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Modi Rakes up Controversy Over Formation of Telangana Again Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No. TELENG/2018/76469 Established 1864 Published From ANALYSIS 7 MONEY 8 SPORTS 12 HYDERABAD DELHI LUCKNOW SOCIAL CONTRACT OF ‘EXTENDED CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK SURYA TON LEADS BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH SOCIAL FORESTRY MUMBAI’S FIGHTBACK BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN COULD LOWER OIL DEMAND, PRICES’ VIJAYAWADA ` *LATE CITY VOL. 2 ISSUE 118 HYDERABAD, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2020; PAGES 12 3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable I WANT TO HAVE A FAMILY: SAMANTHA { Page 11 } www.dailypioneer.com 7 STATES HAVE MORE AADHAAR IN WAKE OF CORONAVIRUS, NO GATES FOUNDATION COMMITS SCOTLAND'S FINANCE MINISTER QUITS HOLDERS THAN POPULATION: GOVT VISAs FROM CHINA VALID: INDIA $100MN TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS OVER MESSAGES TO TEENAGER ll existing electronic and normal visas are no longer even states have more Aadhaar holders than their respective ill & Melinda Gates Foundation on cotland's finance minister has resigned, hours before he was due valid for any foreign national travelling from China, in the projected population as on December 31, 2019, the Rajya Sabha A Thursday announced that it will to deliver his annual budget, after he reportedly sent hundreds of S wake of the Coronavirus, asserted Ministry of External B S was informed on Thursday. Minister of State for IT Sanjay Dhotre said immediately commit up to $100 million messages to a 16-year-old boy on social media. Affairs (MEA) on Thursday. China, the epicentre of the this could not be attributed to deceased Aadhaar for the global response to the 2019 novel Derek Mackay quit on Thursday, saying he had Coronavirus has till Thursday witnessed a death toll of holders, as the number of deaths of Aadhaar holders coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The funding "behaved foolishly". The Scottish Sun newspaper 563 and a total of 28,018 confirmed cases. has been accounted in Aadhaar saturation. These will help strengthen detection, isolation reported that 42-year-old Mackay sent the teen more Coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of could be attributed to error in projection of population, and treatment efforts; protect at-risk than 270 messages on Facebook and Instagram, Wuhan in December 2019, has since then spread to migration of people, he added. Asked if there are any populations; and develop vaccines, treatments and diagnostics. "Multila- telling the boy he was "cute" and offering to take him various cities around the world. states where the number of Aadhaar card holders is teral organisations, governments, private sector and philanthropies mu- to a rugby match and to dinner.Mackay is not greater than the population, he said yes. st work together to slow the pace of the outbreak,” the foundation said. accused of breaking the law. Vijay quizzed Hajipur rapist awarded Fearing family, by I-T on day 2, Modi rakes up controversy over cousins in love death sentence hang themselves Rs 65 cr n n recovered from formation of Telangana again PNS HYDERABAD PNS HYDERABAD In a landmark judgment, a Two stu- financier NAVEENA GHANATE committees over the formation harp on how the AP about their wishes." special court in Nalgonda on dents, n HYDERABAD of Telangana, and notwith- Reorganization Bill was passed He said, "I would like to Thursday convicted serial both Anbu 5 standing Chief Minister K in Parliament. refresh Azad saab's memory, rapist-killer Marri Srinivas paternal Prime Minister Narendra Chandrashekar Rao's advice to Modi said in the Rajya Sabha people will not forget past Reddy, whose spine-chilling cousins Modi has again raked up a con- BJP leaders on a previous occa- on Thursday, "You things easily. When Telangana crimes created a scare for in a rela- RBI keeps troversy over the formation of sion, asking them to "change (Opposition) could was formed, what was the sit- months in and around Hajipur tionship, Telangana. their attitude" towards the for- have at least asked uation in Parliament? Doors village of Bommalaramaram allegedly interest rates Ignoring decades-long mation of Telangana, Prime people of Andhra were closed, TV telecast was mandal in Yadadri commit- protests and multiple reports of Minister Modi continues to and Telangana shut, there was no place for Bhuvanagiri district, and sen- ted sui- unchanged on discussion, and the condi- tenced him to death. cide on tion in which it was passed, Srinivas Reddy, 28, a lift Thursday out of fear that uncertain I would like to refresh Azad saab's memory, people will not forget past things easily. nobody forgets. You need mechanic, was convicted of their families would not When Telangana was formed, what was the situation in Parliament? Doors were to accept truth." rape and murder of three law," said Rachakonda Police accept their love. inflation closed, TV telecast was shut, there was no place for discussion, and the condition in minor girls, aged 11, 13, and Commissioner Mahesh The incident took place in which it was passed, nobody forgets. You need to accept truth Continued on 17. Bhagwat, who had constitut- Kulkacharla mandal of 8 Page 4 outlook — NARENDRA MODI, Prime Minister He had buried the victims' ed a Special Investigation Vikarabad. The deceased bodies in abandoned agricul- Team (SIT), which provided persons were identified as 20- tural wells near the village. crucial evidence before the year-old Mamatha and 19- Srinivas Reddy used to trap court to nail the guilt of year-old Prashanth. TALLEST JBS AND LARGEST MGBS METRO girls on the pretext of giving Srinivas Reddy. Hailing from Kamunipally Modi dubs Rahul ‘tubelight’ them a lift on his two-wheel- The court examined 101 in Kulkacharla, Mamatha and STATIONS TO BE OPERATIONAL FROM TODAY PNS n NEW DELHI Gandhi of the Congress er to their village as there were witnesses and took into Prashanth were related on whom he dubbed as "tube- no buses plying to the village account DNA evidence. The their father's side. Mamatha PNS n HYDERABAD Metro line set to be inaugu- it would make operational the Prime Minister Narendra light" saying that it took him in the afternoon. police had filed three different was studying in a government rated by Chief Minister K tallest (JBS) and the largest Modi on Thursday took 30-40 minutes to respond to "The judgment shows that charge-sheets in the three college and Prashanth in a The Mahatma Gandhi Chandrashekar Rao is very (MGBS) stations of the Metro. repeated digs at opposition his speech in Lok Sabha. the arms of the judiciary are cases. private college. Bus Station-Jubilee Bus special for Hyderabad leaders, including Rahul Report in Page 5 very long and no one can Stand stretch of the Metro Rail, considering that Continued on Page 4 escape from the clutches of Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 4 HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 7, 2020 hyderabad 02 HAJIPUR CONVICTION FIRST CASE - (Victim: 11-year-old) : The investigators examined 36 witnesses in addition to collection of medical and technical evidence in this case and filed a SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE charge sheet SECOND CASE (Victim: 17-year-old): In this case, the IO has examined 34witnesses in addition to the collection of medical and HELPED NAIL CULPRIT technical evidence and filed charge sheet NAVEEN KUMAR n HYDERABA Third death THIRD CASE (Victim 14-year-old): Days after Srinivas Reddy’s When accused denied all charges In this case, the IO examined 58 arrest in April, 2019, the inves- penalty in witnesses and also collected medical, tigating officials revealed HYDERABAD: Pleading not guilty The accused stuck to denials despite scientific and technical evidence and shocking details, which made even in the last minute, accused history of headlines across the country. Srinivas Reddy gave numerous technical and forensic evidence being filed charge sheet The modus operandi was versions claiming his innocence stacked against him. He told that police Nalgonda court revealed by the Commissioner to the court, including that he of Rachakonda police, Mahesh was an impotent and that he was had forced him to confess to the crime HYDERABAD: After 33 years, the Bhagwat, stating that the three not even present at the place of Nalgonda Court has pronounced DGP hails minor girls were ravished and offence during the incident, blatantly denying all the charges could not present them. asked the accused if he used to death penalty, making it the third brutally murdered by the such judgement in the history of accused Marri Srinivas Reddy leveled against him. The accused stated in watch porn, he denied it saying Rachakonda Srinivas Reddy took the court that he does he doesn't even have an android the court. A lawyer of the bench and buried the dead bodies in present at the court hearing on two dried up agricultural wells the plea in the court not know how to phone. that he was ride a bike, after he When the magistrate inquired Thursday during the trial of Police 'Tette Bavi' & 'Marri Bavi' at accused Srinivas Reddy said that Hajipur in order to conceal the impotent and could was accused of with him about a murder case not have been offering lifts to the pending against him at Kurnool, the first death penalty was n evidence. announced in 1964, second one PNS HYDERABAD In April 2015, he first sexu- involved in the victims and later he replied that he doesn't know crime. He also assaulting them the victim. Even regarding his in 1987 and the Hajipur case was ally assaulted and killed an 11- the third one. "The court also The DGP of Telangana Police, year-old school girl of a neigh- alleged the DNA before murdering profession, he denied that he was Mahender Reddy congratulated the evidence against him them in the wells at an air-conditioner mechanic.
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