follow us: wednesday, february 22, 2017 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 24 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Foreign Secretary Taliban suicide PM urges U.S. to keep Indian women S. Jaishankar begins bombers attack court an open mind on visas post a thrilling win visit to China in Pakistan, 7 killed for skilled workers against South Africa page 10 page 12 page 14 page 16 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai NEARBY ‘If not for family feud, I may Former ED oicer, aide not have allied with Cong.’ arrested on graft charges Rudy, Supriyo irked at Tripura Ministers Took money from suspects in cricket betting case: CBI AGARTALA After a certain age, friendships happen according to needs, says Akhilesh Central Ministers Rajiv Pratap Devesh K. Pandey conducted extensive Rudy and Babul Supriyo were Amit Baruah the State. He dismissed these NEW DELHI searches in different parts of irked at the absence of Left Omar Rashid claims, saying the PM did not J.P. Singh, a former Joint Dir- the country, making head- Front Ministers at the Digi- LUCKNOW ector with the Enforcement lines. Dhan Mela on Tuesday. have the “correct data.” Directorate, was on Tuesday However, the ED received Sources said that the CPI(M)’s The alliance with the Con- “We provided 2,000 MW arrested by the Central Bur- multiple complaints alleging stringent opposition to gress was the product of “a more power during Diwali demonetisation and an particular time and circum- than we did for Ramzan. For eau of Investigation, along that the officers were de- absolute cashless economy stances”, and may not have Diwali, it being the festival of with his former subordinate manding and receiving prevented the Tripura happened had the family lights, I decided that I will and two others, for allegedly money from the suspects. Ministers from attending the feud within the Samajwadi ensure every district receiving money from sev- event. Party not broken out, Uttar headquarters 24-hour elec- eral suspects in two cases of Bookies were informers NATION Ī PAGE 6 Pradesh Chief Minister tricity supply. Since that day, hawala and cricket betting Last year, the agency had ar- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Akhilesh Yadav has told The there has been 24-hour rackets busted by his team The CBI iled the case in rested three “bookies” J.K. Man found living with Hindu in an interview. power supply across the about two years ago. 2015 on a complaint from Arora (Delhi), Sonu Jalan sister's corpse dies “If these things [family State,” he said. Among those arrested are the ED itself. (Mumbai) and Jayesh KOLKATA matters] had not cropped up Mr. Yadav, while refusing Mr. Singh’s former subordin- Thakkar (Ahmedabad), for Less than two years after his and some political decisions to be drawn into making a ate Sanjay Kumar, “bookie” headed the ED’s allegedly operating as in- life and actions came under didn’t have to be taken, then we think alike. He too wants natural to oppose it. “All direct comparison of his Bimal Agrawal and Ahmedabad zone. formers and middlemen for public scrutiny for living with this alliance may not have the country and the State to Samajwadi leaders,” he said, model of development with Chandresh Patel. the IRS officer. the corpse of his sister and happened. The time and cir- develop.” “are products of the Con- the Gujarat model initiated A case was registered by Extortion conspiracy The alleged bookies two dead dogs, Partha De cumstances were such that The alliance between the gress party.” by Mr. Modi, said his govern- the Central Bureau of Invest- According to the CBI, he would pass on information died under mysterious we had to have this alli- two parties is seen as an un- Mr. Yadav took questions ment had delivered on its igation in 2015 following a along with the then Enforce- to the accused officer for circumstances here. ance…” Mr. Yadav said on conventional one — the SP on a range of topics — from promises. complaint from the Enforce- ment Officer Sanjay Kumar conducting searches against EAST Ī PAGE 2 Monday. has a tradition of opposing demonetisation and the fu- “I don’t know what the ment Directorate itself, ac- conspired with their con- the suspects and sub- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD He said he enjoyed a the Congress. Mr. Yadav, ture of the alliance with the Gujarat model is, but I can cusing the IRS officer of in- tacts to extort money from sequently, demands would “good chemistry” with Con- who is today the party’s Congress to his infrastruc- say this: they have not been dulging in corruption. the suspects in the Surat- be raised for not taking fur- gress vice-president Rahul boss, is however dismissive tural projects and sync with able to construct a Metro based hawala racket and the ther legal action against Gandhi and was happy that of the past acrimony. The the bureaucracy. [line] in 15 years, but we are Shifted out ₹2,000-crore cricket betting them. the SP and Congress were times demanded “political making Metro [lines] in four An Intelligence Bureau re- racket for not arresting All the four were pro- fighting the elections formations that can protect Crematorium issue places. The Prime Minister is port backed the allegations. them. duced before a designated together. the secular fabric of the Mr. Yadav was recently at- talking about sitting in our Following searches in The money laundering court which granted them a “Sometimes you just build country and take on com- tacked by Prime Minister Metro, but I ask him when September 2015, the officer case allegedly involved transit remand till February a friendship. Some say that munal parties like the BJP.” Narendra Modi for alleged will you let us sit in your was shifted out of the agency hawala operator Afroz Fatta. 23 so that they can be pro- DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES after a certain age, friend- There was a time when communal discrimination in Metro?” he said. along with two others. In the cases said to in- duced before the CBI court OPPORTUNITIES Ī DELHI METRO ships happen according to the Congress was the only power supply for and main- Mr. Singh allegedly com- volve thousands of crores, in Ahmedabad. PAGE 4 needs. We are the same age, ruling party and so it was tenance of cremation sites in EXCERPTS Ī PAGE 9 mitted the offence when he the accused officers had (With PTI inputs) CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC White harvest Amnesty faults sedition Saeed could pose a law, curbs on NGOs threat to Pak.: Minister Activists, journalists intimidated: Report JuD leader listed under Anti-Terror Act Special Correspondent ons”, which constitute a vi- Press Trust of India reported. Saeed was “arres- New Delhi olation of the right to free- Islamabad ted in the larger interest of Amnesty International’s an- dom of association. Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest the country”, he added. nual report, the State of the Speaking of India’s re- was in Pakistan’s “larger in- Saeed was placed under World’s Human Rights Re- cord, Amnesty International terest” as he could pose a house arrest under the port 2016-17, has expressed said, “Human rights activ- “serious threat” to the coun- Schedule IV of the Anti-Ter- concerns over a range of hu- ists and journalists faced in- try, Defence Minister rorism Act on January 30 in man rights violations in In- timidation and attacks from Khawaza Asif has said in the Lahore, provoking an up- dia. both state and non-state act- first public admission of the roar from his party and al- The report, being re- ors.” JuD chief’s terror links. lies. leased worldwide on Wed- The report pointed to the Mr. Asif’s remarks about Saeed’s inclusion in the nesday, slammed the use of deaths of journalists Karun the danger posed by the list shows he is linked with legislation such as the For- Mishra and Rajdeo Ranjan, mastermind of the 2008 militancy in some way. eign Currency (Regulation) who were allegedly killed Mumbai attacks — in which Saeed was earlier this Act (FCRA) and the sedition for their reporting, in Sul- 166 people died — came at month put on the Exit Con- law to silence government tanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and an international security trol List, barring him from critics and crack down on Siwan, Bihar, respectively. conference in Munich, leaving the country. civil society organisations. In a sub-section on India Germany. As far back as 2008, It noted, in particular, the titled ‘Caste-based discrim- Saeed was placed under suspension of the FCRA re- ination and violence’, the Larger interest of nation house arrest after the Mum- gistration of Lawyers Col- report noted that “Dalits “Saeed can pose a serious bai attacks, but was freed by lective, and the govern- and Adivasis continued to threat to the society,” the a court in 2009. Snowfall blanketed paddy ields at Lower Munda near the Jawahar Tunnel, some 80 km from Srinagar, on Tuesday. The Srinagar- ment’s refusal to renew the face widespread abuses”. Minister told the audience at Jammu National Highway, the only all-weather road link connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for traic FCRA licences of 25 NGOs the Munich Security Confer- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 for the second consecutive day because of landslips at some places. NISSAR AHMAD (SEE ALSO PAGE 3) “without offering valid reas- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 ence on Sunday, The Nation THE SAEED TEST Ī EDITORIAL CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ‘Dirty picture’ prompts NGT clean-up order Indian No big fat weddings here doctor from NGT issues notice over photo of choked east Delhi canal published in The Hindu A.P.