February 7, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Priestly Mediation

The caller seat of the Delhi High Court earlier which the writ petition of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties and the People’s Union for Democratic Rights was posted recovered it hard to bid an enquiry into the November riots successful Delhi arsenic sought successful the petition. Justice Yogeshwar Dayal said that the substance was fundamentally political. Justice B N Kirpal said, “These are delicate matters, would it beryllium prudent for the tribunal to interfere successful this?”

Old Vs Young

The aged defender successful the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has tally into reasonably heavy occupation pursuing the party’s debacle successful the Lok Sabha election. The younger leaders of the enactment are believed to person decided to inquire the elder CPM leaders to discontinue cardinal posts successful the party’s interests. The younger radical is successful information demanding that Jyoti Basu should discontinue arsenic Chief Minister of West Bengal and instrumentality implicit arsenic the wide caput of the authorities party.

Tax Loophole

The Delhi Municipal Corporation volition “levy” location taxation but volition not “collect” the taxation from properties whose rateable worth is little than Rs 1,000. The civic assemblage recovered itself successful a hole erstwhile it passed the ruling Congress-I party’s solution past twelvemonth that properties whose rateable worth is Rs 1000 volition beryllium exempt from location taxation due to the fact that nether Section 177 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, the corp is not empowered to exempt properties from levy of spot tax.