Delhi saturday, january 21, 2017 www.thehindu.in ● Regd. DL(ND)-11/6110/2006-07-08 ● RNI No. TNENG/2012/49940 ● ISSN 0971 - 751X ● Vol. 7 ● No. 18 ● CITY EDITION ● 24 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 • • BRIEFLY JNU student RBI works to cut online Ordinance to clear path for holding jallikattu raped in transaction costs Centre gives nod for draft of proposal Green Park NEW DELHI: RBI officials told the Parliamentary Committee on submitted by State; ordinance STAFF REPORTER Public Accounts here on Friday likely to be promulgated soon that the central bank was NEW DELHI: A JNU student was working on ways to cut costs of SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Mr. Rao is scheduled to ar- allegedly raped by two men at online transactions. RBI rive in Chennai from Mum- the residence of one of the ac- Governor Urjit Patel, Deputy NEW DELHI: The Centre on Fri- bai on Saturday evening. cused in Green Park last Governor R. Gandhi and other day cleared the Tamil Nadu week, the police said on senior officials of the bank government’s proposal to Centre for solution Friday. appeared before the committee. promulgate an ordinance to Earlier in the day, Environ- Both the accused, Twaab Dr. Patel said demonetisation hold jallikattu. ment Minister Anil Dave alias Salim Ahmed, 27, and would have a positive impact on The State government had told reporters that Centre Sulaiman Ahmadi, 31, are the economy in the long run and proposed to issue an ordin- wanted a “permanent” solu- from Afghanistan and were the cash flow situation was ance in a day or two to allow tion to the jallikattu issue arrested a day after it was re- improving fast. jallikattu, a bull taming and a final decision would be ported to the police. ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 sport. Since the subject falls taken within a “day or two.” The 21-year-old victim is a in the Concurrent list of the Also on Friday, 46 AI- second year undergraduate CBI chief appointment: Constitution, it was mandat- ADMK parliamentarians student of JNU and she had ory to get a nod from the met Home Minister Rajnath met Salim at a pub where she SC rejects plea Centre, a senior Home Min- Singh and submitted a had gone with her friends. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court istry oicial said on Friday. memorandum, stating that According to the girl’s pur- on Friday refused to direct the The Home Ministry sent the ban on jallikattu was ported statement to the po- Centre to place before it the the draft submitted by the against the fundamental, re- lice, she had gone to Hauz minutes of the meeting of a State to the Environment ligious and cultural rights of Khas village with her friend high-power committee, and Law Ministries for their the people of Tamil Nadu, es- and it was there she met comprising the Prime Minister, response. On Friday, the En- pecially when such bulls and Salim. He invited the victim the Chief Justice of India and the vironment Ministry sent its cows are treated as a part of and her friend to his flat in Leader of the Opposition, which reply, and the Home Min- the farmers’ families. AI- Green Park. At Salim’s house has selected Delhi Police istry gave its clearance. ADMK MP M Thambidurai they met three of his friends Commissioner Alok Kumar “The ordinance has been said Mr. Singh assured them BANNER OF PROTEST: Students and members of the public taking part in a demonstration on Marina Beach in Chennai on Friday, Sulaiman, Siddhant and Verma as CBI Director. cleared by the Home Min- that the file would be pro- demanding the lifting of the ban on jallikattu and seeking to impose one on PETA. — PHOTO: V. GANESAN Pratyusha, the police said. istry and the State govern- cessed as early as possible so ½ NATION | PAGE 9 Later, the victim’s friend ment can promulgate it by that ordinance could be pro- was dropped of at JNU but introducing it either as a Bill mulgated in the two or three SC agrees to put verdict on hold for a week she returned to Salim’s house. in the Assembly or the State days. She claimed that a few Cabinet can clear it. It “Today the Home Min- LEGAL CORRESPONDENT Nadu government resume ery of the verdict for the time quo from the court for a hours later when she woke doesn’t have to go to the istry has received a proposal talks to resolve the impasse being. Mr. Rohatgi, in an ur- week so that the situation up, Sulaiman was sexually as- President of India for his as- from the TN government. NEW DELHI: The Supreme amidst public volatility. gent mentioning, said the may not change for the saulting her. She realised that sent since his powers are The entire proposal is under Court on Friday agreed to “passions are high” and agit- worse and light another fuse Salim and Sulaiman had as- vested with the Home Min- consideration. I am sure the Centre's suggestion to ‘Passions are high’ ations were on in full swing in an already volatile situ- saulted her when she was istry,” said the oicial. within the shortest time we pause the delivery of its judg- Justice Dipak Misra, the and there would be an “im- ation. Justice Misra merely unconscious. The Tamil Nadu Cabinet will be able to reach the final ment on the validity of the lead judge on the Bench, mense problem” if the said “Ok”. The woman went back to is expected to clear the or- decision…,” Mr. Singh said. government’s January 7, 2016 which heard and reserved Centre and the Tamil Nadu her hostel and narrated the dinance and recommend it notification allowing the jallikattu case, agreed to government do not resolve ½ COURT BOWS TO CENTRE’S incident to her two friends, METROPLUS MELANGE to the Governor Ch. Vidyas- ½ RAJNATH BLAMES UPA FOR jallikattu, for at least a week, Attorney-General Mukul Ro- the issue quickly. PLEA; LEGAL EXPERTS who took her to the police 4 Pages agar Rao for promulgation. JALLIKATTU CRISIS | PAGE 12 till the Centre and the Tamil hatgi’s plea to hold the deliv- Mr. Rohatgi sought status DIVIDED | PAGE 12 station. It’ll be America first, says Trump Akhilesh stakes Rolls-Royce hired defence brokers claim to Congress JOSY JOSEPH contracts in India between bribes to an Income Tax oi- “Peace through 2005 and 2009 violating In- cial to remove a list of its strength” will be boroughs in U.P. NEW DELHI: Engineering giant dian laws, according to the middlemen recovered during at the centre of Rolls-Royce engaged middle- judgment of a British high a raid on its India oice OMAR RASHID ½ PAGE 12 his foreign policy men for swinging defence court. The company also paid DETAILS ON LUCKNOW: A day after the VARGHESE K. GEORGE Rashtriya Lok Dal opted out of a prospective anti-BJP WASHINGTON: Donald J. Trump grand alliance in U.P. , the took oath as the 45th President talks between the Congress of the U.S. before lakhs of his and the Samajwadi Party hit a supporters here on Friday. As serious roadblock on Friday the clock struck noon on an on the issue of seat sharing. extremely cold and rainy day, The SP announced its list Mr. Trump took the reins of of candidates, even for seats the world’s biggest military where the Congress has sit- power, succeeding Barack ting MLAs with just three Obama. days left for filing nomina- “From this day forward, a tions for the first phase of new vision will govern our NEW FACE OF AMERICA: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during his swearing-in ceremony polling for 73 seats. land, from this day forward it’s at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Friday. — PHOTO: AFP While it seemed that the going to be only ‘America first! two parties were ready to of- America first!’” he said, to A document uploaded on become allies,” the document who, he said, ruined the coun- ficially announce their alli- cheers that reverberated the White House website mo- said. Mr. Trump will rebuild try. “We are not merely trans- ance, SP chief Akhilesh Ya- through the National Mall. ments later said, “peace the American military capa- ferring power from one ad- dav’s missive on Friday The new President said he through strength will be at the city, the document added. ministration to another, or caught the Congress by sur- was “issuing a new decree to centre” of the new President’s The address that Mr. Trump from one party to another — prise, sending its leadership be heard in every foreign cap- foreign policy. “The world drafted himself echoed the but we are transferring power into a huddle. Mr. Yadav had ital” that every decision on must know that we do not go themes of the campaign that from Washington, D.C. and sent a list of 191 candidates, trade, immigration and for- abroad in search of enemies, catapulted him to oice, giving it back to you, the following it up with another eign policy would be judged that we are always happy touching upon “national American People,” he said. list of 18 candidates (from the only against his principle of when old enemies become pride” and denouncing “all ½ THE ERA OF DONALD TRUMP fifth phase). America first. friends, and when old friends talk, no action politicians” BEGINS | PAGE 14 ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Centre allows girl access to life-saving TB drug AKANKSHA JAIN Zarir F.