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Delhi court summons BJP MLA Vijender Gupta in defamation case

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Delhi court summons BJP MLA Vijender Gupta in defamation case

On Monday, a court here subpoenaed BJP MLA Vijender Gupta in a criminal lawsuit filed by the Delhi Cabinet Minister and AAP leader Kailash Gahlot for slandering him in the procurement of 1,000 low-floor buses by the Delhi Transport Company.

The other chief metropolitan magistrate, Ravindra Kumar Pandey, pointed out that there is “preliminary evidence” sufficient to summon Gupta as the defendant. “The court put forward a deliberated view based on the oral statement, the documents that the complainant placed in the evidence before the subpoena and proved the record, and the testimony of the complainant’s witness accusing Vijender Gupta of initially committing a punishable crime under Section 499, IPC’s 500 and 501 (both related to defamation),” the judge said. Gupta was summoned on November 16.

In his complaint, Delhi Transport Minister Garrott claimed that Gupta “intentionally and for malicious purposes” slandered him and tarnished his reputation to gain political miles. He claimed that Gupta had made “defamation, libel, mischief, false and indecent allegations” both verbally and in writing. The complaint stated that the defendant’s “defamation and defamation” allegations were to prevent “the Delhi government’s ambitious plan to provide significant relief to Delhi residents”.

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“The defendant made vulgar, false and false accusations against the complainant in order to teach the people of Delhi a lesson and get them to vote for the Aam Aadmi party,” the plea stated. It claims that Gupta has been questioning the minister’s integrity in buying low-floor buses on Twitter, despite a clean bargaining chip from a high-power committee.

It said that the Delhi government had tendered the bus, and after due process, it was awarded Tata, but various allegations were made. If convicted, Gupta could be sentenced to up to two years in prison.

News Source : The New Indian Express

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Suprme Court pulls up Delhi body for not conducting tree census

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Suprme Court pulls up Delhi body for not conducting tree census

The court said that it will order the constitution of an expert body to vet every proposal for tree felling in the city

The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Delhi Tree Authority (DTA) for failing to carry out a tree census in the Capital as required under the Delhi Tree Preservation Act (DTPA). The court added that it will order the constitution of an expert body to vet every proposal for tree felling in the city, observing that DTA lacks the expertise to do this job.

A bench headed by justice Abhay S Oka was considering an application filed by a Delhi resident, Bhavreen Kandhari, which raised questions over the performance of DTA — a statutory body under DTPA that has allowed more than 60,000 trees to be felled between 2015 and 2021. The court had issued notice on the application on November 8 as the data presented by Kandhari suggested that Delhi was losing five trees every hour.

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On Friday, the bench, also comprising justice Augustine George Masih, took up DTA’s response and said, “We want to know how DTA is functioning. Has it carried out any census of trees?” The court cited Section 7 of DTPA, 1994 (or is it 1995), which says “carrying out census of the existing trees” and “preservation of all trees” in Delhi is one of the functions of DTA.

“We intend to pass an order that no permission for tree cutting shall be passed unless it is vetted by this expert body. Unless there is a record of the number of trees, nothing can be done. Has this been undertaken? It was the duty of DTA to do this under the Act,” the court said.

The bench asked senior advocate Guru Krishnakumar, who was assisting the court as amicus, to indicate whether there should be a threshold, such as cutting of 100 or more trees, when an issue can be sent for consideration to the expert body. “Considering the diminishing green cover, we are considering whether a body of experts should consider every permission for felling of trees. We will pass orders that no permission for tree felling shall be passed unless vetted by this body. Some threshold can be fixed and DTA will have to comply with the recommendation made by the expert body,” the court said.

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