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Writ against AIIMS director tenure

NEW DELHI: A non-government organisation, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, has filed public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court challenging the continuation of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director P. Venugopal in the post even after his retirement.

Counsel for the petitioner, Prashant Bhushan, submitted before a Division Bench comprising Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Reva Khetrapal that the petitioner had come to know about the issue through a report in a weekly newspaper.

Despite this, the Centre failed to take any action and Dr. Venugopal was still being allowed to continue as Director of the Institute and Professor in its Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, the petition said.

Notice to police in Ramani case

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Delhi police on an appeal by Malini Ramani, one of the key witnesses in the Jessica Lal murder case, challenging Justice Vikramjit Sen's order of the High Court rejecting her plea to go to London to participate in an exhibition there.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Vijender and Justice S.N. Aggarwal directed the city police to file a reply to the appeal by May 18.

Mr. Justice Sen on Monday had refused to allow Malini to visit London saying that the appeal proceedings in the case had already been taken up by the High Court.

The Delhi police had this past March issued lookout notices against Malini and her mother, Bina Ramani, after registration of an FIR for destruction of evidence in the case following the public outcry over the acquittal of nine accused, including the prime accused, Siddhartha Vashishtha alias Manu Sharma, in the case on February 21 this year.

More MCD engineers suspended

NEW DELHI: Continuing its drive against erring engineers, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Tuesday suspended four more of its engineers -- two assistant engineers and two junior engineers -- posted in the Karol Bagh zone.

The action was taken after the Delhi High Court-appointed Court Commissioner complained against these engineers, belonging to the Building Department, to senior MCD authorities. The suspended engineers are R.K. Banga, Ashok Kumar (both AEs), Umesh Parashar and Anil Aggarwal (both JEs).

Minor girls rescued

NEW DELHI: Three minor girls kidnapped by young men in two separate cases have been rescued by the Welcome police in North-East Delhi. Three persons have been arrested.

In the first instance, two sisters, aged 12 and 10, were kidnapped allegedly by one Tanzim (19), who lived opposite their house, on Monday. He took them forcibly to a hideout in Kabir Nagar. There, he consumed liquor and began misbehaving with the minor girls. Following the information, the police raided the hideout and arrested Tanzim. He also used to harass the elder sister of the victims, the police said. But instead of informing the police, the parents of the victim had pulled her out of the school.

Two young men, Kallu and his friend Chhotu, were arrested in the second case when the police came to know that they had kidnapped a 13-year-old and taken her to a hideout in Kabir Nagar on Monday.

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