Delhi saturday, february 4, 2017 www.thehindu.in ● Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 7 ● No. 30 ● CITY EDITION ● 24 Pages ● Rs. 8.00 Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad, Malappuram and Mumbai • • BRIEFLY I-T dept. faults AAP SC upset as Maxis owner fund records NEW DELHI: The Income-Tax Department has said the audit reports of the Aam Aadmi Party for donations amounting to ₨27 fails to turn up in court crore had discrepancies and were incorrect. AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal said it Bench had asked Prosecutor was a “dirty trick” by Prime him to appear Minister Narendra Modi to get challenges the AAP de-registered. in court to ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 show bona fide assets order Prohibitory orders still in force in Kohima KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL LEGAL CORRESPONDENT KOHIMA: Prohibitory orders NEW DELHI: A day after the Spe- NEW DELHI: A plea by Special promulgated by the Kohima cial Court discharged “all the Public Prosecutor and administration in some areas accused” in the Aircel-Maxis senior advocate Anand Punjab, Goa go to polls today remained in force. There was no deal case, the Supreme Court Grover, challenging the report of violence on Friday. on Friday was in no mood to Special Court’s order to Congress, BJP battle it In Punjab, the electorate of been deployed to ensure ½ NATION | PAGE 9 forgive Maxis group of com- release attached assets over 1.98 crore, including smooth polling. panies’ controlling owner T. worth ₨742.58 crore in the out as Kejriwal’s AAP more than 6 lakh first-time I am being kicked about Ananda Krishnan and three Aircel-Maxis case, was debuts in the States voters, will be deciding the Test for Modi like a football: Mallya others named in the CBI met with scepticism by the fate of 1,145 candidates in the The elections in Punjab charge sheet. ments published in two with huge sums of money.” Supreme Court on Friday. VIKAS VASUDEVA fray in 117 constituencies. and Goa, which will be fol- NEW DELHI: With the Centre A three-judge Bench, led Malaysian newspapers about “He [Mr. Ananda Krish- The Special Court, on PRAKASH KAMAT Saturday’s polling will de- lowed by those in Uttar Pra- planning a law to prevent loan by Chief Justice of India J.S. its January 6 order had nan] does not care for the February 2, had ordered cide the fate of a number of desh, Uttarakhand and Ma- defaulters from fleeing the Khehar, found that the four swayed the “absconders” to law of this country. He does the release of the assets CHANDIGARH/PANAJI: Punjab and political bigwigs, including nipur, beginning later this country, Vijay Mallya has — Mr. Ananda Krishnan, comply with the due process not care for the Supreme after dropping all charges Goa will go to the polls on 89-year-old Chief Minister month and spilling over to likened himself to a “football” M/s. Astro All Asia Net- of law. Court of this country... then in the case against the Saturday, setting of multi- Parkash Singh Badal, seeking March, are being billed as a being kicked around by the NDA works Limited, M/s. Maxis On January 6, the court we will punish him... we will accused, including phased Assembly elections a sixth term in oice, his old major test of the BJP and and the UPA. Communications and Au- had also stayed any attempts see to it,” Chief Justice brothers Dayanidhi and in five States. political rival and the Con- Prime Minister Narendra ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 gustus Ralph Marshall, a dir- by Aircel-Maxis to sell or Khehar, flanked by Justices Kalanithi Maran. Arch-rivals BJP and Con- gress’s CM face Amarinder Modi’s popularity following ector in Maxis and Astro — transfer spectrum allocated N.V. Ramana and D.Y. “The simple logic is that gress will battle it out in the Singh, who has declared it the demonetisation of high- Unrest in Valley over had not bothered to comply to it in November 2006. Chandrachud, orally ob- this money was found to two States, with Arvind will be his last election, and value currency. death sentence with its January 6, 2017, order This was based on an ap- served during the hearing. be not part of any money Kejriwal’s AAP making its Mr. Badal’s son and deputy In Goa, 11.09 lakh voters directing them to show their plication by the Centre for The trigger for the re- laundering. So when there debut. Sukhbir. will elect candidates to the SRINAGAR: Violence erupted in bona fide by entering ap- Public Interest Litigation, al- marks came when senior ad- is no money, where is the The BJP is in government Punjab’s Chief Electoral 40-member Assembly. A parts of Kashmir Valley on pearance in court. leging that Aircel-Maxis was vocate Abhishek Manu laundering? If ₨742.58 in Punjab in alliance with the Oicer V.K. Singh and Addi- total of 251 candidates are in Friday and normal life was “attempting to quickly sell Singhvi, representing Aircel, crore is not part of any Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) tional DGP-Elections V.K. the fray, and multi-cornered affected by separatists’ Restraint order of its allotted spectrum, contended that his client crime, then there is no for two successive terms, Bhawra told the media on contests have sparked fears shutdown call over the death A visibly annoyed Bench which is a precious natural should not be made to sufer money laundering,” a while it also helms Goa, des- Friday that the State ma- of a fractured mandate. sentence pronounced against a found that neither its pro- resource belonging to the financial loss for the conduct three-judge Bench, led by pite ally Maharashtrawadi chinery was working round (With PTI inputs) youth in West Bengal recently. posal to pass a restraint or- people of India, to Bharti of Mr. Ananda Krishnan and Chief Justice of India J.S. Gomantak Party having drif- the clock to ensure peaceful, ½ NEWS PAGE 12 der against Aircel-Maxis Airtel and Reliance Commu- the other three. Khehar, observed orally. ted away just after the an- free and fair elections. Over ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 from earning revenue on its nications for thousands of nouncement of elections to 2.07 lakh employees and 1 ½ THE STAKES IN PUNJAB METROPLUS MELANGE ½ PAGE 12 ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 AND GOA | EDITORIAL 4 Pages spectrum nor the advertise- crores, and exit the market CONTINUED ON form a three-party combine. lakh police personnel have SC to hear afresh Delhi gangrape In full bloom ‘Substantial progress in convicts plea on punishment Manipur tripartite talks’ LEGAL CORRESPONDENT Section 235 of the Cr.PC condemned men in Tihar Jail VIJAITA SINGH were in a Manipur jail. mandates that convicts here to provide them an op- Breakthrough came Arrangements were made NEW DELHI: The Supreme should be individually heard portunity to file aidavits de- NEW DELHI: In a breakthrough as the govt. agreed to bring them to Delhi to at- Court on Friday agreed with on the question before the tailing mitigating circum- in the ongoing economic tend the talks. amicus curiae and senior ad- trial judge pronounces the stances in their favour by blockade of Manipur, fol- to partially roll back An oicial familiar with vocate Raju Ramachandran order awarding punishment. February 23. lowing the indefinite strike its decision the meeting said the break- that proper procedure was Mr. Ramachandran said The 23-year-old victim, a called by the United Naga on new districts through could be achieved not followed in sentencing to the trial court and the High paramedic, was brutally as- Council, which has contin- as the Manipur government death the four convicts in the Court were “so over- saulted and gang-raped by ued for four months now, conceded to the UNC’s de- sensational December 16 whelmed by the nature of the six persons in a moving bus the State government is ation of new districts. Some mand to partially roll back gang-rape and murder case crime” that they did not fol- in south Delhi and thrown likely to partially agree to issues need more discussion its decision to create seven that shocked the nation. low the proper procedure for out of the vehicle with her the demands of the Naga at organisation level. Both new districts. A Bench led by Justice sentencing the accused in male friend on the night of body. the Manipur government The oicial said the block- Dipak Misra said it would the instant case. December 16, 2012. She had The Union Home Min- and the UNC have asked for ade would be lifted in the hear afresh aspects on sen- died in a Singapore hospital istry, which held tripartite time. We will meet again on next two-three days. tencing of the convicts and Another opportunity on December 29. talks with the UNC and the February 7,” Satyendra Garg, asked them to file aidavits. “We would like to give an The trial court had awar- Manipur government on Joint Secretary, North-East, Four-month blockade The court acknowledged opportunity to accused per- ded death penalty to con- Friday to find a solution to MHA, said. The economic blockade the contention raised by Mr. sons to file aidavits along victs, Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay the ongoing blockade of two The UNC was represen- imposed by the UNC, a con- Ramachandran that the with documents stating mit- Sharma and Akshay Kumar national highways, said ted by its president Gaidon glomerate of Naga bodies, Code of Criminal Procedure igating circumstances,” the Singh.