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Patil assures to pursue Kolhapur HC bench demand

Kolhapur, Apr 29 (UNI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil today assured that he will personally pursue the long-pending demand to establish a bench of the High Court in Kolhapur.

Mr Patil, who holds the Home portfolio, was speaking at a function organised by the Kolhapur Bar Association here.

The Deputy Chief Minister said he will place the demand before the State Cabinet and urge the Chief Minister to purse the matter with the Chief Justice.

He admitted that a large number of cases were pending before the court and in order to ensure justice for the people from Kolhapur region, the demand for establishing a High Court bench here was justified.

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Maoists attack police station, bank in Jandaha

Patna, Apr 29 (UNI) Around hundred activists of proscribed CPI (Maoists) attacked a bank and police station in Jandaha area under Vaishali district late last night, police said today. DIG (Tirhut range) Gupteshwar Pandey said a large number of Maoists attacked a bank and police station in Jandaha and started firing indiscriminately. ''Maoists intended to loot cash from the local branch of the Canara Bank and firearms from the Jandaha police station but they did not.....

SC declines to list PIL against Patkar on May 1

New Delhi, Apr 29 (UNI) The Supreme Court has declined to list for hearing on May 1, a PIL seeking prosecution of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar and her close associates for ''creating hurdles'' in the way of relief and rehabilitation (R.....

Centre condemns killing of tribals in Chhattisgarh

New Delhi, Apr 29 (UNI) The Centre today strongly condemned the killing of 15 tribals by naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, saying suchbarbaric acts are against all norms of democratic society. A spokesman of the Ministry of Home Affairs said the Centre had asked the state government to contain such inhumane and senseless act of violence. The administration has also been asked to intensify search and combing operations in areas to apprehend the naxalites.....
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