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Wednesday, Dec 29, 2004

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Court contempt plea dismissed

NEW DELHI DEC. 28. The Delhi High Court has dismissed a contempt of court petition against the management of a private school here saying that it was not maintainable as the petitioner had not been able to bring before the Court any valid ground for initiation of the proceedings.

The petitioner, Chandragupta Sharma, through his counsel, Ravinder Raj, moved the Court seeking initiation of the contempt proceedings alleging that the school management had deliberately refused to implement an order by the Delhi School Tribunal asking the school management to reinstate the petitioner in service and pay him all his consequential benefits.

The school management had dismissed Chandragupta Sharma, a music teacher, in 1989 on the charge of theft of a music instrument from the school.

The Tribunal had ordered his reinstatement as well as payment of all his consequential benefits.

Though the school management reinstated him but got a stay from the High Court on the payment of the payment of the consequential benefits.

However, Mr. Raj in the petition blamed the school, Hira Lal Jain Senior Secondary School at Sadar Bazar in Central Delhi, of getting the stay order by hiding several facts of the case. He alleged that the school management kept away from the Court the facts that the teacher faced a criminal trial and was later acquitted and that he had filed a contempt of court case against the school management for not implementing the Tribunal orders.

Dismissing the contempt petition, Justice Manmohan Sarin said: "Counsel for the school management submits that the petitioner has been reinstated. They further submit that the petitioner has not been paid the arrears in view of the stay granted by this Court in the writ petition. The stay order has been confirmed. In this view of the matter, no ground is made out for initiation of the contempt proceedings.

Christmas celebrated

NEW DELHI DEC. 28. Students of the primary section of The Indian School in South Delhi celebrated Christmas here this past weekend.

With Santa Claus in tow the students had their fill of cake and chocolates along with their teachers. Santa Claus distributed sweets, chocolates and gifts from the sack he carried on his shoulders. To mark the occasion, stars, bells and balloons were hung on the ceiling and a big Christmas tree was placed at the reception of the school.

RWA meeting with cops

NEW DELHI DEC. 28. The Amar Colony Residents' Welfare Association Joint Forum today held a meeting with senior police officials and apprised them about the various problems being faced by the residents of the area.

The Front president, BP Mandal, informed the police officials about the encroachments on roads in colonies and markets, eve teasing incidents and the nuisance created by hawkers.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Deepender Pathak, and the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Randhir Singh, assured the Front and the area residents that their problems would be promptly addressed. The police officials hoped that more such events would be held in the area as well as other localities so that better community policing could be ensured.

Bio-diesel programme

NEW DELHI DEC. 28. The Chairman of the Indian Institute of Ecology and Environment, P.R. Trivedi, inaugurated a three-day training programme on the production of bio-diesel at the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) here on Monday.

Addressing the gathering, Prof. Trivedi said the bio-diesel programme would solve the problem of energy shortage, environment protection and generate enormous potential for rural development.

The DCE Principal, P.B. Sharma, emeritus scientist at Delhi University, O.P. Mishra, and the Coordinator of Bio-diesel Programme, Naveen Kumar, were also present on the occasion.

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