Car goes up in flames near Coimbatore Collectorate
The Hindu
Short circuit in the car’s electrical system cited as reason
A car caught fire on the road between the Collectorate and City Police Commissioner’s office on Monday.
The incident happened when people in large numbers were present on the collectorate premises and on the road in view of the District Collector’s weekly grievances redress meeting held every Monday.
The police said that the car belonging to Nanjappan (75), a retired government employee from New Siddhapudur, caught fire around noon. He had come to the treasury on the collectorate premises with his relatives. They noticed smoke emanating from the front portion of the car when they were about to leave the place. All of them got out of the car immediately and the vehicle went up in flames.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.