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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna CM J ND-NDE YK DELHI THE HINDU J2 THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CM J ND-NDE YK follow us: thursday, july 23, 2020 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 16 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu SC initiates contempt Centre will wait for As tensions soar, U.S. Supreme Court to proceedings against COVID­19 vaccine for tells China to shut its hear BCCI appeal Prashant Bhushan fiscal push, says CEA consulate in Houston after two weeks page 9 page 11 page 14 page 16 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY SC will hear today Rajasthan 11 Rajasthan policemen get Speaker’s plea against HC order life term for ex­royal’s killing State told to compensate families of victims and the injured Delhi to hold sero-survey He has challenged deferring of anti­defection proceedings against Pilot camp every month, says Jain Special correspondent kept at the site for the CM. NEW DELHI Krishnadas Rajagopal topple the State govern­ LUCKNOW/ jaipur The Independent legislator, Delhi Health Minister Mohammed Iqbal ment. The Centre was creat­ A Mathura court on Wednes­ seeking an eighth term, was Satyendar Jain on Wednesday NEW DELHI/JAIPUR ing a “raid raj”, it said. day sentenced 11 policemen, furious after Congress work­ said the government will conduct a serological survey A Supreme Court Bench, led Speaker C.P. Joshi ex­ including the then Deputy ers tore his posters. every month to know the by Justice Arun Mishra, is pressed the hope that the Superintendent of Police, to Narayan Singh, lawyer for percentage of people in the scheduled to hear on Thurs­ top court would pass direc­ life imprisonment for the Man Singh’s family, said the city who have developed day an appeal filed by the Ra­ tions before July 24, when murder of ‘Raja’ Man Singh, 11 policemen sentenced in­ antibodies against COVID­19. jasthan Speaker’s office chal­ the High Court is scheduled the titular head of the Bha­ cluded then DSP Kan Singh CITY Ī PAGE 3 lenging the State High to give its verdict on the writ ratpur erstwhile princely Bhati and Station House Of­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Court’s order to defer anti­ petition filed by Mr. Pilot’s state in Rajasthan and seven­ ficer Virendra Singh. defection proceedings camp. “Else, my special time legislator, and his two The court also directed Ex-judge to steer panel against former Deputy Chief leave petition will be ren­ associates in 1985. the Rajasthan government to probing Dubey killings Minister Sachin Pilot and 18 dered infructuous and the Police taking away those compensate the families of NEW DELHI Congress MLAs till July 24. Speaker’s powers will be cur­ Guilty of rioting convicted in Mathura the three victims and the The Supreme Court on The other two judges on tailed,” he said. “I do hope Sessions judge Sadhna Rani on Wednesday. * PTI four injured with ₹30,000 Wednesday approved the the Bench are Justices B.R. that the dignity of the Speak­ Thakur also found the ac­ and ₹2,000 each, respec­ U.P. government’s choice of Gavai and Krishna Murari. er’s office will be main­ cused, all retired members dead by the police on Febru­ tively. Man Singh’s daughter former judge B.S. Chauhan for The virtual court hearing tained. I respect the judges, of the Rajasthan police and ary 21, 1985, a day after he and former Bharatpur MP heading the panel to probe will begin after 11 a.m. In another development, case. The Congress accused but the roles of all constitu­ the Rajasthan Armed Con­ drove his vehicle into a stage Krishnendra Kaur ‘Deepa’ the killing of eight police officers and the alleged fake Mr. Pilot and the other le­ the Enforcement Directorate the BJP­led Centre of using tional authorities are well­ stabulary, guilty of rioting set up for an election rally of said justice had finally been encounter killings of Vikas gislators filed a caveat peti­ raided the premises of Chief the ED to target the ruling defined,” he said. armed with deadly weapons then Rajasthan Chief Minis­ delivered. Dubey and his associates. tion in the court, saying Minister Ashok Gehlot’s el­ party leaders in Rajasthan af­ and unlawful assembly. ter Shiv Charan Mathur, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 NEWS Ī PAGE 11 “nothing should be done” der brother Agrasen Gehlot ter failing in its conspiracy to Man Singh, then 64, and causing it to topple. The veh­ ANOTHER REPORT PAGE 11 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD without notifying them first. in Jodhpur in a fertilizer “kidnap democracy” and Ī his two associates were shot icle also damaged a chopper EDITORIAL Ī PAGE 6 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Fresh and clean Ghaziabad scribe succumbs to bullet injury Congress questions CM’s silence even as U.P. govt. announces relief of ₹10 lakh Special Correspondent Shankar Pandey reached Ghaziabad/New Delhi Yashoda Hospital, where Vikram Joshi, the Ghaziabad Joshi had been admitted, and journalist shot at by assai­ announced a relief of ₹10 lants on the night of July 20, lakh for his family. succumbed to bullet injury on Wednesday in a private Death sparks outrage hospital, said police. He was Joshi’s death sparked outrage shot four days after lodging a across the region. complaint at the Vijay Nagar Members of Vikram Joshi’s family with the Ghaziabad District Offering condolences to police station against three Magistrate on Wednesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT the journalist’s family, Con­ persons for harassing and gress leader Rahul Gandhi making objectionable com­ volved in the murder. it seems it was there that he slammed the U.P. govern­ ments against his niece. “There has been a lapse hatched the plot,” said Ra­ ment as he tweeted in Hindi, Nine persons, including and the responsibility has to kesh Mishra, Circle Officer I, “They promised Ram Raj but main accused Ravi and Sheh­ be fixed,” said Manish Mis­ Ghaziabad. delivered Goonda Raj.” noor Mansoor alias Chhotu, hra, Superintendent of Police Furkan Malik, a family Congress spokesperson who had allegedly shot the (City). He said Ravi lived near friend of Joshi who had ac­ Supriya Shrinate said there journalist with a .315 bore the residence of Joshi’s sister companied him to the police has been a complete collapse countrymade pistol, were ar­ and the two families had a station on July 16, said, “Even of law and order in U .P. and rested on Tuesday. history of acrimony. “On July a few hours before his mur­ questioned Chief Minister Yo­ Joshi’s sister accused Ragh­ 16, there was a clash between der, Vikram called and told gi Adityanath’s silence on the vendra Singh, the police post the two groups and Ravi’s the police post in­charge that recent spate of incidents. in­charge of Pratap Vihar group also lodged a counter­ he could see Ravi’s friends The Samajwadi Party an­ Open for business: Vendors at a floating market on the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Wednesday. * NISSAR AHMAD who was suspended on Tues­ complaint,” said Mr. Mishra. doing a recce of the area.” nounced financial assistance CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC day, of being directly in­ “Ravi was hospitalised and District Magistrate Ajay of ₹2 lakh for Joshi’s family. ‘E­commerce sites must state country of origin’ India, China not to use Centre tells Delhi High Court law in place, enforcement rests with States/UTs UAVs at Staff Reporter tions are observed, action is Responding to the peti­ This relaxation, Snapdeal NEW DELHI taken by the legal metrology tion, Snapdeal said it func­ explained, was made as the friction points The Centre told the Delhi officials of the State/ UT go­ tioned as a “marketplace­ “law does not mandate a dis­ High Court on Wednesday vernments in accordance based” e­commerce model closure of the country of ori­ Vijaita Singh that all e­commerce entities, with the law,” it added. in which it only acted as an gin/manufacture/assembly New Delhi including Amazon, Flipkart “intermediary” and merely separately, in case of India­ The Chinese and Indian ar­ and Snapdeal, have to en­ Dent to economy provided its information manufactured goods”. mies have agreed to not sure the mandatory declara­ The affidavit came in res­ technology platform to con­ Snapdeal contended that use unmanned aerial vehi­ tion of country of origin of ponse to a petition filed by nect third­party