After Patna High Court acquitted former MLA Anant Singh, Bihar Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Tejashwi Yadav criticised Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his pet line, ‘he neither protects nor frames anyone.’
The caste-based survey will continue in Bihar after the Patna High Court lifted the temporary ban on Tuesday and dismissed pleas challenging the Nitish Kumar government's decision.
It has frequently been propagated that Nehru was a champion of the highest democratic values. But history tells us something entirely different. He was always intolerant of press‘s scrutiny of his government. He was also deeply annoyed with the court‘s resistance to restrain critical observations made in the press
state Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tej Pratap Yadav accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of demolishing the bridge.
The court, however, asked the state government to preserve the data collected during the survey with a warning not to release it for the public at any cost.
In a fresh incident, a villager Manoj Singh, charged with torturing a Dalit woman in Begusarai district, has been granted bail by the Patna High Court on the condition that he serves Corona patients at the local hospitals for three months.
The court also expressed displeasure over the fact that out of 11,645 sanctioned posts of doctors in the state, 8,768 are lying vacant, 5,674 of which fall in the rural, remote or difficult areas.
A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjay Karol on Wednesday asked the state's secretary for Disaster Management Department to file an affidavit in response to the petition filed by Rajiv Ranjan Pandey, a resident of Saran district.
Taking a serious note of this, the Patna high court has now served notices on its occupants and asked them to reply within four weeks over the matter.
Vikas Chandra, more popular as Guddu Baba, is a veritable one-man army. He has taken upon himself the task to save the Ganges which flows by Patna, after leaving the job of a college lecturer to become a full-time campaigner.
