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NEARBY Steel mesh to replace IIP reverses SC tells govt. to review orders slump, grows fences on the borders by 1.8% in Nov.

curbing basic rights in J&K Nod for pilot project in Assam’s Lathitila Press Trust of India New Delhi Vijaita Singh It asks for publication of all orders on restrictions and review of Net suspension New Delhi Having contracted for three months in a row, the Index AAP likely to announce Krishnadas Rajagopal mana, on Friday made it The ‘rickety’ barbed wires of Industrial Production candidates next week NEW DELHI mandatory for the govern­ along the Pakistan and Ban­ (IIP) recorded a growth of NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Fri­ ment to publish each and ev­ gladesh borders are being re­ 1.8% in November, mainly The Aam Aadmi Party is likely day ordered the government ery one of its orders that placed with meshed fence on account of an improve­ to announce all its candidates to review “forthwith” any ex­ crippled the fundamental made of steel and coated with for the Delhi Assembly ment in the manufacturing isting orders that restrict freedoms of over seven mil­ anti­rust paint, an official said election in a single list next sector, official data showed It is not possible to climb week, said a senior leader. basic rights and free move­ lion Kashmiris, including the on Friday. on Friday. The IIP growth in or cut the new fence, Also, three Lok Sabha ment in Jammu and Kashmir. suspension of telecom and India shares a 4,096.7 km­ November 2018 was 0.2%. according to an official. candidates of AAP — Atishi, The court upheld the free­ Internet services in the Val­ long border with Bangladesh According to the Nation­ Dilip Pandey and Raghav doms of free speech, expres­ ley since August 5 following and 3,323 km with Pakistan. al Statistical Office (NSO) Chadha — will contest the sion and trade or business the abrogation of special sta­ The cost of around 1 km of tem. The unique quality of the data, the growth in the ma­ election from Kalkaji, on the Internet as funda­ tus of the erstwhile State un­ fence is approximately ₹1.99 new fence is that it cannot be nufacturing sector was 2.7% Timarpur and Rajinder Nagar mental rights to be constitu­ der Article 370. crore. The BSF, deployed snipped and nobody can as against a contraction of respectively, said sources. tionally protected. It, howev­ Publication of these or­ along the Pakistan and Ban­ climb it. There are many pock­ 0.7% in the same month last CITY Ī PAGE 2 er, refused to express any Life offline: Students waiting to use the Internet at the ders would now enable the gladesh borders, has been ets along the border where year. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD views on whether the very Divisional Commissioner’s office in Srinagar recently. * AFP affected persons to chal­ tasked with ensuring that the the old barbed wires are so Electricity generation access to the Internet is a lenge their legality in the fence is installed in a time­ fragile that they can be des­ shrank by 5%, as against a fundamental right or not. revoked at once, it ordered. ry, where it was otherwise Jammu and Kashmir High bound manner. Currently a pi­ troyed with a mild push,” the growth of 5.1% in November The top court directed the It further instructed the not thinking to do so Court or before any other lot project has been sanc­ official said. Union Home Mi­ 2018. The IIP growth during government to review orders government to consider res­ immediately. appropriate forum. tioned at a cost of ₹14.3 crore nister Amit Shah reviewed the April­November in the cur­ suspending Internet services toring government websites, Ripping into the veil of se­ at Lathitila in Assam’s Silchar functioning of the BSF on De­ rent fiscal came in at 0.6%, in the erstwhile State in­ localised/limited e­banking crecy shrouding the months­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 district. The clearance was cember 14, where various far slower than the 5% in stantly. Any order suspend­ facilities, hospital services long restrictions imposed ELOQUENTLY RETICENT first given in 2016. technological solutions to the same period of 2018­19. ing the Internet found to vio­ and other essential services across J&K, a three­judge Ī EDITORIAL “This will be a complete plug the porous stretches of late the law should be in areas in the Union Territo­ Bench, led by Justice N.V. Ra­ MORE REPORTS Ī PAGE 12 overhaul of the security sys­ the border were discussed. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 SC stays NCLAT order Judge’s bail condition: attend CAA session Union Home Ministry reinstating Cyrus Mistry 12 violence accused told to visit Seemapuri police station on January 19 notifies CAA provisions Special Correspondent Sanjeev Kumar Malhotra of vestigating officer or the ed after they were identified legal correspondent Justices B.R. Gavai and Su­ NEW DELHI the Karkardooma Court SHO will “make endeavour through CCTV footage. Ho­ CAA rules are yet to be notified NEW DELHI rya Kant issued a formal All the 12 accused of “vio­ granted bail to the accused to remove the doubts of the wever, the footage did not Special Correspondent vides citizenship to six un­ The Supreme Court on Fri­ notice to respondents, in­ lence” during the recent an­ persons subject to certain applicants in respect of show them pelting stones or New Delhi day stayed a decision of the cluding Cyrus Investments ti­CAA protests in Seemapu­ conditions. Among the con­ CAA”. causing any damage to pu­ documented non­Muslim National Company Law Ap­ Pvt. Ltd. and others, on ap­ ri, who were granted bail by ditions are that the accused The Seemapuri police had blic property. The Ministry of Home Affairs communities from Pakistan, pellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to peals separately filed by Ta­ a city judge on Friday, have will join the probe as and registered the FIR on De­ Another accused, Hazi issued a notification on Fri­ Afghanistan and Bangladesh reinstate Cyrus Mistry as ta Sons Pvt. Ltd. and its been asked to appear at the when directed; they will not cember 20 after violence Mehraj, produced CCTV day that the provisions of the who entered India on or be­ chairman of the multi­bil­ chairman emeritus, Ratan local police station where do any act to disturb public during the anti­CAA protest footage in support of his Citizenship (Amendment) fore December 31, 2014. The lion salt­to­software con­ Tata, among others, police officers could “re­ peace; and that they will vi­ in the area. They submitted claim that he was at his resi­ Act, 2019, came into force Act got the President’s assent glomerate Tata Sons. against the December 18 move their doubts” about sit the Seemapuri police sta­ in court that two accused, dence till 4 p.m. on the day from January 10. on December 12. The CAA A three­judge Bench of decision. the contentious law. tion on January 19, between Mohammed Shoib and Mo­ of the incident. The CAA, passed by Par­ rules are yet to be notified. ASSAM’S APPEAL PAGE 13 CJI Sharad A. 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Special Correspondent children’s future, says Sisodia Party to focus on roadshows for manifesto New Delhi The State unit of the BJP on He juxtaposes it with AAP govt.’s schemes such as Happiness Curriculum Staff Reporter working on the last three Special Correspondent Friday announced its 15­ New Delhi days before the poll and on NEW DELHI member election commit­ Staff Reporter ment’s education model, the mental illnesses through then leave it. We will run it. If The Aam Aadmi Party is the day of voting,” the lead­ The Delhi Congress on Fri­ tee for the upcoming As­ New Delhi Happiness Curriculum was primitive methods. Their there is any murderer in our likely to announce all its er said. day launched a campaign sembly polls, to be held The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched for students from education model is ponder­ party or your party, we will candidates for the Delhi Party volunteers from to seek suggestions from here on February 8. on Friday said its govern­ nursery­Class VIII of govern­ ing on questions like whether put him behind bars.” election in a single list next Punjab, Haryana and Uttar the people of Delhi to draft The panel comprises ment’s education model is ment schools. Such was the the Internet existed in the age week, said a senior leader. Pradesh will also start com­ its manifesto for the up­ party president Manoj Ti­ one of building the path for visible impact of the curricu­ of Mahabharata or if ducks Comments on Chhapaak “Now there is no time for ing to Delhi in the coming coming Assembly polls. wari, all the seven BJP MPs the prosperity of children lum on the psyche of the chil­ swimming creates oxygen in “You [BJP] are scared of a us to come out with diffe­ weeks to help with the The campaign was from Delhi, national office­ and also the nation, while the dren within a year of its water,” said Mr. Sisodia. film, which has been made on rent lists. We will have to campaign. launched by Delhi Pradesh bearers Anil Jain, Dushyant BJP’s education model is launch that several private an acid attack victim? You are do the campaigning also,” On December 24, the Congress Committee presi­ Gautam and R.P. Singh, aimed at ruining their future. schools of Delhi also Allegations on Shoaib scared of a film? You are the leader said. party had launched “AAP dent Subhash Chopra and former Delhi BJP presi­ Education Minister Manish launched this curriculum,” he Responding to statements al­ scared of films, you are ka report card”, which de­ former Union Minister dents — Vijay Goel and Sat­ Sisodia, at a press confe­ said, adding that education legedly made by the BJP that scared of education,” Mr. Si­ Lok Sabha candidates scribes the top 10 achieve­ Shashi Tharoor. ish Upadhyay— organisa­ rence, talked about two of the models of the BJP and Con­ Shoaib Iqbal, who joined AAP sodia said about BJP leaders Also, three Lok Sabha can­ ments of the government in Mr. Tharoor said: “ We tion secretary Sidharthan, government’s educational gress stand out only for its ab­ on Thursday, is a murder ac­ allegedly protesting against didates of AAP — Atishi, Di­ the past five years and has believe that the time has Delhi BJP Mahila Morcha schemes — Happiness and En­ sence of any vision on the cused, Mr. Sisodia said: “If Bollywood movie Chhapaak, lip Pandey, and Raghav taken it to over 30 lakh come to consult the people chief Poonam Jha and LoP trepreneurship curriculum — quality of education. any AAP leader or anyone which released on Frida. Ac­ Chadha — will contest the households, the party said. for their direct participa­ Vijender Gupta, the BJP and challenged the BJP to pre­ “They are caught between joining the AAP is a murder tor Deepika Padukone has Assembly election from From December 26, the tion.”He added that the said. The committee in its sent its models. whether to include referenc­ accused then BJP should be been facing backlash from Kalkaji, Timarpur and Ra­ party has been taking the party has decided to have a first meeting on Friday re­ “Delhi Assembly election es to Gandhi ji and Nehru in ashamed that he is outside right­wingers since her visit jinder Nagar respectively, report cards to households personal interaction with viewed the tasks assigned not just between two parties the syllabus. The BJP has now the jail. For six years, the pol­ to Jawaharlal Nehru Universi­ said sources. and mohalla sabhas held in people ranging from wo­ to those in charge of 35 but between two models of introduced a course in ‘Bhoot ice have been under you...you ty. The AAP leader added that “The party will focus on all Assembly constituen­ men, youth, students, committees in relation to shaping the country’s future. Vidya’ in universities, which could have got him arrested. he will watch the movie with roadshows. We will also cies. Also, Mr. Kejriwal has street vendors, small and the elections. Under the Kejriwal govern­ focusses on training in curing If you can’t run the police his children if he gets time. carry out buzz campaigns held seven “town hall” medium shopkeepers and at metro stations and major meetings across the city. traders, e­rickshaw and au­ areas such as Connaught The party had won 67 out to drivers, to take their Place. AAP national con­ of 70 seats in the Delhi As­ suggestions. Deputy CM crowdfunds vener Arvind Kejriwal and sembly election in 2015. He blamed the Modi go­ other leaders will start However, in the 2019 Lok vernment for bringing the campaigning after the list is Sabha election, it lost all Citizenship (Amendment) ₹28 lakh in just 48 hours announced. There will be the seven seats and fin­ Act as a deliberate attempt about 50 volunteers per ished third behind Con­ to divert people’s attention Staff Reporter booth campaigning for the gress in five seats. from pressing issues like New Delhi election and 1.3 lakh volun­ The Capital goes to poll economic distress, unem­ Deputy Chief Minister teers, 10 in each booth, on February 8. ployment and price rise. Manish Sisodia’s crowd­ funding campaign for the election reached the target of ₹28 lakh within 48 Apprise voters about achievements of hours, said the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday. “In an attempt to raise Modi govt., Nadda tells party workers funds for the upcoming Delhi Assembly election, Mr. Sisodia had launched Deputy Chief Minister ‘All parties doing politics in the name of regularising illegal colonies’ an online crowdfunding Manish Sisodia at a press campaign. People have meet in the city on Friday. Special Correspondent number of dedicated work­ AAP for 5 years but in his se­ participated in the cam­ New Delhi ers and it will register a vic­ cond tenure, the Narendra paign from day one and that we have reached the BJP national working presi­ tory in the Delhi poll. You Modi government made a have helped him attain the target. Nearly 1,300 people dent J.P. Nadda on Friday have to apprise the voters historic decision of regula­ target within 48 hours,” an have donated online and asked party workers to ap­ about the achievements and rising unauthorized colo­ official statement read. 75% of the donors have prise voters about the policies of the Modi govern­ nies,” he added. than Mr. Sisodia said: paid ₹1,000 or less. These achievements and policies ment framed for changing Meanwhile, Leader of Op­ “People are deeply im­ small amounts have played of the Narendra Modi go­ the present and future of position Vijender Gupta ac­ pressed by the honest go­ an important role. I am vernment framed for chang­ Delhi,” Mr. Nadda said. cused Chief Minister Arvind vernance of the govern­ grateful to all those who ing the “present and future He added that the Centre Kejriwal of “withholding the ment. I am happy to say have supported us.” of Delhi” in order to dis­ has done all such works for ration” being provided to lodge the “negative AAP” the people of Delhi, which the poor residents of the ci­ government from the city. has not been possible by the ty by the Centre. Mr. Nadda, Delhi BJP AAP government till date. “The Kejriwal govern­ Govt. cautions chief Manoj Tiwari, Union “The BJP workers have to ment has always deprived Minister and MP Dr. Harsh give the message of Sabka the poor residents of Delhi officials Vardhan and senior leaders Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka of the welfare schemes of from the party’s State unit Vishwas to every house­ the Centre...whether it is to against breach addressed a meeting where hold,” he said. give houses or food grains to representatives from the Mr. Tiwari said “all the the poor. Kejriwal govern­ of poll code five Assembly Constituen­ political parties had been ment allowed the Antyo­ cies of Tri Nagar, Wazirpur, doing politics” in the name daya Anna Yojana and Prior­ Press Trust of India Sadar, Timarpur and Burari of regularising unauthor­ ity Household Scheme to be New Delhi were present. ized colonies. “Previously, implemented in some way Ahead of the Delhi As­ “BJP is the only political Congress misled the people but still deprived poor of its sembly elections, the go­ party which has a large for 15 years and after that benefits,” he alleged. vernment on Friday cau­ tioned all its department CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC heads to ensure that neith­ er the proposals sent by Season’s greetings them breach the model code of conduct nor the compliance of court or­ ders are delayed due to the fear of their breach. The government’s Ser­ vices Department has is­ sued a circular to all Secre­ taries and Principal Secretaries, saying the pro­ posals where the model code of conduct provisions are attracted, should be submitted to a screening committee constituted for examining the same. “All departments of the government of NCT of Del­ hi, while forwarding the proposals to the Chief Se­ cretary for consideration or approval, should clearly mention that provisions of the model code of conduct Artistes perform during the Chinese New Year celebrations at Siri Fort Auditorium in New are not attracted,” it Delhi on Friday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR stated. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC JD(U) and BJP in fix over Delhi Assembly polls While the Bihar allies will contest separately, JD(U)’s Prashant Kishor is helping AAP

Amarnath Tewary Kishor’s “fixed match to de­ rately but failed to win even a Kumar.” Mr. Paswanhas been Patna feat BJP in Delhi elections”. single seat. “It is strange that reiterating that “this time pe­ The ruling alliance partners However, JD(U) leader and JD(U) is contesting Delhi As­ ople of Bihar want a BJP CM” in Bihar — Janata Dal (United) Information and Public Rela­ sembly poll against BJP and which on Thursday had and BJP — are seemingly tion Department Minister AAP but its own national prompted JD(U) to tell al­ caught in a strange situation Neeraj Kumar said: “We vice­president is working liance partner BJP to “rein in over the upcoming Delhi as­ don’t care who says and does hard for AAP to win the pol­ party’s motor mouth lead­ sembly elections, voting for what but for us, the party l…I think, both JD(U) and Mr. ers”. Meanwhile, former CM which is scheduled on Fe­ has always been bigger and Kishor are playing a fixed Jitan Ram Manjhi­led Hin­ bruary 8. important than an match to defeat BJP”, senior dustani Awam Morcha (Secu­ individual.” RJD leader Shivanand Tiwari lar) too is said to be mulling I-PAC and AAP The third NDA partner in told The Hindu. He added over contesting Delhi elec­ The JD(U) has announced to Bihar — Lok Janshakti Party — that it was quite obvious JD tions. Mr. Manjhi could an­ contest poll in Delhi while its too is likely to throw its ring (U) would cut into the vote nounce the number of seats, national vice­president in Delhi poll. However, JD(U) bank of who else but the BJP. the party would contest in Prashant Kishor’s political and LJPare yet to announce However, the BJP leader the next 3­4 days, said sourc­ consultancy firm I­PAC has how many seats they would and party MLC Sanjay Pas­ es. “We have identified 10­15 been repoed in by AAP. contest in the poll. In the re­ wan said: “Mr. Kishor has no seats but it will be decided The Opposition Rashtriya cently concluded Jharkhand knowledge about polit­ and announced by our party Janata Dal, though, has taken Assembly elections, JD(U) ics...he is only a poll manag­ chief soon,” said a party a swipe over JD(U) and Mr. and LJP had contested sepa­ er of Chief Minister Nitish leader preferring anonymity.

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JNU compromise formula back on the table ABVP activist claims Students should end protests as basic demands now met, says HRD Secretary who met JNUSU leaders and the V­C on camera to have Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI mobilised mobs The compromise formula currently under discussion between agitating students Police to add videos aired on TV of the Jawaharlal Nehru Un­ channel to ongoing SIT probe iversity and its Vice­Chancel­ lor M. Jagadesh Kumar is the STAFF REPORTER students and attacked Sa­ same as the agreement that NEW DELHI barmati Hostel,” he was was under discussion a Two JNU students claiming heard saying in a video. month ago and led to the to be Akhil Bharatiya Vi­ Another student, Rohit transfer of then Higher Edu­ dyarthi Parishad members Shah, was also heard on cation Secretary R. were seen admitting to camera saying that he gave Subrahmanyam. their role in the JNU vio­ his helmet to Awasthi be­ On December 11, following lence in 'sting' videos aired fore the latter set out for talks between both sides, on India Today TV. Sabarmati Hostel. Higher Education Minister Reacting to the exposé, In another tape, Left ac­ Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Delhi police spokesperson tivist Geeta Kumari was took the decision to give the Mandeep Singh Randhawa seen saying that she was in­ V­C an ultimatum to imple­ said they will obtain these volved in shutting down ment the agreement or re­ tapes from the television the university servers. Jus­ sign, according to a senior Human Resource Development Secretary Amit Khare holding a meeting with JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh and other student leaders; channel and include it in tifying her action, she said government official. Howev­ (right) JNU Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar after meeting the HRD Secretary on Friday. * R.V. MOORTHY the ongoing probe being Vice Chancellor M. Jaga­ er, neither side implemented conducted by a Special In­ desh Kumar was communi­ the terms of the agreement. Mr. Khare told reporters that demands may be there, the <> The HRD Ministry of hostel fees. even as Delhi Police named vestigation Team. “The cating with the students On December 13, Mr. Sub­ as the JNU administration basic demand has been met.” has listened to our Student leaders said they her as a suspect in their role of the people caught only online and avoiding rahmanyam, who had been has met the basic demands issues... They will would take the Ministry’s probe into Sunday’s attacks. on camera will be verified meeting them, so they de­ coordinating the talks, was of students with regards to Hostel fee send us a circular. proposal back to the Union Contrasting the dialogue and their presence on cam­ cided to target the server transferred, and the stu­ hostel fees, they should with­ The hostel fee compromise office­bearers and counsel­ with the HRD Ministry with pus during the violence room in order to force the Once we have dents’ agitation resumed. draw the agitation and re­ as well as the notification of lors for further discussion. the accusations being made will be checked,” he said. administration's hand. On Friday, current HRD turn to classes. He pointed the Union were both part of discussed with our “The HRD Ministry has lis­ by the Delhi Police, Akshat Awasthi, a first­ Responding subsequent­ Secretary Amit Khare sepa­ out that the cost of service the agreement which had office­bearers, we tened to our issues. We have year student of the French ly to the 'sting operation', rately met the V­C and the and utility charges are not been worked out on Decem­ will decide whether conveyed our demands, and ‘V-C must go’ degree programme at Ja­ she tweeted: “JNU VC in­ leaders of the students un­ being charged to students ber 11. It had also stated that to call off the they are trying in their way. JNUSU vice­president Saket waharlal Nehru University, creases our fee a thousand ion. This is the Ministry’s lat­ and would be borne by the students would call off their protests or not They will send us a circular. Moon said, “You can infer was seen on camera saying times. He sends punish­ est attempt to broker peace University Grants Commis­ protest while the JNU admi­ Aishe Ghosh Once we have discussed with that we have faith in the HRD that he mobilised mobs for ment letters for demand­ in the two and a half month sion instead, although stu­ nistration would "take a le­ JNUSU president our office­bearers, we will Ministry, not in the Home Mi­ the attack on campus on Ja­ ing right to education. I long standoff, initially dents will still pay a higher nient view" of incidents that decide whether to call off the nistry.” On one point, the nuary 5 from within and myself have received sparked by a hostel fee hike, room rent. occurred during the agita­ Ministry that he was “taking protests or not,” said JNUSU students remained adamant. outside the campus. He countless such letters. We that has led to mass street However, Mr. Khare was tion. Students had demand­ all steps to implement the president Aishe Ghosh, who “We have lost all faith in the claimed to be an ABVP acti­ are fighting for our rights. protests and attacks against non­committal on students ed that all FIRs filed against decisions arrived at” as per was injured in the attacks on vice­chancellor. We will not vist. “After we were at­ We are in civil disobe­ students and teachers on demand for notification of them and proctorial investi­ the December 11 agreement. Sunday. She added that the budge from our demand that tacked, I immediately mo­ dience. That's what I have campus last weekend. their elected Union, only say­ gations be withdrawn. However, so far, action has cases against students must the V­C must go,” said Ms. bilised a large number of said. Nothing to hide.” Following the discussions, ing that “while many other On Friday, the V­C told the only been taken on the issue be withdrawn, speaking Ghosh. Three JNU professors move HC to preserve CCTV footage, evidence Petitioners say they apprehend that data may be damaged

Press Trust of India retrieve all CCTV footage of New Delhi JNU campus. Three Jawaharlal Nehru Un­ On January 5, a group of iversity (JNU) professors ap­ masked attackers had proached the Delhi High stormed the JNU campus Court on Friday seeking di­ and targeted students in rections to preserve data, three hostels, unleashing CCTV footage and other evi­ mayhem with sticks, stones dence relating to the January and iron rods. 5 violence at the university The petition has been list­ The plea said the petition­ (Left) ABVP members hold a peace march; women students form a human chain condemning the ABVP and violence on campus, on Friday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR, PTI campus. ed for hearing before Justice ers apprehend that in the ab­ The petition also sought Brijesh Sethi on January 13. sence of a direction from the directions for preservation The petition was filed by court or the police commis­ and retrieval of all material/ JNU professors Ameet Para­ sioner, the relevant evidence Students hold silent protests on university campus evidence available with meswaran, Atul Sood and may not be properly WhatsApp, Google and Ap­ Shukla Vinayak Sawant seek­ preserved. JNUSU calls police claims a ‘litany of distortions’ while ABVP says ‘truth of Left violence exposed’ ple, specifically data of ing necessary directions to It claimed that as per the WhatsApp groups ‘Unity the Delhi Police Commis­ knowledge of the petitioners Staff Reporter record that the police has Against Left’ and ‘Friends of sioner and the Delhi as well as news reports, the New Delhi flushed integrity and hones­ RSS’, including messages, government. police has not yet retrieved As Delhi Police held a press ty down the drain and is un­ pictures, videos and phone The petition also sought a CCTV footage, which is cru­ conference on Friday regard­ dertaking this exercise to de­ numbers of the members. direction to Delhi Police to cial evidence. ing its probe into the vio­ fend the V­C and the ABVP.” lence that broke out on Jawa­ The union also pointed harlal Nehru University out that various media re­ ( JNU) on January 5, women ports had made it clear that students of the university as the violence was perpetrated well as members of the Akhil by the ABVP, with the joint Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad secretary of the students’ bo­ held separate demonstra­ dy admitting that its mem­ tions on campus condemn­ bers were carrying lathis. ing the attacks. “The police has done a Policemen were deployed shoddy job as evidenced by in large numbers in the un­ the alleged incorrect identifi­ iversity area as ABVP mem­ cation of one of the accused, bers held a silent ‘peace all of which it said were march’ — holding up posters based on videos from ABVP­ condemning ‘Red Terror’, leaning pages,” it added. referring to Left groups — from Sabarmati T point to Massive police deployment outside JNU campus on Friday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR ‘Impartial probe’ the JNU main gate. Meanwhile, the ABVP During the peace march, a by the police on Friday “a li­ placate [Home Minister] bers on January 4, a day be­ termed the police probe “im­ human chain of women stu­ tany of distortions, half Amit Shah and the ABVP, fore violent mobs went on a partial” and said that “in sev­ dents stood on the sidelines truths and outright lies”, the which can employ violence rampage on campus. eral universities Left organi­ holding up posters con­ JNU Students’ Union accused with impunity on the basis of It alleged that “ABVP sations are continuously and demning the ABVP. Several the force of carrying out a its State backing.” members thrashed the JNU­ violently targeting students of them had tied black bands “political investigation”. SU general secretary, broke who dare to disagree with across their heads and held Meanwhile, the ABVP said ‘Sinister motives’ the leg of women students, them”. It added that those up posters such as “Here to that the “truth of Left­perpe­ It added that the “sinister and injured several others... who disagreed with “the watch the march of shame” trated violence in JNU stands motives” of the police is re­ complaints were filed but communist ideology are dis­ and “ABVP go back”. exposed”. vealed in the fact that it has there has been no FIR regis­ criminated against by Left­ Among those participat­ In a statement, the JNUSU implicated JNUSU president tered”. The union added that wing professors”. The group ing in the peace march was stated: “The police named Aishe Ghosh, “upon whom a the police press conference said it was hopeful that strict Pranav Kumar, a teacher in all Left outfits but the name murder attempt took place” on Friday was carried out to action would be taken the School of Social Studies, of the ABVP was curiously in the January 5 violence. “save the ABVP and deflect against those fiound guilty. who said that the rally was missing... the ploy to impli­ The JNUSU also con­ attention from the spine­ In an appeal to the public, an appeal to start classes cate the Left in the violence demned the police for not chilling horrors perpetrated the JNUSU said it hoped that with a cool head, and that it is an indication that this taking action on various inci­ by right­wing hooligans”. all would “see through this was not to “blame any side”. probe is a political investiga­ dences of violence, allegedly “It is regrettable but not malicious propaganda being Calling the claims made tion with a clear agenda to perpetrated by ABVP mem­ surprising given their past spread against JNU”.

Plea against Shaheen Bagh protesters dismissed Petitioners told HC lakhs of people being affected due to traffic congestion

Press Trust of India Thousands of people, in­ which declined to give any blocked and vehicles are be­ New Delhi cluding women and chil­ relief. ing diverted to the DND fly­ The Delhi High Court on Fri­ dren, are protesting at Sha­ The letter, written by way. The protest, which be­ day refused to entertain a heen Bagh and nearby Jamia Tushar Sehdev and Raman gan on December 14, is plea seeking directions for Millia Islamia to oppose the Kalra, said the routes from affecting lakhs of people due removal of demonstrators Act as well as the NRC. Delhi to Uttar Pradesh, Delhi to road closures. It further protesting against the The application, in the to Uttarakhand, Delhi to Noi­ said that the protesters have amended citizenship law at form of a letter, was men­ da hospitals, Ashram and Ba­ put up barricades and heavy Shaheen Bagh in order to tioned before a Bench of darpur were unavailable due stones on the sides of the clear road blockages that are Chief Justice D.N. Patel and to the protest as the roads roads and are not allowing causing traffic congestions. Justice C. Hari Shankar, around Shaheen Bagh are even pedestrians to pass. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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The accused has been Hemani Bhandari as on January 10, the occu­ A 51­year­old woman, who woman was declared Staff Reporter identified as Hemprakash (34). NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Two of his relatives have been pancy rate was 175%. A few was the wife of Central Bu­ brought dead at Deep arrested for their involvement The occupancy rate in Tihar remedies, including building reau of Investigation Depu­ Chand Bandhu Hospital. The National Green Tribu­ in the robbery. On Wednesday, jail has lowered by over 70% a new prison complex, ho­ ty Director, has been killed When police reached the nal has directed status quo his colleague had reported to since 2015, but the issue of wever, are being considered. after she was hit by a speed­ spot, the victim was identi­ on the construction of a the police that Mr. overcrowding in the prison “To increase the lodging ca­ ing bike in north­west Del­ fied and they were in­ high­rise near Vishwavidya­ Hemprakash was robbed of is a problem that persists, pacity, it is being considered hi’s Keshavpuram, the pol­ formed that Sandhya was laya metro station. The the money at Sector 88 here. Prison Statistics released by that land be procured in Na­ ice said on Friday. The rider walking on a road near a green panel constituted a An investigation was launched the National Crime Records rela and a new prison com­ of the bike has been arrest­ gurdwara when the arrest­ committee comprising Un­ and Hemprakash and two Bureau has stated. plex be built there. Another ed, they said. ed the speeding bike being ion Environment Ministry others were subsequently According to the data, in plan that is being considered Deputy Commissioner of driven by Mr. Vijay hit her. and Central Pollution Con­ arrested. Hemprakash was 2018, the capacity of Tihar In 2018, the capacity of Tihar jail was 10,026 and the number for future is that existing jails Police (North West) Vijayan­ Mr. Vijay fled the spot and trol Board officials to un­ “unhappy” with his job and jail was 10,026 and the num­ of inmates was 15,468. * FILE PHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR with single storey be turned ta Arya said that the victim the injured was rushed to dertake a carrying capacity had planned to dupe his ber of inmates was 15,468 into double and triple sto­ has been identified as Sand­ the hospital. study of the area. employer with the help of his that led to the occupancy 179.8% in 2016 with 14,058 had the most overcrowded rey,” he said. hya, the wife of Deputy Di­ The police identified the An NGT Bench said, “Ap­ relatives. PTI rate of 154.3% with 16 jail. In inmates and a capacity of jail among the Union Territo­ Overcrowding in prisons rector of CBI’s Central Fo­ offending bike and reached plying the Precautionary 2015, the occupancy rate 7,818. ries. Among the States, pri­ leads to issues like poor hy­ rensic Science Laboratory, traced the accused after Principle of the environ­ was 226.9% with 10 jails, the In 2017, the number of pri­ sons in Uttar Pradesh were giene, lack of sleep, among Rakesh Bisht. She was a resi­ which he was arrested and mental law, we consider it capacity being 6,250 and the sons increased to 16 and the the most overcrowded others. Keeping in view the dent of Keshavpuram. his two­wheeler was seized. necessary to require an number of inmates being capacity increased to 10,026. (176.5%) followed by Sikkim human rights of the prison­ The arrested person has “A case under Sections evaluation of relevant data 14,183. The occupancy rate also lo­ (157.3%) and Chhattisgarh ers, it is essential that they been identified as Vijay, a 279 [rash driving] and 304A and not the old database by The situation got better in wered to 151.2% with 15,161 (153.3%), the report said. are given reasonable space resident of Wazirpur JJ Co­ [causing death by negli­ a joint committee compris­ 2016 after Mandoli Prison inmates. Responding to the issue of and facilities in jails, the re­ lony, Ms. Arya said. gence] of the Indian Penal ing representatives of the Complex was inaugurated However, like in 2017, Del­ overcrowding, Tihar Direc­ port noted. In the recent The police said they re­ Code has been registered CPCB, Ministry of Environ­ and the number of prisons hi recorded the third highest tor General Sandeep Goel years, overcrowding is one ceived a call on Thursday and further investigation in­ ment, Forests and Climate increased from 10 to 12. The occupancy rate in the coun­ admitted that overcrowding of the biggest problems be­ evening regarding an acci­ to the matter is under way,” Change and IIT­Delhi.” occupancy rate lowered to try in 2018 as well and also is a persistent problem and ing faced by prison inmates. dent. Subsequently, anoth­ Ms. Arya said. “Meanwhile, no further construction activity may be undertaken and status quo as on today may be maintained. It will be per­ 15­cm piece of arrow removed Chhapaak gets good response on Day 1 missible for the applicant as well as the project propo­ nent to furnish their view­ from 12­year­old archer Most viewers express indifference to the ‘unnecessary’ outrage over the movie point to the Member Secre­ tary, CPCB, for Elisha Vermani the film. She said: “If you can consideration by the Com­ The arrow, shot accidentally, pierced her shoulder New Delhi ask others to boycott a film mittee within two weeks,” Amid calls for a boycott by based on such a sensitive is­ the Bench said. Special Correspondent <> Shivangini Gohain the ICU for observation,” some a faction of right­wing sue then it just shows what The directions came NEW DELHI is stable after said a senior doctor at supporters, Bollywood mo­ kind of a person you are.” when the green panel was Doctors at the All India Insti­ having undergone AIIMS. vie Chhapaak that hit the Most viewers expressed in­ hearing a plea moved by tute of Medical Sciences (AI­ a very complex The arrow, he explained, screens on Friday, garnered difference to the “unneces­ University of Delhi chal­ IMS) on Friday successfully surgery... The was touching the vertebral good response from viewers. sary” outrage over the movie. lenging the environmental removed a part of an arrow arrow had artery which supplies blood The film was embroiled in Vineeta Singh, a 28­year­ clearance granted to the a controversy after actor Dee­ old homemaker, said she did project. measuring around 15­cm damaged a part of to the brain stem. A part of from the shoulder of Shivan­ the arrow measuring about pika Padukone went to Jawa­ not understand how anyone, “The project is in ‘Si­ her neck, vertebra gini Gohain, a 12­year­old 15 cm was removed from her harlal Nehru University to ex­ driven by political opinions, lence Zone’ being within archer from Assam who was and the left lung. upper body. “Around 0.5 cm press solidarity with its could stand against a film on 100 metres from DU and Pa­ injured earlier this week She has now been of the arrow was stuck in students and faculty. acid attack survivors. tel Chest Institute. The area when she was accidentally shifted to the ICU front of the spinal cord. It However, the opening of People wait outside Delite Cinema theatre for the Deepika “It was a thought­provok­ is in water scarcity zone. hit by the arrow. The inci­ for observation was a very complex sur­ the film seemed largely unaf­ Padukone­starrer Chhapaak, which is based on the life of ing film,” she said. Traffic plans or congestion dent happened during a Senior doctor at AIIMS gery,” he said. fected by it. Laxmi Agarwal, an acid attack survivor. * R.V. MOORTHY The film also received sig­ filed by the project propo­ training session and the ar­ The operation, which last­ nificant support online with nent with the application is row pierced her shoulder. “Ms. Gohain is stable after ed three­and­half hours, was Free screening politics. These calls for boy­ was not a good sign for a de­ hashtags — #ISupportDeepika based on the statistics of Ju­ Ms. Gohain was airlifted having undergone a very performed by a team led by Rishi Verma, a 32­year­old cotts are irrelevant.” mocratic country. So, we de­ and #HumDekhenge — trend­ ly 2011,” the Bench ob­ from Assam and brought to complex surgery. She was Deepak Gupta, a neurosur­ businessman, who was at the A free screening of the mo­ cided to organise a special ing with users posting photos served while noting the al­ AIIMS on Thursday night. brought to AIIMS from Di­ gery professor at AIIMS. theatres to watch the film vie was organised by former screening,” she said. of their tickets on social me­ legations made in the plea. She was training at Dakha brugarh in Assam on Thurs­ Dakha Devi Rasiwasia Col­ said: “It’s an important film MLA Alka Lamba for college Another 19­year­old view­ dia platforms. A tweet read­ The project in question is Devi Rasiwasia College at day night. The arrow had lege serves as an extension that highlights the issues students in Daryaganj. “After er, Anindita Chawdhary, a ing: “People who carried acid a group housing complex Chabua on Wednesday damaged a part of her neck, centre under the Sports faced by an acid attack survi­ Deepika’s visit to JNU, a student of Delhi University in JNU are boycotting Chap­ proposed to be built on an when the incident vertebra and the left lung. Authority of India Regional vor and it was worth watch­ group started campaigning expressed disappointment pak”, are doing the rounds area of 20,000 sqm , the happened. She has now been shifted to Centre in Guwahati. ing... We are not involved in against this film and I felt that over those protesting against on social media. plea had said.

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Nirnimesh Kumar the agreement by using pipes qua installation of Johnson New Delhi of a particular company. Pipes in the borewell in ques­ A Delhi court has acquitted a It further alleged that the tion that has also been Delhi Jal Board (DJB) Junior payment amounting to ₹2.13 signed, checked and cross­ Engineer and a director of a lakh was made to the con­ checked by the officers of the private company in a corrup­ tractor on a forged invoice DJB, cannot be held criminal­ tion case, saying that the submitted by the private ac­ ly liable for the commission Central Bureau of Investiga­ cused person. of alleged act of criminal con­ tion (CBI) has not been able Additional Sessions Judge spiracy in the present case,” to bring on record unim­ Anjurag Sain, however, dis­ the judge said. peachable evidence against missed the charges as the in­ “It is apparent that no sub­ them. vestigating agency was not stantive evidence has come The probe agency had able to produce sustainable on record to show that the ac­ charged them with entering evidence before the court. cused persons have commit­ into a conspiracy for alleged­ “The court is of the opi­ ted the charged offences. ly embezzling a portion of nion that since it was the du­ Thus, the court holds that the money released for bor­ ty of the Finance Department the prosecution has not been ing a tube well. of the DJB to verify the ge­ able to prove its case against It alleged that the Junior nuineness of invoice, ac­ both accused persons Engineer fraudulently certi­ cused Junior Engineer Pri­ beyond shadow of all reason­ fied that the company direc­ tam Singh Meena, who has able doubts. I accordingly, tor, who was given the con­ personally supervised the acquit both the accused per­ tract for boring the tube well, material and work and issued sons,” Mr. Sain said in his carried out the work as per the satisfaction certificate judgment. (Clockwise from left) Indian Air Force personnel rehearse for the upcoming Republic Day parade, at Rajpath; a contingent of Delhi Police personnel; a police checkpoint near India Gate. * PTI, SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA. 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J, priest; Swami Agnivesh, activist; and Kavita Srivastava, activist in Right to Food Members hold march, court arrest at Seminar Rooms II & III, Delhi court issues production warrant against Shivinder Singh, his brother and one more for Jan. 20 Kamaladevi Complex, India Interna­ Staff Reporter one­time absorption of ad tional Centre (IIC), 6 p.m. New Delhi Press Trust of India Prosecutor Nitesh Rana, the amount in repayment of its corporate loan book and fi­ the tune of ₹2,397 crore,” the hoc teachers, officials main­ Talk: “Acupuncture ­ Use, Benefits New Delhi and Risks” by Dr. Anil Kumar, a visu­ probe agency has accused all existing liability towards RFL nally, the money was si­ police had alleged. Office­bearers of the Delhi tained that only the govern­ ally challenged acupuncturist at The Enforcement Directorate three of money laundering, by projecting it as untainted. phoned off. The RFL said in a press re­ University Teachers’ Asso­ ment could take a call on the Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre (ED) on Friday filed a char­ punishable under Sections 3 “Therefore, accused per­ The EOW registered an lease that since the time the ciation (DUTA) on Friday same, DUTA said. Its repre­ (IHC), 7 p.m. gesheet against former Fortis and 4 of the Prevention of sons were involved in acqui­ FIR after it received a com­ offence took place, the com­ met Human Resource Deve­ sentatives were also in­ Music: Sitar recital by Mayank Raina, accompanied by Bivakar Healthcare promoters Shi­ Money Laundering Act. sition and utilisation of pro­ plaint from RFL’s Manpreet pany has undergone a com­ lopment (HRD) Ministry offi­ formed that its demand for Choudhury on the tabla and Hindus­ vinder Singh and his brother The court took cognisance ceeds of crime generated out Suri against Shivinder, Godh­ plete revamp of its Board of cials over demands of ab­ the release of the “corrected tani classical vocal recital by Rahul Prakash, accompanied by Anand Ku­ Malvinder before a Delhi of the chargesheet and is­ of criminal activities and its wani and others, alleging Directors. sorption of ad hoc teachers concordance tables for revi­ mar on the tabla and Lalit Sisidia on court in a case related to al­ sued production warrant projection as untainted pro­ that loans were taken by “All efforts continue to be following a march from Man­ sion of pension” and the the harmonium at Amaltas Hall, In­ leged misappropriation of against them for January 20. perty, thereby have commit­ them while managing the made to rebuild the busi­ di House to Parliament withdrawal of a special leave dia Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. Music: Students of Pravaha, an funds at Religare Finvest Ltd. All the three accused are cur­ ted the offence of money firm but the money was in­ ness, mobilise fresh capital Street where they courted petition on pensions were academy of Indian classical music (RFL). rently in judicial custody. laundering as defined under vested in other companies. and correct the transgression arrest, the union said. before the Finance Ministry. and dance, will showcase their talent The final report, filed be­ The ED also named RHC Sections of PMLA,” said the “They put RFL in a poor fi­ and legacy issues of the past. At the meeting, DUTA Apart from this DUTA sub­ in a dance presentation titled "Katha Kathak ­ The Journey of Kathak” at fore Additional Sessions Holdings Pvt. Ltd. as an ac­ chargesheet, filed through nancial condition by disburs­ The management and inter­ said, senior HRD officials mitted a memorandum of Triveni Auditorium, Triveni Kala Judge Sandeep Yadav, also cused in its chargesheet. advocate A.R. Aditya. ing loans to companies with nal controls at the Group and committed to the implemen­ their long­standing demands Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, 5:30 named former CMD of Reli­ It said the accused had ac­ The ED had alleged that no financial standing and all subsidiaries’ level have al­ tation of the assurances which are to have a direct p.m. Exhibition: A group art show by gare Enterprises Ltd. (REL) quired proceeds of crime to both the brothers, along with controlled by them. The so been revamped, bringing made by them on December bearing on promotion of Kushala Vora, Sangita Maity and Sunil Godhwani (58) as an the tune of ₹150 crore others, transferred an companies to which the in much­needed assurance to 5 last, which teachers com­ teachers and the stepping up Shruti Mahajan at Shrine Empire Gal­ accused. through Star Artworks Pvt. amount of about ₹1,000 loans were disbursed willful­ employees about a stable plained had still not been of pay for senior teachers at lery, D 395, Defence Colony, 11 a.m. ­ 6 p.m. In the chargesheet, filed Ltd., derived out of criminal crore to various persons ly defaulted in repayments and action­oriented manage­ done in entirety. With regard par with junior colleagues (Mail your listings for this column by the ED’s Special Public activities and utilised the from entities linked to the and caused a loss to RFL to ment,” it said. to the union’s key demand of with the same qualifications. at [email protected])

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Timings DELHI BJP’s Raj Bala Malik is Call for Punjab SATURDAY, JAN. 11 Over two dozen AMU students RISE 07:16 SET 17:43 bandh against RISE 18:21 SET 07:38 new Chandigarh Mayor SUNDAY, JAN. 12 CAA, NRC RISE 07:16 SET 17:44 booked for ‘inappropriate slogans’ Defeats Cong. candidate Gurbax Rawat RISE 19:28 SET 08:32 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MONDAY, JAN. 13 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT CHANDIGARH RISE 07:16 SET 17:45 Student claims the slogans at a solidarity march for JNU were generic CHANDIGARH Sikh radical outfit Dal Khal­ RISE 20:35 SET 09:21 Raj Bala Malik of the Bharati­ sa and Shiromani Akali Dal Special Correspondent vested interests among stu­ ya Janata Party was elected (Amritsar) have given a call Ghaziabad dents. The students could as the new Mayor of Chandi­ for a complete “shut­ Over two dozen unidentified protest at Duck Point, the de­ garh Municipal Corporation down” in Punjab on Janu­ students of Aligarh Muslim signated spot for such prot­ after she defeated Congress ary 25, against the BJP go­ University were booked on ests,” said an official source. councillor Gurbax Rawat on vernment at the Centre for Thursday for allegedly rais­ Duck Point is situated near Friday. implementing the Citizen­ ing inappropriate slogans the canteen and is well in­ While elections to the ship (Amendment) Act and against U.P. Chief Minister side the campus. A section of Chandigarh Municipal Cor­ the proposed National Re­ Yogi Adityanath and Prime teachers who are protesting poration are held every five Raj Bala Malik gister for Citizens. Minister Narendra Modi. The against the CAA assemble at years, but election to the students had formed a hu­ this spot. post of Mayor is held every pendent. The nominated ‘RSS agenda’ man chain in solidarity with year. members do not vote in a “Dal Khalsa and Shiromani JNU students and teachers ‘Assessing situation’ Out of the total 27 votes, mayoral election. Member of Akali Dal (Amritsar) have who were attacked by Student leaders said they are Ms. Malik secured 22 to win Parliament Kirron Kher also called for a complete shut­ masked men on Sunday. assessing the situation and the post. Mr. Rawat got five has a vote being an ex­officio down in Punjab on the oc­ Anil Kumar, SHO, Civil would take a call on how to votes, the Returning Officer member of the House. casion of India’s 70th Re­ Lines, said 25­30 unnamed take the protests forward. said. public Day. Punjab will students have been booked AMU students during a protest against the CAA. * FILE PHOTO “Right now, we are protest­ The Chandigarh Munici­ Mayor’s priority list remain shut on January 25 0 under Section 153A (promot­ ing at Bab­e­Syed, but there pal Corporation has 26 elect­ Ms. Malik, who had been a (as January 26 is a Sunday) DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to ing enmity between diffe­ political figure. tively means the university is no sit­in protest right ed councillors and nine Mayor in 2012 as well, said to register its protest verify and make appropriate enquiries to satisfy themselves about the veracity of rent groups on grounds of re­ In another development, administration doesn’t want now,” said a student who is nominated members. Out of that upgrading the city’s old against the RSS agenda of an advertisement before responding to any published in this newspaper. THG ligion). He said the police citing a Allahabad High students to protest at the un­ actively involved in the the elected members, 20 are sewage and water lines were Hindu Rashtra,” said Sim­ PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch had collected video Court ruling, the university iversity gate. protest. of the BJP, which has a ma­ on her priority list. ranjit Singh Mann and Har­ for the authenticity of any advertisement or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s evidence. authorities have issued not­ “From a protest against On Friday, a section of stu­ jority in the corporation. BJP’s Ravi Kant Sharma pal Singh Cheema, chief’s products and/or services. In no event can the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- A student requesting ano­ ices that disallow any protest the CAA and NRC, it is be­ dents organised a candle The Congress has five coun­ was elected as Senior Depu­ of SAD (Amritsar) and Dal ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in nymity said the slogans were within 100 metres of the Ad­ coming a protest against the march in the memory of Ira­ cillors while one councillor ty Mayor while Jagtar Singh, Khalsa respectively, at a any manner whatsoever for any claims and/or damages for advertisements in generic and didn’t make any ministrative Block and Vice VC and the Registrar. We nian commander Qassem is from the Shiromani Akali also of the BJP, was elected joint press conference in this newspaper. personal comment on any Chancellor’s lodge. It effec­ could see the involvement of Soleimani. Dal and the other is an Inde­ as Deputy Mayor. Jalandhar on Friday. CM Khattar AAP protests against tariff hike counters his No screening of Padukone’s film in Aligarh Home Minister Hindutva organisation puts up posters warning theatres not to show Chhapaak Punjab has the highest power rates in the country: Mann Special Correspondent showing concern for only Aligarh has four promi­ but when Ms. Padukone went SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT consumers in Punjab were Ghaziabad CHANDIGARH Press trust of india one side affected by violence nent theatres and at least to show solidarity with stu­ increased by 36 paise a unit Chandigarh After a Hindutva organisation in Jawaharlal Nehru Universi­ two, Meenakshi and Great Va­ dent leader Aishe Ghosh who The Chandigarh police used with effect from January 1, Haryana Chief Minister Ma­ put posters on hoardings in ty on January 5. lue Mall had put posters of was beaten during violence water cannons to disperse 2020. nohar Lal Khattar on Fri­ front of theatres, Deepika Pa­ With names and photos of the film. However, according at JNU, she is being targeted,” Aam Aadmi Party leaders AAP State president and day said the Criminal In­ dukone­starrer Chhapaak Pankaj Pandit and Deepak to local sources, they were re­ he said. and workers who were Lok Sabha MP Bhagwant vestigation Department was not screened in theatres Sharma of Akhand Bharat placed with Tanhaji: The Un- In Muzaffarnagar, Bajrang marching towards the Punjab Mann, who led the protest, (CID) remained under the across Aligarh on Friday. Hindu Sena printed at the sung Warrior. Dal members disrupted the Chief Minister's residence to said Punjab has higher elec­ CM’s charge during the The posters written in big bottom, the poster said Ms. screening of the film at Car­ protest against the “high” tricity rates than any other terms of Bansi Lal and Devi font with chetavani (caution) Padukone had thrown acid SP protest nival Cinemas in the heart of power tariffs in the State on AAP protest in Chandigarh State in the country. Lal, an assertion that ap­ written on top said that those on the face of nationalism. Samajwadi Party members the city. Local sources said Friday. on Friday. * AKHILESH KUMAR pears to counter the Home who would try to screen Anil Samania, Circle Offic­ protested against the move. members of the right­wing The protesters wanted to ‘Govt. not acting’ Minister’s claim over the Chhapaak should get their er III, Aligarh, told reporters Ranjeet Chaudhary, district organisation tore posters of meet the Chief Minister and the barricades by the police “People are suffering but the department. “insurance” done. “ Na dek- that security was provided to president, Chhatra Sabha, the film and raised slogans submit a memorandum, de­ using water cannons. The ruling Congress government Mr. Khattar, however, hunga, na dekhnedunga” the theatres. “But theatre the student wing of the party, against Ms. Padukone. In Noi­ manding a rollback of the police said the protesters at­ has turned a blind eye to­ sought to play down the ro­ (won’t watch, won’t allow owners have decided against said, “The film is about an da, SP members alleged that hiked power tariffs. As prot­ tempted to jump over the wards their miseries,” al­ w.“It is not a big issue. It is anybody to watch) it de­ screening the film. If they de­ acid attack victim. On one the police didn’t allow them esters marched towards the barricades to reach near the leged other AAP leaders, a technical issue,” he told clared. The poster further cide to screen, we will pro­ hand this government talks to watch the film at Spice Mall Chief Minister’s official resi­ CM’s residence. which included Leader of reporters in Panchkula. criticised Ms. Padukone for vide security,” he said. of ‘beti bachao, beti padhao’, in Sector 25. dence, they were stopped at Power tariffs for domestic Opposition Harpal Cheema. BJP’s minority cell members in Man held for murder of M.P. consider quitting en masse wife and son

Special Correspondent 165 members quit party in Khargone district over CAA, NRC JAIPUR Sidharth Yadav go now?” Muslims were hurting senti­ Police on Friday claimed to Bhopal Stating that the call was to ments. “No one within the have solved the sensational Members of the BJP’s minor­ members of all faiths, he party is ready to talk to us.” case of murder of a 30­ ity cell in Madhya Pradesh said, “We had joined the par­ On the other hand, com­ year­old woman at her have invited party workers ty of leaders like Atal Bihari munity leaders were asking apartment in Pratap Nagar to a meeting on Saturday to Vajpayee. But it has lost its them why they still stood by here, after which her two­ decide whether they should way. We have spent our a party which didn’t respect year­old son was also quit en masse over the Citi­ blood and sweat for it.” them and their faith. “They found dead. The woman’s zenship (Amendment) Act Ahead of the party’s door­ have told us if we don’t stand husband is alleged to have and the proposed nation­ to­door awareness cam­ by them now, they’ll boycott conspired for the double wide National Register of Ci­ paign ­ Jagrukta Mission ­ on us from the community,” he murder through a contract tizens (NRC). the law, the party didn’t in­ said. “After all, they are the killer. “Whenever there is so­ vite minority members to ones who take part in our According to the police, mething wrong, you should meetings, Mr. Baid alleged. functions and funerals.” Rohit Tiwari had strained speak up,” said Javed Baig, “They have already consi­ While on Thursday 165 relations with his wife the cell’s media in­charge. dered us out. How do they members of the cell quit the Shweta and he wanted to “The party has ignored us expect people to listen if we party in Khargone district, get rid of her and start a and the community has are not involved?” cell’s State secretary Akram new family with someone threatened boycott for sup­ Moreover, he said, com­ Khan resigned from the post else. He allegedly hired a porting it. Where should we ments of BJP leaders against on Monday. contract killer to kill both. Farmers suspend stir over land acquisition Many of them had ‘buried themselves’ Special Correspondent JAIPUR Farmers at Nindar village, 20 km from here, on Friday sus­ pended their four­day­long unusual agitation, during which they dug pits and trenches and buried them­ selves chest­deep in the mud Farmers bury themselves with the demand for fair chest-deep in mud compensation for their land demanding fair acquired for a housing pro­ compensation for their land. ject. The Jaipur Develop­ * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT ment Authority has assured them of finding a solution to demanded that the govern­ the issue. ment give compensation as The JDA has acquired per the Right to Fair Com­ 1,350 bighas of land at Nin­ pensation and Transparency dar in several stages since in Land Acquisition, Rehabil­ 2010 for a housing project, itation and Resettlement despite the land owners re­ Act, which came into force fusing to accept compensa­ on January 1, 2014. “Applying tion. While the compensa­ the 2010 District Lease Com­ tion has been offered at the mittee rates in 2020 is un­ rates prevailing in 2010, the fair,” Samiti convener Nagen­ farmers alleged that the dra Singh Shekhawat said. JDA's survey was faulty and Mahesh Joshi, govern­ the compensation was much ment chief whip in the As­ below the market prices. sembly, visited the site of ag­ The Nindar Bachao Yuva itation and assured the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, farmers of “sympathetic which lauched the ‘Zameen consideration” of their de­ Samadhi Satyagraha’, has mand.

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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2020 WEST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE No tree will be cut for memorial, says CM Programme at Raj Bhavan by Uddhav says more trees will be planted at Thackeray memorial site in Aurangabad instead sacked office­bearers irks govt. Shoumojit Banerjee dents and environmental or­ Pune ganisations, who Can’t call it govt. event, says Minority Development Minister Not a single tree will be felled vociferously opposed any at the site of the proposed tree­felling action and ac­ Alok Deshpande The government has academies, including Urdu, Mumbai <> memorial to Shiv Sena foun­ cused the Sena of “doubles­ cancelled all the Hindi, Sindhi and Gujarati. der Bal Thackeray in Auran­ peak” on environment. An invitation printed by the appointments made There will be fresh appoint­ gabad, Chief Minister Udd­ Punjabi Sahitya Academy ments. Therefore, we by the previous hav Thackeray said on Aarey opposition (PSA) for a Gurbani recita­ thought it was important to Friday. The Sena had vehemently tion at Raj Bhavan has upset government to all inform Raj Bhavan,” he said. Speaking on the conclud­ opposed the Bharatiya Jana­ the State Minority Develop­ academies The PSA was set up by the ing day of his tour of Marath­ ta Party­led government’s ment Department, which Nawab Malik previous government in Oc­ wada, Mr. Thackeray said, decision to remove trees at has removed all office­bear­ Minority Development Minister tober 2018. “Let me make it clear that Mumbai’s Aarey colony to ers of the academy. Mr. Khanna said he has not a single tree will be cut in make way for a Metro car Department secretary the programme at Raj Bha­ not received any communi­ the [in the 17­acre Priyadar­ shed. One of the first deci­ Shyam Tagde has written to van. cation regarding his removal shini garden] where the me­ sions Mr. Thackeray took on Raj Bhavan officials, saying Minority Development from the academy. “We have morial is to come up. This becoming Chief Minister was the academy has not sought minister Nawab Malik, when all the permissions from the park has a variety of impor­ to halt work on the Metro car government permission for asked about the letter, said, previous government and tant tree species like euca­ shed at Aarey. the January 20 programme. “[Mr. Khanna] has been re­ former minority develop­ lyptus … Instead, we shall be Hence, the Sena, which The letter, which said the moved from the position by ment minister. The pro­ planting more trees like jam­ controls the Aurangabad event has not been organ­ the department. How can he gramme was fixed a long bul and magnolia to enrich Municipal Corporation, was ised by the PSA, comes after conduct the event at the Raj time ago. Whether it is a go­ the biodiversity of this accused of hypocrisy after office­bearers of the organi­ Bhavan and call it a vernment programme or place,” said the CM, who vi­ reports of felling trees for the sation refused to acknow­ government programme? not, we will go ahead with sited the garden and sur­ Thackeray memorial sur­ ledge the new government’s When this came to our not­ it,” he told The Hindu. veyed the site of the memo­ Site visit: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Industries Minister Subhash Desai and officials faced. This had prompted decision to remove them ice, we informed Raj Bhavan He said Governor Bhagat rial and its plans. survey the plan of the proposed memorial in Aurangabad on Friday. * TWITTER Sena leaders in the city, in­ from their positions, to about it.” Singh Koshyari will also at­ cluding former MP Chandra­ which they were appointed He said they were left tend the event. Tweet triggers uproar nister Devendra Fadnavis, Priyadarshini garden, lo­ of birds and rare insects. kant Khaire and Nandkumar by the previous government. with no option but to send Sources in the Raj Bhavan Last month, the garden be­ tweeted about media reports cated in the heart of the ci­ This habitat consists of more Ghodele, to issue hasty assu­ According to the invita­ the letter. “The government said they will have to check came a hotbed of controver­ that the memorial would ne­ ty’s CIDCO area, is a popular than 8,700 trees. rances that Mr. Thackeray tion, Rajan Khanna, execu­ has cancelled all the ap­ whether they have received sy after Amruta Fadnavis, cessitate the felling of 1,000­ ‘green zone’ for residents Ms. Fadnavis’s tweet trig­ had instructed them that not tive chairman, PSA, the State pointments made by the any communication from the wife of former chief mi­ odd trees. and home to several species gered protests by local resi­ a single tree was to be cut. government has organised previous government to all the department.

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Shoumojit Banerjee mises of Imambara, a centu­ death,” Mr. Inamdar said. Pune ry­old Shia shrine in Pune Claiming that Soleimani The city’s Shia community, Cantonment. had helped India on a num­ along with other minority ber of occasions, Yusuf Baig, Ekbote refuses community outfits and pol­ ‘Unlawful assassination’ president of the Shia Broth­ itical organisations, staged Hundreds of demonstrators, ers of Pune, said the com­ to depose an anti­U.S. demonstration including minority com­ mander had led an attack on before inquiry on Friday, protesting the munity members and Shia Daesh/IS militants in Tikrit death of Iranian comman­ clerics, carried placards in Iraq and had helped free commission der Qasem Soleimani in a condemning the “unlawful 40 Indian nurses held cap­ U.S. drone strike in Iraq on and cowardly assassination tive by the terrorists. January 3. of Gen. Soleimani by the “Furthermore, he had Press Trust of India Pune The demonstration, con­ Trump administration”. raised his voice against demning the killing of the Shouts of ‘Long Live Qasem Kulbhushan Jadhav’s indict­ Right­wing leader Milind 62­year­old head of Iran’s Soleimani’ rent the air, ment on espionage and ille­ Ekbote, an accused in the Quds Force, was also backed along with slogans denounc­ gal confinement in Pakistan. Bhima­Koregaon violence by the Bhim Army. While a ing the U.S. Today, not only Iran, Iraq case, appeared before an rally was scheduled, it was “The Shia and Sunni com­ and Syria, but the western inquiry commission here cancelled owing to the Pune munities stand united in the world ought to be indebted on Friday but did not de­ Police denying organisers protest against Soleimani’s to Gen. Soleimani for being pose, citing changed politi­ permission. unlawful murder by the the scourge of IS … his mur­ cal circumstances, among “Our request for a rally American administration of der is a setback to Indo­Ira­ other things. was turned down by the President Donald Trump. nian ties and has made the A commission headed Bund Garden police on The protest saw the partici­ Middle East and the world a by Justice (retired) Jai Na­ grounds of law and order. pation of local Iranians in more volatile place, thanks rayan Patel is conducting The police said that Section Pune, the Shia community to the recklessness of the Winter visitors: Migratory seagulls are seen arriving along the Mandovi river at Betim in Goa on Thursday.* ATISH POMBURFEKAR an inquiry into the vio­ 144 of the CrPC was in and people from different Trump administration,” Mr. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC lence that broke out on Ja­ force,” said Anjum Inamdar, religious faiths and com­ Baig said. nuary 1, 2018. founder of the Mulnivasi munities who collectively He said the protest was to Following his plea, Mr. Muslim Manch. The protest expressed their sorrow at strengthen ties between In­ Ekbote was discharged by was instead held on the pre­ Maj. Gen. Soleimani’s dia and Iran. the commission. He sub­ Sulking Congress minister takes charge mitted an application say­ ing the police investigation Wadettiwar gets Relief and Rehabilitation Department in addition to other portfolios was yet to be over and the charge sheet had not been Alok Deshpande handed over to him. filed, hence he would not Mumbai The Minister said, “I was like to depose. “One of the Five days after being un­ never upset with my party. I accusations against me is reachable, and amid ru­ was absent in the Assembly spreading communal dis­ mours about his displeasure session because I had family harmony … which is a false over the portfolios allocated commitments. I had in­ and politically motivated to him, senior Congress mi­ formed Thoratji about it.” allegation,” the application nister Vijay Wadettiwar took In the previous Assembly, said. charge of his departments Mr. Wadettiwar was chosen Further, “recent politi­ on Friday saying he has no as the Leader of Opposition cal developments in Maha­ complaints. in the last term after erst­ rashtra have indicated that To pacify him, he will now while LoP Radhakrishna whatever honest and im­ also be given charge of the Vikhe­Patil quit the Congress partial investigations car­ Relief and Rehabilitation De­ to join Bharatiya Janata Par­ ried out … by police auth­ partment, which was allocat­ ty. He was instrumental in orities are likely to be ed earlier to the Congress Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar at the swearing in ensuring the victory of the

“obliterated and /revisited” but later given to a Sena mi­ ceremony in Mumbai last month. * FILE PHOTO lone Congress MP from Mah­ to ensure “safe passage for nister. arashtra, in the Chandrapur different hues of Marxists,” Mr. Wadettiwar was as­ neither taken charge of the Delhi on Thursday night and Lok Sabha constituency. he said. He was apparently signed the OBC, SEBC, VJNT departments nor had he at­ informed the party leader­ Known to be a mass leader in referring to the BJP losing Welfare Department and tended the one­day special ship about the crisis, follow­ Chandrapur district, Mr Wa­ power in the State to a coa­ other smaller departments, Assembly session. ing which Mr Wadettiwar dettiwar was earlier not even lition of the Shiv Sena, NCP Protesters listen to a speech during a gathering in Pune condemning the U.S. drone strike that and was said to be unhappy State Congress president was asked to take charge on the initial list of ministers and Congress. killed Irani commender Qasem Soleimani, on Friday. * JIGNESH MISTRY with the portfolios. He had Balasaheb Thorat visited with one extra department prepared by the Congress. Will seek info on man held in Lankesh murder case: Deshmukh Violence no solution, peace Home Minister says will look for links to the killings of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare required for progress: Naidu Press Trust of India Kolhapur and succumbed to his rented his house in Aurangabad Burn ideas, not physical things, says Vice President Mumbai injuries on February 20. to Mr. Devdikar, remembers The Maharashtra Police will The Dabholkar case is being him as a man of few words. Press Trust of India guru Kalidas Sanskrit University here. seek information from its Kar­ probed by the CBI, while a Mah­ “We rented the house to Dev­ Nagpur “We have to see to it that we as a na­ nataka counterpart whether arashtra Police SIT is investigat­ dikar in February 2016. He Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said tion develop positive attitude, leave Rushikesh Devdikar, arrested in ing the killing of Pansare. wanted a house on the ground on Friday that peace is a prerequisite negativism, stop affliction, destruc­ the Gauri Lankesh murder case, Meanwhile, the owner of the floor for his elderly parents. At for achieving progress as it has been tion and move towards construction was also linked to the killings of shop in Aurangabad, which the time of finalising the deal, proven that violence does not bring … that should be the attitude of eve­ rationalists Narendra Dabhol­ Devdikar had taken on rent for he stayed here for about one­ any solutions. rybody,” he said. kar and Govind Pansare, Home a couple of years, said he used and­a­half months at a stretch, He also disapproved of arson and “After all it is your own country. Minister Anil Deshmukh said to sell Ayurveda products there. his longest at this place,” he damage to property and vehicles, Burning a bus, burning a train and here on Friday. said. “Devdikar then shifted to saying that if someone wants to op­ burning vehicles … you will have to Personnel of the Karnataka Rushikesh Devdikar was arrested in the Gauri Lankesh murder case ‘Sold Patanjali products’ Solapur, but his parents conti­ pose any measure, they should “burn burn the idea not the physical things. Special Investigation Team, set by the Karnataka Police on Thursday. * FILE PHOTO Jagdish Kulkarni, owner of the nued to stay at the house till the idea” behind it instead of engag­ And violence cannot bring any solu­ up to probe Lankesh’s killing, shop located in Aurangabad’s April 2019. He used to visit his ing in physical violence. His state­ tion, it has been proven,” he said. arrested Mr. Devdikar alias Mu­ suspected to be part of the con­ said here. M2 area, said, “Devdikar used parents once in a while just for a ments come in the wake of violent “Peace is very much required for rali (44), from Katras near spiracy to kill the journalist. While Lankesh was killed on to sell Patanjali products in the day,” Mr. Shukla said. protests in the country against the Ci­ progress and if we have tension, then Dhanbad in Jharkhand, on “We will seek information September 5, 2017 in front of shop. He ran the business for Mr. Devdikar’s parents later tizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and you cannot pay attention. So we must Thursday evening. from the Karnataka govern­ her house in Bengaluru, Dab­ about two years between 2014 shifted to Mumbai, where the National Register of Citizens all come together to create a peaceful Mr. Devdikar is accused num­ ment on whether Devdikar has holkar was shot dead on August and 2016 and would pay his another son resided . “Rushi­ (NRC). co­existence, peaceful country and ber 18 in the case, according to any links with the murders of 20, 2013 in Pune while he was rent on time. Beyond that we kesh’s involvement in the Gauri He was speaking at the inaugura­ peaceful world so that the entire hu­ the Karnataka police. An official Narendra Dabholkar and Go­ on a morning walk. Pansare was had no interaction,” he said. Lankesh case has come as a tion of the 100th All India Oriental manity can live happily, not only with of the SIT said Devdikar was vind Pansare,” Mr. Deshmukh shot at on February 16, 2015 in Yeshwant Shukla, who had shock to all of us,” he said. Conference being hosted by Kavikula­ prosperity,” he said.

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DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF SC rejects appeal against demolition of resorts ‘Congress pursuing It upheld 2013 Fishers’ fight ends vote­bank politics’ Kerala High It is misleading the country: Bhyrappa Court ban on on a happy note Special Correspondent construction Mysuru A.P CM Jagan appears Legal Correspondent Sam Paul A. the resort. We are delighted Kannada littérateur and Sa­ before CBI court NEW DELHI Alappuzha HYDERABAD our fight against the illegal raswati Samman winner Andhra Pradesh Chief The Supreme Court on Fri­ The family of Sailan K.K. resort ended on a happy S.L. Bhyrappa has accused Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan day dismissed appeals by was among several people note,” says Mr. Sailan. the Congress and other Op­ Reddy, who is facing a batch Kapico Kerala Resorts Priv­ The Kapico Kerala Resorts Limited's property in Vembanad who were making a living by After the families lost position parties of pursuing of quid pro quo cases, ate Limited against a Kerala Lake built violating coastal guidelines. * THULASI KAKKAT fishing with stake nets near their livelihood, K.R. “vote­bank politics” over appeared before the CBI High Court decision banning Nediyathuruthu island in Ratheesh, a relative of the Citizenship (Amend­ special court here on Friday. the construction of resorts backwater islands of Vettila decided that the project pro­ Vembanad lake till 2007. In Sailan, moved the Cherthala ment) Act (CAA) and “mis­ This was the first time Mr. and removal of structures on Thuruthu and Nediyathu­ ponent for Nediyathuruthu, 2007, the 11.5­acre island munsif court in 2008, leading” the country on the Reddy appeared before the backwater islands on Vem­ ruthu on Vembanad lake. In Kapico, and that for Vettila was bought by Kapico demanding that the villas issue. S.L. Bhyrappa CBI court in his capacity as banad lake in Alappuzha dis­ 2013, the High Court allowed Thuruthu, Vaamika, should Kerala Resort Pvt Ltd. It constructed in violation of Speaking to presspersons Chief Minister of A.P. trict of the State. petitions filed by conserva­ not carry out any further soon started constructing the Coastal Zone Regulation at his residence in the city then East Pakistan into As­ A Bench of Justices Rohin­ tionists, societies, trade un­ constructions. villas there. (CRZ) Act on the island be on Friday, Mr. Bhyrappa sam. This did not stop even Koran consignment to ton F. Nariman, Aniruddha ions and fishermen against The court had also or­ said the Congress was after the creation of Bangla­ be auctioned in Kochi The project, however, demolished. However, the Bose and V. Ramasubrama­ the resort. dered the government to re­ changed the life of fisher court dismissed the adopting the “divide and desh, and even the Left par­ KOCHI nian confirmed the High It held that the action in­ move the unauthorised rule policy of the British”, ties, which ruled West Ben­ A consignment of the Holy families in the area after 13 petition. Court decision that the con­ itiated by the authorities un­ structures put by Vaamika Koran weighing 25 tonnes licensed stake nets were After the Cherthala sub who had created a rift bet­ gal for 23 years, allowed sent from Saudi Arabia six structions violated coastal der the Land Conservancy and take action in regard to removed for the court issued a stop­memo to ween Hindus and Muslims illegal migration to their months ago is going to be and environmental regula­ Act for removal of encroach­ the unnumbered buildings construction of the resort. Kapico in 2010, the legal during the freedom strug­ State, from where the mi­ auctioned at the International tions. ments should continue. on Vettila Thuruthu. “We used to fish using battle reached the Kerala gle. Mr. Bhyrappa accused grants dispersed to the rest Transshipment Container The 35­page judgment The court had then or­ The High Court had later stake nets before the High Court. former Prime Minister Jawa­ of India,” Mr. Bhyrappa al­ Terminal here after the was authored by Justice dered the Centre or the coas­ dismissed review petitions construction of the resort. First, the High Court harlal Nehru of following leged. importer, a College in Ramasubramanian. tal authorities to ensure that filed against the 2013 judg­ For several decades, it was ordered the demolition in the British policy of dividing He claimed that the Malappuram, expressed The case concerned the the encroachments are re­ ment and, instead, ordered our main source of income. 2013. On Friday, the the Hindu society on caste enactment of CAA had rat­ inability to pay ₹8 lakh development of resorts, in­ moved in three months. the demolition of the un­ We lost our livelihood after Supreme Court upheld the basis and consolidating tled the Congress and the customs duty, sources said. PTI cluding 54 villas, on two The High Court had also authorised constructions. the nets were dislodged for High Court verdict. Muslim votes. Left parties. On Muslims be­ ing left out of the CAA, Mr. ‘Illegal migration’ Bhyrappa said there were “The Congress allowed and many Muslim­majority encouraged the illegal mi­ countries “where they Capital issue: women lead massive protest in Vijayawada gration of Muslims from the [Muslim migrants] can go”. Police accused of tion. The vehicles lined up to misbehaving NCW takes cognisance of shift the women who were taken into preventive custo­ Mangaluru firing: 35 with protesters dy were not adequate. A cou­ protesters’ ‘shabby’ treatment ple of them tried to deflate Staff Reporter the tyres of a police van. The video clips released VIJAYAWADA Special Correspondent tweeted that the women also tried to take Tension prevailed on M.G. VIJAYAWADA Commission had taken suo away the ignition keys of the Special Correspondent quence of events and show Road in Vijayawada on Fri­ The simmering issue of the motu cognisance of the vehicles. At a point of time, Bengaluru them “harassing” and day with the police swooping proposed shifting of the alleged reports of women the women jumped from the Alleging that the violence in rounding up bystanders and down on women who were capital out of Amaravati to brutally beaten and police vans and rejoined the Mangaluru during the anti­ students not part of the protesting against the And­ Visakhapatnam has evoked throttled by the police protests. CAA protest last month was protest. Mr. Kumaraswamy hra Pradesh government’s strong reactions from during their protest in sparked off by police high­ said Mangaluru Police Com­ plans to shift the capital to various quarters. Vijayawada. ‘No respect for women’ handedness, former Karna­ missioner P.S. Harsha and Visakhapatnam. Responding to the Ms. Sharma said the TDP leaders Gadde Anurad­ taka Chief Minister H.D. other senior officers should In response to a call given situation, Chairperson of commission would deput a ha, Divya Vani and others Kumaraswamy on Friday be immediately suspended. by the Amaravati Pariraksha­ the National Commission for fact­finding team to probe were arrested. demanded that a Legisla­ “They should be held res­ na Samiti JAC, women gath­ In it together: Women protesting against the government’s Women Rekha Sharma the incident. Ms. Divyavani alleged that ture House Committee be ponsible for the violence on ered in huge numbers near proposal to shift the capital out of Amaravati. * V. RAJU DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the police misbehaved with set up to probe the episode. December 19. I will table all PWD Grounds and tried to her. The police did not show The violence on December the videos in the Legislative proceed towards the Benz four or more people in an fice, Civil Courts and other the road near D.V. Manor medians and rope parties of any respect for the women. 19 had left two dead in pol­ Assembly for discussion.” Circle. The police took them area, was in vogue. places located close to Ban­ bringing the traffic to a the police to proceed to­ They bundled the women in­ ice firing. Mr. Kumaraswamy al­ into preventive custody say­ The women, wearing dar Road. Despite restric­ grinding halt. They also wards Benz Circle. to buses and vans forcibly. He released 35 video clips leged that police firing was ing that Section 144, which black saris and dress, assem­ tions, the women took out staged a sit­in protest near The police had a tough She had a wordy duel with that challenge the Mangalu­ done without any prohibits the assembly of bled near Sub Collector’s of­ procession and squatted on RTA office. They jumped the time in handling the situa­ the police on duty. ru police’s version of the se­ provocation.

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T. Appala Naidu KAKINADA The annual bird census will commence in the Corniga Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) and surrounding wetlands in the Godavari mangrove cov­ er on the east coast from Saturday. The wildlife management authorities are all set to car­ ry out the two­day census of the avian species, assessing the threats and challenges being faced by the water birds. Safe habitat: Indian Skimmers in the Godavari mangroves in East Godavari. * FILE PHOTO “Indian Skimmer, a water­ bird species, has started vis­ The conservation status of cies. It will give us a picture Godavari mangroves that iting the Godavari man­ the Indian Skimmer is ‘vul­ of its present state and re­ serves as the safe habitat for groves for three years. The nerable’, according to the sults of the conservation be­ many bird species. species can be sighted only Red List of the International ing done in the wildlife sanc­ in three places in the coun­ Union for Conservation of tuary and outside.” Bird count try, including the Chambal Nature and Natural According to Forest de­ Indian Bird Conservation river in Central India. The Resources. partment authorities, at Network State co­ordinator census will document such Ms. Salaria said: “The cen­ least 50 personnel — re­ (Andhra Pradesh) K. Mruty­ incredible findings of the sus aims at documentation search scholars, volunteers, unjaya Rao is the leading or­ avian life surviving in the Go­ of migratory and resident and bird watchers — will con­ nithologist coordinating the davari mangroves,” Division­ birds to be able to prepare a duct the census. The prime census. Song and dance: People taking out a procession to mark the beginning of the three­day education arts festival of the Kerala al Forest Officer (Kakinada­ better management plan of focus will be on the 235.7 sq The entire crew will be di­

State Literacy Mission Authority in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. * S. GOPAKUMAR Territorial) Nandan Salariya the complex ecosystem that km area under the CWL and vided into the 14 groups for CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC told The Hindu. supports the waterbird spe­ Kumbabhisekham site in the carrying out the bird count. Maradu demolition to go down as record for future Government college students Implosion will be recorded live; engineers will monitor all aspects on a minute by minute basis in Karnataka to get free laptops K.A. Martin height of debris pile, and sives had been detonated un­ KOCHI dust accumulation will be re­ der the PESO’s supervision, All aspects of the demolition corded and scrutinised. but bringing down massive More than one lakh first­year students will benefit of the four residential apart­ Scientists from the Indian In­ building complexes would ment complexes at Maradu stitute of Technology­Madras be the first­of­its­kind opera­ Special Correspondent nister C.N. Ashwath Na­ inate information on job will be recorded minutely for will study tremors from the tion taken up by the agency, Bengaluru rayan, who also holds the openings, opportunities in future generations to study blasts. Pollution Control he said. The Karnataka government Higher Education and IT/BT higher education, scholar­ and learn from. Board (PCB) scientists will “We have gone through has decided to give free lap­ portfolios, said a total of 1.09 ships, education loans, “It will not be a simple act examine the environmental the plan several times. The tops to over a lakh students lakh students would get lap­ schemes for the youth, hos­ of bringing down massive impact. emergency plans, explosives of first grade government tops. The estimated expen­ tel facilities, and employabil­ structures, but an exercise calculations, ensuring four­ colleges from Sunday. diture is ₹300 crore. ity­related issues. that will profit future genera­ ‘Exemplary cooperation’ layer fencing of the pillars, Chief Minister B.S. Yediy­ Mr. Yediyurappa will in­ tions,” R. Venugopal, Deputy Mr. Venugopal said engi­ pre­weakening of all no­load­ urappa will launch the free Empowerment centres augurate the Bengaluru Chief Controller of Explo­ neers worked 24 hours a day bearing walls, fixtures, laptop distribution pro­ He said youth empower­ centre on Sunday. The other sives, Petroleum and Explo­ Ready to go down: The two towers of Alfa Serene and H2O for a month to see that eve­ plumbing, and stairways gramme on the day of Swami ment centres, one in each district centres will be inaug­ sives Safety Organisation Holy Faith, which will be demolished on January 11. * H. VIBHU rything was ready. It was a were part of the work. Four­ Vivekananda Jayanthi at the district, would be esta­ urated on the same day. (PESO), said here on Friday. great example of coopera­ layered fencing, with chain­ Sri Kanteerava Indoor Stadi­ blished in lead government In the second phase, Speaking to The Hindu on tor every aspect minute by blasts and until one hour af­ tion, he said. The Central link fencing, including the um, Bengaluru, by symboli­ first grade colleges. centres will be established in the eve of the first­ever such minute. ter the event. and State agencies worked covering with geotextile fa­ cally presenting laptops to a The centres will function all 224 Assembly constituen­ exercise in Kerala, he said The recordings are being The cameras will catch ev­ closely. Cadre services and bric to contain fragments few students. under the guidance of a cies, he said. the process would be record­ done with unmanned came­ ery aspect of the blasts, the engineers of agencies as dif­ scattered by the blasts, and Later, laptops will be dis­ committee chaired by the The Chief Minister will al­ ed live and sent to the con­ ras installed by the PESO on most significant being the ferent as local self­govern­ the covering of the sur­ tributed to all first­year de­ Deputy Commissioner and so inaugurate the pro­ trol room in the Maradu the premises of Le Meridien angle of pull or the angle at ments, the Public Works De­ rounding buildings to pre­ gree students at government with senior officers of 21 go­ gramme ‘Arivina Daari’ on municipal office complex, Hotel and BPCL’s Kochi of­ which the buildings will col­ partment, and Kochi Metro vent damage from flying first grade colleges. vernment departments as career and skill develop­ where engineers from va­ fice. They will be in action lapse. The timing of the put their heads together. fragments, have been en­ Addressing presspersons members. ment, which will be telecast rious agencies would moni­ from two hours before the blasts, flying debris, the Lakhs of tonnes of explo­ sured,” he said. on Friday, Deputy Chief Mi­ These centres will dissem­ on DD Chandana.

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IN BRIEF Weather Watch ED attaches assets of Kochhar couple Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday

Flat, cash and assets worth ₹74.54 cr. According to the agencies, during Ms. Kochhar's tenure, seized in money laundering case the bank sanctioned six high­ value loans given to various ‘Environmentalism must Special Correspondent be a political passion’ in Tamil Nadu and Videocon Group companies NEW DELHI Maharashtra. between June 2009 and Oc­ BHOPAL Congress MP and former The Enforcement Directo­ The ED alleged that Ms. tober 2011. Minister for Environment and rate (ED) has attached assets Kochhar and her family ac­ Forests Jairam Ramesh on worth ₹78 crore of ICICI quired the apartment in Accounts declared NPAs Friday said environmentalism Bank's former chief execu­ Mumbai, owned by one of As on April 26, 2012, the out­ must be a political passion. tive officer and managing di­ the Videocon Group compa­ standing amount against the Speaking at the Bhopal rector Chanda Kochhar, and nies, by taking over the com­ loan accounts were adjusted Literature Festival, Mr. that of her husband Deepak pany through her family as another term loan of Ramesh said: “Of course, we Kochhar's companies in con­ trust, at a nominal price by ₹1,730 crore, that was sanc­ need faster economic growth, nection with a money laun­ creating book entries. tioned under the refinancing but the matter of dering case. The agency’s probe is of domestic debt. The ac­ environment was a matter of The properties include a based on an FIR registered counts were declared non­ livelihoods.” Mumbai flat, some seized by the CBI to probe allega­ Long probe: In March 2019, the ED had conducted searches in performing assets in June

cash and assets valued at tions of quid pro quo in sanc­ Mumbai and Aurangabad in connection with the case. * PTI 2017. Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) Teacher jailed for making ₹74.54 crore, held in the tioning loans amounting to It is alleged that Mr. Dhoot Forecast for Saturday: Cold day conditions likely over west Mad­ Dalit student clean waste name of Mr. Kochhar's com­ ₹1,875 crore to the compa­ tioned to Videocon Interna­ The ED had recorded the had invested ₹64 crore in hya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, NAMAKKAL pany Nupower Renewables nies of Videocon Group chief tional Electronics Limited, statements of Ms. Kochhar, NRL through Supreme Ener­ A government schoolteacher, Bihar, sub­Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim. Dense fog likely in Private Limited [earlier Venugopal Dhoot. was transferred by Videocon Mr. Dhoot and several others gy Private Limited (SEPL), isolated pockets over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, R.Vijayalakshmi, who made a known as NuPower Renewa­ It was alleged that Mr. Industries Limited on Sep­ involved in the case. In which was also transferred class II Dalit student clean Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Bihar, West Bengal, Sikkim, Odisha, bles Limited (NRL)] and its Dhoot paid ₹64 crore to NRL. tember 8, 2009, just one day March 2019, it had conduct­ to Pinnacle Energy Trust — Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. human waste in 2015, was on subsidiaries, including The amount, paid out of a after the disbursement, the ed searches in Mumbai and another entity managed by city rain max min city rain max min Friday sentenced to five Windfarm Projects, located loan of ₹300 crore sanc­ ED said. Aurangabad. Mr. Kochhar. Agartala...... 0.6....25.0....12.0 Kozhikode...... —....34.0....25.0 years’ imprisonment under Ahmedabad...... —....24.0....12.0 Kurnool ...... —....33.0....21.0 the Scheduled Castes and Aizawl...... —....17.0...... 9.0 Lucknow...... —....18.0...... 7.0 Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Allahabad...... —....21.0...... 8.0 Madurai...... —....32.0....21.0 Bengaluru ...... —....29.0....18.0 Mangaluru ...... —....34.0....22.0 of Atrocities) Act, by a special Villagers in Bhopal ...... —...... —...... — Mumbai ...... —....32.0....19.0 court in Namakkal. The judge MoD approves rules of business for DMA Bhubaneswar...... —....26.0....16.0 Mysuru ...... —....30.0....18.0 also imposed a penalty of Chandigarh ...... —....17.0...... 5.0 New Delhi ...... —....17.0...... 5.0 Assam feast Chennai ...... —....30.0....20.0 Patna ...... —....17.0....13.0 ₹1,000 on her. Coimbatore ...... —....31.0....20.0 Port Blair...... —....30.0....24.0 General Bipin Rawat will head the newly­constituted department Dehradun...... —....21.0...... 5.0 Puducherry ...... —....31.0....19.0 Akhil Gogoi remanded on leopard Gangtok...... —....10.0...... 5.0 Pune...... —....26.0....13.0 in judicial custody special correspondent CDS. “Cadre review of Junior brought under the ambit of Goa...... —....33.0....22.0 Raipur ...... —....23.0....13.0 NEW DELHI Guwahati ...... 1.0....24.0....11.0 Ranchi...... —....20.0...... 7.0 GUWAHATI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Commissioned Officers and the DMA, in addition to the Hubballi...... —....28.0....20.0 Shillong...... —....15.0...... 5.0 A special court of the GUWAHATI The Ministry of Defence Other Ranks will be looked Territorial Army and works Hyderabad ...... —....27.0....19.0 Shimla...... —....10.0.... -1.0 National Investigation Agency People of Dillibari village in (MoD) has approved the after by the CDS,” the official relating to the three Services Imphal ...... —....19.0...... 9.0 Srinagar...... —...... 7.0.... -3.0 Jaipur ...... —....20.0...... 5.0 Thiruvananthapuram...... —....33.0....23.0 (NIA) on Friday remanded eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh rules of business for the new­ said. and procurement exclusive Kochi ...... —....32.0....24.0 Tiruchi...... —....32.0....21.0 activist Akhil Gogoi in judicial district killed a leopard on ly created Department of Two studies on the cadre to the Services, except capi­ Kohima ...... —....15.0...... 5.0 Vijayawada ...... —....30.0....20.0 custody for 14 days. The Thursday after it strayed Military Affairs (DMA), head­ review of officers and JCOs tal acquisitions. Kolkata ...... 0.5....22.0....13.0 Visakhapatnam ...... —....29.0....20.0 police arrested him at Jorhat into the village, and later ed by the Chief of Defence and ORs were carried out by (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) in eastern Assam soon after used its meat for a feast. Staff (CDS), defence sources the Army when Gen. Rawat The mandate Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE the violent protests against Forest officials said the said on Friday. was its chief. Defence imports and pro­ the Citizenship (Amendment) Ahmedabad..... 29 .15 38 ....98 .103 ....* leopard had injured three “The DMA, headed by However, they were await­ curements would be under Bengaluru ...... 9 .69 49 ..107 .....— ....* In observation made at 4.00 Act in December 2019. He Chennai ...... 31 .38 38 ..110 .....— ....* p.m., Ghaziabad, Uttar people earlier in the day at Gen. Bipin Rawat, will have ing necessary approvals the the Department of De­ Pradesh recorded an overall was handed over to the NIA Delhi ...... 13 169 82 ..350 .217 ....* Rangdhali village in the ad­ two Joint Secretaries, 13 De­ from the government for fence headed by the Defence air quality index (AQI) score after a case was filed for his Hyderabad ...... 3 .57 40 ..168 .131 ....* of 292 indicating a joining Charaideo district. puty Secretaries, 25 Under implementation. Secretary, officials stated. Kolkata...... 26 .85 22 ..257 .205 ....* moderate level of pollution. alleged links with the CPI(M). Lucknow...... — .48 75 ..313 ...48 ....* In contrast, Maihar, Madhya “We came to know about Secretaries and 22 Section General Bipin Rawat On December 30, the go­ The DMA’s mandate in­ Pradesh recorded a healthy Mumbai ...... 18 .57 23 ..123 .114 ....* AQI score of 37. Punjab police seize the incident after photos of officers,” a defence source vernment notified the DMA cludes promoting jointness Pune...... 89 .29 83 ..172 .129 ....* Chinese­made drones the leopard being skinned said. adding that defence diplo­ creation, with the CDS also in procurement, training Visakhapatnam ..9 .30 61 ....73 ...86 ....* CHANDIGARH and chopped into pieces The rules of business have macy of the neighbourhood as a Secretary in the MoD. and staffing for the Services; Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) The Punjab police on Friday were uploaded on social been approved by Defence countries would also be un­ The DMA is the fifth de­ facilitating a restructuring of SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, media,” a forest officer Minister Rajnath Singh and der the CDS. partment in the MoD — the the military commands for making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air seized two highly particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues sophisticated Chinese­made said. would be notified as a ga­ Similarly, deputations to others being the Department optimal utilisation of re­ and monuments. drones, and arrested an Army Activists said at least zette, another official added. the training establishments, of Defence, the Department sources by bringing about NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by 200 leopards have been The training policy, most such as the National Defence of Defence Production, the jointness in operations, in­ reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. naik and two smugglers, CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to allegedly a part of a narco­ killed in Assam since 2015, of the training establish­ Academy, the Indian Military Department of Defence Re­ cluding through establish­ critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause terror module, involved in with most incidents involv­ ments and cadre manage­ Academy, the Officers Train­ search and Development ment of joint/theatre com­ dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. smuggling weapons and PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, ing people stoning the ani­ ment of the Services would ing Academy and the De­ and the Department of Ex­ mands, and promoting the nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced narcotics across the Indo­ mal when it ventured into be under the purview of the fence Services Staff College Servicemen Welfare. use of indigenous equip­ lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature Pakistan border. an area foraging for food. DMA, another official said, would also be under the The Services have been ment. death in people with heart or lung disease Centre gets notice on plea for population control Panna miners get ₹1.89 cr. for Petition calls for However, Mr. Upadhyay two diamonds measures like contended that the HC had failed to appreciate that the two­child norm right to clean air, drinking Press Trust of India water, health, peaceful Panna Legal Correspondent sleep, shelter, livelihood and Two miners, Brajesh Upad­ NEW DELHI education, which are gua­ hyay and Radheshyam, The Supreme Court on Fri­ ranteed under Articles 21 who found a diamond each day sought a response from and 21A of the Constitution, in the Panna mines of Mad­ the government to a petition could not be fully secured hya Pradesh, have auc­ for population control mea­ without controlling the pop­ tioned it at a price of ₹1.89 sures, including a two­child Equal opportunities: The plea noted that without population ulation. crore in a State­organised norm. control, citizens cannot be guaranteed their rights. * REUTERS The plea in the High Court auction, an official said. Up in flames: The Jaipur­bound bus collided with a truck near Chibbramau late on Friday. * PTI A Bench, led by Chief Jus­ had claimed that the popula­ The 29.46 and 18 carat tice of India Sharad A. dismissal of his PIL petition dangerous than bomb tion of India had “marched diamonds found by the Bobde, issued notice to the seeking urgent steps to con­ explosion”. ahead” of China, as about duo were auctioned for government on the petition trol the country’s rising pop­ The High Court in Sep­ 20% of Indians did not have ₹1.16 crore and ₹72.61 lakh Several feared dead as U.P. filed by advocate Ashwini ulation. tember 2019, refused to in­ Aadhaar and therefore, were respectively, said Panna Kumar Upadhyay challeng­ The petition said, “Popu­ tervene, saying it was up to not accounted for. diamond officer R.K. bus catches fire after collision ing the Delhi High Court’s lation explosion is more the legislature to enact laws. (With PTI inputs) Pandey. At least 43 people were on board; 21 manage to escape

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT accident occurred near The fire was brought un­ LUCKNOW Chibbramau. der control, he said. Several people were feared Twenty­one passengers Uttar Pradesh State Road dead after a bus collided escaped from the bus, and Transport Corporation Ma­ with a truck and caught fire were rushed to hospital, Dis­ naging Director Raj Shekhar in Kannauj district of Uttar trict Magistrate Ravindra Ku­ said the vehicle was a private Pradesh late on Friday. mar said. bus. While officials are yet to “The bus collided with a Chief Minister Yogi Adi­ declare the number of dead, truck and caught fire. Some tyanath has rushed his Cabi­ at least 43 persons were said managed to escape but oth­ net colleague Ram Naresh to be travelling in the bus ers were [trapped] inside,” Agnihotri to the spot. bound for Jaipur, when the he said. (With PTI inputs)

Nirbhaya case: plea calls for organ donation

Press Trust of India New Delhi A Delhi court on Friday dis­ missed a plea by an NGO, RACO, requesting a meet­ ing with the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirb­ haya gang rape and mur­ der case, to persuade them to donate their organs. Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora dismissed the plea on the grounds of “being devoid of any merit” and the the applicants having no locus to meet the convicts. The court also noted: “As per record available, two of the four accused have moved petitions before SC.” CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Human rights are not solely an ‘internal matter’ With the evolution of international law in the last 100 years, the concept of unrestricted sovereignty has weakened Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by der the Foreign Contribution the United Nations, was the first Regulation Act (FCRA). It has also Eloquently reticent comprehensive international hu­ mainly targeted its own critics. man rights document. The Univer­ Indian and international human While ruling against indefinite Internet bans, sal Declaration has acquired the rights groups are getting increas­ SC fails to decide on the validity of J&K curbs force of law as part of the custom­ ingly concerned about the actions Ravindran Daniel ary law of nations. It has provided of people associated with the rul­ f enunciating the law and laying down norms for the the basis for binding human rights ing party who are engaged in the exercise of executive power were the only functions treaties and non­binding guide­ intimidation of critics, attacks Iof a constitutional court, the Supreme Court’s ver­ he human rights situation in lines/principles that constitute a against minorities, and restric­ dict on the prolonged lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir ( J&K) distinct body of law known as in­ tions on the freedoms of artistes. ( J&K) is indeed admirable. However, the apex court i s Tfollowing the dilution of Arti­ ternational human rights law. The brazen attack on JNU students also a court of justice, one duty­bound to enforce f un­ cle 370 and the passage of the Citi­ on January 5 by armed goons and damental rights. It cannot limit itself to opinions on the zenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) Unsustainable claim the total lack of response by the have brought renewed interna­ This progress of international law police is emblematic of free reign extent to which those rights can be restricted. It has to tional focus on India’s human in the last 100 years makes the In­ given to non­state actors in various give effect to the principles it enunciates and rule rights practice. Responding to crit­ dian state’s assertion of its sove­ parts of the country.

whether the state violated the fundamental rights of its icism made by the United Nations reign right unsustainable. The evo­ A PROTEST IN SRINAGAR DECEMBER 2016. The international community is citizens. The disappointing aspect of the verdict is the agencies and others, the Indian lution of international human sympathetic to governments that court’s failure to give a ruling on the validity of the go­ state asserted that both J&K and rights law is also about the gradual nounced as a crime against hu­ preme Court, would provide are committed to upholding hu­ vernment’s actions. It fails to hold the government to CAA are entirely internal matters weakening of the concept of un­ manity since it institutionalised adequate remedies to victims of man rights but lack human and account for the manner in which it exercised its pow­ and there cannot be any interfe­ restricted sovereignty. The Indian discrimination based on race. Si­ human rights violations. However, other resources to pursue it. In the rence in such sovereign decisions. government has ratified several in­ milarly, for the first time in post– of late, the faith of the common case of India, it is not a question of ers. It states categorically that an indefinite ban on the What is remarkable about mod­ ternational human rights treaties Independence India, a religious people in the higher judiciary has resources but an unwillingness to Internet is impermissible, but fails to direct the restora­ ern international human rights and submits periodic reports to group has been excluded from the been weakened. In the face of se­ uphold human rights. The govern­ tion of services. When it says Section 144 of the Code of law is its recognition of individuals the respective treaty bodies. By purview of a law dealing with citi­ rious allegations about human ment’s action in J&K, the passage Criminal Procedure “cannot be used as a tool to prevent as subjects. Classic international doing so, it has acknowledged the zenship. rights violations in J&K, the Su­ of the CAA, and its response to the legitimate expression of opinion or grievance or ex­ law governed the conduct bet­ principle that the treatment of its The Office of the High Commis­ preme Court has “ducked, evaded protests on the CAA demonstrate ercise of any democratic rights”, it makes a comment ween states and did not recognise citizens is not entirely an internal sioner for Human Rights and adjourned”, as put across by that the present regime is not fully worthy of being treasured in these times of frequent re­ the rights of individuals. Countries matter, and such measures do not (OHCHR), which is the lead agency advocate Gautam Bhatia. committed to upholding human made agreements on the premise enjoy an absolute sovereignty. within the UN system on all as­ rights and does not respect inter­ sort to that section. Yet, the court does not go bey ond that a sovereign state had the ex­ The Indian government’s res­ pects related to human rights, has Weakening of civil society national human rights standards. directing the authorities to review all their orders and clusive right to take any action it ponse to concerns about its hu­ expressed its concern stating that While responding to criticism Of course, it is possible for the In­ restrictions forthwith. thought fit to deal with its nation­ man rights practice has always the CAA “is fundamentally dis­ against its human rights practices, dian government, due to its diplo­ There are indeed valuable takeaways from the judg­ als. Such a notion of absolute sove­ been that international scrutiny is criminatory in nature”. It has also the Indian government also refers matic clout, to avoid robust inter­ ment. A key holding is that the use of the Internet as a reignty was challenged in 19th cen­ unwarranted since the country is said that “although India’s broader to the role of free media and civil vention by the UN Human Rights medium for free speech as well as for trade and com­ tury with the emergence of the largest democracy in the world naturalization laws remain in society in protecting the human Council and other UN human merce is constitutionally protected. It also lays down humanitarian intervention to pro­ with an independent judiciary, place, these amendments will rights of vulnerable groups. Ho­ rights mechanisms. However, it tect minorities living in other free media, and an active civil so­ have a discriminatory effect on pe­ wever, in the context of J&K and would not be able to avoid scruti­ that any reasonable restriction on fundamental right s, states. Later, in 1919, the evolution ciety. These claims sound less ople’s access to nationality.” the ongoing struggle against the ny by the international communi­ be it an Internet ban or a Section 144 order, will have to of labour standards led to the esta­ credible after the recent develop­ International human rights law CAA, the media has not come out ty, which would complement the survive the test of proportionality, that is, the rest ric­ blishment of the International La­ ments in J&K and the passage of includes safeguards against un­ any better. As for civil society or­ struggle of the Indian civil society tion should be proportionate to the necessity for such a bour Office (ILO). In 1926, the Slav­ the CAA. warranted foreign intervention ganisations, the government since to reclaim the Indian Constitution measure. At the same time, it cautions against the “ex­ ery Convention adopted by the Non–discrimination is a funda­ and stresses the exhaustion of 2014 has systematically targeted and advance human rights. cessive utility” of the proportionality doctrine in mat­ League of Nations prohibiting mental principle of human rights. domestic remedies before an issue them, including by making it diffi­ ters of national security. Of great value to future chal ­ slave trade heralded the first hu­ Discrimination in various forms is considered by an international cult for them to receive funds from Ravindran Daniel is a human rights man rights treaty based on the occurs in all societies, but what is body. The Indian state always as­ foreign donors. Since 2014, the go­ lawyer who has served as Director with the lenges to executive action is the principle that there can principle of dignity of a human be­ of concern is institutionalised dis­ sured the international communi­ vernment has cancelled the regis­ UN peacekeeping missions in East Timor, be no ‘secret orders’. The government is bound to pu ­ ing. The Universal Declaration of crimination. Apartheid was pro­ ty that the judiciary, mainly its Su­ tration of about 14,000 NGOs un­ Libya and Sudan blish all orders it passes regarding such restrictio ns so that they can be challenged in a court of law. It is here that the verdict acquires another unusual character. Having rejected the government’s stand that it could not produce all the orders on the restrictions imposed Taking a holistic approach to dengue since August 4, 2019, the court fails to strike them down on that ground. After all, it concurrently says every or­ Apart from vaccination, this has to involve efficient vector control and proper case management der imposing a restriction should state the reason, the exigency that necessitated it and the features that make the major risk factors for the multi­ syndrome. Here, the role of plate­ anti­fertility effects in animal mo­ it clear that it is the least intrusive measure . The ab­ plication of such mosquitoes. let depletion in exacerbating the dels, causing abortion. Even meta­ sence of such order in the public domain is evidence Aedes mosquitoes cannot fly condition of a patient is overem­ analysis of various studies has that the state failed to demonstrate its necessity. It is a beyond a hundred metres. Hence, phasised even by many medical shown that there is no credible evi­ sign of the success of the ‘national security’ narrative keeping the ambience clean can personnel. Contrary to the com­ dence for the use of papaya ex­ that undergirds the government’s position on J&K that help prevent their breeding. mon belief, platelet transfusions tract in dengue fever. However, for Dhileepan Selvarajan Further, these mosquitoes bite are not needed even in cases of ac­ unknown reasons, even some an apex court judgment in a fundamental rights case during the daytime, so keeping the tive bleeding, as per the guidelines pharmaceutical companies are be­ appears to have the character of an advisory opinion. windows shut in the day hours is of the World Health Organization ing allowed to market papaya ex­ he advent of a new tetrava­ also useful. (WHO). Coagulation abnormalities tract pills. lent vaccine against the den­ are not due to a reduction in the In Tamil Nadu, complementary Tgue virus has thrown new Shortage of skilled manpower number of platelets alone. This is medicine practitioners often ar­ A health emergency light into the evidence­based man­ Many other source reduction ac­ why the WHO recommends fresh gue that a proper double­blind, Polio remains a concern despite concerted agement of dengue. An article re­ tivities can be undertaken, includ­ whole blood or packed cell trans­ randomised, placebo­controlled efforts across the world cently published in the New En- ing preventing water stagnation fusion in the event of bleeding. trial cannot be conducted as it in­ gland Journal of Medicine revealed and using chemical larvicides and The platelet count will increase au­ volves huge money and manpow­ ased on the risk of international spread of poliovi­ that this vaccine confers about adulticides. These chemicals need tomatically as fever subsides. er. Though this argument is par­ rus, the World Health Organization announced 80% protection to children vacci­ to be applied in periodic cycles to tially correct, patients cannot be Bon January 7 that polio will continue to remain a nated between 4 and 16 years of kill the larvae that remain even af­ Alternative medicine drugs treated as guinea pigs. For any Public Health Emergency of International Concern age without any major side effects. ter the first spray. Finally, despite the adequate and medicine, safety is more impor­

(PHEIC) for three months. The decision was taken It was a double­blind, placebo­ Unfortunately, the number of GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO well­formed guidelines for the tant than efficacy. Every modern based on the recommendation of the emergency com­ controlled, randomised, multi­ skilled workers available for such management of dengue cases by medicine drug has come out after centre trial which included 20,017 measures is low; many posts in go­ cessful model of mapping and ana­ the WHO and the Indian govern­ rigorous safety and efficacy stu­ mittee under the international health regulations th at participants from the dengue­en­ vernment departments remain va­ lysing data on dengue, using Geo­ ment, the usage of complemen­ dies for around 10 years, with an assessed the situation last month. The committee ar­ demic countries. However, apart cant despite there being a dire pu­ graphical Information System tary medicines like Nilavembu ku- informed declaration of the side rived at the unanimous decision based on the “rising from promoting the use of the vac­ blic health need. Due to this (GIS). This involves mapping the dineer (a Siddha medicine) and effects. Hence, instead of carrying risk” of international spread of wild poliovirus type­1. cine, gaining control over dengue deficiency of manpower, active streets with dengue cases for vec­ papaya leaf extract are rampant out distribution of medicines like Polio was declared as PHEIC in 2014 and has continued will also require a holistic ap­ surveillance is not being done in tor densities. among the people. Nilavembu soo- Nilavembu kudineer, the govern­ to remain one since then. There were 156 cases of wild proach that has to include within India, says the National Vector Dengue is mostly an asympto­ ranam, which reportedly contains ment can concentrate its energies polio type­1 cases in 2019 compared with 28 in 2018 . its ambit vector control and prop­ Borne Disease Control Program. matic infection, and only a very about nine different substances, on other public health activities. er case management. Also, dengue cases are often un­ few develop severe disease. Those has been widely promoted for use Modern medicine is not against With 128 cases, Pakistan accounted for the most num­ Dengue is essentially a tropical der­reported due to political rea­ very young or very old and those to treat dengue fever despite the any complementary medicine; ber of cases, while Afghanistan reported 28 cases. B e­ disease that occurs in the coun­ sons and also to avoid spreading who have a chronic ailment are at safety of and complex interactions when such a medicine is approved sides the four­fold increase in cases, there were instanc­ tries around the Equator; hot panic among the common people. a greater risk of developing severe among its different constituents after rigorous testing, modern es of the wild type­1 virus getting exported from weather and intermittent rainfall Further, there is a lack of coordi­ disease. But the worldwide case fa­ not having been tested. medicine will absorb it, and there Pakistan to Iran and Afghanistan, as also on the spread favour the sustenance of Aedes ae­ nation between the local bodies tality rate is as low as 0.3%. The The efficacy of Nilavembu kudi- are many examples of that. Ho­ from Afghanistan to Pakistan. In addition to the virus gypti — the vector transmitting the and health departments in the de­ dengue virus has four serotypes neer in the management of several wever, in the absence of evidence, causing polio in children, it was found in the environ­ dengue virus —and Aedes albopic­ livery of public health measures. A and only a second infection with a other diseases is based on very the efficacy of such medicines re­ ment in Pakistan and, to a lesser extent, in Afghanistan. tus, a minor contributor. Aedes comprehensive mechanism is re­ different serotype will cause a sev­ primitive forms of research like mains in the realm of belief in­ eggs can remain dormant for more quired to address these issues. ere disease. case reports, in­vitro studies, and stead of science. This is particularly a concern as the number of children than a year and will hatch once Moreover, epidemiological Fluid management is the cor­ animal studies. There are case re­ not vaccinated in Afghanistan has been increasing. In they come in contact with water. measures are essential in the man­ nerstone in the management of ports where Andrographis panicu­ Dhileepan Selvarajan is a consultant 2018, a total of 8,60,000 children in Afghanistan did Urbanisation, poor town plan­ agement of any communicable severe diseases like dengue he­ lata, an active constituent of Nila- physician and cardiologist based in not receive polio vaccine due to security threats. The ning, and improper sanitation are disease. Singapore uses one suc­ morrhagic fever and dengue shock vembu sooranam, showed Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu situation did not improve in 2019 and, as a result, a large cohort of children in the southern region of th e LETTERS TO THE EDITOR country remains unprotected. Therefore, even other Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. parts of the country that have been free of the virus in To read more letters the past are at risk of outbreaks. Welcome verdict communication and appreciated. This comes as a dispensation (Editorial page, centralisation. The BJP’s turn online, scan the QR code An equally disturbing development is on the out­ The Supreme Court’s movement as violative of breather. However, as such “A nation losing democratic towards a centralised state is break of vaccine­derived poliovirus cases in 16 coun­ verdict on Internet and the constitutionally actions are draconian, the steam,” Jan. 10). The strong coming at the irrevocable wisdom of the court, which tries; in all, there were 249 vaccine­derived poliovirus communication blackout guaranteed rights to apex court, instead of asking inclination towards the cost of democracy and is seized of the matter. The and indefinite restrictions unfettered communication the government to review all centralisation of powers by economic liberalism. revocation of Jammu and cases in 2019. Surprisingly, of them, only 30 were in on movement under and free movement. Post orders of restrictions within the Bharatiya Janata Party Nayakara Veeresha, Kashmir’s autonomy was countries where vaccine­derived poliovirus is endemic. Section 144 of the Code of this judgment, the Central a week, should have gone the (BJP) has been a huge Bengaluru long overdue though one “The rapid emergence of multiple circulating vaccine ­ Criminal Procedure came government cannot always whole hog and directed the setback to India’s pluralism. may find fault with the way it derived poliovirus type­2 strains in several countries is as a whiff of fresh air. This invoke or cite ‘national state to restore facilities The enactment of Citizenship Wrong inference was done. The Ayodhya unprecedented and very concerning, and not yet fully marked a welcome security’ to justify whatever immediately as they are in (Amendment) Act (CAA) is Mr. Dixit has made some verdict was a unanimous one understood,” the committee noted. But, not a single deviation from the pattern it does. The verdict will the nature of a fundamental surely going to affect the sweeping statements while delivered by the highest case of vaccine­derived poliovirus was reported from of a slew of judgments hopefully bring some right. The Supreme Court healthy relationship of India trying to take potshots at the court and accepted even by delivered in recent days reprieve to the residents of should not leave the with that of neighbouring BJP for its alleged many Muslim bodies. The Afghanistan, while Pakistan had just 12 cases. In compa­ catering to the wishes of Jammu and Kashmir whose impression that it is willing nations, especially majoritarian agenda. Time BJP did not have any hand in rison, the number of cases in Angola was 86 and the De­ the ruling dispensation. day­to­day life has become to strike but unable to Afghanistan and Bangladesh. and again, it has been this judgment and the writer mocratic Republic of the Congo was 63. While Nigeria The ruling is sure to restore hell due to the crippling wound. The BJP is using the confirmed by the cannot make an indirect reported 18 cases of vaccine­derived poliovirus, not a some of the lost credibility Internet shutdown in place N.G.R. Prasad, selectivity in the CAA as a government that the CAA inference that the judiciary single case of wild poliovirus type­1 has been repor ted to the country’s top court. for more than 160 days. K.K. Ram Siddhartha, political instrument to push will not take away the rights was influenced by those in from the country for over three years; the last reported Implicit in the verdict are G. David Milton, Chennai the country further towards of those Muslims who are power on this issue. There is Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu case was in August 2016. A country is said to have erad­ the paramountcy of civil a monolithic religious bona­fide citizens of India. a lesson to be learnt for the liberties and the Majoritarian state identity. While measures like The wrong inference by the BJP too, that a multi­religious icated polio when no new case of wild poliovirus is re­ precedence they should get ■ Given the times we are Kanak Mani Dixit has the Goods and Services Tax writer on Indian Muslims is country like India needs ported for three successive years. Nigeria is all set to be over political exigencies. living in, the Supreme succinctly brought out the (GST) have reduced the highly condemnable. Such consensus on sensitive issues declared as having eradicated polio this year, and in The judgment represents a Court’s order on Friday that democratic decline in the sources of revenue for the hyped up statements will in to keep the country’s secular turn, the entire African region will become free of wild setback to the Narendra called an indefinite country through the political Central government, the no way help defuse the credentials flying. poliovirus. Modi government in that it shutdown of Internet as ascendancy of the dominant dilution of Article 370 is a situation. It would be in V. Subramanian, has held curbs on “abuse of power” has to be majoritarian ruling mark of greater political order to leave the issue to the Chennai

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