Centre Seeks to Withdraw Its Jallikattu Notification
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Delhi wednesday, january 25, 2017 www.thehindu.in ● Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 7 ● No. 21 ● CITY EDITION ● 22 Pages ● Rs. 8.00 Printed at Chennai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad, Malappuram and Mumbai Enquiry against Delhi India hopes for UK parliament must Swiss compatriots Federer Chief Minister, kin $75-billion infra approve start of Brexit and Wawrinka set up on graft charge fund from UAE talks, says court last four showdown Page 5 Page 12 Page 14 Page 19 • • BRIEFLY SC rejects plea to put of ‘69% of political funds Centre seeks to withdraw from unknown sources’ BCCI panel appointment NEW DELHI: The total income of national and regional political Centre and some parties between 2004-05 and its jallikattu notification State cricket bodies 2014-15 stood at ₨11,367 crore, with the highest of ₨3,982 crore can suggest names being the Congress’s share. Informs SC that it However, 69% of the income of LEGAL CORRESPONDENT these parties was from will move an unknown sources, according to NEW DELHI: Attorney General an analysis done by the application in Mukul Rohatgi on Tuesday Association for Democratic view of T.N. Bill asked a three-judge Bench, Reforms. The income of national led by Justice Dipak Misra, to parties from unknown sources KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL freeze the process for ap- increased by 313%; for regional pointment of a Committee of parties, it went up by 652%. NEW DELHI: The Centre on Administrators to run the ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 Tuesday informed the Su- BCCI, by at least two weeks. preme Court that it will Mr. Rohatgi said the gov- move an application with- ernment was considering le- drawing the January 7, 2016 gislation or executive action central notification allowing to arm the various sports as- jallikattu in the wake of the sociations with ‘some fect sports administration but “downgraded” to associ- Bill passed unanimously by autonomy’ against external internationally. ate memberships by the the Tamil Nadu Assembly. interventions. “If these interventions are Lodha panel reforms. The court refused to keep made into the afairs of Mr. Rohatgi referred to the Statement spurred in abeyance the process. It, private bodies, tomorrow 2005 Zee Telefilms SC ver- Attorney General Mukul however, allowed the Centre private bodies dealing with dict which had held that the Rohatgi’s statement for the and some State cricket asso- art, films, etc., will be af- BCCI was not a ‘State’ under Centre was spurred by a NO ENTRY: The Marina beach in Chennai wears a deserted look on Tuesday as the police ciations to suggest names for fected. There will be interna- Article 12 of the Constitu- IIMs can soon grant mentioning made by a law- kept away the public. — PHOTO: V. GANESAN the committee before Janu- tional ramifications. This tion, but only a private body. degrees and Ph.Ds yer as soon as a three-judge ary 30, the next date of hear- case has far-reaching con- “But you are also not exactly Special Bench sat for a ing. sequences,” Mr. Rohatgi cau- sure what impact your legis- NEW DELHI: The Indian Institutes scheduled hearing in the Marina out of bounds; demand for Mr. Rohatgi said sweeping tioned. lation would have in the in- of Management (IIMs) will soon BCCI-Lodha Committee and drastic changes within He is appearing for the ternational arena, are you?” be able to grant degrees and spat case. sports bodies, as proposed Railways, the Armed Forces the Bench asked the govern- Ph.D to their students, instead Justice Dipak Misra, who action against police grows louder by the Lodha Committee in and the Association of In- ment in turn. of Post Graduate Diplomas and heads both the Jallikattu BCCI’s case, would not only dian Varsities. All three were Fellow Programmes in Bench and the Special Bench R. SIVARAMAN nally, it left, late in the night. have a national impact but af- full members of the BCCI, ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Management, as the Union in the BCCI case, told Mr. NHRC issues notice Cabinet on Tuesday cleared the Rohatgi that such an applica- CHENNAI: A day after the sands to Tamil Nadu ‘Shift police chief’ IIM Bill 2017. The 20 IIMs will tion of the government, if of the Marina turned into a Leader of the Opposition Trump dials Modi also be declared Institutions of filed, would be considered war zone overshadowing NEW DELHI: Taking suo M.K. Stalin sought the shift- HC stalls U.P. govt.’s National Importance. The by the Jallikattu Bench in due memories of the week-long motu cognisance of ing of Chennai Police Com- as new regime much-awaited Bill is expected course. peaceful jallikattu protests, media reports, the missioner S. George for the to be introduced in Parliament On the Jallikattu Bench, the beach remained out of National Human Rights violence and a judicial in- assumes oice bid to widen SC list in the budget session. Justice Rohinton Nariman bounds for the public. The Commission on Tuesday quiry, while PMK leader An- ½ NATION | PAGE 9 accompanies Justice Misra. rest of the capital city, how- issued notice to the bumani Ramadoss deman- “We [Justice Misra and ever, went back to normal Tamil Nadu authorities ded a CBI probe. VARGHESE K. GEORGE OMAR RASHID Justice Nariman] will sit in mode on Tuesday. on the alleged police ‘Missing’ Kerala leader combination and decide excesses on jallikattu Probe by retired judge WASHINGTON: President Donald LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High traced in Delhi what to do,” Justice Misra, Police on guard protesters. PAGE 8 The three-party People’s Trump spoke to Prime Min- Court on Tuesday stalled the flanked by Justices A.M. A heavy police posse Welfare Front instituted a ister Narendra Modi on Samajwadi Party-led Uttar KOLKATA: The national general Khanwilkar and D.Y. stood guard on Kamarajar fact-finding team headed by Tuesday afternoon, the Pradesh government’s de- secretary of the Communist Chandrachud for the BCCI Salai and all roads leading to overnight at the beach re- retired judge Justice Hari White House said. Press sec- cision to include 17 most Party of India Marxist-Leninist hearing, told Mr. Rohatgi. the beach were heavily barri- fused to leave unless it was Paranthaman to ascertain retary Sean Spicer said a backward castes (MBCs) in (CPI-ML [Red Star]), K.N. caded even as a group of over shown proof of the President what led to the violence. readout on the call would be the Scheduled Castes list, a ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Ramachandran, who was 300 pro-jallikattu agitators granting assent to the Bill provided later in the month after the State Cab- reported “missing” since ½ THE END OF A PROTEST squatted on the sands. The amending the Prevention of ½ LAST OF PROTESTERS afternoon. inet passed the proposal. Sunday evening in Kolkata, was | EDITORIAL group that had remained Cruelty to Animals Act. Fi- LEAVE MARINA | PAGE 8 Mr. Modi is the fifth world A Division Bench of Chief traced in Delhi on Tuesday. He leader President Trump has Justice D. B. Bhosle and Akhilesh Yadav claimed that he was “abducted” spoken with after he as- Justice Yaswant Verma dir- by six men claiming to be from sumed oice on Friday. Ca- ected the State not to issue sue of including the 17 most the “Central intelligence.” nadian Prime Minister Justin SC certificates to the 17 backward castes (MBCs) of ½ SOUTH | PAGE 8 JNU Proctor quits, second in one year Trudeau, Mexican President castes. the State in the Scheduled Pena Nieto, Prime Minister The court passed the or- Castes list. La La Land bags 14 JAIDEEP DEO BHANJ He had recently sent the students of “violence,” all when the V-C, “violating all Benjamin Netanyahu of Is- der on a PIL petition filed by While this was not the first disciplinary notices to stu- procedures, was slapping rael and Egyptian President a Gorakhpur-based organisa- such move by the SP, it was Oscar nominations NEW DELHI: Jawaharlal Nehru show-cause notices dents and faculty members baseless charges against stu- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi were the tion, Dr Ambedkar viewed with suspicion by op- LOS ANGELES: The candy- University Chief Proctor A.P to nine activists of have been issued by the Re- dents and teachers.” first four. Granthalaya Evam Jan position parties given that Dimri, who conducted the gistrar and not by the On November 9, Mr. Modi Kalyan Samiti, arguing that elections are near. The 17 coloured love letter to musicals the ABVP for using Second resignation La La Land on Tuesday landed a inquiry into the disappear- Proctor. was the fifth world leader to issuing the SC certificate castes are Mallah, Kashyap, ance of Najeeb Ahmed, has “derogatory” language Mr. Dimri is the second speak to Mr. Trump after the would allow candidates from Kumhar, Dheemar, Bind, record-tying 14 nominations to ‘Moral victory’ the Academy Awards, which resigned allegedly due to Proctor to resign since the latter won the election. these castes to contest elec- Prajapati, Dheevar, Bhar, Ke- fielded a notably more diverse “long standing diferences” Recently, Mr Dimri had Reacting to the resigna- current V-C took over in British Prime Minister tions from reserved seats. wat, Batham, Kahar, Mach- field of nominees following two with the university sent show-cause notices to tion, students said it was a January 2016. Theresa May will be the first The State has also been hua Rajbhar, Nishad, Turha, straight years of administration.