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Time of India
30-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Dog bite claims cases: Kerala HC directs setting up of district-level panels
Kochi: High court has directed the Kerala State Legal Services Authority (KeLSA) member secretary to take steps, in consultation with the state govt, to constitute district-level committees within a month for processing and adjudicating claim petitions filed by victims of stray dog attacks. The court was considering a batch of petitions seeking judicial intervention to address the growing menace of stray dog attacks. In response, the state govt submitted a proposal to constitute committees in each district comprising the district legal services authority (DLSA) secretary, district medical officer (DMO) and local self-govt department (LSGD) joint director, as an alternative to the Justice Siri Jagan Committee. Accepting the proposal, the bench of Justice C S Dias instructed the member secretary to collect all pending claim petitions from Siri Jagan Committee's registry and forward them to the respective DLSAs. The newly formed committees shall renumber the received claim petitions, issue notices to the complainants and concerned local self-govt institutions (LSGIs) and adjudicate the claims as expeditiously as possible. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Learn More - How Donating Sperm May Support Your Income SpellRock Undo HC also directed the KeLSA member secretary to frame and issue necessary practice directions and procedural guidelines to ensure the uniform, effective and streamlined functioning of the committees. A compliance report detailing the steps taken to implement these directions must be filed within a month. HC further appointed Adv P Deepak as amicus curiae in the matter. The court clarified that stray dog attack victims may file fresh claim petitions, either physically or online, before the district or taluk legal services committees. If filed before the taluk legal services committee, the petitions must be forwarded to the respective DLSA. No euthanasia for now During hearing, the state submitted its decision regarding the applicability of Rule 8 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Animal Husbandry Practices and Procedures) Rules, 2023, which permits euthanasia of an animal under certain conditions. The Rule allows euthanasia of an animal if the central or state govt determines that it is so diseased it may spread the disease, or if a registered veterinary practitioner certifies that the animal is mortally or severely injured, or in such a condition that it would be cruel to keep it alive. However, in light of earlier decisions of the high court and the implementation of the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, the bench clarified that euthanasia of stray dogs cannot be permitted until further orders.
New Indian Express
28-06-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
TNGASA lookalike website clickbaits students applying to govt arts colleges
COIMBATORE: Students are left in a flurry of confusion while applying online for postgraduate courses at Tamil Nadu Government Arts and Science Colleges (TNGASA), as a doppelganger website will pop up, probably in an attempt to poach some clicks off the official portal. Lakhs of students visit the website during admission time, said sources. If you type 'TNGASA' on search engines, two domains will appear, the official one with '.in' extension and a lookalike with '.com' extension. The Directorate of Collegiate Education's (DCE) lethargy to purchase domains with other extensions is blamed as the reason behind the confusion. Students applying for Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions also face a similar plight, with sources from DCE admitting that someone also purchased the '.in' domain, which will appear in the second spot on search engines. Officers who manage the portal did not purchase any domains except '.org', they added. P Deepak, a student in Coimbatore, told TNIE, 'Recently, I searched for the TNGASA website to apply for a postgraduate course. On it, two websites with the same name, TNGASA, appeared. When I hurriedly clicked on the second website, which had a '.com' domain, except for the admission process, there were details of all arts and science colleges with advertisements offered by Google.' An assistant professor at a government college in Salem said several students who completed Class 12 faced the same trouble. A web developer, P Naveen from Coimbatore, said that the DCE should have purchased other domains such as '.com', '.net' and '.org. 'Since the department failed to do this, someone could have purchased the '.com' extension and then launched and operated a website with the same name. Practically, it is legal. The fault rests with the department, which neglected to acquire the domains priced under Rs 5,000 annually,' he said. Government departments should form new websites with a '.gov' name, which would prevent private entities from misusing such websites, he added. 'When a second website appears with the same name, a large number of students will definitely visit the same website organically. Through this, the owner of the website can earn more money using Google AdSense,' he explained.
