Court Case of Bollywood Actress Ms. Rani Mukherjee

The case :
Bollywood actor Rani Mukherjee purchased some land in Ningaonkovali village, on the border of Nasik and Ahmednagar districts, Shirdi, Maharashtra. Earlier, there was a sugar factory on the said land that was subsequently closed. Since the factory had excess land, the government took it over in accordance with the Urban Land Ceiling Act (ULCA) and handed it over to the Maharashtra State Farming Corporation (MSFC). As the land remained unused for a long time, the MSFC sold it to the original owner, a farmer who worked in a hotel in Shirdi town. From the farmer, Rani bought the plot in December 2005 for Rs.3.3 million. However, when she applied for registration of the plot in her name, the revenue department refused permission and stressed that as it was an agriculture land, only a farmer could buy it. The deputy collector of Ahmednagar district conducted an inquiry and Rani was asked to pay penalty for buying a farmland. Since the actress failed to pay the penalty, the Shrimanpur SDO ordered her name be deleted from the sale deed.

Against this decision of the Shrirampur Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) canceling jher ownership of the said land and direting her to surrender the said land, Rani Mukherji, through her father Shri Ram Mukherjee, filed a petition in the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court in June 2008, challenging the cancellation of her ownership of a piece of land in Maharashtra.

Her petition challenging the Shrirampur sub-divisional officer’s (SDO) Mr. Nandkumar Suryavanshi’s order, came up for hearing before Justice Naresh H.Patil who passed order on 19.6.2008 thereby staying the SDO's order and said that Rani Mukherjee ws entitled to get her name recorded in the Revenue Records.

For the exact Text of said order of the High Court, kindly email me. I will email the Text of the Order, which is in Pdf format.

Eureka! I Found the Formula To Convert PageMaker File to PDF file

Dear Friends,

For last few days, I was searching on the internet for some method to convert my files in PageMaker format (these files contain the Book authored by me) to more conveniently readable Adobe PDF format. However, throughout the internet, I could not locate any free software to do this task. Then, I hit upon an idea and, believe me, it worked ! You do not even need Adobe Acrobat or any other Adobe software to do so. Infact, even the Adobe site does not give you option to do this conversion with the software available for free download (despite the fact that PageMaker and Acrobat PDF both are produts of Adobe). Infact, by this method, mot of the file formats can be converted into PDF.

It goes like this :

-- Download CutePDF Writer from the site http://www.cutepdf.com/ and install it on your computer.

-- Open the Original Document which you want to convert.

-- Select PRINT command in File Menu, so as to open PRINT dialog box.

-- Select CutePDF Writer as the Printer to print (DO NOT select "Print to file").

-- You get a SAVE AS dialog box for saving the created PDF file. Select a folder to save it and enter a file name.

-- Then click SAVE.

-- Go to that folder to find your PDF file.



I hope you all benefit from this. If you find it useful, kindly convey this to your friends.



Sunil Goel

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BEST OF HEALTH TO AMITABH BACHCHAN

I heard the news today that Shri Amitabh Bachchan is not well and has been admitted to a Mumbai Hospital. I am his keen admirer, for many reasons. One is that we share the same alma mata (we both are from Kiroromal College, North Campus, Delhi University). Secondly, we did the same course at the said college i.e. B.Sc.(General) Group 'A'. Thirdly, he issued a nice and encouraging appreciation letter for my book "COURTS, POLICE, AUTHORITIES & COMMON MAN' (see at www.sunilgoel.org) and fourthly, he is a wonderful person and a versatile actor.

I wish Amitabh ji a speedy recovery.

Supreme Court : Police bound to register the Complaint else face action

The Supreme Court of India recently passed an order thereby alleviating the often made grievance of the public that their compaint is not registered in the form of FIR by the police officers and they have to run from pillar to post for getting the FIR registered.

The relevant part of the said Order reads as under :
“The grievance in the present writ petition is that the occurrence had taken place in the month of May and, in that very month, on 11th May, 2008, the written report was submitted by the petitioner before the officer In-charge of the concerned Police Station, who sat tight over the matter. Thereafter, when the Superintendent of Police was moved, a First Information Report (for short "F.I.R.") was registered.Even thereafter, steps were not taken either for apprehending the accused or recovery of the minor girl child. It is a matter of experience of one of us (B.N. Agrawal, J.) while acting as Judge of Patna High Court, Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and Judge of this Court that in spite of law laid down by this Court, the concerned police authorities do not register F.I.Rs unless some direction is given by the Chief Judicial Magistrate or the High Court or this Court. Further experience shows that even after orders are passed by the concerned courts for registration of the case, the police does not take the necessary steps and when matters are brought to the notice of the Inspecting Judges of the High Court during the course of inspection of Courts and Superintendents of Police are taken to task, then only F.I.Rs are registered. In large number of cases investigations do not commence even after registration of F.I.Rs and in case like the present one, steps are not taken for recovery of the kidnapped person or apprehending the accused person with reasonable despatch. At times it has been found that when harsh orders are passed by the Members of the Judiciary in a State, the police becomes hostile to them for instance in Bihar when a bail petition filed by a police personnel, who was accused was rejected by a member of Bihar Superior Judicial Service, he was assaulted in the Court room for which contempt proceeding was initiated by Patna High Court and the erring police officials were convicted and sentenced to suffer imprisonment. On the other hand, there are innumerable cases that where the complainant is a practical person, F.I.Rs are registered immediately, copies thereof are made over to the complainant on the same day, investigation proceeds with supersonic jet speed, immediate steps are taken for apprehending the accused and recovery of the kidnapped persons and the properties which were subject matter of theft or dacoity. In the case before us allegations have been made that theStation House Officer of the concerned Police Station is pressurising the complainant to withdraw the complaint, which, if true, is a very disturbing state of affairs. We do not know there may be innumerable such instances. In view of the above, we feel that it is high time to give directions to Governments of all the States and Union Territories besides their Director Generals of Police/Commissioners of Police as the case may be to the effect that if steps are not taken for registration of F.I.Rs immediately and copies thereof are not made over to the complainants,they may move the concerned Magistrates by filing complaint petitions to give direction to the police to register case immediately upon receipt/production of copy of the orders and make over copy of the F.I.Rs to the complainants, within twenty four hours of receipt/production of copy of such orders. It may further give direction to take immediate steps for apprehending the accused persons and recovery of kidnapped/abducted persons and properties which were subject matter of theft or dacoity. In case F.I.Rs are not registered within the aforementioned time, and/or aforementioned steps are not taken by the police, the concerned Magistrate would be justified in initiating contempt proceeding against such delinquent officers and punish them for violation of its orders if no sufficient cause is shown and awarding stringent punishment like sentence of imprisonment against them inasmuch as the Disciplinary Authority would be quite justified in initiating departmental proceeding and suspending them in contemplation of the same. Keeping in mind these facts, we are of the view that notices should be issued to Government of all the States and Union Territories besides Director Generals of Police/Commissioners of Police as the case may be. Issue notice to the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories and the Director Generals of Police/Commissioners of Police,as the case may be, to show cause as to why aforesaid directions be not given by this Court. Notices may be sent to the parties by Fax and it should be mentioned therein that the order has been put on the Website of the Supreme Court of India so that they may file response without loss of time.”

Browsing The Web

Hi, I was browsing the web. At some sites, I was asked to copy some HTML language code and paste it on my webpage. Accordingly, I am doing the same to see the results.

Supreme Court on Liability in case of acident by minor

Recently, the Supreme Court of India has passed a judgment in motor accident claim case, which tends to mark a deviation from Court's earlier approach. The Court ruled that if a minor causes an accident by driving a vehicle, then even if the offending vehicle is insured, the liability to pay compnesation can not be passed on to the insurance company and it has to be borne by the parents of the minor child who caused the accident. This judgment seems to have been influenced by the recent trend of young brats of influential parents causing accidents recklessly. This judgment is a step in the right direction as the parents will think twice before allowing their kids to take the keys of the vehicle and drive the same before they attain the age of 18 years.