Nirbhaya Case: SC to Take up Curative Petitions on January 14
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WWW.YUGMARG.COM FOLLOW US ON REGD NO. CHD/0061/2006-08 | RNI NO. 61323/95 Sunday, January 12, 2020 CHANDIGARH, VOL. XXIV, NO. 331, PAGES 8, RS. 2 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER Did you know that Vaishali Takkar left &TV presents Bhakt Karam Sunny Singh and speechless by fan's Aur Bhagwan Se Rajpal Gets Vicky Kaushal are handmade gift Judi Do Kahaniyian ‘Camera’ -Friendly! childhood buddies? with ‘Kahat Hanu- man Jai Shri Ram’ PAGE 8PAGE 8 PAGE 8 PAGE 8 Mamata meets Modi, Withdraw CAA, stop NPR joins anti-CAA protest KOLKATA, JANUARY 11 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today urged PM Narendra Modi to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and process: CWC to govt reconsider the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR). Speaking with the media after a meet- NEW DELHI, JANUARY 11 grave harm of CAA and have taken to ing with the PM at Raj Bhawan, Mamata said streets braving police brutalities. I the PM told her to come to New Delhi and dis- The Congress today asked the govern- salute their courage. We are inspired by cuss the matter. ment to withdraw the Citizenship their struggle,” the Congress chief said, The CAA notification will only remain on Amendment Act (CAA) and stop the slamming the NPR on which she said paper but will never be implemented. We will National Population Register (NPR) the party would soon take a firm stand not implement the CAA... This is unconstitu- that the state was yet to receive from the Cen- process, pledging to stand with anti- being in government in some states. tional, illegal and wrong. tre. “It was a courtesy meeting. I told him CAA protesters. “Let us not be under any illusion that The meeting assumes significance as the about Rs 28,000 crore that the state is yet to re- A meeting of the Congress Work- the NPR is a benign exercise. In form citizenship law has emerged as a major flash- ceive from the Centre, including Rs 7,000 ing Committee (CWC), the party’s and content, NPR 2020 is a disguised point in the state between the BJP and Mama- crore we are supposed to get for Cyclone highest decision-making body, termed National Register of Citizens. As a par- ta’s Trinamool Congress, which is opposed to Fani.” CAA divisive and said it had the po- ty in government in several states, we the contentious legislation. After the meeting, “I told him we are against the CAA, NPR tential to undermine internal and ex- must take a wise and uniform decision Mamata went straight to a TMC students’ and NRC and protests are going on across the ternal security. on NPR and I invite you to share your wing sit-in against the CAA, where she reiter- country against these.” “I told him there The situation in some states is views on the subject,” said Sonia. The ated her stand that the new citizenship law should not be any discrimination among mass- alarming, turning the states into police conceived law has led to spontaneous hi. She demanded a high-powered ju- Congress for its part plans to stand at would never be implemented in Bengal. es and no citizens should be left out or tor- states, notably in Uttar Pradesh and nationwide protests and has raised dicial commission probe into anti- the head of anti-CAA movement and However, Left students activists reached tured. I asked him that the Centre should re- Delhi. We are appalled by police ex- questions regarding its constitutional CAA violence, including at JNU, even passed a resolution today on “sup- the spot and raised slogans seeking an expla- think on the issues and withdraw CAA,” she cesses and use of brute force in many validity and political morality. The Jamia Millia Islamia and UP. pression of the voice of youth and stu- nation from her over the meeting with Modi said. When asked what PM Modi said in reply, towns of UP, Jamia Millia and JNU.— CAA and proposed National Register Sonia said CAA was a “big issue” dents of India” saying “every Congress and diluting the fight against amended Citi- the TMC supremo said: “Regarding the matter Sonia Gandhi, Cong chief of Citizens have led to fear and anxi- and NPR “not benign”. “The CAA is worker will stand with students in their zenship Act. related to states, he said he will look into the “The CWC demands that CAA ety among religious and linguistic mi- discriminatory and divisive. Its sinister fight for defending the Constitution, Banerjee termed her meeting with PM documents. About these issues (CAA, NRC should be withdrawn and the NPR norities, tribals, poor and vulnerable,” purpose is to divide people on religious standing for independent and creative Modi as a “courtesy visit” and said she had and NPR), he said he had come for a few gov- process be stopped forthwith. This ill- said Congress president Sonia Gand- lines. Thousands have realised the learning. raised issues regarding the financial assistance ernment programmes. Nirbhaya case: SC to take up curative petitions on January 14 NEW DELHI, JANUARY 11 his entire family would be destroyed af- ter his execution. A five-judge Supreme Court Bench, Citing various studies and National headed by Justice NV Ramana, will on Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, he January 14 take up curative petitions contended death penalty had no deter- filed by two of the four convicts await- rence. ing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya The other two convicts — Akshay gang-rape and murder case. and Pawan — were also likely to file The Bench, which also includes Jus- their curative petitions soon. tice Arun Mishra, Justice Rohinton Na- After dismissal of curative petition, riman, Justice R Banumathi and Justice a convict can file mercy plea before the Ashok Bhushan, will take up the cura- President. Even the dismissal of mercy tive petitions of Vinay Sharma and petition can be challenged before the top Mukesh at 1.45 pm on Tuesday. court. In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled Delhi Additional Sessions Judge Vinay and Mukesh had on Thursday that there should be a gap of 14 days be- Satish Kumar Arora had on January 7 filed curative petitions, contending that tween the receipt of communication of ordered that the four convicts — their socio-economic background was rejection of a convict’s mercy plea and Mukesh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay not taken into account. his/her execution. The Supreme Court Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh They have sought stay of the death had on December 18 rejected convict (31) — be hanged after the prosecution warrant issued by a Delhi court for exe- Akshay Kumar’s petition seeking re- said there was no plea pending before cution of all four convicts in Tihar Jail view of its 2017 verdict upholding the any court or the President at this junc- at 7 am on January 22. Vinay pleaded death penalty given to him and three ture and the review petitions of each one that his young age at the time of the other convicts. The review petitions of of them had already been dismissed by crime was ignored while sentencing him other three convicts—Mukesh (30), the Supreme Court. to death. Vinay submitted that his par- Pawan Gupta (23) and Vinay Sharma Faced with imminent execution, ents were old and extremely poor, and (24) — were dismissed in July 2018. Dense fog led to UP Post-Independence bus mishap: Report LUCKNOW, JANUARY 11 history overlooked At least 10 persons died and several others received serious many aspects: PM burn injuries when a private sleeper double-decker bus burst into flames after colliding with a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Kan- KOLKATA, JANUARY 11 nauj district, an official said on Saturday. Dense fog reportedly caused Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said several the “unintended accident”, important aspects of the country’s history were over- claimed a transport department looked by historians who wrote about it during the inquiry into the head-on collision British rule and after Independence, and it seemed that between the bus and truck. the indigenous people of India did not exist at all. Kanpur IG Mohit Agarwal “Some people came from outside, killed their own said the recovered bodies were so relatives, brothers for the sake of throne... is not our his- badly charred that even the bones tory. This was said by Gurudev himself. He had said in had disintegrated. this history, it is not mentioned what the people of the “Prima face, bodies of eight country were doing. Didn’t they have any existence?” he to 10 people were retrieved from said. the bus. The damage is so exten- “The country’s history, written after Independence, sive that causalities can be deter- has ignored various facets and it is not what is read or mined only through a DNA test,” written for examinations,” Modi said. he added. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was scheduled to The IG said, “In all probability 45 passengers were travel- be present at the programme, but she did not go there. ling in the bus of which 25 persons have been rescued, 13 are City Mayor and senior minister Firhad Hakim attended under treatment at Tirwa Medical College in Kannauj, two are it. completely safe and there seems to be no account of around 18 Amid the controversy over the CAA the PM said, to 20 who may have perished or are missing.” “In this age of violence, it is needed to awaken national According to the transport department preliminary report, conscience.