BENGALURU: Following reports of thousands of police led by Akhila Karnataka Police deciding to go on mass leave on June 4 to press for their demands, a city based advocate has filed a PIL in high court seeking its intervention by appointing a former High Court judge to monitor development and discussion about the mass strike/leave called by the police, along with other directions.
The PIL filed by advocate N.P. Amrutesh stated that as per Prakash Singh’s case, the SC has passed several directives for structural reforms of the police. Apart from it, several reports were submitted in respect of the reformation in police service to eliminate the harassment done to the lower police official by higher authorities. It further stated that Dharmapal reports also speaks about reformative suggestions within the department of police. “All these reports are in the cold storage from the last 15 to 20 years. It is just because of that as the police cannot have their own union to demand their legitimate rights and also for the implementation of reformative suggestions,” it pointed out.
KUSMA schools
The High Court on Thursday quashed the rejection orders issued by the state government to existing KUSMA schools that had wanted registration for standard 6 to 8. The government had rejected the applications of the KUSMA schools as they did not have half acre of land in Bengaluru and one acre of land outside muncipal corporation limits.
The high court has also directed the Commissioner of Public Instruction to immediately process these schools' applications in the next four weeks without insisting on half acre/one acre of land. The petitioner organisation states that as of 19-May-2016, the state government had been insisting that when existing schools running Std 1 to 5 wanted to expand to Std 6 to 10, they should show half/one acre of land in their own name (half acre for Municipal Corporation areas and one acre for the rest of Karnataka). “This all began with a law dated November 11, 2014 prescribing one/two acres and modifying it to half/one acre on May 2, 2015. On May 20, 2016 this requirement was dropped altogether for existing schools and we welcome it though this clarification of the Government is quite belated,” KUSMA stated.
