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NEARBY Supreme Court pushes Govt. denies perjury charge in Rafale case Informs Supreme Court that petitioners relied on media leaks, not on CAG report
legal correspondent unsigned confi dential notes for ‘full’ strength of 31 NEW DELHI fi led by the Centre in the Rubbishing the charge of court. “The mismatch is not Collegium is against rethink on new judges; adds two names perjury, the government on a substantial error,” the go Talk about Rafale, job Thursday said the contents vernment argued. promise: Rahul to Modi of briefs and responses GURUGRAM made in the Supreme Court ‘No fault found’ Congress president Rahul in the Rafale fi ghter pur After all, it said, the CAG re Gandhi on Thursday said chase case were “fi nalised af port had “ultimately not Prime Minister Narendra ter extensive deliberations at found any fault either in the Modi was free to talk about him and his father Rajiv the highest levels in govern decisionmaking process or Gandhi, former Prime ment after a series of in the pricing” for the pro Minister, but he must also meetings”. curement of 36 Rafale jets talk about Rafale deal and his In a reply affi davit fi led in from France. promise of employment to the court, the Centre said its It said that instead of qu two crore youth. averments in court were oting the CAG report, which DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 based on the fi nal decisions has a constitutional mandate DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD taken by the Cabinet Com to scrutinise the procure SC frowns on foreigners’ mittee on Security. The sub Force and the Ministry of De The government played ment and took almost two tribunals plan missions were based on the fence. These had endea down the “mismatch” bet years to audit and present its NEW DELHI fi nal decisions of the De voured to bring out the fi nal ween the December 14, 2018, report on February 13, 2019, The Supreme Court on fence Acquisition Council, conclusions of the process, judgment of the court, the petitioners continued to Thursday questioned a the Defence Minister, provi which led to the signing of upholding the deal on the rely on selective media leaks proposal by the Assam sions in the Defence Pro the InterGovernmental basis of a “nonexistent” to mislead the court. government to quickly throw curement Procedure and in Agreement with France, the Comptroller and Auditor open 1,000 foreigners’ puts received from the Air government said. General (CAG) report, and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 tribunals all over the Krishnadas Rajagopal were recommended after all The Collegium said Justice northeastern State to try New Delhi parameters were consi Gavai superseded three suspected illegal immigrants. In a single stroke on the dered. The Collegium said judges in the Bombay High SC to hear A Bench led by Chief Justice same day, the Supreme there was no reason to agree Court, but this should not be SC rejects petition to BJP will add to Ranjan Gogoi said it looked Court Collegium, led by with the government as misconstrued as a refl ection like the State government Chief Justice of India Ranjan there was nothing adverse on the ability of the three se Ayodhya title its 2014 tally: hatched the plan without Gogoi, recommended the found in the two judges’ nior judges. debar Rahul from poll bothering to conduct a “basic names of two judges to the conduct, competence or in It said that though senior appeals today Amit Shah study” of how to carry it out. court and rejected the go tegrity. Now, the govern ity was to be given due Plea said he acquired U.K. citizenship NEWS Ī PAGE 7 Legal Correspondent DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD vernment’s disapproval of ment is bound to appoint weightage, merit should be Nistula Hebbar NEW DELHI the elevation of two others. Justices Bose and Bopanna the “predominant consider legal correspondent INDORE Key accused held in If the four judges are ele to the court. ation”. A fi vejudge Bench led by NEW DELHI After fi ve rounds of voting Alwar gang-rape case vated without delay, the Go On May 8, the Collegium Representation for the Chief Justice of India Ranjan The Supreme Court on for the Lok Sabha election, JAIPUR goi Court would reach the also recommended Justice SC/ST category seems to Gogoi will convene on Fri Thursday dismissed a public BJP president Amit Shah Two more men, including the full sanctioned judicial B.R. Gavai, a judge of the have played in the mind of day to hear the Ayodhya tit interest litigation (PIL) peti expressed confi dence that key accused, have been strength of 31 judges by the Bombay High Court, and the Collegium while recom le dispute appeals. tion to debar Congress pre the government, led by arrested in connection with time it reopens in July after Chief Justice of the Himachal mending Justice Gavai’s ele The Bench had sent the sident Rahul Gandhi from Prime Minister Narendra the Alwar gang-rape case, the summer vacations. Pradesh High Court Surya vation. Ayodhya dispute for media contesting the Lok Sabha Modi, would be reelected police said on Thursday, even Kant for elevation to the Su The Collegium noted that tion on March 8 in a bid to election and “becoming a with an increased majority. as Opposition parties held No review of decision preme Court. “on his appointment, the Su “heal minds and hearts”. Member of Parliament” af Rahul Gandhi In an interview on the protests against the On Thursday, the Collegium On this recommendation, preme Court Bench will The Supreme Court had ter he had “voluntarily ac campaign trail in Madhya Rajasthan government for refused the government’s re the Collegium said it zeroed have a Judge belonging to appointed a panel of media quired British nationality”. The plea was fi led by Jai allegedly covering up the Pradesh, he said that com tors, including former apex The petition alleged that Bhagwan Goyal, a “social matter due to the ongoing quest to reconsider its April in on Justices Gavai and Kant the Scheduled Caste catego pared with 2014, the BJP court judge, Justice F.M.I. Mr. Gandhi had acquired worker”, shortly after the Lok Sabha polls. 12 recommendation to ele to provide “due representa ry after about a decade”. would “increase our seats, vate Jharkhand High Court tion”, as far as possible, to all Justice Kant was the sub Kalifulla, as chairman, spir British nationality on the ba Ministry of Home Aff airs is improve our margins of NORTH Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and Gauhati High Court High Courts as well as to all ject of controversy over a let itual leader Sri Sri Ravi sis of an incorporation cer sued notice to Mr. Gandhi victory and expand in Chief Justices Aniruddha sections, including those be ter written by Justice A.K. Shankar and senior advo tifi cate of BACKOPS Limited, on the question of his “dual terms of the areas that we FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 12 PAGES Bose and A.S. Bopanna as longing to the SC/ST/OBC ca Goel (retired) to the then cate Sriram Panchu. a defunct company in that citizenship”. represent.” (IN TABLOID) Supreme Court judges. The tegories, women and Chief Justice of India Dipak country, and also the re DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES Collegium said their names minorities. Misra. DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 10 turns fi led by it. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 INTERVIEW ON Ī PAGE 11
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Staff Reporter The pamphlet titled “Atishi “How low he [Mr. Gamb New Delhi Marlena know your candi hir] can stoop down in this The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) date” had been distributed election, he and his party on Thursday accused the with newspapers in East has shown,” Mr. Sisodia as BJP’s East Delhi candidate Delhi, the AAP candidate serted at the press confe Gautam Gambhir of distri claimed. rence. “Gambhir should be buting pamphlets slander “BJP and Gautam Gamb ashamed for distributing ing his AAP rival Atishi in hirji distributed it in diff e such pamphlets,” he added. Krishna Nagar, Vishwas Na rent apartment complex “These pamphlets were gar and other areas of the Atish and Manish Sisodia at es... the pamphlets should distributed so that Gautam constituency. a press conference in New raise a question to the coun Gambhir can win,” Mr. Siso Denying the charge, Mr. Delhi on Thursday. * try, how politics happens in dia claimed. Gambhir said he would SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT the country, mainly against Decrying AAP’s “dirty withdraw if the AAP could a woman,” Ms. Atishi said. tricks” and asserting that he prove its accusation and ishi, Mr. Kejriwal and AAP Hitting out at the former hailed from a “reputed fami challenged AAP chief Ar leader Manish Sisodia. cricketer, Delhi Chief Minis ly”, Mr. Gambhir tweeted, “I vind Kejriwal to quit politics Addressing a press confe ter Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, declare that if its proven if the party failed to substan rence at the AAP headquar “Never imagined Gautam that I did it, I will withdraw tiate the allegation it had ters, Ms. Atishi broke down Gambhir to stoop so low. my candidature right now. If Well-trained moves: Artistes perform in a running metro train to mark the birth anniversary celebrations of Nobel laureate made against him. while reading out from the How can women expect sa not, will u quit politics?”
Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata on Thursday. * PTI Mr. Gambhir also sent a pamphlet which cast several fety if people with such CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC defamation notice to Ms. At aspersions on her character. mentality are voted in?” SEE ALSO Ī DELHI METRO PAGE 3 From village sabhas to cricket, Scindia pitches for Guna again FIR lodged against J&K BJP Sidhu joins incumbent MP’s campaign in constituency, urges crowd to elect him by record margin chief, MLC in Leh ‘bribe’ case Damini Nath seat that was held by his ting a four and if he wins by and there is no one else but SHIVPURI father, Madhavrao Scindia, 3 lakh, then you would have [Narendra] Modi.” Peerzada Ashiq seat was held on May 6. members of the Press Club If he wins by a margin of 3 and before that his grand scored a six," he said. Earlier in the day, at one Srinagar Sources said BJP State of Leh, an application on lakh votes, then the people mother, Vijaya Raje Scindia, The possible margin of his sabhas, the candidate The police have lodged an president Ravinder Raina violation of the model code of Guna would have hit a and that he has represented comes up often in conversa spoke to residents of Naguli FIR against two BJP leaders, and MLC Vikram Randhawa of conduct was also fi led by six, says former cricketer since his father's death in tions with Congress workers village about the work he including the party’s J&K are facing charges of “brib Congress candidate Rigzin turnedpolitician Navjot 2002, Mr. Scindia spent the as well as residents. Having had done for the area in the State unit chief, accused of ery” and “undue infl uence Spalbar. Singh Sidhu, talking about day holding sabhas in villag won the 2002 bypoll by over past 17 years, from the con trying to bribe scribes at a in elections”. In an inquiry report, Dis the incumbent MP, Jyotirad es, ending with the cricket 4 lakh votes, Mr. Scindia's struction of roads to the set press conference in La trict Election Offi cer Avny itya Scindia, on Thursday match in Shivpuri. victory margin went down ting up of a footwear design dakh’s Leh district on May 2. Video grab Lavasa said that “perusal evening. As the scion of the erst to 1.2 lakh in 2014. institute. The Chief Judicial Magis A video grab showed Mr. and consideration of the The two Congress leaders while Scindia royal family Ankit Singh, a business trate, Leh, clubbing the Raina being present when material on record reveals had just wrapped up a for scored a boundary, the Navjot Singh Sidhu with man from Shivpuri and self Aide-turned-opponent three separate complaints of Mr. Randhawa was distri prima facie commission of show cricket match in Guna crowd celebrated with Jyotiraditya Scindia professed BJP supporter This time, Mr. Scindia is fac scribes and the local admi buting envelopes to noncognisable off ences Lok Sabha constituency's "Maharaj zindabad", while a who attended the cricket ing his own former aide, nistration, directed the pol journalists. punishable under Section Shivpuri as a part of Mr. fan of Mr. Sidhu shouted spot will be Mr. Scindia." event, said: "This seat is re K.P. Yadav, who joined the ice on Wednesday to lodge “When I opened the en 171E and 171F of the Ranbir Scindia's campaign, when "Come on, Sidhu paaji". He said Mr. Scindia had served, for the Scindias. But BJP ahead of the Assembly an FIR against the BJP lead velop, it had cash in it. I im Penal Code" and warrants they returned to the fi eld of After wrapping up the won by 1.20 lakh votes in I voted for the Congress in polls, a contest that locals ers for allegedly trying to mediately returned it,” Leh an investigation. the Madhavrao Scindia ‘match’, Mr. Sidhu told the 2014 and if he won by the the Assembly elections, be say is not a real one. bribe scribes “to infl uence journalist Rinchen Angmo Denying the allegations, Cricket Stadium for the pol crowd: "Take it from me in same margin, it would be cause that was about the “He is a dummy candi the outcome of the elec told The Hindu. the BJP said the envelopes itical part of the evening. writing, after Rahul Gandhi, like scoring two runs. Chief Minister. This election date,” said a Congress work tions” in the Ladakh Lok Besides a complaint were carrying invitation for Seeking reelection to a the Minister at the second "Two lakhs would be hit is about the Prime Minister er in Shivpuri. Sabha seat. Polling for the lodged with the police by an upcoming rally in Leh. CM A ND-NDE https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams