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Narcotics Bureau to IT raids, Sharad Pawar slams Govt ‘misuse’ of agencies

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Narcotics Bureau to IT raids, Sharad Pawar slams Govt ‘misuse’ of agencies

The President of the National Congress Party, Sharad Pawar, accused the Modi government of abusing central institutions to target its opponents on Wednesday. Anil Deshmukh expressed concern about the actions of officials in the suspected drug trafficking case of Aryan Khan. The head of the NCP said at a press conference that the center’s target was the family and close partners of the ruling leader Maha Vikas Aghadi because it had failed to “destabilize” the government of Maharashtra. “The central government is abusing institutions, whether it is the CBI, the law enforcement bureau, the income tax department, or the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the anti-drug agency,” Pawar said. When referring to the NCB’s investigation in the Aryan case, Pawar said: “My colleague Nawab Malik made certain comments to an NCB officer. His name is (Sameer) Wankhede. I have also heard that Wankhede is in the customs department. Stories at work.” He added: “In this case, the witness (witness) produced by NCB is a K P Gosavi who is currently absconding and is being hunted by the Mumbai police (a’private detective’, Gosavi is facing a case of cheating). This People have doubts about Pan’s integrity. If a senior NCB official chooses such a class, it will only highlight the official’s connection with such people.” Pawar said that the Mumbai police did much better than the NCB in drug control in the city, and the bureau was only “showing off to please the political masters in Delhi.” “There are two agencies here, one is the NCB and the other is the anti-drug team of the Mumbai Police. NCB has fewer drug collections, while the Mumbai Police’s confiscation rate is much higher,” Pawar said. Pawar cited a subpoena from the Law Enforcement Bureau and a subsequent raid on the home of Deshmukh, the leader of the National Congress Party who had to resign as Minister of the Interior due to corruption allegations, saying that he was surprised by the agency’s “behavior”.

News Source: The 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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