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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Siddhartha cremated in family estate SC takes note of Body was recovered from Nethravati river near Mangaluru; thousands pay their last respects complaint by rape Special Correspondent Hassan/Mangaluru/ CDE tanks 20% Chikkamagaluru survivor’s family Cabinet nod for more Café Coffee Day founder and for second day judges in Supreme Court billionaire entrepreneur V.G. Letter to CJI surfaced after accident NEW DELHI Siddhartha, whose body was The shares of Coffee Day Acting at the request of the traced in Nethravati river Enterprises were locked at Chief Justice of India, the near Mangaluru 36 hours af­ their lower circuit of 20% for Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to increase the ter he went missing, was on the second successive day number of Supreme Court Wednesday cremated in his on Wednesday. On the BSE, judges from 31 to 34. The family’s coffee estate in Cha­ the company’s shares move comes against the tanahalli village in Hassan dropped 20%, or ₹30.80, to backdrop of the rising district. close at ₹123.25, a new low number of cases in the top His eldest son Amartya for the company. Ī page 15 court, which stands at nearly Hegde lit the funeral pyre af­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 60,000. At present, the ter the last rites were per­ sanctioned strength of the formed in an atmosphere Oppn. targets court is 30, excluding the marked by quiet grief, as his Chief Justice of India. mother Malavika Hegde and probe agencies NEWS Ī PAGE 12 grandfather and former Taking to the streets: Students organising a protest march DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Chief Minister S.M. Krishna at Delhi University on Wednesday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Several Opposition leaders struggled with their emo­ Search ends: The body of V. G. Siddhartha being removed from the banks of the Nethravati questioned the role of DERC cuts fixed charges, tions. river near Hoigebazar on Wednesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Legal Correspondent mising that an order would investigating agencies in V.G. hikes energy rates Earlier in the day, thou­ New Delhi be passed to ensure the safe­ Siddhartha’s death. A letter, NEW DELHI sands of people paid their 300­strong team on Tuesday The Supreme Court on July ty of and better conditions supposedly written by him a The Delhi Electricity last respects to Siddhartha at had failed to find the body. 31 took suo motu cognisance for the rape survivor. Wife may take over as few days before his death, Regulatory Commission on Coffee Day Global Ltd, a firm Three fishermen found it of a letter written by the fa­ The accident, which hap­ “discusses tax terrorism, an Wednesday announced a owned by him in Chikkama­ floating near the Hoigebazar mily of the Unnao rape sur­ pened near Rae Bareli on Ju­ slew of changes in power ugly face of politically galuru. Siddhartha’s biggest area, where the river joins CMD of Coffee Day vivor on July 12 to Chief Jus­ ly 28, claimed the lives of tariffs, including reduction in motivated institutions...,” entrepreneurial innovation, the Arabian Sea, at 6.30 a.m. tice of India Ranjan Gogoi two of her aunts. Kuldeep fixed charges of various Congress leader CCD, had its roots in the cof­ They brought it ashore and Mini Tejaswi sibilities. But all these things on the threats received from Singh Sengar, four­time BJP categories, an increase in Siddaramaiah said. Ī PAGE 8 fee­growing hilly districts of informed the police. The pol­ Bengaluru can happen only when she the accused persons. MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s energy charge rates and DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD other changes, which will be Chikkamagaluru and Has­ ice have also recovered his Malavika Hegde, wife of bil­ recovers from the personal It came to light two days Bangermau, is an accused in applicable starting Thursday. san, where his father owned mobile phone. lionaire coffee entrepreneur trauma she’s suffered,” said after a truck collided with the rape case and was ar­ large estates. The police are continuing V.G. Siddhartha Hegde, who a top company source. Letter as dying her car, causing serious in­ rested last April. CITY Ī PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD investigations into the cir­ died under mysterious cir­ Siddhartha was the CMD juries to her and her lawyer. The letter narrates the in­ Mobile phone recovered cumstances leading to his cumstances in Mangaluru, of the company, and on con­ declaration? cidents of July 7­8 when It was in the early hours of death, with a letter purport­ may be appointed as chair­ firmation of his death, the ‘Volatile situation’ some people allegedly asso­ Wednesday that the body of edly written by him blaming person and managing direc­ board on Wednesday ap­ The letter V.G. Siddhartha The CJI called it a “highly vo­ ciated with Sengar threa­ Siddhartha was found by a the Income Tax Department tor of Coffee Day pointed former IAS officer supposedly wrote, blaming latile situation”. He said he tened her family. It also group of local fishermen in for his “succumbing to the Enterprises. and a member, S.V. Ranga­ the I­T Department for his was informed about the let­ sought a direction for regis­ Nethravati river. situation”. “She is already on the nath, as interim chairman. decision, will have to be ter only on Tuesday ( July tration of an FIR against He had gone missing from board of the company, and treated as a dying 30). He asked why the regis­ them. the bridge across the river on CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 the board will have to dis­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 declaration after its veracity try had not brought it to his Monday evening and an in­ SIDDHARTHA’S DEATH RAISED cuss the possibility of dele­ TRIBUTES POUR IN AS COFFEE is checked, say legal experts attention. He listed the case CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 tensive, all­day search by a IN LOK SABHA Ī PAGE 13 gating to her bigger respon­ KING BIDS ADIEU Ī PAGE 15 and police officials. Ī page 8 for hearing on August 1, pro­ C BI FORMS TEAM Ī PAGE 13 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Food doesn’t have a Officials keep vigil as Godavari rises at Bhadrachalam When retirement is religion, tweets Zomato Special Correspondent north Maharashtra] have BHADRADRI-KOTHAGUDEM been opened to release ex­ a flight of fantasy ‘Request for specific delivery man rejected’ Telangana irrigation officials cess water into the Tapi and are maintaining a vigil on the Godavari rivers,” he said. Govt. school staffer takes a three­km Sidharth Yadav cancellation I said you can't water levels in the Godavari Rain in Madhya Pradesh led Bhopal force me to take a delivery I with the river at the famous to the Hatnur dam filling up, helicopter ride home after farewell A man from Jabalpur on don’t want don’t refund just temple town of Bhadracha­ he said. Tuesday night took to Twit­ cancel.” lam reaching 39 feet, just 4 “The water from the Gan­ ter to state that he had can­ Stating that he would feet below the first flood gapur dam (across the Goda­ celled an order on food ag­ take up the issue with his la­ warning level, on Wednes­ vari) would flow down­ gregator Zomato as he was wyer, he shared screen­ day evening. stream into the Jayakwadi assigned a non­Hindu deliv­ shots of his chat with Zoma­ The level is likely to rise dam near Aurangabad ,” he ery executive. to. He complained that he further with water being re­ added. Heavy rain in the Go­ Using the handle @Na­ didn’t want his order to be leased from five dams in Touching danger levels: Following heavy rain in the upstream davari catchments and re­ Mo_SARKAAR, Pandit Amit delivered by “a Muslim north and western Maha­ areas, water in the Godavari touched 50 feet in Rajahmundry lease of flood waters from Shukla, at 8.26 p.m. wrote: man.” rashtra into the Mutha and on Wednesday. * S. RAMBABU the Taliperu reservoir in Te­ “Just cancelled an order on Zomato’s handle res­ Godavari rivers. The reser­ langana have added to the Zomato they allocated a ponded: “Food doesn’t voirs have recorded good in­ to villages on the banks of partment said, “All gates of increase in the level. non hindu rider for my food have a religion. It is a flows owing to heavy rain in the two rivers. the Hatnur dam in Jalgaon (With PTI inputs) they said they can’t change religion.” catchments, officials said. An official of the Maharah­ and the Gangapur dam in CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 rider and can’t refund on DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 9 Warnings have been issued stra Water Resources De­ Nashik district [both in Ī Kude Ram (right) along with his brother after alighting from the helicopter at Sadpura village. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Ashok Kumar said Mr. Ram. FARIDABAD His family, comprising Kude Ram was only 20 24 members, later took years old when he landed rounds of the village in a government job, no the helicopter.