AGARTALA, January 28 (TIWN): The Additional District and Sessions Court, West district today rejected the bail plea of scamster Bimal Chakraborty into multicrore MGNREGA scam of Bishalghar RD Block. He appeared before the court today hoping that bail plea will be granted. But terming some laws, the court declined his bail petition, said an official of police department.On the other hand, 8 accused persons among the 9 surrendered or arrested persons including scamster Bimal Chakraborty would be produced before the Addl. District and Sessions Court on January 31 said official source. BDO Bimal Chakraborty was a close aide of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and translated former Chief Secretary S.K.Panda's book One plus one into Bengali. Apart from that Bimal's powerful 3 brothers; Amal Chakraborty State DYFI Secretary, TPS Officer Kamal Chakraborty is SP Security and elder brother and Chief Minister's close friend Shyamal Chakraborty tipped to become fist Vice Chancellor of upcoming State University.

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AGARTALA, January 28 (TIWN): The next calendar date for the hearing of 10,323 teachers termination case is scheduled on April 6 at the Supreme Court; uncertainty still prevails over the fate of the terminated teachers. As per scheduled programme, the case was placed in the registrar’s bench of the Apex Court. After, the cross checks of various documents, it was found that most of the members of both defence and Government sides did not get notice till date, said Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatia over telephone today. Therefore the Court has declared the next date for hearing on April 6. In the meantime all notices should be sent and the members can send their queries and reply, Jamatia further added.Earlier, after first hearing in the month of August, the case was again placed in the Court for hearing today, though no satisfactory result was announced and anxiety still prevails among the 10,323 teachers.

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AGARTALA, January 28 (TIWN): High Court of Tripura (HC) has again delivered a blow to the state government. And this time the issue is state govt. employees emoluments. No wonder that the state govt employees are getting one of the lowest salaries in the country as per available data. Meanwhile, in the last year a case was filed by Souvik Bardhan (A govt of Tripura employee) in the High Court of Tripura on the issue of salaries of govt of Tripura employees. Earlier the single bench of Justice Swapan Das had rejected the case remarking that the case is too broad and elaborative that it can not be decided by this bench. Thereafter, a writ petition was filed in the HC’s division bench comprising of Justice Subhasis Talapatra and Chief Justice Deepak Gupta. The division bench has now accepted the case of employee emoluments and has issued notice to the state government to give reply within next 8 weeks.

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