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India Today
03-06-2025
- General
- India Today
Bombay High Court allows animal slaughter for Bakrid, Urs at Kolhapur dargah
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed animal slaughter for Eid al-Adha (Bakrid) and the Urs festival at the dargah at Vishalgad Fort in Kolhapur, while blasting government authorities for sitting on the bench, comprising Justices Dr Neela Gokhale and Firdosh Poonawalla, pointed out that the court had already issued an order last year permitting the dargah to hold the Peer Malik Rehan Mira Saheb's dargah, located at Vishalgad fort in Kolhapur, approached the High Court through advocates Satish Talekar and Madhvi Ayappan, stating it submitted an application to multiple authorities seeking permission for animal slaughter on June 5 and 6, 2025, and for Urs from June 7 to 12. However, the authorities have still not acted upon the application, the petitioners year, Urs is celebrated at the dargah for three days, commemorating the death anniversary of Peer Saheb twice a year - once after Eid al-Adha in June and from January 12 to 14 each petition said the Urs festival was of great significance as followers believe that Hazrat Peer Malik Saheb descends to the Earth at the dargah. The silver gate constructed near the tomb of Peer Saheb miraculously opens up on its own on the first day of Urs, the plea 2024, the authorities refused to grant permission to the dargah for animal slaughter and the Urs, after which they approached the High court had permitted the dargah to hold the festivities and had later even pulled up the authorities for misinterpreting its bench on Tuesday said the earlier order of the court would be applicable for the festival of Bakrid and Urs this time as Watch IN THIS STORY#Maharashtra
BBC News
11-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Oxpens bridge: Oxford Thames crossing judicial review dismissed
A judicial review of plans for a new bridge over the Thames has been dismissed by the High £10m pedestrian and cycle crossing was proposed by Oxford City Council and would involve clearing a section of the city's Grandpont Nature have argued it would lead to irreversible biodiversity loss on the site, and challenged the legality of the council's decision. Responding to the court's judgement, city council leader Susan Brown said: "We welcome this outcome, which upholds our planning decision in full." The authority gave the go-ahead for the Oxpens River Bridge in submissions to the High Court, the Friends of Grandpont Nature Park group argued the committee was misled on key facts and had not considered vital Deputy Judge Dan Kolinsky KC rejected all five of the group's challenges in his written judgement issued on bridge would connect the Osney Mead industrial estate and the Oxpens area with the city is being funded using £8.8m from the Housing and Growth Deal programme, and £1.5m from the Housing and Infrastructure Fund. Ms Brown said: "While it is important that people have the right to challenge decisions through the legal process, the government has been clear judicial reviews should not be used to block much-needed infrastructure that benefits communities."With the decision made, we can now focus council time and public money to progress delivery of the bridge. "Once complete, it will provide an essential, safe, and attractive walking and cycling route linking new homes and jobs at Oxpens and Osney Mead with the city centre."The Friends of Grandpont Nature Park were contacted for comment. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
24-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Rutland dad with MND backs assisted dying bill amendment
A father with motor neurone disease (MND) has urged MPs to press ahead with changes to the law on assisted dying.A committee of MPs is expected to consider amendments to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the coming weeks. Phil Newby, 54, from Rutland, has MND and previously failed in a High Court case calling for a judicial review of the current law, which makes it an offence to help another person end their said: "I'm unlikely to benefit from a change in the law, even if it's passed through the Houses of Parliament – which I hope it will be, I'll be delighted if it is - will take two, maybe three years to come into effect." Liberal Democrat MP Tom Gordon has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would allow people with neurodegenerative illnesses such as MND to request assisted dying when they are estimated to have 12 months left to change would extend the eligibility for people with neurodegenerative illnesses to a year from the currently proposed six months. Mr Newby said the change would be a "very wise and sensible thing to put into our law".He added: "The neurological diseases come with the very high risk of a cognitive decline in the later stages."This means that very often, within the last six months of their lives, people with neuro illnesses, with brain illnesses, become ineligible for an assisted death."And they are some of the people who need an assisted death perhaps the most, the people who, for decades now, have gone to court begging for help from the system." 'Relentless deterioration' Mr Newby was diagnosed with MND in 2014. He had lost the ability to walk and use his hands and lower arms by 2019, when he took his case for change to the High former environmental consultant had his appeal refused by judges, who said the court was "not an appropriate forum for the discussion of the sanctity of life".Mr Newby said he has since suffered a "slow and very relentless deterioration in his condition and now has "less use of my limbs, problems with breathing and swallowing".He lives at home with his his wife and spends long periods on a ventilator and is looked after by carers almost 24 hours a day. Mr Newby believes any change in the law will come too late for him, but added: "I'll never say never, but the satisfaction of seeing a really antiquated, out-of-date and, frankly, cruel bit of legislation from the past replaced by something much better, would be really satisfying."Campaign group Care Not Killing has said the amendment to widen eligibility for some "shines a spotlight on the dangers of legalising state-assisted killing, as once politicians say there are some lives not worth living it is only a matter of which conditions and illnesses are included".Amendments to the bill will be discussed by the 23-member scrutiny committee in the coming you have been affected by the contents of this story, you can visit the BBC Action Line website.
