India Bulletin unbiased - unedited - unbeatable news delivered directly to you Saturday, July 11, 2020 Vol. 16 No. 17 Biweekly Midwest Edition www.indiabulletinusa.com FREE INSIDE THIS ISSUE Couple arrested for Pompeo says China took ‘incredibly COVID loan fraud aggressive action’ in recent clash with India By Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON - U.S. Sec- retary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused China Virginia married couple arrested of taking “incredibly aggressive for COVID-relief loan fraud of action” in a recent clash with In- over $1.4 million. Page 6 dia over a disputed section of the nuclear-armed neighbors’ bor- India arrests der, saying Beijing had a pattern of instigating territorial disputes. South Korean CEO On the night of June 15, Chi- nese forces and Indian troops fought for hours with rods and clubs, a dramatic escala- tion that left 20 Indian soldiers killed, with some falling to their deaths in the freezing waters of the Galwan river in the western India arrests South Korean CEO, Himalayas. 11 others for deadly gas leak at On Monday, Indian govern- LG Polymers. Page 11 ment sources said China began pulling back troops from along Brenner/Pool REUTERS/Tom Priyanka‘Badrinath featured Ki the border with India, after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Virat Kohli rues weeks of talks between senior July 8, 2020. onDulhania’ softIG rich ball list military offi cials on how to ease Department. “I’d put this in the world shouldn’t allow this bully- Kong and a nearly two-year tensions. China has yet to con- context of General Secretary ing to take place, nor should it trade dispute between the U.S. fi rm whether it suff ered casual- Xi Jinping and his behavior permit it to continue,” Pompeo and China. ties but the Indian deaths were throughout the region, and in- said. The Chinese military on the highest along the border in deed, throughout the world.” His comments refl ect the Monday was seen dismantling more than fi ve decades. “From the mountain ranges deep running tensions between tents and structures at a site in “The Chinese took incred- of the Himalayas to the waters Washington and Beijing, which the Galwan valley near where ibly aggressive action. The In- of Vietnam’s Exclusive Zone, have been at loggerheads over the latest clash took place, said dians have done their best to re- to the Senkaku Islands, and be- the handling of the coronavirus the Indian government sourc- Priyanka Chopra became the only spond to that,” Pompeo said in yond, Beijing has a pattern of in- outbreak, China’s actions in the es, who spoke on condition of Bollywood celebrity to feature on a news conference at the State stigating territorial disputes. The former British colony of Hong anonymity. Instagram rich list. Page 12 IPL to stage abroad India’s coronavirus death toll hits 20,000 as infections surge only as last resort DELHI - India’s death toll businesses. Reuters tally. Offi cials on Monday with- from the coronavirus pandemic The country reported 467 new Health offi cials fear the num- drew a planned reopening of the surpassed 20,000 on Tuesday deaths on Tuesday, taking the ber of deaths, which usually lag Taj Mahal, citing the risk of new and case numbers surged as the toll to 20,160. It also recorded behind the detection of new in- coronavirus infections spreading south Asian nation pushed ahead 22,252 new infections, increas- fections, could rise signifi cantly in the northern city of Agra from with relaxations to its almost ing the total to 719,665. India on in coming weeks. India’s death visitors fl ocking to see the 17th two-month lockdown amid grim Monday overtook Russia as the toll is currently the world’s sev- century monument to love. economic forecasts. third most aff ected country glob- enth highest, behind the United The reopening of the Indian India’s cricket board will only con- The rate of both new virus in- ally, behind the United States States, Brazil, the United King- economy has been sporadic. sider staging the Indian Premier fections and deaths are rising at and Brazil. dom, Italy, France and Spain. While domestic travel has been League abroad as a last resort if the fastest pace in three months, But its death rate per 10,000 Over the fi rst week of July, opened up, international fl ights there is no other way. Page 20 as offi cials lift a vast lockdown people is still a low 0.15, com- India reported an average of 450 remain suspended and contain- of India’s 1.3 billion people pared with 3.97 in the United deaths each day, compared with ment zones, areas identifi ed Entertainment...........Page 12 that has left tens of thousands States and 6.65 in the Unit- 250 in the fi rst week of June, and as most aff ected by the virus, Business................... Page 14 without work and shuttered ed Kingdom, according to a 101 in the fi rst week of May. remain under strict lockdown. Astrology...................Page 16 Health....................... Page 17 INDEX Sports........................Page 20 Thought of the Week: “My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” - Thomas Paine ANYTIME. WWW.INDIABULLETINUSA.COM ANYWHERE. 2 India Bulletin Saturday, July 11, 2020 INSIGHT ‘India’s George Floyds’ spur calls for end to police brutality station to speak up. Across In- Opposition lawmaker Shashi For some time, he has been dia, people have realised that the Tharoor, a former United Nations quietly documenting cases of police’s lathi (baton) has entered Under-Secretary General, wrote men being picked up by police, everyone’s homes.” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi beaten up and either released or Police in Tamil Nadu did urging him to rein in police bru- sent to jail in the area. not return repeated calls for tality, saying it showed the coun- “So much injustice is happen- comment. try’s law enforcement “in a very ing before my eyes,” he told the Nine people die in judicial or poor light”. Thomson Reuters Foundation by police custody every 24 hours During lockdown, poor Indians phone. in India, according to the latest who needed to earn to survive “I am watching everything, annual report by the National were the main targets. and in the last four months have Human Rights Commission. But human rights campaigners recorded at least 60 cases where The report for the year 2017/18 say India’s minorities - including people have been picked up by said some custodial deaths were Muslims, indigenous groups and police, beaten and asked to sign reported after considerable delay those from the lowest Dalit caste blank papers. All they are told is, or not reported at all, and violence - have often borne the brunt of ‘there is a case against you’.” Deaths of shopkeeper and his son caused outrage in India, whose human in custody was so rampant “that it police brutality. Issac is also helping the family rights watchdog says at least nine people die in police custody every day. has become almost routine”. These groups are also dispro- of S Mahendran, a 28-year-old By Anuradha Nagaraj groups say minorities have long Government crime data, by portionately incarcerated by po- who was picked up by the Sath- been subject to police brutal- contrast, shows 70 deaths in po- lice, the charity Common Cause ankulam police in May in a case CHENNAI - The rare arrest ity, and inspired comparisons to lice custody in 2018 and only said in its Status of Policing in where his brother was a suspect, of six police officers on murder George Floyd, a Black American includes those where an official India Report of 2018. and died shortly after his release. charges over the death of two man whose death has inspired complaint was registered by po- “Most police torture cases deal The family says he was tortured men in custody has emboldened mass anti-racism protests. lice. No police were convicted with the voiceless, lower class in custody. victims to speak up against tar- “This case struck a chord be- over the deaths. communities and there is an in- “It happened a month be- geted police brutality in India, cause the two men had no crimi- When India imposed a three- herent caste bias in these cases,” fore Jayaraj and Bennicks died, and demand an end to impunity. nal background and their only week national lockdown in said M A Britto, a campaigner for and the circumstances were the Shopkeeper J Jayaraj, 59, and crime according to the police March, social media was flooded police reform. same,” said Issac. his son Bennicks Immanuel, 31, report was to keep their shop with videos of police using their “The police just told the were beaten so badly for keeping open beyond permitted hours,” batons to beat migrant workers ‘SO MUCH INJUSTICE’ mother that he would be back if their shop in the southern state said V Suresh, general secretary and other poor people with no Retired school teacher Jeyraj they found her older son, or she of Tamil Nadu open in breach of of the People’s Union for Civil choice but to go out to work. Issac lives in a village near the should assume Mahendran is coronavirus lockdown rules that Liberties. Rickshaw pullers who defied town of Sathankulam, where the dead. The boy died anyway a few they died in hospital last month.