Letters
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| Favouritism in quake relief | | | | Dear Editor,
Earthquake and after shocks have created severe panic and restlessness among the people of Doda District especially in Bhaderwah Valley where the epicenter is believed to be.
As I happened to be there last fortnight, I have personally seen the day to day situation. People are so scared that even the sound of running vehicles brings fears of earthquake now. Administration and leaders of different political parties are paying regular visits to the area, but what about actual relief on the ground?
Poor people of both the communities of Bhaderwah are neglected as they have no political push or access to the top rung of administration. Even basic relief like tents, ration etc is far from genuine victims. Tents are issued to the favourites. One day road was blocked at Village ... |  | |
| | India-China stand-off | | | | Dear Editor,
The three-day visit of Chinese premier Li Kequiang presented an opportunity to calm troubled waters after the recent border spat and prepare a blueprint for cooperation on enhancing trust and avoiding future confrontations. New Delhi papered over differences and concentrated on areas of convergence. Many issues beginning with the recent Chinese incursion in Ladakh, stand on Tibet, management of trans-boundary Rivers and trade imbalance did crop up when the heads of the two states met. Ties between the two countries had come under a cloud when Beijing stationed troops on a desolate but strategic plateau in Eastern Ladakh. During Li’s visit, both sides agreed on encouraging their Special Representatives to push forward the negotiation process towards a mutually acceptable set... | | |
| | Welcome HC order on love-marriages | | | | Dear Editor,
It refers to welcome verdict whereby Punjab & Haryana Court has banned marriages at religious places without consent of parents of bride and groom. The court felt it necessary because of large number of petitions filed with courts because of failed marriages done out of love and affection many-a-times under false and gimmick picture shown by grooms. Verdict will close marriage-shops established by some religious institutions for minting money. Verdict presently applicable only in Chandigarh and Panchkula should be made applicable throughout the country by Union government through necessary legislation.
It is also time that bigamy legalised through religious provisions may be effectively checked when many persons symbolically adopt Islam for just one day for having a second... | | |
| | SC on adjournments | | | | Dear Editor
It refers to much-needed strictures passed by Supreme Court on unholy culture of adjournments in Indian courts. But the Apex Court passes such strictures only in respect of trial-courts, while adjournments and stay-orders are quite common and frequent in High Courts and even at Supreme Court also. World Justice Report on ‘Rule of Law Index 2012’ placing India at regretful 78th place in a list of 97 nations for Justice Delivery System is also result of frequent adjournments and stay-orders in Indian courts.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Unfortunately despite even a division-bench of Supreme Court once rightly observing that many petitioners after taking ex-party stay do not care for disposal of cases which they ultimately lose, system of granting liberal stay-orders is u... | | |
| | Menace of corruption | | | | Dear Editor,
Corruption is an issue that can’t be brushed aside for long. But this has all come a bit too late, perhaps. From the very beginning, the government tried to brazen it out in the Rs1.86 lakh crore- coal scam. All along it denied its role in altering the CBI draft status report, saying the changes sought and made were only cosmetic, and involved correcting grammatical errors. It thought it could carry on with the cover up. But the Supreme Court punched a ’hole truth’ in its bundle of cover up by saying the ‘’heart of the report’’ was changed, and thus the whole direction of the probe, after Law Minister Ashwani Kumar vetted the report and government officials suggested changes in it. At the same time it chastised the CBI, saying the job of the investigating agency was not to ... | | |
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