Six Cong Mps Suspended from Lok Sabha for 5 Days
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RNI NO.: DELENG/2005/15351 millenniumpost.in REGD. NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2015-17 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 12, ISSUE 204 | Tuesday, 25 July 2017 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 9966.40 (+51.15) pSENSEX 32,245.87 (+216.98) qDOW JONES 21,515.62 (-64.45) pNASDAQ 6,389.54 (+1.79) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.34 (-00.02) pRUPEE/EURO 74.93 (+0.14) pGOLD/10GM 29,310 (+160.00) qSILVER/K 39,100 (-250.00) Massive fire breaks out SPEAKER SUMITRA MAHAJAN REBUKES MPs FOR ‘GRAVE DISORDER’ NIA arrests 7 including at Lok Nayak Bhavan Six Cong MPs suspended Geelani’s son-in-law MPOST BUREAU SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: Seven people including Altaf Ahmed from Lok Sabha for 5 days Shah, the son-in-law of hardline separatist leader MPOST BUREAU members that followed. Congress highly unbecoming and in abuse of the Syed Ali Shah Geelani, were chief Sonia Gandhi was present in the rules of the House. It seeks to under- arrested on Monday by the Syed Ali Shah Geelani OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Six Congress members House at that time. mine the dignity of the House. These NIA in connection with its were on Monday suspended from the When the House again met at 2.30 members were persistently and wil- probe into the funding of terror and subversive activ- NEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out at the Lok Sabha for five days by Speaker pm, Congress members were joined fully obstructing the business of the ities in the Kashmir Valley, officials said. Lok Nayak Bhavan which houses the offices of Sumitra Mahajan for causing “grave by the Left in protesting the suspen- House and have caused grave disor- Shah, popularly known as Altaf Fantoosh, was in Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax disorder” by storming the Well, tear- sion, prompting Deputy Speaker M der,” the Speaker said. the custody of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, who Department on Monday. The fire which broke ing papers and throwing them towards Thambi Durai to adjourn the House These members, she said, stood had put him in preventive detention immediately out in the afternoon had reportedly started on the Chair during their protests over for the day. automatically suspended from the ser- after the festival of Eid earlier this month. the fourth floor of the building. So far no casu- the lynching issue. Sumitra Mahajan PTI Earlier, Mahajan said she was vice of the House for five consecutive Besides him, Geelani’s close aides Tehreek-e- alties have been reported from the spot. Ordering their suspension amid constrained to name these members sittings under the provisions of Rule Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar and Peer Saifullah The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) have managed noisy protests by Congress mem- incidents in the name of cow protec- due to their behaviour which was in 374A of the procedure for conducting were arrested by the National Investigation Agency to control the fire in under two and a half hours bers and counter-slogans of “shame, tion almost since the House assembled “abuse” of the rules. Lok Sabha business. (NIA) from the Valley, officials engaged in the oper- and the cooling operations are on. The fire offi- shame” from the BJP benches, the in the morning and took up the Ques- “Gaurav Gogoi snatched papers “They may forthwith withdraw ation said. cials are yet to comment on the extent of dam- Speaker said the conduct of Gaurav tion Hour. from the table and waved them from the precincts of the House,” The NIA also arrested Shahid-ul-Islam, spokes- age and will be surveying the building premises. Gogoi, K Suresh, Adhir Rajan Chow- However, after some time, only the towards the Chair. K Suresh snatched Mahajan said. man of the moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Sources in DFS have claimed that the office of dhury, Ranjeet Ranjan, Sushmita Dev Congress members remained in the papers from the table, tore them up In her statement in the House, she Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, they said. income tax settlement commission located at and M K Raghavan was “highly unbe- Well and the ruckus continued dur- and threw them towards the Chair. said all this had happened despite her The others arrested are Mehrajuddin Kalwal and the fourth floor sustained maximum damage. coming” and had undermined the ing the Zero Hour in the afternoon, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Ran- agreeing to a discussion under proper Nayeem Khan (of the Hurriyat’s Geelani faction) and According to a senior DFS official, the fire Chair’s dignity. forcing an adjournment till 2.00 pm. jeet Ranjan, Sushmita Dev and M K notice the issue of atrocities against Farooq Ahmed Dar alias ‘Bitta Karate’, they said. was reported around 4 in the afternoon. “We Members of the Congress and She pronounced her order as soon Raghavan tore papers and threw them Dalits and Muslims which was raised The houses of those arrested had been raided by had received the fire calls at 4 pm. Judging the some other opposition parties were as the House reassembled at 2.00 pm towards the Chair,” Mahajan said in by Leader of the Congress in Lok NIA sleuths last month. fire treat we deputed 25 fire tenders to the spot in the Well raising slogans against the and again adjourned it till 2.30 PM her order. Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and a few Shah is perceived as an influential force in the and later deputed an additional three fire ten- government and protesting lynching due to the noisy protests by Congress “The conduct of the members is other members. Tehrek- e-Hurriyat. ders,” said Deputy fire chief (DFS) Atul Garg.P4 We must free our Nithari killings: Pandher, Amrapali CEO arrested Mamata arrives in Delhi, to public discourse from over fraud charges all forms of violence, Koli get death penalty attend Kovind oath-taking physical as well as verbal OUR CORRESPONDENT SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE PRANAB MUKHERJEE GHAZIABAD: Noida businessman NEW DELHI: West Bengal Chief Moninder Singh Pandher and his ser- Minister Mamata Banerjee will vant Surinder Koli were sentenced attend the oath-taking ceremony of In today’s to death by a special CBI court here the President-elect Ram Nath Kov- today in the Nithari serial killings case RAHUL SINGH ind on Tuesday at the Central Hall of paper for murdering 20-year-old domestic Parliament. help Pinki Sarkar in 2006. NOIDA: Gautam Budh Nagar Banerjee flew down to the national ... Special judge Pawan Kumar district administration on Mon- capital on Monday evening and her CITY Tiwari, who had convicted the duo on day arrested and sent to jail two presence assumes political signifi- Saturday, handed down the sentence officials of realty group, Amrapali. cance as she has hit out at the Centre RAINS WREAK HAVOC ON DELHI ROADS 3 after which Pandher, who was out on The arrested duo includes on numerous occasions, especially on NATION bail, was taken into judicial custody. Moninder Singh Pandher Rithik Sinha, Chief Executive GST and the recent instances of cow Special senior public prosecutor Officer (CEO) of the realty com- vigilantism. RJD LEADERS LASH OUT AT NITISH 6 Jai Prakash Sharma said the court He, along with Koli, was given capi- pany and Nishant Mukul, director Her party Trinamool Congress termed it as a rarest of the rare cases tal punishment by the special court of the group. The move comes fol- (TMC) also backed the Opposition EDIT after being satisfied that there was on February 13, 2009, for the mur- lowing the realtor’s failure to pay Presidential nominee Meira Kumar. DISTRESSED SMALL FARMERS 8 no scope left for their reform or der of 14-year-old girl Rimpa Halder an outstanding labour cess of Rs 4 Banerjee was prompt enough to con- rehabilitation. at his house. crore for the last three years. gratulate Kovind after the result came INTERNATIONAL The judge found both of them However, a division bench of the On Sunday, Uttar Pradesh CM out on July, 20. guilty of kidnapping, raping, mur- Allahabad High Court had turned Yogi Adityanath expressed dis- The former Parliamentarian is also KABUL CAR BOMB ATTACK KILLS 35 10 der and having hatched a criminal down the trial judge’s verdict and appointment over the irregulari- likely to meet other senior opposition conspiracy. acquitted him. ties in the real estate sector and party leaders and Union Home Min- BUSINESS The case related to the disappear- The Noida police had discovered directed the government officials ister Rajnath Singh over the ongoing JULY-SEPT BIZ CONFIDENCE SLIDES 12 ance of Sarkar on October 5, 2006, 19 skeletons from the drain near to take strong steps. Darjeeling unrest during her three- when she was returning home from Pandher’s house in Nithari village on The Gautam Buddh Nagar day visit to New Delhi. The Bengal SPORT work along the road outside the D-5 December 29, 2006. After a nation- DM, BN Singh formed a team chief minister is expected to fly back residence of Pandher in NOIDA. wide uproar, the case was handed under Dadri SDM, Amit Kumar. to Kolkata on Thursday. PRANNOY BEATS KASHYAP 15 The CBI had said that Koli alleg- over to the CBI. The team raided the head office Apart from Banerjee, Bihar Chief edly abducted her, raped her and Pandher and Koli were of Amrapali builders at sector Minister Nitish Kumar will also West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee talks to the media at later killed her. After the murder, he chargesheeted in 16 of the 19 cases, 62, Noida and arrested the duo attend the ceremony.