Row over Ashok Chakra on wedding invite

Nov 27, 2010 - AGE CORRESPONDENT |

Lucknow

Mr Sanjay Singh Chauhan, RLD MP from Bijnore, has landed in trouble by printing the national symbol (Ashok Chakra) on his son’s wedding card.
The wedding card is printed in the format of the MP’s letter head and has the Ashok Chakra, along with the words “Satyamen Jayate” printed on the top.
The wedding of the MP’s son, Chandan Chauhan is scheduled to be held on December 6 and thousands of invite have been distributed.
Talking to this correspondent, a senior lawyer in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court said that this amounted to a violation of law since the national symbol could only be used by prescribed persons and hat too for prescribed purposes.
“It is certainly not meant to be used on wedding cards,” the lawyer said.

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SC stay on hearing on K’taka MLAs
AGE CORRESPONDENT
new delhi

Nov. 26: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed further proceedings by the Karnataka high court on the petition of five Independent MLAs challenging their expulsion form the state assembly by the Speaker for withdrawing support to the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led BJP government.
The stay was granted by a bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph on the petition of BJP leader D.N. Jeevaraju, who challenged the high court’s interim order allowing the five independent MLAs to amend their petition against the Speaker’s decision in the midway of the hearing.

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MLA plea on Ayodhya dismissed
AGE CORRESPONDENT
new delhi

Nov. 26: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation petition by Shoaid Iqbal Lok Janshakti Party MLA from Delhi challenging the Allahabad high court judgment in the Ayodhya title suit in a terse order, saying he has no locus standi in the case.
Questioning the entitlement of Iqbal to file PIL in a civil suit among some litigants on the issue, a bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar declared his PIL as “misconceived and dismissed”.

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Privilege motion on Orissa CM
age correspondent
Bhubaneswar

Nov. 26: The Opposition in the Orissa Legislative Assembly on Friday brought two separate privilege motions against chief minister Naveen Patnaik saying that the latter had “misled” the House by furnishing “wrong” facts while replying to an adjournment motion on land acquisition for Vedanta University project at Puri.
As soon as Zero Hour started, Bharatiya Janata Party chief whip Jayanaryan Mishra moved a privilege motion saying that chief minister Patnaik had misled the House by saying the land was acquired for the university project.

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