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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 13, ISSUE 190 | Tuesday, 10 July 2018 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 10,852.90 (+80.25) pSENSEX 35,934.72 (+276.86) pDOW JONES 24,665.33 (+208.85) pNASDAQ 7710.82 (+22.43) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 68.72 (+0.15) pRUPEE/EURO 80.70 (+0.17) 1GOLD/10GM 31,690 (0.00) pSILVER/K 40,750 (+250) TREAT POOR FOR FREE: SC TO CHINA SENDS TWO PAKISTANI SPY ‘I HAVE GUARDIAN DELHI PVT HOSPITALS PG3 SATELLITES INTO SPACE PG11 ANGELS’ PG4 Nirbhaya SC dismisses review pleas SC favours live- gangrape streaming of case by 3 death row convicts court proceedings TIMELINE from Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital to » AUG 31: JJB convicts the minor for » JULY 9, 2018: A three-judge bench Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital gang rape and murder, giving him the of Supreme Court confirms the death MPOST BUREAU » DEC 16, 2012: A 23-year-old sentence following a review petition » DEC 29: Victim succumbs to maximum 3 years of imprisonment physiotherapy intern brutally in reformatory home filed by three convicts– Pawan assaulted and gang raped by six injuries. Murder charge added in the NEW DELHI: The Supreme FIR by police Gupta, Mukesh Singh and Vinay Court while hearing a petition men, including a juvenile, inside a » SEPT 10: Fast-track court convicts Sharma. The fourth death remaining four accused on 13 counts filed by senior lawyer Indira Jais- moving bus in Delhi » JAN 3, 2013: Delhi Police files row convict, Akshey Thakur, ing and others, on allowing peo- chargesheet against five adults ple to watch what happens in DEC 18 TO 21: All six accused–Ram » SEPT 13: All four accused awarded did not file a » courtrooms said it is not opposed Singh, Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh, accused of several offences death penalty; judge calls it a “rarest review petition to the live streaming of proceed- Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and » JAN 17: Fast-track court begins of rare” crime ings. The Centre in its reply to the important cases such as Aadhaar the juvenile arrested proceedings after taking cognisance » MAR 13, 2014: Delhi High Court petition said if the top court takes and decriminalisation of gay sex of the chargesheet upholds the death penalty for the a policy decision; it can facilitate in the Supreme Court. » DEC 21: Public outrage triggers the setting up of a separate chan- Senior advocate Indira Jais- protests in various parts of the » JAN 28: JJB declares the sixth convicts nel for the Supreme Court, like ing filed the petition in her per- country accused to be a minor » MAY 5, 2017: SC also upholds the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha sonal capacity. TV, which live telecasts parlia- Jaising had said courts around » DEC 26: Following worsening in » MAR 11: One of the accused Ram Singh capital punishment for the four ment sessions. the world allowed their proceed- health condition, victim shifted found hanging in his Tihar Jail cell convicts calling it a “rarest of rare case” Chief Justice Deepak Misra ings to be recorded, though they said, “The concept of access to differed in their ways. justice can be stretched through She had said that some MPOST BUREAU Bhushan, said these convicts have ted suicide in the Tihar Jail here on has been reinstated. I appeal to the It had said that the accused had live streaming. Litigants are enti- judges in the constitutional failed to point out any “error appar- March 11, 2013. Prime Minister to take concrete steps found the victim as “an object for tled to know how their cases are court in India have historically NEW DELHI: The convicts in the ent on the face of the record” in the The 23-year-old paramedic stu- against atrocities towards young girls enjoyment” and “ravish her as they dealt with and will ensure trans- been reluctant about the idea sensational December 16, 2012, judgement and they were given elab- dent was gang-raped on the inter- and women,” Asha Devi, the mother liked, treat her as they felt” to get parency. Litigants will also know of recording court proceedings Nirbhaya gangrape and murder orate hearing during their appeal vening night of December 16-17, of the victim, said. “gross sadistic and beastly instinctual how his or her lawyer is present- because it would “capture every case now face the gallows, after the against the Delhi High Court 2012 inside a running bus in South The apex court in its May 5, 2017 pleasure” and such acts were “bound ing the case.” sentence” in the banter between Supreme Court on Monday held that judgement. Delhi by six persons and severely verdict had upheld the capital pun- to shock the collective conscience”. The Chief Justice, however, judges and lawyers which are they have failed to make out a case “In these review petitions, no assaulted before being thrown out on ishment awarded to these convicts by The bench had said that the had a word of caution for sensi- merely a way to elicit responses for grant of any relief from the death ground has been made out which the road. She had succumbed to inju- the Delhi High Court and the trial instant case had revealed “brutal, tive rape trials or matrimonial and not a sign of how the judge sentence. may furnish any ground to review ries on December 29, 2012, at Mount court in the case. barbaric and diabolic nature of the cases. would finally decide the case. A bench headed by Chief Justice the judgment. We, thus, find no Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. A juvenile, who was among the crime” which was “evincible from the The court also said live Jaising, however, said there Dipak Misra dismissed the review merit in these review petitions and Reacting to the apex court ver- accused, was convicted by a juvenile acts committed by accused”. streaming of proceedings “will were different methods to resolve petitions filed by three of the four consequently, the review petitions dict, the parents of the 23-year-old justice board. He was released from The “loathsome bestiality of pas- help students to learn.” such reluctance and illustrated convicts Mukesh (31), Pawan Gupta are dismissed,” the bench said. victim said their faith in the judi- a reformation home after serving a sion ruled the mindset of the appel- In an earlier hearing, the means adopted by courts globally. (24) and Vinay Sharma (25), saying The fourth death row convict, ciary was reinstated, and they hoped three-year term. lants (convicts) to commit a crime Bench, also comprising Jus- The Supreme Court, in a no ground has been made out by Akshay Kumar Singh (33), has not to get justice. In its judgement last year, the which can summon with immediacy tices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. bid to usher in transparency, them for a review of the top court yet filed a review petition against the “The Supreme Court uphold- apex court had said that the “bru- ‘tsunami’ of shock in the mind of the Chandrachud, asked the Attor- had earlier allowed the instal- verdict of May 5 last year. apex court judgement. ing its verdict is a strong message tal, barbaric and diabolic nature” of collective and destroy the civilised ney General to assist the court on lation of CCTV video record- The bench, also comprising One of the accused in the case, to those who commit such heinous the crime could create “tsunami of marrows of the milieu in entirety,” a plea to live-stream Constitution ing with audio in trial courts and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Ram Singh, had allegedly commit- crimes. Our faith in the judiciary shock” to destroy civilised society. the court had said. See inside Bench proceedings in nationally tribunals. Single GST rate All BJP aspirants to be Accused in PHOTO FRENZY slab ridiculous Kathua case to suggestion meticulously ‘screened’ be transferred PIYUSH GOYAL Getting a BJP ticket won’t be cakewalk to Gurdaspur jail In today’s SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE in Punjab: SC NEW DELHI: Getting a BJP ticket MPOST BUREAU paper for the impending Lok Sabha elec- tions in 2019 will be no cakewalk. NEW DELHI: The Supreme CITY ... With BJP lawmakers stoking con- Court on Monday ordered troversy with their utterances, the transfer of the accused in the 54 MALARIA CASES REPORTED THIS SEASON 4 party has decided to screen all new Kathua gang rape and murder entrants/ ticket aspirants carefully. case from Kathua prison in NATION At a meeting of party general sec- Jammu and Kashmir to Gur- HEAVY RAIN CRIPPLES MUMBAI 7 retaries’, held on Saturday at the new daspur district jail in Punjab. headquarters of BJP here, the top A bench headed by Chief EDIT leadership has made it very clear that Lok Sabha election. Justice Dipak Misra directed the credentials of all new applicants The party will rely on ground level the J&K Police to file a supple- DELINKING BALLOT FROM BULLET 8 (outsiders) will be checked through feedback or reports from the NaMo mentary charge sheet in the INTERNATIONAL the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh app to judge the performance of exist- case within eight weeks. (RSS) network, a party source said. ing MPs in the last four years. The apex court granted JAPAN FLOODS KILL AT LEAST 114 10 Among the elected members The age factor may also rule out liberty to the litigants of the in the last 2014 general elections, party veterans like Murli Mano- case to move Punjab and BUSINESS nearly 100 members joined the BJP har Joshi, BC Khanduri and Shanta Haryana High Court in case NCLT REJECTS MISTRY’S PLEA 12 from Congress, including two union Kumar.