( ) 73 , ! 8 & 8 & 8 VRGR $"#(!#1')VCEBRS WWT!Pa!RT%&!$"#1$# +-'.+/0123 ../ *+,-% +-0 ! : 36# 5$11 $: 5+6$9# 626 "$/93 +../51 9#+5 +,9, . ,#56 5/"%.$ >6$!+5 >6/>+.#1+9 1!+.16 1/!#9 "/! 9+."6 9+!/9 "6+.,2+96 5#+,#916! /16+99+:O1 ,#+36 1#.3#."# ,#69+,/. 6?,#9+>+, @-+?+,+ 5 " )*; ++, ;< =+ 1 # +&& ! 03445 $ 026 ,1 ! " 5/"%.$ better while specialised units would monitored by senior ith the aim to make levels thereby increasing their Wpolicing more effective, efficacy. the Uttar Pradesh government Besides posting police introduced police commis- commissioner in Lucknow of sionerate system in Lucknow ADG rank, the government and Gautam Buddha Nagar would also post two joint com- (Noida) districts, an missioners of police (of IG announcement of which was rank) and nine additional com- made by Chief Minister Yogi missioners of police (ACPs) of Adityanath after the state cab- DIG rank. While the first JCP inet’s approval to the proposal would look after law and order on Monday. front, the other will manage the ADG (Meerut) Alok Singh administration. !" # $ % and ADG (Prayagraj) Sujit In Noida, it would be a bit # &' Pandey have been appointed as different as along with the the first police commissioners police commissioner, there .# ,#56 tal” crackdown by the police in Conference leader Hasnain of Noida and Lucknow, respec- would be two ACPs of DIG Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, also Masoodi, besides Congress tively. rank and five police officers of t an Opposition meeting said though the CAA and the leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Lucknow and Noida SP rank. Askipped by Bahujan Samaj NRC were the immediate cause Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel and become the 72nd and 73rd In both the cities, there Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party of the “nationwide sponta- former Prime Minister cities of the country spread over would be two separate woman (SP), Trinamool Congress neous protests”, these “reflect Manmohan Singh were among 16 states to get the commis- officers of the rank of SP and (TMC), and allies DMK and widespread frustration and those present at the meeting. sionerate system of policing. ! ASP who would be in-charge of Shiv Sena, Congress president pent up anger, which is now out TMC supremo and West Making the announcement crime against women. Sonia Gandhi on Monday in the open”. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata after the cabinet meeting, the "( Besides, a separate SP slammed the NDA NCP supremo Sharad Banerjee kept away chief minister said that the new &' would be deployed for manag- Government’s divisive policies Pawar, Left leaders Sitaram from the meeting, angry over system would give more teeth ing traffic. and described the national Yechury and D Raja, JMM the Congress and Left cadres to the police for controlling The police commissioner population register (NPR) as leader and Jharkhand Chief unleashing violence in her crime as the government had In Lucknow, the police Noida, the present population would be introduced in will be vested with absolute the first step to a “nationwide Minister Hemant Soren, LJD State during a recent the “political will” to deal with commissionerate would cover is around 25 lakh against the Gorakhpur, Varanasi, powers regarding law and National Register of Citizens chief Sharad Yadav, Rashtriya bandh call. every situation. 40 police stations while in figure of 16 lakh in 2011. Prayagraj, Kanpur, Agra and order, magisterial authority (NRC). Lok Samata Party leader The DMK’s absence, how- “We have appointed two Noida it will cover around 25 Though the chief minister Meerut. besides 15 other powers. Sonia, who criticised the Upendra Kushwaha, RJD ever, came as a surprise. woman police officers in both police stations of both Noida did not mention anything The police commissioner- However, the issuance of arm “shockingly partisan and bru- leader Manoj Jha, National Sources said BSP’s reason the cities to deal with crime and Greater Noida. about the other big cities where ate system was discussed first licence would not be in the to keep away from the against the fairer sex. They will As per the Police Act, a city this new policing system would during the Mayawati regime in purview of the police commis- Opposition bandwagon was be entrusted with the task of with over one million popula- be introduced in future, offi- 2010 but the move was derailed sioner. due to Congress’ poaching her monitoring the pending cases tion can introduce the police cials said that Lucknow and by the powerful IAS lobby. This system gives more # $ party’s legislators in Rajasthan of women atrocities,” Yogi said commissionerate system. But in Gautam Buddha Nagar had The chief minister said the teeth, including magisterial even though BSP had extend- and added that a special police Lucknow, the population is been taken up on an experi- new system would enable the powers, to IPS officers of IG ed outside support to the officer would also be deployed around 40 lakh when as per mental basis and after the suc- senior police officers on the rank and above, posted as %& $ Ashok Gehlot Government. for controlling traffic system. 2011 Census it was 29 lakh . In cess of the system there, it ground to handle the situation commissioners. Continued on Page 6 !+3.+ CAA. If people want, then there will be a discussion in this $ '( ) * R n a clear rebuff to his ally the House,” the Chief Minister told IBJP and signalling his change the House. of heart over the contentious In the past, Nitish had Citizenship Amendment Act, dropped one-liner to suggest O # , !" Bihar Chief Minister Nitish the NRC would not be imple- Kumar on Monday said he is mented in Bihar, but this time .# ,#56 open to discuss the Act in the he made his position official by .# ,#56 could be sent back to a prison running to us and we will see breaching the trust of home State Assembly even as he articulating it in the State here. According to the share to it,” the SC said. buyers, ordered cancellation JP working president JP emphasised that Assembly. Nitish’s he Supreme Court on subscription agreement between Singh said the adjudication of Amrapali Group’s registra- BNadda is set to take charge here is no justifi- rejection of the TMonday asked the JP Morgan and Amrapali process against the firm had tion under real estate law as the party president on cation for a coun- NRC and his will- Enforcement Directorate (ED) Group, the US-based firm had begun in accordance with law. RERA and ousted it from its January 20, succeeding Amit try-wide NRC. ingness to debate ! "#$ % to attach Indian properties of JP invested 85 crore on October On December 2 last year, prime properties in the NCR by Shah. Nadda was appointed Speaking in the CAA in the & L Morgan, which engaged in a 20, 2010, to have a preferential the ED had informed the top nixing the land leases. BJP’s working president in July the State Assembly is unlike- M * transaction with the now- claim on profits in the ratio of court that it had prima facie It had ordered a probe by last year, after Shah was picked Assembly, Kumar ly to please his ally. defunct Amrapali Group to 75 per cent to JP Morgan and 25 found evidence of violation of the ED into allegations of as the Home Minister in the said the NRC was With his num- siphon off homebuyers’ money per cent to the promoters of FEMA by the multi-national money laundering and to look Modi Government. an Assam-specific ber two in the in violation of the Foreign Amrapali Homes Project Private firm and recorded the state- into the charge of FEMA vio- In the run-up to the 2019 regulation arising party Prashant Exchange Management Act Limited and Ultra Home. ments of the country head of lation by JP Morgan. “The Lok Sabha elections, Nadda out of the Assam Kishor targeting + , (FEMA) and FDI norms. Later, the same number of the company with regard to money of the home buyers has was made incharge of BJP’s accord signed by the Modi ! O " The ED said it had prima shares was bought back from JP dealings with the Amrapali been diverted. The directors election campaign committee the Rajiv Gandhi Government - facie found violations of FEMA Morgan for 140 crore by two Group. It had said though the diverted the money by the cre- in Uttar Pradesh, where the following agitation everyday on the . / 0 norms by the US-based firm companies — M/s Neelkanth investigation was underway, ation of dummy companies, party convincingly defeated against influx of CAA and NRC, -./1/ and that a complaint in this and M/s Rudraksha — owned prima facie it appeared that realising professional fees, cre- the formidable alliance of the foreign nationals in Nitish’s change of & + 2 regard was lodged. by a peon and an office boy of there were also violations of the ating bogus bills, selling flats at Samajwadi Party (SP) and the the State. stance is indicative - The SC also allowed the Amrapali’s statutory auditor provisions of the Prevention of an undervalued price, pay- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) by “A c o u n t r y - of his intention not O & ED to take into custody the Anil Mittal. Money Laundering Act ment of excessive brokerage etc. winning 62 of the 80 Lok wide implementa- to be seen as a defunct Amrapali Group’s A Bench of justices Arun (PMLA) and that appropriate They obtained investment from Sabha seats. tion of NRC was ! "#$ piggy rider of the CMD, Anil Kumar Sharma, Mishra and UU Lalit was told actions were being taken.