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₹397 crore transformer procurement scam: Madras High Court calls for DVAC inquiry report and minutes of tender committee meetings

₹397 crore transformer procurement scam: Madras High Court calls for DVAC inquiry report and minutes of tender committee meetings

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The judges wanted DVAC to submit a status report for perusal during the next hearing. The Madras High Court on Thursday called for the minutes of the meetings of the tender committees which had cleared the government contracts for procuring thousands of distribution transformers during the tenure of former Electricity Minister V. Senthilbalaji between 2021 and 2023 when a reported loss of ₹397 crore had been caused to the public exchequer due to collusive bidding. First Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan also ordered that a report of the preliminary inquiry being conducted by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) into the issue must be placed before the court on March 9, 2026. The directions were issued on a 2024 writ petition filed by anti corruption organisation Arappor Iyakkam. When Advocate General P.S. Raman submitted the DVAC had commenced a preliminary inquiry into the issue, the judges wanted the investigating agency to submit a status report for perusal during the next hearing. Wondering how the officials …

Surgical instrument found in woman’s abdomen 5 years after surgery in Kerala; inquiry launched| India News

Surgical instrument found in woman’s abdomen 5 years after surgery in Kerala; inquiry launched| India News

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Kochi, An artery forceps was found inside the abdomen of a Punnapra native, five years after she underwent surgery at Alappuzha Medical College in Vandanam, relatives said on Friday. Surgical instrument found in woman’s abdomen 5 years after surgery in Kerala; inquiry launched Usha Joseph was shifted to a private hospital in Kochi on Friday to undergo a procedure to remove the surgical instrument. According to relatives, Joseph underwent surgery for the removal of a uterine fibroid at the medical college on May 2021. However, after the surgery, she had been suffering from recurring abdominal pain, her son Shibin told reporters. Though she approached doctors at the same hospital multiple times, the cause of the pain was not identified, he alleged. Recently, Joseph consulted a doctor, suspecting that the pain was due to a kidney stone, who advised an X-ray examination, he said. Shibin said the X-ray reportedly showed an artery forceps, after which doctors at the medical college offered to remove it next week. “However, we do not want any further issues and moved …

Death of newborn: doctor transferred ahead of inquiry following protests

Death of newborn: doctor transferred ahead of inquiry following protests

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The Director of Health Services, K.J. Reena, has directed Bindu Sundar, gynaecologist and resident medical officer (RMO) at the Nedumangad taluk hospital, to go on forced leave after a newborn’s death on Tuesday sparked massive protests at the hospital, with the family alleging medical negligence and with various political outfits creating a ruckus at the hospital, demanding action against the doctor. Protests continued at the hospital on Wednesday too, with the family refusing to accept the body of the infant and staging a sit-in at the hospital. A statement issued by the office of Health Minister Veena George on Wednesday said that Dr. Sundar was being transferred to the Punalur taluk hospital. Ms. George said that a three-member team from SAT Hospital, including a gynaecologist, anaesthesiologist and a neonatologist, had been asked to conduct an immediate inquiry into the incident and to submit a report on Wednesday itself. The incident, wherein the newborn died soon after C-section delivery, happened on Tuesday. Ranjana Krishnan, a resident of Anappara, Vithura, who had visited the hospital on Monday …

SC seeks status report on Ahmedabad air crash inquiry within 3 weeks

SC seeks status report on Ahmedabad air crash inquiry within 3 weeks

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three weeks’ time to the Centre to place on record the status of the probe into the Ahmedabad air crash that claimed 260 lives.  A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing pleas, including one filed by the father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal — the Pilot-in-Command of Air India flight AI-171 that crashed June on 12, 2025 — seeking an independent, court-monitored investigation into the tragedy. During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), submitted that the inquiry by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) was in its final stages. “We are at the fag end of the enquiry, and the report will soon be prepared,” the Centre’s second-highest law officer told the apex court, adding that certain aircraft components had been sent to foreign jurisdictions for specialised testing. Since victims of multiple nationalities were involved, SG Mehta said that international protocols were being followed in the inquiry. T Taking …

Indore water contamination: Inquiry panel issued public notice to seek evidence

Indore water contamination: Inquiry panel issued public notice to seek evidence

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Residents fill water for their household needs from tankers in the Bhagirathpura area of Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu An inquiry commission formed to investigate the deaths due to a diarrhoea outbreak caused by government-supplied water contamination has issued a public notice asking people to submit any evidence and documents related to the incident. As per an official release, the panel headed by former State High Court judge Justice Sushil Kumar Gupta has been formed to probe the tragedy that has claimed several lives in Indore’s Bhagirathpura area in December last year and January this year. “As per the order of the Hon’ble Madhya Pradesh High Court, an Inquiry Commission has been constituted under the chairmanship of Justice Sushil Kumar Gupta, former Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, to investigate the drinking water contamination in the Bhagirathpura area of ​​Indore and its resulting impact on public health and other affected areas,” the release said.  The panel has been tasked with investigating the causes of water pollution, administrative negligence, action against …

Why is Centre not initiating CBI inquiry against KCR, asks Revanth Reddy

Why is Centre not initiating CBI inquiry against KCR, asks Revanth Reddy

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Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and other ministers at public meeting in Bhupalpally district as part of the campaign for Municipal polls on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not initiating any action against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leadership despite the party amassing wealth illegally, and claimed that a CBI inquiry was not being ordered due to the pressure from the Union Minister G Kishan Reddy. Addressing a public meeting at Bhupalapally on Sunday, he claimed that nearly ₹1,500 crore in the BRS party accounts was amassed through unethical practices. He said the Centre had initiated CBI and ED cases against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, but similar action was not being taken in the Kaleshwaram scam. He questioned Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy for remaining silent and termed him as “the adopted son of KCR.” Terming the BRS as “Blackmail Rajakiya Samithi,” he said the phone-tapping episodes during the KCR government were sufficient proof of how the BRS leadership allegedly …

Team of four officers to conduct preliminary inquiry against Ramachandra Rao

Team of four officers to conduct preliminary inquiry against Ramachandra Rao

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The State government has formed a team of four IPS officers, led by R. Hitendra, Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order), to conduct a preliminary inquiry in the case pertaining to videos purportedly showing the now suspended Director-General of Police K. Ramachandra Rao misbehaving with multiple women in his office.  The government was mulling over handing over the case to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). However, a committee has now been formed to hold a preliminary inquiry. Based on this report, the next course of action will be decided. With the women in the video not coming forward to lodge any complaints, there is no scope for a criminal investigation and only an inquiry can be held, sources said.  The inquiry committee will have Chetan Singh Rathore, Inspector-General of Police (Northern Range), Kala Krishnaswamy, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Crimes), and C.B. Ryshyanth, Superintendent of Police (Wireless), as members.  The videos in question are said to be recorded eight years ago when Mr. Rao was IGP (Northern Range). The inquiry committee will now verify the …

Surgical instrument found in woman’s abdomen 5 years after surgery in Kerala; inquiry launched| India News

SC reserves verdict on plea of Justice Yashwant Varma assailing validity of inquiry panel by LS| India News

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New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a plea of Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma challenging the legality of the parliamentary panel probing corruption charges against him. SC reserves verdict on plea of Justice Yashwant Varma assailing validity of inquiry panel by LS A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and SC Sharma reserved its decision after hearing senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi, Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Varma and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing both houses of Parliament. During the hearing, Rohtagi and Luthra questioned the procedure adopted in setting up the parliamentary panel and said under the Judges Act of 1968, only the Speaker of Lok Sabha and chairman of Rajya Sabha are entitled to admit the motion for removal of a judge from office. Mehta defended the constitution of the parliamentary panel, and said if the motion has been admitted in both the houses then the inquiry committee shall be jointly constituted by the speaker and the chairman. On Wednesday, the top court orally observed that there was no bar …

Ghaziabad cop uses device to ‘test’ man’s nationality, tells him he is ‘from Bangladesh’; inquiry ordered| India News

Ghaziabad cop uses device to ‘test’ man’s nationality, tells him he is ‘from Bangladesh’; inquiry ordered| India News

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The Ghaziabad police have ordered an inquiry after a video circulated on social media showing a police officer allegedly intimidating residents of a slum cluster by claiming a device could determine if they are illegal immigrants. The incident, which occurred during what police describe as a “routine area domination exercise,” has sparked controversy and led to demands for accountability. DCP (Trans-Hindon) Nimish Patil confirmed the video was recorded during an “area domination exercise” carried out by Kaushambi police station officials. (Representational) The video, widely shared online, shows a senior police officer placing what appears to be a smartphone on the back of a man and declaring the individual was “from Bangladesh.” The officer is heard telling a woman and a man, “Don’t tell a lie; we have a machine that can detect a lie.” Throughout the exchange, the woman and a minor girl standing next to her insist they are from Araria in Bihar and show documents on a mobile phone, but the group of half a dozen or so personnel appear unconvinced. DCP (Trans-Hindon) …

Himachal doctors’ call off strike after CM Sukhu reopens inquiry into hospital brawl | Chandigarh News

Himachal doctors’ call off strike after CM Sukhu reopens inquiry into hospital brawl | Chandigarh News

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Doctors at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) called off their strike after Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu assured that the patient-physician brawl that led to the termination of services of a senior resident would be looked into again. The Resident Doctors Association (RDA), in a statement, said the indefinite strike, which entered its second day on Sunday, has been called off with immediate effect in the larger public interest. It said the government has assured them that the doctor’s termination could also be revoked. The termination of the services of Dr Raghav Narula earlier this week had led the resident doctors to announce an indefinite strike on Saturday, with medical services, barring emergency services, disrupted for the second day at a few places in the state. On Friday, resident doctors were on mass leave demanding the immediate reinstatement of Narula. The RDA, meanwhile, maintained that it is awaiting the revocation of the doctor’s termination following the inquiry report. The doctors said they will hold a meet again on January 3 to discuss their future …