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MAYBE,MAYBENOT DESPATCH & COURIER By Shwetha Kannan
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he debate about whether Dr. T.P. Lahane, head of JJ group of Hospitals, made a casteist comment about one of the class IV employees of his hospital on February 14 has just got off the ground. As of now, the Bombay Sessions Court has granted him interim protection from arrest till tomorrow (February 25) when the next hearing of his anticipatory bail application will be taken up for hearing. He has been booked by the Bhoiwada police station under the Prevention of Atrocities Act. A day after the case was registered, Lahane approached the Bombay High Court, saying that the police had not given him a copy of the FIR registered against him, and without this, the Sessions Court would not accept his bail plea. He was accordingly granted protection from arrest till February 20 (which was ex-
tended till tomorrow). Interestingly, the High Court judge hearing the case, is reported to have commented to the government pleader that it was strange that Lahane seemed not to know the name of the employee against whom he allegedly made a casteist comment. She then gave him protection from arrest till he approached the Sessions Court.
However, troubling evidence has emerged that indicates this is not the first time that Dr. Lahane, who also has a Padmashree, has been embroiled in controversies of this nature. The ADC has in its possession documents in at least three such cases, out of which two people have been contacted for confirmation, while one has remained unavailable. One of the alleged victims is a doctor, the other two are women, one of them no less than the former medical superintendent of Cama & Albless Hospital at CST. It is one of the JJ Group of Hospitals and comes under Dr. Lahane. The last alleged victim is also a woman, the relative of a patient who was then in J.J. Hospital, and is now a retired Mantralaya employee.
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Students could be charged with cheating if their log table book carries illustrations, formulae and solutions to solve sums, as most books always do MUMBHAI Vikas Sabnis
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irstly, the state board had goofed up by providing students with its own log table books which were full of errors. It then allowed the students to use a log table book purchased from the market. It has now given a shocker to the students by stating that these log books should not carry formulae and illustrations, otherwise it would lead to them being pulled up for copying and result in them being banned from exams. The tragedy is that most log table books available in the market carry extra information like formulae, solutions and illustrations as added inputs for the bene-
fit of students. Last week, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBHSE) declared that students could use their own log books purchased from the markets. These log table books carry mathematical tables which are needed to be referred to in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. After errors were reported in the log books provided by the board during the exams, it had allowed students to purchase and bring in their own log books. The board’s statement that the log table book containing any formulae, Continued on pg 8 «
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