Ministry of Electronics & IT  

Centre approves Maharashtra’s first Electronics Manufacturing Cluster at Ranjangaon, Pune (OCT 31, 2022)

As part of its objective to strengthen the electronics manufacturing ecosystem in India, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has approved the greenfield Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) with a project cost of Rs 492.85 crores to be set up in Ranjangaon Phase III, near Pune in Maharashtra.

The Minister also announced that the Ministry of Electronics and IT plans to give a boost to the 1000 Crore Semicon India Future Design programme to support Semiconductor Design Startups in the state and shall soon visit Maharashtra for a roadshow. He informed that C-DAC, Pune shall be the nodal office for this purpose.

PRESS RELEASE: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1872289

KARNATAKA HIGH COURT 

POCSO and IPC prevail over personal laws: Karnataka High Court (OCT 31, 2022)

In the first case, the HC rejected the contention that "under Mohammedan Law, puberty is the consideration for marriage and normal puberty age is treated as 15 years and hence, no commission of an offence under Section 9 and 10 of the Child Marriage Restrain Act," was committed.  The court was hearing a petition for bail by a 27-year-old Muslim man whose wife was 17 years of age and had become pregnant.  

In the second judgement by the same judge, a 19-year-old's bail petition was rejected by the court.  He was charged under the POCSO Act as well as the Indian Penal Code (IPC).  He had allegedly induced a 16-year-old girl on April 6, 2022, to go with him to Mysuru where he raped the minor girl twice in a hotel room.

NEWS REPORT: POCSO and IPC prevail over personal laws: Karnataka High Court | India News – India TV (indiatvnews.com)

WORLD AFFAIRS

2 men wrongly convicted of killing Malcolm X in 1965 will receive a $36 million settlement from New York City and the state: reports (OCT 31, 2022)

Two men who were wrongly convicted in the 1965 murder of Malcolm X will receive a $36 million settlement from New York City and New York state, their attorney David Shanies said on Sunday, per the AP and Reuters.

Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, then known as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson respectively, were sentenced to life in prison in 1966 for Malcolm X's murder. Aziz was released on parole in 1985, while Islam was released on parole in 1987 and died in 2009, per The Washington Post.

They were exonerated in November after an almost two-year-long investigation — run by the New York county district attorney Cyrus Vance, nonprofit organization The Innocence Project, and Shanies — showed that the FBI and the New York Police Department, or NYPD, withheld evidence during the original trial in 1966.

NEWS REPORT: 2 men wrongly convicted of killing Malcolm X in 1965 will receive a $36 million settlement from New York City and the state: reports (msn.com)

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