CBI appropriate agency to investigate trafficking of women,says High court

This comes after Advocate General Bolai Roy,who appearing on behalf of the state government,told the court that a probe conducted by the CID found that an inter-state as well as international rackets were involved in trafficking of women,and consequently the state police took help from the Interpol.

Acting on a writ petition filed by one Johara Bibi,a resident of South 24-Parganas who had alleged that the police did not take proper action to trace her missing minor daughter in May 2009,the High Court on June 19,2010 had directed the state police to file a report on women trafficking and submit it within four weeks.

After the CID submitted its report to a single-member Bench,Justice Sanjib Banerjee referred the case to a larger Bench saying that the case should be taken up as a PIL.

Don’t pay old age pension in cash: HC to KMC
The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) not to pay old age pension to beneficiaries in cash.

After hearing a PIL,a Division Bench of Chief Justice J N Patel and Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya asked the KMC Commissioner to file a report on the payment mode to beneficiaries.

Sant Bux Singh,a resident of Kolkata,had filed a PIL in July pointing out that the KMC made old age pension payments to beneficiaries residing in the Corporation area in cash. But the pension should be disbursed through money order or bank or post office according to the law,he submitted.

The petitioner also alleged that the KMC had continued pension payments in the name of a person who had died. Singh sought the High Court’s intervention to end such malpractices in the KMC area.

Advocate Arunav Ghosh,counsel for Suman Singh,a KMC councillor,said that KMC officials handed over the pension to old aged persons.

The scheme for old age pension was funded by the Central government and beneficiaries received Rs 400 a month from the KMC.

Ghosh said that aged persons received the pension based of the councillor’s recommendation.