delhi underground: By hook or by crook

Security lapses in court were highlighted after a thief recently entered the chamber of a magistrate in Tis Hazari court and stole the LCD monitor of the judge’s computer. He would have escaped if not for an alert policeman,who saw him hiding the monitor under his shirt.

Just for the sake of it

Senior BJP leaders said they were tired of Congress councillors disrupting proceedings of the North Municipal Corporation. Six out of eight sessions have been disrupted by Congress councillors. Leader of House Mahendra Nagpal alleged that as BJP MPs have walked out of the Monsoon session,Congress councillors had been directed by party leaders to disrupt proceedings. “It is painful to see that Congress councillors disrupt the House without enough reasons to do so,” Nagpal said.

Quit stalling

The Supreme Court had ordered the special court hearing the 2G spectrum cases to speed up the trial. Last week,the judge ran out of patience when the defence counsels twice requested adjournment of cross-examination of witnesses. The defence counsels were told to avoid creating “unpleasant conditions”. The judge told them that no further adjournments will be allowed. The cross-examination will begin Monday.

Traffic vigilante?

The Delhi Traffic police seems to have encouraged people to assist the force. Recently,a man noticed that the number plate of a journalist’s car was faulty. He followed the vehicle,clicked a picture of its number plate and sent it to the Traffic department. The Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) wrote on Facebook,“Good that instead of 5,000 Traxxffic policemen,we have 1,40,000 enforcement persons in Delhi. We hope that this number keeps increasing.”

All in a day’s work

Abu Salem is being tried in three cases,in two district courts. His counsel told the court to hold hearings on separate dates so that they don’t have to rush from one end of the city to the other. However,the police officer in-charge of Salem’s security detail told the court that holding all hearings on the same day was more convenient since they were required to bring him from Mumbai and and extra day’s stay in Delhi would cause unnecessary problems for Mumbai policemen.

Stark contrast

During the CBSE teachers’ awards function,Secretary (Higher Education) Anshu Vaish and Minister of State for HRD D Purandeshwari had contrasting opinions on the image of a teacher in modern India. Vaish said the image of the teacher should “move beyond its traditional and classical definitions”. She said teachers need not be placed on a high pedestal of reverence anymore and that they should be like their students’ friends. Purandeshwari said,“The teacher-student relationship has to be maintained in the guru-shishya tradition of the country.”