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{gt}{gt}The first paragraph in "Shilpa Shetty fails to turn up in court" (May 6, 2007) was: "Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty did not turn up in the court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate here [Jaipur] on Saturday in the public interest writ case filed against her by a local lawyer on the kissing act she had with Hollywood actor Richard Gere during an AIDS awareness campaign in Delhi last month." An advocate of the Rajasthan High Court points out that a writ case can be filed only in the Supreme Court under Article 32 and the High Courts under Article 226 of the Constitution. Writs are of five kinds — habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari — and none of them, far less any "public interest writ", is admissible in a lower court. The case that the news item referred to was a criminal complaint defined in Section 2(d) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. No lower court, such as a Judicial Magistrate, Executive Magistrate, Metropolitan Magistrate, District Judge or Sessions Judge, can accept a writ petition.

A sentence in a report "Rain disrupts life in Mysore; toll rises to four" (May 5, 2007) was: "Managing Director of [Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation] CHESCORP Vijaynarasimha told The Hindu that over 200 polls and three transformers collapsed because of the gusty winds causing a loss of Rs. 1.70 crore." It should have been "poles".

A report "Sri Lanka to close night services" ("International" page, May 5, 2007) stated that flights would either land or take off from the Bandarnayake International Airport between 10.30 p.m. to 4.30 a.m. from May 9 as part of a new security drill after the recent aerial strikes by the LTTE. It should have been "flights would neither land nor take off ... ."

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