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SC quashes FIR dailypick US-based journalist says Akbar against Anurag north Thakur, Dhumal ‘PM will not survive raped her 23 yrs ago and others 05 New Delhi The Supreme Court on Friday Rafale probe’ quashed an FIR against BJP MP Anurag Thakur, former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem M Shafeeq He says it was ‘consensual relationship’ Kumar Dhumal and others in a case related to alleged irregularities in granting land on lease Changing political Washington/New Delhi Pallavi While she was in Rajasthan on an for construction of the Dharamshala cricket Gogoi, a US-based editor, has accused assignment, Akbar said she could stadium. A bench of justices A K Sikri, Ashok dynamics compelled M J Akbar of raping her while work- come to discuss the story in his hotel Bhushan and Ajay Rastogi said, “We allow the Naidu to embrace ing under the “brilliant journalist” in Jaipur, she claimed. appeal. The FIR registered is quashed.” Thakur, in , an allegation denied by the “In his hotel room, even though I Dhumal and Himachal Pradesh Cricket Asso- enemy 06 former Union minister who claimed fought him, he was physically more ciation (HPCA) had challenged the Himachal that he had a “consensual relation- powerful. He ripped off my clothes Pradesh High Court order refusing to quash ship” spanning several months with and raped me,” she alleged, adding the FIR registered during the then Virbhadra her but it ended “perhaps not on the that instead of reporting him to the Singh government in the state. The high court ’s great- best note”.Akbar, 67, who recently police, she was filled with shame. on April 25, 2014, had refused to quash the FIR grandsons, including resigned as junior foreign minister Gogoi claimed Akbar’s grip over and stay the criminal trial pending before special after multiple women came out with her got tighter. For a few months, judge, Dharamshala, in a case registered for MP Dushyant, expelled accounts of alleged sexual harass- he continued to defile her sexually, cheating and criminal conspiracy, and under ment, has filed a criminal defamation verbally, emotionally... “I died a little provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. from INLD case against one of them amid the every day,” she said. Thakur, who is a BJP MP from Hamirpur and DW Bureau / Chandigarh raging #MeToo campaign in India. Akbar said he would send her ei- was then the HPCA president, had contended “Somewhere around 1994, Ms ther to the US or the UK as a reward in the apex court that the case was actually a The main Opposition Pallavi Gogoi and I entered into a for excellent work on covering the civil dispute but the then Virbhadra Singh-led (INLD), while taking strong action on recent consensual relationship that spanned 1994 polls, she recalled. Congress government had made it a criminal developments within the party, on Friday several months,” Akbar said in a state- “I thought that finally, the abuse case for political reasons. page 5 > expelled MP Dushyant Chautala and his ment in New Delhi after her article would stop... Except the truth was younger brother Digvijay Chautala. appeared in The Washington Post. that he was sending me away so I Both are great-grandsons of former Deputy In a separate statement, his wife could have no defences and he could Prime Minister Devi Lal. Both have been expelled Mallika Akbar also dismissed Gogoi’s prey on me whenever he visited the from the primary membership of the party with accusations as a “lie”. city,” she said. Gogoi alleged that RSS says will immediate effect, a party statement said here. Gogoi, the chief business editor Akbar once worked himself into a The expulsion was announced by former of National Public Radio (NPR), a rage in the London office after he launch agitation, Chief Minister , Washington-based American media saw her talking to a male colleague. who is the National President of the INLD and organisation, has detailed the “most He hit her and went on a rampage, if needed, for Ram grandfather of both youth leaders. painful memories” of her life in the throwing things from the desk at Dushyant Chautala has also been removed Post article. was a big responsibility at a young her — a pair of scissors or whatever temple in Ayodhya from the post of leader of the INLD Parliamen- She said that Akbar, the editor-in- age, she said. “But I would soon pay a “Akbar’s grip over he could get his hands on. She ran Uttan (Maha) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak tary Board. The action follows recent activities chief of the Asian Age newspaper at very big price for doing a job I loved. away and hid in Hyde Park. Sangh(RSS) said on Friday it will not hesitate of both youth leaders and their supporters who that time, was a “brilliant journalist “It must have been late spring or her got tighter. “I was in shreds — emotionally, to launch an agitation for Ram temple at Ayod- were trying to project Dushyant as a Chief Min- but used his position to prey” on her. summer of 1994, and I had gone into For a few months, physically, mentally,” she said. hya, if needed, a remark that came amidst a isterial face in Assembly elections in Haryana “What I am about to share are his office — his door was often closed. Akbar summoned her back to growing clamour for a law to clear the way for to be held around October next year. the most painful memories of my I went to show him the op-ed page he continued Mumbai after which she left the job. its construction at the disputed site in Uttar “Both Dushyant Chautala and Digvijay Singh life. I have shelved them away for 23 I had created... He applauded my to defile her Responding to Gogoi’s allega- Pradesh. RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi had been accused of indiscipline, hooliganism years,” she said, detailing how Akbar effort and suddenly lunged to kiss tions, Akbar said several people while outlining the organisation’s stand on the and spreading disaffection within the party physically and mentally harassed her me. I reeled. I emerged from the of- sexually, verbally, who worked with him knew about Ram temple issue at a news conference also said against the party leadership during the birthday for years while working at the Asian fice, red-faced, confused, ashamed, emotionally... “I died his relationship with her and at no Hindus were feeling “insulted” by the Supreme celebrations of Chaudhary Devi Lal in Gohana Age newspaper from New Delhi to destroyed,” she alleged. a little every day.” stage did her behaviour give any one Court’s declaration that it had priorities other on October 7,” the INLD statement said. “He Mumbai to Jaipur to London. The second incident was a few of them the impression that she was than the Ayodhya issue, as he insisted for an (Om Prakash Chautala) conveyed to the party Gogoi said she was 22 when she months later when she was sum- “working under, or in any way, under ordinance if all options run out. office that he did not need any outside evidence joined the Asian Age. She was star- moned to Mumbai to help launch a him away. He scratched my face as I duress”. “This relationship (with “We will not hesitate to launch an agitation since he was a witness to the indiscipline and struck working under Akbar. She was magazine, she claimed. ran away, tears streaming down,” she Gogoi) gave rise to talk and would for Ram temple, if needed, but since the matter unruly scenes that also continuously inter- mesmerised by his use of language, “He called me to his room at the wrote. When she got back to Delhi, later cause significant strife in my is in the Supreme Court, there are restrictions,” rupted his speech on that day but still he had his turns of phrase and took all the fancy Taj hotel, again to see the lay- Akbar threatened to kick her out of home life as well. This consensual Joshi said when asked by a newsman whether referred the matter to the Disciplinary Action verbal abuse. At 23, Gogoi became outs. When he again came close to me the job if she resisted him again. But relationship ended, perhaps not on the Sangh will launch an agitation for Ram Committee of the party. the editor of the op-ed page which to kiss me, I fought him and pushed she didn’t quit the paper, she said. the best note. / PTI / temple construction like in the 1990s. page 5 > dailyheadlines

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New Delhi The Supreme Court not inclined to entertain the present Six months of Bofors case: on Friday dismissed the CBI appeal Special Leave Petitions,” the bench, marriage, Lalu's against the Delhi High Court’s 2005 also comprising Justices K M Joseph son Tej Pratap verdict discharging all the accused, and Hemant Gupta, said. files divorce SC rejects CBI including the Hinduja brothers, The CBI had filed the appeal on petition Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is greeted by Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba as she arrives to in the politically-sensitive Rs 64 February 2 this year. attend the Naval Commanders Conference at the Sena Bhavan in New Delhi, on Friday, Nov. 02, 2018. / PTI appeal, says crore Bofors pay-off case.The apex Attorney General K K Venugopal Patna RJD chief Lalu Prasad's court rejected the CBI plea seeking asked the top court to make it clear elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on condonation of the 13 year delay in in its order that dismissal of CBI ap- Friday filed a petition seeking di- agency can filing the appeal against the May 31, peal would not preclude the probe vorce from his wife of six months Supreme Court gets 4 new judges 2005 judgement of the high court agency from carrying out investiga- citing incompatibility issues, his raise grounds saying it is not convinced with the tion in the case. lawyer said. The separation has New Delhi Justices Hemant and Justice Rastogi was the Pradesh High Court on March grounds furnished by the agency. The apex court, however, did been sought invoking Section Gupta, R Subhash Reddy, M R chief justice of the Tripura 18 last year. “We are not convinced with the not mention anything in its order 13 A of the Hindu Marriage Act Shah and Ajay Rastogi were on High Court. The apex court Justice Reddy was appoint- in already grounds furnished by the petitioner on this issue. The high court in its under which either spouse can Friday sworn in as judges of has a sanctioned strength of ed as a judge of the Andhra for the inordinate delay of 4,522 days 2005 judgement had quashed all unilaterally seek divorce, said the Supreme Court, taking its 31. With the elevation of these Pradesh High Court on Decem- in filing the present Special Leave charges against the three Hinduja lawyer Yashwant Kumar Sharma, strength to 28. The swearing in four new judges, the strength ber 2, 2002. He was elevated admitted plea Petitions,” said a bench, headed by brothers -- S P Hinduja, G P Hinduja who filed the petition on behalf ceremony started at 10:30 am has risen from 24 to 28. as the chief justice of the Gu- Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. and P P Hinduja -- and others under of Tej Pratap at a civil court here. in court number 1 of the apex The Supreme Court colle- jarat High Court on February The apex court said the CBI can the Prevention of Corruption Act. "I cannot give much details. I court and Chief Justice Ranjan gium headed by Chief Justice 13, 2016. raise all grounds in the appeal In December 2016, during the was only told by my client that Gogoi administered the oath of India Ranjan Gogoi and com- Justice Shah was appointed against the high court verdict filed hearing of Agrawal’s appeal, the he and his wife were not com- of office to the four judges. prising its four-senior most as a judge of the Gujarat High by advocate Ajay Agrawal, who has apex court had asked the CBI why patible and hence he wanted di- The president had Thursday judges, had on October 30 Court on March 7, 2004, and also challenged the judgement. it had not filed the appeal within the vorce," Sharma said. Tej Pratap, given his assent to the recom- recommended to the Centre later in August, he was sworn- The top court has already admit- mandatory time limit of 90 days. a sitting RJD MLA and a former mendation of the Supreme the names of the four for el- in as the chief justice of the ted the petition filed by Agrawal, The agency had said that it did not Bihar minister, had tied the knot Court Collegium for elevating evation as judges in the apex Patna High Court. the BJP leader, who had contested get the nod from the previous UPA with Aishwarya Rai on May 12. Gupta, Reddy, Shah and Ras- court. Justice Rastogi was appoint- the 2014 election against government. After the NDA govern- The grand wedding ceremony togi, who were chief justices of Justice Gupta was appointed ed as a judge of the Rajasthan the then Congress president Sonia ment came to power, there were for which Prasad, serving sen- different high courts, as apex as a judge of the Punjab and High Court in September 2004 Gandhi from Rae Bareilly. speculations that the CBI would tences in fodder scam cases, court judges. Haryana High Court on July and was elevated as chief jus- “Furthermore, we have noticed take a call to either respond as re- had flown in from Ranchi after While Justice Gupta was the 2, 2002, and on February 8, tice of the Tripura High Court that in the criminal appeal filed spondent in Agrawal’s petition or obtaining parole from a court, chief justice of the Madhya 2016, he was transferred to the on March 1 this year. against the very same order by the prefer a separate appeal. After lot was attended by political leaders Pradesh High Court, Justice Patna High Court where he was This year, two apex court complainant, the petitioner herein of deliberation, the CBI this year from virtually all political parties Reddy was the Gujarat High appointed as the acting chief judges -- justices Lokur and i.e. Central Bureau of Investigation got the nod from the NDA govern- including Chief Minister Nitish Court’s chief justice. justice on October 29, 2016. Kurian Joseph -- are set to retire (CBI) is a party and would be heard ment to file an appeal in the apex Kumar and Union minister Ram Justice Shah was the chief He was appointed as the while Justice Sikri will demit in the said appeal. We, therefore, are court. / PTI / Vilas Paswan. / PTI / justice of the Patna High Court chief justice of the Madhya office in March 2019./ PTI /