It is quite shocking to hear that the Government of Kerala have collected a fine of Rs 10 crore 63 lakhs from two wheeler owners alone for not wearing helmets. I think this is much in advance of the fine collected for the same offense in other states. Kerala police seems more vigilant in checking seat bells and helmets rather than inspecting crimes of robbery, illicit liquor trade and women trafficking. The police could not take up serious crimes as easily as criminals involved in such crimes are linked to higher ups.
The huge fine collected by Police personnel and RT men are in addition to extensive insult, manhandling and even killing the two wheeler owners. Even if a person carries required documents the police find reasons to insult the driver. The police officers behave like highway rowdies and fine a person who may be in desperate bid to buy medicine to his ailing child. This should end. The government should so decide to stop collecting fine at spot. The offender can be charge-sheeted and asked to pay money in special bank counters or court offices. And at the same time presently collected exorbitant fine should be slashed. The police men collecting money directly is a bad practice and hence should be stopped. If so, demand from various corners asking police personnel to disclose their assets could be voided.
Should the MLAs now visiting Thekkadi forests, resting in Nature’s lap and writing poems consider the present plight of two wheeler owners in the state.
K A Solaman
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Khan’s show business.
It is Shah Rukh Khan’s show business to make an issue as there is nothing serious of the sort in holding him back due to security check at Newark Airport in the US. Shah Rukh is not as famous as Bruce Willis or Tom Cruise; nonetheless they are also checked at air ports in the US for security reasons. Indian Minister Ambika Soni has raised voice against US for their customary procedure and that is too intended to sell her in public along with Shah Rukh. I don’t find anything unlikable in the whole episode and the hue and cry over the issue is insincere. Shah Rukh should learn from India’s former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam who showed absolute patience in facing a similar situation with Continental Airliners and his restrain to make it not an issue. It is only after five months the people of India who loved Kalam so much made the Continental episode an issue and such an admiration is not germane to Shah Rukh Khan.
If one feels the security check by the US is distasteful, then it would be better for him not to visit that country. Abusing the US by saying that people from India are suffering racial bias in the US is a non-sense because people staying their never say like wise. Many educated and technically skilled people earn their living from the US and any abuse against that country would adversely affect these people seeking a further fortune there. It is routine among Left party leaders of the country to abuse the US and still make available the advantages of their medical and technological advancements. Is there any aged communist leader in this country who had ever denied the Amercian medical hospitality? Those who never want to take a chance with their life visit the US for medical requisite.
Shah Rukh need not visit the US in future.
K A Solaman
If one feels the security check by the US is distasteful, then it would be better for him not to visit that country. Abusing the US by saying that people from India are suffering racial bias in the US is a non-sense because people staying their never say like wise. Many educated and technically skilled people earn their living from the US and any abuse against that country would adversely affect these people seeking a further fortune there. It is routine among Left party leaders of the country to abuse the US and still make available the advantages of their medical and technological advancements. Is there any aged communist leader in this country who had ever denied the Amercian medical hospitality? Those who never want to take a chance with their life visit the US for medical requisite.
Shah Rukh need not visit the US in future.
K A Solaman
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Reduce number of pending cases.
It is high time to take drastic steps to clear pending cases in all courts in the country. Then only the root cause of corruption could be identified and the law, as an instrument of social change, should help people achieve all that they longed for in society.
Whenever there is a dispute people often approach a lower court. The lower court then issues a verdict in favour of one party depending on the merits and that is too after 5-6 years. The aggrieved then approaches the high court and there the case lies indefinitely unattended and takes a natural death unless the aggrieved takes interest in bringing the case before the court. This must end. There must be an effort to put an end to this practice and every case should be attended in its due course. The cases should be heard by the judges in accordance with the date of filling and no case should be prolonged indefinitely to take a natural death.
It is a practice among some parties including government agencies to file an appeal before high court when there is a lower court verdict against them. This is often intended to harass the opposite party and to exploit the benefit of long delay in the high court. The parties know the delay or natural death of such cases in the high court and thus they are least interested in the settling the dispute. So it is necessary to have legislations to reduce the number of pending cases in all courts in the country.
K A Solaman
Whenever there is a dispute people often approach a lower court. The lower court then issues a verdict in favour of one party depending on the merits and that is too after 5-6 years. The aggrieved then approaches the high court and there the case lies indefinitely unattended and takes a natural death unless the aggrieved takes interest in bringing the case before the court. This must end. There must be an effort to put an end to this practice and every case should be attended in its due course. The cases should be heard by the judges in accordance with the date of filling and no case should be prolonged indefinitely to take a natural death.
It is a practice among some parties including government agencies to file an appeal before high court when there is a lower court verdict against them. This is often intended to harass the opposite party and to exploit the benefit of long delay in the high court. The parties know the delay or natural death of such cases in the high court and thus they are least interested in the settling the dispute. So it is necessary to have legislations to reduce the number of pending cases in all courts in the country.
K A Solaman
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
H1N1 flu scare in Kerala
The dreadful flu has hit Kerala too. The first critical flu case was reported from Thiruvananthapuram. The official version is that in all 53 persons had so far been hit by H1N1 flu in Kerala. However the true picture may be far from the published. This I say when Chikungunea hit and a few dead, the Minister in charge of Health Services argued that there was not even a single case of Chickungunea death. The minister had later corrected her stand after the interference of the Chief Minister V S Achuthanadnan.
Though the death rate in Kerala due to other fevers and diseases are very high than swine flu the media has spread panic about the flu situation. The precautionary measures taken by the Kerala Health Department to contain the spread of flu and the panic created by it is not satisfactory. Hence it is time for opening more flu monitoring centres to reduce the panic among public. Street sanitation and mosquito eradication should also be done at a war footing.
K A Solaman
Though the death rate in Kerala due to other fevers and diseases are very high than swine flu the media has spread panic about the flu situation. The precautionary measures taken by the Kerala Health Department to contain the spread of flu and the panic created by it is not satisfactory. Hence it is time for opening more flu monitoring centres to reduce the panic among public. Street sanitation and mosquito eradication should also be done at a war footing.
K A Solaman
Bound to honour
As a former president, Abdul Kalam has certain privileges that we are bound to honour. The way in which he was made to stand in queue with other passengers and subjected to security check is seriously embarrassing. Can the Continental Airlines officials imagine frisking Bill Clinton or Condoleezza Rice? Calling this a standard procedure or saying that the staff failed to recognize Kalam is not enough.
K.A. Solaman
The Telegraph, Calcutta 25 July 09
K.A. Solaman
The Telegraph, Calcutta 25 July 09
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