Nitish wants corruption cases in courts to be pursued

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today directed the law department to present their side in cases of corruption to the court expeditiously and strongly.
Kumar gave the instruction at a high level review of the law and justice department here, according to an official statement.
The CM has on several occasions spelt his policy of zero tolerance towards corruption.
The meeting decided to implement a plan to lay boundary around temples in the state and Kumar directed to further strengthen the plan, the statement said.
He emphasised on laying an institutional arrangement for assessment of performance of law officers from time to time.

The meeting also reviewed infrastructural conditions of civil courts.

BJP and its NDA allies had throughout the day protested
the police lathicharge on dalit students yesterday in Patna in which at least 13, including seven policemen, were injured.
Kumar replied to questions on a range of subjects, including Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's visit to Pakistan witnessing widespread protest in that country and the new liquor law in the state.
On Singh getting a hostile welcome in Pakistan, Kumar sought to know from Prime Minister Narendra Modi about "what happened to the exchange of love letters with Pakistan?"
Asked whether it was advisable for Singh to go to Pakistan, Kumar said, "who am I to give advise to him?"

On BJP and NDA leaders strongly protesting some clauses of the new Prohibition and Excise Bill, 2016, particularly the one under which all adults above the age of 18 years would be arrested if the family members did not disclose as who brought liquor if found from the house, the CM said the Opposition was spreading canards to gain politically.
"A family means mother, father and dependent children below 18 years. This provision will apply only when the family members, in case of seizure of liquor bottles, wilfully does not disclose as who brought it home," Kumar said justifying it on the grounds that it would provide teeth to excise officials to catch the violators of the prohibition law.

On BJP's charge that he was using prohibition as a political tool to target rival parties' governments, Kumar said, "I have been urging the Prime Minister to implement it across the country and to start from BJP-ruled states."
In reply to a question on the quitting of Anandiben Patel as Gujarat chief minister, Kumar said "demand for reservation by Patels cast a question over the much-trumpeted Gujarat model of development.