Shooter Abhinav Bindra targets BCCI, IPL in times of Covid
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Olympic Gold Medaillist Abhinav Bindra. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, April 26 : India s only individual Olympic gold medallist, Abhinav Bindra, on Monday questioned the continuation of Indian Premier League (IPL) when the Covid-19 pandemic has virtually crippled India, saying Indian cricketers and officials can t just live in their own bubble, and be totally deaf or blind to whatever is going on outside .
Bindra, who won the 10-metre air rifle gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, also wondered why the Indian cricket board, worth Rs 14,489.80 crore, the richest in the world, hasn t contributed so far to the Covid cause, like vaccination during the current wave.
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Influenced by India’s vocal strategic community, obsessed largely with abstract notions regarding modernisation of the country’s military, successive governments have impetuously taken steps to usher in half-baked ‘reforms’ to these ends, with little effort to assess either their efficacy or implementability.
Many such putative reforms have gained currency in recent months, following the appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat in December 2019, primarily to effect military modernisation by readying the services to fight the 21st century techno-wars and to economise defence expenditure. The ongoing armed standoff with China in eastern Ladakh, since May 2020, has only exacerbated the government’s and General Rawat’s formidable security challenge as
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The Supreme Court on Monday passed a slew of guidelines regarding the appointment of ad-hoc judges in High Courts under Article 224A of the Constitution.
A bench comprising
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Surya Kant passed the judgment in the case
Lok Prahari vs Union of India. Lok Prahari, an NGO, had approached the Top Court through a PIL filed under Article 32 seeking the invocation of Article 224A to tackle the problem of mounting case arrears in High Courts.
CJI SA Bobde said that the bench has passed a 64-paragraph judgment, broadly accepting the discussions held during the hearing. The CJI did not read out the guidelines and said that the judgment will be released soon during the course of the day.
SC triggers Article 224A to appoint ad hoc judges
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Article 224A of the Constitution allows the Chief Justice of a High Court to appoint a person who has been a judge earlier to sit as a judge of the court with the previous consent of the President. This has only been invoked thrice in the past and has more or less stayed dormant for years.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a set of directions which set the pace for the appointment of retired judges as ad hoc judges to the high courts, especially those which have a lot of pending cases.
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Ad-hoc appointments are intended to hear old pending cases; such appointments cannot be a substitute for regular appointment.
The Supreme Court has laid down guidelines for the appointment of ad-hoc judges in High Courts under Article 224A of the Constitution of India.
Article 224A enables a Chief Justice of a High Court, with the previous consent of the President, to request a former High Court judge to sit and act as a judge of the High Court to hear cases. The provision has been invoked very rarely in the judicial history of India.
A bench comprising the