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RANCHI: The Jharkhand high court on Thursday took suo motu cognizance of the death of a woman at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical Hospital in Jamshedpur earlier this week after an email was sent to Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan by a Ranchi-based advocate Anup Agarwal. The complaint in his mail said the woman, who sustained burn injuries, was ill-treated in the hospital, resulting in her death.
Agarwal in his email mentioned that the woman was set on fire by her husband on February 14 in Chakradharpur. On the same day, she was dropped at the hospital by a Good Samaritan with 91% burns. However, the hospital did not attend her for two days until a local media highlighted her plight. She ultimately succumbed to her injuries. The court treated the letter sent on email as a PIL and ordered the Jharkhand Legal Services Authority secretary to inquire into the matter and submit a report within one week.
Ranchi: The Jharkhand Legal Services Authority (Jhalsa) has bagged a national and a world record for disbursing Rs 1,398.20 crore, the largest amount to be disbursed to beneficiaries in one day, after disposing of over 35,000 cases.
The feat was achieved in a lok adalat held on November 26 to commemorate the 71st Constitution Day. The programme was organized via the virtual mode from the Nyay Sadan here. As many as 35,133 matters were decided in the lok adalat and Rs 1398.20 crore was disbursed to the beneficiaries.
Compassionate appointment letters were also handed over to 497 candidates in the lok adalat, Jhalsa executive chairman Justice H C Mishra said on Sunday. While the national award has been presented by the India Book of Records, the certificate for achieving the world record has been presented by the World Records, India.