DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● REG.NO. MCS/067/2018 -20RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00, WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM HATHRAS DALIT TEEN’S DEATH: HEARING OCTOBER 12 COVID ECONOMIC DISTRESS Dayafterpolicerushedhercremation, From PM economic council to Niti Aayog, growing HCstepsin,asksofficialstoexplain disquiet over Govt tight fist Benchwants Stopped on way, victim’s familyto Rahul, Priyanka Advisors urgedfiscal push in form of GST collections wage subsidy,rural infrastructure appear so it can make apoint — up: Rs 95,480 cr hear their version for September helped by police PVAIDYANATHANIYER Whygovt NEWDELHI,OCTOBER1 ishesitant E ENSECONOMICBUREAU ● tospend SOMYALAKHANI, SPEAKINGTOThe Indian Express EXPLAINED NEWDELHI,OCTOBER1 JIGNASASINHA on September 26, Union Finance &MANOJCG MinisterNirmalaSitharamansaid THE FINANCE ministryis MARKINGTHE firstinstance of a HATHRAS,GREATERNOIDA, that she is open to “the needfor notconvincedabout the year-on-year increase in the fi- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER1 further stimulus” and itstiming. needfor alarge fiscal nancial year 2020-21, gross Goods That maynot be muchofan stimulus. Policy advisors, and Services Tax(GST) collections HITTINGTHE streetsfor the first assurance giventhe growing however, areofthe view rose 3.9 per cent to Rs 95,480 time since the Covid-19lock- sense of disquietinexpertbodies that the unprecedented croreinSeptember,for sales in The benchreferredtoThe down wasimposedinMarch, including the Prime Minister’s shockneeds acounter- August, reflecting apick-up in Indian Express reportonOct 1 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fell down during ascuffle with police when he wasstopped Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi Economic AdvisoryCouncil, the cyclical response, and economic activity with the eas- on the Yamuna Expressway,inGreater Noida on Thursday. PTI and Priyanka Gandhi Vadrawere Niti Aayogand the Chief onlylarge government ing of Covid restrictions, accord- prevented Thursdayfromgoing Economic Advisor’s office. spending will sustain a ing to datareleasedThursdayby ASADREHMAN to the villageofthe Hathras Dalit Severalpolicy-influencers in recovery till private sec- the Finance Ministry. LUCKNOW,OCTOBER1 Forensic report shows teenager,who diedafter she was these bodies arebefuddledatthe tordemand picks up. The rise, however, also partly BUSINESSASUSUAL brutallyassaulted and allegedly Central government’s aversion to reflected the impact of alow base THE ALLAHABAD High Courton gangrapedbyupper caste men. spend morenow despitetheir effectfromSeptember2019,when Thursdaytook suo motu cog- BY UNNY teen was not raped: Police Their cavalcade wasstoppeden unanimousviewthatafiscalstim- Prime MinisterNarendraModi GSTrevenues had contracted 2.7 nizance of the fatalassault and route, afterwhichtheybegan to ulus —sooner than later —will chaired over 10 days between per cent to fall to a19-month low alleged gangrape of aDalit walk,onlytobearrestedbythe place India better to take advan- the end of June and early July, The of Rs91,916 crore—thesecondin- woman in Hathras, especiallyher AMILBHATNAGAR THE EDITORIAL PAGE Uttar Pradesh Police. tage of the major reforms being Indian Express has learnt, mem- stance since the July2017rollout hurriedcremation, and directed HATHRAS,OCTOBER1 Dramatic visuals of Rahul pushedinagricultureand labour. bers of his EAC, Niti Aayogand of the indirect taxregime. senior officials of the stategov- INTHEMIRROR walking with over ahundred In at leastfour meetings that CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ernment and police, including of THE UTTAR Pradesh Police OFHATHRAS party workers, falling during a the district, to be present at the Thursdaysaid that aforensic re- BY NANDITA RAO scuffle with police personnel, next hearing on October 12. porthad shown that the 19-year- &ITI PANDEY PAGE 10 and both him and Priyanka —the Atwo-judgeBenchsaidfamily old Dalit woman killedin Congress general secretaryin 2nd sero survey in Mumbai shows fall in members of the deceasedwould Hathras, allegedly by four upper charge of Uttar Pradesh —being alsobepresentthatdaysothatthe caste men, had notbeen raped. sexuallyassaulted. takenawayinapolice vehicle level of antibodies among slum dwellers courtcould hear their version of On September 22, aweek before Addressing apress confer- were astrong signal, meant for the cremation organisedbythe she died, the woman had given ence, Prashant Kumar,ADG (Law both the ranksofthe grand old the virus. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 astatement saying she had been CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE THE CITY Members of the team that MUMBAI,OCTOBER1 conducted the survey attributed 20FOREIGNERSTO the decline in seroprevalence – THE IDEAS PAGE ASECOND serosurvey con- FACECHARGESFOR number of persons in apopula- In Hyderabad, caste turns love story ducted in Mumbai mid-August STAYINGINMOSQUE tion who test positive foraspe- THEWARWITHIN has found that 45 per cent of the DURINGLOCKDOWN cific disease –inslum areas to into astory of hate and murder people in slums and 18 per cent the fact that an entirelydifferent AMERICA in non-slum pocketswereex- PAGE 3 setofpeople wassurveyed the Parentsoftechie, inlove.Everyevening,we usedto BY BHASKAR CHAKRAVORTI posedtoCovid-19. The latest second time. ` 92 per kilo sittogetherandmakeplansabout PAGE 11 findings aredifferent from the cent of the people in slums were But epidemiologists pointed hired killers thefuture,”says AvantiReddy,23. firstsurvey in July, when 57 per found to have been exposedto CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Until September 24,when this ` 120 per kilo among 14 held taleof twopeoplefromtwocastes in one big city came to an abrupt, so far: police and brutal, end. ` 148 per kilo The Hyderabad home of computer engineer Avanti may ` 72 per Dozen SREENIVASJANYALA The couple metCyberabad be aworld away from Hathras in HYDERABAD,OCTOBER1 Police Commissioner three UP —roiledbyaDalit girl's assault months ago and murder allegedly by upper- TWEETS AGAINST THEIR LOVE bloomedwith every caste men —but that evening, the UDDHAV, AADITYA “Hi” and “Hello” on the quietlane distance seemedtodisappear. outside their homes. Theysoon thephonecalls,withbillsrunning TwoofAvanti's uncles Free speech movedtoFacebook,spending upto Rs1,500amonth.Andfinally, reachedtheir house, calledthe hoursgettingto knoweachother, on June 10,theygot married. couple out and forced them into can’t violate growing closer.Then therewere “HemanthandIweresomuch CONTINUEDONPAGE2 constitutional rights of others, says HC OMKARGOKHALE MUMBAI,OCTOBER1 THE BOMBAY High Courton Thursdaysaid that in ademoc- racy,citizens arefreetoexpress their views,but theyhavetoen- surethat while exercising their right, theydon't violatesomeone else's constitutional rights. The courtalso observed that criticism of persons holding public posts has become ram- pant on social media, saying that suchpersons should have the ca- pacity to bear it. However, it addedthat citizens should also exercise restraint to the extent that the dignity of the postisnot abused. AdivisionbenchofJustice S SShindeand Justice MSKarnik washearing aplea filedby32- year-old Nagpur resident SameetRakesh Thakkar,seeking to quash an FIR registered againsthim over his tweets againstChief MinisterUddhav Thackeray and his son and MinisterAadityaThackeray. Thakkar had also sought interim protection from arrest. The FIR wasregistered againstThakkar afterMumbai- basedadvocateDharmendra Mishra, alegal consultant for ShivSena, filedacomplaint be- fore the VPMargpolice station on July2overhis twotweetson June 1and June 30. Thakkar,who is followedby Prime MinisterNarendraModi's Twitter handle, had referred to Uddhavas“Aurangzeb” and Aadityaas“Penguin beta”, as per the complaint. He wasbooked under sec- tions 292 (punishment forob- scene actsorwords in public) and 500(punishment for defamation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and provisions of the CONTINUEDONPAGE2 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 2 THE SECOND PAGE THEINDIANEXPRESS,FRIDAY,OCTOBER2,2020 DOWNLOADAPP WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM ■ VISUAL STORIES ■ DAILY BRIEFING ■ PODCASTS ARMENIA-AZERBAIJANCONFLICT:AUSSRRELICSIMMERINGFORACENTURY ■ CUSTOMIZABLE Foralmostfourdecades,ArmeniaandAzerbaijanhavebeenbattlingoverapieceoflandsituatedinthe The Hathras gang rape NEWS EXPERIENCE mountainousregionofsouthCaucasus.ThedisputeoverNagornoKarabakhthatbeganin1988hasoverthe WEB yearscausedmassivehumanrightsviolations,asevererefugeecrisisandimpactedbotheconomies. and India’sentrenched Indian Express EXCLUSIVE ★★★★★■4.6 caste system EXPLAINED FULLCOVERAGE NEWEPISODEEVERYDAY WHO ARE THE PROUD HATHRAS RAPE CASE We take alook at the Hathras case and BOYS? LIVE UPDATES discuss the problems that the Dalit The far-right group was Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi community faces when trying to deal with SCANTHISQRCODETO mentionedbyTrumpin takenawaybypolice the police and the judicial system. DOWNLOADTHEAPP the presidentialdebate in Uttar Pradesh FROMPAGEONE Rahul, Priyanka thosewhoaresupposedtouphold reducing,” Kakani said. suresomeoneelse'srightsare not the lawtotrample upon demo- Amember of the research violated because of this abusive party and others, who have been craticvalues,”hesaid.JD(S)leader High Court steps in, asks officials to explain team said in the second serosur- language.” The courtdirected urging the Gandhis to take on a HDDeveGowda, the RJD's vey, fornon-slum areas, the same Thakkar to appear before the in- morehands-on role. Tejashwi Yadavand Kerala Chief policeinthemiddleof