Clean-up order on health hubs

Patna: The high court division bench of Justice Navin Sinha and Justice Shivaji Pandey on Monday directed health department principal secretary to personally appear before it on Wednesday (May 15) following his failure to file the status report with regard to removal of encroachments in six government medical colleges of the state.

The bench had on May 2 asked the department to file within two weeks the status report following the Supreme Court directive (on April 1) to the high court to monitor implementation of its earlier order to remove encroachments from health hubs. The court was hearing a PIL filed by Vikash Chandra alias Guddu Baba.

Court focus on AIDS rehab

Patna: The high court on Monday directed secretary of Union health ministry and director-general of National AIDS Control Organisation to file their respective detailed counter affidavits by July 15 on a PIL seeking direction to prepare comprehensive policy for welfare and rehabilitation of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in the state.

Committee

Patna: The high court on Monday directed the state government to file its reply within four weeks asking it to explain why the committee constituted at state level to hear the complaints of sexual harassment at work place could not conclude the proceedings in the last four years. The bench also asked the government to tellas when the proceedings would be completed. The court passed the direction on a petition filed by one government employee who charged an IAS officer of sexually harassing her in 2009.

Oil seizure

Gopalganj: Police raided the oil factory of one Vyas Prasad at Hariharpur village under the jurisdiction of Yadopur police station on Sunday night and seized around 1000litres of edible oil. Yadopur station house officer Jwala Singh said raids were conducted as police suspected that three trucks of edible oil, which had gone missing from Banka were stolen by Vyas