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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Supreme Court gives RBI ‘last Let Bobde panel finish probe chance’ to alter disclosure policy first, says ex­judge Patnaik He has been tasked with examining ‘larger plot’ against CJI ‘Existing guidelines contrary to 2015 ruling on sharing information under RTI Act’ AAP files case against Krishnadas Rajagopal plot” would not queer the Gambhir over ‘2 voter IDs’ Legal Correspondent tion sought under the RTI NEW DELHI inquiry into the sexual ha­ NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Act on the grounds of eco­ Justice A.K. Patnaik, the re­ rassment complaint. Alleging that BJP East Delhi The Supreme Court on Fri­ nomic interest, commercial tired Supreme Court judge Despite the Bench’s assu­ candidate Gautam Gambhir day gave the Reserve Bank of confidence, fiduciary rela­ appointed by the court to rances, Justice Patnaik has two voter IDs in different check a lawyer’s claim of a pushed the pause button so addresses in Delhi, AAP on India (RBI) “a last opportun­ tionship or public interest. “larger conspiracy” against the complainant would have Friday said it has filed a ity” to withdraw a November criminal case against him in a 2016 Disclosure Policy to the ‘No fiduciary ties’ Chief Justice of India Ranjan no reason to fear prejudice. court here. “We will also extent to which it stonewalls The court had observed that Gogoi, said on Friday that he The priority, Justice Pat­ approach the Election revelation of every other there was “no fiduciary rela­ would not begin his assign­ A.K. Patnaik naik said, is now the in­ Commission to cancel his kind of information under tionship between the RBI ment until the in­house in­ house inquiry into her com­ candidature,” said AAP East the Right to Information Act, and the financial institu­ quiry into a former court the Justice Bobde Commit­ plaint. The Justice Bobde pa­ Delhi candidate Atishi while including the list of wilful de­ tions”. staffer’s complaint of sexual tee inquiry, I will wait for nel, also comprising Justices addressing a press faulters and annual inspec­ It had reminded the RBI harassment against the Chief them to finish… Let that be Indu Malhotra and Indira conference at the party tion reports. that it had the statutory duty Justice was completed. over,” Justice Patnaik told Banerjee, heard the com­ office. A Bench of Justices L. Na­ to uphold the interests of the The former judge said a The Hindu on the phone. plainant on April 26. DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 geswara Rao and M.R. Shah public at large, the deposi­ scrutiny of the conspiracy Justice Patnaik’s words DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD found the policy of the cen­ tors, the economy and the claim could wait as he was Own decision address apprehensions in le­ tral bank to be directly con­ banking sector. “This court not on a deadline. The decision to wait seems gal and public quarters that trary to the court’s judgment was also of the opinion that “I am not going to start to be Justice Patnaik’s own a “parallel” probe may jeo­ of December 2015 that the plying with the 2015 judg­ rections issued by this the RBI should act with tran­ until the in­house inquiry is as there is no specific direc­ pardise whatever defence RBI could not withhold in­ ment. court,” Justice Rao said, giv­ sparency and not hide infor­ over. If you see the Supreme tion from the court . On the the woman may put up be­ formation sought under the “We give them a last op­ ing an ultimatum in the 12­ mation that might embarrass Court order [of April 25], I other hand, the Special fore the Justice Bobde RTI Act. portunity to withdraw the page verdict. the individual banks,” Justice have not been given a time li­ Bench led by Justice Arun Committee. The Bench was hearing disclosure policy in so far as The 2015 judgment had Rao wrote. mit, like 15 or 20 days, to Mishra, which appointed contempt petitions filed it contains exemptions rejected the RBI’s argument complete my assignment… I Justice Patnaik on April 25, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES against the RBI for not com­ which are contrary to the di­ that it could refuse informa­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 think to avoid any clash with said a probe into the “larger PARALLEL PROBES Ī EDITORIAL CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC At the receiving end Officer dies in fire on INS 17% jump in The Hindu’s readership Vikramaditya Retains No. 2 position among English newspapers Special Correspondent Lalatendu Mishra position among all English IRS 2017. Magazines also re­ NEW DELHI MUMBAI language newspapers in the ported increased reader­ A Navy officer lost his life At a time when digital read­ country. ship of 8.7 crore, which is while controlling a fire that ing is growing rapidly in In­ As per data released by 90 lakh more than the num­ broke out on the aircraft dia, the print edition of The the MRUC, The Hindu had bers in the last survey. carrier INS Vikramaditya Hindu has also sharply in­ an all­India readership of Online newspaper rea­ on Friday morning. The fire creased its readership in 62,26,000 in the IRS 2019 dership has grown 5% on an has been brought under the latest Indian Reader­ Q1 as compared to the total all­India basis. Active Inter­ control. ship Survey (IRS) 2019 Q1 as readership of 53,00,000 in net users have grown signif­ “Lt. Cdr. D.S. Chauhan compared to IRS 2017, indi­ IRS 2017, up 17%. In terms icantly and now constitute led the fire­fighting efforts cating the growing popular­ of average issue readership 24% of the total universe. in the affected compart­ ity of the newspaper. (read yesterday), it in­ Among English daily ment. While the fire was In this readership survey creased its numbers from newspapers, The Times of brought under control, the conducted by Nielsen for 15,68,000 to 16,35,000, up India retained its number officer lost consciousness the Media Research Users 4.27%. one position, followed by owing to the smoke and Council (MRUC), the find­ As per the IRS, the over­ The Hindu and The Eco- fumes...,” the Navy said in a ings of which were released all readership of all daily nomic Times. statement. on Friday, The Hindu has publications increased by IRS TO BE RELEASED He was evacuated to maintained its number 2 1.8 crore to 42.5 crore since EVERY QUARTER Ī PAGE 8 INHS Patanjali, the naval hospital at Karwar. “Howev­ er, the officer could not be revived,” the Navy said. Lt. Cdr. Chauhan hailed from Crocodiles that come out in the open at the Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary on the outkirts of Sangareddy in Telangana are being Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh. targeted with stones and bricks by visitors due to lack of proper security. * MOHD ARIF CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 PM Modi a fake OBC, says Mayawati ‘Hashim spent time in Like the British policy, BJP is trying to divide us and rule: Akhilesh south India’ Omar Rashid Orai in Jalaun, Ms. Mayawati also praising Mr. Yadav for Lucknow cautioned OBC and Dalit vo­ following in his father’s foot­ Meera Srinivasan Suhasini Haidar Trying to attract OBC voters ters against Mr. Modi’s back­ steps. Mr. Yadav said that COLOMBO/new delhi in the backward region of ward caste pitch, saying that while everyone in 2014 as­ Bundelkhand, the leaders of while he was Chief Minister sumed Mr. Modi to be an Zahran Hashim, believed the Samajwadi Party­Bahu­ of Gujarat he had used his OBC, the entire country to have masterminded the jan Samaj Party alliance on authority to include his “for­ knew today that “he is not a Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, Friday questioned Prime Mi­ ward caste” in the OBC cate­ backward by birth.” spent “substantial” time in nister Narendra Modi’s OBC gory to eat up their share. In another rally in Jhansi, “south India,” a top Sri credentials while accusing Akhilesh Yadav and On the other hand, Ms. he called the BJP the “most Lankan military source the BJP of trying to “divide Mayawati at a recent rally. Mayawati hailed SP patron, casteist party” and accused said on Friday. and rule” the sizeable back­ and opponent­turned­ally, it of dividing people on the Investigators identified ward community. certificate. While Ms. Maya­ Mulayam Singh as the true basis of castes and spreading Hashim as the leader of the BSP supremo Mayawati wati dubbed Mr. Modi a leader of the backward com­ hatred between religions. National Thowheed Ja­ and SP president Akhilesh “fake OBC,” Mr. Yadav called munity. “He (Mulayam) “Like the British policy of maath, which they said ex­ Yadav stressed that Mr. Modi him a “kagzi pichda (OBC on Singh is an inbred OBC, not a divide and rule, they (BJP) ecuted the highly coordi­ was not an OBC [Other Back­ paper).” fake one like Modi who [just] want to divide us and rule,” nated blasts on Sunday.