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These buildings are linked With these structures now ' people like Mahatma Gandhi, effort in Sikkim region by con- with all-weather roads to pro- functional, the Chinese have "' ' not been repealed in structing permanent concrete vide crucial logistical back-up not gone back to their posts in (" () Independent India despite its buildings to lodge their troops. in case of any emergency, they the rear areas in the winter )( )* gross misuse, is the question This activity on their side of the said adding such installations months in Ladakh and some % the Supreme Court posed to LAC will enable the Chinese to were also constructed in the inaccessible regions of ! the Centre on Thursday. deploy their soldiers quickly at Chinese territory in Eastern Arunachal Pradesh, sources The apex court agreed to the border. Ladakh and Arunachal said. At present more than one #! $ % examine the pleas filed by the imum sentence of life impris- Information Technology Act is not taking a decision. Your These permanent struc- Pradesh. lakh troops from both the & Editors Guild of India and a onment. “Mr Attorney even after the top court set it Government has been getting tures will ensure that the This development comes in sides are deployed at the LAC ,# former Major-General, chal- (General), we want to ask some aside long ago and observed: “It rid of stale laws.” The Bench Chinese soldiers remain close the backdrop of China already in Ladakh with stand-offs still lenging the constitutionality questions. This is a colonial era can be compared to a carpen- said that it was not blaming any to the LAC even during the activating several helipads and on at three friction points. -./ of Section 124A (sedition) in law and the same law was used ter who has been asked to cut State or Government, but harsh winter months, sources some airfields in the Tibet Given this situation, the #"0/ the Indian Penal Code (IPC). by the British to suppress the some wood, cutting the entire unfortunately, the executing in the security establishment region in the past two years Indian Army last year built 10/ A Bench headed by Chief freedom movement. It was forest.” agency misuses these laws and said here on Thursday. Earlier, since the stand-offs began in specialised huts in forward areas Justice NV Ramana said its used by the British to silence “A factionist can invoke “there is no accountability.” the Chinese used to go back to Ladakh. Also, the entire of Ladakh region, Sikkim and # main concern was the “misuse Mahatma Gandhi, Gokhale these types of (penal) provi- In a hearing, conducted their posts a few kilometres Tibetan region is well-con- Arunachal Pradesh. These huts ! of the law” and issued a notice and others. Is it still necessary sions to implicate the other through video-conferencing, back during the winter months nected with a high-speed rail are centrally heated with all to the Centre. to keep this in statute even after group of people,” the CJI said, the Bench said that if a police and undertake patrolling occa- network providing an edge to modern facilities to protect the The non-bailable provi- 75 years of Independence?” adding that if a particular party officer in a remote village sionally. the Chinese in terms of logis- soldiers from the harsh cold '( sion makes any speech or asked the Bench which also or people do not want to hear wants to “fix” a person then he The new lodging facilities tical support. with temperature dipping to 2 expression that “brings or comprised Justices A S a voice, they will use this law to can easily do so by using such are well-provided for, in order As regards construction below minus 20 degrees at # attempts to bring into hatred or Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy. implicate others. provisions. Moreover, said the to withstand the winter months activities in Sikkim region, many places. Moreover, winter '3/ 444 contempt or excites or attempts Observing that the provi- The Bench wondered at the Bench, the percentage of con- and the Chinese have ensured sources said one such complex clothing and boots were pro- to excite disaffection towards sion on sedition has been put continuance of the sedition victions in sedition cases was security by building fortified for troops was located at a short vided to the troops deployed all # 2' the Government established to “enormous misuse”, it also law in the statute book for the very low and these are the bunkers around the campus. distance from the Naku La. along the 4,000 km LAC stretch- !5 by law in India” a criminal referred to the alarming misuse last 75 years and said: “We do issues which must be Giving details here, officials in Incidentally, this region wit- ing from Ladakh in the west to " offence punishable with a max- of Section 66 A of the not know why the Government decided. the security establishment said nessed a brawl between the Arunachal Pradesh in the east. # 0!/6 ! ( ! " ) %R (;( * + R he National Human Rights Q $ %R 78,98: TCommission probing post- poll violence in Bengal has Q &'&' wo men, including an submitted a damaging report in R, TArmy man, have been the Calcutta High Court :792): arrested on the charges of spy- underscoring the “politico- directed and orchestrated ing for Inter-Services bureaucratic-criminal nexus” attacks on Opposition sup- he crisis in Punjab Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan in Bengal. The NHRC recom- porters and voters. TCongress has worsened. At 78,98: under the Official Secrets Act mended an investigation to be Referring to a relevant a time when the internal strife by the Crime Branch of Delhi carried out by a Special quote from Tagore (“where was heading for a resolution, he United Nations ‘zero-dose children’ in 2020 Police. Investigation Team of the mind is without fear ⦔) the unconfirmed reports of the TChildren’s Emergency Fund lived in India,” the UNICEF Police said that Army Central Bureau of report concludes that Bengal is cricketer-turned-politician ings being held by rival Thursday over the decision to (UNICEF) on Thursday said said in a statement. headquarters has confirmed Investigation. a perfect manifestation of “law Navjot Singh Sidhu being made camps. make Sidhu president of the India has the highest number Globally, the UNICEF said that the documents in their A five-judge Bench of the of ruler” instead of “rule of law.” the State party president and As the Congress high com- State unit. Sources said the of under-vaccinated or unvac- the data shows that just 10 possession were classified. Court hearing a PIL had earli- Chief Minister Mamata Chief Minister Captain mand is planning a bigger role Chief Minister has made it cinated children worldwide at countries account for 62 per The 41-year-old vegetable er directed the NHRC to inves- Banerjee summarily rejected Amarinder Singh threatening for Sidhu, Amarinder seems to clear to the party high com- 3.5 million, an increase of 1.4 cent of all under- or unvacci- supplier, Habib-ur-Rehman, at tigate the alleged post poll vio- the report as a “burning exam- to resign in protest surfaced, be in no mood to budge. Even mand that the decision was million from 2019, amid the nated children globally. the Pokhran Army base camp, lence. The panel conducted a ple of BJP’s vendetta resulting in political turmoil in as the available information “not acceptable” to him, and he Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. “India - particularly hard was held for allegedly getting 20-day investigation visiting politics”. the State. suggested that the move to ele- would not contest the It also noted that over 3 million hit by the Covid-19 pandemic sensitive documents, on which 311 spots of alleged occur- Among the senior TMC Despite Amarinder Singh’s vate Sidhu as the State party 2022 polls under Sidhu’s cap- of “zero-dose children” in 2020 - had the highest number of “confidential” and “restricted” rences. leaders indicted in the report camp clarifying that the Chief chief has Amarinder’s consent, tainship. lived in India. unprotected children world- was found clearly written in Submitting a 50-page are a Minister from North 24 Minister had not offered to Thursday’s developments indi- At the same time, At nearly 4.4 million, South wide at 3.5 million, an increase bold, from an Army man for report, the seven-member Parganas, MLAs from North resign and would lead the cate to the contrary. Amarinder’s media adviser Asia recorded the highest num- of 1.4 million compared with money and providing them to NHRC team has named a bevy and South 24 Parganas, Congress to victory in the It has been learnt that Raveen Thukral took to Twitter ber of children having failed to 2019, when the number of the ISI.