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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 13, ISSUE 98 | Monday, 9 April 2018 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS 4.2 LAKH PEOPLE HIT BJP MAY LOSE CWG: THREE ‘I BELIEVE WE’RE BY LG’S REJECTION VARANASI IN 2019, GOLD MEDALS IN A BETTER OF DOORSTEP RATION SAYS RAHUL FOR INDIA ON PLACE DELIVERY: GOVT PG3 GANDHI PG5 DAY 4 PG14 TODAY’ PG16 SEVEN RLY STAFF SUSPENDED NBWs issued against Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi Ahmedabad-Puri Express rolls MPOST BUREAU NEW DELHI: A special CBI court in Mumbai has issued non-bailable warrants (NBWs) down without engine for 13 km against billionaire diamantaire Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi in connection with the MPOST BUREAU cases related to over $2 billion banking fraud in the Punjab BHUBANESWAR: Seven railway National Bank, officials said here staff were suspended in connection Lucky escape on Sunday. with the lapses that led to the coaches The special court has allowed Highlights These messages were alleg- of an Express train to travel a few km All passengers were safe the application of the agency for edly not entered in the banking without an engine in Odisha, a rail- and the coaches were the issuance of NBWs against » Modi and Choksi had software of the PNB to bypass way official said on Sunday. stopped by alert staff Modi and Choksi who had repeat- repeatedly refused to join surveillance. While five railway staff were The incident happened edly refused to join the investiga- the investigation in the scam The uncle-nephew duo had placed under suspension on Sunday apparently due to tion in the scam, considered the managed to flee the country in the morning, two had been suspended non-application of biggest in the banking history of » The worst is over for PNB, first week of January days before soon after the coaches of Ahmed- skid-brake on the wheels the country, the officials said. and it will come out of the the PNB was able to detect the abad-Puri rolled down at Titlagarh of the coaches The agency had written to mess: PNB MD fraud. in Balangir district after detachment Soon after the incident, Modi and Choksi to join probe The worst is over for PNB, of engine late Saturday night, he said. on their official e-mail ids, but » CVC asks statutory auditors and it will come out of the mess an engine was sent from of the bank to appear The suspended staff included two Titlagarh to ferry the they have refused to join it cit- created by the Nirav Modi fraud engine drivers, three carriage repair- coaches ing business engagements and before it case in six months, the state-run ing staff and two operating depart- health issues. lender’s Managing Director Sunil ment employees, an East Coast The issuance of NBWs by a The agency has also sum- Mehta said on Sunday. Railway (EC0R) Spokesman said. court also opens the door of seek- moned the official who handled “So worst is behind us. Every- A possible disaster was averted ing Red Corner Notices against foreign exchange transactions thing now seems to be under con- after Ahmedabad-Puri Express train both of the accused from the in the Hong Kong branch of the trol as surgery is over, now we with 22 coaches rolled down without Interpol. Allahabad bank, they said, adding are in the recovery phase. We are engine. The coaches travelled from on the wheels of the coaches by the probe consisting of divisional heads promised. Any Railway employee The government has claimed that he may join the probe soon. anticipating that we will be able to Titlagarh station in Balangir district staff deployed there. According to of different departments. found guilty will be taken up severely, to have tracked Modi in Hong It is alleged that the LoUs come out of this entire problem towards Kesinga in Kalahandi district rules, the staff should have put the Soon after the incident, an engine Singh said. Kong where it has sent a request and LCs worth close to $2 bil- and pain in the next six months,” after the engine was detached to be skids. was sent from Titlagarh to ferry the In the wake of the incident, Chief for his provisional arrest. lion were issued to the compa- he said. attached at the other end. “When an engine is detached to coaches, he said. Safety Officer of ECoR S S Mishra The CBI, in the meanwhile, nies of the uncle-nephew duo of Awaiting a detailed vigilance All passengers were safe, and alert be attached at the other end, coaches ECoR General Manager Umesh has advised a special safety drive is questioning officials of over- Choksi and Modi from the Brady report on the over Rs 13,000- staff stopped the coaches by putting should be secured with skids at the Singh has sought immediate correc- at all stations in East Coast where seas branches of Indian banks Road branch of the bank through crore Punjab National Bank scam, stones and bringing the train to a halt, wheels. In this case, it appears that tive action and stringent action in engine reversal of mail and express which had extended credit facil- SWIFT (Society for Worldwide the Central Vigilance Commis- the spokesman said, adding the sec- skids were not appropriately placed. the incident. trains takes place and also at termi- ities to the companies of Modi Interbank Financial Telecommu- sion (CVC) on Sunday said it had tion from Titlagarh towards Kesinga Facts will be known after detailed Strictest action will be initiated nals where trains terminate. and Choksi by fraudulent Letters nication) messages. asked statutory auditors of the has a downward slope. enquiry,” he said. against any negligent act endan- Some of these stations are Talcher, of Undertaking (LoUs) issued by Several bank employees have bank to appear before it to fur- The incident happened apparently DRM Sambalpur Jaideep Gupta gering the safety of trains. Safety is Bhadrakh, Angul, Paradip, Cuttack, the Punjab National Bank’s Brady been booked for collusion in the nish specific details about finan- due to non-application of skid-brake has ordered a senior officer-level non-negotiable and cannot be com- Bhubaneswar, Puri and Sambalpur. House branch in Mumbai. case, they said. cial transactions. See also inside SPECIAL STATUS FOR ANDHRA SC/ST Act to TDP MPs detained while marching 70 killed in Karnataka assembly polls: BJP remain intact, no one suspected Syria can abolish it announces 1st list of candidates RAM VILAS PASWAN towards Prime Minister’s residence chemical attack OUR CORRESPONDENT endra Modi, Home Minister out on May 15. OUR CORRESPONDENT Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Yeddyurappa was earlier DAMASCUS: At least 70 NEW DELHI: The BJP on Minister Sushma Swaraj, for- forced to resign as chief minis- In today’s NEW DELHI: A group of 21 Telugu people were killed in Douma, Sunday announced the first list mer Karnataka chief minister B ter in 2011 over graft charges, Desam Party (TDP) MPs were on Sun- the last rebel-held town in of 72 candidates who will con- S Yeddyurappa, among others. following which he quit the paper day detained by police while march- Syria’s Eastern Ghouta in a test the high stakes Karnataka BJP, which is striving to party to form his outfit, the ing towards Prime Minister Narendra suspected chemical attack, assembly polls. return to power in Karnataka Karnataka Janata Party, which ... Modi’s residence to demand special medics and rescuers said on The list of names was made after a gap of five years, has failed to make a mark except CITY status for Andhra Pradesh. Sunday. public following a meeting announced Yeddyurappa as for damage BJP’s prospects in All the MPs – including Ashok Gaj- Volunteer rescue force of the BJP’s Central Election its chief ministerial candidate, 2013 polls. TV JOURNO SHOT AT IN GHAZIABAD 4 apathi Raju and J.C. Diwakar Reddy – the day as the TDP members contin- the White Helmets tweeted Committee at the party head- with a target of winning 150 out He returned to BJP follow- NATION were bundled into a bus by police from ued their protest over their demand graphic images showing sev- quarters in Delhi. Party pres- of 224 assembly seats. ing the announcement of Nar- Race Course Road in the heart of Delhi for special category status for Andhra eral bodies in basements fol- ident Amit Shah chaired the The southern state goes to endra Modi as party’s prime BSF TO SET UP OVER 190 GUEST HOUSES 7 from where they set out to reach the Pradesh. lowing the attack on Saturday, meeting, and the attendees polls on May 12 to elect its rep- ministerial candidate ahead of Prime Minister’s residence. The hours-long drama ended at reports the BBC. included Prime Minister Nar- resentatives and results will be the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. EDIT The MPs were taken to the Tughlaq night only after the TDP MPs were It said the death toll was SAUDI ARABIA: WINDS OF CHANGE 8 Road police station from where they marshalled out from the House. likely to rise. were released two hours after their The TDP members described their Several medical, moni- INTERNATIONAL detention. eviction from the House as an “insult toring and activist groups 515 IPS officers did not “We detained 21 TDP leaders to Andhra Pradesh”. reported details of a chemi- PAK SUMMONS US ENVOY 10 marching towards the Prime Minis- Meanwhile, all five Lok Sabha MPs cal attack, but figures vary and BUSINESS ter’s house shouting slogans and wav- of YSR Congress party resigned this what happened was still being declare property details ing placards in the morning.