" $ RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015 I6 9 1)B )B B 7)87-1934 -'%'%. )*+, %&'%( !"# $" % %LC:@:%66 =@KN:@!A::@J =!=!6!!66!7=9J $$%!&#%' '%!'% ' %6:7!A<A@9@M =!9@6%<:6%:@! 8:!<9EJ=A6@A67J %!(%''%! 7 $'<*#776- 0*G H! @ ! #" *11 :219;",1: * * 0 -+ " <@9@A% However, the Bench said, On his part, the AG issued, it will go to the Prime 71 7 0D 1 “What if we ask you to give pressed for dismissal of the Minister... Please don’t enter- $1 : E he Supreme Court on details without technical details PILs contending that the peti- tain such petitions,” Venugopal ! 7 1 ! F TWednesday directed the of aircraft?” tions have not raised any pub- said. L 1& 7 ' Centre to provide in a sealed In the 15-minute-long lic interests and rather they are The SC said it was neither 1 )M cover the details of decision- hearing, the Bench also heard “political interest petitions” going into the averments made making process, sans pricing submissions from Sharma and and the petitioners have selec- in the petitions nor issuing the and technical information in Dhanda, who sought several tively quoted the questions notice on them and was asking the Rafale deal, but termed the directions, including court- which have been answered in information to satisfy itself. F averments made in the PILs as monitored SIT probe into the Parliament. Congress leader and RTI “grossly inadequate” and clar- deal and submission of details He also said that a bitter activist Tehseen Poonawala, ified that it was not issuing any of the agreement in a sealed political fight was going on in who had sought a direction notice to the Centre. cover to it. the country over the Rafale deal against the Centre on why the A Bench headed by Chief Sharma said that the pric- in the election year and enter- Union Cabinet’s approval was Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it ing of the Rafale fighter jets taining the petitions may be not sought as part of the wanted to satisfy itself about have been already disclosed in used politically and moreover, Defence Procurement legitimacy of the decision- the French Parliament and the such policy decisions cannot be Procedure (DPP) before sign- * + , "- + , making process even as the stand of the Centre was unten- reviewed judicially. ing the procurement deal with ++ ./ - Government sought dismissal able. Sharma said the inter- “This is a political petition France on September 23, 2016, of the PILs on the issue, Government agreement to buy and not a public interest liti- however, withdrew his PIL %%" 8%A! lakh to employees with minor terming them “political peti- 36 Rafale fighter jets must be gation and is part of bitter fight against the fighter jet deal at the injuries. tions”. quashed. It was an “outcome of going on between ruling and start of the hearing. teel Minister Chaudhary Steel Minister took stock of The Bench, also compris- corruption” and not ratified by Opposition party. If notice is Continued on Page 4 SBirender Singh visited the situation at Bhilai in the ing Justices SK Kaul and KM Parliament under Article 253 Bhilai, a day after 12 employ- poll-bound state and sacked Joseph, gave the Government (Parliament has power to make ees were burnt alive in a dead- Bhilai Steel Plant CEO, M Ravi time till October 29 to provide any law for implementing any ly blast at Bhilai Steel Plant’s and suspended T Pandya Raja, the necessary information and inter-Government agreement) Coke Oven unit, and sacked general manager (safety) and fixed the PILs, filed by lawyers of the Constitution, he said. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Naveen Kumar, deputy gener- Vineet Dhanda and ML In his plea, Dhanda as anger against the deadly al manager (energy). Sharma, for hearing two days referred to the recent “contro- " <@9@A% Opposition party Congress Rahul alleged that process- incident gripped the steel city The sacking of plant offi- after that. versy” over the 58,000 crore charging the NDA es to justify Modi’s decision are on Wednesday. cials came after prima facie it “We are not on the issue of deal between India and efence Minister Nirmala Government with wrongdoing. being invented. Singh along with appeared that safety measures pricing and suitability of the Dassault Aviation, a French DSitharaman began her Congress president Rahul “The Supreme Court has Chhattisgarh Chief Minister were compromised at Coke Rafale jets but only on the deci- company, for purchasing 36 three-day official visit to France Gandhi has raised questions on asked for the Rafale decision Raman Singh and Minister of Oven Battery Complex No 11 sion making process,” the combat jets and sought judicial on Wednesday night to hold Nirmala Sitharaman’s France making process. It’s quite sim- State for Steel Vishnu Deo Sai, during a scheduled mainte- Bench said. intervention to put an end to bilateral talks with her French visit, alleging that work has ple really... The PM decided. reached Sector-9 hospital in a nance job. When the Bench asked the raging debate. counterpart Florence Parly. begun to justify the Prime The processes to justify his bid to calm down boiling anger Chaudhary Birender Singh Attorney General KK “In a PIL, my role is to During her visit, Sitharaman Minister’s decision to buy decision are yet to be invented. among hundreds of workers of told media persons at Sector- Venugopal what will be his bring an issue to the notice of will also take stock of progress Rafale fighter aircraft. But work has begun. Ps. In this public sector steel giant SAIL’s 9 hospital that apart from the response if the court asked him the court. The court has per- in the supply of the Rafale jets He took to Twitter to say connection, Raksha Mantri is flagship unit. internal enquiry committee to share the details of the deci- haps also taken note of my plea expected to begin next year while the Supreme Court has leaving for France tonight,” he He announced a slew of constituted by SAIL, another sion-making process only to regarding submission of docu- end. She is also expected to visit asked for the details of the said. compensation measures high-level Enquiry Committee the judges, the AG said it can- ments in a sealed cover enve- Dassault Aviation, which is Rafale decision-making The delivery of the fighter including 30 lakh to each comprising of experts from not be shown to anyone in the lope. After the court goes manufacturing 36 Rafale jets as The visit comes at a time process, the decision to buy the aircraft is expected to begin in deceased family besides a job. across the country to go into interest of national security through the documents, I am per Indian specifications when political slugfest is on fighter aircraft was taken by 2019 and the IAF hopes to get A compensation of 15 lakh the actual cause of the incident and other issues involved in the sure, the truth will come out,” under the Government-to- over the 58,000-crore Rafale Prime Minister Narendra the full consignment of 36 jets would also be given to the seri- would be constituted by defence procurement process. Danda said. Government deal. fighter jet deal with the main Modi. by 2022. ously injured employees and 2 Ministry of Steel. " <@9@A%BAC7< R t least seven people were " <@9@A% Akilled and 35 others — ! $$%&!%' including 10 women and six O ) yclone Titli has intensi- children — sustained serious- Cfied into a very severe ly injuries as the engine and !" cyclonic storm over the Bay of nine coaches of Malada-New # #$#" Bengal on Wednesday and is Delhi New Farakka Express ! *+),- , 5 #" <@9@A% moving towards the Odisha train derailed at Harchandpur /)0+1 coast, triggering rainfall in sev- in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh n a bone chilling incident, a eral parts of the eastern State. on Wednesday around 6.10am. I19-year-old civil engineering Five coastal districts of Four of the seriously 3)4- student allegedly stabbed his Odisha have been put on high injured are being treated at 0)051 father, mother and younger alert and the Odisha Lucknow’s King George sister to death in Kishangarh Government has begun evac- Medical University and two at area in Vasant Kunj of South- uation of about 2 lakh people. the city’s Sanjay Gandhi ) West Delhi for opposing his Thereafter, it is very likely Postgraduate Institute of ! lifestyle and forcing him to to move northeast towards Medical Sciences. %# % study, said police, adding that Gangetic West Bengal across An NDRF team, compris- Railways Minister Piyush pensation of 2 lakh each to the # ##P" the bodies were found on Odisha before gradually losing ing 40 personnel, and senior Goyal announced compensa- next of the kin of the deceased '() 6 7 % 7 Wednesday morning. strength. All schools, colleges officials from the State and the tion of 5 lakh for the kin of the from Bihar, besides 50,000 to After being put to sus- and anganwadi centres in Railways, rushed to the spot for dead, 1 lakh for the injured each injured person from the 8 tained interrogation by police " " # $"%&'! ( )" " Odisha have been declared rescue. Railway Board and 50,000 for those with State. In a statement, Nitish said O which reached the three-room " closed on Thursday. People Chairman Ashwani Lohani too minor injuries. “I offer my as per information received so /5 555 0+ 5559 house at 5.20 am after being living in the low-lying areas and visited the accident site and deepest condolences to the far among those killed were informed about the incident by members as there was no sign that he had lost consciousness hutments along the coast are said the Railways has initiated families of the deceased and four residents of Munger dis- a neighbour, the couple’s son of struggle visible with the out of fear, police said.