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In a relief to BRS leader K <keyword id="19948894" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kavitha" source="keywords">Kavitha</keyword>, the <keyword id="19895345" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court" source="keywords">Supreme Court</keyword> on Tuesday granted her bail in corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan noted that Kavitha had been in custody for around five months and the probe against her by the Central Bureau of Investigation (<keyword id="19896633" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="CBI" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="CBI" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="CBI">CBI</keyword>) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was complete in these cases. "As such, custody of the appellant (Kavitha) is not necessary for the purpose of investigation," the bench said. It set aside a July 1 order of the Delhi High Court which denied bail to the BRS leader in the two cases. The high court had dismissed Kavitha's bail pleas, saying she was prima facie one of the main conspirators in the criminal conspiracy related to the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22. The SC asked her to furnish bail bonds of Rs 10 lakh each in the two cases. While asking Kavitha to surrender her passport to the trial court, the bench said she shall not make any attempt to tamper with evidence or influence witnesses. During the hearing, the bench questioned the fairness of the <keyword id="20083460" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="probe-agencies" source="keywords">probe agencies</keyword> in investigating these cases and rapped them for "pick and choose". It also asked the ED and the CBI about the "material" they had to show that Kavitha was involved in the alleged scam. The bench was hearing Kavitha's pleas seeking bail in the corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged scam. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Kavitha, sought bail saying the probe against her has already been completed by the two agencies. He said she has been in custody for five months in the ED's money laundering case and for over four months in the CBI's case. Rohatgi also referred to the August 9 apex court verdict granting bail to co-accused and senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia in the two cases. Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for the probe agencies, claimed that Kavitha had destroyed/formatted her mobile phone and her conduct amounted to tampering with evidence. Rohatgi termed the allegation "bogus". The ED had arrested Kavitha (46) from her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad on March 15 and the CBI had arrested her from Tihar jail on April 11. Kavitha has denied all allegations. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/apple-iphone-16-to-be-launched-on-september-9-heres-everything-we-know-so-far/articleshow/112828818.cms">Apple iPhone 16 to be launched on September 9 – here’s everything we know so far</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/a-company-with-8-employees-looking-to-raise-12-crore-ended-up-getting-applications-worth-over-4700-crore/articleshow/112824522.cms">Delhi firm with just 8 employees seeks ₹12 crore via IPO, gets ₹4,700 crore worth of investor applications!</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/telegram-comes-under-the-scanner-in-india-for-extortion-and-gambling-will-it-be-banned-in-india/articleshow/112807370.cms">Telegram comes under the scanner in India for extortion and gambling – will it be banned in India?</a>

SC grants bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in Delhi excise policy cases

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant any interim relief against the <keyword id="6355014" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="delhi-high-court">Delhi High Court</keyword> order staying the AAP government's decision to reserve 80 per cent ICU beds in 33 private hospitals for COVID-19 patients and ordered urgent hearing on the plea on November 12. The top court asked the AAP government to approach the Delhi High Court, directing it to hear on Thursday the plea that was earlier listed before a division bench on November 27. A vacation bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and B R Gavai took note of the urgent plea of the Delhi government on the ground of a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the national capital. The bench ordered that the matter be listed before the concerned division bench in the Delhi High Court on November 12 and it shall be open for the parties to submit such pleading before the bench as may be advised. At the outset, Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, appearing for Delhi government, said this is not an adversarial litigation and it wants to continue with the 80 percent reservation of ICU beds for COVID-19 patients after reviewing the situation and discontinuation of the same after few weeks when the situation normalizes. The bench asked Jain to have a look at the order passed by the division bench which says it was on the request of the appellant (Delhi government) that the hearing was adjourned to November 27. Jain replied that the counsel for Delhi government engaged to argue that day was diabetic and was not fit to argue the case and hence an adjournment was sought, but it cannot be November 27, as COVID cases are rising in the national capital. The bench asked Jain why the Delhi government cannot request <keyword id="1437962" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-high-court">the High Court</keyword> to prepone the hearing, tell about the urgency and pray for fixing an early date. Jain submitted that in the last few days the number of COVID-19 cases have crossed 7,000 per day in the city. The bench said it's a fluctuating state as at one point it was 1,000 cases per day, but the Delhi government has not brought before the court any material on record to show that no beds are available to COVID-19 patients. <keyword id="10036478" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="the-additional-solicitor-general">The Additional Solicitor General</keyword> stated that a lot of people come from outside the state and get treated in private hospitals using the ICU beds. He said an expert committee has suggested that Delhi needs 6,000 ICU beds against the availability of 3,500 beds and if the notification is upheld then Delhi could have had 300 to 500 more beds. He added that out of 133 hospitals, only 33 hospitals have been reserved. The bench asked Jain to inform all these facts to the Delhi High Court. Jain submitted that the operation of the impugned order of September 22 needs to be stayed or else the COVID-19 cases will rise beyond control. Senior advocate Maninder Singh, appearing for the 'Association of Healthcare Providers', the original petitioner before the High Court, said the division bench can be asked to consider the matter whenever the court deems fit. Jain urged the top court to ask the division bench of the High Court to consider the matter by Wednesday as once the damage is done, there will be no use of the hearing. The bench -- after noting the submissions of Jain and Singh that the matter needs to be heard urgently by the High Court because the COVID-19 situation in Delhi is worsening -- asked the division bench to consider the matter on November 12. The apex court's vacation bench was hearing an appeal filed by the Delhi government against the high court's September 22 order. The apex court is on Diwali break this week. A single judge bench of the high court on September 22 had stayed the Delhi government's September 12 decision, saying that asking 33 big private hospitals to reserve 80 percent of ICU beds for COVID-19 patients would violate the fundamental rights of those having other health conditions. The government has already challenged the single judge's order before a division bench of the high court which had listed it for hearing on November 27. While staying the Delhi government's order, the high court had come down heavily on it asking whether the non-COVID-19 patients have a right to life or not. It had observed that prima facie, the government's order was "arbitrary, unreasonable and violative of fundamental rights of citizens" guaranteed under the Constitution "The state cannot discriminate between a COVID-19 and a non-COVID-19 patient requiring emergent treatment. In time of emergency, such patients cannot be told to run around finding a hospital where beds have not been reserved for COVID-19 patients. The disease itself cannot be a ground for such discrimination," the single judge bench had said. The single judge bench had passed the order on a plea by the 'Association of Healthcare Providers' challenging the Delhi government's September order. Over the last few days, Delhi has reported record spikes in coronavirus cases. The national capital reported its biggest single-day jump of 7,745 cases on Sunday, taking its tally to 4,38,529. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-will-be-probed-by-indias-competition-commission-for-allegedly-abusing-dominance-to-push-gpay/articleshow/79141895.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Google will be probed by India’s Competition Commission for allegedly ‘abusing dominance’ to push its payments app</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-is-90-effective-in-preventing-coronavirus-in-those-who-havent-been-infected-ever-before/articleshow/79130097.cms">Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective in preventing coronavirus in those who haven’t been infected ever before, shows data from latest trials</a>

SC orders Delhi High Court to hear AAP government's plea on reserving 80% ICU beds for COVID patients

In a significant judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed political <keyword id="15047" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Parties">parties</keyword> to upload on their respective websites the details of all pending criminal cases against candidates contesting polls, citing the alarming increase in criminalisation of politics in past four general elections. A bench headed by Justice R.F. Nariman said the parties would have to clarify on reasons for selecting candidates with pending criminal cases and upload this information on their websites. The top court also observed that political parties will have to submit a compliance report within 72 hours, to the Election Commission, after selecting candidates having pending criminal cases. The order from the top court came on a contempt plea filed by Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, raising critical issues due to increase in criminalisation of politics. The plea claimed the directions given by the apex court in its September 2018 verdict, which specified guidelines to disclosure of criminal antecedents by candidates, is not being followed in letter and spirit. The top court also directed that political parties would have to publish this information on their social media platforms like <keyword id="6354576" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword> and <keyword id="6354616" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Twitter">Twitter</keyword> besides publishing this information in one local vernacular and one national newspaper. The apex court directed the poll body to apprise the court if it were to come across failure in compliance with its directions. --IANS ss/skp/

Parties must publish candidates criminal cases on sites: SC

On the morning of April 23rd, the Twitter account of the <keyword id="6456281" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="bahujan-azad-party">Bahujan Azad Party</keyword> went live with a celebratory tweet. The party pointed out that the news of the party’s launch was the sixth highest trending topic on the platform. 
 
 
 
 
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]]></cdata></div> The Bahujan Azad Party is composed mainly of 50 <keyword id="6354859" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIt">IIT</keyword> alumni, all of whom reportedly quit their jobs to join the party. It will be led by Naveen Kumar, who graduated from IIT Delhi in 2005. The party has already applied to the Election Commission of India for approval, and expects to hear back in a fortnight. Bahujan Azad Party The group’s Twitter bio reads, “A political party for the the upliftment for SCs, STs, OBCs, women and Minorities”. Most of the members of the party are from these minority groups, having benefited from the<a href="http://jeeadv15.iitb.ac.in/info/reservation-of-seats"> reservation</a> policy for SCs (15%), STs (7.5%) and OBCs (27%) at IITs. The party’s primary focus is on increasing education and employment opportunities for these groups, not only in terms of <keyword id="85023" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="reservations">reservations</keyword> but also by improving the infrastructure for education and skill development. The title of the Bahujan Azad Party translates to “freedom for the majority of people”. This is not ironic. Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes comprise more than 70% of India’s population, with OBCs alone accounting for over 40%, according to <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/obcs-account-for-41-of-indian-population-nss/articleshow/1835801.cms">estimates from a decade ago</a> by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). Interestingly, while the quotas of SCs and STs are in line with the proportion of India’s population they represent, the same privilege is not afforded to <keyword id="45661" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="OBC">OBC</keyword>s, who usually get a maximum quota of 27%. This unleashes its own set of problems, as relatively well off OBC groups like Yadavs are vying with weaker OBCs for a disproportionate amount of seats and faring better. In order to rectify this, India’s President, Ram Nath Kovind, established <a href="https://www.livemint.com/Politics/yDIIUPM7CA3teguI0hiHXJ/NDA-govt-appoints-Mandal-20-to-redistribute-OBC-quota-bene.html">a commission in late 2017</a> that was tasked with levelling the playing field for different OBC groups. The announcement of the Bahujan Azad Party’s launch is timely for another reason. The last few weeks have seen a spate of protests in India by Dalit groups and activists over the Supreme Court’s proposal to safeguard suspected perpetrators from immediate detainment under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The protesters feel that this could encourage crimes against minorities, going against the very purpose of the act itself. The party is starting small. It is limiting itself to Bihar for the medium term, where it will contest the state’s legislative assembly elections in 2020 before moving on to Lok Sabha polls in 2024. <a href="https://www.deccanchronicle.com/decaf/230418/nation-building-youth-revolution-in-the-making.html">West Bengal and Rajasthan </a>have also been mooted as possible states to expand into after the party solidifies its position in Bihar. Why the party was formed Speaking to the Press Trust of India, Naveen Kumar explained that he and his associates took part in Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption protests in 2011 and initially supported the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). However, they decided to form their own party after being “disillusioned” by the lack of minority representation in educational institutions and the judiciary. In what seemed a thinly-veiled reference to the AAP, Kumar tried to highlight how the party’s strategy was different from other upstarts. “We do not wish to do a hurried job and end up being reduced to just one of those small political outfits with big ambitions”. He also said that the party did not plan on positioning itself as a rival of any other political party or ideology. As a fledgling party promoting a single agenda, the Bahujan Azad Party would do well to learn from the mistakes of the AAP. The AAP, which counts former IIT Kharagpur alumnus Arvind Kejriwal as its leader, rose to prominence as an anti-corruption, citizen-first party bent on shaking up the status quo of Indian politics. After winning the Delhi state election in a landslide in February 2015, the party has been unable to make good on its initial promise, faltering in elections in Punjab and Gujarat, falling prey to infighting and cronyism and being stymied at every turn in Delhi by the BJP’s central government. Additionally, the party’s commitment to transparency was called into question in May last year, when Kejriwal was accused of <a href="https://www.livemint.com/Politics/Oa7zGjMC8rsCMc6i25HLcN/Kapil-Mishra-accuses-Delhi-CM-Arvind-Kejriwal-of-taking-brib.html">accepting a bribe from his health minister. </a> Cautionary tale The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), led by Mayawati, also stands out as cautionary tale, given its core focus on Dalit and minority rights. The party was started by Kanshi Ram, a prominent Dalit rights activist, in 1984 to represent the rights of SCs, STs and OBCs. After helming three coalition governments in UP, Ram’s protege Mayawati drove the party to a significant majority in the 2007 state elections by wooing upper caste groups like Brahmins, much to the chagrin of its core Dalit support base. The BSP lost the state elections in 2012 and failed to win even a single UP seat in the general elections in 2014 as upper caste voters migrated to the BJP. The Bahujan Azad Party should keep its political ambitions in line with its founding goals and maintain its focus on its target base. In order to achieve its mandate effectively, it also needs to be more than a social movement agitating for reservations. Higher reservations don’t guarantee long-term change. As <a href="http://mospi.nic.in/sites/default/files/publication_reports/nss_rep_563_13mar15.pdf">data from the NSSO</a> shows, while higher reservations in educational and government institutions have translated into higher employment rates for minority groups, these are mostly for low-skilled occupations. Reservations need to be supported by adequate vocational training programmes and structural improvements in the quality of educational institutions. The party’s members have their work cut out for themselves over the next few months. They will leverage their IIT credentials to drum up financial support. They are employing a grassroots approach by onboarding members and supporters from youth hostels in Bihar and striking partnerships with social activists. It will be interesting to see how they fare.

India now has a minority rights party composed of 50 IIT alumni who quit their jobs

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor <keyword id="19901384" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arvind-Kejriwal" source="keywords">Arvind Kejriwal</keyword> was brought to Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday morning where he will be produced by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a hearing in the <keyword id="20018877" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Excise-Policy" source="keywords">excise policy</keyword> case. Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal also accompanied him at Rouse Avenue Court. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will also hear Arvind Kejriwal's petition against the <keyword id="19895875" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-High-Court" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Delhi High Court" meta.hostid="83" meta.entityid="Delhi High Court">Delhi High Court</keyword> order putting an interim stay on his bail in the <keyword id="19911552" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="money-laundering-case" source="keywords">money laundering case</keyword> linked to liquor excise policy. The probe agency had on Tuesday examined the AAP supremo in Tihar Jail and recorded his statement related to the Excise Policy case. According to the CBI sources, he is likely to be officially arrested in the case before the court today. Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) lawyer also posted on X and said, "The dirty tricks of the Modi government fears the release of Arvind Kejriwal by SC has asked to CBI to make arrest in the same matter almost a year after he joined the investigation. What it shows nothing changed the vindictive mindset of BJ. Shame." The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's bail order passed by the trial court, saying that the trial court should have at least recorded its satisfaction with the fulfilment of twin conditions of section 45 of Prevention of the Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before passing the impugned order. The vacation bench of Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain, while passing the order, said that documents and arguments were not appreciated properly by the trial court. A vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti observed that the decision of the High Court to grant an interim stay on Kejriwal's bail without passing a final order in the matter was "unusual". SEE ALSO:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/stanley-lifestyles-ipo-allotment-how-to-check-allotment-ipo-gmp-listing-date-and-more/articleshow/111261779.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/stanley-lifestyles-ipo-allotment-how-to-check-allotment-ipo-gmp-listing-date-and-more/articleshow/111261779.cms" target="_blank">Stanley Lifestyles IPO allotment – How to check allotment, IPO GMP, listing date and more</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/webstories/oneplus-nord-ce-4-lite-vs-poco-x6-which-phone-should-you-buy-under-25000/slidelist/111257892.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/webstories/oneplus-nord-ce-4-lite-vs-poco-x6-which-phone-should-you-buy-under-25000/slidelist/111257892.cms" target="_blank">OnePlus Nord CE 4 Lite vs Poco X6 – which phone should you buy under ₹25,000?</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/ipos-this-week-allied-blenders-and-vraj-iron-and-steel-look-to-raise-1671-crore/articleshow/111233159.cms" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/ipos-this-week-allied-blenders-and-vraj-iron-and-steel-look-to-raise-1671-crore/articleshow/111233159.cms" target="_blank">IPOs this week – Allied Blenders and Vraj Iron and Steel look to raise ₹1,671 crore</a>

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SC grants bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in Delhi excise policy cases

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SC orders Delhi High Court to hear AAP government's plea on reserving 80% ICU beds for COVID patients

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Parties must publish candidates criminal cases on sites: SC

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India now has a minority rights party composed of 50 IIT alumni who quit their jobs

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Delhi CM Kejriwal brought to Rouse Avenue Court by CBI

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