Deccan Chronicle 19.01.2010
Court quizzes BBMP on tenders
Jan. 18: The Karnataka High Court on Monday sought details from Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on the tender process the civic agency initiated for solid waste management.
A division bench headed by Justice V. Gopala Gowda adjourned the case to Tuesday after hearing an interlocutory application filed by former mayor P. Ramesh and two others. According to the application, BBMP officials initiated tenders for a period of seven years in violation of a stay order by the high court.
The high court had earlier stayed global tenders worth hundreds of crores of rupees for solid waste management in the city for a period of three decades.
SENTENCE CONFIRMED
A division bench headed by Justice Manjula Chellur on Monday upheld a lower court verdict sentencing Aprajit Biswanath Basak to life imprisonment for the murder of a business executive at a hotel in Bengaluru in May 2001.
The high court dismissed an appeal by Basak, who had challenged the lower court’s verdict.
The I Fast Track Sessions Court had on February 5, 2007 sentenced Basak and two others to life imprisonment after it found them guilty of murdering K.R. Anantapadmanabha Acharya. The court had also ordered the three men to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) for trying to murder Acharya’s friend Narasimhan and seven years RI for robbing the duo of Rs. 5.15 lakh in cash.
BANDIPUR TRAFFIC
The high court on Monday admitted a petition by Anoop B.P. and two others that urged the court not to vacate the stay traffic passing through Bandipur forest at night. The petition followed an application by the government requesting the court to vacate its order banning movement of vehicles through Bandipur from 9 pm to 6 am.
