OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Tuesday,July 8, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 32 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport MPs ask if Blair Mayawati flip-flop: Leander is the boss believes his own Rama, Krishna back on court, says WMD story in school textbooks Navratilova Page 13 Page 7 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES No kitchen Woman’s body Established 1838 found in Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. cabinet, I’m Zahira demands fresh trial Prosperity is necessarily Reuters suitcase, man the first theme of a political campaign. the boss, Her only condition: absconding — Woodrow Wilson says Sonia Best hold it outside TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEWS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A young By Rajesh Ramachandran woman’s body was found in a Kanchi seer’s effort: A day after TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai/Ahmedabad: Zahira Sheikh, one of suitcase in a hotel at Nabi the Muslim Personal Law Board the main complainants in the Best Bakery case Karim in the Paharganj area rejected the proposal of the Kanchi Shimla: ‘‘I am my own mas- who turned hostile in court leading to the ac- in central Delhi on Monday Sankaracharya to solve the ter!’’ The message came clear quittal of all the 21 accused, has demanded a re- morning. Ayodhya tangle, he vowed that he and loud from Congress pres- trial. The diminutive girl emerged in Mumbai According to the police, would not try again. He was speak- ident Sonia Gandhi in her in- after weeks of absence from Gujarat and told the 22-year old victim had ing to reporters in Kanchipuram augural address at the par- reporters on Monday that the retrial should be checked into the hotel on on Monday. P11 ty’s ‘vichar manthan shivir’ held outside her home state. July 4 along with a man who here on Monday morning. Pak envoy: Pakistan’s high com- ‘‘Whatever I said in court was false. I was had identified himself as her She appeared to be replying missioner-designate Aziz Ahmed compelled to lie under pressure,’’ the 19-year- husband. to media allegations of ‘co- Khan will present his credentials to old told a packed room at the Mumbai Press The man, registered as Ma- teries’ and ‘kitchen cabinets’ President Kalam on July 10. P11 Club. Zahira’s statement coincides with the Na- hendra Maurya in the hotel’s influencing her decisions. tional Human Rights Commission’s visit to logbook, is absconding. Po- Banking on a boat: In an age of Asserting her position as Vadodara to examine the papers in the case. lice are yet to ascertain the ATMs and telegraphic transfers, undisputed leader, Gandhi The Best Bakery carnage, in which 14 per- couple’s identity. the Pragjyotish Gaonlia Bank has pointed to the party’s spec- sons – including Zahira’s father and seven oth- The police suspect Maurya opened branches in areas where tacular growth in the last five er relatives – were brutally massacred over a murdered the woman on the boats, elephants and one’s own feet years. She reminded all her period of 12 hours on March 1, 2002, was one of night of July 4 and left the are the sole means of transport. P11 important leaders that when the most gruesome incidents marking the post- hotel early next morning. MiG-23 menace: Following a she became party president, Godhra mayhem. The gagged body showed MiG-23 crash in Ludhiana on the Congress was in power Zahira was accompanied by Javed Anand strangulation marks. There Monday, these planes have been only in five states and now it and Teesta Setalvad of the voluntary organisa- were also some injury marks found to have a worse flying record is ruling in 15. tion, Citizens for Justice and Peace. Among the on her head. than that of the much-criticised As if to drive home the others who addressed the media were film per- According to the police, MiG-23s. P5 point, party spokesman sonality Javed Akhtar, ad guru Alyque Maurya booked the room on Jaipal Reddy announced lat- Dropsy cases: There are fears Padamsee, architect I M Kadri and human the morning of July 4 claim- er in the day that Sonia that the dropsy cases in Madhya rights activist Mihir Desai. ing to be a resident of Ajmer Gandhi would be projected Pradesh could have spread to those Zahira alleged that she was being threatened in Rajasthan. states which buy contaminated ‘‘by name’’ as the Congress’ by the local BJP MLA Madhu Shrivastava, ‘‘The woman reached the mustard oil from the state. P7 prime ministerial candidate Vadodara councillor Chandrakant Shrivastava in the next general election. hotel in the evening. She was Trishul programme: Brushing alias Bhattu, and another witness Lal While admitting that the dressed in a saree and was aside reports that the short-range Mohammed who said that they would ‘‘kill wearing a mangalsutra,’’ a surface-to-air missile Trishul pro- past five years have been a her family’’. All of them have, however, denied tremendous learning experi- hotel employee said. gramme has been downgraded and the allegation. Additional deputy com- shelved, the DRDO on Monday said ence and that she was still Earlier on Monday, Zahira told TNN in learning, Gandhi made it missioner of police (central) the ambitious programme is alive Ahmedabad over the phone that she had left Rajesh Khurana said, ‘‘The and kicking. P5 very clear that this does not for Basti in Uttar Pradesh after the court mean she cannot take her victim identified herself as hearing to stay with her maternal uncle. She Kavita. They had lunch to- YOU SAID IT by Laxman own decisions. ‘‘I meet a very said she had come back to ‘‘clear my name from large number of people every gether and were last seen on allegations that I had taken money to turn hos- the evening of July 4.’’ day, both from within the par- tile in the court’’. ty and outside. There is never The door of the room re- FEARLESS IN MUMBAI: Nineteen-year-old Zahira Sheikh, one of the witnesses who turned Best gets worse: Tale of terror, lies, injustice: P5 any shortage of advice on mained closed for the next hostile in the Best Bakery case, at a press conference in Mumbai on Monday. Last week, Gujarat Govt in no hurry to appeal: P5 two days. any subject. I listen to all of a special court had acquitted 21 accused for lack of evidence. Backlash begins against Zahira: P5 them. We may not always The manager got suspi- agree but I do seek a consen- cious and asked a waiter to sus. Ultimately, the decision call the guests. is mine.’’ When the waiter opened Gandhi cited an example the door with a duplicate key, to prove the point: the deci- SC paves way for CBI to book Hindujas he noticed a suitcase. sion to hand over the reins of ‘‘Since the room was clean, TIMES NEWS NETWORK power in Jammu and Kash- the Rs 64-crore bribery case was the investigating agency before fil- With Monday’s pronouncement, the waiter did not go inside. registered in 1990. ing of the chargesheet. the three Hinduja brothers, who He came back to me and said mir to Mufti Mohammed Say- New Delhi: The Supreme Court eed of the People’s Democra- The high court had quashed the Allowing the appeals of the CBI were represented by Ram Jeth- that there was a large suit- on Monday cleared all legal hur- chargesheet against the three and also the CVC, the Bench malani, will face trial before the case lying in the room,’’ man- tic Party. ‘‘It was not easy, for dles in the framing of charges example, to decide what we brothers on the ground that the termed as ‘‘quite confusing and special judge. ager Santosh Dubey said. against the three Hinduja brothers did finally when the govern- CBI had not secured sanction of self-contradictory’’ the high ‘‘The learned special judge ‘‘The waiter noticed blood by setting aside the Delhi High ment was being formed in the Central Vigilance Commission court judgment. shall proceed with the trial of dripping out of the suitcase ...80 crore scam! Official caught J&K eight months back,’’ Court’s June 10, 2002, judgment (CVC) before filing it. The Europe-based Hinduja the case. While framing of the while carrying it inside the with 140 crores! Police chief, she said. ‘‘But getting inspi- which had quashed the On Monday, a Supreme Court brothers — Srichand, Gopichand charge, he (judge) shall carefully elevator. We immediately in- 200 crores! Extortionists demand ration from what Rajivji him- chargesheet in the Bofors case. Bench of Justices S Rajendra and Prakashchand — had moved scrutinise the material on record formed the police,’’ said the 250 crores... I am proud of my The advanced Swedish Bofors Babu and G P Mathur held that no the high court after the special and other circumstances of the manager. country, it’s so rich! self had done in Punjab and Assam in 1985 and in Mizo- guns were purchased by India ‘‘concurrence or approval’’ of the judge framed charges against case in accordance with the law,’’ Nabi Karim hotels: Portals ram in 1986, I took the deci- for Rs 1,437.72 crore in 1986 while CVC was required to be taken by them in April 2002. the Bench added. of death: P3 sion in the larger interest of our country.’’ PTI This revelation of her per- sonal working style came as a surprise in a meeting where the party was supposed to be indiatimes.com POLL discussing major political is- sues and formulating its poli- After the rejection of the Kanchi seer’s Ayodhya proposal, do you think only the cies on them.