1. Dhinakaran Targets TN Police
Sidelined leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Amma) TTV Dhinakaran on Wednesday accused the Tamil Nadu police of “intimidating” Members of Legislative Assembly owing allegiance to him.
According to him, the legislators told him that they were being “pressured” to back Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and “offered crores of rupees.” Otherwise, “false cases” would be filed against them, they were reportedly told.
Source: The Hindu
2. PWD Looking for Architect for Jaylalithaa Memorial
The Public Works Department has set the ball rolling for the construction of a memorial for former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at Marina beach. It is in the process of finalising an architect to prepare the design for the memorial.
According to sources, more than 10 bids have been submitted for the tender seeking design for the memorial which would come up at the site where the former Chief Minister was buried on December 6 last year. The memorial would be built on the rear side of the MGR mausoleum.
Source: The Hindu
3. Violence Against Kids an Epidemic: Satyarthi
Flagging off the ‘Bharat Yatra,’ a march to end sexual abuse and trafficking of children, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi called the increasing instances of violence against children in the country as an ‘epidemic’.
“I look at this yatra as a war which should be waged against this epidemic which has been increasing alarmingly. The victims, parents and ordinary citizens live in fear and predators and abusers roam because a sense of fearlessness has set in,” he said, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of his campaign activities in the city by the Kailash Sathyarthi Children’s Foundation.
Source: The Hindu
4. Police File Chargesheet in Mugalivakkam Rape Case
The Mangadu police filed a chargesheet against a suspected paedophile who raped and murdered a seven-year-old girl in Mugalivakkam in February this year.
Police sources said the women’s court in Chengalpattu is likely to take up the case for trial in a week. “Things are on track. The trial will start next week,” said a senior police officer.
However, a sessions court in Chengalpattu granted him bail on the ground of statutory provisions and he is set to come out of jail soon.
Source: The Hindu
5. Opposition Joins Hands Against NEET
The Opposition parties came together across the State on Wednesday to protest against NEET.
At a meeting in Tambaram, DMK working president MK Stalin said the protest was not aimed at capturing power but for safeguarding the interests of students. Soon, another protest against NEET would be organised on a grand scale to put pressure on the government to come up with measures for the welfare of rural students.
Source: The Hindu
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6. Bank Got Commission Out of Money Laundering
A group of self-styled businessmen floated 19 shell companies and routed crores of rupees to foreign accounts through the Punjab National Bank in Chennai. While the bank got a commission of about Rs. 17 lakh in the case of alleged money laundering, the Government of India lost Rs. 421.58 crore in foreign exchange, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) says in its First Information Report.
Interestingly, neither the bank authorities nor any government agency lodged any complaint.
Source: The Hindu
7. Can’t Issue Blanket Injunction Against Media, Says HC
No one has a right to file a case against a media house and seek a blanket injunction restraining it from publishing news articles against particular individuals without being certain about what had the publishers actually intended to carry in their publications, the Madras High Court has held.
Justice MV Muralidaran passed the ruling while allowing a revision petition preferred by Nakkheeran Publications to strike down a civil suit instituted by the head of Madurai Aadheenam, before a city civil court here in 2012, for restraining the Tamil magazine from publishing articles about him.
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