Burn waste oil containers: SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered destruction by incineration of 133 containers of hazardous waste oil lying at Jawaharlal Nehru port, Mumbai, reports our legal correspondent.

A division bench of Justices Y.K. Sabharwal and S.H. Kapadia issued the order on a petition by the Research Foundation for Science contending that huge amount of waste oil of hazardous nature was being dumped in India, in violation of anti-dumping rules.

Justice Sabharwal, writing the judgment for the bench, applied the ?polluter pays? rule to levy the cost of incineration on the importers and directed that a monitoring committee set up by it, supervise the exercise. The apex court directed all the authorities concerned to extend ?full cooperation?.

The bench also asked the committee to file a compliance report.

The court also directed the customs department to furnish within four weeks details of the importers of another set of 170 such containers lying at Navasheva port in Maharashtra, so that appropriate orders could be passed.

Aitraaz in spot over scene

Jabalpur (PTI): A Madhya Pradesh High Court bench has issued notices to the Central Film Censor Board, producer Subhash Ghai and director Abbas Mastan over an ?objectionable scene? in the film Aitraaz.

The bench of Chief Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice S.S. Kemkar asked the respondents to file replies within two weeks after hearing a public interest litigation on Tuesday filed by advocates M.M. Jaiswal and R.K. Pandey.

The advocates petitioned that in the movie, also starring Priyanka Chopra (picture right), actor Annu Kapoor is shown consuming alcohol in an advocate?s uniform, which was against the advocates? act and amounted to contempt of court.

The court, in the last hearing of the petition on December 24, had directed the Madhya Pradesh Bar Association secretary, Sunil Chaubey, to see the picture and submit a report.

Chaubey in his report said the scenes were objectionable and amounted to contempt of court.

Kanchi seer bail plea

New Delhi : The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the special leave petition of Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswati against denial of bail to him in the Shankar Raman murder case, reports our legal correspondent.
The Tamil Nadu government had earlier filed a petition opposing his bail plea in the Radha Krishnan assault case. The petition had urged that both petitions be heard together. The petition would “come in the normal course”, the judges said.

Bribery case

Jaipur (PTI): Three former ministers have been summoned by a court for a voice test in a bribery case on January 7. The anti-corruption bureau had investigated the case related to a VCD released by a real estate agent showing them taking bribe to give clearance on a land deal.

Life sentence

Ahmednagar: (PTI) Bhojiram Kedare, Prayagabai Kedare and Parameshwar Kedare, residents of Manglur village, have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of Parameshwar’s wife Seema. The three had tortured and burnt Seema who later died in hospital.

Alert jawan

Srinagar (PTI): A CRPF jawan nabbed a person who was about to hurl a grenade at the force’s bunker in Lal Chowk. Sumbal Sonawari dropped the grenade, which did not explode, when he fell after being chased by the jawan.

Bus robbery

Nalgonda (PTI): Three armed dacoits robbed jewellery and cash worth Rs 1.50 lakh from bus passengers near Pettampalli in Andhra Pradesh. The state bus was on its way to Hyderabad when the dacoits struck.

Infant stolen

Mumbai (PTI): A day-old baby was stolen from a city hospital. A woman who claimed to be the head of the ward took the baby away on the pretext of a medical examination on Tuesday. A hunt is on to trace the woman.

A Kathakali version of an act of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was staged in Thiruvananthapuram. The hour-long mime was performed with cymbals and percussion instruments playing in the background.