c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I TUESDAY I 21 JANUARY 2020 WEATHER O WORLD 12 TABLOID Max: 30.6 C | SPORTS 16 Min: 20.2OC | RH: 52% Xi warns virus Champion Djokovic ‘I had no intention of Rainfall: Nil outbreak serious drops set at Oz Open returning to films’ Forecast: Cloudy sky. Misty morning. Max/Min temp. 30/20ºC deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 83 No. 20 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | `6.00 ASTROGUIDE Budget halwa Vikari; Uttarayana Tithi: Pushya Bahula Dwadasi till Jagan declares Vizag as 1.46 am (Wednesday) Star: Jyeshta till 11.44 pm Varjyam: Nil Durmuhurtam: 9.07 am to 9.51 capital, 3C Bill in House am; 11.10 pm to 12.01 am (Wednesday) Rahukalam: 3 pm to 4.30 pm HIJRI CALENDAR State officials to take Centre’s permission if required Jumada al-Awwal 25,1441 AH N. VAMSI SRINIVAS I DC ■ CHIEF MINISTER Jagan ority (CRDA) Act, even The AP Reorganisation PRAYERS VIJAYAWADA, JAN. 20 Mohan Reddy went ahead before the AP High Court- Act declared that Hyde- Fajar: 5.47 am with introducing a Bill in set deadline of 2.30 pm on rabad would remain joint Zohar: 12.37 pm Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Monday to receive griev- capital till 2024 and the Mohan Reddy has taken a the State Assembly on ances from farmers ended. Centre would initiate the Asar: 4.29 pm calculated political risk by Monday, which clearly The matter was brought to process of locating a new Maghrib: 6.11 pm formally enacting a law stated that the govern- the court’s notice, but no capital for AP by appoint- Isha: 7.22 pm establishing three capitals ment would have three order was passed. ing a committee. SUNSET TODAY 6.04 PM in the state — legislative, seats of governance. The state administra- Accordingly, the Siva- SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.49 AM executive and judicial — tion, however, is divided ramakrishnan Committee MOONRISE TOMORROW 3.31 AM in Amaravati, Visakha- State Assembly on Mon- over the procedure to be was appointed but the MOONSET TOMORROW 3 PM patnam and Kurnool day, which clearly stated followed post enactment process was abruptly respectively. that the government for locating new capitals. ended with Mr Naidu Till now, the YSRC gov- would have three seats of “The Raj Bhavan, princi- deciding to build Amar- ernment had sought to governance. It is for the pal seat of executive, has avati as capital. COUNTER POINT project that certain capital first time after the bifurca- to be re-located and this Sources in CMO, howev- functions would be decen- tion of state that Andhra requires a notification er, said adequate care was tralised and spread out. Pradesh government gave from the Centre. Secondly, taken to avoid legal tussle. Retired bureaucrat, G.N. any legislative backing to the Bill introduced on “If the procedure requires Rao, whose committee had the location of a capital. Monday says that reloca- Centre’s clearance, we will recommended the decen- Former chief minister N. tion of the principal seat of get it,” a senior official tralisation of administra- Chandrababu Naidu had High Court would be done said. Apparently to tion, had told mediaper- avoided officially notify- in accordance with the strengthen its case, the sons that a few capital ing Amaravati as a state procedure prescribed state heavily banked on functions would only be capital in the Assembly till under the AP Reorgani- recommendations of the performed from Visakha- he stepped down. sation Act, 2014. The same Sivaramakrishnan Co- patnam, which could not Significantly, the Jagan procedure has to be fol- mmittee in building its be equated with the shift- Mohan Reddy government lowed for the remaining theory for decentralisa- ing of capital. went ahead with the Bills two capitals,” a senior tion of administration. But Chief Minister for new capitals as well as bureaucrat involved in Reddy went ahead with repealing the Capital Reg- drafting the Reorgani- ■ Page 6: FM slams Naidu introducing a Bill in the ion Development Auth- sation Act explained. for bypassing panel SC TURNS DOWN `5,100 cr granted NIRBHAYA CASE Minor wife, major crime: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and minister of state for finance Anurag Singh Thakur and for Rythu Bandhu others after the Halwa ceremony marking the commencement of Budget printing process for the General Budget 2019-20, in New Delhi on Monday. — PTI ‘JUVENILE’ PLEA Hyderabad: The 21-yr-old detained illegally Telangana state govern- ment on Monday issued PARMOD KUMAR I DC DURGA PRASAD an order granting `5,100 NEW DELHI, JAN. 20 SUNKU | DC crore for the Rythu NADDA TAKES HYDERABAD, JAN. 20 Bandhu scheme. The The Supreme Court on state government has 19 convicted in Monday rejected a plea Allegations have surfaced been extending financial CHARGE AS NEW by death row convict that the Karkhana police assistance to the farmers Pawan Kumar Gupta have kept a 21-year-old in state at the rate of BJP PRESIDENT who claimed that he was person in their custody `5,000 for acre for kharif shelter rape case a minor when the the illegally for more than and rabi seasons. The gang-rape and murder of four days, without send- government had earlier YOJNA GUSAI | DC DC CORRESPONDENT ■ ADDITIONAL Sessions a 23-year-old paramed- ing him to judicial cus- released `6,000 crore NEW DELHI, JAN 20 NEW DELHI, JAN. 20 ical student occurred on tody. Police have been cir- under the scheme for the judge Saurabh December 16, 2012. cumventing the proce- E. Anil, the 21-year-old being detained illegally at kharif season, while the The BJP on Monday got A Delhi court on Monday Kulshreshtha convicted A bench of Justice R. dures laid down by law in Karkhana police station. government has now its 11th national presi- convicted Brajesh Thakur Brajesh Thakur for aggra- Banumathi, Justice producing the accused issued an administrative dent in senior leader and and 18 others for sexual vated sexual assault Ashok Bhushan and before a magistrate, fami- son on Thursday evening. the inspector to find out sanction for releasing of former Union minister and physical assault on under POCSO Act and Justice A.S. Bopanna ly members claimed on I rushed to the city and the details of why he was `5,100 crore for the cur- J.P. Nadda whose leader- several girls in a gang rape. said that a plea which Monday in the city. police station to see my arrested. I couldn’t meet rent rabi season. The ship Prime Minister Muzaffarpur shelter has been earlier given up E. Danaiha, a trauma- son. On Friday morning, my son as he was in police official release said that Narendra Modi said will home. Additional ses- duty and failure to report (by Pawan) could not be tised 45-year-old father of at around 9 am, I reached custody. I tried to meet the financial assistant would give the organisation sions judge Saurabh assault on the girls. resurrected. The SC the accused, and a farmer Karkhana police station. inspector of police over be directly credited to “new energy, hope, and Kulshreshtha convicted The charges also includ- noted that this was not by profession, who lives in Throughout the day, I kept the issue but he didn’t give the bank accounts of the inspiration.” As the new Thakur for aggravated ed offence of cruelty to the first time that Pawan Ramancha village under trying to meet my son, in me time to meet him.” farmers. BJP president, Mr Nadda sexual assault under child under their authori- has raised such a plea. the Siddipet district told vain. I waited till 4 pm at thanked the organisation POCSO Act and gangrape. ty, punishable under the Deccan Chronicle, “I got to the police station to see ■ Page 4: Family left city and the cadre and assert- The shelter home was Juvenile Justice Act. The ■ Full report on Page 7 know that police took my him. I also tried to meet as they had no money Unattended bag ed that he “will work day run by Thakur, former court had reserved order and night along with all MLA of Bihar People’s on September 30, 2019 creates scare the party workers to take Party (BPP). The court after final arguments by Mangaluru: An unattend- the party to new acquitted one of the the CBI counsel and 20 JANUARY 24 ed bag near ticket coun- heights.” accused, who included 12 accused in the case in ters of the Mangaluru air- Congratulating Mr men and eight women. It which former Bihar Perform or quit your job, port in Karnataka creat- Nadda, the Prime fixed January 28 for argu- Social Welfare Minister PLEDGE DAY TO ed a bomb scare on Minister recalled how ments on quantum of sen- and the then JD(U) leader Monday. The CISF, which the BJP’s foundation was tence. The court had on Manju Verma also faced BOYCOTT NRC is maintaining the securi- built on “sangathan aur March 30, 2019, framed flak as allegations sur- Court tells GHMC chief ty of the airport, cor- sangarsh (organisation charges against the faced that Thakur had ATHER MOIN | DC doned off the area. and hardship)”. accused, including links with her husband. VUJJINI tender their resignation. over the officials’ attitude. HYDERABAD, JAN. 20 ■ Report on Page 8 Thakur, for offences of She had resigned from VAMSHIDHARA | DC Dealing with two sepa- Dealing with the PIL on ■ Full report on Page 8 criminal conspiracy to her post on August 8, 2018.