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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY COVID-19 cases hit 82, second patient dies 68yearold woman succumbs in Delhi; PM calls for several States start containment eff orts SAARC strategy SP national executive Bindu Shajan Perappadan 30day window to halt the Prime Minister Narendra to meet today NEW DELHI beginning of community Modi on Friday called for a LUCKNOW India reported its second CO transmission of COVID19 videoconference of SAARC The Samajwadi Party’s VID19 death on Friday, with cases. The time to act is now. leaders to discuss a common national executive committee a 68yearold woman from While there is no cause for strategy to tackle COVID19. will meet here on Saturday to Out at last: Farooq Abdullah, with his wife and daughter, west Delhi succumbing to panic, aggressive measures All leaders of the grouping, deliberate on various political at his home in Srinagar on Friday. * NISSAR AHMAD issues, including the the infection at the Ram Ma can also reverse community except Pakistan’s Imran Assembly elections to be nohar Lohia Hospital, while transmission, if it happens. Khan, welcomed the held in 2022. This will be the the number of positive cases It’s time that we all worked suggestion. Ī PAGE 12 touched 82. together to make use of the fi rst national executive of the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Farooq set free after 7 party after a dismal show in With the country in the se opportunity that we have Back home: Indians, who were stuck in the Iranian city of Qom, the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. SP cond stage of transmission of right now,” said Balram Bhar being brought to Mumbai on Friday. * VIJAY BATE IPL postponed, founder Mulayam Singh the disease, countrywide gava, DirectorGeneral, In months of detention Yadav is likely to attend the containment eff orts were dian Council of Medical Re yearold man from Greater diagnosed with COVID19. meeting presided over by launched. Bihar, Delhi, Kar search (ICMR). Noida, with travel history to Fortyfour Indians, who ODIs cancelled ExCM seeks release of other J&K leaders party chief Akhilesh Yadav. nataka, Madhya Pradesh and On Friday, fresh cases Italy and Switzerland. More returned to Mumbai from The BCCI on Friday Peerzada Ashiq NORTH Ī PAGE 5 Odisha announced the clo were reported from Delhi, than 700 people working in Iran, were shifted to a 100 postponed the start of tention in Srinagar. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD sure of schools, colleges, Karnataka, Maharashtra and his leather company have bed quarantine facility set up Indian Premier League (IPL) SRINAGAR Principal Secretary, malls and theatres and can Kerala. Three persons in Thi been put under surveillance, by the Western Naval Com from March 29 to April 15 In a signifi cant step to allow Home, Shaleen Kabra, said cellation of public events till ruvananthapuram district Gautam Buddh Nagar Chief mand in suburban Ghatko following the COVID19 the resumption of regional in an order that Dr. Abdul March 31, while Haryana or tested positive, taking the to Medical Offi cer Anurag Bhar par, a defence release said. scare. The remaining two politics, the Jammu and lah’s detention under the dered a ban on religious tal number in the second gava told reporters. ODIs between India and Kashmir administration on PSA, the fi rst in September gatherings and festivals. wave of infection to 19 in Tech giant Google con CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 South Africa, scheduled to Friday released National last and again in December, “The lockdown that India Kerala. fi rmed that an employee of MORE REPORTS ON Ī PAGES 8, 9, be held in Lucknow and Conference (NC) president had been withdrawn. is currently under is abso DelhiNCR reported yet its Bengaluru offi ce, who had 12, 14 & 15 Kolkata, have been and MP Farooq Abdullah, Dr. Abdullah appeared lutely necessary. India has a another positive case of a 46 returned from Greece, was PEOPLE OVER PROFIT Ī EDITORIAL cancelled. Ī PAGE 19 82, by revoking his deten with his wife and daughter tion under the stringent Pu before the media on Srina blic Safety Act (PSA). gar’s Gupkar Road, where Dr. Abdullah, who was in his house was turned into a ‘Shaheen Bagh stir will Delhi govt. bans sports events till further orders detention for over seven subjail. “I am grateful to pe months, said his “freedom ople of the State and of the DMs, SDMs told to Addressing a press confe have banned all sportsrelated Mr. Sisodia said that the is incomplete till other de nation and those who spoke go on till CAA is revoked’ rence, Deputy Chief Minister gatherings, but if the BCCI ban would remain in force un tained leaders are for our freedom. This free enforce COVID19 Manish Sisodia said that the (Board of Control for Cricket til further orders. released”. dom is incomplete till all Shinjini Ghosh that the movement will con government has decided that in India) wants to conduct it in “We have told all DMs (Dis Dr. Abdullah has become other leaders, like Ms. Mufti NEW DELHI tinue till the law is revoked. directives all sports activities in Delhi a new format, it is up to them.” trict Magistrates) and SDMs the fi rst of the three incar and Omar, are released. Al Nearly three months since During a late night press Staff Reporter such as seminars, conferences “All sports gatherings (in (Sub Divisional Magistrates) to cerated former Chief Minis so those in the MLA hostel they began their protest briefi ng, the protesters said New Delhi and events which are in the cluding IPL)/conferences/se follow all orders from the ters to be set free since the [referring to Shah Faesal] against the amended citi that the CAA was unconsti The Delhi government on Fri nature of public gatherings minars beyond 200 people Health Department on coro Centre revoked Jammu and and in outside jails. I hope zenship law, the National tutional. They also said that day banned all sports events would not be allowed. are prohibited in NCT of Delhi navirus strictly and take ac Kashmir’s autonomous sta the Government of India Register of Citizens (NRC) the recent riots in Delhi and activities in the city that Asked if the popular Indian for the purpose of prevention tion if anyone is violating it,” tus on August 5 last. NC vice will take action soon, to see and the National Population were a “targeted attack on a are likely to register an atten Premier League cricket tour and control of the outbreak of he said. president Omar Abdullah all live as free citizens,” he Register (NPR), some of the single community”. dance of over 200 people in nament would be allowed epidemic disease namely CO and People’s Democratic said. women protesters at Sha the wake of the global CO with just players and empty VID19,” an order issued by the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Party (PDP) president Meh heen Bagh said on Friday CITY Ī PAGE 2 VID19 pandemic. stands, Mr. Sisodia said, “We Delhi government read. MORE REPORTS ON Ī PAGE 3 booba Mufti remain in de CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Delhi Assembly passes resolution against NPR, NRC Hold fl oor test, Nath tells Governor If the Centre insists, NPR exercise should be carried out in 2010 format, says AAP Minister Gopal Rai The very edifi ce of democracy is in danger: M.P. Chief Minister
Special Correspondent tention centre? None of the ers, an individual would “di Sidharth Yadav tutional process are ex New Delhi Delhi Cabinet Ministers have rectly land into the detention BHOPAL posed and punished,” he The Delhi Assembly on Friday the birth certifi cate, will the centre”; if one was a Hindu Madhya Pradesh Chief Mi said. passed a resolution against whole Cabinet be sent to de from Pakistan then the go nister Kamal Nath on Fri They would not leave the National Population Regis tention centres?” said Mr. vernment would “make your day requested Governor any stone unturned to “en ter (NPR) and the National Re Kejriwal. papers”; but if one was a Hin Lalji Tandon to hold a fl oor sure the triumph of democ gister of Citizens (NRC) at a “I want to know how many du from India and did not test in the Assembly session racy and the legislative pro special session here. of the [Union] Cabinet Minis have papers, the individual starting from March 16, on cess, to uphold the By conducting the NPR ex ters and MPs have the birth concerned would still “be sent a date fi xed by the Speaker. Constitution and the values ercise across the nation, Chief certifi cate. Most of the CMs do to the detention camps”. He also asked the Governor Kamal Nath addressing enshrined therein,” Mr. Minister Arvind Kejriwal al not have it,” he said further. As many as 11 Indian States, to use his “good offi ces with journalists after meeting Nath assured the people. leged during his address, the he said, had passed a resolu the Union Home Minister” Governor Lalji Tandon in In the letter with the sub Bharatiya Janata Partyled ‘The real issues’ tion against the NRC and the to ensure the release of 19 Bhopal on Friday. * A.M. FARUQUI ject, ‘Horse trading of Central government was at “The real issues right now NPR and many of these such MLAs “held captive” in MLAs by the Bharatiya Jana tempting to “divert” the atten should be unemployment and as Bihar and Tamil Nadu were Bengaluru. the Speaker has served not ta Party’, Mr. Nath detailed tion of people from “the real economy... the Centre might ruled by parties that are in al In a letter submitted to ice on 13 of them, asking instances of “unethical and issues” being faced by the bring forth the claim that all liance with the BJP. Mr. Tandon at the Raj Bha them to appear before him illegal acts of the BJP”. country such as unemploy Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal arrives at the Delhi Assembly these three things are diff e “I will request the Central van here, Mr. Nath said, and attest to having re Pointing to the fi rst at ment and economic crises. in New Delhi on Friday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR rent, but the Union Home Mi government to not bring the “We expect that the enqui signed of their own accord. tempt on the intervening nister has linked them himself NPR and the NRC because it ry on the resignations sub In these disturbing cir night of March 3 and 4, he ‘No birth certifi cate’ in accordance with the 2010 member Assembly, 61 did not by telling the people to under will be of no good to our coun mitted by the BJP, allegedly cumstances, wrote Mr. said the “the midnight lead Mr. Kejriwal’s statement came format. have one. stand the chronology,” he try,” the Chief Minister said. of the captive Congress Nath, the very edifi ce of de ing to whisking away of in the wake of Cabinet Minis During the debate on the “Me, my wife, and my pa said. “The Home Minister said The eightmember Opposi MLAs, is completed early.” mocracy was in danger. MLAs to Bengaluru is in pu ter Gopal Rai moving a resolu resolution, Mr. Kejriwal asked rents, we do not possess the that fi rst is CAA, then NPR, tion sought to condemn what Resignations of 19 of the “Trust of a transparent blic domain.” tion against the NPR in the for a show of hands to ascer birth certifi cate issued by the and then NRC.” it alleged was a “deliberate at 22 rebel MLAs were con democratic process seems State Assembly. tain how many legislators pre municipality... will the Central In this process, Mr. Kejriwal tempt” to spread “doubts and veyed by former BJP Minis lost. It merits full investiga CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Mr. Rai further said that if sent in the House had birth government send the four fa alleged, Indian Hindus had misgivings” about a “wellin ter Bhupendra Singh from a tion and enquiry, so that MLAS CALL OFF TRIP Ī PAGE 13 the Centre insists, the NPR certifi cates issued by govern mily members, including the the most to lose: if one was a tentioned move” of the Cen Bengaluru resort to the persons responsible for de ‘NO PARTY CAN KEEP MLAS process should be carried out ment agencies; out of the 70 Delhi Chief Minister, to a de Muslim and did not have pap tral government. Speaker on Tuesday. So far, railing the democratic insti UNDER LOCK AND KEY’ Ī PAGE 13 U.P. clears Ordinance for recovery of damages Pehlu Khan case: minor convicts sent to special home Another juvenile aged over 16 at the time is facing trial in a court in Alwar Decision comes a day after SC did not stay HC order to remove hoardings Special Correspondent category of heinous crimes. had acquitted six accused in Omar Rashid specifi cs would be known The State government’s de JAIPUR Khan, 55, a dairy farmer the case on August 14, 2019, LUCKNOW when the “niyamawali” or cision comes at a time when it Two minors convicted of from Haryana’s Nuh dis giving them the benefi t of The Yogi Adityanathled Uttar manual of rules for it is has — in a controversial move participating in the murder trict, his two sons and a few the doubt on the basis of the Pradesh government on Fri released. — put up several hoardings in of dairy farmer Pehlu Khan others were waylaid by self police probe. Those let off day gave its approval to an Or Lucknow identifying those as members of a mob of cow styled cow vigilantes near by the court were Vipin Ya dinance for the recovery of ‘Honouring the court’ accused of violence during vigilantes in 2017 were on Behror on the JaipurDelhi dav, Kalu Ram, Dayanand, damage to public and private Sidharth Nath Singh, U.P. go the protests against the CAA Friday sent by Alwar’s Juve National Highway on April 1, Ravindra Kumar, Yogesh Ku property during protests. Lucknow hoardings show vernment spokesperson, said in December last. nile Justice Board ( JJB) to a 2017, and thrashed on suspi mar and Bheem Rathi. U.P. Finance Minister Su those who have to pay the State had brought the Or Terming it an “unwarrant special home for three cion that they were smug resh Khanna announced the compensation. * FILE PHOTO dinance in compliance with ed interference in privacy” of years. Six persons accused gling cows for slaughter. Appeal in High Court decision of the State Cabinet, the Supreme Court’s observa people and a violation of Arti of having led the attack were Pehlu Khan Khan succumbed to his inju The State government fi led which gave its consent to the Vacation Bench, one of the tions. “We are honouring the cle 21 of the Constitution, the acquitted by a sessions ries two days later in a an appeal in the Rajasthan U.P. Recovery of Damage to judges had orally remarked court. The court said there Allahabad High Court had on court in August last year. ing hurt) and 341 (wrongful hospital. High Court against the ses Public and Private Property that the U.P. government’s ac must be an Act on this,” he Monday directed the Luck The convicts, who were restraint) of the Indian Pe The sentence was handed sions court verdict after a Ordinance, 2020. tion was not “covered in law”. said, adding that earlier re now administration to re minors when they commit nal Code. down under Section 18(1)(g) Special Investigation Team The government decision The U.P. government had covery of damages was co move the ‘name and shame’ ted the crime, are in the age The video footage of the of the Juvenile Justice Act, pointed out loopholes in the came a day after the Supreme issued recovery notices to at vered under a government or roadside hoardings. However, group of 1821 now. They are crime scene, which showed 2015, providing that a child probe conducted earlier by Court did not stay the Allaha least 500 persons in the State der but now it would be the State approached the likely to be shifted to a spe the presence of the two in found to be in confl ict with four investigating offi cers. bad High Court order to the for damage to property dur under a law. apex court through a special cial home on the Central Jail the mob, and other evi law may be sent to a special The High Court had ear Lucknow administration to ing the protests in December. Mr. Khanna said the Ordi leave petition against the de premises in Jaipur. dence formed the grounds home for a maximum pe lier quashed the case of ille “forthwith” remove roadside Mr. Khanna said the Ordi nance was based on the 2007 cision, following which the of the JJB’s judgment. riod of three years for get gal transport of cattle for hoardings displaying the per nance would arrange for the order by the apex court in cri court referred the appeal to a Video footage Another juvenile, who was ting reformative services, in slaughter against Khan, his sonal details of persons ac recovery of damage to public minal writ petitions 73 and 77 larger Bench. The JJB, headed by Principal older than 16 years at the cluding education, skill sons and the owner of the cused of vandalism and arson and private property during that a “strong law” was need The total damage listed in Magistrate Sarita Dhakad, time, is facing trial as an ac development, counselling, pickup truck in which they during the protest against the any protest, movement or ed to deal with the damage to the hoardings amounts to had last week held the two cused in a court in Alwar, behaviour modifi cation the were travelling. The court Citizenship (Amendment) Act demonstration. public and private property ₹ 1.55 crore. As many as 57 minors guilty under Sec where his case was trans rapy and psychiatric had ruled that Khan had last December. Without giving any further during political protests and persons have been identifi ed tions 302 (murder), 147 (riot ferred because of the of support. purchased the animals for During the hearing of the details, Mr. Khanna said the demonstrations. in the hoardings. ing), 323 (voluntarily caus fence being covered in the The Alwar sessions court dairy and not slaughter. CM A ND-NDE YK