The Gujarat Khedut Samaj has decided to approach the Supreme Court after Gujarat High Court dismissed its plea opposing sale of a large tract of land used for cotton research for a commercial project.

The land in question is a vast tract of land, measuring around 65,000 sq mt, in the heart of the city near Ghoddod Road. The land, belonging to Navsari Agricultural University, is in the possession of Cotton Agricultural Research Centre, and has been used for research for decades.

Lahore, Mar. 5: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has disposed off a petition filed by Jamaat- ud- Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed’s wife, Memoona Saeed, challenging the government’s decision to detain Saeed without valid reason.

Saeed’s wife said the government had detained her husband only to please the US and India without giving any valid reason.

The Act is meant to stop trafficking of girls and prostitution in city

The social security cell of the city crime branch has been delegated with the powers to file cases under stringent norms of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (PITA), meant to stop prostitution and trafficking of females across the city.

Earlier, it was only the assistant commissioner of police of the crime branch who was vested with powers to file the cases. Under the new rule, the police inspector heading the social security cell will be able to file cases under the PITA.

Every year, the city police rescue around 400 women and minor girls forced into prostitution by the brothel keepers, massage centre operators and others under the special act.

Mumbai police can't be that helpless, says court

The Sion police, in their investigation reports submitted to the high court on February 24, stated that they examined 33 women in two weeks but were unable to trace the 'kidnapper' of Mohan and Mohini Nerurkar's child allegedly stolen from Sion Hospital on January 1. The court, however, seemed far from impressed.

Additional public prosecutor KV Saste told the court that the police were putting in "serious efforts" to locate the child and the woman suspect who allegedly stole the newborn. Justice Nazki, however, remarked, "We have heard that before. Even a clerk could have made a report like that."

The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has collected the documents pertaining to the tender process of high security registration plates (HSRP) or number plates for vehicles. The bureau has started its probe after a special anti-corruption court directed the ACB director-general to initiate an inquiry into the alleged corruption in the Rs400-crore tender for HSRP in February end.

Ajit Singh, additional director general of ACB, said, "An SP-rank official has been appointed as the investigating officer in the case and the probe has begun. The court has directed to complete the investigation and present the report on April 21.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to explain how one of the accused in the September 2005 murder of Jalgaon Congressman Vishram Patil, in which President Pratibha Patil's brother Vishram Patil is also allegedly involved, died in custody.

The court had asked the police to explain how the same accused gave an interview to a TV channel while in custody. Additional public prosecutor Aruna Kamat-Pai told the court that Mali had given the interview while he was in the hospital, without permission from the jail authorities. Pai said that the constables in-charge were suspended and denied two increments.