c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I TUESDAY I 6 APRIL 2021 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 84 No. 95 Established 1938 | 20 PAGES | `6.00 WEATHER Infra boost FRENCH PORTAL: Max: 35.6OC Min: 25.1OC 1M EUROS GIFTED KCR plans rework RH: 45% Rainfall: Nil TO MIDDLEMAN Forecast: Partly cloudy sky. Max/Min FOR DASSAULT temp. 39/23ºC of RRR route plan PAWAN BALI | DC NEW DELHI, APRIL 5 In a fresh controversy Projects have come up on old RRR route ASTROGUIDE over the `59,000-crore L. VENKAT nary RRR alignment to the Gajwel, represented by the Sarvari; Uttarayana Rafale fighter jet deal, RAM REDDY I DC Centre in 2017. However, CM, runs parallel to the Tithi: Phalguna Bahula Dasami French investigative HYDERABAD, APRIL 5 several development pro- old alignment of the RRR. till 2.10 am (Wednesday) news portal Mediapart grammes were taken up To address all such issues, along the ORR in the past the CM has decided to con- Star: Shravanam till 2.35 am has claimed that its man- The Hyderabad Regional four years which have vene a high-level meeting (Wednesday) ufacturer Dassault Ring Road (RRR) project is Aviation agreed to pay all set to be realigned in now turned out to be an within a week and take a Varjyam: 6.10 am to 7.48 am one million euros to a tandem with the develop- obstruction for taking up decision on realignment. Durmuhurtam: 8.37 am to middleman who is now ment activities that took RRR project as per the old Notably, the Centre had 9.26 am; 11.07 pm to 11.54 pm under investigation in place along the Outer Ring alignment. given in-principle appro- Rahukalam: 3 pm to 4.30 pm India in connection with Road (ORR) over the past The CM is keen on com- val to the RRR project on HIJRI CALENDAR another defence deal. four years. pleting the RRR project February 22 and assured Sha’ban 23,1442 AH In 2016, India had According to official within three years. To the state to complete the PRAYERS agreed to buy 36 Rafales sources, Chief Minister K. speed up the works, the RRR project in three for the Indian Air Force Chandrashekar Rao will CM had sanctioned `750 years, provided land Fajar: 5.06 am in a deal worth `59,000 review the RRR realign- crore to the project in the acquisition work is com- Zohar: 12.29 pm Minister K.T. Rama Rao arrives to inaugurate the railway underbridge (RUB) near Hi- crores. ment within a week with Budget 2021-22. The pleted by the state govern- Asar: 4.39 pm tec City MMTS railway station at Kukatpally in Hyderabad on Monday. Mayor G. The portal said the senior officials of the amount will be utilised for ment faster. Maghrib: 6.36 pm Vijayalakshmi and deputy mayor M. Srilatha Reddy are seen. — S. SURENDER REDDY French anti-corruption roads and buildings (R&B) land acquisition. The project comprises Isha: 7.44 pm agency Agence Franç- section of the Hyderabad The government has two parts — a `9,500-crore SUNSET TODAY 6.30 PM aise Anticorruption Metropolitan Develop- taken up the development northern part and a `6,480- (AFA) discovered this ment Authority (HMDA) of logistic parks, the crore southern portion. SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.06 AM separate arrangement and the municipal admin- Hyderabad Pharma City The Centre granted in- MOONRISE TOMORROW 1.27 AM during a routine audit of istration and urban devel- project, etc along the ORR principle approval for the MOONSET TODAY 12.46 PM Dassault. The AFA none- opment (MA&UD) depart- over the past four years. It northern part while it Maha HM Anil Deshmukh theless decided not to ment. was noticed that the old promised to consider alert the prosecution offi- A final decision on alignment of the RRR approval for the southern COUNTER POINT cials over the payment. changes to be made to the clashed with these pro- part later. The 340-km pro- The report said as AFA old alignment is expected jects. ject is touted to be a game- quits after HC probe order inspectors combed thro- to be taken in the meeting. Besides, it was also changer for Telangana, ugh Dassault accounts in The state government noticed that the Ring Road especially Hyderabad and BHAGWAN PARAB | DC malpractices made by Mr 2017, they raised an eye- had submitted a prelimi- project being taken up in its surrounding districts. MUMBAI, APRIL 5 Singh against Mr brow when they came Deshmukh. Once the pre- across an item expendi- Maharashtra home minis- liminary inquiry is com- ture costing 508,925 euros ter Anil Deshmukh resign- plete, the director of CBI entered under the head- ed on Monday following can decide on the future ing “gifts to clients”. It the Bombay High Court’s course of action and said this amount of Kerala, Tamil Nadu set to orders to conduct the CBI whether or not to register money seemed dispro- inquiry into the corrup- an FIR in the case. portionate in relation to tion allegations levelled “There can be no inde- all other entries under against him by former pendent probe into allega- the same heading. elect new Assemblies today Mumbai police commis- Anil Deshmukh tions of extortion if it is “The sum is indeed sioner Param Bir Singh. handed to the Mumbai huge for a gift. Though DC CORRESPONDENTS NCP chief Sharad right to continue in office Police, which is headed by French law does not set THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/ Pawar’s trusted aide Dilip after the court order. I the home minister. This out precise limits, legal CHENNAI, APRIL 5 Walse Patil, who was a have decided to quit. Kin- was an extraordinary and precedents suggest that labour and excise minister dly relieve me from my unprecedented case that giving a watch or an After four-month-long in the state cabinet, has post,” said Mr Deshmukh warranted an independent expensive meal costing campaigning, over six SHORT TAKES taken over as the new in his resignation letter. inquiry,” the HC said. several hundred euros crore voters in Tamil home minister after Chief The HC earlier had Mr Deshmukh is the sec- can be enough to consti- Nadu and around 2.7 crore Minister Uddhav directed the CBI to con- ond minister to resign tute corruption,” it said. electorate in Kerala would SC for panel meet Thackeray accepted Mr duct a preliminary probe from the MVA govern- vote to elect new govern- Deshmukh’s resignation. within 15 days into allega- ment in just more than a ■ Page 2: 1m euros spent ments in their respective on CBI director “I don’t have the moral tions of corruption and month’s period. on 50 Rafale replicas states on Tuesday. New Delhi: The Supreme Cash distribution in Court Monday asked the Tamil Nadu went on unab- Centre to consider conven- ated across the state desp- ing before May 2 the meet- ite the authorities contin- ing of a high-powered com- MODI TO SPEAK ued with their crackdown mittee consisting of the Maoists claim CRPF jawan’s that led to a slew of seiz- Prime Minister and others TO CMs AS COVID ures. The Election Commi- for appointment of CBI ssion seized precious met- Polling parties travel on a buffalo cart for the election director observing that in- CASES SURGE als, alcohol, cash and duty in a remote area, on the eve of the final phase of charge arrangements for the capture, family seeks release other items worth `428 Assembly polls, Kamrup (Rural) district in Assam on post cannot go on. The DC CORRESPONDENT crore. Monday. — PTI Centre had informed the NEW DELHI, APRIL 5 RABINDRA NATH 11.30 am. “The caller said This would be the first apex court the panel will CHOUDHURY | DC the jawan will be released time in several decades meet after May 2. With India’s new Covid- with agency inputs at the appropriate time that Tamil election did not 19 cases crossing one RAIPUR, JAMMU, APRIL 5 and informed me that I have towering leaders like A BOOTH WITH 90 VOTERS IN ASSAM lakh in a single-day on will be updated about it M. Karuna-nidhi and J. Sunday, Prime Minister A CRPF jawan, Rakesh from time to time,” Raja Jayalalithaa. IAF firefighting in Narendra Modi has Singh Manhas, who went Rathore, the local corre- In Kerala, which alter- POLLED 171 VOTES, OFFICIALS FIRED again called for a meet- missing in the April 3 spondent of a Hindi news nates power between left- MANOJ ANAND I DC Halflong had recorded 74 U’khand forests ing with Chief Ministers Maoist ambush on securi- channel, told this newspa- leaning LDF and the cen- GUWAHATI, APRIL 5 per cent polling. It is an Dehradun: IAF helicop- of states and Lieutenant- ty forces on the Sukma- per from Sukma on phone. trist UDF, the ruling allia- auxiliary polling station ters on Monday began Governors of Union ter- Bijapur border in Chhatti- Rathore said he passed nce led by the CPI-M expe- In what has raised the sus- of the main voting centre firefighting operations in ritories on Thursday to sgarh may have been held on the information to the cts break this norm, while picion of bogus polling, at Mouldam LP School. Uttarakhand, conducting review the situation. hostage by the Maoists, Rakesh Singh Manhas family members of the the BJP seeks to emerge as the Election Commission An official said, “The several sorties over the The back-to-back meet- police said.