Ex-RPF officer serves notice to cbi chief
After alleging that the CBI director Ranjit Sinha had been acting with vendetta against him, the secretary-general of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) federation U.S. Jha has served defamation notice against the chief of the investigation agency. Mr Jha has claimed a damage of `51 lakhs from the CBI director, after the railways cancelled two bungalows reportedly following the CBI report.
On the issue of the three bungalows in his possession out of which two were cancelled by the railways, Mr Jha’s legal notice claims that they were provided as per the rules and there was no wrongdoing on his part. In the legal notice, Mr Jha has alleged that it was the CBI director who got the “malicious information about him occupying the two flats published in the print media”. While seeking an unconditional apology from the CBI director within seven days, the legal notice has warned that failure to do so would lead to the liability of paying a sum of `51 lakhs.
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Indian starts delivering exit papers in Saudi
Dubai, May 20: India On Monday started verification and issuance of emergency certificates, allowing its citizens to leave Saudi Arabia following concerns over a new labour policy in the Gulf Kingdom.
The schedule currently announced is for the delivery of the first batch of 12,000 emergency certificate applications received at Indian Embassy in Riyadh and nearly 3,000 in Saudi’s Eastern Province.
The schedule for verification and delivery of subsequent batches for all Indian nationals who have applied at other collection centres in Saudi Arabia will be announced soon, the Indian embassy in Riyadh said in a statement.
There has been a rush for the emergency travel documents with about 60,000 applicants looking for one, amid concerns about possible job losses after the new ‘Nitaqat’ labour law comes into effect. The “Nitaqat” law makes it mandatory for local companies to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers.
There has been widespread perception that the new policy will lead to denial of job opportunities for a large number of Indians working there. Over two million Indians are currently working in Saudi Arabia.
“The embassy would like to reiterate that anyone who obtains ECs from the embassy will have their current passports cancelled. They would not be able to travel out of India on such passports,” the statement read. The embassy said a large number of Indians who obtained emergency certificates from the Embassy during 2010 and 2011 could not return to India on their basis. — PTI
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