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HATHRAS: COURTPULLSUPDM, ASKS GOVT WHY NO ACTION AGAINST HIM BUSINESSASUSUAL 14 months later, BY UNNY HCquestionsofficial’srapedenial,says Mehbooba released, cremationviolatedrightsofvictim,family says ‘will take back what Delhi snatched’ Rights can’t be trampled... especially ADG, Lawand Order,and Awanish Kumar Awasthi, of downtrodden:Allahabad HC Additional Chief Secretary, Home. “The guiding principle of BASHAARATMASOOD family”, the LucknowBenchof governanceand administration, SRINAGAR,OCTOBER13 MANISHSAHU the Allahabad High Courthas de- afterindependence, should be to LUCKNOW,OCTOBER13 liveredastingingindictmentof ‘serve’ and ‘protect’ people and FOURTEEN MONTHS months af- the UttarPradesh police and ad- notto'rule' and 'control' as was tershe wasarrested, former EXPRESSNETWORK FROM QUESTIONINGthe police ministration. the case prior to independence. Chief MinisterofJammu and claimthat the 19-year-old Dalit Whilethe BenchofJustices Government should come out Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti was STATEMUNICIPAL woman from Hathras wasnot PankajMithal and Rajan Roy with appropriateprocedures as releasedTuesdayafter theJ&K rapedtoobserving that her hur- heardthe caseonMonday, the or- guidancefor district officials to government revokedher deten- Has been in preventive CORPORATIONPOLLS: riedcremation was“prima facie derwas made availabletoday. deal with suchsituations,” the tion underthe Public SafetyAct custody since Aug5lastyear NOMINATIONSBEGIN an infringement upon the hu- The courtwas critical of topoffi- CBI officials at the victim’s villageTuesday. They visited the courtsaid. (PSA). The decision came two FROMTODAY man rightsofthe victim and her cials, including Prashant Kumar, crime scene, questionedfamily. PTI REPORTP8 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 days before her daughter Iltija PAGE 8 Mufti’s petitionchallenging her time, the blackdecision of the detention wasscheduledtobe blackday of August5,2019 heardinthe Supreme Court. woundedmysoul. AndIunder- In an audio messageposted stand the situation would have OPENING PLACES OF WORSHIP on Twitter afterbeing released, been similar forall people of she said the people of Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir.” Governor mocks Kashmir cannotforgetthe “rob- An order issuedonTuesday beryand humiliation”ofAugust5 by Home SecretaryShaleen and demandedreleaseofall pris- Kabrasaid, “In exercise of the CM as ‘secular,’ oners lodged in different jails of powers conferredunder section the Union territoryand outside. 19(1) of the Jammu and Kashmir “Now,all of us have to reiter- Public SafetyAct,1978, the gov- ate,we willhave to take backwhat ernment herebyrevokes the de- Uddhav reminds NewDelhi snatchedfor us ille- tention order... of Ms Mehbooba gally, undemocraticallyand un- Mufti... with immediateeffect.” constitutionally. Inadditionto this When contacted,Mufti’s him of his oath we will have to continue our daughter Iltija confirmedtoThe struggle forthe resolution of Indian Express her mother has Pawarwrites to PM on Governor’s Kashmir issuefor whichthou- been released. “As Ms Mufti’s il- sands of people sacrifices their legal detention finallycomes to language; Fadnavis pulls up CM lives. Iagree thatthis path would an end, I’d liketothank every- notbeeasy but Ihavebelief that body who supportedmein our courageand our determina- thesetough times.Iowe adebt VISHWASWAGHMODE tionwillhelpusto crossthisroad,” of gratitude to youall…,” she MUMBAI,OCTOBER13 shesaid in the audio message. tweetedfromher mother’s han- Immediatelyafter therevo- dle forthe one lasttime. IN AN unusuallywordedofficial cation of detention,the PDP said Mufti, along withthe entire letter demanding the immedi- Mufti would address apress con- separatistand mainstream lead- atere-opening of places of wor- ference