HC asks Greater Noida DM to probe encroachments

The Allahabad high court on Monday disposed of a contempt application filed by the Jan Kalyan Sewa Trust and directed the Gautam Budh Nagar district magistrate to decide the representation of the applicant trust within one month. The applicant had made allegations regarding encroachment and construction of residential buildings on public utility land. But the court neither expressed its opinion on the merit of the case nor passed any direction for removal or demolition of any structure.

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has sought the state government’s response on state human rights commission (SHRCR) report within 10 days in the Sultanpur eye camp anomalies incident, in which several patients had lost their eye sight in 2005. In its report, the SHRC had recommended that the victim who had lost complete vision was entitled to Rs 3 lakh as compensation, while the victims who had lost sight in only one eye were entitled for a compensation of Rs 1 lakh and a woman victim whose vision was partially lost was entitled for a compensation of Rs.50, 000. It also recomended that the amount paid by the state government to those victims shall be recovered from the doctors and pharmacists who were accountable and responsible for this negligence. A division bench of justice Rakesh Tiwari and justice Pratyush Kumar gave this order on Monday on a PIL seeking directions for proper action in this matter and to provide compensation to the victims, pending since 2009, the petitioner’s counsel Kuldeep Pati Tripathi said.