6 D# 3' )("< "< < 1)21 %,&345 =; #/0 > 11!% ?@? = : ) ".+(&/ 3.%!45 #0.%12 N+42 %85 4234 %58 3:8 5# $'8:2 1 $5#C #8 % : 8* 42 %42; 6 42 #53: 15O '5: '58$: 42#:24%4: !" 6 4'&78 395 $ %'( $) + 1'2 3+'# P Q R $4 massive indignation erupt- Aed among environmental- ists, politicians and people from different walks of life in NO the metropolis on Saturday over the arrest of 29 activists who staged a protest on Friday night against the felling of N O 9 trees at Aarey Colony in north N O Mumbai, even as the Bombay delegation of Jammu-based High Court dismissed a peti- !" # Q % ANational Conference lead- tion seeking a stay on the & ers, led by former MLA felling of trees at Aarey Colony. " ! '& Devender Singh Rana, has Hours after the Bombay % ! ) Q been granted permission by the High Court dismissed four * Jammu & Kashmir adminis- petitions challenging the felling + tration to meet party president of 2,646 trees in Aarey Colony, Farooq Abdullah and vice- 29 activists, including six president Omar Abdullah, both women, were arrested by the " ! Q, under detention for the last two police between 8.30 pm and 11 + months in Srinagar. pm on Saturday, when they M The father-son duo was Conference leaders were Minister and sitting MP from resisted the tree felling opera- . placed under detention the allowed to meet family mem- Srinagar Farooq Abdullah, is tion started by the Mumbai night before the Centre bers but granting permission to under house arrest at his Metro Rail Corporation Ltd / % scrapped Jammu & Kashmir's meet a political delegation is Gupkar Road residence, while (MMRCL) to make way for the / special status under Article seen as a major political devel- his son Omar is confined to construction of a car shed for 370 on August 5. Rana said the opment in the corridors of Hari Niwas, a state guesthouse Metro phase-III. + delegation will comprise 15 power ahead of the block devel- turned into a jail, barely 500 The arrested activists were While the activists alleged ble and one Ms Anita Shankar former legislators. opment council polls beginning metres away. booked under sections 353 that the police behaved in a Sutar, who is a complainant in + NC spokesperson Madan October 24. He said the decision to (assault or criminal force to high-handed manner, a senior the case. We have arrested 29 . Mantoo said, “The The much-awaited elec- meet Farooq and Omar had deter public servant from dis- police official stationed at the persons, including six women, M Government conveyed per- tions will see 26,629 elected been taken at an emergency charge of his duty), 332 (vol- Aarey Colony police station connection with the incident”. M 0 mission in response to the panchs and sarpanchs elect meeting of the senior func- untarily causing hurt to deter said, “The green activists num- The arrested activists were M request made seeking permis- 310 block development chair- tionaries and district presi- public servant from his duty), bering anywhere from 100 to produced before a Suburban ! sion to meet their party presi- persons in the first phase. This dents of the Jammu Province 143 (punishment for unlawful 200 obstructed the police from court which remanded them in M dent and vice-president." will be followed by polls for 22 two days ago, soon after restric- assembly) and 149 (every carrying out their duty. They police custody for five days. & The delegation is sched- chairpersons for the District tions on the movement of member guilty of offence com- also assaulted a police consta- Turn to Page 4 " uled to visit Srinagar on Development Boards. Jammu-based National mitted in prosecution of com- Sunday. Earlier, these National Currently, three-time Chief Conference leaders was lifted. mon object) of the IPC. Q 1 #$! % ! "#$# &" 0 %&' New Delhi: The name of Mujahideen has been asked to gation of Article 370. Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna, target panches and sarpanches In addition, inputs also 2:1 3:;4<; *281 the mantra of ‘vikas bhi, who was killed by JKLF ter- who represent the panchayats indicate movement of uniden- paryavaran ki suraksha bhi’ ' rorists in 1990, will be added to and are the torchbearers of tified terrorists in and around iting the example of the (development with environ- the National War Memorial ! " grassroots democracy. Zonakar, Rainawari, Safakadal CDelhi Metro and the ment protection).” 2 after it was approved by the According to an input from and Dhramshal area of Bombay High Court ruling, The Minister was 4 IAF, sources said. " security agencies, a Pakistan- Srinagar to target police. Union Environment Minister responding to a query from 3 Khanna, along with three based LeT commander has As per Intelligence reports Prakash Javadekar on Saturday media in Lucknow where he " other IAF personnel, was killed tasked his Jammu-based asso- about 275 terrorists are prowl- justified the felling of trees at was asked about Mumbai ' ! in Kashmir allegedly by 2:1 3:;4 ciates to carry out grenade ing along various launch pads Aarey Colony in north Metro Rail Corporation Ltd # Yasin Malik. Twenty-seven bul- attack on security forces in across the Line of Control Mumbai to set hacking trees 1O ) " ! lets were pumped into mid a dwindling cadre Mendhar, Surankote or Poonch (LoC). The inputs say 80 ultras up a Metro car to make way %45 & Khanna's body. Abase coupled with tight town (all in Poonch district) in are waiting across Gurez, 60 shed. for a car shed, An Air Force official said security on the ground in coming days. The purpose of across Machhal, 40 opposite “There was hours after the ) ) ) the Khanna's name was missed Jammu & Kashmir, the the latest nefarious design of Keran, 15 across Naugam , 50 a need to fell 20 High Court out in the National War Pakistan Army and the Inter- the terror groups is to make opposite Karnah, 20 across Uri to 25 trees for dismissed four Memorial and the error has Services Intelligence (ISI) have their presence felt post-abro- and 10 across Rampur. setting up the petitions filed ( ' " ! now been rectified. resorted to division of labour first metro sta- by NGOs and ) 6 5 The National War and tasked different terror &' !()*+(%*,%))-.***)*+ tion in Delhi activists chal- ! Memorial at the India Gate is groups for hitting different tar- and then also lenging the ( " # %45 dedicated to the Defence per- gets for maximizing the Jammu: At least 10 people, including a traffic cop and a local people had sim- decision to sonnel who laid down their impacts of hits in the Valley. journalist, received injuries in a grenade attack outside ilarly opposed it. But for each allow felling of 2,600 trees. ) . lives for the country. The While Lashkar-e-Tayyeba Anantnag Deputy Commissioner’s office on Saturday. tree that was cut, five saplings This is not the first time $ Q NWM has names of such has been tasked to hit security According to reports, “Around 10.30 am, an unidentified were planted,” he said while that the trees have been felled & defence personnel with details forces especially in transit on terrorist lobbed a grenade on a busy Lal Chowk area of pointing out that the forest for developmental projects. O of their acts. The three armed highways, Jaish-e-Mohammad Anantnag causing injuries to 10 people”. DIG, South Kashmir, cover in the national Capital According to a report prepared services approve the names of has been assigned to hit VIPs Atul Goel said, “The grenade attack was carried out to spread has increased since then and by a Parliamentary Standing the soldiers after which they are and various security installa- fear among the local population in the area”. public transport system has Committee in February 2019, ) 7 included in the NWM. PTI tions. Likewise, the Hizbul Detailed report on P5 also improved. in the last five years since ) " 4 & “Now, there are 271 sta- 2013-2018, at least one-third of tions (in Delhi). Forest under- the 2,39,572 hectares of forest (* cover area has increased in land that India overall lost to Delhi. 30 lakh people are using various developmental activi- $ the Metro as public trans- ties in the last 15 years (2003- port,” he said, adding, “this is 2018). 5 " ) "Q * % & 2:1 3:;4 ' O 0 2:1 3:;4< *52; P angladesh Prime Minister 8 BSheikh Hasina on Saturday n a blow to the Congress raised her concern over the Iahead of the Haryana rollout of the National Register Assembly polls, its former State * of Citizens (NRC), meant to unit chief Ashok Tanwar $2+*8* identify illegal Bangladeshi resigned from the party’s pri- & N O migrants in Assam, and also mary membership on Saturday, hai judge shot himself in the