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Hounds
Of Music
With
Visvabharati’s copyright on Tagore ending next year and the Centre refusing
to throw in its weight, the poet’s music may be finally unshackled
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The
Law Closes In
Finally,
the wheels are beginning to turn. It looks like the law might get even
with at least three of the 10 bribe-takers in the JMM MPs pay-off case.
Additional Sessions Judge Ajit Bharihoke has asked the CBI to register
a fresh disproportionate-assets case against three of the four JMM MPs-Suraj
Mandal, Simon Marandi and Shibu Soren.
Two years
after he discharged nine of the accused following a Supreme Court order
granting immunity against prosecution to MPs, Bharihoke ruled that notwithstanding
the immunity granted to them, at least three of the JMM MPs were liable
for prosecution under section 13(1)(E) of the Prevention of Corruption
Act, 1988. The special court had asked the CBI to confiscate the Rs 1.68
crore deposited by the JMM MPs-the bribe money-in the Punjab National
Bank's Nauroji Nagar branch soon after the no-confidence motion against
the Rao government was defeated on July 28,1993. Legal circles view the
latest order as a response to the public outrage over letting the bribe-takers
go free.
If Congress
MP Kapil Sibal felt that there had been some attempt to do justice, senior
advocate P.P. Rao held that MPs could not be prosecuted after being discharged.
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 Relics
of old empires exist everywhere. Why can't the Mani Shankar Aiyars of
India let them be? asks INDIA TODAY Senior Editor Ravi Shankar in
Friday
Fundas.
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DESPATCHES |
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The fate of the Kannur project in power-strapped Kerala is in a state
of limbo as the Government contends it is too expensive. But is it? INDIA
TODAY Principal Correspondent M.G. Radhakrishnan investigates in
Despatches.
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