The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday gave two weeks’ time to the State Government for taking decision on the lease renewal of Tata Steel and SAIl.
Both the companies had moved to Court in the last week of September over the state government’s delay in renewing leases for their iron ore mines in West Singhbhum. According to these companies, despite submitting their lease renewal applications a year before they expired, the State Government sat over them, taking advantage of the earlier deemed extension clause under Mineral Concessions Rules, which was lenient enough to allow mining operations to proceed for years despite pending paperwork.
CJM court rejects Kohli’s bail plea
Chief Judicial Magistrate Neeraj Kumar Srivastava on Thursday rejected the bail application of Ranjeet Singh Kohli alias Raquibul Hassan, accused of torturing her shooter wife Tara Shahdeo after she refused to change her religion.
Arguing before the court, Public Prosecutor Ved Prakash argued that it was a case of forced religious conversion and there are direct medical evidences of torturing his wife
which has also been recorded in the case diary.