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Advocate LC Victoria Gowri sworn-in as Madras HC judge, Supreme Court junks pleas
Advocate Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri was sworn in as a judge of the Madras High Court on Tuesday as the Supreme Court junked pleas challenging her elevation.

Advocate Lekshmana Chandra Victoria Gowri was sworn in as a judge of the Madras High Court on Tuesday as the Supreme Court junked pleas challenging her elevation.
Madras HC acting Chief Justice T Raja, administered the oath of office to Advocate Gowri and four others even as the hearing on petitions against her were still underway at the Supreme Court.
A special bench of the apex court comprised of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai said that they are not entertaining writ petitions, adding that reasons will follow.
During the hearing, Justice Khanna pointed out the difference between eligibility and suitability saying that the courts should not get into suitability, otherwise the whole process will become haywire, however, he maintained that eligibility can be challenged.
Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who had approached the court earlier asking for urgent intervention as the Centre had notified Advocate Gowri’s appointment, argued that the decision-making process was thwarted as relevant information was not passed to the collegium. The judges said they had read everything placed on record.
On Advocate Gowri’s political background, Justice Gavai observed that everyone, including himself, has a political background, however, that hasn’t come in the way of his duties.
Advocate Ramachandran, however, argued that the real question is hate speech, not political background. He claimed that Gowri’s hate speech runs completely antithetical to the Constitution making her unfit to take oath.
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The bench replied that they aren’t in a position to say this is a question of eligibility and felt it’s more of a question of suitability. The Justices also pointed out that they can’t direct the collegium, adding that to assume that the collegium has not taken these things into account “may not be appropriate.”
In a letter to the Chief Justice of India, some bar members of the Madras High Court had sought recall of the recommendation made for appointing Gowri as an additional judge of the high court.
The members alleged that Gowri had made hate speeches against Christians and Muslims.
Advocate Gowri’s alleged links with the ruling BJP has stirred a row as critics allege her elevation is politically motivated and not deserved.
The elevation was objected to by several Madras High Court lawyers, however, 54 lawyers from Tamil Nadu’s Madurai wrote an endorsement letter to the Supreme Court collegium in favour of Gowri’s appointment as a judge. In the letter, the Madurai lawyers termed the allegations against Gowri as being motivated by “political animosity and malafide intent.”
Gowri has represented the Centre before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.
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Traffic chaos as rain lashes Delhi NCR, more showers forecast tomorrow
Due to heavy rain during the office dispersal hour, traffic chaos covered the captial. Social media is swamped with Delhiites sharing visuals of the rain and jam-packed roads.

Heavy rain lashed several parts of Delhi and NCR on Monday evening. The captial along with on-and-off drizzles had pleasant weather throughout the day.
Due to heavy rain during the office dispersal hour, traffic chaos covered the captial. Social media is swamped with Delhiites sharing visuals of the rain and jam-packed roads.
Earlier today, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert owing to rain, thunderstorm, and hailstorm in several parts of the city.
The bad weather conditions in Delhi also triggered the diversion of a total of 10 flights which were scheduled to land at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.
Among the 10 flights, three were diverted to Lucknow and seven to Jaipur.
IMD had also said rain coupled with hail and gusty winds of up to 40 km per hour in Delhi will be witnessed on Monday. It also advised people to stay indoors and not seek shelter under trees, as maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to be around 26 and 16 degrees Celsius.
On Saturday, Delhi-NCR witnessed heavy rain with hailstorms taking the temperature to 25.3 degrees Celsius. As per the officials, the capital recorded the lowest temperature so far this month on Saturday.
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Delhi court extends Manish Sisodia’s judicial custody till April 3
A court in the national capital, Monday, extended the judicial custody of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia by 14 days, till April 3.

A court in the national capital, Monday, extended the judicial custody of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia by 14 days, till April 3.
Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 in connection with its ongoing probe into the purported Delhi excise policy ‘scam’ case.
The CBI told Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court that their investigation into the alleged scam is still pending and at a crucial stage which requires Sisodia’s further detention in judicial custody.
The development comes mere two days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was granted the AAP leader’s custody for five more days, till March 22.
On Friday last, 51-year-old Sisodia’s ED custody was extended by a court in Delhi till March 22. The ED had told the court that Sisodia was allegedly involved in “large-scale destruction of digital evidence to impede the investigation” and had purportedly changed and destroyed 14 phones.
Manish Sisodia was arrested on March 9 by the ED while he was already lodged in Tihar jail in case against him by the CBI in connection with the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy case.
A Delhi court last week extended the former Deputy CM’s custody by five days after the ED sought more time for investigating the charges.
The ED told the court that some vital information had come up during custody and he had to be confronted with the other accused.
After the court’s decision, senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Friday had claimed that central probe agencies don’t have any evidence, only “fabricated and malicious” stories against Sisodia.
Speaking at a presser, Chadha had accused the BJP of engaging in “politics of revenge” which he claimed was the reason behind Sisodia’s arrest. He had also claimed that the CBI and the ED don’t have any evidence against the former Deputy CM, adding that the probe agencies only questioned Sisodia for 15 hours during seven days of remand.
Chadha had claimed said the BJP was “scared” of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He further claimed that the probe agencies only have “concocted stories” against Sisodia, and when the CBI couldn’t find anything against him during their interrogation, they asked the ED to “frame more false cases.”
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Rajasthan man abducted and mutilated by wife’s family who didn’t approve of marriage
A man in Ajmer district of Rajasthan was allegedly abducted and mutilated by his wife’s family who did not approve of the couple marriage, officials said on Monday.

A man in Ajmer district of Rajasthan was allegedly abducted and mutilated by his wife’s family who did not approve of the couple marriage, officials said on Monday.
As per the police, the man was abducted from Ajmer district and taken to a nearby villager where his in-laws allegedly chopped off his nose.
The victim had recently got married but the his wife’s family reportedly did not approve of the couple’s marriage.
A report quoted Station House Officer, Gegal, Ajmer Sunil Kumar as saying that the victim filed a complaint today in which he alleged that on March 18, he was kidnapped by his wife’s brother and other family members and taken to a village in Nagaur district where they thrashed him and then cut his nose off.
SHO Kumar said the police have detained some of the accused for questioning, adding that a case has been registered and further investigation is underway.
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Last week, a similar case came to the fore from a village in Madhya Pradesh where an elderly man allegedly committed suicide days after he was punished in a Taliban-esque manner. The victim was reportedly abducted and then shackled to a tree by iron chains, tortured and assaulted, reportedly by the family of a girl who eloped with his son in a village of the state’s Chhatarpur district.
A video of the horrific incident which went viral on social media last Monday, showed the man, identified as Udha Ahirwar, a resident of Panchampur village, chained to a tree—hand and feet—as a woman, presumably his wife feeds him food and water.
According to reports, Ahirwar’s son, Shankar Ahirwar, works as a labour in Rajasthan with the prime accused, Zandu Ahirwar’s son-in-law, a resident of Peera village. Shankar reportedly eloped with Zandu’s granddaughter after the couple fell in love.
The couple got married last month and since then Zandu allegedly began torturing Shankar’s parents, reports said.
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