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NEARBY Chidambaram sent to Tihar jail SC allows Iltija Mufti to meet her mother Mehbooba till Sept. 19 in INX Media case ‘Move local authorities for permission to go around in J&K’ Former Minister, son get anticipatory bail in Aircel­Maxis money laundering case Krishnadas Rajagopal Batala blast a result of NEW DELHI ‘Tarigami held A spark can set multiple lapses: official Nirnimesh Kumar The Supreme Court on BATALA New Delhi A separate cell Thursday allowed Iltija Mufti without order’ off a blaze: MP The Batala firecracker factory A Delhi court on Thursday to meet her detained moth­ incident, that has not just left sent former Union Home Mi­ but no special er, former Jammu and Kash­ CPI(M) leader Sitaram By withdrawing Articles 370 the family members of the nister P. Chidambaram to mir Chief Minister Mehboo­ Yechury informed the and 35A, the Centre has victims but also local custody in Tihar jail in the facilities ba Mufti, in Srinagar. Supreme Court that the added to the volatile residents furious, was a result INX Media case, even as But when she asked the situation in Jammu and situation in Jammu and of “multiple lapses”, another court granted antici­ PRESS TRUST OF INDIA court’s permission to move Kashmir was “contrary” to Kashmir, and with one officials have said. NEW DELHI patory bail to him and his around in Jammu and Kash­ the government’s claims. spark, the blaze could NORTH Ī PAGE 5 P. Chidambaram, who was DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD son Karti in the Aircel­Maxis mir, Chief Justice of India With the court’s permission, spread, PDP Rajya Sabha money laundering case. brought to Tihar Jail on Ranjan (CJI) Gogoi orally re­ he travelled to the State on member Nazir Ahmed Kashmiri youth beaten Special judge Ajay Kumar Thursday evening, will get marked, “Why do you want August 29 to meet his party Laway said. “Leaders who by mob in Neemrana Kuhar said: “Having consi­ no special facilities, except a to move around? It is very colleague M.Y. Tarigami. Mr. trust the Constitution have JAIPUR dered all the facts and cir­ separate cell and a Western cold in Srinagar.” However, Tarigami told him that he been put behind bars. Had A Kashmiri youth studying in cumstances of the case, the toilet as specified by the the court later recorded that was confined to his house the government detained an aeronautical engineering nature of offences and the court, jail officials said. Like she could move the district for the past 25 days without the separatists, no one college was tied to an electric stage of investigation, which other inmates, he will have authorities for permission to any detention order. Mr. would have shed tears. Why pole and allegedly beaten up is still in progress, the ac­ access to the library, and move around. Yechury said he described arrest those who worked by a mob in Neemrana town cused is remanded in judi­ In custody: P. Chidambaram being taken to Tihar jail in can watch television for a The top judge did not pay his situation as a “de facto within the Constitution?” he of Rajasthan’s Alwar district cial custody till September New Delhi on Thursday. * PTI specified period. heed to the government’s in­ arrest.” Ī page 13 asked. Ī page 13 on Wednesday night. The 19.” After the mandatory sistent pleas that Ms. Iltija DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD mob claimed that the youth, “I am only worried about er tried to influence the wit­ Saini granted anticipatory medical check­up, he was Mufti had no business mov­ dressed in a woman’s clothes, the economy,” Mr. Chidam­ nesses or interfere in the bail to the father­son duo in lodged in Jail No. 7, which ing the “august forum” of mission from the Magistrate. chilling effect on my move­ was looking suspicious. baram commented, when a investigation. the Aircel­Maxis money houses those accused in the Supreme Court. “Why should she [Ms. Iltija ment,” senior lawyer Nitya NORTH Ī PAGE 5 reporter asked him if he had laundering case. “Consider­ Enforcement Directorate The Centre said she Mufti] come here now?” he Ramakrishna for Ms. Iltija DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD anything to say after the ‘Ready to surrender’ ing the distance of time bet­ cases. His son Karti was kept should have ideally gone to asked. Mufti submitted. IGIA to try facial court ordered his judicial Mr. Sibal further argued that ween the commission of al­ in the same cell for 12 days the local District Magistrate Finally, the court gave Ms. recognition entry custody. his client was ready to sur­ leged crime and the filing of in the same case last year. for permission to meet her ‘Ostensible purpose’ Iltija Mufti, who is now in NEW DELHI Earlier, the CBI produced render to the Enforcement the instant application, un­ A jail official said food is mother. Solicitor General Tushar Chennai, permission to re­ Starting today, a mere facial him before the court and Directorate in the money explained delay in investiga­ served between 7 p.m. and Ms. Mehbooba Mufti, PDP Mehta said there might be turn to Srinagar at a time of scan will allow Vistara urged it to send him to judi­ laundering case since his ap­ tion, there being no possibil­ 8 p.m., but it is kept aside leader, has been under de­ something more to Ms. Iltija her choice to meet her passengers to zip through cial custody, submitting that peal challenging the Delhi ity of the accused tampering for those who arrive late tention, along with several Mufti’s appeal than the “os­ mother in private. Delhi’s Indira Gandhi he was an influential person High Court order denying with the evidence or threa­ owing to court procedures. others, since August 5 in the tensible purpose” to meet The court recorded the International (IGI) Airport, in public life and wielded him protection from arrest tening any witness or fleeing The usual dinner menu is backdrop of the dilution of her mother. But the CJI government’s assurance that which has commenced a substantial and pervasive in­ had been dismissed. from justice and there being roti, dal, sabji and rice. provisions of Article 370, the stopped him short, saying, it would “not prevent” her three­month trial for fluence over witnesses, hav­ Mr. Chidambaram also no possibility of their com­ Mr. Chidambaram will be ensuing curfew and bifurca­ “It is her privilege to move from doing this. It further or­ paperless travel. Passengers ing the potential to tamper filed an application in the mitting a similar crime lodged in the cell from 9 tion of the State into Union this forum... Are you going dered that CPI(M) leader need to follow some simple with evidence. court seeking permission to again, I am satisfied that it is p.m. to 6 a.m. Breakfast will Territories. The Valley has to prevent her from meeting M.Y. Tarigami be flown to steps to experience this Opposing the prosecution surrender in the money a fit case for grant of benefit be served between 7 a.m. been in a state of lockdown her mother?” Delhi from Srinagar for futuristic way of travelling. plea, Kapil Sibal, counsel for laundering case connected of anticipatory bail,” he said. and 8 a.m. He can drink for the past month. Ms. Iltija Mufti said she treatment at AIIMS. CITY Ī PAGE 2 Mr. Chidambaram, argued with the INX bribery case. water from a reverse Attorney General K.K. Ve­ was not permitted to leave DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD that the CBI had not brought The court sought the ED’s CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 osmosis plant or buy nugopal said Ms. Mehbooba her house in Srinagar from CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 8 PAGES anything on record to even reply by September 12. SC DENIES RELIEF TO packaged water from the Mufti’s mother and sister August 5 to August 22 by the YOUTH SUSTAINED FATAL (TABLOID) suggest that his client had ev­ Earlier, special judge O.P. CHIDAMBARAM Ī PAGE 12 canteen. had met her after taking per­ authorities. “There was a PELLET INJURIES Ī PAGE 13 Romila Thapar declines to send CV to JNU Institute of Facing ₹11,000 fine, man sets bike afire Eminence Saurabh Trivedi Sarvodaya Enclave, for driv­ gulfed in flames. He was ar­ Historian writes letter to the administration explaining what her status means NEW DELHI ing without a helmet. On put­ rested, the police said. tag for five Staring at a hefty fine for ting him through a breatha­ “As per the amended Mo­ Priscilla Jebaraj fessor Emeritus”. A similar and writing and was prepar­ drunken driving under the lyser test, he was found tor Vehicles Act, he was chal­ NEW DELHI letter was sent to 11 other ing for a workshop even as Special Correspondent amended Motor Vehicles Act driving under the influence laned ₹10,000 for drunk driv­ Historian Romila Thapar has Professors Emeritus, all of much of the academic world NEW DELHI that kicked in this month, a of alcohol — 200 mg per 100 ing and ₹1,000 for not refused to submit her curri­ them distinguished scholars exploded in outrage at her The Human Resource De­ motorcyclist set ablaze his ml of blood — the police said. wearing a helmet,” said a culum vitae to the adminis­ in their respective fields. treatment by JNU. Her CV is velopment Ministry has two­wheeler on Thursday, The permissible limit for traffic police officer. tration of Jawaharlal Nehru Professor Thapar herself available on the university’s awarded the status of Insti­ the police said. The man, Ra­ drunk driving is 30 mg of al­ Delhi Fire Service said it University ( JNU), which says has been awarded the Kluge website. “I sent them a letter tute of Eminence to IIT­Ma­ kesh, was fined near Triveni cohol per 100 ml of blood. received a call around 2 p.m., it is “reviewing” her position Prize, known as the Ameri­ explaining what was meant dras, IIT­Kharagpur, Delhi Complex in Chirag Dilli. While his motorcycle was but by the time its team as Professor Emerita. Instead can Nobel, holds honorary by a Professor Emeritus, for University, Banaras Hindu Traffic policemen busy en­ being impounded, Rakesh reached the spot and doused she has written a letter ex­ Romila Thapar doctorates from half a dozen if they knew what it meant University and University forcing the new regulations set fire to the fuel tank and the flames, the motorcycle plaining what her status of the world’s top universi­ they would not be demand­ of Hyderabad, said an offi­ stopped Rakesh, a resident of soon the vehicle was en­ was badly gutted. means. them retrospectively,” she ties, and is the author of a ing my CV to re­evaluate my cial statement. “No, I don’t intend to send said in a telephone interview slew of books on ancient In­ status,” said Professor Tha­ Four private universities them my CV. They have con­ on Wednesday. dia, which have been re­ par. “The university has not — Vellore Institute of Tech­ tradicted themselves in the On July 12, JNU Registrar quired reading for genera­ yet responded to me.” nology, Amrita Vishwa Vi­ letter they sent to me. When Pramod Kumar wrote to Pro­ tions of students. She taught She pointed out that the dyapeetham, Jamia Ham­ the status was originally con­ fessor Thapar asking her to at JNU for over two decades, position of Professor Emeri­ dard and Kalinga Institute ferred, it was stated that this provide her latest CV by Au­ helping to found the universi­ tus is an honour given on the of Industrial Technology — was a lifetime honour. They gust 16 so that a committee, ty’s Centre for Historical Stu­ basis of work already done. were issued Letters of In­ are going back on that, negat­ appointed by the University’s dies, and has been a Profes­ “How can it be based on fu­ tent to grant them the sta­ ing what they originally Academic Council, could “as­ sor Emerita since 1993. ture expectation?” she asked. tus. wrote. They have changed sess [her] work and decide At 87, she is still actively in­ the rules, and are applying on [her] continuation as Pro­ volved in research, teaching CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12

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Press Trust of India Officials promise steps to conserve it but nothing happens, says caretaker Vladivostok India on Thursday an­ Serish Nanisetti donated by Inayat Jung, a nounced an “unprecedent­ Hyderabad descendant of Mir Musa ed” $1 billion line of credit It is easily Hyderabad’s Khan known as Rukn Ud for the development of Rus­ biggest treasure. A Dowla, the Prime Minister of sia’s Far East, with Prime sprawling 10 ft x 10 ft map of Nizam II. The map was key Minister Narendra Modi the walled city of to the decision to move the vowing that New Delhi Hyderabad dating from 1772. Asaf Jahi capital from would walk shoulder­to­ Nearly 250 years later, the Aurangabad to Hyderabad. shoulder with Moscow in its map is slowly disappearing The Hyderabad map quest for the development in one quiet corner of the predates the effort by of the resource­rich region. city at Panjagutta. On the Scottish soldier Colonel At the plenary session of first floor of the Idara­e­ Colin Mackenzie of the East the Fifth Eastern Economic Adabiyat Urdu in a damp India Company, who Forum here, he said it was a airless room, without lights, No protection: The map is made on a cloth, with the lines created maps for the “unique case” of India pro­ is the big map stretched drawn with vegetable dyes. The colour is flaking off. Nizam’s Dominions in 1780s. viding such special credit across a wall. Holding it The maps were so useful for line to another country. together are four wooden Our best protection is the it but nothing happens. It is the East India Company “For the development of slats, and a glass pane forms glass sheet,” says Rafiuddin a cloth map with the lines during the Anglo­Mysore the Far East, India will give the only protection from the Quadri, who takes care of drawn with vegetable dyes. wars that he was made the a line of credit worth $1 bil­ elements. It isn’t much of a the institution started by his The colour flakes off when it Surveyor­General of India. A lion,” he said. protection as the dampness father Mohiuddin Qadri is touched. The cloth has role which is largely seeps inside. Zore. “We have scholars, become brittle,” says Mr. forgotten as Mackenzie is RUSSIA FOR JOINT SUBMARINE “We have a financial government officials coming Quadri. remembered more for the DEVELOPMENT Ī PAGE 13 problem. Taking care of the in and seeing the map, The map, as well as a manuscripts and oral ‘ACT FAR EAST’ POLICY Ī PAGE 13 map is beyond our budget. promising steps to conserve number of artefacts, was histories he collected. CM A ND-NDE YK