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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY After Modi’s call, Trump likely SC rejects curative pleas of 2 to visit Delhi in late February Nirbhaya death row convicts No merit in their appeals to spare them the gallows: Bench President keen on trip but impeachment process could infl uence the dates J&K Internet links Krishnadas Rajagopal Supreme Court. Sharma was partially restored Suhasini Haidar Washington is expected to NEW DELHI the fi rst among the four con NEW DELHI NEW DELHI expedite its ‘agreement’ for The curative petitions of Vi victs to fi le a curative. The Jammu and Kashmir Security and logistics teams his appointment. nay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh The Bench also rejected administration issued an order from Washington are expect Singh, 32, who were sen their pleas to stay the execu late on Tuesday to partially restore broadband Internet ed in Delhi this week to pre Trade deal tenced to death in the 2012 tion of their death sentence facilities in Kashmir Valley and pare for a possible visit by Among the agreements the Nirbhaya gang rape and and for oral hearing in open 2G mobile connectivity in fi ve U.S. President Donald leaders hope to wrap up is a murder case, were rejected court. districts in Jammu region. The Trump, multiple sources trade deal that has been by a fi vejudge Supreme Besides Justice Ramana, order said there will be have confi rmed to The Hin- pending since November Court Bench, led by Justice the Bench comprised Arun complete restriction on social du. 2018, when talks went into a N.V. Ramana, on Tuesday. The mother of the victim Mishra, Rohinton Nariman, media applications that may The visit, which has not standstill. In a threepage order, the fl ashes the victory sign R. Banumathi and Ashok facilitate “peer to peer yet been announced, would In June 2019, the U.S. can Bench concluded, after an outside the SC. * PTI Bhushan. communication” . bring Mr. Trump to India a celled India’s preferential ex inchamber consideration NEWS Ī PAGE 12 year after he declined an in port ‘GSP’ status, and the go that began about 1.45 p.m., devised by a Constitution Mercy plea DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD vitation to be the chief guest vernment hopes Mr. Trump that there was no merit in Bench of the Supreme Court Shortly after the Supreme JNU violence: court at the Republic Day celebra will announce a revocation their pleas to spare them in its judgment in the Rupa Court ruling, Mukesh fi led a orders seizure of phones tions, and will go ahead at Strong ties: U.S. President Donald Trump with Prime Minister of that decision during the from the gallows. Ashok Hurra case in 2002. mercy plea before the Presi NEW DELHI the end of February as long Narendra Modi in New York City, in this fi le photo.* REUTERS visit. “We have gone through A party can take only two dent, Tihar jail authorities The Delhi High Court on as dates don’t need to be India is also expected to the curative petitions and re limited grounds in a curative said. Tuesday directed the police changed to accommodate cording to the sources, Mr. nate, Harsh Shringla met Mr. announce further invest levant documents. In our petition — one, he was not Mukesh, Sharma, Akshay to summon and seize the the impeachment process in Trump is “keen” to visit ear Trump before returning to ments in the U.S., and a sub opinion, no case is made out heard by the court before Kumar Singh, 31, and Pawan phones of the members of the Senate. ly in the year, ahead of elec Delhi, and will begin prepa stantial increase in Ameri within the parameters indi the adverse judgment was Gupta, 25, are scheduled to the WhatsApp groups The sources said the deci tions in November, and both rations for the visit. can oil imports. In cated in the decision of this passed, and two, the judge be hanged at 7 a.m. on Janu “United Against Left” and sion to visit India, at Prime sides are working towards a With just weeks to go to particular, a major deal on court in Rupa Ashok Hurra was biased. ary 22 in Tihar jail. A Delhi “Friends of RSS” in Minister Narendra Modi’s in visit in the last week of Fe the proposed visit, New Del civil aviation is being dis versus Ashok Hurra. Hence, A curative plea, which fol court issued their death war connection with the January vitation, was discussed dur bruary. India’s Ambassador hi is understood to have inti cussed, offi cials said. the curative petitions are lows the dismissal of review rants on January 7. 5 violence on JNU campus. ing a telephone call between to Washington, who is now mated its choice of Mr. Shrin dismissed,” the Bench held. petition, is the last legal ave NEWS Ī PAGE 13 the leaders on January 7. Ac the Foreign Secretarydesig gla’s replacement and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Curative is a rare remedy nue open for convicts in the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Who says you cannot protest, asks judge AAP releases full list of 70 candidates for Delhi She was hearing bail plea of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad 24 new faces in the party list while 15 sitting legislators have been denied tickets Special correspondent peated use of [Section] 144 is NEW DELHI abuse [referring to the recent Staff Reporter be complacent. Work v ed the seat to contest the Additional sessions judge Ka decision in a case related to New Delhi hard. People have lot of Punjab Assembly elections mini Lau, while hearing the Kashmir].” The Aam Aadmi Party on faith in AAP and u. God in 2017. bail plea of Bhim Army chief When the prosecution Tuesday released its full list bless [sic],” AAP national In 2019, after the Lok Sab Chandrashekhar Azad in said it had only drone images of 70 candidates for the Del convenor Arvind Kejriwal ha election, fi ve AAP MLAs connection with the protests of the gathering in which Mr. hi Assembly elections due said in a tweet. were disqualifi ed by Delhi against the Citizenship Chandrashekhar Azad Azad allegedly gave infl am on February 8. Assembly Speaker Ram Ni Amendment Act in Darya matory speeches, the court All seven AAP Ministers 46 MLAs retained was Goel under the antide ganj last month, observed on you read the Constitution?” said: “Do you think our Delhi got party tickets and three Of the existing 61 MLAs, 46 fection law. Tuesday that the prosecution The judge said: “You are police is so backward that of its 2019 Delhi Lok Sabha have made it to the list and AAP is also expected to was behaving as if Jama Mas behaving as if Jama Masjid is they have no recorded evi election candidates — Atishi, the party has fi elded eight come out with its election jid was Pakistan. Pakistan. Even if it was Pakis dence? In small matters, Del Dilip Pandey, and Raghav women candidates, com manifesto later this week. When the prosecutor, re tan, you can go there and hi police have recorded evi Chadha — made it to the list. pared with six in 2015, said The last date for fi ling of presenting the Delhi police, protest. Pakistan was a part dence, why not in this Also, leaders who joined the Arvind Kejriwal senior AAP leader Manish nominations is January 21 read out some social media of undivided India.” incident?”. party in the last one week — Sisodia. while January 24 is the last posts of Mr. Azad to allege The police pointed out Mr. Azad’s lawyer, Meh Ram Singh Netaji, Vinay The other two parties — In the 2015 Assembly date for withdrawal of can that he had incited violence, that no prior permission had mood Pracha, said he [Mr. Mishra and Shoaib Iqbal — the Congress and the Bhara elections, AAP had swept 67 didature. Dr. Lau said: “Where is the been taken for the protests, Azad] had only been reading got tickets. tiya Janata Party — have not of the 70 seats in Delhi. La The elections results will violence? What is wrong with to which the court said: the Constitution and speak The party has announced yet announced their candi ter, the BJP won the Rajouri be out on February 11. any of these posts? Who says “What permission? SC [Su ing against the CAANRC. 24 new faces while 15 sitting dates for the elections. Garden bypoll after AAP le OPPORTUNITIES Ī PAGE 15 you cannot protest? Have preme Court] has said re (With PTI inputs) MLAs have been dropped. “Best wishes to all. Don’t gislator Jarnail Singh vacat SEE ALSO Ī PAGE 4 Kerala govt. challenges Hallmarking made must for gold jewellery
Special Correspondent onwards, Consumer Aff airs could be charged penalty fi ve CAA in Supreme Court New Delhi Minister Ramvilas Paswan an times the cost of the object or No jeweller will be allowed to nounced on Tuesday. even given imprisonment up Suit has been fi led under Article 131 sell gold jewellery or artefacts If jewellery or artefacts to one year. Gold hallmarking without hallmark from the made of 14, 18 and 22 carat is a purity certifi cation and is legal correspondent Bureau of Indian Standards gold are sold without a BIS voluntary in nature now. NEW DELHI (BIS) from January 15, 2021, hallmark, then the jeweller CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Kerala became the fi rst State to join citizens across the country to challenge in the Supreme Court the con stitutionality of the Citizen ship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, which fast tracks grant of citizenship on the basis of religion. The State has ap proached the Supreme Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan Court nearly 15 days after the Assembly unanimously garding the enforcement of requested the Centre to legal rights as a State and as abrogate the law on De well for the enforcement of cember 31, 2019. the fundamental, statutory And it comes just three constitutional and other le days after the CAA came in gal rights of the inhabitants to eff ect on January 10. of the State of Kerala.” However, there have ‘Original’ jurisdiction been two confl icting judg The original suit has been ments from the SC by coor fi led under Article 131 of the dinate Benches on whether Constitution. The SC has a State can fi le an original “original” jurisdiction in suit under Article 131 to disputes between States or challenge the constitution the Centre and State(s). ality of a central law. The Article allows it to di The fi rst judgment re rectly take cognisance of ported in 2012 — State of such a dispute. Madhya Pradesh vs Union Kerala said in its suit that of India — held that States it would be compelled un cannot challenge a Central der Article 256 to comply law under Article 131. with the CAA, which was The second judgment — “manifestly arbitrary, un State of Jharkhand vs State reasonable, irrational and of Bihar — took the oppo violative of fundamental site view in 2015 and re rights”. ferred the question of law The suit, represented by to a larger Bench of the Su senior advocate Jaideep preme Court for fi nal deter Gupta and G. Prakash, sub mination. mitted, “Thus, there exists The Centre may object to a dispute, involving ques the maintainability of the tions of law and fact, bet Kerala suit when it comes ween the State of Kerala up for hearing. and the Union of India, re CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12
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