Submitted by narendramodifacts on Sun, 11/10/2019 - 22:01
[The recent verdict of the Supreme Court in the Ayodhya title dispute case can be regarded as a rather extreme instance of "acche din" (अच्छे दिन) for the forces of Hindu nationalism. It brings closer a long-standing commitment of the RSS and its various offshoots to build a Ram temple on the site of the destroyed Babri Mosque. The phrase "acche din" has come to be used mainly by the opponents of Narendra Modi, and is now used in a variety of ways.
'The main beneficiaries of the Supreme Court's verdict on Saturday are organically linked to the main accused in the crime of demolishing the mosque. And that's not good for India... The Supreme Court’s verdict in the Ayodhya matter has settled the ‘title suit’ in favour of the main Hindu plaintiff – essentially the Vishwa Hindu Parishad – but it is clear that there is much more at stake for the country than the ownership of 2.77 acres of land on which a mosque stood for 470 years until it was demolished in an act of political vandalism unparalleled in the modern world.
'The Supreme Court has pronounced its “unanimous” verdict in the Ayodhya title dispute case, saying that the Hindu parties will be given the disputed land where the Babri Masjid once stood. The Sunni Waqf Board, the biggest Muslim litigant in the case, will be given five acres at a separate “prominent” location in Ayodhya...'
[In light of the appointment of G. C. Murmu as J & K's first lieutenant governor, it is worth reading this blogpost about Murmu by former IAS officer Sanjeev Sabhlok, written in September 2013.]
'The Centre has appointed Girish Chandra Murmu and R.K. Mathur as the new lieutenant governors of the two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, that are slated to come into existence on October 31... Murmu, who belongs to Mayurbhanj, Odisha, was seen as a trusted aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah during their stint in Gujarat. Murmu was the principal secretary in the chief minister’s office when Modi helmed the state government in Gujarat...
'In an indictment of the Central Board of Direct Taxes’s (CBDT) functioning, a top Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official has accused Pramod Chandra Mody, chairman of India’s top tax administration body, of giving an unlawful directive to bury a “sensitive case” involving “serious allegations”. In what is an equally incriminating charge against the Narendra Modi government, the official said that the CBDT chairman tried to entice her to fall in line by claiming that he had secured the top position only because of a “successful search” operation against an opposition leader.
'Soon after a key accused in the mob violence in Bulandshahr district in December 2018 was granted bail, the wife of slain police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh claimed a threat to her life and asked the Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh to “kill her” so that there will be no complaint in the case anymore. The Allahabad High Court on September 25 granted bail to the district convenor of Bajrang Dal, Yogesh Raj, one of the key accused in the Bulandshahr mob violence case.
'It seems as though the Narendra Modi government is making an all-out effort to save controversial Indian Police Official (IPS) official Rakesh Asthana, as the Delhi high court deadline to complete the bribery investigation against him – September 30 – looms. On May 31, the high court had given the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a four-month deadline... Displaying unusual alacrity, the government has moved out or changed all four officials handling the Asthana probe. This includes additional director M.N. Rao, who was removed on July 5...'
'When I read in the newspapers that the Alwar trial court had acquitted the cow vigilantes accused of lynching Pehlu Khan – which, to me, had appeared an open and shut case from the newspapers – I was curious to find out on what grounds it had done so. Having worked in the legal field where it is commonly believed that a judge who has written a perfect judgment is yet to be born, I did not expect it to be perfect. But most certainly, I expected to see from a senior judicial officer a judgment on a standard format supported with sound legal principles.
'The special investigation team (SIT) formed to probe the Swami Chinmayanand case on Wednesday (September 25) morning arrested the law student who had levelled allegations of sexual misconduct. The SIT, which was formed on the orders of Supreme Court, has allegedly arrested her in connection with the extortion case of Rs 5 crore from Swami Chinmayanand. The SIT has, as per the records accessed by NewsClick, booked the victim of sexual misconduct under sections 385, 506, 201 and also under one of the sections of the Scheduled Case/ Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
