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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY SC to frame issues for 9­judge nCoV outbreak declared Bench hearing religious rights a State calamity in Kerala CJI acknowledges objection to wider review post­Sabarimala is a ‘formidable point’ Third case confirmed in Kasaragod; 84 under treatment Shaheen Bagh is a conspiracy, says PM Krishnadas Rajagopal Special Correspondent of the nCoV infection in a NEW DELHI New Delhi Thiruvananthapuram/ New Delhi student who returned re­ In a veiled reference to the Renowned jurist and senior cently to Kasaragod from protests against the advocate Fali Nariman has With the confirmation of a Wuhan, the Union Health Mi­ Citizenship (Amendment) Act objected to the manner in third case of the novel coro­ nistry said, “The patient ... is in Shaheen Bagh and which the Supreme Court navirus (nCoV) infection in in isolation in the hospital. elsewhere in the Capital, turned a review of the Saba­ the State, Kerala on Monday The patient is stable and is Prime Minister Narendra rimala case into an oppor­ declared the epidemic a being closely monitored.” Modi on Monday called them “experiments” based on a tunity to set up a nine­judge State calamity. Five people, who were “design to dent the Bench and examine whether The apex committee of shifted to the Army’s Base nationalistic heritage” of the certain essential religious the State Disaster Manage­ Medical staff disposing of Hospital from a quarantine country. Speaking at a BJP practices of various faiths, ment Authority met Chief Se­ garbage outside an isolation facility in Manesar, Haryana, rally in east Delhi, he accused including Islam and Zoroas­ cretary Tom Jose to propose ward for coronavirus at a after showing symptoms of AAP and Congress of trianism, should be constitu­ the decision to ensure that hospital in Kochi. * PTI cough and cold, have tested engaging in a “political tionally protected. the outbreak is controlled. negative for nCoV. The five game” through such protests. “Are you saying that when As on Monday, 2,239 tra­ tested negative. were among the 247 persons hearing the review of one vellers from China and other Hospital authorities con­ evacuated from the Hubei NEWS Ī PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD judgment [Sabarimala in this nCoV­affected countries firmed that the condition of province in China. case], we cannot refer such have been placed under sur­ all symptomatic persons un­ The symptoms of the co­ larger questions to a larger veillance in the State. der isolation in hospitals was ronavirus infection start with Bench?” Chief Justice of In­ week. The CJI clarified that led by then CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Muslim women from enter­ Among them, 2,155 are stable. fever and dry cough followed dia (CJI) Sharad A. Bobde, the nine judges would confer took a curious turn on No­ ing mosques, female genital under home isolation and 84 by breathing problems, ac­ heading the Bench, asked and frame the issues for vember 14 last. The Bench mutilation among Dawoodi have been admitted to hospi­ GoM set up cording to doctors. Mr. Nariman on Monday. hearing. sidestepped the task of re­ Bohras and the ban on Parsi tals with isolation facilities in A high­level group of Minis­ The Kerala Health Depart­ “Yes, that is absolutely viewing the September 2018 women who married inter­ various districts, a bulletin ters has been constituted on ment has taken adequate right. It will be outside your PIL petitions judgment, which declared faith from entering the fire from the State Health De­ the directions of Prime Mi­ preparatory measures and jurisdiction to do that,” Mr. Senior advocate K. Parasa­ the prohibition on the entry temple to the reference. partment said. nister Narendra Modi to re­ had framed detailed guide­ Nariman replied emphatical­ ran countered Mr. Nariman, of women of menstruating Chief Justice Bobde, when Of the 140 samples sent so view the management of the lines as soon as the WHO is­ Man held for supplying ly. saying that the Sabarimala age into the Sabarimala tem­ he succeeded Justice Gogoi, far to the National Institute outbreak. sued a global health alert. gun to juvenile in JMI case The CJI observed orally case had its genesis in public ple as discriminatory. promptly set up the nine­ of Virology in Pune, 46 have Confirming the third case CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 NEW DELHI that Mr. Nariman had a “for­ interest litigation petitions. It Instead, the Bench re­ judge Bench to decide this The Delhi Police’s Crime midable point there”. was not an in personam (af­ ferred seven questions, in­ reference. Branch has arrested a He, however, said the fecting a specific person) liti­ cluding whether essential re­ On Monday, Mr. Nariman wrestler, Ajeet, from Uttar Bench would not “abort the gation. ligious practices should be argued that the Gogoi Bench Pradesh’s Aligarh district for hearing” now. In a case emanating from afforded constitutional pro­ had no business to either supplying a weapon to the The objections raised by a PIL petition, there is no tection under Article 26 drag other cases into the re­ juvenile who had opened fire Mr. Nariman would be restraint on a constitutional (freedom to manage reli­ ference or frame such “larg­ on anti­CAA protesters framed as an “issue” to be court in extending the scope gious affairs), to a larger er issues” when its sole man­ outside Jamia Millia Islamia decided by the Bench. It or questions to be examined, Bench. date was to simply review on January 30, an officer said would convene on Thursday he argued. Further, the Review the Sabarimala verdict. on Monday. to fix the dates of the hear­ The Sabarimala case re­ Bench tagged other pending CITY PAGE 5 Ī PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ings that would start next view by a five­judge Bench, cases on the prohibition of CONTINUED ON Ī Will not splurge to end BJP pulls up Hegde for slowdown: Sitharaman remarks on Gandhiji ‘Govt. will create assets transparently’ Congress questions MP’s sanity

Vikas Dhoot Responding to specula­ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Priscilla Jebaraj tion that the fiscal deficit NEW DELHI NEW DELHI could cross 4% or 5% of the The BJP on Monday issued a Finance Minister Nirmala GDP, she said, “I want to tell show cause notice to its MP Sitharaman on Monday as­ you that the experiences of Anantkumar Hegde for his serted that the government the last time that India had a comments against Mahatma was not going to repeat past real tough economic situa­ Gandhi. mistakes and try to splurge tion and the call taken at Karnataka State presi­ its way out of the economic that time, and post that call, dent of the BJP Nalin Kumar slowdown, in an apparent the fiscal deficit number Kateel said the party’s Cen­ reference to the UPA go­ was touched by the govern­ tral leadership had served Anantkumar Hegde vernment’s response to the ment then.” the notice on Mr. Hegde, 2008­09 slowdown. Hinting perhaps to the taking strong objection to hapurush (great persons),” Speaking at a meeting of 2009­10 Budget, when the his remarks and had sought the MP from Uttara Kanna­ FICCI’s national executive fiscal deficit target was an explanation from him. da said at an event in Benga­ committee, the Minister raised to 6.7% of GDP after In controversial com­ luru. said the government was the sharp slowdown trig­ ments on Saturday, Mr. Responding to the re­ willing to spend to pump gered by the global financial Hegde had questioned the marks, Congress leader Bri­ prime the economy, but crisis, she said: “The splurg­ freedom movement led by jesh Kalappa appealed to stressed that it “shall not re­ ing with which the economy Gandhiji and described it as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla peat the mistakes of was expected to reach a bet­ an “adjustment” with the to conduct a “medical inqui­ splurging”. ter level and rise from the British rulers. ry into the sanity” of the BJP The money being spent bottom it had reached are “Freedom fighters who MP. In a letter to Mr. Birla, now will be used to create all fresh in our minds.” did not sacrifice anything Mr. Kalappa said, “As per Ar­ public assets that bring grea­ After the effects of the made the country believe ticle 102 of the Constitution, ter connectivity, Ms. Sitha­ 2009­10 fiscal stimulus wore that it attained indepen­ an insane member cannot raman said, adding, “We are off, growth plunged sharply dence through Upavas Sa- continue as a member of the showing where the money again over 2011 and 2012. tyagrah (hunger strikes) — Lok Sabha”. will go so that you can plan Gandhi’s preferred mode of your investment.” CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 agitation — and became ma- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12

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Overheard by staff while negotiating the same hotel, as per the deal for ₹165 cr., they land behind bars instructions of the ‘sellers’. R. Sivaraman prospective buyers at a On Monday, the CHENNAI cost of ₹165 crore. hotel staff noticed Chutzpah is defined as They had sent a letter five persons “extreme self­confidence or to Palakkal Home seated on a audacity”. And the attempt Solutions in couch in the by three conmen to sell a Thiruvananthapuram, lobby engaged well­known hotel in Chennai offering to sell the in negotiations. to gullible buyers, brazenly property. They claimed The staff holding negotiations in the that it was a distress overheard stray very hotel’s lobby, has set a sale as the owner had a phrases which set new benchmark in huge debt. They claimed alarm bells ringing gumption. that they had been officially about the possible The trio, identified as authorised by the owner to sale of the hotel. Karunakaran, 70, execute the deal. One of the As they reported this Paramanandham, 55, and men claimed that he was the to the manager, he

Dakshinamurthy, 60, all from general manager of the hotel, ILLUSTRATION: DEEPAK HARICHANDAN immediately informed the the city, were arrested on the other, auditor and the owner, Sudharshan. The Monday as they tried to sell third introduced himself as a persons, a team of latter clarified that there was the three­star Hotel Ambica manager. representatives from the no such proposal. The Empire to a group from Lured by this, and Kerala firm landed up in manager then informed the Kerala. convinced by the letter, their Chennai to seal the deal. Two Vadapalani police station, The three men attempted fake documentation and the of the representatives from leading to the arrest of the to sell the hotel to the assurances of the three Kerala, booked rooms in the three ‘sellers’. CM A ND-NDE YK