OID‰‰‰†‰KOID‰‰‰†‰OID‰‰‰†‰MOID‰‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Saturday,August 30, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 36 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Sport Fiennes will recreate Daman: After the White bags sprint Romeo and Juliet deaths, the double at World for Prince Charles nightmare begins Championships Page 10 Page 7 Page 18 WIN WITH THE TIMES Pro-US Shia Established 1838 leader among Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Army officer killed for his organs? Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between By Rajat Pandit the body was the Major’s. But it been surgically removed, he tale signs of surgical removal of ‘‘We have not come across any 82 killed in its ideals and its realities, TIMES NEWS NETWORK was what they read in the autop- said, ‘‘There is a possibility...but his organs’’. organ racket case in recent between its heroic sy report that chilled the mili- I can’t say for sure.’’ Dr L C Gupta, a Delhi-based times. The GRP thinks it was an Mathura: On the morning of tary police: key organs — in- He ruled out the likelihood of autopsy surgeon and forensic accident. But it could also be sui- Najaf blast possibilities and its August 23, the UP Government sorry achievements. cluding the kidneys, heart, the missing organs being ‘‘eaten expert, on studying the autopsy cide since there was some ten- Najaf: A car bomb killed at railway police (GRP) found a lungs, spleen and gall bladder — by animals or dogs’’. He also dis- report, also ruled out an acci- sion in the officer’s family.’’ least 82 people and wounded — Agnes Repplier neatly severed body on the rail- were listed as ‘‘missing’’. missed the possibility of an ac- dent. Without rejecting the But persons close to the fami- 229 others outside one of way tracks a few metres from This raises the sinister cident. ‘‘Train accident victims murder-for-organs theory, he ly contest this. ‘‘Shankar was to Shia Islam’s holiest shrines NEWS DIGEST Mathura station. They sent it for possibility that the officer was usually have head or leg in- speculated the missing organs pick up his Lt-Colonel rank in a in the central Iraqi city of a post-mortem, cremating it a victim of the nefarious trade juries. But the way this could have been ‘‘completely few days. He had been married Najaf on Friday, medical Akshardam accused held: The eight hours later, instead of the in organs prevalent in the body was cut in two pieces, it crushed’’ or ‘‘ripped away’’ from to Veena for over a decade and sources said. Ahmedabad police have arrested usual 72 hours. region. In 1991, the police busted could not have been an accident. the body due to the passing had a eight-year-old daughter,’’ Iraq’s best-known Shia five persons, who they claimed were It was only the next day an illegal kidney transplant I cannot say whether it was train’s sheer weight and ‘‘tor- said one. Muslim politician, Ayatollah conspirators in the terrorist attack on the police got in touch with racket at an Agra-based medical homicide or suicide,’’ added sion force’’. ‘‘The authorities seem keen to Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, the Akshardham temple in Gujarat Army authorities who were head of the Iran-backed on September 24 last year, which facility. Dr Agarwal. Both Army and police author- close the case by simply dubbing searching for Major S Ravi Supreme Assembly of the Is- killed 33 persons. P7 Dr K G Agarwal of the Mathu- GRP officials were not avail- ities are baffled by Shankar’s it a suicide or accident, without Shankar, second in command of ra district hospital, who super- able for comment, but persons death and refuse to provide clear conducting thorough investiga- lamic Revolution in Iraq Film screening stopped: Sup- the 1 Corps Grid Signal Regi- vised the Major’s autopsy, told close to the Major’s family sus- answers. ‘‘Our investigations tions. Shankar had taken casual (SAIRI), was one of the casu- porters of Bihar CM Rabri Devi’s ment, reported missing by his the Times of India, ‘‘The organs pect foul play. ‘‘We feel his body are in progress,’’ said a senior leave to go to his sister’s house alities, official said here. controversial brother, Sadhu Yadav, wife Veena. were completely missing’’. was placed on the tracks in such officer at the 1 Corps HQ. in Kota to meet his parents,’’ The Najaf educational hos- did not allow Prakash Jha’s new pro- A photograph confirmed that Asked whether they might have a way as to obliterate any tell- A police officer, in turn, said, he added. pital reported 81 dead and 200 duction, Gangaajal to be screened wounded from the bombing, in Patna on Friday. They alleged that Manoj Chhabra said Doctor Ali Jawad, a sen- the film defamed their leader as the ior resident at the medical fa- villain was named after him. P9 cility.Another person was re- More Pak boys freed: Five Hindu Mulayam in and ported dead, as well as 29 boys from Pakistan, who were ar- wounded, at the city’s gener- rested over a year ago for illegally al hospital, said Doctor Hus- crossing the border, will return sein al-Wan. home with sweet memories of a the cases are flyin’ The blast took place out- six-year-old Palanpur girl who tied side the shrine of Imam Ali a rakhi on their wrists earlier this By Archana Srivastava and Independent MLA shortly after Hakim deliv- month. P9 TIMES NEWS NETWORK Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias ered a Friday sermon. Raja Bhaiyya and his father PM in Jammu: Addressing a Press Lucknow: Mulayam Singh Meanwhile, Hakim’s Conference in Jammu, Prime Minis- Udai Pratap Singh, and two brother, Abdel Aziz, con- Yadav was sworn in as the ter Vajpayee on Friday said a solu- other Independent MLAs — firmed the ayatollah’s death chief minister of Uttar tion to the Kashmir impasse would Akshaya Pratap Singh and from Baghdad in remarks to Pradesh in a star-studded take time. He, however, admitted Dhannjay Singh. Al-Manar television, the ceremony here on Friday. that the situation in J&K was improv- Yadav said: ‘‘This is just a channel of Lebanon’s radical ing and the people were more Immediately after taking beginning, as cases filed Shia Muslim movement relaxed. P6 the oath of office, Yadav fired against others under the Hezbollah, . More trouble for Blair: A day af- the first salvo at his prede- draconian law like the Na- ‘‘The cowardly explosion ter British Prime Minister Tony Blair cessor Mayawati, announc- tional Security Act and the targeted the ayatollah who took the witness stand in the Kelly ing the withdrawal of Pota Goonda Act will be reviewed was martyred along with a death probe, his chief director of cases slapped by her govern- shortly.’’ large number of his body- communications Alastair Campbell ment against political lead- He also announced meas- guards,’’ said Abdul Aziz, a announced his resignation. P11 ers. ures like clearing the govern- member of Iraq’s US-spon- Risk factor raised: In a con- ‘‘There is no need for this ment’s dues of Rs 1,340 sored Governing Council. tentious conclusion, a new survey (Pota), as it is a politically crore to the cane growers and SAIRI’s office in Tehran for overseas investors in London motivated action on part of private sugar mills and re- was the first to report that raised the country’s overall risk as- my predecessor,’’ he said. duction of hospital registra- Hakim, who favoured cooper- sessment and said Monday’s twin The immediate beneficiar- tion fees. ation with the US-led forces bomb blasts in Mumbai could lead Page 3 breaks through the Laxman rekha: Sahara Group chairman Subrata Roy, Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, Tina ies of the withdrawal of Pota More reports and picture on occupying Iraq, was killed to a new cycle of communal vio- Ambani and Parmesh Godrej at Mulayam Singh Yadav’s swearing-in at the Laxman Ground in Lucknow. cases are former minister page 8 in the blast. AFP lence in India. P13 YOU SAID IT by Laxman Poll DUSU poll, promise fulfill hoga ke nahin? TOI By Pallavi Majumdar TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Safe buses and gen- der sensitisation sound great, but don’t forget the samosa. It’s Delhi U election time, and the corridors are crawling with manifestos as wannabe student leaders come begging for votes. Some promises are as new as the kurti you bought for the first day of college. Ones like Yet another bus accident!...if I had group insurance. Others are as Poster campaign at the Khalsa Evening College still been in the opposition party, I old as Papa’s trophies. Into this would have demanded the imme- hoary league fall such never-say-die on campus cuisine. DUSU veterans say diate resignation of our C.M.! perennials as more U-specials, and bringing out a manifesto can be an eye- compact campuses. If your parents opener. ‘‘Only the issues that touch the were to drop by, they’d be transported raw nerve work,’’ said an Akhil back to their own DU election days. Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s Promises are fine, but yaar, what’s (ABVP) functionary. Their USP this the funda on fulfilling them? Can we year is their stand against internal as- blame student leaders for making role sessment (25 per cent). ‘‘This is a farce models of their political seniors, because the clasrooms are crowded,’’ a indiatimes.com POLL and taking their cue from the national member said.