Expressing anguish over the death of two persons and injury to 215 persons, the Supreme Court on Tuesday wondered whether it should stay the “jallikattu”, a popular bull fight event held in Tamil Nadu every year in January during the harvest season.
“We do not want people to die. 200 to 300 people have got hurt. Shall we stay the sport? This is happening inspite of the court monitoring and issuing guidelines. It has happened in a short duration of five days between January 16-19 in six legally licensed events and the report says two persons died,” a bench of justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik said. The apex court made the remarks while dealing with the submission of senior counsel Raj Panjwani.
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Utsav bail plea rejected by court
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Feb. 1: The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday dismissed the bail application of 29-year-old Utsav Sharma, who had allegedly attacked Aarushi’s father Rajesh Talwar with a sharp-edged weapon in the court premises.
Utsav was brought to the court under tight security where the CJM D.D. Ojha talked to him in presence of his lawyer and concluded that he would be examined by a medical board before to reach any conclusion about his mental condition.
The CJM, however, did not dispose of the application of Utsav and directed that his treatment would continue in jail.
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Notice to CBI over CWG scam accused
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Feb. 1: The Delhi high court on Tuesday issued notice to the probe agency, CBI, after hearing the bail plea of Bina Nanu, the director of a private firm who is in Tihar jail in connection with the over `600 crore alleged Commonwealth Games (CWG) overlays scam.
Justice Ajit Bharihoke asked the CBI to respond to the bail application of the accused on February 18, the next date of hearing. Nanu, the director of an event management company, GL Events- Meroform, in his bail plea, said that he has been remanded to judicial custody till February 4.