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Mumbai NEARBY Babri case: SC questions Modi blitz in Varanasi discharge of Advani, others as campaigning ends Last phase of polling in U.P. to be held tomorrow Allows CBI to ile supplementary charge sheet by including the conspiracy charge Omar Rashid ‘Manmohan didn’t assert VARANASI himself during UPA-11’ Krishnadas Rajagopal Campaigning for the seventh CHANDIGARH New Delhi and last phase of the high- Manmohan Singh was not a In a huge blow to BJP lead- stake 2017 Uttar Pradesh As- “weak” Prime Minister but for ers, the Supreme Court on sembly elections drew to a some “strange reasons” he Monday indicated it may close on Monday with each decided not to assert himself consider reviving the con- of the contenders predicting during the second term of the spiracy charge against them an overall lead in the 403- UPA government, Congress in the December 6, 1992 seat Assembly. leader Manish Tewari said on Monday. Babri Masjid demolition That Prime Minister Nar- NATION Ī PAGE 6 case. endra Modi concluded his DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD The sudden development campaign in Varanasi hints came on an appeal filed in at the fact that securing a Medanta’s air ambulance the Supreme Court by the clean sweep in his constitu- crashlands, pilot killed GURUGRAM CBI in 2011, during the UPA ency matters as much as era, against the dropping of winning the State. Mr. Modi The pilot of an air ambulance of Medanta Hospital was the conspiracy charge campaigned in Varanasi for killed after the aircraft against L.K. Advani and three consecutive days. caught ire and crashlanded other leaders such as Uma After addressing two public near Bangkok. Two of the Bharti, Dr. Murli Manohar meetings in the heart of the four other members on board Joshi, Vinay Katiyar, Sadvi See, people cannot be dis- However, Mr. Advani’s to even condone the delay city and holding two Narendra Modi paying tribute to Lal Bahadur Shastri at his sustained serious injuries. Ritambara, Giriraj Kishore charged like this on tech- counsel and senior advocate and hear the case on March massive road shows over the parental house in Ramnagar on Monday. RAJEEV BHATT The deceased pilot has been and Vishnu Hari Dalmia. nical grounds,” Justice Nar- K.K. Venugopal strongly ob- 22, 2017. weekend, on Monday he identiied as Arunaksha iman observed orally. jected to the turn of events The Babri Masjid demoli- convened a rally in Rohan- Incumbent Chief Minister didates had died during Nandy. ‘Something peculiar’ Justice Nariman said: “We and argued that the conspir- tion case stemmed from two iya, a largely rural constitu- Akhilesh Yadav also had a election]. The districts are NEWS Ī PAGE 10 Noting that “there is some- will allow you [CBI] to file acy charge against Mr. Ad- crime files: Crime No: 197/ ency, around 20 km from busy last day of campaigning Ghazipur, Varanasi, Mirza- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD thing very peculiar going on supplementary charge sheet vani and other leaders was 1992 and Crime No: 198/ the temple town. — addressing seven back-to- pur, Bhadohi, Sonbhadra, Miscreants break mirrors in this case” , a Bench of by including the conspiracy already dropped, and its re- 1992. Continuing his symbolic back rallies in Jaunpur, Jaunpur and Chandauli. In at Chittorgarh Fort Justices Pinaki Chandra charge. We will ask the trial vival would mean the re-ex- Both were filed shortly overtures, after paying which abuts Varanasi. For the last phase, the SP is JAIPUR Ghose and Rohinton F. Nar- court to conduct a joint trial amination of the 186 wit- after the disputed structure obeisance at the Hindu Mr. Yadav, the election is fighting 31 seats, while its A group of miscreants iman said it would examine in a Lucknow court.” nesses who had deposed in of Babri Masjid was demol- shrines of Kashi Vishwanath also a personal challenge, as ally, Congress, is contesting shattered mirrors in the in detail why the conspiracy The CBI, represented by the case. ished on December 6, 1992. and Kal Bhairao temples, he stepped out from his fath- nine. Padmini Palace inside the charge was dropped on Additional Solicitor General Crime no. 197/1992 was re- Mr. Modi wrapped up his er’s shadow and reconstruc- The BJP is fighting 32, 13th century Chittorgarh Fort mere technical grounds and Neeraj Kishan Kaul, seemed ‘Inordinate delay’ gistered in the Ayodhya Po- Varanasi tour with a visit to ted his image to emerge as leaving eight for its allies, of Rajasthan claiming that never revived all these years. to agree with the court’s ob- Mr. Venugopal pointed out lice Station against “lakhs of the Gadwaghat Ashram, the supreme leader of the while the BSP is fighting all the mirrors misrepresent the “We prima facie do not servations and submitted that the CBI had appealed in unknown kar sevaks.” This revered by Yadavs, before party. Polling for the final 40 40. A total 1.4 crore people story of Queen Padmini. approve of the way these that a joint trial should be the Supreme Court after an FIR dealt with the actual de- paying tribute to former seats will be held on Wed- will decide the fate of 535 NORTH Ī PAGE 3 people have been dis- conducted. inordinate delay. molition of the masjid. Prime Minister Lal Bahadur nesday [another seat in candidates. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD charged... And no additional “This is what we want,” But the Bench remained Shastri at his birthplace in Ambedkarnagar will vote on MODI STEERS BJP IN DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES charge sheet filed so far? Mr. Kaul submitted. firm, saying it would choose CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Ramnagar. Thursday as one of the can- HIGH-STAKES POLLS Ī PAGE 11 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ‘Pakistan-based groups were Colour of rain behind 2008 Mumbai attacks’ Former NSA Durrani, however, says govt., ISI not involved Dinakar Peri mitted proof of Mr. Saeed’s NEW DELHI role in the Mumbai attacks The Mumbai attacks of 2008 and has called for action by were carried out by terror Pakistan. However, Pakistan groups based in Pakistan, has maintained that there former Pakistani National was no “concrete evidence” Security Adviser Maj. Gen. against him. (retd) Mahmud Ali Durrani Delivering the inaugural said on Monday. address at the conference, “But the government of Defence Minister Manohar Pakistan or the Inter-Ser- Parrikar said terrorism was vices Intelligence (ISI) was the single biggest threat to not involved. I am 110% sure international peace and se- of it,” he said at the 19th edi- Mahmud Ali Durrani curity. India, he said, would tion of the Asian Security continue to work tirelessly Conference on ‘Combating sponsible for the Mumbai for a cohesive global re- Terrorism: Evolving an attacks. sponse. He reminded the Asian Response,’ organised Responding to questions audience that India had first by the Institute for Defence on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa submitted a resolution in the Studies and Analyses. chief, Mr. Durrani said Hafiz United Nations for a Com- In 2009, Maj. Gen. Dur- Saeed had no utility for prehensive Convention on rani was sacked from the Pakistan. “He should be International Terrorism post of NSA after he called punished.” (CCIT) way back in 1996. Season’s irst: Dark clouds gather over the seafront in Kochi as the irst of summer showers hit the city on Monday morning. Kerala experienced widespread for action against those re- India has repeatedly sub- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 rain during the day. H. 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Pune wrinkled face or in his war, he packed his bags and He was thrown into Police retrieved 19 aborted demeanour, to give an left England. Alipore Central jail. female foetuses from a inkling of the remarkable life Throwing himself “The court case went on sewer in a village in western that he has led over the past headlong into it, he started for eight-and-a-half years, Maharashtra’s Sangli dis- four decades. Age has