Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court made it clear that prescribing the standard operating procedure for seizing unaccounted money for model code of conduct violations by the Election Commission of India did not amount to violation of fundamental rights. Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy has said that in view of the powers being conferred under Article 324 of the Constitution and the …
Tamil Nadu’s low mortality rate has come under scrutiny, with the state government setting up a committee to probe unaccounted Covid-19 deaths in Chennai. The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine found that the death registry maintained by the Greater Chennai Corporation recorded 236 deaths that were not added to the state’s tally. “We suspect that many of these …