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Case of snide remarks against CRPF jawans: UP govt sanctions Azam Khan’s prosecution

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Lucknow | The Uttar Pradesh government has given its sanction to prosecute senior Samajwadi Party leader and former state minister Azam Khan for allegedly making objectionable remarks against CRPF personnel last year.

“The prosecution sanction has been given by the state government in the matter. Now a charge sheet will be filed against Azam Khan under IPC sections 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups), which requires prior sanction,” Rampur Additional Superintendent of Police Sudha Singh told reporters.

The case against Azam Khan was lodged under sections 153 A and 505 of the Indian Penal Code. Each of the two penal offences entails a jail term of up to three years or fine or both on conviction under it.

The FIR against Khan was lodged on the complaint of former BJP MLA Shiv Bahadur Saxena’s son Akash Saxena for his statement in June last year which allegedly said, “Women terrorists were chopping off the private parts of the security personnel to send across a strong message which should leave the entire country ashamed.”

The reference was to a Maoist attack on CRPF personnel in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh in April 2017 in which 25 CRPF personnel had been killed. The outlaws had allegedly mutilated the victims’ bodies.

Section 153 A defines the offence of “promoting enmity between different groups” on various grounds, including religion and doing acts prejudicial to the communal harmony.

Similarly, section 505 deals with the offence of making statements liable to create public mischief and cause an officer or soldier resort to mutiny or fail in his duty.

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Central government returns names of 2 judges for elevation to HCs, cites no reasons

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New Delhi | The government has asked the Supreme Court collegium to reconsider its recommendation to appoint two lawyers as high court judges but did not cite any reason for its move, a senior government functionary said.

The SC collegium had in 2016 recommended names of Harnaresh Singh Gill and Mohammed Nizamuddin for appointment as judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Calcutta High Court respectively. While returning the names to the collegium, the government did not cite any reason, the functionary said.

Recently too, the top court collegium’s recommendation for the appointments of two lawyers, one of them a former top court judge’s son, as judges of the Allahabad High Court was returned for the second time by the government citing complaints against them.

The two lawyers are Mohammad Mansoor and Basharat Ali Khan. Mansoor is the son of former Supreme Court judge late Saghir Ahmed. The government had also returned the name of advocate Nazir Ahmed Beig for elevation as a Jammu and Kashmir High Court judge.

The names of three others – Wasim Sadiq Nargal, Sindhu Sharma and district judge Rashid Ali Dar – are being processed by the Law Ministry. There was no immediate word on why Beig’s name was returned to the collegium.

Citing seniority and regional imbalance, the government had in April returned the file relating to the elevation of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K M Joseph. The Collegium has recently reiterated its recommendation.

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