WWW.YUGMARG.COM REGD NO. CHD/0061/2006-08 | RNI NO. 61323/95 Friday July 16, 2021 CHANDIGARH, VOL. XXVI, NO. 167 PAGES 12, RS. 2 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER Rishabh Pant Dushyant Chautala FM hands over Provide ‘Child tests positive directs to explore cheque of Friendly Police Station’ for COVID-19 possibilities of work Rs 4.59 cr for children in UT: in England under MGNREGA to Mayor for Bathinda Satya Pal Jain development PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 6 PAGE 11 Why you aren't repealing British era sedition law: SC asks Centre AGENCY IPC, a bench headed by Chief Justice N era law and the same law was used by the long back and observed: It can be com- NEW DELHI, JUL 15 V Ramana said its main concern was the British to suppress freedom movement. It pared to a carpenter, asked to cut a wood, "misuse of law" and issued the notice to was used by British to silence Mahatma cut the entire forest. Concerned over enormous misuse of the the Centre Gandhi, Gokhale and others A factionist can invoke these types of colonial era penal law on sedition, the The non-bailable provision makes "Is it still necessary to keep this in (penal) provisions to implicate the other Supreme Court on Thursday asked the any speech or expression that brings or statute even after 75 years of independ- group of people, the CJI said, adding that Centre as to why it was not repealing the attempts to bring into hatred or contempt ence, asked the bench which also com- if a particular party or people do not want Four killed in provision used by the British to silence or excites or attempts to excite disaffec- prised justices A S Bopanna and to hear a voice, they will use this law to people like Mahatma Gandhi to suppress tion towards the Government established Hrishikesh Roy implicate others The bench wondered at road accident freedom movement by law in India a criminal offence pun- Observing that the provision on sedi- the continuance of the sedition law in Agreeing to examine the pleas filed ishable with a maximum sentence of life tion has been put to enormous misuse, it statute book for last 75 years and said: in Hosiarpur by Editors Guild of India and a former imprisonment also referred to alarming misuse of sec- We do not know why the government is HOSHIARPUR: Four major general, challenging the constitu- Mr Attorney (General). We want to tion 66 A of the Information Technology not taking a decision. Your government persons were killed when tionality of section 124A (sedition) in the ask some questions. This is the colonial Act even after the top court set it aside has been getting rid of stale laws." their car rammed a truck near local Chandigarh By-pass, village Sher- garh, police said on Thursday. According to ASI Bandaru Dattatreya sworn Sukhdev Singh, while three persons-- Pushap Kumar, Vikas Kumar in as Haryana governor Sharma and Narinder Kumar-- died on the spot, Sidhu all set to head PPCC Parkash Kumar suc- cumbed to his injuries at DMC, Ludhiana. Their bodies have been sent to local government Captain our CM in Punjab, says Rawat hospital for post-mortem. Police said the car AGENCY Chief Minister but that move rammed into the truck NEW DELHI, JULY 15 was reportedly scuttled by Mr from the rear on Singh. Wednesday night killing all the occupants. Congress has finally figured out Mr Sidhu, the Congress's a formula to give recognition star campaigner in the 2017 CDS Bipin Rawat and make peace among all major polls, instead became a minister players in the party's team in in the Amarinder Singh govern- visiting forward Punjab. ment but quit two years later af- As per Harish Rawat, the All ter his ministry was downgrad- BUREAU present during the ceremony. Ban- areas along LoC India Congress Committee ed. CHANDIGARH, JULY 15- daru Dattatreya has been a three- JAMMU: Chief of De- (AICC) General Secretary in After prolonged silence and time minister and four-time MP in fence Staff Gen Bipin charge of Punjab, Amarinder detachment from party affairs, Haryana's newly appointed Gover the Central Government. He was Rawat is visiting forward Singh will continue to remain he began re-targeting Amarinder nor, Sh. Bandaru Dattatreya took born on June 12, 1947 in Hyder- areas along Line of Con- captain of the team and will be Singh in recent months, becom- oath as the 18th Governor of the abad. He holds a B.Sc degree from trol (LoC) to take stock of the Chief Ministerial candidate ing a hard-to-ignore problem in state on Thursday. Chief Justice, Osmania University, Hyderabad. the army's operational for the party. the run-up to the Punjab polls. Punjab and Haryana High Court, He was first elected a member of preparedness and the "Captain Amarinder Singh His recent attacks include Justice Ravi Shankar Jha adminis- the Tenth Lok Sabha in 1991. After security situation in Jam- has been our CM for the last swipes at the Chief Minister tered the oath of office and confi- this, in the year 1998, he won the mu region, officials said four-and-a-half years and we over the power crisis (Mr Singh dentiality to Sh. Bandaru Datta- elections from the Secunderabad Thursday. He will be re- turning to Delhi in the will go to the elections with his openly rebelling against the state gress is all set to announce heads the Power Ministry) and treya at a prestigious function held Lok Sabha seat and became the evening, they said. He leadership. Captain (Amarinder government by criticising the Navjot Singh Sidhu as the new on the Punjab government's le- at Haryana Raj Bhawan. Union Minister of State for Urban will be reviewing opera- Singh) and Sidhu (Navjot Singh) electricity crisis in the state. Chief of Punjab Congress Com- gal setback in a 2015 case in- Bandaru Dattatreya personally Development. During the mid-term tional preparedness, se- will work together," said Rawat The party leadership had mittee (PCC) on Friday. volving the desecration of the met the dignitaries who had come elections held in the year 1999, he curity situation and anti- while talking to . conducted several meetings with "Sidhu will be appointed as Sikh religious text Guru Granth to attend the Oath taking ceremony again won the Lok Sabha elections infiltration grid with field When asked if Sidhu would state leaders to understand the the new PCC chief along with Sahib and police firing during and accepted their congratulations and became the Union Minister of commanders, they said. be appointed as Punjab Congress issues and find a middle ground. two working Presidents. Sunil peaceful protests. and greetings. During this, a special State for Urban Development. The visit to the forward chief, Rawat said, "A formula Recently, Congress General Sec- Jakhar, who is currently heading There were indications of a contingent of the Haryana Armed From 2002 to 2003, he was the areas in twin border dis- has been made around this. We retary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Punjab Congress will be adjust- possible resolution this week, af- Police presented the guard of honor Union Minister of State for Rail- tricts of Rajouri and have also made formula for the also assumed the role of a medi- ed in AICC," said sources. ter Mr Sidhu's latest tweet-attack to the Governor. The Governor's ways and from 2003 to 2004, he Poonch comes at a time Working Presidents." ator and facilitated a meeting be- Amarinder Singh and Navjot on the power crisis. Unlike the wife and first lady of the state, Smt. held the charge of Union Minister when infiltration attempts A power tussle in Punjab tween party leader Navjot Singh Sidhu have maintained a running earlier one, this was reserved for Bandaru Vasantha, daughter Ban- of State for Urban Development by Pakistan have in- Congress has been going on for Sidhu and Rahul Gandhi. feud since the 2017 election; Mr the Congress' rivals - the Akali daru Vijayalakshmi and their fami- and Poverty Alleviation (Indepen- creased and drones are almost a month where Sidhu is According to sources, Con- Sidhu hoped to be made Deputy Dal and AAP. ly members and relatives were also dent Charge). being used to drop weapons along LoC. Five more test Swarnim Vijay Varsh victory flame positive for Zika Haridwar police warns of STT collection hits all- virus in Kerala ceremony held at Rajbagh AGENCY at that time that I would see action against Kanwar Yatra time high; taxman rides THIRUVANANTHAPU- SRINAGAR, JULY 15 such an event in future. I am RAM: Amid concerns of astonished." AGENCY identifying a cluster of The celebratory event of He further emphasized HARIDWAR, JULY 15 Zika virus in the capital 'Swarnim Vijay Varsh' was that youth must take inspira- on bullish stock market city, five more people, in- held in Jammu and Kashmir's tion from this and choose the Two days after the Uttarakhand government's cluding four women, have tested positive for Rajbagh on Thursday mark- right track. Haji G Moham- decision to cancel the Kanwar Yatra, the AGENCY the infection in Kerala, ing 50 years of India's tri- mad, another war veteran Haridwar Police on Wednesday asked people NEW DELHI, JULY 15 taking the caseload in umph over Pakistan in the said, "This celebration not to arrive in the district for the yatra, warn- the state to 28. 1971 war. A big celebration should be held everywhere." ing that those who try to enter the district, With Sensex witnessing Of the fresh cases, two function was organised in Ra- The event echoed a sense of their vehicles will be confiscated and legal ac- record closing and Nifty hit- were natives of Anayara jbagh for the victory flame.