RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2016-18 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 Late City Vol. 154 Issue 263 Published From *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable NATION 5 WORLD 7 SPORT 10 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL VIOLENCE REDUCED BY 20% TRUMP ORDERS FBI PROBE DHAWAN AXED BHUBANESWAR RANCHI IN NAXAL-HIT AREAS: MODI OF BRETT KAVANAUGH FROM TEST SQUAD RAIPUR CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN LUCKNOW, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2018; PAGES 12+8 `3 www.dailypioneer.com Constable guns USUALSUSPECTS down man for Rain aplenty SWAPAN DASGUPTA UP cop shoots jumping check post, flees spot; but 253 dists Recent SC verdicts negate terminated from existence of absolute law Apple staffer job, sent to jail face drought t is difficult to think of another time when the public agenda Iwas set in so sharp a way by judicial pronouncements. The PNS n LUCKNOW Cities in east, judgments of the higher courts matter in most democracies where there is a separation of powers, but the sheer wo trigger-happy consta- N-E and south frequency of socially relevant judgments in today's India is Tbles shot dead Apple exec- quite staggering. utive who, along with his face the heat It is tempting to attribute this onrush of judgments to the woman friend, was going in his fact that Chief Justice Dipak Mishra retires on October 1 and, XUV near Gomti Nagar RAJESH KUMAR n NEW DELHI consequently, there was a need to conclude all cases Extension (Malesamau mazar) involving him. Yet, what is significant is not merely the timing under Gomti Nagar police sta- espite heavy rain which but the subject matter of the cases that the Supreme Court tion area on the intervening Dcaused massive floods in has decided. First there was the case of disqualifying night of Friday and Saturday. Assam, Kerala, Himachal potential — as opposed to convicted — criminals from The errant cop and his col- Pradesh and some parts of holding public office. Then there was the issue of the legality league were rounded up and Vivek Tiwari, who was shot by a police Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and scope of Aadhaar, a subject that involves the future of were taken in police custody. Kalpana, wife of Vivek Tiwari, who was shot dead by a police constable on patrol constable on patrol duty, in Lucknow Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh India's elaborate network of welfare payments and tax They were later summarily ter- duty, mourns his death, in Lucknow on Saturday PTI on Saturday PTI and Gujarat, the possibility of revenues. That was certainly an issue the Supreme Court minated from their services. a drought looms large over 253 needed to settle once and for all, if only to remove the The incident kicked off a districts across the country, lingering uncertainty. Apart from that, there was the petition political controversy with Chief mainly in the east, northeast seeking a review of an Allahabad High Court judgment over Minister Yogi Adityanath and south. Meghalaya, Arunachal the status of mosques in property disputes — a judgment telling newsmen that it was not The rain deficiency has Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, that has a direct bearing on the never-ending litigation on the an encounter and the accused touched to 9 per cent till Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, 50 per mandir-masjid dispute in Ayodhya. constables had been terminat- September 29 as the country cent or more districts experi- However, apart from these crucial disputes involving ed. The incident also evoked a witnessed 800.4 mm rainfall as enced deficient to “large defi- public policy and questions of law, the Supreme Court stiff protest from family mem- against the normal of 883.6 cient” rainfall. As per the IMD, appears to have focused its interest on social policy. Thus, in bers of the deceased with social mm. Normally, if the cumula- as many as 239 districts — of less than a month, the country has witnessed the media activists pillorying the tive rainfall deficiency crosses the 662 for which rainfall data decriminalisation of homosexuality and adultery and a Lucknow police for its imper- 10 per cent and above, then it were available — received defi- sanction to modify a traditional (but discriminatory) practice in tinent act and demanded is declared as a “drought year” cient rainfall (-20 per cent to the famous Sabarimala temple. These judgments involving ‘exacting action’ against the for the entire country. -59 per cent) while 14 districts personal laws and the conduct of religious practices are errant constable and his col- Constable Prashant Chaudhary PTI The bullet hole in the windscreen of the car Vivek Tiwari was driving is This even as the with- have received “large deficient” highly significant and overturned old laws and customary league. conspicuous PTI drawal of monsoon started rainfall (-60 to -99 per cent). At practices. As per reports, Vivek Fear gripped Tiwari when from some parts of Rajasthan, least 19 districts have not An incidental feature of these judgments is that apart Tiwari of Ganga Apartments in he saw the constables and he cle, its accelerator probably truckers who were passing Kutch and north Arabian Sea shared any data with IMD on from those involving homosexuality between consenting New Hyderabad colony of tried to speed away at which was pressed by his foot and it there. from Saturday (September 29), the current monsoon status. adults and criminal Mahanagar, along with his constable Prashant Chaudhary, bolted out at a high speed hit- Meanwhile, a police team which is almost a month’s According to the IMD, Sooner rather than later, the prosecution for adultery, friend Sana Khan of Vinay deployed at Gomti Nagar police ting the bike of the accused reached the place and the vic- delay. According to India most of the districts so affect- philosophies of those being the decisions weren't Khand of Gomti Nagar, was station, fired a bullet while his constables and later rammed tim was rushed to Ram Meteorological Department ed are in Gujarat (19), Bihar considered for higher judicial unanimous. There were going in their Mahendra XUV. colleague Sandeep Kumar against one of the walls of the Manohar Lohia hospital where (IMD), the official date of (27), Uttar Pradesh (27), Tamil dissenting judgments on Around 1.30 am on Saturday, allegedly incited him to open underpass. Both the constables he was declared "brought dead". withdrawal is September 1. Nadu (19), Jharkhand (17), appointments will start the Aadhaar case, the when they reached near fire. guessed the wrong deed com- In a damage control attempt, The delay in withdrawal of Karnataka (15), Maharashtra playing a big role in status of mosques and the Maqdoompur police outpost The bullet fired from the mitted by them and they fled the cops propagated conflicting monsoon is good for rabi crops (13), West Bengal (10) and Sabarimala temple entry and were on a lone stretch, two service pistol first hit the front the scene leaving the victim in information saying it was but will impact the winter Assam (10). But some of these appointments issue. Some of these constables, who were on a windscreen of the XUV and a pool of blood. His friend Sana unclear that Tiwari died of season. States also had seemingly con- dissenting judgments were patrol duty, intercepted them then it hit Vivek in his chin. As stated that she began to cry gunshot or he suffered injuries In nine States and Union tradictory weather conditions: diametrically opposed to the majority judgment. Justice asking Tiwari to stop the XUV. he slumped down in the vehi- while trying to seek help from Turn to Page 6 Territories (UTs), including Turn to Page 6 Chandrachud, for example, argued that Aadhaar was unconstitutional and should not have been passed as a Money Bill. He even questioned the right of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha to determine what should be a Money Bill, Ultras glorified Hackers skim 50m Kejriwal calls without judicial review. Justice Indu Malhotra in the Valley villagers Sabarimala case made out a persuasive argument against due to lack of electricity judicial interference in matters of faith, even when they failed the test of rationality. UN response, Facebook accounts amendment Another curious feature of the minority judgments is that refuse haven to they were held up as the “correct” judgment by those who were unhappy with the majority judgment. In the social says Sushma Bill anti-people media, at least, Justice Chandrachud was painted as a poster boy by those who put privacy over financial integrity. PTI n UNITED NATIONS STAFF REPORTER n NEW DELHI Likewise, many Hindu traditionalists found it significant that Shujaat’s killer the only woman judge hearing the case chose to be on the says a report of the Multi- ndia on Saturday lambasted erming the proposed side of custom. Agency Centre. Ithe lack of progress at the UN Tamendment to the The cherry picking of judgments is an occupational ISI seeks details Intelligence reports sug- for adopting a global conven- Electricity Act 2003, anti-peo- hazard and the Supreme Court can at best smile indulgently gest his last location was in Heff tion on international terrorism, ple, Delhi Chief Minister at the attempts to secure consolation prizes. Their celebration of terrorists on under Zainapura police station saying it is because of such Arvind Kejriwal said it would or otherwise won't affect the final discourse, even though the in Shopian. inactions that terrorists are only benefit power firms and terms of public discourse can be affected. its roll in J&K Amid the killing of civil- glorified with postage stamps. lead to a sharp hike in elec- However, that such sharply different opinions can be ians and Kashmiri policemen, India last week called off a tricity bills of the consumers.