
Noida Authority officials,who went to Japan on a five-day trip,have come back with a promise of fresh investments in Gautam Budh Nagar district. The trip has been successful in luring Japanese multinationals to invest in upcoming industrial projects in Noida and Greater Noida,the officials claimed. However,many others who did not go say the promise is a sham and is just to prove that the expensive trip was worthwhile. We are waiting for the yen to drop.

Power leakage
Senior officials in the Power department have alleged that one of the reasons why discom BSES sought an extension on submitting its Aggregate Revenue Requirement (ARR) for 2009-2010 — on the basis of which power tariff is determined each year — was that it was waiting for its rival NDPL to submit its ARR. Whether there is any truth in the statement is anybody’s guess,but a few days after NDPL submitted its ARR to the regulator,there were leaks about the contents of the document. NDPL and DERC both denied that they had anything to do with the ‘leaks’.