WEEKEND EDITION • Delhi sunday, february 12, 2017 www.thehindu.in ● Weekly Edition ● Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49939 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 7 ● No. 6 ● CITY EDITION ● 26 Pages ● Rs. 8.00 Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad, Malappuram and Mumbai BRIEFLY More AIADMK leaders switch ‘Government is committed Interceptor missile tested successfully to an independent judiciary’ BALASORE (ODISHA): India on Saturday successfully tested its Fears of political interceptor missile off the camps, back Panneerselvam influence on Odisha coast, achieving a appointments milestone in developing a two-layered ballistic missile One Minister, 4 unfounded: Minister defence system. The interceptor SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT was launched from the Abdul MPs come out in Kalam Island at 7.45 a.m. support of T.N. BENGALURU: Union Law Minis- ½ NATION | PAGE 9 Chief Minister ter Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government was com- UDHAV NAIG mitted to an independent ju- diciary and that the Memor- CHENNAI: In a dramatic turn to andum of Procedure (MoP) the ongoing political turmoil for appointment of judges in Tamil Nadu, two promin- had been sent to the judi- ent members from AIADMK ciary for consideration. interim general secretary In a conversation with V.K. Sasikala’s camp — Edu- Nidhi Razdan, Executive Ed- cation Minister K. Pandiara- itor, NDTV, at the first edi- Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad speaks at jan and party spokesperson tion of The Hindu's thought The Huddle in Bengaluru on Saturday. — PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR C. Ponnaiyan — switched conclave, The Huddle, Mr. sides on Saturday to join Prasad said the MoP was 5 names cleared Rights violated, says Chief Minister O. Pan- “based on the directions Justice Karnan neerselvam, citing a SWITCHING SIDES: AIADMK leader K. Pandiarajan meets O. Panneerselvam at his residence given by the judiciary when for SC judges groundswell of support for in Chennai on Saturday to offer him his support. — PHOTO: S. R. RAGHUNATHAN they ruled on not accepting NEW DELHI: The controversial the latter. the National Judicial Ap- NEW DELHI: The Union Law Calcutta High Court judge, Not very long after posting pointments Commission Ministry has cleared the Justice C.S. Karnan, has written In a further boost to the rebel camp, four MPs — P.R. a cryptic tweet that he would Swearing-in delayed to split party: Sasikala (NJAC).” names of four High Court to the Supreme Court’s listen to the ‘collective voice He stressed that the judi- Chief Justices and a High Registrar-General, contending Sundaram from Namakkal, of the people’, Mr. Pandiara- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT the delay (in inviting her to ciary’s fears that the political Court judge for that the unprecedented suo K. Ashok Kumar from Krish- nagiri, R. Vanaroja from jan said he was backing Mr. form the government) was executive would unduly in- appointment as Supreme motu contempt notice issued Panneerselvam because he CHENNAI: As the uncertainty aimed at splitting the party. fluence appointments were Court judges. PAGE 12 against him affects his Tiruvannamalai and V. Sathyabhama from Tiruppur did not want the AIADMK to over the next chief minister Speaking at Jayalalithaa’s unfounded. “The collegium fundamental rights of equality split. continued, AIADMK Poes Garden residence, she system for the appointment Mr. Prasad said the system and dignity and has amounted — also came out in support of Mr. Panneerselvam. “Over the last few days, interim general secretary said, “We were waiting for of judges only came about in of appointments that existed to a violation of the principles of there has been a clear V.K. Sasikala upped the the Governor’s decision till 1993. The allusion that the before the collegium system natural justice. Cryptic tweet groundswell of support for ante on Saturday, saying today. We plan to protest in Prime Minister can be in- had produced judges of the ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 While the Namakkal and Mr. Panneerselvam. One she had been patient for a a diferent manner strumental in the election of calibre of Justices Krishna Krishnagiri MPs were the could also detect a kind of re- long time, but it would last tomorrow [Sunday].” the President of India, the Iyer, Hidayatullah, Gajendra first to turn up at the CM’s vulsion against the choice of only up to a point. In what is Earlier, she went in a con- Vice-President, the Chief Gadkar and Patanjali Shastri. SUNDAY MAGAZINE Greenways Road residence Sasikala as the legislature perceived as a threat, she voy of SUVs to meet party Election Commissioner, the 6 Pages here, Mr. Pandiarajan’s ar- party leader,” he said. said, beyond that, “We will MLAs at a resort near here. Comptroller and Auditor ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 CLASSIFIEDS rival was a shot in the arm for do what is necessary.” General but not judges has to ½ MORE REPORTS ON Pages 6 & 7 Mr. Panneerselvam. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Ms. Sasikala alleged that ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 be challenged,” he said. PAGES 14 & 15 In peaceful first phase, 64% Mirwaiz becomes father, Another roof collapse in CP AAP’s next stop STAFF REPORTER The police said prelimin- is Rajasthan clan gets a heir apparent ary enquiry revealed that the NEW DELHI: Over a week after a building was used as a MOHAMMED IQBAL polling recorded in U.P. STAFF CORRESPONDENT “I could not accompany section of a wall collapsed in godown by the restaurant, my wife to the hospital as I C-Block, a roof caved in adja- but was closed for the past JAIPUR: Following completion 73 constituencies in ates, including 77 women. SRINAGAR: Hurriyat chairman was placed under house ar- cent to a popular restaurant two days after the NDMC of polling in Punjab and Goa, western region voted Around 20% of the candid- Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who rest earlier in the day as we in Connaught Place on Sat- directed 21 restaurants to the Aam Aadmi Party has ates have criminal cases re- also heads the 18th Century were planning to lead a pro- urday night. No one was close their rooftops. shifted its focus to Rajasthan, for 839 candidates gistered against them. Of the institution of Mirwaiz (head cession demanding the mor- injured. “Unplugged Courtyard where it intends to contest 14,514 polling booths, 5,140 priest) of the Kashmir valley, tal remains of JKLF (Jammu According to the Delhi has nothing to do with the the Assembly polls in 2018 MOHAMMAD ALI were identified as on Saturday became the Kashmir Liberation Front) Fire Service, the collapse was collapsed ceiling. The space from all the 200 seats. Delhi hyper-sensitive. father of a baby boy, the heir founder Maqbool Bhat and reported near Unplugged housed Odeon Sweet shop Deputy CM Manish Sisodia MEERUT: A turnout of 64.22% apparent to the influential Afzal Guru, both buried in Courtyard in L-Block at 10:30 that had been vacant for over announced the party’s plans was reported in the largely Four-cornered fight pulpit his father presides Tihar Jail,” the Mirwaiz told p.m., following which the a decade,” the restaurant said to strengthen its presence in incident-free first phase of While the elections were over in Srinagar’s Jamia The Hindu. restaurant was evacuated. in a statement. the desert State on Saturday. polling on Saturday for the seen as a triangular contest Masjid. Sources said it was an Three fire tenders were Assembly elections in Uttar between the BJP, the BSP and The Mirwaiz’s heir appar- emergency operation con- rushed to the spot. ½ DETAILS ON | PAGE 3 ½ DETAILS ON | PAGE 13 Pradesh. the SP, Ajit Singh’s RLD has ent could be 15th Mirwaiz of ducted following some med- The Election Commission made it four-cornered con- the clan. He got married to ical complications. “The did not give the figures of AWAITING THEIR TURN: Voters at test with renewed support the daughter of a U.S.-based baby boy was born on Sat- voter turnout in the corres- a polling booth in Pasonda from its traditional vote bank Kashmiri family in 2002 and urday morning. Both the ponding seats in 2012, but village, Uttar Pradesh, on of Jats, reportedly disen- has two daughters Maryam, baby and his mother are all said the percentage recorded Saturday. — PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY chanted with the BJP for its 9, and Zainab, 7. right,” the Mirwaiz’s media was higher than the 58.62% failure to fulfil promises of The 44-year-old Mirwaiz’s adviser Shahid-ul-Islam said. overall turnout recorded in 15 districts in western U.P. reservation. Of the total 73 US-born-and-brought-up The Mirwaiz’s heir appar- the State then. Over two lakh policemen seats, the SP had won 24, the wife, Sheeba Masoodi, was ent arrived on a day when the According to ADG (Law were deployed for the polls. BSP 23, the BJP 12, the RLD 9 shifted to Srinagar’s Modern Valley was observing a shut- and Order) Daljeet Singh, In this first phase, about and the Congress 5 seats in Hospital on Friday evening down on 33rd death an- polling passed of peacefully 2.59 crore voters — 2012. around 10 p.m., in the midst niversary of JKLF founder without any major incidents 1,42,76,128 male and ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 of a shutdown call issued by Bhat, hanged in 1984 for his of violence in any of the 73 1,17,76,308 female — were eli- ½ JATS DRIFTING AWAY separatists, including the role in the killing of an in- constituencies spread across gible to vote for 839 candid- FROM BJP | PAGE 13 Mirwaiz.