Nipah virus
CM Pinarayi Vijayan has asked people not to panic as the situation is under control. He has sought the help of private hospitals following reports that some private hospitals refused to admit people with Nipah-like symptoms and agreed only after the state government offered to pay the medical bills.
Of the 12 suspected deaths, six are from Kozhikode and the others from Malappuram. All the dead exhibited symptoms of fever, severe headache, and respiratory illness, and blood and fluid samples have been sent to NIV, Pune for confirmatory diagnosis. The results are expected by Tuesday, state health secretary Rajeev Sadanandan said.
The three confirmed deaths from Nipah virus infection are all from the same family in Kozhikode district’s Changaroth village, Kerala health minister KK Shailaja said.
There is no vaccine for Nipah, which has a mortality rate of 70% in India.
“Health officials have found a large number of bats in the family’s well and we suspect these bats are primarily responsible for the virus,” said Shailaja. The well has been sealed and authorities are checking other wells in the neighbourhood.
At least 30 families in neighbourhood of the Moosa home have been evacuated while 150 persons from Cheruvanoor and Perambra villages moved out on their own. Culling of bats is on to check the spread of virus, which was identified in Malaysia’s Kampung Sungai Nipah in 1998.
A team from the National Centre for Disease Control in Delhi reached Kozhikode and has set up control rooms in all hospitals in the district to monitor the spread of the infection. joint trial of accused persons till the sanction comes.”
Prosecution sanction is required under section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act to initiate trial against public servants. There are 10 bankers including Ananthsubramanian named in the charge sheet and CBI is yet to receive sanction to prosecute them from the finance ministry (PNB is state-owned and comes under the purview of the finance ministry).
The charge sheet also says almost 15 months before PNB knocked the door of CBI asking it to probe the fraud committed by diamond trader Nirav Modi and his maternal uncle Mehul Choksi, the bank told the RBI that all its outward SWIFT messages were being sent after making entries into the core banking solution (CBS).
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication that provides a network for financial institutions all across the world to send and receive information about transactions in a secure and standardised manner.
In its probe, CBI found that all SWIFT system messages with regard to Lous issued to Nirav Modi’s firms were issued without making any entry into the CBS.
Nehal Ahad, then general manager of international banking division of PNB, told RBI on October 31, 2016 that with entering into CBS, no financial SWIFT message can be sent.
“Investigation revealed that there was no basis to support the above kind of misleading reply and undertaking by Shri Nehal Ahad as no specific instructions were issued to authorized dealer branches until December, 2016 and no action taken reports from field units,” says the charge sheet.
Ananthasubramanian could not be reached for a comment.
On May 14, the CBI filed its first charge sheet in the case, naming 22 individuals and three firms.
A second charge sheet was filed on May 16 against 15 individuals and three companies belonging to Nirav’s maternal uncle, Mehul Choksi. The CBI alleged that Choksi and his companies defrauded PNB of ~7,080 crore in issuance of Lous and foreign letters of credit. But, hawkers with licences were given exemption from the point of human consideration,” he said.
The problem of hawkers taking up space is particularly acute in the city’s key markets, such as Lajpat Nagar, Sarojini Nagar, and Chandni Chowk, but is a source of livelihood for many who “play a vital role in the urban economy”, according to the 2007 street vendors protection law.
On a submission made by Rao, the top court clarified that its order would not have a bearing on a case pending before the Delhi high court, which is hearing a petition challenging the municipal corporation’s policy related to hawking.
During the hearing, attorney general KK Venugopal agreed to come back to the court with instructions on the issue of suspending officers who let encroachments continue.