Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. In Tamil Nadu, caste is above god and 'honour' above life
On March 14, a selfproclaimed advocate in Tamil Nadu, T SA run kumar V ill up ur am, put up an unusual Facebook post.
"Don’t worry if you have committed an honour killing. Come to me and I will take up your case and see that you are saved. There is no crime called honour killing,” the post read with the advocate’s email address included. “In fact the killing is a punishment for having violated honour. Parents have the right to punish the ‘killing’ of honour.”
Chennai-based activist Geetha Narayanan immediately shared the post and tagged Chennai police commissioner, the Hindustan Times reported. In two days, the post was taken down and the account closed after a Chennai lawyer sent him a notice. But Arunkumar was only one of hundreds of such accounts, many of whom congratulated the killers of Sank ar, a young Dalit man who was killed allegedly by the family of his upper-caste wife, Kausalya, last week.
2. Video of weeping Indian goes viral, Saudi government jails him
A video of a man weeping and narrating his plight as a driver in Saudi Arabia has gone viral on the Internet with over 1 million views, after it was posted on March 12. The man has been identified as a native of Dandeli, Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. He has been jailed by the Saudi police for allegedly posting the video.
The man in the video, Abdul Sattar Makandar (35), a native of Hasan Maad area in Dandeli, is seen pleading for help to return to India from the kingdom where he has worked since 2014 as a truck driver at a construction engineering firm in Al Khobar, the Hindu reported.
3. Drought-hit Latur invokes Section 144 to check water riots
Authorities in Maharashtra's drought-hit Latur district have invoked Section 144 of CrPC to bar the assembly of more than five people around wells and water filling points and tanks to check violence over water amid an unprecedented scarcity . The order is probably the first of its kind in Maharashtra.
Issued by the district's collector, Pandurang Pol, the order will be in effect in areas around 20 places until May 31. Hometown of the late former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Latur has reportedly witnessed the exodus of nearly 1.5 lakh people to neighbouring districts on account of water shortage. Wa ter is supplied through tankers once a week to its residents, and the prohibitory order follows complaints of the supply being obstructed.
Confirming the order, a senior official told the Times of India, “All the 20 places have been notified. Law-enforcement agencies have been instructed to ensure that more than five people do not assemble at these places.“ The official said the places include all tanker-filling points, public wells, tanker routes and stor age tanks in the district.
4. AMU V-C requests Kejriwal for an office space in capital
In a 30-minute meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday evening, Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Lieutenant General Zameer Uddin Shah and Pro-Vice Chancellor Brigadier S Ahmad Ali requested the allotment of an office space for the university in the capital.
They also asked for the release of a Waqf property owned by the AMU and support for a museum dedicated to the university’s founder Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the Indian Express reported.
5. Bhujbal Arm-strong: Once a vegetable seller, now charged in a Rs 800 crore scam
Sometime in the fifties, at an inter-college competition, a young man had gone up on stage to deliver a power-packed performance in a one-act play. The winner that day was Chhagan Bhujbal, a student of Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute College in Matunga, Mumbai, and the runner-up was Amjad Khan (of later-day Sholay fame).
Those who know Bhujbal, the 69-year-old NCP leader who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 14 for alleged corruption during his stint as PWD Minister in two terms of the Congress-NCP government of 2004 to 2014, say that's one skill that has stayed with him — theatrics, as per the Indian Express report.
All he needed was a stage and in his four-decade political career, he had several — first with the Shiv Sena, followed by the Congress and then the NCP.
6. Girl missing for 8 years returns home a woman
A 10-year-old girl had gone missing from Bhajanpura in 2008. Police tried hard to find her but couldn't make any headway . Even her family vanished without a trace a little later. Over the years, it became a cold case file without much hope of being cracked. Until now.
At a meeting last week, JCP (eastern range) Sanjay Baniwal asked the area DCP AK Singla to review all pending cases. The northeast district police chanced upon the missing girl's case and found it intriguing. They decided to probe it afresh. Police got in touch with shelter homes in Delhi and UP. A home in Kanpur informed that there was a girl living there for three years and she could be the one, the Times of India reported.
A team led by ACP Sandeep Lamba was sent to establish the identity of the girl while another team of SHO Vijay Shrotirya was tasked to trace the family and take them there.
7. After PM's rap, officials get target to clear up to 30 grievances a week
Senior officials have been assigned a new Key Result Area (KRA) — to personally resolve 10-30 public grievances a week — a move that could be construed as a strategy to sensitise officials and improve public perceptions of the NDA government.
According to a report in the Hindu, following a rap from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the abysmal handling of public grievances in some departments, the Cabinet Secretariat has issued a fresh order asking the Secretaries of all departments, involved an interface with the public, to personally address 10 individual problems in their domains every week.
The new KRA has been added to e-Samiksha through which Mr. Modi monitors the performance of the Ministries on different targets.
8. Stepfather murders toddler for crying
A two-and-a-halfyear-old girl child was bludgeoned to death by her stepfather with a rolling pin (belan) at their house in northeast Delhi’s Shastri Park on Saturday afternoon.
Police said the man was annoyed because he was trying to sleep but the child was constantly crying, the Hindustan Times reported.
The girl’s six-year-old brother alerted neighbours who caught the accused and handed him over to the police.
9. Delhi: 19-year-old raises alarm against burglars, shot at
A 19-year-old girl was shot at by burglars in south Delhi's Moti Bagh area early on Saturday when she spied them stealing items from an electronics showroom. When she raised an alarm, they shot the girl in the stomach and fled from the spot in their car.
After she was shot, the family called a PCR van and the injured girl was rushed to AIIMS Trauma Centre, where she underwent a surgery to get a pellet removed. Police said that the doctors had stated that her condition was out of danger, the Times of India reported.
Police also said that Neeru, along with her family , had been asleep in their grocery stall and had woken up on hearing strange noises coming from across the street.
10. School under lens for 'blackmail' over fees
Parents of about 60 students in Classes I-VIII of a private school in Gurgaon have alleged that the authorities threatened to hold back the annual exam results of their wards after they refused to pay the hiked fees for the next session.
The school in question is among those being audited by the Gurgaon administration's fee and fund regulatory authority (constituted under the Haryana Schools Education Rules, 2003). The parents claimed they had paid according to the terms of Form 6, a document submitted by the school detailing its fee structure to the education department that is cleared by the district education officer.
The revised fee will be effective from the new session, which starts on March 28, the Times of India reported.
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