Merciless attack by Maoists
In a calculated move, Maoists attack at Gadchiroli blew up a vehicle of policemen. Such attacks are taking place frequently from the early days and that continues even now unstopped. The talks with the terror outfit did not yield desired results and the attacks and counter-attacks take place quite frequently and the relentless attack gives the people in the Maoist area and sleepless nights. This time the attack took place at the time of elections. The Maoists are merciless in their secret attacks.
Nickhil Mani
Court-appointed arbitrators should be regulated
It is quite usual that retired judges of Supreme Court and High Courts are appointed arbitrators by courts, giving them much-much more income than they earn while they’re being judges in higher courts. There are reports that these arbitrators charge exorbitantly for each hearing. Even if all the concerned parties mutually agree for adjournment much before the date of hearing, arbitrators insist on sending representation for adjournment on the fixed date of hearing so that they may forcibly charge for a hearing held just for seeking an adjournment. It has also been reported that after completion of the hearing, arbitrators withhold their arbitration-award even for years. Any party approaching for an early arbitration-award has to pay the additional cost for doing so.
If these practices are true, then it is injustice and inhumanity on part of those minting money after their retirement from judicial posts. Arbitrators must be regulated from such malpractices and tactics of minting money, if so. They must give time-bound verdict after completion of the hearing. There must not be any fees payable in case adjournments. To avoid an extra number of hearings just for sake of money, there should be some maximum limit on the number of hearings, after which no fees for hearing may be there for arbitrators.
Complete details of arbitration-fees earned by an arbitrator case-wise in a year mentioning also a number of hearings conducted in each case should be made public by putting all details on websites of courts having appointed them arbitrators. There must be some maximum reasonable amount fixed for an arbitrator for a particular case. Money earned by way of arbitration must not exceed what they earned before retirement.
Subhash Chandra Agrawal
Curb vulgarity in public places
The viral video of a woman in Gurugram telling seven men to rape a youngster who was wearing shorts at a shopping mall could have been a publicity stunt as the clip was watched by millions on social media. Social media is flooded with fake videos as freak people with vulgar mindset try to become famous overnight. Moral policing can be dangerous and it is the duty of the cops to judge and punish vulgarity in public place and it is none of our business to judge fellow citizens and their preferences in life.
Sexiest remarks can be heard in public places or otherwise in day to day lives. One of my friends had joined a call Centre a few years back and she was shocked when one of her fellow colleagues mentioned that she was happily married to a single man for so many years as she herself prefers to change partners every 2-3 months. Today’s youngsters have the wrong notion about life. They try to copy the western world while Western countries are adopting our culture. Education is the need of the hour and we need to teach our youngsters the right values be it the sense of dressing or their thinking. Wearing shorts is not vulgar if females can carry it well on their bodies while a fully dressed woman too can look vulgar if she wears a skin-tight dress that doesn’t suit her. The same goes with the mindset and free and frank doesn’t mean vulgar talks but honesty is important in your views to impress others!
S.N. Kabra
Girls outshine boys
Girls outshined boys in the CBSE Class 12 results and they achieved a high percentage of marks to top the list and proved that they are second to none with the stupendous show. As in the past, the girls took over boys in education and it is a good sign. Interestingly, the board hardly implemented its much-touted result improvement scheme. It also did not take corrective measures to reduce the stress of the students and the so-called counselling of the students related to just dissuading them from the suicidal path. CBSE results show an increase and Modi’s pep talk gave much-needed impetus. The high percentage achieved through the concerted efforts of teachers and the students is appreciable. The best mark of 499/500 was achieved by a Delhi Public School Ghaziabad. As a resident of Mumbai, I am really happy that Chhavi Singhal achieved the best pass percentage from the city.
Anandambal Subbu
Why should consumers pay for shopping bags?
It refers to a consumer-forum in Chandigarh imposing a total levy of Rs 9,000 on a renowned shoe-company for charging Rs 3 as cost of paper-bag. Ever since a ban has been imposed on plastic-bags, many traders have started charging the cost of paper-bags from the shoppers.
Department of Consumer Affairs should widely publicise through electronic and print media-advertisements to educate consumers that they must not pay for the cost of shopping bags citing all the reasons given by Chandigarh consumer-forum in this regard.
Since shopper-bags are printed with the name and logo of the company, it is advertisement and sales-promotion for which consumer cannot be compelled to pay. Moreover charging a cost for shopping-bag is held as a deficiency in service and traders or companies are duty-bound to supply free shopping-bags with purchased goods.
Madhu Agrawal
Search for Naxalites’ supporters!
The corpse of martyr Dayanand Sahare, who laid his life in Naxalite attack at Gadchiroli, reached his native place on his birthday. His mother made a serious accusation at that time that political leaders were providing explosives and weapons to Naxalites. In fact, the inquiry needs to be conducted taking cognizance of such accusation. Eradicating Naxalism has become a huge challenge for the State. Naxalites kidnap minor girls from nearby villages; rape them and later, force these girls to join them by threatening with defamation which has been admitted by a couple that surrendered recently. Naxalites are inciting young people; creating hatred towards the present governing system and teaching to fight against the system. It was recently exposed through interrogation of few city Naxalites that they were hatching a plot to break internal security and create anarchy. Interrogation should have also been conducted at that time, into members of progressive factions who call themselves as thinkers and advocates who had come forward to defend when police had taken Naxalites’ supporters into custody in connection with Naxalite activities in the city. Their loyalty should have been investigated. Helping Naxalites is like sedition; therefore, those involved in providing food supplies, ammunition and financial aid to them should be found out and stringent action should be taken against them.
Mokshada Ghanekar
(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)
