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missioner of Anantnag, Kashmir every        minded or reasonable person would         President's car description
six months. The court also directed         do, no interference by the court is       will not be open to public
Central government "to use its good         called for.                               for safety
offices to ensure compliance of the
aforesaid directions by the Govern-         The view that the increase in rates of    The home ministry has refused to dis-
ment of State of Jammu & Kashmir".          service tax in respect of bank guaran-    close the make, model numbers and
                                            tee and insurance premium is directly     registration numbers of cars used by
NHAI's appeal against                       relatable to terms of the contract is     the President. The ministry said it is a
award rejected                              certainly a possible view."               matter of national security and reveal-
                                                                                      ing such details might pose a threat to
The Supreme Court has dismissed the         SC asks cause for not mak-                the President.
appeal of the National Highways Au-         ing FIR public from Centre,
thority of India against the order of the   States                                    Redressal commission di-
Delhi high court, which had approved                                                  rects doctors to pay com-
the award of the arbitration tribunal       The Supreme Court sought response         pensation for death
in the dispute of the public sector un-     from the Centre and state govern-
dertaking with JSC Centrodorstroy. The      ments on why FIRs should not be made      The National Consumer Disputes
latter firm was given a project to build    public by uploading on police websites    Redressal Commission has directed two
a four-lane national highway in Uttar       within 24 hours after being lodged.       Himachal Pradesh based doctors to pay
Pradesh.                                                                              Rs. 10 lakh to the family of a woman,
                                            A bench of justices Dipak Misra and       who died after they performed an "un-
Two disputes arose between the par-         Shiva Kirti Singh issued notice to the    wanted" uterus removal operation in
ties, namely, compensation for addi-        Union government and all states seek-     "haste" 13 years ago. The doctors had
tional costs on account of increase in      ing their response on uploading of FIRs   denied any negligence.
service tax on the insurance premium        on websites on a PIL filed by an
and bank guarantee charges. The             Uttarakhand based organisation.           5 years imprisonment for
award went in favour of the builder.                                                  chain-snatchers
The appeal against it was dismissed by      "FIR is a public document; however, to
the high court.                             obtain a copy of FIR from police is not   The Maharashtra government has de-
                                            an easy task for the general public.      cided to increase the punishment for
The Supreme Court examined the              Therefore, if the FIR is put on websites  chain-snatching up to five years of rig-
terms of the contract and observed          it would be in the larger public inter-   orous imprisonment along with a fine
that "construction of the terms of a        est and the same will also avoid many     of Rs 25,000 if the victim is injured. In
contract is primarily for an arbitral tri-  difficulties being faced by the general   cases where there is no injury the pun-
bunal to decide and unless it construes     public," the petitioner, Youth Bar As-    ishment ranges between two and five
the contract in such a way that no fair-    sociation of India, said in its plea.     years.

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