Braveheart Rukhsana appointed special police officer in J&K

Rukhsana being shifted to Delhi

Farmer's daughter disarms terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47

Quite a brave heart this simple Kashmiri girl!

Man Sues AXE, As Unable To Get Girls!

Vaibhav was pushed to take this step when his bai (maid) beat him with a broom when he tried to impress her by appearing naked in front of her after applying all the Axe products.

Hah! Hah! Hah! Below, my previous posts of the Axe Effect;-)

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Blank cheques to recover loans, not goons

Lenders have found a way to send
policemen for the same, using an Act that was first introduced during the Raj in 1881.

Actually some very bad defaulter has probably influenced this article in the ET. By making that above statement they make it sound as if some incredibly bad thing is being done, ie using a British era instrument to torture current Indian citizens. The fact is that most of our laws like the Indian Contracts Act etc are from the British era, no one objects to that. And further the so called 1881 act [while not mentioned it is the Negotiable Instruments Act] referred above was amended by the Indian Govt. a few years ago such that it became a criminal offence to issue a cheque which would not subsequently be honoured. So the Brits had nothing to do with this.

Further the cops do not come to recover the money from you. They come to serve you with the court summons first, thereafter if you don't bother to make a court appearance they will be sent again to serve a non bailable warrant on which you will be arrested and taken to court. Once taken to court you will be bailed out.

That is so far as as news article is concerned. Next turning to the financial institutions who resort to doing this. While issuing you a loan most banks expect you to sign reams of documents and almost never ask for a blank cheque. So this procedure will most probably be followed by such banks who issue you a lawn at the drop of the proverbial hat. Like say the kind lady over the phone who tells you that ICICI is ready to give you a loan of 3 lakh Rupees. These banks have practically not documents required to be signed by you, and so the blank cheque will be their only recourse.

If you are doing business in India it will serve your purpose to have blank cheques from your customers, it will also serve you purpose if you refuse to issue blank cheques to your vendors.

Andhra CM and chopper yet to be traced



Today afternoon NDTV had conflicting reports that the chopper had landed in Karnool but they had no contact with the CM. That he is safe but they haven't spoken to him. Looks like he is really missing. So I suppose we have to get ready with our condolences.

My friend just sent me this e-mail.

Indian court uses blog reference to solve TVS-Bajaj patent issue

In order to understand the complex technologies under consideration, the judges curiously chose to rely heavily on a blog entry by J. Sai Deepak, a final year LLB student from the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law in IIT Kharagpur. The blog, “Spicy IP India”, deals with issues of intellectual property law.

Okay so all of you with open blogs justice will be done depending on what you write from now on:-)

Note this is the blog post in question: Guest Post: Bajaj vs TVS Patent Dispute

Indian street racer kicked out of Canada for killing woman

During the trial, the court was told that he was driving at 120 km in the 50-km speed zone in competition with Bhahadur Singh Bhalru. Bhalru was deported to India in 2005.

Imagine the dude has two Candian born children.

Red tape binds Tipu sword

If customs duty can be waived for Sachin’s car, then why shouldn’t the same apply to these antiques. These artefacts will be displayed in a public museum and no one else would have bought it.
According to a source close to Mallya

Vijay Mallya will be well advised to keep the Gandhi items he bought in the same place were the Tipu sword is being kept. Ie some place in San Francisco. When our politicians said they will bring the Gandhi items back at "any cost" I suppose they meant "including the customs duty thereon."

I am in a good mood today and so am not calling anyone a dumb ass or and idiot or something worse.

Amid high drama, Mallya buys Gandhi heritage for $1.8 mn

That at today's exchange rate is about Rs 9 crore. If you ask me an utter waste of money and and big fuss over nothing. Warped sense of priorities for a country that teems with poor people.

Also the newsitem says:
It was not immediately clear if the articles would be returned to the government or kept in private possession.

Now is that really important. You know what happens when things are kept with the Govt. They lose it. Remember Tagore's Nobel medallion, it private hands for sure. And since this happened [Red tape binds Tipu sword] when Mallya bought the sword of Tipu Sultan, he might not bring the Gandhi items into the country at all.

US collector makes another offer to stop sale of Gandhi items

The Hindustan Times had headlined it as Owner of Gandhi’s belongings sets tough conditions for India on its front page. I thought maybe he wanted loads of money from the Indian Govt. These are his demands.( Read more... )

Arrest warrant against Nayanar five years after death

A court in Thiruvananthapuram has issued an arrest warrant against former Chief Minister E K Nayanar quite late - five years after his death - with the police failing to inform the magistrate about the Marxist leader's demise.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S Gopalakrishnan issued the warrant for the second time on Tuesday as police had not informed the court that Nayanar had died when the court issued the warrant for the first time in the case in January 2007.

I wonder why the magistrate would have required the police to inform him about Nayanar's death. The news item goes on to say...

All these years, the local police had failed to produce Nayanar's death certificate or furnish a report before the court in the matter as required by the legal process.

Ah! A simple matter of a death certificate. Okay judge since since the police are still not telling you that he is dead, you will now have to follow due course of the law and issue a NBW against Nayanar .