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വാട്ട്സ്പ്പ് ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ആളെ ചേര്‍ക്കുന്നത് അഡ്മിനാണ്. അങ്ങനെ ചേര്‍ത്ത ആളുകള്‍ പലസ്വഭാവക്കാരായിരിക്കും. എല്ലാവരുടെയും മനസ്സിലിരുപ്പും കൈയ്യിലിരുപ്പും അഡ്മിനെങ്ങനെ അറിയും? പക്ഷെ എന്നാലും ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ പോസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യുന്ന ക്രിമിനല്‍ കുറ്റകരമായ പോസ്റ്റിംഗികുള്‍ക്ക് അഡ്മിനെകൂടി പ്രതി ചേര്‍ക്കുന്ന തരത്തിലാണ് കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ നടന്നുവന്നിരുന്നത്. എന്നാല്‍ 2016 നവംബര്‍  29 ന് ഒരു സിവില്‍ കേസില്‍ ഡല്‍ഹി ഹൈക്കോടതി മറിച്ചു പറഞ്ഞു. രാജ്യത്ത് പല സ്ഥലത്തും നിരവധി അറസ്റ്റുകള്‍ ഈ വിഷയത്തില്‍ നടന്നിട്ടുണ്ട്. അതുകൊണ്ട് തന്നെ മാനഹാനിക്ക് നഷ്ടപരിഹാരമാവശ്യപ്പെട്ടുകൊണ്ടുള്ള സിവില്‍ കേസിലാണെങ്കിലും ഈ വിധി വിവരസാങ്കേതിക മേഖലയില്‍ പ്രാധാന്യമുള്ളതാണ്. ആശിഷ് ബല്ലയും സുരേഷ് ചൗധരിയും തമ്മിലുളള് കേസിലാണ് വിധി.
ആളുകളെ നീക്കം ചെയ്യാന്‍ ബാധ്യതയുണ്ട്
കുറ്റകരമായ കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ ചെയ്ത അംഗങ്ങളെ നീക്കം ചെയ്യാന്‍ അഡ്മിന് ബാധ്യതയുണ്ട് എന്ന നിയമവശം ഈ കേസില്‍ ഉന്നയിക്കപ്പെട്ടില്ല. അക്കാര്യത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച് വാദമില്ലാതിരുന്നതിനാല്‍ ആ ബാധ്യത അങ്ങനെ തന്നെ തുടരും. കോടതി ഉത്തരവുകളിലൂടെയും ആളുകളെ നീക്കം ചെയ്യാന്‍ അഡ്മിനോട് ആവശ്യപ്പെടാം.  ഇന്‍ഫര്‍മേഷന്‍ ടെക്നോളജി നിയമം വകുപ്പ് 67 പ്രകാരവും ഐ പി സി 153എ, വകുപ്പ് 34 പ്രകാരവുമെല്ലാം നിരവധി കേസുകള്‍ 2016 കാലഘട്ടത്തില്‍ അഡ്മിന്‍മാര്‍ക്കെതിരെ എടുത്തിരുന്നു.
അഡ്മിന്‍ ഇന്‍ര്‍മീഡിയറി (മധ്യവര്‍ത്തി) അല്ല
നിയമത്തില്‍ പറയുന്നതതു പ്രകാരമുള്ള ഇന്‍റര്‍മീഡിയറി ആയി വാട്ട്സാപ്പ് ഗ്രൂപ്പ് അഡ്മിനെ കണക്കാക്കാനാകില്ല എന്ന് ഈ കേസില്‍ കോടതി പറഞ്ഞു. വാട്ട്സാപ്പ് ഗ്രൂപ്പുകളില്‍ പോസ്റ്റിംഗ് നടത്തുന്ന സമയം അഡ്മിന്‍ സാങ്കേതികമായി ഇന്‍റര്‍മീഡിയറി എന്ന ജോലിയില്‍ വരില്ല. പരസ്പരം പരിചയമില്ലാത്തയാളുകളെ ഒരു വേദിയില്‍ കൊണ്ടുവരുന്നുവെങ്കിലും അഡ്മിന്‍ ഇന്‍റര്‍മീഡിയറി ആകില്ല. അങ്ങനെയായാല്‍പ്പോലും അഡ്മിന് ഐ ടി നിയമം വകുപ്പ് 79 ന്‍റെ സംരക്ഷണം ലഭിക്കും.

CRZ DRAFT NOTIFICATION 2018

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CRZ 2018 കരട് വിജ്ഞാപനം പുറത്തിറക്കി.  18.4.18 തീയതി കേന്ദ്ര പരിസ്ഥിതി മന്ത്രാലയം പുറത്തിറക്കിയ കരട് വിജ്ഞാപനം സംബന്ധിച്ച് 60 ദിവസത്തിനുള്ളിൽ പൊതുജനങ്ങൾക്ക് അഭിപ്രായം അറിയിക്കാം. arvind.nautiyal@gov.in എന്ന ഇ-മെയിലിലോ J-615, Jal Block, Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, JorBagh road, New Delhi-110003 എന്ന തപാൽ വിലാസത്തിലും അറിയിക്കാം. 

വിവിധ സംസ്ഥാന സർക്കാരുകൾ സമർപ്പിച്ച നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങളും ശൈലേഷ് നായക് കമ്മിറ്റി ശുപാർശകളും ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയാണ് കരട് പുറത്തിറക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നത്.  2011 ലെ നോട്ടിഫിക്കേഷനിൽ നിന്ന് വ്യത്യസ്തമായി CRZ III മേഖലയെ CRZ IIIA, CRZ IIIB എന്നിങ്ങനെ തിരിക്കുകയും ജനസാന്ദ്രത മാനദണ്ഡം ആക്കുകയും ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. 

വിജ്ഞാനത്തോടൊപ്പം തന്നെ അതിലോല പ്രദേശങ്ങളുടെ സംരക്ഷണം സംബന്ധിച്ച് അനുബന്ധം ഒന്നിലും, അനുവദനീയ പെട്രോളിയം പദ്ധതികളെ സംബന്ധിച്ച് അനുബന്ധം രണ്ടിലും, ബീച്ച് റിസോർട്ടുകളും ഹോട്ടലുകളും സംബന്ധിച്ച മാർഗ്ഗനിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ അനുബന്ധം  മൂന്നിലും, തീരമേഖല പരിപാലന പദ്ധതി രൂപീകരിക്കുന്നതു സംബന്ധിച്ച് അനുബന്ധം നാലിലും സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. 

Proceedings under Land Conservancy Act can be initiated only when the party is in unauthorised and unlawful possession - Kuthakappattam is inheritable - dispute cannot be decided in summary procedure - can be done only through civil suit.

It is held by the Division Bench of Honourable Kerala High Court in Banerjee Memorial club Trichur V.Thaluk Thasildar Trichur and Others - 2015 KHC 7105 : 2016 (1) KLJ 44 : 2016 (1) KLT 241 that, proceedings under Land Conservancy Act 1957 cannot be initiated when the petitioner was in authorized and lawful possession. When a person is in continuous possession of a property for a considerable long time under an assertion of title without any challenge, the said possession has to be ascribed as of a legal origin. (House of Lords in Harris and another V. Earl of Chersterfield and another 1911 AC 623) The privy council has also reiterated the same principle in Syed Muhammed Mazaffaramusavi V. Bibi Jabeda Khatun and others AIR 1930 PC 103.

The order to vacate the poramboke land without ascertaining the real facts is bad in law. The Honourable Apex Court in Andrapradesh V. Thammala Krishna Rao and another 1982 2 SCC 134 had held that, summary proceedings can be initiated only when unauthoirsed occupation of Government property is not disputed and when the title to the land is bonafide dispute by the occupant, such dispute must be adjudicated not by summary proceedings but by a civil suit.

It is held by the division bench of this Honouable court in Shahul Hassan Mussaliar V. State of Kerala and Others 2015 (4) KHC 615 : 2016 (2) KLT SN 70 : 2016 (2) KLJ 708 that, when the legal heirs are in lawful possession of the land under Kuthakappattom lease, authorities were not justified in initiating proceedings under the Land conservancy Act 1957.

When the party has been paying tax for the property in question and a successor of a grantee from the Government it cannot be termed as a Government land and no proceedings can be initiated under the provisions of Land Conservancy Act 1957. The said principle was reiterated by the Division Bench of this Honourable Court in Autumn wood resorts (Cloud 9) Munnar V. State of Kerala  2014 (3) KHC 305 : 2014 (3) KLT 526.

The assignment  It cannot be cancelled without giving opportunity of being heard as held by a division bench of this Honourable court in District Collector Quilon V.Bhaskara Kuruppu 1987 KHC 746 : ILR 1987 (2) Ker. 296 : 1987 KLN 291.

Whether Tea is an article of food-Food Safety and Standards Act - ?

ചായപ്പൊടി ഭക്ഷ്യവസ്തുവാണോ?
ഭക്ഷ്യ സുരക്ഷാ നിയമം എങ്ങനെ ബാധകമാകും ? 

---ലേഖനം---

Whether Tea is an article of food-
Food Safety and Standards Act - ?

The term food is defined in section 3(1)(j) of food safety and Standards Act 2006. It can be contended that tea is not an article of food, but however the same is included as an article of food by food safety and Standards Authority of India and such inclusion is illegal, unjustifiable and beyond the contemplated powers given by the parliament in section 3(1)(j) of the food safety and Standards act.

The central government alone can declare by notification in the official gazette 'any other article' as food for the purpose of this act. Therefore making a regulation in Reg.No.1.10.1 of the food safety and Standards (food products standards and food additives) regulation 2011 raises legal dispute.

Thislegal issue is espoused by the judgement of Honourable Supreme Court in 2003 2 FAC page 303 SC. In MOSBY'S medical dictionary 2011 edition page 1106 defines "Tea" as " see the word cannabis" and in page 178 defines "Cannabis". It means a psychoactive drug derived from the flowering tops of hemp plants; in the last portion of the definition it is stated as "tea weed".

Therefore it is contended that the food Authority of India has exceeded its delegated powers given by Parliament as per section 15(2) of the FSS Act read with section 92 of the Act.

However quiet  interestingly,  it is noted that that the food safety and Standards Authority of India (enforcement division) themselves had issued an order on 19th May 2016, stating that in the recently conducted large scale laboratory analysis of tea for determining the content of iron filing, it was noted that, there were wide variations in the test results due to various reasons. The food safety and Standards Authority of India admits that it would not be appropriate to rely on the test results for iron filings in tea till such time the method of assessment is finalized.

Despite of this order, several prosecutions are launched on the finding that extraneous matter (iron filings) are detected in tea dust. On the contrary, some of the prosecutions are stalled by the high court of Kerala on this legal point. (WPC 30531.16, CRL MC 18.2017).

Health Inspectors and Food Safety Officers: Stop tug of war between the departments; Joint action is the need of the hour.

Health Inspectors and Food Safety Officers:

Stop tug of war between the departments;

Joint action is the need of the hour.

Adv Sherry J Thomas @ 9447200500

www.sherryscolumn.com

1.                      It has been under discussions for a long while that subsequent to the introduction of the food safety and standard Act 2006, Chapter XII of Travancore – Cochin public Health Act is repealed and therefore the Health inspectors working under the Health Department in Kerala have no authority to conduct Inspection at all in any of the hotel premises or any other places where the food items are stored and the same is under the purview of food safety officers alone. Even when the Health Inspectors in Kerala acted as per the direction given by the Director of Health Department as part of “Safe Kerala Program”, these challenges were faced by them.

2.                      Altogether there are 4699 Health Inspectors in Kerala having the Authority under the provisions of Travancore-Cochin public Health 1955 and The Madras-Public Health 1939.  Whereas there are only 112 food Inspectors in the food safety Department (as per the unofficial report).  The provision of repeal regarding some of the sections of Travancore-Cochin public Health 1955 and The Madras-Public Health 1939 are interpreted in a such a way, seeking a total   ban over the official activities of the Health inspectors in Kerala regarding food items. 

3.                      Admittedly the Sec. 97 of Food Safety Act 2006 vide its 2^nd schedule repeals certain legislations which are directly covered by the newly introduced Food Safety Section Act.  The 2^nd schedule of Food Safety Section Act contains the repeal of eight acts.  The Section 97(2) of The Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 read so:

If there is any other law for the time being in force in any State corresponding to this Act, the same shall upon the commencement of this Act, stand repealed and in such case the provisions of section 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 to 1897) shall apply as if such provisions of the State law had been repealed.

By extracting the said provision, the Food Safety Authorities issued a  Circular. It read so:

….So the following state laws were stand repealed basic on the above provisions under FSS Act. 

Chapter XII Food control (section 144 to 121) under Travancore Cochin Public Health Act 1955. 

Chapter XII Food control (Section 108 to 115) Madras Public Health Act 1939.  The Kerala Edibile oils, Vegetable oils, Vanspathi and baby food dealers license order 1975. 

The Kerala Pulses dealers license order 1972. 

The Health Officers appointed under Travancore Cochin Public Health Act and Madras Public Health Act and Health inspectors working under them have no authority for food inspections in hotels or any food business establishment from 5^th August 2011 based on the above mentioned provisions under FSS Act. The authority is now fully vested with the Commissioner of Food Safety and officers under him, appointed under Food Safety &Standards  Act 2006.

4.                      It is a question whether the Food Safety Authorities are having power to issue such a circular. As per the provisions, only Chapter XII (food control) of the Travancore-Cochin Public Health Act, 1955, and Madras 1939 is seen repealed. It has been noted that, certain notices issued by the Health Inspectors, even though it will not come under the Chapter XII of Travancore-Cochin Public Health Act, were put to challenge without any reasons.  Obviously, the Health Inspector has the power to issue notice under the provisions of Sec. 63 of the Travancore-Cochin Public Health Act, 1955.  Which is a provision under chapter VII of the Act.  The chapter 7 of the Act deals with prevention, notification and treatment of diseases. Sec. 50 to 87 will come under this heading.  The Section 63 read so:

Section 63- The Travancore –Cochin Public Health Act 1955.

63.Power of entry of local officers to take preventive measures- (1)The Health Officer or an officer not below the rank of a Sanitary Inspector authorized by him in this behalf may-

(a) at all reasonable hours, inspect with or without assistance any place in which any notified disease is reported or suspected to exist, without notice in the case of factories, workshops, workplaces, offices, business places and the like and after giving such notice as may appear to him reasonable in other cases including dwelling houses and

(b) take such measures as he may consider necessary to prevent the spread of such disease beyond such place.

5.                      The Health inspectors in Kerala are directed by the director of Health Department vide proceedings, dated 16.07.2014 to implement ‘Safe Kerala’ program as part of control the contagious diseases.  There is specific instructions by the Director of Health Department to all Health Inspectors to conduct inspection on Hotel, Tea Shops Catering Centers, Cool bars, Bakeries etc.in  state wide manner.      

6.                      The Travancore-Cochin Public Health Act, 1955 and Madras-Public -1939 are enacted with an intention to protect public health in the state of Kerala.  The officers appointed under this Act are having authority to abate nuisances, prevention of infectious diseases, Mosquito controls, sanitation and building, lodging, food control, fairsand  festivals under the provisions of various chapters.  Only Chapter XII- food control is claimed to be repeal by the circular of Food Safety Authorities. It is the Health Inspectors who have to conduct the Site Inspections for renewal of D&O license,  and the Local Self Government of Kerala has issued a specific Circular pointing out about the authority of Health Inspectors.

7.                      The Right of Health Inspectors to inspect the premises are given under various provisions of Travancore-Cochin Public Health 1955. It specifically gives powers to Health Inspectors to abate nuisance and prevent infectious diseases.  The existence of different statutes aiming to protect the public in the aspect of the Public Health is not barred by law. Like the Police Department and the Motor Vehicles Department act jointly and severally to implement the law in connection with use of vehicles, the Health Department and Food Safety Department may jointly and severally work for the protection of public health. Any circular issued by the food safety authorities ought not takes away the power enshrined by the legislation to the officers under the Health Department in Kerala.

8.             The projected ‘Kerala Health Model’ is well appreciated by the world Nations. The efforts being taken by the Health Inspectors in Kerala under guidance of Health Department to prevent contagious diseases are mainly divided in to five categories. Early detection and Treatment (Surveillance), Control Measures based on the mode of transmission, IEC- Information, Education and Communication; Vaccination etc; Regulatory approach are the modus operandi of the Health Department which is executed through the Health Inspectors. All these positive activism are on the basis of the legislative power given under the Travancore-Cochin Public Health Act 1955 and Madras Public Health Act 1939 (in force in old Malabar area).

          However, the overlapping powers regarding the implementation of provision of The Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 and Travancore-Cochin Public Health Act 1955 and Madras Public Health Act 1939 may not curtail the existing powers of the Health Inspectors to the extent of non repealed provisions. In fact, they ought to have work together with a common intention to preserve the public health.   

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Distance rule - circular - pemitting quarries - Kerala State Pollution Contron Board

The Kerala State Pollution Control Board has issued a circular dated 10.10.17 regarding the mandatory distance from residences, temples, churches, public road, public buildings, rivers, railway line etc while establishing a quarry. The distance is measured as 50 Metre.

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Giving permission of residential buildings - Wet Land Act Kerala - procedure by Local Body

There are certain instances where the properties are wrongly classified as wet land in the data bank published by the local authority in connection with Wet Land Act. Download the circular dated 19.1.18 issued by the Kerala Government.

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Guidelines to be followed while cutting road - sanction from Government- to reduce inconveniece to public

The order issued by Public Works Department Kerala about the guidelines to be followed while giving permission to cut roads for laying pipes and cables.

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