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  • Delhi Waqf Board irregularities: Court grants bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in a case related to alleged irregularities in the Waqf Board, saying that “prima facie the allegations against the accused are not grave and serious in nature”.

    According to the FIR, Khan while working as chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board had indulged in several irregularities, including illegally recruiting 32 people by violating all norms and government guidelines.

    The court said that as per the statement of the Waqf Board’s CEO, it was “prima facie shown that the accused being the Chairman of Delhi Waqf Board went ahead with the recruitment in violation of the instruction of the Delhi government, just to favour his relatives and members of his constituency.”

    But, there was no material on record to show that Khan had received a bribe from any contractual employee, the court said.

    The Waqf Board had previously recruited employees, without the existence of any rules, and there was no material on record to show that any of the recruited employees had paid bride to Khan, the court said.

    Regarding leasing of Waqf properties, the court noted that prima facie, no loss was caused to the public exchequer with regard to the creation of tenancies.

    There was also no material on record to show the entrustment of the Waqf fund to Khan or his exclusive dominion over it, nor was there any evidence to prove that any contractual employee after withdrawing the salary amount had repaid it to the accused, the court said.

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    Further, the court said that “prima facie entrustment of funds to the accused or its misappropriation is not made out.”

    “From the aforesaid discussion, it can be prima facie held that allegations against the accused are not grave and serious in nature,” the court said.

    The court then noted that out of 24 cases against Khan, he was acquitted or discharged in 20 cases and during the alleged assault on Anti-Corruption Branch officials, the accused was in their custody.

    The court said that as a sitting MLA, Khan was not a flight risk and there was no chance of tampering with already seized primary evidence, which was documentary in nature.

    “In the facts and circumstances, having regard to the principles governing the grant of bail as mentioned hereinabove, the application filed by the accused is allowed and he is admitted to bail subject to his furnishing personal bond in the sum of Rs 1 lakh with one surety of the like amount.” special judge Vikas Dhull said.

    The court, however, made it clear that it was not expressing any opinion on the merits of the case. The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) arrested Khan after conducting raids at his premises on September 16.

    The then CEO of Delhi Waqf Board had clearly given a statement and issued a memorandum against such illegal recruitment, the FIR said.

    Further, it was alleged that as chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, Khan rented out several properties of the Waqf Board illegally amid allegations of corruption and favouritism, it added.

    The FIR also alleged that Khan misappropriated funds of the Waqf Board comprising grants-in-aid from the Delhi government.

    NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in a case related to alleged irregularities in the Waqf Board, saying that “prima facie the allegations against the accused are not grave and serious in nature”.

    According to the FIR, Khan while working as chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board had indulged in several irregularities, including illegally recruiting 32 people by violating all norms and government guidelines.

    The court said that as per the statement of the Waqf Board’s CEO, it was “prima facie shown that the accused being the Chairman of Delhi Waqf Board went ahead with the recruitment in violation of the instruction of the Delhi government, just to favour his relatives and members of his constituency.”

    But, there was no material on record to show that Khan had received a bribe from any contractual employee, the court said.

    The Waqf Board had previously recruited employees, without the existence of any rules, and there was no material on record to show that any of the recruited employees had paid bride to Khan, the court said.

    Regarding leasing of Waqf properties, the court noted that prima facie, no loss was caused to the public exchequer with regard to the creation of tenancies.

    There was also no material on record to show the entrustment of the Waqf fund to Khan or his exclusive dominion over it, nor was there any evidence to prove that any contractual employee after withdrawing the salary amount had repaid it to the accused, the court said.

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    Further, the court said that “prima facie entrustment of funds to the accused or its misappropriation is not made out.”

    “From the aforesaid discussion, it can be prima facie held that allegations against the accused are not grave and serious in nature,” the court said.

    The court then noted that out of 24 cases against Khan, he was acquitted or discharged in 20 cases and during the alleged assault on Anti-Corruption Branch officials, the accused was in their custody.

    The court said that as a sitting MLA, Khan was not a flight risk and there was no chance of tampering with already seized primary evidence, which was documentary in nature.

    “In the facts and circumstances, having regard to the principles governing the grant of bail as mentioned hereinabove, the application filed by the accused is allowed and he is admitted to bail subject to his furnishing personal bond in the sum of Rs 1 lakh with one surety of the like amount.” special judge Vikas Dhull said.

    The court, however, made it clear that it was not expressing any opinion on the merits of the case. The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) arrested Khan after conducting raids at his premises on September 16.

    The then CEO of Delhi Waqf Board had clearly given a statement and issued a memorandum against such illegal recruitment, the FIR said.

    Further, it was alleged that as chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, Khan rented out several properties of the Waqf Board illegally amid allegations of corruption and favouritism, it added.

    The FIR also alleged that Khan misappropriated funds of the Waqf Board comprising grants-in-aid from the Delhi government.

  • Fashion to give ‘communal colour’ to illegal acts: Naqvi on Shaheen Bagh demolition row

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Amid a row over the demolition drive in Shaheen Bagh, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday said it has become a fashion to give a “communal colour” to criminal acts, and asserted that “legal action” against “illegal acts” should be supported.

    Protests erupted at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, the scene of the epic sit-in against the new citizenship law, on Monday with hundreds of people, including women, physically blocking bulldozers and forcing the local municipal authority to abandon the anti-encroachment drive.

    AAP MLA of the area Amanatullah Khan had on Monday accused that the BJP of using the municipality to “spoil” the environment in Shaheen Bagh and indulging in “Hindu-Muslim rhetoric”.

    Leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), including Khan, and the Congress had reached the spot and staged a dharna.

    Asked about the allegations of Opposition parties such as the AAP and the Congress, Naqvi said it is unfortunate that it has become a fashion to give a “communal colour” to criminal and illegal acts.

    Legal action against illegal acts should be supported and not given a communal colour, the senior BJP leader told PTI.

    “Be it crime, illegal acts, some political parties make it a part of their pseudo-secular agenda,” he said.

    Parodying a popular Bollywood song, Naqvi said of the controversy, “Bulldozer badnaam hua, encroachment tere liye.”

    The minority affairs minister said if someone has committed a crime, an illegal act, then action is taken without discrimination.

    “The constitutional, social and religious rights of minorities were, are and will be protected. Nobody can harm these rights,” he asserted.

    Those who indulge in fear-mongering among minorities, they are not well-wishers of minorities but want to politically exploit them, Naqvi said.

    Asserting that illegal encroachment cannot be a safe investment for anyone, the minister said it has nothing to do with caste, colour or community and action would be taken against anyone, who indulges in it.

    “It is heartening to see that at some places people have themselves cleared encroachments,” he said.

    The Delhi Police had on Monday registered an FIR against AAP MLA Khan and his supporters for allegedly obstructing an anti-encroachment drive in Shaheen Bagh, officials said.

    The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) lodged a complaint with the police against Khan and his supporters, accusing them of obstructing its anti-encroachment drive in Shaheen Bagh on Monday.

    As soon as bulldozers rolled into the locality, teeming with police and paramilitary personnel, to pull down alleged illegal structures, hundreds of people gathered on the streets and atop buildings.

    Many raised slogans against the authorities and staged sit-ins on the roads, while a woman protester hopped onto a bulldozer, the earthmoving machine that has emerged as a symbol of government power in the recent months.

  • Editorial: – Monarchy VS Bureaucracy

     

    You say that the monarchy of the kings has ended. I say that it is still not finished in India. The monarchy of the family is continuing. You say the dictatorship is over, as in India, the alliance of monarchy and monarchy is still in India.You say the slave system and the tied wages system is over. I say that he is also continuing in some form in India. After Independence, the princes in India had themselves included themselves in the democratic system. The Privy purse being given to them was also eliminated by Indira Gandhi.

    In fact, the state is not over and neither the privy purse is finished. The other family members around the family’s party are seen in the same way around the family-friendly Congressman jag, like flies. Democracy is also not over. Communist parties have now merged themselves with these familyist parties in the same way as terrorists or picketmen take themselves into the crowd.

    Today, its present form was seen when the leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party were carrying tricolor in their hands and with them, the Marxist activists took their red flag and gathered from the Mandi House to encroach on the PM House (Lok Kalyan Marg). Were there.

    This is not a new form. Even during the reign of Pandit Nehru, comrade Krishna Menon and hundreds of comrades like him were covered. After this, it is well-known that the Left was dominated by Indira Gandhi’s Keecha.

    In this way, we see that dictatorship and separatist forces are dominating in India under the guise of democracy.

    Similarly, bonded labor and slavery are also included in the rule of our India. It is enough to give two examples in this regard.

    According to media reports, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan and some of his associates mistreated IAS Anshu Prakash at Arvind Kejriwal’s house a few days ago. IAS Anshu Prakash alleges that all this happened in front of CM Kejriwal. In the case of rioting and mischief by the Delhi Chief Secretary, police arrested MLA Aam Aadmi Party MLA Prakash Jarwal. All are familiar with this incident.

    Today the Press Conference of the Independent Officers Association has also been held in which the Association’s officials have responded to Kejriwal: ‘The leaders are not on strike, the targets created for political reasons’.

    The bureaucracy that raises the cup plate in UP and the monarchy of the leaders

    Similarly, another incident sequence is made by Akhilesh Yadav’s statement in which he had said that the officer who raised the plate-bowl, the same spreading rumor was spreading.

    According to media reports, Akhilesh has uproot all the precious and decorative items from his bungalow. According to the pictures coming in the media, the AC, electric equipment, decor items, exotic trees, carpets and tiles have also been grown from the bungalow located on the four Vikramaditya Marg.

    Pittsi and cup-plate raises bureaucracy, how will the system improve with outer talent?

    The new and revolutionary verdict of the government can eliminate red tape

    The question of reservation in the bureaucracy

    The arrangements for reservation in jobs were implemented with the constitution, but the arrangement of reservation in promotion started from 1955. Instead of following the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court in the Nagraj case in 2006, it is dangerous to try to divide the bureaucracy with the politics of reservation in the center and the state. By releasing the social data of the 2011 census, instead of ending this dispute in a healthy way, the disintegration of the bureaucracy on a caste basis can break the democratic system. If the private sector’s talent will be struggling in a short span of time, then how will the change happen?

    Why not improve system instead of direct recruitment

    Those associated with saffronisation by the Government, direct recruitment of experts on joint secretary rank are not aware of both law and tradition. 25 years ago, the Russian Chief Minister of Russia and R. V. Shahi was made the energy secretary and in the same tradition, Vaidya Rajesh Kottecha was made secretary of the Ministry of AYUSH by the Modi government. Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Nandan Nilekani were replaced in high positions in the Congress era, then why the controversy over direct recruitment of experts in the joint secretary’s post?

    It is famous in the IAS Academy of Mussoorie that the best talent in the government through UPSC becomes helpless and discredited by being victim of system rot. The IAS officers have constitutional protection under Article 312 and 320 of the Constitution, but they do not get system support to work. In the last phase of the government’s tenure, the direct recruitment of private sector experts on the contract for three years may be politically beneficial, but how to expect them to reduce system rot?