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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY SC transfers Unnao cases to Delhi court 25,000 more troops Court also orders ₹25 lakh interim compensation and CRPF protection to the rape survivor being deployed in J&K Krishnadas Rajagopal Amarnath Yatra suspended Count me out for top NEW DELHI Three guards Peerzada Ashiq post, says Priyanka The Supreme Court on Srinagar NEW DELHI Thursday transferred five suspended An additional 25,000 secur­ Congress general secretary cases of crimes committed Three police guards ity personnel were ordered Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is against the Unnao rape survi­ deployed for the protection to be moved to Jammu and believed to have told a vor and her family from a of the Unnao rape survivor Kashmir on Thursday, days meeting of party general CBI court in Lucknow to its were suspended on after Governor Satya Pal secretaries on Thursday that counterpart in Delhi and or­ Thursday for negligence. she shouldn’t be considered Malik said “all was normal”, dered the Uttar Pradesh go­ DGP O.P Singh said the three fuelling a fresh wave of as a replacement for her vernment to pay her ₹25 lakh guards were not travelling brother and outgoing party speculation in the State. The personnel are being in interim compensation. with the family on the day chief Rahul Gandhi. Ms. According to police split between the Jammu A Bench, led by Chief Jus­ their car collided with a * Vadra’s remarks are sources, a fresh order was and Kashmir regions. AP tice of India (CJI) Ranjan Go­ Ī PAGE 13 important in the backdrop of truck. directed to security person­ a growing chorus among a goi, ordered that the trial in DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD nel to “work on a build­up the Amarnath Yatra for the section of the senior leaders the Unnao cases be held on a at the district levels across time being. Even many lan­ like Captain Amarinder Singh day­to­day basis and com­ Sengar expelled the State.” Sources said gars (community kitchens) and Shashi Tharoor asking her pleted within 45 days. 25,000 personnel, in addi­ operating in south Kashmir to take over the reins. tion to the 10,000 troops, were vacated on Thursday. Judge named rape of the survivor. she had reached out to the July 30 — well after the ‘acci­ from BJP NEWS Ī PAGE 12 were being inducted and Over 40 companies were DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD The court went the extra Though the CBI has filed CJI in a letter. But her cry for dent’ on Sunday. Faced with the anger against split between the Jammu deployed for the Yatra. A mile to zero in on District chargesheets in the four cas­ help largely remained unnot­ Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who and Kashmir regions. general high alert has been Judge Dinesh Sharma as the es, the Lucknow court is yet iced in the court’s Registry Cheque handed over is in jail on the charge of sounded in the State. trial judge. to frame charges against the for almost a fortnight. In compliance with the court raping the Unnao woman, Taken off yatra duty There is speculation Four of these cases are the accused persons. Her letter, dated July 12, order, Lucknow District Ma­ the BJP expelled the four­ “Yes, we have received ad­ around the Centre’s move rape of the minor in 2017; a had spelt out threats to her gistrate K.R. Sharma and SSP time MLA. BJP Uttar Pradesh ditional troops. Many per­ to take “significant mea­ false case foisted on her fath­ Probe into ‘accident’ life and her family from the K. Naithani later in the day president Swatantra Dev sonnel were relieved from sures” ahead of the As­ er under the Arms Act by The fifth case concerns the accused persons, including handed over a cheque for Singh said Sengar, also the Amarnath Yatra duty to sembly election and fear of conniving police officers; the ‘accident’ on July 28 when a Kuldeep Singh Sengar, four­ ₹25 lakh to the survivor’s fa­ accused of being allegedly augment security in towns immediate repercussions in custodial death of the survi­ truck rammed into a car car­ time BJP MLA from Banger­ mily, PTI reports. behind a collision with the in south Kashmir,” a senior the Muslim pockets across vor’s father after he was ar­ rying the now 19­year­old mau. The letter landed at the survivor’s car, was expelled officer told The Hindu. the State. FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 8 PAGES rested in the Arms case; and rape survivor. Registry on July 17, but did CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 by the central leadership . Sources said there was (With PTI inputs) (TABLOID) GENDER JUSTICE Ī EDITORIAL Ī PAGE 13 a second instance of gang Days before the accident, not reach the CJI’s table till also a direction to wind up CONTINUED ONĪ PAGE 12 Free electricity for Delhiites using up to 200 units India evaluating Pak. proposal Move will encourage power saving, says Kejriwal; BJP, Cong. call announcement ‘election gimmick’ for consular access to Jadhav Staff Reporter ference. Those consuming around 35% of the total con­ Congress was in power, even Response will be sent through diplomatic channels: MEA New Delhi 201­400 units of electricity sumers use less than 200 un­ then power tariff in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejri­ will get about 50% subsidy, its during summer and in was lowest in the country,” Kallol Bhattacherjee wal on Thursday announced he added. winter, the percentage goes senior Congress leader Ha­ NEW DELHI Pakistan arrests free electricity for people “Now people using 210 or up to around 70. Terming roon Yusuf said. India is examining Pakistan’s consuming up to 200 units 300 units will think that if the move “historic”, he Asked about the timing of proposal to grant consular ‘Indian spy’ under a domestic connec­ they use under 200 units, claimed Delhi has the cheap­ the move, Mr. Kejriwal said: access to Kulbhushan Jad­ Pakistan has said its border tion. The decision, which their bill will be zero. We be­ est electricity rate in the “When we took over, the hav, a former Navy officer, military police arrested Raju came into effect from August lieve this will encourage country. power sector was in a bad who was sentenced to death Lakshman, 30, an “Indian 1, has been taken barely six them to save electricity,” the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at The Delhi Congress, ho­ state. We worked and slowly by a Pakistan military court spy”, in Dera Ghazi Khan in months before Delhi As­ Chief Minister said. a press conference in New wever, claimed that the Aam improved it. Since then, the on espionage and terrorism Punjab province on sembly elections due in Fe­ Attacking the move, both Delhi on Thursday. Aadmi Party government DERC has been reducing charges in 2017. Wednesday. Ī PAGE 13 bruary 2020. the BJP and the Congress * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA was misleading the people rates... It was not possible Raveesh Kumar, spokes­ Kulbhushan Jadhav “In Delhi, people who termed it an “election gim­ on power tariff. “It is a lie earlier, as power companies’ person of the Ministry of Ex­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD consume up to 200 units will mick”. Delhi BJP chief Manoj and demanded that Mr. Kej­ that Delhi has the cheapest financial state was bad. At ternal Affairs, said the esta­ are evaluating the proposal ties. Nor did he say whether not have to pay electricity Tiwari said the Delhi govern­ riwal refund it or else his par­ rates of electricity and I chal­ that point, there was no blished channels were being in the light of the judgment conditions were attached to bills. Their bills [will be] ment has “looted” ₹8,500 ty will “initiate a movement” lenge Arvind Kejriwal and question of making it free.” used to convey India’s res­ of the International Court of the proposal. waived,” Mr. Kejriwal said crore from the people as against it. other AAP leaders who are (With PTI inputs) ponse. “We have received a Justice (ICJ),” he said, with­ while addressing a press con­ fixed charge and load charge The Chief Minister said misguiding people. When SEE ALSO Ī PAGE 3 proposal from Pakistan. We out spelling out the modali­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Vadodara flooded Fleeing Maldives leader held off Tamil Nadu Ahmed Adeeb was on a tugboat Hariprasad Radhakrishnan Thoothukudi Former Vice President of Maldives Ahmed Adeeb Ab­ dul Ghafoor, who secretly fled the Maldives on a boat to India, was held by Indian authorities near the coast of Thoothukudi in southern Ta­ mil Nadu on Thursday. Mr. Adeeb was convicted by a Maldivian court in a plot to assassinate former Presi­ dent Abdulla Yameen, but Ahmed Adeeb Abdul the country’s Supreme Court Ghafoor in a boat in had quashed the sentence Thoothukudi on Thursday. and ordered a fresh trial. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Crippled by torrents: Four persons were killed and 5,000 evacuated from Vadodara in Gujarat, The police said he was on which was battered by nearly 500 mm of rain in 24 hours till Thursday morning. The board a Mongolian­flagged said the issue was being dealt Vishwamitri river burst its banks and entered several areas. * PTI (PAGE 9) tugboat, Virgo­9, that set sail with by the Ministry of Exter­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC from the Maldives on July 27 nal Affairs (MEA) and other on its way back to Thoothu­ central agencies.