Supreme Court To Hear Jayalalithaa Case Today

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Supreme Court to hear Jayalalithaa case today

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is expected to convey to the Supreme
Court on Thursday that she has kept her word that she would not delay her criminal
appeal before the Karnataka High Court, challenging the four-year imprisonment
awarded in a disproportionate assets case.
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu had, on October 17, granted Ms.
Jayalalithaa bail, reposing faith in the oral assurances of her lawyer, Fali Nariman,
that she would not delay the criminal appeal proceedings in the 18-year-old case.
Though it granted bail, the Bench did not dispose of the bail petition. It fixed a
hearing for December 18, when Ms. Jayalalithaa and three co-accused were to report
that they kept their word and filed the appeal documents and records in the High
Court.
Ms. Jayalalithaa filed her appeal papers, which contained voluminous documents
running to 2.8 lakh pages, in the Karnataka High Court on December 8.
2. ISRO successfully launches GSLV Mark-III, India's largest rocket

India launches GSLV Mark-III, its largest rocket
The CREW module would be separated from the rocket about 325.52 seconds after
the lift-off at 126.16 km altitude. The specially made parachutes would help the
module soft-crash in the Bay of Bengal, some few hundred km from Indira Point in
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which would later be fetched by Indian Coast
Guard ships.
As per the plan, soon after the lift-off at Sriharikota, ISRO would study the flight
validation of the complex atmospheric flight regime of LVM 3 and would also test the
ability of the CREW module to re-enter the Earths atmosphere with thermal
resistance, parachute deployment in cluster formation, aero braking system and apex
cover separation procedures.
3. HC directive to police on massage centres
The police should not, as a matter of routine and without any basis, raid or interfere
with the business of beauty parlours or massage centres and spas, the Madras High
Court has said.
In specific cases, where police had reasonable grounds to believe that an offence
under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act had been committed, they could take
action after scrupulously following all steps indicated in Section 15 of the legislation.
As there was no law in the country to regulate these centres, based on the legislations
in various States of the U.S. and the Singapore legislation, a subordinate legislation in
terms of the Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act or the Chennai City Police Act
could be introduced. This is to ensure that public order, decency and morality, which
could form the basis of a regulatory law, are taken care of.
Justice V.Ramasubramanian passed the order on a batch of writ petitions by S.

Rangaraj and others. The petitioners were all running beauty parlous/massage
centres/spas in and around Chennai.
Their main grievance was that the police conducted regular raids on their premises on
the suspicion that immoral trafficking activities were being carried out. They prayed
the court to restrain the police from interfering with their business.
The Judge said the police contended that there were about 225 salons, spas and
massage centres in the city. So far, only 17 cases had been registered under the
Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.
4. Violation of KYC norms: RBI slaps Rs 50 lakh penalty on ICICI Bank, Rs 25
lakh on Bank of Baroda
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on December 17 imposed penalties on ICCI and
Bank of Baroda for violating 'Know Your Customer' (KYC) as well as anti moneylaundering norms (ALM). The central bank fined ICICI Bank Rs 50 lakh, BoB Rs 25
lakh, and cautioned State Bank of India and Axis Bank that they should review and
comply with KYC norms.
In a statement, RBI said, "Failure on the part of these banks (ICICI Bank and BoB) to
take timely remedial measures had aggravated the seriousness of the contraventions
and their impact."
RBI reviewed the KYC and ALM processes of these banks after it received a
complaint from a reputed statutory organisation in August 2013. This complaint
included details of a fraud perpetrated in the five banks censured, with the connivance
of certain officials of the statutory organisation.
5. Policy tweak likely to put web-based taxis like Uber, Olacabs back on roads
The government has inserted online taxi aggregators into a proposed new road safety
law it plans to bring in Parliament, potentially ending the regulatory ambiguity
surrounding firms such as Uber, Olacabs and TaxiForSure whose operations have
come under sharp focus following the rape incident in Delhi earlier this month.
The ministry for road transport and highways has amended the draft of its proposed
Road Safety and Transport Bill to include aggregators, a move that will finally
acknow ledge the existence of these firms while also empowering authorities to act
against any wrongdoing or lapses by them.
The December 6 rape in Delhi of a woman passenger by a cab driver on Uber's
network brought into sharp focus the regulatory grey zone in which these mobileappbased taxi aggregators have been functioning.
Unlike regular radio taxis whose existence is recognised under the law and overseen
by regulation, aggregators aren't, even though their operations have grown rapidly in
the past year.
Aggregator firms, before the rape crisis hit them hard by triggering bans by several
states, had more than 50,000 cars on their networks across cities, and had helped drive
fares down in several places. Most of these firms enrolled cars registered as tourist
taxis into their networks, which were then organised and deployed using mobile apps
to offer point-to-point taxi services.
Besides the new regulation, the government has also floated a Cabinet note for the use
of its Rs 1,000-crore Nirbhaya fund to create a GPS-based vehicle tracking system to
be launched in 32 cities. The proposed road safety bill also lays stress on the security
of women and school children.

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2. ISRO successfully launches GSLV Mark-III, India's largest rocket

Justice V.Ramasubramanian passed the order on a batch of writ petitions by S.

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