Doc strike on despite Court rap
Hyderabad, Dec. 7: Junior doctors have decided to continue their agitation over the alleged attack on one of their colleagues by MIM MLA Afsar Khan, even as the AP High Court warned of action against them and the 12th additional chief metropolitan Magistrate asked the Nampally police to register an attempt to murder case against Mr Afsar Khan and 29 others.
The decision to continue on the warpath was taken at a meeting of the AP Junior Doctors Association held here on Friday evening. “We are not going to call off the strike till our demands are met,” said APJDA state president, Dr G. Raju. He demanded that Mr Afsar Khan should be arrested under non bailable charges and the government should move an ordinance to protect doctors. “We are going to represent to the Speaker again to disqualify him,” said Raju.
On Friday, doctors conducted dharna at Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences demanding the arrest of Mr Afsar Khan. Meanwhile, the AP High Court on Friday observed it would not allow the agitation to go on at the cost of the lives of poor patients. “If junior doctors of Niloufer hospital continue their strike the court may direct the State Government to initiate action against them,” said a division bench comprising of acting Chief Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan.
The bench was dealing with a Public Interest Litigation filed by an advocate urging the court to restrain senior doctors from joining the strike. Justice Nazki asked the Advocate General, Mr C.V. Mohan Reddy, whether there were any provisions for taking action against the striking doctors. The AG said that government could ask the Medical Council of India to suspend their registration.
However, he termed as false media reports about increasing number of child deaths in Niloufer Hospital after the strike began. Mr Mohan Reddy pointed out that the average mortality rate per day in the hospital was 10 and the average admission was 97 patients per day. During the strike, the mortality rate was 5 and admission 76 per day, he added. The case was posted to Tuesday.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Court asks police to book MLA
Court asks police to book MLA
Hyderabad Dec. 7: A city court on Friday asked police to register an ‘attempt to murder’ case against MIM MLA, Mr Afsar Khan, and 29 others for attacking a doctor of the Niloufer Hospital. The 12th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate also asked the Nampally police to register a case against the MLA and his followers for outraging the modesty of women.
Mr N. Suresh Babu, a junior doctor of Niloufer Hospital, had filed a complaint in the court stating that the MLA and his henchmen stormed into the hospital on December 2 and attacked Dr Praveen Chander. The petitioner alleged that the MLA’s followers pushed other doctors and misbehaved with the women doctors.
He further said that that the MLA threatened to set the doctors ablaze after pouring petrol on them. The counsel for the petitioner, Mr Ramachandra Rao, told the court that the MLA’s intention was to kill the doctors since he came with 30 goons armed with knives. After hearing the arguments, the magistrate, Mr Lateef-Ur-Rehman, asked the Nampally police to register cases and investigate. Meanwhile, junior doctors of Osmania Medical College, Koti, lodged a complaint with the Sultan Bazar police over the alleged assault of the college security guards on Thursday night.
The medicos said that some unidentified people beat up the security guards on duty with stones and lathis. The injured guards were taken to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences by the junior doctors for treatment.Police officials said that the junior doctors had not asked the Sultan Bazar police picket that was posted inside the Osmania Medical College premises for security. They said they doubted the claims of the junior doctors and that only one security guard, Haribabu, was injured.
Hyderabad Dec. 7: A city court on Friday asked police to register an ‘attempt to murder’ case against MIM MLA, Mr Afsar Khan, and 29 others for attacking a doctor of the Niloufer Hospital. The 12th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate also asked the Nampally police to register a case against the MLA and his followers for outraging the modesty of women.
Mr N. Suresh Babu, a junior doctor of Niloufer Hospital, had filed a complaint in the court stating that the MLA and his henchmen stormed into the hospital on December 2 and attacked Dr Praveen Chander. The petitioner alleged that the MLA’s followers pushed other doctors and misbehaved with the women doctors.
He further said that that the MLA threatened to set the doctors ablaze after pouring petrol on them. The counsel for the petitioner, Mr Ramachandra Rao, told the court that the MLA’s intention was to kill the doctors since he came with 30 goons armed with knives. After hearing the arguments, the magistrate, Mr Lateef-Ur-Rehman, asked the Nampally police to register cases and investigate. Meanwhile, junior doctors of Osmania Medical College, Koti, lodged a complaint with the Sultan Bazar police over the alleged assault of the college security guards on Thursday night.
The medicos said that some unidentified people beat up the security guards on duty with stones and lathis. The injured guards were taken to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences by the junior doctors for treatment.Police officials said that the junior doctors had not asked the Sultan Bazar police picket that was posted inside the Osmania Medical College premises for security. They said they doubted the claims of the junior doctors and that only one security guard, Haribabu, was injured.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
AP High Court ‘sees’ proof of RTC graft
By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad Dec. 7: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday said there were many discrepancies and irregularities in the ad hoc contracts given to firms for fabrication of bodies of APSRTC’s express buses.
A division bench consisting of acting chief justice Bilal Nazki and Ramesh Ranganathan made this observation after perusing the tender evaluation forms submitted by APSRTC.
The bench had on Thursday asked the standing counsel of APSRTC to submit tender evaluation forms. After reviewing them, the judges said that it required investigation by the police. “Why have you awarded the works on ad hoc basis without finalising the tenders?” asked the judges. “In some cases you have given contract to build the body of one bus and some cases you have given contract for more than a dozen buses. Why these discrepancies?”
The standing counsel informed the court that APSRTC has awarded contracts to about 13approved firms to build the bodies of 983 buses. The case was posted to Monday.
Hyderabad Dec. 7: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday said there were many discrepancies and irregularities in the ad hoc contracts given to firms for fabrication of bodies of APSRTC’s express buses.
A division bench consisting of acting chief justice Bilal Nazki and Ramesh Ranganathan made this observation after perusing the tender evaluation forms submitted by APSRTC.
The bench had on Thursday asked the standing counsel of APSRTC to submit tender evaluation forms. After reviewing them, the judges said that it required investigation by the police. “Why have you awarded the works on ad hoc basis without finalising the tenders?” asked the judges. “In some cases you have given contract to build the body of one bus and some cases you have given contract for more than a dozen buses. Why these discrepancies?”
The standing counsel informed the court that APSRTC has awarded contracts to about 13approved firms to build the bodies of 983 buses. The case was posted to Monday.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Bilal aide may have delivered explosives’
By S.A. ISHAQUI
Hyderabad, Sept. 8: The city police now suspects that Shaik Abdul Khader, an aide of the wanted terrorist Shahed, alias Bilal, may have helped the culprits by delivering explosives that were used in the Mecca Masjid blast.
The police has zeroed in on Khader on the basis of the confession made by his younger brother Abdul Kaleem, who is in custody.
Kaleem told the police that when Khader came to Hyderabad from Dubai on May 1 he was secretive about a mysterious parcel in a polythene cover which was wrapped in a yellow plastic bag that he had brought with him.
"When I asked him about the parcel, he told me that it was to be delivered personally a friend in the old city," Kaleem said in his confession.
"And he delivered it a day or two after his arrival. But I did not know who the recipient was." Kaleem told the police that Khader had left for Dubai in March on an invitation from Fayyaq, a friend and associate of Bilal.
City police commissioner Balwinder Singh said the police had information that Khader came to the city through Mumbai. "We are in touch with immigration authorities to find out from where he reached Mumbai," said the commissioner. The suspicion is that Khader could have crossed the border illegally. He travelled to Hyderabad by road.
The police has decided to verify the calls made by Khader during his stay in Hyderabad. He had used a mobile with the number 9966157138 and gave it to his mother before leaving for Dubai.
The police had earlier got information that Abdul Bari, alias Abu Hamza, another wanted terrorist, visited the city a few days before the Mecca Masjid blast on May 18.
"We are trying to locate persons who met Hamza and Khader," said a senior police officer. "Once they are caught, the mystery behind the blast will be solved."
Kaleem also said in his confession that his elder brother Shaik Abdul Khaja left for Bangladesh without valid documents about two and a half years ago. Khaja is close associate of Shahed.
Hyderabad, Sept. 8: The city police now suspects that Shaik Abdul Khader, an aide of the wanted terrorist Shahed, alias Bilal, may have helped the culprits by delivering explosives that were used in the Mecca Masjid blast.
The police has zeroed in on Khader on the basis of the confession made by his younger brother Abdul Kaleem, who is in custody.
Kaleem told the police that when Khader came to Hyderabad from Dubai on May 1 he was secretive about a mysterious parcel in a polythene cover which was wrapped in a yellow plastic bag that he had brought with him.
"When I asked him about the parcel, he told me that it was to be delivered personally a friend in the old city," Kaleem said in his confession.
"And he delivered it a day or two after his arrival. But I did not know who the recipient was." Kaleem told the police that Khader had left for Dubai in March on an invitation from Fayyaq, a friend and associate of Bilal.
City police commissioner Balwinder Singh said the police had information that Khader came to the city through Mumbai. "We are in touch with immigration authorities to find out from where he reached Mumbai," said the commissioner. The suspicion is that Khader could have crossed the border illegally. He travelled to Hyderabad by road.
The police has decided to verify the calls made by Khader during his stay in Hyderabad. He had used a mobile with the number 9966157138 and gave it to his mother before leaving for Dubai.
The police had earlier got information that Abdul Bari, alias Abu Hamza, another wanted terrorist, visited the city a few days before the Mecca Masjid blast on May 18.
"We are trying to locate persons who met Hamza and Khader," said a senior police officer. "Once they are caught, the mystery behind the blast will be solved."
Kaleem also said in his confession that his elder brother Shaik Abdul Khaja left for Bangladesh without valid documents about two and a half years ago. Khaja is close associate of Shahed.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Hamza made masjid bomb
By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, Sept. 4: Mohammed Abdul Bari alias Abu Hamza, the most wanted man of the city police, made the bomb which killed nine persons in the historic Mecca Masjid on May 18. Police have learnt that Bari reached the city in April, assembled the bomb at Chandrayanagutta with the help of two Pakistanis and one Bangladeshi and then slipped away.
Top sources said police got this vital information after conducting narco analysis tests on suspects of the Mecca Masjid blasts, Shaik Nayeem alias Sameer, a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, Shoaib Jagirdar, who reportedly brought RDX into the city, and Imran, his nephew. Sleuths were stunned to learn that the dreaded terrorist they had been hunting for eight years had slipped in and out of the city without their having an inkling of it.
“These confessions on Bari’s role in the blasts are corroborated by intelligence inputs that he was missing at that time from his usual hideouts in Bangladesh and Riyadh,” sources said. City Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said police had concrete information about Bari’s arrival in the city prior to Mecca Masjid blast. He, however, refused to divulge further information.
“It cannot be termed a failure of the police that he was not caught,” said the commissioner. “Sometimes it is difficult to track the movement of such people though there were some inputs.” Mr Balwinder Singh said the police were trying to find out the remaining RDX and added that the whole conspiracy could be unravelled once it was found. It was the special investigation cell probing the case relating to the unexploded bomb that collected the information about the movement of Bari.
Imran had initially told the police that some HUJI activists were in city but he did not give names. Later, Sameer confessed that Bari came to the city and made the bomb. Investigations revealed that Bari crossed the Bangladesh border in April along with three others. The RDX also arrived by the time he reached the city. He assembled two bombs and went back to Bangladesh a few days before the blast. Sameer also confessed that 800 grams of RDX was used to make two bombs out of which only one went off. Police has videographed his confession.
Hyderabad, Sept. 4: Mohammed Abdul Bari alias Abu Hamza, the most wanted man of the city police, made the bomb which killed nine persons in the historic Mecca Masjid on May 18. Police have learnt that Bari reached the city in April, assembled the bomb at Chandrayanagutta with the help of two Pakistanis and one Bangladeshi and then slipped away.
Top sources said police got this vital information after conducting narco analysis tests on suspects of the Mecca Masjid blasts, Shaik Nayeem alias Sameer, a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, Shoaib Jagirdar, who reportedly brought RDX into the city, and Imran, his nephew. Sleuths were stunned to learn that the dreaded terrorist they had been hunting for eight years had slipped in and out of the city without their having an inkling of it.
“These confessions on Bari’s role in the blasts are corroborated by intelligence inputs that he was missing at that time from his usual hideouts in Bangladesh and Riyadh,” sources said. City Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said police had concrete information about Bari’s arrival in the city prior to Mecca Masjid blast. He, however, refused to divulge further information.
“It cannot be termed a failure of the police that he was not caught,” said the commissioner. “Sometimes it is difficult to track the movement of such people though there were some inputs.” Mr Balwinder Singh said the police were trying to find out the remaining RDX and added that the whole conspiracy could be unravelled once it was found. It was the special investigation cell probing the case relating to the unexploded bomb that collected the information about the movement of Bari.
Imran had initially told the police that some HUJI activists were in city but he did not give names. Later, Sameer confessed that Bari came to the city and made the bomb. Investigations revealed that Bari crossed the Bangladesh border in April along with three others. The RDX also arrived by the time he reached the city. He assembled two bombs and went back to Bangladesh a few days before the blast. Sameer also confessed that 800 grams of RDX was used to make two bombs out of which only one went off. Police has videographed his confession.
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