CS ‘assault’ case: Probe officer told to appear in court
NEWDELHI: A city court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Delhi Police asking the investigating officer, who is probing the alleged assault on state chief secretary Anshu Prakash, to be present in court on May 29. The Patiala House court was responding to a plea by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal that a copy of the video of his questioning on Friday be provided to him.
A six-member police team on Friday had questioned Kejriwal for over three hours at his residence. According to the plea submitted by Kejriwal’s counsel, BS Joon, the chief minister was posed over 100 questions.
Harendra Singh, additional deputy commissioner of police (north), had later told the media that though Kejriwal cooperating, he evaded several questions.
Kejriwal’s plea to the court has alleged that the additional DCP’S statement to the media was “factually incorrect” and that it indicated that the police could go to “any extent” to frame him by “tampering” with the chief minister’s statements to the police.
Requesting that these aspects be kept i n mind, Kejriwal requested the court to provide a copy of the video recording. NEW DELHI: Delhi University will give up to 10 additional percentage points to applicants who have studied a modern Indian language (MIL) in school if they take admission in BA Programme and take up the language as a subject.
The MILS offered in the university are Sanskrit, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, Telegu and Bengali.
The advantage of up to 10 percentage points will be given on an applicant’s ‘best of four’.
“If an applicant opts for MIL (except Hindi) as a subject, an advantage of up to 10% may be given in ‘best four’ in those colleges where MIL is offered as a subject. Colleges offer anything between 2 and 10 percentage points advantage,” a DU official said.
Thirty colleges, i ncluding Hindu, Miranda House, and Kamla Nehru College, offer MIL in BA programme. Hindu College gives additional seven percentage points to those opting for San- skrit while Kirori Mal College gives additional 10 percentage points to those opting for Bengali as a subject in BA programme.
University officials said this was an attempt to promote the study of Indian languages at a higher level.
“This encourages students to continue to study MIL at undergraduate level as they get advantage due to it,” a university official said. BA Programme is one of the most sought-after courses and it received over 1,34,000 applications last year.
The online registration for admission to merit-based and entrance-based undergraduate courses began on May 15 and around 1,60,000 applicants had already registered with the university by Tuesday evening.
The last date to fill the registration form is June 7.
For admission to BA Programme, students have to take one language and any three elective subjects.
But those applicants who plan to change their stream will face a disadvantage of up to 5 percentage points depending on which college they apply to.
“A deduction of up to 5 percentage points on ‘best four’ percentage may be imposed if there is a change of stream for admission to BA programme, which means either from commerce stream to arts/humanities/social sciences or from science stream to arts/humanities/social sciences,” another university official said.