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Discharge petition: Personal appearance of Minister not needed
The Hindu
The LDF government has been spared of a politically embarrassing situation as the State Minister V. Sivankutty, an accused in the Assembly ruckus case, need not personally appear before the Chief Judi
The LDF government has been spared of a politically embarrassing situation as the State Minister V. Sivankutty, an accused in the Assembly ruckus case, need not personally appear before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) which considers his discharge petition. He shall be represented by his lawyer at the court. However, all the accused will have to be personally present in the court hall in the event of the court framing the charge against them after rejecting their discharge petitions.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.