Ajoy Kumar NAMED NEW SPOKESPERSON OF AICC
New Delhi: Former MP from Jamshedpur Ajoy Kumar, who had joined the Congress last month, was made a spokesperson of the AICC. Kumar was a medico before joining Indian Police Services and served as SP in Jamshedpur from 1994-1996. After resigning from the IPS, he served for a brief stint in corporate sector before joining Babulal Marandi’s JVM(P) and became an MP in 2011, defeating Congress’s Banna Gupta. He had joined Congress last month in Ranchi vowing to fight the “communal forces” during the coming assembly election. Kumar’s claim to fame before joining politics has been the work done by him to restore law and order during his stint as Jamshedpur SP. He was defeated in 2014 lok Sabha polls by BJP’s Vidyut Baran Mahato.
sc stays EX-DRDO CHIEF’S SENTENCE
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the order of the Madras High Court sentencing former DRDO chief VK Saraswat and another senior scientist to three weeks’ simple imprisonment for committing contempt of court by disobeying its April 2009 order related to re-employment of a clerk in a school run by a wing of the organisation. A bench comprising justices S J Mukhopadhaya and P C Pant put on hold the High Court’s order after Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi made submissions on behalf of Saraswat and G Malakondaiah, Director of Defence Metallurgical Research laboratory, who were also directed to pay a fine of Rs2,000 each personally.
CURBS ON EXTENSION AFTER SUPERANNUATION
New Delhi: The services of Government employees who are specialists in medical and scientific fields should not be extended beyond their normal age of superannuation without the approval of Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), the Government said today. The move comes after it was noticed by the ACC that the departments are not taking timely action to constitute the Departmental Peer Review Committee (DPRC) and are unilaterally extending the service of officers beyond the age of superannuation without first obtaining approval of the ACC.
SC refuses to entertain lawyer’s plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea of a lawyer seeking direction to Karnataka trial court to defer pronouncement of its verdict in DA case of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur dismissed the plea filed by the lawyer who alleged that there would be law and order problem after the pronouncement of verdict and police might not be able to control the situation.