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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY SC not to review Sabarimala Retail inflation at 5­year case, to examine ‘larger issues’ high of 7.3% in December Nine­judge Bench to decide constitutional questions raised by religious practices Food inflation up to 14.12%; shortage of onions drives spike Congress goes past forward in Delhi Krishnadas Rajagopal Special Correspondent NEW DELHI NEW DELHI NEW DELHI The Congress’ three­pronged A nine­judge Bench led by Retail inflation soared to a Assembly election campaign Chief Justice of India Sharad five­and­a­half year high of entails reminding voters of the work done during its A. Bobde on Monday said its 7.35% in December 2019, 15­year run under Sheila objective was not to review with the shortage of onions Dikshit, a clear stand on the Sabarimala women entry driving the surge. CAA­NRC­NPR, and targeting case but examine “larger is­ According to information AAP and BJP over their ‘lies’ sues” of law arising from released by the National Sta­ on regularisation of practices such as the prohi­ tistical Office on Monday, re­ unauthorised colonies. bition of women from enter­ tail inflation based on the CITY Ī PAGE 2 ing mosques and temples, Consumer Price Index was DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD female genital mutilation only 2.11% in December 2018 among Dawoodi Bohras and and 5.54% in November Anti-CAA stir in Gaya the ban on Parsi women who 2019. in its third week married inter­faith from en­ The last time retail infla­ GAYA tering the fire temple. tion touched 7.39% was in As the ongoing protest at The Bench, however, clar­ July 2014, just after Prime Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship (Amendment) ified that it would not go into Minister Narendra Modi be­ Act and the National Register the legality of issues such as gan his first term in office. of Citizens grabs national the practice of polygamy and The hike in inflation in the media attention, a similar ‘nikah­halala’ in Islam. who marry outside their stitutional protection under Bench. The court posted the vegetables category was at dharna at Shanti Bagh in Gaya Chief Justice Bobde ex­ community into fire temple. Article 26 (freedom to man­ case for hearing after three 60.5% last month in compa­ district of Bihar entered its plained that the basis of the We will not decide individual age religious affairs). weeks. rison to December 2018. 16th day on Monday. Bench’s judicial enquiry facts of each case,” Chief Jus­ Chief Justice Bobde, who When lawyers sought to Onion prices were above the NORTH Ī PAGE 5 would be seven questions re­ tice Bobde told lawyers in succeeded Justice Gogoi, remind the court that the ₹100 per kg mark in many DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ferred to a larger Bench by a the courtroom. formed a Bench of nine, case challenging the Citizen­ major cities due to a 26% fall five­judge Bench on Novem­ On November 14, the five­ rather than seven judges, to ship (Amendment) Act was in production. JNU teachers, students ber 14, 2019. He said the judge Bench led by then examine these questions scheduled for January 22 Overall, food inflation boycott classes nine­judge Bench was only Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, which concern multiple and the hearing before the rose to 14.12% in December NEW DELHI examining propositions of instead of deciding the Saba­ faiths. nine­judge Bench ought to as against a negative rate of while for meat and fish it ing inflationary concerns. The academic blocks of law raised about religious rimala review entrusted to it, On Monday, Solicitor Gen­ be heard without a break, ­2.65% in the same month of was nearly 10%. Independent credit rating JNU wore a deserted look practices believed to be es­ sought an “authoritative pro­ eral Tushar Mehta said the the CJI said cases were being the previous year. It was also The Centre has mandated agency ICRA’s principal eco­ on Monday, the first day of sential to various religions. nouncement” on the Court’s questions were too broad heard “chronologically”. significantly higher than the the Reserve Bank of India to nomist Aditi Nayar said the the winter semester, as students and teachers The Bench would not go into power to decide the essen­ and needed fine­tuning. But senior lawyers, like In­ 10.01% recorded in Novem­ keep inflation in the range of revision in rail fares, rise in boycotted classes. They said the individual facts of the va­ tiality of religious practices. dira Jaising and Rajeev Dha­ ber 2019. 2­6%. The RBI is scheduled prices of some categories of normalcy would return only rious petitions before it. Framing seven questions, Directive to lawyers van, said the Court cannot Along with vegetables, to announce its next bi­ automobiles and an unfa­ after Vice­Chancellor “We will decide questions the Bench referred them to a The CJI asked the lawyers in­ decide on the essentiality of high prices of pulses, meat monthly monetary policy on vourable base effect may M. Jagadesh Kumar was of law on women’s entry to seven­judge Bench. These volved in the case to hold a religious practices. It was and fish also contributed to February 6. contribute to a further in­ made to resign or was sacked. mosques/temples, genital referral questions included conference on January 17 to outside its jurisdiction. last month’s spike. The infla­ In its December policy, crease in core inflation to mutilation by Dawoodi Boh­ whether “essential religious reframe/add issues to be exa­ tion in pulses and products the central bank had kept around 4% this month. CITY Ī PAGE 4 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ras, entry of Parsi women practices” be afforded con­ mined by the nine­judge CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 was recorded at 15.44%, the repo rate unchanged, cit­ (With inputs from PTI) CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Oppn. appeals Nitish against NRC, open to CAA debate Feeling special! to non­BJP CMs Press Trust of India tification” but he was open ment agreed in principle to to suspend NPR Patna to a debate on issues that the National Population Re­ Bihar Chief Minister Nitish have created “turmoil”, in­ gister like it did 10 years ago enumeration Kumar said on Monday that cluding the Citizenship when the exercise was last a countrywide National Re­ (Amendment) Act. undertaken. Sandeep Phukan gister of Citizens (NRC) was Speaking in the Assembly, NEW DELHI “needless” and had “no jus­ Mr. Kumar said his govern­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Leaders of Opposition parties on Monday de­ manded the immediate withdrawal of the Citizen­ ship Amendment Act (CAA) and appealed to non­BJP Chief Ministers, who had earlier an­ nounced not to carry out a proposed nation­wide National Register of Citi­ zens (NRC), to suspend the exercise of enumera­ tion of the National Popu­ lation Register (NPR) as it is “a prelude to a nation­ wide NRC.” A joint resolution was adopted after a meeting — convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and attended by leaders of 20 Opposition parties — discussed the current Rewarding excellence: Cricketer Smriti Mandhana, left, receives the Sportswoman of the Year award from actor Sharmila political situation arising Tagore during the Sportstar Aces Awards in Mumbai as Mel Jones, Cricket Australia Director, looks on.* R. RAGU (REPORT ON PAGE 18) out of the widespread CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC protests against the amended citizenship law and the violence on HC rules Hizb ultras led police to rogue officer campuses. ‘Centre exposed’ Musharraf Ms. Gandhi asserted that Top commanders were tracked from Shopian to DSP’s house the “Modi­Shah govern­ trial illegal ment stands exposed for Vijaita Singh or colleague within the Police its inability to govern and Mehmal Sarfraz Peerzada Ashiq Department or him being in provide security to the LAHORE New Delhi/Srinagar touch directly with people in people.” In huge relief for Pakistan’s The police had been on the Pakistan or Pakistan­occu­ However, cracks in the self­exiled former dictator, trail of Jammu and Kashmir pied Kashmir (PoK). Howev­ Opposition unity were the Lahore High Court on DSP Davinder Singh for at er, investigations are still on visible as the Trinamool Monday declared Pervez least two days before his ar­ and the operation is being wi­ Congress, the Samajwadi Musharraf’s trial in the rest on Saturday, a senior go­ dened,” an official said. Party (SP), the Bahujan high treason case as “un­ vernment official said on The police officer came Samaj Party (BSP) and the constitutional”. Monday. Buildings damaged during a under the security agencies’ Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) A special court had gi­ Singh was arrested while fidayeen attack in Pulwama radar after two top Hizb­ul stayed away from the ven death sentence to the travelling in a vehicle with in August 2017. * NISSAR AHMAD Mujahideen militants, includ­ meeting. ex­Army chief on Decem­ two wanted Hizb­ul Mujahi­ ing cop­turned­militant com­ The Dravida Munnetra ber 17 for holding the Con­ deen militants and a lawyer.

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