Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya If you are a victim in criminal case, do you know that you can get compensation irrespective of whether the accused is tried? No? But, even if you knew about it, you could not get it. For, Maharashtra Government has failed to make available funds to Maharashtra State Legal Services Authority, which has been entrusted with the task of providing compensation to victims following court orders. Under Section 357(A) of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), every State Government has been asked to prepare a scheme in co-ordination with the Central Government for providing funds for the purpose of compensation to victim or his dependents, who have suffered loss or injury as a result of a crime and who require rehabilitation. Whenever a court made a recommendation for payment of compensation to victim, District Legal Service Authority or State Legal Service Authority was supposed to decide the quantum of compensation to be awarded under the scheme. The cases in which victims or ...

By Vikas Vaidya The Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) has to recover over Rs 20 crore from students, current and ex, as a result of working purely in good faith. Many of the students from whom the amount has to be recovered have completed their MBBS, Post Graduation, joined hospitals or opened their own establishments. Now, there is hardly anything that can be done on part of the GMCH to recover the amount, which is acually the fees. When a student doing his MBBS needs any bonafide certificate, he or she has to get clearance through clerk, office head and finally the Vice-Dean. For this, the student is supposed to pay the entire fee which is pending till that time. Unfortunately, things have not been working this way at GMHC. Working in good faith, the earlier Vice-Dean cleared the claims for certificates without ensuring whether the fees has been paid in full or not. Many students thus completed the term, received admit cards, appeared for examination and stepped ou...