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www.dailyworld.in CBI cracks Kotkhai dailypick -and- international Asaram found guilty of case, arrests European powers woodcutter say nearing plan rape, gets life term New Delhi The CBI has arrested a 25-year-old to save Iran nuclear woodcutter with a criminal past in connec- cused were convicted by the special ashrams in and other parts of tion with the rape-and-murder of a teenaged 09 pact court hearing cases of crime against the world in four decades. schoolgirl in the Kotkhai area of Shimla, after children. It acquitted two others. During these years, he made his DNA sample matched the genetic material “Asaram was given life-long jail friends with the powerful. Old video found on the body of the victim and the crime T Mukherjee term, while his accomplices Sharad clips show him with politicians from scene, officials said on Wednesday. The findings and Shilpi were sentenced to 20 as well as Con- of the agency will bring relief to the families of India investing: Art years in jail by the court,” public gress, including , Atal five people arrested earlier by the state police of connecting prosecutor Pokar Ram Bishnoi told Bihari Vajpayee and Digvijay Singh. as the CBI has not found any evidence of their reporters soon after the judgment. Bhopal has two places named involvement in the gruesome rape-and-murder the macro to the “We argued that Asaram is not a after Asaram – a road crossing and in July last year, which had become a rallying 06 saint and he, under a conspiracy, a bus stand – both located near the point against the then Congress government micro called the victim from the hostel godman’s ashram near the Raja Bhoj in Himachal Pradesh. The investigation which and raped her,” he said. Airport on the city outskirts. went like a crime thriller involved a team of 40 “Sharad and Shilpi were also the The board carrying his name was CBI officials who camped in the area around SC judges urge CJI part of the conspiracy,” he added. removed from the bus station soon the crime scene for nine months in extreme Arguments for the quantum of after the verdict. secrecy collecting intelligence from local people, to hold full court sentencing were held inside the heav- Asaram has also courted contro- digging records of people with criminal records ily fortified jail premises, where the versy in recent years with his views and following various leads which took them to on issues plaguing trial court delivered its verdict in on issues such as Valentine’s Day and Kashmir and Uttarakhand as well. The probe, accordance with the directions of the rape and murder of Nirbhaya which was taken over by the agency on July 22, judiciary the Rajasthan High Court. in Delhi. 2017, on the orders of the Himachal Pradesh New Delhi Two senior judges of the Supreme In Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh, In 2013, he had told a gathering in High Court, was monitored by the top brass of Court, Justices Ranjan Gogoi and M B Lokur, the victim’s father expressed relief. Rajasthan that Nirbhaya could have the agency. page 4 > have urged the Chief Justice of India to hold “Even if I die now, I will have no avoided being assaulted by the men a full court to discuss the institutional issues regret as we have got justice for our in the bus she boarded with a friend. plaguing the higher judiciary. The letter was daughter,” he told reporters. “She should have taken God’s Involvement in written a day before Rajya Sabha Chairman “My daughter is very courageous name and could have held the hand Venkaiah Naidu rejected the opposition im- and it is because of her courage that of one of the men and said, I consider India will also be peachment notice against Chief Justice of we have managed to ensure that the you my brother and should have India Dipak Misra. ‘dhongi baba’ (fake godman) got said to the other two, brother, I am The issue raised in the letter is understood punishment for his wrongdoings,” helpless, you are my brother, my probe: CA to have come up on Monday morning at the tea he said. religious brother,” the media had London Cambridge Analytica (CA), the data meeting attended by all the judges, which had Born in province, now in quoted him as saying. consultancy firm at the heart of a fake news delayed the start of the day’s court proceedings , Asaram’s family migrated Apprehending a threat to law and investigation in the UK, has said that all its by about 15 minutes. Sources said that Justices to after Partition. order, the Centre had asked Rajas- activities around the world, including in India, Gogoi and Lokur signed the joint two-line letter Starting from a hut on the banks than, and Haryana govern- will be investigated and reported on. on April 22 in which they spoke about holding of A Jodhpur court on natural death, the court pronounced, of the Sabarmati, Asaram created a ments to tighten security ahead of A spokesperson for the company yesterday a “full court”. The same issue was for the first Wednesday sentenced self-styled convicting him under the provisions Rs 10,000-crore empire with 400 the verdict as the three states have said that while CA was focussed purely on time raised by Justice J Chelameswar on March godman Asaram to life in prison of the and the a large number of Asaram followers. the US market, its global arm SCL Elections 21, which was followed by a similar missive on after finding him guilty of raping a Juvenile Justice Act. It also imposed The charge sheet against Asaram handled other regions. “All the national issues April 9 by Justice Kurian Joseph who had sought teenage girl in his ashram five years of fine of Rs 1 lakh on him. and the four other co-accused was and national associations are part and parcel the setting up of a bench of seven senior most ago, the second case of a powerful The godman’s lawyers, who plead- filed by the police on November of the independent investigation. Rest assured, judges to deal with the issues plaguing the top spiritual leader being convicted of ed that he was not guilty, said they also read 6, 2013. India, Kenya, Nigeria, all the other countries court. The short letter by Justices Gogoi and a sexual offence in less than a year. would appeal against the verdict. The teenager had said in her com- that SCL has been working in historically, will Lokur urged the CJI convene a full court on Special judge Madhusudan Sharma’s Police had stepped up security Asaram: The plaint that Asaram had called her be investigated and reported on as part of the the judicial side to discuss institutional issues verdict, which comes as the debate around Asaram’s ashrams to pre- preacher to his ashram in Manai area near independent investigation,” he told reporters and the “future” of the top court, they said. over sexual violence, particularly the vent the kind of violence that was Jodhpur and raped her on the night during a press conference here today. The As per convention, a full court meeting of the rape of minors, intensifies across the unleashed by followers when an- who built an of August 15, 2013. press conference came soon after an academic Supreme Court, involving all judges, is usually country, was read out in the Jodhpur other so-called godman, Dera Sacha He was arrested in and associated with the company, Aleksandr Kogan, convened by the CJI when a matter of public Central Jail where 77-year-old Asaram Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, empire of Rs brought to Jodhpur on September 1, gave his evidence to the UK Parliament’s Digital, importance relating to the judiciary comes has been kept for over four years. was convicted of rape last August. 05 2013. He was under judicial custody Culture, Media and Sport Committee on its up. / PTI / Asaram will be in prison till his Apart from Asaram, two other ac- 10,000 cr since September 2, 2013. / PTI / ongoing investigation into fake news. page 9 > dailyheadlines

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Lalit K Jha / Washington Based on the H-1B visa data sequence of many immigration H1B approvals obtained from the US Citizen- restrictions in a global econo- Top seven Indian IT companies ship and immigration Services my. Indian-based companies, of experienced a whopping 43 per (USCIS), the foundation said course, must compete for the for Indian IT cent drop in their H-1B visa ap- that the Tata Consultancy Ser- same relatively limited pool of provals between 2015 and 2017, vices (TCS) received 2,312 H-1B tech talent in the US as other companies a US think-tank has said. The Na- visas in 2017 as against 4,674 companies, it said. tional Foundation for American in 2015, registering a drop of 51 The foundation said, corporate Britain’s Prince Charles attends the wreath-laying ceremonies at the Australian National Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, northern France, on Anzac Day, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Anzac Day honors the Policy in a report said that the per cent. clients of both the US and Indian- men of the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps who died in World War I at the 1915 battle for Gallipoli, drop by 43% 8,468 new H-1B visas for Indian- Infosys, during the same period based IT services companies are Turkey. It has since come to honor the sacrifices made by all service members in the Australian and New based companies in the finanacial saw a whooping drop of 57 per requesting digital engineering Zealand Armed Forces. AP / PTI between 2015- year 2017 equaled only 0.006 per cent from 2,830 in 2015 to 1,218 and more sophisticated services, cent of the 160 million in the US in 2017. Wipro received 1,210 H-1B including better data analysis, labour force. visas in 2017 as against 3,079 in that require fewer workers and 17: Report The top seven Indian-based 2015. Among the seven Indian- more advanced technology, and Canada van massacre driver charged companies received only 8,468 based companies the H-1B ap- this is reflected in the H-1B visa approved H-1B petitions for ini- proval of Tech Mahindra went up numbers. with murder, most victims women tial employment in FY 2017, a from 1,576 in 2015 to 2233 in 2017. While Cognizant, an IT ser- decline of 43 per cent for these In its analysis, the National vices company headquartered Toronto A Canadian man by truck-driving extremists in American who murdered six companies since FY 2015, when Foundation for American Policy in Teaneck, New Jersey, had the who apparently had a grudge London, Nice and other cities, people and then killed him- it received 14,792 H-1B visas. said that the drop in H-1B visas most H-1B petitions approved for against women was charged saying “there is no discernable self in California in 2014, and Given that 199,000 applications for Indian-based companies is new employment in FY 2017, with with murder after allegedly connection to national secu- who had professed frustration were filed in FY 2017 for the due to industry trends toward 3,194, that represented a decline plowing a rented van onto a rity.” But authorities said the over his virginity and women FY 2018 cap year – 105,000 in digital services such as cloud com- of 800 approved petitions, or 25 crowded Toronto sidewalk, incident during the busy lunch rejecting him. The suspect’s excess of the FY 2018 H-1B an- puting and artificial intelligence, per cent from FY 2016. killing 10 people -- an incident hour Monday was undoubtedly post also referred to the “Incel nual limit – even if none of these which require fewer workers, Further, five of the seven that shocked the nation. deliberate. Rebellion” -- “incel” is short for companies received new H-1B and a choice by companies to top Indian-based companies Police said the suspect, investigator Detective-Ser- “involuntarily celibate” and visas the annual limit still would rely less on visas and to build saw declines in FY 2017 from 25-year-old Alek Minassian, geant Graham Gibson said is often used in connection have been reached on the first day up their domestic workforces in FY 2016 – Infosys, Wipro, HCL was not known to them before Minassian had posted a “cryp- with online groups of sexually of the April filing period, it said. the United States. In most cases, America, Larsen & Toubro and Monday’s carnage in Canada’s tic message on Facebook min- frustrated men who are known “The data indicate the problem is companies require fewer people Mindtree. most populous city, which also utes before he began driving to rant against women. not which companies are receiv- per project, it argued. Only TCS, with an increase of left 14 people injured. Most of the rented van” along a long “We will overthrow all the ing H-1B visas, which some con- Also, like all companies, includ- 13 per cent, and Tech Mahindra, the victims were women. stretch of Yonge Street, even- Chads and Stacys!” the post tend, but that the 85,000-annual ing US companies, restrictions on which increased by 42 per cent, Public Safety Minister Ralph tually jumping the curb onto read, monikers used in the limit is too low for an economy visas may result in more work had more H-1B petitions for initial Goodale played down any sug- the sidewalk. In the post, community to describe people the size of the United States,” it being performed outside the US, employment approved in FY 2017 gestion that the attack bore the Minassian praised mass killer who have no trouble finding argued. which is the unintended con- than in FY 2016, it said. / PTI / hallmarks of those carried out Elliot Rodger -- a 22-year-old sexual partners. / AFP /