The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
Published on Jan 13, 2019
“We are enjoying the fruits of mediation process in the cities. However, it is difficult in rural areas to convince the litigants that mediation is one of the instruments to resolve the disputes amicably,” stated Justice Naresh Patil, Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and Patron-In-Chief of Maharashtra State Legal Services Authority (MSLSA) on Saturday.
He was delivering inaugural address at Regional Conference on “Mediation: Capacity Building, Issues and Challenges” organised by MSLSA and Main Mediation Monitoring Committee, Bombay High Court and Mediation Monitoring Sub-Committee, Nagpur in coordination with District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Nagpur at Hotel Centre Point on Saturday. Justice A S Oka, Justice B R Gavai, Justice R V More and Justice R K Deshpande were prominently present on the dais.
Elaborating importance of mediation, Justice Patil further said, “if the matter is settled through mediation, both the parties are in a win-win situation.” Stating mediation is India’s traditional way to resolve the disputes amicably, Justice Patil opined that if the litigants are required to pursue the matter years together, then they will have to spend many more years of their lives for getting resolved the dispute. He also informed that mandatory provisions were made applicable to the commercial disputes.
The Chief Justice also draw attention towards Himilayan Pendency of cases in the courts and shortage of judges and infrastructure facilities. “There is burden on the institution to deliver justice to the litigants,” he said and added that it is now necessary for us to adopt methods of mediation and deliver justice. He also appealed judicial officers to refer good cases for mediation to achieve better success rate.
Justice R K Deshpande, Senior Administrative Judge of Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court delivered welcome address. He said that area of commercial disputes, role of referral judges in selection of cases for mediation and code of conduct for the referral judges as well as the mediators are the three aspects of discussion of the conference.
The best Referral Judge P K Agnihotri, Family Court, Nagpur, best trained Judge Mediator Parmar, Secretary, DLSA, Wardha and trained Advocate Mediator Sharmila Charalwar were felicitated at the hands of dignitaries.
Shrikant Kulkarni, Member Secretary, MSLSA extended vote of thanks at the end of the conference. Principal District Judge, Nagpur Shashikant Savale and his colleague Judicial Officers exerted hard for the success of the conference. V B Kulkarni, District Judge-2, Nagpur and his team arranged for the wide publicity of the event.
Judicial officials must apply mind, says Justice Gavai
During the second session of the conference, Justice B R Gavai and Rajiv Patil, Resource Person and Designated Senior Advocate, Mumbai shared the dais. Justice Gavai emphasized on role of referral judges in mediation process and selection of cases, which are suitable for mediation. He also said, “Judicial Officer has to apply his mind and decide which case is fit for mediation and which cannot be referred for mediation."
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