MOHALI MEDICAL COLLEGE SET TO START FROM COMING SESSION

Announced three years ago by the Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress regime in Punjab, the Mohali medical college is set to be a reality in the upcoming academic session with the state government issuing notification for constituting the board of management, seen as the last-mile formality to start such an institution. As per the notification issued by the government, the board of management of the college named as ‘Dr BR Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences’ will be headed by Dr KK Talwar.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday restrained Punjab Police from taking any coercive action against Bollywood actress, Raveena Tandon; director, Farah Khan and comedian, Bharti Singh, booked by Punjab Police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments at three different places. The trio had challenged the FIRs, registered in Rupnagar and Ferozepur, and sought quashing of the same.

In January, the high court had passed a similar order in connection with an FIR registered against the trio in Ajnala on December 25, 2019. The FIR in Ferozepur was registered on December 28, 2019, and the Rupnagar FIR was on January 3. Their counsel, Abhinav Sood had argued that the allegations were ‘unjustified, false and incorrect’

Sood told court that Tandon, Farah and Bharti were asked to spell a word and to explain its meaning. While Tandon spelt it correctly, Bharti misspelt it. It apparently meant that Bharti did not know the word and was referring to another word in Hindi, Sood said, adding before court that there was nothing that could lead to the presumption that the act was intended to hurt the religious sentiments of a community. The next hearing is on March 25.

IN JANUARY, HC PASSED A SIMILAR ORDER IN CONNECTION WITH AN FIR LODGED AGAINST THE TWO AND COMEDIAN BHARTI SINGH IN AJNALA ON DECEMBER 25, 2019