7 9 A *' , ' , , !"#$% +" 54 232 ; & 2+3456 ,+-.#/ "+-01 !"# $"% $>0".$$O 1 / 1.&="&&>$1& 1/ $ O55?/&1 $$%!#% %! $$ /229,: %%!&% "/1/1 & @" &8&$ &1 .= %!'%$% ()%'#%% &&'() &*+(*+",-#.%: * * P ! &&+ $,- aking a serious note of the Tkilling of three outsiders involved in apple trade in Kashmir earlier this week R despite the large presence of Q !"L security personnel, the securi- ty establishment has revisited !"#$" L its strategy by providing a safe- ty umbrella in the hinterland + "./ $ % $ dotted with apple orchards. & $ Q'() The Army and paramili- enying any terror link tary forces have fanned out in Dbehind the murder of ** + *)',% such areas besides population Kamlesh Tiwari, leader of a lit- ! " + centres to instill confidence tle-known Hindu outfit, Uttar # # # among masses and deny ter- Pradesh's Director General of % & $ rorists time and space to move. Police OP Singh on Saturday & However, setting up of safe claimed to have a made a and appeared to have targeted - pickup points for collection of breakthrough within 24 hours Kamlesh for his inflammatory *' apple crops in the wake of the of the killing by arresting three remarks made in 2015. killings have created problems accused, including the master- “So far, there is no terror for the orchard owners located ing 135-140 per box com- of Sopore, which has Asia’s taining law and order antici- mind. All the three accused angle associated with this inci- far away. While traders have pared to 80-90 earlier. biggest mandi for this fruit, pating unrest like mass protests were taken into custody in dent,” the DGP said at a Press + $ been advised to use smaller Kashmir produces over 20- Shopian, Pulwama and and violence. Also the snapping Surat in Gujarat in a joint conference here, a day after the % & . vehicles for apple transporta- 24 lakh metric tonnes of apple Anantnag in South Kashmir of mobile services impacted operation of the police forces of Hindu Samaj Party chief was tion from interiors of the dis- worth 10,000 crore annually. are able to continue with their intelligence gathering and the two States. killed at his home in Lucknow’s trict, they are finding it difficult The attacks on apple traders routine economic activities. information flow came down Two more arrests were Khurshed Bagh. / to ferry their produce to these and truck drivers in Shopian In the meantime, a positive by at least 70 per cent, they made in Bijnor district of UP Tiwari’s wife named the $ / - Q mandis due to lack of smaller have triggered a fresh wave of development has come in the said. where Muslim clerics two accused held in UP in her / N% O vehicles. If this is cutting into terror among the truck drivers way of the security forces as With the restoration of Mohammed Mufti Naeem complaint alleging that the $ their profit margins, it is also and large number of non-local intelligence flow about mili- mobile services earlier this Kazmi and Imam Maulana duo had announced a bounty N2 O affecting the timely transport of workers engaged in the labori- tants has improved in the last week and virtually no mass Anwarul Haq were held after of 1.5 crore on Kamlesh head 3 / the produce to markets outside ous task of packing, loading few days. Explaining the sig- protests as feared, the local being named in an in 2016. However, Tiwari’s . Kashmir. and unloading of apple boxes. nificance of this factor, officials police, which provide the real FIR lodged by Tiwari’s wife mother Kusuma alleged that he On an average, one truck Effort is to ensure that said since August 5, the local time intelligence about terror- Kiran. was killed by a “local BJP % carries 800 to 1,000 apple apple traders in the hinterland police and intelligence agencies ists, has now re-established its The UP DGP claimed that leader” due to a temple dispute $ boxes. Transporters are charg- of major apple growing centre were concentrating on main- counter-terrorism grid. the suspects were “radicalised” in a village. - % %& ') #R## ' - 5 (O P% %& # + + ./1 "#$ 6 /234 (5267"" 859 aking friends with a 8 : Mstranger on social media platform proved a youth dear as the former disguised 01 1 A total of 2,32,264 voters as a girl duped him of over 7 & comprising 1,12,114 women, lakh. ith the campaigning for 1,20,135 men and 10 trans- The accused Pabitra Wthe October 21 Bijepur genders have been enlisted for Mohan Mohanty had befriend- ' ($ O Assembly by-election ending the election. ed Jagadish Padhi of on Saturday, the district admin- Special provisions will be Semiliguda on Facebook in *$ istration held a preparatory made for 2,750 Divyang voters 2017. After chatting online, ' meeting for smooth conduct of to exercise their franchise. A the duo shared nude pictures the polling. total of 2,321 vehicles will be among themselves. * After presiding over the engaged for the poll in Bijepur. Later, Mohanty started meeting, Bargarh district col- The poll will be conducted blackmailing Padhi by threat- lector Jyoti Ranjan Pradhan on from 7 am to 5 pm on ening that he would reveal it to said voting would be conduct- October 21. Votes will be his uncle who is posted as DCP, ed at 285 polling stations, out counted on October 24 at Cuttack. of which 129 booths have been Padampur in Bargarh district. -- 1 suicide. “Smitarani and Rupesh Bhadanga village on October $ identified as sensitive. Security Meanwhile, the Chief were in a relationship. 16. " # R would be tightened at these Electoral Officer has declared olice on Saturday arrested However, some disturbances While Rupesh and his four % / % sensitive booths, said the col- a holiday of three days for the PRupesh Bhadra, husband of erupted between them few friends were busy preparing # 7 lector. voters of Bijepur by-poll who Haridaspur Sarpanch days back which led to the meals, Smitarani had gone to ## $ Six model booths would be are staying outside the Madhusmita Bhadra, for his death of Smitarani,” said the SP. the first floor of the guesthouse 8 set up in three blocks in Bijepur Assembly constituency. alleged complicity in the death The postmortem report to freshen up. Later, she was for the by-poll and 14 polling “Paid holiday for such vot- of Village Level Worker (VLW) revealed that she died of found hanging with her chun- stations would be put under the ers has been declared for Smitarani Biswal at a guest- asphyxia, informed Meena. ri from a ceiling fan in the CCTV surveillance. October 20, 21 and 22. This house at Baligari under Earlier, the police had guesthouse. # # The Election Commission apart, poll officials, who will be Dharmasala block in Jajpur detained Rupesh and four oth- The father of the deceased has arranged for live webcast engaged in election duty for district on October 16. ers on Thursday for question- had filed a complaint with # from 28 booths. While 16 more than three days, have Jajpur SP Charan Singh ing in connection with the police over the death of his booths will be videographed, been allowed to take optional Meena said prima facie evi- case. The VLW had gone to the daughter alleging foul play. “The accused demanded 9 micro-observers will be holiday for one day,” said the dence shows Rupesh’s involve- guesthouse, owned by Rupesh, Related reports on Pages 3 money from the victim or else 9 deployed at 77 booths. CEO. ment in abetment of the VLW’s after disbursing pensions in and 4 he would implicate him in : cases,” said Semiliguda PS IIC, Dhiren Kumar Behera. The victim buckled under ; ,.'& pressure and started transfer- ring money to Mohanty’s . account. Over a period + of two years, Padhi transferred P Q / 7.13 lakh, Behera P Q added. : ; Mohanty demanded 0$ belonging to both the BJP and ' another 57,000. Padhi was the Shiv Sena, are in the poll financially drained by then. His ith the ruling BJP-Shiv fray in as many constituencies 0 0&1 uncle became highly suspi- = 9 $ 7 WSena combine’s return to across the State. Almost all the cious of his activities and $ %- power in Maharashtra becom- rebels are contesting the polls n an ultimatum to the former reported the matter to police. & ing more or less certain, the against the saffron alliance’s IMLAs who are yet to vacate When grilled by his uncle, he 8 debate preceding the State official nominees after having Government residences, State spilled the beans. >- ? Assembly polls scheduled for been denied tickets by their Assembly Speaker Surjya Then, his uncle filed a Monday has narrowed down to respective parties. At least 30 to Narayan Patro