SIT SUMMONS BL SANTOSH IN MLA POACHING CASE
HYDERABAD: The special investigation team of the Telangana police probing the case of alleged attempt to poach four Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLAS into the BJP on Friday summoned BJP national general secretary (organisation) B L Santosh for questioning.
The SIT asked Santosh to appear at the Telangana Command and Control Centre, Hyderabad, at 10.30 am on November 21, for questioning.
“Failure to attend/comply with the terms of this notice can render you liable for arrest,” the notice said.
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the same state or otherwise.
On Friday morning, justice Chandrachud also stressed that a decision has been taken to give precedence to the cases where petitioners have been inside jails or fear imminent curtailment of liberty.
“After 10 transfer petitions, all the benches shall hear 10 bail matters every day... those are the matters of personal liberty and we will prioritise them. All the courts will start their regular boards after hearing these 20 cases,” said the CJI.
As the head of the administration in the top court, justice Chandrachud’s statement about putting the spotlight on bail matters is completely in sync with his judicial tenets as a judge who has persistently laid emphasis on personal liberty.
While granting bail in November 2020 to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in an alleged abetment of suicide case, justice Chandrachud held that “deprivation of liberty even for a single day is one day too many”, adding that courts across the country “must ensure that they continue to remain the first line of defence against the deprivation of the liberty of citizens”.
“Arrest is not meant to be and must not be used as a punitive tool because it results in one of the gravest possible consequences emanating from criminal law — the loss of personal liberty,” the judge had said in July 2022 while giving bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in connection with criminal cases registered against him for his tweets that allegedly offended religious sentiments and incited people.
The CJI, while hearing another case on Friday, also apprised lawyers of the steps taken by him to streamline the listing mechanism and usher in utmost transparency in the manner in which cases get listed in the top court.
“Now that I am heading the administration, I will be as transparent as possible. I will send a matter to the most senior judge in line on a particular bench unless that judge has a short tenure and he or she expresses inability to finish a case. It’s going to be a standard procedure,” said justice Chandrachud, as he explained to a bunch of senior lawyers as to how a case went to the most senior judge on the bench after the retirement of his predecessor, justice Uday Umesh Lalit.
The CJI also said that he is not going to “keep burdening judges” by adding cases to the judges’ boards at the last minute.
“I am the CJI now but I have myself faced a lot of problem because of the supplementary boards. It gives the judges a great deal of stress when they finish reading case files at 12 in the midnight and wake up the next morning only to find 10 new cases added to their board. I am cutting down on the supplementary boards.”
He also told the lawyers that all matters registered on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday will be listed the following Monday, and matters registered on Thursday and Friday will be listed the following Friday. “Automatic dates will be given and lawyers will not have to mention cases for listing,” the CJI added. Cases registered on Wednesday will also be listed next Friday.
Listing of cases has been a perpetual thorn in the flesh for CJIS in the recent past.
While justice Chandrachud’s predecessor justice Lalit, during his short tenure of 74 days as the CJI, sought to bring in reforms and listed several hundred cases lying in the cold storage, former CJI NV Ramana invited criticism for his reluctance to list cases
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challenge which Waqar and Malcolm posed. Achrekar would make his young trainees practice and play matches on used pitches with uneven bounce at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park.
“In fact, (during fielding practice) I would just throw the ball up and take it on my body to absorb the pain,” Tendulkar would recall.
In his book ,Playing it May Way ,Tendulkar also speaks of the early anxiety after facing the fiery Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
“It was baptism by fire. So bearing significant political and economic ramifications.
Cases such as the validity of electoral bonds, the challenges to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the ban on the hijab in Karnataka’s educational institutions were not listed during justice Ramana’s tenure.
Justice UU Lalit listed all these cases and many more during his brief tenure. much so that after my very first innings in Test cricket, during which I was all at sea against Wasim and Waqar, I began to doubt my ability to bat and question whether I was ever going to be good enough to play at international level,” Tendulkar writes.
He would go on to face Richard Hadlee-led New Zealand pace pack in early 1990, scoring 88 to prove he was no less a talent when it came to tackling swing. And Tendulkar would simply go on to symbolise pretty much everything about Indian cricket from there.