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XXIV, NO. 334, PAGES 12, RS. 2 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER Road safety week: JJP prepares list of Australia knock out Actors should be 87% fear crossing 12 candidates for India; Visitors known for their road in Chandigarh, Delhi polls, may go register biggest win work, not for social according to study for pre-poll alliance against host in media comments, with BJP Mumbai says Ajay Devgn PAGE 6PAGE 3 PAGE 12 PAGE 10 Fate of Nirbhaya’s killers sealed as SC dismisses petitions Sitting MLA N D AGENCY NEW DELHI, JAN 14 Sharma resigns The Supreme Court Tuesday dis- from AAP missed the curative petitions filed by NEW DELHI: Ahead of assembly two of the four death row convicts in polls, N D Sharma, sitting AAP the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and MLA from Badarpur, on Tuesday murder case. said he has resigned from the A 5-judge bench headed by Jus- party and accused it of selling tice N V Ramana rejected the cura- tickets to candidates. tive petitions filed by Vinay Sharma His resignation comes a day after (26) and Mukesh Kumar (32). AAP inducted two-time MLA Ram The proceedings were conducted Mukesh files mercy Singh Netaji to the party. On in-chamber. A curative petition is the Monday, Sharma had sat on a last and final legal remedy available plea before president protest at Delhi Deputy Chief NEW DELHI: Mukesh Singh, one of Minister Manish Sisodia's resi- to a person. The five judges were unanimous that there was no merit in the four death row convicts in the dence over Netaji's induction. Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, "I have resigned from the party. the curative petitions filed by the two filed a mercy plea before the Presi- We joined the AAP for clean poli- condemned petitioners. "The appli- dent on Tuesday, Tihar Prison authori- tics but what is the difference be- cations for stay of execution of death ties said. tween you (AAP) and other politi- sentence are also rejected. We have cal parties now. I won with Five soldiers among ten gone through the Curative Petitions 94,000 votes and he (Netaji) with and the relevant documents. In our Hurra vs. Ashok Hurra & Another, 17,000 votes but he was induct- opinion, no case is made out within reported in 2002 (4) SCC 388. ed into the party just like that. the parameters indicated in the deci- Hence, the Curative Petitions are dis- The hard work of volunteers was sion of this Court in Rupa Ashok missed," the bench said. ignored," Sharma said. Campus calm, killed in J&K avalanches peaceful: JNU admin Kerala challenges NEW DELHI: The JNU adminis- AGENCY spokesperson could not be con- tration on Tuesday said classes SRINAGAR, JAN 14 tacted despite repeated attempts in many schools have begun for Six seriously ill tourists evacuated to confirm the death. Meanwhile Citizenship Act in SC the new semester and the cam- Five security force personnel, in- five civilians including a villager pus witnessed a "calm and cluding four Army and one BSF to Army medical facility in Leh and his two sons, were killed AGENCY also challenged the validity of peaceful" atmosphere, while a soldiers were killed while anoth- LADAKH: Six seriously ill tourists who were suffering from the effects of when they were buried under a NEW DELHI, JAN 14 changes made in 2015 to the Pass- section of students and teachers er was rescued in avalanches near frostbite and High Altitude Pulmonary Odema (HAPO) were on Tuesday huge avalanche in central Kash- port law and the Foreigners continued to abstain from classes the Line of Control in north evacuated by the helicopters to the Indian Army medical facility in Leh. mir district of Ganderbal. The Kerala government has chal- (Amendment) Order, regularising amid standoff with authorities Kashmir district of Kupwara. In "Multiple search and rescue columns of Fire and Fury Corps were Official sources on Tuesday lenged the new Citizenship the stay of non-Muslim migrants over the fee-hike issue. launched to rescue a group of tourists who were stranded in bad weather JNU's Registrar Pramod Kumar, another tragedy five civilians while undertaking annual 'Chaddar Trek' on frozen Zanskar River in morning told a news agency that (Amendment) Act (CAA) before from Pakistan, Bangladesh and in a statement, said academic were reportedly killedin Gander- Ladakh," said Indian Army in a statement. a group of nine people, going for the Supreme Court, becoming the Afghanistan who had entered In- and administrative units of the bal area. Frostbite is an injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues. a rescue operation in Risen first state to do so amid nation- dia before 2015. The Citizenship university functioned "normally on Official sources told UNI that First, the skin becomes very cold and red, then numb, hard and pale. Kolan in Ganderbal came under wide protests against the religion- Amendment Act (CAA), eases January 14, even as the campus an avalanche hit a forward Army Frostbite is most common on the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks, and huge avalanche at Gund last based citizenship law. The the path for non-Muslims in the witnessed a calm and peaceful post in Machil sector following chin. evening. Supreme Court is already hearing neighbouring Muslim-majority atmosphere". "The number of heavy snowfall on Monday However, they said four peo- over 60 petitions against the law. nations of Pakistan, Afghanistan student registrations has been evening. 'The injured were immediately avalanche hit a forward area in ple were rescued after a major Kerala's Left-led government and Bangladesh to become Indian rising consistently and the last 'Five soldiers were buried taken to a hospital where three of Nowgam sector on Monday search operation was undertaken in its petition calls the CAA a vi- citizens. Critics fear that the date of registration has been ex- alive under several feet of snow, them were declared brought evening, resulting in death of a by locals and police. olation of several articles of the CAA, along with a proposed Na- tended till January 15 to facilitate they said, adding that search and dead,' they said. BSF jawan while another was The search operation contin- constitution including the right to tional Register of Citizens (NRC), students who have gone on leave rescue operations were immedi- The body of the fifth missing rescued after an operation was ued throughout the night and bod- equality and says the law goes will discriminate against Mus- or on academic assignments off ately launched', they said. solder was also recovered under undertaken by forces despite ies of five missing persons were against the basic principle of sec- lims. The Kerala petition says the campus," Kumar said. After tiring efforts, four several feet of snow. harsh weather conditions. recovered early on Tuesday ularism in the constitution. CAA violates Articles 14, 21 and Classes in many schools and Army jawans were recovered. In an another incident, a snow However, Defence ministry morning. The Kerala government has 25 of the constitution. centres for the new semester have begun and time-tables have been uploaded, he said. NGT slaps Rs 68.51 Haryana Police bust ATM Pb ministers write to Cong chief, lakh penalty on robbers gang, five arrested Gurgaon builder BUREAU seek action against Partap Bajwa NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has slapped a CHANDIGARH, JAN 14 penalty of Rs 68.51 lakh on a BUREAU sheer indiscipline and urging the party builder for construction in the Haryana Police has busted a gang which CHANDIGARH, JANUARY 14: leadership to take immediate action against green area in a housing com- broke and robbed ATMs with the arrest of the former Punjab Pradesh Congress Com- plex in Gurgaon in violation of its five-members from Fatehabad district. All the Punjab Ministers on Tuesday de- mittee (PPCC) chief. The ministers ac- environmental laws. A bench Police has also seized country-made manded, in one voice, disciplinary action cused Bajwa of playing into the hands of headed by NGT Chairperson weapons and other equipments from them. by the Congress leadership against Rajya the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel Giving this information here today, a Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa for rais- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by pitching him- asked the builder to deposit Rs spokesperson of Haryana Police said that hana, which was present at Tibbi bus stand, ing a banner of revolt against Chief Min- self against his own party leadership, es- 68,51,250 to the Central Pollu- the arrests followed after police raided an had got a tip-off that five persons having ister Captain Amarinder Singh on public pecially at a time when the entire opposi- tion Control Board within a old house in front of Bhuna sugar mills dur- arms were plotting to loot vehicles and platforms. tion was in a state of disarray, posing no month. The tribunal said any ap- ing patrolling. Police recovered a .32 coun- petrol pump in front of Bhuna sugar mills. The issue came up for informal discus- real challenge to the Congress in the state. proval granted without consider- try-made pistol, a .315 double barrel pistol, Police teams immediately swung into ac- sion just before the Cabinet meeting here within the party forum, Bajwa continued to Such rebellion, if not nipped in the bud, ing the impact on the environ- 5 cartridges, one gandasi, iron pipe and a tion and arrested all five accused identified on Tuesday.