www.thesikhtimes.in The Sikh Times Jio Newspaper app www.readwhere.com National Daily www.paperboy.com Vol. 12 No. 94 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Thursday, 22 August, 2019 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. ‘.2 SC refuses urgent listing of Chidambaram's petition seeking protection from arrest SPL CORRESPONDENT there were some defects in the petition and the Registry had informed about it. When Sibal said the New Delhi, Aug 21 : Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who is facing threat of arrest, failed twice defects have been cured, the bench called Registrar (judicial) Surya Pratap Singh and enquired about the Wednesday to get immediate relief from the Supreme Court which refused to grant him urgent hearing defects. The Registrar said the defects have been cured "just now", and the petition will be placed before on his plea seeking protection from arrest in the INX media scam cases. the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi for allocating it before an appropri- Chidambaram, who was home minister and finance minister in the UPA ate bench. At this, Sibal said that the matter cannot be listed today as the government from 2004-2014, has sought a stay on the Delhi High Court's CJI is sitting in the Constitution bench and will not rise before 4 pm. While Tuesday judgement dismissing his anticipatory bail plea and paving the the senior advocate was repeatedly insisting the matter be hear, the bench way for his arrest lodged by CBI and ED. His petition was first mentioned told him, "We have already directed the matter to be placed before CJI". by senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Wednesday morning before a bench, com- "Generally, the matters for listing are placed before the CJI in the evening prising Justices N V Ramana, M Shantanagoudar and Ajay Rastogi, which but in the morning we immediately refer it to CJI," the bench said. "It is not sent it for being placed before the CJI for his consideration to accord it our job, but the Registry has to take the step," the bench further said. urgent hearing. When the team of lawyers representing Chidambaram did When Sibal reminded the bench that in the past on the basis of oral men- not receive any information on urgent listing, Sibal once again mentioned it tioning protection from arrest has been granted to people, the bench said, before the same bench after it assembled post lunch. Sibal, flanked by other "we directed the Registry and it found that there were defects in the peti- senior advocates Vivek Tankha and Indira Jaising, told the bench that the tion". At the end of the hearing, Sibal said that Chidambaram was ready to investigating agencies have issued a look out notice against Chidambaram give an undertaking that he will not run away but the bench did not con- as if he is going to "run away". The top court said the defects in the petition sider the submission and concluded the brief hearing. In the morning, had been removed "just now" and it "cannot be listed for hearing today Mehta, appearing for the CBI and the ED, had told the bench that it was a itself". "Without listing of the petition, we cannot hear the matter," said the case of money laundering of "monumental magnitude". One of the law offi- bench. "Sorry Mr Sibal. We cannot hear the matter," the bench said when cers assisting Mehta said, "We are ready and fully prepared to oppose any he repeatedly asked for hearing the matter on Wednesday itself. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta opposed move by Chidambaram". Sibal told the apex court that Chidambaram's plea was dismissed by the Delhi the plea of Chidambaram for hearing the matter on oral mentioning saying that the papers are not with High Court on Tuesday. He said Chidambaram was granted protection from arrest for more than a year him. Just as the bench assembled in the post lunch session, Sibal said he was once again mentioning the in the INX case lodged by the CBI and ED. Sibal said the high court had also refused to grant any protec- matter for listing as he had not heard anything from the Registry about its listing. The bench told him that tion from arrest to Chidambaram to enable him to approach the apex court. Adityanath expands Court discharges Arvind council of ministers Army HQ reorganization: Kejriwal, his deputy and others Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief New Delhi, Aug 21 : A court here discharged Delhi Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday 206 officers sent to field Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish expanded his council of ministers with SIMMI KAUR BABBAR under the COAS will have tri-servic- Sisodia and others on Wednesday in a case of allegedly 23 ministers taking oath at the Raj New Delhi: Defence Minister es representation. At present, the violating prohibitory orders and obstructing public ser- Bhavan. This is the first rejig of Rajnath Singh on Wednesday vigilance function for the COAS has vants during an agitation in 2014. Besides Kejriwal and Adityanath's council of ministers since approved the relocation of 206 Army multiple agencies and there is no Sisodia, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar he came to power in 2017. Four minis- officers from here to their original single point interface. An independ- Vishal also granted relief to other Aam Aadmi Party ters of state with independent charge field units as part of reorganization ent vigilance cell will be made func- (AAP) leaders, Kumar Vishwas, Gopal Rai, Sanjay Singh were promoted as cabinet ministers, of the Army headquarters. The tional under COAS. The Additional and Dilip Pandey. Former AAP members Prashant while two new faces, Ram Naresh approval to relocate the officers, Director General (Vigilance) will be Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav and others were also Agnihotri and Kamla Rani Varun, joined apart from the creation of a separate placed directly under the COAS and granted the relief. "There does not exist sufficient evi- as cabinet ministers. Six ministers of vigilance cell under the Chief of the cell will have three officers not dence to take cognizance of the offence as alleged as well as sufficient grounds to proceed against state with independent charge were Army Staff (COAS), were among below the rank of a Colonel, drawn the accused persons. "Proceeding with this trial will be a futile exercise as the charge sheet lacks inducted. The two-and-a-half year-old the decisions approved by Singh on from each of the services. The cell even the prima facie evidence to proceed further," the court said. On September 7, 2018, the Delhi BJP ministry will also have 11 new min- the basis of an internal study con- to be formed under the VCOAS will police had filed a charge sheet against the accused persons, seeking their prosecution for various isters of state. Governor Anandiben ducted by the Army Headquarters. focus on human rights convention offences. According to the charge sheet, on January 21, 2014 the accused broke the barricades and Patel administered the oath of office in Besides, a unit will behttps://t.me/TowardsTomorrow formed under and values. It will be headed by an indulged in scuffle with the police and stone pelting in order to run towards Rail Bhawan, violating the presence of the chief minister. the Vice Chief of Army Staff officer not below the rank of Major the proclamation under section 144 (unlawful assembly) CrPC, which was in place at that time. Some (VCOAS) to focus entirely on issues General and will examine reports of policemen were injured in order to control them, the final report said. The police had filed the charge Ram Janambhoomi can’t be of human rights. The Army officers human rights abuses. A police offi- sheet against the accused for offences punishable under section 145 (Joining or continuing in unlaw- who will be relocated to their field cer of the rank of Superintendent or ful assembly), 147 (Punishment for rioting), 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every shifted to some other place, units include three Major Generals, Senior Superintendent will be deput- member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and eight Brigadiers, nine Colonels and ed to this agency for investigative 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) of the IPC. Ram Lalla’s counsel tells SC 186 Lt Colonels. The vigilance cell work. New Delhi, August 21 : Neither Nirmohi Akhara nor the Sunni Wakf Board can take Dronacharya Bhupender Dhawan & benefit of the legal principal of adverse pos- session to stake claim over the 2.77-acre dis- Yogi Adityanath inducts Pro-Olympia Mukesh Singh become puted land in Ayodhya, counsel for Ram Lalla told the Supreme Court on faces of Muscle & Strength India Wednesday as the deity claimed ownership 23 new ministers in Cabinet (MOHIT) over the entire piece of land. According to New Delhi : At a press conference held in Delhi the doctrine of adverse possession, a person CORRESPONDENT Ram Naresh Agnihotri, the remaining able representation in the council of on August 21, Mr. Praveen Chirania, Director, without having title of the property can Lucknow, August 21 : In what can four have been elevated. Those sworn ministers. A surprise development Muscle & Strength India, raised his voice about the become its owner on the ground of his pos- be termed as a near-total revamp of in as Ministers of State with was that names of Pankaj Singh, son genuineness of different health products manufac- session if the person having lawful title of the Yogi Adityanath government, 23 Independent charge are Kapil Dev, of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, tured/market- the property in question does not evict him new ministers were sworn in on Ashok Katehria, Neelkanth Tiwari, Vijay Bahadur Pathak, party General ed by various for 12 years.