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volume 3 issue 114
CBI cracks Kotkhai rape-and-murder case, arrests
dailypick
Asaram found guilty of rape, gets life term
international
European powers say nearing plan to save Iran nuclear
woodcutter
new delhi The CBI has arrested a 25-year-old
woodcutter with a criminal past in connec-
tion with the rape-and-murder of a teenaged
schoolgirl in the Kotkhai area of Shimla, after his DNA sample matched the genetic material
found on the body of the victim and the crime
scene, officials said on Wednesday. The findings
of the agency will bring relief to the families of
five people arrested earlier by the state police as the CBI has not found any evidence of their
involvement in the gruesome rape-and-murder
in July last year, which had become a rallying
point against the then Congress government
in Himachal pradesh. The investigation which
went like a crime thriller involved a team of 40
CBI officials who camped in the area around
the crime scene for nine months in extreme
secrecy collecting intelligence from local people,
digging records of people with criminal records
and following various leads which took them to
Kashmir and Uttarakhand as well. The probe,
which was taken over by the agency on July 22,
2017, on the orders of the Himachal pradesh
High Court, was monitored by the top brass of
cused were convicted by the special ashrams in India and other parts of
09
pact
court hearing cases of crime against the world in four decades.
children. It acquitted two others.
During these years, he made
“Asaram was given life-long jail friends with the powerful. old video
term, while his accomplices Sharad clips show him with politicians from
and Shilpi were sentenced to 20 Bharatiya Janata party as well as Con-
years in jail by the court,” public gress, including Narendra Modi, Atal
prosecutor pokar Ram Bishnoi told Bihari Vajpayee and Digvijay Singh.
t Mukherjee
India investing: Art of connecting
reporters soon after the judgment.
Bhopal has two places named
the macro to the
“We argued that Asaram is not a after Asaram – a road crossing and saint and he, under a conspiracy, a bus stand – both located near the
called the victim from the hostel godman’s ashram near the Raja Bhoj
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micro
- and raped her,” he said.
- Airport on the city outskirts.
“Sharad and Shilpi were also the
The board carrying his name was
SC judges urge CJI to hold full court on issues plaguing judiciary
part of the conspiracy,” he added. removed from the bus station soon
Arguments for the quantum of after the verdict.
sentencing were held inside the heav-
Asaram has also courted contro-
ily fortified jail premises, where the versy in recent years with his views
trial court delivered its verdict in on issues such as Valentine’s Day and
accordance with the directions of the rape and murder of Nirbhaya
- the Rajasthan High Court.
- in Delhi.
In 2013, he had told a gathering in
new delhi Two senior judges of the Supreme
Court, Justices Ranjan Gogoi and M B Lokur, have urged the Chief Justice of India to hold a full court to discuss the institutional issues plaguing the higher judiciary. The letter was
written a day before Rajya Sabha Chairman
Venkaiah Naidu rejected the opposition im-
peachment notice against Chief Justice of
India Dipak Misra.
In Shahjahanpur in Uttar pradesh,
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the victim’s father expressed relief. Rajasthan that Nirbhaya could have
“Even if I die now, I will have no avoided being assaulted by the men
regret as we have got justice for our in the bus she boarded with a friend.
the agency. daughter,” he told reporters.
“She should have taken God’s
Involvement in India will also be probe: CA
“My daughter is very courageous name and could have held the hand
and it is because of her courage that of one of the men and said, I consider
we have managed to ensure that the you my brother and should have
‘dhongi baba’ (fake godman) got said to the other two, brother, I am
punishment for his wrongdoings,” helpless, you are my brother, my
The issue raised in the letter is understood
to have come up on Monday morning at the tea
meeting attended by all the judges, which had
delayed the start of the day’s court proceedings
by about 15 minutes. Sources said that Justices
Gogoi and Lokur signed the joint two-line letter
on April 22 in which they spoke about holding of
a “full court”. The same issue was for the first
time raised by Justice J Chelameswar on March
21, which was followed by a similar missive on
April 9 by Justice Kurian Joseph who had sought
the setting up of a bench of seven senior most
judges to deal with the issues plaguing the top
court. The short letter by Justices Gogoi and
Lokur urged the CJI convene a full court on
the judicial side to discuss institutional issues
and the “future” of the top court, they said.
As per convention, a full court meeting of the
Supreme Court, involving all judges, is usually
convened by the CJI when a matter of public
importance relating to the judiciary comes
he said.
religious brother,” the media had
london Cambridge Analytica (CA), the data
consultancy firm at the heart of a fake news
investigation in the UK, has said that all its
activities around the world, including in India,
will be investigated and reported on.
Born in Sindh province, now in quoted him as saying.
pakistan, Asaram’s family migrated
Apprehending a threat to law and
- to Ahmedabad after partition.
- order, the Centre had asked Rajas-
Starting from a hut on the banks than, Gujarat and Haryana govern-
Jodhpur A Jodhpur court on natural death, the court pronounced, of the Sabarmati, Asaram created a ments to tighten security ahead of Wednesday sentenced self-styled convicting him under the provisions Rs 10,000-crore empire with 400 the verdict as the three states have
A spokesperson for the company yesterday
said that while CA was focussed purely on
the US market, its global arm SCL Elections
handled other regions. “All the national issues
and national associations are part and parcel
of the independent investigation. Rest assured,
India, Kenya, Nigeria, all the other countries
that SCL has been working in historically, will be investigated and reported on as part of the independent investigation,” he told reporters
during a press conference here today. The
press conference came soon after an academic
associated with the company, Aleksandr Kogan,
gave his evidence to the UK parliament’s Digital,
Culture, Media and Sport Committee on its
godman Asaram to life in prison of the Indian penal Code and the
after finding him guilty of raping a Juvenile Justice Act. It also imposed
teenage girl in his ashram five years of fine of Rs 1 lakh on him.
a large number of Asaram followers.
The charge sheet against Asaram
and the four other co-accused was
filed by the police on November
6, 2013. ago, the second case of a powerful
The godman’s lawyers, who plead-
also read
spiritual leader being convicted of ed that he was not guilty, said they a sexual offence in less than a year. would appeal against the verdict.
The teenager had said in her com-
plaint that Asaram had called her
to his ashram in Manai area near
Jodhpur and raped her on the night
of August 15, 2013.
Asaram: The
Special judge Madhusudan Sharma’s
police had stepped up security
verdict, which comes as the debate around Asaram’s ashrams to pre-
over sexual violence, particularly the vent the kind of violence that was
rape of minors, intensifies across the unleashed by followers when an-
country, was read out in the Jodhpur other so-called godman, Dera Sacha
Central Jail where 77-year-old Asaram Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim,
preacher who built an empire of Rs
He was arrested in Indore and
brought to Jodhpur on September 1,
2013. He was under judicial custody
- has been kept for over four years.
- was convicted of rape last August.
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10,000 cr
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up.
/ Pti /
Asaram will be in prison till his
Apart from Asaram, two other ac-
since September 2, 2013.
/ Pti /
ongoing investigation into fake news.
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LaLit K Jha / Washington
Based on the H-1B visa data sequence of many immigration
obtained from the US Citizen- restrictions in a global econo-
H1B approvals for Indian IT companies
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
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
a US think-tank has said. The Na- visas in 2017 as against 4,674 companies, it said.
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 men of the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps who died in World War I at the 1915 battle for Gallipoli,
Turkey. It has since come to honor the sacrifices made by all service members in the Australian and New
Zealand Armed Forces. aP / Pti
tional Foundation for American in 2015, registering a drop of 51
The foundation said, corporate
policy in a report said that the per cent.
clients of both the US and Indian-
drop by 43% between 2015-
17: Report
8,468 new H-1B visas for Indian-
Infosys, during the same period based IT services companies are
based companies in the finanacial saw a whooping drop of 57 per requesting digital engineering
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
The top seven Indian-based 2015. Among the seven Indian- more advanced technology, and
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.
Canada van massacre driver charged 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
who apparently had a grudge London, Nice and other cities, people and then killed him-
against women was charged saying “there is no discernable self in California in 2014, and
with murder after allegedly connection to national secu- who had professed frustration
plowing a rented van onto a rity.” But authorities said the over his virginity and women
crowded Toronto sidewalk, incident during the busy lunch rejecting him. The suspect’s
killing 10 people -- an incident hour Monday was undoubtedly post also referred to the “Incel
companies since FY 2015, when Foundation for American policy in Teaneck, New Jersey, had the
it received 14,792 H-1B visas. said that the drop in H-1B visas most H-1B petitions approved for
Given that 199,000 applications for Indian-based companies is new employment in FY 2017, with
were filed in FY 2017 for the due to industry trends toward 3,194, that represented a decline
FY 2018 cap year – 105,000 in digital services such as cloud com- of 800 approved petitions, or 25
excess of the FY 2018 H-1B an- puting and artificial intelligence, per cent from FY 2016.
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
visas the annual limit still would rely less on visas and to build saw declines in FY 2017 from
have been reached on the first day up their domestic workforces in FY 2016 – Infosys, Wipro, HCL
of the April filing period, it said. the United States. In most cases, America, Larsen & Toubro and
“The data indicate the problem is companies require fewer people Mindtree.
police said the suspect,
investigator Detective-Ser- “involuntarily celibate” and
25-year-old Alek Minassian, geant Graham Gibson said
is often used in connection
was not known to them before Minassian had posted a “cryp- with online groups of sexually
Monday’s carnage in Canada’s tic message on Facebook min- frustrated men who are known
most populous city, which also utes before he began driving to rant against women.
not which companies are receiv- per project, it argued.
ing H-1B visas, which some cononly TCS, with an increase of
left 14 people injured. Most of the rented van” along a long
“We will overthrow all the
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,
limit is too low for an economy visas may result in more work had more H-1B petitions for initial
the size of the United States,” it being performed outside the US, employment approved in FY 2017
public Safety Minister Ralph tually jumping the curb onto read, monikers used in the
Goodale played down any sug- the sidewalk. In the post, community to describe people
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 /
