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Do not interfere in internal affairs: China tells India Tuesday July 20 2004 PTI BEIJING: A reported meeting of Tibetan leader Dalai Lama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has not gone well with China, which on Tuesday urged New Delhi to refrain from doing things that would hurt the good momentum witnessed in bilateral ties recently. "We hope the Indian side will abide by the political commitment, refrain from interfering in China's internal affairs and affect the good momentum of Sino-Indian relations," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said, reacting to the report in an Indian daily. She said China hoped that India would adhere to the "political commitment" it made last year. "The Dalai Lama is simply not a religious figure rather a political exile... engaged in splittist activities," Zhang said while stressing that the Chinese government is opposed to any meetings with the Dalai Lama by "officials of any country in any name or any form." China had protested similarly when US President George W Bush as well as Prince Charles met the 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate in recent months. Zhang also pointed out that last June, China and India signed the first-ever 'Declaration of Principles for Relations and Comprehensive Cooperation' to guide the bilateral ties. ---------------------------------------------------------- #2Put Pappu Yadav back in jail: SC July 20, 2004 12:07 IST Last Updated: July 20, 2004 13:01 IST The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Bihar government to immediately transfer former Member of Parliament Pappu Yadav alias Rajesh Ranjan from Patna Medical College to Beur Jail in Patna. Taking serious exception to the manner in which Yadav has been given VVIP treatment at the hospital though from records it was found that he doesn't require so, the court asked authorities to place him in jail and give the medical treatment there. The court finding the statement of Superintendent of Patna Medical College Hospital to be incorrect, called upon him to explain why appropriate proceedings should not be initiated against him. The order of the court came after perusing a CBI report, which gave details of the manner in which Pappu Yadav, who is in judicial custody in connection with Ajit Sarkar murder case, has been allowed to misuse official machinery. The court found that despite vacancy in prisoners' ward, the Bihar government constituted a Medical Board to examine him which recommended his admission into the general ward in the hospital. The Court found that Pappu Yadav actually occupied two rooms earmarked for ICU purposes and was never admitted in the general ward. Taking serious objection to this, the court ordered that he be taken forthwith to Beur jail in Patna and directed that his treatment, if and when required, would be done by a visiting doctor. When Yadav's counsel said the accused required immediate medical treatment at AIIMS, the Court observed that it "will be the last to deny opportunity for your treatment but you have taken many a court for a ride." http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/20sc.htm -------------------------------------------------- #3 SC directs distribution of Rs 1503 cr among Bhopal gas victims July 19, 2004 04:42:00 PM .NEWDEL DEL55 New Delhi, Jul 19 (PTI) Twenty years after the deadly Bhopal gas leak disaster claimed 15,000 lives and injured five lakh persons, the Supreme Court today directed disbursement of Rs 1503 crores of Union Carbide money among them. A Bench comprising Justice Shivaraj V Patil and Justice B N Srikrishna passed his order on a petition through advocate S Muralidhar by representatives of 36 affected wards at Bhopal which turned into a grave yard after the leakage of deadly methyl iso-cyante gas from Carbide factory on the night of December 2-3, 1984. The immediate death toll was over 4,000 but the figure swelled as people, sufferring from the poisonous effect of the gas, continued to die in various hospitals. The Carbide, on the basis of a settlement between it and the Union Government, had deposited 470 mn dollars in the Supreme Court on account of its liability towards the victims. The money was directed to be deposited in a dollar account, of which Rs 86 crores has already been disbursed as compensation to the injured and the kith and kin of the dead, has swelled to Rs 1503 crore over the years with accrual of interest on the corpus. The Bench directed the Welfare Commissioner, appointed under the Bhopal Gas Disaster (Processing of Claims) Act, 1985 to disburse this Rs 1503 crores among the claimants on a pro-rate basis. Without fixing a deadline for completion of the disbursement of the compensation, the Bench asked the Commissioner to give a report on this within three monthhs. PTI |
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