VRGR $"#(!#1')VCEBRS WWT!Pa!RT%&!$"#1$# 3 ? *' , ' , , !"#$% 1+" 233 456 1 & +/01/* ()*+, -)*. /9 8 +&/ &8 &>+ ( 08$ $ 9/ & / 8/ $ O22</&8 $$ /446,= "/ $ $/>/8 &+: 08&;$ !" & '() & *+,(+,"-."+/%= $ %'( $) !" P !R ! ! Maulana Mohsin Sheikh, # P# Faizan Yunus, and Rashid Ahmed. &&+ $,- Elaborating on the arrest of # R the three persons in Surat, the aking a serious note of the DGP said, “On the basis of a '() Tkilling of three outsiders packet of sweets obtained from involved in apple trade in the crime spot, the Gujarat Kashmir earlier this week Q !"M Police was contacted and a + "./ despite the large presence of + "./ team was sent there. A CCTV security personnel, the securi- M footage of a Surat-based sweets hief Minister Yogi ty establishment has revisited enying any terror link shop was examined and Faizan CAdityanath on Saturday its strategy by providing a safe- $ % $ behind the murder of Yunus Bhai was identified.” condemned the murder of ty umbrella in the hinterland tants has improved in the last & $ Q'() Kamlesh Tiwari, the ! " The DGP said all the three Hindu Samaj Party president dotted with apple orchards. few days. Explaining the sig- D # # # controversial leader of a little- accused detained by the Kamlesh Tiwari, saying it was The Army and paramili- nificance of this factor, officials ** + *)',% known Hindu outfit, Uttar % & Gujarat ATS had accepted their “an act of mischief to create ter- tary forces have fanned out in said since August 5, the local + Pradesh’s Director General of involvement in the crime and ror” and such incidents would such areas besides population police and intelligence agencies Police OP Singh on Saturday radical killing. It seems that that all three were linked to the not be tolerated and those centres to instill confidence were concentrating on main- $ claimed to have a made a Tiwari was murdered due to a case in some manner. involved would not be spared. among masses and deny ter- taining law and order antici- & breakthrough within 24 hours controversial statement he Singh said that the probe so The Chief Minister said rorists time and space to move. pating unrest like mass protests - of the killing by arresting three made in 2015 but much more far pointed that Rashid was the that so far five people had been However, setting up of safe and violence. Also the snapping *' accused, including the master- will come out when we catch mastermind while Faizan pur- taken into custody in connec- pickup points for collection of of mobile services impacted mind. hold of the remaining crimi- chased the box of sweets the tion with the murder case — apple crops in the wake of the intelligence gathering and The three were taken into nals,” the DGP said, while rul- killers used to hide their gun in three in Gujarat and two in killings have created problems information flow came down custody in Surat city of Gujarat ing out any terror angle behind on the day of the attack. Uttar Pradesh. He said a Special for the orchard owners located by at least 70 per cent, they said. + $ in a joint operation of the the sensational broad daylight The DGP said two more Investigation Team had also far away. While traders have With the restoration of % & . police forces of the two states. murder of the Hindu Samaj persons — Rashid’s brother and been constituted to probe the been advised to use smaller mobile services earlier this Two more arrests were Party chief in his residence- Gaurav Tiwari — were also case. vehicles for apple transporta- week and virtually no mass made in Bijnor district of UP cum-office Khurshedbagh questioned but were let off after The Chief Minister said the tion from interiors of the dis- protests as feared, the local / where Muslim clerics locality of the state capital. investigation. killers were allowed to meet trict, they are finding it difficult police, which provide the real $ / - Q Mohammed Mufti Naeem The UP Police and their “Gaurav had called Tiwari by the security guard to ferry their produce to these time intelligence about terror- / N% O Kazmi and Imam Maulana Gujarat counterparts were Kamlesh a few days ago, posted at his residence only mandis due to lack of smaller ists, has now re-established its $ Anwarul Haq were held after interrogating the persons taken expressing his desire to work after the Hindu outfit leader vehicles. If this is cutting into counter-terrorism grid. N2 O being named in an FIR lodged into custody, the DGP said, for the Hindu Samaj Party in gave him the nod. their profit margins, it is also This will result in the Army 3 / by Tiwari’s wife Kiran. adding that all the three would Surat and other places,” he The killers sat with Tiwari affecting the timely transport of going after the terrorists already . The DGP said that they be brought to Lucknow for fur- said. The DGP also rejected the and had food and tea. the produce to markets outside holed up in the sensitive areas would soon nab the killers ther interrogation. allegation made by Tiwari’s Subsequently, the personal aide Kashmir. and 70-odd militants managing % also. The three persons taken kin that he was not provided of Tiwari and his son were sent On an average, one truck to infiltrate into the State from $ “Prima facie, this was a into custody in Surat are Turn to Page 4 Turn to Page 4 carries 800 to 1,000 apple across the Line of Control boxes. Transporters are charg- (LoC) in the last two months, - ing 135-140 per box com- they said. % (# " " pared to 80-90 earlier. The killings came at a time Kashmir produces over 20- when normalcy was returning 24 lakh metric tonnes of apple with the apple trade considered - * worth 10,000 crore annually. to be the lifeline of Jammu & 5 The attacks on apple traders Kashmir picking up. People ! # and truck drivers in Shopian were going about their daily have triggered a fresh wave of economic activities after abro- terror among the truck drivers gation of Article 370 giving 0$ Sena is contesting 124 seats. + "./ and large number of non-local special status to the State on Sensing a certain victory, a workers engaged in the labori- August 5. ith the ruling BJP-Shiv large number of candidates ampaigning for the by- ous task of packing, loading The security establishment "#$ 6 WSena combine’s return to had sought tickets from their Celections to 11 seats of and unloading of apple boxes. thus redrew its strategy by power in Maharashtra becom- respective parties, especially Uttar Pradesh assembly came Effort is to ensure that deploying the Army and para- ing more or less certain, the the BJP, even in seats that have to an end on Saturday evening. apple traders in the hinterland military in the hinterland and debate preceding the State gone to the other saffron party Polling in these con- of major apple growing centre populated centres of Kashmir Assembly polls scheduled for in the alliance. stituencies will be held on of Sopore, which has Asia’s especially those engaged in & Monday has narrowed down to Two days ahead of the October 21. The counting of biggest mandi for this fruit, the apple trade, sources said on numbers. Notwithstanding the withdrawal of nominations, votes will be taken up on Shopian, Pulwama and Saturday. saffron alliance’s confidence of Chief Minister Devendra October 24. Anantnag in South Kashmir The Army is now carrying ' ($ O winning more than 220 out of Fadnavis had sent out stern The Election Commission are able to continue with their out area domination patrols in total 288 seats, the numbers are belonging to both the BJP and message to rebels to opt out of has deployed Central forces in routine economic activities. large areas to instill confidence *$ quite not adding up if reports the Shiv Sena, are in the poll the fray and said that there all the 11 constituencies and In the meantime, a positive amongst the masses on the one ' from the ground are anything fray in as many constituencies would be no place for rebels in they have reached their respec- development has come in the hand and denying terrorists to go by. across the State. Almost all the the BJP-led “Maha-Yuti”. tive areas and were holding flag way of the security forces as time and space to move, they * The questions being asked rebels are contesting the polls On his part, Shiv Sena marches to instil confidence intelligence flow about mili- said. are: Will the BJP and the Shiv against the saffron alliance’s president Uddhav Thackeray - among the voters. Sena at all cross the 200 mark? official nominees after having at his annual Dussehra rally There are 110 candidates in Will the BJP retain 122 seats it been denied tickets by their held on October 8 -- subse- the fray for the 11 seats. had won in the 2014 State respective parties. At least 30 to quently apologised to those While the Bharatiya Janata Assembly polls? Will there be 35 of the rebels have the poten- party workers who have been Party wound up its campaign $ a drop or an increase in the tial to sabotage the chances of denied tickets, in an effort to with Chief Minister Yogi number (63) of seats won by the official candidates of the defuse rebellion within the Adityanath addressing elec- % / % the Shiv Sena in the previous two parties. The BJP is facing party ranks over the distribu- tion meetings in western UP at 7 Assembly polls separately? the brunt of rebels in the fray. tion of tickets.