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A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela was informed that the post of National Commission for Minorities chairperson has been vacant since April 22, when the last officer demitted office. The counsel representing the Centre urged the court to grant time to get instructions from the authorities. To this, the bench said, "Please make sure things start moving. Don't wait for the next date. This is very very important." The court was hearing a public interes ...Read More >
Mumbai: Ten years after he was acquitted by a trial court in the 7/11 serial train bomb blasts in Mumbai in 2006, Wahid Shaikh, a school teacher, filed a complaint before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and other bodies, seeking compensation of ₹9 crore for his wrongful incarceration of nine years. Shaikh wrote in his complaint to the NHRC on Friday: "...the nine years I spent in wrongful custody, coupled with brutal custodial torture, have left me and my family devastated in ways no ...Read More >
Mumbai: Dr. Wahid Deen Mohammad Shaikh, the only accused acquitted in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts case, has sought Rs 9 crore as compensation for the nine years he spent in prison before being cleared of all charges in 2015. Shaikh, who was 28 at the time of his arrest in 2006, was booked under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in connection with the coordinated serial blasts that killed 189 people. Acquitted in 7/11 Blasts Case, Seeks Justice In a press note, Shaikh sai ...Read More >
New Delhi, August 22 (IANS) The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Friday approved a major top-level bureaucratic reshuffle of as many as 14 Secretary-rank IAS officers across various ministries and departments of the Centre. The appointments, which include several officers on special duty (OSD) who are taking charge of posts to replace incumbent officers who are retiring, will see new faces in top positions of the Central government. As part of the reshuffle, Atish Chandra, an IAS ...Read More >
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