In brief

A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justices Satyendra Singh Chauhan and Shrikant Tripathi passed the order on a writ petition of Joshi seeking a CBI probe into the incident of arson at her house in July last year.

On behalf of the state government,a prayer was made at the Lucknow Bench of the High Court for adjourning the case till some other date. On behalf of the petitioner,an apprehension was expressed that the petition seeking a CBI inquiry into the case would become infructuous if the chargesheet was filed by the CB-CID,a state investigating agency.

Accordingly the court restrained the CB-CID from filing a chargesheet,if any,in this case till March 12.

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Nitish Katara case: SC dismisses petition filed by UP govt

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by the Uttar Pradesh government seeking permission to file an appeal in the Nitish Katara murder case.

“After the case has been transferred outside Uttar Pradesh,does it have anything to do with the case?” a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma asked the state government before declining its plea.

Besides Uttar Pradesh government,main accused in the case,Vikas Yadav,who has been sentenced to life imprisonment,had also filed a similar petition which was heard together. “Once the case is transferred outside the state,it is the end of the matter (for that state government),” the Bench said. The UP government had contended that the Delhi High Court was wrong in admitting the petition of the Delhi Police in the case.

Drive to check adulteration

Lucknow: Chief Minister Mayawati asked her officials on Friday to launch a drive to check sale of adulterated food items on Holi,which falls on March 1. Issuing the directives at a review meeting of all departments,Mayawati also asked the officials concerned to install a control room at the Food and Medical Administration Department headquarters to collect information about those indulging in adulteration. The chief minister,who expressed dissatisfaction over the pending cases under the revenue departments,asked for ensuring their disposal in a year’s time. She also asked for strict complaince of orders regarding granting reservation to SCTs in government contracts.

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Kanpur agri univ V-C hurt in accident

LUCKNOW: The vice-chancellor of Kanpur’s Chandrashekhar Azad Agricultural University,his wife and the personal security officer (PSO) sustained injuries while the driver was killed when the car they were travelling in rammed a truck in Etawah district’s Jaswant Nagar area on Thursday night.
Driver Badan Singh (45) succumbed to his injuries at the Post Graduate Institute (PGI) at Saifai. While Vice-Chancellor G C Tiwari and his wife Mamta have suffered fractures,PSO Ram Kishore has sustained head injuries. They are undergoing treatment at the same hospital.
Senior Sub-Inspector Eeshwar Singh of the Jaswant Nagar police station said Tiwari,his wife and the PSO were on their way to attend a function at an agricultural engineering institute at Etawah from Delhi. They had reached the Saifai Road when their ambassador car (UP 78 BJ-9901) rammed a truck as the driver Badan Singh tried to overtake. The truck driver fled the spot.

Child trafficker held

BAHRAICH: A man in the guise of a sadhu was arrested on charges of child trafficking from Gonda-bound Intercity Express on Thursday. Two boys in the age group of 10 to 12 years were rescued from him. Dharmendra Nath Bajpai,who was arrested by Government Railway Police,has confessed that the children were being trafficked to work as labourers,police said.

Drug peddlers in net

PRATAPGARH: Eight persons were arrested and 30 quintal of ganja worth over Rs 1 crore was recovered from their possession,police said here on Friday. A truck carrying the contraband was intercepted near Babhanmai area on Thursday,said Superintendent of Police Mahesh Misra. Those arrested belong to Malkangiri district in the Naxal-hit region on Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border,the SP said.

Minister on NH-24

MORADABAD: Minister of State for Road Transport R P N Singh said on Friday that the Centre has sanctioned four road projects,of which Delhi-Lucknow NH-24 is scheduled to be over by 2012.
The government has set a target of completing 20-km stretch on a daily basis to complete the project on time,he added. About delays in works,Singh said it was mainly due to unfinished river bridges taken up by the Uttar Pradesh Bridge Corporation.

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