New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala will be released from jail on Thursday after the Delhi High Court granted him an interim bail for six weeks to undergo a heart surgery.
Chautala, 78, is serving prison time for his involvement in the 2000 teachers' recruitment scam. The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief was asked to furnish a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh along with two sureties of like amount before the trial court as a pre-condition for his release on bail.
The High Court also asked the former Haryana Chief Minister to surrender his passport with the trial court, besides asking him not to leave the National Capital Region without prior permission of the court. It also asked Chautala to get himself admitted at Medanta Medicity within 24 hours of his release on bail for undergoing the surgery.
The High Court, however, gave liberty to the CBI to seek cancellation of his bail if any condition imposed is violated by Chautala. "It goes without saying that the CBI will have the liberty to apply for cancellation of bail if any condition is being violated by the appellant/applicant," Justice Mridul said. The court, however, disallowed the submission of the CBI that Chautala be restrained from addressing any press conference during the period of bail. "How can this court curtail the fundamental right of a citizen. I don't wish to comment on it. If you persist with it (arguments), then it seems
07:34 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was on Tuesday granted interim bail for six weeks by the Delhi High Court for undergoing pacemaker implant surgery at a hospital. "In view of the facts and circumstances of the case and considering the medical report of the appellant/applicant, the applicant's sentence shall be suspended for a period of six weeks," Justice Siddharth Mridul said while granting the interim bail....
04:59 PM, May 21, 2013
Gujarat: The Supreme Court on Monday severely criticised the Gujarat government of Chief Minister Narendra Modi over its Vidya Sahayak scheme. The court came down heavily on the Modi government on the recruitment process of vidya sahayaks in government primary schools. In a stinging criticism a bench of justices BS Chauhan and Dipak Misra asked the Gujarat government to explain why full time teachers were not being recruited even after...
02:11 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has pulled up the Gujarat government once again, this time over the appointment of part-time teachers instead of full-time ones in primary schools. The apex court was critical of the Modi government's policy of appointing Vidya Sahayaks in place of teachers in primary schools. It has questioned the government on ignoring the Right To Education Act. The apex court has asked the state government to...
02:54 PM, May 20, 2013
Alipore: A lady teacher who was arrested for allegedly banging a class III student's head against a wall as punishment leading to his death was on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Alipore ACJM, SM Shahnawaz, remanded Champa Mondal of the Nirdheshkhali Shishu Shiksha Kendra in South 24 Parganas district to judicial custody and she would be produced before the court again on June 1. Mondal allegedly banged the...
06:33 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Signalling apossible realignment of his party's alliance in Haryana, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Thursday met INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala at a hospital in Delhi, party sources said. They said Rajnath Singh, accompanied by party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, met Chautala at the Ram Manohar Hospital in Delhi. The leaders of two parties are learnt to have discussed current political developments during the meeting which lasted...
04:46 AM, May 17, 2013
Srinagar: A government school teacher in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district has been suspended by authorities after he uploaded a picture of small school children massaging his legs on social networking website Facebook. Teacher Bashir Ahmad ran into trouble with the Anantnag district authorities after there was outrage on Facebook over the manner in which he made the kids massage him. The state education director has expressed horror at the...
02:36 PM, May 14, 2013
Hamirpur: A local court on Friday sentenced a school teacher to eight years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 in a rape case committed in March 2012. A class VIII student of the Government School, Kiyarabagh in Hamirpur district had lodged a complaint in Badsar police on June 2, 2012, that a teacher had raped her on March 24 and was repeatedly harassing her. The victim had stopped...
03:57 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi University Teachers' Association is demanding that the 4-year bachelors programme be postponed to next year. But the university seems adamant to stick to the July 2013 deadline. It affects half a million students from across the country. Nearly half a million students and 9,000 teachers of DU stand to be affected by the decision to make all bachelor programmes a 4-year affair starting July 2013. But...
10:26 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A teacher was arrested on Tuesday in Odisha's Sambalpur district for molesting an eight-year-old-girl in the school classroom, police said. The 28-year-old offender, an art and crafts teacher in a private school at the district headquarters town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly gave the students some drawing assignments and started watching an obscene video on his laptop. After finishing her drawing, the girl went...
04:40 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistan has asked India to present it with methods of teachers' training and research materials of various teacher training institutes. According to sources, Pakistan Directorate of Staff Development in Lahore has requested the National Council of Teacher Education to share teaching qualities which it wants to incorporate in its training programme. Appreciating the teachers' training programme in India, the Pakistani Directorate has sought presentation on functioning, responsibilities and...
01:50 AM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: A five-year-old kindergarten student was sodomised by his schoolteacher in the capital, police said on Thursday. The incident was reported from East Delhi's Jagatpuri area on Wednesday afternoon where it occurred in a Municipal Corporation-run school. The boy was rushed to Guru Teg Bahadur hospital by his family after he shared about the incident which occurred in the school premises. The accused teacher, identified as Pramod, is in...
05:29 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday contended before the Delhi High Court that former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala was the "main conspirator" in the junior basic trained (JBT) teachers' recruitment scam of 2000. Opposing the bail plea of Chautala, jailed for 10 years in the scam, Solicitor General (SG) Mohan Parasaran, who argued for CBI, submitted before Justice Mukta Gupta that Chautala was "the main conspirator and others (accused)...
09:53 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Pittsburgh: A University of Pittsburgh grad student, who was nervous about her ability to teach a class, instead made two bomb threats so it would be cancelled, campus police said. Online court records don't list an attorney for Nancy Bruni, 34, of New Kensington, who didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on charges of terroristic threats, and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction. Pitt police charged the...
07:30 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Baruipur railway station was ransacked on Sunday after hundreds of applicants appearing for TET (Primary Teachers Eligibility Test) got delayed at the station and could not appear for the exam. This happened after an applicant fell off from an overcrowded train and was seriously injured. ...
07:39 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday appointed the Hyderpora acid-attack victim to the state school education department, on compassionate grounds. Local MLA and ruling National Conference provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani and Tanvir Sadiq, political secretary to the Chief Minister on Wednesday visited the victim's house in Baghat Barzulla and handed over an appointment order for her engagement in the education department, official sources said adding that it was...
05:10 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Indian women's kabaddi team coach Sunil Dabas, who is also a teacher in a Gurgaon school, reportedly fainted after a Congress MLA passed some lewd and insulting comments against her during a function in Gurgaon. The alleged incident took place at DSD college, Gurgaon. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The Supreme Court is hearing a case related to the police brutality in Punjab and Bihar. Coming down heavily on the Punjab police for beating up a woman, the apex court called the woman a 'braveheart'. ...
02:15 PM, Mar 11, 2013
