follow us: thursday, march 23, 2017 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 24 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu PM Modi never linked Jaitley defends linking Ex-Trump adviser Cheteshwar Pujara gets ISI to Kanpur train PAN to Aadhaar, allays Manafort ‘worked to Grade A contract, along accident: Rajnath Singh concerns on I-T raids beneit Putin regime’ with Vijay & Jadeja page 10 page 10 page 12 page 15 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai NEARBY Four dead after terror attack EC freezes ‘two leaves’ outside U.K. Parliament for R.K. Nagar bypoll Recognises split in party, bars use of ‘AIADMK’ till inal order SC to hear Babri Masjid demolition case today Man rams car into crowd, stabs police oicer before being shot dead Special Correspondent NEW DELHI NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Vidya Ram The Election Commission on Wednesday ixed for London Wednesday froze the AIAD- Thursday the hearing in the A full counter-terrorism op- MK’s “Two Leaves” symbol, Babri Masjid demolition case eration was under way in prohibiting its use in the in which senior BJP leaders L. London on Wednesday after- coming R.K. Nagar byelec- K. Advani, M. M. Joshi and noon after an attacker tion in Chennai. Uma Bharti are accused. rammed a car into a crowd The decision came after A Bench headed by Justice P. on Westminster Bridge and the EC heard the rival fac- C. Ghose said the appropriate then attacked a police officer tions of O. Panneerselvam bench comprising him and within the security cordon of and V.K. Sasikala, who had Justice R F Nariman will be the U.K. Parliament at staked their claim to the hearing the matter. Westminster. symbol. Pending a final res- Four persons were killed olution of the dispute, the AIADMK MPs belonging to the Sasikala faction leaving the NEWS Ī PAGE 11 in the incident, including the factions have also been Election Commission on Wednesday. * SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD attacker who was shot dead barred from using the after he stabbed a police of- party’s name in the bypoll. their parent party ... and ternal dissent. “However, Gau rakshak leader not ficer, who succumbed to his Observing that a deeper both the groups shall also be the Commission is satisfied, in Jaipur hotel FIR injuries. Two persons, in- examination of the issue was allotted different symbols as based on documents filed JAIPUR cluding a woman, died in the required and that the more they may choose from the and oral submissions made Three days after cow attack on the bridge with than 20,000 pages of evid- list of free symbols notified by the learned counsels of vigilante groups swooped several others seriously in- ence would have to be ex- by the Election Commission both the parties, that there down on a hotel here alleging jured, in what Scotland Yard amined, the EC, in its in- for the purpose of the are two rival groups in the that it was serving beef, the described as a “terrorist terim order, said any hasty byelection,” said the order. party, led by E. Madhusud- Jaipur Police on Wednesday incident.” decision during the nomina- hanan and V.K. Sasikala,” registered a criminal case The Houses of Parliament tion process for the byelec- ‘New names today’ said the EC order. against unknown persons for and nearby buildings went tion might lead to an erro- Accordingly, the EC directed Although the Pan- unlawful assembly, causing into lockdown while Prime First response: A member of the public is treated by emergency services near Westminster neous conclusion, preju- both factions to furnish neerselvam camp also chal- hurt and trespass. Minister Theresa May was Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday. * GETTY IMAGES dicially impacting the rights names of their groups by 10 lenged the appointment of The FIR did not name Sadhvi ushered back to Downing of either or both the sides. a.m. on Thursday. Sasikala as the party’s in- Kamal Didi, who led the cow Street following the incident a police officer was stabbed pedestrians and an armed within Westminster, follow- The EC, which recognised They have also been in- terim general secretary, the vigilante crowd, as an that occurred around 2.40 and a person shot by armed man with a knife. ing the lockdown, a picture that there was a split in the structed to suggest three op- EC restricted the proceed- accused. p.m. Metropolitan Police police within the security The London Ambulance of the tense atmosphere party, said pending the final tions each for possible elec- ings to the allotment of the NATION Ī PAGE 6 Commander B.J. Harrington cordon of the Houses of Service said they had treated emerged with many taking settlement of the dispute, tion symbols. symbol. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD said a full counter-terrorism Parliament. at least 10 people with a to Twitter to communicate neither group was permitted The factions have been al- Describing the ruling as operation was under way number of others in hos- their experiences of how the to use the name ‘All India lowed a final opportunity of “unexpected,” T.T.V. Dh- and that the Acting Metro- French students injured pital, while the port author- afternoon had unfolded. Anna Dravida Munnetra adducing all other docu- inakaran, deputy general politan Commissioner Craig Reports suggested that on ity said a woman had been Prime Minister Theresa Kazhagam.’ Also, they can- ments and affidavits by April secretary of the faction led Mackey had been at the Westminster Bridge, pedes- rescued from the river, with May was chairing a meeting not use the party symbol for 17 for the final settlement of by Sasikala, said late on scene of the incident. trians were hit by a car that injuries. of the government’s emer- the bypoll on April 12. the dispute. Wednesday that they would Details of the incident ploughed into them. Mr. Har- Three French pupils on a gency Cobra committee at “Both the groups shall be During the hearing on either move the Madras High were still emerging at the rington said they had re- school trip were among Downing Street when re- known by such names as Wednesday, the Sasikala fac- Court or the Supreme Court time of going to print but the ceived a number of reports, those hurt on the bridge, ports last came in. they may choose for their re- tion contended that there to challenge it. leader of the House of Com- including of a person in the two of them seriously. spective groups, showing, if was no split in the party, and mons David Liddington said river, a car colliding with With many politicians still ANOTHER PHOTO ON Ī PAGE 12 they so desire, linkage with it was only a matter of in- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 2 RSS workers get life term 3 meat shops CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC vandalised in Path to safety in Ajmer dargah blast case western U.P. Mohammad Ali Explosion in shrine on October 11, 2007, had killed three Meerut Three mutton shops were Mohammed Iqbal vandalised and burnt by an JAIPUR unidentified mob on Tues- The National Investigation day night in Hathras town Agency (NIA) Special Court in western Uttar Pradesh, here on Wednesday sen- police officials said. tenced two Rashtriya The shops, which were Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) located at Jalesar Road un- workers to life imprison- der the Hathras Kotwali po- ment in the 2007 Ajmer dar- lice station, belonged to gah blast case in which three small-time traders. persons were killed. The attacks came just The convicts are Bhavesh hours after the police Patel (39) and Devendra raided the local meat mar- Gupta (41). This is the first- ket and slaughter houses to ever conviction and senten- check if meat was being cing of RSS cadre in a terror End of the road: Convicts Devendra Gupta and Bhavesh Patel, sold in the open market case. left, being taken away after the sentencing in Jaipur. * PTI without a licence from the Handing down the life local civic body, and if the sentence, Special Judge waja Moinuddin Chishti. mar had addressed a secret slaughter houses were Dinesh Gupta directed the In one of the charge meeting of activists in functioning illegally. NIA to file a closure report in sheets, the names of Mr. Ku- Jaipur’s Gujarati Samaj guest Since the BJP govern- connection with senior RSS mar and Pragya Thakur had house and asked them to ment took office last week, leader Indresh Kumar, self- appeared as suspects, work by associating them- the police have sealed sev- styled godwoman Sadhvi though they were not form- selves with some religious eral slaughter houses and Pragya Thakur and an ac- ally named as accused, since groups so as to avoid meat shops across the cused Ramesh Gohil about the probe against them was suspicion. State. A fall, and rebirth: An Indian Gaur, which fell into a disused 10-foot-deep well in a private property near Gorishola in their role in the blast at the “kept pending.” The charge Udhagamandalam, was rescued by forest department personnel on Wednesday. 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